May 25, 2013

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Nokia teams up with Microsoft in Smartphone Business

Nokia teams up with Microsoft in Smartphone business

Nokia and Microsoft declared their intention to have partnership on making WP7 based Smartphone in the Market, the announcement was an unexpected, though Nokia CEO Stephen Elop – an ex-Microsoft executive – promised to share “the new strategy on February 11″ which would “transform the company.” and the move is a dramatic shift for the [...]

Skype Outage – Skype Problems Today

Millions of Skype Internet telephony worldwide could not make calls – or have been abandoned in mid-conversation – because of a failure of the network connection that began around 9 am PST Wednesday. It marked the second time this year that the popular, low-cost calling service has been hit by a major outage, and it [...]

Skype Down – Is Skype Really Down Today?

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Skype, one of the most popular Voice over IP [VoIP] services, appears to be currently down for millions of users around the world. The service has reportedly been down for more than one hour now. Many have already taken it to Twitter to express their frustration. Twitter users around the globe are taking to the [...]

Giesecke & Devrient Unveils “Mobile Security Card VE 2.0(MicroSD)”; Prevents Tapping

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MicroSD card is now not only serves as data storage. German technology company, Giesecke & Devrient (G & D) introduced the microSD card for mobile phones that can prevent wiretapping. The Mobile Security Card VE 2.0 contains a cryptocontroller which encrypts cell phone conversations and securely authenticates the user. Quoted from Cellular-news, VE on naming [...]

Nokia launches New C2-01 and X2-01 featurephones

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Today Nokia unveiled a couple of new entry-level additions to its mobile phone portfolio. The Nokia C2-01 is meant to be Nokia’s cheapest 3G phone, while the Nokia X2-01 has a full QWERTY keyboard as its key selling point. “Both [phones] aim to offer maximum functionality for the lowest price possible, but with a different [...]

NOKIA N8 facing Power Issue:Niklas Savander confirms

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Nokia N8 is the current top of the line Symbian^3 based multi-media handset. However, in last few days, several Nokia N8 owners complained that the phone powers off all by itself. Niklas Savander, Exec. Vice President for Nokia, acknowledged the issue at the official Nokia Conversations blog that a small number of users have been [...]

Mass Effect 2 : Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC Review

BioWare recently released the Lair of the Shadowbroker DLC for Mass Effect 2, now reviews are coming in thick and fast, and by the looks of things it is well worth the 800 Microsoft/BioWare points. Metacritic’s unique scoring system has given the DLC a metascore of 90/100 along with an impressive user score of 9.8, [...]

Mass Effect 2 – BioWare Collecting Stats Data for Understanding Player’s Interests

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BioWare is collecting player comments from Mass Effect 2 in order to make Mass Effect 3 better. You don’t need to do anything to contribute though, apart from play the game while connected to the internet. The series’ executive producer Casey Hudson told consumer site IGN that BioWare had examined Achievement stats from 2007′s Mass [...]

Cleverbot – Speak with Computer – The Best Artificial Inteligence Application

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“Cleverbot” is an AI robot that will chat with you based on previous conversations. Once you say something to it, it is added to its dictionary. But this doesn’t mean it spurts random words/phrases when you say something to it; it actually makes a clever response to your sentence(hence the name, “cleverbot”). This meme isn’t [...]