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  • Download ‘Anything’ from Google using “Google Hacks”

    Everything is available on the Internet. The only thing you need to know is ‘How to find it’ in a correct way. Google is the obvious answer to all questions – it can be exploited to find anything anywhere on the web using keywords intelligently. Google Hacks is a small tool which is useful to…

  • Control your Android phone just by speaking!

    Now you can control your Android phone just by speaking using ‘Voice Actions’. This feature is unveiled at a press event at its San Francisco office in spite of rumors on Video Calling. You require Android 2.2 (Froyo) and higher for these features – Send text messages Say "send text to [recipient] [message]*" e.g. "send…

  • Intel to Acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion

    Intel announced its largest acquisition to date , and it has little to do with the chipset market it has dominated for decades. The chipmaker said it has agreed to buy antivirus software company McAfee (MFE) in a $7.7 billion acquisition that will expand its security offerings.   Sneak peak of the Announcement – “Today…

  • Want to Send or Receive Emails in Gmail at your own time?

    Do you want to send or receive emails at your own convenient time? Boomerang is a new beta add-on for Google Chrome and Firefox and lets you schedule Gmail around your own time! Whether you want to move emails about next week’s meeting out of your inbox until next week or want to send your…

  • Who. What. When. And now Where.

    Facebook Places is new Facebook feature that allows you to see where your friends are and share your location in the real world. You can now see if your friends are currently checked in nearby and connect with them easily. You can check into nearby Places to tell your friends where you are, tag your…

  • Apple to Launch iPad Mini by Christmas?

    Yes, the rumours of a mini iPad are rife once more, thanks to a stated sighting of the so-called iPad 2 by a Taiwanese newspaper. This follows reports last week in a different Taiwanese newspaper, of a similar Apple story.   The Economic Daily News, a Chinese-language newspaper, has reported that a smaller version of…

  • Nokia N8, the much awaited SmartPhone is set to launch in India

    Nokia is all set to roll out its much awaited Smartphone Nokia N8 in the market. The company has revealed its features through a demonstration to the media in Delhi. It is the first handset from Nokia with a 12 MP camera and World’s first Symbian^3 device. Nokia N8 comes with an anodized aluminum body…

  • Will Google Reveal ‘Video Calling’ at Mobile Event Thursday?

    Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding a press event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features.” Google mobile product management director Hugo Barra will demo the additions, which some think should include integrated video calling in…

  • Zoom.it from Microsoft – View, Zoom and Share HQ images

    Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. Give a link to any image and it will give you a beautiful new way to experience it – along with a nice short URL. Zoom.it converts your image to the  Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole image,…

  • Saudi Arabia to Ban BlackBerry Services This Friday

    Bad news has struck both Research In Motion (RIM) and all BlackBerry users present in Saudi Arabia as the authorities there announced today that they would be blocking some of the BlackBerry services from this Friday. This decisions comes at the time when RIM is already having a hard time in the Middle East with…

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