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Ferman Aziz

All Microsoft Word Attachments Now Open in Google Docs

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The new feature was rolled out yesterday allowing all Microsoft Word documents to be opened and viewed with all features in Google Docs. The “view as HTML” button at the end of a message containing an attachment is now replaced only by “View” which opens all your files using Google Docs; which then offers multiple […]

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Pakistani Court Orders Monitoring Sites For Offensive Material

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The High Court of the Pakistani city Lahore has ordered the country’s Telecommunication authorities to monitor popular search engines and block about 17 sites carrying offensive material. The engines and sites being monitored include Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN, YouTube and Wikipedia. The order came after a case was filed in the city’s High court by […]

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And Now Begin the Droid X Pre-Orders on Best Buy

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Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile have issued a press release announcing that Motorola’s Droid X is now available to pre-order online and all their outlets for $ 200. What’s more attractive is the fact that you can escape Verizon’s annoying $ 100 email rebate. Best Buy has been on a roll this year with […]

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Unofficial Reports Claim 1.5 Million iPhones Sold On Launch Day

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Apple’s official statement on the first day iPhone 4 sales is yet to arrive but of course all other sources have jumped into action and staggering sales figures are flying around. According to Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner, a whopping 1.5 million iPhones were sold on the launch day. With 600,000 pre-orders, Reiner estimates that 100,000 additional, […]

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Google Chrome Now Has Adobe Flash Player Built In

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Google has delivered on its promise made last year of bringing Adobe Flash Player as a built in component of its Chrome browser, eliminating the need for users to download, install and update it separately. Google released Chrome 5.0.375.86 on Thursday to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows, with a fix for a […]

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YouTube’s New Record, 14.6 Billion Videos Viewed in May 2010

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American web metrics company comScore released new statistics today which reveal an astonishing increase in the online video viewing trend around the world. The leader among all video hosting sites is who else but Google owned YouTube which received a record 14.6 Billion hits in the month of May alone, representing 43.1 % of all […]

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Major Reasons to Skip the iPhone and Get a Droid X

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The press was given a detailed preview of the new Android based smartphone Droid X from Motorolla yesterday and its features were making some huge splashes all around. Users were quick to note the areas where the Droid X scores over the iPhone and some of them make for pretty solid reasons to buy a […]

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Complaints Abound as the iPhone 4 Finally Reaches Customers’ Hands

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We all knew the iPhone 4 arrives on the shelves today and there will be endless queues outside outlets with countless fans also camping outside to be the first ones to enter. But that’s not the actual news making headlines today. As users started receiving their booked iPhones in the mail and others bought theirs […]

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iOS on the New iMac? Maybe!

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Apple seems to be on a roll these days churning out updates and devices left right and centre. Rumour has it that after the new iPhone madness subsides a bit; Apple will be launching the new iMac with a twist, the iOS. The speculated time is within the next 60 days and coming equipped with […]

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“Out-of-Process Plug-Ins” on the New FireFox 3.6.4

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Mozilla has released the new FireFox 3.6.4 and is promising a crash free experience with a new feature called ‘Out-of-process plug-ins” or OOPP. The new FireFox has fixed a lot of bugs and carries new patches too but it’s the OOP that’s the highlight of the new version. This feature will prevent crashing of the […]

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Droid X Unveiled, Starts Shipping on July 15th

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After weeks of speculation about the release date and some killer features, Motorola and Verizon have finally unveiled the Droid X at their official press conference in New York. While the world awaits the iPhone 4 to appear on shelves tomorrow, today belongs to the Droid which is boasting features that are enough to give […]

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New Verizon Droid X Ad Reveals the Release Date

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Verizon and Motorola announced last week that they’ll be unveiling the new Droid smartphone on June 23rd (Tomorrow) in a press conference in New York City. Though it’s smart thinking to do that one day before the official sales of the iPhone 4, but don’t expect the Droid X to be in the market the […]

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Apple Now Collects and Shares iPhone and iPad Users’ Location

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Apple has just updated its Privacy Policy page adding a new clause which allows the company to legally store “the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device” and share it with “partners and licensees.” Users have no choice but to agree to the clause but Apple is reassuring that the data is “collected […]

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Google Voice Now Open to All in the U.S.

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Known as GrandCentral upon its launch in 2006, Google Voice till now was an invite only service. Not any more. Google has announced today that Google Voice is now open to all in the U.S after immense popularity among the one million exclusive users. The service (available only in America) acts as a unified phone […]

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iOS 4 Launched

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iPhone enthusiasts can get a taste of its massively updated Operating System 2 days in advance as Apple has just launched the iOS 4 today. Available as a free upgrade, the OS is compatible with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models, as well as second and third generation iPod touches. Multitasking will only work with […]

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Dell Considering Google Chrome OS for Its Laptops

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Sources at Computerworld.com reported after a detailed browser speed test a few days ago that Google Chrome beat all other browsers on a Dell machine and seems like Dell is paying attention. Google is planning to launch its Chrome OS soon and Reuters are reporting that Dell is currently in negotiations with Google regarding adding […]

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Improved Version of Gmail for the iPad

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Talk about preferential treatment! Google just announced a new and improved version of Gmail for the iPad. This is the second time Google has presented a special Gmail version for an Apple product as it launched one in April 2009 for Apple’s mobile iOS along with the Android. The current version is inspired from users’ […]

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Google Introduces a New Command-Line Tool, GoogleCL

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Google has announced the launch of a new useful command-line tool GoogleCL which aims to make accessing the company’s web services a lot easier and more interactive. The tool works for YouTube, Picasa, Calendars, Docs, Contacts, and Blogger. GoogleCL is developed in Python on top of the gdata-python-client library. It’s an open-source software project that’s […]

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Acer Expects It’ll Overtake HP By Year’s End

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Some might call it a little too ambitious but Acer might just be on to something with their positive expectation of overtaking HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the end of 2010. The Taiwanese company is one of the biggest players in the laptop market and Chairman J T Wang told investors in a conference […]

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