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Image via Wikipedia Skype is no longer a beta app for Nokia Symbian OS. Yesterday, the free Skype service for Nokia Symbian phones was moved to the Nokia Ovi Store. It is also available for download through the Skype website. The timing of this announcement is very interesting to say the least. Yesterday, Skype had made a huge announcement to shelve its application for Windows and Java based mobile [...]

Image by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML via Flickr Recent research conducted by Sky HD reveals that the British have wasted nearly £52 Billion on gadgets which they do not know how to use or fully operate. It is astonishing that nearly 50% of the poll audience did not know that in order to get HD video on your HDTV, you need a HD device such as a Blu-ray DVD player. What’s even more surprising is [...]

Image by Neil Boothman via Flickr If you own a Blackberry Storm 2 or a Blackberry Bold 2, you can now catch up on all the world news courtesy the new BBC iPlayer. To be honest, I’m surprised at what took RIM and BBC so long to release the iPlayer for Blackberry. To be fair, it’s now the case of ‘Better Late, than never’. The BBC iPlayer offers a fantastic option to Blackberry users to access [...]

Image via CrunchBase O2 has recently announced its range of new budget-minded mobile and broadband tariff plans. The highlight of the O2 announcement is the new ‘Sim only’ plan for iPhone users which includes Visual Voicemail, unlimited text messages, data and Wi-Fi at just £15 per month for a year. If you are prepared to spend £20 per month, you can get this deal on a rolling monthly basis [...]

When Steve Jobs launched the Apple Tablet aka ‘iPad’ amidst much fan fare and media hype, he chose to keep mum on the iPad pricing for UK customers. A tech blog named ‘Geeky Gadgets’ has recently claimed that it has obtained access to the UK pricing details of the iPad. As per them, Wi-Fi only iPad will cost a miserly £389 where as the 32GB and 64GB versions will cost £439 and £489 respectively. [...]

A recent report from ‘All Things Digital’ suggests that Twitter is all set to launch its much awaited advertising model. To start off, the advertisements will mimic tweets in terms of character length and will be limited to 140 characters. Twitter has not announced a release date or the pricing options for its ad model but it is widely expected that the micro-blogging site will have the ad model [...]

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in. Video Explanation from Sophos: According [...]

Palm has just announced that its smartphone sales for 2010 are likely to fall short of the projected targets. Palm has been under severe pressure since last year and has not been able to withstand the growing competition posed by Blackberry and iPhone. Similarly, webOS which was touted by Palm to be a game changing mobile operating system has rather fallen flat at its back when compared to iPhone [...]

UK may be the biggest producer of computer games in Europe but a recent survey shows that nearly 30% UK game developers believe that their salary is not even enough to cover their living costs. This recent survey was done by ‘Develop’ and it narrates a rather sorry tale of game developers in the UK. A Junior QA tester gets £15,000 per year. What’s even more shocking is that a lead developer [...]

Google’s Gmail playground – Gmail Labs has produced world class email features ever since it was introduced by Google 18 months ago. As has been the tradition earlier, Google picks the most popular features from Gmail Labs and integrates them into Gmail while retiring the experimental features which didn’t quiet perform up to the mark. Google has integrated the following 6 new features from Labs [...]