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If rumors are to believed there are strong indications that Apple, makers of immensely popular one and iPad are on the verge of accquiring UK based ARM,the leading maker of mobile chips. ARM’s microchips can be found in most of the world’s mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone. Last year almost 4bn chips based on Arm’s designs were shipped worldwide which talks volumes [...]

For all the hardcore fans of the  first person shooter game Black, who think that since Black  there hasn’t been a first person shooter that lets you destroy pretty much everything with reckless abandon; things are  about to change with Bodycount, a brand new FPS which has on its team  some of the developers  who  worked on Black. Stuart Black, the creative director of Bodycount, said: “We’re [...]

Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could  be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively. According to unverified sources ( rumours ),  the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple is keen to ensure that the tablet computer [...]

BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft  launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer. The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full series of their favorite [...]

If you are one of those who craves for lightning cellular network speeds and mobile phones with futuristic appeal, your wishes might just come true next year courtesy Verizon’s latest announcement. Verizon Wireless has recently announced its plans to launch its first LTE handset for 4G networks by middle of next year. However, the launch of 4G might see the end of Verizon’s unlimited data [...]

A vast majority of social gamers are game  to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research  by comScore  for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference. Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they  struggle to monetize even three percent of their [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned. Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on to Google Earth and  Google Maps   that allows [...]

HP  began to brag about the ability  of its forthcoming tablet pc  to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet have that Apple’s [...]

The twitter bug just refuses to die down. The retweet.com domain which put itself up for sale last month has fetched a massive price of $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The sale was hotly contested with as many as 45 bids being placed for retweet.com and the eventual winner outscoring others by shelling out $48,000 more than any other bidder. Retweet.com is a twitter aggregator like [...]

Asus has recently released the Asus Eee PC 1005PR, a netbook perfectly suited to multimedia savvy users. It has a 10.1 inch LED backlit display, Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD and a free trial of 500 GB online Asus storage. The battery life of Asus Eee PC 1005PR is an impressive 11 hours, primarily due to the super effective Asus Super Hybrid Engine. The Asus Eee PC 1005PR [...]