UK court gave a ruling last week that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs,  that iPad maker Apple  should  publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad according to a report by Bloomberg.  “Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims [...]

Google has started shipping Nexus 7 pre-orders to customers who ordered the device from Google Play stores outside of the United States. ‘We’re now shipping Nexus 7 preorders. Many US and Australia preorders are scheduled to ship by July 17th. UK and Canada preorders have also begun shipping in waves.’ says a statement on the Google Play’s support page. Will the Nexus 7 wave [...]

Microsoft released the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office,  Office 2013 and Office 365. The next release features an intuitive design that works with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. You could get  your hands on the customer preview at office.com/preview , the newest version gives more prominence to cloud computing and is designed for use with [...]

If you are a regular Skype user, this will come as a shocker as your private messaging with someone on your contact list could be sent to another random person on your contacts list. Reported in the Skype support forums, “shocked” users had said private instant messages had been re-sent to to a random person on their contacts list. Microsoft owned Skype has acknowledged the bug. “We [...]

 Google has began shipping units of the first Nexus tablet PC,  Nexus 7 tablet which comes with Android Jelly Bean mobile operating system and starts at $199 and has drawn glowing reviews from major gadget reviewers is now available in the US. Customers who pre-ordered the device online via have received e-mail notification from Google that the tablet has shipped to arrive soon, the tablet PC has [...]

Samsung and Apple’s court room wars are proving disruptive for retailers selling Samsung products,  FOSS Patents has published documents showing the ruthless approach Apple is taking with retailers. According to Samsung, several Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 retail sellers received letters ordering them to stop selling the two devices in late June and early July, before the ban on [...]

It’s about time Facebook – more than four months since it introduced the Timeline design for desktop, Facebook has started rolling out the Timeline design for pages to its mobile versions this week. Earlier the mobile version of Facebook Pages would display only the profile picture for the Page, along with  the category and amount of likes the page had along with a Like button. Timeline [...]

A recent Nielsen survey revealed that two-thirds of new mobile phones purchased in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. Nielsen also reported that just under 55% of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones. Android was the market leader with  51.8% of smartphone owners  using an Android OS handset, Apple came second with 34.3% share, and Blackberry owners represented another 8.1 % of [...]

More than 450,000 Yahoo Voice usernames and unencrypted passwords were stolen from Yahoo.  Hacker outfit D33ds Company claimed credit for the attack , which was carried out through  a union-based SQL injection and exposed 453,492 plain text login credentials. Formspring was also in the news  this week for a reported hack in to their system, Formspring users are being encouraged to change their [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]