Skype announced about its plan to acquire GroupMe, a group messaging smartphone app for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7 that lets you create group texts, make conference calls, and share photos and your location. GroupMe is just about a year old, started by Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht. While Skype did not say how much it is going to pay. But the...

Apple TV too… Yes. A prominent tech industry analyst says that the California-based company known for blockbuster consumer electronics products including the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad may sell the Apple TV as early as 2012. Munster said the iCloud the company recently unveiled sets the stage for Apple’s high-def television set. The move is significant not...

‘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...

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...

It seems 2011 is going to be the year of handshakes between AT&T and Android. Tying its bond with Google’s Android, AT&T is going to release 12 Android devices in the year of 2011. iPhone’s coming to the proximity of Verizon persuades AT&T to even take a leap forward to get engaged with 20 4G enabled smartphones this year. Following Apple’s decision of...

Hey guys, its tax season know? I know that you are busy with your works and you don’t have time to spend some time for such tax matters. But you don’t have any other option than paying taxes huh? But here is a new option for iPhone users. You can pay your taxes through your phone. TurboTax has launched a new smartphone program called SnapTax, just in time for tax season. The...

New year wishes are everywhere! What about for Apple’s iPhone! Well, not quite a HAPPY new year for iPhone. With the year changing from 2010 to 2011, there came one programmatic anomaly in iPhone’s code introducing a bug in the execution environment. iPhone’s one-off alarm is not working since January 1st, 2011. Is the Alarm Bug annoying users or letting...

Till date, the absence of firm multimedia support on Android platform has been undeniable. Good news is, not any more. The lack of creditable media support in Android platform will soon come to an end. Porting of the maiden version of VLC (VideoLan Client) to Android is nearing its completion. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of the project says that VLC will be...

Nokia has filed patent claims against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, for allegedly infringing its patents with technology used in the Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The legal battle began in October 2009 when Nokia alleged that the iPhone infringes on Nokia’s patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards, specifically 10 patents...