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Apple's new A8 processor will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, according to sources in Taiwanese TechNews. Samsung would so be left out of orders for the production of processors for Apple.

Facebook has announced that they have reached a final agreement on the purchase of WhatsApp, a popular system for instant messaging via smartphone, for enormous figure of $16 billion in cash and stock (4 billion in cash and 12 billion in Facebook's stock). Additional three billion of US dollars in Facebook's shares will be offered to the founders of WhatsApp during the next four years after finalizing the contract.

If you have been into gaming for a long (VERY long) time you might remember two games that kicked off the first person shooter craze; Doom and Castle Wolfenstein. Between these two games a genre and gaming style was kicked off. Both games have also enjoyed success with different releases as graphics technology and other development tools have improved over the years although we have seen more from the Doom horde than we have from the mutants at the Castle.

According to information acquired by the website N4BB latest Blackberry that is being developed under the code name of Jakarta will belong to the low end devices. N4BB has released specifications for a future phone that they claim to be official. According to them, the BlackBerry Jakarta has a 5 inch qHD screen with a resolution of 540x960 pixels, 1.5 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal memory and is powered by a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz.