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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