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Awais Khan
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Nintendo sells four million notebooks in Japan

The premiere of Nintendo’s notebook is far from what the company initially estimated. The gaming giant took several months to realize that, for starters, the sales success of their first dual screen portable device was far from recurring. The Japanese company had to reduce the price of their new notebook to just over 150 Euros […]

Student forces Facebook to improve security

A Viennese law student, Max Schrems, 24, hacked into 1222 Facebook pages and housed the date in a CD. The younsgter managed to divide the personal data into 57 categories such as hobbies, tastes, religious views, and so on.  The data accumulated during his three years in the social network, including information and conversations that […]

Reverred game developer Miyamoto steps down from his position at Nintendo

Legendary Miyamoto will leave his position as head developer at Nintendo but will continue at the console giant’s headquarters. However, no longer will he be leading development of Nintendo games at the organization. From now on, Miyamoto will focus on personal projects in the company. Shigeru Miyamoto is creator of one of the best titles […]

Indian company introduces world’s cheapest tablet

Like the netbook market, Indian government backed Aaskash tablet brought the  price of tablets to a new low. Aaskash, which means sky in Hindi, is intended to be introduce among developing countries with high growth rates, especially China, Russia and Brazil. The second edition of this device, which was manufactured by UbiSlate, designed and funded […]

Google to release its tablet within six months

Eric Schmidt, CEO of internet search engine giant, Google, has announced that the company will introduce their own tablet within six months. Schmidt stated the time period of release but did not give further details. The latest announcement by Google is part of a series of notable accolades in the memory of late Steve Jobs. […]

Louvre to use Nintendo 3DS from next year

In an official announcement by Musée du Louvre authorities, the world famous museum will use Nintendo 3DS as an audio guide from March next year. As a result, the museum will gradually replace their electronic guidebooks for the Japanese console. A total of five thousand units will be deployed in action at first, with further […]

British Telecom sues Google Android over patent misuse

Apple and Microsoft are not the only ones claiming search engine giant, Google, has violated patents they own. Telecommunication operator, British Telecom (BT), have filed a lawsuit in the United States against the company which has been benefiting from their inventions on Android and services like Google Maps, Google + or their own search engine. […]

Apple and Amazon planning on new tablets with different sizes

What is the ideal size of a tablet? When it seemed that tablets should be of around 10 inches, Apple Inc. is preparing an iPad model with a screen size of 7.85 inches. The tablet is poised to begin production in second quarter of 2012. Samsung have already experimented with a seven-inch tablet, but have […]

Website tracking BitTorrent downloads

  When you enter www.youhavedownloaded.com, the first thing an Internet user gets is a note that gives the Internet IP address in a file. In the negative sense, it means that the user has not used BitTorrent or other P2P downloading software. Continuing on the website, one is led to "feel free" and see what […]

European Union closes case against IBM

The European Commission has accepted IBM’s offer to counterparties in order to close a lawsuit filed against them last year. The computer giants were accused of abusing its dominant position in the market for mainframe maintenance. Last September, the European Commission published a proposal made by IBM to keep it from being fined for abusing […]

YouTube helps schools with specific site

Continuing their policy to facilitate consumers and help out educations institutes, Google has launched a new service for educational institutes. The internet giant wants to avoid concerns about contents their video website, YouTube, and has come to the aid of schools to prevent students accessing prohibited content. As a result they have created a YouTube […]

Google announces to close 22 applications

Reports of a virus based on Google’s internet services have had a high cost on the web giant. There have been accusations made on the company for fraudulent messages as well. Apparently a security hoax has gone viral in Facebook where contacts of a given user are all affected. In the wake of it, Google […]

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