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Google admitted that it might have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks. The issue came to light after German authorities asked to audit the data the company’s Street View cars gathered as they took photos viewed on Google maps.
Google said during a review, that it found it had “been mistakenly [...]

Nokia, the world’s biggest cell phone manufacturer sues Apple Corp. after the announcement of the sale of the iPad Tablet computer in 9 other countries outside US.
Apple announces iPad tablet sale outside US on 28 May, and on 7 May the Nokia lawsuit come about patent infringement. Nokia has about 5 important technologies used for enhance speech [...]

With so many devices to tote around these days, making sure they have enough juice to run on is essential wherever we go. Unfortunately, that means packing a plethora of chargers to go, which surely goes a long way in adding the amount of weight you have to tote around. The Zipcharge Quick Charger aims [...]

Here’s another hot wrist mobile phone – Sidewinder, designed by Susan Cho, whose idea was to create a multi-touch cell phone that a person could wear on his/her wrist.
Do you think, this might be the next stage in technological development? Unfortunately, the multi-touch technology has not reach the phase in which it could be used [...]

A day after civil engineering department students of Faculty of Technology and Engineering, MS University, secured third position in Bascule Bridge designing competition, students from metallurgy and material department stood first in Mech Compute competition. Looks like this time its raining awards for thes young enthusiasts who’ve participated in TechFest 2010, Asia’s biggest technical festival [...]

The recently-unveiled Apple iPad tablet computer, which comes at a time when most of the computer makers are attempting to strike a balance between “niftiness” and price point, has already started causing confusion among potential users – while some say that the iPad quite similar to the Amazon Kindle, others are terming it as an [...]

VoIP provider Skype has struck deals with two TV makers to offer over-the-Internet videoconferencing features to users. LG and Panasonic will release Web-connected TVs later this year which, combined with a separately sold webcam, will enable video chat from one’s living room. Skype also announced the availability of 720p HD video chat on its existing [...]

Google has officially unveiled the Nexus One smartphone, a handset running an advanced version of the Android operating system. The Nexus features an AMOLED display, a 1 GHz processor, and extensive speech input capabilities. The phone is available immediately either as an unlocked phone or with a two-year contract with T-Mobile. A Verizon version is [...]

The latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution Ubuntu 9.10 has been released and available from the official project web site. New features since Ubuntu 9.04 includes – Firefox 3.5, GNOME 2.28, an enforcing AppArmor profile, Linux kernel 2.6.31, ext4 file system (default), Empathy instant messenger instead of Pidgin, the Ubuntu One client, which [...]

Sizzling news for Apple products’ fans!! The Apple iPod Nano’s 5th generation series is now available. Here’s a sneak peek into its exciting features.
Decked in nine colours with two of them exclusive only to the Apple Online store, you’ll get either 8GB or 16GB of storage on the iPod nano now which was hitherto available [...]