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Android If you always wanted to create your ideal Android app for yourself , but were limited by your coding skills, here is your chance. Google has unvieled a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. With App Inventor, you can build just about any app you do not need to be a developer for that. App Inventor requires zilch programming [...]

YouTube YouTube has announced at  the Vid-Con 2010 conference that it is  now launching support for videos shot with 4K cameras, which are a  new generation of very high resolution video cameras, usually out of the reach of most amateur filmographers. “Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we [...]

App Store on an iPhone Last week saw fraud occurring in the iTunes system, when  a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store’s “book” category with seemingly bogus content. There was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud. This week the scam seems to hit Travel apps, [...]

Google Google and China has always been at loggerheads, however, here is a piece of positive news , China has renewed Google’s licence in a move that allows the web giant to continue operating in China. Google has confirmed that Beijing has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but [...]

eBay eBay seems to be working furiously on expanding its mobile applications, The ecommerce giants has announced  the release  of eBay Selling application and its eBay for iPad application. The application is now available in Germany and the UK, and the eBay for iPad application is now translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish and currently available through Apple’s 77 iTunes App [...]

NTP Corporation has filed a lawsuit against six leading cell phone makers for infringing on its patents for delivering email to cell phones. The companies against whom cases were filed are Apple , Google , Microsoft , Motorola , HTC  and LG. NTP claims that the companies are infringing eight of NTP’s patents related to the delivery of email over a wireless network. “Use of NTP’s [...]

Some of Facebook's gifts Facebook has  announced that its Gift Shop, which  allows users to send personalized items -drinks, birthday cakes, and pieces of flair –  to friends on the network will close on August 1, 010  to allow it to focus on improving other features.  Users will still be able to use third-party applications to send and receive greeting cards and other items. “Closing [...]

iPod touch The rumors of an upcoming september release of the iPod touch are going strong. Apple will most likely not disappoint fans  and release a new wave of iPod models with  new hardware, a front-facing camera, and even HD video recording capabilities. It may carry  the same A4 chip that Apple loves. What backs the rumor, are the pictures circulating the Internet which are purportedly [...]

ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010.  According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one percentage [...]

Fring Apple has approved the new Fring app for iOS4. In the new release, Fring has enabled cross platform video chatting that allow users to conduct two-way video conversations between smartphones with front facing cameras, that means you can have a video call between an iPhone 4 and an EVO 4G or a  Nokia  N 97.  No one was  sure whether Apple was going to approve third-party video calling apps [...]