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The last week of February saw Motorola XOOM went live and Android hackers being an ever ready lot did what so many expected of them – rooted the first Honeycomb powered Tablet. Last week, a rumor surfaced which suggested that Motorola will not upgrade the unlocked/rooted XOOM Tablets to make it 4G ready. Motorola has made it clear that this is not the case and they will be upgrading the rooted Tablets as well.

Here’s the official statement from the makers of the Tablet which faces some serious competition from the iPad 2:

All Motorola XOOM tablets on the Verizon Wireless network are eligible to receive an upgrade to support 4G LTE. This includes those that have been unlocked; however, those units must be submitted for upgrade with the original factory software reinstalled and the device relocked in order to receive the upgrade.

For devices that are returned unlocked, Motorola will attempt to complete the upgrade, but may be unable to update the software. In these cases, the device will be returned to the consumer with just the 4G LTE modem installed.

To sum it all up, the rooted Motorola XOOM has to be relocked and returned with factory settings which will make sure that the device gets a complete upgrade. Devices that are returned rooted may not get the complete upgrade.

1. Google Chrome Backup Extension

Google Chrome backup add-on creates, backups, restores and manages Chrome profiles. All history, bookmarks and related stuff are maintained very easily with this add-on. So in case there is a system crash or accidental deletion, you can easily restore or get back the lost settings in Google Chrome.

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Google’s attempt to purchase Groupon by offering them a handsome amount of money has gone in vain. Mind you this is not the official statement coming out of Google or Groupon. Instead this news comes your way via a couple of sources familiar with the matter which is normally what happens in these cases.

It seems that the daily deal offering startup wasn’t attracted by the 5 – 6 billion dollar acquisition offer put up by the search engine giants. There are chances that Groupon may go forward with the initial public offering but will presumably go public no earlier than 2011.

Google was reached out for comments to which they gave a typical reply – Google doesn’t comment on rumors or speculations. The so called rumor or speculation may enter the reality zone come Monday as Groupon is expected to register their reply.

When a small company (in comparison to Google that is) rejects an acquisition offer from a one of the IT giants, one just wonders what gives. Well here is the thing, Groupon is an international organization with 3000 employees operating in 35 countries. Most important of all, the company is expected to get an impressive revenue of $500 million for the current year.

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Das Folgen sind einige der besten Web site, die Sie verwenden können, um freies SMS auf der ganzen Erde zu senden.

1.? SendSmsNow

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What comes as a surprise for all Yahoo! Mash users is that the service will be completely shutting down on September 29th, 2008.

Yahoo! Mash was an experimental social network by Yahoo! created on grounds of competition with MySpace, Facebook and Orkut but its conflict with Yahoo! 360 and lack of support and updates might have proved a little too unhealthy.

The service was launched in September last year and back then we served quite well in giving away free Yahoo! Mash invites and free Yahoo! Mash CSS Styles.

The sole reason behind shutting down of so many social networks is the overflow of cloud communication. Perhaps this is the one that caught Yahoo! Mash too.

All Yahoo! Mash users are requested to save any important information or data from their Yahoo! Mash profiles as soon as possible because after September 29th, Mash is going to the dead pool.

Veoh provides a very large database of free online videos and high quality TV Shows.

Unlike YouTube, the videos on Veoh do not have a limited length and users can watch all videos in full high quality. The only problem is that most of the TV Shows on Veoh are limited to users from the US only and users from the rest of the world can’t watch them directly.

The simple solution is to download videos from Veoh directly to your PC.

Veoh Downloder is a simple tool which downloads high quality Veoh.com videos i.e. the originally uploaded version, not the FLV-compressed version with low quality. This program functions regardless of your IP location which means you can download videos even if you are not from the US.

Alternatively you can try OrbitDownloader to download videos from Veoh and other social video sites. If you are looking for an online service to do the same job, check out Clipnabber.

Many free online image editors have emerged in past of couple of months but none of them offer the simplicity that Pixlr does.

Pixlr is a very basic, simple and easy to use free online image editor which allows you to edit, adjust, filter and manipulate three of the very basic image formats i.e. .JPG .GIF and .PNG

The reason I like Pixlr more as compared to other free online image editing tools like Photoshop Express and Phoenix is because Pixlr does not ask you to regsiter to start using the online app and the GUI is amazingly simple and smooth.

Unlike other online image editor apps based on Adobe Flex, Pixlr takes a very little time to load and the interface is not laggy or choppy.

If you are looking for a clean and simple online image editor app then Pixlr is the right choice for you. Get started with Pixlr app.

At a press release recently, Yahoo! and Intel both have shown interest to partner together and open a new world of entertainment by bringing Internet to TV in the form of dynamic web widgets.Yahoo! has already invaded the Internet and next-generation mobile devices like iPhone by providing dynamic and stylish web widgets, and with the new Yahoo! Connected TV initiative it won’t be long since web widgets become a common place for home TVs too.

The basic deal between Yahoo! and Intel is to bring web applications to electronic devices based on Intel Architecture by making use of Widget Channel which is a television application framework optimized for TV.

Developers will be able to use XHTML, JAVASCRIPT and FLASH technologies to write TV applications for the platform, extending the power and compatibility of PC application developer programs to TV and related consumer electronics devices.

Moreover, users will be able to interact with the widgets visually.

So now if you wonder how you can get or download widgets for your TV, Keep your fingers crossed as Yahoo! and Intel are already working hard on it and it will be made public anytime soon.

http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

According to LiveSide, a new Windows Live service known as Windows Live Video Messages is in the worksand will be available to the public in September this year.

Windows Live Video Messages is a web-portal where users with webcams will be able to communicate with their friends and family by sending/recieving video messages, even when they are offline.

The added benefit for Microsoft LifeCam users is that they will be able to take benefit of all Windows Live Videos Messages features right on their desktop using the Vista sidebar gadget and they won’t need to visit the web portal.

The tech preview is coming to the public on September 9. However if you own a Microsoft LifeCam and are just too impatient enough to try it already, use this link below to download the sidebar gadget.

Warning! Please do not download and install if you do not have a Microsoft LifeCam install on your PC.

According to a report by TorrentFreak, older versions of uTorrent may not be that secure after all.

A recent vulnerability discovered in earlier versions of uTorrent and BitTorrent clients can be exploited to compromise a computer for the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of .torrent files. This could allow an attacker to remotely execute artibitary code on the victims machine.

uTorrent users should immediately upgrade to the latest version 1.8 to fix this issue. BitTorrent users should remain vigilant as there is no fix available for the moment but soon will be.