The Huffington Post, the ground-breaking online news and opinion site is to be bought for $315m by AOL. The deal follows efforts by AOL’s chief executive Tim Armstrong to turn around the dial-up Internet access business by trying to turn it into a media and entertainment powerhouse. The Huffington Post will become the flagship of AOL’s editorial business,...

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...

Once again Facebook became a reason for its users’ ire. This time Facebook is not directly involved. A new site called Lovely-faces.com, which launched this week, used Facebook pictures of about 250,000 people searchable in categories that included nationality, gender, funny, smug, and “climber.” This site then give users the option to “arrange a...

‘Connecting People’ is the slogan of Nokia. But we are getting some rumors that; we can also use ‘connecting Microsoft’, instead of ‘connecting people’. Confused right? According to rumors sparked by some comments made by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, Microsoft and Nokia could collaborate to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia’s smartphones. So, how about that? Microsoft...

We all are familiar with the usual copy right issues. But here Google comes with a peculiar type of case. Google claims that Microsoft’s Bing search engine is copying its search results from Google. Engineers from Google even made a sting operation to test this. And they say that result is positive. Google on its blog says that its people added fake search results...

As they announced their plans at 2011 international CES to bring revolutionary smartphones to the market, AT&T reveals that Motorola Atrix 4G is on the way. Available for pre-order from February 13, the high-end smartphone manufactured by Motorola Mobility is coming with a 2 year service plan with AT&T. Hardly anything could have been a better answer to the launch...

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman and chief executive, has unveiled The Daily, a digital-only newspaper exclusively available on Apple’s iPad, at a launch event in New York. This is the first of its kind. Its articles run the gamut from breaking global news to feature writing. Taking advantage of the iPad’s full-colour graphics capabilities—and looking more like...

With a service plan of 2 years with AT&T, HTC Desire 4G is hitting the market on February 13. Available at a price of $99.99, the device is already accessible for pre-registration with AT&T. AT&T announced to take interest on the Android platform and also on the 4G technology in the year of 2011 after Apple decided to terminate the exclusive iPhone deal with...

After a one-week blackout for Web and cell phone users, internet access in Egypt appears to have returned to normal. Internet monitoring firm Renesys said in a blog post that Internet service was restored around 11:29am Cairo time on 2nd February. Web sites for the Egyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial International Bank of Egypt, and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo are now...