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| Yolo Is Intel's First Smartphone for Africa | | Chip maker Intel and mobile operator Safaricom have announced the Yolo, the first smartphone for the African market with an Intel processor. Intel claims the Android device is aimed for "cost-conscious and first-time buyers in Kenya," but its specifications aren't as shabby as that characterization might imply. It's powered by the Intel Atom Z2420 processor which can reach speeds of up to 1.2GHz.
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| HTC Launches Cheap Desire U in China and Taiwan | | HTC has launched a new low-end, budget-friendly smartphone in China and Taiwan: the HTC Desire U. The device has a 4-inch, 800x480 pixel screen, a single-core 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of memory storage (further expandable via microSD memory cards) and a 5-megapixel camera. It also comes with Beats Audio. It supports Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth 4.0, and is powered by Android 4.0.
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| Hands On With Twitter's Social Video App, Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter launched Vine on Thursday — an app that lets you share 6-second video clips. Currently iOS-only, the stop-motion videos can include as many scenes as you can fit in. Video stops and starts when you press on your device’s screen. Your finished product can then be shared just on Vine, or with friends on Twitter or — in theory — Facebook. Still in its infancy, the service isn’t without drawbacks.
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| Facebook Cuts Down Twitter's Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has blocked Twitter’s new Vine app from being able to find your Facebook friends on the service. The app launched this morning, and previously offered users a way to see which of their Twitter and Facebook friends were also using the service, in addition to contacts stored in their phone.
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| Belkin Acquires Linksys From Cisco | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:27 PM | Christina Warren |
| Belkin announced Thursday that it is acquiring Cisco's Home Networking Business Unit, including the Linksys brand, current products and employees. The financial details of the deal — which officially take Cisco out of the consumer business — weren't disclosed. With Linksys and Belkin under the same roof, Belkin says it will account for 30% of the U.S. retail home and small business networking market.
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| Mosaic, First Real Web Browser, Turns 20 | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:01 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The web as you experience it — with pretty pictures, in a browser, with back and forward buttons — emerged 20 years ago. On Jan. 23, 1993, programmer Marc Andreessen released Mosaic, the web browser credited with making the Internet accessible for the general public. While not the first graphical web browser, it was the most popular one of its time and still the model for today's browsers.
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| How to Use Twitter's Vine to Create and Share Videos | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:44 PM | Emily Price |
| What could you show the world in six seconds? That’s the idea behind Vine, a service introduced Thursday that allows you to create and share looping videos. Currently only available for iOS, Vines are created by pressing and holding your finger down on the screen of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
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| Google Says It Always Requires Warrants for User Email and Cloud Data | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:01 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud, Wired reported. The company's insistence in asking for a warrant is seemingly against current law.
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| Is This Samsung's Answer to the iPad Mini? | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:56 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung will announce a new Android tablet, the Galaxy Note 8, at a mobile trade show next month, a company executive revealed to reporters earlier this week. But the unveiling has come a little early, if these photos from an Italian technology site are to be believed.
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