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.

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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.

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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 tried, I could not write this article without often referring to the other two X-series devices running Google’s Android OS – X10 and X10 mini, so let me apologise for this from the beginning.

Today I’ll take a look at the “professional” version of the X10 mini. This is one of the two “mini” versions that complete the series along with their big brother – the X10. Hence the name – X10 mini pro, which some may find a little… boring to say frankly. The only notable differences between X10 mini and X10 mini pro are the size and usability of the keyboard. So, let’s begin.

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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 do it.  This service is called Google App Inventor and is available for users to register their interest. The official website says that users will be given access to the service in the coming weeks. Users will be able to create and download applications to their phones, but not to other Android users at this stage.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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 interesting, and in the case of our beloved “Market” entertaining.
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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 its advertisement structure to help ensure the effectiveness for those who purchase advertising packages with the search engine giant.

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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 Edition Reader has dropped in price from US$200 to US$170 as well with the higher end 3G Daily Edition Readers seeing a drop from US$350 to only US$300. Sony has dropped prices in order to compete with other device manufacturers which have also seed a reduction in prices.

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