Foursquare | Image Source : Socialmediaexaminer.com Smart businesses are taking Foursquare’s geo-location game to the bank.

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Foursquare : Geo-Location Game for Cashing in on Checking in

Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. IDC has seconded recent second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC reported Aug

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Image Source : Kodukup.com The Kodu Kup is a KODU GAME LAB game design competition for students aged 9 – 14 in participating schools across Australia, Malaysia and Singapore Key Dates : July 19th 2010 – Competition Opens August 20th 2010 – Competition Closes August 27th 2010 – Winners Notified Entry to the Kodu Kup 2010 is by invitation to participating schools in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore by Microsoft. Participating schools are those that have participated in teacher training for Kodu, provided by ideaslab (in a formal training class or using web-based training materials) or Science Centre Singapore, and subsequently invited to participate in the Competition. There are two competitions within the Kodu Kup 2010, a student competition and a teacher competition

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Kodu Kup – KODU GAME LAB Game Design Competition for Students

Image Source : 88db.com As a software engineer, this question comes up fairly often “Should you specialize in a technology”. Right now the question is there because the large number of Java developers are wondering whether they should learn Ruby or Groovy. For those asking the Ruby or Groovy question, yes learn one of them

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Should You Specialize in a Technology

Image Source : studenthacks.org Companies are doing a poor job of using social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to engage their customers and employees.

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Businesses Failing at Social Networking

Image Source : developies.wordpress.com Many people wonder why Google didn’t manage to build successful social services. Orkut’s success is limited to Brazil and India, iGoogle’s social gadgets aren’t popular, Friend Connect isn’t widely used, Google Buzz has a lot of potential, but not much success.

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Image Source : Google.com Business owners can add their listings to Google, as well as edit or delete existing listings, by visiting Google Places.

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Get your business listing into Google Search & Google Maps.

Image Source : WarnerBros.com The movie giant is being sued after allegations that it stole DRM intellectual property from another company. In an effort to combat cyberspace piracy, movie companies  have begun aggressively going after both the sites that provide access to illegal downloads and their customers as well.   In their latest efforts, some are incorporating digital rights technology to help restrict the use of their digital content online.

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Warner Brothers Accused of Using Pirated Anti-Piracy Technology

Health Technology | Image Source : zunia.org NEW DELHI – Use of communication technologies like mobile phone, toll-free helpline numbers and internet portals can help in providing better health care services, recent research on the information needs of health care professionals suggests.

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Nuclear capability, self-sufficiency in food production, an array of indigenous satellites and missiles, an unmanned Moon mission—India’s achievements in the scientific domain in recent years have been spectacular. But, according to the country’s best-known scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and his close associate Y.S

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The Scientific Indian: A Twenty-first Century Guide to the World around Us

Relocation of Lembah Pantai Roadside Hawkers to Ease Traffic Flow. Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:43 PM PST.

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Govt heightens border security

Image Source : Web Google has published a detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page. The result

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Google admits its SEO could use a little work