When mobile phones first started being used regularly, many people were concerned about the rudeness that came along with them. It took some time to get used to hearing people talk on their own phones all around us in public spaces but the most part, we’ve adjusted. We conduct our business by phone in all types of public spaces including on public transport
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Trains Begin Creating “No Phone Zones”
When Apple boast about 250,000 applications being available for download from the App Store, and Google report figures of 80,000 for the Android Market, RIM announcing that the BlackBerry App World has recently passed the 10,000 app milestone makes it look like a small fish in a big pond. However, it’s quality not quantity that counts and we’re all guilty of being blinded by these figures, as this achievement should not go unrecognised. RIM opened the doors to the App World in April 2009 with less than a thousand apps inside, plus a restriction on the countries that could have access to it. App World 2.0 came along a year later, but didn’t reach UK shores until late August, bringing with it QR code scanning, new payment options and the addition of app charts.
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BlackBerry App World Reaches 10,000 Apps
Talks have been in the works for a while about a Google Music service designed to compete with Apple’s iTunes and Wired has reported that it’s likely to be released by Christmas. There is a huge Android vs. Apple war going on right now.
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Christmas 2010: Google Music for Android Users
Remember the Sony Ericsson Yendo? Perhaps not, but let us reacquaint you. The Yendo was announced back in the middle of June along with the Cedar and on the back of the X8’s debut . Previously seen under the ever-so-sweet codename of TeaCake, this was the return of the Walkman phone, and the first of which to wear a full touchscreen. Well, the W150i Yendo is just about ready for sale, with a Spanish retailer listing it as costing €169, or about £140. The Yendo has also been approved for sale in the USA, where it will be known as the Yizo. Nice. Anyway, the Yizo will share the same features as the Yendo, and here is a reminder of what they are: 2.6″ touchscreen.
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Yendo You Remember Me?
If you are talking about an Internet revolution in India, you will, now, have some very impressive numbers to aid you. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) , jointly, carried out a research recently and concluded that the number of active Internet users in rural India is expected to rise to 5.4 million in 2010 – a staggering 30% increase since 2008.
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Now Surfing – Rural India @ 5.4 Million Users
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Google seems to be looking at bringing you your search results even quicker. Infact they have launched a product called Google Instant that brings you search results as you type. Google infact believes that their new feature google instant achieves search- before -you-type—that is, results for the most likely search given what you have already typed
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Google Announces Google Instant – Search As You Type
India is a country on the move. The country is moving ahead slowly but surely towards a brighter future; a future where the customer is king and all his preferences are given more priority than it is given now. We have in the past talked about how digitalization and its impact on the customer or how resourceful 3G will turn out to be for the end user.
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Curb On Bulk SMS, National Broadband Plan, MNP Coming Soon – TRAI
Interested in ‘women’ and looking for ‘dating’, is a succinct introduction to Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate on his Facebook page . Only, the account is fake. The Panaji police are looking for the imposter who created Monserrate’s fake page and used it to hurl a slew of abuses to several persons known to Monserrate, including sitting Curtorim legislator Reginaldo Lourenco, who brought the fake page to Monserrate’s notice. “I am pretty much a computer illiterate.
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Goa education minister loses ‘face’ on Facebook
Reliance Communication , one of India’s leading telecom companies in India, is in a spot of bother as their debts are rapidly increasing. It was a known fact that RCom had plans of cleaning these debts by the selling its 26 per cent equity to Etilasat and tower assets to GTL . Since the tower sale is cancelled, RCom is planning a new strategy for reducing its Rs 33,000 crore debt.
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RCom’s Debt Increases, With The Loss Of Deal
I haven’t seen this guy, Gavilan Simon’s, work before. I like the clear, straightforward way that he explains how he used his Darwin RepRap machine to fabricate a better extruder head for it, and then, used the improved Darwin to fabricate a Mendel (the next-gen RepRap model)
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Darwin prints own head, then a Mendel
With just over two weeks left to World Maker Faire New York , the countdown is on! Our first full-scale East Coast Faire will take place on September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, which was originally built as a pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair, the perfect location to showcase the newest maker-made art and tech. In the lead-in to the Faire, we want to showcase the Maker Faire’s most important collaborators: the makers themselves. Today we chat with RuBot creator and Mechatrons director, Pete Redmond.
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World Maker Faire NY: RuBot II interview
The MakerBot CupCake is a thing of beauty, an open-source 3D printer whose $750 price undersells the commercial alternatives by a ton. Plus, you get a fanatical group of users who’ll help you debug any problem. Yes, the Dimension uPrint can make tighter models and outputs them quicker, but $20,000 excludes most amateurs.
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Commercial 3D printers will one day undersell the Makerbot. But does it matter?
The frenzied folks over at iFixit have torn down the iPod touch 4 and the big news — or rather small news — is that it only has 256MB of RAM, the same as the iPad and iPhone 3GS , but half what the iPhone 4 has. Along with the tiny .7mp camera, lack of IPS display , and lack of a 128GB option, this feels like a cost-savings measure by Apple.
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iPod touch 4 torn down, 256MB of RAM confirmed
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The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT , monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government networks, and helps other civil agencies respond to hack attacks
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DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network
Ms. Pac Man from Namco is first out the gate with iOS 4.1 Game Center support, but there are plenty more to come. We’ll update this post — and we’ll keep updating our new Game Center games tracker in the iPhone Forums — as new ones arrive, but here’s a first look at Leaderboards and Achievements… after the break! For more new features, see our iOS 4.1 walkthrough
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Game Center games begin to arrive [Gallery]
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, is among five plaintiffs who claim CIA torture Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.
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Citing Obama’s State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case
If you have a good animal/pet photos or news (including lost pets, pets for adoption, dog park news or any other interesting animal sightings) please shoot me an email with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title or upload to the PoPville flickr pool . Photo by PoPville flickr user super b “Dear PoP, I was wondering if you’ve ever posted about cat sitters in the neighborhood
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Animal Fix: Cat Sitter Recs and a very Dignified Zebra
This year’s Nokia World convention is almost here, and has brought plenty of speculation with it. Not only is the Finnish manufacturer’s new flagship Eseries device, the Nokia E7 , expected to take centre stage during the event but rumours are putting the Nokia N9 , the company’s first MeeGo handset there as well. Nokia insiders burst that bubble earlier though and revealed that this is not the case to a Swedish website claiming that the N9 has been delayed and Symbian^3 will be the hottest topic on this year’s agenda.
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Nokia N9 “Delayed” Claim Inside Sources
Earlier this week, we reported that HTC’s rumoured Windows Phone 7 device, the HD3 appeared as the HTC HD7 in an O2 document. It was an assumption mainly based on the release date that was printed with it, which was smack bang in the middle of October, when the highly anticipated Microsoft OS is due to hit UK shores
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HTC HD7 to be Announced at HTC Event Next Week?
The Goa government is to “pursue” the union information and broadcasting ministry over being left out of organising the 2010 International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Wednesday said. Kamat’s statement comes after the union ministry snubbed the Goa government by virtually pushing out the state authorities from the organisational scheme of things for the 2010 IFFI. Kamat said he would personally pursue the ministry to reconsider its position. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), which co-organises IFFI along with the IB ministry’s directorate of film festivals (DFF), Kamat said that he would meet IB Minister Ambika Soni to redress the matter. “The members (of the ESG board) suggested various things which would be put across to the DFF,” Kamat told reporters after a meeting of the ESG board in Panaji
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Goa protests being edged out of IFFI organisation
Oil Spill in Goa Beaches is getting worse by the day despite assurance from Tourism Ministry. Several Goa beaches have turned black due to oil spill which government says is annual phenomena. Tourism Ministry has played down the incident despite the fact that Oil Spill crisis calling it natural Phenomena but local people says that the problem is much worse than few previous years. More oil is washing up on the beaches of Goa then before.
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Oil Spill in Goa Beaches Getting Worse
Nick Marsh’s Nike Air Max sneaks have been tricked out with Wii accelerometers Balance Board load cells that connect to a belt pack. Computers are becoming an ever increasing part of modern life and gaming is a large part of this, being used to relax, socialise and more recently, exercise. Gaming platforms such as the Nintendo Wii have made it possible for people to get their own personal sports work out from the comfort of their living room, using hand held controllers and a balance board to participate.
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Wii-controller Nikes
Instamedia (formerly Instablogs) can now surely be termed as one of the more successful startups to come out of India. We had heard a rumor last week that Instablogs had closed funding with Times Group, but did not have much details about it then.
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Exclusive: InstaMedia (formerly Instablogs) gets strategic investment of $ 4 Million from Times Group
Wooden Bowl Bottom Cut Out Stainless Steel Bowl, Filled With Lead Centre from Scotch Tape Hard Disk from PC. Cheap Pin Vise from Ebay I don’t think the captions from Ganoksin Project user Shaun750′s video , embedded above, showing off his clever kitbashed engraver’s vise, are meant to be appreciated as blank verse.
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Homemade engraver’s ball
Seedcamp Week, the week when the startup programme brings its European travels to a head and lands in London, starts next week and they’ve released the startups they will be running through their intense mentoring wringer during the 13th until the 17th of September.
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Seedcamp kicks off its biggest week yet
Mozilla Labs has a new in-browser gaming project. (Credit: Mozilla) Computer games have played an important role in advancing the state of the art for computing, and now Mozilla hopes to draw upon gaming to advance browser application development. The Firefox backer launched the new Mozilla Labs Gaming project Tuesday with the goal of encouraging programmers to use a host of new browser and Web technologies
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Mozilla: Now is the time for browser-based games
An Indian court on Wednesday gave the government in the resort state of Goa two months to begin removing the rusting hulk of a ship that ran aground on a popular tourist beach a decade ago. Two judges at the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court told the authorities they had until June to tow away the MV River Princess , which hit the coast of north Goa during storms in 2000. The giant iron ore carrier, grounded just off Calangute beach, has become a familiar sight to the tens of thousands of tourists who flock to the former Portuguese colony’s white sands every year. Local people frustrated by previous failed attempts to remove the ship filed a petition to the court demanding its removal, expressing concern about potential damage to the coastline, marine life and tourism
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Goa ordered to remove wrecked ship from tourist beach
Accusing Union Surface Transport Minister, Kamal Nath for playing a fraud on Goans vis-à-vis highway expansion, Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar has said the BJP is in favour of a “wider” highway and not a highway under the National Highway Authority of India standards. Parrikar said the House Committee constituted to study the highway imbroglio has not met till date and added that he has written to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly over the delay in the convening a meeting of the Committee. Briefing newsmen, Parrikar said the same Kamal Nath had come out with the Special Economic zone (SEZ) and wants to commit land dealing fraud in the State by acting in haste on the national highway.
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Goa Highway expansion: BJP accuses Kamal of playing fraud on Goans