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Wordpress-one the most famous online CMS for web publishing

2012-03-16T10:34:00.003-07:00

Wordpress has been tagged as one of the most powerful open source platforms in the market. The end-users, no matter whether technical or even non-technical, can easily use Wordpress and customize it according to their specific requirements. Being build up on PHP programming language and linked up with MySQL database, WordPress has no license fees to be paid for downloading and using it. This feature has attracted millions of users to use this open source customization platform which has robust architecture and easy supportive plug-ins. This ensures flexibility to update the information on websites/blogs which is thereafter displayed as fresh content.

As a blogging platform Wordpress provides its users ultimate freedom to leverage content with customization according to their choice on their websites/blogs. Wordpress CMS allows easy management, update and modification for improved productivity and better visual and content result after publishing. Wordpress developers, who work as independent professional as well as with companies, can develop websites with great state-of-the-architecture and latest technology features so that businesses could receive maximum ROI.

Wordpress programmers are experts in customized development and creating a user-friendly back-end to enable the clients with higher range of customization and enhanced features. Wordpress provides all-in-one solution, which integrates all functionalities such as Quality Themes & Templates, Product/Service Storage & Display, Email Set-Up, RSS Feeds, Shopping Cart Integration, Payment Options and other advanced functionalities which enhances the user’s experience to use their operations easy and make them profitable for vital businesses. Wordpress Customization has been on high market demands along with the other features & forms such as:

• Wordpress Customization

• WordPress Implementation & Set-Up

• WordPress E-Commerce Development & Integration

• WordPress as Content Management System (CMS)

• WordPress Skin & Template Development

• WordPress Theme Development

• WordPress Hosting & Website Maintenance

• WordPress Plug-In Development

• Custom WordPress Design and Theme Development

• WordPress SEO Services

• WordPress Portal Development

• WordPress Social Networking Development

PayPal restructuring its digital wallet services

2012-03-15T09:29:00.001-07:00

Of latest, PayPal has restructured its digital wallet service before introducing a plug-in gizmo that would allow small business to accept credit card payments with smartphones. The new enhancements to PayPal’s digital services would be rollout by May 2012. "We've re-designed and re-architected the PayPal digital wallet," said global product and experience vice president Sam Shrauger.

This overhauling of the user interface at PayPal wallet services has other offering as well. The new types of value services would now include coupons, gift cards and loyalty program credits, according to Shrauger. The new changes would also allow PayPal wallet users to customize installment plans to pay for large purchases and demands. It is also anticipated that PayPal can introduce a triangular "dongle" that will plug into mobile devices to scan credit or debit cards for purchases. This move could threat chances of Square, an idea of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Google complying app developers to use Google Wallet

2012-03-15T08:44:00.001-07:00

To copy the payment structure followed by Apple’s for its iOS platform, Google is also compelling application and mobile game developers to make use of its bit expensive in-house payment service, Google Wallet. Google is forcing developers to quit payment methods like PayPal, Zong and Boku. The company has intimated developers in case of not working to new Google guidelines; their apps can be removed from the Android Market. Google Play is now the new name of one time and one place Google Apps store.

According to some developers Google is devising methods to ease consumer payments in hope to raise apps-buying. However, Google’s payment service charges a higher cut per transaction than other payment service providers in the market. This way, the company could promote in-house offering. Google Play, the new name for the Android Market place an appropriate business initiative to rival Apple's apps store provides consumers opportunity to browse everything from individual software to applications.

This initiative has great implications for Google as the apps purchase for the Android has not increased in ratio to the OS has been used by smartphones in huge numbers. By pushing all app developers to use Google's payment system it could increasing the sale of apps and can remove confusion for a simple buyer. Developers using Google Wallet typically have to pay Google a 30 percent cut of revenue from purchases. The developers don’t mind it if the conversion rate is higher.

Importance of heading in content writing

2012-03-14T11:02:00.000-07:00

While writing content for an article or piece of copy writing, it is the heading that plays an overall impact on the written content. Heading is attention grabber for a customer. A good heading is a beginning as well end to a copy. It is used in many marketing campaigns and is defined to according the target audience. A copy or content writer can seek many approaches for writing a heading. Writing a heading is not as easy and simple generally assumed by the writers. There are many methods to writing heading feasible and appealing to copy. A heading should be written as:

•Solving a Problem: “Get answer to all your buying needs.”

•Using a statistics: “Have 30 times more buying comfort than the previous bargain.”

•Stating a Quotation: You can support a heading from a comment said by a prominent personality or a customer supported by picture.

•Ask a Question: How to develop best copy writing skills?

•State the Biggest Benefit from the Product: We solve this problem like this…..

There are also some other important words too that you can include in your headlines like (Free Your Money, Guarantee, Love, Results, Proven Safety, Bargain, Easy, New, Improved, Discover, Now, Immediate, Finally, Instant, Secret, Truth)

After heading never ignore subheadings too. They also play an important role in content development. Subheading, keeps interest of the written content alive and easy to follow. In a long copy, subheading plays a very integral part to overall development of the content.

For writing heading it should be around four to eight words. Use the keyword from the text below the heading. Reveal clearly and precisely the heading that you are offering. If you’re heading contain clarity, is informative, is objective and concise than it is opt heading to be used with your content writing or web content writing or copy writing piece. A heading should be written in context of content on the page. The best way to write heading, is to develop it in the last, after writing complete content. If you're writing from scratch, write the headings last. If you're reframing or cutting, check the headings again once the content is done.

Questions also make good quality headings as they are eye catchy and can develop instant curiosity. For the structure of heading they must be hierarchical. The primary caption must envelop the main subject area further breaking into sub-headings down into narrow topic areas. Sub heading help readers to scan/navigate the page.

Nokia to launch Windows 8 tablet

2012-03-14T10:41:00.000-07:00

According to the rumors, Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia may launch a Windows 8 tablet before Christmas. The 10” device would be among the pioneering device equipped with Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system. This is latest effort to compete with the Apple’’s new of iPad by different Tablet makers in the market. However, it is good news for the end user of the device. This will allow and provide an opportunity to manufacturers in already crowded market, where devices using Google’s Android platform are in dominance. Windows 8 had earlier appreciated when Mozilla declared of making version of Firefox web exclusively for Windows 8. It is in the news that Nokia will outsource the manufacturing of its Windows 8 tablet to Taiwan-based Compal Electronics.

Sony releases 'floating touch' smartphone

2012-03-14T10:13:00.003-07:00

Seeming bit awesome, but very soon smartphones will also become forgone tales. One even would not have to touch the screen, merely hovering figures over the screen would be enough for the phone to pay heed to your words. Xperia sola has been released by Sony using floating touch technology providing a user an ultimate fun to browse the web and showcase the latest technology on offer.

According to the Calum MacDougall, head of Xperia Marketing for Sony Mobile Communications, “With Xperia SmartTags out of the box and access to the latest content through Sony Entertainment Network, Xperia sola is perfect for consumers looking for ease of use and the best in entertainment in a smart and innovative smartphone."

This Android-powered device includes Sony’s new floating touch navigation with NFC and Xperia SmartTags to present a user with an out- of- the- box smartphone experience. Initially withSmartTags the device can be customized for about 10 different commands like phone to turn on its WiFi connection and launch the news app when you are not around or turn on the alarm. The Xperia sola also has a 3.7” Reality Display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, xLOUD and 3D surround sound, a 5MP camera with a 16x digital zoom, 720p video recording, DLNA, and Google Android 2.3 (upgradable to version 4.0). The Sony Xperia sola will for the sale around second quarter of 2012 across the globe.

Kinect technology to change anything into touchscreen

2012-03-14T09:22:00.003-07:00

This innovative technology projects a touchscreen on hands, cloths or any other surface. This is very handy when you don’t want to bother about attending the phone call from the device in the pocket. This imagination is bearing the fruits of reality with the use of realization of an innovative Kinetic like technology also known as OmniTouch. OmniTouch is a wearable system that is capable of projecting any multi-touch interface on everyday surfaces.

The technology does not require any special addition for changing it on other surfaces. It adapts convincingly to surfaces of most textures in 3D space. It works equally in better way on uneven surfaces like hands or a tree trunk. The technology includes a shoulder-mounted depth camera and a Pico-projector. The technology is developed by researchers at Microsoft. The dragging performance and touch accuracy of the technology even has reached to the sensitiveness of touch screens phones and tablets.

The technology also helps to modify the position and size of the projected interface irrespective of size and surface of the smart phone or tablet. However, Omni Touch, itself can select the best display setting. And variable and various prototypes of the technology are still under research.

Top 10 Spring Break hot spots for 2012

2012-03-12T12:16:00.002-07:00

To occur all the action and fun for the spring break 2012 below are some hot options on budget travel that you can choose to enjoy your valuable time.

• South Padre Island, Texas: it is easygoing US beach town. It has hundreds of miles of beach. Here you will get the just fresh shellfish and every imaginable water sport, you have every thought of. You can either surf or enjoy a scooter ride.

• North American ski resorts: Ski resorts of North America provide a very cool set of places for the spring break. You can make trip to the slopes in Colorado, Jackson Hole, Heavenly, Canada's wild Whistler and some other cool and pacifying places.

• Panama City, Florida: Panama City's definitely provides the great fun that will make the break most happening experience of your life. Panama City has 27 miles long beach by the Gulf of Mexico and it is too cool to enjoy in night.

• Miami and South Beach, Florida: South Beach Miami, Florida east of Miami, surrounded by Biscayne Bay on one side and the Atlantic on the other. It is a great place for cool club life.

• Europe: One even can opt for Europe with hotspot for touring people like Amsterdam, London and Paris. Rome, Florence, Madrid, and Berlin. In all the best cities of Europe you will even get American studying there in great numbers.

• Puerto Vallarta: It is a popular Mexican mountain city close to beach thus makes an exclusive choice for spring break 2012. There you will get friendly people, awesome nightlife, beautiful beaches, great all-affordable hotel deals and lots of adventure sport.

• Acapulco: One of the best Mexico’s beaches it is a picturesque beachside city full of natural beauty. Acapulco beaches range from quiet hideaways, like Playa Pie de la Cuesta, to elbow-to-elbow humans, like La Condesa. There are many affordable hotels to provide you the best stay out there.

• Bahamas and Jamaica: The beautiful Caribbean countries have plenty of blue water and white sand. To enjoy your spring break hire a scooter or hit the Straw Market; gambling's on close by Paradise Island. Bahamas spring break packages you will find cheap and even one can opt for cruise as well. Jamaica is sunny and Montego Bay and quieter Negril are great spots to have fun and merry making.

Top 10 games to enjoy on iPad

2012-03-12T10:44:00.000-07:00

With new version of iPad launched that has better speed and display than the earlier versions of iPad, is great opportunity for gaming freaks to test their skill and intellect in much better way this time on iPad. iPad, hybrid device is more about features of the mobile computing and portable computer included in a single device. This hybrid nature of the device could be another reason for game lovers to turning to it as a gaming platform. Some of the post popular games on iPad follow as:

• Glow Hockey 2: This is the game for the hockey enthusiast who will love to play this game of Glow Hockey. Glow hockey is one of the best iPad games among many other versions of the game. Two players enjoy this game at a time. It is available on Apple itunes.

• 10 Pin Shuffle: The game of 10 Pin Shuffle combines traditional game of shuffleboard mode and a modern mode of bowling game. The game can easily be transferred from iPhone to iPad. The bowling mode made for iPhone is, however, much enjoyable game to play and participate in.

• Air Attack HD: It is assumed to be one of the best iPad games. The game is about shooting down the number of Nazi-inspired enemies. The game has lots of power increasing games. It has variety of options in game on varying control schemes and menu with a good numbers of options on menu.

• Civilization revolution: This also being one of the best iPad games is based upon an award winning title. It shot up very fast in ratings after its launch on iPad. The game is full of technology and science fiction themes.

• Field Runners: This is defensive type of game uses different evasive tactics during the course of the game. It was awarded as the “best iPad games” for the year 2009.

• Galcon Fusion: This is a simple appearing strategy games especially designed for the iPad.

• Medieval HD Lite: This is defense game uses strategies and combination of weapons. The complexity level of the game increases as soon as game improves from lower levels to higher levels of achievements.

• Plants Vs Zombies: The game initially for the iPhone later on upgraded for iPad. It includes a number of mini games and modes being incorporated in it at standard levels. This is the game about saving loving plants from Zombies in a tower defense game.

• Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars HD: Accredited as one of the popular iPad games developed by Rock star has the portable version of Grand Theft Auto. It is amazing to play it on the bigger screened iPad. It is one of the best adventure games on iPad.

• The Settlers HD: One of the popular iPad games it has very sophisticated touch screen controls.

These are only a few of the thousand games available on iPad to play on.

Indian government mulling for an agency to monitor internet traffic

2012-03-12T08:16:00.001-07:00

Indian government is mulling all options including a National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) for monitoring cyber security threat on a real time by scrutinizing internet traffic. To discuss various options for the agency recently a high level meet held at National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was called. The meet was attended by the officials from the IB, RAW, DRDO, Home Ministry and Army. They all were given a presentation of the proposed draft for the agency and other cyber security related topics and issues.

The NCCC would be powered to scan traffic within India flowing at the point of entry and exit, including international gateway. The proposed NCCC is the primary layer for threat monitoring and all communication with government and private service providers would be monitored through this body only. The agency would be in constant touch of control room of Internet service providers, the ideas was being shared among the officials participated in the meet.

New iPad, the next big revelation for gaming enthusiasts

2012-03-11T11:30:00.001-07:00

Apple’s new iPad, which is news for its speed, is luring traditional video game industry and game developers to vision gaming apps for it. The iPad is inspiring them to develop games on the similar lines and features 3D shooter “Call of Duty” and FarmVille.” Apple itself has aimed the iPad to compete with Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Sony (6758.T) in the area of gaming consoles. From Electronic Arts (EA) to "Crysis" developers Crytek, the gaming industry leaders are trying their best to devise means to migrate graphics-intensive hardcore games to the iPad. Epic Games and Namco Bandai (7832.T) were officially present during the launch of new iPad at Apple's iPad unveiling this week.

With numbers of sales for iPad are counting to approximately around 55 million iPads, it is becoming a new possibility for gaming companies that wants their games to be played on more and more devices. Competition can be judged from the selling numbers of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 units reaching beyond 60 million marks. Capps, another gaming industry leader were also presented at the tree launches of iPad launch. iPad now with better picture resolution and memory than Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation definitely is a better alternative in the hands of game developers. With bluetooth controller developed for the iPad, there could be a new revolution it the world gaming arena

EA has already modified same games from its marquee franchises to the iPad like “Dead Space" and "Mass Effect". Germany's Crytek, which developed "Crysis 2" for consoles and PCs is in process of developing its first game for the iPad, that would be released by spring. It is very obvious that the speed of iPad definitely would bring it more close to gaming companies. Video game companies are intensively looking at Apple TV as well that with an app store is huge opportunity for everyone.

Advert for New iPad becomes super hit

2012-03-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

The much expected and aspired Apple’s next generation IPad was launched on March 7 in San Francisco in a high profile event. To popularize the event Apple initiated a massive online campaign and television Advert. The TV advert for the pormotion of iPad sparked the voluminous online response and created viral for the Apple’s latest product.

The TV ad for the next-gen iPad reached at 100,000 views in 18 hours after it was telecasted. The video has since been copyied and distributed over by YouTube users that increased its viewership. The official TV advert for Apple's next-gen iPad also figured on the powerful technology blogs such as Mashable.com and the technologycafe.com.

The video for the promotion of new iPad concentrate on the resolution and picture quality on the device on account of iPad’s retina display'. Apple's new iPad, which features a five-megapixel camera, a faster processor and high-definition video recording, will be on sale in Canada, France, Germany and the USA on March 16. It has been priced around $499.

Five best Android apps for businesses

2012-03-11T06:23:00.000-07:00

Today’s Smart Phones have been ahead from all other gadgets for work, games, and productivity and business tasks. Android apps has enabled people for cracking an email, see the latest news, working with some great business apps, games and lot more exciting features. There are a number of apps highlighted in the book titles "The Best Android Apps” which has detailed information about the use of powerful features of Android, which will give you a bit of productivity boost. It has still a strong year for the world's most popular OS mobiles to match with compared to the iPhone.

Here are some best five and most useful apps for Android Phones, which are described below:

1. Google Docs: Not only professionals and business people, but even students can work with it, which includes uploading Microsoft Office Files to your Google Docs repository. This would make easy for the users for file-sharing, management and save the important documents and open up in web browser, sitting anywhere. This wonderful app will help you to work smoothly

2. Light Box: Another stimulating add-on, Lightbox offers features like photo copies & journals with the ability for arranging/dividing the pictures by personalized timelines. This app’s dazzling visual display and compatibility on multiple Android devices make them unique and simply, amazing..!!! You can set the standard moving forward for photo-sharing apps on the platform to enjoy pictures.

3. SwiftKey X Keyword: SwiftKey X arrived on Android cellphones and even in tablets lately. The app has larger keys as well as superior word and sentence prediction algorithms in three colour schemes to get it more bright way. This key learns from previously typed emails and messages too by the user.

4. AVG Anti Virus Free: You get AVG Anti Virus software for Android Smart Phones just like you get free for your desktop. It will protect you from viruses, malware functions and utilizes real-time for keeping the data virus-free. The app users can scan content stored on your handset as well as locate their handset if lost and even back-up their data.

5. Google+: Google, undoubtedly has become the prominent player for social networking platform with the successful launch of “Google+”. This service is available in iPhone as well as in BlackBerry, which includes Windows & Symbian platforms. Google reasonably rules its own platform among the prime most areas. Most of the online businesses, for instance can use this feature on the Android app.

These are the best Android apps that crown the Smart Phones in the market and are ahead in the line of iPhone Apps and few others to win the race. Because of the open source nature of Android, there are a lot of apps sold in the Android Market and some of them can even be used virtually with patience, for great app idea. Still, it shows Android's app selection is growing and getting better in many ways. The best new apps are on their way to hit the Android Market this year too.

Contributed By Jill Shah

Why landing pages are important for online marketing

2012-03-10T07:19:00.001-08:00

Landing Pages are called lead generator or revenue maker in online marketing. On a landing page a visitor clicks on an advertisement or search engine result becomes a buyer of a commodity or service. A landing page takes a prospective customer closer to an online purchase or gets a lead to convert it into a deal.

A landing page is an advertisement or link, and that is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines. In pay per click (PPC) campaigns a landing page is modified in such manner that it finally helps an advertiser to generate business. On top of content and lead generation, proliferation of landing pages is of two types: orientation and transactional. Orientation landing page shows important information of use to a customer or visitor in form of display text, images, dynamic compilations of relevant links, or other elements. Effectiveness of reference landing page is measured by revenue earned by the advertisements displayed on the landing page.

Whereas transactional landing page are formed to get information from a visitor by persuading him to transaction such as filling out a form or interacting with advertisements or other objects on the landing page. By this, landing page achieves its ultimate goal of direct or ultimate trade of a product or service. The efficiency of transactional landing page is measured through the conversion rate, the percentage of visitors acted on desired purpose for what a transactional landing page is formed.

How good content helps a blog to top

2012-03-10T07:01:00.002-08:00

You have a blog and it is well written, yet you are carving for traffic on your blog. So merely writing a blog cannot drive good traffic, instead there are required some concentrated content writing efforts to bring the blog with the best traffic from the area of your expertise or the theme on which you have written the blog.

Things can be started from making your blog simple and easy with the communication features enabled in it. You can provide your reader an alternative e-mail id, RSS and even can ask for the subscription after blogging the post. When you are blogging down any topic, remain precise to with respect to content writing. As much you will write around the theme as better traffic and search engine rankings your blog will achieve.

To make your blog more appealing you can offer a good number of free offers in form of e-book, report, e-course or audio series. To make things more practical and serious you can create a subscription landing page further on and promote it on platforms like ADWORDS etc.

And to be the state-of- the art blogger you can start podcasting, forum posting, net- working and cross promotional deals from your blog as an exercise to promote and generate traffic towards your blog.

How to write clear and precise content

2012-03-10T06:43:00.001-08:00

In the most forms of writing or content writing, it is always the topmost objective of a writer to reach as maximum as possible audiences to reflect the message as conveyed through the piece of writing, whether it is advertising, or it is a apiece of literature in form of poetry or prose.

And your audience, no doubt is the mass ranging from a varied social and educational back ground, so as for an effective communication, it becomes very imperative for a content writer to express his ideas very clearly and persuasively to his readers. So for the purpose of clarity, the first rule is refraining away from the exercise of META-DISCOURSE that is excessive and unnecessary writing as expressed in expressions like “to sum up,”” “it has become clear,” and “I would like to point out.” Instead of this Meta-discourse the meaning simply can be explained through summing up the whole idea in simpler words.

The second rule to clear writing is avoiding REDUNDANCY, which is expressing an idea in more than necessary words. For example instead of, ‘This is your own personal note book’ you can say “your book”. The important rule to content writing is excessive use of PRENTENIOUS words by some writers to drive attention. However, this makes adverse impact at least with average reader. The example of PRENTENIOUS words are Inexorable, Ameliorate, Denounce, Clandestine, Comprehend etc. So, for clear writing above discussed ideas always should be followed religiously.

Mixing up SEO and Content Writing

2012-03-10T06:32:00.000-08:00

No doubt, in the present era of online publishing, it is the content writing, that plays a very important role in getting a product and services get promoted. Online content writing, whether used to promote online business or providing information on a very relevant issue and topic of social awareness, has great relevance in online media.

The other important aspect of online media that is more or less co-related to search engines and the method to promote content on search engines is known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO invariably now is playing great role in online searches when more and more people are coming to search engines to obtain information about a product or service.

Hence, content writing mixed up with principles of SEO brings great results on SERP (Search Engine Ranking Pages) and internet marketing. To bringing SEO in content writing one can begin from relevant keywords in titles, meta tags and the most importantly on web pages where keywords appear. After title, opening paragraph or introductory lines should have themed keywords into it. Subheadings are the next important segment of the page that requires proper placement of the keywords to bring proper content writing impact regarding SEO impact. Finally, the conclusive content of the page must be there with themed keywords into it.

How to boost media communication

2012-03-09T23:17:00.000-08:00

The first step to public relation is its relations with media for getting mileage and rapport for its client. It is very important in public relation to select the media agency which can help in developing contact for your client for the reach and product awareness. There are many outlets for achieving this goal like local paid newspaper, local free paper, local council newspaper, free county magazine, local radio and television, trade, technical and professional magazines covering your niche business or expertise, national newspapers, consumer and lifestyle magazines, national radio and television. There is no dearth of places that can be approached for developing communications.

Now after acquainting with the media, the next important step is how to develop relationship with them. The best way to get in touch with a newspaper is through its editor. Editor is the most capable person in a newspaper who can decide about placing a story. The press release is one of best pieces of writing and acceptable medium for publicity used by Public Relations companies. Get in touch with the editors of local papers and trade magazines on a reception or an organization’s annual dinner.

Develop rapport apart from editor with reporters and journalists who may find your publicity material interesting and worth publishing. Newspapers work on tight deadlines so supply your story well in advance. This way you can develop a nice contact with media in your respective region for your Public Relations Organization.

Role of Public Relations

2012-03-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

There are many methods for a company to communicate with its audience. Public Relations is one such means that helps a company to maintain relationship between an organization and its key audience. It helps an industry to maintain relationship with its customers.

The most basic part of the Public relation includes getting an idea about public approaches, and upholding mutual relations and understanding between an organization and its target audience. Public relations improve overall channel of communication and forms new ways for continuing up two way flow of information and understanding between an organization and its audience.

It is very helpful to companies in promoting the products reach for the companies. It helps a company to develop relations with local government and legislatures. Non-profit organizations, including schools, hospitals, social service agencies, etc. by the medium of public relations can improve their image and can use it for awareness programs, fund-raising programs, and to increase patronage of their services

Public relations companies in order to popularize their client’s image employ many tools like opinion polling and focus groups to evaluate public opinion and then distribute received information on different mediums like clients, the internet, satellite feeds, broadcast faxes, and database-driven phone banks, etc. Press release is a very important tool that a public relation company uses for improving image of client on leading newspapers and publications of the related industry, where a client belongs. . This way a public relation company is very important for improving image of a company or brand.

Importance of content management

2012-03-09T22:48:00.000-08:00

Content Management is set of certain activities that are collaborated together to bring about an exciting result for content handling. Content Management includes a number of sub processes like Content Creation, Content Localization, Content Publishing, Database administration.

In content writing, the development and editorial aspects of content writing are accomplished. Content Localization includes step for improving quality of the content, determining style of delivery, and translating for native language users. In content publishing it is made fit and delivered to the final user of the content, a reader. And a database administrator make content fit to be read by within priority groups who can have access to a number of files and folders. Thus a content management system accomplishes task of a digital content life cycle that involves six phases- create, publish,update, translate, archive and retrieve.

How an advertising campaign should begin

2012-03-09T22:32:00.000-08:00

Every advertising campaign aims to persuade and convince a customer and get conversion or lead for the product or services being promoted by them. A properly planned and executed advertising campaign brings good result in terms ROI (Return on Investment). An advertising campaign shall start from survey and research of target audience designed around the niche market of the advertised product or service.

After identifying the niche market, the next step should be identifying and presenting your product amidst your prospective customers. You can gain an advantage in an advertising campaign by telling your customer about the benefits of your products. After the initial brief to the customers about the benefits of a product the real branding should start from here. This requires handsome amount of money to carry out a campaign successfully. For the purpose budget should be allocated to the campaign. After allocation of budget various mediums and platforms should be identified to carry out the campaign. Identify the media, which has better reach in the market and could convey the message to the target audience in the most effective and emphatic manner.

It is not necessary that your product may appeal to every person that comes across it. The advertising campaign can also be for a specific class or section of people. Before launching the ads in a big way they must be checked among small group of people for a feed back.

How to transform your copy according to the mood of your audience?

2012-03-09T22:08:00.002-08:00

An advertising copy begins with writing or content for an ideal customer for a product or service. After knowing a customer fitting perfectly within the range of product you are writing upon, the next important question a copywriter faces is convincing the customer about services and features of the products proposed by him.

In order to accomplish this copy writing task, copywriter can practice writing a copy for his target audience. He can include benefits, mention money back guarantee. However, all these efforts would result into vain until and unless you would not write a copy according to behavioral pattern of a customer.

So, he can seek help from Myers-Briggs DISC psychological mode. The basis of psychological model of Myers-Briggs is the personality types. In the model personality types are divided into DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, etc) types. Therefore a copy should always be written on the basis of specific personality type. Every personality type has a specific behavior pattern and is influenced by certain words. Below is listed some personality types and words related to them.

•    Personality Type: DOMINANCE
      Behavior Pattern (Egotism, Power, Capable Solver, Results, Love Challenges, Success, Work hard for   results, High Tech, Power and authority lusty)
    Words to be used in a Copy (New, Improved, The Best, Immediate, Bottom Line, Challenge

•   Personality Type: INFLUENCE
     Behavior Pattern (Socially and verbally aggressive, Fast, Optimistic, Fan, Far sighted, Good job, Fast movers, I feel, Can be motivated, Socialize)
     Words to be used in a Copy (Recognition, Exciting, People, Popular)


•    Personality Type: STEADINESS
      Behavior Pattern ( Family oriented, Conventional, Patient, Needed Help, Security conscious, Help out, Look for benefits, Good listener, Loyalty)
     Words to be used in a Copy (Proven process, Step by Step, Guarantee, Promise, Warranty, Take your time, Value)

•    Personality Type: COMPLIANCE
     Behavior Pattern (Thinkers, Facts, High standards, the results is presented,   Well disciplined, The data says)
    Words to be used in a Copy (Accurate, Proven, Motivation in right Direction, Take your time, Analyze, Tried and True)

Thus above mentioned information it would become very easy and helpful to write an attractive and catchy copy.

Tips to remain active on Social Media and Mobile Marketing

2012-03-09T12:33:00.002-08:00

The expansion of social media and mobile has reached at a stage where they both are intersecting each other, signaling a very positive sign for marketing purposes. According to a recent study socially active users on mobile phones which were 650 million at the end of 2011 will reach staggering figure of 1.2 billion by 2016. So from a marketing perspective there is lot that can be done in order make the best use of this golden opportunity.

The first important caution to achieve this very important socio-marketing objective is developing a bridge and dialogue between the audience and brand by being socially very correct and appropriate. Content for the social-mobile space should be conversion driven. It should be short and very precise to fit on mobile versions of Twitter and Facebook. Next number is of maximizing the mobile initiatives by including voice, SMS, cameras and location-based features in a mobile wherever they are required best for the need.

The content should be helpful in making prompt and quick decision as a person is in store with credit card and just looking for the valuable information. Your social media presence should be felt in mobile behavior. Social networking is about consumers and brand whereas mobile is timeliness and location prone. So the mobile device communication should be strong enough to develop long lasting relationships. The campaigns should speak about geography and promptness and could develop conversation about the brand. Finally, it should be a holistic approach where customer must be preferred social media on mobile devices.

Which are the thinnest smartphones and tablets?

2012-03-09T09:15:00.001-08:00

By bringing sleekness to a device, whether it is a smartphone or a tablet provides a manufacturer an edge in competition in the market. Here, we are discussing the thinnest tablet and smartphone devices available in the gadget segment in the market.

• Panasonic Eluga: Announced at Mobile World Congress this smartphone is slim, light and waterproof. It is powered by 1GHz dual core processor along with a RAM of 1GB. Its OS is Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that may be soon updated to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

• Motorola Droid RAZR: It is still the thinnest smartphones in the market. The Droid RAZR is 7.1mm thick and features a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen. There is an 8 MP camera at the back along with a 1.3 MP camera in the front for video calls and conferences.

• Samsung Series 9: The 13-inch laptop by Samsung is only 12.9 mm wide and includes an Intel 1.7GHz Core i7 processor including 8GB of RAM and an SSD drive.

• Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook: this ultrabook is designed beautifully by Dell. The thin ultrabook is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor and has 1.6GHz along with 4GB of RAM. It comes with a 128GB SSD.

• Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3: The Acer Ultra M3 is a 15 inch ultrabook that includes a graphics card along with an optical drive. It is much slimmer that other previous versions of the Ultrabooks.

• Excite X10 LE tablet: Based on Android, Excite X10LE is a 10.1 inch tablet. Released by the Toshiba at CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in January 2012. Labeled as the world's thinnest and lightest tablet from Toshiba, it is a 10-inch tablet that is 7.7 mm thick and weighs 1.18 pounds. The iPad 2 is 8.8 mm thick and weighs 1.33 pounds making the Excite X10 LE just 1.1 mm thinner than the iPad 2. However it is beaten in thinness by new iPad still is lighter than other tablets in the market. It has resolution of 1280X800 pixels with an aspect ratio of 16:10. It is powered by a dual core 1.2GHz OMAP processor. It involves RAM of 1GB. There is a 5 MP camera at the back a 2 MP camera in the front. It has all necessary ports including micro-USB, micro-HDMI and a microSDHC port. Connectivity options have both WiFi and Bluetooth. But it lacks in 3G or 4G connectivity.

Explaining brand to an agency partner

2012-03-09T00:12:00.003-08:00

With an effective and valuable brand statement, you ease the task of the agencies working with you. A better statement helps agencies and internal teams to conceive and promote better campaigns. As communication is must for survival of a relationship, it is must for a brand to deliberate the company's values and needs to an agency to match with the specific needs and values. The attributes for the brand explanation can be as brand statements, brand platforms, brand briefs or some other name. These documents explain business partners about the valuable audience feedback. There are many ways a brand can be briefed to an agency partner.

For the purpose of explanation, various graphs, data points and descriptions can be used; however, short descriptions have been found most successful conveying the meaning. People don’t prefer to read books on brands, yet they can remember one or two page information about a product or service. One page brand brief is always challenging than a 50 page booklet.

Among many formats of documentation send out to an agency partner, slide decks are the most common and useful platform to convey the message. In slide wise presentation everything can be included from company’s founding principles to deep analysis of the audience search. The slide can include research on customer demographics and needs, competitors, product attributes and many other factors. Further in the slides value chain can be explained in form of audience needs, brand's core attributes, brand matching audience's needs, customers' rational as well as emotional benefits. There should entirely be different tone for the brand as emerging from its culture and evolution.

In the last, the brand statements must be circulated across the company among executives, public relations, customer services and product development.

Is SEO determining news search trends on internet?

2012-03-08T23:17:00.001-08:00

With extensive amalgamation of SEO in designing and promoting a website, it is felt that it is driving searching engine results away from the actual reach. It is making the worst impact over journalistic news appearing on the internet. With the help of keyword search, news organizations, in order to increase their page views are selling popular ideas and views. It has become a trend to create most read news items based upon popular topics selected from the search volume.

This is repeatedly done neglecting the fact that stuff published this way may not be good for reading and have bad aftereffects. One feels it funny and entertaining after immediate reading. This way, SEO takes the information closer to spam argument. And, therefore spam remains spam, whatever, Search Engine Optimization process you may include in it. Many time tactics of spammers has been labeled as SEO. Search Engine strategy as a smart business strategy can be termed and followed in many ways.

The search data can be used and employed as to produce effective product and content strategy. It can be used as a mean to maximize customer satisfaction and lead conversion. Customer acquisition process many times begins from the search box instead of form on a website. Even organic search even can be integrated with other marketing efforts as well.
So, the debate continues how the search data can be used for the better output and desired results.

The search data can be used for the specific target audience by developing web pages and lead generation pages employing target specific data. Now with search engines, we go for searching for news by the specific keyword instead of skimming the entire newspaper. The search data must be used by journalists to make sure that they are answering to all the relevant questions raised by their readers. On the course of investigative journalism it is the social net working, which can bring about new challenges and dimensions to spread a new story.

Facebook Messenger for Windows released officially

2012-03-08T10:09:00.000-08:00

Facebook officially launched its Messenger for Windows. This new Facebook messenger allows chatting, reading feeds and most importantly checking notification without opening a browser. The messenger app is easy to use and is provided in the system tray and lists all of friends. From now on one would be free to chat with friends without opening browser or either login Facebook account. Chat messages from friends immediately pop up on screen and updates, notifications from friends will also be shown in the new messenger service of Facebook. It is now available for Windows 7 for free download on the desktop.

5 useful Apps for every home buyer

2012-03-08T06:18:00.001-08:00

Buying a home is a very tedious and cumbersome process; it requires ample caution and attention before singing home buying deal. The process to buy can be organized in better way by the help of modern day gadgets and apps. On a smart phone now one enjoys ease and liberty to search and research through various apps before going for a final home buying decision. Here are discussed the five most famous home buying apps that one should pay attention towards.

•    Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Home Selection Assistant: This free app available on iPhone is a great aid while on a site investigation about a property. You can take your own photos and add personal remark to the photo about any peculiarity which can be investigated later on.

•    ZipRealty: This free application is available on iPhone and iPad. It helps in locating better homes and gardens during home search in a particular locality and area. It also has a “House Scan” feature that takes to every possible property for sale in your area. With the help of the apps, specific notes for a property can be developed.

•    Wikihood: The free application for iPhone and iPad tells about specific location where you are aiming to buy a property. The application automatically provides all the articles about a geographic location on the phone. With this tool, you get all the relevant and historic information about   a location.

•    Mortgage Calculator Pro: On the reasonable charge of one dollar this is an iPhone centric app. This helps to calculate the mortgage payments in more realistically manner in comparison with the final price of a property that can be sold out easily. In estimating the mortgage payments it also includes property taxes, HOA fees and other miscellaneous items.

• Essential Real Estate Dictionary: The specific real estate dictionary costing for $10 is for iPhone and iPad. It simplifies words like “estoppel” and “easement”. It includes about 3,000 real estate terms increase your knowledge about real estate terms.

With the aid of these apps you can make search for your home much easy and organized.

HTC Rhyme Review

2012-03-08T03:42:00.000-08:00

The HTC Rhyme is a device primarily presented with colors like plum, light green and beige. In design Rhyme has a very simple and elegant design. Undoubtedly it is one of the classic designs presented by HTC. The entire design of the phone is divided into two parts. The first part is the metal chassis, which is around the display on the front and as a thick band in the middle on the back. It bisects the two plastic portions that is one of the most important design segments. Each of the plastic segments has a bit different color from the metal around it. The device has a 3.8 inch display.

For reaching the SIM card and the microSD card one requires sliding the plastic portion at the bottom of the phone. The most important segment of HTC design is Charm accessory. The Charm is a sugar cube sized object at the end of a cable that plugs into the headphone jack. It has a clip for attaching to bag and glows when you have a missed call or message. This is a nice way to alert women who keep their phones in their bags and pursues.

For Display the HTC Rhyme has a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 resolution TFT LCD. The display is made from Corning’s Gorilla Glass to provide additional protection from scratches. The quality of display is quite and the colors appear vibrant and the white balance is spot-on. However viewing angles are not as good and smart as AMOLED or IPS displays.

The HTC Rhyme has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processor and 768MB of RAM, enough to operate applications to 3D games. On the software side it has HTC Sense 3.5 on top of Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. The HTC Rhyme has a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, LED flash and 720p video recording. The camera applications are simple and easy to use have all the basic features like auto-focus and touch-to-focus. The videos are bit troublesome and pixellated. Dropping the resolution to 480p improves the picture quality of the video.

On the course of music playback the phone equally fares quite well. Its default music player is been provided with multiple audio presets. The video player on the Rhyme is constructed into the Gallery app. It plays AVI files. The HTC Rhyme has a 1,600 mAh internal battery. With Wi-Fi and 2G network the battery survives through one and a half day. The HTC Rhyme priced currently at Rs. 25,950.

A slight preview of new iPad with 4G

2012-03-07T23:35:00.001-08:00

In an event organized in San Francisco Apple announces its much awaited iPad that is a third generation device for the geek lovers. With an attractive looking screen the price for new iPad varies from $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model, with 4G starting at $629. This is Apple’s third generation tablet.

In this iPad the screen resolution has been increased to 2,048x1,536 pixels. In design, it is much similar to 2011’s iPad 2. The tablet's glass and aluminum built is 9.5 inches tall and 7.31 inches wide. Thickness is 0.37 inch and it weighs at 1.5 pounds. It home button on the bottom of the screen, and a volume rocker on its right side along with the mute switch/rotation lock. There on the top exists a sleep/wake button and headphone output, and the bottom edge that retains the 30-pin port. The camera quality in the iPAD has been improved to the considerable level of 5 megapixels with 1080p video recording and backside illumination. The front side camera is as similar to as in iPAD 2.

With introduction of iPhone 4 and retaining Retina Display in it has been repeated in new iPad’s 9.7 inch screen. The Maps app on the iPad presents a sense of omnipotence that is very hard for a mobile device to learn and recognize. In this handheld device one can enjoy all including games, movies, photos, and magazines.

The iPad's processor has been upgraded to an A5X. While the CPU remains dual-core, the graphics processor has been improved to the level of quad-core. This has helped in improving the pixels four times from the previous model. Another important attribute of the phone is voice dictation on a tablet. Voice dictation is a welcome addition, and would help in great way in writing e-mail and bypassing the touch-screen keyboard for getting the helpful and reasonable information. Bluetooth 4.0 is another feature which has been adopted from the iPhone 4S and extensive improvements have been made into battery life and efficiency.

Apple launches iPad with Retina Display and 4G

2012-03-07T11:24:00.003-08:00

Apple finally released a new iPad today. The new iPad presents the same higher resolution Retina Display similar to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. It offers a resolution of 2,048 by 1,536--or 3.1 million pixels. It also boasts an updated processor, which according to the company is too fast for other competitors and it also has a 4G connection.

The new iPad's pricing range is same as iPad 2. It costs $499 for the WiFi-only 16GB version, $599 for 32GB, and $699 for 64GB. For 4G, its $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB, and $829 for the 64GB version. Apple plans to launch it in the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan on the same day. As with the prior versions, the iPads are available in black or white.

The latest version has an A5X processor, upgraded from the A5 chip used in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. The latest iPad is also the first Apple device to tap into the super-fast 4G LTE network. Similar to many other 4G devices, the 4G-connected iPad will be able to double as a personal hotspot. There would be two versions of the device the iPad compatible with LTE, one for Verizon Wireless and one for AT&T. Both will be able to move back down to 3G in areas where 4G isn't available. Similar to the iPhone 4S, the iPad features a backside 5-megapixel camera that allows for 1080p video recording and image stabilization. The battery life is roughly 10 hours. The device weighs 1.4 pounds.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at the event, said its three post-PC devices--the iPhone, the iPod, and iPad, sold 172 million units last year, which made up more than three-fourths of its revenue. "In many ways the iPad is re-inventing portable computing, and it's outstripping the wildest of predictions," he further added.

An interesting study into tweet behavior

2012-03-07T11:02:00.000-08:00

It has been an issue of keen interest for sociologist to understand the pattern and behavior of tweet that is credited by governments and agencies for igniting the uprising in different parts of the world over a year and so.

The proliferation of a tweet depends on two things- first information as measured by number of people witness a tweet and second, behavior of spreading. The spread of information depends not only following of a tweet but also upon the central people who spread a tweet fierier. It means a person connected with other well resourced persons help in spread of a message more instantly. You are central if you have better reach to other central users who are at the core of the entire network. It means how many connections and further connections having further more connections.

The central people can also be known as “core tweeters”, broadcaster or global bridges. As they connect multiple local networks they can be easily attributed as bridges. Others get inspired from their local networks. Local networks play their important role in spreading behavior. The behavior between people depends upon their mutual connections. The more a person’s mutual connections tweet about something, the greater the likelihood others would respond to it. Moreover, time sensitive nature of tweets requires more and more tweets in less time. This way the actual reach of a tweet depends upon how it reaches to other third parties of his own owner from where it started the journey.

Pinterest, and its role in social media marking

2012-03-07T10:24:00.000-08:00

Pinterest is a new interesting addition to the already existing massive social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+. It is the hottest and the most talked about Social Media platform at present. It is an online pinboard that organizes things preferred by you. But marketer are bit confused about making the best use out of it.

There are many experts who have started it as marketing purposes. According to them there are many ways to start this SM tool for business purposes. One can start it by making personal account and having a user experience and potential marketing potential can begin its use for achieving their much cherished and aspired goal of selling a product or commodity. On Pinterest marketing opportunity comes in form of brand awareness and driving sales with the help of referrals. According to January 2012 statistics it is well ahead of YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace in referrals, and only behind the giants like Facebook, StumbleUpon, Google and Twitter.

It consumes a bit more time. As it is a new type of social media platform, it needs time to pinning and repinning things. Its interface is quite easy that one gets completely involved into it and there are many ways to get the most relevant content fitting into one’s required category. It has both USP of Facebook and Twitter what to like and easy and fast to share. In Pinterest people can be followed based on content instead of merely knowing people.

It is very easy to share and curate content on it what makes it more relevant and important for a marketer. According to ComScore, the Pinterest at present has about more than four million users. It seems to be a B2C social medium at present.

For a common user titled online “pinboards” are made with demographic details. They can be titled assumingly as recipes, dream outfit, home furnishings, etc. But content size and type must be very accurate from the marketing perspective and value. Content should be for the Pinterest audience, popular on the site and post them further to personal website or blog. Make a business account relating to username that matches the brand being promoted. And finally use the Pinterest social media icon to blog, website and email signature to promote and register social presence and create a fan presence. However, load time is very lengthy so be vary of file sizes and types on Pinterest.

How websites help in choosing a right home to live in!

2012-03-07T08:48:00.001-08:00

With increasing numbers of smartphones spreading across irrespective of location is equally boosting the number of Apps installed on a smartphone. With approaching spring season it is a start of traditional home buying season with an equal opportunity to find information. However with online websites available more and more people are now buying home after doing an appropriate search online. And with smartphones, the search has to a greater extend has shifted to mobile search.

There are many big property portals for UK market as Rightmove.com, FindaProperty.com and Globrix.com with a huge inventory of homes to buy and to let. Apart from websites and portals there are many useful apps that can help you to find a suitable home for you. One such useful app is the mortgage calculator from London & Country mortgage brokers. It is complex tool to be used as guide as comparison tool between various websites.

You are lured by various websites and apps from individual estate agents with attracting and catchy proposal for home buying. Apart from the information shared by the websites there are many other relevant information like the home being in a flood plain, the status of local services, local school results, scarce of pollution and the crime rates are some factors which are very necessary to look into before signing a home owning deal. There are incredible helpful apps with maps display necessary information ranging from the nearest chemist shop to the nearest post box.

Monitoring the market is another important area where you can be aided out by various helpful apps in monitoring individual properties for price change from the website like Mouseprice website. Having the idea and opinion of two or three estate agents is handy while buying a new home.

How Social Networks diminishing impact of Internet

2012-03-07T06:19:00.000-08:00

There are many ways to share on social networks courtesy to social media sites and social networking. You can share on Facebook,Tweet on Twitter, Digg at dig.com and there are many other ways to distribute and share. So, every social network asks to share something with others with certain variations. After sharing a person feels himself to be more connected with other users. But this temporary association of social
networking in return is killing the internet with your passive, net worked actions.

Connecting is now occurring as happening. People now spend more time on texting and talking on Facebook and Twitter instead of communicating with living breathing mortals. People now hide behind the glass screens. New devices like Timeline social apps, like Digg Social Reader, WaPo Social News Reader and The Guardian UK Social Reader makes it much easier to remain on Facebook and read it with your friends. With sharing our personal data we are much connected with social media sites and eventually are killing the internet. We even becomes irritating when fails to share images and information on the Facebook. One of the nice ways to internet is e-mailing stories instead of sharing them.

Google Play- a cloud based media store

2012-03-06T23:24:00.000-08:00

Google in its efforts to outplay other riders on internet and cloud is introducing a new service named as Google Play. Google play, a single cloud-based media store for apps, songs, books and movies streams between Android devices and the desktop. The Android Market and Google Music have already been integrated into it. It also has a lots of lots of other fee streaming content available that can be accessed through and with the help of Google Wallet.

The Google Music which was started in November has put into Google Play, and it's U.S.-only. Android apps are available across countries. Movies and books are available in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. Japan also has movies, and Australia also has books. Google Play let users to pin content for offline listening, viewing or reading, however it is well offered from the cloud.

Google Play provides leisure to the Android users to move between devices and restart their entertainment where they left off. It gives convenience of cloud-based modern life that no service or family of devices has ever tried to offer the users. Contrary to Apple's media, that needs entire file for each device, Google Play will play from the Web unless is advised to work otherwise. With a good Internet connection, this will be a unique new experience for the users on the cloud. Google has launched it just before the launch of next iPad. It can be considered as Google's iTunes.

Mobile Games enjoys half share of the App sessions

2012-03-06T22:42:00.000-08:00

Game developers, who are attending Game Developers Conference organizing at San Francisco this week at the Moscone Convention Center, will discuss further strategies and plans for the gaming world. However, according to a report of the Flurry, a leading gaming survey agency, games account for about 52% of mobile sessions in first two months 2012. It revealed this stat after sampling data from 64 billion app sessions over 500 million devices. Game sessions were found out 20.5 times up the same time period in 2010 and 15.2 times from this time in 2011.

"Independent" gaming studios that began their businesses from iOS and Android versus established gaming companies are on the top of the list. They are interestingly Rovio (Angry Birds) and Toronto-based XMG Studios (Powder Monkeys) and not the old ones EA Games and Zynga. Independent studios had about 68% of share in game sessions during the first two months.

This new activities on the gaming forums where independent studios are getting ahead of the traditional companies shows the uniqueness of mobile system. Platform games are too expensive to produce and difficult to market. On the other hand independent game developers simply use native code or HTML5, and a developer license.

But it is expected that Apple and Google who are entering mobile gaming arena as well could change the discourse of the gaming scenario. They can create the most open, egalitarian market in the history of video games. Games also helps to increase sale of smartphones and tablets and provide the other developers wider scope to develop their application.

Happy Holi!

2012-03-06T21:38:00.002-08:00

Wish you all colorful and happy holi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review of ASUS Eee Pad Transformer

2012-03-06T12:28:00.001-08:00

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a complete Android-based tablet PC provided with companion docking station that liberates it to also work as an Android 3.0 Honeycomb-based netbook. The device is based upon NVIDIA's powerful dual core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor with 1GB of RAM and 16 - 32GB of internal storage.

The Transformer has dual front and rear facing cameras (1.2MP and 5MP, respectively), 1GB of on board memory, mini-HDMI output, a microSD card slot and a head phone/mic combo jack. It also has complete flash card reader slot, a pair of USB ports and, of course, keyboard and trackpad functionality. For all these features it has a bit upper hand in comparison to other Honeycomb-based tablets which are popular in the market.

Its keyboard deck provides it a unique and new level of functionality there are benefits of the keyboard dock design like a pair of USB ports and a full SD/MMC flash card slot. The dock also adds about an additional 6.5 hrs of battery time as well, along with internal battery of the device.

In built, the device has good copper brown finish and entirely brings an impression of an aluminum body. The Transfomer's LED backlit screen with resolution of 1280X800 presents very good viewing angles as well as excellent contrast, black reproduction and color saturation. The touch screen is very sensitive and has come up with traditional pinch/zoom gestures as well as ten finger multi-touch.

In Software, equipped with Android 3.0 it comes with apps pre-installed like Books, Music, Gallery and Youtube. It has an exciting media sharing and streaming app Mynet that allows a user to access files from other systems on network for display and playback on the tablet. It also has Polaris Office that is an office suite of programs for word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, etc. Polaris Office is compatible with the standard PC file formats for different office document types and files. The 16GB version of the Asus Transformer cost Rs 29,999, while the 32GB version has a price tag of Rs 32,990.

Expectations galore- Apple releasing iPad 3 or iPad HD

2012-03-06T05:32:00.000-08:00

There are so many unpredictable views about the next Apple gadget that no one is sure about what the company is offering there next device technology wise. The device about to be released next by Apple is iPad HD and not the iPad 3. There are many media activities are going around and rumors ebb and dive like a wave. It is exactly the same method adopted at the time of launching of iPhone 4S.

However, with the launch of iPad HD the new feature retina display is definite to be introduced which was left out during the launch of iPad 2. But retina technology was included in iPhone 4. HD for the iPad makes some sense with respect to visual experience. It is a difference between 720p and 1080i. There is also appearing another better alternative and name for iPad 3 is iPad 4G because the role of 4G connectivity in the next coming device.

The best Tablets at Mobile World Congress 2012

2012-03-05T09:29:00.000-08:00

Mobile World Congress 2012 at Barcelona released many smartphones, tablets and many other tech-products. This four day trade show provided tech giants to showcase their range of products and also launched many new peripherals in the market. Below is listed some of the best tablets at this year’s MWC

• Asus Padfone: Asus PadFone is a combo pack of tablet and smartphone. By putting the smartphone in the device’s dock you can increase the tablets battery life by five times. The device is powered by a 1.2 GHz Quad-Core processor with NVIDIA Tegra 3 and in OS it has Android 4.0. It has another features 10.1-inch screen with 1280 × 800 pixels display with LED backlight, 8 MP camera with 1080p video recording, 1.2 MP front camera, 16 GB memory and1 GB RAM.

• Samsung Galaxy Note 10: With 10.1 inch touchscreen and 1280x800 pixels of resolution and a new S-Pen stylus it is quite attractive in its look and sleekness. The tablet is powered with 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM and it is operated on Android 4.0 operating system. Its other features include 3 MP camera on the back and a VGA on the front and 8, 16 and 32GB internal memory storage expandable with microSD card up to 32GB. For connectivity it has Bluetooth 3.0, micro USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi.

• Toshiba AT270: A pocket sized tablet it appears to be gaming tablet. With a beautiful sleek body the tablet is powered by Nvidia Quad Core Tegra 3 processor, 1 GB of RAM and runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It has a 7.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen with 1280x800 pixels of resolution, rear facing camera, 16 GB internal memory and a microSD card slot for expandable memory. For connectivity it has microUSB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

• Fujitsu Stylistic M532: It has similar specifications like Toshiba AT270. The advantage it has over Toshiba’s tablet is 8 MP back facing camera, 3 MP front facing camera and a bigger 10 inch screen.

Three most important healthcare apps!

2012-03-05T08:51:00.004-08:00

The rising trend of using smart phones by medical practitioners has led to the trend of medical apps use for health care. As development has paced to a great extent on the health and wellness mobile arena, doctors and patients feel it difficult to choose right type of medical app for their specific medical needs. Amidst the massive crowd of medical apps there are three medical apps worth mentioning. These three apps aid patients and their family members get a better understanding of the cancer treatment, one of the most scary and incurable disease.

• Cancer.net: It is an oncologist-approved cancer information website from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), released an iOS app. The website now has been transferred more on to the mobile format. The most interesting and useful section of the application is its “questions and answers” section, which allows patients to store questions that they can ask their oncologist and other physicians later. There is also a suggestion area in the application that provides patients chance to have an idea about the question to be asked from a physician. The questions can even be stored in voice format from the application.

• Carb Counting with Lenny: The app made by Medtronic helps children to learn about diabetes and have an idea about carb counting. Those with diabetes or those with family members with history of diabetes know how important it is to know doing carbohydrate counting is. The app includes games method to make teaching helpful and fun to learn. The games display all the basic food groups and tell patients about the various carbs and their impact upon blood sugar.

• Hello Baby Pregnancy Calendar: The apps developed by Pampers, and introduced after the first iPad. The app helps expecting mothers to have a nice about the various stages of their pregnancy and their baby’s development. This shows different stages of baby development week after week. The app also includes a parenthood video series, and even a quirky “Womb Translator” portion that tells what a baby hears while he is in womb.

As smartphones have become unavoidable same is the case applies with various apps installed on smartphones.

The Raspberry Pi- credit card sized computer for developers

2012-03-05T04:35:00.000-08:00

A credit-card sized computer developed especially school going kids is released for sale in the United Kingdom. The Raspberry Pi as the computer is named is developed by volunteers mostly from academician and the UK tech industry. Sold without case and keyboard and monitor, the Pi has drawn caught attention of educationalist and and enthusiasts. The supporters argue it would help to create the pool of people qualified with programming skills.

"It has been six years in the making; the number of things that had to go right for this to happen is enormous. I couldn't be more pleased," said Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which is based in Cambridge. The device's launch has come at time when the Department for Education in UK is devising changes in computing in schools focusing more upon skills like programming. In the start, the £22 ($35) model of the Pi will be offered for sale. A cheaper £16 ($25) version will be on sale at the later part of the year.

The Pi runs on open source operating system Linux, which can be attached to a typical computer monitor along attaching a keyboard, mouse and other peripherals. The Pi also has an ethernet port, to make use of the high-speed internet connectivity. However, there are already similar devices in the market like Pi such as the Beagleboard and the Omnima MiniEMBWiFi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is aided by a Chinese manufacturer to develop the machine.

CityVille game’s honeymoon with Facebook is over

2012-03-05T04:08:00.000-08:00

The American firm Zynga known for developing social games like FarmVille and CityVille is launching its own gaming services instead of largely depending upon other companies for their earnings and revenues. Now people will have no more look at Facebook, Google+ and Myspace to enjoy the games.

Zynga earns its revenue through advertising and sale of virtual items like tools paid for with real cash. Most of the company's games are on Facebook, for which it gets about 30% commissions on each sale. Having more than 200 million active monthly users 95% of earning of Zynga comes from Facebook. It is publisher of top five games on social media. It could have a rapid impact upon credibility of Facebook is as gaming platform and can begin a significant shift in social gaming. The shift now can be on towards the mobile platforms. According to Zynga, it has re-designed website that would be launched later this month. Ne w new avatar the gaming would be provided along with live chatting and message boards features. The top five games on newZynga.com include CastleVille, CityVille and Words with Friends.

However, users will have to log onto with their Facebook IDs and sales from virtual goods in games like houses, coffee or other items, that would be traded by using Facebook Credits, the social website's payment system. Manuel Bronstein, general manager of Zynga.com, said the new website was not intended to move users away from Facebook. "It will help users keep their Facebook profiles separate from their gaming habits while bringing Zynga closer to users," he told. Zynga's new website will also host games from other companies including games like Row Sham Bow and MobScience.

Benefits of working with .NET

2012-03-04T22:10:00.000-08:00

.Net Framework primarily for Microsoft Windows and other OS platforms execute in Common Language Runtime (CLR) .Net provides uniqueness in security, memory management and exception handling. .NET is a platform for Internet-based applications is utilized for providing solutions and business applications for individuals, SMEs, organizations and enterprises. Some of the areas where .NET is extensively used for Web and Application development include:

•    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
•    Accounting Applications
•    Product/Inventory Applications
•    Warehousing Applications using hand-held devices
•    Web Sites
•    Value chain/supply management
•    Integration with partners through the Internet
•    XML Web services
•    PDA (hand-held) applications

Benefits of working with .Net Platform

•    Language Independence: The .Net technology is a language independent development platform which allows users to select the language fitting best for their applications.
•    Ease in Deploying: Design features and tools integrated with .Net Framework easily manage installation of computer software ensuring consistency and performance of previously working applications and software.
•    Security: The design of the Framework diminishes any possibility of buffer overflow that makes systems vulnerable to malicious software and viruses.
•    Portability: .Net is engineered to be platform free even provides integrated, mobile computing experience. Data can easily be integrated across computing hardware, such as laptops, Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and other devices.

.NET delivery and ROI (Return on Investment)
With .Net, a client enjoys ease of .Net of combining a number of technologies and using the relevant information at very appropriate place. The software development team can develop powerful but easy to use information systems. This enables businesses to promptly integrate their present systems, information and devices. With .Net, solutions are developed in lesser development time resulting into quality, reliable and scalable applications. It has a higher ROI and quicker payback time.

Mobile phones too to project movies and presentations

2012-03-04T22:07:00.001-08:00

Mobile phones available in different prize size and varieties are provided with high quality images and videos. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, EpiCrystals Oy and the Aalto University are working on a project of laser light to be integrated with mobile phones for ensuring the accurate and the most accurate projection. In very short spans of time extending to a few years will be within the reach of ordinary users.

Small-size laser projectors with length of about 1-2 centimetres in length can be integrated into electronic appliances like digital or video cameras, gaming devices and mobile phones. They can project images upto the size of A3 sheet on paper on a wall. The researchers are trying to develop a small, energy efficient and luminous three-colour (RGB) light source. “The project has successfully combined multi-technological know-how from VTT and its partners in the project, from manufacturing materials and the accurate focusing of laser chips all the way to production line design,” told Principal Scientist Timo Aalto involved in the project. The project is also important in the light of staggering statistics that soon around two billion mobile phones per year would be sold out globally.

FileFriend – an attempt to share everything on social media

2012-03-03T10:30:00.000-08:00

Onaccount of sharing services Dropbox and BitTorrent were recently in news. Manysharing services are quite popular nowadays on account of their sharingproperties. One such sharing service is File Friend that adds social touch toFile Sharing. No doubt, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. are nice on sharingfiles and pictures but for sharing Files there is a massive problem of limitedspace, nevertheless, the social media sites are even not for the major tasks offile sharing and documentation.

Onfile sharing there is hardly any requirement of install a desktop applicationit is a browser driven program that provides an extra edge over Dropbox orBitTorrent. With social sharing features into it can be easily add people to sharefiles and videos along with. It has many unique features like unlimited diskstorage space, unlimited size of single file uploaded to the service. It is afree service and has an annual charge incase for the yearly membership. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ connect to signin. Facebook friends can be called upon straight from the FileFriend. Easy copying of friend’s files as they canbe “anchored” in their account for further viewing. More it provides an easy andsystematic free social sharing among friends. It has Drag & Drop uploadfeature.

Review of Sony Xperia P

2012-03-03T10:03:00.000-08:00

At the MWC 2012 among crowd of various Mobile sets launched, the Sony Xperia P is one of the exclusive brands that attracted attention of the spectators. In design Xperia P is quite different from Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. Though body of the phone made with metal provides the feels like plastic like too. However, its plastic section at the bottom has antenna tech that helps in performance and speed wise in the phone. Screen of the phone too is very good and nice.

The White Magic Screen is provided with Bravia Reality Display has been made to backlighting the screen to make it visible in any situation. The 4” screen has about 540X 960 resolution screen. The phone has dual core 1 GHz processor and is powered with Android 2.3. It is planned to be updated with Ice Cream Sandwich till late this year. The timings for the camera are also very nice in the phone.

With working for an Internet browser there was always problem relating to it. Texting to phone also turned out to be not an easy task while correcting out the mistakes. The phone with reasonable pricing suits very well for the speedy snappers, clear display and solid make.

Google’s posing ‘Assistant’ as a rival to Apple’s multi-platform Siri

2012-03-03T07:47:00.001-08:00

Apple TV that would going to be reality to very soon is in talks with various content providers is also about to integrate Siri into Apple TV as well as other iOS devices. It is strong possibility that Siri could be released next week along with the release of iPad 3. To counter Siri, Google is coming with Assistant emerged according to inner sources from Google another program named as Majel. Google already with in-house voice technology for ages is trying to develop ‘Assistant’ far beyond than Siri in technologies in many ways and attributes.

The project along with Android team working on three attributes. The first attribute is merging world’s knowledge into a format which a computer could understand easily and decipher meaning out of it. Next, it may prepare a personalization layer for modifications like Google +1 and Google+ are Google’s way of gathering data on precisely how people interact with content. Last and the most important are to make it a mobile, voice centric “Do Engine” to enable a person to accomplish the real-life goals.

Google is also making Assistant as an open source activity and involving developers to innovate it more. There are good chances of apps, websites, etc integrating seamlessly into ‘Assistant’. The application is about to be released by Google by the fourth quarter of 2012.

Busuu an easy tool to learn a foreign language on the web

2012-03-03T03:34:00.003-08:00

On Busuu, learning a foreign language becomes very easy with selection of right language and the time spared religiously towards learning a language. Learning a second or third language is very helpful when you are about to move offshore or looking at better business opportunities. For developing skills in a foreign language Busuu provides both free as well paid plans. The paid plans charge $18 per single month with minimum charges of $6.29 in case you book it for two years in advance.

The free plan includes writing and reading exercises, interactive exams, and a video chat. You can pick any language according to your choice and aptitude. You can start the course by setting a deadline. With a red Go button on the interface for learning the language you can start your journey. There will emerge images for the phrases in desire language selected by you. The images on the course of tutorial are supported with crisp and clear voice. In meantime an easy translation as well is provided for the entire activities.
After the initial learning next step of coaching is quiz based on the dialog in the language you are aspiring to learn. There are also many tooltips which at the same time brings the meaning of the dialogues in English as well.

After that you are required to introduce yourself with the community by writing and briefing about self in the language trying your hands. This is sort of introduction to other members of the community. This increases interaction with other members of the society. In the end of each lesson, there is an exam to showcase one’s adaptability in the language to check the skill and further scope to learn in the mentioned language.

The Busuu Android app is free can easily be integrated with a website. The app can be update for news lessons as well.

Huawei Ascend G300

2012-03-02T21:13:00.003-08:00

Huawei is a good choice for the mobile seekers who are looking for the budget minded options. The Ascend G300 is 4-inch screen phone packed into a sleek and good-looking body. The phone is offered by Vodafone. In UK it is about to be for sale on the contract price of £15 per month. The phone is officially released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The front of the phone as already told is dominated by a 4-inch screen, provided with an impressive metal looking edging. Rest of the phone is made of glass and looks similar to the Orange San Francisco 2. Its backside gives an impressive effect of two-tone effect of silver and white. The black plate is made of plastic. At the top of the back panel is situated a 5-megapixel camera. The 4-inch screen has a resolution of 480x320 pixels. Its display if very bright and sharp but for browsing purposes it requires lot of scrolling up and down.The G300 operates on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This offers comparatively simple operations and is not that much savvy for the robust applications and high-end technologies. The Gingerbread is supported by the 1GHz processor than the more up-to-date Ice Cream Sandwich. Overall The Huawei Ascend G300 is a good-looking phone with a nice screen and affordable pricing.

Google+ launches Drug war debate through Hangout

2012-03-02T20:56:00.001-08:00

Google recently release a new Hangout video named as Versus on the YouTube blog. In co-ordination with Intelligence², a worldwide forum having roots in the U.K. that organizes debates on radio and television on issues of social problems and other activities. In the video participants debate over on a tabled motion and the audience can present their views in real time on the importance and value of the arguments.

The first motion is "It's time to end the War on Drugs." It includes contributors to the debate including Richard Branson, Russell Brand, Julian Assange and the former presidents of Mexico and Brazil. The moderator is Emily Maitlis of the BBC. It airs on the Versus YouTube channel on March 13 at 7:00 p.m. GMT. By participating on the Versus Google+ page, you can be part of this debate.

Hangouts is a good initiative by Google+ that poses some competition to Facebook popularity. Most Hangout activities are exposed to the people on Google+, however, it also presents the some smart visibility through some well-deserved promotions like. President of the United States hung out. The Presidential Hangout succeeded immensely and even rivaled cable TV. In fact, the informal nature of Google+ Hangouts brings some refreshing touch to the video telecasting. Google+ has a great advantage of Hangout as no social media site has such a massive infrastructure like YouTube's as a back-end.

Benefits of offshore software development during economic downturn

2012-03-02T20:34:00.002-08:00

The pressure of economic downturn, which slows down business and industrial activities across the industries under financial obligations of the balance sheet and running operations can be waive off by offshore software development. It is an easy healer not only for development activities for IT companies but also provides effective solutions as well for the manufacturing and other service sector industries for an effective cost cutting and unhindered development and product cycle.

For IT companies’, offshore software development provides leverage of involving external professional service providers on their projects on temporary employment basis. It, to a considerable level reduces woes of uneven staffing demands and proper and prompt execution of the project for the organization. Offsite team of developers and analysts provide competitive edge on account of their updated technical skill and strong academic base. Offshore software development companies possess dexterity and excellence in performance at specific technologies and tools required by the clients. It not only works with the routine coding with consistency and quality but also put innovative approach in R&D.

Offshore software development also aids to a partner in strategic thinking and looking closely to its core-business components. Along with reducing short-term costs, it also helps in high level of business efficiency. Some of the benefits of offshore development are stated as:

•    Least infrastructure cost: Offshore software development model retains great cost effectiveness for an organization. It reduces infrastructure cost to a minimum level, which is the next biggest expense for a company after human resource. An outsourced facility for the operations can be setup in minimum spending and time. It reduces firms TCO (total cost of ownership) to a greater extent.

•    Cost-effective software development: Offshore development for international clients is a very attractive proposition. It presents them with opportunity to reduce expenses on technical development. It is an effective mean for both software and hardware design and evolution with an outsourcing vendor.

•    Resources at disposal: The off-shoring brings the flexibility of scaling up or downsizing the resource appointment on the client specific need and requirement. It brings leisure of accessing full or component-time resource solutions. The resources can be extended or shrink according to the project needs.

•    Peak efficiency in business adverse circumstances: In tough time of economic turndown, a client enjoys services from the motivated workforce with certainty of efficiency levels. He also enjoys SLA (Service level agreement) signed between them and a service provider. Timely project deliveries are executed despite the economic recession.

Offshore software development is a new market truth and progressive business leaders have agreeably aligned and responded to it.

Sony release Xperia P and Xperia U

2012-03-02T11:29:00.000-08:00

Sony Mobile Communications contributed its share in ongoing Mobile World Congress by launching two new smart phones-the new Xperia P and Xperia U. The phones part of the Sony’s Xperia(TM) NXT series provide mixture of technology with infotainment. Both smart phones have 1 GHz dual-core processors for world class speed and performance. .

Xperia P is launched on Android platform 2.3 (Gingerbread) and is expected to be updated to Android platform 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) about in the second quarter of 2012. Xperia P comes with 4" Reality Display equipped with Mobile BRAVIA Engine. On its display WhiteMagic(TM) technology for an ultra-bright and power efficient viewing is used. 1 GHz dual-core processor for super fast performance is along with 16GB flash storage capacity. 8MP camera with unique fast capture, HD recording and Sony technology to capture 2D and 3D panoramic image are some of other exciting features of the phone. Next interesting features it includes easy HDMI and DLNA connectivity to distribute content on any screen. NFC (Near Field Communications) enabled to access a growing range of NFC applications and services as well as Xperia SmartTags. It is available in a choice of silver, black and red, all with an aluminium unibody.

Xperia U on the other side is a 3.5" Reality Display powered by Mobile BRAVIA Engine. It has 1 GHz dual-core processor for excellent performance. It is equipped with 5MP camera, HD recording and Sony technology to capture 2D and 3D panoramic images. xLoud and 3D surround sound audio technology provides clear and loud voice. One can choose it from the choice of white or black, with pink and yellow exchangeable caps for the base of the smartphone in the box. Powered with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is set to upgrade to Android platform 4.0 by the second quarter of 2012. For retail selling Xperia P and Xperia U will be available by the second quarter of this year.

Facebook introduces new advertising services

2012-03-02T10:18:00.000-08:00

Before coming with ever largest public issues on Wall Street by a internet company Facebook is trying die-hard to provide a full preparation and background to this launch. For boosting the prospects Facebook has come up with new tools for advertisers. The advertising modules released at Museum of Natural History seem to be ads on mobile device, where Facebook yet has to make beginning with respect to generating revenues.

Facebook with about 850 million members is will try to tap the users which access social networking sites on mobile devices. Facebook declared three features including Facebook Pages, Reach Generator and Premium on Facebook directing better results. Facebook Pages has introduced the timeline feature to change the presentation of the page. Reach Generator, will allow businesses to get more into and connect with their fans.

Whereas premium lets brands to engage and interact in the most effective manner on Facebook. It would be on the homepage or the news feed on desktops and mobile devices. It would show ads to the common users on the right hand side of their home page. In February FB applied for public offer of about $5 billion.

A distinction less universal mobile charger!

2012-03-02T08:25:00.001-08:00

The distant dream for mobile users to have a common charger to all there recharging needs especially in case, if they leave away their charger in home and can share a colleague’s charger is soon be a reality. A charger based on this dream concept was recently displayed at Mobile World Congress. However, there is some time before this charger finally reaching into the hands of common users.

The work on this project began three years back, when 17 manufacturers and operators agreed in MWC to develop the same standard for mobile phone chargers to be equipped into a micro-USB socket. The global industry’s GSM Association has set goal that majority of mobile phones to be sold out in 2012 should be new adaptable universal charger.

The initiative taken by the companies was taken after the pressure from European Union to provide a universal charger to clients to free them from the hassle of changing charger and unnecessary waste for buying a new mobile phone. The ITU in 2011 told all manufacturers to share the same mobile phone charger by 2014. In 2011, University of Genoa after a research concluded that about 10 different charger models among the eight prominent mobile makers. According to estimations about 100,000 tonnes of chargers will out of use after the use the universal charger for purchase of new mobile phones.

Peeping into security mechanism of Social media

2012-02-28T10:22:00.001-08:00

Sailing through the world, which is now full of social networking sites and smartphones that have every bit of person information about you not as smooth and easy for a person. The biggest problem about the information sharing on social media sites is its collection, distribution and sharing. Therefore, it is very important to asses, which information to keep with yourself and which one to share around. On social networking sites, the common information shared among are name, gender and date of birth.

Many people provide additional information like photographs, comments and other additional information. Though most of the information can be kept hidden from the public, yet the companies enjoy the preference of viewing and sharing that information for the marketing and survey purposes. For example, by using Facebook credentials you partly expose your data to come into the public domain. Social media apps on smartphones, disastrously, give access to personal phone call information and physical location of the owner and this way reveals more information to others. On Apple Inc's iPhone, apps without permission cannot locate and access GPS location coordinates a procedure which may become necessary for everyone, following the system and the procedures.

Personal information is the basis of internet economy shared by marketing and advertising companies. Hundreds of companies, gather personal data about Web users, and mix it with other information and then resell it on a heavy profit. The main problem with this type of data sharing is that if it goes into the hands of insurance companies or banks, they can use them for decision making purposes with whom to do business with.

It is not expected from the social media sites to have a privacy policy, companies do have. However, websites for having any such privacy policies can be prosecuted under law. Sites that accept payment card information need to be more vigilant with respect for encrypting and protecting the data. Medical records and some financial information is subject of stricter rules.

How to protect your online privacy

2012-02-27T22:23:00.000-08:00

When every bit of data is shared on cloud between different social media facilities and data mining scaling new heights, it is obvious to be extra cautious to protect and retributive towards your online privacy. The updated antivirus can sort out many problems faced by your system with respect to online safety of the data, but it is ultimately in your hand to guard privacy enjoyed online by adopting some common measures to secure data.

Reacting to cookie notices on browser: Cookies are pieces of information stored on one’s computer. They help in avoiding retyping of passwords and user IDs again and again. Other use of cookies is for the data mining purposes where a users’ behavior could be observed and tracked for the marketing purposes and use by a web company. Browsers like Mozilla provide a bit of control over cookies to a user. They provide piece of information as whether to accept or reject a cookie.

Avoid providing full birth date on social media sites: Date of birth is centre for identity thieves to extract all the best information for their use. For caution you can leave only month and day on the social sites.

Multiple usernames and passwords should be used: The usernames and passwords for social networks, online banking, e-mail and online shopping should be completely different from each other. The varying passwords must be accommodated with different password as well. With a common user name across different websites your romantic, personal, professional and e-commerce data can easily be measured with the help of simple algorithms.

Always read a privacy policy: While singing for a new service, it is imperative to go through its privacy policy carefully. A Good privacy policy also tells about tracking your activities and selling your information to a third party. It is nice to use SSL whenever interacting with internet sites.

Use an alternative credit card: If you are in habit of making a lot of online purchase, it is rather advisable to ask your credit card provider to give you a temporary number mentioned with a spending limit and an expiration date.

Using an anonymizer to hide your computer’s IP address and leaving away spam mails without a communication with spammers also help to protect your online privacy.

Google Glasses equipped with Android set for next year

2012-02-27T21:11:00.000-08:00

The fantasy observed in Hollywood movies where hero used to get information about an object merely viewing them is just about to come true. Wait till next year! The pair of spectacles termed as Google Glasses powered with Android will project information on its screen what they view. Google which is under process of developing a pair of spectacles in its secret Google X labs is trying hard to release the device by the end of this year.

They will work exactly like the current generation smartphones with exception of replacing touchscreen with glasses. Though, Google is quite silent about the details of the project. It definitely would be great experience to watch a person with the help of Google Spectacles. The glasses powered by Android are equipped with GPS, motion sensors, cameras and audio devices. The device is set to be in range of $250-$650.

Nokia 808 with 41-megapixel camera for excellent visual clarity

2012-02-27T20:49:00.000-08:00

In a recent surprise, Nokia released a new smartphone, the 808 PureView which has a whopping 41 megapixel camera. The phone is about to be launched in Europe in May. The device released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona runs on Symbian operating system. However, Nokia has promised to update the phone for advanced operating system by 2016. At 41mp, the phone can capture images to be further printed at “poster size”. Technology used in the phone condenses four to five pixels into one, and according to Nokia this is the USP of the phone. The phone is developed in a manner to be fixed into the pocket instead of replacing a full-size camera. The PureView uses a 1.3GHz processor, 16GB of storage and runs a 4" screen at 360 x 640, which is below HD resolution.

Ensuring identity security on cloud!

2012-02-26T09:35:00.001-08:00

The enormity of cloud contains many variable factors which are crucial for identity security on data spread across servers and data centers spread across the globe. Client access devices are very small on the cloud and they are scattered everywhere. Same is the case for the personal computers, that are virtual and flow of data packets is continual. This makes the security of identity crucial and very important.

As it is obvious on cloud services with the launch of Windows 8 one would be able to access services with a Microsoft account. Apple iPad and iPhone users are already familiar with the iCloud account. With logging account on the different services the credentials used for logging into a service through portable devices and computers must be translate into the encryption recognizable by the services. This provides a lateral security cover to the identity.

For the purpose of risk management in the cloud services, insurance sector can introduce various risk management procedures and methods. With risk management it levels down the loss mitigation strategies and methods.

With rising incorporation of transaction models into cloud services there is much need for regulating imperfections in modern endpoint security. There is a need of security blanket for stopping malicious activities reaching into the endpoint. And for cloud it is an imperative activity. Privacy is another important aspect of identity security on cloud! As far as anyone lives under the impression of being spied the identity crisis will keep on lingering for longer period of time. The technology can play a vital role in this respect instead of passing of laws by the congress and government. And the issue of identity security has also special significance with respect to infrastructure as most of the computing is moving towards service model.

Mobile World Congress coming with a big bang! For gadget lovers

2012-02-25T09:32:00.002-08:00

Mobile World Congress (27February- 1March 2012) has a distinct niche for organizing and providing platform to the activities for the wireless world. It is an event in which participants from around the world meet with each other and showcase technologies in the latest phones and tablets from across the globe. This year’s MWC (Mobile World Congress) has big expectation from the Google’s Android OS. Brands like LG, Huawei, HTC, ZTE, Sony, Samsung, Asus, and possibly Lenovo will also exhibit their new range of product and services.

In MWC, within a week LG has released about eight phones including the Optimus 3D Max, Optimus Vu, three L-Style handsets, and the Optimus 4X HD. That last devices on the list to be launched are too very exciting and includes an Nvidia quad-core processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Expectations are even too high on quad-core chips which are to come up within many devices. ZTE may release about three Android 4.0 phones, including the Mimosa X, plus an unnamed quad-core handset. HTC whereas come up with HTC Ville equipped with dual-core chip. Nvidia with quad-core devices and Huawei with quad-core Diamond series of phones are well set for the event. Nokia will also reveal gadgets of its share including the Lumia 610 and Lumia 900. LG may come out with a Windows Phone 7 smartphone called the Miracle, and ZTE has told that it will have its first device with Microsoft's OS.

How reputation management on social media is determined?

2012-02-25T01:56:00.000-08:00

Reputation management is now an imperative exercise to maintain decency online. There many behaviors to communicate online are in fashion. Some users, online take the best care to project themselves online, whereas others adopt a causal approach to behave on internet. Search engines and social media play an important role in defining one’s image online. One of the easy approaches for managing reputation online is modifying privacy setting, customizing the public views of the posts and deleting objectionable and unwanted information from the profile.

Online reputation-monitoring through search engines has increased to the level of 57% for adult internet users, who use search engines as to search information about them. The habit to monitor other’s activities online has also increased to considerable levels in recent times. People try to search information about other’s past on social media. Some popular online reputation managing activities among youth in age group of 18-29 are limiting the personal information, changing privacy settings, deleting unwanted comments. Removing names from photos is another important social reputation management activity online.

The habit of self-monitoring increases with dynamic environment enjoyed on social media sites depending upon specific audiences and activities done by them. This makes it more important to be much vigilant and aware on social media sites. People also work with and among employers which has specific policies as they showcase themselves online. 30 percent of employed internet users work for employers those have specific guidelines for behaving online. For example they could have specific instructions about posting on blogs and sharing information among them. The trend among professionals to look for information about co-workers, professional colleagues or business competitors is even on rise. In personal relationship as well Social Media is used as method to search information about someone they are dating with.

Social networking users are especially attuned to the intricacies of online reputation management. Two-thirds now say that they have changed the privacy settings for their profile to restrict what they share with others online. Most have also chosen to prune certain friends from their networks when they become too large or contacts fall out of favor, and many actively “revise” the information that others post about them. It is also a common view about social media is that it helps in getting friends easy and in meaningful way. Despite so much accuracy the reputational mishaps still occur among celebrities, politicians and other major figures. Therefore, it is very necessary to remain extra cautious on social media sites.

LG set to launch glasses free 3D smartphone

2012-02-25T00:44:00.002-08:00

LG is soon coming with its second edition of glasses free 3D smartphone, the Optimus3D Max. The phone is set to be releasedduring Mobile World Congress 2012 among the range of other streamlined and state-of-the-artmobile devices. According to LG Optimus 3D Max will be released at other partsof the globe as Optimus 3D in some areas. It is set to arrive with unique 3D experienceand advanced NFC capabilities.

Thesmartphone is more sleak that its earlier version as it is 9.6 mm thin and hasa 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 4.3” WVGA display, 8GB of internal storage, 1GBof memory, a 5MP dual-lens camera for shooting video and photos in 3D, and a1.520 mAh battery. The Optimus 3D Max will release in Korea in March before a globallaunch of the device. To be released with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, however, isset to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich after that.

LG releases Optimus 4X HD with ICS

2012-02-24T21:44:00.000-08:00

LG before the start of Mobile World Congress 2012 has recently unveiled a very interesting Smartphone recently. The device named as LG Optimus 4X HD has amazing 3D capabilities. Officially to be released at MWC 2012, it runs on Cream Sandwich 4.0 and is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 1.5GHz processor. It is one of the smart phones in series that have a quad-core processor.

This quad-core Tegra 3 CPU is provided with a fifth core called Companion Core. The Companion Core is enabled with facilities like music playback, email and SMS messages, and others. The rest four cores adjust multitasking, HD video playback, gaming, and other apps or tasks that requires more than sufficient processing power. The LG Optimus 4X HD is set to be released in second quarter in 2012 and in rest markets after that. Its other impressive features include 4.7-inch True HD IPS touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 720, 16GB internal memory, 1GB RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back with autofocus, LED flash, and 1080p HD video recording, 1.3-megapixel camera on the back, MHL, DLNA streaming, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, gyroscope, and a 2,150mAh battery.

Samsung launched two Ultrabooks in India

2012-02-24T20:39:00.002-08:00

Samsung Electronics has recently launched its new range of Series 5 Ultra notebooks. The new Samsung Series Ultrabooks are slim and provided with unique features and an Intel Core i5 processor. The Series 5 Ultrabooks are released in 13” and 14” screen size. The 14” model is one of its kind in the market, which has a built-in DVD drive and SD card slot. This provides users the comfort of easy access to software, movies, photos and more.

The Series 5’s storage capacity also provides an added advantage to the models along with strong storage capacity on cloud. The 14’’ model has 1TB of storage capacity and the 13” model can store data upto 500 GB. This ensures that a user can rely on these devices without carrying any additional storage devices with him. The battery life of the series is also well extended up providing 6.4 hours of battery life on a single charge. The The Samsung Battery Life Plus, an innovative anti-aging battery technology that retains about 80 percent of the cell’s original capacity for about 1,500 charging cycles extending upto three years. This way battery of these devices can live longer than other notebooks. They have boot up time of 20 seconds and wake up time of about two seconds.

In design, the Series 5 Ultra showcases sleek lines and a cool, sophisticated design. , The 13” variant is just 14.9~17.6mm thin and 1.42kg light (w/SSD). It features the Intel® Core™ i5 processor with 8GB memory, up to 500GB storage and 16GB iSSD with ExpressCache™. Consumers can also opt from a 128GB SSD or 258GB SSD as their preferred storage. The 13” model also has a full-size HDMI port along with one USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, 4-in-1 multi SD card slot, Ethernet and webcam.

Whereas the 14” model has in-built Intel® Core™ i5 processor and has 8GB memory and 16GB iSSD with ExpressCache™ system providing exceptional performance. For larger storage and heightened visual experience, it has 1TB storage as well as an AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB graphics card. An integrated Optical Disc Drive also presents ease of the maximum convenience. For connectivity, the 14” model provides full-size HDMI, VGA, two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, 4-in-1 multi SD card slot, Ethernet and webcam. The retail price of the 13” and 14” Ultrabook models are Rs. 48,990/- and Rs. 54,390/-model wise.

Sony’s new unique console for exciting gaming experience!

2012-02-22T09:13:00.003-08:00

Provided with the most powerful processor and multiplayer capacity, the play station Vita presents new-fresh world of gaming extravanza never offered before. The Vita console with an array of new addition in processor as well as other peripherals brings a player across the unmatched gaming experience and excitement.

The device launched in Japan last Christmas according to some latest news and estimations have sold about half a million units in the market. A rival to Nintendo 3DS it has a quad-core processor and 5in (12.7cm) OLED touch screen. Though it is entering into competitive market as mobile casual gamer spaces dominated by applications for smart phones.

It is released with wi-fi connectivity and with 3G mobile network. The Vita has offered three different games available at launch. Some of these games are fully priced and rests are under the rate of below 10 pounds. However, the device has retained some positive rating from gaming review sites. It may have to suffer stiff competition from growing smartphone gaming market. According to some positive responses from the Sony, it is targeting 18 to 25 years who are the first gamers.

Google bypassed Safari’s protection on Apple

2012-02-19T04:40:00.000-08:00

In a recent breach of security of an Apple web browser on iPhones, Google and other online advertisers reached the internal settings to have a survey of millions of users. According to a report of the wall street journal, the companies used a special source code, which deceived Apple’s Safari software to monitor behavior and habit of many of its users. Safari, the widely used browser on mobile devices, however, is made in such a manner that it can block in such attempts and code by default. When the Journal contacted the Google, it disabled the code. The code for the first time was observed was first spotted by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer and independently confirmed by Ashkan Soltani, a technical adviser to the Journal.

How to promote a blog on social media?

2012-02-18T22:37:00.000-08:00

There are many ways to drive traffic to a blog and social media is becoming one of the popular tools for a blog to derive traffic with respect to approach and appeal. To create and promote following on a major social media sites is one of the best ways to generate traffic for a website. This promotes brands and provides better and advanced clicks.Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon provides good opportunity to generate traffic for a website and a blog on social media platforms.

It is a nice way to connect your blog readers to connect with various social media sites, make it easier for your readers to get connected to the entire social media sites button easily on the blog. Their positioning with respect to social media sites is very important and necessary. Every new post published should be linked to Facebook. And readers must be able to search your blog on Facebook by its names as well.

StumbleUpon emerged as an alternative search engine which acts as an alternate browser when users click through a post and a sort of viral is created and distributed across. Submitting a blog to stumble upon bring the traffic handsomely. And most importantly there must be strong following as well on the stumble upon as well.

The RSS feed should be imported to the LinkedIn profile as well. It relates the blog with your professional goals as well. Pinterest has also emerged as a new savvy tool for social media purposes and utilities. Blogs with themes and appeals like fashion, food, design, crafts and travel and natural fit goes well on the Pinterest and drive good traffic.

Shortens must be used form the site like bit.ly for Twitter and other such micro-blogging sites. And last and the most important other blogger groups can be joined on Facebook and other social media sites and other blogger also must be promoted by you and they will oblige by popularizing your blog.

The BlackBerry Bold 9790

2012-02-18T09:42:00.000-08:00

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is one more addition to the series launched by smart phones RIM in recent times. The 9790 edition of the phone is unique in itself because of being hybrid itself. No doubt, it is an expensive phone; however, its SIM free edition comes around in the price range of 350 pounds sterling.

The 9790’s come in the same price range as similar to the high-end Android phones that even includes the most popular Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Sensation XE. The touch screen of this phone comes with rather a menu of extra options. It has a touch friendly menu instead of off thumbed BlackBerry key. The OS of the device is an admixture of an era of keyboards and cursors and not supports the RIMs efforts to make it more touch and user friendly phone.

The Bold 9790 has 2.45-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480x360 pixels at 246 pixels per inch -- a throwback to 2010's Bold 9780, which sported the same resolution and screen size. It is comparatively smaller. The 9790 has a mini Post-it note-sized screen. The Bold 9790 has good messaging features and is made with a suitability factor for Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail. There's also BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and texting, Twitter and Facebook apps, which helps to integrate with social networks and provide rather good notifications to the phone.

The 9790 has a 1GHz chip that makes the OS fast and responsive to act fast on commands. The full website opens slower on its native browser. Though scrolling and zooming is bit fast accommodate through the fluidity and speed. There is no support for online videos in Form of Adobe Flash that is not available with the device. Battery performance is satisfactory. The 9790's camera is 5 megapixels, that is too less for an expensive phone like this. Both the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Apple iPhone 4S provide 8 megapixels. It even not fits for mobile media as it is not much connected t to the Apple's iOS plus iTunes. The video app only take towards to 'Explore video apps' on BlackBerry App World, that relates to YouTube 'mobile reader' apps.

Facebook hacker sentenced to jail

2012-02-18T06:29:00.000-08:00

In an unprecedented turn of activities, a British student who had hacked into Facebook’s internal network and causing it serious harm has been sentenced for eight months on Friday. Prosecutors termed it as rarest of rarest of cyber crim. Glenn Mangham, 26, a software development student in filtered with Facebook making it to be as a case very grave industrial espionage.

"This was the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts," told by Alison Saunders, London's Chief Prosecutor. "Fortunately, this did not involve any personal user data being compromised."

Facebook got an idea about the intervention in the year when there occurred a security breach at its internal network in April and there FBI was called by the social network company to get into the things. The U.S.FBI investigated resources of hacking to be based in Britain. Then British police took action and raided Mangham's house in June.

Mangham explained that he earlier also helped search engine Yahoo Inc to improve its security and wished to do it once again for Facebook as well. However, prosecutors did not pay any heed to his arguments. Facebook spent $200,000 to recover damage from his activities.

Apple release its new OS X Mountain Lion

2012-02-18T06:00:00.000-08:00

Apple with big promise for the future of iPad has launched the preview of its Macintosh operating system with introducing properties of the iPad to the personal computers. The California based company revealed that Mountain Lion, the operating system named though will be available to Macintosh developers very soon. Mac owners can upgrade the software by late summer. Apple has a sale of around 5.2 million Macs last quarter.

The new Mountain Lion includes a new Messages application replacing iChat and will give leverage to a user to sent unaccountable numbers of messages, photos and video from a Mac to another Mac or a device running iOS software like as the iPad or iPhone. The OS also provides opportunities to integrate with Twitter letting users to sign in and tweet straight away from Safari, Photo Booth and third-party applications as revealed by Apple in a press release.

In the Game Center of the device the unique feature is its multiplayer capacity allowing players to play across iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices. Mountain Lion is devised primarily for the Internet "cloud" in mind. The devised feature named as Gatekeeper protects the computer from the malicious software by providing the full control to user either to install or download them. With AirPlay Mirroring, a Mac user can wirelessly send video from a Mac to an HDTV with the help of Apple TV.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is a prototype of Ice Cream Sandwich

2012-02-13T08:47:00.000-08:00

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), the next one in serious of Samsung Galaxy Tab is equipped with the latest version of most advanced version of Android, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) is a seven inch screen that has 1,024x600-pixel resolution. Within the gadget it is equipped with 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. It also has 802.11n Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct to link with other devices.

Ice Cream Sandwich provides faster performance and new features such as Face Unlock, which unlocks the Tab 7.0 when you look at it. It has two cameras a 3 mega pixel camera at the back and the other second camera at the front screen for videos chats. It is also a very useful utility that provides opportunity to chat more than one person at a time through Google+ hangouts or one can indulge in the chat on the tab with ChatON instant messaging. Other important apps in the device include other Sansung’s range of HUB apps that help in connecting with ebooks and games. It Tab 7.0 also has a new video hub provided by Samsung, which provides about 1,000 movies to buy or rent.

The tab has also Samsung's TouchWiz interface with lots of Hub widgets and a new service named S Suggest. S Suggest provides better ideas for new apps that one way prefer based upon the previous taste and ideas. AllShare gaming is also launched on Tab 2. Tab 2 allows to play, live-stream or transfer music, movies and games to Tablet from your PC. With this the Galaxy Tab is available in very wide and broad range including Galaxy Tab 7.7, Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1. There's even talk of an 11.6-inch Tab for the tablet-using giant. The Tab 2.0 also provides a slot for a microSD card for an extra 32 GB storage capacity. And it is available in 3G to WiFi options and versions.

You are my Valentine:L-ove equation by Google

2012-02-12T07:44:00.000-08:00

Google has come up with a great idea this Valentine. it has developed an equation that pasting into Google's search engine generates an exciting love graph. Technology lovers and math feeling amorous are creating so much ruckus for this Valentine on social media sites and Tech blogs. The mathematical equation that generates the love graph follows as:

sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5
Entering the above equation into Google's search engine brings heart displaying a graph exactly at the center. Google, known for its seasonal Doodles, however, is not behind the equation and it is still not clear who is behind this romantic equation. Google is also popular for creating its own Easter eggs -- for example, typing "do a barrel roll" into the search bar creates the page spin 360 degrees.this fill create real fun on valentine day.

Google finally coming with its retail store

2012-02-12T07:24:00.000-08:00

According to some reports and rumors Google has finally have some plans to start its own real world store in proximity to its Dublin headquarters. this news of Google opening a retail store for the first time appeared in a Bloomberg report that revealed application of the plan beign submitted to Dublin City Council. the approval to the application was given on Jan 23 according to the reports.The reatail is an effort to sale Google Merchandise apart from its already existing Google stores selling computers and Google gadgets.Google is also selling its products in collaboration with electronic shops Currys, PC World and Dixons

Environment friendly gadgets

2012-02-12T06:19:00.000-08:00

Your contribution to the green and friendly environment can being from the selection of some most modern and state of the art gadgets. With the help of these a great contribution can be made in the global quest of conserving and saving energy. Here some of gadgets that can be used on the energy saving campaign follow as:

Yes there is a water-powered alarm clock: You don’t believe it but it truly comes on a very low price of $26 from its manufacture, Bedol. The water-powered alarm clock is entirely free for runnign it.

Biodegradable Laptops: These ultra-latest models of the laptops are into fashion since few years. Brands like Fujitsu, ASUS and ACER all are now providing eco-friendly bio-degradable laptops. These laptops are made of recyclable and biodegradable materials and hardly contain any harmful chemicals. These energy saving laptops are very nice to carry on travels.

USB rechargeable battery: Similar in appearance to a cigarette lighter, just far cleverer, the USB rechargeable battery works like a normal chemical inducing power device. You just need to connect it to the USB port and needs to rest till it fills up. The charger comes with a multipack of batteries with a lifecycle of 500 charges. USB batteries have got to be the ultimate eco-friendly traveller’s companion.

iPhone: There are many suspiciously similar phones around now, but when comes to look should be a iPhone. iPhone relives from many energy consuming gadgets like MP3 player, compass, camera and even the biodegradable laptop.

Media player with solar power: Using the sunrays this device let its owner to listen to the music, play games and to read e-books. It also works as a charge for all devices it hasn’t out of business like as phone, digital cameras and portable DVD players.

And there are many more and lots of another bio-friendly gadgets that you can search in the market.

iPhone 4S topped the chart in Q4 sales

2012-02-08T08:30:00.000-08:00

According to a recent search made by the NPD Group, Apple crossed the numbers of the LG and Samsung to become the top selling US handset in the fourth business quarter in 2011. The three prestigious models iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS accounted for 43% of the entire U.S. smartphone market. On the basis of operating system capitalization Android continued to lead the market with total capitalization of about 48%. Combinng, iPhone and Android account for about over 90% of US smartphone sales. Rest is shared by others like Windows Phone, or even the degrading RIM’s BlackBerry.

Android is still going much better way over iPhone. The popularity of Android lies with its being a wide carrier support. It is also helpful is Android’s large app selection and its support of LTE at Verizon. Now smatphones constitutes around 68% of the entire U.S. phone market. This is more than 18% from Q2 of 2010. Customers like iPhone 4S’s faster processor, improved camera and the Siri speech-driven agent.

iPad owners more content than Kindle users

2012-02-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

A competitive study occurred between the usersof Amazon Kindle Fire and iPad concluded with proving iPad users more satisfiedin comparison to kindle users. The survey carried out by US research firm,Changewave revealed that out of 200 tablet-owning Americans 74 percent who ownan iPad said that there were “very satisfied” with the device . But of the totalkindle owners only 54 percent were pleased with the Amazon tablet. Kindle Fireowners were happy about the cost of the device its screen an ease of the use providedby it. The kindle lacks in a volume adjustor button, camera and a smallerscreen size than the iPad. Kindle’s battery life as well is too short thatkeeps it at bay in competition with iPad. And the Kindle fire owners were alsonot happy with the location of the on/off button.

Google deployed 'Bouncer' to keep malware away from Android app club

2012-02-06T07:39:00.000-08:00

Google has started a cleansing exercise by starting the automatic scanning of all applications placed in its Android Market to protect it from the malware scare and consumers doubts about in-app spyware.

The service named as Bouncer provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without any problem for any user experience of Android Market or leading developers to go on an application approval process.

Bouncer will scan both existing apps within the store and new apps that are being added to the store on regular basis. Before the Bouncer, Google used to employ only the apps in-case they are downloaded. And used to flag an app if found doubtful and crucial.

In recent survey done by security firm Sophos revealed that at least ten thousand users had downloaded malicious apps from the Android Market. The Google, told the rate of downloading malware has been reduced by 40 percent between the first and second halves of 2011. Google has a reached a whopping figure of 11 billion app downloads from its Android Market in January. Apple announced that users had downloaded 18 billion apps from its App Store in October 2011. However, Apple is known for its stringent processes and method for giving approval for App store download and sometimes it becomes months to download an application.

Social media has more addiction than alcohol

2012-02-06T07:19:00.000-08:00

According to a recent study occurred at Chicago University’s Booth Business on BlackBerry devices termed them more addictive than alcohol. The test conducted on the basis of checking will power of around 205 people between the ages of 18 and 85 in the German city of Wurtzburg. The participants in the survey asked seven times a day during the period of a week to test out the desires and the strength of the said desires.

The team conducting the survey asked question to the thousands of respondents. Sleep and leisure topped the list for self-control failure rates with social media, email and work at the top and with an urge to a Camel Light. “Desires for social media may be comparatively harder to resist because of their high availability and also because it feels like it does not ‘cost much’ to engage in these activities, even though one wants to resist,” as the lead researcher of the survey Wilhelm Hofmann told in a press brief.

Some basic meditation tips

2012-02-05T05:33:00.000-08:00

Meditation Tips

Meditation is just not a new way to do exercise but it has carved a distinct spot for itself as a life style phenomenon for the professionals and it is catching too fast as a habit across globe. In its simplest description meditation is the act of sitting still and aware of the present moment and focused upon on the breathing. This is central to all meditative practices and cult. It is very time cosy and even fifteen minutes of day can easily sort out all your mediation practices and habits.

First of all, the body position should be simply straight away from the back of the chair. Place the flat feet on the floor and the arms and palms upward. Eyes should be closed and the person should be as much as in still position.

Now before coming completely to the mediation mood it is necessary to relax the body as well as mind. Inhaling sharply through the nose with 1 short and then 1 long inhalation in quick succession, forming a double breath of sorts is a way to relax. In the next step the body should be tensed that one may feel energy and vibrations. The breath and vibrations should be on the hold for full 5 seconds. And in the end exhale forcibly through the mouth and do it several unless the tension does not leave away.

The breathing method is very important and core to the mediation. Inhaling should be slow till the counting to eight. Then exhale slowly to the same number and this pattern should be at least 3-6 times. But doesn’t stress the count can vary according to one’s lung capacity.
After relaxation concentrate deeply at point between the eyebrows and concentrate the mind as much possible as can. And keep it practicing two-three times. This way frequent mediation help to focus and think more clearly, lower blood pressure improving heart and lung health and definitely reduce stress and negative emotions like anger, guilt and resentment.

How to buy Android tablets?

2012-02-04T22:10:00.000-08:00

Thanks to rapid innovation and development Android is the fastest-growing operating system and is competing with Apple's iOS mobile platform. With so many versions of the Android it is too difficult to judge and figure out the right type of Android Tablet for your specific requirement. There are many good ways to judge and figure out the best Android tablet for your needs.

Android keeps on changing; therefore it is must to update to new features and slightly changed new interface. Downloading updates makes your tablet working accordingly to the recent changes and updates. But when going to buy a tablet don’t expect all the changes to be updated on your device, you are about to buy. Even manufacturers do not update the software developments to the products at all. And this occurs due to the hardware restrictions. If a tablet lacks in hardware to run the updated and advance Android, he will rather stop updating it. And you will be compelled to buy new advanced tablet on expensive prices on advanced hardware.

So it is best to go for the Android Tablet with the latest hardware to make sure your tablet will receive all the updates. In hardware first all of check whether it has a dual-core processor to boost the tablet speed. A dual-core processor with each core running at 1.2GHz will perform far better than a single-core processor clocked at 800MHz. For the size it is best to go for the bigger display and the tuned higher resolution, so everything would look sleeker and nice. However, bigger tablets tend to be lesser portable. A 7-inch tablet is the ideal choice for selecting a tablet. Quality of screen also matters a lot. The storage capacity should have an expandable memory through a microSD card slot to add an extra 32GB capacity.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet

2012-02-04T19:54:00.000-08:00

Enabled with mid-sized Android Honeycomb Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is nice device with slimness and portability. This is a 16 GB Wi-Fi model on a price of £400 and £500 for 3G. It has a 1,280x800-pixel multi-touch LCD display. And some latest Samsung innovation has been added into it. The Tab 8.9 is also provided with a good video store and music library, the Media Hub. More, it has a decent 3-megapixel 720p camera, a webcam, microphone and GPS. It has all the qualities which can have in the iPad or the larger Galaxy Tab 10.

The Android home screens of the device are much better this time. The Galaxy Tab 8.9 has around five screens, with nice fading 3D transitions provided to loop from once screen to other. In the central screen there are about four live widgets. They are digital clock, basic alarm clock, Gallery app, the AccuWeather and an AP news feed completes the set
It has importantly an 8.9-inch wide screen. It makes e-mail reading and watching movies much easier.

It is a landscape device. With 1,280x800 pixels the screen causes excellent levels of detail and quite smart colour saturation. The multi-touch technology is quite responsive in the tablet and it is provided with two new motion settings to the standard pinch-to-zoom. With a 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 and 1GB of RAM, it is quite easy to handle and enjoy this Android tablet. 3D games work great on the device.

The Tab 8.9's two cameras are of medium quality. The 3-megapixel snapper on the back is of lower resolution and 2-megapixel front-facing webcam is higher than average.

For video mode it has effects like sepia, negative, and black and white. Switching to video mode takes around 3 seconds, and cuts your options down to just with along the white balance adjustment. With respect to video, its 720p resolution is high definition in name only.

Colours and exposure are good.The 6,100mAh battery on board the Tab 8.9 gives a power back up of 8 to 10 hours of use on each change, with a regular Wi-Fi connection and occasional processor-intensive tasks. The Tab 8.9 is a good move in over crowed Android tablet marketplace.

Social media turning to India for growth

2012-02-04T19:19:00.000-08:00

Facebook raises $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies in a latest deal valued the FB at the price of $50 billion. Facebook is opting for raising $5 billion in one of the world’s most popular public offerings (IPOs) of stock is lying heavily on India and Brazil.

According to FB it is trying to increase its user base across geographical boundaries including the countries Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. It is concentrating on India and Brazil as a key area of growth and sustenance. In India it has now 46 million users and it achieved an impressive growth of 132% in 2011. Facebook has its regional support centre in Hyderabad, India.

iPhone 5-for the autumn release

2012-02-04T07:58:00.000-08:00

After the iPhone 4S, the entire expectations of the iPhone and Apple fans rests on iPhone 5 that is guessed to be released at autumn. The design of the iPhone 5 is expected to be around iPhone 4S’s designs bit revamping. It is told to be about and similar to iPad2 with quite sleekness and would be of aluminum. It is having a flick technology so that e-books could easily be flicked through and around without touching the screen.

It may have 4.7-inch screens. But Apple is getting closing to keep it around 4 inches according to the rumors. iPhone screen somewhere be going to be closer to the iPad. It is developed to fill the gap existing between smartphones and desktops. Screen resolution can be according to the display size. Apple could raise the display size but adhere to the same 640x960-pixel resolution. The thing is, the iPhone 4S's retina display is actually one of the best HD screens available. And there are chances of repetition of it in iPhone 5. HDR videos are most close probables’s for the next generation of iPhone.

iPhone 5 would definitely have a quad-core A6 processor, following on from the dual-core A5 that sits in current models. On storage it is hopeful that Apple would go with the 4S capacities of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. And rest is the iCloud to look into the bigger details. Interestingly for 4G the device could have the quad-mode chip from Qualcomm, which can connect to 3G and 4G but many regions require better network support for it.

For Social networking savvy people it would have the Find My Friends feature from iOS 5. The iPhone may be able to identify between who shares interests or have travelled to same places. And finally it is for sure it would have (NFC) chip for Mobile payment system.

Nokia Lumia 710 dwindled on performance

2012-02-04T06:22:00.000-08:00

Described as the first of Nokia's new generation of smartphones available in India within price tag of Rs15,500 it's good bargain. About a year Nokia left the Symbian OS and adopted to new Microsoft’s new operating system learnt to be as Windows Phone 7. The amalgamation of Nokia Lumia 710 and Windows Phone 7 resulted as sales of the device for the counter sales.
It is a modest device in comparison to jumbo-sized screens and elegant static design.

It is as same size and shape as Apple’s iPhone 3GS. The phone only has a single-core processor, with 512 megabytes of memory, just 8 gigabytes of storage and it is without memory card slot that would allow users to add to its storage. By comparison, the latest Android smartphones have dual and even quad-core processors and the iPhone 4S has as much as 64-gigabytes of storage capacity. Its battery charge runs for full day. The limited storage capacity of the phone restricts the amount of music, movies and documents to be enjoyed over it.

But this limitation is further added by the additional 25 gigabytes of storage Microsoft offers Windows Phone 7 users on its servers in the cloud. Users can automatically store Office documents to the so-called SkyDrive and can have their pictures and videos automatically uploaded to it.

The best point of the Lumia 710 is the Windows Phone 7 software. In comparison Android, Windows Phone 7 has better visual appeal and it is an intuitive operating system. The Windows 7 has the exceptional feature of the software is its built-in Bing search application, which let to search scan bar codes, identify music, find local events and search the Web and local business at the same period.

Apart from Windows 7 the device has noting much exciting. It has not a front-facing camera or a speech-recognition system as sophisticated as the iPhone's Siri. Though it has rear-facing camera slow camera with a 5-megapixel resolution. There is no much app features for Windows Phone 7. It is also slow on web browsing. Windows Phone 7's Internet Explorer is not compatible to HTML5, the latest version of HTML. Thus some buttons and pages do not work properly. Pricewise it is quite fine

Dell XPS 14z

2012-02-04T05:26:00.000-08:00

Dell’s new notebook laptop in XPS ‘z’ series provides exclusive performance of the traditional XPS. The device is sleeker and is quite portable without compromising on the build quality and aesthetics. This new model is named as the XPS 14z.

The XPS 14z is slim and compact. It has a very nice display screen. Made from the anodised aluminium, the notebook is provided with sweeping curves and chrome accents make it very astonishing. On its left side there is a microphone and headphone jack and a memory card reader. The right side is kept for slot-loading DVD drive and battery charge indicator. Remaining ports are located at the back side including the power port, DisplayPort, HDMI, two USB ports and a LAN jack. There’s no USB 3.0, which is a downer.

The XPS 14z an Intel Core i7-2640M, a dual-core multi-threaded CPU running at 2.8GHZ and with Turbo up to 3.5GHz. Other tech features include 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 750GB hard drive and an Nvidia GT 520M with 1GB dedicated graphics. The 14-inch screen has a semi-gloss finish and at 2kg, the laptop is even too light to be carried around. The device lacks customization features. Customization is merely for the software package and accessories, but not the core components. The regular XPS line-provides better freedom and is even affordable on rates and prices.

Despite this being a dual-core CPU its graphic card is bit weak. The XPS 14z comes with an 8-cell battery and it is internal. At price tag of Rs. 78,900, the Dell XPS 14z is expensive for a 14-inch notebook choice but on technology platform justifies the price. It can be rated *** stars out of 5 on design and performance.

Windows Phone 8 leaked

2012-02-03T23:30:00.002-08:00

Windows Phone 8, specified as "Apollo," is coming with integrated Windows 8 OS and enterprise centered Microsoft’s smartphone platform. A good number of Windows Phone 8 features are now open. Microsoft has made important architectural changes with Windows Phone 8 to attain the edge in expanding smart phone market segment.

At presently lagging behind Apple and Google in smartphone market share, this is Microsoft’s heavy R& D investment and it has also provided technologies to app developers to dedicate their limited resources for the Windows Phone OS. It is possibility that Microsoft way invest heavily in Windows Phone apps interoperable with Windows 8 tablet apps and Windows 8 PC apps. This will provide a better reach to the Windows-focused mobile apps and a huge market share. Microsoft has plans to integration of the desktop/tablet and phone OS much deeper than just the "Metro"-style tile user interface. It has massive plans to make it highly cross-platform development.

Microsoft is planning to be around 100,000 apps to be in Microsoft's marketplace when Windows Phone 8 launches. It may be for the sale in fourth quarter. Windows Phone Marketplace recently has crossed assed 50,000 apps. Though a 100,000 app mark still leave Microsoft quite behind Apple's 500,000-plus apps and Google's 400,000-plus apps. There is a native code support in the new version should ease porting of iOS and Android apps. Though, Microsoft is still working with and along backward compatibility for Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 apps in Windows Phone 8.

When Microsoft threw out the Windows Mobile platform in favor of a clean break with Windows Phone 7, the company abandoned many of the enterprise-friendly features that had helped that earlier Microsoft smartphone OS to a respectable market share. The Windows Phone effort by the Microsoft to be consumer-friendly interface, it is now trying to make it business friendly as well at back-end as well. It is providing many end-user friendly features involving support for multi-core processors, four different screen resolution options, removable microSD card storage, NFC radios, tap-to-share capabilities, the ability to track data usage, revamped Skype and Xbox clients and automatic preference for Wi-Fi connections.

Mozilla Firefox 10 goes live

2012-02-03T20:02:00.000-08:00

Mozilla Corporationhas has just launched a new version of its famous browser under the tag Firefox 10. Just after six weeks of release of Firefox 9, the Mozilla Corporation launched Firefox 10 for Windows, Macs, Linux machines and Android. This release is the Mozilla’s effort to cycle its brand for the larger expansion. The Firefox 10 has much fixed bugs and very improved extension support, a forward button and API for full screen web apps and multi-touch gesture support in the Android in the series of latest big improvements.

The previous versions of Firefox routed for breaking extension compatibility and the l developers soon manually updated the extensions to support the new version. In Firefox 10 the extensions are enabled to be compatible.The extensions introduced with Firefox 4 will remain working with this version of Firefox. Firefox for Android has also made massive improvements to the earlier version. Firefox Sync, a feature of the browser let users to synchronise bookmarks, browsing history, password and open tabs across PCs and phones is improved this time.

This version of Firefox is appreciated for being the first Extended Support Release version, a program provided especially for enterprise users and IT professionals that are too much concerned and pensive from rapid updates. This development occurred due to the threat from competitor Chrome’s increasing influence in browser market. In December, 2011 Chrome disabled Firefox from the world's second most popular browser category after Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The biggest change in the new version is improved extension support for developers and common users.

Celebrating Valentine tech companies way

2012-02-03T19:41:00.000-08:00

Coming this Valentine tech companies seems having their own big plans. Nintendo will release a Pearl Pink edition of the Nintendo 3DS for Valentine's Day. The portable device, earlier provided in a limited-edition range would be available from February 10 from $169.99 across USA and Europe.

Samsung has also plans for the day as it is coming with its share of pink smartphone on this February 14. The company after launching the Galaxy S II smartphone in South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan, the set will be available in UK from February 13 through Phones4U. And FaceBook and other social media sites too are planning it in a bigger way as Angry Birds will be launched on Facebook on February 14, so its time to get into affection.

Indians second most populated on Facebook

2012-02-03T19:27:00.000-08:00

With numbers now reaching to 43,497,980 users. India has reached to the tag of the world's second highest number of Facebook users. The numbers are amazingly more than the population of Canada. No doubt, US head the table with total number of 152.5 million users on Facebook. 72.8% of Indian Facebook sers are male, more than 48% of users are in age group of 18-24 years age group and more than 27% from the 25-34 age group.

However, women percentage in US is 55% than men 45%. But the numbers are also catching up fast as well in Brazil with the rate of 8% growth rate every week. Social media networks like Facebook and Twitter earlier underlined gained immense popularity and made their presence felt in the anti-graft movement carried out by activist Anna Hazare in previous year. Last December, India government advised FB and other social media networks to act against uploading of offensive material on web platforms. This started a serious debate on the use and privileges of Social Media Networks in India. Yet, FaceBook is concerned about revenue generation opportunities after any type of censorship. Facebook has an estimated 812 million users worldwide but also face restrictions in countries like China, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

10 largest FB countries :

1. United States - 152,564,400
2. India - 43,497,980
3. Indonesia - 43,057,320
4. Brazil - 37,907,400
5. Mexico - 32,031,340
6. Turkey - 31,247,120
7. United Kingdom - 30,245,180
8. Philippines - 27,596,960
9. France - 23,597,540
10. Germany - 22,600,660

Samsung to release Galaxy S III at MWC

2012-02-03T18:58:00.001-08:00

Samsung has revealed another Android-enabled smartphone under its Galaxy S range that will be official launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February. Named as Galaxy S II handset (the Galaxy S III) at MWC -- a dual or quad-core device with a 12MP camera and a 4.5" or larger HD display will be available for the common public.

The tablet is about with an 11.6" display and a 2GHz processor. It is expected that Nokia will also launch its 12MP Lumia 910 handset and Sony may release 10 new phones, and Huawei will release the most advanced smart phone. The Samsung Galaxy S Advance would be released in Russia in February. A slight rollout is even on the cards for other CIS countries, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Latin America and China. Most important prices are yet to be decided for the set.

Blogger traffic from now on converted to the country specific URLs

2012-02-01T09:07:00.000-08:00

In coming time Google has proposed a massive change with reference to its blogger traffic. Now the traffic directly from blogger is proposed to be converted at a country specific domain. For example now visitor from India will able to view the blogger at blogspot.com.in. The custom hosted domains have given exemption from these services. Google is adapting to this exercise to promote free expression and motivate culture of responsible publishing. Google would able to handle removal on country basis.

This is a confusing move on the part of a webmaster and site visitor as may consider as some manipulation with the site and even can deem to consider it as an activity of a website hacker or a computer virus. Blog owners also may fear it as an adverse impact on their search engine rankings or visibility. Google will make use of the rel=”canonical” tag to prevent search engines from indexing different country versions of the same blog or post.