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Illinois based Heil Sound has which pioneered the live sound industry with clients such as the Grateful Dead, the Who, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck and scores of major touring acts of the 1960′s – 70′s had introduced the HC -6 Wide Response Microphone Element at the Dayton Hamvention at Dayton, Ohio in US. The new Heil Pro Set Elite is designed for commercial sportscasters, [...]

If you were angry with Facebook’s self serving and financially motivated user policies this would outrage you. WSJ ( Wall Street Journal) reported that  Facebook along with MySpace, Digg, and a few other  social-networking sites sent advertisers information (user names, ages, hometowns and occupations) about  which specific users were clicking on ads, based on a report at AT&T Labs [...]

Paypal, the electronic money transferring service which had recently launched Mobile Payments Library for iPhone has now extended it toGoogle’s Mobile OS Android, the Library lets apps developers add checkout functionality for physical goods and services to their apps online. eBay, which owns  Paypal  has also introduced a PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine, a platform for developing [...]

British web start-up Huddle, which is a  web-based team collaboration and project management tool  announced a $10.2 million second round of funding, Huddle has now raised more than $15 million in  total. The funds will help the company stay competitive in the crowded collaboration market which is dominated by Box.com. With focus on US expansion it opened up an office in San Francisco with  [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the most loved and used P2P  sharing web service LimeWire is facing imminent closure, courtesy,  a verdict by a US  federal court judge which  has  delivered a death blow to LimeWire , which is still  one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment in favor of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association [...]

If rumors are to believed there are strong indications that Apple, makers of immensely popular one and iPad are on the verge of accquiring UK based ARM,the leading maker of mobile chips. ARM’s microchips can be found in most of the world’s mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone. Last year almost 4bn chips based on Arm’s designs were shipped worldwide which talks volumes [...]

For all the hardcore fans of the  first person shooter game Black, who think that since Black  there hasn’t been a first person shooter that lets you destroy pretty much everything with reckless abandon; things are  about to change with Bodycount, a brand new FPS which has on its team  some of the developers  who  worked on Black. Stuart Black, the creative director of Bodycount, said: “We’re [...]

Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could  be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively. According to unverified sources ( rumours ),  the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple is keen to ensure that the tablet computer [...]

BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft  launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer. The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full series of their favorite [...]

If you are one of those who craves for lightning cellular network speeds and mobile phones with futuristic appeal, your wishes might just come true next year courtesy Verizon’s latest announcement. Verizon Wireless has recently announced its plans to launch its first LTE handset for 4G networks by middle of next year. However, the launch of 4G might see the end of Verizon’s unlimited data [...]