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Motorola unveils its handset Motorola Milestone XT720

Chirag — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:58:55 +0000

Motorola unveiled its latest Android smartphone the Motorola Milestone XT720 in India.This handset is preloaded with up to date features and specifications. These features include 8MP camera, geo-tagging, Face Detection, image stabilization, and auto focus for best quality pictures. The list does not end here. It is also pre-loaded with other specifications such as Xenon flash, along with HDMI, and 720p video recording, 8GB microSD memory card, expandable 32 GB memory card, and powerful battery. Because of its good battery backup the cell does not require recharging every now and then.

Samsung launches New Dual Sim Phones

Chirag — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:15:11 +0000

Samsung has announced the launch of three new Dual SIM phones in India. The new devices include the Samsung Star Duos GT-B7722, the Guru Dual 25 and Guru Dual 26.

GT-B7722 Duos. This handset is touted to be the first 3G + 2G Dual-Standby touchscreen phone on the planet! This GSM + GSM handset features support for Active Sync, Microsoft Office files and even has a PDF reader – making it a decent entry level office phone. It also has a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with an LED flash. Connectivity options include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and USB. It also has 250MB of internal memory. It is priced at Rs. 12,300.

Samsung Guru Dual 25 (GT- E1225) and Samsung Guru Dual 26 (GT -E 1252). These are entry level dual SIM phones designed to compete with the players in the low cost field dominated by the likes of Micromax, G’Five and so on. The Dual 25 is the cheaper of the two and boasts of features like stereo FM, Torch, support for nine regional languages and a 1000 contacts phonebook.

Only one SIM can be active at a time on the Guru Dual 25. It has a smallish 1.8-inch display and has an 800mAH battery. It also has a 3.5 mm jack for audio.

If you are looking for a mobile phone, these are certainly great options.

Google turns 12

Chirag — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:48:14 +0000

Google turns 12

The search engine giant ,Google turned 12 on September 27 as it celebrated it’s b’day with new Google doodle of a birthday cake designed by Wayne Thiebaud.

Wayne Thiebaud

Google was founded at Menlo Park, California on September 4, 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin. Since then it has made several progresses. From becoming the top search engine in 1998 and buying Youtube in 2006 the journey of Google has been an eventful one. In 2009 New Google Favicon and Latitude service was also launched along with with Instant Search, Caffeine Web indexing in 2010. From a small company in 1998 Google has become one of the largest multinational companies with a revenue of 612 billion. Kudos to google!!!

Internet Explorer 9 beta released

Chirag — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:21:04 +0000

Internet Explorer

Microsoft finally launched the latest version of their renown browser, Internet Explorer 9 (only beta, at the moment) at the Beauty of the Web event. IE 9, although still the top internet browser in terms of users, has been slowly losing ground in the past years in front of its competitors, Chrome and Mozilla. But you can only download IE 9 if you use Windows Vista or 07.

Firstly, you’ll be surprised at how the new IE looks. It’s more polished and its interface is really good, with a more minimalistic monochrome look, that goes really well with Windows 7. However, Microsoft also made some weird choices, such as the placement of the address bar; it reduces the space available for tabs, which was already insufficient, and sometimes you even can’t see the whole URL.

IE 9 beta curiously misuses about a third of tab space with the address bar. Tab overflow is fortunately possible with IE 9. Microsoft also introduced the tab page, just like the one from Opera or Chrome. It is a page which shows the most visited sites and includes a usage indicator . If one tab should crash, it will be the only one to do so, not the entire browser. IE 9 also features a download manager.

Another oddity, this time rendering-related, is the way fonts appear on some sites. They seem pixelated, probably because of the new feature of font-rendering, which is hardware-accelerated.

Overall,Internet Explorer 9 can be considered an improvement, although it has some strange elements. If you like Chrome or Mozilla, you’ll probably remain loyal to IE’s competitors, but those of you with no clear preferences will probably like this new addition to the IE suite. If you decide you want to try it, download it from Microsoft IE’s official website:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/download/ie-9/worldwide

Internet Explorer beta 9

Ericsson’s FTTH technology at the Delhi CWG

Chirag — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:02:55 +0000

Commonwealth Games-’India’s pride’ will witness some of the latest gizmos and gadgets to deal with management and security issues.

Shera and Ericsson

With such a volume flow of athletes, security personnel and other dignitaries it becomes imperative for New Delhi to consider the networking of communication with a flawless design.

In order to solve the networking problem, Ericsson has installed advanced broadband technology Fiber-to-the- Home (FTTH) at the Commonwealth Games village. This technology has been enabled by using Gigabyte Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution.

This project has been assisted by Radius Infratel, in order to deploy the GPON onsite. The management of the networks will be carried out by Ericsson around the clock in order to ensure non-stop communications amongst officials and athletes. What exactly GPON is- a type of passive optical network (PON) architecture that brings fiber cabling and signals to the home using a point-to-multipoint scheme that enables a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises

The benefit of the FTTH platform is that the residents of the games Village will be able to get access to triple-play services of TV and communications. It will also be able to deliver 36 game channels in High Definition format and video on demand services.

What is Fibre to the Home?

Overloaded Inbox?? Try the new Priority Inbox by Gmail!

Prashant — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:43:37 +0000

Gmail Priority Inbox

People usually howl when there inbox is usually overloaded with useless emails form known people… Although they want those emails, they want to separate them from the really important ones! And although Gmail has always been exceptionally good at separating junk aka SPAM from the usual emails, but nowadays many of those usual emails aren’t considered to be important at all!

As Gmail states, Priority Inbox will be like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex ‘hulla bulla’ (which usually seems to be in Swahili)

Priority Inbox will split your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”… Won’t that be convenient? Gmail will automatically flag emails from ‘Most Emailed People’ as ‘Important’. As you keep on using Gmail, it will get better at all this…

Currently, a lot of testing is going on at Google with regard to the feature. It will soon appear on the top-right of your email screen in about two or three weeks! Let’s wait for it!!!!!!

Priority Inbox sneak peek...

Government Of India sketches up plans for $35 tablet

Prashant — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:39:38 +0000

The Government of India has sketched up plans to launch a $35 tablet whcih will give a direct competition to Apple’s iPad. Although Fusion Garage’s JooJoo has also done so, their tablet is a little pricey, standing at 25000 INR, which is a lot compared to the mere price of the unnamed tablet. A prototype of a basic touch-screen tablet, the gadget runs Linux and has a browser, Wi-Fi, 2 GB memory, video conferencing, a PDF reader and lots more… It will come into production by 2011. The price will eventually come to $20. I think it’s a good idea to stick to our laptops till then!

Techoholik rates Nokia E72 as the QWERTY phone of the year!

Prashant — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:03:29 +0000

Technoholik, the revolutionary new technology fortnightly, has rated Nokia E72 as the QWERTY phone of the year, keeping in mind its all round features, like its ergonomic keys, its metallic finish and good looks,its good imaging, its new Push Mail feature and lots more. The other phones which gave a tough competition to the phone included one from ACER, a Pixi Plus, Blackberry Bold and a few more…

Image courtesy:www.itechnews.net

The E72 White

The New Gmail… faster, better, cooler…

Prashant — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:46:52 +0000

The New Gmail Contact Manager

Google launched an update to its six year old web based mail, Gmail, which allows a user to group contacts for better productivity. It has also added a ‘Tasks’ menu in which one can make a list of to-do tasks and much more…

Although the update is good enough, I expected much more from Gmail… I mean, when they revolutionised emailing earlier, why can’t they do it again…??? They could have conjured up an app which enlists out friends from strangers using s0me algorithm!

But nevertheless, the engineers notched up a more convenient and faster version of Gmail…

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” is Out!

Gautam — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:03:18 +0000

Yes, you read it right! WordPress v3.0, code-named “Thelonious” (who was an American jazz pianist and composer) has been released and can be downloaded from here. The list of new major features is big! It includes a shining brand new theme TwentyTen, new menus interface, custom post types, WordPressMU 3.0 integration and many more! There are a total of 1,217 bug fixes and enhancements from 218 contributors (in which I was also there, you can search for gautam2011 here ). A comprehensive list of new features and bug enhancements can be seen here.

Here is a video showcasing the new features of WordPress 3.0:

And at last, I would like to mention that this website is now proudly running WordPress 3.0!

Links: WordPress | Download | Official Announcement