Month: April 2011
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CASIO GzOne Commando First Ruggedized Android Smartphone For Verizon
The official announcement has come; Casios macho GzOne Commando is coming to Verizon on April 28th for the price of $200 on-contract. In addition to meeting 810G military specifications for water, dust, shock, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and temperature extremes, it runs Android 2.2(Froyo) and features 3.6-inch (480*800) display, 5MP camera with autofocus, microSD…
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Coalition Of Companies Creates WebM CCL
When Google unveiled its WebM open source media format and declared it to be the one codec to rule all others, there were those who decried its usefulness and felt that H.264 should inherit the earth. WebMs power converted some of those, and rally to more to the VP8 / Vorbis cause, 17 companies have…
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Goes On Sale In US
The US had to wait for its Eee Pad Transformer launch little longer than rest of the world, but its finally got its wish today. Amazons order page for the $400 Honeycomb tablet appears to have gone from in stock to out of stock within mere minutes, while target the supplier fulfilling orders on behalf…
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Vibration Plays Impossible Music With Ball Bearings
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club has birthed vibration, a Robotic Vibraphone. Vibratrons Ardunio Mega controls 30 solenoid gates that drop steel balls onto the vibration keys, producing a note; an Archimedes screw recycles the bearings, turning them once more into sweet, sweet music. We should also note the vibration doesnt put decent salt-of-the-earth vibraphonists out of…
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Sony S1 And S2 Honeycomb Tablets Gets Official
Sonys hosts a press event in Tokyo, their its announcement is a pair of Android Tablets, two Honeycomb slates, first one is 9.4-inch S1 media tablet with curved top much like folded magazine and both front and rear facing cameras. Some of the S1 specs are Tegra 2 SoC and customized Quick and Smooth touch…
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YouTube Going To Start Renting Video-On-Demand Movies?
According to Wrap, Googles YouTube has finally locked up all the studio deals to get itself fully into the online movie rental game. It indicates that YouTube could launch this as soon as this week with movies from majors including Sony, Warner and Universal, as well smaller entities like Lionsgate, Kino Lorber and other independents.
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Windows XP, Vista, 7 – Use SmallWindows To Switch Between Applications Quickly Like Apple’s Expos Function
When you flick the cursor to a specific corner of the monitor, Expos shows thumbnails of all active programs minimized on the desktop.
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Leica i9 Pairs Camera With iPhone
The Leica i9 concept pairs an iPhone4 with a fixed lens rangefinder camera, and the result is extraordinary. Your iPhone4 into the back of the i9 brings the camera to life, activating the compact optical zoom, dedicated aperture and shutter dials, flash, and light meter. Images are instantly viewed in iPhone; its safe to assume…
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iMac Rumor Suggests New Models Coming Next Week
The reports from 9 to 5 Mac says that iMac orders are being delayed until May 2nd, despite fact that they are still listed as shipping within 24 hours on Apples website, and a separate conformation from trusted source of the site, says that Apple will stop shipping iMacs to retailers this week in advance…
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Yahoo Buys TV Companion App Developer IntoNow
IntoNow launched its iPhone app that can identify what TV show you are watching by audio Shazam-style and then share it with others over Facebook or Twitter, pull in additional information or add the DVD to your Netfilx queue. Yahoo has purchased the company now. It wants to integrate its SoundPrint tech with its existing…
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Lenovo 7-inch Honeycomb Tablet Coming Later This Year
This is my next reports that in PC-maker has a 7-inch Honeycomb slate features a high resolution1280*800 display and ARM dual-core processor. The slides also indicate the presence of Lenovo Family UI, likely means Le OS. Release is likely to be in Q4, but given the presence of a placeholder image and fact that these…
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Mozilla Firefox Crosses 100 Million Downloads; No Change In Browser Share
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 has reached 100 million downloads, Mozillas community coordinator for Firefox marketing revealed it on his personal blog last weekend. While this is quite a achievement , a web analytics company showed that Firefox 4 has done nothing to boost Mozillas overall share of the browser market. Most of the 100 million downloads…
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Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor Will Be Launched In 2012; Preview In E3
As we reported earlier the rumor about the successor to Nintendos Wii Gaming Console has become true. Nintendo has confirmed its plan to introduce the successor to its gaming console next year. Also Nintendo will reveal this model in the upcoming E3 gaming expo to be held in Los Angeles on June 7th. Still there…
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Windows 7 – Get A Constant Overview Of Several Time Zones
When making a call to another country such as the USA, you don’t want to inadvertently wake someone up in the middle of the night.
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NVidia Optimus Graphics Technology Will Be Launched For Desktop
NVidia’s new Optimus Graphics Technology which is available only to notebooks till now, will be launched for desktops at the COMPUTEX 2011 convention in Taipei, Taiwan starting May 31. For those who are new to the term Optimus Graphics Technology of NVidia will allow automatic switching between integrated GPU and discrete GPU as required for…
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Windows XP, Vista, 7 – Defragment Several Disks Automatically Monitoring
Regular defragmentation keeps the system performance consistent. But you cannot sit at your PC through this entire process.
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Attitudes
ABILITY is what you are capable of doing;MOTIVATION determines what you do;ATTITUDES determine how well you do it.- Lou Holtz
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Microsoft Sold 350 Million Licenses In 18 Months For Windows 7
18 months after Windows 7 was released, Microsoft is boasting that it had sold 350 million licenses of its operating system. Windows 7, is flourishing both at home and at work. Microsoft cites and IDC estimate that 90 percent of corporations are currently in the process of migrating to Windows 7, and Redmond claims that…