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Cool droid phones you should absolutely consider

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Android phones have revolutionized our lives. From searching for a nearest hotel to stay while traveling, to meet emergencies like admitting into a nearest best hospital for medical care; Androids have touched every sphere of life. You have images, movies, music, games and applications and what not, everything on it! For many younger generations it has become a way of life. There are some strong addicts too. There are some teens that can stay away from their girlfriends and boyfriends but not from androids. The sleek hand-held device is able to perform most of the tasks instead of performing the same from your laptop. Android OS’s (Operating System) capability in developing powerful mobile applications helps you perform many tasks instead of going for a desktop or laptop.

Android’s fire will continue to spread in the coming months by adding many new and innovative applications to its fold. Already, it has got more than 100,000 mobile applications to its pool. In fact, it is hard to resist the revolution of comfort and smart work with these smart phones! Let me point out 5 cool Android phones in India on which you must certainly consider putting your hands on.

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Financial Institutions’ approach against Groupon

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Groupon is a popular website that offers gift coupons which can be used at local and national companies. Established in November, 2008 with initial promotions based at Chicago, spread to many more cities and countries worldwide. At present, it has its presence in 4 continents with more than 35 million registered users with unprecedented growth in any business ever. Except LivingSocial, the company is not facing any major competitors so far.

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Most Popular Open Source Platform Isn’t

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Out of a survey done of eight major open source mobile platforms, Android was dead last. Android, the open-source underdog, scored just 23% on an openness survey – making it not only the lowest scorer but also the only platform to score less than 58%. Bazinga!

The report from VisionMobile evaluated Android, Eclipse, the Linux Kernel, MeeGo, Firefox, Qt, Symbian, and WebKit using several criteria to create an — open governance index. Eclipse ranked the highest with 84%.

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We’re not good at everything, we’re not good by ourselves!

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“We’re not good at everything, we’re not good by ourselves,” says Simon Sinek at the 99% Conference. Our ability to build trust and relationships is the key to our survival as a race, and to thriving as idea-makers.

Access and Manage apps with AppDok on IE, Firefox & Chrome

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The Internet is alive with a multitude of apps for every niche. Each day, a variety of new apps are constructed. These apps find their way in to our lives via our browsers and they exist to make our lives easier in a variety of ways. It is only natural that you would be interested in trying new and unique apps. However, managing and accessing these apps on your browser can get a little tedious over time.

AppDok is the simplified solution for this task.

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Key Tips for Super Effective Writing

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Writing should be enjoyable! (source : Ed Yourdon)

Writing is supposed to be an enjoyable experience. Especially, for people who depend on their writing as a source of income, this is the most complicated necessity. While you have to maintain the quality of your written piece, the creativity is also that much important. For the creative flow of the mind to remain unhindered you have to stay loose and enjoy the topic as you write about it.

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Review of RIM’s Blackberry Playbook

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One of the latest entry into the Tablet market is the Blackberry Playbook from RIM.

We know of RIM’s primary market to be the Enterprise users and its Blackberry continues to enjoy a strong foothold. However, of late, the rapid adoption of Apple’s iPad by Enterprise users have set RIM in motion to come-up with a competitive product, the result being that of the Blackberry ‘Playbook’.

Well, the nomenclature ‘Playbook’ itself sends a signal that RIM is not solely targeting the Enterprise users but willing to spread out to the more ‘playful’ crowd vis-a-vis the youth and the younger generation-y.

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Adobe India’s social initiatives

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Renaun Erickson & Duane Nickull at the Adobe Bloggers’ Social

Adobe has always been social and have spear-headed many ways to interact intimately and directly with developers, designers and its users in general. Community engagements was one of the strong point of erstwhile Macromedia and it has sipped down to Adobe in many ways.

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Invoicera’s new billing service for Magento

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Sending invoices to a client or a customer every time they place an order on your online store can be quite a daunting task. The same activity can consume the productive time of your business. But, guess what? Here comes the good news. A Company well-known for its online software for invoicing and billing service – Invoicera has launched its services on online invoicing in real time to Magento, an Open source based ecommerce webcart for online businesses. Henceforth, it will not be a tedious process anymore of sending manual invoices every time you receive an order in your online store.

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Adobe moves beyond Flash — finally

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Adobe is finally moving beyond Flash. Sort of.

Adobe is giving up their sole focus on Flash and entering the exciting world of HTML 5. Before you get too excited — they are only releasing a first preview of their new HTML 5 tryout — Edge. Could this be Adobe’s first foray into the eccentric world of internet web standards?

Despite their efforts to push Flash on everyone — including iOS users — Adobe seems to be recognizing the abilities of programming, outside of their own brainchild Flash. This very likely comes after several technologists describe Adobe’s clinging to Flash a “living in the past”.

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