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How To Protect Your USB Device At Cyber Cafes

Entertainment on the go has become a must for travelers. People who listen to music or watch something all the time are so accustomed to doing those things that they almost feel […]

GPS, You Will Never Be Lost Again

One of the most widely used technologies in travel worldwide, the Global Positioning System or simply GPS, has become indispensable in our traveling lives. Almost unthinkable a couple of decades ago, the […]

Tablets, Changing Travel Habits

There used to exist a time where travel meant devoting the entire time to your companions, be it family or friends. There was no TV to watch, no phone (I mean the […]

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Great Travel Gadgets

I'm definitely a gadget guy. I love trying out the latest and the greatest new gadgets. I also love hitting the road and seeing where it will take me. That might be […]

Have Smart Phone, Will Travel – But Be Careful!

One of the great things about living in this age of smart phones and wi-fi devices is that it makes getting connected to the internet pretty easy, no matter where you are. […]

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FB-Secure, Configure Facebook Application Rights During App Installation

Facebook applications can request rights to access user information during installation. While all will request basic information, some require additional access rights for their functionality. Others however may request additional rights even […]

Enter Windows Phone 7

With the smartphone market already crammed with handsets, operating systems and options, Microsoft have now entered the fray with their latest and greatest.  At an event in New York city this morning, […]

"One App to Rule Them All" move by Europe

A new European project, kick-started by 22 European companies and organisations aims to develop an application development environment that will work across all platforms by providing a web-based approach, according to the […]

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Spoon Adds Browser Sandbox, To Desktop Apps Web Launcher

Spoon offers a web service for Windows users that allows them to run desktop applications directly in the web browser, without prior downloads or installations. The cloud approach offers several advantages over […]

Chrome OS Tablet coming from Google and Verizon in November

Google's new Chrome OS cloud-based operating system is about to make its first appearance, not on netbooks, as was first thought, but on tablet devices instead. Engadget are reportingthat smartphone maker HTC […]

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Facebook 'dislike' scam

Many users of the social networking site Facebook have long been asking for a dislike button and now it looks like they've got what they were asking for... or have they?  Be […]

Blackberry in trouble again, this time with India

Blackberry makers Research in Motion (RIM) are in trouble again, this time with India, after squabbles with the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Algeria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia over government access to its data […]

Virus hits Google Android

With the number of smartphones on the market on an ever-increasing rise Google's Android operating system is the first to be hit by a major virus.  The malware can steal cash from […]

RIM may yet avert Saudi Blackberry ban

Research in Motion's Blackberry devices have been causing all sorts of controversy in the middle-east in recent months with countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE threatening to block all data […]

UAE to block the Blackberry?

After previous problems in the country, the United Arab Emirates is now set to at least temorarily block RIM's Blackberry phones in the country, saying they pose a "national security risk". The […]

RIM to launch Blackpad?

It could be the worst branding exercise since technology company Blick launched their glossy white Internet radios, and suddenly realised they wouldn't be able to sell them in South Africa.  Now Research in […]

Jailbreaking Now Legal, In The US

Jailbreaking refers to methods to modify a device to remove some, or even all, of the restrictions that are imposed on it by its developer. Most people think iPhone if they talk […]

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Apps For uTorrent Overview

A web based extensions framework has been integrated into developer versions of uTorrent some time ago, offering the prospect to extend the basic functionality of the Bittorrent client in the future. Apps […]

AT&T gives loyal customers free Femtocell

The femtocell caused a great deal of excitement when the technology was first announced a couple of years ago.  These boxes use your broadband connection to boost the signal for your 3G […]

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F-Secure Anti-Theft For Mobile

Update: F-Secure Anti-Theft is no longer available in its current form. F-Secure released F-Secure SAFE, a new application for Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating system that is available for free on […]

AT&T Sends apologies to security breach iPad owners

After last week's security breach in which the email addresses of iPad owners were harvested by hackers, AT&T has now sent letters to apologies to the customers concerned, as reported by Engadget […]

iPad / AT&T vulnerability leaks email addresses... who is to blame?

Hackers have exploited a vulnerability on AT&T's US network when iPad users authenticated themselves online that has allowed them to gain access to a list of 114,067 email addresses belonging to owners, […]

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How To Delete Facebook Applications

I'm not a very active Facebook user. Got my account just like anyone else on this planet but do not log in more than once a week or so as I mainly […]

Tether your Android phone to your Linux laptop

Picture this: Your working on a client's machine running a complicated registry edit you found on a web site. You are working on said client's network, when all of a sudden the […]

Simple yet powerful task management with Todoist

Over the past years I've been using task managers on and off, but one I always come back to is Todoist. While there are certainly more powerful options out there (Remember The […]

Google Goggles

Text based search is the most prominent search available on the Internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input before they return results […]

A close look at the Android OS

Android OS is about to make the migration from mobile phone to netbook PC (most likely thanks to Asus). If you've not seen an Android-based phone, you most likely are not aware […]

Android Developer Challenge 2 Winners

Google's Android platform, which was once backed only by HTC has come a long way since then. Many cell phone manufacturers are releasing Android based cell phones at the moment including Samsung, […]

Huawei Has A $200 Android Phone Lined Up

And that is probably without any subsidy. Huawei has apparently confirmed that such phone exists and is coming soon. Whether this is the elusive U8230 is arguable but there is a strong […]

China Is About To Cause An Android Flood

If there’s a good piece of technology doing its rounds around the world, you can rest assured that small, unknown Chinese companies are likely to try their hands at it. It happened […]

Samsung Diva Phones Turn Up The Bling Factor

Samsung put out on display two phones that have not been announced yet. And as one can expect, they got covered on the Internet. These phones flag off a whole new line […]

Moving With Motorola Motus: The Leaks And Rumors So far

Okay, so we have more rumors about the Motorola Motus. We have specs, features, a new name and also a very shaky picture. I mean it looks like it the camera was […]

The Plot Thickens Around The Google Phone

The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations. It looks like the Google phone is ‘very real’ and it is being developed […]

The HTC Dragon Exists And Google Has It!

Well, after the HTC CEO said in a cryptic tone that they would never make an Android HD2 there was a general round of murmuring about what happens to the rumored HTC […]

Sony Ericsson’s Kurara Is More than What You Think It Is

Remember Kurara? That phone from Sony Ericsson That got leaked right after the XPERIA X10 came out from behind the veil? Well, we had it pegged down as an ordinary phone that […]

iPhone Apps: Magellan Sets Sail, Google Earth Updates, Ravensword Arrives And More

Get in on the latest in the iPhone app store, the hottest little place to be on earth if you truly believe that for every problem there’s an app just waiting to […]

Nokia Finally Releases N900, 'Tis Exciting But A Bit Late

Nokia has finally released its Maemo5 based smartphone – the N900. Maemo is Nokia’s next generation mobile OS. It is a Linux-based platform that seeks to take on such juggernauts as the […]

iPhone Apps: Message In A Balloon, Knocking Over MMS And Premium Shazam

Today we have three new iPhone apps for you. Actually that should be two and a half new apps because Shazam was already there. But the other two are really great apps, […]

To Droid Or Not To Droid

Okay folks, the Droid is finally out now. Through all the iPhone-bashing and the creepy ad campaign, it has made its way into our minds and hearts (sort of). At the very […]

New HD-Capable Sony Ericsson Phone Leaked (Twice Already): Kurara

Right after Sony Ericsson made the XPERIA X10 (AKA Rachael/X3) official, the rumor mill threw out another leak at us. This time it is as model called the Kurara. Kurara seems to […]