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Apple to Provide Free Case to Cover Up Antenna Issues

Apple to Provide Free Case to Cover Up Antenna Issues

Apple, the giant of present day mobile telephony generation has offered to subdue the pending litigations against iPhone 4 by buying off consumers with a cheap $5 mobile phone case, made of plastic and rubber. This is a cheap tactic by a company regarded highly for its antics in computer and mobile technology.
iPhone 4 launched [...]

Skin Lightening App on Facebook

Skin Lightening App on Facebook

Indians have a special liking to the fairer skins and Vaseline has exploited their liking with the launch of a new app for Facebook. The sponsored app lightens your skin color and makes you look fairer, as fair as you want to be, or should I say, the app helps us with the Michael Jackson [...]

iPhone 4 takes a Consumer Beating

iPhone 4 takes a Consumer Beating

Apple is in the dock again. This time around, Consumer Reports have asked Apple to find a permanent solution to the antenna problem in the newly launched iPhone 4.
We think it’s the company’s responsibility to provide the fix—at no extra cost to consumers.
Apple skirted the issue stating that the users held the phone in a [...]

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

Video sharing website YouTube has been hacked yet again, but, this time around the website was not the target, young Canadian pop star Justin Bieber instead.
Bieber’s music videos were the target. Comments, abusive in nature were posted on the video clips and some comments even claimed that the singer was dead. Yikes!
The site was down [...]

Flying Cars on the Anvil

Flying Cars on the Anvil

Soon we will see traffic jams in the sky. Thanks to the technology fueled by Terrafugia, flying cars will start to zoom past your ears. If you thought that the new set of cars will be based on Robin Williams’ Flubber, you are not way off. Except, this one has wings to go along with [...]

Wordpress 3.0 Launched

Wordpress 3.0 Launched

The much awaited Wordpress 3.0 found a stable ground today. It has been touted as the future of blogging, and the CMS tool that will eventually replace others in vogue currently.
Here are some features to look out for in Wordpress 3.0:
- Wordpress Mu and Wordpress have merged which is great news for people like me [...]

MS Office 2010 Hits the Stores

MS Office 2010 Hits the Stores

Microsoft has officially launched its latest offering, the Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. Over 35,000 stores across the globe have put Microsoft’s new products on the shelf today. This is a record of sorts for the software major. Some of the stores to carry this product in the US are [...]

Tweeting the Wedding Bells

Tweeting the Wedding Bells

If you have heard the popular phrase, marriages are made in heaven, then you are definitely old school. Things have changed but you haven’t. The theme in vogue goes something like this – marriages are tweeted on twitter.
I ain’t kidding y’all. A couple in the US are planning on getting married through tweets, and the [...]

Google Caffeine Brewed and Served for Fresher Search Results

Google Caffeine Brewed and Served for Fresher Search Results

Google’s new technology in web search is made public. Caffeine, as they call it is the brains behind the Google Search since yesterday. It provides 50% fresher results which is great news for information crazy public who dwell on getting new information from the net.
Illustration : Suppose I wanted to search for an event that [...]

Pacman Celebrates 30 Years, Happy Birthday Pacman!

Pacman Celebrates 30 Years, Happy Birthday Pacman!

One of the most popular games of my generation, Pacman, has indeed made the cut above everything else that came after it. Today is the day when the game Pacman celebrates its 30th birthday, and this is perhaps the only game that has survived all odds.
Google commemorated this event in history by replacing their logo [...]

Windows 7 goes a Notch Above Windows Vista

Windows 7 goes a Notch Above Windows Vista

A quarter has ended a month back and results have started to pour in. For Microsoft, it’s good news all the way. Their latest operating system Windows 7 has exceeded its predecessor, Windows Vista. When a child passes another child, the parent is the most happiest, she has nothing to lose, Microsoft is in this [...]

Under a Month, Apple Sells 1 Million iPads

Under a Month, Apple Sells 1 Million iPads

Apple products are hitting the zenith, at least in its early years. The latest is the one which has made a name for itself over the past quarter, iPad. The company has reported that it has sold over a million pieces in under a month, 28 days to be precise. Let’s do some math here, [...]

How To Add a Header Ad in Thesis Theme

How To Add a Header Ad in Thesis Theme

If you haven’t heard already, Thesis theme for Wordpress is the most flexible of all the available themes, and its structure is quite different as well. It uses hooks, which completely replaces the generic files such as single.php, page.php and so on. The idea, as the developer says is to give control to users who [...]

Orkut App for Android is On!!!!

Orkut App for Android is On!!!!

Orkut is in a jiffy raring to go to roll on mobile phones with Android. Now you can stay connected to your orkut contacts wherever you function — via scrap notifications, target photo uploads to your orkut albums, and a phonebook synced to your orkut friends’ phone statistics and status messages. Orkut in place of [...]

Google Nexus One Trademark Rejected

Google Nexus One Trademark Rejected

Not everything is smooth sailing for Google. Their recent hype with their new phone Nexus One maybe short lived. The trademark office has rejected Google’s application claiming patent on Nexus One.
The reason – a small telecom firm, Integra Telecom based in Oregon owns the trademark for the word “Nexus”. The company makes around $60 million [...]