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"Nadaan Parindey (Full Song) Rockstar" | Ranbir Kapoor

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Rockstar music is composed by India's one of the best musician A R Rahman. His magical work has already created buzz in music world as his latest album is topping all chartbusters. This movie is directed by Imtiaz Ali & has Ranbir Kapoor , nargis Fakhri in lead roles. Watch full song "Nadaan Parinday Ghar Aaja" and share your views & comments with us.

Zara Dil Ko Thaam Lo (Song Making) Don 2

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Don is back with a bang & here we present to you making of DON 2 hit song ZARA DIL KO THAAM LO. DON 2 is directed by Farhan Akhtar. If you like the video don't forget to share it with your friends.

Dil Ki Hai Tamanna | Full Song | John Abraham | Genelia d'souza

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Song:Dil Ki Hai Tamanna Movie: Force Artist: John Abraham, Genelia d'souza Singer: Vijay Prakash, Shalini Singh, Neha Bhasin Music Label: T-Series

Apple made to specify design alternatives for Samsung

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Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a worldwide legal battle for months regarding the South Korean manufacturer’s smartphones and tablets infringing on the Cupertino company’s designs and patents. Documents have surfaced today revealing that in seeking to ban Samsung’s devices, Apple had to provide design workarounds to clarify exactly what sorts of designs would not be considered infringing. The list of alternatives is quite humorous. When it comes to smartphones, Apple suggests Samsung to design devices that do not have a front surface that is black, do not have a shape that is rectangular or do not have rounded corners, and that the front surface should have substantial adornment as opposed to a sleek clean surface. Tablets should also not be rectangular or not have rounded corners. They should have thick frames with a front surface that doesn’t lie entirely flat. Also, the profiles should not be thin and the interface should have a cluttered appearance. It’s fascinating that A

South Park: The Game 2012 official for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC

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Let the skepticism begin as a series of games so bad they’re compared to the Nintendo releases of Star Wars continues with a release on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC. This information has been released by Trey Parker and Matt Stone through Game Informer, the game set to be released by the developers at THQ. Judging by the amount of awesome episodes of the series that have come out in recent years surrounding high-quality popular games, we might have a good game on our hands here. According to the folks at THQ, this game will be a whole new chapter in the odd and often less than fantastic set of South Park video games released in the first 14 years the show has been on the air. Where the games of the past have been real cash-ins on the fact that everybody and their grandmothers love South Park enough to buy anything related to the television series, this game is said to be different. Danny Bilson, EVP Core Games, THQ, lets the world know that this is no everyday experience: “Our goal

Galaxy Nexus visits FCC again, but with AT&T bands

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There’s still no definitive word yet as to when Google’s new flagship Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive on Verizon, but it looks like the carrier won’t be the only one to get the device for long. New FCC documents have surfaced revealing another Galaxy Nexus version that’s destined for AT&T. The Galaxy Nexus for Verizon made a trip to the FCC back in November, but this time around, it’s sporting AT&T’s GSM 850/1900 and WCDMA II/IV bands. It’s not clear if there will be any major changes, but the documents suggest that the AT&T version might not support LTE. AT&T has not made any announcements yet. The device could still be heading to T-Mobile and Sprint as well, requiring a different version for each. The Verizon model is expected to hit first before any other Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices begin to roll out. For more details on the device, be sure to check our full review.

Portal 2 takes your holiday shopping to a new dimension this season

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There’s a game out there called Portal 2, and in that game it’s the physics of the environment you’re in that dictate how you play the game – this holiday season, it is you who will be dictating the happiness of your closest associate with a whole heaping couple of handfuls of Portal 2 oddball gifts, each of them announced just this week for sale online. Though there are many places you could get these gifts if you have some sixth sense for seeking them out, each has been offered by ThinkGeek in one handy category starting today, and a Portal shopping you shall go! Even if you’ve only played the game once, even if you’ve only ever played the first game in the series and not the second, you will not be able to resist – that’s how awesome these little trinkets are. Not that I’m pressuring you to buy these bits, each and every one of them, not by a long shot! If you wanted to pick them up and send them to your humble narrator, well, that’s a different situation entirely. What we’ve got he

FTC asked to open investigation of Carrier IQ

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The Carrier IQ controversy has snowballed quickly over the last week, with the company now possibly facing an investigation by the FTC. Following Senator Al Franken’s demand for answers regarding the data the company collects, Massachusetts congressman Edward Markey has taken it a step further, requesting the FTC to open an investigation. The controversy started when Android user Trevor Eckhart began alerting other users of what he discovered to be a data tracking software pre-installed on his HTC Android smartphone. This Carrier IQ software could allegedly track keystrokes, which could include passwords and text messages. The revelation caused several major smartphone manufacturers and carriers to issue statements regarding their involvement, with many either denying use of the software or explaining plans to discontinue use of it. Apple, for one, admitted that its previous generation iOS platforms use Carrier IQ, but that most of its iOS 5 devices do not and that future updates would

Motorola Droid RAZRMAX may tout larger battery

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Motorola may be preparing a follow up to its ultra-thin DROID RAZR LTE smartphone with a new device called the DROID RAZRMAX. This move may be due to battery life concerns with the current model, like what we’ve experienced in our full review. This new iteration is expected to be slightly thicker and will sport a larger battery to fuel the power-hungry LTE device. The speculation comes from PocketNow, which discovered a series of photos with EXIF data that revealed the photos to be taken from a device called the Motorola DROID RAZRMAX. This is not to be confused with an old flip phone called the Motorola RAZR Maxx, which had an extra “x” at the end and no Droid trademark. Additionally, some forum activity also suggest that such a device is in the works. A forum poster had revealed visiting a Verizon store and being told by an employee that a new “Razr Max” device would be coming out in the future that would be slightly thicker than the DROID RAZR and include a larger-capacity battery.

Android ICS Nexus S update out today for employees only

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It has begun for those of you working at Google today running a Nexus S, the update to the official Google-distributed Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 build that you’ve been waiting for all these … days! Word is that the build sent out today to some (not all) Google employees is an early build of Ice Cream Sandwich, so there’s certainly some kinks to work out, but this is no 3rd party street nightly build folks, Google sends out the good stuff right away. For those of you waiting at home, you can also get Ice Cream Sandwich right this moment if you wish, but you’ll have to do some hacking to get it. Refer back to our post about the Rocket Launcher hidden in the system to see. For those of you not understanding what all the fuss is about, Android 4.0 is the newest version of Google’s mobile operating system and one that takes the whole platform to a new level of integration. Where for a while Android users have had two different OS lines, one for smartphones and one for tablets, here in

iPhone Siri vs. Windows Phone TellMe in fair comparison video

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Apple’s  Siri  voice-driven intelligent assistant app called Siri faces off with Microsoft’s similarly capable Windows Phone TellMe app in a new YouTube video that claims to be a more fair comparison of the two. A video had previously compared Siri and TellMe but had mainly featured commands that TellMe does not yet understand. The first video surfaced as a response to Microsoft’s claims that most of the functionality found in the recently launched Siri feature has been available on the Windows Phone since a year ago. However, TellMe in its current iteration is very much command-driven and not as advanced at recognizing natural speech. Hence, the first video made TellMe look rather inept. This latest video of a “fair” comparison, shows TellMe performing well at speech recognition, searching for weather, searching for photos, sending text messages, finding a restaurant, and playing music. The user doing the comparison had a heavy Hungarian accent and it appears TellMe was better at unde

The Midwest and Greater Russia: Mobile Equivalents

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Just a few short years ago, your humble narrator had never so much as picked up a smartphone, much less owned a device with a data plan – such is the way in the Midwest for many still today, and by the looks of LG’s newest announcement of the Optimus P698 handset, it’s the same situation over there in Mother Russia. Though tech blogs like the one you’re reading right this second take the best of the best into our arms and write about how amazingly fantastic they are and how you should toss the rest of the trash in the garbage, there’s a gigantic cross-section of people in the world that, believe it or not, have not yet stepped into the world of being able to watch Beavis and Butthead from the comfort of their car. What this new device from LG shows us is that even though here in the United States such a tiny device (even though it’s stocked with Android’s second-newest version Gingerbread) would be dismissed by most of the major news networks, it’s still worth an ad campaign in the mot

LG Nitro HD hands-on and unboxing

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If you want a top tier Android smartphone rocking just about all the top of the line specs we’ve seen lately then you’ll want to keep reading and check out the brand new LG Nitro HD. Powered by a dual-core processor and AT&T 4G LTE this phone is here to compete with the best. Also, don’t forget that huge and bright 4.5″ 1280 x 720p HD resolution display LG’s equipped this phone with. We have plenty of pictures and a quick hands-on with this new smartphone so check it all out below. The LG Nitro HD, better known as the Optimus LTE was recently revealed to be headed to AT&T earlier this month and was officially announced this week. The LG Nitro HD will hit AT&T stores starting this Sunday on December 4th so if she looks good to you, I’d get ready to throw down about $249. While I run down the specs in my video below lets go over it one more time before you enjoy some photos. The Nitro is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread and comes equipped with a 4.5″ H-IPS NOVA display that

Android and Samsung steal the show in comScore October report

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When it comes to statistics on mobile devices, there’s one name that shows up in our news readers more often than any other – comScore – and today’s results are in, October 2011 on the docket, and they’re full of Android and Samsung for the win. The first chart you’re going to see is a comparison between this summer’s July and the month of October, and the results are clear on the top smartphone platforms in the comScore polls of these months: while RIM, Microsoft, and Symbian all fall by point percentages, both Apple and Google (Android) rise, with Google jumping 4.4 points. Looks good for the robot-based operating system so far.

Nokia N8 filmed feature film “Olive” hits theaters this month

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This week we’re to understand that not only has a filmmaker taken it upon himself to film an entire movie with only a set of Nokia N8 smartphones, it’ll be released in theaters soon, too! This movie goes by the name Olive and will bring a story of “a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word” to the big screen having been filmed in its entirety by a Nokia N8 smartphone double-taped to a set of traditional film-camera lenses. The director of this film, Hooman Khalili, does admit he had to hack the smartphone to turn the auto-focus and auto-zoom off to make it all work – beyond that it’s nothing but Nokia greatness in the clicker! When asked why he wanted to turn off the auto-focus and auto-zoom features on the device when we’re sure many people can’t live without them in their daily lives otherwise, Khalili noted that “the camera thinks it knows what you want to focus on, but it doesn’t know.” When the rest of the film came to the bit where productio

Motorola DROID 4 dual-core LTE QWERTY slider revealed semi-officially

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When it comes to the DROID line as carried by Verizon, there’s no knowing which manufacturer is going to get to have their hardware graced with the name, but usually it’s Motorola – and here in the DROID 4, the trend continues. What you’re going to get in this several-times half-leaked device is a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the newest version of Motorola’s custom user interface over Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz. This device is of course also running on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. You may remember from earlier this morning a release of some information on a couple of Motorola tablets by the name of XyBoard – wild in both name an shape. Well that wasn’t all CNET saw, folks, there’s another device from that same release, and it goes by the name of DROID 4. Get your pants out of a bind, folks, this is the first dual-core QWERTY on LTE, and it’s got those nice Motorola corners! Once you’ve slide the keyboard in and out a few thousand times, you’ll also

Carrier IQ tracking turns into wiretapping suit against it, Samsung ,and HTC

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The tech world has blown up over the last several weeks with Carrier IQ’s tacking software being sore point for just about every smartphone user out there that has the software on their devices and didn’t know it. Carrier IQ software was able to track all sorts of stuff on mobile devices without the user knowing it. Some of the biggest smartphone firms out there were using the software too. The use of Carrier ID tracking software by Samsung and HTC has landed the two companies along with Carrier IQ itself at the center of a wiretapping lawsuit. There have been class action suits filed in Chicago and St. Louis that are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of all the folks in the US that had phones that ran the software. Carrier IQ still maintains that its software is only used to help carriers improve their service. The security researcher that discovered the software posted video allegedly showing the Carrier IQ software recording keystrokes and more.

Gasoline fuel cell might find its way into Volt-like cars of the future

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The Volt has been having its share of issues of late with fires after crash tests. Still it is one of the only cars of its type on the market today. The car is technically an EV with a gasoline generator that is used to power the batteries when they run out of charge. The problem is that the economy when the generator is operating is much less than when the car is on battery power. Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new type of fuel cell that might be able to replace that gasoline generator in the Volt and similar vehicles in the future. The gasoline fuel cell is a much smaller alternative than the generator in the Volt today and it uses normal gas for fuel rather than hard to find and store hydrogen. The special fuel cell can also run on diesel or natural gas as well. The cool part is that the team of researchers has been able to reduce the operating temperature of the fuel cell from 900 degrees to about 350-degrees. That temperature reduction makes the gas fue

Honda shows off motor compo electric scooter concept

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When you live in some of the major cities around the world getting around is a hassle. In the more rural parts of the world, you just drive and don’t think much about it. In big cities like Tokyo or New York City, a car can be more a hindrance than anything. This is why many walk, use public transport or ride bikes. The downside to public transport is that you never know what sort of weird person will sit next to you. Biking to work can be too much work for some of the lazier out there. Honda has a new concept scooter that would get you to and from work using battery power over short distances. The concept scooter is called the motor compo. The little scooter is under 3-feet in length and height. The concept scooter is designed to fit easily into the micro commuter vehicle concept that Honda came up with. The idea is that the scooter will be carried in the car to get the driver across that last mile if they need to park far away. Then the driver can get the scooter out and ride it to t

Security researcher shows how to game Facebook’s Three Trusted Friends recovery feature

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A Brazilian security researcher has shown at a conference how hackers can use social engineering and the new three Trusted Friends password recovery feature to take over a real Facebook profile on the social networking site. The researcher started using LinkedIn, Amazon, and Facebook to try and get another security expert he calls SecGirl to friend him. The researcher made a cloned account of the manager of SecGirl and sent out 432 friend requests from that cloned account to friends of friends of that manager. Within only an hour 24 of those friends had accepted the request. After that, he took 436 friends and friended them directly using contacts on LinkedIn. Out of that 14 accepted in an hour. Apparently, it took only 7 hours to trick the SecGirl security expert into accepting the friend request. At that point, the researcher says that you would be able to take over the legitimate account using the Three Trusted Friends password recovery feature. Facebook says this is a violation of

Verizon buys $3.6bn AWS spectrum for LTE expansion

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Verizon Wireless has splashed out on $3.6bn worth of spectrum for its LTE expansion, grabbing 122 AWS licenses covering approximately 259m people from a joint venture made up of Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. The deal, the carrier has announced, will also include several produce and service agreements, allowing each company to sell the other’s products and, eventually, each of the cable companies being able to offer Verizon Wireless service wholesale, likely rebranding it as their own wireless offerings. There’ll also be what the cable companies and Verizon Wireless are describing as “an innovation technology joint venture for the development of technology to better integrate wireline and wireless products and services.” Exact details on what each of the cable providers might use the Verizon services for are unclear, though Comcast has said it sees them as a way to potentially extend its Xfinity TV services to mobile users. Bright House and Time Warn

RIM swallows $485m Q3 hit over unsold PlayBooks

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RIM will take a $485m hit for its stockpiled BlackBerry PlayBook mountain, the company has announced, though insists it is still “committed” to the 7-inch tablet and its believe that “the tablet market is still in its infancy.” The Canadian company recently slashed the entry-level PlayBook to sub-$200 and it looks like such discounting is likely to stick around; RIM ”now believes that an increase in promotional activity is required to drive sell-through to end customers” and claims that the cut-price QNX slate saw significantly increased demand. Nonetheless, while some retailers apparently  cancelled recent orders , blaming  stock shortages  after buyers flocked to the cheaper tablet, RIM says it still has a significant number left over. It blames the increasingly competitive tablet ecosystem, as well as delays pushing PlayBook OS 2.0 back to February 2012, along with features like native email support. “Although a number of factors have led to the need for an inventory provision in th

Casio Bluetooth 4.0 smartwatch pairs with DoCoMo Android phone

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Casio’s Bluetooth 4.0 smartwatch plans are nearing fruition, with the first pairing of a low-power wireless watch and Android smartphone headed to Japan’s NTT DoCoMo in the next few days. The NEXT MEDIA PP N-01D offers the usual Japanese niceties, like a 4-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, wireless charging, 8.1-megapixel camera, along with water and dust resilience, but can be paired with a special Casio MEDIAS PP-SHOCK GB-6900 watch. Hooked up via a frugal Bluetooth 4.0 connection, the watch shows incoming call and email information, as well as allowing you to reject incoming calls. There’s also the ability to locate your phone, with the PP-SHOCK watch reminding you if you walk away leaving it on a table or down the back of the sofa. Finally, the watch’s time is automatically kept up to date via the smartphone’s connection. The system was initially demonstrated  back at CES 2011 in January , taking advantage of Bluetooth 4.0′s advances in reducing power consumption to maintain a persiste

Acer Iconia Tab A200 official: Budget slate with ICS promise

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Acer has officially announced the Iconia Tab A200, its latest Android tablet, though don’t expect any Transformer Prime-style performance rivalry here. The Iconia Tab A200 runs Android 3.2 on a Tegra 2 processor, not the newer Tegra 3, promising affordability rather than cutting-edge specs. However, Acer has confirmed that the A200 is in line for an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade come January 2012. The 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm slate weighs in at 720g and comes with either 8GB or 16GB of storage. There’s a 3,260 mAh battery, good for up to 8hrs of video playback or 400hrs of standby Acer reckons, together with 1GB of RAM and a full-sized USB port for connecting external peripherals like keyboards. A microSD card slot can be used to add to the storage, and the 10.1-inch display runs at 1280 x 800 resolution with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera above it (but no rear camera). There’s the usual WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack, gyroscope and accelerometer, together with D

Android Gingerbread on over half of devices, as ICS challenge begins

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Google and its Android manufacturing partners have finally managed to get the majority of devices in the wild up to date with Gingerbread… just in time for them to be outdated again thanks to Ice Cream Sandwich. According to the latest platform distribution stats, 2.3.x is now found on 50.6-percent of all Android devices – or at least those which accessed the Android Market in the fourteen days prior to December 1 – up from 43.9-percent last month. That means Froyo has been pushed into second place, with Android 2.2 accounting for 35.3-percent of devices. Android 2.1 Eclair lingers in third place, with 9.6-percent, while Honeycomb – the version of Android specific for tablets – is on just 2.4-percent of the active devices Google is recording. The difficulty in keeping the hundreds of Android-based devices up to date with the latest version of the platform – generally known as fragmentation – is a problem reasonably specific to Google’s software at present. With so many OEMs offering pr

Verizon XyBoard 4G LTE tablets confirmed for December

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If you were expecting the next tablet that hit Verizon in the US from Motorola to be called the Xoom 2 you are out of luck. The tablet will be called the XyBoard when it hits the states in two models. Both the larger tablet known as the Xoom 2 in the UK and the smaller Media Edition will carry the Droid XyBoard brand. I suspect when said in marketing speak the name will sound like “cyborg.” We spied some leaked pics of the XyBoard last month. Both of these tablets will launch by the end of 2011, meaning any time now. They will both have LTE connectivity inside. Pricing for the states hasn’t been offered officially yet. Leaks peg the 16GB media Edition at $429 and the larger 64GB tablet could be as much as $729. You will undoubtedly be tied to Verizon for the term of a two-year data plan for any of the tablets. We know the hardware insides already with all of the tablets having a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. The displays are expected to have a resolution of 1280 x 800. We