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Remember the Nokia N8? Yes, I am talking about Nokia’s next high-end handset that got trashed in an early review. One of the main drawbacks cited by the reviewer was that the Symbian^3 OS just didn’t cut it. Quite obviously, Nokia is keen to prove otherwise. Nokia has recorded three videos demonstrating different aspects of the user interface (UI) including messaging, internet and maps. The first of the three is embedded below. The remaining videos will be released next week. From the video, the browser looks strictly ok. The only thing worth noting is that it supports flash. The messaging aspect has definitely improved but Nokia is simply playing catch-up. Threaded SMS conversations, which has been present in iPhone, Palm and Android devices for a long time, finally makes it to Symbian. The saving grace is Ovi Maps, which is an excellent navigation app. Some eye candy has been added to Symbian^3 including more widgets, some transition effects and a refreshed task manager. N8 will feat...

Samsung has unveiled two new business-category notebooks namely P80 Premium and P30 Essential designed especially for meeting the requirements of business operations. Both the models have features like integrated microphone, a webcam that supports video conferencing and has Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR connectivity. Samsung P80 Notebook The P80 Premium series include P480 and P580 notebooks and the series has 2.26 GHz Intel Core i5-430 processor, 0.3 megapixel webcam, up to 4GB DDR3 RAM and up to 320GB 5400RPM HDD. Besides, the P80 series notebooks are supports Wi-Fi and has HD Audio, 1.5 W speakers. The P480 model comes with 14-inch display while P580 has 15.6-inch display and both have four USB 2.0 ports. Samsung P30 Notebook Meanwhile, the P30 Essential series comes with 14 inch and 15 inch display and has scratch-resistant chassis. The notebook has 250 GB hard drive. It has three USB 2.0 ports and supports Wi-Fi, 1.5 MW speakers and 0.3 megapixel webcam. "Samsung designed these product ...

Indian market is growing as days pass by and the number of new mobiles is getting increased. One of the latest releases came from Lemon Mobile , a concern of Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd. Lemon Mobile introduced its new Dual Sim mobile today which has been named as Lemon Duo 401. The Lemon Duo 401 has been priced at Rs. 3699 which is worth paying this GSM+GSM mobile. This mobile has been given a stylish look by using a metal body and it features a VGA camera as well. A 2.6 inch TFT Screen is present with 500 Kb internal memory. Do not worry that it is too low because it is possible to extend up to 2GB using the slot. There is no problem with the entertainment quotient as this has been provided with an MP3 Player, AVI video player, AVI player, FM radio and much more. It has 850 mAh battery which can give you with 3.5 h ours of talk time.

Symantec is known mostly for its Norton anti virus software. Symantec has marked its new Norton internet security software for Android-based smart phones. President of Symantec's Consumer Business says where non-PC devices are blowing up in numbers, which means more opportunity for cyber criminals. It’s becoming more and more critical for consumers to be protected beyond their PCs. It is being expected that the software will provide a better, faster and safer online browsing experience.  Actually Norton Connect (currently named "Norton Tiki") has already being providing its services to iPhone and Android users, access to files backed up using Norton Online Backup. The company will refresh this product and "make it more magnificent," releasing a beta in June. Also that month, Symantec will release a beta version of Norton for Android with features like scanning for bogus apps, remote wipe and lock, and caller blocking. The suite will includes backup and recovery ...

Samsung is on a roll these days, coming out with cheap and touch screen phones one after the other. But what makes its latest offering, the Samsung Star Nano, special is its 3G feature, priced at an affordable Rs. 7320 . Among its specs, it has 2.6 inches QVGA display, 35MB internal memory (expandable up to 16GB), 1.3 megapixel camera, music recognition, FM radio, video recording. The device also supports class 10 GPRS and EDGE technology along with Bluetooth feature. Compared with its previous touch screen phone that Samsung released few days ago, Samsung Champ, this device has a bigger screen display and double the memory. For those hooked on to social networking, this phone integrates instant chat messenger facilities like GTalk, AIM, and Palringo Chat. Packing in a wide range of specifications, the Star Nano 3G is a compact handset and comes with few additional features like English dictionary, mobile prayer, weather forecast and share market trends. "The launch of Star Nano 3...

RIM's has announced the launch of its latest BlackBerry, the 9700 Bold in India. Targetted at the upwardly mobile executives of today, the phone is a decent addition to the existing line up of BlackBerry devices. The Bold 9700 features the new BlackBerry Trackball and an optical trackpad and also comes with a faster 624MHz processor that should enable zippier performance. As for the features, here is what the latest Bold from BlackBerry has in store for you. It has a large 2.1-inch screen capable of a high 480x360 pixel resolution, at the front and 256MB of onboard memory - expandable with the addition of a microSD card. At the rear is the decent 3.2 megapixel camera that should be able to take decent images. The camera is also capable of recording videos. To help you in low light conditions, there is an LED flash too at the rear. It has a 1500 mAh battery that is rated to power the phone for 6 hours if you talk continuously. The phone runs BlackBerry OS 5 and will set you back by...

You may have noticed the new Google search interface, which features a new left-hand navigation (left sidebar) and a modified Google logo which looks pretty cool. The new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query, making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. However, most users may find the new sidebar integrated to left of Google searchresults not useful and pretty annoying. There’s an easy way to hide the left-hand navigation pane/sidebar in Chrome and Firefox browser. To Hide Google sidebar in Chrome , install the extension ‘ Hide Google Options ’. It’ll remove the persistent sidebar and also ensures the Options pane remains a choice for users. You can click its icon to alternately show or hide the options shown in the left-hand pane of Google search results. (Supports worldwide google domains) To Disable Google sidebar in Firefox , install the add-on Hide Google Options . You can easily enable/disable it anytime from status bar...

Spice Mobiles has launched its latest touchscreen phone, the S7000 in India - complete with an array of features that include a 3.2 inch WQVGA screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera and unlimited phone book entries. The launch of this phone comes just a few months after the company launched its 12 megapixel camera phone in India, the S-1200.  As for the S7000, it comes with 19MB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 16GB with the help of a T-Flash memory card. The phone is capable of video recording at 15fps - although the resolution of the recording hasn't been specified.  Also, the camera doesn't have a flash. On the good side of things, the phone supports an array of video formats that includes RMVB, FLV, WMV, AVI, MP4, 3GP, MOV, DAT and RM. It supports 720P videos as well.  Other features include Zi predictive text, 1000 SMS memory, email facility, JAVA, incoming call guard, FM radio, Bluetooth v2.0. The phone can be used as a webcam as well. The phone is also social...

Social network giant Facebook will roll out a new set of privacy settings to all its users starting on 26 May.The company said it will post the details on its blog. Facebook faced a barrage of criticism from users over a series of tweaks that left its members unsure about how public their information had become. Some profile owners have threatened to quit the site on 31 May in protest. Founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had "missed the mark". "I can confirm that our new, simpler privacy settings are starting to roll out tomorrow evening so stay tuned on our blog for more details," said a spokesperson. Facebook's vice president of product Chris Cox described the last few weeks as "extremely humbling". Significant changes to the settings began in December, when the social network changed the default rule on profile information. It became accessible online unless the user specifically opted out. In April of this year Facebook data was opened up ...

Dell has launched its latest desktop offering Studio XPS 7100 which is powered by AMD six core processor. The desktop is touted as the cheapest six core processor based desktop available in the market and is packed with a range of powerful features too. A powerful PC, it has unmatched graphics and multimedia features. For people who have been looking for a powerful PC to easily perform their multi thread tasks simultaneously, the PC is a perfect option to go with. This powerful PC has powerful multimedia features making the social networking experience for user a treat. Some of the primary features of the device are AMD Phenon II X6 processor which is powered with AMD Turbo Core Technology and ATi Radeon HD graphics card. With the PC, buyers get 3D browser experience using AMD Fusion Media Explorer . Other prime specialties of this latest desktop include Dual channel DDR3 and 3TB hard disk. All these features make the PC a perfect gaming PC which is enamored with some superb multim...

Dell has opened its box of announcements for the introduction of Smartphones intothe market. This announcement was made by Steve Felice, President of Dell’s consumer that Smartphones will hit the Indian market later this year. This was stated in a post-earnings press conference called by the company with Asian journalists on Friday. The conference also revealed that Dell will be introducing more smartphone models in China as well adding more to the list initiated earlier this year. According to some figures gathered by research firm IDC India, the country has witnessed far more mobile phone purchase as compared to the PC. The sales of mobile phones surpassed the personal computers as the rate was 80 new mobile phones against one PC. There is a probability that with the launch of commercial third-generation bandwidth services by September, the usage of data services on smartphones will also rise. Smartphone is a familiar thing crowned with being the world’s fastest growing and secon...

Responding to complaints, the social networking site plans to make it easier for users to opt out of some, though not all, data-sharing features. Facing growing protests over its handling of users' personal information, Facebook plans to make changes to the privacy settings available on the world's largest social networking website. But the steps, to be unveiled as early as next week, may not go as far as critics would like. Lawmakers, regulators, privacy watchdogs and some Facebook users have unleashed a storm of criticism of the Internet company since it launched a program that shares user data with three third-party websites. A number of U.S. senators have called on Facebook to allow users to opt out of that program, which Facebook calls instant personalization. The 6-year-old private company also has been assailed for technical glitches and loopholes that have exposed some personal data to third parties. Facebook said Friday that it would simplify its privacy choices in res...

Popular social networking site Facebook can now be accessed through mobile devices for free or without any data charges in 45 countries, including India, on select mobile networks. Facebook, which has over 400 million users worldwide, has tied up with Indian wireless operators -- Reliance Communications and Videocon -- to make the site available for cell phone users with zero data charges. For this purpose, the entity has launched a new site ’0.facebook.com’ that includes all key features of Facebook but is optimised for speed. “Today, we are launching ... ‘0.facebook.com’. “It, initially, is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges,” a programme manager for Facebook Mobile, Sid Murlidhar, wrote in a blog on Wednesday. In India, the new site would be available on the networks of Reliance and Videocon, the blog said. Noting that the new site is fast and free, Murlidhar said it has key features of standard mobile site ‘m.faceb...

Telecom service provider, Aircel has partnered ibibo. com to offer social gaming on mobile phonesfor the first time in the country. The popular game " Great Indian Parking wars " from Ibibo will now be offered on the Aircel Pocket Internet. India's fifth largest GSM mobile service provider plans to add many more games to the offering soon. The users will either require an ibibo. com ID or can access the games through facebook connect. The users can only access the game through WAP-enabled handsets. The offering also brings the micro-transactions to the mobile phones where users can purchase virtual items in the games and pay through theservice provider. Mr. Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel said, "With first Social Gaming on your Mobile Phones the intent is to drive innovation at the convergence of Games and Social Platforms while you are on the move. It is our endeavor to offer our consumers exciting and engaging opportunities such as gaming and staying socially connected ...

Bangalore, May 18 (PTI): Leading PC maker Dell today unveiled Studio XPS 7100 desktop which it said is designed for busy multi-taskers who demand their technology keeps pace with their up- tempo lives. The desktop PC, priced at Rs 49,900, is powered by Advanced Micro Devices' new six-core processor and it delivers a seamless intersection of social networking, entertainment and multimedia creation, the company said in a statement. "The Studio XPS 7100 desktop with AMD Vision technology are feature-packed, yet budget-friendly. They're perfect for listening to music, streaming video and gaming, while connecting with friends and family via social networking sites and blogs," said Sriram Gopalaswamy, Marketing Manager, Consumer, Dell India.

Recently i had received a report from a company which had stats on the best laptops which was sent by a media company and while reading the report i thought to share a part of the stats with all my blog reader, but well it was not possible because it was a JPEG Image which the report was saved as and there was no option to copy any part of this. Now in order to extract all the text content from the Image i had to use a Online Tool called as Free OCR also means Optical Character Recognition which is a technology used to mechanically or electronically translate images into machine editable text which means into a kind of text which you can use it easily. To make you understand this technology in easy format, lets take a example. Whenever you scan some important document, you will find that its available to you to be saved as a Image file and you cannot select any other format in this case, because the scanner would take a photographic screenshot of document and present it to you. Now the...

Vista looks pretty cool eh, you might have even considered buying it until you saw the price tag, or maybe you just didn't want to get it because all of the bugs, but either way theres no need to fear because free vista is here! This is not actually windows vista but its pretty close. It's a theming pack called Vista Transformation Pack 7. It basically gives your old XP or 2000 a digital makeover, and we're going to find out how to use it. step 1 Download Your Files To make this look like vista we're going to need 2 programs: 1. Vista Tansformation Pack 7 2. Fast Aero What is Vista Transformation Pack 7? Vista transformation pack 7 is a theming program that themes your os to vista by changing things like your boot screen your taskbar your wallpaper your screen savers ect. What is Fast Aero? Ya know the nice transparent window… step 2 Removing Hotfix KB925902 Now if you just tried to install the program you probably noticed an error message such as the one below. All you...

Nokia has joined the battle with telecom service providers for a share of the online music pie. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, on Thursday said its customers in India will be able to download unlimited music on their handsets or personal computers.   The catch is that only those customers who buy a smartphone where this facility is enabled will get 12 months of unlimited free music downloads. "The 5-series and X-series of handsets will offer 12 months of unlimited music downloads," Nokia’s Vice President & Managing Director for India D Shivakumar said. The price range of these handsets range from Rs 6,000—Rs 18,000, he added.  But, existing customers of Nokia who already use handsets from these series cannot avail this facility. "You have to buy a new mobile phone to get unlimited music downloads," Mr Shivkumar said. He added that going forward, Nokia would make this service available on other handset series too.  Nokia customers can download...

The Shanghai World Expo formally opened its door to the highly avid public Saturday morning after years of planning and preparation. Visitors, from home and abroad, have thronged to the gates of the Expo park, receiving security checks in long queues. More than 350,000 tickets have been sold or distributed for the opening day, organizers said. Ge Ning, an executive of a sci-tech company in neighboring Jiangsu Province, was among the first to enter the park. "I'm here to see new inventions concerning science, technology, environmental protection, and energy," he said. The United States Pavilion and the exotic pavilions of African countries are also on his list. "I might only be able to visit five pavilions today," he said, wowing the crowds around him. Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin and International Exhibitions Bureau President Jean-Pierre Lafon activated the opening device together at a commencement ceremony. The Expo, carrying a theme of "Bette...

Mahru the robot can dance and wave and do just about anything you can do, while you're doing it. The latest version of this humanoid-looking robot developed by Korea Institute of Science and Technology's ( KISK ) Cognitive Robotics Centre can mimic a person's movement in real-time, reports the sci-tech website IEEE Spectrum. Dubbed Mahru, the robot's movements are fluid and clean. And how it performs them is evolving every day. Previously, the robot had to learn how to perform new tasks via video. Now, a motion-capture suit allows the wearer's movements to be transferred directly to Mahru. The motions can be recorded for later use, too. The KISK Cognitive Robotics Center research focuses on designing robots that do chores for people, and they have made headlines before, as newer models become capable of ever more complex tasks. Past versions of Mahru have performed chores like grocery shopping, or bringing food to tables. "Attention is turning to the benefi...

In the second stage of a two-part rollout,Apple Inc on Friday began selling the pricier, high-speed wireless version of the iPad in the United States, following the successful launch of the short-range Wi-Fi tablet earlier this month. Although the event certainly lacked the buildup and excitement of the April 3 debut -- with the heartiest waiting in line overnight -- some Apple retail stores in big cities still saw decent-sized crowds ahead of the 5 p.m. launch. At a store in downtown San Francisco, roughly 75 people stood in line 90 minutes before the 3G iPad went on sale. Several people said they had waited for the more expensive version of Apple's tablet because they saw it as a potential replacement for their laptops, at least in certain situations. "I'm going to take it everywhere with me, I already take my laptop everywhere, and it'll definitely replace my laptop in a lot of cases," said Long Nguyen, 22, who works in IT repair and was first in line. The 3G m...

Flying RC helicopter is really very exhilarating. Their versatility gives a RC pilot a complete access to the three-dimensional space in such a way that no other machines can! I have played RC helicopter for more than one year but still find that I have just learnt a few tricks that it can perform. There are generally two micro-helicopters ( indoor ) in the RC market. I have already planned to buy one of them as they can fly inside the living room and even take off on ours hand. Unlike those operated by gas, these electric helicopters are very clean and give out no terrible noise at all. In one nightfall, I visited a web site, which is about how to make a hand made RC helicopter. I was totally impressed and started designing my own helicopter. Here is my helicopter: The plan of the helicopter had finally been completed. It is not very well drew. The current plan available is only for the fixed pitch design. If you are a fan of RC helicopters and would like to build your own then check ...