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Saturday 31 December 2011

Anonymous Hacking Group To Destroy Sony’s Online Network for Supporting SOPA

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We all know how dangerous Anonymous Hacking Group, they have deliverd almost

anything what they have announced, this time they are working on destroying

Sony’s Online Network for supporting SOPA.Earlier Godaddy was targeted for

supporting SOPA by Reddit users, by delclaring 29th december as Godaddy dump

day.


We can easily predict that they can deliver it as we know how many times Sony

has been hacked by various hacking group.


Sony’s Online Network was also hacked earlier in November read more here


This announcement came via video uploaded on YouTube via TheAnonMessage YouTube

channel.




They have also posted this Following message.

Hello, SONY.
We are Anonymous.

It has come to the attention of the Anonymous activist community that you have

chosen to stand by the Stop Online Piracy Act. This act will halt online

businesses and restrict access to many sites for many users. Supporting SOPA is

like trying to throw an entire company from off a bridge. Your support to the

act is a signed death warrant to SONY Company and Associates. Therefore, yet

again, we have decided to destroy your network. We will dismantle your phantom

from the Internet. Prepare to be extinguished. Justice will be swift, and it

will be for the people, whether some like it or not. Sony, you have been warned.

To those doubting our powers. We’ve infiltrated the servers of Bank of America,

The United States Department of Defense, The United Nations, and Lockheed

Martin. In one day.

For their approval to SOPA, we have also declared that our fury be brought upon

the following persons. Justin Bieber. Lady Gaga. Kim Kardashian. and Taylor

Swift.

Operation Blackout, engaged.
Operation Mayhem, engaged.
Operation LulzXmas, engaged.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.

Supporters of SOPA, you should’ve expected us.



They have also posted How to join the attack:

1) Download NetTalk6.exe
2) Connect to this IP address: irc.anonops.li OR ipv6.anonops.li
3) TYPE IN: /join #opsony
Now your able to get in the discussion and be the first to get the updates.



Why Sony is Supporting SOPA?


As sony is the one of the biggest publisher of movies, music and games,Their

profit margin is affected by Internet piracy.

Sony is Specially faces huge lose due millions of torrent downloads and SOPA is

mainly made to stop torrents.



What do you think about this Anonymous Hacking Group and SOPA, do share your

thoughts in comment section below.

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Google's Happy New Year Google Doodle from 2000 to 2011

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Google always create something unexpected from gmail to Google+ you cant beat

google anywhere, which i like about google they are always very creative and

Google doodle is no exception to it.

what is Google doodle ?



Google doodle is Google's unique way of celebrating some occasional days like

Christmas, new year etc. via through pictures or animations.You can find the

collection of these Google doodle via google search "Google doodle" ( with

quotes or without quotes it doesn't matter).


The first Google Doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Honor the

Burning Man Festival in 1998.Since then we all know how Google is working Doodle

to celebrate every rare occasion.


This time google is celebrating New Year via special Google doodle like

every time they did since year 2000.I found it today so i thought what about

previous years so here we Go.


2012 Google Doodle


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2011 Google Doodle

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2009 Google Doodle

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2008 Google Doodle
 
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2007 Google Doodle

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2006 Google Doodle

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2005 Google Doodle

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2004 Google Doodle

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2003 Google Doodle

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2000 Google Doodle


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What you think about Google Doodle and what is your favourite Google Doodle, do share your thoughts in comment section below.
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Saturday 24 December 2011

Infographic: What could you do if you owned every tablet in the world?

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Gadget fans around the world are buying up tablet computers at an ever-increasing rate, and Indian consumers are no exception.

Approximately 32,000,000 tablets have been sold worldwide to date. From October 2010 to June 2011, 8,000 were sold every day in India alone, with 46% of these sold by Samsung, 21% by BlackBerry, 18% by Apple, with the rest of the numbers made up by smaller tablet manufacturers. Computer Market Research (CMR) estimates that Indian consumers will buy 85,000 tablet PCs in 2012, rising to 23.4 million in 2017 as sales are expect to double yearly.

With a size and weight somewhere between laptops and smartphones, they provide the ideal combination of portability and usability. Their larger size and high-quality graphics makes them ideal for playing games, reading books and news,  and watching videos. As well as consumers, they have also been extremely popular in the business world. Their uses in the workplace include attorneys responding to clients, medical professionals accessing health records during patient exams, and managers approving employee requests. Tablet computers received an immediately positive reception upon their release - the Apple iPod caused pandemonium, with thousands of fans queuing up outside stores to purchase their own.

Tablet computers' popularity has been aided in part by the rise in low cost tablets like the Aakash, which makes tablets accessible to everyone - research shows that tablets costing under 10,000 Rs are the most popular in India. Compared with the smartphone BlackBerry Bold 9790, Datawind's Aakash seems a very reasonable - it's priced at just 2,500 Rs for a device with the full functionality of a tablet computer, compared with the BlackBerry Bold price of over 20,000 Rs.

The below infographic demonstrates helps you to visualise what it would look like if you owned all of these 32,000,000 tablets.
  

   
       
   

Source: Tehelka.com
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Friday 23 December 2011

3 Ways to Prepare Your Blog for Christmas

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Christmas is a time of celebration, everybody knows that. And everywhere you visit around the world, both offline and online, only remind you of it. And we must agree that Christmas also has its effect on us bloggers. If you are a blogger who schedules 5 to 10 articles for your blog on normal days, I bet you’ll only be able to do half of that now. And going this way can only reduce the traffic and rankings of your blog, if you can’t find something to do. 


3 Ways to Prepare Your Blog for Christmas
   
   
   
Given, you can’t blot out yourself from the merry and celebrations going around just because you want to focus your attention on your blog and on the other hand, you can’t leave your blog to die for the sake of Christmas. There has to be a way to do things without making one suffer for the sake of the other. And this is when the tips I’ll be sharing in this article become relevant. 

Start Generating Ideas When you Have the Chance 

Generating ideas for your future blog posts is one of the best ways to prepare your blog for this Christmas. If you are the type that writes quality articles for your blog every day, you’ll want to agree with me that when you have ideas for the article you want to write for your blog, half of your work is done!
So if you are only left with half of the amount of time you usually had, having your post ideas ready can help you maximize your time and also help you keep your blog going.
At least, I have more than twenty post ideas for my diamond international discounts and allurez coupon blog which I plan to use during the Christmas.

Schedule Your Blog Posts Ahead 

Another great way to make sure your blog stays afloat during this festive period is by scheduling your articles for the days you know you won’t have the opportunity to write any. If there is any better way to do this, it is by making yourself write more articles than you initially do now. If you always write two articles before, you can write four and schedule the other two to publish on a later day, advisable on a very busy day.
And if doing this is going to be stiff for you, you may have to consider doing what I’m sharing below.

Hire Writers or Request for Guest Posts 

Hiring writers can be a bit expensive but it’s worth it when you consider the benefit you are going to derive from it. When you’ll be busy with your friends during Christmas, your writers can be writing blog posts for your blog without you having to do the job yourself.
If your budget will not allow you to hire writers, you can do it in a simpler way, by asking people to write for you as guest authors. Many people will be willing to give you an article for free in exchange for a backlink on your blog.

Bio:
John Edget is a blogger who loves to review and compare software and applications related to internet security, antivirus, family monitoring and registry cleaning. For more information click here.
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TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY AND GADGET NEWS - 22th DECEMBER

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Here are today's most popular top technology and gadget news with some added

description so enjoy the post.


1.Samsung announces Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Y Pro Duos


2.Apple's market share is expanding in the US and UK, but declining in Europe 

Apart from Apple's iPhone 4S success in Europe their shares are still declining

in Europe.According to  Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Apple's market share in France

and Germany fell from 29% to  20% and 27% to 22% respectively.While in the US

their market share grew from 25% to 36%.


3.Distimo : Nokia Store now has over 100K apps

According to Distimo the official Nokia app counts has surpassed the 100k mark.

4.Facebook Names Top Games of 2011  

We all know Facebook as the biggest platform for social games with some most

popular games like Cityville, The Sims Social etc.They have announced thier ten

most popular games of 2011 and here they are :

1.Gardens of Time (by Playdom)
2.The Sims Social (by EA)
3.Cityville (by Zynga)
4.DoubleDown Casino (by DoubleDown Entertainment)
5.Indiana Jones Adventure World (by Zynga)
6.Words With Friends (by Zynga)
7.Bingo Blitz (by Buffalo Studios)
9.Empires & Allies (by Zynga)
8.Slotomania-Slot Machines (by Playtika)
10.Diamond Dash (by wooga)



5.Apple AppStore makes 6x more revenue than Android Market


Tomorrow Google has announced that there are now over 700,000 Android devices

activated every day which does not stop revenue share of Apple's AppStore.

    
   
    
  

6.MySpace to Shutter Japan Office in 2012


7.Pinterest Total Visits Increase by 4,000% in 6 Months

Thanks to problogger and other blogging giants for promoting Pinterest.


8.Intel unveils Android-running Medfield phone and slate

On 21st December, 2011 Intel  has just announced its latest Android power

smart phone which is based on its latest Medfield chipset.It runs on Gingerbread

and comes with 8 mega pixel camera.

9.Angry Birds Arrives on the BlackBerry PlayBook


10.LG Prada 3.0 to hit UK in February




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Samsung announces Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos

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Today Samsung announces two new Android powered Smart phones Samsung Galaxy Y

Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos, both phones has dual sim capability and runs

on Android 2.3.

Their specs was leaked last week and most of them are true.

Samsung Galaxy Y Duos B5510 Specs :

* Internal memory : 512MB
* 32GB expandable memory
* RAM : 384MB
* Camera : 3 megapixel
* 3.5mm audio jack
* Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and microUSB.

     
    
     

It has been compared with Samsung Galaxy with some added functionality.

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos  specs :

* Full QWERTY keyboard
* RAM : 384MB
* Camera : 3 megapixel
* 2.6 inches QVGA LCD screen
* 3.5mm audio jack
* Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and microUSB.


   
    
   


This phone lacks desirable screen size and basically suited for Qwarty lovers


Both phones come with 2GB of micro SD card and has a battery of 1350 mAh and 1300

mAh respectively.The  availability and pricing of these handset is yet to be

announced.


Do share your thoughts about these phones and how you compare these phones with

other low range phones in the comment section below.
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Friday 16 December 2011

Amazon is Selling Over 1 Million Kindle Fire Per Week

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Amazon is on fire in this holiday season as they are selling more than 1 Million

Kindle Fire Per Week.However the Amazon has never released specific sales

figures for the Kindle Fire.The announcement came on Thursday in a press release

and after the press release Amazon shares rose by 1.5 percent.







“Kindle Fire is the most successful product we’ve ever launched – it’s the

bestselling product across all of Amazon for 11 straight weeks, we’ve already

sold millions of units, and we’re building millions more to meet the high

demand. In fact, demand is accelerating – Kindle Fire sales increased week over

week for each of the past three weeks. People are buying Kindle Fire because

it's a simple, fully-integrated service that makes it easy to do the things they

love – watch movies, read books and magazines, listen to music, download apps,

play games, and surf the web,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.

“Our family of Kindle e-ink readers are close behind Kindle Fire on the

Amazon.com bestseller list. Customers continue to report preferring their Kindle

e-reader for long-form reading, and in fact we’ve seen many customers buy two

Kindles – both a Kindle Fire and a Kindle or Kindle Touch – this holiday

season.”


These figures are more than awesome for Amazon as kindle fire is only available

in US till now.Kindle fire was earlier considered as iPad killer and it

definitely can stop its dominance in tablet market to some extent.



iPad is still leading the way in the tablet market with 75% market share.What do

you think about this tablet fight, do share your opinions in comment section

below.


You can check out Detailed Specifications of Kindle Fire Here.

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Wednesday 14 December 2011

TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY NEWS - 14th DECEMBER

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Here are today's top 10 technology news, back by popular demand for limited time

so enjoy reading these quick tech wrap ups.



1.PayPal to Launch Mobile Coupons in 2012

Its official and most likely to launch in early 2012.

2.Google Buys a Virtual Assistant

Google announced on Tuesday that it acquired Alfred app maker, Clever Sense

which is know for digital personal assistant.This acquisition is targeted to

compete with siri which lets iphone 4S users to perform any task via voice

command.


3.Google Extends Free Gmail Calls in the US and Canada to 2012

Free calls were added to Gmail in August 2010 with an announcement that they

will be remain free for the rest of the year.At the end of 2010 Google exntends

this offer to 2011 and it is extented for 2012( throughout  the year ).

4.Apple Confirms 18 Billion Unique App Store Downloads

Apple has announced on Tuesday that the Mac App Store had reached 100 million

downloads in less than a year.


5.SocialBro Integrates PeerIndex, Now You can filter you twitter followers

Now you can filter your twitter followers by various factors via

SocialBro.
SocialBro allows you to filter you twitter followers by Peerindex

score which is a great alternative of klout score and by far most accurate after

klout scores.             


6.Alibaba Adds Gaming Support to 'Chinese Android' OS


7.Google Chrome Gets Multi-User Support

 Now you Chrome has multi user support which enable you to carry your bookmarks

 anywhere you go.All you have to do is sign in to chrome by your Google account and

forget everything.Below is the screen shot showing you how you can sign in to chrome.






8.Skype v2.6 is Rolled out for Android


9.Microsoft Releases SkyDrive Apps for WP7, iPhone


10.Rumour : Facebook Could Launch Mobile Ads in March


Do let us know how these wrap ups are useful for you in the comment section below.
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Tuesday 13 December 2011

We Are Looking For Guest Bloggers

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Hello friends, we are looking for guest blogger who can write for Technicia Blog

and add more quality content to Technicia Blog.

Before submitting your post you have to do following steps :

* circle and plus one us on Google+
* follow Technicia Blog on twitter and mention us so that you can get quick

reply from us.

Why Write for Technicia BLog :

* You get 2 dofollow links
* Get exposure : Technicia BLog gets 800-1500 page views daily so you get more

exposure.


Topics :

We will consider all most any topic related to technology but we are particularly

interested in are technology news, seo tips, gaming tips and tricks, hacking

reports, android and iOS updates etc.


After doing above step submit your post via email and we will publish it after

review.Please keep in mind that we will edit your post and to some extent such

as changing your title, correcting grammar and spellings etc.


Get more details about guest post here
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Sunday 11 December 2011

HP Turns WebOS into an Open Source Project

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Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) announces on  Friday that they are turning webOS into an

open source project.Earlier it was speculated that HP's webOS will be going

away.






     
HP Turns WebOS into an Open Source Project
    



For those who dont know what HP's webOS is all about, it is an OS which is based on Linux kernel.

Also it was initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by HP for US$1.2 billion.


How webOS will work in the future : 


The webOS will be offered under a license that lets hardware manufacturers and

software developers access its source code and use it freely in products.



Palo Alto, California-based company said HP will remain active in developing and

supporting WebOS.



How much it will help webOS to stay in the hunt to servive and how developers

respond to them will be a cause of concern for HP.What do you think about webOS

do let us know in the comment section below.

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Friday 9 December 2011

Twitter Launches Brand Pages for major Brands

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Twitter announced on Thursday that  they will be launching brand pages which will

compete against facebook and Google+ pages soon.          


                      
Twitter Launches Brand Pages for major Brands
                          

   



According to AdAge the launch partners for the pages include American Express,

Best Buy, Bing, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Dell, Disney, General Electric, Hewlitt-

Packard, Intel, JetBlue, Kia, McDonald’s, Nike, PepsiCo, Staples, Verizon

Wireless, NYSE Euronext, Heineken, Subway and Paramount Pictures, specifically

for the release of Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.


Twitter Brand Page of Disney
 



Some Facts about Twitter Brand Pages according to AdAge :

* Brands can choose to keep a particular tweet at the top of their timeline.

* Brand pages will let advertisers customise their headers to make their logo

and tagline more prominent

* The new design also lets brands separate their @ replies and mentions




Twitter search result


Twitter is on fire right now as it has launched a complete redesign of its web

and mobile apps today. You can search it on twitter and varify the result

yourself.What do you think about Social media war between Google+,

facebook and Twitter do let us know in the comment section below.
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Facebook Launched its New Subscribe Button For websites/Blog

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After recent announcement at LeWeb the social media giant finally introduces its

subscribe button for developers and website owners.



The new subscribe button allows Facebook users to subscribe to updates on

websites with a click of a button and the user starts getting updates from that

website/blog in their News Feed.

This plugin competes directly against RSS feeds and Twitter’s Follow button,

blog owners should consider it seriously.


image via official announcement
 


You can implement it in your website/blog via XFBML code snippet or through

iFrame.You can get the code here



It looks like Google+ is causing lots of problem to social media gaints like

facebook and twitter and they are up for redesign as facebook is about to launch

its new feature called Timeline and twitter has just launched a new version(UI)

on Android and iOS and it will be launched soon for web users.What do you think

about this battle of survival between facebook, twitter and Google+, do share

your thoughts in comment section below.


Read official announcement here
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Thursday 8 December 2011

iPhone 4S Preorders in Taiwan Surpasses Record Breaking 400,000 Units

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iPhone 4S is riding high in every part of the world and Taiwan is no exception

where it breaks all previous records and surpasses total preorder of 400,000

Units as of December 6th.




   



iPhone 4S preorders was first offered by Taiwan Mobile and Far Eastone in Taiwan

on December 1 and since then buyers went crazy and caused operator websites to

crash within few hours according to local media reports.



The iPhone 4S has created lots of hype as it is the last device launched by Apple

Inc. during its co-founder Steve Jobs lifetime.The device is set to launch on

December 16th in Taiwan and we all know how far it can go from here.



So have you got one or planning to buy during X-mass vacation, do share your

thoughts in comment section below.
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Wednesday 7 December 2011

Opera Launches Opera 11.6 Web Browser

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Today Opera has launched its latest version of its desktop browser i.e.
Opera 11.6.


 

The company announced today that Opera is the world’s fifth most popular

browser, behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

and Apple’s Safari. Opera Software claims that they have 2.4% of Global Market

share, with over 200 million downloads as of November 2011.


Some of the major changes in  Opera 11.6 includes Revamped address field which

has functionality by which you can have quick access to your favourites, easy 

way to create bookmark etc.

Other improvement in opera 11.6 includes improved in-browser email, new browser

engine, faster and more responsive interface.


  


You can Download Opera 11.6 here


So with these changes will you stick with your older version or you are going to

download new version ? feel free to share you thoughts in comment section.
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Monday 5 December 2011

Facebook Confirms Gowalla Acquisition : Gowalla is Going Away

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Technicia Blog reported yesterday that Facebook acquires location sharing

service Gowalla To Boost its Timeline Feature.Today The Social Networking Gaint,

Facebook officially announced that they have acquired Gowalla.

Facebook has made it clear that they are not buying location-services technology

from Gowalla but but they are hiring  Gowalla management team which includes CEO

Josh Williams and co-founder Scott Raymond.



 



This Acquisition of Gowalla was also announced by company's CEO Josh Williams in

a blog post.


About two months ago, my co-founder Scott and I attended F8. We were blown away

by Facebook’s new developments. A few weeks later Facebook called, and it became

clear that the way for our team to have the biggest impact was to work together.

So we’re excited to announce that we’ll be making the journey to California to

join Facebook!

Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to

provide an easy way to export your Passport data, your Stamp and Pin data (along

with your legacy Item data), and your photos as well. Facebook is not acquiring

Gowalla’s user data.


Facebook is not accquiring users data from Gowalla, however you can delete your

user data as it might be used without your permission.
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Facebook acquires Gowalla To Boost Timeline Feature

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The Social Networking Gaint, Facebook has acquired location sharing service

Gowalla.This News came yesterday and was first reported by CNN.


The biggest question arises here that Why facebook has acquired Gowalla, well

the answer is simple they want complete team of Gowalla to focus on facebook's

most awaited feature Timeline, which will be launching soon.However it is quite

unclear that how Gowalla team can help facebook to booast its Timeline feature.


Note that this news came as rumour and most and Facebook refuses to comment on

the deal.


"We don't comment on rumor and speculation," a Facebook's spokesman said.


What do you think about Facebook's acquisition of Gowalla, do share your

thoughts in comment section below.
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Friday 2 December 2011

Just launched my New Wordpress Blog

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Hi technicia blog's visitor I am here to announce that I have just started my wordpress blog in order to polish my blogging skills you can visit my wordpress blog here 

About my Wordpress Blog :

Basically this will be my personal blog and i will be sharing some tips and tricks about social media, blogging, webmasters etc which I cant share on Technicia blog as it is a technology site which provides you latest tech new.

Follow me on Twitter
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Tuesday 29 November 2011

TOP 10 GAMING NEWS - 28th NOVEMBER

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Game wrap up.


1.Microsoft Quoted Xbox LIVE “Has Not Been Hacked” 


2.Superb Mario Kart 7 TV Ad unveiled 


3.Ragnarok Odyssey landing in Japan February 2012


4.Zynga hit with pre-emptive lawsuit over 'ville' suffix


5.Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall Of The Samurai Announced


Today SEGA has announced that they will be releasing Total War: Shogun 2 named

‘Fall Of The Samurai‘ in March 2012.


6.Call of Duty Elite hits 1 million paid users


7.Apple allowing iPad game subscription service


8.Nvidia beta drivers improve PC Arkham City, Battlefield 3


9.OnLive Announce Five Day Sales And Special Offers


10.Ubisoft Unveil Rainbow 6: Patriots Details & Artwork


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Nintendo unveiled Superb Mario Kart 7 TV Ad

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On November 24th 2011 Nintendo has unveiled the Superb Mario Kart 7 TV Ad on its
YouTube channel titled "Nintendo 3DS - Mario Kart 7 Kart Rules TV Commercial".The

game is set to release next month.



Release dates


* Europe : on December 2nd
* North America : on December 4th



You can watch Superb Mario Kart 7 TV Commercial Ad below and do share your

thoughts in comment section below.





  








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Microsoft Quoted Xbox LIVE “Has Not Been Hacked”

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Microsoft Quoted Xbox LIVE Has Not Been Hacked
 

Today Microsoft announced second time that Xbox LIVE has not been hacked as The

Sun newspaper was claiming that Microsoft were “covering up” hacks on the Xbox

LIVE service.



A Microsoft Announces in a statement :



“As we commented on Tuesday, the Xbox LIVE service has not been hacked. However,

we are investigating a number of recent customer complaints relating to Xbox LIVE

customer service – particularly in the way that we have processed refunds to

customers that have been victims of phishing related fraud.

“Consequently, we are taking several steps to address and resolve these

particular issues as soon as possible and working closely with our affected

customers to investigate and resolve any unauthorized charges made to their

accounts resulting from recent phishing scams.

“Finally we would like to apologise to any customers who have not experienced a

good service from us.”


Conclusion :


It seems that Xbox LIVE has not been hacked and affected accounts have been a

victims of phishing scams.What you think about this saga, do share your thoughts

in comment section below.




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Monday 28 November 2011

HTC Ville : Specs and images leaked

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HTC Ville : Specs and images leaked



HTC Ville Specifications and images leaked on web.As expected it runs on Ice

Cream Sandwich (ICS) and comes with Super AMOLED display.Also it is first

device from HTC which run on the Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon S4 processor.It was

rumoured to be the company’s thinnest smartphone yet.



This device will disappoint NFC fans as it does not support NFC.


Detailed specification of HTC Ville :

* Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
* 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display
* 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor
* 8 megapixel backside-illuminated camera with 1080p video
* About 8mm thick
* Metal construction case
* No NFC support
* HSPA+
* 1650mAh battery
* First HTC device to get the Sense 4.0 UI
* Beats Audio



HTC Ville  is rumoured to be announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 and most

likely to be available for purchase from April 2012.


Image via pocketnow





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TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY NEWS - 28th NOVEMBER

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Tech Wrap Up.


1.Sony Announces List of Smartphones to get Ice Cream Sandwich by March 2012


2.Hacking Alert: Personal Details of 13 million South Korean subscribers Leaked

By Hackers


3.Asus Transformer Prime, First Quad-Core Android Tablet, Now on Pre-Order


4.HTC's 3G Smartphones Bans in Germany


5.Vodafone Brings Banking to Rural India


6. Microsoft Picks Chinese Windows Phone Partner


7.RIM Sees 3000 People Queue For BlackBerry Launch


8.Ex-Googlers Launch iPhone App for Tapping Into Friends’ Reviews 


9.Verizon Galaxy Nexus Costs Just $199, Says Mystery Ad


10.China Lifts Internet Firewall for World Cup
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Sony Announces List of Smartphones to get Ice Cream Sandwich by March 2012

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Sony Announces List of Smartphones to get ICS

  


Sony ends all the rumours about ICS updates on 25TH NOVEMBER 2011 Sony has

announced that all of its 2011 Xperia devices will be getting the Ice Cream

Sandwich (ICS) by March of 2012.


Maurizio De Palma, Sony Ericsson Italy’s Head of Marketing announced the date on

a Facebook post.



Sony Announces List of Smartphones to get Ice Cream Sandwich by March 2012
   

 

The 2011 devices include the
* Xperia Arc
* Xperia Neo
* Xperia Play
* Xperia Acro
* Xperia Neo V
* Xperia Arc S
* Xperia Mini
* Xperia Mini Pro
* Xperia Ray
* Xperia Pro and
* Xperia Active


Does this list surprise you, do share your thoughts in comment section below.
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Sunday 27 November 2011

Hacking Alert: Personal Details of 13 million South Korean subscribers Leaked By Hackers

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On November 26th 2011 The Korea Communications Commission announced that they had

discovered the leakage of personal data of its 13.2 million subscribers.


It has been confirmed that the leaked data included user IDs, names, resident 

registration numbers and passwords.Subscribers are requested to change their

passwords to prevent further damage.


What do you think about these hacking scandals, do let us know in comment section

below.
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3 Effective Ways to Build Backlinks to a Blog

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Building backlinks to a blog comes with many benefits. As a blogger, I’ve been striving to build a lot of backlinks to my weight watchers discounts and diet to go coupons blog. And during the process of doing this, I’ve learnt some effective ways to build backlinks to a blog. It’s not all the many ways people find easy to build backlinks to their blogs are rewarding. That is why you need to define what methods will be rewarding for you and your blog.
The search engine optimization or SEO benefits you’ll derive from building effective backlinks to your blog can double your search engine traffic almost overnight. What are these effective ways to build backlinks to a blog?

Guest Blogging 

Guest blogging, perhaps the best way you could build backlinks and drive targeted traffic to your blog, is an easy but yet effective way you can build backlinks to your blog. The most successful blogs have several guest posts with backlinks to their blogs. Aside the SEO benefit your blog is going to derive from your doing guest post for your blog, you are also going to gain new set of audience to your blog which is a very rewarding thing.
If you can work towards doing up to five guest posts to your blog every month, you are sure going to make your blog grow rapidly.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting, though it looks obvious, is still very effective in building backlinks to a blog only if done the right way. Many bloggers when doing blog commenting do not even bother to confirm that the blogs they are commenting on is a “do-follow” comment enabled blog. You have to know that it’s not the quantity of comments you make that determines the quality of rankings your blog is going to get but the quality.
Another important thing you should always take note of before commenting on a blog is to read the article and make sure you understand the content before commenting on it. You might be surprised to find out that your comment may be deleted if you did not read the content of that blog before commenting on it.


Link Exchange

Link exchange is one of the most utilized ways of building backlinks to blogs. It is well used but still very effective. If you don’t understand the concept of link exchange, it involves you allowing a blogger to have a link of is blog on your own blog while he also reciprocates the same for you.
Though link exchange has been argued to be a wrong method of doing backlinks, it is still very effective and helps bloggers exchange audiences. It also improves your search engine rankings. If you could manage to exchange links with over ten bloggers, that literarily means you have ten links pointing to your blog.

Conclusion:

The backlink building methods I have shared with you in this post are only going to work you if you follow the rules binding them. Building backlinks is not a bad idea, it can help you grow you blog significantly.

John Edget is an SEO specialist who also writes reviews for weight watchers promotion coupon and diettogo discount 15% on his blog. He loved writing for techniciablog.blogspot.com and wants you to learn more about weight watchers discounts and diet to go coupons by visiting his blog.

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Thursday 17 November 2011

Top 10 Video Game Soundtracks

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Love video games so much that you find yourself humming your favorite game’s music?  There’s a cure for that.  With many games intentionally putting more effort into their soundtrack, it is no surprise that this part of gaming has grown so much.  In fact, there is even a special category for it at the Video Game Awards.  If you’re still not convinced that video game music is more than meets the ear, check out these top ten video game soundtracks.  

     


    



1.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Love 80’s music?  It doesn’t matter.  This collection of songs from the game where you get to steal cars and listen to radio stations that play the hits of the eighties, as well as hilarious entries in talk radio, is one of the best-selling video game soundtracks of all time.  The box set includes all seven radio stations, with entries for everyone from hip hop to soft rock and even Latin music.  



2.DJ Hero – This video game literally has players spinning incredible music.  The soundtrack to the game includes favorites from artists such as Grandmaster Flash, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and DJ AM.  It even won a Video Game Award for Best Soundtrack in 2010.



3.Rock Band – Is rock music more your thing?  Then you won’t be disappointed at the soundtrack to this video game.  It has songs dating back to the seventies by Boston and the Ramones, along with new entries by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queens of the Stone Age.  There are also classics from Nirvana and the Beastie Boys.



4.Guitar Hero – Not to be outdone, there is plenty of great music on these soundtracks for the rock or guitar lover. The soundtrack from Guitar Hero II is the most popular and includes entries from every band from Aerosmith to Van Halen.


5.Castlevania: Symphony of the Night – This video game has players battling in a Dracula-esque type setting.  However, for its haunting tunes, the soundtrack often stands out as a must hear for both lovers of video game music and symphonic melodies. 


6.Legend of Zelda – In another entry in symphonic music, the soundtracks to Zelda games often include memorable melodies.  One of the most popular is from The Ocarina of Time, which centers around a flute like instrument.


7.Bioshock – The soundtrack to this game was so popular, it won the award in 2007 for Best Soundtrack at the Video Game Awards.  Featuring instrumental music exclusively from the game, it beat out games such as Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero III.

8.Nier – For videogame soundtracks in Japanese, this one is hard to beat.  It is often described as one of the most memorable parts of the game and was developed specifically for it.


9.Kingdom Hearts – Looking for video game music for kids?  Then check out this soundtrack from the creators of this Disney-themed game.  Kids of all ages will appreciate the songs just for them.


10.London Philharmonic Orchestra – Believe it or not, video game soundtracks are so popular, this world class orchestra takes them on in a CD entitled “Greatest Video Game Music.”  There are themes from video games such as Call of Duty, Super Mario Bros, and even Angry Birds.

This article was submitted my Sara McDowell. She owns the site  Video Game Design Schools Guide and is an avid Gamer. 
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Tuesday 15 November 2011

TECH WRAP UP - 15th NOVEMBER

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Top Technolgoy News


1.Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich open-source code released


2.Apple's Siri security protocol cracked, with a catch


3.Spotify Launches Service In Austria


4.15-inch MacBook To launch in March 2012[rumour]


5.Sony Ericsson Xperias to Get Ice Cream Sandwich


6.Malicious Hackers Target Twilight Fans   


7.MacBook Air now accounts for 28% of Apple's US Shipments


8.Gartner: Google Android Passes 50% of Smartphone Sales


9.Apple Not Lowering Notebook Shipments


10.LinkedIn Opens Office in India


11.Bus Guru: Live London Bus Information App


12.New York Times Launches Fashion App for iPad


13.RIM Announces BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380


14.Twitter visualizes every Tweet mentioning "11.11.11"


15.STUDY: Half of Water-Damaged UK Cellphones Fall in Toilets


16.YouTube Upgrades Its Android App


17.Lenovo to Release a Quad-Core Android Tablet[rumour]


18.Nokia Launches MixRadio, A Pandora-Like Music App 

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TOP TECHNOLOGY AND GADGET NEWS - 14th NOVEMBER

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Tech And Gadget Wrap UP


1.Kindle Fire Shipping Today, One Day Ahead of Schedule


2.iPhone 4S to Come to India on Nov. 25


3.Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dies at 22 


4.Klout CEO apologizes for minors profiles


5.Samsung Won't Block iPhone 4S in Korea


6.Kid-friendly gaming comes to Android with Sandbox


7.73% of UK Check Email Before Facebook


8.Spotify Set to Expand In Europe This Week[rumour]


9.O2 Launches London 4G Trial


10.Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.1 Beta 3


11.Google Launches 24×7 Phone Support To ‘Apps For Business’ Customers


12.iTunes Match Launches Today


13.Yellow Media Sells Off Online Classifieds Business For $72.5 Million


14.Motorola planning to launch 13MP variants of RAZR in China


15.Zynga Teams Up With Best Buy To Sell FarmVille Collectible Plush Toys


16.Nokia Lumia,  Motorola RAZR Apple and iPhone 4S arrive in India


17.Huawei Honor launches


18.Galaxy Nexus coming to UK on November 17
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Monday 14 November 2011

DAILY TOP TECHNOLOGY NEWS - 13th NOVEMBER

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Daily Tech Wrap Up.


1.Android’s New Face Unlock Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo  


2.Confirmed: Apple to Replace Defective 1st-Generation iPod Nanos With 1st-Generation Units


3.Rovio Opens The World’s First Angry Birds Store In Finland


4.Coca-Cola Launches Its First U.S. QR Code Program


5.Adobe product manager fingers Apple for death of Flash Player for mobile,

Admits HTML5 is the Future


6.Logitech drops Google TV, leaving Apple TV as dominant player


7.Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.1 Beta 3


8.Google Employee Nigel Tufnel Sends Invites For Mysterious Android Event
   November 16


9.Google Launching an Incubator in Israel


10.KinderTown Launches Educational App Store For Parents


11.Hulu Plus Will Compete With Amazon Instant Video On The Kindle Fire


12.Android App ‘Currently’ Taps Twitter To Track Breaking Tech News


13.Microsoft’s Former Virtualization Director To Launch PaperShare, A ‘Social

Content Network’


14.BlackBerry PlayBook To Come Pre-Loaded With PressReader: Instant Access To

2,000+ Newspapers


15.PlayStation Vita gets a content management app, plays nice with PS3 and PC

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Saturday 12 November 2011

DAILY TECH WRAP UP - 12th NOVEMBER

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Daily Top Technology News



1.Nokia working with AT&T to bring LTE-enabled Lumia 800 to the US


2.LinkedIn and Google Help U.S. Veterans Find Work and Each Other


3.Apple Finds Issue With 1st Gen iPod Nano


4.Apple Experiencing iCloud Outage


5.Google to Launch Google Music Store Soon


6.Verzo launches the Android-based Kinzo smartphone for $459


7.Microsoft to release Silverlight 5 soon, will probably be the last Silverlight release


8.Cyan Nokia Lumia 800 hitting UK in December, pink in early 2012



9.Unlocked iPhone 4S Devices Shipping in 1 to 2 Weeks


10.Twitter Ordered to Give Up WikiLeaks Data


11.Nokia Music hacked to run on unlocked WP devices


12.Confirmed: Unlocked Nokia Lumia 800 hits UK on November 16


13.iOS 5.0.1 released, available as an OTA update


14.HTC Ville specifications leak, will run Ice Cream Sandwich


15.LG might show off Google TV hardware at CES

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DAILY TOP TECHNOLOGY NEWS - 11th NOVEMBER

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Tech Wrap Up


1.Apple: iOS Battery Issues Persist


2.Google nets 65% of search in October


3.iOS 5.0.1 has Contacts, Battery Issues 


4.Digg Reportedly Sees 50% US Traffic Drop


5.Unlocked iPhone 4S Devices Shipping in 1 to 2 Weeks 


6.Google launches service for Veterans


7.Sprint Calls Time On Unlocked SIMs


8.Apple Sells Unlocked iPhone 4S In US


9.Amazon to Invest $100m in Indian Office


10.Brazil to Be One of Nokia's Top Markets


11.China's Top Microblogs Pass 550M Users


12.X-ray App Lets Users “See Through” Models’ Clothing


13.Hulu Plus and ESPN ScoreCenter Coming to Kindle Fire


14.Adobe Updates Flash Player for Android, Promises Future Security Updates


15.Share Google Reader to G+ w/ New Button


16.Add old photos to Facebook for Timeline


17.Facebook to make all sharing opt-in


18.Google+ Circles Get a Boost With Katango as Google acquires Katango, a startup that has developed advance people-sorting algorithms


19.Billy Crystal Announces on  Twitter That He’s Hosting the Oscars


20.First photo of the LG Nitro HD surfaces, lands at AT&T soon

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Friday 11 November 2011

TECH WRAP UP - 10th NOVEMBER

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Daily Top Technology News


1.Twitter Wins Dispute Over Twiter.com


2.Apple releases iOS 5.0.1


3.Twitter Changes its User Interface, Looks Better


4.Facebook Sued In Germany Over Privacy


5.Angry Birds On PC To Hit Retail In Weeks


6.Android Sales up 1,000% in SE Asia


7.Adobe to Abandon Flash on Connected TVs, Too


8.Apple Fixes Critical iPhone Battery Issues With iOS 5.0.1


9.Hotspot Launches New iOS App


10.iPhone Accounts for 39% of Twitter Pics


11.Read & Listen Buttons Appear on Facebook


12.HTC Titan Coming to AT&T on Nov. 20


13.Facebook Brings Recent Stories Option Back to News Feed


14.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Blowing Sales Records


15.Google+ Users Are Still Mostly Male


16.Amazon Buys a Voice Recognition Startup In order to compete with Siri


17.Google Adds +1 Button to Image Search


18.Google Buys Contextual Rich News Browsing Sta…


19.Google Buys Contextual Rich News Browsing Startup Apture To Beef Up Chrome


20.Amazon Ups Orders From Kindle Fire Suppliers To 5 Million Units


21.Windows Phone Targets India


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Thursday 10 November 2011

Twitter Changes its User Interface, Looks Better

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This Morning when i opened my Twitter Account(@techniciablog) I was shocked to

too see that twitter has made some changes to its user interface which looks

better than previous one.

 





Let us understand these changes.twitter has introduced new tab called activity

in which you can see your Friends activity.The activity tab includes Favorites,

follows, retweets, and more by people you follow.Many of us thinks that the

Retweet tab is replaced by activity tab which is wrong in the sense that you can

now view your tweets that were retweeted and more in @username tab.


  



@username tab includes your mentions, tweets that were retweeted and who have

listed you recently.




 



Let us know what you think about these changes in comment section below and did

we announce that we are now do follow blog.
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TOP 20 TECHNOLOGY AND GADGET NEWS - 9th NOVEMBER

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Daily tech news



1.White Nokia N9 is now available for preorder, will cost you €699


2.Facebook: India to Become Largest Market


3.Google Offers Goes Live in Brooklyn!


4.Adobe Stops Development of Mobile Browser Flash


5.Samsung launches a pink Galaxy S II in South Korea


6.Apple engineers: Siri will never be available for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS or

the iPod Touch


7.Samsung Gets Apple's Carrier iPhone Info


8.AVOS Acquires Trunk.ly for Delicious


9.Motorola RAZR now available in the UK


10.The quad-core HTC Edge LeakED


11.Galaxy Nexus to be priced at $289 at Costco


12.Walmart to Open Innovation Lab in India


13.ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime to Get Tegra 3


14.Siri not Coming to Older iPhones yet


15.US: 16,000 Stores Will Sell Kindle Fire From November 15.


16.Google+ Launches Official Pages Guide


17.Apple ships iOS 5.0.1 early to some Regular Users


18.Android distribution in October: Gingerbread takes the lead


19.Kobo and Its Ereader Acquired for $315 Million By Japanese ecommerce firm Rakuten


20.Google Says It Will Stop Supporting Gmail App for BlackBerry
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Wednesday 9 November 2011

TECH WRAP UP - 8th NOVEMBER

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Top Technology News


1.Schmidt says Android came before iPhone


2.Firefox 8 Gets Native Twitter Search As Major Update


3.Apple's EasyPay/Personal Pickup Now Live


4.Internet Users Exceed 100m in India


5.Last.fm Reached 60 Billion Scrobbles


6.Twitter Hires on Oracle VP Development


7.200K iPhone 4S Pre-orders in Korea


8.Apple Kicks Researcher off App Store


9.Facebook to Launch Data Centre in Taiwan


10.HP Considering Sale of webOS


11.Spotify comes to Windows 7 Phone devices


12.Adobe Brings Elements to Mac App Store


13.Instagram Adding 1.5 Users per Second


14.Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 Coming to T-Mobile on Nov. 16


15.Rumour: HTC Edge Will Be the World’s First Quad-Core Smartphone


16.Eric Schmidt: Microsoft Pushes Patent Deals Out Of Fear Of Android


17.Facebook Acquires Team Behind HTML5 App Platform Strobe


18.Gilt.com Goes Global


19.Google Promises To Continue Offering Android For Free


20.Google Won’t Allow Contests And Promotions On Google+ Pages


21.Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader Now Available For Firefox

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Tuesday 8 November 2011

Google+ Pages For Business is rolled out for everyone

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Google+ business Pages is rolled out for everyone create your own page here.Add

Technicia Blog to your circle to get latest tech news and more here.

The Announcement made on Official Google+ page:


 


You can create your own Google+ business page in 3 simple step.

step 1: Pick a category and Add your info like select page name, select category,

visibility etc.



  





step 2: Add Tagline which describe your page and Profile photo



 



Step 3: Spread the word, Option to share your page to everyone

  






Google+ business Pages have the ability to share with specific group of fans like

Customers, VIPs, Team members you can also create more circles to separate your

fans of different regions.

The most important and unique feature of Google+ business Pages has is the

ability to Hangout with your fans.


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HTC Announces List of Handsets That will Get Ice Cream Sandwich

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As HTC promised that they will upgrade list of smart phone to Ice Cream Sandwich so now we have list of handsets from htc to get Ice Cream Sandwich.As expected HTC is Only upgrading their high range Smartphones in order to boost their sales.Lets get back to the list HTC just polished.






So here are the list of HTC Smartphones to get Get Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS)




* The EVO 4G
* Sensation XL  
* Sensation XE
* Sensation
* Rezound
* EVO 3D
* EVO Design 4G and
* Amaze 4G


Does this list disappoint you, do share your thoughts in comment section below.
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Monday 7 November 2011

TECH WRAP UP - 7th NOVEMBER

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Top Technology News


1.Motorola Granted Injunction vs. Apple


2.FireFox 8 is Now Available For Download Now


3.Sony Ericsson's Xperia Arc HD Leaks


4.Chinese Tech Firms Agree Govt Censorship


5.Google Eyes Search Acquisition in Korea


6.Africa to pass 1Bn Mobile subs by 2016


7.Twitter for iPhone creator leaves


8.Apple's Plan To Get Products In Schools


9.Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt Thinks Siri is Google Competitor


10.Disney and YouTube set for Partnership


11.HTC Confirms First ICS Update Handsets

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Forefox 8 is Now Available For Download Now

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Firefox 8 is set to relese officially on November 8.Though it is now available

for download on Mozilla's servers.



FireFox is facing some tough competition from Google Chrome which updates

automatically once in 6 weeks which explains these rapid releases from Mozilla.


FireFox 8 brings improved security, high performance, more stability and improved

add on support.Unlike previous releases FireFox 8 is considered as major release

in Firefox family like FireFox 4.




You can download Firefox 8 for Windows here

You can download Firefox 8 for Mac here



What you think about Firefox 8 do share your thoughts in comment section Below.



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