Now mobile phone jammers to minimise road accidents

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Mobile phones may have brought instant communication within the reach of all, but they are also fast turning into a global killer, accounting for 20 percent of fatal road accidents worldwide annually, half of which are on Indian highways alone. Pioneering new technology, developed by Abdul Shabeer, doctoral scholar at Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, [...]

YouTube blocks anti-Islam video in India: Google

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Video sharing website YouTube has blocked access in India to an anti-Islam film that surfaced in the United States and has since sparked deadly protests in the Muslim world, Google said on Friday. US-based search engine Google, which owns YouTube, did not say whether it acted on its own or was asked to remove the [...]

Foreign journalists in China targeted by malware attacks

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Foreign journalists in Beijing have been targeted by two very similar malware attacks in just over two weeks in the lead-up to China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition. The emails one appearing to come from a Beijing based foreign correspondent and the other from a Washington-based think tank both contained an attachment with the same type of [...]

Apple reveals unlocked iPhone 5 pricing, guesswork begins for India prices

Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., introduces the iPhone 5 during Apple Inc.'s iPhone media event in San Francisco

Apple has finally decided to reveal the pricing of the SIM-free iPhone 5 models in the United States as well as several other countries. While, the availability details are known for some of these countries, there is no word on when unlocked iPhone 5 will be out in the United States.The unlocked pricing of Apple products in [...]

Apple takes a pass on NFC in iPhone 5

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  eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands for “Not For Commerce” and dismisses the prospects of Near Field Communication technology used to turn cellphones into mobile wallets.He got some support this week from Apple Inc, which did not embed NFC chips into the iPhone 5.NFC proponents had hoped [...]

Apple wins German patent case against Motorola

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A German court found Google owned IT company Motorola guilty of infringing Apple patents on the design of smartphones and tablets, a court spokesman said on Thursday. The court ordered Motorola to pay a yet-to-be-specified fine and pull the infringing devices, which run on Google’s Android operating system, from the market. The patent involves a [...]

iPhone 5 now available for pre-order

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Here’s good news for all those waiting to get their hands on the iPhone 5. Apple’s latest flagship device is now available for pre-order in select countries. The pre-order process went live on September 14 at 12:01am PT with US carriers AT&T, Verizon and Sprint offering the smartphone. We’d like to remind users that Apple will [...]

Nokia Lumia 900 debuts in India, found online at Rs. 32,999

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It seems that Nokia has launched the Windows Phone OS powered Lumia 900 silently in India as we have found this piece listed on Flipkart.com and Nokia’s Store with a hefty price tag of Rs. 32,999. On Nokia India’s Store it is very much in Stock but on Flipkart.com it is listed under Coming Soon Tag. At such a [...]

Everything you want to know about nano-SIM being used in iPhone 5

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  Apple announced the iPhone 5 at a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday and as expected the new phone will be using the recently approved nano-SIM standard. As there is a lot of confusion surrounding this new SIM card standard, we have compiled all the details about the nano-SIM cards.The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) [...]

Google search reveals celebrity closeness with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Google has been experimenting dozens of things with its search engine. Whether its acting tough bycensoring piracy related keywords, introducing new features like on-the-spot answers, widgets for tablets, enabling faster calculation or simply redesigning its search app , the search giant seems to have done it all. But it still can’t get enough. The latest search project for Google is titled [...]