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Google’s Gmail brings new Calling Features which allow you to Call Phones

August 26, 2010One Comment
Google’s Gmail brings new Calling Features which allow you to Call Phones

Google has done it again! The company is now providing you with a brand new feature which will let you call any phone from your computer, using Gmail. It is really very simple to get started with it, you simply need to download a plug-in on your computer and you can then dial a phone [...]

Layar comes to the Bada OS, More specifically the Samsung Wave

August 26, 2010No Comments
Layar comes to the Bada OS, More specifically the Samsung Wave

The famous augmented reality browser, Layar is an absolutely brilliant application on today’s smartphones. It has now expanded its reach as it will now be available for the Samsung Bada platform or more specifically on your Samsung Wave smartphone, which is the Korean companies first Bada powered phone. Layar is an application which tops up your [...]

Chrome to Phone Sends Desktop Session to Android 2.2 Smartphone

August 17, 2010One Comment
Chrome to Phone Sends Desktop Session to Android 2.2 Smartphone

Chrome to Phone is a brilliant new extension for the Google Chrome browser which will make your confusing life a bit more simplified. The guys at Google have been continuously working some brilliant new innovations for the Android platform and this is definitely a brilliant new function. This extension can only be used by those using [...]

3 Alternative to Browse the Web on your iPhone/iPod

August 8, 20102 Comments
3 Alternative to Browse the Web on your iPhone/iPod

So, if you are looking for an alternative, for your Mobile Safari then you search ends here. These three applications are some really helpful and brilliant web browsers for you iOS devices. So, go through them and select the one which you think is the best for your usage. Atomic Web Browser The Atomic Web Browser has [...]

3 Google Chrome Extensions for Music Lovers

July 25, 20104 Comments
3 Google Chrome Extensions for Music Lovers

Google Chrome extensions have been every improving and there is no doubt that it will soon be as vast as the Mozilla Firefox. We at Gigjets love music and I love is listening to new music while I am browsing the internet. To make the experience more entertaining here are three Google Chrome extensions which [...]

Paul the Psychic Octopus gets iPhonized

July 18, 20102 Comments
Paul the Psychic Octopus gets iPhonized

There lives an Octopus who is more famous and loved than you are, he is called Paul. Paul the Psychic Octopus predicted all the seven games which Germany played in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and he now got two iPhone apps, which lets you ask questions and get yes/no answers. Well, don’t get super excited [...]

Firefox Home now available in App Store

July 16, 20102 Comments
Firefox Home now available in App Store

Well, Apple has finally passed Mozilla’s Firefox Home and it is now available for download. Firefox Home is an application which can be used to access your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and also open tabs on your iPhone or iPod touch. A couple of weeks back we saw the Firefox 1.1 for Mobile which made its [...]

BlackBerry Protect Now Available

July 13, 20103 Comments
BlackBerry Protect Now Available

BlackBerry users may find this really interesting as RIM has now officially announced a new system to protect your BlackBerry. The app is called BlackBerry Protect and it helps in protecting your data and it can also locate the device in case it gets stolen or you lose it. The app is initially going to be [...]

MediaTek joins OHA to bring cheaper Android Phones

July 12, 20105 Comments
MediaTek joins OHA to bring cheaper Android Phones

MediaTek is famously known for supplying chipset to Chinese phone manufacturers. Many of the cheap phones available in India as well as China are powered by MediaTek’s SoC. The company is yet to impress the western markets but there has given an appearance as last year, the company had signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with [...]

OpenFeint is now coming to Android

July 8, 2010No Comments
OpenFeint is now coming to Android

OpenFeint the famous social gaming platform on the iOS has now announced that they are expanding to include Android. With OpenFeint the Android platform will be introduced to 9,200 developers who have already worked with the OpenFeint’s official SDK. This is really great news for Android users as many of the Android games are low on [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.1 comes to Nokia N900 Maemo

July 4, 2010One Comment
Mozilla Firefox 1.1 comes to Nokia N900 Maemo

Finally, my favorite web browser is slowly making its way to various devices. We have heard that the Mozilla Firefox is on its way to the iPhone as it has been submitted for review. It is entering the mobile market late than most of the others and I think it still has the potential to [...]

Get Paid for Downloading iPhone Apps by Apperang

July 1, 20103 Comments
Get Paid for Downloading iPhone Apps by Apperang

W3i has announced Apperang and it lets allows user to get paid to download applications for the iPhone, which apparently seems to be quite surprising. Well, it is not quite difficult to understand, instead of Pay-per-click method which developers use to market their apps, Apperang offers a pay-per-acquisition system. This means that the developer only pays [...]

Windows 8 Blueprints Allegedly Leaked, to have Face Recognition, Faster Startups and much more

June 29, 20103 Comments
Windows 8 Blueprints Allegedly Leaked, to have Face Recognition, Faster Startups and much more

Well, it has been a long time and we have not heard a lot about Windows 8. Windows 7 was truly remarkable and I believe that it was a really amazing operating system from Microsoft. We have heard that the Windows 8 is all set to release is 2012 and rumors of it being a [...]

IE9 beats Chrome 6 in HTML 5 Speed Test

June 24, 2010One Comment
IE9 beats Chrome 6 in HTML 5 Speed Test

The test clearly shows Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 taking the trophy against Chrome 6 when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering in HTML5. IE9 Preview 3 has been officially released and it goes up against Chrome 6 developer, in some previous benchmarks the Chrome 6 had an upper hand over IE9. The difference in speed is [...]

Google working towards a friendly UI for Android Gingerbread

June 19, 20106 Comments
Google working towards a friendly UI for Android Gingerbread

We know that Google is working on the next version of Android and for those who do not know it yet, it is codenamed Gingerbread. The Gingerbread is expected to be available later this year so there is still a long time to go. It looks like Google will no longer allow manufacturers to layer their [...]

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