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  After years of brand building and when consumers related Ovi as a brand of Nokia, the Finnish giant pulls the plug from the Ovi name. They’ve announced that they’ll drop the Ovi name and the Ovi branded services will now be known as Nokia services. Nokia’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jerri DeVard says [...]

  Here’s some good news for users using Samsung Galaxy devices. The Korean giant announced today that its Galaxy devices – Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Ace/Gio/Fit/mini will receive the Android 2.3 aka the Gingerbread update. Korean users with Galaxy S, K, U, Galaxy A and Galaxy Tab will also receive the Android 2.3 update. [...]

  Adobe today released a new version of its Flash Player for desktops and Android devices. The Flash Player 10.3 promises to improve stability, enhance security and privacy protection that now allows to clear up local storage from browsers’ privacy settings. Additionally, the desktop version also gets couple of new features like media measurement to [...]

  LG’s display making subsidiary, LG Display has announced that they’ll showcase their full range of Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (AH-IPS) products at the SID 2011 expo that begins on May 15. LG is trying to play coy by not mentioning the exact resolution but has confirmed to show the panels for different sizes [...]

  Samsung’s Galaxy S II is one of the fastest mobile devices in the market but one curious modder has managed to push this boundary further by overclocking its Exynos processor to 1.5ghz. The modder also managed to benchmark the phone, which expectedly fared well over 4000 points in the quadrants test and almost 60MFLOPS [...]

  Samsung has released the much awaited Gingerbread update for Galaxy Tab. The update seems to be available in Italy for now and takes the tablet to Android 2.3.3. The build number is XXJQ1 and is available for download via Kies. The update will expectedly be released to other regions in the coming weeks. [Via [...]

  Angry birds is one of the highest selling games on mobile devices and now the pig slaying birds have expanded their territory to the world’s largest platform – web. Although launched for Chrome browser, users can play the game in other modern browsers by pointing to http://chrome.angrybirds.com In addition to the regular 63 levels, [...]

  Remember the supposed metallic chassis of the upcoming iPod nano leaked a few weeks back? Well, it has surfaced again, interestingly, via the same Chinese website but this time it shows the back side of the body, complete with the Apple logo. As you can see, the image indicates the new iPod nano won’t [...]

  Google has announced two new Chromebooks developed by Acer and Samsung. Both the netbooks will be launched on June 15 in US and followed by five European countries like UK, Germany, Spain etc. The Samsung netbook features a 12.1-inch display with 1280×800 display, Intel’s Atom dual-core processor, connectivity options of Wi-Fi and 3G (optional), [...]

  For the tablets, Google unveiled a new firmware update at the developer-centric Google I/O event. The new Honeycomb 3.1 update will bring lots of new features to the tablets, starting with the Motorola Xoom for Verizon today. The update brings resizable homescreen widgets; USB host that can transfer content from mobile phones, camera directly [...]

  Developers attending the Google I/O were given a special treat by Google and Samsung today. During the keynote, Google exec announced that they’ll give each and every attendee a limited edition of Galaxy Tab 10.1. The reason it’s called limited is due to the fact that it’s still unreleased and it will come in [...]

  Google announced the cloud-based Music Beta service today at the Google I/O and along with it the new Music app for Android devices. The app is available on the US Android Market right now and can be used to play music stored online or even the music on the phone. I managed to do [...]

  Google has announced a new cloud-based Music service for Android devices. The Music Beta service will allow users to upload their collection on the cloud, which then can be played on any Android device (via Music app) without having to download anything. However, in case a user expects unavailability of data connection, he can [...]

  Google just announced the next version of Android OS dubbed as Ice cream Sandwich. Slated to release on Q4 of this year, Ice Cream Sandwich will be available on smartphones and tablets. Google touts Ice Cream Sandwich as “One OS everywhere” that will have state of the art UI, advanced app framework and expectedly, [...]

  Here’s the official confirmation. Microsoft has announced to buy Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, making it the most expensive acquisition from Microsoft till date. Microsoft says the buyout will “increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue [...]