Archive : Events

Yahoo is organizing a press event in New York on Monday, May 20th  which will be addressed by CEO Marissa Mayer according to CNBC, the event will be “product-related,”  which is rumoured to be about Yahoo’s Tumblr acquisition. Tumblr has been in news this week, on Thursday All Things D reported that Yahoo might buy Tumblr for a price close to $1 billion.Then, GigaOm reported that Facebook [...]

Google  I/O conference, Google’s annual conference for Developers which features more than 120 sessions on the Android and Chrome operating systems and  one keynote begins May 15 and ends on May 17  in San Francisco. This conference is eagerly awaited each year as it usually brings some exciting new development for Android and Google’s other projects. Last year at Google I/O was announced [...]

Nokia is getting inspired  from Apple by having exclusive press events and sending out invites that gives only a hint of what it might be about. Nokia has sent out an invite to the members of the press to an event here in London on May 14. The invite teases “See what’s next” followed by “The Nokia Lumia story continues.” Nokia might announce at least one new Windows Phone handset at the [...]

Facebook is up to something. Facebook sent out an invitation to the media early this morning (Thursday afternoon San Francisco / Pacific Time), inviting media personnel to attend an event on April 4 where Facebook would show off their “new home on Android.” The invitation, as pictured on the right, says, “Come See Our New Home on Android,” and includes no other details as to [...]

After a lot of hype and leaks Samsung’s Galaxy S IV has finally arrived. Samsung unvieled its new 5-inch smartphone at a  event in New York City yesterday night. Galaxy S IV has to live up to its hugely successful predecessor the Samsung Galaxy S III which currently is the world’s most popular Android phone with sales of over 40 million devices. “With the GALAXY S 4, Samsung is again [...]

Apple has earlier used a September event to release new iPods and announce upgrades to the iTunes service. Keeping with the tradition –  Apple will be holding a media  event on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we think that it is for  new Apple TV everyone is talking about. Apart from a  Apple TV release, which is expected to be relaunched with a naming change to Apple iTV, Apple [...]

The Holiday Match Maker from Halifax. It’s one of those rare things, a Facebook application that is genuinely useful and entertaining at the same time. It’s also pretty clever. By analysing the content of your profile, it will ’calculate’ what your ideal holiday destination is, where you should stay, what you should do, what the weather’s like at the moment and how many plastic Eiffel Towers [...]

Fifa  Football World Cup has started today and all the action and attention has shifted to South Africa. If you are regretting not booking your trip, now is your chance to be not only a part of a special one-off football tournament event and what’s better you could also participate in it. Leading online gaming magazine and community GodisaGeek is organizing  a virtual xbox 360  FIFA Word [...]

Tony Blair, the  former Prime Minister of UK  has been hired as a senior adviser by Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm which is promoted by Vinod Khosla who is  known as the brains behind Sun Microsystems and is one of Silicon Valley’s smartest investors. Khosla Ventures  is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green technology and is banking on Blair’s international [...]

Image by wallyg via Flickr It will be a red-letter day in the lives of London buses. The new London bus design was unveiled by London mayor, Boris Johnson yesterday. The design of the London Bus is based on the old Routemaster model which is an icon on London, but the iconic 1954 design is getting a much needed revamp. The new bus will be powered by eco-friendly hybrid technology. According [...]