Google has just announced that they are acquiring Motorola Mobility for a price of $12.5 billion. I have to admit that I never saw this coming. Announcing the acquisition, this is what Google CEO, Larry Page wrote: Given Android’s phenomenal success, we are always looking for new ways to supercharge the Android ecosystem. That is…

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For the ones who are not familiar with Ubuntu One, it is a web based storage services from Canonical just the same as Dropbox. A basic account of Ubuntu One offers you upto 5GB of storage space unlike DropBox which offers only 2GB and talking about popularity of the Ubuntu One service, we have already…

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Finally Canonical has given the green signal to replace Evolution by Thunderbird in Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” which is scheduled for release in October.

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It is no secret that Google has been planning on bringing games to Google+ eventually – after all logo and references to Google+ games had been found in the Google+ source codes. Today, Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Google, has officially announced the Google+ Games. Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the…

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LBE Privacy Guard gives users the ability to manually configure each and every permissions of the different apps installed. Users can outright deny a particular permission, approve it or decide whenever the permission is required.

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Facebook has launched a new messaging app for Android and iOS. The app, called Facebook Messenger, brings a SMS like messaging system that is based on Facebook’s messaging system.

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Google is discontinuing the Android App Inventor. Google has announced that the App Inventor will be closed within the next 90 days.

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Twitter recently unveiled a built-in Photo upload feature wherein users can directly upload pictures from inside the Twitter website and have it uploaded and added to their tweets automatically. No more heading to 3rd party websites.

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The Fedora developers have decided that Fedora 16 will not use Btrfs by default. The announcement was made by Josef Bacik, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat.

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