Wireless communication has become critically important in our lives. In fact, in case of any kind of emergency, it is out first resort to reach out to the world. But if the infrastructure supporting it is disrupted, it is truly a nightmare. Same happened in Japan when a tsunami and earthquake hit the country last year. Now, a Japanese carrier, Softbank, has come up with a novel idea to resolve this problem.
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Google has been touting its Project Glass for quite some time. And to be honest, the project did initially mesmerise a lot of us. Wearing a pair of glasses that can virtually perform a whole lot of functions in real-time is indeed a very novel concept. However, Google employees keep on exploring newer dimensions and uses of the product. Here is one of them.
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When Samsung launched its Galaxy S III, it stated that a Flipboard app will be a part of the device. We were also told that the app will remain exclusively available on the device, at least for the first few months. But that, apparently, was not to happen. Now, the Flipboard APK has been leaked to XDA Developers forum so that virtually anyone can download and use it.
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Imagine that Google chooses not to display your website in its search results. While you may be vexed over it and think that it is illegal in some way, the fact is that Google, and all other search engines, are fully protected under the First Amendment to display whichever results they find good enough. This has been reported by a notable First Amendment scholar, Eugene Volokh.
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Google Maps for Android have been getting a lot of newer features and updates. Now, with the launch of the new version 6.7, Android users get to have not only Google Offers on their devices, they will also be able to make use of Google Maps’ indoor walking directions. The feature of indoor walking directions will most probably be available to users in U.S. as well as Japan.
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Imagine you have a watch which has a knack of changing its color to whatever surrounding you are in. It can turn to green when you are in your garden, blue when you are sitting by lake and so on. This is an amazing concept for an LED watch which has been proposed by designers Peter and Sam. The concept is being dubbed ‘camalien.’
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Taking jibes at rival companies has been a norm since olden days but the trend is catching up in the tech world only now. While we do know Samsung has a knack of mocking Apple products often, now T-Mobile has released a rather interesting ad which goes on to show how slothful and disastrously slow speeds on AT&T are, compared to T-Mobile.
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Google has been adding a number of small new features to its online search. However, the search engine had promised us that it would be launching a major revamp which will enable to search in a far better way. To be exact, Google had promised that the new search would be somewhat like “how humans understand the world.” Now, it seems that Google is living up to that promise.
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This week at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, Siemens has announced its ‘eHighway’ concept. The eHighway concept introduces the idea of diesel-electric hybrid trucks which can work like a electric trolley when overhead electric lines are available and work as a diesel truck when overhead electric lines are not available. Siemens says that the technology can significantly reduce carbon emissions by reducing the use of fossil fuels in trucks.
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DigiTimes has a knack of churning out Apple-related rumors regularly, now many of which eventually turn out to be accurate enough. Now, the publication has claimed that the manufacturer, Pegatron, has been acquired the manufacturing of the next-gen iPhone from Apple. And that this iPhone is expected to be released during September this year.
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For such Android users who have been using Wordpress on their devices, the good news is that the latest version, Wordpress 2.1 has finally landed. And not only does this new release take care of a number of bugs in the earlier version, it also beings a lot of new features to Wordpress users. These new features are detailed below.
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Apple has been the tech giant leading the way in a lot of ways, from profits to quality of its products to business growth. However, once in a while, there are those rare things in which another company is able to beat Apple to grab the top spot. For instance, Amazon was now able to score higher than Apple when it comes to online shopper satisfaction.
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In a recent letter to the customers of a certain brand of Microsoft’s cloud services, Azure, Microsoft has stated that it will officially be changing the name of the brand so that ‘Azure’ will no longer be used anywhere. The ambition of the change, apparently, is merely to simplify the name of the service, as has been affirmed by the company.
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Lenovo,one of the world’s biggest computer manufacturers, recently announced that they are going to establish a new manufactureing plant in Wuhan, China. Lenovo is investing $800 million on this project. The investment will be used step by step over the next five years. However, the facility will begin operations in October 2013. The company hopes that they will be able to deliver new mobile internet products and bring them to its customers faster through the new plant.
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In more than one ways, Apple’s rise in recent years has been truly meteoritic. With the launch of its iDevices, Apple shot to a height of success and popularity in so brief a time that it must be a record in itself. Now, the company has beat the long-time king of the world of computing, IBM, to land at no. 17 spot on the Fortune 500 list of companies.
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