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Huawei unveiled it’s latest Smartphone,  the Ascend P6 in London today, Huawei claims that P6 is ‘the world’s slimmest smartphone’. Huawei P6 is 6.18mm thin, it packs a quad core CPU clocked at 1.5GHz and 2 GB of RAM, it features a 4.7-inch display with a 720p resolution. “The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is a star among smartphones with its industry-leading design, high-quality [...]

Apple announced during the WWDC 2013 that it’s new streaming service  iTunes Radio would be coming to Apple TV, as part of the 5.4 beta to developers, Apple TV users can now stream music from the built in app with the same features which will be seen on iPhones running the iOS 7 beta. Apple TV users can create custom stations based on artists, genres, or song titles, the menus are just like [...]

Facebook has joined the hashtag fray,  which was a staple of Twitter, Tumblr, Pintrerest  as well as Facebook’s Instagram, it  introduced the hashtag feature on Wednesday that allows users to add the # symbol before a word to signify its topic. The topic would then be easily searchable by other users on Facebook. Hashtag feature will roll out over the next few weeks. Facebook says the new [...]

Yahoo has just  announced through a tweet on Wednesday that they have purchased GhostBird Software, the makers of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge and will be integrated with Flickr. GhostBird has said that no further development will be done on either app, and they don’t intend to support new versions of iOS in an announcement on their website. The app is getting removed [...]

Apple as was widely expected took the curtains off it’s rumoured iRadio service named  iTunes Radio (not iRadio), an Internet radio service carrying over 200 stations and a catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with  iTunes functionality, and Siri integration. iTunes Radio is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Windows PC and Apple TV. iTunes Radio listeners get access to [...]

At the opening keynote of Apple’s annual developers conference Apple announced it’s latest mobile OS,  the iOS 7 which Apple says is the most radical design change to the iOS operating system since the launch of the iPhone back in 2007. ” iOS 7 is completely redesigned with subtle motion, an elegant color palette and distinct, functional layers that make it feel more alive.’ [...]

 Apple has reportedly closed a deal with Sony Music to launch its long anticipated and rumored iRadio service. Apple had already signed deals with both Warner and Universal, the news was  first reported on Friday by Peter Kafka of AllThingsD, who cited an unnamed person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. Apple is expected to announce “iRadio” at its WWDC keynote [...]

Samsung’s market value eroded on Friday  by US $12 Billion which is 6 percent of its value due to  brokerage downgrades that have highlighted concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone according to a report by Reuters. “The share slide of more than 6 percent comes after it recently introduced two stripped-down versions of the S4, fanning worries that profit margins [...]

Twitter launched Vine for Android on Monday,  the Android version of it’s popular video capturing and sharing service via Google Play. Vine app for iOS has been available since January with about 13 million active users soon after Twitter purchased it. The Android version does not have al lthe goodies of it’s iOS counterpart. “Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine [...]

Microsoft’s Windows RT based tablets, which is a lighter version of the Windows 8 operating system more compatible to run on tablets powered by ARM processors like the ones used in the iPad and several Android tablets have not been outselling competition, like Microsoft might have hoped for initially. Microsoft intends to cut the price of Windows RT licenses and make tablets running the operating [...]