SYGIC best navigation available for India

SYGIC is the best navigation available in India. Google maps is great with great detailing. But the huge disadvantage is that you can not use the Google Maps offline. So you need a GPRS connection for the Google Maps.
Ovi Maps is also a great solution and supports map viewing offline, but unfortunately the map detailing is not good enough for India.



A GPS navigation system can only be so good as the underlying map data.

If the maps are not detailed, accurate and updated, the GPS device is not very useful. Mapmyindia's award-winning maps have been built over the last 15 years, and have been successfully validated by over 500 of our enterprise customers and lakhs of individual consumers.

With MapmyIndia Maps, you get unparalled breadth and depth coverage across India.
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• 401 cities with complete details of streets, localities, sub-localities and points of interest
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MapmyIndia Navigator provides complete details of streets, localities, sub-localities and points of interest in 401 cities across India.

The Desi iPAD

Are Tablets really the next big thing in computing? May be, may be not (need to wait for sales figures to answer this)! However, Apple's iPad has surely created a buzz around Tablets. You have HP, Dell and all other PC vendors of every size and shape readying a Tablet PC.

In the content is a Desi Tablet too, Adam. Designed by an alumunus of National Institute of Design, Makarand Kulkarni, Nokion Ink's Adam is being billed as an iPad killer. Here's looking into what Apple's iPad has that our Adam lacks and vice versa. And how the two compare on various specs like memory, display, connectivity, pricing and more.

Windows Phone 7 Series Official Videos

Well just as expected, Microsoft today launched its latest version of Windows Mobile system, the Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

Here are the official demo videos of the Windows Phone 7 series. Check it out!

Gmail coming hard on Facebook and Twitter

With the fast growing market for Facebook and Twitter, Google is definitely feeling the heat. Google is gearing up to give serious competition to Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites. The search giant's free email service Gmail is reportedly planning to make Gmail more social by allowing users to exchange status updates with friends and share Web content links.

Intex iSmart Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) Mobile Phone

A dual sim phone, with a QWERTY keyboard, great form factor, dual camera at Rs.4700/-. This is no joke. Intex launched its new iSmart to shock the market. Like its predecessor, IN 6611 Ace iSmart also boast of a good QWERTY keyboard. The formfactor makes it look like BlackBerry Curve 8900 which comes at around Rs.31K.

Image Searching in internet

How many times have you tried to search images in internet? How many clicks did you go before getting the actual image you are looking for? You can actually get the image with a single click, but you have to be very lucky.

Google may be the undoubtedly the best search engine, even if Microsoft doesnot like it. But when it comes to image search the landscape changes dramatically.

Truly said, images speaks more than a thousand words. But is http://images.google.com/ is your only answer? Does yahoo or bing do it better?

Nokia Launches Custom Dictionary for Predictive Text

Have you ever wanted to change the words the S60 Predictive Dictionary had? Then, Nokia Custom Dictionary is the app you must have!

The new Nokia Custom Dictionary app from Nokia Beta Labs, allows you edit the list of words used by the phone for text prediction and also transfer it between phones.

Twitter blocked in China?

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams today said he had been told that his microblogging service has been partially blocked in China but had no confirmation.

"That's what I've been told," he said, adding that he had "heard reports on that" but that the company did not have direct confirmation.

Williams said that China can use a firewall to block access to the service.

"There are ways for users to get around it, but I'm not an expert on that," he said, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

When asked about media reports that Twitter was developing ways to get around the firewall, Williams said he had been "misquoted."

"We're not actively developing any way to get around it," he said, although he stressed that "we're for the free exchange of information."

Asked if his company had noticed any cyber attacks, such as those launched against search engine giant Google from China, he said that no such moves had been detected.

A good iPAD killer from Dell

Dell has its own answer to Apple's iPAD. Steve you have competition. iPad can be sleek but this is more powerful. Running on Android, supports SIM, so can actually call. A wifi, 3G data service. 5MP autofocus camera, front video calling camera, multitasking, in browser flash support. HDMI output. I think Dell got it right where Apple went wrong, and you can actually take it out from your court pocket.

9 iPad misses

After three years Apple is back to what it is known to be best at -- launch new product. The computing giant launched iPad, a sleek table that aims to revolutionise the publishing business the same way as Apple iPod transformed the music industry and iPhone transformed the telecom industry.

But can iPad really do what iPod and iPhone could in their respective domains? While there are many who are going gaga over Apple's new launch and see it as a disruptive technology. There are others who are cautious and apprehensive.

The critics are lamenting the absence of some features which they feel are basic for any product of iPad's category. So what is it that is missing from Apple's big launch?