Yahoo axing seven more apps and services as part of streamlining effort

Get ready to say goodbye to another another batch of Yahoo products at the end of this month. As the company continues to streamline and focus its services, March 31st will be the last day of stand-alone existence for Upcoming, Yahoo Deals, Yahoo Kids, Yahoo SMS Alerts, Yahoo Mail and Messages for feature phones.

BlackBerry Wants Investigation Into 'False' Analyst Report on Z10

BlackBerry has asked U.S. and Canadian regulators to investigate what it considers to be a "false and misleading" analyst report about returns of its new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. That report, from Detwiler Fenton, said that "key retail partners have seen a significant increase in Z10 returns to the point where, in several cases, returns are now exceeding sales, a phenomenon we have never seen before."

eBay application for BlackBerry leaves beta, heads to Australia and Europe

eBay and RIM this morning jointly announced that the free eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones is now available through BlackBerry App World in six more countries: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.

The application is also now officially available to BlackBerry smartphone users in North-America after a beta preview period.

The eBay application supports BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS version 4.5 or higher. With the app, users can search, bid, buy and check their eBay buying and selling activity on the go.

The application leverages the BlackBerry Push Service to allow users to be wirelessly notified of the status of eBay listings in real-time. With alerts, eBay buyers can be notified when they have won an item or have been outbid, or if a listing on their Watch List is ending soon.

In addition, eBay sellers can be notified when a sale ends and will be provided with buyer information and the sale price.

EBay expects to generate $1.5 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2010 through its mobile platforms. The availability of the eBay app for BlackBerry smartphones in more countries aims to bring the company to this goal sooner rather than later. Already, eBay claims, over half of eBay’s mobile GMV comes from outside the United States.

Apple OS Drops By 33 Percent In May But iPad Impressions Grow 160 Percent

Mobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its mobile advertising network reaches 83 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that iPad ad requests grew 160 percent from April to May with global Apple ad requests dropping 33 percent in May. Apple OS U.S. ad requests dropped by nearly 14 percent month-over-month after a 8 percent decrease in requests in April.

That being said, the Apple OS is still the leading mobile operating system in Millennial’s network, with a 48 percent share of Smartphone impressions. RIM’s BlackBerry remained the second largest OS on Millennial’s network for the tenth consecutive month with a 3% increase month-over-month and a 19 percent share of impressions. Android’s share rose by 5 percent to a 15 percent share of impressions for the month of May.

Source: TechCrunch

The New Blackberry Storm 2

To all Tech freaks and lovers of the blackberry technology, RIM is out with a new version of blackberry- Storm 2. with the next generation SurePress technology and SureType® technology which provides better typing accuracy and a more tactile feel, you can type on a virtual, full QWERTY keyboard in portrait or landscape mode, touch two areas of the screen at once to select multiple items. It

has wi-fi support, a long lasting battery, fast network connectivity, high camera resolution and a host of other amazing features, this new device is sure going to give you a second thought about the iPhone.