According to a Bloomberg report, in the next four months, Google will be testing its Near Field Communications (NFC) payment systems, in the New York and San Francisco areas.  Google plans to pay VeriFone Systems Inc. to install thousands of cash register systems made specifically for the use of NFC technology. Google’s new service may group a user’s financial...

  When someone ask about  iPad 2, the first thing comes to mind is that it’s faster, thinner and a little lighter. Thanks to the dual core A5 CPU for its faster performance.   The iPad 2 weighs 0.2 pounds lighter than the original, which makes the iPad 2 easier to carry with one hand.  It comes with a 1GHz dual core A5 CPU, double the RAM of the original iPad...

A new report by Nielsen Company, a market research firm, reports that in the US, Android is the most popular operating system among smartphone users and now accounts for nearly a third (29%) of all active smartphones in a study of 14,701 Americans. In comparison, the R.I.M. BlackBerry platform and Apple’s iOS each account for 27 percent of active smartphones since they...

  HTC, the phone maker has officially announced the Merge, company’s first Android-powered CDMA device capable of roaming around the globe. Merge is a new Android 2.2 Froyo powered smartphone that offers a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. “HTC prides itself on creating unique solutions that meet the needs of different customers, and with features like a full keyboard...

HTC, the Taiwanese maker of Google Inc. Android and Microsoft Corp. Windows-based mobile-phone handsets, unveils Flyer a tablet which runs a heavily customized version of Android Gingerbread and not Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The HTC Flyer tablet computer can be used either with a finger or with a battery-powered “pen” for drawing and note-taking. The device is...

According to a report by tech news site Pocket-lint, a new Samsung tablet 2 will make its public debut on Sunday evening at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona. Joining the new family of Android 3.0 running tablets, Galaxy Tab 2 is expected to pack a dual-core 1GHz processor – Exynos or Orion. This tablet will have a larger display than the...

Sony Ericsson has announced the new Xperia PLAY, a phone for gamers at Mobile World Congress 2011. The Sony Xperia Play has a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor and embedded Adreno GPU, applying a gaming force capable of running 60fps graphics, Its battery life can last 5 hours of gaming in one charge. Gingerbread or Android 2.3 is added into its Hardware. It has a 400MB of...

German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reports that, Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is planning to sack around half of the current executive board members as part of a strategy to revamp the world’s biggest mobile phone maker. So far, only one former leader, Anssi Vanjoki, has left the company. But citing company sources, weekly reported that Mary T. McDowell, the executive...

Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled a smartphone with a twin set of touchscreens. The device, called the Echo, is made by Kyocera Corp.’s U.S. unit and features two 3.5-inch touchscreens that can be opened up side by side. So, Echo is a good option for doing multitasks. The Kyocera phone, to be called the Echo, is expected to mark a big step up from Kyocera’s most...