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Delicious finally sold to the founders of YouTube

Delicious finally sold to the founders of YouTube

After much of discussions and months of finding new buyer for the bookmarking website delicious, Yahoo has finally reached a negotiation with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – the two young founders of YouTube. Initially Yahoo was willing to sell the site for $1 to $2 million, but the details of this deal is not yet disclosed. Company has made an official statement of the sellout on the official [...]
Amazon and Samsung Launching a tablet this Summer

Amazon and Samsung Launching a tablet this Summer

Last September we reported about Amazon working on an Android Tablet which will be release this year. Today fresh reports are coming about the company definitely working on a tablet PC but it may or may not even be based on Android operating system given Google’s recent moves to tighten how OEMs can use Honeycomb – the tablet version of Android. Also if Amazon decides to use Android as [...]
Amazon Announced New Ad Supported Kindle for $114

Amazon Announced New Ad Supported Kindle for $114

As more and more consumers are using their tablets for reading books, Amazon was feeling the pinch and had to do something about it. Yesterday, the company announced a new ad-supported Kindle eReader which will be $25 cheaper then the existing model. Amazon termed this has “Kindle with Special Offers” as it will display ads and special offers on the screensaver and at the bottom of the [...]
Is Amazon Already Selling iPhone 5?

Is Amazon Already Selling iPhone 5?

iPhone 5 is a much desired phone right now, Although Apple has in past 2 years revealed the new iPhone during the WWDC which this year is planned for June 6, it is not 100% sure if the company will reveal the iPhone 5 during the conference. But as the keyword or search term iPhone 5 is hot so companies wants to encash on it. According to Google Adwords the keyword “iPhone 5″ has 1,830,000 [...]
Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Amazon becoming Microsoft [Cartoon]

Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Amazon becoming Microsoft [Cartoon]

You all might have seen this trend of copying product ideas in technology products. Folks at The Joy of Tech has created a nice funny cartoon which shows Google’s founder Larry Page and Sergey brin talking about the latest Android to be similar to Apple products and then the recently released +1 button to compete with “Like” button from facebook. Similarly Facebook founder Mark Z. [...]
Amazon Launched Online Media Storage with Android Cloud Player

Amazon Launched Online Media Storage with Android Cloud Player

Amazon, the largest online retailed today announced online media storage service with a cloud media player for Android devices. The newly launched service will stream will help users in storing application, songs and other digital media, It will also enable Android users to stream music stored on the Amazon servers with a Cloud Drive Player for the Android platform. The application supports most commonly [...]
Firefox 4 Downloads Passed 25 million, 15+ Million In 48 Hours [Infographic]

Firefox 4 Downloads Passed 25 million, 15+ Million In 48 Hours [Infographic]

Firefox 4 was released just 3 days back on March 22, 2011 and it has already created some sort of records in number of downloads, In first 24 hours itself it was downloaded 7 million times, which is almost three times then IE 9 downloads which was around 2.3 million. Today Mozilla has created a nice infographic which shows how many the new browser has been downloaded in last 48 hours, although the [...]
Yahoo Launches Search Direct, Answer to Google Instant

Yahoo Launches Search Direct, Answer to Google Instant

Yahoo doesn’t wants to be left behind in search industry, so today they have launched the competitor to Google Instant which they coined as “Search Direct” At a press conference few minutes back the company announced the launch of “Search Direct” which is very similar to Google Instant where you see the possible results as you type in the characters in the search box, [...]
Amazon Android Appstore Launched with Free Angry Birds Rio

Amazon Android Appstore Launched with Free Angry Birds Rio

After months of preparation, as expected Amazon officially launched the Android Appstore, a direct competitor to Google Android Market. The store which is live now has around 3,800 Apps for Android phones with an exclusive launch of Angry Birds Rio which is now available for free. Unlike Google’s Android Market, Amazon Appstore has lot of filters like Bestsellers, Top Rated Apps, New Releases, [...]
Amazon’s Android App Store to Launch March 22, 2011

Amazon’s Android App Store to Launch March 22, 2011

Retail giant Amazon is in full action for the launch of an Amazon Android App Store, They are exclusively launching the next version of Angry Birds, the most famous game on Android – Angry Birds Rio. That’s not all few days back we even listed the Leaked prices of the some notable Android Apps on Amazon Android App Store. Now the recent reports have suggested that the App Store could be [...]
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