Information Technology World

MUMBAI,INDIA: Reliance Communications, India’s largest and only nationwide operator offering both GSM and CDMA mobile services, today announced the launch of its trendy new VAS application – Socially, made available through its data portal RWorld. Acccording to a release the new application is designed to enable users to follow the recent activity of friends and to update their status on different social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn through a single client.   Socially also shows up-to-date social information of the caller during an incoming call and collates significant events across social networks and pushes them as alerts on select smartphones supporting the application, enabling users to have better conversations. Krishna Durbha, Head – VAS, Reliance Communications, said, “An address book is at the core of mobile usage. In it a user stores all the critical people he or she networks with, of which one application is making voice calls &SMS. No

SAN FRANCISCO, US: Software giant Microsoft is to launch its own mobile phones in the US later this year as it aims to challenge the growing smartphone dominance of its main rivals Apple and Google, the technology blog Gizmodo reported Friday. The phones will be made available in July exclusively on Verizon, the largest cellphone carrier in the US, and will be aimed at heavy users of social networks, said the report, which featured what it said were leaked images from the phones' marketing campaign.  The two phones are codenamed "Pink" and "Pure", and will be manufactured for the software giant by Sharp, the report said.  The report came after Microsoft last month unveiled a new mobile operating system that was widely praised by technology pundits.  Microsoft used to enjoy a leading position in the smartphone arena but has seen its position severely eroded by Apple's iPhone, by the Blackberry and by numerous devices running Google'