WNS Latest Tech News: 16th March 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 announced!

Samsung announced their new flagship smartphone, the S4 on Thursday. Overall, many rumours were correct and the phone features a 5 inch screen which is fully HD at 1080p as well as having 441ppi. Samsung have also added now hand gesture features where you can control your phone without actually touch the screen, just hovering your hand above. One new software update was the Eye Gesture control which allows you to scroll down a page when reading using your eyes. There is also an inbuilt feature which pauses a video when you look away from the screen. Samsung also made major improvements to the camera which now has a lot more features! Read the full article>

Call of Duty tops Entertainment charts

Call of duty has dominated entertainment sales, beating the top selling music album's and films. The latest COD release, Black Ops 2, sold 2.7 million copies and topped the UK entertainment charts just ahead of Fifa 13. However, 2012 was a bad year overall for entertainment sales because, as a whole, they were down 12% from 2011. 2013, though, has started well with the Skyfall DVD selling 2 million copies in the first few months.

Google Ad-words 'don't boost sales'- An ebay report finds

An interdependent investigation by popular online bidding site eBay found that Google's option for them to 'buy' words doesn't increase sales. They say this is because users who look to buy online are already loyal eBay customers who expect to buy from their site anyway. eBay found that even if eBay results didn't appear at the top of the page- they would scroll down to find an eBay link anyway. Removing the sponsored ads makes no difference according to eBay.