Religious reaction in brains of Apple fans is one reason for the brand popularity

According to a BBC documentary, Apple stimlates the same part of the brain as religious imagery does in believing people The BBC documentary Secrets of the Superbrands found something interesting while doing research of how some of the technology brands such as Microsoft, Google and Apple manage to grow in an explosively pace. We all know that Apple fans are the most...

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Sharp announces 16 megapixel Android smartphone Aquos 007SH

Sharp this week announced the worlds first Android smartphone with clamshell form factor The Sharp AQUOS SoftBank 007SH is for customers of the Japanese network operator SoftBank. It is the fist clamshell model running Android having a regular number key dial pad. Strangely enough, Sharp did not equip the phone with a QWERTY keypad. We are not very familiar with Japanese...

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Dell Streak Pro Android tablet leaket

Information about an unnanounced 10 inch Dell tablet running Android Honeycomb on a dual-core Tegra 2 processor has leaked. Rumored name is Dell Streak Pro Dell Streak Pro will have a 10 inch touch display and a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. According to tweakers.net the operating system is Android Honeycomb and the CPU will be NVIDIA Tegra T20 running at 1 GHz. Older rumors...

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Motorola announces Droid X2 4.3 inch dual-core smartphone

Motorola today announced the DROID X2 Android smartphone with dual-core processor Motorola joins the dual-core market are releasing the successor to the popular Droid X from last year. The most noticeable improvements over the original Droid X is the increased display resolution and a dual-core processor. The Droid X2 will get the same 4.3 inch display size, but the resolution...

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Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade available to Samsung Galaxy devices

Samsung today announced the upcoming release of an Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade for Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Ace/Gio/Fit/mini The Android OS upgrade will be made available through Samsung Kies device management software and the roll out will start in the UK and Nordic countries from mid-May. It will gradually roll out to other European countries in Europe, North...

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Nokia changes name of the service branding Ovi to Nokia

Nokia today decided to change the name of their service branding from Ovi to Nokia According to Nokia, none of the services offered by the company will be affected other than having the name changed. The transition is likely to begin in July and will be finished by 2012. Ovi, which translates to door in Finnish, was launched in 2007 but was not promoted much by...

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Android Market paid apps now available to users in 131 countries

Google announced the expansion of paid apps in Android Market to users in 100 more countries Previously, paid apps in the Android Market was available only to 33 countries. These 33 countries, such as US, allmost all European countries, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and Hong Kong will still contribute most to the wallet of developers...

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New Android devices will receive OS upgrades for at least 18 months

During the Google developer conference this week, Google announced that a group of Android manufatures will adopt guidelines for how quickly devices are update after a new platform release The initiative by Google to have guidelines for how quickly devices are updated after a new platform release are embraced by all the major Android device manufactures and service providers....

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Microsoft to acquire Skype?

An announcement of Microsoft buying Skype could be official later this evening. Sources say USD 8.5 billion will change hands in what could be Microsofts biggest acquisition ever According to Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is about to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. The announcement will be made public later today. Skype has 663 million users where 8 million are paying customers....

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Apple brand more valuable than Google brand according to research firm

After four years of dominance, the Google brand is pushed down from first place being replaced by the Apple brand according to research firm BrandZ is Millward Brown's list of the worlds top 100 most Valuable Global Brands. The 2011 edition of BrandZ claims Apple has passed Google as the most valuable brand in the World. Google has been number one in four years, but...

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Frustrated O2 customers waiting for Xperia Play release. Will be for sale in June

Customers of O2 in the UK are still waiting for the network operator to release the Xperia Play, five weeks after the availability of the generic version of the phone O2 said in a blog post this week that the Xperia Play will be available to its customers in June. That is 8 weeks after the generic version of the phone became available, and several weeks after Vodafone availablilty....

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Sony Ericsson expands the Android family and announces Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro

Today Sony Ericsson expands their family of Android devices and announces two new 3 inch smartphones.  It is finally official. Sony Ericsson has announced two new Xperia Minis. It is the same procedure as we saw when the Xperia X10 Mini Pro and Xperia X10 Mini was launched. The Mini Pro model has a slider QWERTY keyboard while the Xperia Mini is a little bit...

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Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 which fixes location data tracking

You might have heard recently that Apple are storing location data in a hidden file on iPhones and iPads. These claims are only partly true but Apple has nevertheless released an OS update to delete the file in question The Apple iOS is not the only operating system logging location data on the device without the user knowledge, but Apple is first in fixing the problem....

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RIM announced BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones

RIM this week announced two new high end smartphones and the new BlackBerry OS 7 The two new phones are RIMs top of the range models as the high naming number reveals. Many BlackBerry models are given a number as the model name, and numbers are between 8100 and 9930. This tells us that the two models announced this week currently are the most powerful models from RIM. BlackBerry...

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