It has been announced today that Microsoft has acquired the VoIP giant Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Xbox and Kinect support are a given, as the announcement of this definitive agreement clearly mentions, as is Windows Phone integration. Speaking on behalf of the investor group that sold Skype to Microsoft, Egon Durban, managing director…
Microsoft has implied that it will celebrate the first upcoming birthday of Kinect by announcing the Kinect for Windows commercial program that will launch early next year. In case you forgot about it, Microsoft released the official Kinect SDK for Windows a few months ago, but it was only intended for non-commercial purposes. Well, starting…
Apple Inc has reportedly bought a 3d mapping company named C3 that has the technology to make killer 3d maps, reports 9to5mac. Apple has been working on its own mapping service for quite long and doesn’t really like that its competitor Google gives ‘directions’ to its consumers on its own Apple iOS devices like iPhone…
According to a latest report, Samsung beat Apple and became World’s Biggest Smartphone Manufacturer by shipping the highest number of phones worldwide. In a research conducted by Strategy Analytics, it revealed that Samsung manufactured and shipped around 27.8 Million smartphones in the third quarter of the year. Where as the rivals; Apple and Nokia; could…
Meant to be a challenge in the face of giant Facebook, a new social network has been recently unveiled. Not performing at its full potential yet, since the press release announced a beta version, but Unthink claims to be the next big thing. The focus of attention for the Unthink team seems to be the…
This Wednesday, the cellular company Sprint finally talked about its deal with Apple and that it has entered into a 4 year long contract to sell iPhones and the said deal is valued around $15.5 Billion. Sprint which is the third largest cellular network in US, is expecting to gain long term benefits and results…
Pen.io is another amazing, fast and quickest online content creation platform, which lets you create and publish webpage in just seconds. Literally seconds! Launched by three guys in San Francisco as another start up, this new FREE service has already got attention of many in tech industry. Reportedly, 300,000 visitors are already surfing the site…
The BlackBerry is very much in talks these days due to the drastic outage happened last week. While Android and iOS are sweeping the mobile phone market, the big daddy of all smartphones is suffering from criticism from its rivals and its faithful users. We did a post yesterday about the impacts of the outage…
