It displays all the data associated with your login account and used by all the Google Services
This video can give a better view
Motorola is planning something very coool gadget for the MOTOlovers in 2010, The motorola website leaked few details of much awaited Droid powered by Andriod 2.0 and HTML 5.0 browser with Flashplayer mobile, as per sources from Engadget.com. The phone specification were 'accidentally' released on Motorola's US website, and screenshots of the same were captured by BoyGeniusReport.
These specifications are just awesome
- Sliderphone with full QWERTY keypad
- 3.7" touchscreen (480x854 resolution)
- 550Mhz processor
- Android 2.0 OS (Yet to release)
- 5MP camera with dual-LED Flash
- Video capture upto DVD resolution (720x480) at 24fps
- The whole range of sensors: Proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, accelerometer
- WiFi
- GPS
- 16GB storage (via pre-installed microSD card, expandable to 32GB)
- Over 6hrs of talk-time
- And.. an HTML5 browser with Flash 10 support coming in 2010!
This article is taken from Thinkdigit.com
Tonight Microsoft will unveil the latest edition of much awaited Operating System Windows7. After months of speculations, three BETA editions (two official and one unofficial) and so many compatibility issues for Antivirus and other softwares, finally this version is ready to hit the market.
Challenge is already waiting as Mac OS Snow Leopard, but this time, I think Windows is ready this time. The eye-candy superbar can be touted as inspired from the Mac OS doc, but overall everything is perfect.
There are two more news about this.
One is about Windows8 the socalled next version is under the development stage with spectacular 128 bit architecture, the unconfirmed source disclosed to arstechnica.com.
Another news is about the reaction to Win7, leading open-source supporter IBM and Canonical ("The same company behind Ubuntu) jointly working on Windows7 alternative, in the form of IBM Smart-work suite running on Canonicals Ubuntu Linux, to offer cost effective and less hardware consuming option.
"IBM is looking to create something better—focused on usability, openness, and security with a path to cloud computing—in market segments that make sense," said Bob Sutor, IBM vice president of Linux and Open Source. "Linux as the basis of the desktop is a pragmatic choice and gives a nod to the likely future of the desktop as being open and often virtualized."
Hardware is that expensive for Windows7?
According to recent study by Softchoice 80% of corporate PC's are already comfortable in running Windows7, this scene is promising as compare to 50% score for Windows Vista before launching.
In this situation, the cost-effectiveness alternative by IBM will hardly attract the target of upgrading required corporate users.
The war is on...
Time will decide the winner...
ALL THE BEST Window7
Soon after Google Chrome 3.0 added the colors and themes, now Firefox also got the colors.
Mozilla labs added a new addon 'Personas', which enables cool graphics on the Firefox body, exactly making it matching with the glassy look of Windows7.
The addon can be downloaded from
Have a colorful FOX this DIWALI....
Suddenly when I turned to gmail this evening... there was a surprise, GMAIL was not loading in my Firefox.
I tried "Disable the LAB mode" option, it opened but with warning.... "Contacts are disabled...." chat is not working, even on Gtalk.
Google admitted this with the name "Service disruption" at their Application Status page. (see snapshot)
Lets see how much time Googlers need to work on it.
All the best GOOGLE..
There is one small problem, if GMail paid service is also affected and if it is down then, this can be a big trouble for its corporate customers.
Even there are unconfirmed news that iphone gmail server is also offline. Over-reliance on Google services was addiction for me, now I think I will create some backup
According to the lastest information from Smartphone maker Plam, the upcoming Palm handsets will run on its webOS, instead of Windows Mobile, from Microsoft.
"We've made the decision to dedicate all future development resources to the evolution of webOS," said Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein, in a conference call with investors, according to numerous industry blogs. "Going forward, our roadmap will include only Palm webOS-based devices," Rubinstein reportedly said.
PalmOS will be the core of upcoming Palm Pre, which is positioned against, the RIM's Blackberry, a majority player in business-smartphone sector. Currently popular Palm offering, Treo, runs Windows Mobile. The reason for this shift is not yet disclosed, but may be the licensing fee and the reported losses from last quarter for Palm can be the drive behind this.
In focus of increasing popularity to Google's androidOS, Motorola's decision to switch over to android for its future mobile line, and Nokia's adaptation of MAEMO OS for its netbook, this can be a bottleneck for Microsoft Windows Mobile, which shares less than 10% of mobile OS market. Currently this desktop OS giant is hedging its mobileOS business by developing Non-Windows softwares for mobile. The recent agreement with cellphone superbrand Nokia, to provide MSOffice-Mobile on its open-source Symbian system, which shares almost half of the worldwide mobile market, can offer some visibility to Microsoft in handheld and mobile segment.
Currently the rivals like, Apple iPhone and Google are way ahead of Microsoft in mobile segment.
Image taken from http://blogs.fayobserver.com, thanks for it...
After the months of speculation, finally nokia announced that, N900 the latest Nokia TouchScreen PDA will be running on Maemo5, an open source operating system designed by maemo.org
This phone can be considered as a potential I-phone killer product, except the thickness of device reportedly 18mm, against I-phone 12.5mm. This thickness is due to QWERTY keyboard, which makes this device a step more towards PDA, rather than entertainment smart phone. The size of N900 is 110 x 59mm, which accommodates 3.5 inches screen, supported by 800 x 480 pixel of resolution.
Other specifications are
OS: Maemo 5
Camera: 5-megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light, geo-tagging; WVGA (848x480 pixels) at 25fps
Storage: 32GB, expandable up to 48GB via microSD
CPU: ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics; 256MB RAM
Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB
GPS: GPS with A-GPS support, Ovi Maps
Others: Physical Qwerty keyboard, 3.5mm audio jack, Stereo FM radio, document viewer, multimedia player, digital compass
Officially Nokia will likely unveil this gadget at coming Maemo summit in Amsterdam.
Cost is still the unknown factor, but its indeed a premium level gadget.
Todays post is something different from usual Technology stuff. This is about a well-known magazine.
I can recall, during 1997-98, there was a small sized magazine, which used occupy the topmost place in my book pile, 'Readers Digest'. I was so much fascinated at that time, about the different topics (some are even above my levels) and especially the quotes. Later I headed towards computers and the place of Readers Digest was soon occupied by magazines like 'Digit', 'Chip' and 'Dev IQ'. After a long gap, now today I came across the name 'Readers Digest', but, in totally different context. I felt really bad, by knowing the 'RD' is now struggling for the existence.
How it could have happened!
I want to place my analysis about it. I want to consider 'RD was a trend', which is a general tendency to change or a popular taste at a given time. I have hardly referred 'RD' in the recent days, mainly because I think, its not really for me. 'RD' maintained its status for the specific segment of the readers, all over the world. The Digest was launched in 1922, about the same year as Time, Inc. and within the same decade as Life and BusinessWeek. Reader’s Digest once had a circulation of 18 million. For many years, RD was the largest magazine in the world and appeared in local language editions all over the world. That should have made it a good candidate for moving a great deal of its business online and taking advantage of its presence in dozens of countries and dozens of languages. The company’s business was not confined to the US or to the English language. This might have offered the Digest an advantage, but the age of the magazine’s readers undermined this option.
RD recently planned to reduce its circulation from 8 million to 5.5 million in February 2010 and also reduce the number of issues per year to 10. These moves are a routine part of the effort of many older magazines to save themselves, as followed by Newsweek cutting its circulation to 1.5 million (which was over 3 million, just three years before) and other prominent publication US News recently decreased its publishing frequency to monthly from its weekly level two years ago. - Ref. 24/7 Wall St.
Now, The US business of Readers Digest is going into Chapter 11. The immediate cause is the company’s need to restructure $1.6 billion in debt and to move ownership of the company to its lenders. The story is more complex than that. Two-and-half years ago, private equity firm, Rpplewood, led a buyout of Reader’s Digest for $2.6 billion. The problem at this stage is that Reader’s Digest does not make money. Ripplewood probably projected increasing profits when it closed the deal. Instead, the magazine publishing and direct marketing firm has run into the same trouble that newspaper groups like McClatchy (MNI) have: too much debt against no profit.
Personally keeping RD alive, will not affect me. I am neither the regular reader of RD, nor I have personal affection. I want to compare RD with Maharashtra Times, which was struggling to keep itself alive few years ago. But now, again MT is again a leading daily in Marathi. I expect similar turnaround for RD.
Remember NetScape??
The browser once upon the time dominated the world, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. Netscape developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) used for securing online communication, which is still widely used. (ref.- Wikipedia)
Now the founder of Netscape 'Marc Andreessen' is ready to make bang in the browser-war, with its offering RockMelt
Currently there is only a mailing list available, which promises "We'll be in touch."
But it will be interesting to see how the revolutionary returns in the scene after, AOL's official announcement about support for Netscape Navigator would end on 1 March, 2008, and recommended that its users download either the Flock or Firefox browsers, both of which were based on the same technology.
All The BEST RockMELT
I must admit that I have delayed this post. Appreciably Microsoft followed the schedule this time, making the RC available on Technet and MSDN on time. Now RC is also available for regular download.
It can be downloaded from - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx
There are reports about 23 tweaks in the release candidate than that of the BETA version (build 7000 possibly)
There are some really eye-candy looks and hope for some amazing and bug-free features
Some screen-shots available on internet posted below
I am also downloading the RC. I will post my review soon
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