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BlackBerry’s app store BlackBerry App World 2.0 launched

BlackBerry’s app store BlackBerry  App World 2.0 launched

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion(RIM) announced  that BlackBerry App World is now available for all BlackBerry owners and is no longer in beta version.
Blackberry app developers could offer apps for $0.99 and $1.99, the payment options are either credit card or  carrier billing. User’s BlackBerry ID can be used to manage account information across multiple devices, the navigation has …

Google Maps for mobile crosses 100 million users a month

Google Maps for mobile crosses 100 million users a month

More than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps wrote Vic Gundotra, Google’s Vice President of Engineering,  Gundotra blogged about the evolution of Google Maps over the past five years, which has become immensely more valuable with the rise of mobile apps and GPS-enabled smartphones. It does help that the now top selling Android based …

Touchscreen smudge may reveal your mobile’s password pattern

Touchscreen smudge may reveal your mobile’s password pattern

Trojans and viruses may be soon a security threat of pasts. The smudges, mostly due to the oily residue left behind by fingers on your touchscreen mobile device may help an attacker deduce your password according to a study  by the University of Pennsylvania.
The researchers studied two different Android smartphones, the HTC G1 and the HTC Nexus1, …

Vodafone could be bringing Samsung Galaxy Tablet PCs to UK

Vodafone could be bringing Samsung Galaxy Tablet PCs to UK

News of Samsung’s tablet PC – Galaxy Tablet launching  at IFA, Berlin on september 3,2010 were making news since last week, the device might debut with Vodafone in UK as it was reportedly spotted on the mobile carrier’s website .
A Firmware website said that it has stumbled upon a Android 2.2 software build for the Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 …

iPhone users have more sexual partners

iPhone users have more sexual partners

A study by Dating site OkCupid has revealed that people who use iPhones have more sex than those who don’t. Few female iPhone owners had twice as many sexual partners as other smart phone users, the research said.
The study looked at the data hidden in the images that users uploaded as profile pictures to see which …

Android gets a new version of Facebook app

Android gets a new version of Facebook app

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 …

Android based phones register a whooping 886% growth spurt

Android based phones register a whooping 886% growth spurt

Apple’s iPhone may be  hitting the headlines for right or wrong reasons and getting more than adequate  attention, but, that does not guarantee better market share, likewise, the erstwhile Finnish mobile czar Nokia may be not making as much noise (barring few digs at Apple) as it use to,nevertheless, that hasnt stopped it from retaining a substantial lead in the …

Samsung Cetus running Windows Phone 7 announced

Samsung Cetus running Windows Phone 7 announced

Samsung was earlier confirmed as one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch partner. Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 device news in now in open  thanks to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group which is a Bluetooth specifications group.
The handset named Cetus has a 4-inch OLED screen, 5MP camera, front facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth and all the other gubbins you have …

Blackberry’s BlackPad tablet launching this November

Blackberry’s BlackPad tablet launching this November

Rumors about Blackberry makers RIM (Research In Motion) coming out with a touch-screen tablet similar to Apple’s iPad got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com.
The latest on Blackpad comes through two anonymous sources saying RIM’s Blackpad is coming by November– and it’s coming to take on Apple’s iPad. The new device will  run the as-yet-unreleased BlackBerry OS 6.  Besides, …

Samsung Galaxy S ad mocks iPhone 4′s reception issue

Samsung Galaxy S ad mocks iPhone 4′s reception issue

Not content with the  marketing gimmick of  announcing free Samsung Galaxy S devices to disgruntled iPhone users,  in the latest ad for its Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung simply says “Hello,”  but, it  features bars of network characters making up the Ls in the word Hello and but everyone who has seen  and heard (who  hasnt) about  the signal issues …


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