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 Google has began shipping units of the first Nexus tablet PC,  Nexus 7 tablet which comes with Android Jelly Bean mobile operating system and starts at $199 and has drawn glowing reviews from major gadget reviewers is now available in the US. Customers who pre-ordered the device online via have received e-mail notification from Google that the tablet has shipped to arrive soon, the tablet PC has [...]

Samsung and Apple’s court room wars are proving disruptive for retailers selling Samsung products,  FOSS Patents has published documents showing the ruthless approach Apple is taking with retailers. According to Samsung, several Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 retail sellers received letters ordering them to stop selling the two devices in late June and early July, before the ban on [...]

It’s about time Facebook – more than four months since it introduced the Timeline design for desktop, Facebook has started rolling out the Timeline design for pages to its mobile versions this week. Earlier the mobile version of Facebook Pages would display only the profile picture for the Page, along with  the category and amount of likes the page had along with a Like button. Timeline [...]

A recent Nielsen survey revealed that two-thirds of new mobile phones purchased in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. Nielsen also reported that just under 55% of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones. Android was the market leader with  51.8% of smartphone owners  using an Android OS handset, Apple came second with 34.3% share, and Blackberry owners represented another 8.1 % of [...]

More than 450,000 Yahoo Voice usernames and unencrypted passwords were stolen from Yahoo.  Hacker outfit D33ds Company claimed credit for the attack , which was carried out through  a union-based SQL injection and exposed 453,492 plain text login credentials. Formspring was also in the news  this week for a reported hack in to their system, Formspring users are being encouraged to change their [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]

Investors or BlackBerry users – no one seems to be happy with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion due to their inability to stay current with the market demands and inability to catch up with Apple iOS and Android based devices that does much more than email and phone calls. That’s going to change according to RIM‘s CEO. RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins, who replaced long time CEOs [...]

Twitter has launched today new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates including a video feature, now you can click on a tweet with a video link on your iPhone or Android device,  and have the video play directly in the tweet. Below are the new features as described by Sung Hu Kim,  Twitter’s Product Manager “Expand Tweets Since we [...]

Google has released the source code of  Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, the latest version of its Android operating system, this move that is sure to see massive excitement from the huge Android developer community. ” We’re releasing Android 4.1 in AOSP today.  The name of the tagged release is android-4.1.1_r1.  The name of the development branch is jb-dev.  We recommend that you create [...]

Apple’s bad luck in UK courts continue, after losing a patent case against HTC recently, Apple lost another patent skirmish, this time with Samsung. UK High Court Judge ruled that Samsung tablets don’t infringe Apple patents. High Court of England and Wales ruled that three of Samsung’s Galaxy touch-screen tablet products don’t infringe Apple’s patents. Judge Birss referred [...]