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Google revamps Android Market on phones

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  Google has overhauled its Android Market that claims to make app discovery easier. With the new interface (reminiscent to Windows Phone 7’s Tile interface), users can quickly search and download new apps, games and books. While the new Market will be rolled out globally, American consumers will get two exclusive features like renting movies […]

iOS 5 beta 3 already jailbroken

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  Apple released the new iOS 5 beta yesterday and it took just a few hours before the build was jailbroken. Users using the iOS 5 beta 3 can now jailbreak their device using the Snowbreeze update that offers an untethered jailbreaking experience to iPhone 3GS users with older bootroms. iPhone 3GS with newer bootroms […]

Acer revamps TimelineX notebook Series in India

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  Acer has refreshed its TimelineX lineup notebook with an improved design, new processors and features. Powering the 5830T and 5830TG notebooks are choices of Core i3 and Core i5 processors and 4GB of RAM. The 15.6-inch notebooks comes with an HD Widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit display, Nvidia GeForce GT 540M GPU, 500GB HDD, Bluetooth 3.0 […]

iriver Story HD comes to US with Google eBooks platform

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  Americans have a new e-book reader option to choose from – the iriver Story HD. Uniqueness of this product is the tight integration with Google’s open eBooks platform that will allow users to buy over thousands of books or read over 3 million Google eBooks for free. iriver HD is a lightweight e-book reader […]

Google Maps update for Android gains Transit Navigation

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  Google has updated its Maps app for Android that adds the all new Transit Navigation support. With the new Navigation option, a user can get directions that involve traveling in a train or any other public mode of transportation. Google has also added some more features like an improved notification bar that notifies when […]

Facebook gets video calling

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  The world’s largest social network yesterday added some new features to make communication with friends more exciting. In addition to the revamped chat design and group chat feature, Facebook has added video chat support. The video calling technology is provided by Skype and it requires a small downloadable plugin to work. Disappointingly, there’s no […]

HTC buys S3 Graphics for $300m

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  HTC today announced their acquisition of the S3 Graphics for a sum of $300 million. It’s unclear what will HTC do with the company that predominantly makes graphics chips for computers but it seems the Taiwanese company is more interested in S3’s portfolio of 235 patents. HTC has been on a buying spree off […]

South Korea to digitize textbooks by 2015

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  The decision to digitize education has always been met with wary eyes but here is South Korea trying to do away with the textbooks in the age of technology. The country’s education ministry will pump in $2.4 billion to change from textbooks to tablets, smartphones and computers. South Korea expects to switch the entire […]

Jabra Stone2 Bluetoot headset comes to India

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  A new Jabra headset has been launched in the Indian market that wants to talk to you. The Jabra Stone2 is one of the few Bluetooth-enabled headsets that accepts voice commands as well as gives out voice guidance. You can give commands like “Call Dad”, “Answer”, “Ignore” or with the help of voice-enabled apps, […]