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MWC Awards 2011 – The winners are iPhone 4, HTC, Angry birds app and more

by Sarah on February 17, 2011

We are delighted to share the award winners of Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona on Tuesday, 15th Feb 2011. The awards were presented in 9 categories with an introduction to a new category of Global Mobile Apps Awards, celebrating the year of innovation in mobile applications. Few awards were expected ones such as Apple iPhone 4 being awarded the winner of “Best Mobile Device”

How to Avoid Fourth of July Traffic Jams and Busy Routes

by Muzzammil Waheed on July 3, 2010

For upcoming 4th July holiday you must be thinking about travel options, With travel options one must keep in mind the traffic situations and try to avoid traffic jams which are quite common on public holidays. As far as worries about traffic jams are concerned, latest technology options can help you , consider following tips and solutions to avoid traffic jams

Google maps for mobile now has Turn by turn navigation in Pakistan

by Muzzammil Waheed on January 13, 2010

impressive mapping and navigation application, while Google maps has quite detailed maps of Pakistan, way better than any other navigation and map provider but one thing which was missing from Google maps for mobile was turn by turn navigation feature. But now Google has enabled this feature for Pakistan and now users using Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Windows and Symbian s60 series smart phones can use this feature

Nexus One and Google’s other Android devices

by nauman on January 6, 2010

In my previous post on the Nexus One I wrote that that the Nexus will take sometime in beating the ever present iPhone, I still maintain this. But let me for a change say this that the way things are going (in the Google world) competitors need to feel threatened. What made me think so? well to begin with was the Google’s new approach to buying a Mobile Phone which gives one the ability to explore a mobile phone in ways that were previously unimagined.

Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition (Voice Guidance)

by nauman on December 7, 2009

Nokia 2710 is a pretty normal handset. By normal I mean 2 MP camera, Bluetooth, microSD card based expansion upto 16 GB, FM with RDS and GPS. The phone is 11.2 x 45.7 x 13.7 mm in dimensions weighing 87 grams. It runs on S40 series firmware and software includes Ovi Mail and Nokia Life [...]

Top 10 Android Applications of 2009

by nauman November 15, 2009

Sometime back it was Symbian OS which gave users the flexibility of installing hundreds of thousands of applications, then iPhone overshadowed everything by making available thousands of applications at the Apple website, now its Android’s turn. The Google based OS for smart phones that is poised to take the world by storm has an equally impressive number of applications lined up for its loyal followers. Some of the most wanted are described here in not so fine detail. The applications/games introduced here have been selected after much surfing and browsing.

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Android Android everywhere…HTC Hero hitting shelves on 11th Oct

by nauman October 10, 2009

October 2009 happens to be a very important month, somehow. We have Microsoft releasing Windows 7, Ubuntu releasing Karmic Koala and now it is HTC’s Android based Hero Smartphone hitting the shelves on 11 October in connivance with Sprint. The Hero is no ordinary phone, it is smart by all standards. Upon release and further [...]

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Facial Recognition with Picasa 3.5

by nauman September 22, 2009

The new Picasa 3.5 has facial recognition features built in to it, quite similar to the Picasa Web Albums launched some moons ago. This simply means that users now will be identified by the software according to their facial features or quite simply faces (makes me wonder what Picasa will do to photos of identical [...]

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Monopoly City Streets – Free, web based version launches on 9th September!

by Sarah September 8, 2009

The wait is almost over now! One of the most cherished game, that everyone must have played in their childhood now launches on a free, web based version. So to remind you of those great memories of White house and Palm street, Google has teamed up with Hasbro using Google Earth and Street view to turn the whole planet into board.

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How to avoid heavy traffic jams on labor day using tips, technology and gadgets

by Muzzammil Waheed September 3, 2009

As labor day is approaching on 7th September, people will be pouring out on streets specially on automobiles. Most likely they are going to end up in a situation where horns are blowing and tempers are flaring, leaving you wondering why you had to leave home in the first place. Here we discuss the technology solutions, web applications, gadgets and tips for avoiding traffic jams on labor day.

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