Microsoft is a company that as we all know is huge in the traditional computing stage. Its near-monopoly is reinforced by its rock solid partnership with Intel for making chips that work for Windows. That paradigm seems to be changing now, with the emergence of the immense potential of the smartphone computing paradigm running on ARM architecture rather than the x86 that the big boys use. This opens a new market for Microsoft to take over, a market that it has been late to identify, giving competitors a head start. Intel on the other hand is'nt the leader in ARM chips. This new shift in the paradigm is extremely important for the market as a whole and the consumer in particular as new companies will be able to stand on equal footing while the big boys get their act together. Hit read more to find an interesting artcile we would like to share with you about this very topic.
This monster is merely the world's largest fully-functional Nexus S handset. On display in a Best Buy store in San Carlos, California, the enormous Android is equipped with a 42-inch multitouch screen, rigged to a real Nexus S that does all the processing. There's a working camera, internet access and the whole Android 2.3 user interface to explore, though it does look a mite difficult to navigate in the video below. Did we mention there's a video? Stop reading, hit the break, and get on with the show!
Counter-intuitive but true, say scientists: a string of freezing European winters scattered over the last decade has been driven in large part by global warming.
The culprit, according to a new study, is the Arctic's receding surface ice, which at current rates of decline could to disappear entirely during summer months by century's end. The mechanism uncovered triples the chances that future winters in Europe and north Asia will be similarly inclement, the study reports. Hit read more for details.
Jack Wong the Steve Jobs of China? Pretty impressive, isn't it? Meizu sure has made a wise decision to launch its M9 Android Froyo phone on the first day of 2011 which, like most other countries, happens to be a public holiday in China. According to some Meizu fans (aka "Mei-yo" or literally "friends of Meizu") outside one of the two Shenzhen stores, there were already about 60 people lined up outside at around 6am. Hit read more for details.
Google keeps adding new features to all its applications but the new features are an improvement over the already impressive set of features Google Goggles can do! Google Goggles is basically a program that can recognise what it sees through your camera in real time and gives you search results according to that! There are three new features that Google has added to version 1.3 of its Goggles software. The visual search application for Android is now intelligent enough to decipher tricky Sudoku puzzles (and thereby suck all the fun out of them), while its algorithms have also been tweaked to make barcode scanning "almost" instant. Popular printed ads will be recognized as well, taking you to a Google search on the relevant topic. US newspapers and magazines from August 2010 are being supported for now, but we can't imagine the rest of the world should have to wait too long for this added convenience. Video of the new Goggles' Sudoku skills after the break.
Although the Verizon iPhone 4 will not work in Pakistan because we dont have any CDMA networks that support such phones, I would like to share an interested post (courtesy of Engadget) for those who are wondering about the difference between the older iPhone 4 and the newly launched Verizon iPhone 4. Hit read more to find out the differences.
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The new app, called 8mm Vintage Camera will add dust particles, scratches and age for you in seconds via a fun set of 'unique' filters.It's available for $2 in the app store right now for iOS devices. You know you want it. Video demo after the break.
It's hardly a fresh idea -- researchers have claimed that GSM calls could be cracked and listened in on for years. But there's a difference between being able to do something with a $50,000 machine and a warrant, and being able to do the same thing with a few $15 Motorola phones, a laptop, open source software and 180 seconds of spare time. Hit read more for details.
It's been more than a year since Nokia, Apple, RIM, Motorola and just about every other major cellphone manufacturer agreed on a micro-USB cellphone charger standard for Europe, but the two key European standards bodies have just now finally followed up on their end of the bargain. CEN-CENELEC and ETSI have today published harmonized standards for a universal cellphone charger based on micro-USB, which has now put the ball back in the manufacturers' court to actually produce phones that rely on the newly standardized chargers. According to the European Commission, the first of those are expect to arrive sometime "in the first months of 2011," and it expects the chargers to be "predominant" within two years.
It's been more than a year since Nokia, Apple, RIM, Motorola and just about every other major cellphone manufacturer agreed on a micro-USB cellphone charger standard for Europe, but the two key European standards bodies have just now finally followed up on their end of the bargain. CEN-CENELEC and ETSI have today published harmonized standards for a universal cellphone charger based on micro-USB, which has now put the ball back in the manufacturers' court to actually produce phones that rely on the newly standardized chargers. According to the European Commission, the first of those are expect to arrive sometime "in the first months of 2011," and it expects the chargers to be "predominant" within two years.