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Facebook’s most annoying apps

Photo apps like Instagram are now the worst annoyance on Facebook – beating other people’s baby photos into second place. One fifth of Facebook users have deleted friends on the social network because of annoying photos. A [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Tech industry applauds Facebook for Yahoo countersuit

Remember last month when Yahoo sued Facebook over 10 patents and the tech industry piled on the online giant? Well, now that Facebook has countersued Yahoo with its own 10 patents, I’m sure you wouldn’t be surprised to learn t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

HTC removes phone feature that violates Apple patent

TAIPEI: HTC Corp Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, can tweak the technology in its handsets to avoid a US trade agency ban. Dealing with the threat from Apple Inc's and Samsung Electronics Co's new devices may prove [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Ufone restores Facebook, Twitter apps for BlackBerry users

Pakistani mobile operator Ufone has restored Facebook and Twitter apps for BlackBerry users after developing a content filtering service. The company blocked Facebook and Twitter services since May 2010 but has now developed a filtering s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

App downloads top 10 billion in Android Market

Google on Tuesday announced that more than 10 billion applications had been downloaded worldwide in its software store Android Market. In a company blog post, Google said Android Market reached the milestone with a growth rate of one bill [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Samsung TV Apps service surpasses 10m downloads

Samsung Electronics has announced that Samsung Apps, the world’s first HDTV-based app store, is growing rapidly in popularity. Samsung Apps TV recently celebrated the milestone of 1,000 registered applications and crossed the 10 mil [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Windows Phone 7 jailbreak app shows that Microsoft, not Appl...

Apple has managed through the years to portray itself as the friend of freedom and openness, while depicting Microsoft as the exact opposite. But the recent decision by Microsoft to approve the use of a jailbreak app for Windows Phone 7 s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Pakistani company to provide apps for Indian tablet

Aakash was launched on October 5 and is currently the world’s cheapest tablet with an expected market price of $60. It is sponsored by the government of India and will be available at subsidized rates for students as its main purpos [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Apple turns down Samsung offer to end tablet legal war

Apple Inc. rejected an offer from Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet computer row in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation. Apple claims Samsung’s Gal [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Adobe Targets Creative Pros With Cloud Service, Photoshop Ap...

If you are a Web designer, graphic designer, or other creative professional, most likely you work with the Adobe suite of products. Up until now, you haven't been able to migrate your work to your tablet PC of choice. That's about [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

New iPhone expected from Apple on Tuesday

Apple Inc. is unveiling a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone — more than a year after it launched the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Samsung Galaxy Players hit U.S. in October, to rival Apple i...

Samsung's Galaxy Players are headed to the U.S., where they will challenge the Apple iPod for handheld gaming, email, Web surfing, app downloading, Twitter tweeting and Facebook poking glory -- or something like that. The iPod, w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Google+ is the best thing that ever happened to Facebook

Google+ launched on June 28, 2011. It got rave reviews. Many said it would kill Facebook overnight. I, along with many others, went out to buy some popcorn. This was going to be an epic battle, because like I’ve said many times, com [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Nokia to release HTML5 map app to every mobile OS

Nokia Maps (aka Ovi Maps), has been a staple on Nokia’s Symbian handsets for several years and arguably a credible rival to Google Maps on other platforms. Thanks to the dying Symbian platform, Nokia has decided to release its new H [...]