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WhatsApp on Tuesday said that the popular text messaging service had achieved the landmark of  300 million monthly active users worldwide. Few weeks ago  WhatsApp had announced crossing the 250 million monthly active users mark, which means it added 50 million users in about 45 days. To mark the occasion, WhatsApp has started rolling out updates across the apps on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows [...]

Feedly, the popular alternate to Google reader is a top choice for people looking for Google Reader replacement, the  off its premium service. Today, the company launched Feedly Pro, with a limited time  premium lifetime RSS service which was priced at $99.99 sold out within the first few hours. “The funds from this early edition are going to help us acquire the hardware needed to open feedly [...]

Released this year as an upgrade to the amazingly popular Samsung Galaxy S3, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the slightly smarter twin brother. The S3 and S4 (on the surface at least) are non-identical twins – they couldn’t look more alike. There are slight differences, however. The S4 is slightly wider (0.8mm), slimmer (0.7mm), and lighter (3 grams); with a slightly larger screen (0.2 inches) [...]

The iRig Mic from IK Multimedia is an external hand-held microphone accessory, specifically designed for mobile phones and tablets. Compatible with Android and iOS devices, the iRig Mic can be used for recording professional sounding audio on-the-go. It’s portable (and comes with a handle little case), which makes this microphone ideal for many situations, such as journalists conducting interviews, [...]

Popular game maker Zynga has taken issue  Facebook’s casual sex app ‘Bang With Friends’  for infringing its trademark of ‘with friends’ ( Words With Friends, Chess With Friends and Hanging With Friends)family of games  and have  filed a lawsuit against the app maker. Bang with Friends makes it easy to turn Facebook friends into flings. That’s news to Bang With Friends’ [...]

Facebook’s announced it’s Q2 2013 earnings today, the results are much better than expected thanks to a massive increase in mobile advertising, it reported its best fiscal quarter to date with revenues of US $1.813 billion and a net profit of US $ 333 million against expectations of  $1.62 billion revenue. This meant a  30 percent increase over last quarter, Share markets were evidently [...]

Apple is testing larger display sizes potential future models for both the iPad and the iPhone according to a report from Wall Street Journal which quotes unnamed sources. “In recent months, Apple has asked for prototype smartphone screens larger than 4 inches and has also asked for screen designs for a new tablet device measuring slightly less than 13 inches diagonally.” quotes the article. The [...]

Apple’s developer website has been inaccessible since Thursday last week and was rumoured to be compromised by hackers, Apple was tight lipped about it until this morning,  yesterday Apple sent an email to developers explaining that it had detected a breach on its servers on Thursday. The hacking may have leaked the users’ names, email addresses, and mailing addresses. On Internet, some [...]

Britian’s Prime Minister David Cameron will crack the whip on Pornography through extensive restrictions on internet porn, Pornography will be automatically blocked by Internet service providers  in the country unless the users choose to opt in according to the Daily Mail, which is taking full credit for these reforms. The measures which will be announced today plan will also make it a crime [...]

Evernote has released a new version for its app for iPad and iPhone which adds shortcuts to notes, tags, files and more, related notes for premium users, and support for Skitch app to add images to the notes. “For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we’re adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that’s important to you, easily annotate [...]