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Submission + - Facebook Generates 230,000 Jobs In Europe; Adds $15.3B To European Economy (digitizor.com)

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on Saturday February 04, 2012 @02:45AM

dkd903 writes: "Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook revealed at the Digital Life Design conference held on Tuesday at Munich that Facebook has managed to put in $15.3 billion into the European economy in 2011, and generated approximately 230,000 jobs in Europe."

Submission + - iOS Apps Crashes More Frequently Than Android Apps - Study (digitizor.com)

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on Friday February 03, 2012 @11:53AM

dkd903 writes: "iOS fans generally maintains that the iOS apps apps are better than the Android apps. However, according to a study by Crittercism, that may not be entirely correct. Crittercism's study reveals that iOS apps crashes more frequently compared to the Android apps. Of course, there are no hard and fast rules to determine which app is better — but the crash rate is one indication."

Submission + - Notion Ink Partners With Texas Instruments For Ada (gadgetizor.com)

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on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:42AM

dkd903 writes: "Remember Notion Ink, the startup from India which had released the Adam Android tablet? The CEO of Notion Ink, Rohan Shavan, has announced that they are releasing their second tablet – the Adam II. He also announced that Notion Ink has partnered with Texas Instruments and that the Adam II (Detailed specs and features of Adam 2) will use TI chipsets."

Submission + - Google Open Sources Sky Map (digitizor.com)

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on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:15AM

dkd903 writes: "Google has announced they are releasing the source code of Google Sky Map to the public. Google Sky Map is an Android app which users the phone's sensors to act as a window into the cosmos. Originally created by some Googlers during their famous 20% time, Sky Map allows users to point their Android device to any direction and see what starts, galaxies etc. are in that direction."

Submission + - Disqus Commenting System Goes Down; Leaves All Blo (digitizor.com)

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on Sunday January 22, 2012 @11:16AM

dkd903 writes: "This is for the first time we are facing issues with the commenting system as nothing loads in the comments area of the blogs. So, as of now all our blogs are pretty comment-less and so are other blogs around the world. You can check the Twitter search page for users who have started expressing their concerns about the Disqus commenting system going down.

Given the fact that many WordPress self hosted blogs and other portals use Disqus (a third party service) as their primary commenting system, it is really worrying to see if users / site administrators should actually use a third party comment system or use the default commenting systems of the respective CMS."

Submission + - Microsoft To Bring Out A New Filesystem In Windows (digitizor.com)

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on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:01AM

dkd903 writes: "Software giant Microsoft is all set to launch an all new file system, ReFS with its next operating system Windows 8, in late 2012. ReFS stands for Resilient File System, and has been designed to meet Windows storage needs – having shared storage pools across systems, ability to large volumes and a resilience to corruption. The current file system on Windows, the NTFS or New Technology File System has been in place since Windows NT 3.1 in 1993."

Submission + - Apple's Thunderbolt Coming Soon To PCs: Courtesy I (gadgetizor.com)

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on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @04:25PM

dkd903 writes: "Till now Thunderbolt was available only on Apple computers. But according to some new rumors, Intel is planning to release the Thunderbolt technology to other PC manufacturers as well in 2012. It is also being said that Intel is working with many big PC manufacturers in order to produce motherboards for notebooks and desktop PCs equipped with Thunderbolt ports."

Submission + - PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (digitizor.com)

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on Thursday December 22, 2011 @12:19AM

dkd903 writes: "Come PHP 5.4.0 and developers will no longer require to go through all these hassles required in setting up an web server in order to develop and test their PHP web applications. PHP 5.4.0 will have a built in web development server which can be started right inside the same folder where you are developing your project codes."

Submission + - Google Android 4.0 ICS For Intel x86 Architecture (digitizor.com)

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on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:49AM

dkd903 writes: "The team at Android-x86 has already ported Android 4.0 to the Intel x86 Architecture for use on laptops powered by the Intel Atom processor (ics-x86 branch). Among the things that are currently supported in the Intel x86 port of Android 4.0.1 Icecream Sandwich are Wi-fi, multitouch, and OpenGL ES Hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon chipsets. However, other features like sound, camera, and ethernet support aren't ready yet."

Submission + - Next Apple iPhone to have a 4 inch Display? (gadgetizor.com) 2

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on Sunday November 27, 2011 @04:42PM

dkd903 writes: "According to reports from Macotakara, Hitachi Displays Ltd and Sony Mobile Display Corporation has started shipping the screens for the iPad 3 and a 4-inch LCD screen for an unnamed iOS device. It would be fairly safe to assume that the 4-inch display will be for the next iPhone – the iPhone 5."

Submission + - WhatsApp Now Delivers 1 Billion Messages Every Day (digitizor.com)

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on Monday November 14, 2011 @02:04AM

dkd903 writes: "The WhatsApp team recently announced on its blog that it has crossed a milestone of delivering 1 billion messages everyday in all which counts down to 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a minute and 11,574 messages a second! This definitely makes WhatsApp the most used messaging app on all mobile platforms."

Submission + - Apple Patents "Slide to Unlock" – Android Ph (gadgetizor.com)

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on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @04:34AM

dkd903 writes: "Apple's “Slide to Unlock” has now been granted as a patent to Apple by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent was filed by Apple computers way back in December 2005 even before the iPhone was made public."

Submission + - Android 4.0 Icecream Sandwich Supports Stylus Inpu (digitizor.com)

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on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:30PM

dkd903 writes: "Just when the stylus pen input device was going out of fashion dues to the finger touch interfaces being brought oout by all mobile companies in the market, Google just gave it a totally new life! Yes, the latest version of Google's Android Operating system — Android 4.0 Icecream sandwich has support for the stylus pen input."

Submission + - Windows 7 Kicks Out Windows XP From The Top Spot i (digitizor.com)

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on Saturday October 15, 2011 @04:02AM

dkd903 writes: "Talking about the numbers, Windows 7 now has a strong 40.21% share of all desktop operating systems around the world whereas, the usage share of Windows XP has slipped to 38.64%. All this happened a couple of days back (in October). The rise in usage of Windows 7 and the drop in usage of Windows XP has been consistent since the time Windows 7 was first launched."

Submission + - Google May Launch A Cellular Service (gadgetizor.com)

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on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:58AM

dkd903 writes: "After acquiring mobile devices company Motorola Mobility, Google is now looking forward to a new venture which might possibly be the business of providing users with cellular services. Yes, you have heard it right. Google might soon launch cellular services in Spain in association with existing cellular operators like Movistar, Orange & Vodafone."

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