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Google Instant Arrives on iOS And Android Devices In The US

November 5, 2010 0 Rahul S

After making its debut on desktops around the world, Google has introduced its instant search capability on iOS and Android devices. While this is limited to the US currently, a worldwide launch might just be around the corner. Google Instant,…

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New MacBook Airs Getting Software Update To Fix Bugs

November 4, 2010 0 Annkur

The new MacBook Airs are smaller and thinner than ever before, While the wow factor remains, there are several reports of malfunctioning MacBook Airs out in the market, and it seems (pretty much as expected) Apple is investigating this internally.…

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Apple iPad Garners 95% Of Global Tablet Shipments

November 3, 2010 0 Rahul S

The Apple iPad might not be available in most markets, but wherever it is available, it seems to be doing quite well. Ever since, the product started shipping in April, the iPad has gone on to capture a whopping 95%…

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Apple counter-sues Motorola over multiple patent infringements

October 31, 2010 0 c0rex

Motorola had filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing about 18 patents. And now Apple responded back two different lawsuits that covers total six patents mostly focussed on multi-touch and couple of OS level ones.

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PayPal for App Store, Blackberry App World and Android Market coming today?

October 27, 2010 2 Annkur

Wow TC has managed another trendy scoop. It seems that PayPal is gearing up to announce partnership with mobile app markets across 3 leading platforms i.e. Apple’s AppStore, Blackberry’s App World and Google’s Android Market.

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How many iPads would Apple sell in Q1 (holiday season)?

October 26, 2010 0 Annkur

Apple seems to be gearing up pretty well for the holiday season with its iPad. First, the supply constraints seem to have evaporated with the Apple store shipping iPads almost instantly to US buyers. Add to that the iPod way…

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No, Apple is not buying Sony

October 26, 2010 2 Annkur

Yes, the rumors are going wild and they had to. Afterall its Apple and Sony named here. And yet again in less than a week I am amazed by the kind of traction ‘made up’ news gets. The only thing…

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Accord @Pad claims to run Android 1.7, has iPad’s looks and icons – yours for Rs 9,990!

October 26, 2010 1 Nimish

It has been raining tablets in the Indian market of late, with just about everyone and their grandmother announcing tablets that they claim are the coolest things since sliced bread. Some of these claims (Olive, Samsung, and LG) have merit,…

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Apple Won’t Ship Macs Preinstalled with Adobe Flash

October 23, 2010 0 Rahul S

The Apple vs Adobe fight has entered the next level with Apple officially announcing that it won’t ship its future Macbooks with Adobe’s flash installed. While Apple has stopped short of banning Flash altogether from Mac (which would have been…

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Apple Announces OS X Lion

October 20, 2010 1 Rahul S

Apart from the MacBook Air, Apple has also taken covers of its latest OS X version, the OS X Lion, the eight iteration of the same. It seems, with this update, OS X has gotten even closer to its cousin…

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Apple Shrinks The MacBook Air. 11.6 Screen $999 Price Tag

October 20, 2010 0 Rahul S

At the Back to The Mac event, Apple has taken covers of the new MacBook Air. They have managed to shrink the already tiny 13.3 inch MacBook Air to a version that has an even smaller 11.6 screen pushing it…

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Steve Jobs Hits Back At Google, RIM

October 19, 2010 0 Rahul S

Choosing to remain silent for over the course of the entire year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs chose the occasion of its Q4 2010 Financial results to get back at competition. In a very untypical manner, Steve Jobs made a surprise…

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An iPhone that costs almost EIGHT MILLION dollars!

October 18, 2010 0 Nimish

All right, we went and broke the editorial style sheet rule that states that thou shall not use all capitals in a heading, but truth be told, we could not actually help it. We always knew that the iPhone 4…

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iPad Deal, Early Signs of a Verizon iPhone? Early 2011?

October 14, 2010 2 Annkur

Earlier today we heard about Verizon and Apple coming together to sell the iPad across 2000 retail outlets that Verizon has in the US. These would be WiFi iPads sold along with MiFi 2200 hotspot connection from Verizon. But if…

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iPhone 4 India Launch Imminent?

October 14, 2010 3 Rahul S

Looks like the wait for the iPhone 4 in India are about to end. There are many signs that seem to be pointing towards this fact. It was just earlier today that our friends over at Techknots reported that the…

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Limera1n Jailbreak Tool for iOS 4.1 Arrives

October 10, 2010 0 Rahul S

After discovering a new Bootrom exploit and working for over six months, Geohot has released his limera1n to jailbreak iOS 4.1 and iOS 3.2.2 based devices. The release of comes just a day before the release of greenpois0n by the…

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Adobe Air Comes to Android

October 8, 2010 0 Rahul S

While Apple is yet to get over with its differences with Adobe, Android seems to be the one who is making hay when the sun shines- well, literally! As promised back at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Adobe has…

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Greenpois0n jailbreak for iOS 4.1 due on 10/10/10 at 10:10:10AM GMT

October 8, 2010 0 c0rex

Joshua Hill aka p0sixninja of Chronic Dev Team, the iPhone software platform hackers, has confirmed new greenpois0n jailbreak will be released on binary date – 10/10/10 at binary time – 10:10:10AM.

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Windows Phone7 Unlikely to Help Microsoft Regain Lost Glory: Gartner

October 8, 2010 0 Rahul S

Market research firm Gartner has in a latest research predicted that Microsofts upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS would only marginally increase the market share of Microsoft in the smartphones segment. The OS, which has to be Microsoft’s most anticipated launch…

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Tit for Tat: Motorola Sues Apple

October 7, 2010 0 Rahul S

Good Morning and welcome to the latest edition of daily lawsuit news. The only show on the planet where we talk about all those interesting lawsuits and counter-suits being filed by tech companies on a daily basis. In todays edition…

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Android Market populates paid apps in India

October 5, 2010 0 Annkur

Just tuning into tweets from some Indian Android owners, it seems that paid apps have finally started to flow in here. Part of Google’s promise to take Android market commercial in a whole new lot of countries. Way to go,…

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Apple updates Ping, allows it to access users’ libraries

September 26, 2010 1 Nimish

We had gone on record saying that Ping, Apple’s music-oriented social networking service, was actually the most significant product launched by Apple at its event earlier this month (where the new iPods tended to overshadow everything else) and a recent…

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What just happened to Apple, FTC? EU?

September 10, 2010 0 Annkur

Now this is really a surprising development. After a rude NO to Adobe Flash, a kick to the developers trying a back door entry with Flash compiler, an open letter to follow it up, stop signal to Google voice (and…

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Price Watch: New Apple iPod touch 4G, Multitouch nano & shuffle

September 2, 2010 20 Annkur

If you are one of those many users looking to buy the new iPod touch with camera, the iPod nano multitouch and the new shuffle in India, here we have the India pricing for the latest Apple Gizmos. The good…

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New iPods are nice, but we are betting on Ping

September 1, 2010 0 Nimish

First off, we are going to resist the temptation to gloat that we got almost all of our six predictions on the Apple press con yesterday spot on. Yes, there’s a new iTunes. Yes, there’s a new iPod touch and…

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Steve announces: iOS / Apple milestones!

September 1, 2010 0 Annkur

So Steve Jobs is on stage at their annual music event and we await the big announcements from Apple. And as we begin, Apple in its trademark style has some good numbers to give us. So here are the numbers…

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Apple press con: our six fearless predictions

September 1, 2010 3 Mr Spock

With the Apple press conference hours away, it was time for us to jump into foretelling mode and putting our necks on the line, come up with predictions on what the next hours will have in store. Of course, it…

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Is Apple fighting Jailbreak?

August 31, 2010 1 Annkur A

Now its a funny argument to say that Apple isn’t fighting Jailbreaking. They have tried their best to get it proven illegal and then there are these software updates from time to time that at times made us wait weeks…

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250,000 apps for the iOS

August 29, 2010 0 Annkur

iTunes App Store has reached another milestone and this time its the quarter million mark that has been achieved. It took 25 months and 50,300 developers for Apple to reach here and this is only a small testimony of the…

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Apple gearing up to launch iTunes web service?

August 28, 2010 0 Annkur

The big announcement is just a stone throw away and while all the speculations about the iPod refresh, touchscreen shuffle and the iTV gets highlighted, Apple might well be preparing to pull a small rabbit from its hat on wednesday.…

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Apple Sept 1 event confirmed, time for retina display iPod touch?

August 26, 2010 1 Mr Spock

It has been finally confirmed that Apple is indeed holding a media event on September 1. Now, that speculation about the date of the event is over, we can all settle down and start wondering about what it is that…

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Expose like multitasking interface for iOS: Multifl0w [Video]

August 23, 2010 0 Annkur

Now thats a cool hack coming to the iOS. Seen before, the multifl0w hack for the iPhone / iOS is back with a all new avatar. Given the fact that multitasking is now official, this thing certainly works better and…

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Five reasons why the OlivePad will not dethrone the iPad

August 22, 2010 1 Mr Spock

We got some time with Olive’s Android tablet, the OlivePad, which is the first 3G tablet in India and while we must confess to being rather impressed with it, we still think it is some way from knocking the iPad…

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The wait is over: iPhone 4 unlocked with latest Ultrasn0w

August 4, 2010 0 Annkur

It’s a busy week for iPhone hackers. While the Jailbreakme.com hack to jailbreak all iPod touch, iPhones and iPad is going strong and working for us pretty well;

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That was easy! iPhone 4 Jailbreak

August 3, 2010 0 Annkur

The Jailbreakme hack is out to open up our iPhone 4 (or for that matter most iDevices running the iOS 3.x and 4.x). Apparently this hack uses a security hole in the iOS browsers PDF viewer and manages to install…

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Did I just get a free bumper case without having the iPhone 4?

August 1, 2010 3 Annkur

Now this was unexpected, but it seems that I somehow managed to accidentally get a free bumper from Apple without having an iPhone 4 with me. So what exactly happened is that I purchased an iPhone 4 from Radio Shack (yes they are the only…

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Will the iPhone 4 land on T-Mobile (US)? [rumor]

July 22, 2010 0 Annkur

AT&T holds a good monopoly with the iPhone by its side since 3 years now, but rumors of multiple carriers offering the iPhone 4 is gaining momentum off late. The network issues with AT&T is largely to blame for this. Seems like Steve Jobs have had enough of the…

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Believe it or not: the iPad was predicted in 1999

July 19, 2010 0 Annkur

Now thats weird! After all the drama over the Apple tablet last year and the half dozen names that were given to the unannounced product it turns out that a Wired report had predicted the Apple ‘iPad’ way back in…

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Four things that will be seen in Apple’s press con today!

July 16, 2010 0 Nimish

As the time nears for Apple’s eagerly anticipated press conference (to select media) about the iPhone 4, speculation is rife about what exactly will be said and done. Well, we do not have our crystal ball handy to tell you what exactly will transpire,…

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Eight reasons why the Kindle beats the iPad as an e-book reader in India

June 28, 2010 7 Nimish

It is an utterly unfair comparison but one that has been making the rounds ever since Apple released the iPad a few months ago. We are talking of the Kindle vs iPad battle that is being waged between tech users…