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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."

Submission + - Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Till Date (digitizor.com)

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on Thursday September 22, 2011 @02:04AM

dkd903 writes: "Microsoft has lost close to 9 billion dollars on its web service businesses since 2007 after the company started making their Internet revenues public. Of those loss figures, Bing alone has accounted for losses amounting to over $5.5 Billion since it was launched in June 2009 — that's close to losing $1 billion every quarter."

Submission + - Stallman: "Android Phones Do Not Respect Privacy" (digitizor.com)

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on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @02:47AM

dkd903 writes: "Richard Stallman says that Android is major step for free-software on phones — but right now, it does not respect the users' software freedom. Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom."

Submission + - Windows 8 Will Have Xbox LIVE Integration (digitizor.com)

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on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:13AM

dkd903 writes: "There has been a lot of rumor that Windows 8 might feature Xbox LIVE integration. Well, today the rumor has been confirmed as true. Larry Hryd, the Director of Programming for the Microsoft Xbox LIVE, has confirmed on his blog that Xbox LIVE is indeed coming to PCs in Windows 8."

Submission + - uTorrent.com Hacked; Installer Replaced By Malware (digitizor.com)

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on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:12AM

dkd903 writes: "This morning the uTorrent.com server was hacked and the windows installer was replaced by a malware. According to the BitTorrernt blog, the incident happened at 4:20 am PDT and it was discovered at around 6:00 am PDT. According to the blog, the malware is a fake antivirus – also known as a scareware."

Submission + - Opera Introduces Support For Gtk3 (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:07AM

dkd903 writes: Today Opera has announced that support for Gtk3 is also coming to their browser. Here is what Rauri of opera said: "Since some of the distros are starting to move towards Gnome 3 and hence Gtk3 we have been working to get Opera to support Gtk3 themes. And now we finally have something to show!"

Submission + - HP To Produce More TouchPads (gadgetizor.com)

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on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:03AM

dkd903 writes: "HP has announced that they are producing one last run of the TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demands. Other than that, the details are extremely vague. HP has not revealed when these TouchPads will be available or how many they will make."

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