The VUDU update this week will be of interest to those of you who like social networking sites. VUDU will now update your Facebook or Twitter status with your impressions of the movie you’re watching. Your friends with VUDU will also be able to see those updates and join in on the fun by watching the same movie.

It’s a cool way to promote and discover content, but we aren’t sure if it will catch on. The way Boxee does it might make more sense.

If you like the idea and are a VUDU user, then this is good

For those who have been watching LG’s activities, here’s some bit of news from a different part of the world.  LG’s GW620, which arrived a while earlier, is now doing the rounds in Italy in a different name. Known as LG LinkMe, the original LG GW620 has now been launched in Italy.  The smartphone running Android which is giving Italy its first taste of the latest LG innovation, is being sold for €299, which translates to about $405.

LinkMe has been presented before the Italian crowd as a smartphone that has a 3 inch

Seems like everyone is addicted to Facebook now. If you are one of those millions, then you might want to check out what Microsoft has in store for you if you are a Windows Mobile user.

Specifically Facebook app version 1.2. Some of the main feature updates include the ability to “like” a comment, or to add to current comments. Why not go ahead and download Microsoft’s latest app from the marketplace and get more out of Facebook on your phone?

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With Google introducing the Buzz, it is not just the social networking giants that are feeling the heat, even direct competitors like Microsoft are worried. In an attempt to stay avant-garde, Microsoft has announced the Outlook Social Connector which will sync Outlook with LinkedIn initially while Facebook and MySpace will be hooked in later. The Outlook Social Connector will bring social networking into the inbox. The service will be directly comparable with the Google Buzz as Microsoft is not looking to do anything different by the apparent status

We have been hearing a lot about the Zune media player which aims at beating the iPhone. The device that is said to be in the works at Microsoft is now set to arrive and is most likely to be rolled out along with the launch of Windows Mobile 7. The news brings to focus Microsoft’s plan to integrate Zune functionality into its smartphone operating system.

With the arrival of this feature, it is expected that phone makers will be looking at designing their new devices with a tilt toward music and video capabilities. It is

If you are an iPhone or iPod Touch user, this one is for you. The zoomIt from ZoomMediaPlus is an SD card reader has been designed to allow iPhone and iPod Touch users access all iPhone OS 3.0 files on an SD card. And, this means you can access anything inside, including images video and music files. 

Working in tandem with the zoomIt app, zoomIt also lets you catch hold of even PowerPoint, Excel, Word or PDF file types.

What’s more, zoomIt also allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to copy files stored on these

The fast evolving brains at Navigon are keen to improve what exists rather than thinking afresh and that is what is earning a fast repute for the service provider which wants to make GPS navigation a peek out of the window. The news is Navigon has released the 1.5.0 update for its MobileNavigator iPhone GPS app which comes with three special features improving the services sphere furthermore. The Terrain view gets better with a 3D format and so does the Panorama view while there is also an in-app connectivity with Facebook and Twitter.

The

It is something that perfectly fits your pocket and goes on recording videos at will. Ion, the consumer audio electronics manufacturer, is lining up a new pocket video cam, which promises to charm.

Called the Twin Video, the new pocket video cam boasts of front and back cameras. How is this unique, you might ask! The front and back cameras will let you simultaneously record the subject you shoot and also your reaction to it. Tipped as the world’s first video recorder with front and back lenses, the Twin Video lets you have complete

Okay, so we were under the impression that Facebook login credentials were a locally-managed affair, but it looks like almost anything can break when AT&T's involved -- according to CNET, the carrier just fixed "several problems" that had users logging into the wrong Facebook account from their phones. The issue was apparently related to subscriber identification numbers being mistranslated into bad URL session IDs, and AT&T says it's taken some security measures to prevent it from happening again, while Facebook's just shut off the automatic login feature

The iPhone presents some difficulties for developers willing to write applications with push notifications and widgets, due to its lack of multitasking support. However, the device has full push support now, and the Facebook app has been updated accordingly to version 3.1 to offer push notifications and synchronization with your address book contacts.

When the iPhone OS was updated to 3.0, this brought along push notification support and it became a standard feature for most iPhone apps – however, the probably most popular one lacked