Month: June 2012
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Why India will not get Google’s amazing Nexus 7 Tablet
Google’s Nexus 7 tablet is the definition of insanity. The good type. Have a look at the features to get started. CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 (Quad-core) RAM 1 GB Screen 7″ (216ppi Back-lit IPS display) OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean It’s long been clear that Apple rules the high-end in a market they created. Many (…
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Loading Android 4.1, codename Jelly Bean. Access granted!
The next major release of Android OS entitled Jelly Bean(v4.1) is here to treat our geeky taste buds, with its exciting new improvements and features. Google took the curtains off the promising OS yesterday at The Google Developers I/O Keynote, taking us from its crooks to crannies in a matter of a few minutes. The…
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Live sky-diving at the Google I/O conference, and other insane stuff!
The Google I/O conference is going on right now ( it’s a 3 day event ), and Google just outdid themselves, and everybody else, including Facebook and Apple, in terms of pure awesomeness. The first part of the demo was pretty normal, where they introduced stuff like Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a very fluid interface,…
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Surface: The Microsoft tablet that is awesome!
Microsoft is finally entering the tablet market with its own hardware. The Surface comes with Windows RT, and by the looks of it, is pretty awesome. The Surface used to be the name of Microsoft’s touch screen tables, which this is not. This is finally a tablet that I would buy, mainly because when I…
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Awesome free music streaming apps for Indians
Here is a list of music sites that you can use for free, from India, to listen to International as well as Bollywood music. 1. Grooveshark + Good for International music. It’s like the YouTube for music. Grooveshark has the best library controls. Ad supported. + Works on mobile ( HTML5 ). – The majority of the music…
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The Anonymous Occupy movement was not a failure
The general feeling that I have been sensing among some of the social media chatter around me is that the Anomymous protest was not big enough. It is obvious that it was nothing compared to campaigns run by protesters who are very skilled in their art, for example the anti corruption campaigns by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev. Despite this…
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Lava, a cheap Indian mobile phone manufacturer, foraying into high end market as XOLO
Just a month ago we got India’s first and world’s second Intel Smartphone. First announced at the Mobile World Congress in early 2012 , HTC , Samsung and Sony are going on a merry ride with British ARM processors , swiping off Intel’s domain from mobile computing. Getting back , with no support from big guns…