Hotmail co-founder launches free SMS service

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.

Online financial transactions powerhouse PayPal released an application on Thursday that lets friends send one another cash at leading social network Facebook.
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.
A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on Wednesday successfully docked to the International Space Station.

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.

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.

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