0 GoDaddy apologises for outage, offers customers free one-month credit

DNS services and web hosting company GoDaddy has tendered an apology to its customers for the recent massive service outage that crippled a number of sites across the world. GoDaddy is compensating its affected users by providing one month of free service.

GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner in his email to impacted customers assured that the sensitive customer information such as passwords, contact details and credit card data were not compromised. Wagner, however, maintained that the outage was due to a “series of internal events that corrupted router data cables” and not the a result of cyber attack.

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0 Bharti Airtel announces voice-based navigation service

Telecom giant Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its navigation service called SmartDrive. The navigation service, only available for Airtel customers, features voice-based turn by turn navigation, real time information update on traffic, and also lets users see their location on the map and plan the journey accordingly.

Airtel's SmartDrive app features information about restaurants, theatres and shopping malls. Along with turn by turn voice navigation, SmartDrive also gives an approximate time of the travel, on the basis of the traffic situation on the various routes.Airtel says its app calculates the traffic on the basis of the number of GPS devices used on a particular road, their average speed, as well as historical trends of traffic on that route.

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0 LinkedIn redesigns Company Pages

LinkedIn recently started rolling out a new design for its Company Pages in a bid to simplify its core products, and increase engagement between job seekers and employers on the professional networking website.

LinkedIn in a blog post said that the redesigned Company Pages have better visuals and less stuffed with widgets. There is also a large cover photo on the top, which is quite similar to Facebook's cover photo format. Moreover, the new layout enables the companies to have more prominent display for their announcements, and job openings.

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0 Apple announces the iPhone 5, along with all-new iPod Nano and iPod Touch

There was a lot of hype behind Apple’s September 12 event and all the rumours have finally been put to rest. Apple has finally officially announced the iPhone 5.

The sixth generation iPhone is much the same as what we have seen in the numerous rumours surrounding the device, and that has left us a tad disappointed.

At the iPhone 5 event, Apple also announced updates to iTunes, refreshes for iPod Touch and Nano, as well as iO6’s release date.

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0 Next-gen Intel Ultrabooks to get voice, gesture recognition in 2013

A "massive, massive amount of innovation is coming" in the next generation of thin-and-light ultrabooks, Intel executive Kirk Skaugen said at the Intel Developer Conference here on Tuesday.

The chip giant is preparing its fourth-generation Core chips, code-named Haswell, for a new rush of ultrabooks in 2013 that will feature smartphone-like voice recognition, touch, finger tracking, augmented reality, and gesture-based interfaces courtesy of clip-on sensors that will eventually be integrated into laptops, and more.

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0 Intel Haswell unveiled: More powerful

SAN FRANCISCO - It's the goal of almost every new technological innovation, at least on the component level, to deliver more performance for less of a power cost than previous-generation products. At the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday, Intel committed itself to pursuing exactly that goal with its upcoming fourth-generation Core microarchitecture, code-named Haswell.

Intel senior fellow Tom Piazza joined Intel fellows Hong Jiang and Per Hammarlund, and senior principal engineer Ronak Singhal in a Technology Insight session to provide a detailed examination of the new 22nm technology at IDF, which is expected to replace Intel's current third-generation Core ("Ivy Bridge") processors in desktops and laptops in the first half of 2013. Their talk focused on a number of Haswell's innovations, but placed a special emphasis on power usage, which will help Haswell function equally well in servers, tablets, and every form factor of system in between.

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0 Twitter lets users upload images from its mobile website

Even as Twitter cracks down on third party apps and developers, the micro-blogging website has quietly updated its mobile website, enabling users to upload an image for use in a tweet from their mobile devices. Earlier, users could upload photos through mobile site via third party clients.

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