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Aug
6

Apple No1 Smart Phone Maker

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, Apple, Apple Phone Sales, Apple Smartphone Sales, Blackberry, International Data Corporation, iPhone, microsoft, nokia, Nokia Sales, Nokia Smarpthone Sales, Research In Motion, Samsung, Samsung Group, Samsung Sales, Samsung Smartphone Sales Leave a Comment

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Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. zoomed to the top of the list of global smartphone makers in the second quarter, blowing past Nokia Corp. and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., according to research firm IDC.

Korea’s Samsung made the biggest jump, from No. 4 in the first quarter to No. 2 in the second, on the strength of its Galaxy phones, which run Google Inc.’s Android software. It sold 17.3 million smartphones in the second quarter, up from 10.8 million in the first, IDC said.

Apple rose to No. 1, taking the spot from Nokia, by selling 20.3 million iPhones, up from 18.7 million in the first quarter. That relegated Finland’s Nokia, the long-time leader, to third place. Apple has yet to top Nokia’s high-water mark of 28.1 million phones in a quarter.

Google Buys About 1,000 IBM Patents

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Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses against suits by other technology companies, according to documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Google and IBM spokesmen wouldn’t comment Friday on the purchase.

The patent transfers were recorded two weeks ago and cover a range of technologies, many of which have little to do with Google’s Internet search and advertising business. One covers ways of automatically adjusting a clock, another deals with surface treatments for electrical contacts.

Google Launching Photovine, A Social Photo Sharing Service

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, App Store, facebook, google, Image, iOS, iPhone, New York City, Photograph, PhotoSharing Leave a Comment

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Google has launched a teaser site and invitation request form for Photovine, its newest entry into the social media game (you may have heard it launched a Facebook competitor that is in high demand so far).

Details on the Photovine landing page are scant, but it appears that it will work something like this:
1. You take a photo on your smartphone and upload it onto Photovine.
2. You give the photo a caption. Anyone can see the photo and the caption.
3. Other Photovine users respond to your photo with their own photo with the same caption.
4. Friends are made and a good time is had by all.

Jun
24

By pratyushkp

Facebook Phone Coming Soon To AT&T

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, AT&T, Boy Genius Report, ChaCha, facebook, Getty Images, QWERTY, social network, T-Mobile Leave a Comment

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The first phone with a dedicated Facebook button is coming soon to an AT&T near you.

According to Boy Genius Report, HTC’s so-called “Facebook Phone”, featuring both a dedicated button for the social network and deep Facebook integration, will launch in as soon as one week.

Though the phone has previously been called the “ChaCha,” HTC has reportedly renamed the device the “HTC Status.”

Twitter’s Blank Page – @anywhereboosh

Category: Social, Technology Tags: @anywhereboosh, Android, Blackberry, blogosphere, Online Communities, Social Networking, Tweetdeck, Twidroyd, Twitlonger, twitter, twitter blank screen Leave a Comment

Twitter is having little trouble in the past days. Many of its users are unwillingly being directed to a page names @anywhereboosh . This is causing enough frustration and complaints are pouring in from across the globe.

Users are being directed to a blank screen and an absurd error message flashes. Although the issue related to the delay in posting tweets was thankfully resolved many are still complaining about being directed to a blank screen. Users have also pointed out that the link for accessing the old twitter and the link for their home page is also being redirected to the blank page.

It was unusually quite in the otherwise fast and noisy blogosphere.

The problem is affecting both the websites and the clients. Some clients are also noticing a cluster of unwanted tweets in bottom of a specific Tweetdeck search. Although the twitter officials say that the problem is being resolved but they are unable to specify a reason. From the looks of it this seems like an ongoing problem.

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Sep
21

By pratyushkp

Google Introduces Two-step Authentication For Application Users

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, Blackberry, google, google india, iPhone, Login, Mobile phone, SMS, User (computing) Leave a Comment

Google is all set to offer users extra security through the introduction of a two-step login verification process.

Google is all set to roll out a two-layer authentication for Google Apps, which automatically sends an additional password to a user’s mobile phone. The two-step verification feature will be available to Google Apps premier, education, and government customers and will soon be available to the hundreds of millions of individual Google users in coming months, as a built-in part of the free service.

The two-step authentication grants a extra layer of security to users, by requiring them to submit a combination of a password and a verification code provided through the users’ mobile phones. Users will have to type in their login name and password, and then he/she has to type in an additional code generated by a mobile application while trying to log-in.

Google users can also specify how they would like to have the code sent to them, either via text message or automated voice call, or through a Google Authenticator app they can download to their Android device, BlackBerry, or iPhone. The code is randomly generated and changes every few minutes. Google will send out authentication codes by SMS (Short Message Service) or voice message. The SMS service will be free and available in 19 countries.

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