History has made the split between inventors and visionaries quite evident. And right now, it matters the most because it decides the fate of an idea, whether it lives to see itself revolutionize the world or find its place in a museum. Inventors are concerned with “how” while visionaries are busy figuring out “what“. You [&hellip
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Smartphones are becoming an alternative to computers likes Apps to softwares. Text messaging’s potential has almost been neglected. txtWeb has built its business on this idea. Its a platform designed to allow developers create text based applications easily and release it to the community, free of cost to the users. What makes text-based applications stand [&hellip
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The nature of light has always intrigued scientists throughout ages. Ramesh Raskar with his team at MIT’s Media Lab has developed an apparatus to capture one frame per femto second (10-15 second). This reveals some stunning characteristics about light and its nature. Although particle nature may have been established firmly using experiments, the wave nature of [&hellip
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Android is surging, with over a million phones being activated on a daily basis, we are looking at over 350 million devices every year. That certainly is a massive pace at which Google’s Android platform is growing. Reaping the benefits of the OS popularity are companies like Samsung and HTC who have managed to backup [&hellip
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Nokia has committed itself to Windows phone and while the Microsoft partnership promises to bring a new life to now the dinosaur class smartphone market that Nokia is, the challenges are huge too. Windows Phone 7 is a year and a half old and it hasn’t really set sales records, for either Microsoft or Nokia. [&hellip
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Rumors of a Nexus tablet backed by Google aren’t new. It has been the trend with smartphones (or superphones as Google calls them). Now, people expect Google to do the same for tablets. In 2010, Google under the Nexus program worked with HTC to bring out the Google Nexus One phone, since then two more [&hellip
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It’s close to 2 years since Apple first introduced the Retina Display and as the smartphone market heats up, talks of Apple releasing an iPhone with a larger screen goes up. Even before the latest gen iPhone 4S was released, we are hearing rumors of a 4″ iPhone with edge-to-edge display. So has Apple decided [&hellip
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Over the past week, blockage of Pirate Bay, Vimeo and other websites in India have infuriated the online hacker group Anonymous. As a response, they initiated Operation India. We have started to see the effects. The All India Congress and the Supreme Court of India websites have been pulled down by Anonymous. A DDoS attack is being speculated [&hellip
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When you are searching, all you input is the query which is a collection of words. The machine can’t really figure out the context and produces results only based on “relevancy” of search terms. This often creates a problem when the machine does not understand the actual query. Google launches Knowledge Graph to “intelligently” understand [&hellip
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Smartphone battles are turning intense. Samsung introduced Galaxy Note with a 5.3 inch screen and Galaxy S III with a 4 inch display. Rumour has it that Apple plans to release the next iPhone with a 4 inch screen, 0.5 inches larger than the current version. WSJ points out, Asian Suppliers like LG have landed [&hellip
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