Tuesday, 6th January 2009.

Apple releases iPhone firmware update 2.2

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Apple launched a preemptive strike of sorts in the battle of the smart phones releasing the iPhone 2.2 softwaree-mail from POP and Exchange accounts; faster installation of third party applications; and a fix for bugs that caused hangs and crashes with a number of third party applications. upgrade at midnight, just hours ahead of [...]

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Florida teenage commited suicide online

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged by other people on the Web site. Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site, where the camera [...]

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HP Touchsmart tx2: first multi-touch tablet

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced its first consumer-oriented multi-touch tablet PC. The TouchSmart tx2 tightly integrates hardware and software to offer an interface that lets people use their fingers or a stylus for on-screen manipulation of digital entertainment. The software foundation of the tx2’s multi-touch capabilities is HP’s MediaSmart 2.0, which makes it possible to use [...]

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Microsoft changes Zune subscription plan

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

With fewer consumers than hoped for signing up for all-you-can-eat music subscriptions, Microsoft and the record industry are trying to make the option more appealing. As of Wednesday, those who pay for the $14.95 a month Zune Pass subscription will start being able to permanently keep 10 tracks a month. The subscription already allows unlimited [...]

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Apple still neglects Adobe Flash on iPhone

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Flash is around the corner for Google’s G1 and Nokia’s Symbian smart phones; Flash on Blackberries likely coming as well; Apple continues its apathy towards Adobe. The best selling phone in America, Apple’s iPhone, could be the last of the smartphones to get Flash.  At a slew of press events over the last few days, [...]

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Video games industry with mixed results in October

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Revenue for the video-game industry in October, the first month of the critical fourth quarter that includes the holiday shopping season, grew by 18%, despite a significant decline in sales of portable players, a market research firm said. Sales increased to $2.2 billion for the month, keeping the industry on track to top $22 billion [...]

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Microsoft upgrades Windows Live portal

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Microsoft is expanding its Windows Live online services over the next several weeks, including adding social networking features that will make the portal for consumers more Facebook-like, such as new photo-sharing capabilities and links to other Web sites like Twitter and LinkedIn.The move may bring Windows Live into closer competition with Facebook — ironic, given [...]

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Google released voice search app for iPhone

Posted on Saturday, 22nd November 2008 by Indus

Google is finally catching up to competitors Microsoft and Yahoo for once. It is rolling out a new application for the iPhone that allows users to conduct searches with their voice rather than typing. Nice of Google to catch on to the voice-activated search craze. Microsoft and Yahoo have offered voice-enable search for some time. [...]

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