Toshiba Launches Glass Free 3D Notebook

Toshiba is reported to have launched its 3D glasses free notebook, power TV brand of LCD TV and announced business strategy for India, which includes the establishment of an R&D centre at Gurgaon to ‘localize and develop’ new products for India, open a one-stop call centre to support all digital products and expanding its network of Toshiba stores to 6,000, across the country.

Google Plus|Google launched Google+Project like Facebook |Google introduces Facebook competitor,

New York:  Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook's turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google plus  project  which happens to look like Facebook.

The service, which will initially be available only to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links.

But the Google+ project will be different from Facebook in one significant way, which Google hopes will be enough to convince people to use yet another social networking service. It is designed for sharing with small groups -- like colleagues, college roommates -- instead of with all of a user's friends or the entire Web. It also offers group messaging and video chat.

HTC Tablet PC "HTC Flyer" Price RS.39,890 | New Tablet Company in India after Blackbarry and Apple

Smartphone manufacturer, HTC  launched its first tablet in India -- HTC Flyer and it priced at Rs.39,890.
'We saw an opportunity to create a tablet experience that is different, more personal and productive,' said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.

According to the company, the seven-inch touch screen tablet is powered by a 1.5 Ghz processor coupled with HTC sense -- a graphical user interface which combines natural touch and pen interaction.

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Smart Phone can be uesd as TV Remote | Turning your smartphone into a smarter TV remote |My 24News

Maksim Ioffe was sitting around his San Francisco living room watching TV one day in 2009 when he noted how ridiculous it was that on his coffee table were no less than five remote controls. He thought to himself, "This has got to go."

But instead of replacing them all with yet another remote, he looked to something he already owned: his smartphone.

Fast forward to 2011, and that germ of an idea two years ago has spawned the Dijit Universal Remote App, which turns an iPhone--or iPod Touch, iPad, or Android phone--into a remote control.

Ioffe is not alone in looking for ways to substitute the smartphone for a remote control. There's actually a whole crop of companies that are trying to break into what some are calling the "smart-remote" business by taking advantage of the device that one-third of all U.S. cell phone owners already have on hand.

There's no agreed-on standard just yet for how best to replace the ubiquitous multibuttoned plastic living room staple. Different approaches are being offered, from free apps that control individual devices, like just your TV or just your set-top box, to a hardware accessory paired with an accompanying app that lets you control both "dumb" devices that only take infrared input and "smart" or Internet-connected devices in your home entertainment setup.

The cost can vary depending on the solution, from free to about $100. The appeal is the convenience: you probably already own a smartphone. And then there's the vast potential that the smartphone, really a minicomputer, brings to the coffee table: a bright screen with rich graphics, the ability to customize onscreen buttons as you wish, and the power of the Web to help you discover new programming or filter for just the stuff you like.

Of course there will be home theater devotees who insist they just can't give up their fancy 80-button universal remote, but there are plenty of advantages that could prove tempting for others looking for a simple and decidedly 21st century solution.

Take it from Tom Cullen, one of the founders of Sonos, the whole-house music system trailblazer that started nine years ago. As part of the Sonos system, the company also sells a $350 dedicated remote and has a free iPhone or Android app. Guess which one most people go for?

"When we started, our own physical controller was what we sold to 100 percent of our customers," said Cullen in a phone interview last week. "Today 20 percent of new customers use a dedicated Sonos controller."

In other words, the rest of them, or 8 out of 10 new buyers, choose to just use the free iPhone or Android app now with their new Sonos system. "It's extraordinary how it's moved," he said. And he and others within the company credit their first iPhone app as "one of the most important things that ever happened to us."

The customer response Sonos saw could easily be considered a case study for where the smart-remote business could go some day.

What are the options?
Most Internet-connected or "smart" TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, and others make single-purpose Android and iOS apps that will control their TVs from a phone, tablet, or iPod Touch. TiVo has an iPad app--with an iPhone version coming soon--and of course Apple has its own Remote app that can control Apple TV and iTunes over your Wi-Fi network.

There are also apps that come paired with a piece of hardware that connects to the phone's headphone jack. My TV Remote is a $10 round dongle that plugs into an iPhone. The accompanying free app enables customizable remote buttons on screen for TVs and a variety of set-top boxes, allows users to search for shows in a program guide on the phone, and gives users the ability to see what friends are watching, chat with friends in the app, and comment on the shows.

The L5 Remote is a little more basic: it's a $50 hardware attachment that also turns an iPhone into a universal remote for most home entertainment devices that use IR (infrared) signals. It's also programmable, so you can delete buttons you don't use and save and back up different remote configurations you create.

Microsoft to test white-space spectrum for wireless | New Band for Super Wi-fi|My 24News

A Microsoft-led consortium will begin a test in Britain this week to investigate how unused TV spectrum could be employed for new wireless broadband networks, according to a Financial Times report.

The group, which includes the BBC, British Sky Broadcasting, and telecommunications giant BT, hopes to tap "white spaces" to create "super Wi-Fi" networks to sate bandwidth-hungry smartphones, according to the report.



"Spectrum is a finite natural resource. We can't make more and we must use it efficiently and wisely," Dan Reed, Microsoft's vice president of technology policy and strategy, told the newspaper. "The TV white spaces offer tremendous potential to extend the benefits of wireless connectivity to many more people, in more locations, through the creation of super Wi-Fi networks."

The 300MHz to 400MHz of unused "white space" spectrum is considered prime spectrum for offering wireless broadband services because it can travel long distances and penetrate through walls. The Federal Communications Commission unanimously agreed in November 2008 to open up this spectrum for unlicensed use.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and others have compared the white-space market to Wi-Fi--a $4 billion-a-year industry that also does not require a spectrum license. Last year, Microsoft commissioned research that suggests white-space applications may generate $3.9 billion to $7.3 billion in economic value each year.

3 Urban Survival Apps of Android| Useful tips for Android Applications

Sun Flashlight

My very first mobile phone was a basic Nokia 1100 ("Made for India") whose only feature was that it had a flashlight. I never had that on a phone after that and I've missed it ever since. The number of times I find myself fumbling in poor lighting to read a sign or to open a door or even just find my way to my seat in a theatre, makes me wonder why mobile phone makers didn't put that feature on more phones.
I remedied that on my Android with this app. Once installed, all you do is touch the icon and within seconds your screen lights up like a flashlight. It's bright enough to light up a small room and provide adequate visibility that keeps you from bumping or falling. Sun Flashlight is available for free download in the Android Market.

Mumbai Taxi and Rickshaw Fare

 There are a number of taxi/rickshaw fare apps available, by city and features. I liked the auto-rickshaw meter logo of this one. Here's how it works: You feed in the rate displayed on the meter and check the Night Rates On/Off option. The corresponding fare for taxi and auto-rickshaw shows up immediately, eliminating all awkward fumbling and scrabbling for a paper rate card. Also, because taxi and auto fares both show up on the same screen, it lets you choose what you want instantly. Mumbai Taxi and Rickshaw Card is a creation of Aditya Talpade and available for free download on the Android Market.

Gesture Search

And finally, because I like big bags and packing them in, I do the same with apps, photographs, music and other files on my phone. Finding the one I want is always a pain, no matter how organized I am. I often find myself wishing there was a 'Find' function in real life as there is in certain Microsoft applications. 

I tried the Voice Search app but somehow my accent gets results that are amusing at best. Instead, I found Gesture Search much more useful. Gesture Search recognizes images that you trace onto the touchscreen and corresponds them to the names of contacts, images and files.
The app also learns intuitively which means the results get better with use. You can imagine just how helpful this is when you urgently need to make a phone call without scrolling through hundreds of names. Gesture Search is a product of Google Labs and is available for free download in the Android Market.

Japanese 'K' Computer is World's most Powerful computer |2nd Chinese Computer

SAN FRANCISCO — In the rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, a Japanese machine has earned the top spot with a performance that essentially laps the competition.

The computer, known as “K Computer,” is three times faster than a Chinese rival that previously held the top position, said Jack Dongarra, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who keeps the official rankings of computer performance. 


Where is 'k' computer built?
A: K, built by Fujitsu and located at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, represents a giant leap forward in speed. It will also undoubtedly be a source of national pride for Japan, at least among computer scientists, who take the race for fastest computer quite seriously.

It’s a very impressive machine,” Mr. Dongarra said. “It’s a lot more powerful than the other computers.”
The latest ranking of the top 500 computers, to be released Monday, is determined by running a standard mathematical equation. The winning computer was able to make 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second, or in more technical terms, 8.2 petaflops.
The performance of K is equivalent to linking around one million desktop computers.

Usage of supercomputers:-
Supercomputers are used for earthquake simulations, climate modeling, nuclear research and weapons development and testing, among other things. Businesses also use the machines for oil exploration and rapid stock trading.

Rank:
2nd Rank:
China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer, at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, to second place.
3rd Rank:
The fastest computer in the United States, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Next Powerful supercomputer:

Mr. Dongarra said a computer called Blue Waters, being developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, may rival K in speed.  

A new Stronger Internet Security is Deployed |secure DNS or DNSSEC

A small group of Internet security specialists gathered in Singapore this week to start up a global system to make e-mail and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation of passwords and raise the bar significantly for Internet scam artists, spies and troublemakers.

The Singapore event included an elaborate technical ceremony to create and then securely store numerical keys that will be kept in three hardened data centers there, in Zurich and in San Jose, Calif. The keys and data centers are working parts of a technology known as Secure DNS, or DNSSEC. DNS refers to the Domain Name System, which is a directory that connects names to numerical Internet addresses.

The event in Singapore capped a process that began more than a year ago and is expected to be complete after 300 so-called top-level domains have been digitally signed, around the end of the year. Before the Singapore event, 70 countries had adopted the technology, and 14 more were added as part of the event. While large countries are generally doing the technical work to include their own domains in the system, the consortium of Internet security specialists is helping smaller countries and organizations with the process.

“In the very long term it will be voice-over-I.P. that will benefit the most,” said Bill Woodcock, research director at the Packet Clearing House, a group based in Berkeley, Calif., that is assisting Icann, the Internet governance organization, in deploying Secure DNS.

the authors of the Stuxnet computer worm that was used to attack the Iranian uranium processing facility at Natanz were able to steal authentic digital certificates from Taiwanese technology companies. The certificates were used to help the worm evade digital defenses intended to block malware.

In March, Comodo, a firm that markets digital certificates, said it had been attacked by a hacker based in Iran who was trying to use the stolen documents to masquerade as companies like Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo.

“At some point the trust gets diluted, and it’s just not as good as it used to be,” said Rick Lamb, the manager of Icann’s Secure DNS program.

Indian IPad "Sakshat" Tablet to be launch June 2011 | Only 1500 of IPad in India

It's being announced that the "Sakshat" (which sounds conspicuously dirty in Americanese), the $35 tablet codenamed 'Sakshat' is expected to launch by the end of this month.And there's nothing desi about it; the tablet is made by Canadian firm Datawind Ltd.

The7-inch touchscreen tablet features a inbuilt keyboard, video conferencing facility, multimedia content, Wi-Fi, USB port, 32GB hard drive and a 2GB RAM. There's support for Open Office, SciLab and Internet browsing.


Specification :

QWERTY keyboard, mouse and a
minimum display of 7” colour LCD/TFT (touchscreen optional)

2 USB 2.0 ports and USB hosts

batteryless device

SD card slot (8GB expandable memory)

Support to connect LCD projector

Support for external hard disk drive (Minimum 32 GB)

Ethernet port

WLAN

80% shock resistant

Nokia launches new Smart Phone N9 | Photos of N9 | Nokia's new Phone Browser

Nokia launches new smart phone N9 and also inbuilt Nokia Mobile Browser with 90% compression.

Mobile phone-maker company Nokia today announced the "beginning of a new era" for the company with the launch of four new mobile phones like Nokia N9 smart Phone, including a full-screen touch-based smartphone. "Earlier this year, we outlined a comprehensive strategy to change our course," said Stephen Elop, the president and CEO of Nokia. "Innovation is at the heart of our strategy and today we took important steps to demonstrate a new pace of innovation at Nokia. It''s the beginning of a new era for Nokia," he added. less

Nokia revealed its latest smartphone, the Nokia N9, an all-screen device that will allow user to navigate the phone by swiping on the screen. "The phone application will follow direction of the finger on the screen," Nokia Senior Vice-President, Design, Marko Ahtisaari said.

Nokia today announced its own internet browser and these phones have the Nokia browser loaded on it. "Nokia browser can compress data size up to 90 per cent. All phones to be shipped in future will Nokia browser loaded on them," Nokia Executive Vice-President, Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell said.