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 Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest in the Evo SSD lineup, by launching its new entry level solid-state drive, the 840 Evo at 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit  in Korea. 840 Evo will be available in 120 GB/250 GB/500 GB/750 GB/1 TB capacities, using 19nm Toggle 2.0 TLC, compared to the Samsung SSD 840 which uses 21nm Toggle 2.0 TLC and the 840 Pro which uses 21nm Toggle MLC. Samsung SSD [...]

Apple’s App Store which was launched on July 10, 2008 completes five years this week  Apple is celebrating  in a big way. On the eve of the anniversary according to reports by The Verge. You can access the new section featuring 5 apps and 5 games free for a limited time from iTunes on your Mac or the App Store on your iOS device.   The list of freebie apps and games include: Infinity [...]

Microsoft is finally closing it’s internet television service MSN TV on 30 September this year according to it’s website and an email sent to existing subscribers. “WebTV (later called MSN TV) started in 1996 with the goal to bring new people ‘online’ and to give those already online an easy, hassle-free means of accessing the internet from the comfort of their homes. Later, MSN TV [...]

America’s Boston University is suing Apple claiming that Apple ripped off a one of it’s professor’s patented electronic semiconductor and used it in iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air. “Defendant’s acts of infringement have caused and will continue to cause substantial and irreparable damage to the University,” BU alleges in its complaint in a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District [...]

The report by AllthingsD that Yahoo was in the hunt for the Xobni, the maker of address book apps and plugins is true after all as Yahoo confirmed the deal on Wednesday. Xobni (which is pronounced Zob-nee and is “Inbox” spelled backwards), indexes a person’s emails and creates an address book, showing a profile of each contact, which can include a photo, job title and email history, as well [...]

U.S. judge  Paul S. Grewal ruled that Apple cannot add  Samsung’s  Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it claims infringe on its patents on Thursday according to Bloomberg. Adding another product to the case is a “tax on the court’s resources,” Grewal said in the ruling. “Each time these parties appear in the courtroom, they consume considerable amounts of the court’s time [...]

World’s largest phone maker Samsung announced on Monday that it would stop making desktop PCs because of abysmal demand and fast shrinking profits and instead focus on tablets and laptops. “Demand for conventional desktop PCs is going down,” a Samsung official told The Korea Times. “We will allocate our resources to popular connected and portable devices.” PC market would probably [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]