Motorola Karma QA1 officially announced

By Editor on Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Filled Under: Mobiles Tech

It has been officially now that the Motorla Karma QA1 is going to make people cheer up on June 28 through AT&T.  The device has been hyped as social messaging slider for quite some time, and frog (friend and poke), chag (chat and tag) and pessage (post and message) are some other names been give to this  new device.

The phone will offer single-click access to Myspace and Facebook these features will definitely make it a favorite device of the teens and they are quite pleased with the development of a new language Moto with plenty of colors.

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PS3 motion controller tech and its force feedback feature

By Editor on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Filled Under: Gamers Tech

Earlier this month, Project Natal of software giant Microsoft seemed to overshadow Sony at E3, but now things are getting smoother and easier for Sony especially after the unveiling of its motion control tech that has made PS3 really impressive and robust and competent enough for the other challengers.

In a recent conference, SCE has told developers that the new PS motion-based controller will come up with force feedback feature; it’s going to hit the shelves in spring next year.

The eye-powered PS3 is also going to feature a new technology that could prove quite handy to track head and face. But it has been developed in PlayStation3 Software Development Kit and it could also be capable of handling four controllers in a one given time. It will also have a built-in microphone that is also quite handy for voice recognition and voice control.

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Google’s involvement in publishing to be a transformation for the industry

By Editor on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

The expected executive director of the Book Right Registry has said in an interview that the internet giant’s involvement in the publishing industry would help to transform it utterly and it would be the decisive for it as well.

Micheal Healy to be given the responsibility for finding copyright holders and authors and share the income that the internet giant wants to arise through this plan.

Recently in an interview with the Copyright Clearance Centre, he has said that with this new plan, every public library will turn into a high class research library with these new plans and people will definitely see its revolutionary character.

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Illegal downloads on spread in UK, survey suggests

By Editor on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

The UKL government is considering taking some serious action to curb illegal file sharing. According to a report, nearly one out of every ten people consume online media illegally, and considering this, the UK government is developing some new plans to stop illegal file sharing.

A survey, conducted by the Futuresource Consulting survey that included nearly 2500 people in different countries as France, Germany, UK, and the US noted that nearly 8% people admitted illegal downloading.

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New Flip enters an iPhone dominated world

By Editor on Monday, June 22, 2009
Filled Under: Mobiles Tech

Pure Digital has been doing quite well with its popular video camera line Flip and even in the last year they sold nearly $150 million worth of them during the last year. But this time they are facing a new type of challenge that is appearing quite difficult to defeat this time, and this challenge is none other than the new video capable iPhone besides many other video mobile phones.

It appears that the growing popularity of the video mobile phones will make such cameras as Flip totally irrelevant in the coming two or three years.

Before the release of thr MinoHD (released last year) Flip cameras didn’t have anything which could really distinguish them from other cameras. But things changed dramatically with the release of Mino HD that was impressively compact and could capable of taking a lot better videos with its 1280×720 HD video.

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Twitter-related startups and funding amounts

By Editor on Thursday, June 18, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

Twitter has been seen in the limelight for the last six months, and with its nice funded startup, these guys have accumulated around $55m from many different angels as well as from VCs. The microblogging site has become a new destination for a large number of social networking migrants. So, this dramatic increase is not limited just to its growing popularity, but it also relates to the number of applications and other startups that relate to it.

It’s true that there are not enough venture-funded or angel startups or apps, but it is also a fact that some notable investments have been made in various sort of startups that have emerged as the initial predicator on the site. At present, nearly $23.27m have been attained so far with 11 different startups of the site and most of them are from venture capital firms as well as from angel investors.

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Google: digitalizing the world’s books and its hurdles

By Editor on Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

Google seems to leave no stone unturned to provide its users an online Library of Alexandria. Though the company is best equipped and quite determine to digitalize each and every book of the world, there are some big hurdles which frequently hampering its way. What the company is going to do next much depends on Justice Department decisions, publishers and authors of the books.

The search giant can’t be accused of any lack in its ambition in this connection, as for the past many years the search project of the company is on their top priority, but it is also a project full of hurdles and bumps and most of these problems do not relate only to index, scan or display millions of books online, the main problems relate to legal concerns and intellectual property of these books.

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HP provides notebook PCs and printers to students

By Editor on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Filled Under: Computers Tech

To make students and their parents getting ready for their coming school year, HP will provide affordable and sleek notebook PCs and printers.

HP notebook PCs that the company is going to offer the students include HP Pavilion dv6t notebook, wireless-ready HP Photosmart and an All-in-One printer whose performance will definitely be enjoyable for the students. They are not only student who will enjoy this offer as parents will also be quite satisfied that they got an opportunity to invest in a right kind of technology.

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Flagship Stores receive Nokia N97 shipments

By Editor on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Filled Under: Mobiles Tech

During the last week, the much anticipated Nokia N97 was shipped to more than 75 countries around the world and according to SymbianGuru, Nokia Flagship Stores in the Chicago and New York City have got their black version touchscreen shipments, but you can’t buy them till tomorrow.

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YouTube Video Streams Top 1 Billion/Day

By Editor on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

There are various reports regarding the number of videos daily streamed on YouTube. Differebt services like Nielsen, Comscore and some other services have also been reporting in this connection.

According to Comscore, YouTube gets nearly 7billion videos every month in the United States while during the last year it was nearly 5b videos per month. That comes to nearly 225m streams every day that are enough to prove them quite above the different competitors like Hulu, MySpace, Microsoft and Yahoo. On the other hand, Nielsen reports that nearly 5.5b videos are streamed every month in the United States.

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