Samsung has announced that the Samsung App store just passed 1 million downloads. At the moment there are just over 200 apps in the store which isn’t really anything when compared to the likes of the Apple store, but when 200 apps have achieved over a million downloads, that’s quite impressive. Also note that we are talking about TV’s downloading the apps here. [Read more…]

YouTube has added a new feature today that allows you to skip past the TrueView ads that show on some content.

This may seem a little odd and you might expect the advertisers to hate this, but it’s actually the opposite as advertisers at the moment are all for it. Basically, when you start viewing a video that has an ad playing before it, you have a countdown timer that counts from 5 to zero. Once at zero you can click to skip the ad, or not click to view it. [Read more…]

Opera has announced in a unique way that it has now reached 150 million users. The announcement is available on an interactive inbox when you visit the Opera website. The announcement forms one of the emails up at the top of the list (you can also read the other messages if you wish).

Looking back towards the beginning of the 2 quarter of this year, Opera announced that it had reached the 100 million users stage, so adding another 50 million in 7 months isn’t bad at all. [Read more…]

Google has launched Google Earth 6. New features that can be found in version 6 include 3D trees that give Google Earth an even more realistic look.

As well as introducing 3D trees in Google Earth, the new version also brings the ability to more easily browse through historical imagery. [Read more…]

PCWorld is reporting today that the Symbian Foundation will be taking the Symbian mobile operating system off line on December 17th. After that, the only way to get a copy of the software will be to pay to have a physical media version shipped. Full details of that process will be detailed on the Symbian website found here. [Read more…]

An EU report indicates that the European governments are in danger of missing targets for fast broadband roll out. The target is that every European will have broadband access by 2013.

More than a quarter of citizens now have access to broadband, but the report indicates that things are not moving as quickly as they should be.

“Fast broadband is digital oxygen, essential for Europe’s prosperity and well-being. Take up and available speeds are improving, but we need to do more to reach our very fast broadband targets,” said
Neelie Kroes, Commission vice-president for the digital agenda.

“In particular, we need urgent agreement on our proposal to ensure radio spectrum is available for mobile broadband, for which demand is growing very fast.”

The full report is available over here.

Via: TGDaily

Apple [AAPL] is growing at a rapid pace, so much so that Steve Jobs has commented that the Cupertino HQ is bursting at the seams…

“we now occupy 57 buildings in Cupertino and our campus is bursting at the seams. These offices will give us more space for our employees as we continue to grow.”

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Google [GOOG] is about to launch some Google Chrome OS netbooks, perhaps in December but more than likely in the early months of 2011.

By digging around, TechCrunch managed to find some hints about the internal code names for netbooks being tested. The names “Mario” and “Andretti” both appear multiples of times, and even more so from October onwards, in bug reports posted on the Internet. [Read more…]

Earlier this week rumours indicated that Nintendo would be returning to CES in 2011 after a break of sixteen years.

This was great news for Nintendo fans who had missed the company for all those years. However, the Consumer Electronics Association (CES) has actually released a press release confirming that Nintendo will actually not be showing up early next year with a display. [Read more…]

The Google Chrome OS release date has been set at “this year” for a while now, but with the end of the year getting close, you might be wondering if it will actually launch.

To add to this confusion, Eric Schmidt recently said that it will be available in the next few months. TechCrunch questioned this by asking “will it still be this year” with the answer coming back as “yep!”. [Read more…]

Virgin Media is looking at options to roll out public WiFi across the UK to ease the burden placed on mobile phone networks. In recent years, perhaps since the launch of the iPhone, mobile phone networks have had to cope with far more data usage than ever before. With Twitter, Facebook and other popular websites being accessed on the go, the burden isn’t going to lower any time soon.

What Virgin Media plans to do is launch WiFi in those locations where data might not be at its best. The system will work by installing a wireless router in locations near the Virgin Media green boxes. These will allow users to connect right up to the cable network for broadband access at speeds up to 5MBps. [Read more…]

Back in 2007, Dell had more than 800 creative agencies around the world working on the Dell brand. This created a number of problems such as there being more than 15 different typefaces for Dell in the English language as well as a number of slightly different logos.

With that in mind, Dell is now moving to a single logo design (pictured below) that will be used across all Dell products. The colour of it isn’t just blue, it’s actually called Dell Blue and isn’t available in any colour book. [Read more…]