The quest of mobile phone companies to develop more GPS-enabled handsets might even benefit different social networking Web sites. According to Reuters, global positioning chips will evolve from simply giving directions to locating friends and even meet new people।

Based on a market research, 25% of mobile phones in 2010 will have a built-in GPS। However, some experts remain pessimistic about the seamless integration of mobile phone and GPS in the immediate future.

Combined with mobile Internet access, GPS (global positioning system) is seen in the industry as adding a new dimension to social networking that could also have implications for the media business

Once people can physically find those they want to more easily -- as long as those others want to be found -- it can enhance the establishment of growing Internet social networks such as News Corp.'s MySpace site.

The business world will never ever underestimate the power of blogs again. The recent "mistake" of Engadget about delayed launch of iPhone knocked $4 billion off Apple's market capitalization. When the gadget blog corrected its post, Apple's stock recovered some of its losses।

I know the much revered Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006, can send market crashing with just a simple comment। I never realized a 96-word post from a powerful blog can easily stir even the financial markets.

From Engadget:

This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed all the way back to January। Of 2008. The latest WWDC Leopard beta will still be handed out, but it looks like Apple-quality takes time, and we're sure Jobs would remind everyone that it's not always about "writing a check", but just how much time are these two products really going to take?

The lesson is simple: follow Spider-Man's dictum i।e। with great power comes great responsibility!

Via TechCrunch

Sony have announced an impressive looking device called the T650i, a phone that hints at the styling of the recent W880i and the K810i, but that is clearly a very attractive model in its own right। Available in a choice of Midnight Blue or Glowing Green it has a stainless steel body that should give the LG Shine a run for its money.


The dinky little metal buttons seem to be a feature of new Sony Ericssons these days, and though I have to admit I didn’t like the look of them when viewing them on screen, having seen the W880i and the K550i in the flesh, they are very smart phones, and the buttons press with a satisfying click!


The T650i is only 12।5mm thick, and pretty light at 95mm, especially for a phone with a metal casing, but punches above its weight with a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, a front end video call camera, MP3 player, FM radio, 256,000 colour display and it’s 3G as well.

Expect the Sony Ericsson T650i to arrive in the autumn of this year।