The Taiwanese smartphone maker is riding a rollercoaster lately. After the company just lost a legal battle against Apple and some of its phones were banned from imports in US starting early next year, now HTC is expected to have an impressive comeback and to launch an impressive smartphone, to top the Android hierarchy. Reports reveal that from next year HTC is going to change its market and production strategy.
PayPal hasn’t been asleep all this time and actually has been working on something really great. According to sources quoted mobilepaymentstoday.com the company is reportedly testing a new NFC mobile payment application over in Sweden. The trial will be extended over the holiday period and should enable the introduction of NFC payments to the points of sale.
Even, with the holiday coming, Google keeps busy and rolls out a new modification almost every week. So, starting of today, Google seems to have opened the gate towards complete integration of Google+ updates from official brand pages within search results. Google+ Plus Brand Pages are a new addition to the Google list as well, as they were launched a couple of months ago, with the intent of connecting brands with their costumers in a more effective way.
It looks like Facebook isn’t happy with how far it has pushed its Sponsored Stories ads and is thinking of doing something about it. The Stories were located to the sidebar Ticker, but from the looks of things, in 2012 (most likely) users are going to be having them into their main news feeds. Reports on the web, indicate that the ads will only appear once per day. But a major bummer consists in the fact that users will not be given the chance to opt them out. The only solution will be to hide them individually as they pop up in the feed. Glorious!
YouTube has some fascinating figures to share with us. Google just announced that in 2011, there were more than 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) playbacks on YouTube. This actually means that every person on this Planet gets a slice of 140 videos. And we have another bit of news. Apart from professionally shot music videos by major label companies, the most popular video out there in YouTube territory was Rebecca Black’s Friday.
Here’s some sweet news: Mozilla and Google have decided to extend for another three years their jolly partnership. Even if we heard reports about the two companies distancing themselves from one another in recent months, it apparently didn’t mean that the two were headed for a nasty divorce.
NEC Japan jas just introduce with it’s new pair of 24” WUXGA TN LED LCDs with the MultiSync LCD-EA243WM and MultiSync LCD-EA243WM-BK. One is White and another one is Black version. This two features with 20 to 46W power consumption, sport a 25,000:1 contrast ratio, 250cd/m2 brightness, HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI-D, mini-D-SUB and USB connectivity and [...]
Ooma is an award-winning product that gives you free home phone service. Quite simply, no more nickel and dime fees and no more monthly phone bills. Acclaimed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week, and featured as one of the year’s hottest products in Parade and In Style magazines, Ooma offers premium home phone service as it was meant to be.
Conan O’ Brien, a well-known TV host who has a flair for humor has recently lambasted Kindle Fire for it’s many draw-backs. Criticizing the common problems with Kindle Fire such as lack of privacy settings and a power button placed at the wrong place, Conan goes on to suggest solutions. And some of them equally hilarious ones.
We have written in some of the past posts how Pod2g has progress in his untethered jailbreak ventures. So far, he has successfully accomplished untethered jailbreak on iPhone 4 and is inching towards iPhone 4S. To substantiate his claims, he has now released a video which gives a demo of untethered jailbreak on iPhone 4.
Apple has released the latest build of it’s Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 to developers for testing. This latest build is called 11D36. According to the release notes of the build, Apple claims it has no known issues and the focus areas are iCloud, Mail, Safari, iCal, Spotlight and Address Book. Given below are the links to download the latest build from.
Astronomers success excel when they discover/explore something of/about a new Planet. Recently, the research team have detected the first Earth-sized planets which are orbiting a Star except Sun. According to the researchers, it’s been assuming that, in the past they might were able to support life like our present planet Earth.
Microsoft’s operating system, Windows is again making news as we move closer to the official release date of Windows 8. In the latest updates, some leaked screenshots of Windows 8 have been grabbed which depict some changes in the interface. There’s a ribbon on the Explorer’s icon and apart from some minor UI tweaks, most of the look and feel is quite similar to Windows 7.
The fun that you can do with the voice-based personal assistant Siri is virtually endless. With the help of this latest app available on iTunes termed ‘Vocal’ you can communicate with your Mac. Not only can you play new songs through voice commands, you can also dictate documents and even have it to write emails.
Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition hit the shelves in the UK just in time to catch the final days of this holiday shopping frenzy. The appeal of this smaller member of Motorola Xoom tablets relies on the more portable format and the friendlier price tag, compared to Motorola Xoom 2, costing £330, £50 less than the older brother.
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