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Google’s launch of Buzz on Tuesday, widely seen as an attempt to outdo Facebook, succeeded all right — in the way it ran roughshod over users’ privacy. The sheer volume of complaints over this issue forced Google to tweak privacy controls for Buzz users. Why is it that while Google was building Buzz, it didn’t […]

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MWC 2010: Symbian reveals fully open-source S^3 buildV3.co.ukThe Symbian Foundation has officially announced Symbian^3, the first build of the smartphone platform to be fully open source, and said it is on track to …MWC: Symbian^3 Debuts and is Open Source AlreadyI4U
Popular smartphone Symbian OS goes open sourcemydigitalfc.comSymbian^3 drops at MWC and is open sourceSlashGear (blog)DeviceMAG -eWeek -Telappliant […]

By Martin RegtienContributing Writer, RealTechNews Sometimes the real surprising things in life come in small packages.  Particularly when they combine innovation, usefulness and amazing value for money. I’m talking about the Norhtec Gecko Edubook.  This is a netbook aimed at a specific market: the same market as the OLPC which aims to bring a laptop to every […]

As smart phones increasingly appear alike, with high-end models mostly taking their cues from Apple Inc.’s iPhone, more and more it’s the software they run that makes a difference.
A growing number of operating systems are jostling for the attention of phone buyers and manufacturers. The winners will determine what our phones can do, which Web […]

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MeeGo: Nokia & Intel Together To Build Linux Based Open Source Operating SystemTech Techies (blog)Like the parent Operating Systems, MeeGo too will be open source and obviously, Linux based. MeeGo will support ARM architecture and Intel's own Atom …Nokia and Intel announce open source smartphone platform - MeeGoTech Jackal
MWC 2010: Nokia blending Maemo with […]

U.S. video game retail sales dropped 13 percent in January, another down month for the industry after a difficult 2009.
In all, Americans spent nearly $1.2 billion on video game systems, software and accessories during the month, market researcher NPD Group said Thursday.
Software sales fell 12 percent from the same month a year earlier, to $597.9 […]

By Michael SantoEditor-in-Chief, RealTechNews 4iThumbs has released a tactile keyboard overlay that fits on top of your iPhone screen. It provides tactile feedback to those of us who, despite our best efforts, just can’t get typing on a touch screen down as much as we might something with a QWERTY keyboard that we can feel. I’ve […]

Sponsors have a new name for the Vancouver Olympics: the Social Games.
More consumer eyeballs will be on computer and mobile phone screens during the Winter Olympics than on TV screens. Coca-Cola says that while 100 million saw its Super Bowl ads air once, online interactions with the ads now number more than 500 million. The […]

Google Inc. wants the digital rights to millions of books badly enough that it’s willing to take on the U.S. Department of Justice in a court battle over whether the Internet search leader’s ambitions would break antitrust and copyright laws.
The stage for the showdown was set Thursday with a Google court filing that defended the […]