Facebook Is Said to Work With HTC on Mobile Phone for next year 2013

Facebook Inc.owner of the largest social network, is working with HTC Corp. to build its own smartphone for release as soon as mid-2013, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The companies had intended to release the device as early as the end of this year, and pushed back the timetable to give HTC more time to work on other products, said some of the people, who requested anonymity because the plans aren’t public. Facebook is also developing a modified operating system for the device and has assembled a team of former Apple programmers to improve its iPhone application, people said.

More than half of Facebook’s 900 million users access the social network via mobile devices, while none of the $3.15 billion in advertising sales last year came from ads on phones. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg could use a Facebook phone, with social-networking features built-in, to woo marketers and assuage concerns dragging on the company’s shares.
“Usage is shifting to mobile, and they have not been able to monetize mobile,” said Victor Anthony, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets Inc. “To the extent that it’s a device you own and carry around with you at all times, and it ties into the Facebook experience, it will be beneficial. They could then put a lot of ads onto the platform.”

(Source : Bloomberg.com)

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Apple's next generation iPhone to have thinner screen:WSJ

Apple's next iPhone will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

This is currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, Sharp Corp, Japan Display Inc and South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd who are mass producing the panels for the iPhone using so-called in-cell technology, WSJ said citing sources.

The adoption of in-cell technology means Taiwan's Wintek Corp and TPK Holding Co Ltd, which supplied the touch-panel layer of the iPhone 4S screen, did not get orders for the next iPhone, the paper said citing people with knowledge of the matter.

The technology integrates touch sensors into the LCD, making it unnecessary to have a separate touch-screen layer. The absence of the layer makes the screen thinner and the quality of displayed images would improve, said DisplaySearch analyst Hiroshi Hayase, the Journal reported.

Apple could not immediately be reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.

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Upcoming Firefox OS for Smart phones:Complete Screen shots

Mozilla confirmed that the company will launch several phones with a new Firefox operating system in early 2013 and in the post Mozilla announced several of the partners who will team with Mozilla’s “Boot to Gecko” project.

The new operating system which will run HTML5 apps will provide a low-cost operating system for smartphones and is expected to focus on developing markets where the cost of entry is lower..Click Read more to watch complete screen shots..

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LG Optimus Vu-New android smart phone review

LG may have given up on tablets, but not on the Optimus Vu - it's halfway between a phone and a tablet, a hybrid of form factors that we like to call "phoneblets". The Samsung Note was one of the first, but that doesn't mean it can have the market all for itself. The LG Vu pairs the big screen with a handy stylus to enhance tasks like note taking, something that can be a chore on a normal thumb-operated handset.

The dedicated Notebook app lets you create elaborate, multiple-page notes with images and text, or you can just hit the QuickMemo key, which snaps a screenshot and lets you scribble on it - you can screenshot a website, a part of an email, a document, an image, and just about anything else.

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Karbonn launched Android smartphones(A9,A7 and A5)

Karbonn Mobiles has launched three sub-Rs 10,000 Android smartphones the A9, A7 and A5.  All the three phones are dual-SIM Android Gingerbread devices.

Of the three new phones launched on Friday the Karbonn A5 is priced the lowest at Rs 5790, the Karbonn A7 will cost Rs 7490 and the Rs 9490 Karbonn A9 is the most expensive of the three.

These three phones and a tablet - the Karbonn Smart Tab 1 - are the first of the Karbonn new 'Karbonn Smart' range of devices.

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Samsung announces 75-inch ES9000 smart TV for Korea

     Anyone looking to fill half of their lounge with Samsung LCD just got a new size to choose. The 75-inch ES9000 is the bigger brother of the ES8000 that we saw earlier this year and ahead of the official launch in Korea, we managed to get an early eyes-on at a Samsung event held yesterday in London. In short, if you loved the LED-backlit display of the 55-inch model, you're going to adore the ES9000, which features the same smart TV brains alongside a retractable webcam unit housed on the top edge. The picture was pleasingly rich and sharp -- presumably due to the aforementioned backlighting and the ES series' edge-to-edge design. The bezel is a mere 7.9mm and Samsung has decided to coat the frame in a gentle Rose Gold coating which, due to the TV's slightly shady location, was a little trickier to pick out. That premium finish is matched by a premium price tag, however, and will hit checkbooks for 19.8 million won (around $17,450). Despite the UK appearance, retailer John Lewis (which hosted the event) couldn't confirm whether retail models would be coming to its stores in the future. But if you can afford 75 inches of TV, you can also afford a quick flight to Seoul to pick one up.

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Google goes up against Amazon, Apple with Nexus tablet

Google Inc will sell its first tablet from mid-July for $199, hoping to replicate its smartphone success in a hotly contested market now dominated by Amazon.com Inc's Kindle Fire and Apple Inc's iPad.

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ACi India unveils low price Rs 4,999 Icon 1100 laptop

The UK-based computer brand ACi unveiled a fully-functional high-resolution screen laptop - Aci Icon 1100 - at Rs 4,999 in the Indian market.

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Paris 26 Gigapixels: one of the world's largest images!

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Nokia Lumia and deadmau5 London Launch Party 2011

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eRoll Provides Convenient And Efficient Reading Of Newspapers Or Any Other Electronic Documents

So, you are also one of them who hate paper newspapers with bunch of hard to manage pages and even more difficulties when storing the old one, making a huge pile of junk papers inside your house that can make the environment of your interior dusty and unhealthy. But there are many who still like to read paper newspaper, even though they are struggling with the well-known troubles. For both the groups, eRoll, a rollable screen concept can provide excellent functionalities by giving the feel of reading a real newspaper, while eliminating the hectic storing of the old copies and also reduces the risk of global warming by saving a lot of trees. Not only newspapers, eRoll concept can also be used for reading e-documents, magazines and many more and can be stored the older copies in the built-in memory...Click Read more 

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