Leaks of new BlackBerry Messenger have surfaced on the net, and it seemed to also show some form of warning for addiction. Rumor has it that the app’s new iteration, which will run on OS 5.0 and greater, incorporates a function that allows users to use their BBM name as their gamer name, as well as update their status automatically to reflect completed gaming tasks. BBM 6 would also allow for larger chat groups and cross chat. Will the BBM gets it glory days back with this?

SOURCE via BBcommunity

The world’s best company is coming to Malaysia. After four years operating in Singapore, search engine giant Google has finally decided to open a new office in Malaysia as its second in the region.

Google Southeast Asia chief Julian Persaud said Malaysia has one of the “highest percentages of usage of Google’s Web browser, Chrome, in Asia Pacific” together with 17 million Internet users from a population of 27 million. Household broadband penetration in Malaysia now stood at 55.6 per cent surpassing last year’s target of 50 per cent. Read more…

And I have thought that they’d go the iPhone route, but Giorgio Armani has announced a limited Samsung Galaxy S by Giorgio Armani, specially designed for naked guys with six packs, and didn’t shave. Yes, thanks to them, the Galaxy S price just got shot up for no reason at all. Hopefully with the luxurious brand name tagged, they’ll update the Android OS faster than vanilla versions.

SOURCE via Giorgio Armani

Yes, the show at CES is awesome Motorola, but all your products lacked time and price which really upset many people. But finally Motorola has given some dates for us to look forward to.

CEO of Motorola, Sanjay Jha just announced on the company’s earnings call that the Atrix 4G (LTE) for AT&T and 3G Xoom for Verizon will arrive at “the end of February,” while the LTE-enabled Droid Bionic (Verizon CDMA version of Atrix) and LTE Xoom will arrive at “the end of the second quarter” as previously promised.

This seemed to be going along with the Best Buy leak that suggested the Xoom will hit on February 17. Then again, let’s remember that this is the 3G-only version, which means that by the time the LTE version hits the market, the price might be quite scary.

SOURCE via Engadget

This is indeed a wild rumour, but two sites have suggested that a possible Facebook phone will be coming, and very soon. a report from the London-based City A.M. financial newspaper, which says it has learned from unnamed sources that HTC will debut two Facebook-branded phones at Mobile World Congress next month. Details on those are otherwise expectedly light, but the paper says the phones will run a “tweaked version” of Android and sport Facebook’s colors — supposedly, Facebook’s Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos (formerly of Firefox and Google, respectively) are largely responsible for the launch.

Furthermore, BGR also mentioned that it has heard from someone involved in a recent focus group that’s supposedly centred on a Facebook phone. The insider mentioned that the phone (which apparently wasn’t actually referred to as a “Facebook phone”, probably an inside codename atm) would have an always-on GPS service to track where you crap, no or very little local storage which leads to a possible cloud system, a camera (with images stored in the cloud too), a “news ticker-style message notification system” with all messages funneled into one “mass inbox” and, last but not least, some sort of location-aware coupon service that’s described as “Facebook Deals on steroids.”

Of course, Facebook has been denying such venture flat out since months ago when the first rumour surfaced, and they had yet again denied this rumour. But, would you trust your phone to be “A Facebook experience” after all the privacy hu-ha?

[Cityam via BGR]

Nvidia might have the king of DirectX 11 single card, but AMD is not going to let them reign supremacy. Oh no, the red camp is already tinkering with the successor of the HD5970, and though it’s a dual-GPU that takes on the resemblance design, the dimension is not something that resembles its predecessor.

The AMD Radeon HD 6990 seemed to be ready after some long testing, and it should serve as AMD’s 2011 flagship, which has just been shown off at an Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day gathering. If you look at the picture above, and compare the size of the card to the length of the PCI-Express pin, you can imagine how humongous this monster card is. The card is said to be arriving at late of Q1 2011, hopefully in time for Crysis 2.

SOURCE via 4gamer.net

The Windows Phone 7 is indeed a very new and young OS in the mobile world, and indeed being the new kid, there’s bound to be some short comings. But thanks to the hacker community, some of the issues can be resolved in a slightly hardcore manner, while others can be resolved easily, like this one.

The folks at xda-developers have now discovered a method to allow USB internet tethering on HTC’s smattering of Windows Phone 7 handsets. Unfortunately, you’ll need to unlock your device before any of this will work, but the case is definitely different for Dell’s Venue Pro.

For that one, you’ll simply need to modify the .INF file — no unlock required. Hit the links below for the full details, but do bear in mind the fine prints of your carrier’s documents when you sign up for that phone. Not many carriers offer unlimited data, just saying.

SOURCE via xda-developers