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Spanish Telefonica to Charge Google for Bandwidth Usage

Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica is planning to charge Internet Companies operating in Span like Google and Yahoo for network usage. Speaking at a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a lot of network bandwidth for free, something which was lucky for them but not for Telefonica.As a network provider has to provide huge amount of bandwidth for its customer to access Internet through his Mobile [...]

Climate Scientists Accused for Erroneous Claims in IPCC reports

We all remember the IPCC reports which claimed that Himalayan Ice Glaciers will melt by year 2035, later debunked by the scientific community. Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming are now pointing fingers toward their sloppy colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report. The experts, who worked on the section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [...]

Top Bankers Gathering in OZ for a Secret Summit.

A recent news posted in Herald Sun confirms that the world's top central bankers began arriving in Australia. It is assumed that they are gathering up for a secret summit supposed to held at a venue that has been kept confidential till now. Analysts say that this can be a possible outcome of renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery that has already gripped most of the [...]

comScore: Android Doubled its Market share in 3 Months

Comscore released a press report yesterday which reveals that nearly Two-Thirds of US 234 Million Mobile subscribers used Text Messaging in December 2009. Comscore survey reports are are well trusted over the globe for its authenticity and reliability. The report basically analyses the key trends in US mobile market over last three months of 2009. Survey ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms [...]

China Calls off The Largest Hacker Training Website

Shanghai: China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday. The "Black Hawk Safety Net" website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported this weekend, citing police in Huanggang, just east of Wuhan. Hacking from China [...]

Why did PayPal Stop Personal Payments in India?

The last few days have been very disappointing. Some of the PayPal’s services have stopped working in India. These include personal payments to or from India and any transactions from PayPal to Indian banks. All the payments get reversed back to the sender. Thankfully the purchase of goods/services through PayPal is still working. According to Plugged.in, the cause of this hassle is that RBI (Reserve Bank of India) asked for [...]

A Universal Language Translator for Smartphone by Google soon

The Google folks are always busy in their labs bringing new technology to the users and enhancing the existing applications for a better user experience. Giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is bringing new translator software for an instant translation of the foreign language, reports Times Online. The software will use the information learned from the company's text translation software but will [...]

Media Convergence Devices to Connect Screen Based devices at Home

A Korea based company, Inbrics has come up with a mobile internet device which would connect all screen based devices in your house. So, now your computer, mobile annd TV will be interconnected using internet technologies. Teh company The company has some real sleek and cool Media Convergence Devices which were first revealed at CES 2010. Here is the original commercial of their devices: [...]

Tweet #Popcorn to eat Popcorn

Twitter is entering our daily lives in ways we had never imagine. Dave Britt and Justin Goeres have made a popcorn machine which makes popcorn when someone mentions #popcorn. This has been manufactured for a contest Creative Pop 2010 held by Fireworks Popcorn, a popcorn manufacturer. So you are served a new batch of popcorn every time you tweet 'Popcorn'. According to the duo, a custom LabVIEW program polls Twitter [...]

When NSA meets Google... iSPY still no Evil ...

This is a story of the two best ever known Public Privacy Busters in the history of mankind, the Google and the NSA. One known for eavesdropping on all possible personal communication over the internet and the other, the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens. The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks — the guys that [...]

Facebook Questioned over Deleting Political Opposition Pages in Hong Kong

A recent report by South China Morning Post reveals that how Hong Kong’s political opposition has faced repeated deletion of their Facebook groups. The article here, shows the original post. According to the post, the administrators of Facebook, , have been asked to explain why the plug was pulled on a string of politically oriented discussion groups in the past few days, as concern grows over internet censorship. Thomas Crampton [...]

Microsoft to Unveil Windows Phone 7 at MWC 2010

There are fresh reports that Microsoft might unveil Windows Phone 7 at MWC 2010. Windows Phone 7 is very similar to the Zune HD player launched by Microsoft last year. There is a complete revamp of the start screen. “METRO” UI that is “very clean”, “soulful”, and “alive.” No multitasking and no Flash. Full Xbox gaming and Zune integration. The METRO UI is expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress [...]

LG Openly Promoting Piracy Through its Products

Some of the newer LG TVs have USB support, allowing consumers to hook up an external drive to their screen in order to view photos, listen to music, or enjoy a movie. In the manual that comes with these devices, LG doesn’t try to hide the most popular use for this feature as they show customers how to play a pirated movie. Previously, the pirated films were only on display [...]

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