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Big Tech's Day of Reckoning: What the Meta and Google Verdicts Really Mean

In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
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Microsoft's new Nokia 215 is an internet ready phone available for $29

Please click on image to expand. The Nokia 215 is an internet ready phone with a battery that can last up to 29 days. The phone has been produced by Microsoft and is a Nokia enabled internet ready feature phone. The target market for the phone will be parts of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, places that don't have regular electricity. The Phone's apps would include built-in Facebook messenger, Twitter and a host of other Apps. These apps will not really need a 3G connection to be able to work. The phone's price is set at $29 and will be something affordable in their target market. The phone is also robust and stead and built to withstand a great deal of physical torture that comes with difficult terrains. The phone is good for first-time phone buyers as well as a secondary phone as the need might arise. It will be made available during the first quarter of 2015 and will come in single SIM and dual SIM versions. 
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Twitter for Nokia now available

Nokia is the most used mobile platform in the world and is now offering a native Twitter experience for all Nokia Series 40 phones. Series 40 is a software and UI platform used in all Nokia mid-level and some luxury phones. It is the most widely used mobile platform in the world with hundreds of millions of devices running on series 40. With the company announcing in 2012 that 1.5 billion S40 devices have been sold worldwide. So if you own a Nokia phone and till now did not have a Twitter native app for your Twitter enjoyment, well here it comes you can head over to the OVI store of Nokia and get the Official Twitter App for your Nokia phone.  The Official Twitter App for Nokia allows you to read all of your Tweets connect with others and do all the things on Twitter that you normally do on your PC. The Twitter phone experience is something that Nokia phone users were denied till now. Once you land on the App page you can use the Nokia phone selector to see if your device is compatible...
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Siri: "What is the best smartphone ever?"

Image Credit: Cult of Mac Apple has fixed an issue with Siri, when Siri was asked which is the best SmartPhone ever. The reply was Nokia Lumia 900 - seems that Apple was not happy with the answer.The problem stemmed from Siri's heavy reliance on Wolfram Alpha, 25 percent of all queries returned by Siri are based on Wolfram Alpha. Apple has since fixed the issue and now Siri has a different answer. If you did search Wolfram Alpha independently you will find that Nokia Lumia 900 is recommended as the best. Apple has rushed to fix the issue as the Nokia Lumia is a decent handset but definitely not the best Smartphone ever. There is also a video doing the rounds showing Siri's answer to the best smartphone ever. After the fix by Apple is you ask Siri the same question, You'll now be told that the answer is the iPhone 4S, with responses like "the one you're holding" and "you're kidding, right?" Source: TheVerge An original post by Sociolatte
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Nokia Launches Cheapest Dual-SIM Phone Ever

Image Credit: Getty Images It seems all mobile phone manufactures are heading the way of offering cheap phones. We covered Apple' s plan to launch a whole new cheaper iPhone 4 in emerging markets and now Nokia is taking the competition to a whole new level. Inspired by the local markets in Africa and Asia where the need of the hour is not high end Apps but the ability to use dual-sim phones. The reason for this is because alot of people in these countries prefer using prepaid sin cards rather that the postpaid which is costlier and can run into heavy bills. On the other hand a prepaid SIM can be used for as long as you need it and when you find another phone company offering lower tariff plans the old SIM can be ditched for a new one and with number portability you still retain your old number.   Nokia will be launching the 101 and the 100 in Q3 and Q4 of 2012 respectively. The Nokia 101 will cost approx $35 and the 100 will cost approx $29.  Check out the features of the phones be...
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Nokia N8 Social Features

The announcment of the Nokia N8 comes with a bevy of features. One of which had to be social networking. The N8 scoail application lets you pull updates from Twitter and facebook into a single application. You would also be able to update your status right from your phone. Add Facebook events to your calendar with a single click. You can also share photos and videos the moment they are captured. Live updates are also shown on your home screen making it easier to stay in touch. The N8 comes with complete social features for Facebook and Twitter it is unclear at the mmoment if any other social sites are going to be added. will update this post if we find out about other social sites. For now we see that the N8 comes with complete social features for Facebook and Twiiter thereby making it esay for N8 users to stay in touch with their contacts live on Facebook and Twitter.   Nokia N8 http://www.nokia.com/n8 first official hands-on demo. Available late summer 2010, the Nokia N8 has a 12 me...
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Apple's complaint against Nokia in the ongoing Apple Nokia War

Nokia had files a complaint against Apple claiming it infringed on it's copyrights. Apple not to be outdone hit back at them saying that Nokia also infringed on Apple's copyrights. Thus ensuring a way between the cell phone giants.  Found on cnet Apple made its request in a  complaint  filed with the International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency that examines issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. In December,  Nokia filed its own complaint  with the USITC in Washington. In it, the Finnish company alleged that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents "in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers" and sought to ban imports of Apple's  iPhone ,  iPod , and MacBook products. Responding to Apple's latest move, Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant  told Bloomberg  that "Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously. Howe...
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Nokia claims Apple are copiers

The Spat between Nokia and Apple has just moved to a new level the International Trade Commission (ITC) in the US. Nokia has said that Apple infringes virtually in all its patents with respect to Mobile phones, Portable music players and computer sold. Nokia is now asking the ITC to do something about it. Nokia has sued Apple in October over 10 patents the said the company had infringed upon. Apple in reply counter sued them over 13 patent infringements and also anti-competitive charges. If Nokia prevails it could be a real dampener for Apple as the US ITC could ask them to stop importing their toys from China. Where all Apple products these days are made. Normally what happens in cases like these is that both companies would come to a compromise and allow each other to use the other's patents to a large extent. Nokia is going ahead with it's complaint even after bing counter sued by Apple saying that the counter suit did not change anything fundamental in it's own course. ...
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