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RIM posts profit, also shifts 50M Blackberry devices

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  All’s going good for RIM at the moment. Apart from selling more than 50 million Blackberry phones, the company posted positive results for the last quarter which ended on Feb 28. The quarter which included the holiday season as well posted a revenue of US$3.46 billion, up 84 percent from the same quarter last […]

Nvidia shows off Tegra powered HP Mini

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  This proof of concept by Nvidia is another evidence that they want to barge into Intel’s territory. Yes, Nvidia has Ion to take care of netbooks but when Tegra SoCs can work on netbooks, you know, the Tegra integration possibilities are endless. At the CTIA, Nvidia replaced an Atom chip with its Tegra processor […]

iPhone OS Beta 2 gets jailbroken

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  Russian hacker Vortex did the honors this time by releasing an unofficial QuickPWN tool for jailbreaking the latest version of iPhone OS 3.0 beta. The tool is just over 3MB and works on both the iPhones and 1st gen iPod Touch. But before you hit click the download page below, here’s a piece of […]

Guy controls his Mazda RX-8 with iPod Touch

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  This has got to be the best fusions of tech we have seen in recent times. Jon wanted his RX-8 to be “live” and always connected and thus, he hooked his car with a low power PC equipped with 3G, GPS and created a password protected web server link. The result is that he […]

Opera brings Face Gestures to browsers

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  I like Opera for many reasons. And with the introduction of Face Gestures, they have given me one more reason to like them. The Face Gesture enabled browser uses Face Observation Opera Language (FOOL!) technology that will perform certain operation tasks with the expression of user’s faces (refer the chart above). Here’s a video […]

Blackberry App World goes live

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  As expected, the Blackberry App World has gone live. All Blackberry users having OS above 4.2, trackballs or Surepess (Storm), Paypal account with a lot of balance can download the App World right away and delve in the software goodness. And yes, the BAW is opened only to BB users from US, Canada and […]

IE 8.1 is what IE8 should have been

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  Smashing Magazine got hold on a pre-release copy of IE 8.1 and with the features it boasts, it is set to sweep all the browsers off its feet. Here are some noteworthy features: – Better Security – Improved Web Slices – Firefox Extensions Support (Wow!) – Acid3 Test: 71/100 – Fastest Javascript Engine – […]

Microsoft to discontinue Encarta this year

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  Microsoft quietly listed up a notice announcing that its Encarta encyclopedia won’t make it to the next year. Worldwide MSN Encarta websites will shut down on October 31, 2009 while the Japanese Encarta site will make an exit on December 31, 2009. Microsoft will also stop selling Student and Encarta Premium software by June […]

Microsoft and TomTom drop patent lawsuits, settle differences

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  The skirmish between MS and TomTom didn’t last long. Microsoft first sued TomTom, on which TomTom countersued on the same grounds of patent infringement. Now both the companies have announced that they have reached a patent agreement which will enable them to use each other’s patents in a ‘pragmatic’ way. The agreement holds for […]