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Nokia profits take a big hit

Having once dominated the global cell phone market, Nokia Corp on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of €1.07 billion (

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Apple rumour mill turning over next-generation graphics

Now that several months have passed since the release of Apple’s iPhone 4S, the rumour mill has started turning once again as techies everywhere begin to speculate about what’s coming next from Cupertino. If the rumours are true, iPad and iPhone users can expect a boost in graphics that would see next generation models with 20 times better graphic power than the models currently on the market. The boost, according to according to enthusiast site Appleinsider , would come to new devices thanks to Imagination Technologies, who launched its PowerVR Series6 GPU core chip family at CES this week. The new chip has been touted as providing better performance than the current generation, and “enables Imagination’s partners to deliver amazing user experiences in devices from innovative ‘natural’ user interfaces to ultra-realistic gaming, as well as enabling new applications never before thought of from advanced content creation and image processing to sophisticated augmented reality and environment-aware solutions,” Imagination said in a press release. Imagination GPUs are already built into Apple’s central processing units on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV – including the A5 chip inside the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, as well as the A4 chip inside the iPhone 4 and first generation iPad

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Consumers excited and confused by Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwiches for everyone; at least for UK consumers in the market for the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The hotly anticipated device hit shelves in the UK yesterday, and will be available in other markets around the world by the end of the month. Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich software is the biggest selling point for the smartphone. The multi-platform OS release completely redesigns the Android user interface and offers a wide range of new features – including Android Beam, a NFC-driven application for exchanging content, and facial recognition to unlock the phone. Many existing Android users are wondering when or if their smartphones will get the new software, but manufacturers have been vague about the roll out and it’s unclear what devices will benefit and when it will happen. The uncertainty about which devices will get Ice Cream Sandwich is part of the larger market confusion that surrounds the rapid evolution of the Android operating system. In the three years since the Google OS has been on the market, there have been dozens of hardware options for Android phones, six major software releases excluding Ice Cream Sandwich, as well as several minor updates.

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WhatsApp sends a billion messages

Popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has sent more than a billion messages, the company has announced. “That’s 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a minute and 11,547 messages a second,” WhatsApp said in an official blog post . The popular messaging service lets users send messages to one another for free, working across smartphone platforms as well as internationally. While WhatsApp was by no means the first free messaging service on the market – BlackBerry’s popular messenger BBM has been around for years, and remains a major draw for consumers – WhatsApp gives users the ability to communicate between different devices, something which BBM and the newly launched iMessage can’t do. Brainchild of two ex-Yahoo! employees Jan Koum and Brian Acton, WhatsApp secured a rumoured $8 million (

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Press conference sparks rumours of Amazon tablet

Amazon is rumoured to be announcing a new tablet this week at a press conference scheduled for Wednesday in New York. Speculation about an Amazon tablet has been growing for months, reigniting this week when word broke about Wednesday’s press conference. Analysts speculate the Amazon tablet will be a revamped version of the existing Kindle e-reader. It will be priced cheaper, however, undercutting Apple by selling its tablet for $250, but, similar to the iPad, will operate by touchscreen. Unlike other competitors, Amazon is well positioned to take on Apple’s stronghold on the market because of its online store, which makes books, movies and music available to users at the touch of a button. While the Amazon tablet is expected to be a simpler tablet than the iPad, it could offer consumers the features they want most at a lower price

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Press conference sparks rumours of Amazon tablet

Amazon is rumoured to be announcing a new tablet this week at a press conference scheduled for Wednesday in New York. Speculation about an Amazon tablet has been growing for months, reigniting this week when word broke about Wednesday’s press conference. Analysts speculate the Amazon tablet will be a revamped version of the existing Kindle e-reader. It will be priced cheaper, however, undercutting Apple by selling its tablet for $250, but, similar to the iPad, will operate by touchscreen. Unlike other competitors, Amazon is well positioned to take on Apple’s stronghold on the market because of its online store, which makes books, movies and music available to users at the touch of a button. While the Amazon tablet is expected to be a simpler tablet than the iPad, it could offer consumers the features they want most at a lower price. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps told the New York Times : “The No 1 thing consumers do on tablets is email. The No 2 thing is look up stuff on the web.

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First UK art show for Instagram

‘My World Shared’ is the UK’s first art exhibition for Instagram photos, organised by Instagrammers London ( @IGersLondon ), a group of iPhone-equipped photography enthusiasts. Instagram has amassed more than seven million users in just under a year of existence and recently announced that over 150 million photos have been shared on its network. The app’s also just released a major update, v2.0, adding real-time filtering and other features. Instagrammers London is a group of photographers who love using the app and its filters to create images of the capital. They regularly organise photo walks and other social events based around the idea of Instagram photography, but decided to take it one step further and put together an exhibition of their work. “Earlier this year, a few of Instagrammers who live in and around London organised their first Instameet, a ‘real-life’ meetup for avid Instagram users. Following that first Instameet, helped to grow by Instagramers.com (a worldwide network of avid Instagrammers), many other meetups were organised, where the idea of having an Exhibition was born,” the exhibition website says .

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Get Ready for ad:tech London 2011

It’s never too early to start thinking about ad:tech London 2011, which is taking place on September 21-22 at the National Hall, Olympia! The show will be here before you know it, and you want to make your plans early to take advantage of the best that the event has to offer. Many people are speculating that the market is right for London to become Europe’s “Silicon Valley,” and with the digital world going global, it’s important for digital marketers, advertisers and other experts to become familiar with the European market.

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Search for Expired Traffic, Unveiled by PCNames.coms

PCNames.com, has premiered the first version of an expired traffic search, designed to rank all domains scheduled to come back on the market within a week, according to how much traffic they might have.

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Search Engine Raises $10,000 for Doctors Without Borders Campaign

Shopping search engine, TheFind, Inc., has raised over $10,000 for charitable campaign, Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian aid organization.

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