Mumbai, February 27: On the recommendation of superstar Salman Khan, the first blind band Udaan got its big break with the album “Udaan Instrumental’ which was produced by T-series and gave chance to Udaan Entertainment to showcase their talent. The album…
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Washington: UC San Diego Medical Center doctors have performed America’s first incision-free myotomy, a procedure to treat achalasia, a distressing disorder which causes difficulty swallowing, regurgitation and chest pain. The innovative surgery was performed through the mouth. “With dramatic advancements in medical devices, we can now perform complex surgeries through the mouth with no…
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No leaks or release date rumors this time, a mere 39mb download is all that separates your Sprint, O2 or Movistar connected Pre from video recording, Flash, enhanced message notifications and much-desired performance and battery life improvements. Verizon, Bell and Telcel customers are unfortunately still waiting for their day in the sun, only specified by the official Palm blog as “soon.” Check out Palm’s trailer for the new features and the full webOS 1.4 changelog after the break, after queueing up the download of course.
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Palm’s webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Western Digital has yet to actively market its “advanced format” hard drives — in fact, there’s a decent chance you’ve no idea what we’re talking about if you weren’t tuned in on December 11th. In short, it’s a technology that alters a hard drive’s sector size from 512 bytes (the standard for the past three decades) to 4096K, which enables the ECC data to be stored in a more efficient manner. Just recently, WD began to ship Advanced Format Caviar Green hard drives, and the benchmarking gurus over at Hot Hardware strapped one in to see exactly how much of the hype was warranted. For starters, they debunked the thought that Advanced Format drives offered more usable space; Windows reported 931GB of free space on both AF and non-AF 1TB drives. They also go on to explain how to make AF drives play nice with Windows XP, and on the testing front, they found that an aligned AF Caviar Green drive could (mostly) hang with the higher end (and more expensive) Caviar Black. Pop that source link for the full skinny, particularly if you’re a WinXP user looking to snag a new drive.
WD’s ‘Advanced Format’ Caviar Green HDD gets benchmarked, minor benefits found originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New Delhi, February 25: THE Delhi government has decided to increase the security deposit for cutting a tree from Rs 1,000 to Rs 28,000. The state cabinet approved the changes on Wednesday. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit said she hoped it would discourage people from cutting…
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New Delhi, February 25: The pre-Budget Economic Survey on Thursday favoured providing further stimulus for the exports sector, arguing that the recovery prospects in global markets are still fragile. It said that despite some improvement in global trade environment, the downside risks makes it imperative for the government to reform policies concerning imports as well. “The downside risks for world and the Indian trade lie in the fact that though the fall has been arrested, both output and…
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Whether you wanna call it the affordable high end or the really supercharged midrange, ATI has decided that there is a space to be filled between its scorching 5850/70 cards and the only somewhat slower 5770 SKU. So let’s all meet the $239 HD 5830, shall we? As is par for the Evergreen course, it’s a 40nm DirectX 11 card, and while it matches the 2.15 billion transistor count of the 5850, the new contender makes do with only 16 ROPs and 1,120 stream processors. To compensate for that processing loss, the core clock is raised to 800MHz while maintaining the 1GHz memory speed of the elder 5850. If this sounds like the 5830 will basically be composed of 5850 chips that didn’t quite make the high grade, good, because that’s exactly what’s happening. Internet reviewers have already had some time to play around with ATI’s latest card, and if we can draw a consensus, it would be that while the performance is pretty much spot on between its nearest siblings, the price is that little bit too steep to make the HD 5830 an easy recommendation.
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ATI busts out Radeon HD 5830, covers all bases originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Or tremendously dorky, either one. MvixUSA‘s newest WiFi adapter / range extender is a dramatic departure from its oh-so-minuscule Nubbin, though we’re told that the downright gaudy 5dbi antenna provides more wireless range than you ever thought possible. Put simply, this 802.11n adapter takes advantage of MIMO technology, promising throughput up to 300Mbps and forcing you to look as if you’re pinging a satellite just south of Jupiter rather than reaching for that Starbucks router eight blocks over. The good news is that it’s only $34.99, and amazingly, it might just be less heinous than the Wi-Fire. Shocking, we know.
MvixUSA Solido USB WiFi adapter finds signals a county away, makes you look super important originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New Delhi: The Opposition parties led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday cornered the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government in Parliament on rising prices of food items and essential commodities. Both Houses of Parliament had to be adjourned for the day over the price rise issue when the Opposition insisted on holding a discussion under Rule 193 in Lok Sabha, which allows for voting at the end of the discussion,…
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New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee’s Railway Budget 2010 is likely to be a populist one with no increase in passenger fares. CNN-IBN has got exclusive details of what…
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