Hi guys,
I'm wishing you Happy New Year in advance.
I pray to God that this new year give you more prosperity in life and this new year may bring all the happiness to you and your relatives.Enjoy!!
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Transcend has announced availability of its new multi-card reader, M5, in the country.
The company claims the key features of this card reader are its modern styling, compact size, and adapter-free multi-format convenience.M5 offers different slots for various memory cards such as
CompactFlash and Microdrive cards, SD cards, xD cards, Memory Stick series, and miniSD and microSD cards.
You can transfer music,video and document files with the help of its high-speed USB 2.0 interface.
The M5 is available in Hot Pink or Ivory colors through Mediaman Infotech. It is priced at Rs 700 apiece, and comes with a two-years warranty.
Source:Techtree
ROCCAT may not be quite as well known as some gaming-centric peripheral makers, but it looks like its doing its best to make its mark with a new line of peripherals, including a gaming mouse and keyboard. Dubbed the ROCCAT Kone, the mouse looks to sport all the features an excessively-demanding gamer would expect, including no less than ten buttons, four removable weights, and a customizable light system with "thousands of colors." While you apparently won't get quite as many color options with the ROCCAT Valo keyboard (pictured after the break), you will still at least get illuminated keys (including 41 macro keys), along with 2MB of memory for storing up to five profiles, and even an integrated noise-canceling microphone. Look for it and the mouse to set you back €100 and €70 (or $147 and $103), respectively, when they hit Europe in February, with a matching mousepad also available for €20 (or about $30).
Source:-Engadget
Sabeer ‘Hotmail’ Bhatia has gone and launched “Live Documents”, described as a ‘hybrid online-offline Office suite of applications.
The launch was announced today by InstaColl, the Bangalore-based software product company co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia.
“Live Documents” is a full-featured suite of online Office productivity applications offering functionality equivalent to Microsoft’s desktop applications — Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Source : Live Documents
Dr Pinhas Dannon, psychiatrist from Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and colleagues, have found that those who constantly surf the Internet may soon suffer from anxiety and severe depression.
The research reveals that nearly 10 percent of total Internet users worldwide are suffering from 'Internet addiction disorder', a pathological condition that can lead to anxiety and severe depression.
Internet addiction is a product of modernization, and is just like other addictions, including addiction to coffee, to exercise, or to talking on the mobile phone.
Source:techtree.com
The product summary:
The good:
The iPod Nano has a gorgeous, superslim design with a bright, photo-friendly screen. It is easy to operate and works seamlessly with iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, which has the world's largest selection of music. It boasts a nimble processor and system performance with no skipping, thanks to flash memory.
The bad:
The iPod Nano suffers from unspectacular battery life, and though the device is durable, it scratches easily; blemishes show up more drastically on the black version. The Nano is pricey in terms of gigabytes per dollar, and its 4GB maximum capacity is not a good fit for many power users. The player skips many sought-after extra features such as FM radio and A/V-out, and it doesn't work with Camera Connector. The USB power adapter ($29) is not included.
Source: cnet.com
The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold. Of course, it's easy to spot who gets an Android device first: T-Mobile and Sprint. And it's easy to understand why underdogs like them would be the first two carriers to sign on to the initiative. But let's look a little deeper, to see why the gPhone/Android platform is off to a much better start than the iPhone, and why you probably won't have to switch to a carrier you don't want to get a phone you might really love.
For starters, Sprint and T-Mobile are big companies but they don't have the momentum or subscribers that Verizon Wireless and AT&T do. T-Mo's the baby with 26 million, though that is part of a global subscriber base that's vastly larger (over 109 million). Sprint has an impressive 54 million subscribers, but is currently in a public panic about waning performance. Both, contending with bigger gorillas, have reason to latch on to the biggest of them all, Google.
There's a second reason for T-Mo and Sprint to be onboard: HTC. HTC has had a good run with both of those carriers, introducing two of the coolest recent products exclusively on them: T-Mobile's Shadow and Sprint's Touch. Verizon and AT&T have relationships with HTC as well, but it's easy to see how HTC would feel comfortable developing an Android product for the two smaller carriers.
Source:- gizmodo.com
Windows Vista is Microsoft’s current flagship operating system for consumers. The operating system launched in late November for OEMs and was released to consumers on January 30.
Microsoft has long-touted the operating system as a revolutionary product for desktops and notebooks — a product that would leave no consumers longing for the 5-year-old Windows XP operating system.
“Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will transform the way people work and play,” said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on January 30. “Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 squarely address the needs and aspirations of people around the globe.”
“The visual effects are spectacular; the navigation is streamlined and intuitive,” added Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “They make it much easier to protect your PC, yourself and your children online. And they work together to help you accomplish more throughout the day.”
In the months following the consumer launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft played the numbers game with sales figures. The company announced in late March that it sold 20 million licenses of Vista within two months compared to just 17 million for Windows XP. The number crept up to 40 million by mid-May and by late July; Microsoft reported that 60 million copies of Windows Vista had been shipped around the world.
Source:thevistadaily.com
Toshiba has just announced the "world's highest-capacity 1.8" hard drisk drive," a new 160GB CE-ATA drive aimed at the PMP market, along with an 80GB PATA drive of the same size. Hmmm...sounds so familiar.
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Source:gizmodo.com
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners in Europe will have something to look forward to in 2008 -- the addition of PlayTV, a TV tuner and personal video recorder for the PS3, as well as a whole slew of additional functionality for the PSP such as a video download service for users in the U.K and Ireland. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe head David Reeves made the announcement Wednesday at the 2007 Games Convention held in Leipzig, Germany.
Source:technewsworld.com
The HTC Touch, with it's gesture based UI tweaks on top of a WM6 OS was a cute concept, but flawed. Sprint's picking it up, giving it CDMA/EVDO superpowers, doubling the processing speed from 200MHz to 400MHz to deal with Bill's Bloat, and eventual revision A. speed, and assisted GPS, once they software update it. The finger gesture menus invoke a set of commands for messaging, and one set for Sprint's multimedia functions, like TV and the music store. Sprint says this is likely coming in November.
Source:gizmodo.com
This new production from Bose gives you a quality of good music.....and design will just touch your heart.
Soft silicone tips provide proper fit.So get ready for high quality audio comfort.
Features of Bose On-Ear Headphones:
1.Comfortable in-ear design
2.Small, Medium and Large removable silicone tips
3.Carrying case
4.Awesome sound performance.
Transcend has just announced another addition to their MP3 player family, the T.Sonic 840. It has a compact light weight design with dimensions like 82 x 40.5 x 12.5 mm and weighs in at 70g. That includes the battery as well.
The T.Sonic 840 is equipped with a 1.8 inch color, LCD screen with a resolution of 220 x 176 pixels. It also supports plenty of media formats like MTV, JPG, BMP, MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10, and WAV. It also has an integrated FM radio with a recorder.
Its other features include a voice recorder, customizable EQ and a world clock. It’s available in black and white with 2 models - 4 GB priced at Rs. 6745 ($167) and a 2 GB model priced at Rs. 5049 ($125).
Source:tech2.com,engadget.com
GTA 4 is the most popular, as well as the most money-making franchise in recent history. This game has ruled the charts for years together in terms of sales, and will continue to do so as the game's popularity only increases with each new title. GTA - the series, enables a player to be a hard-core criminal who can display road-rage, kill civilians, deal in drugs, steal any car that he likes, kill anyone that he dislikes, even go to a strip club, or pick up hookers; I guess this explains why this game is so popular. A new title in the series is under-development and will soon be available for pre-order as its release has been pushed to 2008. There are a few official trailers and a little info available on fan websites. Most of it entails rumors, but I have tried to filter out a few good facts about the game. Read on to know more about your favorite upcoming title.
Plot
The first trailer that we saw was a brief one; it showed Liberty City in 720p running real-time on the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE).
The Rage engine is the same technology that powers the Rockstar Table Tennis game. The game is based in a redesigned Liberty City, which is loosely based on New York City. The game's protagonist is called Niko Bellic, a guy who comes to Liberty City in search of redemption and has to start a new life.
Niko has killed many people and indulged in several activities that he wants to put behind him. In the first trailer we can hear him say, "Life is complicated; I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different."
He wants to get away from it all. He has a cousin in Liberty City called Roman, who calls Niko to Liberty City saying that he has all the comforts in the world and Niko could join him there. Niko arrives to the City only to find out that Roman is lying. He had called Niko there to help him clear off his debts. Roman is the only person Niko knows in the city, so he decides to help. What happens next is for us to find out when the game is out.
Source:techtree.com
Mozilla has released version 2.006 of its mainstream browser Firefox, which fixes 2 very important security vulnerabilities. This fix has been introduced just before the launch of the infamous BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this week.
Among the two fixes, one of them - MFSA 2007-27- takes care of an issue where Firefox did not properly encode spaces and double-quotes while parsing URLs. This allowed execution of any program installed at a known location and would allow enough access to a compromised system to completely taken over. The second, and smaller fix - MFSA 2007-26 - corrects a bug that was introduced by the fix for an earlier vulnerability. This vulnerability would allow escalation attacks against add-ons that create "about: blank" windows.
source:tech2.com
The biggest advantage this flat panel display has is the XD picture enhancement technology that boosts the colors and the sharpness of the picture to give you near-HD quality from your regular DVD player or a non-HD home gaming console.
The HP TX1016AU is an extremely handsome laptop, almost masculine in appearance. It comes with a black glossy lid with HP written in silver, making for a very classy looking laptop. The power button is intelligently placed on the outside in the form of a spring loaded slider. This is primarily done so that the power button is accessible even in the tablet mode, otherwise if placed along the keyboard, it would have been inaccessible. Even the Blue tooth cum Wi-Fi slider switch is placed on the outside. The keys on the keyboard are well laid out. With small form factor laptops like the 12.1-inch ones, some of the keys are eliminated, re-oriented or reduced in size. With the TX1016AU, the function and the right shift key is reduced in size which according to me is very much manageable. Otherwise all the other keys are laid out in a standard format and are comfortable to work with. There are dedicated back-lit up, down and mute volume keys outside the keyboard panel. This is a convenient addition as finding the volume keys in the keyboard and then using them as a combination with the function keys can get a little tedious, especially when watching a movie in the night. And just for that the keys are back lit. Also the mute key turns orange in color when active. Then there is a hot key which when pressed brings up a panel with a whole lot of options including the brightness control.
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According to Google:
A user searching for information on the Star Wars character Darth Vader is likely interested in all the information related to the character and the actor -- not just web pages that mention the movie. Google will now deliver a single set of blended search results that include a humorous parody of the movie, images of the Darth Vader character, news reports on the latest Lucas film, as well as websites focused on the actor James Earl Jones – all ranked in order of relevance to the query. Users no longer have to visit several different Google search properties to find such a wide array of information on the topic.
Source:daily tech.com
Blogger-Templates provides numerous free templates and graphics. All templates are provided with accompanying files and code for easy implementation.
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Here are some specifications of Sony Ericsson's W880i:--
1)Dedicated music button to play music(Walkman series)
2)Blue tooth enabled
3)Phone Memory:16MB
4)Memory card of 1GB
5)2MP camera
6)Available in Black and silver colour.
7)US B 2.0
Now the wait of much awaited game of this year is coming to its end.
Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Widgets 4, a new version of the desktop Widgets platform.
Widgets give consumers a live, at-a-glance view of their favorite Internet information and services on the desktop. This new version offers users and developers improved features and capabilities, including a new Widget Dock, new and improved Widgets, improved performance, new and streamlined installation, improved authoring tools and automatic updates.
"Yahoo! continues its leadership position in the desktop Widget category, and with Yahoo! Widgets 4 we are excited to bring the newest version of our pioneering product to consumers and developers alike," said Paul Brody, vice-president, desktop products, Yahoo!. “Millions of active users rely on Yahoo!’s connected desktop applications to keep updated Internet content that’s important to them right at their fingertips, and our new product gives them the functionality to make it easier and better organized than ever.”
Yahoo! Widgets 4 marks the release of the new Flickr Widget that helps users easily display, upload and tag Flickr photos. Users can now drag-and-drop larger groups of photos, and edit their tags and information without ever opening a web browser.
Yahoo! Widgets 4 also includes the new Yahoo! Gallery Widget, which provides easy access to the Yahoo! Widget Gallery, that features over 4,300 desktop Widgets developed and submitted by independent Widget authors from around the world.
This new release features updates to the 21 popular Yahoo! Widgets that came pre-loaded with the previous version.
Source:- Tech2.com
