Google’s Android operating system continues to demonstrate its striking momentum as it outsold Apple’s iPhone during the first quarter of 2010, making it the second most popular OS among U.S. smartphone consumers, the NPD Group reported
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Android Surpasses iPhone in U.S. Consumer Market Share
According to research firm IDC’s latest numbers, Research in Motion has managed to move into the top five of worldwide cell phone manufacturers for the very first time, thanks to global economic recovery and the increasing demand for smartphones. RIM, now the world’s fourth largest handset vendor, shipped 10.6 million devices around the world in the first quarter of 2010, surpassing both Motorola and Sony Ericsson. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 and Bold 9700 sold particularly well across multiple markets.
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RIM Moves into Global Top 5 Cell Phone Maker List
The Kin One is one of the two Microsoft’s first self-branded phones released with Verizon Wireless. Designed with a focus around social communication, the Kin One appeals to the younger generations with its deep social networking integration and fun user interface.
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Microsoft Kin One – A Cute Social Networking Device for Teens and Tweens
I vividly recall meeting with Rachel Lloyd. Thanks to her story (and others I’ve been privileged to hear) we’ve vastly improved our approach to the point where an adult service ad submitted to craigslist today relating to an underage person like “Bethany” would be rejected by our reviewers, with an immediate report submitted to law enforcement, allowing the victim to be rescued, and the perpetrator to be removed from society
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An Open Invitation to Rachel Lloyd
A little known phone card feature that is popular with many international callers is speed dial. Using the speed dial feature a caller can pre-program phone numbers and dial them by pressing two keys. This is a very nice time saving feature for people who make frequent international calls to friends, family or business associates overseas.
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Phone Card Features: Speed Dial
Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager More mobile app developers — the folks who use mobile ad networks like Google, AdMob, Apple/Quattro, Millennial, Jumptap, Greystripe and others to make money from ads within their iPhone and Android apps — are joining Wertago in sharing their views about our planned acquisition of AdMob. Wayne Skipper of Concentric Sky, a developer of iPhone and Android apps, blogged that he was asked by the FTC for his views on Google/AdMob, and told the agency: Like many in the industry, we believe [that blocking the deal] would be a serious mistake.
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Mobile app developers talk Google-AdMob
Just three months ago, Jason Raznick was considering moving his fledgling financial market news and analysis service company Benzinga.com to Chicago so he could connect with potential employees.
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New troops in brain-drain battle: Jewish Federation joins efforts to retain young adults
Apple has announced that it has sold its one millionth iPad since the new tablet computer was launched at the start of April. Apple added that iPad users had downloaded over 12 million applications and over 1.5 million ebooks in that time. This could open up access to IP telephony solutions to a new generation of consumers, with VoIP solutions being among the applications that the iPad can potentially be used with.
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iPad and VoIP
Skype says that it will be offering cheap calls to more than 170 countries in a bid to establish itself as one of the leading global telecommunication companies. The VOIP company will be offering price plans with unlimited calls for as little as 69p per month to some countries. Unlimited Skype calls to landline in the UK is charged at £3.39 per month with the unlimited world package which covers more than 40 countries costing a rather steep £8
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Skype To Offer Cheaper VOIP Calls
Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Today, we responded to a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular.
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Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy
Well, IndiaLD has been in the news for long all because of its cheapest calling rates to India. IndiaLD was offeing a rate of $0.007/min to call India uder a special promotion which has expired now
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IndiaLD .7 cents offer expired now : Make calls to India at 1.5 cents
Verizon Wireless has recently unveiled the Samsung Reality SCH-u820 , a sleek, easy-to-use and feature-packed messaging phone that can keep up with your social life. Thanks to the 3.0-inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen and the horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, you can interact with the world easily via instant messaging and social networking.
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Samsung Reality SCH-u820 – the Real Social Networking Device
Image via Wikipedia Reliance Communications (RCom) today announced a new rate plan — Simply Unlimited Pack — with unlimited talk time on a single monthly recharge for its CDMA pre-paid customers. However, the plan does not support SMS and other value-added services
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Reliance Mobile CDMA to offer unlimited local, STD call schemes
Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s said that change comes through the concerted efforts of small groups of people who dream of better times ahead. And then do something about it
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Honoring those who give voice to the silenced
LocallPhone is a big name in voip industry. A lot of voip blogger’s themselves use Localphone for making international voip calls. I am too a user of localphone, and a satisfied one.
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LocalPhone rate drop to India : Call India at 1.5 cents per minute
After weeks of speculation about Palm’s fate, HP announced late last month that they plan to purchase the struggling PDA maker at a price of $1.2 billion, surprising both the PC and mobile phone industries. The computing giant will pay $5.7 in cash for each share to current Palm shareholders, representing a 23 percent premium above Palm’s closing price.
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HP to Reshape Mobile Market with Palm Acquisition
The HTC Droid Incredible is Verizon ’s new flagship touchscreen smartphone that embraces the latest Android software and HTC ’s Sense user interface. With a sharp 3.7-inch touchscreen display, 8.0-megapixel camera, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 8GB of internal storage, it lives up to its name and outmatches other Android devices on the market
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HTC Droid Incredible – Dazzling, Powerful and Blazingly Fast
Posted by Yariv Adan, Product Manager (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) Six months ago, we launched the Google Dashboard to help you view and control information stored in your Google Account.
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Happy half-birthday Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day
Posted by Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement and Information Security Just over a month ago , we helped launch Digital Due Process , a coalition of technology companies, privacy advocates and academics working to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 to ensure traditional privacy protections are applied to new and emerging technologies. Today, we move one step closer as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties holds its first hearing on the issue
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An important step toward updating ECPA
Posted by John Hanke, Vice President of Product Management Ben and Jerry turned a $5 correspondence class in ice cream making into a multi-million dollar business.
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Google & Small Business Administration partner to share tips with businesses
On Tuesday, the World Bank (WB) barred Videocon Industries from doing any business with the bank for three years, beginning 11 January 2010, for violating procurement guidelines.The World Bank has included Videocon in the list of companies that are not eligible for contracts funded by it.The firm was sent a letter of reprimand subsequent to an administrative process permitting the company to respond to the allegations, the World Bank said in its latest update of companies blacklisted for doing business due to fraud and corruption charges. Readers can remember that earlier, Satyam Computers was banned by WB with the same charges
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World Bank barred Videocon from doing business with it for three years
Just a couple of weeks back I was contemplating to write about the journey of Indian stock markets with Sensex crossing 18000 levels. But, to my surprise, I am finding myself writing over here about journey of Sensex from 18000 to 17000 points, a steal of 1000 points from the recent peaks. Without any doubt it can be pointed out that the contagion risks of Greek crisis are now spreading to other weaker European countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and now even Hungary; regarding their susceptibility of exiting the vicious debt traps
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Indian Stock Markets: From 18k to 17k in no time !
Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager We’ve been talking with the Federal Trade Commission for the past six months about our planned acquisition of mobile advertising start-up AdMob, which we believe will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising. We’ve told the FTC about how new and highly competitive the mobile advertising space is, and the FTC has been talking to others in the industry about their views as well
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What people are telling the FTC about Google-AdMob
Well Rebtel as we all know is a dynamic voip provider , the reason I call Rebtel dynamic is because of time to time promotions, new free calling deals it offers to customers. Today we discuss about Rebtel May promotion to make free calls to Philippines…
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Rebtel: 60 Free minutes to the Philippines
When market prices do not reflect the true value of companies, investors must look for various details to arrive at the right valuation. Nirmal Bang, in it’s recent Beyond the Market , detailed the procedure to find the undervalued shares. WWW.INVESTCHIPS.COM This post is originally posted by R.John Christy for www.investchips.com.
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Value Investment Guide from Nirmal Bang
Moneycontrol.com , India’s leading financial portal has goes local with Hindi Language . Hindi site is exact replica of the English version and literally every part that is available in English is available in hindi as well. Especially for the market which moneycontrol caters to, I think it is a great move.
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Moneycontrol.com goes hindi – Localization a trend now?
Thousands of Indian students are struggling to get their prepaid tuition refunded from Australian schools and colleges. The situation has come to light following the collapse of colleges and a clamp down of the Australian immigration system.
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Indian Students Struggling to get Tuition Back
Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy Analyst Today we’re joining Internews , the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and others in recognizing the critical, and often dangerous work that print journalists and bloggers do to bring us information from the most inaccessible corners of the world. Groups like these help make it possible for journalists like John Musa , who is covering the first Sudanese election in 24 years, to give a first-hand account of what is happening at the polls. CPJ just released its 2010 Impunity Index , which shows where legal systems have failed to protect journalists against violence and murder.
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Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
The HTC HD2 for T-Mobile with a luxurious 4.3-inch touchscreen is the entertainment powerhouse that every media geek wants. Taking advantage of the huge display, T-Mobile has bundled the phone with a wealth of extra entertainment features, making it the top multimedia device in the carrier’s lineup to date
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HTC HD2 – Immerse Yourself in the Best Mobile Entertainment Experience
Yeah, its starting of the brand new week and its that time again to look back at some of the most happening posts of the past week. If you have missed it earlier, now is the time to catch up 
Popular posts of the week 8 Time Management Tips for Entrepreneurs! 45 new TV Channels to be launched R.I.P Floppy Disks 71% of companies keep tab on Employees Social Media activities & for a good reason… India’s Mobile Internet traffic growth maximum across the world WOW ! Google Maps now shows 3D imagery with Google Earth! Social Media withdrawal symptoms: Anxiety, Loneliness & boredom ! Top 100 most valuable Brands in the World – India has only one WOW ! A Windows Netbook for Rs
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Popular Posts of the week [wrap-up]