PIPE - The simplest way to send files through FaceBook

Pipe Dream Technologies, berlin based company targets to modify the “Share on Facebook” feature method in a way that, members can share files with their friends in their network. They can simply drag and drop music, documents, video and pictures into a virtual green tube (You would have viewed these green tubes in your favorite “Super Mario Games”). So, Facebook friends are can receive these bits and pieces in real time with Pipe, even if they don't have the app or aren't online.

Opera Mini 6.5 Mobile Browser is now on BlackBerry App World

Now, BlackBerry (BB) customers can access the world’s most favorite mobile browser Opera Mini 6.5. They can download it from m.opera.com manually.  BlackBerry users have been saving data and money on their BB for ages. Now, it's pretty easy to download via App World.

Best Apps for your Android Tablet

Have you bought Android Tablet? If yes, then I would like guide you on the best & top apps for your Android Tablet. Once you're done familiarizing yourself with your device and have learned how to use the Android Market, it's time to download and install apps that'll make your new gadget a lot more useful.

Dolphin Browser

 
   Dolphin is a replacement browser for the simple built-in that comes with most Android tablets. The library of optional add-on features includes Dolphin Webzine, which reformats ugly web pages to make a more attractive, readable page, and Dolphin Gesture, which assigns shortcuts to your favourite sites or browser actions. For example, you can teach Dolphin to launch the Google home page when you draw a “G” on the screen. Create your own gestures by drawing any symbol, then associate that gesture with an action. (free; www.dolphin-browser.com)

Google on Your Goggle-Box: Internet giant launches service that will allow you to surf on your TV

The Internet giant Google is to launch a new era of ‘Internet TV’ with a service that allows users to search their screens in the same way as the web. The innovation, Google TV, will mean viewers can use their set for television and the internet – and even both at the same time.

Users will be able to watch material from catch-up services like the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player on their main television screen.

Google TV, which is accessed through a special set-top box, will launch in the UK within six months.

Google acquires Green Parrot Pictures Company

Google has acquired Green Parrot Pictures, an Irish company that makes tools to manipulate digital video and images.

Green Parrot Pictures was founded six years ago by Dr Anil Kokaram, an associate professor with the school of engineering at Trinity College, Dublin.  Green Parrot's technology to help users make better-quality videos, particularly for videos taken with mobile phones. Google said that Green Parrot's technology would enhance the look of videos posted on its site while using bandwidth more efficiently. 

Interesting new feature from Google - SMART FOLDERS for Gmail Users

Google continues to release interesting new features designed to help email users. It has improved filtering and helped us save time doing standard email-related tasks. But Gmail's newest feature, Smart Folders.

The Smart Folders automatically identifies bulk email messages and puts them in a “special” folder.

Online Marketing is better than Television Marketing - Microsoft

Microsoft India is taking a strange stride to market their latest gaming hardware, the Kinect for the Xbox 360. They feel that usual advertising mediums won’t help them to reach their target audience successfully.

“The people who we are trying to reach, the people who will buy the Kinect from us, are all online, highly connected with the Internet. We are promoting the device through our social networks, and maintain a thriving online community, but unlike the launch of the Xbox in 2005, when we ran a sustained television campaign, today we feel that the community is already aware of the Xbox, is already enthusiastic, and we feel that we can reach them better without advertising” said Jaspreet Bindra, Regional Director for Entertainment and Devices - Microsoft India.

Most of the people are on Facebook and Twitter and on forums which discuss technology, they become familiar with the brand and the device, and then the conversion takes place when they use it themselves.

“On Facebook alone, we have a community of almost 50,000 fans now. These are people that are passionate about the games, identify with our brand and use the page, and our Twitter page and even other paths to connect with us directly” said by Sharan Tulsiani, Community Manager for Xbox 360 India.

Apple is launching iOS 4.2

Apple announced its latest operating system update for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users will be available today. The software update would bring a bunch of new features to the iPad that already hit the iPhone and iPod Touch through last summer's iOS 4.0 release. iPad users are now can switch between apps, organize through folders and even can jump from one email inbox to another.

Steve Jobs mentioned in his statement that "iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season," "Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit."

The new AirPrint feature would print content directly from your mobile device to an AirPrint-enabled printer, a list that presently includes the HP Photosmart, HP LaserJet Pro, and HP Officejet, along with a host of other printers.

Airplay is another feature which would allow you to play music, videos and photos from and iPad, iPhone and iPod to Apple TV. 

iOS 4.2 will be available for the iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPod and iPad. In order to update any of these devices with iOS 4.2 first require iTunes 10.1, which Apple released a week ago.

What comScore says about Search Engines?! - A Quick Review

Google preserved its authority in search last month, capturing 66.3% of explicit core searches and 64.3% of total core searches, which includes Google Instant.

Well, Bing and Yahoo tracked behind, according to the comScore data Bing has got faintly uptime. comScore has continued it’s second month with the impact of Google Instant – which offers suggestions as someone types – when calculating its search engine rankings.

ComScore said last month that when people type something into Google, hit "enter," and then click on a link, it counts that activity in its "explicit core search" results. Results that show up in Google Instant as someone types will be included in "total core search" results if a user pauses on that for at least three seconds, comScore said.

As a result, Google had 66.3% of the open core search market in October 2010, up very slightly from 66.1% a month before. Yahoo came in 2nd with 16.5% of the market, losing 0.2%, followed by Microsoft sites with 11.5%, a 0.3% boost. Overall, more than 16.6 billion open core searches were conducted in October 2010, with Google capturing 11 billion searches, followed by Yahoo with 2.7 billion, and Microsoft with 1.9 billion.

Recently moved Ask.com – had 598 million searches, followed by AOL with 346 million. On the whole Google is only company in the hit list to make any gains month-over-month in a total core search, which includes Google Instant.

Recent article says that “Google had 64.3 percent of the market, up 1.4 percent from the previous month. Yahoo had 18.5 percent, down 0.7 percent, followed by Microsoft at 12.1 percent, down 0.4 percent.”

Apple Prepares For iPad 2 Release

A report today morning suggests that Apple is preparing for the release of the iPad 2 early next year by initiating production of the device in January. 

iPad

Apple is preparing for the release of the iPad 2 by initiating production of the device in January. The report today morning suggests this news. Though there is no any cimmitment on the release date, But Apple announced the original iPad during an event at the end of January and released it for retail approximately two months later. The new device is expected to include features such as dual cameras for face time, upgraded display & processor/memory with great storage capacity and of course less weight. 

The recent news that the 1st generation iPads are being sold for $399. Well, this price could become the standard for the iPad Gen 1, along with this iPad 2 begins at $499.

"Dream Screen" - Interactive Digital Device from HP India Cost Rs.19,999

An interactive digital device called "Dream Screen" has launched by HP in India. The touch-based device is designed to offer simplicity to the users in accessing the content through the Internet like education, video chat, e-mail, movies and news, browsing and lot more.

“The device is designed to offer features and content to each member of the family. Users can browse internet, get the latest news and play games, providing a PC-like experience” said by Sunil Dutt, General Manager and Vice President of HP India.

HP DreamScreen boasts of music, bollywood movies, bollywood TV and games. By just dialing a number through video calling feature, families can connect with anyone on the web. They can watch bollywood movies on the device or on a DVD/ VCD and can listen to bollywood and spiritual songs and lot more. For children, rich and interactive multi-media features are there.

HP interactive digital device ‘DreamScreen’ is priced at Rs.19,999 and it will be available end of this november in 700 outlets across 60 cities in the country.

Spice launches 3G+2G Dual - SIM Phone

Spice Mobility has launched 3G dual mode QWERTY phone with the access of high-speed data transmission, advanced multimedia access, richer data and voice experience. They launched Spice QT 95 and Spice QT 68 to market.

Spice QT-95 - It's 220×176 resolution display feature, an optical trackpad, video calling support, 3.2 megapixel camera and 48MB internal memory features are very unique. The phone also gives access to social networking sites like Facebook, Snaptu, Yahoo and Nimbuzz IM for those who addicted to social networking. 

Another device Spice QT-68, the phone comes with Wi-Fi, EDGE and other social networking features.

Both the phones come with a Track Pad for browsing and supports dual expandable memory.

With all these features they have tagged the pricing for Spice QT- 95 for Rs. 5,499, and Spice QT- 68 will come for Rs.4,999.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta - An Impressive 13 Million Downloads...

The recent launch of IE 9 has an impressive and tremendous number of downloads within a short span of time. Mozilla who strives to cross two million of their next version, Where IE 9 already has 13 million in just two months.

“We continue to see broad developer excitement and rapid user adoption of Internet Explorer Beta. Since the beta launch, we have already had over 13 million downloads of Internet Explorer 9 beta and it continues to be our fastest adopted browser to date,” published Microsoft’s Ziad Ismail.

Ismail appends “Download IE9 Beta today and see first-hand what a browser built for real-world performance can enable,”.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Version is available for download on web.

Microsoft Windows turns 25

25 years ago on this november month, Microsoft published Windows. But over the years, it enhanced into a full-fledged Operating System, which has built one of the most recognizable brand names in the world that dominates the PC desktop.

Still Microsoft hits top with their exceptional deliveries to their customers. Though there were few mishaps with them, they're still proving their excellence in performance. Most of the people using MS-Windows. Approximately 9 out of 10 people using windows and its applications.

The recent launch of Windows 7 adds performance improvements, slightly faster booting and support for Windows, as well as some UI enhancements. Windows 7 made a stunning 150 million licenses have been sold, Microsoft says. It's a best and simple example, shows that giants performance.

Let's wish them a warm congratulations for its first quarter-century.

Edit Google Docs on your Smart Phones

Google Docs is a cloud based document editor. It was only supporting with desktop browsers. Google has launched a mobile browser version of the Google Docs editor, so now you can edit your documents on-the-go. No matter where you're.

It's pretty easy to do. Just visit docs.google.com in a browser on a supported device, and select the document you want to edit. Then, when you’re viewing it, press the Edit button to switch to the mobile editor.

In the next few days, They are rolling this out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. They will be adding support for other languages soon.

Getting the Most from your Online Marketing Budget

SEO or search engine optimization has become the heart and soul of the Internet marketing industry and many Canadian MSPs and VARs are looking at Search Optimization as part of their overall online marketing strategy.

Each and every reseller or service provider wants to be on the top of search engine results page (SERP). This has created a need for search engine optimizers who alter and optimize the Web sites in such a manner that they become search engine friendly and bring in traffic and revenue to the organizations.

Like any competitive field of business, SEO hasn’t escaped from the hands of crooks and ne’er-do-wells who make tall claims on search engine optimization. It is important for you to detect such frauds before you assign them an optimization job. Here are a few tips which will help you in sorting a fraud SEO service provider from a real one:

• Guaranteed Ranking: The only people who can guarantee you a ranking are search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing but the fact is none of them do SEO! Not even the top ten optimizers in the world in the world can guarantee you a ranking so never fall for such tall claims.
• Quick results: Good SEO is a time-consuming process. It takes time to organically rank a Web site high. It takes at least a month to effectively reflect growth after optimization. So stay away from catchy claims like ‘First page ranking in 15 days’. ‘Guaranteed results in 7 days.’
• Too-Good-To-Be-True Rates: ‘Quality never comes cheap.’ If you choose the wrong SEO service provider, it can be an exercise in futility costing you time and money. The Internet is a great tool to search for market-standard rates. Do not go to optimizers who quote unbelievably low rates.
• Black Hat Techniques: There are lot of unethical techniques for getting your Web site higher ranking on the Web. The down side of this is such practices might invite permanent penalty from the search engines and prove detrimental for your Web site. Make sure your optimizer doesn’t use black hat techniques for optimization.
• Secret and Proprietary: As the owner of the Web site, you are entitled to know what are the exact optimization techniques that your Web site is going through. In case any service provider denies you the information citing secrecy and proprietary information, it is advisable to stay away from them.
• Technical Brainstorming: If your SEO service provider is bombarding you with technological terms and high end techniques it is most likely that he/she is poor with the application of what business is looking for. Good optimizers seldom talk in technical language with their clients and fake optimizers might want to hide their lack of knowledge with such terminology.  The old ‘dazzle them with BS’ truism comes to mind.

Keeping these things in mind will help you in choosing the perfect SEO optimizer for your job.  It is critical that you find a SEO provider who also understands your target market and the industry that you are in.  Search Engine Optimization is not guaranteed, involves hundreds of variables and is a continual process of adjustments and building authority over time. It is a fine mixture of art, science, and research and never comes cheap. And the most important thing – there are no guaranteed results is SEO.

By Stuart Crawford

Source: ChannelBuzz.CA

Motorola Charm coming to India this month for Rs.15K

Motorola India seems to be slowly launching most of it’s Android handsets in India. The latest one to hit India will be the Moto Charm which is currently available in USA on T-Mobile. It’s an Android QWERTY handset with chic looks.

The Flipout was launched recently and was targeted at women. Seems like the Charm will be landing in India for a price of around Rs.15000 by November end.

Submitted by Varun Krish

Source: FA - FoneArena

Apple's First PC Expected to Fetch $160,000

The Apple I is arguably considered the first personal computer, paving the path for desktop computing with this elementary PC. This incidentally was the first commercial product released by Apple, hand-built by co-founder Steve Wozniak. Released in 1976, the Apple I retailed for $666.66 (Rs. 29,836 approx.), and only 200 units were produced. Apple's quest for simplification was apparent even then. The Apple I featured an assembled motherboard, as opposed to other alternatives prevalent at that time only available in kit form requiring user assembly.

London based auction house Christie's have put up an almost pristine Apple I for bidding. It is expected to get auctioned for anywhere between $160,000 and $240,000. That's quite a lot for something more than three decades old, but the fact that there are less than 50 of them left, makes them pretty invaluable. In fact, Apple has reportedly sold one for $50,000. The estimates don't sound as lofty, when we all know how generous Apple fans are.

By: Nachiket Mhatre

Source: Techtree

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