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30
2011
Global Square ~ The Social Network For Activists Around The World
We have all witnessed the power of social media in the recent uprisings around the globe. A single video anonymously posted on YouTube turned a local rally ‘Occupy Wall Street’ into an international movement. Realizing the role of social media, Occupy Wall Street activist-geeks are developing their own social network. “We don’t want to[.....]
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2011
Arfa Karim: Youngest MCP In Critical Condition, Please Pray For Her!
Pakistan’s Pride: Arfa Karim, World’s Youngest MCP! Arfa Karim, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, is losing her battle with life. She has been on a ventilator since December 22, 2011 and doctors have given up on her. Arfa got an epileptic attack which damaged her heart and brain and since then, she is[.....]
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2011
Search Engine To Car Engine: Google Patents Driverless Cars
The search giant is on its way to take over the roads too. Google has been testing driver-less cars and has now moved one step further by getting a patent for its driver-less technology, that is ‘transitioning a mixed mode vehicle to autonomous mode’. The procedure to convert from ‘driver’ to ‘driver-less’ mode starts[.....]
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2011
Intel Goes Extreme With It’s Second Generation Core i7 Processor! [Official Press Release]
Intel Refreshes Ultimate Enthusiast Processor Lineup with Six-Core Offerings Second-Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family ‘Goes Extreme’ on the Eve of the 40th Anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel announces two new six-core, 12-thread desktop processors targeted at PC power users and enthusiasts: the Intel® Core™ i7-3960X and the Intel Core[.....]
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2011
Hacker’s Tame iPhone’s Siri To Enable Mind Control
While people are still busy jawing about Siri’s amazing ability to understand voice commands, a group of hackers demonstrated that Siri can read your mind too. Yes you read that right, Siri can be used with mind control. Two guys Ollie and Josh claimed in a video that Siri can understand brainwaves also, by[.....]
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2011
Nokia Stumps Samsung With It’s Interactive Bendable Display
I still remember, back in the year 2001, when I bought my first cell phone, an Ericsson T-something, with an antenna on top of it and a flap to speak into, rock hard keys and a “solar calculator-ish” green screen with black dots upon it to display whatever the task it was performing. Yes,[.....]
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2011
Google Updates Search Algorithm To Provide Fresher Results
The search giant Google will now provide us more recent and timelier results. Google updated its search algorithm acknowledging the fact that most of the search results it shows are not fresh. The revisions introduced to the algorithm will have an effect on 35 percent of the searches. In today’s fast pace technology world,[.....]
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2011
Users Lash Out At Buggy Gmail iOS App Causing Pull Down
Google rolled out its long awaited Gmail app for iOS on Wednesday but pulled it back within hours following the unpleasant response of the users. The iOS users declared the app unimpressive, useless and buggy. Users were looking forward to it and were very hopeful of the push notification feature of the app because[.....]
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2011
Microsoft And Nokia To Give Away 85,000 FREE Lumia Smartphones
Recently, Nokia turned heads towards itself with the unveiling of it’s new Lumia line of smartphones, the flagship Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. The phones use the Microsoft Windows Phone Mango platform. Now Nokia and Microsoft are again in the limelight with a new announcement: they will give away 85,000 new Lumia smartphones[.....]
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