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4G Broadband is just a marketing gimmick?

The mobile world today is hammered with 4G ads! With companies like T-Mobile boasting about 4G speeds, it already feels 3G is outdated and dead.
We want the next in-thing, and that is indeed, a 4G Internet connection.
But how much of the hype is reality? What are the actual Mobile Internet speeds we can achieve today.
Are 3G days over?
Is the 4G mobile broadband technology for real?
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Discover hot SEO topics with Inbound.org

Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah have come together with a fun-partnership tool this time Inbound.org It’s a social bookmarking board (like Digg) where you can post new stories (on SEO and Marketing) and let the SEO community vote it up (or down). Looks like a nice concept, now that Sphinn and Digg has lost its charm. (Well, Digg was not an SEO board ever, but just saying.) From the content… Continue reading

Facebook could be in trouble: $100M discrepancy in revenue figures

Looks like the numbers don’t match up at Facebook. With the IPO launch nearing, the financial side of things are not looking that very promising for the largest social networking site in the world. According to Inside Social Games, There is a $100 million discrepancy between what Facebook earned in payments revenue and what it paid out to developers, according to revenue figures in its IPO filing last week. In… Continue reading

Make free international calls & text with Vonage App

Vonage has released its iOs and Android app that will let you make free international calls and texts worldwide to its app users. According to their press release, any user with the app can make calls to other app users across the globe. And the calls are called “high definition”. Vonage Mobile uses the phone’s existing mobile number and contact list, eliminating the need for unique user names and duplicate… Continue reading

Google & Facebook joins censorship bandwagon in India

In what appears to be the latest blow to freedom of speech and the follow up to the recent sleuth of internet censorship, Indian Government has successfully convinced Facebook and Google India, to edit out offensive content in the region. Questions still being asked – what is offensive content? “Pages that are deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders.” goes the definition. The Indian government has, for the past… Continue reading

Orkut introduces hashtags

Not sure how many of us would be excited with this news but Orkut is not keeping away from further developments. Its latest addition to the Orkut community is hashtags, that lets you make any word a hashtag. Clicking on which will take you to the hashtag search page. Clearly, an inspiration from Twitter, I wonder why they keep doing this. One, the Orkut community is on a death bed… Continue reading

2012 Election News & Trends on Google

Keeping its tradition of supporting the elections, Google today announced its exclusive 2012 News upate section. Google News launched an Elections section on its homepage which will organize and present elections coverage as it grows through the general election – Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The Elections section will be visible by default for all US users and will be located beneath the Health section. It will bring readers the latest… Continue reading

Google PowerPoint presentations gets a makeover!

If you think presentations, think Google, use Google presentations. And Google insists on it so much that you cannot give an excuse now. They have gone ahead and improved the presentations app with a boat load of features! New features on Google Presentations See exactly what others are working on with colorful presence markers Edit with your team members simultaneously from different locations Use revision history to see who made… Continue reading

Video shot with iPhone 4S better than Canon 7D–Says Film Maker

And I’d gladly agree. The iPhone 4S 8MegePixel camera is amazing with its quality and output. Film maker Benjamin Dowie, shot this amazing video on the iPhone 4S and the first thing he said is “Time to throw my 7D in the bin!” He uploaded the video on Vimeo and it’s a viral hit on the internet now. Looking at the quality of the video, one wouldn’t expect  it to… Continue reading

Game Development Course from W3C

W3C today announced  its newest online course dedicated to "Game Development in HTML5". The course is developed and taught by Michal Budzynski, who recently ran onGameStart, where W3C/OpenMedia explored standardization needs around games with the Web games community. This course will last 4 weeks from 31 Oct. to 27 Nov. 2011. Game Development Course Content Through this course, students will create browser based multiplayer games by using open Web technologies… Continue reading