Steve Jobs to deliver Keynote Address at WWDC on June 7th

There was some speculation that Steve Jobs might not be at this years WWDC. Apple just announced that the Apple CEO will deliver the opening keynote address at WWDC the company’s annual developer conference. This announcement puts the rumors to rest. However no sign of new iPhone being announced on the same day. Will Apple have a seperate event for the new iPhone launch ?  June 7th is not too far away. We should find out soon.

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Walmart drops iPhone 3GS Price to $97 , 8GB 3G to get axed ?

Looks like Apple is in full swing to clear out unwanted iPhone inventory just before the new version is launched. Walmart has dropped the price of the iPhone 3GS 16GB version to $97 on a 2-year contract.  It is currently selling at $199. Continue reading “Walmart drops iPhone 3GS Price to $97 , 8GB 3G to get axed ?”

Samsung Wave available in Germany, France and UK

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The Samsung Wave  with the sexy SuperAMOLED display from which we could barely take our eyes of at MWC is finally starting to ship in a few markets. Samsung has announced the commercial availability in European countries such as Germany , France and UK. Samsung Wave will be soon available in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

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Nokia and Yahoo

Nokia and Yahoo have finally announced a partnership today in New York which was codenamed as Project Nike prior to this.  This might be significant for Nokia who has an ever declining market share in USA which is one of the most competitive mobile markets in the world.  Nokia and Yahoo will collaborate on Email , IM , Maps. Nokia will power Yahoo Maps.  We’ll be posting more details about this soon. Above picture show Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz  with Nokia CEO  Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo

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Nokia N8 Pre-orders will begin in July , 44 days to go

The guys from ReallyMobile are at the Nokia HQ in Helsinki , Finland  and they are confirming that the Nokia N8 will will be available for Pre-order in July. There was a Countdown timer spotted inside the Nokia office which readers 44 days 7 hours to go for Nokia N8 Pre-order to start Continue reading “Nokia N8 Pre-orders will begin in July , 44 days to go”

BOLT 2.1 Available for Download

Bitstream the company behind the Bolt Mobile Browser has released the 2.1 version of it’s BOLT Browser which was in a Beta for sometime. What’s cool is that the company is claiming that the browser has the best mobile browser video support. If that’s true then its some serious competition for Skyfire.  This version has HTML5 Video support in addition to Flash. Bollywood sites such as hungama and bollywoodhungama are supported.

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iPad + Velcro Funny Video

Jesse Rosten has managed to create a really interested video in which he put’s the iPad on a variety of places including a car dashboard, bike, kitchen, wall and the best one – a ceiling so that you can turn the iPad into a ceiling mounted TV. He just uses the Industrial Strength Velcro tape to make this possible

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We are not sure if this hack would end up smashing your face or the iPad but it’s certainly fun watching

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Nexus One Flash 10.1 Beta beats FlashLite on Desire ?

The Folks at Engadget have posted a nice video comparison between the HTC Desire running Flash Lite and the Nexus One running Flash 10.1 Beta and it looks like the Nexus One with the latest FroYo upgrade has better overall Flash performance compared to the Desire.

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Blackberry now offering 18 months warranty on BBs

Did you put off your Blackberry purchase just because you were not happy with a standard 12 month warranty ? Well starting now, RIM will offer 18 months warranty on all Blackberry handsets sold in the country !

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Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working

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Google is already rolling out the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus one and few users have manged to get an OTA (Over the Air) update.  Now the manual update is available from Google’s servers and we just installed it to show you the changes in this version. We are also sharing instructions about how to get the update working on your nexus one manually Continue reading “Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working”

Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android

Vic Gundotra was 21 in 1991 according to this document from Stanford  University pictured below and was then Demoing some stuff to Microsoft’s then head of Sales , Steve Ballmer who is currently the CEO.He sparked Microsoft’s change from Win32 to the .NET programming model. In fact he spent 15 years at Microsoft since then. Vic quit Microsoft to join Google back in 2007 and spent 1 year in between due to Microsoft’s non-compete clause.

Now in 2010 , he’s on stage at Google I/O – the company’s largest annual developer conference to woo developers to build applications for the Android operating system. He’s currently VP of Engineering at Google responsible for developer evangelism

Vic did make the inaugural address on the first day of the event but it was pretty short yet he managed to poke fun at competitor Apple CEO’s Late night email about HTML5. On day 2 this man was on stage for nearly an hour and he did talk about Android and the latest version – Froyo and the upcoming changes to the  Android platform and boy-o-boy he made us laugh repeatedly by criticizing Apple, Phone and the latest iPad . It was pay back time for Google against Apple who has criticized Android over Porn Continue reading “Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android”