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First Poster For ‘The Facebook Movie’ Unveiled

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Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood’s leading film companies, has released the first poster for ‘The Social Network’ or ‘The Facebook Movie’ as most people are calling it. The movie, set to be in theatres this October, tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the little social networking site he created in his Harvard dorm room […]

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WordPress.com Crosses 200 Million Blog Posts

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If you’re a blogger on WordPress.com here’s another reason to update your blog. You have helped WordPress reach the impressive milestone of 200 million blog posts since its inception. The site has 11.4 million blogs and data from Quantcast says more than 260 million people access them every month. A huge number of these blogs […]

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Data From comScore Shows a Strong Growth Rate for Twitter

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Considering that it’s only 3 years old, one would expect Twitter to still be the new- kid- on- the- block but facts show it’s already one of the biggest social networking sites and showing strong growth on a monthly basis. Twitter stands behind only Facebook and Youtube in users count and data released from online […]

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Facebook Earned $ 800 Million in Revenue Last Year, Reuters

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Reuters has revealed Facebook’s revenue figures for the year 2009 and though they are not surprising or implausible at all, they’re still mind blowing. According to Reuters newswire, world’s number 1 social networking giant raked in a record $ 800 million last year, about 100 million more than the expected figure and turned a part […]

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Samsung Presents Its Fastest 512 GB Notebook SSD

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Looks like Samsung is on a mission to develop all sorts of “World’s fastest” devices and that too in quick succession. After announcing the release of world’s fastest Blu-ray drive (in July 2010) on Monday, it has now announced the plans to begin shipping its first solid-state drive (SSD) to use toggle-mode DDR (double data […]

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Droid X Smartphone to Launch a Day Before the iPhone 4

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Talk about smart thinking! Verizon has confirmed that the next generation of Motorola’s Droid X is releasing on June 23rd and thus begins the battle of the OS. Verizon spokesperson has invited the press and reviewers to the New York City event labelled “Unleashing the Next Generation of Droid” at noon Wednesday. No name has […]

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Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Says Forrester Research

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A report released today by Forrester Research claims that tablet computing is expected to increase massively in the very near future and the data collected indicates that tablet sales in the US will overtake Netbook sales by 2012 and Desktop sales by 2015. The report was presented by Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman at the Untethered […]

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Swype Offers Free Download for All Android Handsets

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The immensely popular touch screen enabled text-input application from Swype is now available for all Android handset users to download directly from their website. The offer is available for a limited time (a couple of days) so there’s no time to waste if your phone did not come pre-installed with the feature that provides a […]

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World’s Fastest Blu-ray Drive from Samsung

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Movie buffs of the world have something more to celebrate. When Samsung announced earlier this week that it’ll be launching its Blu-ray disc combo drive called the SH-B123 in July 2010, it claimed that it’ll be world’s fastest with a 12x read speed. Initial reviews from testers have started arriving and it looks like the […]

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Apple and AT&T Reveal Official iPhone Pre-Order Figures

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It is confirmed that the iPhone 4 pre-orders have broken all previous records and Apple is taking a break from taking more orders for 24 hours. The official figures revealed by Apple and AT&T are staggering as more than 600,000 orders were received in total for the new iPhone. Apple says that it’ll resume taking […]

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iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Crash Servers All Over the US and UK

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Apple started taking preorders for its iPhone 4 through multiple retailers online at 1 AM PT (4 AM ET) across the US and the UK today. Maybe they thought the late hours would not see as much traffic as it would have in the middle of the day but they couldn’t have been more wrong. […]

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Apple Presents the New Mac Mini

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Apple has unveiled an ultra chic looking, much thinner and upgraded version of its Mac Mini in Aluminum unibody casing and more powerful hardware than the older version. The new Mac Mini is sleek and shiny to look at with just a 1.4 inch thin casing and is offering an HDMI output and an SD […]

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Microsoft Office 2010 Goes on Sale Worldwide

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Microsoft has launched its new and massively upgraded productivity suite Microsoft Office 2010 today. The software got a whopping 9 million downloads of its beta version and after years of development and improvements based on feedback from the beta version users, the new version goes on sale at 35,000 retail stores and a number of […]

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Check Out iPhone 4’s Crystal Clear Retina Display

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iPhone 4’s new Crystal Clear Retina Display was the talk of the town last week at the WWDC 20120. Reviewers called it nothing short of a miracle and it seems such claims can’t be just brushed off as biased fawning from faithful iPhone users. It was revealed that the pixel density of the iPhone 4 […]

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Pre-order Your iPhone 4 at Best Buy from June 15th

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Popular US retailers Best Buy will begin taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4 tomorrow from consumers nationwide. Orders can be placed at all Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile standalone stores across the US where the new iPhone will be available from June 24th. You can also place your order at Apple.com and AT&T stores. […]

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YouTube’s Search for World’s Most Creative Video

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YouTube has teamed up with HP and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in search of what they’re calling “the very best creative video from around the world”. Video artists can submit their entries till July 31, 2010, 12:00 p.m PT, simply by posting them on YouTube and then submitting them at Youtube Play, a platform […]

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A 5-Inch Android Tablet to Launch Soon

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Acorp is promising to bring an incredibly affordable 5-Inch Android Tablet in the market by next month. The device is sure to fly off the shelves if Acorp delivers on its promise and keeps the price and availability within consumers’ reach. However, this is not all that Acorp is teasing us with. A 7-Inch tablet […]

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Fastest Browser in the World, Chrome or Safari?

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Apple is claiming its new Safari 5 browser is lightening fast after a major performance boots that beats Google Chrome hands down. It also comes with the new Safari Reader (which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles), extensions and better HTML 5 support. The Safari reader is getting rave reviews from all […]

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iPad Hits 10,000 Apps

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In just 63 days after its launch in the US on the 3rd of April, the iPad already boasts of 10,000 Apps which is double in number from its count at the end of April. The ‘Release Date’ area in the App store app on the iPad shows the number of apps approved and available […]

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Chrome, Chromium and Frame Get an Update

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Google has released a new and updated version of its Chrome browser, its developer version Chromium and a new plug-in Chrome Frame that allows MS Internet Explorer to access websites using the Chrome rendering engine. What’s interesting is that it’s Apple which is being credited for fixing two of Chrome’s high-risk security flaws. Apple’s Safari […]

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