Sony’s Net Profit for Third Quarter increases more than three times

On Tuesday, Sony announced that the company's net profit for the third quarter of 2014 was more than three times compared to net profit for the same period, a year earlier. The company also said that it was on course to experience annual loss.

According to the company, the improvement is due to weak yen, increased sales of the company's smartphones, strong demand for image sensors for cameras and robust PlayStation console businesses. Sony further stated, "It was primarily related to Sony's exit from the PC business, and a decrease in sales in the Pictures segment, mainly due to lower Motion Pictures and Television Productions sales."

T-Mobile Coming Up with New Upgrade for their Prepaid Customers

T-Mobile will soon be coming up with a new upgrade for their prepaid customers. Three months ago, a new plan has been offered by T-Mobile that enables non-prepaid customers the ability to roll over any unused 4G LTE data. Data Stash plan will be soon available to prepaid customers also.

Customer who is signed up for the Simple Choice prepaid plan on T-Mobile's network will be able to take benefit from March 22. Everyone who is eligible will receive 10GB of data stash free, with the assurance that any unused data will rollover into the next month, until the year is up. Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile's Chief Marketing Officer, discussed about the significance of bringing data stash to more customers on the company's blog.

Important Things you should know about Apple Watch

Apple looks forward to manufacturing six million smartwatches during the next quarter. And if you are planning to buy Apple Watch, there are a few things you need to keep in mind.

First of all, one needs to understand how to operate the watch. This is because the screen of the watch is very small and there are only two tiny buttons, which are located on the side.

There are 17 very small circles on watch and these circles have been arranged in a repeating three/four pattern on its rectangular face.

FCC Announces Timeout on Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DirecTV mega-mergers

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that it will take some time before it announces a decision about the proposed merger Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC) and AT&T's acquiring DirecTV.

The agency said that it would announce the results of its three-month long review of both the mergers by the end of March, but now it has taken time-out due to legal issues. The companies involved in the mergers are not in the favor to release records of video-programming contracts with suppliers.

Hide-And-Seek Banned in IKEA Dutch Stores

Furniture major IKEA has banned people from playing hide-and-seek in its Dutch stores. Sky News has reported that the chain has banned the children's game, after thousands of people got engaged in it last year in Belgium.

According to one of the event's organizers, Elise De Rijck, people many a times were hiding in fridges, under stuffed toys and blue IKEA bags, and in the storage spaces under beds. Rijck added that no doubt it was really exhausting, but at the same time was so much fun.

In the meantime, IKEA was less enthusiastic. Martina Smedberg, IKEA Group spokeswoman, told reporters, "We need to make sure people are safe in our stores and that's hard to do if we don't even know where they are".

Google Executive Eric Schmidt ends up Facing Criticism from Company’s Own Diversity Manager

Google Executive Chairman was joined by Walter Isaacson and Chief Technology Officer for the United States region, Megan Smith, while speaking at the 'How Innovation Happens' talk at South By Southwest festival.

Eric Schmidt was blamed by his company's own diversity manager after talking a lot about gender inequality in the tech industry that he actually started to drown out his female counterpart.

The Wall Street Journal reported that at numerous points throughout the discussion, Schmidt would cut Smith off, interrupting her to make his own points. An audience member also challenged Schmidt for continuously interrupting Smith throughout the session.

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