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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leader in mobile technology and digital solutions, today introduced the Samsung Smart App Challenge 2013, a global app competition aimed at finding new applications utilizing group communication function. It is the second time Samsung has hosted the global contest for android developers. A total of 10 entries will be selected as winners, receiving a record ... Read More »

Flickr recently announced that they are giving users of 1TB space for their photo storage. And they also redesigned their site so that your photos would be the highlight of your homepage. The said site has seamless layout for you to show your pictures. One of the great thing is that your photos are displayed in as many pixels as ... Read More »

Search engine Yahoo recently acquired microblogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Tumblr was launched in February 2007, hosts 108.5 million blogs and 50.9 billion posts According to earlier reports, Yahoo plans to buy Tumblr. Officials from both companies agreed unanimously on the said acquisition. Both companies haven’t released any official statement about the said deal. As a business model, Tumblr ... Read More »

Good news to all iOS and Android users! As Blackberry messaging system BBM will be available to iOS and Android. BBM includes multi-person chats, as well as the ability to share photos and voice notes,and engage in BBM Groups, which allows BBM customers to create groups of up to 30 people. According to Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President, Software Product ... Read More »

Sony Mobile Communications unleashed the new Xperia ZR featuring the highest level of water-resistance for capturing photos and Full HD videos underwater. This Android smartphone offers leading technology and content with a 4.6” HD Reality display, 13 megapixel fast capture camera, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S4 Pro quad-core 1.5 GHz processor, and 4G LTE. “The Xperia ZR pushes the boundaries on where ... Read More »

Globe Telecom’s profit for the first quarter expanded 13% from a year earlier and surged 105% from the previous quarter to PHP3.1 billion, driven mainly by its mobile business on steady subscriber growth amid stronger demand for mobile data services. With a core net profit of PHP2.7 billion in the first quarter of last year. Globe’s core net profit more ... Read More »

Samsung Electronics officially announced a new entry-level smartphone: Samsung Galaxy Core. It runs on Google Android system, and the said device is meant to deliver appealing processing capabilities to its users, courtesy of a dual-core CPU packed inside, Samsung notes. The said mobile phone has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor inside, paired with 1GB of RAM, while featuring a 4.3-inch display, ... Read More »

YouTube is set to launch a pay-walled subscription service later this week. According to some reports that the online video site will charge users a single-channel subscription fee of around £1.28 a month, with as many as 50 YouTube channels available. And they will offer a new outlet of revenue for YouTube and will enable the channel’s operators to produce ... Read More »

Microsoft recently announced that they already completed the email transition to Outlook.com. According to the tech giant, moving 300 million active accounts and counting to Outlook.com was a real challenge, as the company had to preserve more than 150 million gigabytes of data, including emails, calendar, contacts, folders and personal preferences. For Hotmail users, they can still use their email ... Read More »

There are some reports that Google hired Noah Falstein as their new Chief Game Designer at Android Play Studio. Falstein has been a designer and producer in the gaming industry since 1980 when he started working for Milton Bradley making games for the Atari. He has worked at LucasArts, 3DO, and Dreamworks Interactive, and in 1996, started his own freelance ... Read More »