May 25, 2013

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Foursquare Crossed Over 3 Million Users – 18,000 New Registrations per Day

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The location-based social network, Foursquare hit the three million user mark this weekend and is growing rapidly. The Foursquare social network has been adding users at impressive rates, and only hit 2 million users in early July. It took a year to reach one million; three months to hit 2 million, and a month and [...]

Infineon-InteI Deal Reported at the End of the Week

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InteI and Infineon Deal Reported at the End of the Week : U.S. chipmaker Intel and Infineon are likely to announce an agreement on the future of the German chipmaker’s wireless business this weekend, three people familiar with the matter said. The deal is likely to happen within the next two days, the people told [...]

Intel-Infineon Deal to Give Intel a Start in Smartphone Processor Market

Intel-Infineon Deal to Gives Intel a Start in Smartphone Processor Market : According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is closing in on a deal to acquire the wireless unit of Infineon AG. You know, the company responsible for the iPhone’s baseband chips since 1997. That’s one way to build a mobile presence. Citing unnamed people [...]

Intel Plans to Buy Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Division

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Intel Plans to Buy Infineon Technologies Wireless Division : Intel, the world’s largest chip-maker, is close to an agreement to buy Infineon Technologies’s wireless business, three people with direct knowledge of the discussions said. Citing unnamed people close to the negotiations, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal both reported Aug. 26 that negotiations between Intel [...]

September 1 iPod Event Rumors – iPod Touch 4, iTV, 99-cent TV Show Rentals and Cloud Based iTunes

September 1 iPod Event Rumors : Apple on Wednesday finally sent invites for its annual iPod event, scheduled for next Wednesday, September 1, at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco. Here is a list for what we were expecting Apple to announce in the Sept.1 Event, New Apple TV(iTV) for $99 Apple TV [...]

Adobe AIR Heads to Android Q4 2010 Release

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Adobe confirmed this morning at the Flash Summit in San Francisco let it be known that Adobe AIR 2.5 will be available in the foruth quarter of 2010. No exact dates, unfortunately, but at least it’s better than nothing. The more troubling thing, comes in the fact that Adobe isn’t talking about how AIR will [...]

Google Mobile Event Set for August 12, Expecting More Feature Updates with Android OS

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Google has invited members of the media to a mobile event at their offices in San Francisco on Thursday morning. They are expected to be unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features. Last time, Google launched turn-by-turn navigation, which became a point for the rivals like Nokia to introduce free Satnav. It is rumoured [...]

San Francisco Now Using Demand Parking Meters to Get Rid of Parking Hassle

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The endless search for a parking spot in the city may be a thing of the past—in San Francisco, at least. After years of preparation, the city is now rolling out SFpark, a high-tech new system that will set the price of parking spots according to supply and demand. The San Francisco Metro Transit Authority [...]

Taskrabbit Helps you to do Errands for Small Price – Life is More Simpler Now

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TaskRabbit is a new service that allows users to list small jobs or tasks online for runners to complete for a small price. This service serves for people who have errands and people who need some extra income.The service is best used for small Goodwill drop-offs, IKEA furniture assembly, airport rides, grocery runs and tons [...]

2010 Apple WWDC and Microsoft TechEd both Events Start on Monday, June 7

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Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple. The two most valuable tech companies in the world will host competing conferences next week for IT pros and developers. While Apple gets its iGroove on with the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Microsoft will lure techie professionals to New Orleans for TechEd. Both conferences start Monday, [...]

Google IO Conference 2010 at San Francisco

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If you will be unable to attend Google’s developer’s conference held at the San Francisco Moscone Center on May 19-20. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PDT Wednesday morning at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. Google hasn’t released a specific agenda, but we believe that Wednesday’s event will focus heavily [...]