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News: TomTom announces web based Live traffic service, for free

2011-03-16T21:28:00.000-04:00

Mobile devices with built in GPS capability have become a norm these days and are increasing in market share. In this situation the major GPS players like Garmin and TomTom are trying to redefine their strategy and service offerings to customers. In an interesting move TomTom announced the availability of free HD Traffic service online for many countries (mainly Europe)

News: GE's phase-change method could make Laptops cooler

2011-03-16T20:48:00.001-04:00

GE has announced a breakthrough in Thermal Material system that could pave way for faster computing and better heat transfer. GE has been working for DARPA on a new phase-change based thermal conductor that has the ability to cool electronic devices 200% better than copper for 25% the current weight.

News: Google revamps iPhone App, new Name and Design

2011-03-16T20:21:00.000-04:00

Google has been enhancing the Google Mobile application for iOS platform constantly. The ability to do voice search, image search and normal text based along with the quick access the mobile apps has definitely made it one of the very useful applications in iOS. Google has announced the the update for the application today, which rebrands the application and also gives it a completely revamped user experience.

News: Motorola XOOM WiFi releasing on Mar 27th for $599

2011-03-16T19:54:00.002-04:00

Motorola Xoom was one of the most anticipated Android tablet and was also more of a benchmark device from Google for its Honeycomb version of Android. Motorola has officially announced that it will launch the WiFi version of the device for $599 from all major retailers.

News: Google helps you find open businesses

2011-02-24T23:11:00.000-05:00

Google has been optimizing the Search results constantly and have pushed the mobile search with lot of useful features. They have used location based Places, to let you search for businesses that are open now.

News: After flexible displays comes flexible microprocessor

2011-02-24T21:34:00.000-05:00

Flexible Displays have been doing the rounds recently, but now flexible microprocessors are getting ready and seem viable.

News: Apple updates its MacBook Pro Lineup, sacrifices battery life

2011-02-24T21:13:00.001-05:00

The image of Apple has moved from "Mac" to "iDevices" in the recent years. Apple once known in the niche segment for its Mac line of computers and laptops has reached the mass-market with its iPod and iOS products. Today the MacBook Pro lineup was upgraded behind the scenes, while all the high profile announcements get reserved for iOS devices.

News: Google brings Recipe and more, to make cooking easier

2011-02-24T19:55:00.000-05:00

Google is synonymous with search, so anytime there a need for Recipe or to know what to do with an ingredient, then I have used Google for that. This process was definitely not focussed on my purpose of search and Google has made the process of searching for recipe easier.

News: Connect Google Docs and Microsoft Office, with Google Cloud Connect

2011-02-24T19:17:00.000-05:00

Microsoft Office is one of the widely used and well known software for authoring Documents, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint. There have been other competitors in this space like Open Office, but the functionality offered and wide usage of the software remains unbeaten. Google has been ramping up its Google Docs offering and announces Google Cloud Connect officially in its blog and is trying to take some part of this market share from Microsoft

News: Amazon ready to fight Netflix, adds value for Prime subscribers

2011-02-23T18:34:00.002-05:00

Amazon Prime is a membership service from Amazon which offers 2 day shipping, with no minimum purchase conditions. This service is definitely good, but a bit pricy for normal shopping habits and Amazon is adding streaming service to this to make it more appealing

News: Motorola Xoom Pricing and Updates

2011-02-23T18:19:00.000-05:00

The details about Motorola's XOOM tablet running Android 3.0, in a dual-core configuration has been discussed in all the technical blogs and beaten to death. With the launch coming up, there are additional pricing information surfacing now.

News: Apple likely to announce new iPad on March 2nd

2011-02-23T17:54:00.000-05:00

iPad 2 rumors have been floating around for a while now and multiple sources had stated that there a newer version of iPad going to be announced soon. Looks like Apple has set the date as March 2nd.

Rumor: ATRIX 4G launching for $150 in RadioShack, $50 less than ATT

2011-02-17T22:31:00.000-05:00

Motorola has pushed the ATRIX 4G launch earlier to Feb 22. It was originally planned to be released in first week of March and has now officially moved the date earlier. The phone has been announced to be released with ATT for $199 with 2 year contract and looks like RadioShack may be offering this at a cheaper rate.

News: Google announces One Pass, Digital Content Manager for Publishers

2011-02-17T21:28:00.000-05:00

Google announced One Pass service for publishers and it could not have selected a better time. Apple had recently announced its Subscription model and changed its policy for content providers and Apps that offer subscription service. Apple has been received a lot of push back on this new policy and some are even consider legal course of action, so the announcement from Google and the approach taken seems to be a perfectly timed announcement.

News: Android Versions: Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream?

2011-02-15T21:55:00.000-05:00

It is known that Google has been naming different version of Android in the alphabetical order of desserts. Given that order the next version of Android should start with "I". The names being speculated are Ice Cream or Ice Cream Sandwich. Apart from naming, the content of the platform is lot more interesting

Gadget: HTC announces FLYER, Tablet with a difference

2011-02-15T21:27:00.001-05:00

Microsoft tried with tablet computing in early 2000 and did not have much success, because of the lagging hardware improvements. When iPad was released as a magical, revolutionizing device it definitely got huge attention as always, in reality most of the tablets announced since then have been over-sized mobile devices. HTC has been making impressive Android devices and now they have announced HTC Flyer an Android device with some unique and useful features.

News: Rhapsody likely to fight Apple over App Store Subscriptions

2011-02-15T20:54:00.001-05:00

Apple announced the launch of its App Store Subscription model recently and the offer is likely to benefit few services and affect lot more. In simple terms the Subscription model is meant to channelize all the content purchase only through Apple and provide them with 30% share on the sale. Some additional conditions on top of this may be pushing some services like Rhapsody over the edge.

News: NVIDIA announces quad-core chips for Tablets, coming this August

2011-02-15T20:15:00.002-05:00

It feels like dual core chips of Tegra 2 were just announced last month and we are still getting used to fact that the next series of mobile handsets or tablets will be powered by dual core chips. We all knew that this was not going to stay this way for long, but NVIDIA just announced the quad-core chips today for tablets and this could come by this August.

News: Synaptics announces ClearPad, likely to make Smartphones slimmer

2011-02-14T22:27:00.000-05:00

Synaptics, the Company known for making laptop touch-pads have announced their new venture to build capacitive touchscreen. This new approach to Capacitive touchscreen from Synaptics is said to save 1 mm of thickness of devices. This does not seem much, but the relative benefits from the technology sounds promising.

News: Microsoft enables Tracking Protection, needs user adoption

2011-02-14T21:58:00.003-05:00

If you have tried online shopping recently, then you would have noticed the targeted ads that tracks your online activities and shows ads related to that. Google and Mozilla provided different approaches in which users can choose to opt-out of targeted ads. Microsoft has revamped its browser with IE9 and now it has added Tracking Protection to it.

News: Improve the relevance of your Google search results, with Chrome Extension

2011-02-14T20:38:00.000-05:00

Google page ranking approach to prioritize the search results and indexing mechanism has been known for a while and some Companies have manipulated the Google search with content farms and false sites. The relevance of Google search results have been questioned lately and if you think you don't like the results from Google, then you have a way to fix it now.

News: Sony announces XPERIA line of phones in MWC

2011-02-13T20:56:00.000-05:00

Sony (Ericsson) has been underplaying a bit in the mobile segment recently, when compared to some of its other competitors. Nokia and Sony have a huge market for feature phones and both these companies have been forced to adopt the fast evolving Smartphone market. While Nokia teams up with Microsoft, Sony has gone all-in for Android. In the Mobile World Congress (MWC) they have announced 4 different XPERIA phones that should cover almost every possible need.

News: Samsung announces Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Honeycomb tablet

2011-02-13T20:18:00.000-05:00

It is the season for announcing tablets and this year it is all about Android. After Motorola - XOOM and LG - G-Pad, Samsung has officially announced their next generation of Galaxy Tab today. This device will be officially called as Galaxy Tab 10.1 and is loaded with both hardware and software goodness.

News: Google introduces 2-Step Verification for Google Accounts

2011-02-13T19:42:00.001-05:00

Spam and Hacks are very much part of online activity these days. We need to be very careful with our online presence and have strong password algorithms to prevent the common mail hacks that sends weird messages from your Email to everyone in your contact list. Luckily my Google account has been spared of this nasty stuff and they be getting some additional protection for opt-in users.

Article: Fragmentation on Mobile Devices

2011-02-09T23:30:00.002-05:00

Apple has been keeping fragmentation away from the iOS platform all these years, by catering to GSM carriers and hardware device that had a fixed form factor, hardware specification. This may be in for a small change now