Reports of Facebook launching a Facebook-built Android phone on  HTC  got traction last week after Facebook sent invites for a April 4 media event. AndroidPolice shares that it obtained a software dump of Facebook Home. The site’s analysis of the software seems to confirm some of the mid-range technical specifications reported by some bloggers. Reportedly Facebook Home is an experience on top [...]

Microsoft has quietly made a change to the resolution requirements for Windows 8 devices which is quite significant as it will enable hardware manufacturers to put Windows 8 mobile OS on smaller 7-inch tablets, enabling Windows 8 to take on devices running Android and iOS. Microsoft earlier required that all tablets running Windows 8 must have a minimum display resolution of 1366×768, the new [...]

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 [...]

Amazon has announced on Thursday that they are acquiring Goodreads,which bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.” Goodreads.com was founded in 2007 and since then has built a reported  user base of 16 million members, who have added 525 million books and 23 million reviews. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with [...]

Google today released a ‘patent pledge’ which promises that Google won’t sue developers that uses their patents. The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge  will initially see 10 MapReduce patents receive protection. MapReduce is a computing model for processing large data sets developed at Google, whose open-source versions  are now widely used. At Google we believe that open systems [...]

Blackberry’s year end financial results have thrown a pleasant surprise, the Canadian company appears to slowly gaining ground. Blackberry announced US $94 million in profit and $1.2 billion in revenue.For the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013 ending on March 2, BlackBerry reported revenue of $2.7 billion, down 36% when compared to the same time frame a year ago. Blackberry was able to sell [...]

Developers are understandably not ready to bet on a native Blackerry app, so they have offered some shortcuts designed to get programs running on devices like its Z10 like using an emulation engine that enables Android apps to run. “We give them a very nice on-ramp to get onto the platform,” said Mallick in an interview with All Things D about app development. Citing a need for users to [...]

Yahoo has announced that it had acquired the trendy  news reading app Summly, along with its seventeen year old London based founder and entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio. Summly is an app that uses an algorithm to pull out relevant information from news articles and turns them into neat paragraphs that fit on an iPhone screen, while also linking to the full article. Yahoo didn’t disclose how much [...]

Apple has acquired WiFiSLAM which specializes in extending location data and positioning to indoor locations using Wi-Fi for “around” $20 million according to a report by The Wall Street Journal  that . WSJ also was able to get Apple to confirm the accquisition, but did not share its purpose for the company. According to the available description of the firm, the company has created technology [...]

Apple had released a 2-step verification for Apple accounts last week on the lines of Google’s 2-step verification,and it has created an epic embarrassment for Apple, not unlike Apple Maps fiasco. The issue was reported by The Verge, who observed that a series of lock screen exploits makes it possible to reset a user’s password using only their email address and birthdate, the only protection [...]