Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages
As we scratch our head and puzzle over the almost-daily financial results for the last quarter, this week's missive takes a slightly sentimental look at how two tech companies were faring a decade earlier. Is it unfair to compare the yesteryear Nokia to Google? Possibly. But it was the same year that a certain Engadget regular claimed a best-selling album -- so it wasn't all bad. Toshiba also unveiled a new pin-sharp Ultrabook to stand up to Apple's Retina displays, and NASA continued the search for habitable planets.
Predicted pricing for touch-enabled laptops with Intel's Bay Trail processor: $200 to $300 Intel's revenue for Q1 2013: $12.6 billion Nokia's revenue for Q1 2013: $7.7 billion Nokia's revenue for Q1 2003: $7.38 billion Google's revenue for Q1 2003: $249 million Artist with the US' top-selling album of 2003: 50 Cent Price of donating via Google's One Today app: $1 Price Google paid for Utah's iProvo fiber network: $1
Price of Kohler's second-generation Numi Comfort Height toilet: $6,000 Record-setting reported number of illegal downloads of Game of Thrones season 3 premiere: 1 million-plus Number of KIRF headphones believed to have been sold by counterfeiter Michael Reeder: 400,000 Pixels per inch on Toshiba's new 13-inch KIRAbook: 221 Pixels per inch on last year's Toshiba Satellite U845: 112 Daily Android activations as of this week: 1.5 million Possibly habitable planets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope: 3 Known planets in our solar system (not including dwarf planet Pluto): 8 Number of Sega's Pluto game consoles to make it to market: 0 Bezel size on Pantech's "zero bezel" Vega Iron: 2.4mm
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