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5 Reasons the Android Tablet is Better than the iPad

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The Android tablet may prove to be better than the iPad in many aspects. Here are the top 5 reasons why Android Tablets will be challenging the iPad stronghold as the consumers’ preferred tablet. It’s important to keep in mind that some features that don’t matter at all to one user, might mean everything to [...]

No cards, no cash: no problem! Get a Google Wallet

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First Google was after search engine domination, then world domination, and now? YOUR WALLET! But they’re not going to steal it — trust me, they don’t need the money. They want to replace it. If the Google Wallet takes off, designers might take a hit on their wallet sales as wallets become digital and move [...]

Google Wallet ensures no pick-pocketting for you

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The way we pay has changed three times in the past few thousand years. From coins to paper notes to plastic cards. Now, a mobile application developed by Google only for Sprint Nexus S 4G allows the user can make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on a pay-pass enabled terminal [...]

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 [...]

Copyright Infringement Case – Oracle vs Google

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Oracle is seeking hefty damages “in billions of dollars” from Google Inc. over the patent lawsuit, according to the court filing. Oracle had sued Google last year, claiming that Google’s Android operating system has violated Oracle’s Java patents. Oracle is also pursuing to stop further sales of these Android products and quoted that it was [...]

Top 5 Cloud Blackout Blunders

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The big fluffy white hard-drives in the sky are said to be the future of software-but are they as sometimes as unpredictable as naughty-little-brother-like cumulonimbus clouds? The heavenly body of cloud computing has flexed its muscles prematurely as there have been a long string of major outages: Blackout Blunder Number 1: Google’s Gmail Gaffe Google [...]

Google Plus – Hope, Not a Google Sham!

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Update: Comment below with your email to get a Google+ Invite. There are a plethora of social websites available in the virtual world. Wikipedia even has a list of them. Despite, Google has taken a bold step by unveiling Google Plus, one of it’s precious projects. If rumors are to be believed, it could give [...]

IPv6 – What the Heck?

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First came IPv4 — an interesting story in itself given that the original protocol for the internet was named TCP, and entered into its third version before IP came about — giving birth to Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). IPv5 was quickly eclipsed by the speed of technological advancements and now we have IPv6 — [...]

Web Browser Battle Royale turns Dirty

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The all-out web browser brawl has competitors throwing dirty punches in a below-the-belt free-for-all fight for market share. As Microsoft IE’s web browser market share slips to an all time low, the gloves have come off as Microsoft begins to exploit the bugs in their competition. At just 54.3% of market share IE has been [...]

Google’s Transformer product line is building a Microsoft-slaying open-source Optimus Prime

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If you’re a tech geek like me you undoubtedly follow Google – and you also probably know all the transformers by heart. By using Transformers as an allegory we can put Google’s transformation into context. Google has been acquiring companies, technology and people — aggressively, and now they are joining them all together to build [...]