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+ - SPAM: Google to launch its unified Chat Service, Google Babble 0

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on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:35PM

Cosimple writes "Google is looking likely to unify all its services similar to chat under a new single banner called “Babble”, a new report says. The new Banner service will be integrated with all the Google services related to communication, most of the services have their own features and abilities, which sometimes have problem in compatibility with each other.

According to Geek.com, Google is looking to build Babble into everything Google+, Gmail, etc. This will allow you to share photos in live chats and can also start Google+ Hangout with anyone in contacts. Google would not change in the Chat window and will update with the same features, this doesn’t matter what Google product they’re using.

The biggest integration of Google’s myriad communication services is rumored for much long, and will coming soon. Users who were using any of the Google services, Google Talk, Google+ Hangouts and Messenger, Google Voice and Google Drive’s has been disappointing users about How different the multiple services are, Google has only need to integrate the services to reach many of the peoples. For instance, users can’t be able to start Hangout from Google Drive, etc."
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+ - SPAM: Samsung reportedly developing its own Smart Watch 0

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on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:39AM

Cosimple writes "Rumors around suggests that Apple is not the only company which is developing an wearable wristwatch, in the market. Samsung Electronics is also been working to develop its own wearable Smart Watch that can perform as smartphones.

“We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said during an interview with Bloomberg in Seoul. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.”

Lee has not offered any of the features, specs, price and release date for the device. The world’s biggest smartphone maker has already an scheduled calender for its 2013 active product, which may gonna much big, with the three high-end smartphones the company is expected to competition with its rival Apple."
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+ - SPAM: Microsoft to end support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 in 2014 0

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on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:16AM

Cosimple writes "Recently, just few days ago, Microsoft has posted an support document on its official website, contains both the Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 will end support in the second half of 2014, in July for Windows Phone 8 and September for 7.8. The reports states that Microsoft is looking pretty committed to an 18-month support cycle for its mobile operatin systems, the information makes users to think, What coming next.

This is an interesting news that Microsoft has officially transparent its product plans. With Apple in iOS, you will never know when Apple would end support for its iterations of iOS. When Microsoft launched its WP 8, it is blinded to announce that WP 7 powered device wouldn’t upgrade to the next version of its mobile software.

Microsoft has announced that there would be an new upgrading way for the WP 8 devices, so the support for WP 8 and 7.8 could looking likely to be less significant. Microsoft is currently looking towards its desktops support life cycles of Windows releases, with the announcement for end of support, it is looking likely to confuse Windows mobile subscribers, officially Microsoft has not yet exactly announced that what will come after the Windows Phone 8 as its next generation mobile operating system."
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+ - SPAM: Sony introduces new Xperia SP and Xperia L smartphones 0

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on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:56AM

Cosimple writes "Today, Sony has launched two new smartphones, the the Xperia SP and Xperia L. The both smartphone features impressive photos and videos of the camera with an brilliant premium designs and an high quality display for ultimate viewing experience. It includes NFC One touch feature, the new Battery Stamina mode for extended battery life and new Sony media apps such as photos, videos, music, etc.

Recently, the company has released its flagship smartphone for the year 2013, Xperia Z in January, so for what Sony is looking with the two smartphones. Sony has designed the, Xperia SP and Xperia L as mid range and camera focused smartphones.

The Xperia SP features a 4.6-inch, 720p screen, an 8-megapixel camera and a dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon processor. All of theses smartphones are stuffed into a thin layer of aluminium frame, and will available in White, Red and Black colors.

The Xperia L comes with an 8-megapixel camera, HDR support, a dedicated camera key and Sony’s “Exmor RS for mobile” tech which provides “vivid colors” and “stunning clarity,” Sony claims. Sony has called the new smartphone ”perfect smartphone camera experience.”"
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+ - SPAM: Apple answers Why to choose an iPhone 0

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on Monday March 18, 2013 @06:10AM

Cosimple writes "You’ve know about the Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 smartphone, which features a a 5-inch screen with 441 pixels per inch, 1080p display, a quad-core 1.9GHz processor and a 13-megapixel camera. In features the Galaxy S4 has completely beats the Apple’s latest iPhone.

Just after two days, Samsung has launched its new S4 smartphone, Apple has released an new webpage explaining Why its flagship smartphone is better in the competition.

“There’s iPhone. And then there’s everything else,” the page’s headlines says. On the webpage, Apple has listed all the reason that answers Why to choose an Apple phone and why it is ”unlike anything else,” some of them are listed below:

The Apple iPhone has received eight constant J.D. Power and Associates awards for the customer satisfaction.

Apple makes devices in which every detail has been considered, like its new phone finish.

Only Apple products, iPad, iPod, Mac has the Retina display.
Apple phone features a long battery life, with up to 8 hrs of Talk Time, 8 hrs of LTE browsing, and 10 hrs of Video playback, without an big battery.
Apple includes new A6 chip for powerful performance without much power.

The Apple phone gives ”ultrafast” wireless and LTE connection."
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+ - SPAM: Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 vs HTC One vs Sony Xperia Z 0

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on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:51AM

Cosimple writes "Recently, Samsung has launched its flagship smartphone the Galaxy S4, and you wants to compare the new Samsung smartphone with the Apple iPhone, HTC One, and Sony Xperia Z. Below are the specifications of the smartphones.

Samsung has launched the Galaxy S4 with an large screen and faster new processor, with an eye scrolling feature. Samsung has featured a new highest-resolution camera and most-powerful battery on board.

Among all the comparisons, the Apple latest iPhone 5 is falling, but the Galaxy S4 is not an iPhone killer because it features a new most powerful A6 chip and Siri that not comes to other phones."
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+ - SPAM: Intel powered Xolo X1000 officially launched for Rs.19,999 0

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on Saturday March 16, 2013 @10:24AM

Cosimple writes "The Intel powered Xolo has lanched its new smartphone, the Xolo X1000, with an Inter Atom processor to give an better performance. The new phone powered by Intel Atom processor comes with Hyper Threading technology, is clocked at 2GHz and now available online for just only Rs. 19,999. Currently the device only available in Black colour, would come in more later.

The phone will run full flavoured Android v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system. The phone just only has an disappointing feature that Android ICS is nearly two years old. However, it seems that the phone will soon upgrade to Jelly Bean.

According to the company, it is the first smartphone that features a 2GHz Intel Atom processor with an Hyper Threading Technology and the device boasts an 1GB of RAM. The company has not included the much rumoured CloverTrail+ processor in its Xolo X1000. In Graphics, the phone includes an PowerVR SGX540 chip that has 400 MHz Clock speed."
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+ - SPAM: Dropbox has acquired the popular Mailbox email app 0

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on Saturday March 16, 2013 @09:13AM

Cosimple writes "Just a few weeks ago, the much anticipated “Mailbox” app available in the App Store has generated a waiting list of hundreds of thousands of peoples, the popular “email” app has been acquired by the cloud sharing service Dropbox. The company has announced that it would remain the both services separate from each other as Mailbox’s team of 13 joins the Dropbox service.

“To be clear, Mailbox is not going away,” wrote Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood in a blog post on Friday. “The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen.” Gentry has said that the Mailbox, the email optimized app that confirms to help users to drop their ideas for inbox down to zero, has racked up 1.3 million reservations since its launch.

The cue of thousands of peoples waiting to download the email app helped promoting the app, and the Gentry has admitted to WSJ that the group of staff which is “struggling to keep up with the demand from those who want to use it.” Since it is launched, the app is looking likely to growing and also a growing staff of nearly 250, Dropbox is looking likely to help the email app to manage its overflow. The Dropbox service currently serving more than 100 million users and has valued at $4 billion by investors."
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+ - SPAM: Pinterest introduces new Analytics tool for tracking users 0

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on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:54AM

Cosimple writes "Yesterday, Pinterest the social networking website has introduced its new web-based analytics tool, the tool will allow bloggers to track users engagement with their sites through Pinterest.

The analytics tool is free for all the users to track the number of pins collecting material from their sites or using the content of owner’s sites, and the tool also shows the repinners and repins received. The bloggers or site owners can also be able to track the total number of impressions and peoples who reach on the network, as well as the referral traffic, both in clicks and unique visitors, sent back to their sites.

The analytics tools is so simple and has no threat like any third party apps Pinterest analytics systems like Pinfluencer and Curalate, which officially allow the users to track pins, pinners and repins, repinners and also identify the popularity and reach of their pin boards. The tool is an important source for site owners who has never get the right analytics results on Pinterest and wants to improve it."
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+ - SPAM: Microsoft fixes Surface RT Wi-Fi and Type/Touch covers issues 0

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on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:08AM

Cosimple writes "Microsoft today has released a huge number of automatic software updates for its Windows platform, browser and Surface RT tablet. Microsoft has launched the update due to security reasons for Windows 8, Windows RT and for several versions of its Internet Explorer browser. It adds integrated Flash support that turned on default to its Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 and Windows RT operating system.

Today, Microsoft has launched the software updates via their support forums that the company is quite making few software improvements today for its Windows RT based Surface RT tablet. The update for the tablet includes several improvements for Wi-Fi features of the Surface Windows RT based tablet, something which Microsoft has issues since the launch of the Surface RT tablet in October.

Especially today, Microsoft has launched the update for Windows RT based Surface has ”fixes to Wi-Fi reliability allowing for better roaming and improvements to ‘Limited’ connectivity scenarios”, according to the patch notes. It has also reported that Microsoft has also improving the typing experience on the Surface tablet while using the optional Type and Touch covers, on soft surface and when the devices and keyboard are flat.

In the new update, has addressed that it includes some sound related issues, like the problems with the Surface tablet’s volume button along with the Surface RT devices was muting at random, it seems that Microsoft again will launch an another update to fix the sound issues with some more improvements. At last, the Surface RT track pad has also gets some unnamed improvements."
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+ - SPAM: Apple showcases two new ads for iPhone 5, the "Brilliant" and "Discover" 0

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on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:04AM

Cosimple writes "On Monday, Apple has launched two new television ads for its latest iPhone 5 to showoff the phone’s features.

The first ad, called the “Brilliant”, it is just only 30 seconds long, the ad demonstrates the iPhone 5 features such as how users can pat or buy Starbucks items using Passbook, an iOS app that stores all the type of details about tickets (e.g. boarding passes, hotel confirmations, film stubs, vouchers, loyalty cars) without having to print them. The Apple Passbook support for the Starbucks will be available in early October.

The ad shows a MyScript Calculator app, that will let users to draw numbers as sketch and solve out math problems, and and Philips Hue, a web-enabled LED home-lighting system sold exclusively in Apple stores.

The second ad, called “Discover”, this ad shows the Apple spot, highlights the iPhone’s shopping functions and musical capabilities. It also shows how Apple maps can do better."
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+ - SPAM: LinkedIn will acquire Pulse newsreader app for $50 to $100 Million 0

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on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:30AM

Cosimple writes "LinkedIn, the social networking company is being acquiring the newsreader app company Pulse, it is the most popular mobile newsreader app, According to a new report. The app company has first introduced the newsreader app in 2010 and later adds support for Android, Windows Phone 7 (since retired) and Windows 8.

According to AllThingsD, reported that the Pulse acquisition talks between many big companies, including the Yahoo and Microsoft, but the social networking company LinkedIn has acquired out. The deals publication reports that the deal has takes place between $50 and $100 million, and the discourse between the two companies nearly complete.

It sounds like that an unexpected pairing at first. In earlier years, the LinkedIn has twice down on content. The professional social networking company has revealed a new hub for the network in early 2011 and has started hike up its own original content by recruiting celebrities and thinkers to blog as part of the LinkedIn Influencers program."
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+ - SPAM: Samsung Galaxy S IV pictures and specs leaked on Chinese forum 0

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on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:07AM

Cosimple writes "Everybody, is waiting for the upcoming Samsung event, where the company will launch its new flagship smartphone the Galaxy S IV. As expected, pictures for the new smartphone has leaked online claims to show what Samsung’s new device will look like.

The pictures for the smartphone has revealed on a Chinese forum and has shows the Chinese version of the Galaxy S IV. If the leaked images are true, then Samsung has not changed much design in its next flagship phone as compared to the last flagship handset, the Galaxy S III. The difference in the new phone is that it supposed to have a 5-inch full HD screen.

In the pictures, instead of new and old design, we also gets some specs for the new handset from Samsung Electronics. The phone features a 5-inch HD display with 1920×1080, it boasts a 2 GB RAM and a “Universal 5410 CPU. As expected, Samsung has included a new 8-core Exynos 5410 processor which is supposed to be launched with the new Galaxy S IV. The device will run full flavored Android 4.2.1 and also supports TouchWiz.

The leaks are unconfirmed from the Chinese forum. Also come back later this year Samsung has used fake ideas to give users the glimpse of their design trail. So, we need to wait some days to confirm the new smartphone, which would launch in the Samsung’s 14th March launch event, just few days more.

Recently, the Samsung Galaxy S IV model number has revealed that the new smartphone will come as GT-I9500. The handset appears to be the Galaxy S4,. The Samsung current flagship device Galaxy S III has model number GT-I9300 and the model number for the next device is looking unlucky in South Korean. The GT-I9500 will be the Galaxy S4 and GT-I9505 is looking to be the next LTE equipped device from Samsung."
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+ - SPAM: Marvel Comics offers 700 free issue of its digital comics, server crashed 0

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on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:29AM

Cosimple writes "Marvel Comics has announced that it will offer the users to download over 700 issues of Marvel comics for free for the next two days of ComiXology. After the Marvel just launched the over the ComiXology servers has gets massive amount of traffic and the servers got crashed. After crashing the company has continued its offer.

Over 700 Marvel digital Comics is an good news, but the bad news is that after the company has revealed the offer earlier yesterday, the ComiXology servers would not be able to deal with the massive amount of traffic and the fans who were waiting to download the free comic issues, users were using the ComiXology website or download via many apps, including the Windows 8 app.

The company has poster an tweet on the official ComiXology Twitter page that the company still working to get back online."
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+ - SPAM: Microsoft expands the sale of Surface Pro and RT to new markets 0

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on Monday March 11, 2013 @11:42PM

Cosimple writes "On Thursday, Microsoft has officially announced that it will bring the availability of the Windows powered tablet, the Surface RT to six new markets globally in just few weeks. Microsoft will start shipping the Windows RT powered Surface tablet to Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan beginning in late March. The company has also confirmed that the Windows 8 powered Surface Pro will be shiped in Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United Kingdom “in the coming months.”

“We are eager to see people and businesses in more countries get a chance to experience this new category of devices,” said Panos Panay, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Surface division. “Surface is the best of a tablet and a PC.”

Microsoft’s Windows powered Surface tablet not get much success in the tablet market, the Windows RT powered tablet hits the sale of 750,000 units in the fourth quarter last year. While the Surface Pro is better and advance than the RT, so it hits better sale."
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