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WhatsApp, the popular cross platform smartphone chat app, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to a report in  TechCrunch. Facebook has been aggressively focusing on its mobile efforts especially after it stocks took a drubbing down. More than 750 carriers have WhatsApp users spanning across a multitude of mobile platforms like S40, Android, S60, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.   “Whatsapp [...]

Apple went up a position to land at the second spot displacing LG in the U.S. Mobile phones market for the three-month average period ending in October largely due to the record setting launch of its iPhone 5 handset, Samsung ranks as the top handset manufacturer overall with 26.3 percent market share according to data from the comScore MobiLens service. Apple ranked second for the first time on record [...]

Apple generally does not sell iPhones without a carrier contract in U.S., reportedly, it’s making an exception with iPhone 5 with images leak depicting pricing of that device on Apple online Store A  report from 9t05Mac claims that Apple will start selling unlocked iPhones as early as Thursday night EST through its online store, they will be available in Retail Stores soon . unlocked pricing [...]

Apple had announced during at the iPhone 5 special announcement event in September  that it will be releasing iTunes 11 soon, after few weeks of delay September, iTunes 11 was officially launched by Apple to the public today. Apple has worked towards getting rid of the additional clutter. They have  removed the the sidebar, the store window, lists of playlists and other extraneous information. Library [...]

The Apple-Samsung court room battles continue. A Netherlands court has ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple damages after it ruled on Wednesday that some of Samsung  Galaxy smartphones and tablets infringe an Apple patent relating to Android operating system versions 2.2.1 to 3.0 used on Samsung’s mobile devices. Apple and Samsung clashed over the same exact patent issue last year. Samsung [...]

Microsoft launched a new campaign that aims to screw Google, Microsoft calls their new website “Scroogled“, it informs Google users about how Google displays results on their Shopping page. The website talks about Google’s new initiative for their Shopping section which turns all results into paid ads, instead of actual relevant results. Back in May, Google made the decision to move to a new [...]

Google integrated its cloud storage service Google Drive into Gmail  on Tuesday to allow users to email much bigger attachments.  Users have the ability to send files up to a massive 10 GB in size over email. To send from G Drive, Users click on the ‘Insert files using Drive’ button rather than attaching the file itself to the message.  Users will need to migrate to Gmail’s new [...]

Facebook is banking on non-advertising services to boost its flagging stock prices, it’s been working hard and fast on adding new products to it’s Facebook Gifts service.On  Monday announced the addition of iTunes credit to its Gifts service. Facebook Users can now give iTunes digital gift cards accompanied by recommendations on content that their friends can purchase. iTunes gifts [...]

 Apple on Monday seeded Mac developers with the first test build of OS X 10.8.3. The initial build  from the Mac Dev Center available to the developers who are enrolled on the  OS X developer program. The areas of focus for testing include AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, and Graphics Drivers.

Apple’s new mobile connector which is named Lightning did not come cheap for Apple, Apple had to buy the rights from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson. Apple was officially granted two European trademark registrations for “Lightning” on Nov. 24 according to Patently Apple. The trademarks were only partially transferred from Harley whose trademark for the word lightning remains protected [...]