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Chinese solar battery plant

2010-01-23T13:05:00.000-08:00

Everyone is thinking green these days. Green tech is a much popular field in vehicle manufacturing industries. Different companies are investing in production plants to save environment.
China has launched a project to build a solar battery plant. A Chinese company "BYD" which is manufacturer of cars and batteries is going to start a solar battery plant project. Its been reported that this company's 10% shares are acquisition of U.S billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will invest $3.3 billion in solar battery plant.
The reported company will built the plant in China's Shaanxi province and aims to sell 800,000 vehicles next year. The best selling car of BYD in 2009 was F3 sedan and company has plans to start the sale of its first electric car "e6" in first quarter this year.
Solar battery plant will be capable of producing a total of 5,000 megawatts of batteries.

Rumors about MacBook Air delay

2010-01-23T11:39:00.000-08:00

MacBook Air that was built using special version of Intel's mobile processing technology has been delayed in its updates. Power efficient versions of Intel processors are always shipped later than the standard processors. The delay in update of MacBook Air is caused by the same reason.
Power saving processor chips always reach late in market. Intel's new processor series "i" is a power sipping technology based chips and consume less power than other standard processors.
New processors are ULV (ultra low voltage). This technology is rated at 10watt of power that is less than standard mobile processor power consumption. Standard chips are rated at 35watt of power.
Now the "i" series processor core i5 will be rated at 18-watt, depending upon the graphic system.
No one knows for sure that Intel core i5 processor will be used in newer version of MacBook Air, even if Apple use the new processor then how it may choose for implementing the processor that will be with graphics or without graphics.

March for life goes online on Internet

2010-01-22T09:04:00.000-08:00

Virtual march of life is sponsored by American United for Life Action. This site is not older than a week but has gained a lot of access of people. Thanks to facebook and those people who are posting it on facebook.
This site has been developed for people who can't join march for life to Washington D.C. People can register on the website and can choose an avatar for the display and later watch the live video of protesting against abortion on the anniversary of Roe vs Wade.
Registration requires an email address and the rest of the steps are already explained above by me.
Virtual march of life

Sony's PS3 motion controller

2010-01-20T10:03:00.000-08:00

Sony has delayed the release of its new play station 3 console motion controller. The motion controller was planned to launch in spring 2010. But now it has been delayed till autumn of 2010.
The delay meant that Sony will launch its new motion controller when Microsoft will launch its hands free controller for of Xbox 360. This project is name as "Project Natal".
Both companies are seen as rivals to "Nintendo". Nintendo has launched it motion detecting controller for its Wii console. This device works with the motion of player. The first motion detecting controller in gaming consoles was released by Nintendo. By the time Nintendo's Machine demand has been slowed down.
Sony's controller is similar to Nintendo's controller. A camera on screen detects the motion of a colored controller held by the player.
But the most amazing thing about Microsoft's Project Natal is that it doesn't has any controller. Game is controlled by a series of motion detection censors that helps the user to control the game by gestures, speech and movements.

Bill Gates Step into twitter

2010-01-20T09:37:00.000-08:00

Twitter is a micro blogging platform about which everyone knows. People share their views, reviews and daily updates, we should call them minutely updates actually.
Now the Former boss of Microsoft Mr. Bill Gates has joined twitter and became the most popular user on twitter. Although there were some fake account by his name previously. But this time Mr. Bill Gates step in twitter in reality. He said that he has joined twitter to shares is views and new things which he is learning from his foundation work and other interests.
Mr. Gates left Microsoft in 2008 and now he is working for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He joined the micro blogging website with a standard message "Hello World", that is used by a programmer to write in his first program.
Mr. Gates picked up more than 150,000 followers in his first 13 hours on twitter.

IPL goes live on youtube

2010-01-20T09:24:00.000-08:00

Google has announced that it will broadcast live Indian Premier League matches on youtube. Google has online exclusive rights under agreement for 2 years.
IPL and Google will share the revenue from advertising and sponsor for the league. It says that this is the first time when any sport event will be broadcast live on it YouTube. Matches will start from 12 March.
The third season of T20 tournament has grabbed the attention of media because of most popular players in eight teams owned by rich businessmen and Bollywood stars.
YouTube is providing opportunities to its user to live streaming of their programs for global audience. These services are available for entertainment, sports and other categories to broadcast business and grab attention of global audience.

Tablet PC prototype

2010-01-18T03:27:00.000-08:00

A very smart computing device. Qualcomm introduced its new tablet prototype at CES 2010. The name of the device in not disclosed. But the working of the device has explained and demonstrated in details. The stunning feature of the gadget is the gesture movements operations. I'm not sure that it really works but the video demonstration has showed it. Lets have a look at the demo video

Does Apple iTablet exist

2010-01-18T03:01:00.000-08:00

People are still wondering about the rumors about Apple iTablet existence. Some says that its has been in production line and Apple don't want to disclose its surprise. Images of iTablet are available on internet. No one know that if they are fake or not. May be an illusion only.
Some analysts have mentioned that this device will be launched on 27 of Jan. But there is no confirm report about the launch.
Whatever that is one thing about this PC is that in upcoming technology and gadgets, this Slate PC will rock in the market. As much as I could get to know about the features of this tablet by watching videos on internet and exploring photos of Apple iTablet. This device going to make everyone happy with its stunning feature and portability.
I'm sharing the video with you guys. Hope you'll get to know about the truth. This video is a demo of Macbook touch.

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Motorola Backflip at CES

2010-01-17T13:49:00.000-08:00

This time Motorola came up with the new design and a bit fast operating system based smart phone. This phone is called "Motorola Backflip".
Good thing about is the design and keypad stay docking. Keypad is behind the phone so its been called Backflip. Camera is at the back, in the area of keypad with a flash light. It works in both directions, for video calling and video recording or photo capturing. Android is used as operating system in it. The phone is nice but seems a bit slow when toggling between the screens. The one very good thing is about the touch pad that is behind the screen from where you can control the screen without moving your hands in front of the screen again and again. Phone has 3.1in touch screen and 5MP camera to shoot high quality photos.
Lets have a closer at the phone by watching this video.

Lenovo Hybrid Tablet

2010-01-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

Yeah again a stunning gadget from Lenovo IdeaPad searies. The new system introduced is a tablet PC completely competing Apple products. The Smart and windows based portable system has a lot of new features. It runs on Windows 7 and Linux Hybrid processor at the same time.
This is demo video explaining all the features of the smart PC.

Rumors about iPhone 4G

2010-01-16T15:56:00.000-08:00

Rumors about iPhone 4G are heating up with new year. Apple launched its iPhone 3Gs last year. Its launch not completed a year yet and people are waiting for its new smart phone "iPhone 4G". Expectations are about the launch are till May or may be before. But no official announcement yet from Apple.
New concept is expected of new improved features with a better OLED screen and a different shape than olderr version. Also updated version of iPhone OS is expected with new technology and mobility in smart phone.
But its still a concept, I thinks. Though some analysts have talked about the upcoming technology comparing to other smart phone manufacturing companies.
Rumors about the launch of new iPhone till May seem far fetched because Apple complete its launch year and last iphone was launched in June, so guys wait when the cat will be out of the bag.

But make it sure that iPhone 4G is still a concept.

Nanotechnology in concept phone

2010-01-16T15:30:00.000-08:00

This era is all about nanotechnology. Technology that is the 1 billion of a meter. Different electronics manufacturing companies are bringing nanotechnology to their products. Though its only a concept yet, but in future we'll be having the nanotechnology in our pockets.
Research and development are going side by side and opening new horizons to our technology. The days when we were strict to keep big and large devices for us have gone very far behind.
I'm talking about the Nokia New phone "Morph". This phone is under research and will be developed, when, I've no idea. May be soon or year after later. But the good thing is about the use of nanotechnology and its presentation. The use of hand held devices is getting much bigger than ever. Nokia has developed the concept phone being developed using nanotechnology. This video will show you that how nanotechnology will make our life easy and relaxing.

Technology to help Haiti victims

2010-01-16T13:24:00.000-08:00

Many of the developer and programmers from reputed and giant technology organization are uniting to help Haiti victims in some different way. The meetings will be held in Washington and other cities as well. Programmers and techie guys from different companies, universities and other Government and non-Government agencies will take a part.
The purpose of this unity is to do brain storming for new ideas. New ideas will be thrown out to develop certain tools and applications to help Haiti people. These applications will help rescue forces to find Haiti victims, to help them and to bring loved ones to their families. Development of these applications will start after the best ideas acceptance.

Intelligent air buds

2010-01-15T04:55:00.000-08:00

This year is full of gadget shocks. In Consumer electronic show at Las Vegas has brought many cool and stunning gadgets to our world.
Sony introduced it new "Sony MDR-NC300D Digital Noise Canceling Earbuds " at CES. These are noise canceling ear buds that are based on " Artificial Intelligence". These ear buds select the noise canceling mode digitally on the base of your surroundings. That means wherever you are you will listen to your music without any surrounding noise around you.
This device is battery powered and can make you listen to music up to 20 hrs with AA batteries. One more feature of this gadget is that it comes with variety of ear buds according to human sizes. Select the air bud that fits you easily and dive into the world of noiseless music with Sony.

Fund raising through social networks

2010-01-15T04:24:00.000-08:00

These days million of people come online and search for the information. Social networks are a big part of online life. Now online fund raising campaigns are running across social networks like twitter and facebook.
Online campaigns to help earthquake victims are doing their big part in online fund raising.
Social networks facebook and twitter has raised the fund of $5million through their online campaigns and looking forward for more. This fund is raised for Red Cross.
On these networks from every 10 hot topics, 5 are about the Haiti victims help raising funds. The campaigns are running with the name of "Help Haiti" on different social networks.
Many celebrities, including singer Adam Lambert, actor Ben Stiller, cyclist Lance Armstrong and actress Lindsay Lohan, used their Twitter feeds to plead for earthquake-relief donations.
An active twitter user "Armstrong" who has 2.3 million follower on twitter has raised much of his organization's help fund for Haiti victims.

Flash player update for win XP

2010-01-14T04:50:00.000-08:00

Microsoft has strongly recommended its win xp users to update the version of flash player shipped with win xp to latest version of flash player. Microsoft win xp shipped version is 6 and currently flash player 10 is available on internet. Adobe has discontinued support for its flash player version 6 since 2006.
The warning is :

Microsoft is aware of reports of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 6 provided in Windows XP. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time but recommend that users install the latest version of Flash Player provided by Adobe.

The Adobe Flash Player 6 was provided with Windows XP and contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page. Adobe has addressed these vulnerabilities in newer versions of Adobe Flash Player. Microsoft recommends that users of Windows XP with Adobe Flash Player 6 installed update to the most current version of Flash Player available from Adobe.

Clients who are using service pack 2, 3 and 64 bit version of windows XP are recommended to update their flash player also.

"https" access for G mail

2010-01-14T04:40:00.000-08:00

After security breach in china Google has enabled https access for its free web mail service "G mail". Security attack in China was to gain access to Chinese activists email accounts and passwords. The option "https" was enabled and recommended in 2008 by Google for its users but later it was turned off by default.
Now Google has again enabled "always use https" by default to enhance security and privacy of its users. Google Apps users whose admins have not already defaulted their entire domains to https will have the same option.

Adobe covers PDF flaws

2010-01-14T04:33:00.000-08:00

Adobe has released an update for PDF reader and writer that will cover total 8 fixes of security vulnerabilities. Update is fully enhanced security for documents and has significant security improvements.
Update will cover these flaws.

use-after-free vulnerability in Multimedia.api
array boundary issue in U3D support
DLL-loading vulnerability in 3D
memory corruption vulnerability
a script injection vulnerability
null-pointer dereference vulnerability
buffer overflow vulnerability
integer overflow vulnerability in U3D support

Modern Warfare 2 rolled out $1B sales

2010-01-14T03:51:00.000-08:00

Video game call of duty- modern warfare 2 has generated $1B. This is the only game that has done a great sale. Call of duty was on sale in November last year. The game made record sales of $550m in first 5 days of its launch. Activision the famous game publisher has other game's sale on board like Guitar Hero III and World of Warcraft. Now Call of duty has also enlisted itself in the race of high sales.

Fiber Network in UK

2010-01-14T03:36:00.000-08:00

A project to build a high speed next generation broadband network in UK has been started. This network will cover Manchester corridor.
Initially the network will facilitate 500 businesses and 1000 homes. The motive of this network is the evolution of the next generation broadband experience.
This project will be cost £1m and will be funded by North West Development Agency. This is a mega project of fiber network publicly funded.
This network will provide 100Mbps to experience the fast internet for upload and download simultaneously. Home working, telemedicine, video calling and net-based services on TV will be more easy and accessible by this network.

Store your files with Google Docs

2010-01-13T05:27:00.000-08:00

Now the days of forgetting your files at office system are over. Don't get mad if you have presentation tomorrow and your files are not with you or you have forgotten them in your home laptop.
Google docs is a network file storing service provided by Google. Now Google has added more storage in it. File size of 250MB can be uploaded through Google Docs and later you can access it from anywhere you are. Google is initially proving a space of 1GB free for its users. If you want to get more space then you will be charged $.25 as per additional GB.
Uploaded documents can be searched, and many common document files types can be viewed via Google Docs viewer. A plus point for using this service is its sharing with your coworkers and friends. You can set permissions to specific folder and your friends will be able to view your files and can edit them if they have permission to do so.

USB 3.0 available in HP

2010-01-13T05:11:00.000-08:00

Its now official that USB 3.0 will be available in HP laptops from now onwards. HP has integrated USB 3.0 in envy series laptops.
USB 3.0 is 10x faster than USB 2.0. Consumers can get an Envy with USB 3.0 if they configure it with the new ATI 5830 graphics and quad-core i7 processor. USB 3.0 will be available on EliteBook, HP's high-end business laptop line, 8540p and 8540w models in a couple of weeks. Right now its available only in Envy 15 .
Other companies will launch their products with USB 3.0 soon.

McAfee Security for Facebook

2010-01-13T04:57:00.000-08:00

Giant social network Facebook and McAfee security are taking a big step toward future. McAfee will provide free security software form millions of facebook users to secure their account and securely share information across facebook users.
Its a six month complimentary subscription for facebook users. 350 million users will avail this facility. After six months users will be provided a discount priced subscription to fight against security threats, viruses and online attacks.
To qualify for the offer user has to subscribe to McAfee's page on facebook. On the other hand facebook is providing security for its users also. Its for those who haven't secured their account. Changing account setting can make an account more secure even its hacked.
Though most of the users don't have an updated security software and firewall enabled systems for online use which cause their account to hit security threats across different social networks. McAfee internet security suite will be initially available to facebook users in U.S., UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

Messages from future

2010-01-13T04:43:00.000-08:00

The users of windows based smart phones are getting message from the future these days. With the start of this year a growing no of complaints were noticed about the smart phones which are operating on windows.
Users says that they have received messages like "Welcome to 2016" in some text messages. Some said they received messages from some other year no like 2012. Messages coming from the contacts are with the future dates.
Microsoft rep said that hey are aware of the problems and are contacting the phone manufacturers and other partners to solve this problem. As soon as a solution to this problem is provided, users have to bear these kind of messages with future dates because its not futuristic text messages but a bug found. Some people have reported that the problem is more happening with HTC and sprint network users.

Nokia Morphing phone

2010-01-12T07:59:00.000-08:00

Nokia is working for concept phones. Its new technology is used in its new phone Morph. Morph is a concept phone developed by Nokia with the helping hands of University of Cambridge.
The listed phone has so many great and stunning features that are the requirements of new era and future technologies. Morph is developed under nanotechnology.
The best thing about this phone is its transformation technology. You can fold this phone to your pocket size and then to handset. Morph can also be unfolded more to get a large information display.
Nokia is looking forward in future for these types of devices and give their clients their best technologies. In future everything will be more technical and smart than ever. Nokia has given a concept to mobile user that in future they can transform their phone is many different shapes.