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HTC prepared for the Windows Phone 8 platform with their 8X and 8S models. The 8X, a higher end device, which is already sold in the U.S. HTC has now said that the more affordable model 8S won’t be arriving in the U.S. market, at least to the telecom operators. HTC has not given any explanation for this.

After Nokia announced a deal in which they are seeking Linux specialists, many of the "experts" interpreted this as a sure sign that the company might cross over, or at least be planning to switch to Android. However, no matter how much we want to see Lumias running Android it looks like that will not happen.

Say goodbye to boring fluorescent tubes that cuts the nerves in your office with buzzing and flashing. Scientists at Wake Forest University have invented an alternative lighting technology that works on the basis of the electroluminous field of induced polymer (FIPEL), which radiates a "soft" white light instead of yellow and blue hues typical for emitting LEDs. “People often complain that fluorescent lights bother their eyes, and the hum from the fluorescent tubes irritates anyone sitting at a desk underneath them,” says professor of physics and director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials David Carroll.

In the picture above you can see the first mobile phone to receive a text message in history. The message was "Merry Christmas" sent by a computer on the 3rd of December 1992. Neil Papworth from the company Sema Group (now Mavenir Systems) was the sender, using the Vodafone network to transfer it to the mobile Orbitel 901 which was owned by Richard Jarvis, this well known telecommunications company employee. Therefore we can say that today we celebrate the 20th Birthday of SMS (Short Message Service).