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]

With mobile shopping and e-commerce getting even more and more popular, devices like smartphones and tablets are now being used increasingly to shop online as well as becoming a means to pay for those goods. Although recent mobile payment systems usually require another device being attached to the mobile device to make this possible, Verizon may be offering a new mobile payments platform that will not require s… Read More » 

Vonage customers, rejoice! The VoIP service has introduced a new Extensions service that links your existing home Internet calling plan to extra phone numbers, such as in your personal cell phone, for free. This would allow you to use Vonage’s unlimited international calling plans to friends and family members living in more than 60 countries straight from your mobile phone.
There is a catch, though, as you … Read More » 

Looks like the prophetic obituary about the demise of BlackBerry is about to come true.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has announced that it is laying off about 2,000 employees, including senior managers. This comes after the BlackBerry has been overtaken by both iPhone and Android.
A recent ComScore report declares Google-made Android as the top smartphone platform in the United States, with 38% of all Ameri… Read More » 

Fujitsu has developed a “platform technology” that enables users to push applications and data into devices at specific places and times. Through this said technology, users would be able to access apps on their smartphones, tablets, or PCs until they leave a particular place or a predetermined usage time runs up. After which, all apps and data would then be erased from the device automatically.
For i… Read More » 

Google wasted no time when it promised iPhone users they will be getting a Google+ app because it is now available. On the surface, it looks very much like its Android counterpart, including the views of the user’s main stream and nearby users, sharing by Circles, and support for Huddle group messaging.
Note that the Google+ app for iPhone is just for that particular device, so iPod Touch and iPad users may … Read More » 

If even Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop could not help himself from spilling the beans about its first WP7 smartphone, you cannot blame others from doing the same. A quick hands-on video of the Nokia “Sea Ray” has been making the rounds lately, which gives us an idea on how the phone operates.
Judging from the video’s surrounding sound, this was taken inside a Chinese factory, with the phone being… Read More » 

Proving that technology is made to help people rather than make them lazy, a Japanese company called TechFirm has released an iPad-based Twitter client that can be used by people who cannot use their fingers by simply breathing into the iPad’s microphone.
The “Breath Bird” features an on-screen keyboard that highlights a row of letters in succession. If the row where the character that the user… Read More » 

The Chinese Internetsphere went crazy after “an anonymous OEM source from Shenzhen” claimed that he has got a hands-on with an iPhone 5 prototype, which featured two cameras at the back, and posted photos to prove it. This could mean that the next-gen iPhone could capture photos and videos in 3D and possibly even display images in 3D.
The excitement, however, started to dwindle as doubt begins to take … Read More » 

Apart from creating a smartphone that runs on Windows Phone 7, Nokia has another trick up its sleeve. But while the “upcoming” Windows Phone has since been allowed to leak in the tech blogosphere, Nokia seems to be trying its best to keep this recently-leaked secret a secret as videos about it continue to be taken down.
The secret I am writing about has almost nothing to do with a new Nokia handset or … Read More » 

Uh-oh… Looks like your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch are not safe from hackers as they have exposed a bug in Apple’s software that can be exploited by cyber criminals. The security flaw in Apple’s iOS can be tapped through a process called “jail breaking,” which uses a code that Apple customers can use to modify the operating system of their iDevices. A number of iPhone, iPad, and iPo… Read More » 

If there is one thing to complain about WiFi, it has to be how it greatly sucks battery life on mobile devices as they keep on polling a single access point for data. In other words, battery drainage is greater while downloading a movie in New York compared to downloading the same movie in a rural town in the Midwest.
A new software is introduced, which aims to put the device into sleep mode while waiting its turn… Read More… [Read More]

Back in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull out of their Japan operations, but at the same time announced that it would re-enter the market through its luxury sub-brand Vertu. The high-end Vertu began offering its ridiculously-priced cell phones, as well as the services that come with them, in September 2009. Almost two years later, Nokia realizes that making a name in Japan is not worth it as Vertu will also ce… Read More » 

Skype for Android has been updated to the relief of long-time Skype users, who can now make one-on-one video calls with fellow Skypers on both WiFi and 3G connections. Users can even make video calls from their Android phone with their Skype contacts on iPhone, Mac, Windows PC, and even on select Internet TVs.
The update also enables users to navigate more easily through contacts, access their personal Skype profi… Read More »