Archive for January, 2010


Microsoft, HP and the “Slate PC”

January 8th, 2010
 

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At CES,  Steve Ballmer presented a tablet built by Hewlett Packard and powered by the Windows 7 O.S. . The device was referred to by the name of  “Slate PC” (according to VB) and although there is no proof of that yet rumors have it that it will have multi-touch capabilities.

There is no date for it’s release yet, but with Apple coming up with their Tablet pretty soon(most probably in March) HP should hurry up.

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The Best of Nimbuzz

January 8th, 2010
 

Best of Nimbuzz

I’s Friday! Which means a quick trip around the world to check out the best from the Nimbuzz local blogs this week:

See the titles after the JUMP:

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Facebook surpasses 100M visitors in US

January 8th, 2010
 

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Going through my RSS reader today, I discovered that Facebook surpassed the 100 million visitors milestone in the US. As Brian Solis points out in his post, this is a great achievement,  reached by select Web properties including Google Sites, Yahoo! Sites, and Microsoft Sites.

According to the comScore data Facebook accounts for 5.5% of all time spent online in the U.S.  With 350 million active users world wide and 175 million active every day there is no doubt that Facebook has redefined the way we interact with each other and the way we make new friends/acquaintances. For most users the social network is not yet another way to spend some time online but rather a necessity to be updated with the latest news, see the latest photos and chat with their friends.

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Nimbuzz wins Nokia’s “Must Have Social Networking app of the year” Ovi award!

January 7th, 2010
 

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We are really excited to let you know that Nimbuzz won the “Must Have Social Networking app of the year” award in the “OVI Daily App” awards!

This is a very important achievement for us and a great recognition from all the OVI users! Thank you all for voting and believing in us.

We and all the OVI users recommend you to download Nimbuzz on your mobile :D   to enjoy the best Social Networking experience you can get on your Nokia device!!

Nimbuzz Poll results: 76% use Nimbuzz mobile

January 6th, 2010
 

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Results are in from the latest Nimbuzz blog poll (see question and results above). Thank you for your time and for your votes!

We are really happy to see that 76% are using Nimbuzz on their mobile phones, and since we support more than 1000 models this comes as a great reward for all our efforts .  For those who don’t know here is the list of the mobile operating systems we currently support: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Java and Windows Mobile.

Check if you mobile phone is currently supported here and you can download Nimbuzz on your mobile here.

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Nexus One – the long awaited Google phone

January 5th, 2010
 

nexus one - google phone

Everybody seems to be pretty hyped about the new “Google phone” , Nexus One, and while most of the users salute the initiative and of course consider general competition  a great thing , some of the most relevant IT blogs around are questioning the effect of the new Android powered phone among the other mobile manufactures.  Whether this new phone will alienate some of the competitors I guess we will discover in the following months .

Let’s see what can we expect from it! Android influencers tell us the new mobile phone brings its A Game and here are just a few things the Nexus One is good at:

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