Last financial year seems to have not gone down well with India’s largest online portal. Rediff.com has reported reported a net loss of $7.97 million for the year ended March 31, 2010. Though if you compare it to last year then it paints a picture that’s getting better as last year Rediff had netted a loss of $11.26 million
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Rediff FY09-10 Results: Revenues Decline 7.59 Mil $; Net Loss of 7.97 Mil $
Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area , taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall , brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction ‘s Alex Biem. The Wall has been on display at various events, like the 2010 Winter Olympics, and we’re stoked it’s making its way to the Faire
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Maker Faire: Digital Graffiti Wall
RIM's take on Blackberry Twitter. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) It’s been almost two months since smartphone maker Research In Motion released a beta version of its “official” Twitter client for BlackBerry
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Official BlackBerry Twitter app gets needed update
Big improvements in Target’s credit card segment, along with strong consumer spending patterns, led the big-box retailer to top expectations, yet its shares weren’t able to fend off the broader market’s continued concerns about Europe’s future. Despite surprisingly strong results, shares of…
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Target Earnings Exceed Aim
Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder By Laura Rich Apparently in need of a good road-trip stretch, AJ the Ford Fiesta checked into Yo Momma Yoga. “It was an auto-check-in,” explained T.J
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American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder
A white plastic “cube” * that is slightly bigger than a thumb tip protrudes from the top of an Android phone. A thin slit runs through it; peek inside and you can make out the interior metal nub capable of reading any credit card that swoops through it. This is Square , an accessory to the recently released Android version of an iPhone app (hands-on) that’s aiming to revolutionize personal mobile payments the way that PayPal first simplified payments online
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Start your own business with Square for Android
Make: Online reader Baz from Dublin, ireland, sent us this rad video of a low-tech robot lawn mower. He writes: Self-propelled lawn mower guided by wrapping a string around a couple of posts so it mows a spiral of lawn. Quite hacky, but interesting idea! In the MAKE offices we’ve been trying to guess what happens at the end
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Low-tech R/C lawn mower
While we get all our ducks in a row at the fairgrounds for Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, you might be interested to check out the master schedule of talks, shows, and demos going on throughout the weekend. The locations for all makers are also live on the Maker Faire site, so get to planning your visit! You can also download the Maker Faire Guide PDF . Dale Dougherty fills us in: We have several different stages with different styles of presentations and performances
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Maker Faire schedules and map
An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity. “It doesn’t really matter why we are criticizing him,” said ”Signor Ferrari,” one of the two Twitter users targeted in the subpoena from Corbett, who won the Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday. ”It’s our First Amendment right to criticize him no matter who we are,” Signor Ferrari said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Signor Ferrari uses that pen name on the CasablancaPA blog
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twitter Critics
Polish engineering student mb1988mb1988 and two friends built this homebrew pulse oximeter . It measures oxygen saturation in a patient by shining two wavelengths of light (infrared and red) through their finger, and recording the changes in light transmission over time. To power it all, they are using an 68HC908AB32 processor
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DIY Pulse Oximeter
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Discount retailer Target Corp (TGT.N) and warehouse club operator BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc (BJ.N) posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings as consumers began to spend on more than just necessities. Target cited sales of more profitable items like apparel, while BJ’s saw a..
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Target, BJ’s have pickup in consumer spending
In case you missed the announcement tucked at the end of Dale’s Maker Faire preview post yesterday, I’m here to tell you the OK Go will be performing an acoustic set on the Solar Stage at Maker Faire Bay Area on Sunday at 5pm. They’re thinking of it as a teaser to their headlining show at the Filmore later next week in SF
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OK Go to play Maker Faire Sunday
A German cybercrime forum was hacked by attackers who have exposed the underground dealings of the criminal denizens. The hackers snagged the database containing what appears to be all the private correspondence of the forum members, and posted it to the web
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Vigilantes Hack Criminal Carding Forum and Expose Underground Dealings
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this excellent tea caddy variable capacitor ( translation ), which uses a homemade capacitor to turn a little plastic container into a volume control. Nice hack! More: MAKE presents: The Capacitor DIY electronic inclinometer: Measure tilt using water! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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DIY Volume knob built using a tea caddy and tinfoil
We are super excited to announce that Chris Moss has just joined us as Global Chief Marketing Officer. Chris has earned himself a phenomenal reputation in the industry as a brand galvaniser. He’s created three billion-dollar brands including Virgin Atlantic, which he joined when it had only one route and one aircraft and transformed into an award winning airline; Orange (which he rebranded from Microtel) and 118118, where he was behind the famous moustached running duo.
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Truphone appoints new Chief Marketing Officer
Ayman Shamma not only made a steel pan drum application for his iPad, but he also made some conductive fabric mallets with which to drum. Great work! More: Collin’s Lab: DIY iPad Stylus Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this!
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iPad steel drum with conductive mallets
Touchnote , the mobile app startup which allows you to snap a picture and send it to someone as a physical postcard, has signed a non-exclusive deal with Sony Ericsson which will see it distributed on SE handsets on a global basis. The deal means the Touchnote-branded app will appear on SE’s Android and Symbian handsets and integrated into the camera and gallery. On first use users will get offered free product to whet their appetite.
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Touchnote inks global deal with Sony Ericsson for postcard app
If you are the kinds who hasn’t had enough of ploughing fields and being a don in the virtual world then this piece of news is just for you. Facebook and Zynga (the company that made us farmers through Farmville) have announced a five-year strategic relationship As per this strategic tie up one can expect to see more social gaming on Facebook and introduction of the Facebook Credits system in Zynga’s games.
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Facebook – Zynga Tie Up For 5 Years – Expect Social Gaming To Grow!
Smartphone sales have continued to explode with analyst firm Gartner reporting an almost 50% increase in the first quarter of 2010. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, also states that.. “Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year.” Microsoft took a beating, with Android outperforming the Windows Mobile OS and pushing it into fourth place for the first time.
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Android knocks WinMo into fourth place according to stats
Mining industries in Goa are mulling the possibility of setting up a network of conveyor belts to transport ore from the mining pits to the port from where it is exported, an industry insider said Wednesday. Secretary of the Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) Glen Kalavampara said a string of conveyor belts may be the answer to increasing pollution and accidents, which occur as a result of transporting ore by trucks from extraction sites in the hinterland to shipping points along the coast.
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Goa industry mulls conveyor belts to transport ore
Auction for 3G licence ended Today with bids reaching Rs 16,751 crore which means that the total revenue for government is pegged at Rs 67,719 crore. We have expressed our concerns earlier on how this could mean a higher cost to be paid by the end subscriber for availing 3G services. Delhi vs Mumbai Battle The delhi vs Mumbai battle for the most valuable circle was finally won by Delhi even though Mumbai lead the race for most of the 34 days that the auction was ongoing.
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3G Auction Ends (Finally!) – Government Grosses 67,719 Crore!
Apnacomplex is a web-based software solution for Associations, Owners, Residents, and Property Developers, to efficiently manage apartment complexes & residential layouts. It offers a host of tools and features that facilitates the management of a typical residential property in complexes.
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ApnaComplex – Management Software for Residential Apartments
Sprint Hero owners can now at last get their hands on the highly anticipated Android 2.1 update . It’s available from the support site and gives enhanced corporate email support, HTC Sense improvements, better camera quality and all the Android 2.1 improvements (faster, more screen size support, improved Google Maps, Exchange support, live wallpapers and much more).
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Android 2.1 arrives for Sprint Hero
New York-based BREAKFAST fitted a BlimpDuino with on-board video and wireless control system and took it out for a spin at a party to interact with the crowd. Everybody’s favorite controller du jour, an iPad, was employed to orient the dirigible and act as a augmented display medium. [Thanks, Zolty !] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this!
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iPad controlled video blimp
We already knew it was hours if not minutes away – see TechCrunch US report – and it’s perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year’s day). Yes folks, the official Twitter app for iPhone is here, you know the one expected based on Tweetie ever since Twitter bought the company
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Updated: Yes folks, the official iPhone Twitter app is here
Muchael Birch, who co-founded social network Bebo along with his wife Xochi Birch, has invested an undisclosed amount in social media agency Punktilio . He’ll also become an adviser to the company. Punktilio, whose clients include Arsenal F.C, Harper Collins, Phones 4u and Simon Cowell’s SyCo Music label, was founded by ex-Bebo Head of Music, Hal Stokes, so there’s an existing relationship between the two
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Bebo founder Michael Birch invests in social media agency Punktilio
The LG Panther is really the only Windows Phone 7 handset we’ve had a good look at since the OS was debuted at Mobile World Congress in February, and here it is again. This picture improves slightly on what we were treated to on video at the beginning of March, and gives a better impression of the size and construction of the phone. We already know the phone will have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but here we can see the Windows key clearly in the centre, with the back and search keys alongside
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LG Panther Gets Caught on Camera Again
M3i Telecom Canada provide an extensive range of telecommunications solutions like calling cards, phone cards, long distance calling cards, prepaid calling cards, International calling card, International phone card, long distance phone services and long distance phone plans to both businesses and individuals
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Long Distance Canada
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system continues to stagnate as people wait for Windows Phone 7 and the latest data shows Google Android passing them up. Android actually had the largest percentage increase of all smartphone platforms.
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Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data
Marco’s Pizza, an authentic Italian pizza company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, has joined forces with prominent franchising veteran Anil Yadav to expand the franchise by 170 stores throughout California. Multiple Marco’s Pizza locations are planned for the Bakersfield, Chico-Redding, East Bay, Eureka, Fremont, Fresno, Lancaster-Palmdale, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Simi Valley and Stockton areas.
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Marco’s Pizza Announces 170-Store Expansion Plan for California