There are a few things that you should not announce online. Don’t
tell them when you are going on vacation and leaving your house
unattended and just like in any city, don’t go flashing a wad of cash
around. A home in Australia was robbed last week by two masked men, a
few hours after an image of cash appeared on Facebook. posted by a
17-year-old girl who was helping count her grandmother’s savings.
The robbers quickly figured out where the house was located and traveled
there to steal the money. The image was posted at 4pm on Thursday, May
24. By 11:30pm the two masked men arrived with a knife and wooden club.
They forced their way into the house, but the girl was no longer there. A
58-year-old man, a woman of 47, and a boy of 14 were home, so the men
left with only a s
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If there is one thing we should all know by now, it is that people love
Angry Birds. They don’t just love the game, they are obsessed with it.
During December, 263 million active players played the game.t had 30 million downloads the week of Christmas alone and on
Christmas Day, there were 8 million downloads of Angry Birds. The
monthly figure is a 30% increase over the 200 million active players for
the games back in December 2011. So yeah, I’d say that everyone has
Angry Birds fever.
That’s not too surprising when you think about how Rovio has marketed
the brand. These days you can spot Angry Birds on lunch boxes,
backpacks, almost anything. Rovio knows how to steer their properties
and make them a lasting force.
Source
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TOKYO—Over the past few years, as many people rushed to trade in
their old phones for smartphones, Japan's philanderers have remained
faithful to one particular brand: Fujitsu Ltd.'s older "F-Series"
phones, which feature some attractive stealth privacy features.
The aging flip-phone—nicknamed the "uwaki keitai" or "infidelity
phone"—owes its enduring popularity to customers who don't believe newer
smartphones are as discreet at hiding their illicit romances.
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A new breed of tablet,
mobile phone hybrid device seems to be making the rounds
at Computex this week, with the unveiling of a number of tablets that
accept a mobile phone docked directly into their cases. This new
Transphone designed and created by CMIT was first unveiled last Saturday
pipping the Asus Padfone device to technology sites, around the Internet.
The tablet
portion of the Transphone comes equipped with a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Dual
Core processor, and could be running Android but this has yet to
be confirmed. Its also equipped with a VGA display, USB and HDMI ports. 
Unfortunately no information on pricing or worldwide availability has
been released as yet, but as soon as it becomes available we will let
you
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Samsung
Displays have started whetting our appetites this week for flexible
smartphone screen technology announcing that they will be showcasing
their new 5.5 inch phone screen at CES next month. 
Samsung Display will be exhibiting and demonstrating a pair of bendable screens at CES that could one day appear in a radically new smartphone or TV design, according to company representatives. The flexible smartphone 5.5-inch flexible screen sports a resolution
of 1,280 x 720 and a 267 pixel density, and will be accompanied with a
55-inch television screen. CNET explains:
"Samsung has been developing curving screens for some time, showing off smaller display demos, like the 4.5-inch WVGA
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If you are an EVE Online gamer you might be interested to know that CCP Games have this week announced details of a new deal they have struck with graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA. 
The new deal will now allow EVE gamers to use their in-game currency
PLEX from EVE Online to purchase real-life graphics cards from NVIDIA. PLEX (Pilot License Extension) is an in-game currency that can be
used to pay for 30-day EVE subscriptions. PLEX can be purchased with
ISK, EVE’s main currency that can be earned throughout the
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anuary 1, 2013 saw a price hike for all BMW
and MINI range of vehicles. BMW Group India has announced this marginal
price hike following higher input costs and a depreciating Rupee though
they continue to maintain a premium position in the Indian luxury car
sector. 2012 saw BMW India stay atop the luxury auto market here having
sold 9375 vehicles with Audi trailing with 9,003 cars sold. Mercedes Bemz India sold 7,138 cars for the year. 
The price hike will range between 5% and 6%. Post hike, BMW range
is now priced between Rs.25.50 lakhs to Rs.1.42 crores while the MINI
brand will cost between Rs.26.60 lakhs to Rs.37.50 lakhs. The company is
also on the brink of launching new products in the Indian auto market.
New BMW 7 Series, new BMW X1 and BMW 1 Series hatchback are scheduled
for launch in India during the current ye
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We already knew that sales for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
came in over the 5 million mark for 2012, but today we’re getting a
broader picture of the sales the franchise managed last year. Mojang has shared a list of Christmas Day stats for all versions of Minecraft,
and in doing so, the company has also revealed how many sales each
version brought in throughout 2012. Needless to say, the numbers for
each impress, while the final tally for the franchise in general is
pretty staggering.
First though, let’s check out those Christmas stats. Mojang says that
on December 25th, 70,808 players either purchased or redeemed codes for
the PC and Mac version of Minecraft. When we zoom out and look at the week of December 24th, that number grows to 241,845 purchases. In all, the PC/Mac versi
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Zeebiz Bureau
Honk Kong: A strike involving 1,000 workers
erupted at a plant linked to Foxconn Technology Group on Saturday, a
rights group claims.
A rights group based in Hong Kong called
Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) stated that
a Foxconn factory in Fengcheng, Jiangxi province went on strike. While
the Taiwanese tech giant denies ownership of the plant sources in SACOM
said that the workers mainly expressed their anger over their unfair
treatment.
Meanwhile, Foxconn, one of the world's biggest
contract electronics makers, has confirmed that it is being investigated
by Chinese authorities following allegations that at least one
executive accepted bribes.
The
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The smartphone ecosystem today has two dominant
players: Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems. A late
entrant, Android, has been quick to catch up with iOS and the Open
operating system only seems to be surging ahead. 
Given
the success of Android, many other Open Source paradigms are being
floated, most notably the Free and Open Source projects Firefox (of
browser fame) and Ubuntu that are re-making their debut this year in the
commercial smartphone segment. Together, these projects that have been
successful in the technology segments they currently operate in could
perhaps help break into the combined monopoly of Apple and Google in the
smartphone segment. Canonical’s Ubuntu is trying to
market the idea that smartphones must be as capable as one’s PC and are
trying to port the Ubuntu OS from the desktop
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Mobile phone maker Nokia is down, but not out. The
company’s India division claims it is leaving no stone unturned in
trying to reclaim its top spot in the growing Indian mobile phone
market. 
Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of new phones in Nokia’s Lumia series, Viral Oza, director-marketing, Nokia India, told The Hindu about the company’s strategies, its USP and its most ambitious offering in its smartphone Lumia series – the Lumia 920. Formerly
the market leader in the Indian phone segment, Nokia was known for its
feature phones in the mid- and low-budget ranges, until recently. Is it
an even playing field now? "The whole approach Nokia has is to make
sustained growth. For this, we have been executing on three pillars:
future disruption, connecting the next billion and the partne
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The Maruti Suzuki Wagon R is one of the highest selling cars in the
history of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. The Wagon R, which got a
comprehensive model update a couple of years back, has now got a mild
facelift to remain fresh in the market.
It may be noted that MSIL realizes the need to regularly spruce up its small cars to fend off the ever increasing competition.
Regulars on Motoroids will remember that we reported when Maruti
accidently revealed the front end of the Wagon R facelift in a video
sometime ago and now the car has been officially revealed.
As is evident from the pics, the WagonR refresh gets a chunkier front
bumper and a revised grille with chrome garnish. Other changes include
different fog-lamps housing and a large
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The bunny suit meets the sari. That, in a nutshell, is what India’s
first Playboy bunnies will be wearing, once the first Playboy Club opens
in India next year. 
The original bunny suit – the outfit worn by waitresses in Playboy Clubs – was co-designed in the 1960s by Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine. It consists of a corset, a collar, bunny ears and a fluffy tail.
The Indian version is far more conservative, in keeping with local
cultural sensitivities. The bunnies will be wearing full-length sheer
skirts and tube tops with fabric draped over one of their shoulders. All
else stays. Designed by Mohini Tadikonda, a New-York based fashion
designer, the Indian version of the Playboy Bunny was unveiled at a
press conference Wednesday in Mumbai. |
Reddit co-founder, Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron
Swartz, has committed suicide, according to police authorities. His body
was found in his New York apartment and he is believed to have hanged
himself to death. 
Swartz’s suicide has sparked a volley of reactions online with many
coming out to support and remember him. Swartz was facing criminal
charges for stealing more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, an online
archive and journal distribution service.
In July 2011, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury of wire
fraud, computer fraud and other charges related to allegedly stealing
millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Notably however, JSTOR
itself did not press charges against him.
Swartz, who pleaded not guilty to all cou
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According to a report in DigiTimes, Apple’s 27-inch iMac is facing shipment delays as Apple’s main iMac panel supplier LG is having trouble with production.
The report quotes industry sources as saying that the LG Display
has reportedly been facing full lamination issues while producing the
panels, slowing down shipments of the 27-inch device to 100,000 units a
month, 
According to Apple’s online store, the 27-inch iMac is expected to
ship in 3-4 weeks, which is much longer when compared to the 21.5-inch
iMacs, which are available to ship in 7-10 business days.
Apple’s 27-inch iMac. AFP Apple had launched the newer, slimmer versions of the iMac in
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Researchers have created a headband with built in earphones could help us sleep more soundly and easily.
The SleepPhones are a fabric band with earphones built in - and
its makers claim you can even use them without waking a partner sleeping
next to you, the Daily Mail reported.
Current versions have a wire to connect to a phone, but a
wireless version, set to go on sale in April, has just won a prestigious
awards at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"Being able to sleep soundly is crucial to feeling well overall,
and SleepPhones help by playing relaxing audio, drowning out noises, and
establishing a positive bedtime routine,” Wei-Shin Lai, one of the
inventors of the headphones said.
The firm began selling the product in 2007, when Lai was working as a doctor.
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Washington, Jan 11: The USA has stressed that India and Pakistan
should engage with each other more, instead of looking for a third party
to mediate. Washington said this while Islamabad sought a third-party
intervention in the ongoing border skirmish issue and India ruling out
any such possibility.
State department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said both the Asian
neighbours were making good progress in recent times by working through
various difficult issues, including trade. She said if the two countries
could reach an agreement on the border issue as well, it would be the
best outcome. Washington was clearly trying to avoid Pakistan's bait to
get involved in the problem.
It can be mentioned here that the US and Pakistan are going through
perhaps the worst phase in bilateral relations. New Delhi, on the other
hand, is enjoying a
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Chicago, Jan 9: The mortal remains of an Indian-American
businessman who died here within hours of receiving a cheque for the
million-dollar jackpot that he had won could be exhumed soon in order to
clear the mystery over how he was poisoned.
In Jun 2012, Urooj Khan bought two Illinois lottery scratchcards from a
store that he used to frequent. The 46-year-old scratched one of the
cards at the 7-Eleven store itself and jumped up in joy on discovering
that he had won the first prize of $1 million.
Khan had two options - collect just $600,000 immediately or receive the
entire sum in installments. The owner of a dry cleaning chain in North
Side here preferred the former. On Jul 19, Khan received a cheque for
about $425,000, the amount he was entitled to get after taxes.
The next day, the immigrant from Hyderabad screamed suddenly in the
m
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Islamabad, Jan 10: Ninety people were killed and over 270 more
injured in six bomb attacks in the restive Pakistani provinces of
Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, marking a sharp spurt in
terrorist violence ahead of the country's next general election.
Terrorists targeted a security forces vehicle and a Shia-majority
neighbourhood in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, and a religious
congregation in the Swat Valley of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, an erstwhile
stronghold of the Taliban.
Fifty-six people were killed and over 160 injured in the worst attacks
that occurred late in the evening at Alamdar Road and Airport Road in
Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up
inside a snooker club on Alamdar Road, which has two Shia prayer halls
and a sizeable population of Shia Hazaras. As media teams and security forces gathered in the area, three m
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Kharjan is mourning. Pall of gloom hangs over the village in
Assam's Tinsukia district after three children were killed when a
grenade-like object they were playing with exploded on Wednesday, Jan 9.
Assam Home Secretary GD Tripathy said, a schoolboy was killed on the
spot and two children who were injured died while being taken to
hospital.
"The blast took place near a lower primary school at Kharjan near Digboi
today (Wednesday). A schoolboy, who received critical injuries in the
blast, is being treated at a local hospital,"
Tripathy said. A detailed
report on the incident was awaited, he added.
About 550 km from Assam's capital Guwahati, Digboi is known as the
state's oil township where crude oil was first discovered. The deceased
children have been id
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New Delhi, Jan 13: India and Pakistan have agreed to hold a
brigadier-level flag meeting tomorrow in order to defuse the tension
along the Line of Control (LoC). The flag meeting is expected to start
around 1 p.m. in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. There has been heavy firing across the LoC in the last few days. Both
sides have accused each other of violating the ceasefire that came into
effect nearly ten years ago. Delhi expressed outrage after a Border
Action Team of the Pakistani Army stealthily entered Indian territory,
taking advantage of the fog in the Mendhar sector, and killed two jawans
of the 13 Rajputana Rifles on Jan 8.
The bodies of Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh were found
to be badly mutilated. The intruders were so inhumane, they beheaded
Hemr
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