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U.S. judge  Paul S. Grewal ruled that Apple cannot add  Samsung’s  Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it claims infringe on its patents on Thursday according to Bloomberg. Adding another product to the case is a “tax on the court’s resources,” Grewal said in the ruling. “Each time these parties appear in the courtroom, they consume considerable amounts of the court’s time [...]

Apple on Monday releases second build of its iOS 7 beta 2 to developers, iOS 7 was unveiled during WWDC 2013 earlier this month, the first version left out iPad support, which is included in this beta  along with a functional Voice Memos along with performance improvements and bug fixes. The new beta version includes features such as Siri voices, car integration, peer-to-peer file transfer functionality [...]

World’s largest phone maker Samsung announced on Monday that it would stop making desktop PCs because of abysmal demand and fast shrinking profits and instead focus on tablets and laptops. “Demand for conventional desktop PCs is going down,” a Samsung official told The Korea Times. “We will allocate our resources to popular connected and portable devices.” PC market would probably [...]

NetNewsWire  which was introduced in 2002 and  is probably the oldest news reader still under development  has got a beta release for OSX, while in beta it’s available as a free download, it will cost $20 when releases go out of beta,  the iPad and iPhone versions are still under development. Aol, Feedly, Rockmelt and numerous others have joined the RSS bandwagon since Google announced plans to [...]

Source : MacRumor Apple is upgrading it’s iphone processor from an A6 chip to an A7 chip in the iPhone 5S according to images published by MacRumors,  iPhone 5S will carry a dual LED which will flash different colored hues depending on the surrounding lighting. “Additional markings on this new iPhone 5S chip indicate that it carries Elpida DRAM, apparently in the same 1 GB amount [...]

Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social media centered start-up a local discovery startup which works on location and check-ins to find local places of interest near a user, Twitter has not surprisingly, shut down spindle, and plans to have the Spindle team work on Twitter’s local discovery service. “We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the [...]

Facebook now allows users to post pictures in comments. Facebook added a new camera button that enables users to reply to posts with pictures uploaded from their computers. The photo comment  feature is  in the process of being rolled out,  to both desktop and mobile versions. it will not however support animated GIFs unlike Google+. The change also comes a day before Facebook’s mysterious [...]

HTC officially unveiled it’s much rumoured Butterfly S smartphone on Wednesday at the expected launch event in Taiwan. HTC Butterfly carries the now almost standard 5-inch 1080p display, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, the same one which is found in HTC One. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD. Operating System is the latest [...]

Mark Zuckerberg  has been in Seoul, South Korea this week and earlier met with top executives including the company’s president Shin Jong Kyun and chairman Kun-hee Lee according to Bloomberg to discuss a partnership that would boost Facebook’s advertising sales on mobile phones. Facebook’s effort to be more mobile focused saw it release Facebook Home, which centres around [...]

Huawei was reportedly considering acquiring Nokia in it’s bid to help Huawei become a global leader in smartphone manufacturing according  an article  by the Financial Times. The buyout news boosted Nokia shares in U.S. markets which went up 41 cents, or 11%, to reach $4.10, during US mid day trading on Tuesday. Huawei quickly responded saying that it “has no plans to acquire Nokia”. The [...]