Android phone makers such as  Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony will continue to bank on strong demand for 5-inch smartphones / phablet in 2013 according to Digitimes. Apple, Blackberry and Nokia have no plans for 5-inch smartphones this year according to unnamed industry sources. How big is the opportunity these companies are missing? Digitimes cites research suggesting 60.4 million smartphones with screens [...]

Twitter has improved embedded tweets by adding a couple of new features,  embedded tweet boxes have been redesigned to enhance readability, and to display more context  like retweet and favorite counts.   “Embedded Tweets make it easy for publishers and developers to use Tweets in their content, and today we’re excited to share a number of updates that make the product better and easier [...]

The Microsoft Surface Pro with Windows 8, will start selling  in U.S. and Canada on February 9th and will soon after make it to U.K.shelves. Microsoft took it’s own sweet time in  launching the premium tablet, which shares a similar design with its Surface RT variant but packs an x86-based Core i5 chip, 4GB RAM, a 10.6-inch 1920×1080 pixel screen, 64-128GB internal storage, a USB 3.0 port, [...]

Mozilla, who gave us the a better alternate to the archaic Internet Explorer browser had long had plans to change the mobile OS arena,it  introduced  phones powered by  Firefox OS on Tuesday. Stormy Peters, Director of Websites and Developer Engagement at Mozilla wrote : “Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards. In Firefox OS, HTML5 apps can do “phone [...]

To address reports of declining Instagrammers  due to the privacy policy changes started, Instagram has announced 90 million users are now active on the mobile photo sharing service per month. This is the first time that official numbers were released  after being acquired by Facebook last year. According to AllThingD, these numbers show a significant growth for the Facebook owned company, given [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Note gave rise to the moniker Phablet, the word did not stick but the phone and it’s successor raked in sales and gave smartphones a new category. Samsung is reportedly raising the big higher 5.8-inch device known as the “Galaxy Fonblet” according to reports by SamMobile. The report adds”According to the latest information from our insider Samsung will soon announce [...]

Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers after releasing build 12D50 earlier this month on Jan. 8 with no known issues. Apple says that the new build includes significant changes to WiFi, developers have been asked to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. Apple’s latest release have touted a new “OS X Software Update Seed Configuration [...]

Facebook has introduced out free voice calling for iPhone users within Facebook Messenger app for users in the US, earlier they tested after testing it for a short time in Canada. Free VOIP calling is already popular with apps like Viber, it is pretty big news when it lands on a Facebook app. Of course, the benefits of using Facebook Messenger to make voice calls are that it’s free with Wi-Fi and [...]

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]