May 23, 2013

General - News


IE9 RC launched by Microsoft in San Francisco; brings improvements in Performance

IE9 RC launched by Microsoft at the event in San Francisco; brings improvements in Performance

Internet Explorer 9 RC has been announced by Microsoft at the Hang Art Gallery in San Francisco’s Union Square this morning. The link was available early for download; in fact The Software giant was planning to launch the IE9 RC at this event in San Francisco. But somehow the link for download had been leaked. [...]

Compal Electronics to integrate Persona ICE Processor with its Tablet

Compal Electronics to integrate Persona ICE Processor with its Tablet

Broadcom Corporation announced that its next generation Persona ICE applications processor family will be powering new high-performance multimedia tablets from Compal Electronics. Broadcom Person ICE will form the single- or dual-core 1GHz+ ARM Cortex A9 heart of future slates from the ODM. The chips in question will operate at clock speeds of 1GHz or more [...]

Skype Mobile Video Calling App for Verizon 4G Android Devices coming soon

Skype Mobile Video Calling App for Verizon 4G Android Devices coming soon

Skype and Verizon declared that the Skype Mobile App with Video calling facility will be available for Verizon 4G LTE Mobile network. They have made steps to get video calling available to all Android devices supporting a front facing camera, and sometime in mid-2011, video calling with Verizon is ready for action providing  great options [...]

“Redsn0w 0.9.7b2″ Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1; Now available for Download

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Untethered jailbreak Redsn0w 0.9.7 for iOS version 4.2.1 is now available for download, the iPhone Dev-Team stepped in to say they had a back-up and would be releasing it this weekend. Earlier, users were only able to jailbreak their iOS 4.2.1 devices with the tethered version which came with some constraints like connecting the device [...]

Apple Launching “Mac App Store” on December 13th ?

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Rumor is going around that Apple might be targeting to launch the Mac App Store as early as December 13th. Jobs himself said that it would go live “within 90 days” back when the iOS-inspired App Store was announced on October 20th, that’s mid January, if the timeframe is carried to its fullest extent.Even though Apple [...]

AT&T Released satellite-cellular Smartphone “TerreStar” Genus; available for purchase

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It was back in September when we got an information AT&T is launching the TerreStar GENUS. So I was kinda surprised to see just how long it took TerreStar to actually release the device to the general public.Anyway, the satellite-cellular hybrid smartphone that bring mobile coverage through satellite connection when the cellular network is unavailable [...]

Skyfire 3.0 adds Facebook Social Graph to web browsing

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There are many alternative browsers to choose from in the Android Market, but Skyfire has remained one of the most popular choices (over two million users) for its ability to view movies on phones that don’t support Flash Player. I expect a lot more people will download it today, thanks to the new social features [...]

Apple’s Embedded SIM card-Europian carriers go on “war”

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While Apple hasn’t officially announced intentions to use an embedded SIM in its iPhone, some European carriers are already such a move could put too much control in Apple’s hands. Apple recently started working with the wireless security company Gemalto, whose programmable over the air SIM card solutions are used in big pilot projects for [...]

MacTech benchmarks Office 2011, finds big gains

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“MacTech” has released the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The goal was to see how well the new Office applications performed compared to Office 2008 and 2004 across a variety of configurations. The results show significant speed gains all around, particularly in general app launching times, and in [...]

BT Vision to provide “ BBC iPlayer” on IPTV service

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BT Vision the broadband based IPTV service which combines terrestrial UK Freeview TV channels with VOD content delivered via its ISP, is readying itself to show content directly from the BBC iPlayer VOD service. BT and the BBC are already working closely on the forthcoming YouView, and the two will now collaborate on iPlayer for [...]

Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) Says : “There is no Facebook Phone Coming”

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Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook CEO) spoke to TechCrunch in the aftermath of this weekend’s cranky back-and-forth between the tech blog and the company’s PR team about whether or not Facebook is building a phone. Echoing Facebook’s earlier denials, Zuckerberg says the company isn’t manufacturing a device, Facebook said Monday that while the phrase “Facebook phone” makes for [...]

General Dynamics Itronix GD300 is a New Military GPS Powered by Android

General Dynamics Itronix GD300

By combining the most modern navigation and communications technologies in robust housing, the company General Dynamics Itronix is GD300 – a new battle-mobile computer. Weighing less than 300 grams and is based on the platform Android, this computer has a high sensitivity GPS antenna and an interface for communication with the tactical radios such as [...]