HTC aims to sell 8.5mn phones in Q4

HTC aims to sell 8.5mn phones in Q4HTC soon will be offering six new smartphones in the latter half of the year indicating a boost in sales upto 8.5 million, as reported by Chinese-language Commercial Times.

It was further stated that the devices will come for the U. S. and Europe markets. Precisely speaking the industry sources claims that HTC will be releasing the HTC Vision in Europe later in the year (possibly October), which is an Android based device that is powered by dual 1.2GHz processors.

This is expected to come with another offering based on Windows Phone 7, named "Mondrain."

Android market witnesses 1 billionth download

Android market witnesses 1 billionth downloadAndroid Market has attained 1 billion downloads in just two years of its launch, reports AndroLib.

This when compared to Apple come has more than 5 billion apps downloads since the store came up in 2007.

Google states that around 160,000 Android-based devices are being downloaded on a regular basis and are being activated daily, and similarly the Android Market continues to surge its path with 100,000 apps available.

Infosys bans employees to bitch about Facebook

Infosys bans employees to bitch about FacebookAccording to the reports of Business Standard, comes the latest social media work policy designed for one of the India's top IT companies Infosys.

This policy will keep a tab on the leakage of sensitive information on open platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and at the same time will see to it that none of the employees vent their grievances on this platform.

Hibuddy, a social networking option from Indiatimes

Hibuddy, a social networking option from IndiatimesHibuddy, a voice social networking and blogging service for mobile users comes from the Indiatimes platform.

It was further stated that the service comes in handy for the splurging mobile web users in India. One needs to call 58888199 in order to activate the service which means people can easily be able to connect via the service.

This service allows people to connect to other users over voice blog and at the same time come out with their verbal talents. Users who wish to go with this patterns aims to make it a C2C continuum.

Lava’s new handsets B2 and B5 hits the Indian market with Alpha Keypad

Lava-B5Lava International, a mobile manufacturer launches its two new handsets B2 and B5 with Alpha Keypad in the Indian market.

The handsets are first of their own kinds, different from QWERTY keypad. Lava becomes the first mobile manufacturer of Alpha Keypad, in this keypad keys are arranged in the ABCD alphabetical order.

Company believes that Alpha keypad will make messaging and emailing better and easy.

Despite of sharp rise in profits Google fails to touch its expectation

GoogleIn the latest quarterly report, the internet giant Google has encountered a sharp rise in its revenue and profits but even after that rise it has failed to reach at its previously estimated figures.

The net profit of the firm for the three months till June has been recorded 1.84 billion dollars, which is up by 0.36 billion dollars as compared to the same period of a year ago.

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