Samsung Galaxy S III Is Now The World’s Most Popular Smartphone, iPhone 5 Closing In

Samsung Galaxy S III Is Now The World’s Most Popular Smartphone, iPhone 5 Closing In

Samsung Galaxy S III has now displaced Apple iPhone 4s as the world’s most popular smartphone from the iPhone for the third quarter of 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 smartphone model shipped 18.0 million units worldwide during the third quarter of 2012. The Galaxy S3 captured an impressive 11 [...]
Google Revamps its Search Page, Makes It More Mobile Friendly

Google Revamps its Search Page, Makes It More Mobile Friendly

Google has redesigned its search results.  According to Google Search blog, the removal of the left hand sidebar is an attempt “to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today.” The update is only rolled out in  U.S.  for now. Google’s redesigned search page swaps the left sidebar for a horizontal one located at the top to give [...]
SkyDrive App Debuts On Windows Phone 8 devices

SkyDrive App Debuts On Windows Phone 8 devices

SkyDrive is now available to download on Windows Phone 8, the Windows Phone 8 version  allows users to search their SkyDrive files / folders. The app includes new settings for photo upload and download size, as well as updated app icons and visuals.   Features: • Access all of your SkyDrive content including files shared with you. • View recently used documents. • Upload photos or videos [...]
EE Admits Issues In Their UK 4G Service

EE Admits Issues In Their UK 4G Service

EE has admitted that the launch of its 4G service in the UK has gotten off to a rocky start, in the rush to get 4G out there as quickly as possible has caused some glitches to the customers, who complained they had no service at all, leaving them unable to send or get texts, or take incoming calls. Quite a few people have been vocalising their frustrations on Twitter and Social Media,  with some people [...]
U.S. Judge Throws Out Apple’s  Patent Lawsuit Against Google

U.S. Judge Throws Out Apple’s Patent Lawsuit Against Google

Google said on Monday that a Wisconsin, US federal court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Apple against Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google. Apple has complained that Motorola is seeking unreasonably high license fees for the use of patents on wireless technology. Apple claimed that Motorola was seeking a license fee of 2.25 percent of the price of devices that infringe on Motorola’s patents, [...]
Apple’s Revised Apology To Samsung Appears In UK Newspapers

Apple’s Revised Apology To Samsung Appears In UK Newspapers

If you are a observant newspaper reader and subscribe to either The Guardian or The Daily Mail you may have spotted Apple small advertisement stating that Samsung did not infringe on iPad. The statement has been printed in the Guardian in 14-pt Arial font. Apple was yesterday was reprimanded ordered by a UK Court to  correct their apology to Samsung. The statement appears to be the same statement [...]
Apple Releases iOS 6.0.1 and 6.1

Apple Releases iOS 6.0.1 and 6.1

iOS 6, got it’s first update when Apple released 6.0.1 update to general public and 6.1 to developers,  in this update Apple fixes  few bugs that were plaguing iOS devices that were upgraded to iOS 6. iOS 6.0.1 fixed a few bugs  where horizontal lines were displaying across the keyboard, as well as an issue that sometimes caused the camera flash to not go off, other fixes included a bug that [...]
UK Court Orders Apple’s To Apple To Append Statement About Samsung Copying iPad

UK Court Orders Apple’s To Apple To Append Statement About Samsung Copying iPad

Apple had complied and published a notice stating that Samsung did not copy its design, as the result of a court ruling, the Court is not happy with the public statement. Appeal Court judges criticized Apple’s statement, in which it inserted four paragraphs including details of ‘similar German lawsuits’ which the court says are not correct. “I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would [...]
Microsoft Sued By Patent Troll For Windows Live Tiles In Its Operating Systems

Microsoft Sued By Patent Troll For Windows Live Tiles In Its Operating Systems

Operating system technology designing company SurfCast is suing Microsoft over the Live Tiles feature. Live Tiles were introduced two years ago with the launch of Windows Phone 7, and came into limelight with the focus on Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone 8 in the recent times. Thenextweb reported about the lawsuit and covered the patent details “SurfCast filed its lawsuit with the U.S. [...]
Facebook Testing Single Column Posts Timeline Design

Facebook Testing Single Column Posts Timeline Design

Facebook is testing a new variant of its Timeline layout, the new designs halves the number of columns for posts from two to one. The new design will still carry two columns, the left one is for items like Wall posts, status updates, shared on a user’s profile while the right one is for everything else the user wants on the profile – boxes for Friends, Photos, Places, etc. The news was reported [...]
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