Facebook has recently acquired Glancee for an undisclosed sum. The mobile location service enables users to locate people in their proximity and contact them based on common interests. Glancee announced the acquisition…
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TomTom HD Traffic Service Comes To Blackberry Smartphones
TomTom HD Traffic service will be offering its services on BlackBerry smartphones. The live traffic is added to the existing maps and location services that RIM has already developed for its mobile…
VLC Media Player Downloads Hit 1 Billion Mark
The creators of the VLC media player, an open source and cross-platform media player, has stated that the software has passed 1 billion downloads. This is quite an amazing feat because downloads…
Facebook To Unveil App Center, A Place For Finding Apps
Facebook recently announced its own App portal called the App Center. With the new App Center, users can now access existing apps for Android, IOS and browsers plus paid HTML5 apps. Facebook…
Europe Sets Price Cap for Mobile Internet Use Overseas
Tariffs for the use of mobile Internet abroad this summer will receive a maximum rate or price cap. The European Parliament has decided to implement this after growing protests from mobile Internet…
Samsung Acquires mSpot to Compete in the Cloud Streaming Market
Samsung has recently acquired mSpot an entertainment start-up that streams movies on computers and mobile devices. Another feature of mSpot is the ability to upload and stream music to play on any…
Our Sun Under Close Watch
Be careful as scientists who monitor the sun have spotted a sunspot so big that it’s 60,000 miles across and if it erupts into solar flares could totally disrupt the electromagnetic field…
Will Amazon Be the Next AT&T?
Apple Corp. of Cupertino, California is infamous for being secretive. And then there is Amazon.com Corp. of Seattle, Washington. The once upon a time profit losing bookseller is now going toe to…
Wireless Catfight at Capitol Hill
The wireless spectrum space has more than a few comparisons to real estate. In a given area there’s only so much of it, some of it is already used and some spaces…
Amazon is yours and yours alone in my thoughts
Forgive me if I am less-than-perfect with my crystal ball regarding Amazon. Jeff Bezos must’ve read a quote from Benjamin Franklin which states, “two people can keep a secret, if one of…