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Faced with immense competition from iOS and Android devices, Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by around 30 percent, as the mobile tablet struggles to lure customers from competition. The Surface RT is now pricedd at £279 instead of £399 in UK which brings it very close to Apple iPad mini’s £279  cost, Surface RT now costs only £10 more than Apple’s iPad mini. The [...]

Apple’s App Store which was launched on July 10, 2008 completes five years this week  Apple is celebrating  in a big way. On the eve of the anniversary according to reports by The Verge. You can access the new section featuring 5 apps and 5 games free for a limited time from iTunes on your Mac or the App Store on your iOS device.   The list of freebie apps and games include: Infinity [...]

Popular iOS and Android music discovery app Shazam which boasts of over 300 million users has got a funding of  US $40 million by Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men. Slim, is considered one of the richest man in the world and is known for his investments in foreign telecommunications businesses. Shazam executive chairman Andrew Fisher said Shazam is adding more than 2.5 million [...]

Microsoft is finally closing it’s internet television service MSN TV on 30 September this year according to it’s website and an email sent to existing subscribers. “WebTV (later called MSN TV) started in 1996 with the goal to bring new people ‘online’ and to give those already online an easy, hassle-free means of accessing the internet from the comfort of their homes. Later, MSN TV [...]

America’s Boston University is suing Apple claiming that Apple ripped off a one of it’s professor’s patented electronic semiconductor and used it in iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air. “Defendant’s acts of infringement have caused and will continue to cause substantial and irreparable damage to the University,” BU alleges in its complaint in a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District [...]

The report by AllthingsD that Yahoo was in the hunt for the Xobni, the maker of address book apps and plugins is true after all as Yahoo confirmed the deal on Wednesday. Xobni (which is pronounced Zob-nee and is “Inbox” spelled backwards), indexes a person’s emails and creates an address book, showing a profile of each contact, which can include a photo, job title and email history, as well [...]

Vine has introduced a new version of its iPhone app  on Wednesday. The latest version 1.3 introduces 15 new channels for different categories of content that users can submit and browse, a new protected accounts feature, and a number of new camera features. Vine publsihed a blog post announcing the update and highlighting some of the new features. We’re happy to introduce new parts of Vine that [...]

Apple has landed the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea, its main rival Samsung ‘s country according to  information  from Quality Insights. Quality Insights  surveyed  44,168 South Korean smartphone owners, who rated their satisfaction on the phones performance and customer service over a one year period. Apple’s overall ranking for customer satisfaction was 52 percent, [...]

Twitter has updated its Twitter #music iOS app on Thursday with several new features, including genres replacing the lists feature, #music users gets different genres to listen to including Alternative, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop, Metal, Pop, R&B, and Rock. The app’s iTunes page gives out more details “Genres! Get hip-hoppy or get your metal on or get your dance beats [...]

Yahoo gave Yahoo News a new look on Thursday which it believes is  “more personal, intuitive and modern design.” The new face lift includes a news stream that’s customizable to the user’s interests. “The first thing that you’ll notice about the new Yahoo News is that it was designed around your interests and preferences. We made the news stream customizable so you [...]