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Google Said to be in Talks with WhatsApp to Acquire the Messaging Service for $1 Billion
0By: Ali Raza | April 8th, 2013 | Android, Business, Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Earlier in December 2012, rumours swirled that Google and messaging application WhatsApp were in talks to discuss the acquisition of the cross-platform messaging service. Rumour also has it that the two companies had even crossed the talking stage, but later ...
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California Judge Says Drivers Cannot Use Cellphones for Any Purpose While Driving
By: Jeff Stewart | April 8th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
Usually when police catch drivers using a cellphones in states where mobile phones are prohibited during driving, the best excuse the culprits can give to get away from a ticket is that they are not taking a call and neither sending or receiving any text messages. In fact they claim to be just using maps on the phone to find their destination. This explanation usually works for drivers because wit...
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Contractual Agreement Between Apple and Samsung for A-Series Chips Coming to an end in June 2013
By: Jeff Stewart | April 8th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, News, Smartphones
The Economic Daily News has reported that the alleged A7-chip from Apple will be manufactured on 20nm starting next year. This update will make the process smaller when compared to the previous version. In addition, their is also speculation that suggests this time instead of
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Apple’s 1978 Documents Reveal How the Company Developed its First Ever Disk Operating System
By: Jeff Stewart | April 6th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, iOS, News
Recently some Apple documents from 1978 have been discovered from the DigiBarn computer museum in California, which have revealed how the technology giant managed to develop its first ever disk operating system. These old documents were actually discovered by CNET, which has later used them to publish an article titled “Apple bo...
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Apple’s iRadio Service May Prove More Lucrative for Music Labels than Pandora – Report
By: Jeff Stewart | April 6th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News
For the past couple of weeks Apple’s much talked about music streaming service, ‘iRadio’ has been in the news, as various reports suggest that the Cupertino-based company is aggressively working on the service in order to launch it as soon as this summer. However, these reports also indicated that Apple is struggling to sign...
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BlackBerry to Shut Down BBM Music from June 2nd, Offer 30-Day Free Trial to Rdio Instead
By: Ali Raza | April 6th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry has recently sent out an email to its subscribers in which the Canadian company has made it known that its BBM Music service will be not be available to them from June 2nd. The Waterloo-based company also mentioned that the “Date may be subject to change.” BlackBerry has launched the BBM Music service in 2011 a...
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New Nokia Lumia 928 Images and Specifications Leaked Online
By: Ali Raza | April 6th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
A blogger from Russia, Eldar Murtazin, revealed that Nokia is gearing up to bring in a new top notch Windows Phone 8 handset with the code name Catwalk. Now another blogger, Flavio from Italy, has provided the specs of the Nokia Catwalk that is also known as Lumia 928 and is believed to have an aluminium cover rather than a colour...
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Analyst says Samsung is Producing More Galaxy S IV’s than Originally Estimated
By: Ali Raza | April 6th, 2013 | Business, News, Smartphones
Mark Newman, an analyst from Bernstein Research, has released a research note at the start of this week in which he has maintained his previous stance on Samsung’s stock by claiming it will ‘Outperform.’ The analyst from Bernstein Research also mentioned in the note that although the gross margin of Samsung Galaxy S IV is ...
