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Saving contacts with full details in always a boring job. Would you like if you can just scan the visiting card of your business partner and his all details gets saved automatically to your iPhone? I’m sure you would surely love it. WorldCard Mobile is an iOS which makes your contact saving job a lot easier. And if you are a regular TechHogger user, you stand a change to win this app. WorldCard Mobile, is the leading business card scanning application for iPhone which uses OCR (Optical...

Micromax introduced its first tablet which is an Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 tablet. Micromax’s Funbook has been made in India but with the intentions eye the global market. Indian tablet market has already been exploding with many other cheap and mid change tablets but Micromax’s Funbook seems to be promising. Micromax is a known Indian brand and also top most Indian mobile company. Funbook is intended to target Indian youth students with a slogan “Paas hoga, Timepass bhi hoga”. Micromax...

According to a latest research wealthier people are more like to buy an iPhone followed by Android and RIM’s BlackBerry. Gone are the days when the business class used to carry a BlackBerry smartphone which was also the first smartphone, being a classical business PDA. According to a research firm The Luxury Institute people who earn an annual income of $150,000 or more owns a smartphone. Out of which 45% of people owns an iPhone followed by 35% of people with an Android device and 25% people...

iPad for your office work! Sounds interesting right! Yes an iPad can also be your best friend at office apart from being your best gaming pal. Many have an idea that iPad is good to go with your entertainment part with its large touch screen fully-packed with adventurous features. This device has been proved effective and exceptional in a number of ways. Will an iPad contribute to the aspect of productivity at your workplace or will you be thinking of your new-fangled games that can delight...

Heard the latest silicon valley story? Instagram got acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. Instagram’s story is not different than Mark Zuckerberg’s own Facebook. The company raised funds and came with this beautiful app which is now worth $1 billion! We have seen companies being acquired, but we have never heard a app being acquired for a billion dollar. Hats off to the Instagram team and founders- Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Right from the launch Instagam has been popular for its minimal...

Have you been waiting long for Harry Potter series to be released as eBook? If yes, than here it is. As said by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter’s entire release is now available as an eBook on Pottermore. Pottermore has made eBooks available for purchase for Kindle, Nook, Google Play, and Sony ereaders at Pottermore.com. Once the ebooks are purchased it can be downloaded in 8 different formats which can be used with devices supporting different formats. The first three books are available at $7.99...

Did you switch to Macintosh machine and are you finding an alternative to connectify software which helped you to create a personal wifi hotspot in your Windows machine? Well if you are looking for the one than you are at right place and let me tell you that you do not need any external software to create a wifi hotspot in your Macintosh machine to connect to your other gadgets. Macintosh are powerful and comes with many inbuilt features to make your work ease as it can be. Now let me help...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 campaign is at its peak. We have seen following that Microsoft has been running “#smokedbywindowsphone” challenge campaign since its CES held few months back. During the campaign Microsoft offered 100$ to smartphone owners who accepted the challenge and won. To some competitors they even gave Windows Phone. Microsoft again has come with similar campaign but with bigger prices. So if you are confident that your Android phone or iPhone is faster than Windows phone...

AMD, a reputed company known for making processors and graphics cards today added two new graphic cards- AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and AMD Radeon HD 7850 to its award-winning 28nm GPU line up. AMD has concerned more with efficiency and high performance, that’s why they have used their cutting-edge Graphics Core Next Architecture. Both graphics cards are equipped with PCI Express 3.0 and AMD ZeroCore Power technology. According to AMD Radeon both graphics cards in this series promises to...

With Mobile World Congress 2012 now over, it’s time to take a look back at one of the biggest stories to have emerged during the tech conference. One of the biggest talking points was Nokia’s PureView 808. The Finnish company has caused quite a stir by unveiling a phone that is twinned with a 41 megapixel camera. This bold gambit has captured the imagination of even professional photographers, as Nokia look to decisively end the “megapixel war” which has been rumbling on in smartphone-land....

We are back with another giveaway. This time we have decided to reward our reader with Aakash Ubislate 7 tablet. We don’t need to tell our users much about its as we believe because of it huge popularity many know about it. If you still are unaware of it specification or anything follow the link below for complete specification. To participate follow some simple steps on the widget below and you could be the one. Read: Ubislate 7 specification Note : The contest is only open to Indian...

Samsung unveiled its latest series 5 ultrabooks in India. Series 5 laptops are available in 14 inch and 13 inch models starting at Rs. 48,990 and Rs. 54,390 respectively. According to Samsung they call it Ultrabooks because the 13-inch model weighs just 1.42 Kg and the 14-inch model weighs just 1.84 Kg. Samsung also introduced mynotepc.com portal to provide its users songs and multimedia contains for first three months. Both the laptops run on second generation Intel i5 processor. Both...

Technology is fast moving. With fast moving technology our wish is always to be updated. Smartphones are charging everyday. But changing smartphones with changing technology is not always possible, the certain reason is “budget”. So what if you have an option to sell of your old mobile phone and add some more money and buy a new one? Now you must be thinking about how and where to sell your phone? How to get the best deal out of your phone? Let me tell you where you can get a best offer for...

Instagram today released its all new revamped User Interface update with some bug fixes. Instagram is a popular photo sharing application. It works similar to twitter. A registered user at Instagram can add and follow other registered users and friends. Similarly other users can follow back. Instagram was announced as the “iTune App of the year” last year for its outstanding user review and feedback. Instagram now has 10 million registered users. In update Instagram also added a new filtering...