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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 [...]

How to be Evil: Learn from Google [Video of The Day]

"Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google, originally suggested by Google employees Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel at a meeting. Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were [...]

Everything You Want to Know About the New Cisco CRS 3

Cisco’s announcement of its newest advancement, the Cisco® CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) has pushed the envelope for next generation networks and Internet Architechture. According to John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, the new CRS 3 will set the ground for the next-generation Internet and speed up the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond. With Juniper giving a neck [...]

Cisco Systems Launches Fastest Router

Cisco Systems Inc, the world's top maker of network equipment, introduced a router that it says can handle 12 times the Internet traffic of the nearest competing product. Cisco has announced the 'CRS-3' a 322Tbps router, which it says will give us all the video and other high-speed communications we need. Cisco had promised to “forever change the Internet and its impact on business consumers and governments”. Cisco Systems claims, [...]

YOU are the News

This is the age of information. Or more precisely, News. In this age where getting to news is an imperative, propagation becomes extremely important. So where do we find ourselves in this free exchange of news? Are we the users who wait for information to reach us? Will we continue to merely watch the television and read the papers or surf the web or will we try to grab the [...]

Samsung, Panasonic, Sony To Start Selling 3-D TVs

Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in US this week. Meanwhile Sony will start selling 3-D TVs in June. Associated Press reported, Samsung Electronics Co. announced Tuesday that it is selling two 3-D sets. Combined with the required glasses and a 3-D Blu-ray player, the prices start at about $3,000 for a 46-inch screen. Panasonic Corp. has said it will sell its first 3-D set Wednesday. Samsung is [...]

Google Introduces The New Geocoding Web Service

Google introduces their new Geocoding Web Service. Geocoding - finding the geographical location of a given address - is one of the most popular features of the Google Maps API. In a blog post Google said, The Google Maps JavaScript API v3 introduced a new format for geocoding responses that offers a number of improvements over the format used in the v2 API: A flatter response format for address components [...]

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