The Hi-Tech Squad has trawled the internet and found 8 iPhone inspired wallpapers for your desktop. If you can’t afford to buy your own iPhone, or maybe you friend has one and you don’t or maybe you are just an iPhone fan, then enjoy these pictures and may your dreams come true!
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The soon to be released final version of Windows 7 is expected to be a great platform for gaming. People who aren’t contented with their game play experiences with the XP or Vista need to check out the Windows 7 to get the best of their games.  Now the most pertinent question in most of your minds would be -  How can Windows 7 be better than the Windows Vista or XP with respect to gaming? or How can Windows 7 be a gamer’s delight?
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Ambitious Mozilla is always working to keep Firefox on top of the browser wars. It released Firefox 3.5 a month ago, recently released screen shots of Firefox 3.7 and now one more Firefox 4.0.
At their wiki site Mozilla has released two mock up themes for Firefox 4.0. These are named A and B.
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Ricoh has announced the release of the GR Digital III camera. The GR Digital III builds on the success of the popular GR Digital II but the image quality to a higher level with a new image processing engine, a new CCD (1/1.7-inch CCD with a total 10.40 million pixels), and the newly developed 28 mm/F1.9 GR Lens. Performance has also been enhanced in areas such as quick shooting, operability, and power of expression.
The Digital III features a 3 inch LCD display, high sensitivity with support for ISO 1600 and …

Apple is planning on launching a touchscreen tablet this year similar to the iPod and iPhone but on a larger scale (with a 10″ screen). The question now remains, what will it be called?
Many of Apple’s products start with ‘i’ like in iPhone or iPod. So using this idea what could the new tablet be called?
The most obvious one (and also the most popular according to Google Trends) is iTablet. Other possible names are iTab or iPad or iPage. However Apple may also want to capitalize on the iPod branding …

Microsoft and Yahoo have been trying, for a long time, to come to an agreement about how they can work together and fight Google together. Finally after what seems like years of negotiations they have finally inked a deal.
In this new deal Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft’s online offering.
The 10-year deal gives Microsoft access to the Internet’s second-largest search engine audience, adding a potentially potent weapon to the software maker’s Internet arsenal as it …

In a move to fight music piracy, Orange joined hands with Channel 4 and Universal to offer a new music streaming service. The new service which has been named Monkey is targeted at a young mobile market as they are less likely to have expensive mobile handsets. The move that aims at preventing music piracy will offer customers about 600 minutes of music if they topped up their mobile phones for a minimum of £10 a month. Orange has also joined hands with Blyk, a mobile advertising firm and has plans to send new promotional offers and free offers to its customers according to their tastes.

Barcodes, the traditional representation of data readable by optical scanners is no more a fashion. Researchers in the US have been working on means to replace the traditional black and white stripes of the barcode and have finally succeeded. They have developed the Bokodes, one that can hold up thousands of times more data than the traditional barcodes. Researchers have quoted that, the Bokodes unlike their striped counterparts don’t need special optical readers but can be read by a standard mobile phone camera.
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We have seen iPhone store banning applications in past for just no reason, but this time the victim is giant Google voice applications. This decision seems more of an influence of AT&T.

So is AT&T afraid of Google voice applications? The answer is yes, because Google voice lets the user do much stuff for free that AT&T charges like free calls and sms in USA. Some of the iPhone applications being banned from the app store are GV mobile, GV dialer and VoiceCentral.

Google has the official Google voice application only for …