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The Word of The Year is “App” [A Year Late?]
The American Dialect Society has chosen “app”, short for application as the word of the year. The word “app” received 69 votes to be chosen over “junk”, “WikiLeaks”, “nom”, “trend”, “fat-finger” and “-pad”. Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society , executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and the “On Language” columnist for…
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iPhone 3GS price reduced to $49 in the US
iPhone 3GS prices in the US have been dropped to $49. This means you can buy a new iPhone 3GS for that price in the US with a new 2 year contract. That’s approx. INR 2400! And here in India, Airtel and Vodafone are still selling it for 30k! Locked to them for one year!…
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Toyota’s Entune In-car entertainment system
Toyota showcased its new and arguably amazing in car entertainment system called Entune. The system pairs with your mobile phone over bluetooth and provides a plethora of amazing options to you in your car leveraging your mobile phone’s data connection. You need to have a mobile app on your phone for the system to work…
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Group video calling now available in Skype
Skype has finally introduced the group calling feature in its latest Mac beta. Using this feature, you can make group video calls to multiple people simultaneously. You know, like the way they show people in sci fi movies having a video conference with others around the globe (or solar system or galaxy or universe). Here…
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HTC Evo’s Battery Can Dodge Bullets [True Story!]
When the HTC Evo came out everyone loved the huge screen fast 4G data but the battery life was the thing that prevented people from buying it. In fact Michael Arrington went on to say that it is a seriously flawed device since he had to keep charging the phone almost all the time. But the…
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1st Annual Indian Comic Con in Feb, Get Your Costumes Ready!
The San Diego Comic Con is one of the most loved conventions for geeky people worldwide. It gives them the chance to talk with their favorite comic creators, buy exclusive merchandise and collectibles and get sneak previews of the upcoming movies based on their favorite comic book characters. I’ve always wondered why we never had…
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Now measure your blood pressure using your iOS device
Well, when an iPhone can take an ECG, it can surely measure your blood pressure! Withings have come up with a blood pressure monitor that works with your iOS device to measure your blood pressure. The monitor was showcased at CES 2011 and will be available in a month for about $129. [via iPhoneIndia]
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iHome reveals details of their upcoming AirPlay compatible speaker system
iHome is coming up with an AirPlay compatible speaker system with a rechargeable battery. You can beam audio from any iOS device or mac to this speaker system wirelessly using Apple’s AirPlay technology (previously called AirTunes). The speaker system (called iW1) is expected to have the following features:
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750 Million Photos Uploaded To Facebook On New Year Weekend
Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing Director and Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister, tweeted that users around the world uploaded a whopping 750 million photos to Facebook over the New Years’s Eve weekend! To give you a context, in July more than 100 million photos were uploaded every day, so the weekend was definitely higher than normal but not surprising.…
