A mobile industry observer has posted on Twitter just hours ago, claiming that Microsoft and Nokia executives are about to meet shortly to discuss the possibility of selling the Finnish phone maker’s smartphone division, as well as “one or two” of Nokia’s manufacturing plants. Eldar Murtazin claims that the deal could be finalized in the second half of 2012, leaving Nokia with just its R… Read More » 

Indonesia is one of BlackBerry’s biggest markets, part of it is because of its BlackBerry Messenger service. Parent company RIM wants to set BBM servers within the country, but apparently the government there wants a peek of it.
The Jakarta Post has reported that Indonesia’s telecommunications regulatory body, the BTRI, declines to establish the servers in the world’s largest Muslim nation. Alth… Read More » 

Onlive has launched a mobile app that enables gamers to play console-based titles on many current Android devices as well as the iPad. You can choose from over 200 popular and critically-acclaimed video games including Assasin’s Creed Revelations, L.A. Noire, and Defense Grid, which are then streamed efficiently.
The Onlive mobile app comes with a user interface that is similar to the company’s origina… Read More » 

Domino’s Pizza has found a unique way to interact with iPad users and sell some pizzas in the process. The pizza restaurant has partnered with Crispin Porter + Bogusky ad agency to develop an app that allows users to make a pizza onscreen and even order them in real life.
The Domino’s Pizza Hero simulates the experience of its workers as they learn the basics of creating its famous pizzas. As a player… Read More » 

Pakistan’s telecommunication office has ordered its mobile carriers to block text messages that contain words from a list of over 1,600 “obscene” terms. Although the executive order began on November 21, the mobile carriers decided to defer it for now as they seek clarification from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
The new policy, as well as the list of forbidden words, was leaked to t… Read More » 

Amazon is taking its traditional one-penny smartphone sale to the next level, making the hearts of frugal folks filled with joy. The web retailer has decided, for a limited time only, to offer every phone under Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T for just $0.01. Hurry up and snatch yourself some Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Droid RAZR, and HTC Rezound among others for just one penny before November 28.
But as with deals su… Read More » 

While most devices nowadays are going the wireless route, there may still be other portable devices that do not have that capacity such as USB flash and external drives. Although such drives are quite useful, they don’t usually provide a wireless feature that will make them even better. One other thing is that USB portable drives are not always supported by all devices that you use. A good alternative availab… Read More » 

Researchers from MIT and Princeton have collaborated and come up with a smartphone application that can predict whether the incoming traffic light would be red, green, or yellow once the driver reaches it. The SignalGuru app works by mounting the smartphone onto the car’s dashboard. Then, the app captures images of traffic lights, which are analyzed based on the lights it flashed. Finally, the data is pass… Read More » 

A report from DigiTimes claims that Samsung may be considering to buy webOS from HP in an effort to compete against Apple and fellow Android phone makers. Adding the fact that Google plans to acquire Motorola (and its treasure throve of patents), this has surely changed the way mobile phone companies do business. DigiTimes seems to stand by its scoop, despite Samsung refuting reports that it plans to buy HP’… Read More » 

Tech company Kno may had its bumpy start when it attempted to develop a dual-screen tablet. The textbook-like tablet was very unsuccessful, which eventually lead to Kno’s selling off its hardware division.
Since then, Kno reinvents itself as a software company. It first brought an educational e-book store to the iPad and now the company is bringing the store to a whole new market: Students with Facebook ac… Read More » 

Without any fanfare, Facebook has released a mobile application separate from its main app. The Facebook Messenger, which works for both iOS and Android, merges the Beluga group messaging project that FB acquired last February with its newly-designed Messages product. It is like Facebook, but solely focuses on messaging your contacts.
But why a separate, stand-alone messaging app? Apparently, Facebook Messenger … Read More » 

It is very much obvious that Symbian, Nokia’s native mobile OS, has seen better days. But while Nokia will try to keep Symbian relevant in many key regions around the world, the OS will certainly bid farewell to North America, which gave no love to Symbian right from the start as its users favor iOS and Android.
In an interview with All Things D, President of Nokia’s U.S.A. operations Chris Weber says … Read More » 

While the tech community remains crazy over Windows Phone Mango, an update of which was released to manufacturers for testing two weeks ago, they now begin to speculate what is the next step of this mobile OS.
Rumors about the so-called “Windows Phone Tango,” which serves as an in-betweener for Mango and “Apollo” (Windows Phone 8), have been circulating lately. According to Mary-Jo Foley of… Read More » 

Even if Google+ garners 10 million users in just under a month, it cannot make its members as engaged as those in Facebook because of one thing: Its utter lack of games. Whether you play them or you don’t, you know that Facebook games can be very addictive. Just click the Game Requests tab and count the number of times your friends are urging you to send them some rubber chicken, zoning permits, or cupcake… Read More… [Read More]