Samsung announces first ever lce Cream Sandwich (ICS) phone

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Nexus, which will become the first device to run the latest version of the Google's Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

Samsung Nexus with ICS, latest Google's Android OS

The device will come with a large 4.65 Inch Super AMOLED display, which will boast of HD resolution of 1280x720, reproducing 316 pixels per inch.














Specifications-:

Operating System-    Google's Android with ICS
 Processor            -   1.2 GHz TIOMAP
 RAM                  -   1 GB
Camera                -  a 5 megapixel camera with 1080p video capabilities, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera
Display                -   a large 4.65 Inch Super AMOLED display, which will boast of HD resolution of
                                1280x720, reproducing 316 pixels per inch.
External Memory-   16 GB and 32 GB

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The hardware itself is impressive, the Galaxy Nexus is Google's Ice Cream Sandwich flagship phone, which will make for a pure Google experience.

Ice Cream Sandwich brings numerous enhancements to the table, such as a unified interface for both tablets and smartphones, enhanced multitasking, a new font called Roboto, facial unlock capabilities, a new lock screen, zero shutter lag for cameras, enhanced voice dictation, a new NFC sharing mechanism called Android Beam, enhanced Android Browser with tabbed browsing, folder support, enhanced text input with improvements in the virtual keyboard and cut, copy and paste functionality and improved Email features.
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Samsung, for the moment, has only announced that the device will launch in Japan on the DOCOMO network in November, so there are no details regarding international availability and price.

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Steve Jobs Former CEO of Apple Died due to Cancer aged 56

Man who made technology beautiful  and interesting..........

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Apple’s Board of Directors has released a statement that the company’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has passed away. He was 56.
“Steve’s brilliance, passion, and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives,” the official statement said. “The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
Jobs, the man behind innovations in computer and mobile technology, had a long-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. He recently stepped down as CEO of Apple, recommending the company COO Tim Cook to take his place. Cook delivered his first keynote address as CEO yesterday as he unveiled the new iPhone 4S.
In an e-mail to Apple employees, Cook wrote: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”
“We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much,” Cook ended.
Apple’s website, which yesterday was dedicated to the new iPhone, is now focused to Jobs, using a photo of him (pictured) that will also appear on the cover of his upcoming biography due out in November. The site is asking mourners to shared their “thoughts, memories, and condolences” through this email address: rememberingsteve@apple.com

source: techcrunch.com

Cheapest ever Tablet launched in India for $35, The Akash

The world’s cheapest tablet computer was launched in India on Wednesday, priced at just $35. About 500 students at the launch were among the first to get their very own Aakash devices.

The Aakash

The tablet, which is manufactured by DataWind Ltd. in partnership with IIT Rajasthan, actually costs closer to $50, or 2,500 rupees – at least that’s the price the government is paying for 100,000 of them.
DataWind Chief Executive Suneet Singh Tuli said the eventual goal is to get the price down to $35, and maybe eventually to $10.
“This is a made-in-India product,” Mr. Tuli said at the launch. “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this.”
Aakash will only be available to Indian graduate students, but there will be a commercial version too, which will cost around $70.

Specification-:

Operating system: android 2.2

Screen: 7″ resistive

Processor: 366 MHz + HD video co-processor

RAM: 256 MB

Flash memory: 2GB + 2GB Micro-SD (expandable up to 32 GB)

USB ports: 2

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BSNL Launches ‘Apps Store’ in for its mobile subscribersin 2G and 3G

BSNL, has launched its own Application Store for its mobile subscribers(both 2G and 3G), across India. Dubbed as the BSNL Apps Store, it can be accessed through a link on the BSNL Live WAP Portal.

  The Apps Store has been developed and is managed by Accenture and features upto 100,000 apps , across categories such as include Social Networking, Games (multi-player, 3D, action, sports, racing, and puzzles), entertainment, utilities, music, cricket, sports, finance, books, education, religion, business, productivity, lifestyle, Bollywood, health and fitness, navigation, weather, news, Photography, travel, and others.
 The apps can be downloaded free, or for a one time charge or on monthly, weekly or daly subscription basis. The Apps Store will keep a record of previously downloaded or subscribed apps, allowing users to re-download apps that they’ve previously bought. As with most telco App Stores, billing would be integrated with the operator, and app purchases would not require a credit card. Data transfer charges will be as per the user’s data plan, in addition to the cost of the app. The release further mentions that 80% of the apps are paid, while the remaining 20% are free apps.
BSNL has also declared September as a free apps month, during which, it will offer the top-20 popular apps, free of charge.
 BSNL is a late entrant in the Apps Store game, it is the fourth largest telco in terms of subscribers with more than 95 million subscribers, and has reach in smaller cities and towns. However, the apps might be priced lower compared to other telco Apps Stores, since BSNL would targets subscribers in tier 2 and 3 cities.

news courtesy - medianama

Best Free Software And Utilities for Design & Multimedia

In some of the previous posts I have given you the information of some of the free and useful Software and utilities and the last one was security related utilities, now I will provide you the information of some Design and Multimedia related Software which can be very useful to you in various applications.
The list of some selected utilities as follows -: 

Spotify-:

Pick a song; any song. Type its name in a search box, click a button, and it starts playing. Okay, we could do this five years ago. But now, click the album name, and listen to the whole album, top to bottom, in sequence. Instantly. Meet Spotify ($10/month, $5/month, or free, depending on level of service).

Spotify also has a radio mode where you dial in a decade (or three), and pick your favorite genres, and Spotify does the rest. As far as personalized radio goes, it’s just okay; Pandora has nothing to worry about. Spotify's catalog is vast indeed, but it lacks Pandora's ability to “thumbs-down” a song to make the system learn about what you like.
Another key difference between Spotify and the other services is that to use Spotify, you have to download a client. It’s nice to be able to use my keyboard’s multimedia keys to pause and play online radio--something that can’t really be done with Web-based services. On the other hand, the client feels like it’s trying too hard to be iTunes, and although vendor Spotify Ltd states that it developed Mac and PC versions at the same time, it feels far from native on my Windows 7 system.
You can also use the Spotify client to play your local music collection, and purchase music you like for offline listening The Local Files section is quite minimalistic--just a long list of tracks with album art and live (as-you-type) search. If you have a Facebook account, you can use the client to network with your friends, check out what they’re listening to, and share recommendations.
In terms of performance, Spotify’s playback was silky-smooth on my modest (5MBps) connection, with no noticeable buffering, stuttering, or any other glitches. All in all, Spotify is fantastic at what it does. It’s like having an unlimited music library in the cloud; highly recommended.

 

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Facebook now announces Lifestyle Apps for media, movies, books and much more

“We think this is going to make it possible to build a completely new class of apps that wasn’t possible before,” says Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook announces Lifestyle Apps for media, movies, books and more.

Facebook as the social network holds its 4th F8 conference. We’ve already seen some massive changes this past week including a new subscribe model similar to Twitter, smarter friend lists, new status updates and Google+ style photo layouts. Also, the poke button in not there!

Since its arrival, Facebook has attracted around 800 million people to sign up for his social network. “By now, most people see that social networks are going to be a ubiquitous tool used by people around the world to stay connected everyday…. The next era will be defined by the apps and the depth of engagement that is now possible,” said Zuckerberg .

Facebook announced its new profile design called Timeline: “The story of your life, to log your digital autobiography completely on Facebook. To add functionality to your Timeline, Facebook introduced Lifestyle Apps to its now Open Graph.

Facebook’s Open Graph includes everything to do with media, movies, TV, news, books. Lifestyle apps help you keep track the minutiae of everything in your life- runs, bike rides, happiness, tv shows watched, fashion picks, anything you want. Facebook has made it possible to build a new class of apps and to rethink a lot of industries at the same time.

Google+ Social Networking Now Open to Everyone, New Features Added

Google opened the gates to its social network, Google+, to everyone today and rolled out more than a dozen new features to the service, many of them aimed at mobile phone users.
For 12 weeks, Google+ has been in "field trials," Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explained in a company blog. "We’re nowhere near done," he wrote, "but with the improvements we’ve made so far we’re ready to move from field trial to beta." Now anyone can go to the Google+ site and sign up for the service.
In addition to open enrollment, Google introduced a number of improvements to the hangout feature of Google+. Hangouts allow people to chat face to face through video. With today's improvements, users of Android phones will be able to use hangouts on their mobiles.
Google is also expanding the online version of hangouts. Now, through "Hangouts on Air," you can open up a hangout session and as many as nine people can join it. An unlimited number can watch the hangout session.

hangout

Hangouts is getting some extras, too. They allow you to share what's on your computer in a hangout, scribble with friends on an online sketchpad, share Google docs, and create or join public hangouts about a topic, like the collapse of your favorite sports team or raising alpacas.

With the new "Hangouts on Air" feature, you can open up a hangout session and as many as nine people can join in.

How to Download and Install Windows 8 Into a Virtual Machine

Here's how to download and install the Windows 8 Developer Preview into a virtual machine on your PC.

 If you do not have separate hard disc,that is a no problem now you can download and install virtual Box for free from internet  and can install Windows 8 preview in you computer.

Go download VirtualBox and install the default package. Once you're finished, you'll open right into a fresh copy of the application. This is where you'll begin creating your system inside your system.
To start, click on the giant New button in the upper-left corner of the app. Give your virtual machine a clever name and select Windows 7 as the operating system. Make sure that your choice of OS (32-bit or 64-bit) matches whichever version of Windows 8 you downloaded.

Click Next, and you'll be taken to a screen that asks how much memory you'd like to devote to the virtual operating system. The 32-bit version of Windows 8 requires 1 gigabyte at minimum, and the 64-bit version requires 2GB, but the more RAM you can give the virtual OS, the better it will run. Click Next once you've made your choice.