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Search by taking a picture With Google Goggles App

Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information.

Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.

Goggles also works as a…

List of 10 most applications consuming battery, space and RAM Android

Once you want to download a new application you need to uninstall some other applications to make an available space for the new one, especially if you have an device with a small memory. Also the problem of battery that dies more faster, in addition to poor performance because of some other applications, this is the problems that haunt smartphones users. That’s why in this post you will learn…

Finally WhatsApp on your PC or Mac via Chrome browser

After months of denying any plans of launching a version for PCs, WhatsApp today announced a web client that will enable users to use the world’s most popular mobile IM client on their PC and Macs. Screenshots of the app were leaked yesterday.

The web client would mirror conversations and messages from the phone to the web client, which means messages would remain on the phone as well. However,…

Android 5.0 Lollipop has officially been launched

Google has finally confirmed Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’, the biggest update to Android in years, will be arriving in the next few weeks. Announced earlier this week alongside the Nexus 9 tablet and Nexus 6 smartphone, both of which will ship with Lollipop out of the box, it’s one of the most hotly anticipated Android updates ever and one that promises to give Google’s mobile OS a major visual…

Google has a Guide to Help You Move From Your iPhone to Android

Shortly after Apple announced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the company opened an official set of instructions through their support site that was focused on helping Android users migrate over to iOS. Apple news outlets (and heavily Apple-influenced general tech sites) thought this was huge news, for whatever reason. It was embarrassing. Forget the fact that Apple probably should have created…

Facebook announced the launch of Safety Check Today

Mark Zuck share on his own wall :

“Today we announced the launch of Safety Check on Facebook.

Over the last few years there have been many disasters and crises where people have turned to the Internet for help. Each time, we see people use Facebook to check on their loved ones and see if they’re safe. Connecting with people is always valuable, but these are the moments when it matters most.

Safe…

Samsung Launches Flagship Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge And Gear S In UAE

Samsung launched its next generation flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 4 along with a limited edition premium device, the Note Edge and a new smartwatch, Gear S, as part of its World Tour Event in Dubai.

Unveiling the new smartphones, Youngsoo Kim, president, Samsung Gulf said that they were created to suit the new mobile culture, moving towards larger-screen devices.

The Galaxy Note 4,…

Samsung Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 Update to Arrive in October

Samsung may not have announced any Android 4.4.4 KitKat update plans for its Galaxy smartphones; however, a leaked roadmap seems to have spilled the beans ahead of the official announcement from the company.

GforGames has spotted an XDA forum thread that lists the Android 4.4.4 KitKat update roll-out status of 7 Galaxy smartphones from Samsung and their variants.

As seen in the purported leaked…

Lenovo has lunched his New Tablet ” Lenovo Yoga Pro 2″

Lenovo has launched a new 13-inch tablet, the YOGA Tablet 2 Pro, having an onboard projector. The platinum-coloured tablet is 3.7mm thin and weighs around 950 grams. YOGA Tablet 2 Pro is powered by the 4th generation Intel Atom processor, which enables multi-tasking, better multimedia playback and rendering. It sports an 8MP rear camera and comes with an in-built storage capacity of 32GB, which…

Huawei to debut latest smart storage OceanStor9000 Solution at GITEX BIG Data Summit

The Huawei OceanStorEnterprise Storage System is an enterprise-class storage system independently developed by Huawei. This product is an optimal storage platform designed for next-generation data centers which feature virtualization, hybrid cloud, thin IT, and low carbon footprint. With high reliability, excellent scalability, and outstanding efficiency, the OceanStor Enterprise Storage System…