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Apple buys Beats for $3.2 Billion
Yes, this a bit late when the whole world knows about it. Apple buys Beats for $3.2 Billion and we wanted to publish it only after there was a good amount of evidence. The deal has been confirmed by Dr. Dre himself. Apple is buying beats for $3.2 Billion and it is a huge deal…
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Motorola announces Moto E for just $129
Motorola announcing a new device Moto E today was not really a surprise with numerous leaks and the invites to the event coming long back. This is the first device from Motorola after Lenovo acquired it from Google. Motorola even after the acquisition is on target releasing new phones. Moto G which was announced last…
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US Government is trying to kill Net Neutrality and why it is bad
coTo start with, what is Net Neutrality? It is the principle that all data on the internet is treated equally. Everything has equal priority when served to the consumer. The US Government wants to kill it. Why? For the greedy Broadband providers who want to make more money. What happens when there is no net…
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Snapchat Update finally makes the App useful
A new snapchat update was made available today. I remember downloading Snapchat on my iPhone back when the first version released in 2011. Used it for a day. Then hit DELETE. It was not practical. It was kind of useless to do anything and a bit weird. It was not user friendly and it was…
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Popular Chinese Manufacturer Xiaomi All Set To Enter India
Almost every Android enthusiast would have already heard of Xiaomi, or at least their MIUI OS built based on Android Open Source Project(AOSP), which is 2nd only to CyanogenMod in user base. Indian users have always been in the top 5 of MIUI ROM users since the days it was made widely available. The craze for chinese…
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The age old Video Game myth just got proved to be real
Back in 1982, the days when Atari was the biggest Game Company, they paid millions for the rights to make a game of the super famous movie E.T. Though the game did well initially, the gameplay was frustratingly difficult which resulted in most of the cartridges being returned. So, Atari ended up with millions of…
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Arduino Day 2014 – Chennai
In account of the World Arduino day, GDG Chennai organised a meet up for all the hardware enthusiasts, hackers and just about anyone who was interested in Arduino’s. The celebration at Chennai had a lot of discussion on various technologies breaking out at the moment from Wearable Technology to Virtual Reality. The day started off…
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Excessive Whatsapp Use Leads To “Whatsappitis” Claim Doctors
Heard of Blackberry Thumb? Nintenditis ? Well, here is “Whatsappitis”. As described by a Spanish doctor, the patient presented with bilateral wrist pain with sudden onset upon waking up one morning. She had no history of trauma and had not engaged in any excessive physical activity in the previous days. The diagnosis was bilateral extensor pollicis longus…
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GDG Chennai’s Women Tech Makers 2014
GDG Chennai was back with their second event this year after the Angular JS/Dart Flight School. Women Techmakers a.k.a DevFest Women has been a very important event conducted by GDG Chennai every year which is exclusive to women geeks in Chennai. This time, it happened in the Raintree Hotel on 15th March with over 150…
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Loop has the best answer to mobile payments
Mobile Payments is the next big thing. People forget their wallet, but never their phone. So, it would be great to be able to make them into one device. Many companies have tried their hand with mobile payments like Google, which require the retailers to have special readers. It is reported that even Apple is…
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HTC shall reveal their next flagship phone on 25th March
HTC last year unveiled HTC One which is probably the best Android phone in terms of the quality. It is the only Android phone which can be compared with the iPhone when it comes to the design and the materials. The HTC One was definitely a hit. They also made very bold moves with the…
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Moto G Order Issues with Flipkart
To start with, Flipkart is Lousy. There were a lot of problems with the release of Moto G. First, it is available exclusively only on Flipkart. On the first day, they had some really good offers with the phone. But, not many got to use them. The reason being, the 16GB was always out of…
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Benchmarks Leak
Samsung is supposedly mere weeks away from announcing the Galaxy S5 at MWC, and benchmarks seem to confirm that we’re not far away from seeing exactly what has been speculated upon recently. The leaks come in the form of screenshots from the AnTuTu benchmarking tool (see image, top), and while that does very little…
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Story behind How Facebook Paper App was developed
One thing I know for now is that Facebook developers use Quora. When a question like “What was it like to help develop Paper?” is posted on Quora, it is answered by five different developers from the already small team. But, one answer by Jason Barrett Prado, Engineer on Paper had an extremely detailed answer…
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Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO
Microsoft finally named Satya Nadella as their new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer who had announced his retirement few months ago. Nadella will take in charge as the CEO immediately allowing Ballmer to retire early. The announcement also included that Bill Gates is stepping down as the Chairman of Microsoft and Microsoft’s lead independent director…