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Google’s brilliant Google Eye project and its spoofs
Google showed us a teaser on the “PROJECT GLASS” which is rumored to be called as “GOOGLE EYE”. It looks like an amazing piece of device you wear around your eyes and it projects visuals with amazing degree of interactivity. Good news. The glasses would be very new age styled as seen in the picture. [...]
3 Indian companies in top 15 of Forbes innovative companies list
Hindustan Unilever, Bharat Heavy Electricals and Infosys are the three Indian companies that have made to the top 15 of Forbes innovative companies list. IT companies Salesforce.com and Amazon lead the charts with Apple and Google also present in the top 10. Microsoft have been left far behind at rank 86, which should concern the supporters and stakeholders of the company.
Infographic: Facebook’s road map to IPO
Facebook have exploded in popularity and is being viewed as the next hot IPO target. Valuation by private equity firms have sky rocketed with latest figures reaching as high as $100 Billion USD. The following info graphic highlights the major milestones in Facebook’s journey from Inception to going public.
Use custom ringtone on Windows Phone 7 mobiles
A tool called ChevronWP7 used for unlocking Windows Phone 7 now provides its first application, the ability to load custom ringtones.
Playboy selling all magazines on a single 250GB hard drive
Why keep your favorite playmates hidden beneath your bed covers or in the garage cabinet, when you can keep the entire collection right in your pocket. Playboy is offering a 250GB hard drive loaded with 650 issues (all till date) for $300 only. The entire collection takes about 50GB, leaving 200GB free for you to [...]
Google Cloud Connect: edit Google Docs within MS Office
Google Cloud Connect is a Microsoft Office plugin (version 2003 or later) which lets you edit Google Docs from within Office interface. Users can sync their Office documents to the cloud, share and access anywhere from the web, including mobile devices.
IPv4 address has only 102 days remaining before extinction
Internet Protocol version 4 address system or IPv4 address as we know it more commonly is exhausting very fast. As per current estimates the number of IPv4 addresses available at Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) will run out in 102 days.
Google’s free HTML 5 based iBook like Browsers and Web guide
Google have released a colorful, engaging storybook style guide called “Twenty things I learned about Browsers and Web”.
Dell Inspiron Duo – coming in December 2010
Engadget reports Dell Inspiron Duo will start taking preorders as soon as the first week of December, with the base model starting at $549 and will pack a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of storage, and Windows 7 Home Premium.
Tablet Wars Infographics – few insights on the tablet market
Folks at Apple have mastered the art of Second Mover Advantage. It did it with iPod for the MP3 market, iPhone for the Smartphone market and finally iPad for the dormant until now tablet market.