Plato Puthur

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The End to The Oprah Winfrey Show

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 10:03 pm
Oprah is scheduled to announce during tomorrow’s show that she will end her talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in September 2011 to focus on her upcoming cable channel. Now the reason here I...
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Twitter launches in French

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:56 pm
The beginning of this month twitter give their Spanish users a surprise. They made twitter available in Spanish. Now they are giving their french users a treat. Yes twitter is now available in French ...
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Twitter Retweet feature now live for all

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:51 pm
Twitter started to give this feature to its users, earlier this month. At that time it was given as beta feature. But today it came out of the beta phase and now its available for all users. Twitter ...
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Youtube launches automatic caption feature

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:46 pm
Youtube comes up with a new service which will display the captions for their videos. The timings will be automatically synchronized. Google says they are using the same voice recognition algorithms u...
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Google Launches Chrome OS

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:35 pm
And finally they made it available for download. But dont be happy yet. The OS won’t be appearing on commercial devices for at least another year. There are lots of things to do just to make it wor...
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Twitter launched a beta Retweet feature

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 10:26 pm
Twitter launched this @ 5th of Nov ‘10. - The folks at Twitter are beta testing a new retweet feature which will enable you to retweet a post with one click. There will also be a new retweet ic...
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Google phone – A data only VOIP device?

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 10:11 pm
Yesterday Techcrunch reported that the google phone rumor isn’t a rumor. They says they have sources that says Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsun...
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Yahoo to shutdown Yahoo! GO

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 10:02 pm
Yahoo! GO, launched in 2006, was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device. Today, Yahoo is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be shutdown on January 12, ...
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Microsoft Office 2010 beta downloads available

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:56 pm
Microsoft has made their office application suit “Office 2010 beta” available for download. According to  Microsoft these are the minimun configuration you need, Internet access Internet acce...
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Internet Explorer 9 officially unveiled

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:48 pm
Sinofsky has officially announced plans for the next version of IE: Internet Explorer 9, while speaking at the PDC(Professional Developers Conference). They’re also including ‘hardware accelerate...
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Google Image Swirl comes to Google Labs

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 10:04 pm
As a search engine, I can say google is the Best. Even with Image searches. Now its even getting better with Google Image Swirl. When you search the images using google image swirl, the search result...
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Chrome OS event, this Thursday, by Google

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 9:47 pm
Google prepares to reveal something about their. Google is planning to hold a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this Thursday morning. The plan is to give some technica...
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Youtube lets users to create their own iReports

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 9:36 pm
YouTube’s video platform has enabled a new generation of content creators to connect with billions of viewers every day. iReports are the videos submitted by users around the world about news event...
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Free public Wi-Fi for UK

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 9:25 pm
A major Wiltshire town is to become the first in the UK to offer free public wireless internet access to its entire population, it was claimed. The plan is to  to have blanket “Wi-Fi mesh” cover...
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ThePirateBay tracker shuts down

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 5:13 am
Yes sad but true, thepiratebay tracker will not work any more. They have decided to shutdown it permanently. You might also have noticed that the tracker has been down lately? And that the upload page...
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httptorrents.com, Making Direct download possible for Torrents.

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 10:23 pm
For normal users and users who just started their internet life, its been hectic to download something from torrent. Also almost all offices, schools, etc etc block torrent access. Even some ISPs are...
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Google Translate With new and amazing features

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 9:54 pm
Google announced three new features for their translating service Google Translate – (as google says it) a service that helps people access information throughout the world by enabling them to autom...
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Office mobile 2010 to hit Windows Mobile 6.5

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 9:38 pm
Ubergizmo today reported that Microsoft Office newest version called office 2010 is about to launch for Windows Mobile 6.5. Some of the implemented features include the ability to open Office file att...
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UK Twitter users Get Status Updates via MMS

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 8:43 pm
Twitter is becoming popular day by day, and so its users need more and more features. First, Twitter came with SMS support, a service by which users can update their status just by sending one sms to...
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WebOs gets Facebook Application

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 9:29 am
Mobile are becoming more and more like computers. One of the best part of it is surfing. And in this social networking play a very important roll. But for Palm Pre till now one major part was missing....
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Google to launch Chrome Extensions officially

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 8:29 am
Google’s famous browser chrome is about to get extensions officially. As we all know Chrome has been working with extensions but unofficially. Well this news is posted by Downloadsquad.com. Till no...
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Banned XBOX users fighting back – Unban Your XBOX

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 7:45 am
Last week microsoft banned lots of users who modded their XBOX for playing pirated games, which is said to be affected between 600,000 and one million members of the online service. Well now it seems...
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Egypt to apply for first domain name written in Arabic

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 3:49 am
Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic. This is said by the information technology minister of Egypt. He said this at a conference grouping Yahoo’s co-founder and oth...
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Russia recalls Modern Warfare 2

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 3:42 am
Due to the inclusion of the airport massacre level within the game Russia recently recalled the spotlighted game Modern Warfare 2. computerandvideogames reported, Developer Infinity Ward has apparen...
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How To: Make your USB bootable and Install Win XP from it

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 9:54 am
Here I will explain How to use a usb for installing windows XP by booting from the same USB. Refer: 1. You will need a tool making the usb Bootable. Download it from here. – usb_multiboot_10.zip...
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First Windows 7 zero day exploit found

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 4:04 am
So  the first Zero day a.k.a. 0day vulnerability for windows 7. The details of this exploit were posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list. The newly found bug was discovered by Laurent Gaffie. You...
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Shakira To Debut New Music Video On Ustream/Facebook

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 10:18 pm
International music star Shakira launches her new album in a different way. She’s doing it through a live stream on Ustream, which will be emedded on her Facebook Page. Ustream is an interactive pl...
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Microsoft Office Rival – Google Docs?

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 9:53 pm
Yeah, Google says, its web-happy word processor will be so effective, most enterprises will be able to “get rid of Office.” Dave Girouard – president of Google’s enterprise division spoke to ...
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Google Chrome OS comes in a week

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:51 pm
Yes at last Google Chrome OS is coming. Earlier Google had announced that they will launch the first version for the Chrome OS in this fall. Now only 2 weeks left for the end of this fall. Also some ...
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Microsfot Office 2010 Beta appears in WWW

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:15 am
A beta version of Microsoft’s Office 2010 software has appeard in some BitTorrent sites ahead of its expected official release next week. IT site Craving Tech has posted some screenshots of what Of...
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Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm hits XBOX 360 on November 17th – confirmed

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 5:15 am
At last it is confirmed. The update to XBOX 360 including twitter, facebook and last.fm will go live on November 17th. This was an old news but they took down this before long. But now Xbox LIVE gene...
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Twitter reaches 27.3 million tweets in a day as an average

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 5:03 am
According to a study done by Pingdom the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million. The average number of tweets per hour was 1,138,772. They did the study over 3 weeks interval ie., from...
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Modern Warfare 2 killed PlayStation Network for a while

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:10 am
Modern Warfare, the blockbuster game again found a place in the industry news. After selling almost 5 million copies in its first day, now it killed playstation network, at least for a while., server ...
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Google acquired Gizmo5

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 3:39 am
Google recently posted a blog entry in their official voice blog, saying that they have acquired the well known company Gizmo5. This company is famous for Internet-based calling software for mobile p...
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PS3 FaceBook integration to be implemented very shortly

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 2:18 am
Today scrawlfx.com posted an entry saying, “a source close to Sony has said that it is indeed true (as if the images being on the UK PlayStation site didn’t prove it) and that Sony will be announ...
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Netbook Battery life better for Win XP compared to Windows 7

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 11:42 am
Windows 7 is voted the best Microsoft OS yet and I also agree on this. But for netbooks we are paying a secret price while using windows 7. It is the battery life. On average, Windows 7 seem to suck a...
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Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 9:07 am
It looks like the fire truck just continued down the street like nothing happened. Look at her, in the classic “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” pose. Poor thing. Fortunately for the bike lady,...
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Chrome Beta for MAC coming in December

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 6:21 am
The first beta of Chrome for Mac is coming in December, graduating from the developer release that’s out now, according to an email sent to developers by a Chrome product manager, mentioning “our ...
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New OS for SmartPhones BADA from Samsung

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 3:24 am
Samsung electronics announced the launch of its own open mobile platform, Samsung bada in December. This new addition to Samsung’s mobile ecosystem enables developers to create applications for mill...
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Cross Platform Marketplace for Virtual Cash

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:43 am
The importance of virtual cash among the gamers are being increased day by day. But there is a problem in this virtual cash. If you used to like a game and you spend lots of money on virtual cash for ...
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Intel is being sued accused of bribery

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:32 am
The guardian.co.uk Reported that intel is being sued accused of bribery and coercion. The report says, The world’s largest microchip maker, Intel, was sued by New York’s attorney general for all...
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An alternative to Google Voice – Ribbit Mobile

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 12:54 am
Recently I read an article about the Ribbit Mobile in TechCrunch. This ribbit mobile works just like GoogleVoice, a very handy service by google to manage Voice mails. It showed that there is a bette...
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Google Maps shows a Phantom Town which only exists online.

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 12:04 am
If you want to visit the tiny town of Argleton in Lancashire, England, Google Maps can help you get there. But there’s one small problem: It doesn’t really exist. ABCNews Reported. This phantom...
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Twitter – New feature for tweet notifications

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 9:43 pm
Twitter is testing a new feature which displays the number of tweets in the users time line as new tweets are being tweeted since the last time the page is refreshed. This works in much the same way a...
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Mobile internet usage to overtake fixed line internet by 2011

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 9:25 pm
According to a study conducted by Mobilesquared by 2011 the number of users of mobile internet will overtake the numbers of users who stick to the fixed line internet. The study was entitled “Taking...
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Apple App Store Hits 100k Applications

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 9:18 pm
Apple’s app store now has got 100k apps in it. Well they announced this today. With in 481 days they reached from 500 to 100000 apps. It was just 5 weeks ago that Apple announced the service had hi...
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Mandriva Linux 2010 is out

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 9:44 am
Earlier Mandriva announced the upcoming launch of Mandriva Linux 2010, the latest version of its innovative operating system. Mandriva Linux 2010 will be available from Tuesday, 3rd November. Codenam...
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Here comes Blacksn0w – Unlock your iPhone

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 12:39 pm
So the latest unlocker for iphone 3gs came. Geohot released his latest version of unlocking software for Iphone 3gs. He posted about this in his blog today. The blog post says, blacksn0w is a free u...
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Search Google by Voice – Comes to Nokia S60

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 1:19 am
You’re a Person who  usually search something in google using your Nokia phone, then this is a good news for you. Because now google developed an application which comes with Google Apps for mobile...
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Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala Installation causes Frustration and Disappointment

Plato Puthur posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 12:48 am
The praised as windows 7 rival Ubuntu 9.10 a.k.a. Karmic Koala installation causes frustration and disappointment. All the early installers of this ubuntu had lots of problems as thregister reported. ...
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