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Google Google’s just announced Google Instant service, through which you can see details about its immediate result delivery. Basically, the search function no longer waits for you to hit enter while searching and starts updating its results page instantly as you type. “We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our [...]

iPhone Bad news for all the iPhone 3G owners who were looking forward to  Game Center, Apple’s social and gaming networking application, which is  included with iOS 4.1. Apple has confirmed that Game Center will work on the second-generation iPod touch, but not on the iPhone 3G. The first-generation iPhone and iPod touch models are the only other iOS based devices that cannot access Game [...]

Nokia N8 Nokia N8 will be on sale at the Nokia’s U.K. Online Shop for £429 SIM free or on contract from £35 per month from Friday 1st October. The Nokia N8 will also be available from Carphone Warehouse, O2, Orange, Phones4u, T-Mobile, Tesco Phone Shops, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone. Mark Loughran, General Manager, Nokia UK, says, “The Nokia N8 is a great multitasker, packed [...]

Google The IFA technology show in Berlin saw Google reaffirm it’s plans to release the Google TV set-top box in the U.S. later this year, with launch in the rest of the world coming in 2011. Google TV, which was unveiled at the company’s annual I/O developer conference in May, aims to bring Internet video to the living room. Users will be able to search the web and switch back and forth [...]

New Nokia N8 According to reports Nokia will introduce its new E7 smartphone at its Nokia World event in London next week, and  the device may pack both a “large” touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. Nokia will also unveil  its new N8 model, which is the first phone to use the new Symbian 3 software, along with other new smartphones. “As the N8 starts shipping and other devices [...]

Ping Apple’s Ping music social network had a rocky start, it was hit with spam comments,  saw Facebook withdrawing ‘Facebook Connect’ and is plagued with  international availability issues, despite these issues it surpassed the 1 million user milestone in few days after launch. Apple had introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10, users can follow updates from both their friends [...]

// According to a study carried out by  Net Applications last month, iOS (devices running iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) is the third most popular platform on the Internet – Microsoft Windows and Apple’s OS X occupy the top two positions –   with a 1.13% market share, way ahead of  Android’s 0.20% market share and Linux’s  0.85% user share. “It’s something to take [...]

Twitter Twitter will be enabling Push Notifications service soon for iPhone and iPad. Twitter’s official iPad app, which launched a couple of days ago to and was embraced positively. Twitter’a app  for iPhone,  formerly known as Tweetie,  has been around for the past  few  months, it has the crown for for  the most-used Twitter interfaces with  8% of all users of Twitter accessing [...]

mobile version of Twitter Twitter’s mobile usage of the service  has gone up 62% in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups according to Twitter’s CEO Ev Williams. “Our Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry clients are now two of the most popular ways to use Twitter. This may not be surprising. [...]

Facebook Connect Facebook has reportedly pulled the plug on using the ‘Facebook Connect’ on iTunes Ping by turning off Apple’s access to its Facebook Connect API, as  an agreement between Apple and Facebook couldn’t be reached,  prompting Facebook to cut off access.  Apple subsequently removed the feature from its service. Ideally, Facebook’s  API is open to any application [...]