Archive for July, 2010

Outlook to Facebook Integration

With a move that is set to bring the news-feeds of millions of Facebook fans to inboxes around the world, Microsoft announced the integration of Outlook, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger.

Few facts about Windows Phone 7

Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications devision, Andy Lees provided some updates and showed features of the new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system during an event held last week in Washington DC.

Preview of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro

Introduction & Positioning It is a little early to judge Sony Ericsson’s attempt to reach a larger market by creating smartphones running on different operating systems. However, this approach produced a larger range of devices than Sony Ericsson used to have in the past and has spawned some interesting phones. No matter how hard I [...]

Google App Inventor for Android

Google seems to be very keen to make Android the most popular mobile operating system. Few days ago the company announced new revolutionary service, which allows all users to easily create applications for their phones. Basically users will not require any programming skills or knowledge to create an application, and anybody will be able to [...]

Facebook will always be free!

Some Facebook users believe that the company will add a pricing structure to membership in the future despite the fact that the Facebook spokesman Larry Yu stated last month that they have absolutely no plans to charge for the basic service of using the social network.

[video] HTC Desire vs Samsung Galaxy S gaming test

Author of this video decided to test two of the current top Android phones in a video game test. So… HTC Desire vs Samsung Galaxy S – which phone is better for playing Quake 2?

iPhone 4 PR Nightmare

According to some PR experts, Apple will be forced to recall the iPhone4 after damaging Consumer Reports tests confirm that the problem with the antenna is a hardware flaw and not caused by software.

57% of Android applications are free

Distimo is a company that specializes on mobile application market analysis for different platforms. They have recently released interesting statistics on the proportion of free vs. paid applications for the Android Market, AppStore, OVI Store and others. They have also listed top 10 most popular free and paid applications for Android. The results are quite [...]

Changes to Google display advertising are likely to affect services like YouTube and Gmail

Google’s keyword-based advertisement model is evolving, and is likely to be taking a major overhaul in the future.  The display advertisements, which are in use now may not have the greatest impact that Google has been after when compared to websites like Facebook which have taken different methods towards their display advertising.  Google is rethinking [...]

Sony Cuts E-Reader Prices

With the release of the Apple iPad, many of the “e-ink” devices have taken a hard hit with price cuts. Sony has also reduced the price of its cheapest e-reader model, the Reader Pocket Edition from US$170 to US$150. This is following a recent US$30 drop which had occurred in April as well. The Touch [...]