27
Aug

Difference between Android and iPhone users – Infographics

Difference between Android and iPhone users – Infographics

People are generally judged by the car they drive, the locality they live in, the brand of clothes they wear and so on,  but can someone be judged by the mobile phone that he/she keeps? According to an  Infographic  published by Hunch, users possessing a specific smartphone (Android or iPhone) tend to possess certain traits. […]

25
Aug

Facebook to kill ‘Places’, foursquare gets the advantage

Facebook to kill ‘Places’, foursquare gets the advantage

While Facebook was rolling out some  changes to its privacy policies today, the company also quietly announced it was killing off the foursquare-like Places function inside of its mobile app. The company has discontinued the feature  offering  check-ins. Instead, they have added the capability to add locations to sharing individual posts. Facebook spoke about the […]

24
Aug

Facebook Testing Video Ads

Facebook Testing Video Ads

With Social Advertising catching up and Facebook pioneering with it, Facebook has now started testing Video Ads in the Ads section on www.facebook.com, The video ad unit that plays the video in a popup box when the video thumbnail on the right side of the page is clicked. It’s the first time we’ve seen this […]

24
Aug

Samsung Mobile naming scheme Explained! Very Interesting

Samsung Mobile naming scheme Explained! Very Interesting

Samsung has released a range of Android and BadaOS phones around the world,  all named under the new naming scheme which makes it easier to identify which phone does what by looking at the name alone.   Now, when you hear about a Samsung Galaxy phone, this is what the letters in the name mean: […]

23
Aug

$1500 (..and counting) Bounty, to port Android to HP Touchpad

$1500 (..and counting) Bounty, to port Android to HP Touchpad

With HP deciding to close down WebOS and the TouchPad, there has been a chain of events happening in relation to HP, Firstly this Stock price dropped and then the HP WebOS TouchPad was being sold in the just for $99 in stores in the US. And now there are  effort already underway from both […]

22
Aug

HP spinning off PC Business: Why do We think Microsoft should buy it

HP spinning off PC Business: Why do We think Microsoft should buy it

Bloomberg News caused  a big stir in the tech world  with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to shred off its PC business to focus more on software and cloud services. HP is the largest PC maker in the world, shipping more than 15 million PCs last quarter, according to IDC data. The News of […]

20
Aug

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Every second day you hear some or the other company suing another company for Patent infringement, Patent trolling, as we call it. Some days, back it was Apple suing Samsung for the Muti-touch gesture, then there was HTC suing Apple for infringing patent import and  Sales in the US, then Microsoft getting royalties for android […]

19
Aug

Who wants to go on a holiday on Earth, when you can go to the space and live in a 5 star hotel

Who wants to go on a holiday on Earth, when you can go to the space and live in a 5 star hotel

Looking for a vacation that is truly out of this world? If yes, Russian company  Orbital Technology  may be able to help. The firm has divulged information on its  ambitious  plans to open a hotel in space by 2016, just five years from now. The hotel, known officially as the Commercial Space Station (CSS), will […]

19
Aug

How to make a Bootable Mac OS X Lion Disk/USB for cheap

How to make a Bootable Mac OS X Lion Disk/USB for cheap

Apple has already started to ship the Mac OS X USB for $69, but you could get create on for yourself for Free. Yes, you heard it right. The little USB stick looks cool, but runs you about $69. That’s quite a markup from the $30 users pay for Mac OS X Lion on the […]

18
Aug

Now HTC sues Apple for Patent infringement, wants a import and sales ban on Mac, iPhone and iPad in the US

Now HTC sues Apple for Patent infringement, wants a import and sales ban on Mac, iPhone and iPad in the US

Taiwanese  smartphone  maker  HTC  has filed a lawsuit against  Apple, accusing the tech giant of infringing its patents.  HTC has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to block imports of Apple products because they infringed on three of the Taiwanese company’s wireless-technology patents. Apple needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its […]