The Xperia Play is up for pre-order from Verizon, will ship from 25 May, yours for $199 on contract

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play CDMA will hit Verizon e-shops pretty soon as the telecom has issued an online pre-order page. The Play can be yours for $199 on a two year contract or $499 retail.

The phone will hit stores on 26 May, while pre-ordered devices will be shipping a day early, on 25 May.
Should you want the Play on contract, you’ll have to cash out for a data plan as well.
The Xperia Play has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 512 MB of RAM, 5 MP snapper and, most importantly, slide-out gaming controls and PlayStation-certified badge on its chest. Check out our full review of the thing here. Mind you it’s the regular GSM version.


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Microsoft to buy Nokia rumor… not true

After acquiring Skype just last week for $8.5 billion, you would think that Microsoft is done buying companies? Now there’s a rumor going on over the web the past 48 hours about Microsoft buying Nokia’s phone division.

According to a well-connected Russian blogger, Eldar Murtazin, negotiations are starting between Nokia and Microsoft, and a deal would close by the end of this year. And why would people believe him anyway? Well he forecasted about the Microsoft – Nokia partnership a long time ago. And he recently predicted that Nokia will ditch the Ovi brand which incidentally happened a few days ago. How’s that for mystical connections to Nokia’s world?
Then there’s also the Nokia – Microsoft connection in the form of Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Office division before moving to Nokia in September of last year.
But fortunately for us spectators, Nokia squashed this acquisition rumor out of hand. Mark Squires, Communications Director for Nokia tweeted a short message denying this rumor.

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Is Apple prepping a surprise product announcement for 19 May?

Apple love their secrets and this instance is no different. Although the big cheese, I mean fruit, have yet to confirm anything officially, signs point to Thursday, May 19th as a day to mark down in your calendars.

Why? What has made you put your conspiracy hat on GSM Arena? We’ll sources say somethings afoot and it makes sense to pin it down to the 19th as the start of something, as this marks the Apple Store’s 10th anniversary.
So lets look at the facts:
- Apple Store staff will be putting the tell-tail black “curtains of mystery” as I like to call them, across store fronts to avoid prying eyes.
- From late Saturday through to mid-Sunday, an overnight shift of 10-15 people is expected to attend at each Apple Store.
- These overnight shifts require all employees to lock their cell phones in the main office.
- They will also need to sign an NDA with Apple.
- Staff with a variety of roles will be attending. All visuals staff, a manager, a business team member, some of the Genius team, one back-of-house staff member and some other Apple specialists.
- Apple stores have already received ‘hardware’ to be installed and more will be arriving on Friday or Saturday. All said received items are to be placed under lock and key in each Apple Store until after close on Saturday night.
- Employees have already been required to download a heap of content from Apple corporate, simply labeled ‘training’. What’s more this is a zipped, password protected folder, that won’t be made available to managers, or anyone else, for that matter, until Saturday afternoon.
- Finally Apple retail stores have a compulsory meeting scheduled for Sunday the 22nd of May. Most of them are in the morning, but there are some evening meetings as well.
This is all very cryptic, but what it actually means is anyone’s guess. If you know more than we do about this affair, get in touch! If not, we’ll have to wait until the curtains get pulled back again….

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Hello World!

HELLO WORLD

Most likely an overused blog title but it fits my purpose for putting up this blog. I have been meaning to do so for a long time but just couldn't get the chance to do so, no time.


First of all, let me introduce you to My Technology Island Blog.


I just want to create a blog that is full of techy stuff and update you all with the new technology this days. I want to explore the world of technology.


This Blog will be my story of how I see the world of technology, and as most programmers know, the first words of the first tech book are "Hello World"

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