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TomTom Launches GPS Navigators in India
TomTom – the Amsterdam based navigator company has launched GPS navigators in India. The devices will compete directly with rival company MapMyIndia’s navigation products and will offer touch & voice controls, emergency assist and bluetooth compatibility in addition to standard GPS features like turn by turn navigation & lane assistance. The three models Via 100,…
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Airlines planning to introduce mobile boarding passes in India
Despite advancements in the telecommunication arena with the launch of 3G, India is still far behind other countries in terms of mobile enablement of services. We reported a few weeks back that Indian Railways is now allowing paperless tickets on trains (although, some of our readers were fined because they were not carrying a paper…
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Indian Railways & irctc now allow paperless soft copies of tickets on trains [Go Green]
Indian Railways now allows you to show paperless soft copy of your ticket (called Virtual Reservation Message – VRM) to the TTE instead of having to take a print out of the ticket every time you have to travel. This is an awesome green initiative which will not only please green pundits but also people…
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Jenga (the wood block game in The Big Bang Theory) is now available on the iOS App Store
Jenga is one of my favorite games. I play it with my roommates and at get together with friends. The game is based on an awesome concept. It is the game which the geek gang plays on the famous show “The Big Bang Theory“. The game is now available in the iOS app store for…
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Now a TV can Download Torrents by itself!
Turkish TV manufacturer Vestel has announced the world’s first digital TV that is capable of downloading BitTorrent files and play them directly! In fact the TV is certified by BitTorrent themselves and it’s the part of an initiative to make BitTorrent easier to use and accessible to a much wider audience.
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Indian Members of Parliament (MPs) are getting iPads from taxpayers money [WTF]
In a nation which is challenged with issues like poverty, education, corruption and many more, the government seems to be paying no heed to citizens’ needs. The government of India has approved to reimburse the MPs in India unto INR 50,000 for iPad or a Samsung Galaxy tab. Ideally I would not have issue with…
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99¢ TV show rentals pulled from Apple TV
It looks like Apple has pulled the 99¢ TV show rentals from Apple TV. This news follows a few days after the latest Apple TV software update which adds the feature to stream any previously purchased TV episode from iTunes in the cloud without the need to download them, and might point towards a change…
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Facebook updates it photo viewer (again)
Facebook is revamping its photo viewer (also called lightbox) again. Like the last update, this one will let you see much wider photos which are 960 pixel in width as opposed to 720 pixels you can currently see. The photos should also load twice as fast which is good news. Also, the black background of…
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BREAKING: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple’s CEO
Steve Jobs has resigned from his position of Apple CEO today. In a letter that he wrote to Apple’s board of directors and Apple community, Steve mentions the reason to be his inability to effectively meet the expectations of the role of CEO. He also requests to be appointed as the chairman of the board…
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Croma planning to launch online store in India
Looks like the ecommerce arena in India is getting more and more players everyday. After amazon, croma is planning to open an online store in India. Croma is Tata’s mega electronics retail chain which operates retail stores in major cities across India. Croma has been setting high standards in electronics retail in India and we…
