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December 14, 2011 by Admin
Clever Sense created released its butler-like app, named Alfred, for the iPhone in July. The app is designed to learn the kinds of restaurants that a specific customer likes, then recommend similar joints based on Web reviews and other analysis. But it isnt just about matching a taste for Italian food with another pasta restaurant. Unlike better-known and more widely used rivals such as Yelp an
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December 8, 2011 by Admin
A glitch in Facebooks code briefly let people access private photographs of other members. The bug was discovered by a member of an online bodybuilding forum. This led to people accessing personal images belonging to other other members. Even the sites founder and CEO wasnt immune -- Mark Zuckerbergs own profile was soon ransacked, and various private pictures of his were posted througho
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December 7, 2011 by Admin
The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among the ing
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December 6, 2011 by Admin

Facebook has acquired location sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum,according to a source close to Gowalla. Facebook declined to comment on the deal. We dont comment on rumor and speculation,a company spokesman said.

Most of Gowallas employees, including founder Josh Williams, will move to Facebooks offices in Palo Alto. The team will work on Facebooks Timeline feature, which

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November 29, 2011 by Admin
Remember all those recent worries about how many iPads Apple would sell in the December quarter? Black Friday, free shipping and small price cuts may have allayed the worrywarts. Worries about iPad sales were beginning to pile up as Amazon launched its Kindle Fire. The biggest concern was that Apple was overdue for an iPad price cut. However, some field work from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene M
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November 28, 2011 by Admin
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a fabulous new app to help locate missing children, but it has one glaring omission: password protection. Still, there is a lot to like in this new free iOS-based app called FBI Child ID. The premise for the app is this: When a child goes missing, precious time is wasted while frantic parents, grandparents or caregivers gather relevant
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November 22, 2011 by Admin

 Samsung today announced the availability and pricing of a line of seven consumer LED bulbs, some of which have the conventional screw-in bottom. There are spotlights for recessed lighting cans or track lighting, but there is also a bulb-shaped A19 bulb, a snowcone style bulb that gives off light in one direction.

 
A light bulb is no longer just a light bulb. It
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November 15, 2011 by Admin

 If reports are to be believed, Google will launch its music service at its event called These Go to Eleven scheduled to be held in Los Angeles later this week. The Google Music store is reported to have new features such as a MP3 music store with a direct connection to its social network Google+. 

 
It will also feature licensed tracks from major music labe
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November 11, 2011 by Admin

While the matter might seem like inside baseball for the average person, it is likely to improve the browsing experiences of tens of millions of iPhone and iPad users, who have trouble accessing sites built with Flash.

That is because Adobes decision means Web developers who currently use Flash tools to produce Web content will likely move over to the newer HTML5 technology, which Adobe

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November 10, 2011 by Admin
Apple dedicated iPhone 4S to Steve Jobs. iPhone fans held a general sentiment that like always Jobs would unleash new generation Apple phone. Unfortunately, iPhone 4S release was followed by early demise of the legendary thinker and visionary Steve Jobs. But after witnessing the low upgrade iPhone 4S public was left wondering if Steve was working on this no improved phone in his last days. But
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November 7, 2011 by Admin
A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by listening to the audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, such as news stories related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ballgame. The app, called IntoNow, is a refreshed and improved version of technology that Yahoo acquired by buying a startup with the same name. When the company was swallowed by Yahoo in May,
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November 4, 2011 by Admin
General motors has made it public that they are looking at negotiations seriously with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. regarding launching the Hummer in India with full fledged availability. GM had admitted to this in Thailand at the plant opening for production of new cars. There have also been talks of GM selling their Hummer division to the Indian company but that idea seems to be far fetched f
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November 3, 2011 by Admin
The dream of ultra-low-power ARM-based server systems has been floating around for a while, especially for massive, efficient, but non-intensive cloud computing applications and services. Till now however, it has remained just a dream, with cloud computing companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon all being forced to run higher-power, and more expensive x86 chips on their servers.
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October 31, 2011 by Admin
Google and Microsoft are likely helping finance rival bids to acquire Yahoo, with mountains of cash as likely a motive as competitive reasons, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Google has talked to at least two private equity firms about the possibility of financing bids to acquire Yahoo, the Journal reported.
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October 20, 2011 by Admin
Keep the windows and doors locked; is the advice from Oguzhan Filizlibay, Security Escalation Engineer, EMEA CSS Security & Incident Response Team, Microsoft on keeping intruders out. He talks to Phil Blizzard on what should be done to avoid malware attacking your system.
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October 19, 2011 by Admin
The launch of Google plus could well impact exisitng social networking sites by diluting their useage. Facebook has recently seen a decline in the number of users it has in the US, prompting claims that the social networking site is on the wane. Peter Ward talks to Mohammed Elzubeir, MD, Mediastow, about the future of the site and its popularity in this region.
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October 18, 2011 by Admin
The public or the private cloud debate is the key subject in part two of our series with Red Hat. Peter Ward catches up with George DeBono, GM, Red Hat MENA, to talk about the public and private cloud options and also the other lesser known option the hybrid cloud.
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September 13, 2011 by Admin
HTML 4 is the most successful markup format ever. HTML5 builds on that success. You don?t need to throw away your existing markup. You don?t need to relearn things you already know. If your web application worked yesterday in HTML 4, it will still work today in HTML5.
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September 12, 2011 by Admin
How can you start using HTML5 if older browsers don?t support it?? But the question itself is misleading. HTML5 is not one big thing; it is a collection of individual features. So you can?t detect ?HTML5 support,? because that doesn?t make any sense. But you can detect support for individual features, like canvas, video, or geolocation.
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September 12, 2011 by Admin
A trend of viewing websites on iphone and ipads is growing by leaps and bounds. A recent survey shows that a minimum 30% of population of European countries use iphone or ipad or both for this purpose. It?s really surprising to see how fast people can adjust to new technological advancements. And use them to execute their needs in a better way.
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September 10, 2011 by Admin
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in the early 1990s. He later founded the W3C to act as a steward of web standards, which the organization has done for more than 15 years. Here is what the W3C had to say about the future of web standards, in July 2009: The Director announces that when the XHTML 2 Working Group charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will not be ren
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January 8, 2002 by Admin
A malicious SMS sent to a Windows Phone 7.5 device will force it to reboot and lock down the messaging hub (see video below). WinRumors said tests revealed that the flaw affected a variety of devices running different builds of the mobile operating system. A Facebook chat message and Windows Live Messenger message will also trigger the bug. So far, the only solution to the messaging hub bug app
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