Once again I’d like to congratulate the winners of the previous lucky draw contest. We hope that you’ll like the prize that you’ve won. And for those that didn’t win in the previous contest, no worries as the second round of the lucky draw is here! This time the main prize is not a smartphone, but a tablet that everyone love and want, the Apple iPad 2!

To join the contest, click on the image below and follow the link to click “Like” at the Facebook page and follow the instructions given. You’ll then be given a lucky number, which will let you stand a chance to win an Apple iPad 2. Winners of the lucky draw will be announced on March 16, 2012. (You may participate as many times as you like, as the more lucky draw numbers that you have, the higher the chances of you winning the lucky draw.)

Results of the previous lucky draw contest can be seen here.

While Facebook’s Open Graph might have exposed you as a Belieber way back in September, you couldn’t chat and stream that questionable musical taste to your friends, Turntable.fm style, until now. Listening to tunes on music services that integrate with Facebook’s API — like Spotify and presumably Rdio, amongst others — populates the ticker adjacent to the news feed and the chat overlay with clickable “Listen with” buttons (as seen above). Upon clicking those, you’re slung into a group chat window whereupon you can listen and discuss those beats with your friends. Don’t fret if you can’t see it just yet, as it’ll roll out in the following weeks, but while you wait a link explaining all awaits at the source.

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Sure, we all love having the latest and greatest smartphone from the likes of Samsung, but the power consumption driven by larger displays, LTE, and more use is making it increasingly harder to get through the day. Samsung’s vice president of product innovation, Kevin Packingham, said in an interview with CNET that Korea’s darling has set the lofty goal that smartphones coming out this year last an entire day under average to moderately heavy use.

Samsung’s plans include beefing up batteries, but it also intends to look at improving energy efficiency by tweaking the various radios — LTE, WiFi — to make them a little less greedy. Motorola has already seemingly caught this wave with the RAZR MAXX — a slightly chubbier Motorola RAZR — which is essentially the same set as the RAZR but with enough juice so you can use it instead of spending your day looking for an outlet to charge it.

Unfortunately, things could get sticky as the definition of “moderately heavy use” is a pretty tough thing to pin down. Would you put up with a huskier phone to get you through the day or is a slim set more important?

SOURCE via CNET

Looking for a little more consistent UI experience with your Android devices? Google is looking to make that happen as the folks in Mountain View has revealed that the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich OS will be the first Android software to institute design standards for developers. Android Design is a online repository for the UI guidelines and blueprints for version 4.0, which we learned would unify smartphones and tablets back at Google I/O.

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Do you like Amazon Kindles? Do you like PCs? Do you like documents? Would you like to send documents from your PC to your Kindle? Fantastic, because that’s totally what you can do with Amazon’s new Send to Kindle software. You might wanna take this opportunity to grab a notepad, because it’s sort of complicated: download the program for free, fire up Windows Explorer, find a document, right-click it, and choose Send to Kindle. You can also save documents to download at a later date and synchronize your bookmarks, notes and highlights across all (non-PDF) documents, which is pretty wild, if you think about it. Windows users can dramatically change their lives at the source link below. Mac users will have to wait a little longer.

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How much does it cost to license Microsoft’s latest and greatest mobile OS? A fair bit it seems. While numbers have been bandied around before, this is the first time a per-handset figure was to an internal employee — this time, the portfolio manager for ZTE UK, no less. Pegged at $27 per ZTE smartphone, TrustedReviews managed to get those licensing beans spilled at the glitzy London launch of the company’s first Windows Phone, the ZTE Tania. The fee flies in the face of open-source Android, which requires no price to install on handsets. Microsoft, however, is still keeping an eye on its Google rival, collecting patent licensing fees from several major phone manufacturers. ZTE hasn’t yet commented on the figure.

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If the Ice Cream Sandwich update, bug fixes and piles of apologies from the folks at ASUS just aren’t cutting it and you happen to live in the UK, then we’ve got some good news for you. You are free to take your Transformer Prime back to the shop for a full refund. Don’t expect turn around and pick up that updated TF700T with your haul, though, it won’t be hitting shelves in merry ol’ England till at least June. If you choose to keep your dockable tablet, ASUS will offer an extended warranty of 18 months, just to soothe your panicked mind that wakes you with night terrors about GPS issues and unknown serial numbers.

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