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Hotmail co-founder launches free SMS service

FREE S.M.S. SERVICE  Indian entrepreneur and Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia speaks during a press conference to announce the launch of his latest venture Jaxtrsms in Mumbai on November 22, 2011. Bhatia's Jaxtrsms is a cross platform open texting application, letting users send unlimited free text messages to any other mobile phone in the world.  AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE

Indian IT entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia on Tuesday launched a free text messaging service, promising that it would be as revolutionary as his previous venture, Hotmail.

Posted: November 23rd, 2011 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Microsoft Philippines focuses on family for holiday campaign

By: Frances Mangosing

Microsoft Philippines recently announced its theme for its holiday campaign, “It’s A Great Time To Be A Family,” along with a showcase of its entire range of retail products including Windows 7, Microsoft Office and Windows Phone 7.

Posted: November 22nd, 2011 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Game developers sue China’s Baidu over copyright

A Chinese industry group of game developers said Monday it was suing Baidu for more than 30 million yuan ($4.7 million) for copyright infringement, the latest such case to hit the Internet giant.

Posted: November 21st, 2011 in Headlines,Infotech,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Baby John’s plight touches Netizens

By: Santiago R. Alcantara

Netizens have taken note of the plight of Baby John Aron Charles Angeles, who has reportedly been held “hostage” at a Laguna hospital for the past four months because his parents don’t have the money to pay the bills.

Posted: November 20th, 2011 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Research firm: Amazon sells $199 tablet at a loss

By: Peter Svensson
STILL MUCH CHEAPER THAN IPAD. Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire tablet initially costs $201.70. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle Fire tablet, which started shipping this week, costs $201.70 to make, a research firm said Friday. That’s $2.70 more than Amazon charges for it.

Posted: November 19th, 2011 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Globe Telecom, Americatel introduce ZeroUnlimited Philippines

Americatel Corporation in partnership with Globe Telecom launches ZERO11 wireless™ service plan ZeroUnlimited Philippines – the first wireless plan with unlimited domestic and international calling to the Philippines.

Posted: November 18th, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

PayPal lets Facebook friends send cash

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Online financial transactions powerhouse PayPal released an application on Thursday that lets friends send one another cash at leading social network Facebook.

Posted: November 18th, 2011 in Infotech,Latest Technology Stories,Social Networking | Read More »

Samsung to release modified tablet in Germany

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had modified the design of its newest tablet PC to bypass a sales ban in Germany and would start selling it there as early as this week.

Posted: November 17th, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Manned spacecraft docks to the space station

A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on Wednesday successfully docked to the International Space Station.

Posted: November 16th, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facebook users get graphic images in spam attack

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Facebook said Tuesday that a “coordinated spam attack” was responsible for graphic images appearing in the news feeds of some members of the world’s largest social network.

Posted: November 16th, 2011 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Twitter opens window into user activities

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Twitter on Monday finished adding features that let users see who likes their posts and what the people they follow are doing at the popular microblogging network.

Posted: November 15th, 2011 in Headlines,Infotech,Latest Technology Stories,Social Networking | Read More »

Diaspora social network co-founder dead at 22

Ilya Zhitomirskiy PHOTO taken from diasp.org

A 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-themed online social network Diaspora died during the weekend, the San Francisco coroner confirmed on Monday.

Posted: November 15th, 2011 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Smartphones: The new security battlefront

By: Charles E. Buban

With worldwide sales of smartphones expected to exceed 420 million units by the end of this year—accounting for almost 28 percent of the entire global mobile phone purchases—expect cases of malicious software infection and exploitation to also rise.

Posted: November 13th, 2011 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

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