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Samsung has just unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone at the IFA trade show in Berlin, the smartphone features Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box, it also has the S Pen stylus (of course) ,  with some extra abilities such as Air View, which lets the content to be previewed by hovering the stylus over icons. It will be on sale  starting October in markets across the World, Galaxy Note [...]

AmazonLocal has been launched in the UK, starting with London with the aim to eventually expand across the UK, it joins the likes of Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals. So far the service has been US-only. Bargain hunters can also personalise the deals they are targeted with by using a deal preferences section, which allows them to rate how much they would prefer to be offered entertainment and travel, [...]

Twitter seems to be in no mood to slow down its offensive against third-party app developers. The latest move is dropping name of the source application from tweets on its web interface which means that any tweet from an application such as TweetDeck, Tweet-bot, or Seesmic will not the accompany the “via” field which carried the name of the application that was used to post that particular [...]

Microsoft had promised to release its SkyDrive for Android app soon and the app has now debuted in the Google Play store. Microsoft already has Windows Phone and iOS apps for SkyDrive and offers virtually the same features in the Android version. SkyDrive is not uniquely different than Google Drive, Dropbox or other competition, however, it offers new users more free storage (up to 7GB) and additional [...]

Samsung’s next iteration Galaxy Note smartphone is expected at this week’s IFA show in Berlin, but supposed details about the tablet have already surfaced online. Galaxy Note 2 will reportedly offer a 5.5-inch, 1,280×720-pixel, super amoled display, according to a Korean newspaper. Rumors are also circulating about the Galaxy S3 Mini state that it will be come with a five-megapixel [...]

 Amazon’s Cloud Drive is at last available in the UK, after first launching over a year ago in the US. Pricing for the new UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive is identical to that of the US and includes a 5GB free account. The service can be managed from within  Amazon account online, or through  the free standalone PC  or Mac app for desktop dragging and dropping.  The Cloud Drive comes [...]

Credit : Pocketnow.com Samsung will not easily end up on the receiving end of  the  largest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history when a U.S. jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages. The verdict, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely cement Apple’s dominance of the growing mobile device market. In a statement, Samsung said it will “move immediately [...]

Samsung ended up on the receiving end of  the  largest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history when a U.S. jury found the South Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages. The verdict, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely cement Apple’s dominance of the growing mobile [...]

Microsoft launched a newly designed corporate  logo featuring a new symbol and a new font. This is the first time that Microsoft has revamped its logo since February 1987. The new logo shows the symbol for Microsoft’s Windows operating system — four squares in red, green, blue and yellow — positioned to the left of the name Microsoft in grey. “It’s been 25 years since we’ve [...]

Apple has made available OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 pre-release version to developers hours after pushing out the 10.8.1 update for Mountain Lion users. Most of the improvements in 10.8.1 addressed specific use cases, such as audio output from a Thunderbolt Display or crashes in Migration Assistant.   Mountain Lion 10.8.2 pre-release will be focusing on a slew of social areas as well as other [...]