Microsoft’s Kin hand held range of social networking devices targeted at teens and young adults was released six weeks ago  in U.S , it will be discontinued by Microsoft due to abysmal sales. Trade reports reported that Microsoft sold  only 500 around Kins, this wasnt denied or confirmed by the Redmond company, but it’s clear that the response has been lukewarm. In an email to [...]

Amazon.com has launched a free Kindle e-book reader app for Android which will be available via the Android Market. Amazon already offers versions of Kindle for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC and BlackBerry. It make it seem clear that the real goal for Amazon.com is selling e-books, not Kindle e-readers.  You can get any of the 620,000 books available on the Kindle in the Android reader, [...]

iPhone 4 antenna issues have dominated the news waves and discussions since iPhone 4’s debut last week and Steve Job’s advice  – it’s all your fault – relayed via an email from him and the subsequent outrage and parodies led by Nokia has thrown the spotlight off the real issue, who is to be blamed, the software or the hardware? After reports surfaced showing the grip on the iPhone [...]

Nokia has released a tongue-in-cheek ‘How do you hold your Nokia?’ feature clearly taking a dig at Apple for comments made by Steve Jobs about how users experiencing reception problems on their new iPhone 4 devices should avoid taking a grip that blocks the antenna. “The key function on any Nokia device is its ability to make phone calls. After all, that’s why we know [...]

Steve Jobs solution to consumers – who complained about iPhone 4’s network interference –  to hold the gadget in a different way hasn’t gone down well with UK early customers of Apple’s iPhone 4. According to a survey by rightmobilephone of more than 800 Apple iPhone 4 users, 93% of owners claimed to have already been affected by a loss of signal whilst using the handset [...]

Today is the launch day for Apple’s iPhone 4 , unlike almost positive reception and early reviews for previous iPhone models the newest edition device is plagued with issues. Problems with cell phone reception and  yellowish discoloration appearing on that new Retina display have emerged. Some freshly shipped iPhone 4 devices are suffering from defective screens. Users have reported on [...]

iOS 4 and iPhone 4 (almost) have been released by Apple how can its nemesis in the smartphone market – Android, be away.  Verizon Wireless has unveiled Android based Motorola’s Droid X  a day before the iPhone 4 hits stores. Droid X is the latest smartphone from Verizon Wireless to carry the Droid name, which the carrier has attempted to push as its line of high-end phones running on [...]

Two days after the iOS 4 release and a day before the iPhone 4 launch Apple has published official user guides for the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 in PDF format ( No, they don’t hate all Adobe softwares – its just Flash they don’t like). If you got few hours to kill either waiting for a pre-ordered iPhone 4 to arrive or camping out to purchase one tomorrow, you can go through the guide [...]

It has become a tradion of sorts to have a unlocking/jailbreaking software for iPhone released soon after a new edition of software comes out of Apple’s stables and the good fellas at iPhone Dev-Team (http://blog.iphone-dev.org/) have been faithfully writing code to release your iPhone from the Apple’s software restriction.Only a day after Apple released the iOS 4, the iPhone Dev-Team [...]

Move over Facebook’s complex privacy control and user-data sharing issues, Google has gone one-up on Facebook by scooping up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service. French National Commission on Computing and Liberty CNIL, has begun looking into the exact data that Google’s Street View cars captured, and have  found that the “sensitive data” [...]