Google has launched a number of ventures which follow the model of Yahoo Answers and other question/answers sites to some extent. Most of these ventures didn’t conclude very successfully. The earlier service by Google, Google Questions and Answers, also involved a monetary aspect and thus never gained momentum. However, the latest launch by Google in this domain is Google Baraza. Google Baraza is a community-based resource venture where people ask and respond to questions. Moreover, it’s target audience is African nations.
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Google is able to muster massive revenue through mobile ads alone. For the record, mobile ads refer to the ads Google displays on smartphone devices and tablets. Larry Page, Google’s CEO, said last Thursday that Google’s mobile ad revenues program was standing at a $5 billion annualized run-rate. And this is huge! According to a recent research by Cowen analysts Jim Friedland, Google will be able to pull it’s mobile ad revenues to a whooping $5.8 billion in 2012.
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Imagine you are at an informal meeting with your colleagues and suddenly there’s a need to go online and search through some data. In case that there’s no internet access available there, you will be halted to a stop. But these new Wish Wi-fi cufflinks provide you solution for just these problems. You can wear these cufflinks and as soon as there’s a need to use internet, you can plug a part of these cufflinks into your computer and create an instant wi-fi hotspot. Moreover, you can also store data of up to 2 GB in these cool cufflinks.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Tech News
On January 22, 2012(3 months, 29 days ago.)
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Fujitsu Limited is the world’s third largest IT service company after IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Fujitsu wants to enter North American mobile phone market and it is Fujitsu’s next target.
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Battery developer company EOS Energy Store has developed a proprietary zinc-air battery. The company demands that this battery can be used to meet the energy storage needs of utilities, electric vehicles, the military, and major industrial and commercial enterprises.
Reporter:Forman
Under: Tech News
On January 22, 2012(4 months, 0 days ago.)
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Samsung is pretty well-known for it’s anti-Apple ads. These ads usually mock Apple by citing different features that Samsung’s smartphones have but Apple’s iPhone doesn’t and are regularly released now and then by Samsung. Now, Samsung has released yet another Samsung Galaxy II ad which mocks the lack of GPS navigation in Apple smartphones. Samsung has yet to release the Super Bowl spot which will most probably take another jibe at Apple.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Tech News
On January 22, 2012(4 months, 0 days ago.)
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The micro blogging site Twitter has bought a Canada base social news provider Summify, in a bid to make the site more useful to its growing members.
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In some cases, people are losing their job because of Advanced Robots and Machines. Most of the time, we take this replacement in a Negative way. Again, this time Robots are replacing Humans from doing the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica. Is this replacement Good or Bad? Let’s find out.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Tech News
On January 21, 2012(4 months, 1 day ago.)
India is a very lucrative market for tech companies with a population well over a billion. This stands true for Apple too. Apple has been trying to make a real presence in India in the past but couldn’t do so due to certain conditions presented by Indian officials. However, a latest report states that Indian officials may relax the conditions for Apple. And because of this, Apple may launch it’s own retails stores in India very soon. Read more to find out what exemptions Indian officials may grant to Apple.
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While for outside observers, Apple seems to act like the top of the food chain crushing any competition, when it comes to educational content for tablets, even startup companies welcome the competition with the tech giant. Officials speaking on behalf of Kno, a young company working on developing e-textbook software, are now appreciating iPads impact on the market. “Apple will raise a lot of awareness about digital textbooks and how education is going digital,” explained Osman Rashid, the company CEO.
Reporter:Radu
Under: Tech News
On January 21, 2012(4 months, 1 day ago.)
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Inventions of new technologies force to lag behind the old technologies. But the Robotic technology has created such a new Robot being called ‘TOUGHBOT’ that can not lag behind no matter how fast the technology advances. In fact, Toughbot has especially designed for surveillance, reconnaissance and inspection. This article contains some details of the new robot and the technology. Have a look.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Tech News
On January 20, 2012(4 months, 2 days ago.)
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Apple has finally entered the realm of digital textbooks. We reported earlier that Apple has taken board many major textbook publishers and intends to transform the textbook industry. However, surprise is being expressed over the fact that currently, only eight Apple textbooks are available. Is this too meagre a number to start with? And are the publishers still taking this as a test venture or are they serious about it and intend to take it as a long-term project?
Reporter:Salman
Under: Tech News
On January 20, 2012(4 months, 2 days ago.)
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Granted the new survey published by British Psychological Society doesn’t have a wide base of respondents with only 100 Britons answering to the question about the relation between stress causes and smartphones, but we all can figure out the study’s conclusions. The survey reveals that the stress is only indirectly caused by smartphones as people are always checking e-mails and notifications form their smartphones.
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Security giant Symantec has acquired cloud base email archiving company LiveOffice. LiveOffice founded in 1998 and it has approximately 20,000 clients. Per day this company process million of messages.
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As the next generation iPad approaches to the release date, rumored to be in February or March, Amazon decided to offer more appeal to its much praised tablet, Kindle Fire, believed to be one of the main challengers to iPads’ supremacy. Amazon announced a new version, 6.2.2 of software that powers Kindle Fire, which comes with a set of important improvements.
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