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British web start-up Huddle, which is a  web-based team collaboration and project management tool  announced a $10.2 million second round of funding, Huddle has now raised more than $15 million in  total. The funds will help the company stay competitive in the crowded collaboration market which is dominated by Box.com. With focus on US expansion it opened up an office in San Francisco with  [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, [...]

It’s become a familiar cycle now. Apple launch an exciting new product, it hits the US market first, leaving the rest of the World waiting around for a month (or two, in this case). When the product finally reaches UK shores, we suffer what has become known as the ‘Apple Tax’. This is a price-bump which is often argued to be a result of VAT or exchange rates, a myth we proved [...]

Google added a fully featured GPS satellite navigation service to its Google Maps application for mobile phones running its Android operating system 1.6 and higher, including the Nexus One. Google Maps Navigation which is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance which was until now available only in the United States on Android phones. Speaking at the launch Steve Lee, [...]

Image via Wikipedia So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense! As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]

When Twitter founder Jack Dorsey first announced Square mobile payment system, I thought it was a brilliant idea – and it still is. Being able to accept credit card payments on the go, no matter where you are, with an iPhone/iPod/iPad – fantastic. Square officially launched yesterday (on the iPad, initially) and the technology is already outdated. Square relies on the old fashioned [...]

Image via Wikipedia It is official now; Chinese hackers have raged a Cyberwar against the western world and no one has been spared whether its technology companies like Google and Intel or government agencies in the United States and European Union. These cyber attacks have much broader implications than what most people can imagine. Sensitive intelligence secrets being compromised and exposed to [...]

Image via Wikipedia After dragging Nokia to court for patent infringement, Apple has sued HTC over their alleged infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs who is known for not mincing his words said that HTC is stealing their technology. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about [...]

When Steve Jobs launched the Apple Tablet aka ‘iPad’ amidst much fan fare and media hype, he chose to keep mum on the iPad pricing for UK customers. A tech blog named ‘Geeky Gadgets’ has recently claimed that it has obtained access to the UK pricing details of the iPad. As per them, Wi-Fi only iPad will cost a miserly £389 where as the 32GB and 64GB versions will cost £439 and £489 respectively. [...]

Image via Wikipedia China has categorically denied any state involvement in Operation Aurora, the series of cyber attacks that rocked Google and several other technology companies earlier this year. This is in response to United States President Barack Obama’s comment where he mentioned that he was “troubled” by Google’s claims of a Chinese hand in the recent cyber attacks. Google says [...]