If you’re one of the few who is rocking a Windows Phone 7 (I’m personally suffering through with the HTC Mozart) and can’t wait to be able to tether your devices with the Mango Update promised by Microsoft, there is a light at the end…
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Manufactures Looking for CPU Price Drop on Ultrabooks
- 21 Sep, 2011 1:10 am
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I saw this one coming a mile away! I’ve been saying for weeks now that Intel should subsidize the end cost of Ultrabooks for the consumer and apparently the manufacturers agree! Both Acer and Compal are looking Intel to help them drop the price on…
Dell Targets China with Baidu Yi Tablet
- 7 Sep, 2011 1:56 am
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No one is sure if Baidu’s Android variant operating system is going to be a success or even usable, but Dell has already jumped on the band wagon by committing to a Baidu Yi based tablet. What is surprising about the announcement is that Lenovo…
Baidu Confirms Plans for Mobile OS Baidu Yi
- 6 Sep, 2011 8:00 am
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The mobile OS game is a foot and Baidu, the Google of China has turned its back on Android in favor of its own mobile OS. The new OS, called Baidu Yi, will be based off a version of Android and will strip all Google…
Men Prefer Android Women RIM Says Mobile Advertising Survey
- 25 Aug, 2011 6:30 am
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I wouldn’t put much stock in this marketing survey, but for what its an interesting read since its finding indicate that 61% of Android users are men and 67% of BlackBerry users are women! Apple’s iOs and Symbian were more evenly split but I would…
Windows 8 to Get an App Store
- 18 Aug, 2011 10:04 pm
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Windows 8 will be rearing its head this fall and talk of an App Store is going along with it. Microsoft has launched a Windows 8 blog and they’ve discussed their plans to introduce an app store in it.
Windows Live Division President, Steven Sinofsky…
Motorola Xoom Finally Gets European Android 3.1 Release Date
- 28 Jul, 2011 3:00 pm
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Took them long enough but we’re finally going to see the Android 3.1 update hit the airwaves in Europe on August 9th for the Motorola Xoom. This is pretty sad considering that US units are starting to see a controlled test roll out of Android…
ASUS Padfone to Ship with Ice Cream & Tegra 3 in Q4?
- 23 Jun, 2011 5:38 pm
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ASUS isn’t messing around when it comes to marking its territory in the tablet ecosystem shipping 400,000 tablets in the first half of Q1. They’ve released one of the most competitive Android Honeycomb tablets around with the Eee Pad Transformer not only because it under…
The new look for Skype on webOS
- 20 Jun, 2011 8:09 pm
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The Skype integration on webOS look has been reveled. Like Google Voice on Android, the ability to route all international calls through Skype is provided along with the option to ask every time you make a call. On O2 in Germany? No problem, it will…
Elop Says There is No Plan B, Nokia only has Eye’s for Windows 7
- 13 Jun, 2011 6:30 pm
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Now when you hear that a company’s Plan B is identical to Plan A you have to wonder what is going on! In a CNBC interview, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, ex-Microsoft who took to try to bring Nokia back from its sliding market dominance. It…
Microsoft Releases Android to Windows Phone Developer Tool
- 10 Jun, 2011 4:30 pm
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I recently took the plunge and switched over the HTC Motzart which is a Windows Phone 7 handset. As a phone its elegant with a great UI and fantastic facebook and email integration. However, stack it up against what Google and Apple are doing and…
Microsofts Windows 8 Operating System unveiled
- 2 Jun, 2011 4:06 pm
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Microsoft unveiled the next version of their Windows Operating System (OS) aptly titled “Windows 8″ on June 1st in the United States at the D9 conference held in California and again on June 2nd at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. With a key orientation for use…
Google Chrome OS Launches in Beta
- 17 May, 2011 4:30 pm
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The Chomebook was released last week by Google with hardware being provided by Samsung and Acer so far. The hardware is due to hit the streets June 15th and in preparation of the launch they have started formal beta testing for Chrome OS 12. We…
Android 3.1 on the Motorola Xoom Walk Through
- 15 May, 2011 2:45 pm
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Google Android 3.1 is now rolling out to Motorola Xoom… tablets and we’ve shot video showing off the updates, well, the ones you could see as much of the list below is behind the scene’s updates. Google published a detailed list of Android 3.1 features
MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition Gets a Spash Screen
- 25 Apr, 2011 4:45 pm
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If you’ve been following MeeGo then you’ll know that the Nokia N900… is getting a specific Develop Edition of MeeGo 1.2. Since there hasn’t been much news from Nokia of late, other then making statements against the OS, it looks like there’s been a leak












