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A new electronic way to make payments

A new electronic way to make payments

  This news is something that we confess we had expected to hear a certain time and it is finally there: virtual credit card. Mastercard has previously raised intentions to partner with Google Wallet, not long after shelve ambitious plans for a system of payments by the partnership did not work with AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon (The Isis [...]
Apple iPhone 4G & Apple iPad Win The Coveted 2010 Engadget Awards Editors’ Choice

Apple iPhone 4G & Apple iPad Win The Coveted 2010 Engadget Awards Editors’ Choice

The year 2010 was one of the most thrilling and eventful time for nearly all technology aficionados as well as online tech blogs. With the launch of Apple iPhone 4G and iPad, the previous year offered a wealth of options for consumers to consolidate their lifestyles with mobile technology, while connecting to rest of the world in a more advanced and [...]
Dell presents XT3, a corporate tablet

Dell presents XT3, a corporate tablet

Dell announced on Tuesday a 10-inch tablet with Windows 7 at business users this year. The company also plans to sell another 10-inch tablets based on the Android system. The news was disclosed during an event in San Francisco for press and analysts, in which Dell also had 24 systems for corporate use, including laptops, PCs and workstations. The company [...]
AOL Acquires The Huffington Post after a $315 Million Deal

AOL Acquires The Huffington Post after a $315 Million Deal

The Huffington Post, one of the most prominent news, analysis, and lifestyle website boasting of 25 million unique monthly visitors has been bought by AOL for $315 million. Yahoo had also been in talks with Huffington Post for a possible acquisition in June but apparently that deal did not go through and AOL’s offer stuck. With this deal, Arianna [...]
Will Nokia use Windows Phone 7 in its devices?

Will Nokia use Windows Phone 7 in its devices?

The next Friday, Nokia will make a grand event that tend to give a shove in the market, on the Capital Markets Day, and after the loss of the smartphone market on a global scale, a flurry of speculation indicates that Finns may announce a partnership Microsoft to put Windows Phone 7 on its phones. The scenery looks more favorable than ever for the [...]
Bug in IOS detected

Bug in IOS detected

Here we go again … If you planned to be agreed today for a single alarm you have noticed that has IOS probably not played. According to Engadget found last night, a lot of complaints about faulty alarms appeared on Twitter. What seems to happen is that in making the transition from 23:59 to December 31 to midnight of January 1, IOS Clock app [...]
Facebook wants to register the patent of the word “face”

Facebook wants to register the patent of the word “face”

The patent office of the United States approved a request made by Facebook to get the rights to the word “face”. To get the trademark, the company responsible for the most popular social network in the world to pay a fee to the entity and a statement that will use the term commercially. The authorization of the patent office gives the exclusive [...]
Is PlayStation Phone for real?

Is PlayStation Phone for real?

We are already accustomed to associate with Sony Ericsson and Sony to PlayStation, but never the PlayStation to Android. So the above image is so shocking: who ever imagined that an Android smartphone becomes a portable PlayStation? The above photo was published by Engadget, and is the first real image of the product, while calling for the PlayStation [...]
TechCrunch On The Verge Of Being Acquired By AOL

TechCrunch On The Verge Of Being Acquired By AOL

In what can only be seen as one of the most remarkable event in the technology world for the year 2010, one of the biggest technology blogs on the Internet, TechCrunch, is about to be acquired by the newly rejuvenated AOL. TechCrunch, that was founded by the former lawyer, Michael Arrington, is seen in the tech world as one of the most respectable and [...]
Does Microsoft has a new logo?

Does Microsoft has a new logo?

Today the site engadget.com published the supposed new logos from Microsoft that will be revealed in its annual MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) event, including … new logos for its main brands (Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, Bing, and finally, the Office logo family) with a new slogan. “Be What’s Next” Windows, Windows Phone, [...]