Tag: partnership
Google to slash 4,000 Motorola jobs, focus on high-end smartphones
Google are preparing to cut 20% of Motorola staff following the finalised buyout of the mobile company back in May. When Google first announced it was to be purchasing Motorola back in August, many assumed it would be to take…
Facebook and Twitter to team up
Facebook users will soon be able to update their Twitter feeds directly from their Facebook profile pages. The cross-posting feature was revealed in Facebook's September 2011 update of its Subscribe for Public Figures document. Underneath the heading "Can I update…
Facebook adds in-browser video chat with new Skype partnership
Facebook and Skype have announced a new partnership that will see the pair join forces to bring video chat to the world's largest social network, alongside group chat. Via a downloadable plug-in, users will be able to video call…
Orange and T-Mobile team-up under the "Everything Everywhere" banner
Orange and T-Mobile have announced that they are to team up, in a joint venture that will see both companies working together under the umbrella of the new "Everything Everywhere" banner. Combining their network infrastructures, the two companies will now…
Spinvox teams up with Skype
Spinvox, the voice-to-text service, has been quietly gaining plaudits for a number of years, and they’ve just announced a deal with VoIP service Skype whereby you can get your voicemails as texts.
You’ll be charged 17p per message, plus any SMS charge you’ve got, but depending on how much you’re charged to listen to voicemails and how annoying you find listening to them, you might think it’s worth it.
More netbook competition on its way as Ubuntu embraces ARM processors
A version of Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, will be developed for the ARMv7 processor, Canonical announced last week.
This could bring to market netbooks and other portable devices based on the more energy-efficient ARM processors, and challenge both Intel and AMD.
The Ubuntu Linux netbook version will be officially available from April next year. ARM processors are already used in mobile phones such as the iPhone and G1…
Orange and Nokia get together for music, gaming, mapping, and ads
Nokia continues to form strategic partnerships with other companies as it seeks to push out its mobile services. The latest alliance is a three-year deal with Orange, which will see ten Nokia handsets added to the Orange Signature range, plus the launch of a range of integrated multimedia services…
Google and Apple to work on many more partnerships
Macworld reports that Google and Apple will work together on many more partnerships, according to the CEO of Google, and Apple board member, Eric Schmidt. Possibly fuelled by the knowledge that the iPhone will contain a number of Google applications,…
