Microsoft: Windows 8 Preview Usage Up 2X From Windows 7 Beta

Microsoft: Windows 8 Pr...

Microsoft launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. So far, the reactions to this first mainstream preview of Windows 8 have been somewhat mixed – not everybody is in love with the new Metro interface, for example – but it...
HTC Gives Up On QWERTY Smartphones

HTC Gives Up On QWERTY ...

HTC is reported to be ditching QWERTY smartphones once and for all. It is believed that the company will focus only on full touchscreen bar phones moving forward and rightly so. The touchscreen form factor has come a long way from when it first came into existence. Though some...
Windows Phone Tango To Roll Out In June?

Windows Phone Tango To ...

The new Tango update for Windows Phone Mango smartphones is said to be breaking cover starting from June. The rumor comes shortly after the Tango firmware was found in China. The OS was spotted in the Nokia Care Suite servers in China for Nokia Lumia 710 smartphones. So it seems like the...
Dell Reaffirms Its Stand To Exit The Smartphone Industry

Dell Reaffirms Its Stan...

It seems like Dell isn’t particularly interested in smartphones anymore with the company announcing to exit the smartphone segment. Handsets like the Venue and Venue Pro were a moderate success, so it would make sense for Dell to leave when the time is right. The company has...

Jumala Aims To Be An Un...

While I seriously doubt the staying power of this game platform, the concept is pretty cool. Called Jumala, this free-to-play online game allows players to stop the action mid-game and flip things around and change the entire level. Level too scary? You can add flying hot dogs and...

Gaopeng, Groupon’s Fl...

This post is contributed by Ben Jiang, editor of TechNode , a bilingual blog based in China. Gaopeng , a joint venture between Groupon and Tencent, may be headed for a merger by the end of next month with FTuan , according to reports from local Chinese news agencies . Notably, FTuan is a...

Scribit Digs Up Content...

If you’re an entrepreneur struggling to find the time or inspiration to udpate the company blog, a new service called Scribit offers a solution. Scribit was developed by a startup called Vertical Acuity , whose initial product helped publishers syndicate their articles to other...

Google Pumps Up Their C...

The amount of harried printing situations I’ve been party to has dropped dramatically since I finished school, but Google’s new update to their Cloud Print service should have you covered if you can’t say the same. According to a post on the official Chrome blog Google...

More Than 200K Merchant...

During eBay’s earnings call today , eBay CEO and President John Donahoe said that over 200,000 merchants have signed up for PayPal Here,   the company’s Square-like mobile payments hardware and software platform for small businesses. We haven’t seen any sign-up numbers...
T-Mobile Announces The HTC One S: $199 On-Contract On April 25 (Hands-On)

T-Mobile Announces The ...

It’s only been a few short hours since AT&T announced the availability of HTC’s mamma-jamma One X smartphone , but there may be a few more tricks coming out of HTC’s sleeve before the day is done. For example, T-Mobile just sent over a bit of news regarding the One...

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