Do you like to follow the latest Indian news as it happens on your Windows Phone 7 mobiles? Here comes NDTV mobile application for your Windows Phones. For those who don’t know NDTV, it’s one of the leading TV news channels in India.

The metro styled NDTV Windows Phone 7 app lets you watch live streaming of NDTV network channels – NDTV 24 x 7, NDTV Profit, NDTV India and NDTV GoodTimes; read breaking news, weather updates, cricket scores and other content provided by the TV network.

The application uses best of Windows Phone 7 features by providing Live Tiles user interface for breaking news and other alerts. For more details on the list of all features provided by this application check this page on NDTV website.

Microsoft’s Windows Phones are picking up the steam, thanks to the partnership with Nokia. With the release of Nokia’s Lumia phones in India and around the world, analysts are expecting Microsoft to sell 37 million phones this year.  Will 2012 be the year of Microsoft Phones? Lets wait and see.

Download NDTV Windows Phone 7 app from Windows Marketplace

Related:  Watch live streaming of NDTV 24×7, CNN IBN, NDTV India and IBN 7 channels on your pc

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The Nokia Lumia 710 announced in early December last year is finally on stores now with the price tag of $50 on a two year contract from T-Mobile. The phone can be ordered from T-Mobile website and stores as well as the electronic retailers like Best Buy.

Lumia 710 is an entry level smartphone that runs on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS with 1.4 GHz processor, 3.7 inch screen, 5 MP camera and 8 GB of internal storage with options to expand it. Its available in black and white colours to choose and pre loaded with Nokia Maps & ESPN application.

With the release of Lumia 710, Nokia has officially announced its re-entry in to the US mobile market. Also in the pipeline Nokia has its Lumia 900 which will be the first Windows Phone designed to run on AT & T’s high speed LTE network.

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Google Maps for Android is upgraded with few new features and performance fixes that improves battery life, indoor maps and improved directions. One of the biggest complaints Android users have while using Google Maps with GPS  features is the battery drain issue. With the new update, Google is confident of fixing the battery drain issues and improving the overall battery life while using Maps.

Transit Navigation (beta) feature newly introduced in this version uses vehicle speed to estimate the navigation directions when the GPS signal is lost. Google also released its first ever floor plans it has started collecting recently and it includes plans of CES as well as few buildings of Las Vegas.

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How often we see Google modifying it’s search home page? Not so often till Google+ is introduced. After introduction of Google+, Google is trying hard to knit all non-search products and upselling them on most website google.com .

Today Google Search home screen sports a fresh look with a new a new logo, on the face display of non-search products  and other small layout changes.

In the new design, a new grey Google is logo displayed on the top left corner and it very looks different compared to the traditional colour full Google logo.

The horizontal black bar that use to run across the browser on top of the screen is replaced with a pull down floating menu on the left side of home screen. The new navigation bar is opened up automatically when we visit the search home page and I found it little annoying to have a wide menu bar open on the screen. When you click on any part of the home screen the menu is hidden and it can be accessed by hovering mouse on top left corner Google icon.

Apart from these changes the homepage remains more or less the same with the signature Google bar prominently displayed in the middle. 

The modifications are slowly rolled out the users and with preference to Google Chrome users. As I write this post, I’m able to access the new home page design on Google Chrome browser alone. IE & Firefox are still showing the old design.

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In 2011 we have seen incredible break troughs in the field of science starting from particles speeding faster than light to defying aging. These break troughs are going to completely going to change the way humans are going to live.

The iO9 blog that writes about science has compiled the list of top science breakthroughs in 2011 and here is the run down of them

1. Heartbeat-powered nano-generators could soon replace batteries
2. Faster-than-light Neutrinos
3. Neuroscientists reconstruct the movies in your mind
4. Online gamers solve a decade-old HIV puzzle in three weeks
5. "Feeling" objects with a brain implant
6. IBM unveils brain-like "neurosynaptic" chips
7. A device that lets you see through walls
8. Electronics and biometric sensors that you wear like a temporary tattoo
9. Culling senescent cells postpones age-related disease in mice
10. NASA’s Kepler Mission changes how we see ourselves in the Universe

Continue reading Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011

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Wish you a Happy New Years to everyone.

On the occasion of this new year day few popular websites we site often are decorated beautifully. The decorations are lead by Google with it’s beautiful doodles and followed by Bing and Yahoo with their videos and animations on their home pages.

Google Doodle – New Year Eve 2012

Google Doodle – New Year 2012

Microsoft’s Bing featured a fireworks video

Yahoo! 2012 New Year greetings animation

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The day when we are going to share our cubicles at workplace with robots is not far away as advances in robotics technology is blurring the gap between humans and robots. At a recent robots expo, a Japanese  firms lined up its robots on stage and demonstrated their ability to work along with humans in an industrial assembly line.

The human sized robots are highly sophisticated, intelligent, agile and just consumes 1500 watts of power for functioning – equivalent to power consumption of hair dryers.  Kawada Industries, the manufacturer of the robots says these robots are intended to “work alongside” people, but they may actually end up replacing the people.

Foxconn, the manufacture of Apple iPhone & iPad has announced its intention to replace human work force with 1 million robots in next three years. So in the near future you may plan your coffee break at work with a robot! – you may sip coffee and the robots recharge batteries.

Further Reading

• Foxconn to rely more on robots; could use 1 million in 3 years
• Nextage Industrial Humanoid Works Alongside People
• Cognitive Computing: When Computers Become Brains
• 12 reasons 2020 will be an awesome year

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Jonathan Ive, the principle designer of Apple has been awarded with a knighthood in the United Kingdom. With knighthood he can now style himself Sir Jonathan.

Ive, the London born designer worked very close with late Steve Jobs at Apple and he is behind the designs of almost all the beautiful products released by Apple – iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac. He currently hold the title of Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple and reports to CEO.

In a press release to San Jose Mercury News, Ive responded to the award

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. To be recognized with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful. I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design. I feel enormously fortunate that I continue to be able to design and make products with a truly remarkable group of people here at Apple.

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An year after Facebook dropping support to Internet Explorer 6.0, it seems to be Internet Explorer 7 is headed to Facebook’s graveyard to join it’s predecessor. Facebook Timeline, one of the most innovative feature from the undisputed king of social networking, is not supported anymore on Internet Explorer 7.

Facebook Timeline first introduced in September 2011 and gradually made available to everyone earlier this month. Internet Explorer 7 users visiting Timeline enabled Facebook profiles would be surprised to see old Facebook profile design with annoying screen layouts.

It’s not a surprise move from Facebook as IE 7 is close to 5 year old and lacks many of the modern browser features.  Google also officially stopped supporting IE 7 on many of it’s popular sites like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs.

Internet Explorer 7 has got just above 4% of global market share so it would not be a big issue if popular sites drop supporting for better design.

Are you still using Internet Explorer (7)? Time to move to more advanced browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 / 8!

source: tnw

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Facebook has launched a standalone Windows 7 application that lets you chat with Facebook contacts. While there are many third party Windows applications like Windows Messenger that lets you chat with Facebook contacts, the official application has Facebook specific features  – live Facebook ticker, preview of messages, notifications and friend request.

The application shows Ticker on top of the window and displays friends (online and offline) on the next half. The chat features of the application are very similar to the popular chat applications. Multiple chat windows can be arranged as a tabs in a single window. The notifications are well integrated with Windows OS and you they look similar to Outlook’s new email alerts. You can also dock the application to the sidebar of Windows and when docked the chat application is visible even if you open any other applications.

Overall the application looks very simple, clean and performs best of what it is supposed to do. Chatting with your Facebook friends and being on top of Facebook alerts was never this easy.

Link to download the application | Visit Facebook site for more details

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