Tag: Purchase
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Freetalk adapter adds Skype to your home phone
Are you a regular user of Skype? Do you use it to make calls? Frustrated because you have to sit at your computer while calling friends and family? Yes? Well, that can now be a thing of the past, as a company by the name of Freetalk have developed a very handy little adaptor which…
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Playstation Home: Refurbished Sony social environment launches today
Sony’s Playstation Home gets a grand redesign today and the Official Blog has given us a teaser of what to expect when the new-look service hits Sony consoles today. As well as a total refurbishment of the 3D free-roaming virtually social environment, PS3 gamers will find a selection of new games to enjoy absolutely free…
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RIM to acquire cloud company for new services on Blackberry gadgets
Research in Motion (RIM) has made its intentions known that it is very interested in bringing cloud-based services to its popular Blackberry range of products which includes smartphones such as the recently released Blackberry 9810 (or Touch 2) and the Blackberry Playbook tablet. Canadian tech company RIM is currently eyeing the Irish firm NewBay which…
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Rhapsody buys Napster – Declares online music war on Spotify
Digital music subscription co. Rhapsody has snapped up Napster in an attempt to reinforce it’s presence in the online music war after Spotify recently linked up with Facebook. The deal will see Rhapsody ‘aquire’ subscribers to the one time bootlegger’s paradise, as well as bolstering the existing catalogue of over 11,000,000 available tunes. Former Napster…
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Microsoft’s Skype coming to Windows Phone 7.5
Internet video chat through Skype software is coming to the Windows Phone 7.5 update aka ‘Mango’. This was officially confirmed by Microsoft, but no word as of yet whether the VoIP service will be part of the social integration which comes presented in that fancy all-in-one social hub we’ve seen on Mango before. The arrival…
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HTC Chairwoman speaks about WebOS – Purchase will not be made on ‘impulse’
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HTC’s Chairwoman has spoken out about rumours that the Taiwanese mobile co. are set to snap up Hewlett Packard’s recently discarded WebOS operating software, saying that any purchase of the defunct platform will not be done on ‘impulse’. Cher Wang was interviewed by The Economic Observer, a Chinese business newspaper, and she addressed the speculation…
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Microsoft suing Motorola Mobility in new patent row with Google
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard of a good suing in the tech world. Apple’s crusade has quietened since Samsung and HTC decided to bite back over some of those patent infringement allegations, which saw Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in several countries just weeks after its launch. Today Apple’s occasional bedfellow Microsoft is…
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Skype aquires GroupMe – Multiperson text-based chat to rival Google+
Skype has just announced its purchase of GroupMe, a mobile group texting service – which adds another social weapon to the arsenal against Google. Working much like the Huddle feature on Google+ for mobiles, GroupMe brings friend together for multiperson conversations using text-based “chatting” allowing easy organisation of get-togethers and keeping everybody involved “in the…
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HTC Acquires Dashwire Cloud Storage Company
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HTC. They’re the ones who get sued a lot, I hear you cry. Well, in an effort to recoup some of that money lost to greedy lawyers thanks to a certain Cupertino firm and their patent shielding scheme, HTC has acquired Dashwire of Seattle, a company that does business in the area of device software…
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Facebook purchases digital publisher Push Pop Press
Facebook has snapped up digital book publisher Push Pop Press – turning a new page in the evolution of Zuckerberg‘s Social Network. Push Pop Press is a relative unknown and its big break into the world of online publishing came last year when it made digitally available the book written by Al Gore entitled “Our…
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FTC approve Microsoft purchase of Skype – It’s officially official!
Microsoft’s purchase of Skype is now officially official – after receiving the proper nod of approval from the US Federal Trade Commission. The House of M agreed back in May that it would snap up the video and chat communications service in a massive $8.5-billion deal. We can now expect Skype to invade Kinect and…
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop says “Nokia is not for sale”
Nokia’s Chief executive officer Stephen Elop has once again taken to the press to deny new rumours that Samsung Mobile was preparing to place a bid in to buy Nokia’s Mobile phone business with elop expressly stating that the rumours are “completely groundless.” Elop was talking on Thursday to The Wall Street Journal and stated…