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Microsoft officially announces the Skype acquisition for $8.5 billion on Tuesday. With this acquisition, Microsoft will bring Skype integration to Microsoft devices including Xbox and Kinnect, Windows Phone and other Windows devices. Microsoft also will continue to support clients on non-Microsoft platforms. Skype which is currently has 270 million users will be a new business [...]

Seems like the mobile application business is still fascinating. And the latest player to join this business is Opera who officially launched it’s own apps store called Opera Mobile Store today. The apps in the store are delivered by Appia, one of the open application marketplace technology. The storefront is also available as Speed Dial [...]

After the launch, some people said that iPad 2 may not be perfect. That’s probably true but it’s obviously still fascinating and could become a standard for tablets in 2011. Even the giant manufacturers like Samsung, one of those tablet makers that were called “copycats” by Steve Jobs at the iPad 2 launch, has been [...]

As you probably know that the iPad 2 will be available starting from March 11. The hardware it self will be offered at the same price with the original iPad, but how about the Data Plans? For those of you who plans to get the iPad 2, this info must be something that you really [...]

As predicted before, it’s just about the time for Android to take the top spot of the mobile operating system market share. The last data released from Nielsen shows that Android as an Operating System now holds 29% of share in US market, ousted iOS (27%) and BlackBerry (27%) on the first and second place [...]

Recently Symbian Foundation announced that they are in a transition to be a licensing body and as part of the transition the Symbian Foundation websites will be shut down. The schedule supposed to be at 5pm GMT on December 17th, 2010 or just in few hours from now. As the new Symbian will be taken [...]

As we soon closing the 2010, it’s probably the time to see some statistics and this time is the Apple App Store which is always interesting to discuss and debate against Android and other names. Last week we have seen the iTunes Rewinds 2010 unveiling the top 10 apps for iPhone and iPad. But that’s [...]

If you have been browsing through the internet lately you must be familiar with the square black and white image found on a website with some patterns on it . This is called qr codes which acts like the commonly used barcode which you can scan by any QR scanners or even your mobile phone.

Google just published the latest statistics of the Android OS usage based on the data up to November 1. According to the statistics, 40.8% of Android devices are still running Android 2.1 Eclair and only 36.2% of them are already upgraded to Android 2.2 Froyo. Now the question is, with the coming release of the [...]

If you’re one of those who’s planning to buy Windows Phone 7 device this might be interesting for you. Folks at wpcentral blog recently found that the former Microsoft’s CEO Bill Gates is using Samsung Focus as one of his gadgets for updating Twitter status and of course taking pictures. Sounds so exclusive as the [...]