Archive : Mobile

Microsoft’s and Google’s spat over Windows  YouTube app seem to be heading towards a resolution, the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft’s mobile platform according to reports by The Next Web. Microsoft and Google have released a joint statement today saying that they “are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows [...]

Evernote, the popular note taking service is releasing updates to its Mac and iOS and Windows clients and have introduce native reminders, the need for the feature  has been widely discussed on the Internet. Evernote gave more information about the release in a blog post. For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to [...]

South Korean giant Samsung has bought a 10 percent stake in rival and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company Pantech according to reports by TheNextWeb . The purchase was done for a reported sum of 53 billion won or $48 million, Pantech is also Samsung’s component customer, this deal will solidify  the relationship between the South Korean companies and help joint research and development. Samsung’s [...]

Apple had requested California courts dealing with the patent cases permission to add Samsung Galaxy S4 as an infringing device in its ongoing patent battle with Samsung. Apple has officially filed a motion detailing five patents infringed by Samsung in it’s latest flagship Galaxy S4 and another two Siri related patents infringed by the device’s Google Now voice controlled search feature according [...]

Tumblr got more than its share of attention this week, but, Yahoo did not forget Flickr, another beloved start-up when Yahoo purchased it eight years ago.  Yahoo has announced a new remodel to Flickr that puts more emphasis on the photographs plus Flickr users now get1 terabyte of space without shelling a dime. “At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s [...]

The worst kept tech secret of last week is true – Microblogging website Tumblr is being acquired by Yahoo. Marissa Mayer announced the deal today morning along with a “promise not to screw it up.” Yohoo! is coughing $1.1 billion for Tumblr, “substantially all of which is payable in cash,” Yahoo said. Yahoo is not absorbing its acquisition, Tumblr is going to run separately [...]

Yahoo’s  board has just given nod to Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer’s plans to acquire publishing platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Sunday according to reports by AllthingsD. Tumblr acquisition  will be Yahoos biggest acquisition and the fourth biggest overall. As first reported by AllthingsD  last week, Yahoo is all set to buy out Tumblr, and the amount of cash to change hands was [...]

YouTube  one of the most visited website in the world turns eight years old today, YouTube was  launched back in 2005 and were among the first website to offer streaming video, Google marked YouTube’s eight year anniversary by sharing the statistic that it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. “Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every [...]

Samsung Galaxy phone lineup’s latest entrant, Galaxy S4 is on track to selling 10 million handsets in its first month according to the  The Korea Times who quoted Samsung’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. “It is selling much faster than the previous model S3 … Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for the S3. The S4 will be Samsung’s first ’10 million [...]

At Google I/O, Google unveiled a major new unified messaging service for iOS and Android called Hangouts. Hangouts is a cross platform service that will replace Google Talk, Google+ Messenger  and the Google+ video chat. Earlier it was rumored to be called Babel, but Google announced it as Hangouts. Google Hangouts will allow the sharing of photos, emoji, and video calls, together with traditional [...]