Samsung has started taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S III in India from its online retail store. The store, which is still in beta, is offering consumers the option to book their units for Rs 2.000 and was first spotted by our friends at Fonearena. Samsung is also promising a free gift with every booking though it is not revealing details of the gift or the price of the phone. In the past Samsun
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Samsung starts taking pre-orders for Galaxy S III in India
Posted by bgrnews 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.bgr.in)Samsung Galaxy S III India launch on May 31 claims Stuff India
Posted by bgrnews 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Samsung and its Galaxy S III have been in the news all day and for the right reasons. First came the news about the Galaxy S III crossing 9 million pre-orders followed by Samsung starting to take pre-orders for it in India. Now Stuff magazine’s Indian edition is claiming that Samsung would launch the phone in India on May 31. Read on. They claim to have received an invitation from Samsung.
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Anonymous targets Reliance Big Entertainment, BJP websites
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#OpIndia: #Anonymous to attack #BJP and #Reliance Big Entertainment websites today – bit.ly/JWhcho — Anonymous Operations (@Anon_Central) May 18, 2012 Anonymous today made its intentions clear that it will take down the websites of Reliance Big Entertainment and BJP in retaliation to the new Internet policy being floated by the government and yesterday’s blocking of certain sites by I
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Facebook gets listed on Nasdaq, will be the largest ever tech IPO
Posted by bgrnews 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Facebook has rewritten history by being the largest ever tech IPO and the third largest IPO overall. CEO Mark Zuckerberg remotely rang the Nasdaq bell from the company’s Palo Alto head quarters. Facebook’s shares will start trading in a few minutes for $38 under the ticker FB. Facebook will raise $19.6 billion from the sale, valuing the company at a massive $104 billion. We will be ke
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Did Facebook get facepalmed or was the IPO priced just right?
Posted by bgrnews 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Billed as the largest tech IPO ever, Facebook’s shares didn’t ‘pop’ as many expected. The shares that debuted at $38 closed at $38.23 at the end of trade on its first day. Not the minimum of 20 percent jump that most investors expected. More than 576 million shares changed hands marking yet another record for US markets for trading volumes on debut. Though one can never ju
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China approves Google’s acquisition of Motorola, deal to close in a week
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Google can finally close its deal to acquire Motorola. Chinese authorities have finally given the green light for the acquisition. Google had announced in August last year its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility, the handset manufacturing division of Motorola for $12.5 billion. European and US authorities had already approved the acquisition last year. However, Chinese authorities had indicat
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Mark Zuckerberg gets married to girlfriend Priscilla Chan a day after Facebook’s IPO
Posted by bgrnews 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.bgr.in)
To say Facebook CEO has had a life-altering weekend is an understatement. A day after taking his company public in the largest tech IPO ever, Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. The couple updated their relationship status on their Facebook profiles that now shows they are married to each other. According to multiple reports, the ceremony took place in the backyard of Zucke
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Sony Xperia U now available in India for Rs 16,499
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
After weeks of waiting, Sony’s Xperia U is now available in India. Online retailers Flipkart and Saholic are selling it for Rs 16,499. Infibeam, on the other hand, is still retailing it for Rs 17,399. Sony is yet to officially announce the Xperia U’s launch in India. The Xperia U features a 3.5-inch 854×480 pixel display, a 5-megapixel camera, a 1GHz dual-core processor and 4GB o
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Flipboard gets its biggest update ever, adds audio to the mix
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Flipboard today is rolling out an update to its popular “social magazine” app, which will bring audio to its users. The update adds an audio section from where users will be able to listen to music (from SoundCloud), podcasts as well as content from NPR and PRI. The update also adds accessibility feature for visually impaired users by integrating Apple’s VoiceOver feature to hel
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AMD launches second generation APUs, calls them Trinity
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
AMD has launched its direct competitor to Intel’s Ivy Bridge platform, which it calls Trinity. The new AMD Trinity APUs combine AMD’s Piledriver platform with the Radeon 7000 series of graphics, which coverts to an 29 percent CPU performance boost and 56 percent GPU performance boost over the previous generation Llano platform. These new chips are geared towards ultra thin laptops in the vain of
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Evernote 4.0 revamps Android UI, brings in a new swipe interface
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Popular note taking application, Evernote, has hit version 4.0 and with that keeping in with the interface changes brought in by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the app UI has been completely overhauled. Evernote proudly claims every screen in the app has been redesigned. To get the ball rolling, users get a brand new home screen, that combines note creation options with buttons that take you dir
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Bharti Airtel, via its subsidiary Airtel mCommerce Services Limited, and Axis Bank, today announced a partnership for extending banking and payment services to India’s unbanked millions via mobile devices using Airtel Money. Through this partnership, a savings account of Axis Bank will be opened for customers on Airtel Money called ‘Airtel Money Super Account powered by Axis Bank’, that will offe
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Samsung today lost almost $10 billion in market value as unverified reports trickled in about Apple giving a major order for memory chips to a rival. Taiwan’s DigiTimes, which has more misses than hits in its reporting, ran an article that Apple had placed a huge order with Japan’s Elpida for mobile DRAM chips, buying almost half of its production capacity. Samsung, which is the world
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LG announces Optimus UI 3.0 which will debut with the Optimus 4X HD in June
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
LG Electronics has announced the Optimus UI 3.0 for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which will debut with the incoming Optimus 4X smartphone in June. Optimus UI 3.0 brings with it an array of enhanced key features, including Quick Memo and unique unlock functions, among other new features and functions aimed at improving LG smartphone experience. .Some of the notable features of the new LG UI are
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Garmin launches nüvi 40LM and 50LM GPS devices in India
Posted by bgrnews 6 days ago (http://www.bgr.in)
Garmin has entered the Indian market with the launch of nüvi 40LM and 50LM GPS devices. Both these GPS units are to be priced at Rs. 8,450 and Rs. 9,990 respectively. The devices will come with free maps of Singapore and Malaysia, two of the most visited places by Indian vacationers, according to Garmin. NAVTEQ’s Maps (now Nokia’s Location & Commerce business unit) power Gramin’s
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