We already told you about Motorola Defy; now we will take a look at its richer counterpart, and successor to the Milestone - the Motorola Milestone 2.With nearly the same specs, there are still some big and small feature advances. Milestone 2 will come with a slide on QWERTY keypad and will feature the Motoblur platform, which is based on Android 2.2. The system specifications consists of a 1GHz OMAP processor, 512MB RAM, and aesthetics feel very much like Droid 2.As for multimedia features, the phone brings 720p HD recording with its 5MP sensor. Even though the prior builds used to have nearly the same sensor chip, they were unable to capture HD footage, so that is quite a big deal. Milestone 2 has 8GB internal memory, as well as an additional 8GB microSD card along with the...
Codemasters and Zapak Games have announced the upcoming release of one of the most exciting games of the year - F1 2010. With Codemasters’ wealth of experience in racing and simulation fields (think of such illustrious franchises as Colin McRae and Race Driver), F1 2010 is sure to get the adrenaline flowing, Formula One race simulator that's available in full HD.F1 2010 is the official game of the FIA Formula One World Championship, and will include all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the coming season, as well as the newly returned 7-time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher. The game will also contain a brand new track, the Korean International Circuit, for the inaugural 2010 Korean Grand Prix.F1 2010 aims to give players the most authentic Formula One race...
Memristor! Well, erm... what's for dinner?We get it, that will be the primary expression for most of you. So before we start with what's what, let's take a brief overview about Memristors.If you are familiar with any of the terms- resistance, capacitance or inductance then you know they are the three properties which an electric circuit is bound to have. In the late 60's last century, a prediction was made for yet-another circuital property, then dubbed as Memistance. IEEE confirmed the property renaming to memristance (and the circuital element showing the property are called memristor) in 1971. The invention was revolutionary for some reasons (which we will explain afterwards), and memory chip makers are drooling over it since.As if it takes a grand revelation, let us tell you, the...
The Motorola Defy is the latest touchscreen phone announced by Motorola earlier today. The phone has many of the features similar to Milestone 2, but is a lower-spec and a pure touchscreen version.The phone has an impressive 3.7-inch touchscreen, supporting aaresolution of 854 x 480 pixels, which is claimed to be completely scratch-proof. The phone comes with Android 2.1 with Motoblur. The phone also provides Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, as well as Swype as standard for quick and easy text input. The 5MP rear camera with flash acts as a pretty good addition to the phone.The phone has a rubberised shell with locking mechanism to keep the back in place during underwater exploits. Apart from being able to withstand a bit of water, the phone is also resistant to dust, sand and those keys in...
It is a well known fact that Google is a huge supporter of open standards. And to further increase this support, Google recently announced on their blog that they will be indexing SVG (Scalable Vector Graphcs) documents on the web from now on. This will allow users to search for content which is inside SVG documents when they make a Google search.SVG is an open format based on XML for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. It is a preferred image format for use in Wikipedia's articles. Google will be indexing SVG content both, as a standalone file as well as SVG tags embedded directly in HTML. The feature is currently live in the present Google's search engine and files will be added as they get crawled.For WebMasters who wish to host SVG files on their websites, but not...
The software giant has released a new Bing search application for those Verizon customers using Android-based smartphones. The Mobile app is quite similar to the Web-based Bing, except it focuses on the kind of information one wants when searching on their cell-phone.As posted by Andy Chu on the Bing Community blog for Mobile, "Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace. The app homepage features the Bing image of the day, complete with clickable hotspots that you can explore and discover related trivia".The app allows users to search using text search as well as voice search using the mic option. It also...
Corsair HS1 Gaming Audio Series USB headsetCorsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance multimedia and gaming hardware components to the PC market, reportedly announced the launch of their inaugural audio product today, the Gaming Audio Series™ HS1 USB gaming headset. This noise-isolating headset is rated to offer long-term playing comfort and immersive multi-channel audio, with massive 50mm drivers and a carefully tuned acoustical design optimized not only for gaming, but for movies and music as well.The HS1 is purportedly loaded with features designed to optimize your gaming experience. The 50mm drivers are claimed to provide more accurate sound reproduction and far lower distortion than is experienced by smaller, regular drivers. The circumaural, closed-back...
1-4a Rename, or One for All Rename, is an extremely light and simple to use file renamer, and a great boon when dealing with very large quantities of files. It is useful for a handful of files as well, as no-one really wants to go through the tediousness of selecting files manually, clicking the name or pressing F2 to rename, organize folders, etc…The tool is absolutely free, and is called “eMail ware” by its creator, who says “You must eMail me!” to let him know what you think of the software. Ironically, the very creator of a “superb batch renamer” has managed to remain anonymous for quite a while, or at least, his or her name can’t be found anywhere on the site!As a batch process tool, you will find the level of customizability to be...
Strontium, a Singaporean company that is well-established as a quality manufacturer of memory and storage components, has announced a contest that could see you win a Chevrolet Beat, Apple MacBook, and many other prizes.Called the SMS Star Contest, all you have to do is purchase a Strontium USB flash drive that has the contest sticker on it in the period between the 23rd of August to the 23rd of November 2010, and, SMS the serial number inside the packaging to 56677 in the following format: <Strontium><Serial Number><Name><Mobile>. You will then receive an acknowledgement message, confirming your entry into the lucky draw. There will be two draw dates, the 1st of October and 1st of December 2010, and winners will be notified via SMS. Find the list of prizes...
While the world is expecting word on Apple’s iTunes cloud service in tonight’s scheduled announcement (along with details about the new iPod Touch and Apple TV), it seems Sony has decided to make its own announcement about a new music subscription service.This move is long overdue, especially with Sony’s massive record label presence, and its Walkman brand, which is still synonymous with music on the go. Sony also has a huge presence in the film industry with Sony Pictures, and launching a video subscription service doesn’t seem far-fetched at all. What is certainly interesting is how all this will tie up with Google TV, triggering the prophetic clash of the titans when Google and Apple go head to head in the home visual entertainment space.As of now, speculation...
HTC has been a roll with a number of launches happening in quick succession. If the entry of their much-coveted, high-end Desire in official channels wasn’t news enough, they slipped in a couple of mid-range handsets for good measure. One such handset was the HD Mini, based on WM 6.5. Admittedly, MS isn’t the hottest proposition around for OS', at least until Windows Phone 7 arrives. Therefore, we present: the Wildfire - an indicative name since Android has been spreading like Wildfire, piggybacking on the hype surrounding anything labelled “Open Source” in this day and age. The HD Mini was obviously a cheaper HD2. What isn’t as evident is, the Wildfire is a smaller, cheaper Desire. Still cannot get the connection? For one, it joins a relatively select...
It hasn't even been a week since Google announced their new calling feature from Gmail, and now Skype, a company providing similar VoIP services for years, is in the headlines. Cisco systems are showing interests in buying Skype.Skype is hoping for a valuation of about $5 billion with its IPO; Techcrunch claims to have found this piece of information via a very reliable source but were not able to confirm it. It means this is the minimum price that Cisco needs to offer to make the offer attractive. Cisco is already a big player in the VoIP services market and an investment as large as $5 billion is not out of reach for them. In 2005, Cisco had spent $6.5 billion on cable set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta.Whether this Skype-purchase is intended to expand Cisco products and services...
HP has gone ahead and refreshed its notebook line-up again, with the following new models: HP Envy 14 Beats Edition This audiophile/producer-geared notebook gets a brand new red colour scheme (with a Beats logo and backlit keys), an improved clickpad, some funky Beats Solo headphones made by Monster, a choice of Core i5 processors, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU, and, Beats audio technology designed by Dr. Dre. Pricing starts $1,249. HP Envy 17 3D The biggest laptop in the Envy line-up, the HP Envy 17 boasts of a 17.3-inch 3D-ready 120Hz screen with a native resolution of 1080p, active shutter glasses from ATI, Blu-ray drive, a quad-core...
The Indian cell-phone market is flooding with new dual SIM mobiles everyday. But LePhone seems to believe in the mantra that 3 is better than 2. Which is why they have come up with a new cell phone which boasts three SIM card slots (2GSM + 1CDMA).Named A10, the phone has a 2.2 inch display screen and is packed with sufficient features to be a decent smartphone. The device is equipped with features like an MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth, USB connectivity, GPRS, WAP, email and a 3.2MP camera with autoFocus, flash and video capture. The phone also boasts a 3D sound stereo speaker. Its battery rated at 850mAh and claims to be capable of providing 300 minutes (5 hours) of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. The triple SIM mobile phone has dual 900/1800 GSM connectivity on GSM and CDMA...
Ruby on Rails is a popular Ruby framework for creating powerful web applications with relative ease. Now Ruby on Rails has seen its third release which makes the framework more modular, easy to extend, and gives developer more flexibility about the frameworks they use in conjunction with Rails. Perhaps the most famous example of a website built on Rails would be Twitter.Ruby on Rails relies on two important principles of development, Convention over configuration and Don’t repeat yourself. What this means is, that if there is already established way of implementing a particular thing, then it will automatically be done that way. If your use case differs from convention, you can configure it the way you want. For example, if you have a class called Book which represents a book in...
