Google’s Nexus One: $174.15 To Manufacture. No Multitouch.

American company, iSuppli, took an inside look at the Nexus One phone from Google, manufactured by HTC. It turns out that the price for all parts accumulate to $174.15. The most expensive part is the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm which apparently accounts for around $31. The 3.7″ AMOLED screen from Samsung is estimated at … Read more →

Production Of New iPhone Has Begun

According to Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review.com, Foxconn has started production of the new iPhone. Foxconn already produces several products from Apple in its factories. Eldar released this information on his Twitter profile recently, saying that: Foxconn received order for next generation iphone He doesn’t yet know the specifications on this new iPhone but he claims … Read more →

New Trojan Horse Could Take Your Internet Connection Hostage

The antivirus experts at CA have stumbled upon a new trojan horse in the “ransomware” category. That’s the category for software that will demand a ransom, as the name implies. This Russian trojan horse appears to be a download manager called “uFast Download Manager”. Once you launch it, a message will inform you that you’ve … Read more →

Apple Makes More Money On Cellphones Than Nokia & I’m Giving Up On My iPhone!

Apple has taken over Nokia, when looking at profit by selling cellphones, according to a recent study by Strategy Analytics. With operating profits in the third quarter of $1.6 billion (estimated by Strategy Analytics), they made more money by Nokia with $1.1 billion. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones during the third quarter (July-September), generating sales … Read more →

“Unfriend” – Word Of The Year 2009

“Unfriend”. One of the new buzz words in 2009, thanks to the social media explosion. We all know what it means to “google it”. It means to go online and search for something (on Google, since I don’t think it’s possible to “google something” on Bing…). For Twitter users, “unfollow” has also grown to be … Read more →

Switzerland Says “No Thanks, We’ll Sue You” To Google Street View

Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →

Facebook Coming To A PlayStation 3 Near You

Sony just confirmed that Facebook is coming for the PlayStation 3, after several pictures revealed the social network on a PS3 a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter is already scheduled to be released for Xbox 360 in a software update November 17th. There’s still no news about when Facebook for PlayStation 3 will be … Read more →