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Popular iOS and Android music discovery app Shazam which boasts of over 300 million users has got a funding of  US $40 million by Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men. Slim, is considered one of the richest man in the world and is known for his investments in foreign telecommunications businesses. Shazam executive chairman Andrew Fisher said Shazam is adding more than 2.5 million [...]

Huawei unveiled it’s latest Smartphone,  the Ascend P6 in London today, Huawei claims that P6 is ‘the world’s slimmest smartphone’. Huawei P6 is 6.18mm thin, it packs a quad core CPU clocked at 1.5GHz and 2 GB of RAM, it features a 4.7-inch display with a 720p resolution. “The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is a star among smartphones with its industry-leading design, high-quality [...]

Twitter launched Vine for Android on Monday,  the Android version of it’s popular video capturing and sharing service via Google Play. Vine app for iOS has been available since January with about 13 million active users soon after Twitter purchased it. The Android version does not have al lthe goodies of it’s iOS counterpart. “Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine [...]

Google Play All Access music streaming service was launched few weeks ago at Google I/O and was available for Android mobile OS, with an iOS app sorely missed and keenly awaited. The wait seems to be nearly over.  At the D11 conference, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai confirmed that the service will be making its way to iOS according to Engadget. Users who start a free trial by June 30th, [...]

Google shows off a new Gmail interface for both Android and iOS, along with a new inbox experience for the web, a new inbox feature that offers automatic organization of incoming mail into groups. Category labelled “Primary” will house messages from friends and family, and the messages which do not land in other tabs.  “Social” tab will automatically contain notifications and [...]

More tablet will be shipped than Notebooks or portable PCs this year according to the quarterly Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker  report by IDC, the already declining PC market will see negative growth for the second consecutive year denoting a broad shift in usage patterns. 229.3 million units of Tablets are expected to be shipped this year,  up from 144.5 million units last year, at the same [...]

Tumblr got more than its share of attention this week, but, Yahoo did not forget Flickr, another beloved start-up when Yahoo purchased it eight years ago.  Yahoo has announced a new remodel to Flickr that puts more emphasis on the photographs plus Flickr users now get1 terabyte of space without shelling a dime. “At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s [...]

Samsung Galaxy phone lineup’s latest entrant, Galaxy S4 is on track to selling 10 million handsets in its first month according to the  The Korea Times who quoted Samsung’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. “It is selling much faster than the previous model S3 … Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for the S3. The S4 will be Samsung’s first ’10 million [...]

At Google I/O, Google unveiled a major new unified messaging service for iOS and Android called Hangouts. Hangouts is a cross platform service that will replace Google Talk, Google+ Messenger  and the Google+ video chat. Earlier it was rumored to be called Babel, but Google announced it as Hangouts. Google Hangouts will allow the sharing of photos, emoji, and video calls, together with traditional [...]

The Windows Phone marketplace now has 145,000 apps up from Microsoft’s figure of 120,000 apps in October 2012. The fact was mentioned by Microsoft in  a post announcing the Nokia Lumia 928. Windows Phone has taken nearly 11 months to add 45,000 apps, after Microsoft announced 100,000 apps in June 2012.  The 50,000 apps before this took only 6 months, though the first 50,000 took around 14 [...]