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Most Awaited Windows 7 Beta 1 Leaked 2008-12-29 14:22:20 When most of us are nailbiting to work on Windows
7 by expecting the official release of Windows 7 Beta 1 around January 2009, sources proves that the Beta 1 version has been leaked. This Microsoft’s new and upcoming operating system is currently in the development phase.
But according to CNET, there are leaks already exists which allows people to test and try on it. People who has tried on the
Internet Puts Down Newspapers to Third Place 2008-12-29 12:33:45 Recently a survey was conducted by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which states that the internet has become the second most important source for national and international news for many people. The survey was taken among 1,489 adults out of which 40% of the people accepted that their main source for news is Internet
.
When the same center conducted a survey last year, only 24 Read more:Place
Microsoft's New 9-Year-Old Certified Professional 2008-12-27 04:40:47 Microsoft's Certified
Professional exam is designed for IT professionals. As you know accomplishing Microsoft's Certified Professional exam with flying colors is an achievement according to various IT professionals. A girl named Lavinashree, who is nine years old, from the Tamil Nadu region of India, passed Microsoft's exam this week, according to Indian media reports. As you see, though, being ah Read more:Microsoft
Nokia Express Deepest Regrets for Depicting Kashmir in Pak 2008-12-25 12:17:55 Nokia shows Kashmir
as part of Pakistan's territory in its mobile navigation system. At the time when Indo-Pak relationship is getting worser owing to the recent Mumbai terror attacks, this information played havoc with a Nokia shop in central Jabalpur city, Madhya Pradesh, which was attacked by the activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of BJP.
Nokia Maps is an appl Read more:Express
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Google Employees to get Android G1 Phone Instead of Cash Gift 2008-12-25 07:26:17 Every year, Google
gives holiday cash gift of $1000 to its employees worldwide. But this year, this tradition is going to change. Instead
of giving $1000 cash gift, Google is handing out version of T-Mobile’s G1 Android
mobile phone as Christmas gift to its employees worldwide.
The G1 Android phone will be given to 85 percent of Google’s 20,123 global staff in the United States, Western and C
Get Free CD of IBM Lotus Symphony in India 2008-12-25 04:31:20 As we know, IBMLotusSymphony
has been selected as the Product of the Year 2008 for Desktop Applications. This was announced few weeks back by CRN, a leading industry publication. The editors at the Test Center for CRN evaluated hundreds of products in 2008 out of which IBM Lotus
Symphony was ranked first.
IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spr Read more:India
Is iPhone Nano, Apple's Next Release? 2008-12-23 13:33:55 Till now we have heard only of iPhone
and iPhone Touch Phones, but it seems something new is also coming. iPhone Nano
, that's what it is called according to the latest rumors that are going around before this year's Macworld Expo.
The story behind this latest rumor is the listing of ‘iPhone Nano’ silicon cases by a company called XSKN on its website. This company even listed the cases for the Read more:Apple
, Release
HP Unveils Free Photo Printing Application for iPhone 2008-12-23 12:26:06 Currently, iPhone
is one of the most popular devices on the market and many people buy it and even take photos using it. By seeing this trend, Hewlett-Packard(HP) has announced a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and can be downloaded from App Store for free.
This application is called HP iPrint Photo
and allows pictures stored on an iPhone to be printed using HP's inkjet printers att Read more:Application
, Printing
How to Make Your Blog Mobile Friendly 2008-12-22 13:33:00 In the current trend, almost one in four cell phone users access the Internet on their device and about one in six users does it frequently. This is the reason why mobile web browsing is predicted to become the next predominant Internet platform. Hence making your website Mobile
-Friendly
is more important.
Listed below are the few tips for designing a Mobile-Friendly Blog,
1. The first point you
Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds Laptop with 2 LCD Screens 2008-12-21 11:37:44 Lenovo has achieved a new milestone in the computing industry by introducing a ThinkPad W700ds laptop that features two LCD screens. This is the first laptop ever that has two LCD screens, a 17-in primary screen and a smaller 10.6-in secondary display panel.
This ThinkPad laptop used quad-core Intel Core 2 processor and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes w Read more:Laptop
, Lenovo
, Thinkpad
Google Webmaster Tools Now Supports 40 Languages 2008-12-20 13:41:17 As we know, the existing GoogleWebmasterTools
had support for 26 languages but recently, Google extended its language support to 40 by adding support to 14 new languages. The new languages that is supported are Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Greek, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Portuguese (Portugal), Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Now the total list of languag Read more:Google Webmaster Tools
, Languages
Google Image Search is Much More Easy!! 2008-12-20 13:10:57 Ever experienced difficulty in filtering out clip-arts or pencil drawings from the google image search. Now it can be easily done as because of the google's new options in searching.
Along with the faces and photo content, Google
has also added up Cliparts and Line Drawing options inorder to filter out the images based on user's wish and need.
All of these options can be selected from the "Any Read more:Google Image Search
, Image
, Search
Symantec Releases Norton Internet Security for Mac 2008-12-20 12:54:32 On December 18, Symantec
unveiled NortonInternet
Security for Mac which includes traditional virus protection, a Firewall, and tools to help Mac users protect against the spyware and identity thefts.
Though currently not many users of Mac faces these problems, but in the long run with Mac becoming more popular among users, this would be a better solution to be ready to face any potential threat
Video Presentation for Building Google Friendly Sites 2008-12-20 10:27:58 The Google
webmaster team has prepared a very good 22 minute video presentation, which gives tips on how to improve your site’s presence on Google search and how to deal with issues like image search, fluctuating PageRank, duplicate content etc.
The presentation slides used in this video can be downloaded from Google Docs. Read more:Building
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, Sites
Toshiba Introduces World's First 512GB Solid State Drive(SSD) 2008-12-19 12:32:52 Toshiba introduced the world's first 2.5 inch 512GB solid state drive. This multi-chip NAND based flash storage is based on 43nm manufacturing technology.
It supports excellent read speeds of 240MBps and write speeds of 200MBps. The drives comes with AES encryption, which improves data protection. Toshiba also plans to introduce 64GB, 128GB and 256GB SSD versions.
They are designed for laptops Read more:First
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, State
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Samsung to Launch Android Based Phone 2008-12-19 12:18:02 Samsung Electronics is developing an Android
-powered version of the Korean market Omnia smart device for launch on Sprint and T-Mobile in the second quarter of next year in North America.
The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal for increasing its smart phone market share by releasing handsets in various operating systems.
On December 18, industry insiders said that Samsung Read more:Launch
, Samsung
Microsoft's Free Online Storage, SkyDrive Size Increased 2008-12-18 15:33:32 It might be a surprise for many people but Microsoft
has increased the storage space for their free online storage service, SkyDrive from 5GB to 25GB, making it one among the largest free online storage providers. The look and feel of the SkyDrive has been changed and now it has been opened up for 6 more regions and 13 more languages.
Below are the few things, you will find in new SkyDrive:
Wikipedia Website for Mobile Phones 2008-12-18 15:22:49 Wikipedia is the most commonly used free content encyclopedia written by a global community of volunteers. This has launched its mobile version of its site to address the needs of the ever growing mobile subscribers. The site has been built as though the basic model phones which have a WAP browser can access it.
The two major advancements in mobile version is it can support 14 languages as of now Read more:Mobile
, Phones
, Wikipedia
Download for Google AdWords Editor v7.0 Now Available 2008-12-18 09:53:30 Google has released the latest version of it’s AdWords Editor
v7.0 in just 2 months after the last major upgrade (version 6.5 in Oct 2008). Google AdWord Editor version 7 includes a number of changes and improvements including First page bid estimates, Keyword Quality Score, Keyword Opportunities Locale, Campaign targeting in the data view and Send feedback to Google.
Google AdWords Editor is Read more:Download
, Google
Create Document From Any Email in Your Gmail 2008-12-17 12:08:30 Gmail labs has just added a new feature in Gmail, which will allow you to create a new document and save it in Google doc format by just a simple click. After you enable this feature, you will get an option ‘Create a document’ while browsing your emails.
To enable this feature, login to your Gmail account and then navigate to Gmail Labs tab under Settings. Select "Enable" next to "Create a D Read more:Email
, Gmail
View Your Flickr Photos in Cool Styles 2008-12-16 15:52:30 Getting bored with the plain and simple background of your Flickr
’s photostream? Here’s a great way to view your wonderful photos in a cool and different interface. Picsviewr is a Web app that provides a wide variety of slideshows in both flash and HTML so that you can view your Flickr photos with more flexibility.
Picsviewr currently provides 7 different templates which includes Tiltviewer, Read more:Styles
Future of Internet Using Mobile Phones 2008-12-15 12:24:31 In the last few years, we saw many mobile phones allowing us to access Internet
but it seems we have to wait one more decade for mobile phones to become the primary means of connecting to Internet world wide.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's "Future
of the Internet III study," nearly 600 Internet experts said the combination of portability and relative affordability wil Read more:Mobile
, Mobile Phones
, Phones