May 23, 2013

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IE9 RC launched by Microsoft in San Francisco; brings improvements in Performance

IE9 RC launched by Microsoft at the event in San Francisco; brings improvements in Performance

Internet Explorer 9 RC has been announced by Microsoft at the Hang Art Gallery in San Francisco’s Union Square this morning. The link was available early for download; in fact The Software giant was planning to launch the IE9 RC at this event in San Francisco. But somehow the link for download had been leaked. [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt steps down; Larry Page steps up to CEO Post

Samsung Galaxy S2 leak; expected to have 1080p HD and Dual-Core Processor

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from the post and Co-founder of Google Larry Page will decorate the Post as CEO, Eric Schmidt will keep his relation with Google as Executive chairman, and Schmidt will leave the role as CEO on April 4. Schmidt joined in Google as CEO in 2001, According to Google [...]

Vodafone branded “HTC Magic” to be updated to Android 2.2 Froyo

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This News could make Users of HTC Magic happy that the phones will be getting Android 2.2.1 update soon, for better known “Froyo”,  much like its HTC myTouch 3G relative that has already begun receiving updates on the T-Mobile USA network. The update will hit users of the phone on the Vodafone UK Network. With [...]

Notion Ink Adam Tablet Pre-Order Begins; Now Available for $ 375

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Notion Ink has announced pre-order information for their Adam tablet, With the slate going on sale to existing commenters at 1.30pm EST today and then on general sale at 7.30pm EST.  and the tablet will be a bit cheaper than expected, starting at just $375.33, while adding 3G takes it to $425.33. Pricing and more [...]

Microsoft releases “Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools”- Now Available for Download

This is the news that all the VB Developers are waiting for, that Microsoft has released tools for building Visual Basic applications for Windows Phone 7, a move that could produce a significant number of applications for the new Smartphone operating system, as well as C#. The RTW provides “Go Live” support, which allows VB [...]

Dell “Vostro V130”-A New Notebook from Dell for Small Business

Dell Vostro V130 Notebook Image

Despite a couple of quibbles with its screen and design,  like many Dell laptops, the slim and light Dell Vostro V130 is still a top ultraportable notebook that’s great for business users. The ultra-low-voltage Core i5 CPU provides much faster performance at a better price than the previous Vostro V13 model. The branding is confusing [...]

Bell and Virgin Mobile now brings BlackBerry Torch 9800 in red

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Bell Canada and Virgin Mobile are now offering the BlackBerry Torch 9800 in red. All of the specs remain the same as does the pricing which starts at $179.95 with a 3 year contract and runs as high as $599.95 with no contract. With the newest finger-centric OS and the WebKit based browser, the device [...]

Android 3.0 “Hneycomb” with Tegra 2 could be launched on February

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Things are moving rapidly in the Android world, this week we learned that Android 2.3 should be available in the next few weeks and now it looks like Honeycomb (Android 3.0) could be ready to go as early as February. A report in DigiTimes says that in February or March, the tablet-centric Android 3.0 or [...]

MacTech benchmarks Office 2011, finds big gains

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“MacTech” has released the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The goal was to see how well the new Office applications performed compared to Office 2008 and 2004 across a variety of configurations. The results show significant speed gains all around, particularly in general app launching times, and in [...]

Firefox 4 Beta 7 launched:Let’s check it out

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The news for which all the fans of Firefox are waiting that Mozilla has released the 7th Beta version of the upcoming Firefox 4b browser and the incredibly interesting thing is that this latest Beta release comes with a new, faster JavaScript engine. Instead of the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, Firefox 4 Beta 7 uses the [...]

Nokia Announces New Development Strategies to Unify Symbian and MeeGo Environment

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Nokia announces great clarification and simplicity in it’s developer offering, it’s going to empower the development community to create application to reach users across both the Symbian and MeeGo platforms. The decision focuses on Qt as the sole application development framework will ensure compatibility with future evolution of Symbian as well as forthcoming MeegGo .And [...]

HTC Droid Incredible Froyo Android 2.2 Update Available from August 18

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The Froyo update will be available for Droid Incredible owners on Wednesday, August 18, according to Mashable’s unnamed sources. Verizon Wireless team members are reportedly using the new version of Android on their phones already. We’ve heard from our sources that the Verizon team members already have Froyo installed on their Droid Incredibles. Now the [...]