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According to a new study by credit card giant Visa, the average Indian Internet user spends $2,066, or approximately Rs. 96,000, on buying goods and services through the Internet every year. Purchasing digital downloads was the most popular form of consumer e-commerce, the study found. Seventy-six per cent of respondents from India, the highest among Asia-Pacific, have bought a form of digital entertainment over the Internet in the last 12 months. Music downloads (63 per cent) emerged as the mos [...]
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One of the biggest gripes we – and almost all users – have with the iPhone is the lack of multi-tasking. This is one thing that all WebOS, Android and Windows Mobile users can throw into an iPhone user’s face, time and again. And given the great hardware under the iPhone, the lack of the same is perplexing.
 
A new app for the iPhone, called Multifl0w, seeks to address this issue with an awesome interface. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be avail [...]
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It isn’t often that a Nokia phone scores style points, so when the few such models come by, you can rest assured that it has offset a few features in the bargain.
 
Nokia has now launched the uber-sleek 6600i Slide in India, which comes with a 2.2-inch screen (16 million colours, 240×320 pixels) and accelerometer for ‘tap-to-mute’ and ‘tap-for-time’ features. With this, when you get a call, you can mute the ringing sound by double-tapping on the dis [...]
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The movie and video game industries are increasingly being seen as competitors in the entertainment sector. With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossing over $550 million in the first five days since its launch – eclipsing the latest Harry Potter’s $394 million and The Dark Knight’s $203.8 million – it is no wonder that a lot of analysts and investors are banking their money on video games.
 
But what most outsiders and non-gamers fail to see is that vide [...]
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