After making its results included in Siri answers, Microsoft’s Bing is going one step forward. The search engine also revamped its iOS app, bringing new UI and additional saving and sharing options to the mix. First things users will notice are four new tiles to the homepage that help users accomplish frequent tasks like checking…
Mike Lazaridis to take BlackBerry private?
In a weird twist of events BlackBerry may become a private company with one of its original founders Mike Lazaridis buying it out. That, of course, is still a rumor but as they say – where there’s smoke there’s fire. According to the New York Times report, Lazaridis might be making a play to bid…
Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 929 leaked
Before Microsoft completes acquisition of Nokia, the Finnish company wants to release a few devices and has even scheduled an event for October 22nd. One of the things they’ll launch may be a Windows RT tablet codenamed Sirius (aka Lumia 2520) and another – Lumia 929, which has just been leaked and which is heading…
BBM for iOS and Android launch delayed
Some of us expected to get the BBM from the Google Play Store and/or Apple’s App Store for the weekend. Alas, we’ll have to wait a little longer for that privilege. You see BBM did hit the App Store but its Android counterpart was leaked before “officially” hitting the Play Store. The Canadian company didn’t…
BlackBerry C-Series device codenamed Americano caught in the wild
A new, still unannounced BlackBerry device has been caught in the wild. According to BBIN (and brought to our attention by CrackBerry), what you can see above is a device from the Canadian company’s C-Series, codenamed Americano. As you can see for yourself, this unit looks very much like the newly unveiled BlackBerry Z30 though…
Nokia Sirius will be known as Lumia 2520
If Microsoft doesn’t spoil the party, Nokia will soon launch its very first Windows RT tablet, which we knew under the codename “Sirius.” That, of course, won’t be the device’s final name; according to EVleaks it will be sold as Nokia Lumia 2520. Yup, the Finnish giant will keep the Lumia brand for all of…
Microsoft to buy Osterhout Design Group’s patent portfolio as it plans to enter the wearables market
Microsoft don’t want to be left out from the rising wearables revolution, led by the likes of Google Glass. The Redmond giant is in talks with San Francisco’s Osterhout Design Group (ODG) to buy its patent portfolio and underlying technologies in a deal worth up to $200 million. According to TechCrunch, the deal is still…
Ubuntu’s smartphone OS launching on October 17th
Even though Ubuntu didn’t manage to raise the funds needed to make its Ubuntu Edge smartphone, the company keeps pursuing its mobile platform (that also works on tablets). According to a blog post by QA community coordinator Nicholas Skaggs, the Ubuntu Touch 1.0 will officially be out on October 17th. What makes Ubuntu Touch great…
Incomplete Android 4.3 build for Moto X caught in the wild
It’s kinda expected that Moto X will be one of the first smartphones to get the Android 4.3 update. After all, the company is now owned by Google and it’s likely that from time to time, engineers from the Android team are hanging out with Moto folks. One Android 4.3 build for the Moto X…
Intel’s 64-bit Atom chip for mobile devices coming next year
At a recently ended Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel said that Apple won’t be the only company designing 64-bit mobile processors for long. The chip making giant said that the 64-bit Atom platform will be released in the first quarter of 2014, hinting us we’ll likely see these in action either at CES…









