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Smallest Hotel Room In China Makes Me Feel Lucky
Long time back I saw some meme over the Internet that talked about capsule rooms in Japan. Apparently that was true. The concept has now spread to China and Shanghai has got their first Capsule Hotel.
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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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Now You Have To Pay For Freedom From Internet [Software]
Remember the good old dial-up days, when you used to have Internet only few hours a day? If you let out a sigh of relief and thanked heaven for broadband, you can stop reading right now. But, if you replied saying, “Those were the days!”, this is something that will interest you! Freedom is as…
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LG Releases A Weird Video To Show Off Optimus 2X
LG has released this 3 minute video to show of the power of their dual core Android based Optimus 2X phone. Something about it is just not right. It could be the music, or the video with a weird game concept with weird missions like finding the butterfly on HD screen and executing multiple apps…
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3G launch in India might be delayed (yet again) [WTF]
Just when Indians were looking forward to finally be able to justify the 3G enabled handsets they have been buying since the last 5 years, Indian government has poked their nose again at the 11th hour restricting the launch of 3G service by cellular operators in the name of “security”. Yeah, the same “security” thing…
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iPad available in India for ICICI bank customers
ICICI Bank and GadgetsGuru.com are selling the iPad wifi models in India at absurd prices and calling it ‘offer’. Apparently, these morons do not know what an offer means. Here are the details of the alleged ‘offer’: iPad 16GB wifi – INR 34,999 iPad 32GB wifi – INR 39,999 iPad 64GB wifi – INR…
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Airtel Broadband disconnection woes
Everyone knows that it’s a major trouble to disconnect a service from any provider in the Indian telecom industry. They will plead, offer discounts and try everything till you get pissed, leave it as is and stop paying the bills. And then they sue you for not paying the bills. Since I was aware of…
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Airtel launches iPhone 3GS in India, no surprises
Looks like iPhone 3GS is finally hitting the Indian shores on 26 March 2010. Bharti Airtel announced the availability of the iPhone 3GS on its network in a press release on 24 March 2010. As expected, the price of the phone is absurdly high. Here is a run down: Model Price (INR) iPhone 3GS 16GB…
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How newspapers change subtle details [WTF]
Today morning while going through my Boston.com Big Picture feed, I came across this amazing picture of the solar eclipse. The title said, “Two men sit on a bridge to watch an annular solar eclipse in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China on January 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Donald Chan)” After some time when I picked up the newspaper…
