May 22, 2013

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Archos 70b E-Book Reader Available for Pre-order in Europe

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Archos 70b e-reader is now available for pre-order in Europe, the Archos 70b. The device is available with a €99.99 price tag and for those wondering, that is roughly $130 in terms of US dollars. And that is important because the Archos 70b was spotted in a FCC filing not that long ago which suggests [...]

eBay Acquired Brands4Friends German Online Shopping Club for $200 Million

eBay Acquired Brands4Friends, German Online Shopping Club for $200 Million

eBay announced on Monday that it has the largest online shopping with the German club Brands4Friends final agreement, will be 150 million euros (U.S. $ 200,000,000 ) in cash Brands4Friends. eBay said the acquisition will further strengthen the company Brands4Friends as a European network of leading fashion destination. eBay is currently the leading global network [...]

Fortumo to Launch Mobile Payment Service for Android Devices

Fortumo to Launch Mobile Payment Service for Android Devices

Fortumo, mobile payment service provider in Europe announced to launch a new payment game “Bad Piggy Bank” , this payment plan for the future of the Android open to all developers. Android before the introduction of new payment Rovio article has details. Now Fortumo announced, Bad Piggy Bank will support the SMS payment – payment [...]

“Gigabyte Gsmart Rola”- An Android 2.2 Smartphone with Dual SIM Compatibility

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Gigabyte is preparing to launch a dual-SIM smartphone running on Android v2.2 Froyo. It’s called GSmart Rola and it will launch on the bargain 175 euro in the beginning of 2011. As a smartphone, the device is rather low-end – a 3.2 inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen, 3.2MP camera, a 528MHz processor and 512MB ROM. All [...]

ViewSonic “ViewPad 7″ Review

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The ViewSonic ViewPad 7 delivers Android 2.2 on a swift 7-inch capacitive display. But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.One of the more intriguing underdogs of the tablet wars is ViewSonic–a company known more for computer monitors than portable computers. It’s understandable that Google’s open source Android is on the majority of tabs [...]

Samsung Releases “W899 Android Flip Phone” with AMOLED Touch-Screen

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More device news coming our way this Monday and again from Samsung.   Samsung has already launched quite a number of Android-powered phones to date but the Korean company introduced its first Android-powered flip phone, namely the Samsung W899.  Features twin 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen displays screens (front and back) on the top half of the [...]

Google Editions E-Reader Service to be launched in US by the Year End

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Google Editions will launch in the US this year, with international launches to follow soon after in. Dubbed Google Editions, the new venture will take a different approach to book selling than most of its competitors, including Amazon’s Kindle or Apple’s iBookstore. Instead of relying on a single, centralized store, Google will let users buy [...]

WikiLeaks Site Deleted from Amazon Servers due to US Pressure

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Amazon.com stopped hosting WikiLeaks from its Web servers following pressure from members of Congress, prompting the controversial group to move its website to a European provider. WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message it had been “ousted” by the Seattle online retailer, which also sells Web services and online storage. In its message, WikiLeaks said its [...]

7-inch Ziio tablet made by Creative hits the FCC

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Creative announced their plans for a pair of Android based tablets a few months back, but since then we haven’t heard much of the device’s details. The European devices are set to launch with 7-inch and 10-inch models, and the 7-inch model has just hit the FCC. complete with user manual and lovely snapshots of [...]

“Toyota iQ” EV Confirmed for 2012

Toyota iQ EV

Toyota is now planning to launch an electric version of iQ in order to cover the segment of the electric small models. Struggling to cope with the rivals, Toyota plans to launch in the near future an electric version for the small iQ model. The electric Toyota iQ is expected to debut on the European [...]

Motorola Defy to be updated to Android 2.2 in Q2 2011

Image Of Motorola Defy Android 2.2

The German subsidiary of O2 has leaked via Twitter that the rugged Motorola Defy will be updated to Android 2.2 in Q1 of 2011. As Google is (presumably) getting ready to finally release Android 2.3 Gingerbread into the wild, news comes about Motorola’s plans for the Motorola Defy. This interesting, rugged smartphone has been running [...]

“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]