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I am Sherly, living in the city of Alappuzha, which known as the 'Venice of the East'.

Twitter Wants MIT To Make Sense Of Your Tweets

Twitter is putting its money where its virtual mouth is, contributing $10 million to create the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) at MIT. The school’s Media Lab said the new program is backed by a five-year commitment from Twitter, which


Samsung Galaxy Note 4 release date and features

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will hit the Indian market on October 10. Though there is no word about the price of the phablet, it is expected to cost more than Rs 50,000. Its predecessor, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, was launched


Google to make search better for slow telecom networks in India

Google will enable faster online search capability for mobile phones with slower network connections in India. The strategy is to enhance its revenue from online advertisements. The decision to improve search capability also signals that competition between social network Facebook


Wine 1.7.28 released

Wine 1.7.28 adds support for conditional compilation in JavaScript, bi-direction text support in DirectWrite, and stubs out DirectPlay Voice support. DirectWrite has been worked on for a while now within Wine as Microsoft’s text/glyph rendering API that replaces GDI/GDI+ and


Google Is Following WhatsApp competitor for India

Google introduced its Android One program earlier this year, which focuses on building budget-friendly, solid quality smartphones for the developing world. Back then, the search giant made it pretty clear that, with help from manufacturers, it wanted to create a


Google Triples Chrome Bug Bounties rewards to $15,000

Google has ramped up the maximum reward on the table for white hat hackers seeking bugs in the company’s Chrome browser.For some time Google has offered monetary bounties to users who discover bugs and vulnerabilities in Chrome, and now they’re


ARM announces the Internet of Things with a new platform and free OS

Chip design company ARM Holdings announced Wednesday it has created a free operating system called Mbed, which it is launching with about two dozen partners including Freescale, IBM, Salesforce, Marvell and NXP. ARM, which designs the chips found in most


Free download – Panda Software tops AV-Test’s rankings of antivirus software

New version of Panda Antivirus Free is an evolution of first cloud antivirus, based on Collective Intelligence. It is unique system for detecting and disinfecting viruses and other threats that feeds off the knowledge shared by millions of users in


Google Begins Rolling Out In-App Purchase Price Range Policy In The Play Store

Google’s Play Store has seen some major changes recently and especially in terms of their rules towards how apps are now to be listed. Back on September 18th it was reported Google was implementing an ‘address required’ by developers who


Microsoft users should know about Windows 10

Microsoft has taken the wraps off Windows 10, the next big version of its iconic operating system. Consumers and businesses won’t get it until 2015. After unveiling a sneak peek to the press on Tuesday, Microsoft today is making available