Author: Nikita Porwal
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Droid X Now Officially Has Gingerbread
If you have missed the recent leaked build (4.5.573) of Gingerbread, and you are a Droid X owner that has been waiting for if, your wait is almost over. Droid X users are reporting that a ‘silent update’ of the Android 2.3.3. The official OTA update (update 4.5.588) is a silent update that is bringing…
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AT&T Enters Prepaid Smartphone Market with LG Thrive
AT&T has finally entered the prepaid smartphone with the LG Thrive. The LG Thrive is based on the Android 2.2. It is an advancement in the GoPhone category and offers a whole range of features, including: 3.2-inch colour full-touch display, Wi-Fi, Exchange email support, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Additionally, this phone will have unlimited Wi-Fi…
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Chitter.im Brings Twitter to Gtalk
Chitter.im is a bot that runs on Gtalk and brings Twitter updates to your Gtalk account. This is particularly for users that are on Gtalk most of the time and keep going back and forth for updates on Twitter. Apart from helping you view tweets, it also lets you send tweets, quote tweets, and send…
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Watch Your Calories with MealSnap on iPhone
MealSnap is a new application that works for iPhones. As the name suggests using MealSnap you can take a picture of the meal that you are eating. After the picture is taken the app can do a calorie count on the food that you have picked. The calorie count will help you make a decision…
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Verizon Scraps 1-Year Contracts
Verizon plans to scrap issue of 1-year contracts starting April 17, 2011. Therefore, if you are a Verizon user and would like to sign the 1-year contract, this could be the best time to do it. This change is applicable only the 1-year contracts. The 2-year contracts will still be made available and will provided…
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CyanogenMod 7 Is Now Available
CyanogenMod 7 is the Gingerbread-based version of the custom ROM. It is available in more than 2 devices. CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project and is designed to increase performance and reliability over Android-based ROMs. This release of version 7 comes after months of iterations on four release candidates. According to the…
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StackPad – Your iPad Wallpaper Designer
Picking a wall paper for the iPad is not easy. The biggest indicator for this is that most users retain the wallpaper that the iPad was shipped with. Picking one particular picture can be difficult especially when you are spoilt with choices. So, if you would alternately rather create a collage of images, StackPad can…
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Google Link Bonuses to Social Media: Some Criticize
Larry Page in just a week after taking over the company, Google, is reported to have sent out a memo to the entire company stating that 25% of the employee’s bonus will be tied to Google’s success on Social media. According to the memo that was leaked and posted online, employee bonuses is said that…
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Webroot Launched Mobile Security App for Android
If you have been wondering how to protect your android device against malware, insecure applications and dangerous website then here is something of your interest. Webroot, the first Internet security service company has launched a new mobile security application that is particularly designed to protect Android™ smartphone and tablet. Along with malware protection it also…
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Speed Monitor: Measure and Track Webpage Loading Speed
Speed Monitor is a portable application. It tracks the loading speed of different websites across a time period. Additionally, it provides information on intervals and averages in the last 10, 100, and 1000 tries. It also provides the graphical representation of the loading speed of the different websites. To use the Speed Monitor, you must:…