Amazon today announced that it is finally launching its Android apps Appstore in UK and few other European countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Coincidentally, Amazon’s rival Barnes & Noble announced three partners for in UK  – electronics and home goods seller Argos, and bookshops Blackwells and Foyle’s. In UK it will follow the same conventions as the U.S. with [...]

Samsung ATIV branded mobile devices were not the only Windows powered gadgets announced at the IFA trade show in Berlin. Samsung also announced two new Windows 8-powered tablets. The Series 5 and Series 7 tablets include the company’s S-Pen stylus and can be connected to an optional keyboard dock for the full Windows experience. “With the introduction of our new Slate PCs, we are providing customers [...]

Samsung today announced the Ativ S, the world’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphone and  ATIV Tab, a Windows RT powered tablet during its press conference on Wednesday at the IFA trade show in Berlin.   Samsung ATIV  sports a 10.1-inch display powered by a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor with a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera and 5-megapixel rear camera. It also includes USB and uHDMI ports, [...]

Samsung has just unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone at the IFA trade show in Berlin, the smartphone features Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box, it also has the S Pen stylus (of course) ,  with some extra abilities such as Air View, which lets the content to be previewed by hovering the stylus over icons. It will be on sale  starting October in markets across the World, Galaxy Note [...]

AmazonLocal has been launched in the UK, starting with London with the aim to eventually expand across the UK, it joins the likes of Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals. So far the service has been US-only. Bargain hunters can also personalise the deals they are targeted with by using a deal preferences section, which allows them to rate how much they would prefer to be offered entertainment and travel, [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft had promised to release its SkyDrive for Android app soon and the app has now debuted in the Google Play store. Microsoft already has Windows Phone and iOS apps for SkyDrive and offers virtually the same features in the Android version. SkyDrive is not uniquely different than Google Drive, Dropbox or other competition, however, it offers new users more free storage (up to 7GB) and additional [...]

Samsung’s next iteration Galaxy Note smartphone is expected at this week’s IFA show in Berlin, but supposed details about the tablet have already surfaced online. Galaxy Note 2 will reportedly offer a 5.5-inch, 1,280×720-pixel, super amoled display, according to a Korean newspaper. Rumors are also circulating about the Galaxy S3 Mini state that it will be come with a five-megapixel [...]

 Amazon’s Cloud Drive is at last available in the UK, after first launching over a year ago in the US. Pricing for the new UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive is identical to that of the US and includes a 5GB free account. The service can be managed from within  Amazon account online, or through  the free standalone PC  or Mac app for desktop dragging and dropping.  The Cloud Drive comes [...]

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 [...]