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Verizon’s network suffers third outage this month
Verizon’s network has once again been hit with downtime in the U.S., with customers reporting that their phones are unable to get a data connection. Droid Life, which picked up on the outage, says that customers have been having issues connecting to Verizon’s 3G and 4G LTE networks in various major cities across the U.S. … Continue reading
IIS7 Application Pool Idle Time-out Settings
Whether you host in-house or with a managed Windows hosting provider, if you self-administer a web server it is good to know that by default IIS7 sets application pools to “time-out” after 20 minutes of inactivity. So if you don’t have a visitor to your site within 20 minutes the application pool will shut down … Continue reading
iOS 5 faster than iOS 4 at browsing, study shows
Surfing the mobile Web is faster with iOS 5 than with iOS 4. At least, that is the result in a recent test conducted by New Relic. The company, which measures and manages the performance of Web-based applications, conducted two tests–one in the wild and one in a lab. The results of both tests showed … Continue reading
Samsung unveils Android-based Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus
Samsung has made the somewhat surprising decision to unveil yet another tablet to bolster its line. Dubbed the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, the Android 3.2 (Honeycomb)-based tablet comes with a 7-inch display and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. In addition to 802.11n wireless support, owners will also be able to connect to HSPA+ networks from the device. … Continue reading
Microsoft lists ‘App Store’ as a Windows 8 feature
An app store is officially among the features Microsoft is working to include in Windows 8, much like Apple’s App Store for OS X. The revelation, which confirmed months of rumors, came today from Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky in a Building Windows 8 blog titled “Introducing the team.” Among a list of teams associated with … Continue reading
Google shuts down Google Labs
Google CEO Larry Page is making good on his promise to put more wood behind fewer arrows as the company focuses more of its resources and efforts on its core products. Google today announced in a blog post that the company will discontinue its Google Labs efforts. Bill Coughran, Google’s senior vice president for Research … Continue reading
How to Check Mobile Balance?
How To Check Balance? The Basic Question Which Troubles you when you switch from one cellular network provider to other. With The Increased number of cellular network providers each day, more People struggling to check balance in their mobile account, This Post has tried to cover information about your mobile network provider in India. Reliance … Continue reading
Microsoft offers students free Xbox with PC buy
Microsoft is offering a deal to students on the edge of summer. Starting May 22, students who buy a new PC for $699 or more will receive a free Xbox 360 4GB console, the software giant said in a blog post today. The offer is available to online shoppers who buy a PC from Dell.com, … Continue reading
Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion In Cash
The deal is done. Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion in cash in its first sizeable acquisition since August 2008, when the Redmond software giant spent $486 million on Greenfield Online. In fact, this is Microsoft’s biggest financial bet to date in terms of M&A, trumping its $6 billion+ purchase of aQuantive, which dates … Continue reading
Apple beats Google as world‘s most valuable brand
LONDON: Apple has overtaken Google as the world’s most valuable brand , ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown. The iPhone and iPad maker’s brand is now worth $153 billion, almost half Apple’s market capitalization, says the annual BrandZ study of the … Continue reading