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Nokia announced earlier in the month that they’d be taking over the development side of Symbian, and that the Symbian Foundation will make the transition to a licensing operation. The next stage of the transition was announced via their Wiki recently, and involves closing the virtual doors on all of the Symbian Foundation’s websites come…

You’ve still got email! But, from the people who led the first email revolution, AOL is redesigning its email service to a faster and easier interface called as Project Phoenix. The Project Phoenix inbox page was designed to make it easier to fire off a quick e-mail, text or instant message with just a few…

The Internet web service provider Register.com suffers a massive outage yesterday and many users relying on it for Email, DNS redirections are still experiencing problems. According to the update on their homepage, they were hit by a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. On Friday, November 12th we were hit by a distributed denial of…

To help new Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. New AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year. Starting on November 1, new AWS users will be able to take advantage of the following services…

Image via Wikipedia In a historic move, nearly 30 lakh cell phone subscribers have been disconnected from their respective networks across the country due to either incomplete or unverified customer details. Few days back most of the users received calls from their respective cell phone operators and we thought that it is a usual procedure…

Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Perfect for either large organizations or an "army of one", the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to give users what they want, including uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking and high performance multimedia, while also providing advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support…

The Federal Communications Commission just cleared a path for a new generation of “Super Wi-Fi” technologies. What is Super Wi-Fi? Its not an entirely new concept. Its a new Wi-Fi transmission on entirely new spectrum. Many of you know that present Wi-Fi activity takes place on 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz frequencies, for the first time FCC…

Last week, people were buzzing over Facebook Phone, now its time to give some to Mozilla. Earlier today, Mozilla labs unveiled Seabird – an Android based concept phone. You may have seen a lot of mobile phone concepts, but the one you are going to see below will blow you away, seriously this is one…

Antivirus Software company McAfee (which recently acquired by Intel) started new safe secure short URL service Mcaf.ee.   For cosmoGeek, I got the following short URL – http://mcaf.ee/c1487 If you click on it and carefully observe it, you can see how the sites are reviewed and the top frame shows the result.   So why…

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…