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Facebook has recently announced it’s all new Facebook Home for Android, a new suite of apps for the platform. Facebook’s objective with the new Home is to give people a phone experience that’s built around them rather than apps. In order to achieve that the company replaced Android’s lockscreen and homescreen with the new Cover…
So, Mozilla wanted to provide an alternative to the apparently propriety and restrictive mobile landscape that we have today, and so it came up with Firefox OS. Announced in 2011, the OS is set to make its debut sometime in July this year. Is it going to succeed? In 2011, Mozilla Corporation announced the “Boot…
Twitter has updated its Android app to add support for its new Cards feature and has also made the app native for Android 4.0 or above. The latest update for the app brings a completely revamped design that’s on par with Google’s ‘holo’ design. The new design gives the app a fresh new look, unlike…
Images of Nokia Lumia 928, coming to Verizon this month have been leaked online. Reputed for regular (and accurate) leaks, @evleaks has uploaded photos of the front and back of the new Nokia flagship, which has been code named “Laser”. The phone looks identical to the Lumia 920, which AT&T is currently selling –…
Star Wars games cancelled and 150 made jobless Grim Fandango, X-Wing, The Secret of Monkey Island, Dark Forces, and so many more. The list of landmark video games put out by video game industry veterans LucasArts is one of the longest around. Their legacy has now come to an unfortunate end as Disney, who bought…
While North Korea was busy positioning its nuclear weapons at the USA, its Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked by hacker group Anonymous on the 3rd April. Thousands of user data has been claimed to be compromised. Uriminzokkiri (Korean for “Our Nation”), North Korean’s government news agency had its website Uriminzokkiri.com down, possibly by DDOS…
Microsoft has recently lowered the logo requirements for any new Windows 8 devices, to let its partners build Windows 8 running devices with a bit lower resolutions. This move to lower the resolution requirements suggests that Microsoft is looking forward to jumping right into the smaller and cheaper tablet market; to compete against popular tablets…
In a recent report via Reuters, we have learned that the Search giant’s target number of sales for its second-gen Nexus 7 tablet is quite high, say 8 Million tabs starting this July up until the end of the year. This is only the first time we’ve heard Google stating their target numbers for its…
HTC Deals Coming Soon! The all new flagship phone from HTC, the HTC One, hasn’t even hit the shelves yet but there are numerous deals for the the device in place already. Although, the handset will be on sale in U.S starting at the end of the month. Retailers and Carriers have already started dishing…
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has not started shipping anywhere yet. But that hasn’t stopped folks from rooting this year’s Samsung’s flagship. I9000, a senior developer at the xda-developers forums has posted online instructions on how to gain root access to the Galaxy S4. The root has apparently been worked on by a couple of more developers. Users…
According to rumors, Google is planning to launch a unified messaging service called “Babel”. It’s not just another addition to Google’s already huge stream of chat clients, but will be a platform that is going to unify all Google messaging services into one client. Babel will merge all Google chat services like Gtalk, Google+ Messenger,…
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley finally revealed his video sharing site competing with his former company, which is now one of Google’s largest breadwinners. Today Hurley announced, by way of Twitter, that he will soon launch his new site, MixBit. As mentioned in our original article, Google acquired YouTube’s services in 2006 for an astounding $1.65…
The White House has announced the initiation of a much-awaited research project which would aim to map the human brain. BRAIN (or Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) will launch in 2014, and the Obama administration is funding it with a $100 million. The research project is also backed up by other agencies, like the…
Experimental Sound Interactions with SoundSelf A while ago, I had the chance to play sound designer Robin Arnott’s previous game / sound / artwork, Deep Sea. Arnott’s new project, SoundSelf, also plays with sound and interaction. Mostly simply described, a player uses their voice to create hypnotic visuals, but that’s just the beginning of the…
Apple has filed a patent that describes a wraparound display on a phone fully encased in glass. This could be the next iPhone. Foldable Screen – Transparent Body AppleInsider reported last week about this new patent – “In a patent filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, Apple describes a…