The year 2011 was anything but secure in terms of internet security and what made it worse was the integration of the public sector organizations that regulate the utilities like water were exposed to the cloud without taking any prior precautions. The corporate sector or the CIA being the target of the hacktivists has been […]
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7. Apple’s Macbook Air The third and last Apple product in the list, Macbook Air did not offer many new things but the company released its benchmarking thinnest laptop with new prices this fall. The bottom line Air is ‘All Yours’ for a mere $899. The second generation of Apple’s MacBook Air fixes many of […]
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5. Amazon’s Kindle Fire The company surprised everybody with this new and colourful device that is not only a book readers but an entertainment source as well and that is not the end of it. The price tag slapped on it is even more bewildering. "Underdog" doesn’t typically describe Amazon products. But the well-reviewed Kindle […]
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3. Ice Cream Sandwich Not only iOS 5 got a big reception in iPhone 4S but Google release a new version of its trademark operating system that was an upgrade to the predecessors. Although it sprung a learning curve but it is better software nonetheless. Until Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich arrived on the scene, […]
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Following are some of the products that were successful during the year that saw a more cut throat competition from these companies. 1. Apple iPhone 4S No introduction to this revolutionizing handset. It just got bigger on the screen this year. The iPhone 4S is the ultimate comeback kid. Despite showing up four months later […]
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Not many innovations this year but there were are a number of new products that advanced in mobile technology and home entertainment. Apple spurred mobile technology and gave it a new name of mobile computers. There is no doubt that mobile was in the market even before the first iPhone came into the market but […]
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3. Twitter App Twitter is considered not only a social networking platform, but recently it was name the fastest source of news, first hand mostly. Most of the news these days spur from this website and even majority of them are incited by the parties involved in the news themselves. We wouldn’t be the least […]
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2. Google + App Although it has been only seven months since the launch of Google’s own social networking website, it has been embraced warmly by networking enthusiasts. In the light of the social demand, Google has developed its own application for its own operating system. Google+ for Android is a clean and intuitive mobile […]
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Following are some of best applications that market has for Android-based smartphones and tablets. 1. Facebook App Google acknowledges the importance of world’s most populated website and has allowed ample room for Facebook to develop a more interactive application. The official Facebook for Android app is undoubtedly the best way to interact with Facebook on […]
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Social networking is one of the best and foremost features in mobile computing, since it takes a huge part in running the user’s life. Be it Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or any other website that lets the users to interact with each other, the mobile devices let them to do it on the go, making the […]
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Google donates £7.5m for global fight against slave labour World’s famous search engine, Google, will be donating £7.5m ($11.5m) as a grant to those organizations in India, Europe and US who fight against modern slave labour and its hold on 27 million people worldwide. The donated money will go to 10 intervention and education organisations […]
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In order to increase visibility of the most views videos on YouTube, the video buffering giants will start a voting competition. Polls will be made on the different categories of videos for the competition. Users participating in the competition will win points on voting, an action that will have no rewards but will aid other […]