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A lot of us talk about the complexity of living in an always-on, always-connected world, how our mobile phones and our laptops have made us obsessive and compulsive and how dreamlike it would be on an remote island cut away from the world. But it's good to be always on, always available, always connected –  everywhere.

Smartphone driving you crazy? Take it easy

Brand new smartphone driving you crazy? For someone who has been living in the comforting, yet somewhat limiting world of feature phones, moving to a high-end smartphone can be a paradigm shift. Here’s how to piece the puzzle together.

Five years since Twitter's public debut

It's now been five years since the incredibly popular real-time messaging service, Twitter, fully opened to the public. However, interestingly very little is known about when the site...

Purchasing a gadget online

Online shopping can overwhelm you with the range, so identify your exact requirements in terms of features and budgets. Here are a few things to keep in mind while you crack online shopping deals.

Amazon to launch tablet computer soon

Online retail giant Amazon.com is all set to unveil a tablet computer by October, which will have a roughly nine-inch screen and will run on Google's Android operating system. The device will allow customers to watch videos, read electronic books and listen...

Smartphones can hamper your vision

A new study has suggested that smart phone users reading text messages and internet pages hold their devices at a closer distance than they would for printed text—which may have important implications for prescribing vision correction.

Google+ has '10 million users'

Google+ is surely giving Facebook a run for its money! According to a researcher, Google+ could be on the verge of hitting the 10 million users mark in just two weeks.

Which cellular tribe do you belong to?

Mobile phones and digital devices are changing the way we socialize. As digital consumers, we have started to form ‘tribes’ based on our learned mobile device behaviors. Read on for more.

Web heavyweight plays biggest card

You could have guessed this was where Google was heading. After trying everything under the sun, including the micro-blogging platform (Buzz) and the quickly-forgotten social networking site (Wave), Google+ seems like it is here to stay.

Clash Of The Thoroughbreds

The one-horse race is finally a full fledged clash of thoroughbreds. While the iPad and the iPad 2 have created and captured the market, the monopoly is over. The floodgates have opened and a tidal wave of Tablets has swept across the world. And India is right there on the priority release list, if you’re in for a Tablet, here are your contenders.

The (new) social network

There’s one more reason to waste time on the Internet: Google’s brand new social network, Google+! We got so excited that we didn’t care that Google says it’s still in a testing phase – we stacked it up against Facebook and Twitter anyway. Does it pack enough punch to blow them away?

Low light, no issue

The Nikon D5100 has class-leading battery life and image quality, but lack of buttons is a bother.

How Facebook can topple Google

Facebook can never really be what Microsoft or Google really is. Social networking has its limitations and a point beyond which it cannot succeed. Google and Microsoft, on the other hand, have utilitarian enterprise values. Puneet Mehrotra explains the clash of the titans.

Download this app to stay safe

Worried about whom to contact in case of an emergency? This mobile app is the solution. Download it for information on local emergency services like police stations, hospitals and fire stations.

How about a beer with your iPhone?

Soon, thanks to two Australian entrepreneurs, you will be able to use it to open a bottle of beer by way of the "Opena," a hard plastic case that fits over the iPhone and is equipped with a slide-out bottle opener.
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