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Name: Mayank Agarwal | mayank25may@gmail.com
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The pre-order for the iPad is on and its selling like hot cakes. Leave aside all the iPad Launch disappointments – no multi tasking, no flash, no USB Drive… blah blah. Apple fans were tracking the iPad sales right form the starting. This is what Phanfare has to say - We just bought two iPads, about [...]
Written on March 7th, 2010 at 3:01 am by Mayank Agarwal
This comes from Israel. A military raid on suspected militants in West Bank had to be rolled off after one of the Israeli soldiers updated his Facebook status with a stupid message which went some thing like this “On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home.” Reports in Israeli newpapaer Haaretz also suggests that the [...]
Written on March 4th, 2010 at 2:01 am by Mayank Agarwal
By now every one under the sun knows that Apple has sued HTC and apparently it has got less to do with HTC and a lot to do with Google & Android. After all HTC is the manufacturer of Nexus One and uses Android in a lot of its phone. Although Steve Jobs is right when he says [...]
Written on February 28th, 2010 at 3:31 am by Mayank Agarwal
Google has launched a Web App – “Person Finder: Chile Earthquake“. This application connects people of Chile who have information about missing people to the person seeking information about the same. The home page is divided into 2 parts I’m looking for someone I have information about someone dtsv.dtse_post_3066_permalink = 'http://techdusts.com/2010/02/28/google-chile-earthquake/'; dtsv.dtse_post_3066_title = 'Google Launches A Person Finder For [...]
Written on February 25th, 2010 at 3:19 am by Mayank Agarwal
iTunes has just now reached another hall mark. Some time back iTunes recorded its 10 billionth song download. Apple has gift voucher of $10000 for the person who has downloaded this lucky song. They will be revealing details on this soon. Steve couldn’t have asked for a better Birthday gift than this! 10 Billion songs downloaded means a lot. Putting [...]
Written on February 24th, 2010 at 7:32 pm by Mayank Agarwal
This post is dedicated to God. Today is especial day. Quite ironically one God created history today by scoring 200 runs in ODI and becoming 1st man on the planet to achieve this mark & on the other hand, right on the opposite side of the planet another God celebrates his Birthday today and turns 55. [...]
Written on February 23rd, 2010 at 1:08 pm by Mayank Agarwal
Twitter is known for going out of its way to help people fight a social/political cause which Twitter believes in. Most remarkable was the role of Twitter in last years Iran elections. Though Twitter did face the heat for helping the people of Iran when it was hacked late last year by the so called [...]
Written on February 13th, 2010 at 3:56 am by Mayank Agarwal
I have been using Google Buzz for past 2 days now. Apart from what ever problems I am going to point out, I must say I am quite impressed with Buzz. After series of more or less failed efforts into social networking this time around Google has definitely cracked it. Google Buzz, as I said [...]
Written on February 9th, 2010 at 1:00 am by Mayank Agarwal
This could be some thing big. Google is believed to be working on some killer social feature for GMail. This new feature could be out as early as this week end. The basic use of this feature will be to make it easy for users to share real time updates/information with their friends. WSJ reported a [...]
Written on February 8th, 2010 at 10:16 pm by Mayank Agarwal
Google is working on speech to speech real time translator that would automatically translate any foreign language into the language of your choice (your native language) and vice versa. So, basically this will allow multi lingual phone conversation in real time. It is believed that Google plans to use this speech to speech translator for [...]
Written on March 13th, 2010 at 10:14 pm by Mayank Agarwal
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