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Apple has not ignored its touch based iPod this year, unlike last year, Apple announced an update to the iPod touch line of devices. The newest 5th generation iPod touch also runs the dual core A5 processor and shares  the same larger 4-inch screen as the iPhone 5. The new fifth generation iPod touch is just 6.1mm thick , its made of anodized aluminum and weighs grams. It also features Siri support [...]

Google has rolled out an update to its Google Drive iOS app that atlast lets iOS users edit their Google Drive documents on the go, just as you can already do with the Android app. That’s not all, iOS users can also view Google presentations on  iOS device, this also means that you can now view speaker notes and use full-screen mode for presentations in Google Drive for iOS. Android app also [...]

The AntiSec hacker group claimed that it has more than 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs, as well as other personal info from Apple device owners from a laptop of an FBI staffer. It has released 1,000,001 UDIDs. Tthe FBI issued a statement to AllThingsD that refutes the claim. “The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple [...]

Those who thought that record low of US $19.69 which Facebook sank to on Nasdaq earlier this month was a buying opportunity were wrong, Facebook’s stock hit a new low of US $18.03 after analyst firm BMO Capital Markets cut its price estimate on the company’s shares from $25 to $15 today. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Bank of Montreal slashed their targets on Facebook by 34% and 40%, respectively, [...]

Lenovo announced a comprehensive update of its Idea branded PCs, which includes a new IdeaPad U Series Ultrabook, IdeaPad Y and Z Series laptops, and IdeaCentre A and B Series all-in- one  desktops and all of them runs Windows 8. Check out the details from Press Release below. “IdeaPad U510 Ultrabook – Ultra Thin, Ultra Light Following in the footsteps of its fashionable predecessors, the [...]

After Samsung announces Windows 8 based Series 7 and Series 5 tablets at IFA in Berlin, Asus, DELL and HP came up with their next generation windows powered tablets and laptops. HP on Thursday unveiled three new Windows 8 machines HP ENVY x2, HP SpectreXT Ultrabook and HP ENVY TouchSmart Ultrabook. HP ENVY x2 is a hybrid notebook made of aluminum, it sports 11.6-inch Windows 8 Pro tablet connected [...]

Twitter seems to be in no mood to slow down its offensive against third-party app developers. The latest move is dropping name of the source application from tweets on its web interface which means that any tweet from an application such as TweetDeck, Tweet-bot, or Seesmic will not the accompany the “via” field which carried the name of the application that was used to post that particular [...]

Samsung will not easily end up on the receiving end of  the  largest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history when a U.S. jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages. The verdict, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely cement Apple’s dominance of the growing mobile device market. In a statement, Samsung said it will “move immediately to file post-verdict [...]

Samsung ended up on the receiving end of  the  largest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history when a U.S. jury found the South Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages. The verdict, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely cement Apple’s dominance of the growing mobile [...]

Apple has made available OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 pre-release version to developers hours after pushing out the 10.8.1 update for Mountain Lion users. Most of the improvements in 10.8.1 addressed specific use cases, such as audio output from a Thunderbolt Display or crashes in Migration Assistant.   Mountain Lion 10.8.2 pre-release will be focusing on a slew of social areas as well as other [...]