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After Facebook announced its $1 billion purchase of Instagram earlier this year, the UK’s Office of Fair Trade (OFT) announced it was launching an investigation of the deal. Today, the OFT issued a brief statement that it will not pursue the case further with the Competition Commission, effectively giving the deal its stamp of approval. The concern was…
Yeah we know the LG Optimus Vu is coming to the U.S. having seen the leaked photos of the device with Verizon Wireless’ branding and now we have that information officially confirmed by the Korean company. In a press release saying that Optimus Vu sales have passed half a million units, LG revealed that its…
We’re not sure what to think of LG’s phone updating strategy. First they said the Optimus 2X will get Ice Cream Sandwich, only to flip-flop at a later date, with their Canadian branch saying the opposite. Now we have another proof that the update will actually be released; the information comes from LG’s Korea office,…
In what seems designed as a move to fight the “Nexus 7 threat,” Samsung’s British online store, Samsung Direct, is offering up to 50 GBP cash back to customers who purchase select tablets. If you go for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wi-Fi, you’ll get 50 GBP cash back; or 30 GBP if grab the…
Allrecipes has crossed a long way from a site with a single cookie recipe to the world’s largest digital food brand, with 17 sites and 9 apps. To illustrate how much has changed over the past 15 years, Allrecipes recently re-ran its very first on-site survey and here we present you the results. Unsurprisingly more…
If you’ve been using a Sony Android smartphone, you know their picture gallery and music player (Walkman) apps look awesome. Thanks to the savvy hackers from the XDA-Developers community, now you can try them out on your non-Sony Ice Cream Sandwich device. The Sony Album (picture gallery) highlights the most recent pictures in the top…
There are a number of different backup tools out there and it’s not easy to pick the one that works for you. Recently I stumbled upon Clickfree and instantly fell in love. And no – they don’t pay me to write about them. What I like about this solution is that it’s super easy to…
Remember the Acer Iconia Tab A110, which the Taiwanese company unveiled at Computex in June? Well, it will be available in the UK in September, when it will face Google’s Nexus 7 with aggressive pricing. The 7-inch tablet will cost 179 GBP, packing pretty much the same guts as Google’s tablet plus a microSD card…
Motorola may be looking to refresh its handset lineup for Verizon Wireless later this year. According to a rumor out of Hot Hardware, Motorola will release its Razr HD and Razr Maxx HD phones in October . This launch, says Hot Hardware’s sources, is a moving target and dependent on Motorola selling enough inventory of…
Sony announced that it will be releasing a dark silver version of the Xperia S, which is the company’s flagship device at the moment. The Xperia S isn’t the only handset expected to get a color change, as Samsung plans to release a black version of its Galaxy S III. Sony deserves props for trying…