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To address reports of declining Instagrammers  due to the privacy policy changes started, Instagram has announced 90 million users are now active on the mobile photo sharing service per month. This is the first time that official numbers were released  after being acquired by Facebook last year. According to AllThingD, these numbers show a significant growth for the Facebook owned company, given [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Note gave rise to the moniker Phablet, the word did not stick but the phone and it’s successor raked in sales and gave smartphones a new category. Samsung is reportedly raising the big higher 5.8-inch device known as the “Galaxy Fonblet” according to reports by SamMobile. The report adds”According to the latest information from our insider Samsung will soon announce [...]

Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers after releasing build 12D50 earlier this month on Jan. 8 with no known issues. Apple says that the new build includes significant changes to WiFi, developers have been asked to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. Apple’s latest release have touted a new “OS X Software Update Seed Configuration [...]

Facebook has introduced out free voice calling for iPhone users within Facebook Messenger app for users in the US, earlier they tested after testing it for a short time in Canada. Free VOIP calling is already popular with apps like Viber, it is pretty big news when it lands on a Facebook app. Of course, the benefits of using Facebook Messenger to make voice calls are that it’s free with Wi-Fi and [...]

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]

Dell, is considering going private and is in buyout talks with at least two private equity firms according to Bloomberg. Dell has lost over 33% of it’s value in the past year. Dell’s profits were down 34% year-over-year, revenue went down 7% year-over-year. “Tablets have dramatically changed the device landscape for PCs, not so much by ‘cannibalising’ PC sales, but by causing [...]

Apple Decreased iPhone 5 Components Orders Due to Weak Demand, Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 screens and other components due to weaker than expected demand, according to the Wall Street Journal. : Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said. The Cupertino, [...]

Apple will soon announce its iPad 5 according to the rumors which stemmed from Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White observations from this week’s CES in Las Vegas, U.S. White noted “Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release the iPad 5 and the second-generation iPad mini this March. The iPad 5 is expected to be lighter and thinner than the iPad 4 that was released in October, while [...]

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Java 7 security making billions of computers susceptible to a serious flaw. The threat is serious enough that the US Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, ZDNet informs. The zero-day flaw affects not only the Java 7 plug-in, but all versions of the java plugin for web browsers. [...]

Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets which were published by Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg earlier this week turned out to be incorrect based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller. Reuters issued an update Friday morning informing readers that it had withdrawn the story, which featured the headline “Apple exec dismisses cheaper [...]