Facebook acquires contact importer Octazen Solutions


Octazen Solutions is a two employees startup company in Malaysia developing a contact importer software that allow sites like Facebook to grow exponentially in users. A feature like Friend Find where a registered user, by simply entering his email address and password, will be able to send an invite to his entire contact list. No wonder that Facebook has more than 400 million users where 250 million added in the last year alone.
Last week, Facebook acquired Octazen Solutions. This “talent acquisition” as described on GigaOM, means that Octazen engineers are going to shutdown their business operations to join Facebook as it says on the company’s website. Read More »


Nokia and Intel join forces against Google Android


Nokia’s latest mobile operating system Maemo, launched beginning of October in N900 handset didn’t turn out as expected. At the same time, the processor giant Intel is still waiting for the best opportunity to enter the mobile world. The cooperation between Nokia and Intel has been rumored for a while in the industry and in blogs and finally it is announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo

This is the new formula that Nokia and Intel put in place to fight Google Android. Watch the video below to check the different point of views from both partners regarding this cooperation.