Apple launches iPad Air, its thinnest and lightest iPad

Apple took design cues from its smaller iPad mini and made the larger format tablet thinner and lighter, renaming it iPad Air. It also revamped the iPad mini with Retina display.
It's thinner and lighter than prior versions, and features a smaller bezel, which shrinks the footprint of the tablet down without...........
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Panasonic launches low cost phone T31

Panasonic has launched a low cost Android smartphone, called Panasonic T31, in India for Rs 7,990. It is the cheapest smartphone in Panasonic's stable.
Main Features: 4 inch screen display, 480x800 pixels resolution, TFT capacitive touchscreen | 1.3 GHz dual core processor, 4 GB, 512MB...
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Facebook lifts ban on decapitation videos

Facebook allows anyone aged 13 and above to be a member.
Its terms and conditions now state that it will remove photos or videos that "glorify violence" in addition to other banned material.
Facebook has lifted a ban, implemented in May, that prevented images and videos depicting graphic content such as beheadings and other causalities from being published to the social network. The company is returning to a prior practice of not policing violent content that members share in condemnation of the depicted acts.
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Yahoo Mail's New Look

Yahoo! Mail's redesign has not gone over well with users, who are miffed at the Purple Palace's axing of features like tabs and changing how folders work.
Yahoo! has been busily redesigning a number of its products, as well as tilting its exclamation mark a whimsical nine degrees as part of a logo revamp – much to the annoyance of users, who have taken to its forums in the thousands to moan about the differences.
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Windows 8.1: Everything You Need To Know

Microsoft is releasing its long-awaited Windows 8.1 upgrade as a free download starting Thursday. It addresses some of the gripes people have had with Windows 8, the dramatically different operating system that attempts to bridge the divide between tablets and PCs.
Windows 8.1 gives you the familiar desktop with its taskbar and Start button, plus a beautiful new Start screen that you can customize with your favorite apps, people, and sites so that everything you love is just a tap or click away...
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HP Chromebook 14 Price In India Is Rs. 26,990

HP released its first Chromebook Pavilion 14 earlier this year in April and now, just a few months later, there's a new one with nearly the exact same name, starting at $299.99. This one however -- according to HP -- was built from the ground up to be a Chromebook.
What is a Chromebook? It looks similar to other laptops. But don't let the looks fool you. Chromebooks are powered by Google's Chrome OS. They work differently compared to Windows-powered laptops.
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Second-gen Nexus 7 reportedly coming to India next month

There’s some good news for those hankering after purchasing the second generation Nexus 7 tablets in the country. According to latest reports, Google is looking to launch its latest tablet in Indian markets in November, three months after its global launch.
Design
Google's new Nexus 7 hasn't deviated a great deal from the device's original form. It is smaller, thinner and lighter, coming in at just 8.65mm...
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Cyclone Phailin: power, communication lines affected in Odisha

If there was a silver lining in the grim foreboding of a monster storm, it's the realization that lives aren't that cheap in India any longer. For, the measures taken by the administration in the run-up to Cyclone Phailin to reduce casualties and minimize losses doesn't have parallels.
The superior preparedness and response this time for disaster is in sharp contrast to previous disastrous storms like the 1999 super cyclone. They are also in contrast with the Uttarakhand disaster when the state authorities were caught flat-footed. This time disaster management....
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Nokia Lumia 1020 gets priced at Rs 49999 in India

Announced last week, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is going to be available from 11 October. While Nokia showed off its new hardware in great detail, the price of the new phone hasn’t been announced yet, although most expect it to be between Rs.46,000 and Rs.50,000. At that price, it’s competing with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and would be significantly more expensive than the Sony Xperia Z1, which, like the Lumia 1020, is notable for the high quality camera in the phone.
The new phone is available in three colours -yellow, white and black..
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ObamaCare House of Horrors: Healthcare Gov Hit Angry Facebook Comments

The government website launched this week to sell health insurance was overwhelmed by up to five times as many users as it was designed to handle, President Obama's top technology adviser said Saturday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY.
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said the government expected HealthCare.gov to draw 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users, but instead it has drawn as many as 250,000 at a time since it launched Oct. 1.
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Meet the voice of Siri

When Apple Inc.  released the iPhone 4s on Oct. 14, 2011, the voice-activated personal assistant known as Siri quickly became the defining feature of the (then) brand-new device. Siri was ubiquitous throughout the world, yet the identity of the person who provided the voice for the application has never been known, until now.
Susan Bennett, a voice talent that says her voice was used for Apple's virtual assistant. "I wasn't sure that I wanted the notoriety," Bennett tells CNN, explaining her delay in coming forward, "and I also wasn't sure where I stood legally."
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skype improved battery life and cloud services

Skype, what the company is highlighting today.
Skype VP Mark Gillett explains how the move away from P2P allows everything from more battery life for smartphones (since they don't have to do as much computing locally) to persistent video and chat messages that you can receive even when you aren't logged in. Skype will also soon synchronize chat message status across devices, so you won't get bombarded anew each time you log in from a different machine.
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Chrome for Android updated with awesome gestures

Google Chrome updated on Tuesday with some new features that will make it easier to search on desktops and easier to use on Android.
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 30 to the Stable channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.  Chrome 30.0.1599.66 contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:
Easier searching by image.

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Sony Xperia Z1 at Rs. 44,990

Over the past 18 months, CEO Kaz Hirai has been on a mission to unify the sprawling empire entrusted to him into a more cohesive and focused One Sony. On the mobile front, that’s resulted in Cyber-shot cameras and Bravia-branded displays appearing in handsets like the former flagship Xperia Z. Today’s Xperia Z1 continues that cross-pollination push with an even more comprehensive set of borrowed features,.....
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Gmail Android app may have ads soon

The ad-free ride for Gmail on Android may be coming to an end, at least according to some hidden lines of code in the latest version.
According to Android Police, the latest version of Google's email app contains references to built-in advertisements. The uncovered code hints that users will be able to save ads that catch their interest as messages, but little else is known about the company's approach to mobile ads — or how intrusive they'll be. As part of Google's broad overhaul of Gmail....
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