Apple may offer buyback schemes for iPads

 Apple will sell its two new tablet models — iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display — in India for Rs 35,900 and Rs 28,900, respectively, starting December 7, the company's distributor Ingram Micro said. A senior executive with an Apple trade partner in India said the US major has plans...

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Facebook delivers more news in News Feed

  Facebook is boosting its efforts to put more news in its News Feed. That is, real news from the news media, rather than status updates from friends.  The world's biggest social network, cognizant of its growing importance for discovering news, said in a blog post on Monday that it...

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New algorithm locates you even in untagged photos

  A new algorithm can change and simplify the way you find photos among the billions of snaps on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.  The search tool developed by Parham Aarabi from the University of Toronto and his former student Ron Appel, uses tag locations to quantify...

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Samsung working on 20MP camera for phones: Report

 Samsung is set to up the ante in the megapixel war next year with its first smartphone with a 20MP camera.  According to a report in South Korean newspaper ET News, Samsung is planning to launch the phone with a 20MP camera in the second half of 2014. The Galaxy Note 4 is a likely contender...

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Apple enters social media by buying analytics firm Topsy Labs

  Apple is not known for being social - rather, it is known for being buttoned up about everything it does. But on Monday, the company confirmed that it had bought Topsy Labs, a research company that could help Apple better understand what people are talking about on social media networks like...

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Datawind partners Happiest Minds for apps store

  Datawind, makers of Aakash tablets, today said it has partnered with IT firm Happiest Minds Technologies to develop applications and solutions for its UbiSlate range of tablets.  Under the partnership, Happiest Minds will develop Datawind's App Store, which will be designed to create...

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Tumblr brings hipster twist to year-end lists

Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals.  Now, Tumblr is flaunting its hipster credentials with a first-ever breakdown of the year's hottest trends, topics and celebrities.  The retrospective starts Tuesday at http://YearinReview.tumblr.com with an exploration...

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Facebook in talks with Bangalore startup Little Eye Labs for acquisition

Facebook is in early stage discussions to acquire Bangalore-based app monitoring solutions startup Little Eye Labs. If it happens, it could be the social networking giant's first ever acquisition in India.  "We are in preliminary discussions. I cannot share anything beyond this," said Kumar Rangarajan, one of the co-founders of Little Eye Labs. Kumar, who calls himself the chief ion (founders call themselves ions,...

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How to print from Google Nexus tablet

Third-party printing apps in the Google Play store offer a few ways to print from an Android tablet, but Google has its own solution as well: Google Cloud Print. It connects a home printer to the web, where webconnected devices like Android tablets and smartphones can see and use it.  Although ...

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BlackBerry is not for everyone: CEO

BlackBerry's interim chief executive said reports of the death of the company "are greatly exaggerated."Former Sybase CEO John Chen said in a letter to customers that BlackBerry is returning to its roots, refocusing on delivering devices and services to business users.Chen was brought...

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Google filters inappropriate words from Android 4.4

 Google has reportedly banned a list of more than 1,400 English words deemed inappropriate for the users of latest Android KitKat.  The latest version of Android has a special directory of words, like intercourse, coitus, screwing, lovemaking, butt, geek, and medical terms like gonadatrophia,...

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Microsoft working on single update for Windows, WP, Xbox

 Microsoft's new unified operating-system is reportedly codenamed "Threshold" which is said to include updates of all three OS platforms, Xbox One, Windows and Windows Phone.  Microsoft executive vice president Terry Myerson recently mentioned the codename in an internal email, which...

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Windows tablet sales to touch 39.3 million by 2017: IDC

The growth of smart devices like 2-in-1s and tablets is expected to fuel the volume for desktop vendors and the PC ecosystem in coming years with shipments of Windows-based tablets expected to touch 39.3 million units by 2017, research firm IDC said.  Two-in-ones are devices that can function...

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Ransom-demanding Trojan virus on prowl in Indian cyberspace

  Cyber security sleuths have warned Indian Internet users against a potent Trojan virus in the social media and email circuit which stealthily encrypts important documents of the user and then asks for a 'ransom' to unlock proprietary messages. The audacity of the virus has been categorised...

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