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Mozilla Firefox 5 Beta 2 released
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
Have you only just upgraded to Firefox 4? Be prepared for a major upgrade soon. Mozilla has released the second beta of the next version of its flagship browser, aka Firefox 5 – already! This is perhaps the fastest ever next version release scenario coming from the Firefox stable, coming just about a month after [...]
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5 steps to avoid Facebook spam
Posted on 16. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
Are you pissed from all the spam on your Facebook wall just because your friends are gullible enough to click anything and everything? Better share this post on their wall. One small step for a friend, one giant leap against spamkind.
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Ad-supported Kindle is a bestseller
Posted on 16. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
Amazon’s Kindle with special offers – an ad-supported version of its popular ebook reader – is now officially a bestseller, according to Amazon’s list of bestsellers in electronics category. While Amazon’s electronics bestsellers list has been led by the Kindle Wi-Fi for about a year, the new #1 bestseller is the Kindle Wi-Fi with Special [...]
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Google Blogger in long maintenance mode
Posted on 13. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
Google’s blogging service blogger.com has gone into a long maintenance mode due to technical glitches even as engineers are working overtime to get things working. Blogger is attributing the issue to a problem that occurred during regular maintenance on Wednesday. A post on the Blogger Help Forum explains: We have rolled back the maintenance release [...]
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Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich out soon
Posted on 10. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
Google will soon be launching the “Ice Cream Sandwich” – a new version of its Android operating system that packages the best of Honeycomb (Android software for tablets) into Android for mobile devices. Google announced plans to release Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of the year at its developer conference in San Francisco, and [...]
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Osama Bin Laden – the real world’s Voldemort – killed
Posted on 02. May, 2011 by Sarthak K.
In news that has led to celebrations in most of the world and despair in some, Osama Bin Laden, the dreaded “chief death eater” was killed on Sunday by US forces in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad, which is about 90 Km from the capital Islamabad. Meanwhile, the popular spoof twitter handle of Lord Voldemort [...]
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Apple launching white iPhone on April 28
Posted on 27. Apr, 2011 by Sarthak K.
When will Apple release the white iPhone 4? That has been the burning question in the mind of Apple fanboys and gadget freaks ever since the company unveiled the white iphone in June 2010. White iphone 4 release date From June 2010 to April 28, 2011? According to macstories.net, the huge delay has been caused: [...]
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Thumbs down to Nokia C3
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by Sarthak K.
My painfully frustrating experience with the Nokia C3 – a very average symbian based phone with slightly smartphone looks
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Harry Potter may soon be available on Kindle
Posted on 05. Apr, 2011 by Sarthak K.
The Harry Potter series may finally be available in digital ebook format for devices like Kindle and iPad, according to a report. Harry Potter might finally be getting around to entering the 21st century. The Scotsman newspaper reports that after years ignoring the format, JK Rowling is considering e-book versions of all seven installments of [...]
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Firefox 4 released – to battle IE9 and Chrome
Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by Sarthak K.
There are more than 400 million users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser worldwide – and even as I write this post, 2.8 million of them have already downloaded Firefox 4 – which was released only a few hours back! Firefox 4 is a major upgrade for Mozilla. It will feature a revamped plug-in architecture called JetPack, [...]
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Author Bio: Sarthak K is new media professional based in New Delhi, India. He freelances as blogger, journalist and web developer.



