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AllThingsD, the ever reliable on “All things Apple” news, is reporting that Apple is planning a special event this month at New York City. AllThingsD’s reliable sources also report that the NY special event is going to be a non-iPad, non-Apple TV event. As a way of ruling out NY to launch a big product [...]

Flurry Analytics, the mobile app analytics company that  offers solution to monitor how consumers interact with apps  in real-time, found that the number of downloaded apps on 2011 Christmas Day was close to quarter billion.  And the Christmas day also saw 6.8  iOS  and  Android device activations. With high tech gifts being unwrapped and explored, [...]

Apple announced that the pre-order sales of iPhone 4S is a huge success and the iPhone sales topped one million in a single day. This is a record breaking launch for any Apple product. The previous single day pre-order sales record was 600,000 and it was held by iPhone 4 launched last year. Announcing the [...]

Apple has sold out its iPhone 4S preorder online so that customers receive it on Oct 14, the same day as it launches on retail stores. If one preorders now, Apple will ship in 1-2 weeks. Earlier, on Friday Apple began accepting pre-order for iPhone 4S online and Apple promised to deliver it on Oct [...]

Swype, the startup company that offers a new way to type faster on smartphones is acquired by Nuance, the leading speech and imaging technology company. Nuance has been in the news for its recent collaboration with IBM to employ IBM Watson in health care industry. And more recently, Nuance is in the news for being [...]

Apple launched the new iPhone 4S with new iOS5, better camera, and powerful processor.  The big difference between today’s Apple “Let’s talk iPhone” event and the earlier iPhone launch event is “Steve Jobs”.  Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook gave  the keynote presentation and launched long due update to iPhone portfolio. Apple has made available the [...]

In addition the much awaited Kindle Tablet Kindle Fire, Amazon launched three new Kindles and expande Amazon Kindle family. The cheapest new Kindle costs just $79 with ads and $109 without ads. The Amazon ads on Kindles offer special offers from Amazon that helps Amazon subsidize its cost. The latest generation Kindle is for those [...]

Amazon unveiled the much anticipated tablet, Kindle Fire, today at a special Amazon event in New York. Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a Wi-Fi only 7-inch Android tablet and will cost $199 just less than half the price of Apple’s iPad. Amazon Kindle Fire will ship on November 15 and U.S.customers can place preorder for Kindle [...]

Are you a fan of Zynga’s CityVille? Now you dont have to choose between Facebook and Google+. Zynga announced that it is partnering with with Google and has made Cit Ville available on Google+. Just a month ago, Zynga’s Poker game came to Google+. Making the announcement, Zynga said CityVille grew to become our largest [...]

Facebook announced at its developer conference F8 that it is revamping Facebook profile page and bringing in media with new kind of social apps to Facebook. The biggest news is as leaked before Facebook is partnering with Spotify for Music and Netfix for movies (Not for US users). Calling out the profile page of Facebook [...]

It looks like Tuesday, Oct. 4 is the “D-Day”. The day Apple is expected to have its super-special media event to launch the long awaited new iPhone. The new launch date was first reported by AllThingsD. Till now AllThingsD have always got it right on “All Things Apple”. AllThingsD was the first to break the [...]

Google’s social network Google+ has taken a big step and has gone to beta from field trial. Google launched Google+ earlier this summer and till now it was in field trial mode and one could sign in only with an invite. The demand for Google+ was so high initially, Google had stopped giving out invites. [...]

Time is running out to get Apple’s Back To School Offer for 2011. Today (Tuesday, Sept 20) is the last day to buy an eligible Mac and save up to $200. Unlike previous years, this year Apple is offering up to $200 off on Mac computers’ prices and a free $100 Back to School gift [...]

TruConnect, a mobile data service company that offers simple and economical data plans has come with a data plan that will make the iPad Wi-Fi owners (and other Wi-Fi tablet Laptop owners as well). Everyone loves the idea of having the ability to go online on the move, but not many are keen on getting [...]

In a shocking move, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Netflix is spearating its streaming and DVD mailing business and naming the DVD mailing business as a separate company as “Qwikster”.   Making this announcement, Netflix CEO apologized to Netflix handling of the recent price hike of Netflix plans. Netflix’s CEO started off the  announcement by [...]

HP will be selling HP TouchPads to HP employees starting from September 28. TechCrunch published a leaked email from HP that states that HP employees will have the first chance to get the TouchPads for $99/$149 starting September 28th at 9:00am PDT.  Only one TouchPad per employee and its on first come first serve basis. [...]

Google has come up with a new ad that claims that George Costanza, of the famous telecom sitcom Seinfeld, is Google Wallet’s first customer. Google Wallet is yet to be available Android App that hopes to replace your bulky wallet with just your smartphone. The first Google Wallet commercial kind of imitates George’s ever bulging wallet [...]

Microsoft launched and made it available its next version of Windows operating system, code named Windows 8, as developer preview at its developers’ conference Build at Los Angeles. Microsoft highlighted a number of key features in the new Windows 8. The major highlight includes all new metro style Touch-First User Interface. The new interface aims to [...]

Google announced today that it is introducing Google Flight Search to answer our online travels searches. Earlier, this year google bought the ITA software and with Google Flight search, Google has integrated ITA Softwrare with Google. Starting today, when you search for “flights from Boston to New york”, you will see a “Flights” link on [...]

Nielsen’s latest report on Social Media finds that more people are spending more time and money on social media, and more people are going mobile with social media. The Social media report looks at trends and consumption patterns across social media platforms in the U.S. and found that social network accounts for 25% of time [...]

You can re-live the ultimate challenge between man and the machine, IBM Watson’s Jeopardy challenge again starting from today. IBM and Jeopardy announced last month that the quiz show Jeopardy! will re-broadcast the first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition between IBM’s “Watson” computing system and the show’s two greatest Jeopardy champions,Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. [...]

Sprint is at news again. A new leaked Sprint memo points towards iPhone 5 launch in October. The tech blog on all things Sprint “Sprintfeed” published a leaked internal memo that tells of blackout due to major phone launch from September 30th to October 15th. iPhone 5 is widely expected to be launched in October [...]

Apple iPhone does it again. For the record sixth consecutive time, Apple iPhone ranked first in the latest JDPower’s survey on customer satisfaction for smartphone. On the scale of 1000, Apple got 838 to become the smartphone that gives most satisfaction to customers. Apple’s iPhone received the best scores in all the five categories JDPower’s [...]

Zagat has gone Google. Google announced that it is acquiring Zagat, the well known and popular local restaurant review and rating service. Zagat Survey was founded by Nina and Tim Zagat as a hobby in 1979 and has become a trusted source of all things food.  Zagat has ratings and reviews of hotels and restaurants [...]

Verizon and Motorola announced that Droid Bionic will be available for sale beginning today, Sept. 8. Droid BIONIC is the first smartphone from Verizon that combines the power of 4G LTE with the power of dual-core 1 GHz processors. Droid Bionic boasts of 4.3-inch qHD display with 1 GB of RAM and it is also [...]

Yahoo board made a number of sweeping changes to its leadership structure. The biggest reorganization started with the firing of its CEO Carol Bartz. Yahoo board of directors has appointed Yahoo CFO Timothy Morse as interim CEO, effective immediately. Yahoo press release announcing these changes said that it has begun the search for a suitable [...]

Google is honoring the  British musician, singer and songwriter, Frddie Mercury with a special Google logo today in US. Freddie Mercury was born in India on September 5 1946. Freddie is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Google celebrated Freddie’s birthday with the special logo on 5 Sep across the world. However, [...]

Netflix announced that Netflix streaming services will be available in most of Latin America and the Caribbean in the coming weeks. Netflix said it is launching its streaming service to Brazil starting today. The subscription of Portuguese-language version of Netflix in Brazil costs BR$14.99. Just like US, customers can try Netflix for a month at [...]

The tech blog, BGR, has got hold of a leadked Best Buy document that tells that Best Buy is expecting to accept  Sprint iPhone 5 pre-orders starting from October first week. Yes, you heard it right. Sprint iPhone 5. The leaked document also warns that the date is subjected to change as it is Apple [...]

The much rumored and anticipated Amazon’s 7 inch Android tablet is real.  TechCrunch’s M.G.Siegler was able  to get hold of a Amazon Tablet that is in design verification testing and said that it is either in production or will be in soon. TechCrunch did not produce any pictures of the Amazon Tablet, but said that the [...]