The Blu Life Pro with a 5 megapixel, 1080p front-facing camera targets selfie addicts.

For $299 only, you can take selfie that is theoretically better in quality compared to other smartphones.

Business Insider with a chart to show the difference in monetisation between Android and iOS.

For every $1 of developer revenue per download generated on iOS, Android gets$0.19. No wonder developers tend to prefer launching on iOS first.

The Guardian reports that Google is bringing its Street View indoors.

Google has added 16 international airports and 59 train and subway stations to Street View, including a number of British locations.

They include Gatwick Airport and train stations in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, as well as a (nearly) full set of London mainline stations: Paddington, Victoria, King’s Cross, St. Pancras, Charing Cross, Waterloo, London Bridge, Cannon Street, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street.

It was never a matter of whether Google would do this, but simply when it would.

Not a bad week for Windows Phone users.

Windows Phone finally gets Instagram

It’s here. Windows Phone users rejoice.

Instagram messaging?

Om Malik predicts that Instagram will be introducing a messaging system as a new feature.

Waze joins Instagram on Windows Phone

Instagram and Waze on the same day? Definitely a good day for Windows Phone users.

Dropbox’s new look on iOS

The new iOS 7-inspired design is gorgeous.

Your typing pattern can be used to identify you

SC Magazine reports that researchers have developed a way to identify users based on the way they type.

Only 25% of Yahoo staff are willing to dogfood Yahoo Mail

If Yahoo Mail is going to be a competitive product again, the Yahoo employees had better start picking it up.

HTC introduces gold-colored HTC One for the masses

This, coupled with the Galaxy S4 gold edition, should silence the mocking of the gold iPhone 5s.

Apple acquires PrimeSense for $360 million

Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet has confirmed that Apple acquired PrimeSense in deal rumoured to be worth $360 million

18 months of research to switch to e-books ended in a disaster

Fail?

Everybody knows that Amazon’s AWS is the major player in the cloud computing game, but did we stop to consider how big it actually is?

Amazon Is Crushing IBM, Microsoft, And Google In Cloud Computing, Says Report

For the last quarter of this year, Synergy estimates that Amazon grew cloud revenues by over $700 million and that makes Amazon bigger than all the other major players combined including Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com … by 15%, Synergy finds.

The Loop reports on Microsoft’s ad attacking the Google Chromebook.

This ad makes the case that the Chromebook is not a real laptop, that when it is not connected to the internet, it is “pretty much a brick.” I don’t own a Chromebook, and I’m not necessarily a Chromebook fan, but fair is fair. A “brick”? It took me all of 2 minutes reading reviews to dispel this myth.

Microsoft seems to think that attacking other brands’ products is the best way to promote its own products.

Apple Insider also looked at the Microsoft ad bashing the iPad Air.