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iPad and iPhone Software and hacks to liberate your iPhone OS from Apple’s restrictive and monopolistic design is as old as the iPhone itself, with iPhone dev team  and other developers tirelessly working to open up your iPhone to a host of apps which Apple prohibited. Jailbreaking had got a boost last week when the U.S. government updated its regulations  legalise “jailbreaking,” though [...]

Facebook app Facebook users on Android platform may not have to  envy the much slicker and more friendly Facebook app for iPhone any longer. Facebook app for Android  got updated to version 1.3.0 yesterday and the latest Android version is absolutely improving and fast catching up with the Facebook version on iPhone. Version 1.3.0 adds some key new features like Events (like birthdays) , friend [...]

Google If you are one of those people with multiple Google accounts and always wished to get rid of hassles in using a different browser or sign out of one Google account to access another. We have good news for you; users of multiple Google accounts, now can sign in to more than one of them from the same browser window. It will take some time to reach everyone  as Google releases its upgrades [...]

Blackberry Torch 9800 At a press event, co-hosted by AT&T Blackberry’s Canadian maker Research in Motion launched the eagerly awaited Blackberry OS 6 and unveiled its first BlackBerry with both a touchscreen and a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard which comes pre-loaded with the new BlackBerry 6 operating system, the smartphone will be available in U.S. exclusively from AT&T ($199 with a [...]

BlackBerry This one was  just round the corner – few hours ago Blackberry’s Canadian maker Research in Motion launched the eagerly awaited Blackberry OS 6 at a press event in New York . To say RIM has a lot riding on BlackBerry 6 is an understatement. With new kids on the block like Android and iOS stepping in with drool worthy apps and attractive User Interfaces, the BlackBerrys (along [...]

Apple Apple’s  acquisition of online streaming music company  Lala.com last year was seen as the Cupertino based company’s foray into cloud computing services, it made sense. Google  already was successful in its cloud based ventures (gmail, picassa and related services), Microsoft was focussing big time with online collaboration getting extra focus in  Office 2010 version. When Apple [...]

Smartphone Market share Q2 2010 Apple’s iPhone may be  hitting the headlines for right or wrong reasons and getting more than adequate  attention, but, that does not guarantee better market share, likewise, the erstwhile Finnish mobile czar Nokia may be not making as much noise (barring few digs at Apple) as it use to,nevertheless, that hasnt stopped it from retaining a substantial lead in [...]

Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 debut is not formally announced but, the  news of its launch is now in open  thanks to Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft who has let slip that Windows Phone 7 handsets are set to ship in U.K. and rest of  Europe this October. Technology blog Engadget was the first to post a video about the comments made by the Microsoft Executive. “[It] has been tough – this [...]

Top Operating System Share Trend According to a report on Operating Systems from  NetMarketShare.com  Windows 7 is way ahead Apple’s Mac OS X l and its predecessor Windows Vista  for the fourth consecutive month. Windows 7 now commands 14.46% of the market usage share (up from 13.70% in June), compared to Vista’s 14.34% (down from 14.68%), the first month that 7 has had a greater usage [...]

Image Source - www.netmarketshare.com Microsoft’s good ole boy – Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, According to www.netmarketshare.com Internet Explorer has grown its usage share for the second month in a row. And once again, the fastest growing web browser overall is Internet Explorer 8. IE’s gains come, as before, at the expense of both Mozilla Firefox and [...]