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Google’s Gmail playground – Gmail Labs has produced world class email features ever since it was introduced by Google 18 months ago. As has been the tradition earlier, Google picks the most popular features from Gmail Labs and integrates them into Gmail while retiring the experimental features which didn’t quiet perform up to the mark. Google has integrated the following 6 new features from Labs [...]

Image via Wikipedia Ever since the iPad was launched a couple of weeks ago – there’s been no shortage of fans who’ve fallen in ‘love at first sight’ with Apple’s latest gadget. The iPad has evoked mixed reactions from all over the world – if there are plenty of fans and admirers, there’s also no shortage of critics and people who’ve questioned iPad’s usability aspects. The [...]

All companies want to keep your custom. Now, most companies try to win you over with brand loyalty, but the frustrating thing about tech companies is that they can use their technology to trap you. The very gadget or software that you’ve spent your hard earned money on, will make it as difficult as possible, for you to switch to an alternative. The average iPhone owner for example, spends £80 [...]

Ever since Google CEO Eric Schmidt ‘resigned’ from Apple‘s board of directors last year, there’ have been no end of rumours of intense competition between the two companies. Of course they should naturally be competition, being two of the largest tech companies in the world, but up until recently Apple and Google had a well known ‘friendship’. Google agreed not [...]

Image via Wikipedia Apple and Google have made it a habit to cross each other’s roads – Be it over Eric Schmidt, Apple blocking Google Voice on iPhone or the recent showdown of iPhone vs. Nexus One. Now, with Google releasing details of its Chromium Tablet, the Apple Google rivalry seems to be entering a new dimension altogether. Apple iPad is touted to be a game changer for the publishing [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife All you need to know about the iPad

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While Apple has been going gaga over the sleek design of iPad and how it will be a game changer for the publishing industry, one question has been haunting me since the launch of iPad – Where are the iPad Apps? Apps played a key role in monumental success of iPhone and nobody knows it better than the folks at Apple. Unlike the iPhones, there are no iPads [...]

Image via Wikipedia Adobe and Apple are not known to be the best of friends and the recent launch of iPad without Flash support is likely to further deteriorate the relationship amongst these two technology heavyweights. Adobe claims that Apple’s restrictions on iPad will severely affect both content publishers and consumers. With ‘No Flash’, iPad users will miss out on a wide range of [...]

Image via Wikipedia There’s no shortage of internet websites claiming access to the new Archos 7 Tablet specifications. These specs were first spilled out on the product listing page of a UK online retailer and have subsequently spread like fire on the internet. I’d hardly be surprised if this is an intentional leak to spread the word on Archos 7 and take on the likes of recently launched [...]

Image via Wikipedia While all the media attention has been focused on the launch of Apple Tablet – The iPad, the company has silently chosen to remove the restriction of making Video VoIP calls over 3G networks on the iPhone. Apple has also changed the iPhone SDK to reflect that this restriction has been removed. It’s surely a welcome move for iPhone users as well as the iPhone Developer [...]