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Google’s Semantic Search, a step towards future
Google has been at the forefront of search engine race…
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Overview on Cloud based DNS hosting
Couple of years ago 3rd party DNS hosting was in…
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.XXX a total failure of policy & strategy yet heavy cash maker
.XXX domain name which recently goes on for public sale…
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Google’s cleanup marathon continues
Google over the years experimented with lots of products with…
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Contact lenses with the touch of future
Don’t tell me even for once you didn’t thought how…
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Contact lenses with the touch of future
Don’t tell me even for once you didn’t thought how cool it would be to have that movie like projected video calls, messages and info flashing right before your eyes. Well careful what you wish for! That fantasy has come to life. Maybe not as much as like awesome sci-fi movies, but some of its concept came to reality thanks to Seattle’s Washington University. According to Washington University’s research scientist involved with this technology’s research says – “A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials”. Like real life terminator this technology will allow this special contact lenses user to read/view projected texts, emails and even augment their sight with computer-generated media. Totally fascinating stuff isn’t it? Imagine the potential & use case scenario of this- simply limitless. No doubt Law-enforcement & Military use of this technology can strengthen the chain of communication by tenfold. Well let’s not get ahead of ourselves, like all research technology, this technology yet to be perfected and far from being production ready. Still got few things to tweak and adjust, for example- suitable power source. Currently the prototype device works only…
HP Slate 500 hypes and facts
Nearly thousand of articles has been published to date since the launch of HP Slate 500 at CES and is available for order starting today. But quite frankly too much buzz out there – windows hardcore fans giving all out for it, claiming and predicting this could be the iPad killer, on the other hand Apple lovers are making sure as much as possible negative PR this can get even before it hit the consumer market. So what are the hypes and what are the facts, which will let you decide on your own whether HP’s new baby got a chance or it’s just another D.O.A. That’s what we are here to find out. HP Slate 500 Comparison with iPad Hype 1: HP Slate is the true competitor for iPad. Fact 1 : HP Slate 500 is a full blown tablet computing device which runs Win 7. HP Slate 500 isn’t anything like iPad. iPad isn’t a full computing device, rather a companion device aimed to increase productivity, with thousands of cool applications out there, which HP slate don’t have access to. Hype 2: iPad has everything well over the top of what HP Slate offering. Fact 2: It’s true…
Flash finally onboard iPhone
You are not seeing ghost! That’s right Adobe flash can be run on iPhone 4.0, not just any flash the latest version. Hold your horses before you run over people or something, there is a catch! This can be done only by certain hack Comex, the same infamous (to Apple)/ renowned (to millions of consumers) hacker who developed the browser-based JailbreakMe tool, has done what should have been impossible and brought Flash video capabilities to the iPhone 4, and he claim that it will work on iPhone 3GS and the iPad as well. This Frash lets iPhone users view Adobe Flash content on their phones. This is certainly not any windows click and get hack, user’s iPhone have to be jail broken first prior to perform the actual hack which is a bit complex indeed. This is no news to us that Apple’s firm stand against letting Flash, the de facto web video standard into iPhone made Flash lost its glory (even if it’s not that significant yet). This also allow the rise of HTML5, even video sharing mammoth like YouTube embraced HTML5, where once Flash was one and only. So if you are Flash fan, seriously pissed with…
Windows Phone 7: will be a savior or villain for MSFT?
Microsoft’s upcoming Smartphone OS, Windows phone 7 officially dubbed as Windows Mobile 7 will be unleashed to consumers by October. Lots of hype going on around it, as for Microsoft this is a breakthrough initiative to get a hold onto the mobile market share that it never got, leaving the past failure behind. But truly could it be MSFT’s (Microsoft) Mobile hero just like iPhone for Apple? Or this will be just another villain like Windows Vista? Since Developer demo is out, all speculation around Windows Phone 7 started to shape into reality vs. myth. Windows Phone 7 which is complete overall of its predecessors, built from the scratch, UI (user interface) very similar to Zune HD (no brainer Zune and Mobile team worked closely). Windows Phone 7 aggregates Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs such as Office or Games. According to MSFT all Windows 7 phones will ship with the same music and video features as the Zune HD. Users will also be able to manage their music with the Zune PC software. In addition to that it will come with a mobile version of Xbox dubbed as Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see…
End of Kin, signs of Microsoft’s struggle
Two years in creating, one and a half months in market with a cute little unique name, with stylish design and emphasized on trendy social network tools couldn’t save Kin from crashing. Just for the intro ‘Kin’ is the smart phone device that supposed to prove that Microsoft could build the right product at the right time for the ever changing tech savvy youngsters. But surprisingly less than two months after the Kin’s arrived in stores, Microsoft decided to kill it. Most probably the fastest ever end of a product by a tech giant. It’s not that “Kin” is Microsoft’s first flop, Kin just made the long list of MSFT product failure- from watches to music players, a bit longer. But most of its flop got some chance and time before got killed, even the super flop “Vista” survived over 3 years, but Kin which might be the image savior for MSFT got barely any chance. Kin fiasco is an echo of Microsoft’s skirmish to deliver what the technology-obsessed new generation consumers wants. From hand-held products to business software, Microsoft seems racing with times, and falling far behind. First issue there is very few who want to develop for Microsoft….
Asus launched tablet pc, Eee Pad
Whether you are Apple fanboy or Windows fanboy, if you are honest techy you have to admit Apple got a history of motivating/pushing other tech companies towards new technologies. For example – before iPod there was nothing comparable to iPod (First of its kind), yeah I know there was Sony Discman, Walkman but truly nothing even close to iPod. But once Apple unwrap iPod, thousands of devices popped up in the market either mimicking iPod or inspired by iPod. More or less same scenario we have observed after the launch of iPhone. Now iPad, the tablet computing device released by Apple, seems to be gaining same momentum in tech arena just like iPod and iPhone did. All these three are three different kind of device, but common are all of them come from Apple and all motivational devices for tech scene. This is good for the tech environment, since no matter who motivated the bottom-line is creative, competitive technological evolution continues. Apple iPad is an excellent device which is unique and first of its kind, but does have its fair share of limitations. Well those who are didn’t relented to iPad fever, here is another provocation to get onboard table…
Choosing cell phone headsets
As the brand new state-wide law goes into effect @ California time for CA guys and ladies to get some wired or wireless Cell Phone Headsets. Now whether you’re a fan or not, fact is that if you’re going to be talking on a cell phone call, then you need a headset. While I agree with that the law needs to be tougher, and goes worldwide. Though most big city in the world got big road sign saying don’t text or e-mail while you’re driving-but how many of we did actually look at those billboards. That’s just plain dumb, and you could end up in World’s most spectacular accident. So whether you are living in California or Canberra- time to get wise and get yourself a headset-if you intend to use your phone while driving. Read on for some quick tips on searching for that vague new Bluetooth headset since I’m sure most of we are going to want to avoid the wires. So there are thousands of reviews out there bashing different manufacturer’s Bluetooth headset, but to be honest a general consumer can’t afford to spend 48 hours searching reviews to buy a headset. First you need to know…
Windows mobile phones will support Flash Lite
Though recently Apple chief executive Steve Jobs slams Flash by saying at Apple’s shareholder meeting that the version of Flash for desktops and notebooks "performs too slow to be useful" on the iPhone, and the mobile version of Flash "is not capable of being used with the Web." But good news for Adobe, Microsoft just announced that in addition to its own Silverlight multimedia technology, Microsoft will support Adobe’s competing Flash technology on Windows Mobile phones. Since already 450 million Flash-enabled devices out there and Flash is used to display the majority of online video, including that on YouTube, Adobe actually have to worry a very little bit about iPhone. Now it’s even merrier since Microsoft will include flash support to windows mobile. Microsoft has licenced Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. Microsoft has also licenced the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDF documents. As smartphones become more and more common, people are starting to get fed up with the basic Web surfing experience offered by many phones. They want something…
LiMo’s giant leap towards future
While Sony Ericsson closing a partnership with Microsoft to run Windows mobile on their phones, some of the biggest mobile brand decided to follow Google’s path to open source the Mobile OS. The world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung and LG Electronics showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors, would use its software. This isn’t first time for Samsung using Linux. They used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched new SGH-i800 phone model running on LiMo software at the Mobile World Congress trade show, while LG Electronics showed a prototype phone LG LiMo. The Linux operating system has so far had little success on mobile but its presence is increasing with LiMo rolling out its software platform, boosting the speed of new models reaching the market. You guys already know by now that Google is also using Linux to build its Android platform on. In case if you are wondering, Linux is the most popular type open source operating system these days. Linux suppliers earn money selling improvements and technical services, and Linux competes directly with Microsoft, which isn’t free at all. Well off course…
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