Cisco's releases tablets.

Cisco,the major network solutions provider has launched their products to be a competitor in the tablets market.
They brought two tablets each running on two different OS and features.They are

Cius Android Tablet

Cius is a business-aimed android tablet with features like HD video streaming,real-time video,multi-party conferencing and the usual features of a tablet like messaging,email and web browsing.It weighs 1.15lbs and is expected to be release in first quarter of 2011.

The second tablet from the company is a countertop unit for home energy management with a 7-inch,800x480 capacitive touch screen,running ubuntu MID on a 1.1 ghz intel atom chip,the home energy controller connects to smart thermostats and appliances over wifi or gigabit ethernet.It provides us with solutions to improve the energy consumption.Forbes reports the device will run at $900 per installation.Check out the video.

"Google ME" ?????

Rumours,rumours and more rumours..

Google is going to launch something big in the web 2.0 , that is gonna be a facebook killer.Lets wait and see whats its gonna be like.The previous two big things from Google -  Wave and buzz didnt turn out to be what we really expected,that is the hype was huge but the product was..??

The whole rumour started from the tweet by the Digg founder Kevin rose.

Read about this rumour at the following sites...


Gizmodo


PC Mag

Blu-ray expands to 128GB

50 GB blu-ray disc was too much but here comes 128 GB version of the same thing.

About Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray Disc is a trademark owned by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and licensed for use on discs, players and other products that use BDA's optical disc format for high definition audio-video and high capacity data software applications. A single-layer disc holds up to 25GB of data and a double-layer disc holds up to 50GB of data.

About the Blu-ray Disc Association

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is responsible for promoting and developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc - the BDA's optical disc format for high definition audio-video and high capacity data software applications. The BDA has approximately 170 members. Its Board of Directors consists of individuals affiliated with the following member companies: Apple Inc., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi, Ltd., Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, TDK Corporation, Technicolor, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.


BDXL discs are available in either triple layer 100GB (re-writable or write-once) or 128GB quad layer write-once discs.

Excerpts taken from the press release.

New blogpost in Games Unlimited.

Check this out .

http://gamesunltd.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-screenshots-and-artwork-released.html

Shakira becomes X8.

Official announcement has came stating that the device which was codenamed "Shakira" is conformed for release later this year.Keep checking this blog for the release date.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is like a junior for SE X10.Those who are not able to get the ultimate phone can be satisfied to a limit with this device and its features. It features a 3" HVGA (320 x 480) screen with a scratch resistant surface, a 600MHz CPU running Android 1.6 with the same customizations that the X10 mini has and Timescape too.


The camera on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is a 3.2MP snapper and the phone comes with a 2GB microSD card in the box. As far as connectivity goes, it offers quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G with HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.

Here Comes Nintendo 3DS!

As the name itself,yeah its the first hand-held to be supporting 3D.

Nintendo 3DS uses a parallax LCD, which uses structural variations in the screen itself to split the image into a separate view for each eye, creating the 3-D illusion.Its a 3.5 inch display that supports the 3D effect.

Nintendo has also added a depth slider to the side of the machine. This simple control makes it easy to "flatten" the 3-D effect until you're left with a classic 2-D view at the lowest setting. Slide the 3-D depth to zero and you have a screen that looks more or less like you average DS screen in terms of brightness, color and clarity.

The new machine is about the same size as the standard DS, and most of the key buttons are in the same place. But now there is a start, select and home button on the machine's face, and a quarter-sized flat analog stick in the upper left-hand corner. The stick's range of motion feels a bit limited, but it seemed responsive enough. Two parallax-positioned cameras on the back also allow you to take your own 3-D pictures.

Spice up your browsers for WC2010!

Lets go through a tutorial to get the maximum out of our browsers for this world cup, lets consider Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 3.6(cos these are the two most popular browsers in the windows platform)...

Score Card

Firefox has in-built support for add-ons.Lets consider an Add-on called Footiefox.
Footiefox is an add-on which can be used to keep us updated about any football game in this planet(err..i mean the most popular ones),for now we will be concentrating on the World cup.

How to Get Footiefox?
1.Click this link to download footiefox.
2.Install the add-on.
3.Select World-cup to get updates on world cup.
4.Now you will be ab;e to see the add-on at the bottom right of the firefox window.It Automatically updates the score card as the game happens else you can right click and see the details of the previous matches.

Likewise in Google chrome we can add extensions.
We will add the official FIFA Chrome extension.
1.Click on the link..https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/worldcup
2.Click on the FIFA chrome extension,then select the team you want to follow.
3.Later you will see the official logo on the right top corner clicking on it provides with the latest info about the team and the games.

Change the looks and feels.

What fun in not modifying the skins of the browsers to suite our team colours.???

To do so

In Chrome: Click here  and select the team's theme you want.It will install a new extension and the skin will be automatically changed.

In Firefox:You have to install a new add-on called Persona. Click here to get persona.

After installing click on this link to select the team you are supporting to change the skin.
Select team.

7th June 2010

what was the importance of 7th june 2010???

Apple fanboys will have a quick reply : WWDC 2010

World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the event where Apple releases or announce their major products.The last WWDC (2009) was the event when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3GS to the world,which upgraded the iPhone to a real phone in many aspects.

This year it was the unveiling of the new device or a major upgrade to the existing device the iPhone 4.
What all things happened in WWDC 2010??

As usual for last few years the WWDC was kicked off by the key note from the ceo of apple ,Steve Jobs.He started of with Apple iPad and he claims that after the worldwide release of the device,it has sold 2 million copies which is equivalent to selling one iPad every 3 seconds,and the evergrowing application base for the device that is available now in 10 countries and the number of countries will expand to 19 by july.

and the guy from Zynga comes up with a good news.Farmville will be available for iPhone by the end of june....thats an awesome news.

then Steve gives some comparison between the iPhone and the android in the US.

and here it comes....iPhone 4

24% thinner than iPhone 3GS ie 9.3mm thin

Introduction of retina display: ie 326 dots per inch in the screen,while a human eye can accept only 300 dots per inch

3.5 inch display

960 by 640 pixels thas 4 times more than the precious iPhone

800:1 contrast ratio now thats something thats gonna make a huge difference in the images.

introduction of IPS technology thats available in few LCDs in the market.

Quad band HSDPA 7.2 mbps compatible

Wi-fi

A4 processor

introduction of 3-axis gyro combining it with the accelerometer it provides the six axis control,required for some games.

Camera has been extensively upgraded,from 3 to 5 megapixels

5x digital zoom.

LED flash and above all,720p HD recording @ 30fps.

Tap to focus.

One-click sharing.

Built -in video editing.


then Steve goes playing with the new iPhone to show us the multitasking capability and the integration of bing search to the existing google and yahoo search.

After the introduction of the iBook in iPad due to the success it has been introduced in iPhone 4 too.

and Steve Tells us about the marketing strategies through the iAds.

and so far all these are enough for one to upgrade to iPhone 4G.but steve continues and introduces Facetime.

FaceTime is video calling through iPhone but as the carriers doesnt support it,now it has been implemented through wi-fi.but its only from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4.it can be switched between front camera and the back camera,both in landscape and potrait mode.

and so iPhone has been introduced and will be available for public from june 24th.and it comes with iOS 4.

all the previous version of iPod touch(except first generation) and iPhone can be upgraded to the new OS.


PS. a new version of safari was also released.

Sources:various websites and blogs across the internet.