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USB Credit Cards being flashed around this christmas

USB Credit Cards

Over recent years credit cards have become the way for millions to fund their Christmas expenditure with Consumer Intelligence suggesting that over 55% of shoppers plan to pay for their gifts with a credit card. Christmas is an expensive time of the year and understandably many consumers turn to credit cards to help them with [...]

Motorola Milestone 2 Vs Nexus S

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Samsung Google Nexus S vs Motorola Milestone 2. Compare Samsung Google Nexus S and Motorola Milestone 2, they are both top smartphones 2010 with 3G, wifi, bluetooth, GPS, 5 MP digital camera, Multi-touch, Adobe Flash 10.1. But Samsung Google Nexus S has a 4.0 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Oleophobic surface, Contour Display with [...]

Motorola Milestone 2

Motorola Milestone 2

The Motorola Milestone 2 offers a number of upgrades over its successful predecessor.  The latest Android OS along with a faster processor and redesigned keyboard all add to the new levels of functionality which are achieved thanks to the handset’s overhaul. The handset itself looks great.  It features a 3.7 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen to [...]

Advantages of Android Mobiles

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Android enabled cell phones are undoubtedly one of the best things to have happened in recent times as far as technological advancements are concerned. As a matter of fact, Android phones have managed to become the top choice for cell phone users in a very short span of time. So what are Android mobile phones [...]

Google Maps for Android

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The wrapper just came off Google’s newest version of Maps for Android (launching soon), and it looks pretty slick. Separating the refreshed Maps 5.0 for Android from its predecessor: faster map loading, an iPhone-like function that spins the map according to the phone’s compass, and an offline mode. And did I mention that maps are [...]

SuperSpeed USB v3.0

USB 3.0

As technology innovation marches forward, new kinds of devices, media formats, and large inexpensive storage are converging. They require significantly more bus bandwidth to maintain the interactive experience users have come to expect. In addition, user applications demand a higher performance connection between the PC and these increasingly sophisticated peripherals. USB 3.0 addresses this need [...]

IBM Launches 5 Year Effort to develop quantum computing

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Ramped-up research efforts at IBM and other labs in the U.S. and Europe could lead to more powerful and more prevalent quantum computers in the near future. IBM is breathing new life into a quantum computing research division at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, reports New York Times. The computer giant has hired alumni [...]

Nexus S – a pure Google experience device

Nexus S

Nexus S is the first phone to run Gingerbread, the fastest version of Android yet.

Gingerbread builds on some of the most popular Android features like multi-tasking and Wi-Fi hotspot and adds a refreshed user interface, an improved keyboard, near field communication (NFC) support, and more.

Microsoft’s Kinect is amazing

Microsoft Kinect

The first time you try the “crank that” Soulja Boy dance on Dance Central, or slam a ping-pong ball in Kinect Sports using only your awkward, flailing arms–those are moments of sheer futuristic glee. The Kinect, as we noted in our review, is definitely lacking in must-have games, but the potential of Kinect is way [...]

Microsoft Surface Touch Screen

Microsoft Surface touch screen

The slick touchscreens of our iPhones and Droids are visually magnificent and the epitome of tech chic, but their slick, untextured glass screens don’t resonate with humans’ tactile nature (that’s why some people just can’t kick the hardware button keyboard). Good tactile touchscreens – screens that impart a feeling of touch or texture in sync with a displayed image – have thus far eluded device makers. A new Microsoft project could change all that.