Blue Bugle: Mobile, Desktop & Web Technologies

Blue: Will the Upcoming Update to Windows 8 Change the Scene?

2013-05-10T08:56:00.000-04:00

It was a fine morning in January that 72 year old Tami Fletcher went to the Radioshack Store in Long Beach, New York and purchased an upgrade to her old laptop running Windows. She had a Dell laptop of nearly ten years old that was running Windows XP Media Center edition. In the recent times her applications and the Internet connection have been slowing down unnecessarily, and she was not able

Lumia 928: Probably Verizon’s New Hero!

2013-05-07T08:24:00.002-04:00

Nokia’s Lumia 920 is arguably the best smartphone in the market today due to a number of reasons. It’s major disadvantage is that it is a Windows Phone device, and hence, less number of apps. If Lumia 920 ran Android, it might have proven to be a much greater success. It has the best camera, great display (although smaller than Galaxy S3 and HTC One), and amazing build quality. It is simply the

Acer Aspire R7: Is It a Great Tablet PC to Buy In the Current Market?

2013-05-05T15:10:00.000-04:00

In the last few hours, I was engrossed in all kinds of thoughts and skepticisms about the latest tablet PC from Acer, Aspire R7. The tablet computer runs Windows 8 and comes with what most people call a ‘weird design’. However, is that really the case? How good or bad this new product really is? Let’s find out through this article. The First Impressions on the Design I looked through almost

Why Google Glass Is Actually Not Going to Change Your World?

2013-05-05T05:24:00.001-04:00

A few days ago, you may have read our post regarding the new product from Google, Glass. It has come and we got to see it in action. The real question here is, whether anyone should really be excited about this augmented reality goggles from Google. Let’s find out. Google Glass has been the focus of attention in the technology world for the last couple of months. One of the first things that

Gigabit Internet: How Close Are We to A Fiber-Connected World

2013-05-02T05:58:00.000-04:00

It was March 30, 2011. Google announced its plans to build an infrastructure that will provide ultra-high-speed broadband to a few lucky users in Kansas City, Kansas. This is Google Fiber, the ultra-fast Internet service from the search giant. With this development, one has to wonder if we are there yet? In terms of the fastest speeds in broadband, the United States, despite being a giant in

Smartphones With the Largest Screens: Have We Reached the Breaking Point Yet?

2013-04-15T12:28:00.001-04:00

One of the biggest news of the last two days is the release of yet another smartphone in the Samsung Galaxy family, a phone of no especial features, with 720p 233ppi TFT screen, Android Jelly Bean, 1.5 GB RAM, 8/16 GB internal storage, Exynos 5 1.7 GHz dual-core processor, etc. The smartphone, known as Galaxy Mega is peculiar due to its screen size, of 6.3 inches, which makes it the mammoth of

What Is Facebook Home? How Does It Impact Our Smartphone World?

2013-04-14T12:29:00.000-04:00

One of the announcements that has rocked the world of smartphones in the last couple of days is that of Facebook Home, which is as Facebook says, a piece of software for your phone designed to put your friends above everything else. What does this mean to the existing smartphones, and how does it affect the status quo? Let’s find out. Check out the promo video: The announcement came two

The Biggest Cyber Attack in the History of Internet Is What Slows Down Your Connection: An Analysis

2013-03-28T11:00:00.000-04:00

In the last couple of days here in my place, and for nearly a week in Europe, the Americas, etc., people have been experiencing a slower Internet connection. I was indeed surprised and thought up other reasons, like my ISP doing some maintenance, or some applications within the computer using the connection, for software updates and stuff. Only yesterday, the things were clear. It was a

Why Don’t You Buy A Better iPhone 5 From T-Mobile Starting Next Month?

2013-03-27T13:57:00.000-04:00

Apple iPhone has been available in all of the major US carriers—Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint. Only T-Mobile didn’t have iPhone up until now. The fourth major carrier in the country has announced that it will be selling iPhone 5 from the next month, specifically April 12, 2013. T-Mobile has also announced how it is thinking about doing away with the carrier-lock plans that you get with a discounted

Recent Teardowns: Sony Xperia Tablet Z and BlackBerry Z10 by iFixit

2013-03-26T10:44:00.001-04:00

Let’s take a look at the prying open of two devices in the current market—Sony Xperia Tablet Z and BlackBerry Z10. Teardowns of some important, flagship devices reveal the technology, design, and innovative new parts that constitute that product. It is not only a way to understand the inner workings of our popular gadgets, but also a way to find out how tough they are. iFixit’s teardowns, which

Microsoft, Google Reveal How Much of Your Data Were Shared With the Government: Security Concerns in Your Technology World!

2013-03-25T13:39:00.000-04:00

ECPA (the Electronic Communications Privacy Act) of 1986 in the United States has enabled the US government to legally seek information from online service providers about various activities conducted by their users. It had a major amendment in the form of the Patriot Act of Oct 26, 2011, in response to the 9/11 attacks. With this amendment, the government and agencies affiliated to the

Additional New Sensors on Galaxy S4 Give Extra Features

2013-03-22T09:19:00.002-04:00

You may have read our initial reaction to the Galaxy S4 launched last week. A few things that went into this smartphone include a few new sensors that will truly revolutionize the smartphone world. With these three additional sensors, Galaxy S4 is capable of a lot of functions that other smartphones in the market are currently not. For instance, your Galaxy S4 can sense the temperature and

What Is Wrong With Microsoft Windows RT Tablets That They Are Not Selling?

2013-03-21T13:20:00.000-04:00

We know about Surface tablet running Windows RT (Run Time), the ARM-specific Windows operating system that works on tablets. We have looked at the differences it has with Windows 8 regular. Windows RT is a tablet operating system, and hence doesn’t have the capability to install and run regular Windows applications. In one of the recent talks, NVidia’s co-founder and chief, Jen-Hsun Huang

What Is Apple iPhone's Price, and Why Is It Costly?

2013-03-20T09:36:00.001-04:00

Don’t you find it difficult to digest that iPhone is priced at around 700 dollars, although to manufacture that device, Apple has to spend only around 250 dollars? Apple does put hefty prices for its devices in the market, so hefty that it is not accessible to a huge part of the population. Why would a company that already has a huge hoard of cash want more from its devices? Also, how is it that

Smartphone Manufacturers’ Bashing Each Other: They Will Go to Any Length for Better Sales of Their Phones!

2013-03-18T13:29:00.001-04:00

Have you noticed the tech CEOs and top executives are constantly engaged in bashing the competitors’ products? Our favorite tech companies and their executives badmouth the competitor products almost all the time, especially when the competitor is winning on several aspects. It is not peculiar, but quite a bit distasteful (on the part of the bashing company) considering that the winning company

Ways In Which Samsung’s Galaxy S IV Resembles Other Smartphones and Tech Products In the Industry

2013-03-16T11:47:00.000-04:00

Samsung has given us a lot of stuff with Galaxy S IV, which we believe is an awesome new smartphone. There are a number of features that we mentioned in that review, but there are a lot more. Samsung has its own software applications bundled on the device, to make it unique in the industry of highly competitive products. It definitely seems like Samsung has done an awesome job with this

Buy-or-Not: Samsung Galaxy S IV Android Smartphone, A Detailed Preview

2013-03-15T08:23:00.000-04:00

Yes, it came. One of the most anticipated smartphones of the year, in a packed event in Radio City music hall, Times Square, New York—Samsung Galaxy S IV, touting a huge screen, big camera, two quad-core processors, 2 GB RAM, and a number of software features. I suppose you could glean the excitement of the top Samsung executives from that image. If you haven't watched the Unpacked event, then

Google’s Cleaning Takes Away Reader! Here’s How to Get the Reader RSS Data From Google

2013-03-14T13:32:00.003-04:00

For a very, very long time, since when I started my technical exploits, I was relying on Google Reader for getting updates. From some of our major, vintage news sources—from BBC, CNN, the Atlantic, to Wired, CNET, and a million others. It is indeed a pretty sad thing that Google announced yesterday a spring of cleaning, and out of various things that will go away is Google Reader. One thing that

Remembering the Past: Samsung Galaxy S Series Phones

2013-03-14T10:51:00.004-04:00

After Apple introduced us to the world of iPhone in 2007, it became kind of a household name and grew to be the most popular smartphone in the history of smartphones. Other companies like Nokia, BlackBerry, and Samsung were struggling to come up with an innovation that could shake the iPhone empire. Android came forth and started a revolution as we know it. Android’s diversity in the form of an

Which Browser Do You Need? A Brief Look At Web Browser Compatibility to HTML 5

2013-03-14T02:55:00.001-04:00

How many browsers do you know? From the old world text-based browsers like Lynx to the current topper in browser market, Google Chrome, there are innumerable browsers. Also, your hunt for the best and most compatible browser doesn’t end there. You have to know which browser works better based on the website you are visiting. Some websites have a certain type of content that doesn’t probably

How People Are Finding Jobs Through Social Media and Networking Sites?

2013-03-12T07:04:00.000-04:00

We know how social networks have changed our lives. Led by Facebook, they crawled in and conquered us. How many of them do we know now? How many of them do we use? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, and it goes on. Each of these social networks satisfies a specific group of individuals, I believe. For instance, Facebook is for the general public, who want to share their

What Is Happening In the Custom Generic Top Level Domain (cgTLD) World?

2013-03-11T10:48:00.003-04:00

Have you been hearing quite a bit about the upcoming custom TLDs lately? A few domain names that may appear in the near future are .google, .apple, .microsoft, .app, .book, .android, .search, and the list goes on. These are custom top level domains, slightly different from the existing generic top level domains you know, such as .com, .org, .net, .info, .mil, .edu, .biz, .gov, etc. Each of these

Display Technologies on Your Smartphone Screen: A Myth Buster

2013-03-09T12:43:00.000-05:00

When you are looking for a new smartphone, you often come across some of these display technologies in technical specifications—LCD, LCD IPS, LED, WLED, OLED, SLCD, TFT, Retina Display, AMOLED, Super AMOLED, PLS, Super PLS, and so on. What the heck are these acronyms? How can you find out what is what and what matters the most? It’s a difficult job indeed. There are quite a number of things you

Facebook’s New Newsfeed Feature: A Complete Redesign

2013-03-08T12:44:00.000-05:00

Yes, it’s live, albeit in a few places worldwide. Facebook has yesterday announced the aesthetic new design of its popular newsfeed feature. Check it out here. The image is from Facebook, and you can click it to enlarge the view to see it on a Mac, iPad, and a HTC smartphone. So, what are the changes? First of all, the change is still not all over the world. A select group of people have

The Best Smartphone in the Market That You Can Buy Right Now

2013-03-07T11:23:00.001-05:00

I am not talking about the smartphones that will be released in the coming months or days or the ones that are no longer available, but the ones that are in the market right now. You, as a smartphone customer, are looking for various factors to determine your purchase. Some of us want to get our work done quickly and effectively. Some of us want to read books and watch movies, and are looking for