Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

Amazon has announced this morning the launch of its UK Kindle Store. The online store will stock over 400,000 books including 84 of the 100 Nielsen UK Bestsellers. On 29th July, Amazon UK started taking pre-orders for the all-new Kindle featuring a new electronic-ink screen , a new sleek design with a smaller body while still keeping the same 6-inch-size reading area. The all-new Kindle with [...]

Apple’s  iPhone Developer Program has released iOS 4.1 Beta 3 to developers signed on Apple’s developer program.  As usual, users should not be downloading and installing iOS 4.1 Beta 3 if they are  not  developers. Jailbreakers and unlockers should stay away if they want to keep their jailbreak ability in the future. iOS 4.1 Beta 2 was made available just over two weeks ago, [...]

Jailbreakme.com app is a boon to apple device users looking to break the shackles of Apple’s stringent sofware restrictions. Hacking a phone OS is usually done through  exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. If  the good folks could open up our phones for us than any other hacker, with nefarious intentions , could use that same exploit to mess with your phone. Think about [...]

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 the activity [...]

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 requests, and [...]

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 to users [...]

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 two-year contract) from [...]

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 with [...]

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 [...]