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 Facebook has partnered with multiple mobile operators worldwide to let Messenger app users send messages at discounted or free data rates it announced on Monday. “This promotion will be available from more than 18 operators in 14 countries. Operators committed to special pricing for Facebook messaging include TMN in Portugal, Three in Ireland, Airtel and Reliance in India, Vivacom in Bulgaria, [...]

Nokia is making efforts to widen its Windows 8 user base, it has today announced two new Lumia smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The entry level Nokia Lumia 520 will be priced at US $185 off contract, while the mid range Lumia 720 will cost US $338 . The Nokia 720 features a 4.3-inch display 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and expandable memory.  The camera [...]

Google on Thursday announced the Chromebook Pixel, a flashier Chrome OS running laptop with improved hardware, software, and design. Chromebook Pixel is a 13.3 inch device and has a 2560×1700 display that would rival Apple’s retina display MacBooks. The screen packs 239 pixels per inch and will be touch-sensitive. Other hardware specs include an Intel Core i5 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, integrated [...]

Google is working with hardware manufacturers to release new Chromebook laptops that will have touch capabilities too just like Ultrabooks according to a report by Wall Street Journal. The reports observes  that if new Chromebooks are released with touchscreens, software developers will have to make changes in order for their Chrome OS apps to work with touch-based hardware. It’s almost certain [...]

Apple’s ‘watch’ rumours may be more than just a rumour after all,  Apple filed a patent application which was first noticed by AppleInsider talks about a a new “bracelet” accessory with a wraparound design where the screen would cover the entire outer surface. Apple had filed the patent application in August 2011, the “wearable video device” described in the [...]

Apple’s shrinking stock value and Analysts somber reports might have suggested fading popularity of Apple’s mobile devices, which is far from the facts. According to the latest research from Stratergy Analytics iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 S overtook Galaxy S3 to become the world’s best selling smartphones for the first time ever in the last quarter of 2012. During that period, Apple sold 27.4 [...]

Yahoo.com is starting to roll out a new front page, the redesigned homepage was announced in a blog post  by Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer. The new look has been described as being ‘more intuitive and personal’. Yahoo expects to roll out this revamped homepage in the US over the next few days. The UK availability has not been yet announced. “The new Yahoo experience works well [...]

China is all set to go to past the US to become the country with the highest number of active  iOS and Android devices, both smartphones and tablets according to report from Flurry.   More details below : For this report, Flurry uses its entire data set, tracking more than 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated application sessions per day across more than 275,000 applications around the world. Flurry [...]

Nokia’s low-cost Asha series phones are selling twice as much as Lumia, Apple is rumored to be developing cheap iPhones, how could Samsung be far away, Samsung is coming up with a new handset line called Rex that is  targeted  at emerging markets according to a WSJ report.   “As the number one mobile leader and innovator, we are committed to developing the best possible mobile solutions [...]

Microsoft is testing video message feature on Skype. Skype users in the UK and US using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other. Strangely Skype Video Messages won’t immediately come to Windows Phone or Windows 8. Video messages sent to Windows users will send a link to the user where they can watch the video online. Tom Warren of The Verge [...]