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Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:36:00 +0000

In a move to expand its franchise to a higher-end frontier of the mobile phone market, Opera Software has released a beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android. Opera's Mini and more feature-rich...

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Intel Wins Top Spots in SSD Storage Drive Ranking

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:00 +0000

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of...

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India Resumes 3G Auction Process, Inviting Applications

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:54:00 +0000

India started the process for auctioning 3G and broadband wireless access (BWA) licenses again on Thursday, but it has scaled back the number of licenses up for bidding. The auction was postponed...

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Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:52:00 +0000

Mozilla has released fixes for five security holes in older versions of Firefox, while a security company has warned of a zero-day flaw in the latest version of the popular browser. On Wednesday,...

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Goodbye to Google Buzz

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:18:00 +0000

It's tough to avoid all the buzz over Google Buzz these days. Since introducing the new social networking tool last week, Google has come under fire for everything from privacy concerns to feelings...

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Google Buzz Versus Google Wave

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:24:00 +0000

When Google announced Google Buzz, its new social sharing feature for Gmail, company representatives admitted Buzz was inspired by a similar product: Google Wave. In fact, some of the features of...

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Why Google Buzz Will Bomb

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:22:00 +0000

It's easy to see why Google built Buzz. Google wants to compete with Twitter and Facebook. What's difficult to figure out is why people will want to use Google Buzz, when they can already use...

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YouTube to Filter Sex, Violence, Foul Language

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:15:00 +0000

YouTube today introduced a new content filter that helps users screen out offensive content, such as news videos with graphic violence, or sexually suggestive clips that don't exceed the service's...

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Google's Ultra-Fast Broadband: Questions and Answers

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:10:00 +0000

Google's Ultra-Fast Broadband: Questions and Answers I don't know if you've heard, but Google's adding some fiber into its diet. Hang on, now:...

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IBM launches Power7 chip, systems

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:00 +0000

IBM on Monday is launching its long-anticipated Power7 processor and systems based on the chip. The processor is a big step for IBM, integrating eight processing cores in one chip package, with each...

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Unlucky 13 Microsoft Patches Due Next Week

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:57:00 +0000

Microsoft has released their advance notification for the February, 2010 Patch Tuesday, and it's a doozy. An unlucky 13 updates to Windows and Office will be released addressing 26 vulnerabilities. ...

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Facebook Launches New Look for its 6th Year

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:52:00 +0000

Facebook is celebrating its sixth anniversary with another redesign of its homepage. Employees at Facebook last night were celebrating the company's anniversary, passing the 400 million user mark...

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HDMI 1.4 3D specification available for download

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:19:00 +0000

HDMI Licensing announced Wednesday that it has made the 3D portion of the HDMI specification version 1.4 available for public download on the HDMI Web site. This means companies and organizations...

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Microsoft warns of new IE data-leakage vulnerability

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:08:00 +0000

Microsoft today issued a security advisory to acknowledge an information disclosure hole in its Internet Explorer browser and warned that an attacker could exploit the flaw to access files with an...

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Yahoo Gets New Rivals for Connected TV

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:39:00 +0000

Yahoo has signed up new partners for its Connected TV effort but also faces new competition from other companies looking to bring movies and applications from the Internet to the TV. Among the new...

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10 Free, Must-Have Windows Tools for IT Pros

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:42:00 +0000

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the tools they bring to the job. If you're a professional plumber or a carpenter, people will expect you to carry the right tools for the task at hand....

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Intel Shows Green 48-Core Chip

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:02:00 +0000

Intel Corp. is honing its sights on many-core chips that are far more powerful than today's dual and quad-core processors. As expected, Intel took a big step in that direction today by unveiling a...

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Facebook Worm Spreads With a Lurid Lure

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Some Facebook users have been infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site, according to security researchers.The...

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Intel Core i9: Six Cores Of Speed

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Intel's Core i9 chips won't hit the market for a few more months, but that hasn't stopped Polish site PCLab from putting the new 32-nanometer processor through its paces in a recent series of...

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Office 2010 Beta Exposed

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:41:00 +0000

Office 2010's public beta has leaked to the Web, days ahead of its anticipated roll-out next week, searches of file-sharing sites showed Friday. The 32- and 64-bit versions of the Office 2010 Beta...

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Hundreds of Facebook groups hijacked

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:44:00 +0000

Facebook groups are under attack. But the attackers say they come in peace and insist they want only to highlight a flaw in the way Facebook handles group administration. An organization called...

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Google Dashboard Gives You a Bird's-eye View of Your Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:50:00 +0000

If the size of your Google cloud is starting to look like Act IV of A Perfect Storm, you'll probably be interested in the company's latest feature, Google Dashboard--a one-stop shopping overview of...

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Google Apps Will Get Stronger Video Chat Capabilities

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:32:00 +0000

Google Apps users can expect to see significant improvements in the suite's voice- and video-chat capabilities, as the company builds on Gmail's current features in that area.Gmail's voice and video...

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NVIDIA to unveil the GeForce GT 240 in mid-November

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:27:00 +0000

Aside from the much-awaited line of Fermi-based GeForce graphics card is NVIDIA also planned to reveal a different model, namely the GeForce 240 GT, aimed at the mainstream market, constructed using...

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International Domains Get ICANN Thumbs Up

noreply@blogger.com (Sajin George) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

International Domains Get ICANN Thumbs UpStarting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the...

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