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How your phone can track your friends

New phone applications that let users track their friends have been predicted to be a thing of the future.

Programs such as Foursquare and Gowalla that allow a group of to know each other's whereabouts at that moment and even meet face to face.

Now, whack a ringing phone to silence it !

Next times you feel embarrassed when your phone starts ringing amid an important meeting, all you may have to do is to give it a simple whack. American scientists have developed a device that would enable you to silence the gadget by just 'whacking' it, reports PTI.

Installation of the new system, created by a team led by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, to any cellphone containing an accelerometer, would make it possible to cut a call by whacking the phone in a particular way while it's still in the pocket.

Google to take on Microsoft's Windows OS with...

Google Chrome OS will be for netbooks, the low-cost computers optimised for internet surfing and other web applications.The Chrome OS is expected to work well with many of the company’s popular software applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Maps.

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Oracle's pipeline delivers many new products

"Oracle has improved application configuration management capabilities allowing customers to manage 'application' configurations and their underlying infrastructure components in an easy and automated way. The solution helps customers automate configuration management across the deployment lifecycle -- for example, from test to production -- using a unique template-based capability that ensures tested and certified configurations are enforced as they are rolled out from test to production sites.

3 apps to check username availability across all s...

In order to address the mounting task of reserving your username across the web a number of sites are available offering varying degrees of service offerings:

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BlackBerry Technical Seminar





The BlackBerry® Technical Seminar is back this
fall with breakthrough new sessions you won’t want to miss!

Opensocial Developer Garage 08





A group of OpenSocial enthusiasts from pune have
come together to bring this event. The event is aimed to unite all

SAAS 2.0 : 7 Key Trends

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is one of the most compelling and challenging IT and business innovations of the past two decades. Not surprisingly, SaaS is generating tremendous interest, heated debate, and a broad spectrum of opinion regarding its impact on users and vendors.

A new study from Saugatuck Technology, SaaS 2.0: Software-as-a-Service as Next-Gen Business Platform, shows that SaaS is at a fundamental "tipping point" between the current generation of software functionality delivered as a cost-effective service - or "SaaS 1.0" - and the emerging generation of blended software, infrastructure, and business services arrayed across multiple usage and delivery platforms and business models or "SaaS 2.0."

Ideas for Techies to extend Skype

A while ago I was interacting with Julian Bond, CTO of Ecademy.com, and he emailed me a list of ideas to throw open to Software developers, who would like to build their reputation as outstanding developers by demonstrating their code rather than just a CV. Any one up for a challenge ? Julian is a highly respected developer and thinker, having single handedly developed the architecture and code of the Ecademy platform. He emailed a list of ideas for the Indian software development community to extend the now ubiquitious Skype. Skype now has over 5.5 million users and growing fast with a current campaign running to encourage users to share skype and reach out to 100 million users.

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