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yodiologo thumb ‘Yodio’ – Where your Audio meets Pictures Yodio is a place where your voice meets your picture. Yes, you can affiliate images with you own voice/audio to tell true pictorial stories. The site allows you to assemble a story behind every picture making it damn easy for you to make a genuine use of your voice and image.

Users can upload different pictures by registering themselves and providing their cell phone number. Once you are done, you can use your account to record something on a specific picture or to upload an ironic image on your recorded voice. Apart from making a call to record, users can also drag and drop different audio track(s) and image(s) to make their own media enriched broadcast platform.

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apple apps thumb Apple to Roll Out the ‘Interactive Albums’ App   A Multipurpose Digital Booklet Apple iPhone has captivated the Internet world and a rapid growth in the web browsing share has been noticed since its launching. With its abrupt usage, Apple store is also busy in releasing interesting and user-friendly apps to allure millions of iPhone users. In this extension, another news is roaming around of an iPhone app, that is expected to be rolled out in the next month.

The app will allow users to enjoy interactive albums that will include lyrics, behind- the-scenes images and exclusive artwork that will entice your aesthetic senses. Thus, users will enjoy the extra content on the tip of their finger, with their slickly iPhones.

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govtweetslogo Govern the ‘US Presidential Elections’ Conversation, Views and Links with GovtweetsTwitter is ruling the millions of hearts and has grown by leaps and bounds and thus is not giving a single chance to its ever growing clones to grab its market share. This would have been one of the reason in the ever growing number of twitter apps to grab the sizable User base of it.

Govtweets, is a service that will keep you updating about the latest political happenings and scenarios by bringing some hot and crispy political tweets that includes famous political figures such as McCain, Obama, Biden and Palin.

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involverlogo An Online Video Marketing Solutions Provider ‘RapOuts Inc.’ raises $1.4 million in Series ARapOuts Inc. , a San Francisco based company that is widely known as Involver has strike out $1.4 million in first funding round led by Preetish Nijhawan (co-founder of Akamai) and Neeraj Gupta.

The company aims at providing online video marketing solutions and provides an easiest way to create, distribute and track interactive video widgets on social networks. The site can be described as a best source for the newly incubated companies who wants a lot exposure to earn publicity.

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geoeyelogo1 thumb Google to add GeoEye Satellite Imagery   A marvel step to boost Google Maps With an advent of online mapping tools, its most important facet ‘satellite imagery’ has also grown with leaps and bonds. And it wouldn’t be wrong to say that mapping tools are incomplete without these satellites imageries. Well-known Internet tycoons have joined the mapping wagon to win race by serving something interesting that can allure millions of users, but most of them such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo indexes same kind of images that gives an impression of duplicate images. Google is taking a step to introduce a set of high-resolution ravishing imageries by signing an exclusive deal with GeoEye.

Internet Giant’s deal with GeoEye will allow Google to use and embed exclusive GeoEye’s images in the web. The imageries will be used in both Google Maps and Google Earth. To serve this purpose a new satellite, GeoEye-1, is expected to be launched on 4th September. You can enjoy a countdown on the GeoEye’s homepage to keep an eye on the time left.

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mcasastyllogo thumb Micasastyle  Decorate your Dream House with Cool and Interesting Ideas Micasastyle provides you with some innovative and interesting decorating ideas to help you design your home. You can turn your home into a dashing and inspirational place by intellectually working on it. Spending buckets is not the only solution to have an enchanting home, you need few advices and tips to make it better and lively.

You can make your home a heaven place to live by sharing your space. Check out people’s taste by viewing Most Viewed spaces. While you can also go through the ‘most popular’ and the ‘most recent’ spaces to experience some creative ideas and to view some brilliant spaces that can actually fit to your own space easily. There are plenty of available images that has been uploaded by peoples who consider themselves a good designer and think that their space is worthy to share. Its a pretty good idea to learn something from other people’s dream houses and incorporating their fabulous ideas into your own space.

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radioframelogo thumb A leading Radio Access Solutions Provider ‘RadioFrame Network’ raises $28 Million fundingRadioFrame Network Inc., has recently raised $ 28 million in combined Series F equity and debt financing led by Ericsson Venture, Ignition Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners and a new entrant, Plainfield Asset Management. Based in Redmond, Washington, USA, RadioFrame Networks Inc., is the global leading provider of complete radio access solutions for Tier 1 mobile operators and OEM partners. The company is a pioneer in initiating the concept of supplemental coverage and capacity in cellular RF.

Since 2001, the leading provider of femtocell and picocell  radio access solutions, has raised more than $100 million with a back support of some well known names in the wireless industry. It provides a complete network friendly radio access solution, so that operators can get to market quickly. Thus, it plays a pivotal role to serve and provides an integrated management capabilities.

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ngmocologo An iPhone Games Publisher ‘Ngmoco’ raises $5.6 Million in Series A FundingNgmoco, a games publisher and creator for the iPhone raises $5.6 million in Series A funding. The funding round was supported by a premier venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), along with Maples Investments contribution.

Ngmoco is a newly incubated company that is mainly designed to develop some of the best iPhone games and focus on enhancing the entertainment experience.

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mozillalogo Mozilla Renewed its fat deal with Google Mozilla has recently extended its search agreement with the Search Giant, Google that was going to be expired after 2 months. The deal has renewed for the second time after its first renewal in 2006.

Mozilla- Google shares a three 3 years deal, according to which Google pays $57 million to Mozilla for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox. The wholesome amount is subjected to be 85% of the Mozilla’s total revenue. The agreement was first expired in 2006, but was extended to 2008 and now it will last till 2011.

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cisco postpathlogo Cisco to acquire ‘PostPath’  An Innovative E mail StartupCisco System is going to acquire a private email startup, PostPath for $215 Million. Being a Networking giant, Cisco has always strived to create Internet solutions that can make networks possible and foster people with an easily accessible information without any time and place restriction.

PostPath, Inc., is a Linux based innovative e-mail and calendaring software provider. Incubated at Mountain View, Calif., the company runs its additional development operations at Sofia and Bulgaria. Being compatible with AJAX web client and various mobile clients, it provides collaborative solutions that are secured enough to cater the needs of large entrepreneurs. Its acquisition by Cisco shows its efficiency and scalable working capability.

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