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No New iPad Killing Off People’s Interest in Purchasing Tablets
0By: Talha Bhatti | August 6th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Tablets
When a product establishes itself so well that people shop around only for the sole purpose of purchasing it and not even laying an eye on the competition; that is when you know you have taken over the market. The trend of less people buying a tablet computer in the second quarter worried manufacturers for obvious reasons. It seemed confusing at first as to why the tablet buying trend had slowed d...
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Kickstarter Comes to Canada to Launch Canadian Campaigns
By: Talha Bhatti | August 6th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
While the official launch of Kickstarter may be set for September 9, Canadians can begin submitting their creative ideas well before that day as the crowdfunding has officially opened for business in Canada. Originally being something that only the Americans and some Europeans enjoyed, Canadians will now be able to pitch in their ideas and ...
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Google Unveils New Smartphone
By: Zain Nabi | August 5th, 2013 | News, Smartphones
Google has presented an American-built smartphone (Moto X) that is self driving. This project was started by Motorola before Google acquired the company last year. This smartphone has a voice control feature, and it always stays on listening mode. Moto X carries the same technology that Google has used in the Google Glass spectacles. To make sure it does not randomly call someone you ...
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NASA Curiosity Rover Approaches First Anniversary on Mars
By: Zain Nabi | August 5th, 2013 | News
It has been a year since NASA’s Curiosity, a robot, reached the planet Mars to collect proofs of life there. No one can deny Curiosity’s role in opening new horizons in the world of science and technology as it actually was able to prove the existence of life on the red planet. Sarah Marcotte, a member of the mission’s Mars Public Engagement team handling queries from the common...
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Microsoft Bing Will Warn Users on Searching for Child Abuse Images
By: Talha Bhatti | August 5th, 2013 | News
The Guardian reports that Microsoft will be shortly be introducing a pop up warning system on its Search Engine, also known as Bing. The warning message will be designed to notify the users if they search for prohibited and illegal child abuse images on the internet. The comp...
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Pinpoint Payload Drop Advances Rocket U
By: Zain Nabi | August 4th, 2013 | News
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a high attitude balloon parachuted was recently released for Rocket University engineers and designers who are now going to conduct some important experiments. For this, an instrument box weighing about five pounds was tied with the weather balloon. This instrument package was released from 65,000 feet. A recovery crew was waiting for the p...
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Facebook Gives Away $1 Million Under Bug Bounty Program
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | News, Social Media
Roughly two years ago social networking website, Facebook, initiated a Bug Bounty Program in order to reward people, who will found bugs in the site and also to push people to make the site more secure and safe. Now after two years, Facebook says its Bug Bounty Program proved more successful than expectations and through the in...
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Barack Obama and His Administration Vetoes a Potential Ban on Apple’s iPhone 4 and iPad Models in US
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Samsung has been waiting for quite a while to see a ban imposed on some of Apple’s products in the US, as the South Korean company believes that the Cupertino-based tech giant has violated its copyrights. However, it appears that luck has not ran out on Apple ...
