All the months of rumor mongering seems to have paid off. The magical Tablet computer by Apple has been confirmed by Steve Jobs himself and that there will be a ‘special event’ on the 27th of Jan, 2010, where Apple will be announcing some ‘new products’. The iSlate is definitely one of them, but I’m […]
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Google Nexus One revealed, evolutionary but not revolutionary.
Google promised they would deliver news on their famous Nexus One phone and they have delivered just that when they revealed all the details regarding the GPhone earlier this week. However the excitement (as witnessed from live Twitter feeds) gradually waned as it represents no significant differences from existing Android phones, but does showcase the […]
New Google Phone, Nexus One
The net has been abuzz lately ever since rumors that Google is actively participating in creating a phone running on their Android platform. Unlike Android-running phones from companies like HTC and Motorola, this phone will be designed directly by Google to be the true ‘Google Experience Phone’. With such a mighty promise, one is certainly […]
File Sharing evolves: DHT, PEX and Magnet explained
For many of us who are reliant of Bit Torrent to access content, significant efforts started by copyright holders have slowly chipped away at the technology and rightfully so as many corporate figures view the technology as a threat to their business model and prefer to follow a raze-and-burn tactic rather than see how to […]
Install Android on your HTC Windows Mobile phones
Google, the land of milk and honey, have smashed open the smartphone market when they released their Android platform for free to developers and in one fell swoop, gave a huge stride forward for smartphones everywhere. Traditionally, the smartphone market relied on specific operating systems such as Nokia’s Symbian, Palm’s PalmOS and Apple with their […]
Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 Co-op and Multiplayer CRACKED?
Call of Duty 6 (geez, has there been SIX of these now? guess so) have been released last week and was one of the most anticipated releases of 2009. However, during the twilight moments of the game’s development, Infinity Ward, developers of the game, announced that the game will not have a working multiplayer LAN […]
Apple iPod event unveils new Touch, Nano
The annual Apple iPod event, which was held some times ago (I am so late!) is finally over and the question remains on what are the new products which is getting updated? Genius DJ First off, Steve Jobs is back again after a 6 month hiatus due to illness. His return is great news for […]
Google Android 2.0 smartphone platform
While many a kind word have been said about Apple’s Jesusphone, the fact remains that for all the gloss and luster, there are some terrible failures stemming from Apple’s own fear of openness and the resulting restrictions that it has imposed on the iPhone platform. How else could you explain the absence of rudimentary features […]
Tools to enhance Facebook and Twitter
The phenomenal growth of Facebook and Twitter has made a huge impact on the online communities, and these websites continue to push what is possible in Web 2.0, developing new technologies to deal with interesting new problems posed by having such fast, instant communication possible all the time and also in enhancing the look and […]
Photosketch Turning sketches into photographs
5 researchers from China and Singapore have given us a glimpse into what is possible in the future of image editing when they stunned the world by releasing Photosketch, a software which has almost magical abilities in its simplicity, yet is based on probably some very complicated stuff. Photosketch is an elegant concept: you sketch […]