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Research firm  ChangeWave’s recent smart phone survey of 4,028 U.S. consumers shows an explosive transformation occurring in consumer demand and  throws up a number of illuminating statistics. The major point is that people are keen on buying smartphones like never before, with 16% of respondents saying that they’ll be taking the plunge within the next 90 days, which marks the biggest [...]

The update which all ya iPhone 4 customers and fans have been waiting for  is here. The 4.1 update of the iPhone’s iOS 4 is now available in a beta release for the developers who have  signed up for Apple’s iPhone Developers Program.  Programmers will be able to apply the update to the iPhone 4, 3G, 3GS and 2nd generation iPod Touch models however, as far as we can tell, there’s [...]

Twitter Twitter  continued its push to turn its popularity into a profitability by launching @earlybird, which is twitter’s version of limited-time-only online deals craze. its first @earlybird deal is a limited two-for-one ticket deal for the new Disney live-action flick “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” .  It’s Twitter’s second ad partnership with Disney, after [...]

Apple has reportedly bought Poly9, a canada based online mapping company, and has relocated most of the firm’s employees to Apple’s Silicon Valley, California offices, If reports by Cyberpresse and The Sun are to be believed, Poly9 would be the second mapping company Apple purchased  after its acquisition of  Placebase, a company that produced a maps application programming interface [...]

Facebook Facebook will add a ‘panic button’ application for U.K. users which will report child abuse to Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported. Facebook was under pressure from just about everyone after a 17-year old girl was lured to [...]

Microsoft Windows mobile developers have a reason to smile as  Microsoft  has released the developer tools that should enable content creators to write apps for Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform, Microsoft on its part is hard at work with Windows Phone 7, in preparation for the new platform’s launch that should take place towards the end of the year. This build of the Windows Phone 7 [...]

Skype Mobile VOIP leader Skype and popular mobile app Fring are on the war path. The two companies have been attacking each other on their blogs today over missing Skype functionality in Fring. They both agree that Fring’s iPhone 4 two-way video calling feature, which used Skype, no longer works. Fring says Skype blocked its access to the Skype API and then threatened to sue. In a press [...]

Apple is leaving no stone unturned to sell its tablet device, the iPad maker is apparently buying Google AdWords ads targeting potential buyers of the Dell Streak and HP Slate. The screenshot above was captured after we did a search for ‘Dell Streak’ on Google.co.uk . As you can see, Apple is trying to capture the attention of Dell Streak searchers by buying text ads on Google, in an attempt [...]

Apple iPad’s success had reinvented and redifined Tablet PC market and it was a matter of time before its competitors launched tablet devices, Blackberry maker and market leader in smart phones Research In Motion was rumored for quite some time now to be on its way to bring a BlackBerry tablet to the market,the speculation got strengthened  following fresh reports on Internet primarily a research [...]

After the initial heart rendering iPhone 4 commercial few months ago, Apple has posted four new TV commercials to entice people to buy the new iPhone 4, heavily promoting FaceTime, a feature typical to the new smartphone which allows device owners to carry out video calls over a Wi-Fi network. // The new ads are heavy on melodrama, bordering on cheesy.  Apple’s sole intention with the new ads [...]