When we go out to the market to buy some fruits, vegetables, meat or other fresh produce, the only thing that sometimes confuses us is the freshness of fruits and vegetables. We try to pick them based on color, looks and by smelling them. But sometimes even after picking the best one, it might be rotten from inside. Thankfully, that’s where researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IMPS) in Dresden can help...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) reportedly has plans to purchase Waze, a popular Israeli crowdsource and traffic navigation application. The social media giant is also rumored to bid $1 billion for the company. This report also has some people wondering if Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will join in and possibly outbid Facebook for this particular company. Forbes’ Peter Cohan interviewed Waze’s chief executive officer Noam Bardin a few years ago and discovered something interesting. Waze originally started as one...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has launched a countdown at the App Store as the company approaches the 50 billion download mark. As I started this piece, that number was at 49 billion, 239 million and moving quickly. I’m thinking by the time I finish here it will reach have reached 49,240,xxx,xxx. The Ohio girl who was born at 12:12 on 12/12/12 earned the name “Forever” as part of her legacy. As Seth Myers jokingly put...
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Aviv Gadot, co-founder and CEO of Israeli start-up Pixtr, is a fairly good looking man who is clearly too young to remember Billy Joel’s 1977 album The Stranger. His wife is also quite attractive and owing to this, Mr. Gadot enjoys taking pictures of her and posting them to Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). Unsurprisingly, his wife is not the fan of seeing herself on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) like this. Hard to believe, a woman who...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) have removed the 500px mobile application from their App Store, over concerns that it makes it to easy to search for nude photos. They also removed ISO500 application, which was recently acquired by the Toronto-based company. According to Evgeny Tchebotarev, COO of 500px, apps features a collective of over 1 million downloads, whereas ISO500 has over 200,000. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) removed the app around 1:00 am Eastern Standard Time. These significant changes...
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a list of the best Android apps of 2012. The list was selected by the company’s smart phone and tablet users, the full list can be found here. The apps covered in the list come from a wide range of service areas. Here’s our rundown of the best Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) apps of 2012. Education The Ted App was highlighted as one of the best apps of 2012 for...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has announced its first product available to people without a Facebook account; Facebook Messenger for Android. From now on, the Facebook Messaging app on Android will now allow signups from non-Facebook users. The iOS version will follow suit with the update coming soon. The change is an important move for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), as it means that people without Facebook accounts can use the app to contact their friends; potentially acting as...
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Facebook is interested in acquiring WhatsApp, a cross platform mobile messaging app that allows users to send SMS for free across all types of mobile phones powered by Google’s Android, Research in Motion Limited’s Blackberry, Apple’s iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8. The platform is also available on Nokia’s S40 and Symbian operating systems. TechCrunch cited unnamed sources knowledgeable about the issue, who claim that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is in discussion with the management of WhatsApp...
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In these days of digital cameras and mobile phones, capturing our precious moment has become very easy, thanks to all these digital tools. Many times while capturing that perfect picture, if we shake our hand then it can become blurred. While newer digital cameras has some features like image stabilization, there may be many such blurred images in your photo collection. Many people think that there can be nothing that can be done to...
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Mobile has become an essential part of our lives. Be it at our office, hospital or cafe, we constantly keep on checking for messages and missed calls. If you fear of missing a text or a call when away from your mobile, then here is a useful application named as MightyText which is available for Android platform. With this app, you can SMS from your computer or tablet, which uses your current Android phone...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s poor performance with its current iPhone app may soon be over: this according to two Facebook engineers who have opted for anonymity as a matter of policy, reports Nick Bilton of New York Times. These two engineers say that next month will usher in the new revamped iPhone app, that will be far quicker than the current app. The current iPhone app is synonymous with descriptions like slow, and crashes. According...
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