Facebook Lite Review: stripped for the next billion users

This week Facebook launches Facebook Lite, a version of their social networking app made for low-speed data networks around the world. This app is aimed at nations with little or severely limited data on smartphone, pushing the line between functionality and operability. This app isn't made for everyone - it's made for those that want to connect in remote areas, and don't mind giving up a few flourishes in an app to do so. Facebook Lite functions very similar to the standard Facebook app - can it keep up?

Google Seeks To Make Phones Smarter With Android M

SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Google’s updated Android mobile software seeks to make the smartphone smarter, while keeping the search titan relevant in a world where people rely on apps on the go.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 introduces co-op campaign and cyber-soldiers

Developer Treyarch promises to modernise the Call of Duty experience with open environments and a ‘specialist’ soldier system for multiplayer


Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – a new graphics engine is set to portray the game’s futuristic setting in considerable detail.

Another Habitable Planet Discovered And It Is Twice As Big As The Earth

Yibada (English Edition): Astronomers are insinuating that mysterious signals, previously described as stellar bursts, are originating from an earth-like planet, the Daily Mail reported. The Gliese 581d, as it is referred to, has conditions that can support life and is twice as big as the Earth. READ MORE

#BlackBerry launches security-focused Leap #touchscreenphone

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK: BlackBerry has unveiled a new touchscreen smartphone aimed squarely at young professionals at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, putting heavy emphasis on the device's privacy and security features.

#Google backs down over #Blogger porn rule change

BBC: Google has changed its mind about forcing sexually explicit blogs on its Blogger platform to become private.

What You Need to Know About Amazon's New Fire Phone

Businessweek.com: It’s official: Amazon.com is in the phone business. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos showed off a black glass rectangle with a rubber frame called the Fire Phone. The device will be sold, starting July 25, through AT&T for $199 with a two-year contract, the same price as other high-end smartphones.

PORTLAND OPENS ITS DOORS TO GOOGLE FIBER, WHICH COULD BE AN EYESORE FOR RESIDENTS

Digitaltrends.com: Portland, Oregon, is one step closer to basking in the glory that is Google-provided gigabit Internet service. On Wednesday, Portland commissioners unanimously approved a 29-page franchise agreement between Google Fiber and the city, which was reached in April. Now it’s up to Google to decide whether bringing Google Fiber to Portland and five surrounding suburbs is a feasible proposition.

New Samsung Galaxy Tab S has a beautiful, bright, crisp screen

FoxNews.com: Samsung is reaching back to its not-so-distant past with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, the newest in its line of tablets. Like its no-longer-available predecessor, the Galaxy Tab 7.7, and unlike any other tablet that's currently on the market, the Tab S will have an AMOLED display.

Amazon to host launch event for 3D-enabled smartphone on June 18

Techspot.com: Amazon on Wednesday issued invitations to a launch event scheduled to take place June 18 in Seattle, the company’s hometown. A promotional video for the event accompanied the invitation and while we aren’t shown exactly what’s on the docket, some of the remarks in the clip (as well as the image above) give us a pretty good indication of what to expect.

iOS 8 supports voice over Wi-Fi, but what about voice over LTE?

Gigaom.COM: Apple is bringing carrier Wi-Fi calling features into iOS 8, letting users make VoIP calls from their dialers. VoLTE calling could just be a short hop away.

Apple iOS 8: 5 Features That Are Still Missing

When it launches this fall, Apple’s iOS 8 will bring a mix of features to iPhones and iPads that match Android in some ways, as well as some that go beyond what Google’s OS. On the catch-up front, there’s predictive typing, widgets (inside Notification Center), more sharing options for content, and the ability to swap out your keyboard for third-party options.

Dreaming of a Google job? You better be a bloke and white

THEREGISTER.CO.UK: Google has published its first public report on the diversity of its workforce, and the web giant admits it has a lot of work to do.

New LG G Pads Hit 7-, 8-, and 10-inch Tablets Space

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LG's G Pad line just tripled in size.

LG has a long track record in the smartphone segment, but its experience in the tablet space is a little more limited. The company announced the Optimus Pad in 2011, followed by the Optimus Pad LTE a little less than a year later.

New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs

(CNN) -- Forget the cloud, and rework your mental image of those mysterious data centers. Sony has reinvented a tool for storing a mind-numbing amount of data:

Nintendo: No plans to bring minigames to smartphones

Nintendo won't be bringing Mario and Luigi minigames to smartphones, after all.

In a statement to Engadget on Tuesday, Nintendo denied an earlier report suggesting that it would offer minigames of its popular franchises on smartphones to promote its own hardware. The company, however, does plan to use "smart devices to promote our products."

BlackBerry 10 update adds picture passwords, message filter

An update to the BlackBerry 10 operating system is now available to owners of BlackBerry Z30, Z10, Q5 and Q10 smartphones.

The 10.2.1 update, which is also available for the Porsche Design P'9982 smartphone, includes a number of enhancements and will be available via mobile carriers from today, subject to the smartphone maker's approval.

Adobe starts subscription for Photoshop and Dreamweaver

Adobe is introducing a subscription model for many of its most popular programs, including Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Wireless spectrum is the key to Dish's $25.5 B bid for Sprint (by CNET.COM)

Why is satellite TV provider Dish Network prepared to take on an enormous amount of debt and a potential bidding war with Japanese company SoftBank for Sprint Nextel? It's all about the spectrum.

USA TODAY NEWS : SimCity sales top 1.1 million

Despite connection problems plaguing the opening days after launch, city-building simulation SimCity has sold more than 1.1 million copies, publisher Electronic Arts announced.