We previously saw Facebook cell phones from Motorola, Huawei, HTC, and Vodafone. However, they are just Android phones having a discrete Facebook button and are integrated along with the social networking site. Facebook is now looking to change all of that. They are planning to come up with their own phone which will have social networking theme at the core. Camera games, applications, and contacts will be woven inside together so that everything works in tandem with the user’s Facebook account. Facebook has signed up with HTC for making such a phone. We have previously seen two Facebook centric phones from HTC – Salsa and ChaCha. The two companies will be making the Android phone together this time. The device has been codenamed by Facebook as Buffy. When asked, both HTC and Facebook  [...]

Nokia said that they will be adding Windows 8 tablet to their product line up by June 2012. Les Echos said that Paul Amsellem announced plans to launching the Windows 8 tablet by June 2012. This move does make some sense. iOS and Android covers both phones and tablets but this isn’t the case for Microsoft Windows Phone OS. Nokia can’t afford to ignore the tablet market and if it does make a tablet of their own, then it is very likely that Microsoft will be their partner. But still, Nokia will have to work hard to get some attention because Android and iOS tablets are doing really well. Nokia was asked to comment about it but they declined to do so. Stephen Elop, the Nokia Chief Executive too refused to commend on the Windows 8 tablet plans so not much is known about the whole ordeal. Elop  [...]

Poor sales of any product results in either full stop in the production of that particular product or sometimes only in a bit slashing in the price, and in case of BlackBerry PlayBook both these things have happened. BlackBerry PlayBook’s poor sales have made Quanta Computer to stop manufacturing so many of those tablets. Now if you think that’s a bad news for the RIM, then there’s even more to come. We recently heard that only a couple of weeks after the Canadian company launched the BlackBerry PlayBook they only shipped 200,000 PlayBook’s in the second quarter of 2011, and now its said that the manufacturing of these tablets have been slashed at one of their Taiwanese factories. The Quanta Computer, which is one of the affiliated manufacturers for the BlackBerry PlayBook says that  [...]

The current market already has seen a number of 4G smartphones and now we’ve heard that world’s third biggest handset manufacturing company LG will be launching their 4G enabled LG Thrill. The LG Thrill will be marketed by AT&T. The LG Thrill is another entrant into the already flooding 4G market in the US. The current 4G handsets in the market are from a Taiwan-based smartphone company HTC and from the world’s second largest handset manufacturer, Samsung. The 4G has been extensively promoted by AT&T and Verizon Wireless. For those who don’t know 4G technologies let us tell that this is an all new Superfast wireless service, which will be replacing the 3G service. This new superfast wireless service will allow many of the Smartphone users to get superfast web browsing speeds.  [...]

HP (Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ)) has released an over-the-air WebOS revise for their HP TouchPad. This all new over-the-air update for the HP TouchPad is suppose to enhance the reliability and performance of the tablet. This all new update automatically takes the TouchPad to WebOS edition 3.0.2 and at the same time it increases small functionality enhancements for WebOS applications, for example image rendering and faster scrolling in email, automatic rectification of compressions while typing and calendar tweaks. The all new HP TouchPad entered the market last month among mixed reviews. The critics picked on the tablet for its lethargic WebOS performance, the trifling range of WebsOS apps, and intricate setup. According to some trade analysts, all these flaws gave impression of a product which  [...]

Nintendo kept giving the teasers for their red 3DS, which initially was the past of the line-up of the pre-launch, but then instantly was postponed for the blue and black versions. Now, we are hearing that the 3DS “flame red” device will enter the market on 9th of September, alongside the launch of the Star Fox 64 3D. Just like the existing 3DS models launched after 12th of August, the new red variants wil be having a low price tag of $169.99. The Star Fox 64 3D that we are talking about here is one of the big-name titles that Nintendo is hoping will turn around the fortunes of 3DS; according to Nintendo around 830,000 of the handheld gadgets have been sold in US since its launch in US, which is something that Nintendo has admitted is disappointing. The unexpected price cut, immediately  [...]

RIM (Research in Motion) once again is trying to dethrone iPhone, and this time they are doing it with their all new “all-touchscreen” BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860. The all new BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860 so far is the biggest BlackBerry handset and comes with a 3.7 in display. The new Torch 9850/9860 carries the legacy of Research in Motion’s keyboardless Storm phones, although the handset now comes with a refurbished BlackBerry 7 Operating System, which has a redesigned virtual keyboard. We haven’t heard anything regarding the availability and price of the new Torch from BlackBerry, but RIM did told that the Torch 9850 will be functioning on GSM carriers (like AT&T), while the Torch 9860 will be offered with CDMA networks (like Sprint) only. Both the models enter the market with  [...]

If you’ve been using Facebook for your business or work purposes then here’s good news for you. You can call it a coincidence or superb timing, whatever you want,  Facebook recently has launched a brand new offer in its series of websites and Pages targeted towards companies and professionals users, so as to allow them to use Facebook even more efficiently for their businesses. The all new site, Facebook for Business, is targeted towards small business. This new website will give instruction to the users to establish a profile page for their business and use that for targeting deals and ads. It will also allow them to use different social plug-ins and sponsored stories. The all new announcement from Facebook came in the rouse of a brand shenanigan on Google+. A lot of businesses created  [...]

Microsoft recently has proclaimed a brand new handset for the Xbox 360. The newly announced handset will be entering the market this November. One great thing about the newly announced handset is that the handset not only will be compatible with the Xbox 360, but will also support the modern handsets through Bluetooth. So if you like to do a little trash talk when you play games on your Xbox live, then this surely is something that will entice you to fullest. The one thing although that you should keep in mind is that you will have to switch between the cell phone and Xbox mode, and hence you got to make sure that you take care of it in case your loved ones called you in the middle of the game, you don’t want to answer that call with some harsh words, do you? One strange thing about the headset  [...]

Stratasys recently has launched their all new Fortus 250mc (TM) Production 3D Printer. The all new printer offering from Stratasys is a fast production and prototyping machine which has been developed for delivering a Dimension 3D Printer with the flexibleness of a Fortus Production 3D Printer. The Fortus 250mc is the first cross-over printer of the company and it blends the convenience and affordableness of industry-leading Dimension 3D Printers from Stratasys with the control of Insight Software, which is being used for driving the Fortus line of production of 3D printers. The Insight Software of the printer will give the customers additional control over the part accurateness, speed and feature detailing of the prints. Just as all the Stratasys preservative manufacturing systems, the Fortus  [...]