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Windows 7 [Cartoon of the Day]

Microsoft made a huge noise about Windows 7 much before its launch. After a huge failure in Vista, Microsoft had to pull its act together. The frustration had given rise to a high expectation. Did Windows 7 live upto its expectation? Find out in the cartoon below: [...]

Everybody is keeping a watch on CERN

When the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) came back online a few months back, scientists knew that their IT system had to be flexible in order to process the wide lattice of information. As the world’s most powerful particle accelerator geared up for operating well beyond its previous best performance, engineers realized that the lab’s computer systems had to be likewise tuned. Rather than adding [...]

New Facebook App Helps Smokers to Quit

The charity group WeQuit has launched a new program with the social networking giant Facebook to help people quit their smoking habit. The application is directed at compulsive smokers, where people and their friends can challenge each other to give up smoking as well as to create rewards for success and forfeits for failure. This move comes on the eve of national No Smoking Day on Wednesday in UK. Interested [...]

MySpace Redesigns Site in an Attempt to Boost Growth

Once the world leader in social networking, MySpace has taken a hit this year with lower site visits, layoffs and two important management changes this year. In fact the problem has gone so far as to some employees themselves expressing serious doubts regarding its revival. The News Corp Unit has encouraged those workers to leave and has hired new talent. Mike Jones and fellow co-president Jason Hirschhorn are now devoted [...]

IT to the aid of Haiti

When Haiti was rocked by the country’s strongest earthquake in its 200 year history, a lot of aid was rushed in from various parts of the world. And as devastation offers opportunity for help which can come in any form, Information Technology could not be left far behind. Natural calamities often invite groups that bring information technology to poor countries all over the world. Members of their teams go to [...]

ICANN Discusses Internet Expansion in African Continent

The week long board meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN at Nairobi is heating up with the members unable to reach on consensus on whether or not to adopt new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) in its internet practices. The major concerns surrounding the decision are the trademark protection and the high costs that the companies would have to incur for buying these domains. The agenda [...]

Huawei Eyes Increased Middle East Sales Growth in 2010

Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications company, said on Tuesday that it was expecting an increased growth rate in its Middle East operations this year as compared to 2009. The company had achieved $3 billion in sales last year, and the market has shown growing signs ever since. The network equipment maker from China grew its sales in the region, including the Gulf Arab countries, Iran and Pakistan. It registered [...]

Facebook's Geolocation Service Coming April and Lot More

Facebook is getting bigger each day, whether its user base, its features or the amazing revenue stream already moving on to touch the $1 Billion mark. With the popularity that the social networking site is enjoying, Zuckerberg and his team are busy making the user experience all the more exciting by making facebook lot more than just a social media hub. So moving on in its endeavors, Faceook’s location based [...]

Sony Launches 3D TV in India

As a big step forward in the evolution of multimedia in India, Sony has released the first 3D TV on Tuesday in the country. The company has made use of new technology like LED, and the new range of TV is compatible with Internet. Also, Sony has exclusive tie-ups with some of the content providers like YouTube in order to provide videos and clips. Apart from the 3D TV, Sony [...]

LG Launches Android Based Smartphones

The world's No. 3 mobile phone manufacturer, LG Electronics Inc., has launched a smartphone based on Google's mobile operating system Android on Wednesday in South Korea. LG has been looking forward to add to its relatively weak smartphone lineup. LG is now fighting a difficult battle against other smartphone manufacturers like Nokia, Blackberry maker RIM and Apple. It hopes to substantiate its smartphone offerings with the help of 20 new [...]

Nokia to bring X-Ray Vision App on its Handsets

The mobile application market is already packed with a number of unique and mind blowing applications with more still pouring in as developers continue testing their skills. We’ve heard enough about Apple, Blackberry, Google Android and so on and this time its Nokia going way ahead into the augmented reality to give X-ray vision to its handsets. Nokia has teamed up with an Australian professor to bring an application in [...]

You are the news -2

In the concluding article of our series “You are the News” we bring you five most popular techniques which you can use to make yourselves heard. In this world of redundant blogs, over-voiced opinions and tireless discussion forums, we are sure that you will find these 5 tools very handy in airing your views and putting across your thoughts more effectively. Participate in constructive discussions If you are not that [...]

Ambiguity between Google and China

After my last post on "Google China talk, is it a myth?" there seems to be a lot of development on the story. The announcement from Li Yizhong, minister of MIIT, that Google has never contacted the Chinese official took the media by surprise. This also hinted that Google has a least chance of coming through their present crisis. The hard words from Chinese official either means that some how the talk didn't [...]