Everyone loves picture messaging – or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists. After the novelty wears off, it’s generally reserved for the occasions when there is genuinely something interesting to show. Need the wife’s advice on whether to buy the blue shirt or the green one? Picture message. Want to ask her out to coffee? You’ll probably stick with text. FunMobility, a company thats
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The MSI Wind U100 was the undisputed king of the netbook market in 2008. The inclusion of Intel’s first-generation Atom processor, coupled with a market-leading 10-inch screen, made the Wind U100 the best of a very large bunch. Multiple OEM re-badges, several minor upgrades and 18 months later, MSI has just announced the hotly anticipated MSI Wind 12 U200 follow-up. Things have moved on a lot since the original Wind stole the netbook limelight. The market is a lot more mature, and the number of netbook and nettop products out there has increased massively. So if the Wind 12 U200 is going
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Right now, India is the richest country in the world ! Wondering how? It's really amazing.It's due to Mr. G Vaidyaraj, who donated all his wealth, about which he actually did not know.He is a descendent of Raja Krishnadev Raya from Mysore district.For the last 300 years or so, three stones were worshipped in his house. But nobody tried to see what it was, except this person, who is a lawyer by profession. One day, when there was nobody in his house, he took the stone out to see what it was that they worship. Due to the dust deposited on it, from many years, it looked only like a simple stone. But
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Los Angeles News Corp.’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace has agreed to acquire streaming music service imeem for an undisclosed sum, although sources told CNET News.com that the deal is valued at about $8 million. The deal reportedly includes a payment of $1 million in cash, as well as earn outs and accounts receivable. read more
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For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats that could impact their network. Powered by the Cisco’s Security IntelliShield Alert Manager Service, the app informs, protects and enables IT staff to respond in real time to alerts and threats to the network. The application will deliver data on early warning intelligence, threat vulnerabilities
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Google has shown off its Chrome OS operating system and along with the announcement that the code was now open source was a video explaining the thought behind the OS. Unlike Windows, Chrome OS is all about the browser, with a focus on ’speed, simplicity and security’ - a phrase used many times. “Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS,” blogged Google. “We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. “As with the Google Chrome
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One of my friends forwarded a joke about a boy who encountered a game warden during Thanksgiving time. It jogged an old memory of a story my Dad used to tell which I shall now repeat to the best of my recollection. A good number of years ago, in the 50's I think, my Dad and his buddies pulled a fast one on a local game warden. The warden was known for prowling about trying to catch people in the act of poaching out of season or without a hunting license so he could confiscate their weapon. Being a rural area with more than just a few pheasants and the occasional migrating flock of
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Google released a new Google Labs experiment related to image search: Google Image Swirl. The service "organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface."Google Image Swirl clusters the top image search results for more than 200,000 queries and it lets you explore the clusters and the relation between images."Once you find the group of images you're interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will "swirl" into view. You can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster
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First of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS? As the noted earlier tonight, if you simply send “RT USERNAME” to 40404 (at least in the U.S.) it will automatically retweet the last tweet of whatever username you entered has sent. And yes, it will be a new-style Retweet. If you love the new Retweets, that’s a great feature. If you hate them, well, then, you’ll hate this too
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