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In a very insightful week about Google, where is has released into the Public it’s Google Chrome OS and other innovations, we see something very humorous, extravagant and yet astonishing. Before we say anything here is what we meant via the Title. The image was posted by a Vietnamese blogger who highlighted an image named exactly on our favorite search engine, but with and indication of some sort of "2 ply bathroom paper" made from READ MORE...

  Is this WinMo7?     Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced Office Mobile 2010 Beta today, which we’ll cover in a later post.   Everything was kept close to the chest and nothing was revealed but on their very own “Top Ten Benefits of Office Mobile 2010” page the Office Mobile 2010 let slip a screenshot online. They’ve accidently included the screenshot you see above, the screenshot shows Sharepoint and within it you can READ MORE...

  Since yesterday we have been covering non-stop about the newly announced open source OS from Google (Google Chrome OS). We told you about it being based on Ubuntu, but the latest update is that it’s also based upon the popular debian Linux as well.   Many of our readers are curious how to download the OS itself and how to go about it. While many looking for more insights. So for all of you out there, we present to you videos and READ MORE...

Last March, at TED, when I saw for the first time how India’s own Pranav Mistry came up with his design gadget called the SixthSense that augmented reality, turning every day objects of life into usable controls such as your hands, Tshirts, or even your PaperPad.   We at The Technology Cafe, are pretty much excited how this could not only change how we interact with objects but how education could leverage such technology, especially in READ MORE...

At Toronto’s Blyth Academy in Canada, the sony e-Reader will be provided to each and every student which comes with a Touch Screen. The school is completely transforming how students will learn from now onwards, with no text books, no bags and no envelopes of papers. I completely support the idea and i think with the advent of such Readers, learning would be much more fun, interesting and more environment friendly. Lets see this fantastic video READ MORE...

Earlier today we covered about the Google Chrome being demoed by Google with it being announced as an open source project for the rest of the world to build upon. Now that Google has announced and released the source code we bring you exclusive pictures of the Google Chrome OS. So without further ado…                                       And yes READ MORE...

This news is hot and fresh… Hold on to you pants people. We just got an update that Chrome OS is based on UBUNTU Karmic Koala. You can see and even look at the Source code of the upcoming Google Chrome OS here. We took some Screenshots of the legit files from the Original Official Chromium Site. Should we call it GOO-Buntu? Leave us your comments… READ MORE...

Still thinking that a Mac operating system is safe from malware and phishing attacks? No it’s not more, Mac’s are not insensitive to malware and the risk has been growing. Now rolled out Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac to help protect your files from interlopers.   "The single most concerning issue for Mac security today is having these machines used as hosts for PC malware," Justin Priestly, Kaspersky Lab’s senior vice READ MORE...

   IBM on Monday, Nov. 16 announced it has created the world’s largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding  an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs. @ SAN FRANCISCO   The US technology titan’s Internet-based in-house system is called Blue Insight and is designed to enable IBM’s 200,000  employees to swiftly find answers or patterns in mountains of information. READ MORE...

Lets face it, Captions are great. They not only help us to understand stuff said or being portrayed in a video but also turn out be useful especially for the deaf and hearing impaired. Now with the power of machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for. Today READ MORE...

Since the first Microsoft Store launch 3 weeks ago in Scottsdale, we liked the idea of Microsoft interacting directly with the customer and presenting them Microsoft Solutions (OS, Office, Dev etc) with a human touch. But this particular Microsoft store went a mile extra to pump up employees and customers to be excited about Microsoft products. I call them “Dancing Oompa Loompas”  in the terms of the great British writer Roald Dahl, READ MORE...

SAP AG, Nokia Corp. and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) announced plans to form a new company, named “Original1” Original1 will deliver product authentication and anti-counterfeiting services across the globe. The services will be aimed at protecting companies and consumers in a wide range of industries from product piracy and counterfeiting, help them maintaining brand values, revenue potentials and profitability of branded goods, READ MORE...

As the holiday season arrives near, AMD which turned 40 years in May 2009, is rounding up the year with jubilations via giving away 10 XBOX 360 and 10 Nintendo Wii to any person who becomes a FAN of AMD on facebook  (www.facebook.com/amd). Go to the ‘Giveaway’ tab and complete the online form. How easy is that? Starting on Monday, November 23 AMD will randomly pick one lucky entrant every weekday (Monday – Friday) for four weeks, until READ MORE...

The event of the day is all about Google Chrome OS, the highly speculated OS is said to be previewed in its early form today. Google is hosting an event today at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to showcase its progress, provide an overview of the platform, and give information on its “launch plans for next year.” Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, Google engineering director for READ MORE...

It is quite remarkable about the Office space. Just a few day’s ago Google claimed people ca get rid of Office by next year via using its Google Apps. And today Microsoft just released it’s beta version for public testing at the Microsoft PDC. We told you about the Office beta being released in November. I have personally being using the Office 2010 (Limited Preview Edition) for months and simply the new office rocks. Below is the email I READ MORE...

The legal channel might have been shut down by the courts for AT&T after the judge ruled that Verizon’s recent ads, that we also covered last week, were correct in a manner that AT&T did not have the right infrastructure to claim its 3G network was better than Verizon’s. Now AT&T is trying to hit back Verizon with its own brand new commercial, with funny guy Luke wilson. So Without Further ado… Leave us READ MORE...

Just yesterday we talked about Microsoft Bing gaining 10% market share in the US, after it’s release five months ago. Today we see again that bing is constantly trying to update its features which might help users to find relevant data quicker and easily with the launch of  ”latest posts from news sites” feature. As you can see, whenever you put a query related to a news site in the bing search bar, those sites, or feeds which READ MORE...

According to ComScore and qSearch, Microsoft’s retaliation against Google search, Bing has gained significant market share reaching out close to 10% market share of U.S. searches, thats 2 large points in five months. Clearly Microsoft must be doing something right. The good part coming from it’s recent deals with twitter and Facebook and then going on towards nutritional data search integration with Wolfram Alpha. The loser here is of READ MORE...

Twitter announced today that for the first time, it is introducing twitter-MMS based service in association with orange UK. The service would be first introduced in the UK. Here is the official Announcement: “The UK has had an outsized cultural impact on the world. From music to sports to literature… and now – MMS with Twitter. Today, not only has Orange UK turned on Twitter SMS, but it has added a first-of-its-kind special enhancement. Orange READ MORE...

Now that’s a pretty big claim by Google.   From hiring Don Dodge to this, Google is doing everything to show Microsoft what’s it’s power is. In a year, most users including enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, said Girouard, Google’s 3rd president along with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That said, he expects Google Docs, to overthrow Microsoft Office in terms READ MORE...

As part of a global workforce cut down strategy, Microsoft recently fired Don Dodge, Microsoft’s “ambassador to startups” and a renowned industry specialists in assisting Startups to grow out of scratch. He was one of the pioneers of the Microsoft BizSpark program as well. Today, as TechCrunch’s Micheal Arrington, posts that, he learnt from “reliable sources” that Dodge was hired by Google for the position of developer READ MORE...

Well there are many tech blogs emerging these days, our own being a two year old itself, but when it comes to the likes of the TIME magazine, launching a tech news blog means a pretty big thing. TIME Magazine launched its own tech blog dubbed TechLand today. The site till yet aims to cover in their own words… “everything from gadgets to video games to technology news to science fiction.” The initial look of the site, looks cool, and with Likes READ MORE...