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ORIGIN PC announces the availability of 11-inch EON11-S gaming laptop and Intel's new 3rd Generation "Ivy Bridge" Core Processors. EON11-S features Intel's 3rd generation mobile processors, 2GB NVIDIA GT 650M GPU, NVIDIA Optimus Technology and a battery rated for 6.5 hours of runtime. The EON11-S is Fully Customizable starting at $999.
Google built Google Drive support in the latest developer release of Chrome OS version 20.0.1116.0 which also contain functional, security and stability improvements. As expected, Google Drive is now deeply integrated into the ChromeOS file manager. For more information hit the source link below.
Opera 12 Beta now available for download promising faster startup times and page loading than ever before. Opera 12 beta offers 64-bit compatibility for both Mac and Windows, Opt-in hardware acceleration and WebGL. It also added a way to customize the look with new lightweight themes, support for the Do Not Track header, CSS3 Animations and Transitions and HTML5 Drag and Drop. Opera announced that it's abandoning its Unite and Widgets features in favor of an extension-driven model. Those who are interested can download the Opera 12 Beta from the link below.
Samsung announced its new slim external DVD writer, the SE-218BB optical disc drive (ODD). Built to accompany a new generation of ultrabook and slim laptop designs, the SE-218BB features a compact size that is 18% thinner and 8% lighter than conventional DVD writers and is the world's thinnest external optical disc drive with a 14mm height.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update now available for Sony Tablet S. Those who have been waiting for ICS upgrade, just connect your device to WiFi and a system upgrade should prompt you -just click OK to download, and in a few minutes you join the wild world of Android 4.0.
Motorola announced that Motorola RAZR MAXX will be available for pre-order from Clove, Expansys, Amazon.co.uk and other Motorola authorised resellers, with an expected delivery date of mid-May.
Apple announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 11 through June 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At this year’s five-day conference, developers will learn about the future of iOS and OS X, allowing them to build incredible new apps. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers as well as the popular Apple Design Awards, a showcase of the most outstanding apps from the past year.
AnTuTu benchmark revealed that the most anticipated smartphone of smartphone year Samsung Galaxy S III, is also the most powerful one – topped all other devices listed on the benchmark (see the screenshot above).
Yahoo-owned image hosting service, Flickr introduced a new Flickr Uploadr. Based on HTML 5 technology, Flickr Uploadr (uploader) allows you to add photos by using drag and drop interface instead of uploading manually. It will show your preview thumbnails, where supported, so you can manage and reorder photos before they hit your photostream. You can also easily zoom, rotate or sort your photos by title.
Samsung introduced the industry's first quad-core application processor - Exynos 4 Quad, a new 32nm 1.4GHz quad-core processor doubles processing power over its predecessor 'the 45nm process-based Exynos 4 Dual' while consuming 20-percent less power, thanks to its High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology.
Google is currently testing a new design for its search results pages in its engine. If you first look at the screenshot above you can easily notice the changes above – left navigational panel moved above search results (originally on the left) and search results are now moved to right making enough space for advertisement/result preview (on the right).
Skype announced that Skype video calling is now available on PlayStation Vita (PS Vita), expanding Skype video calling capabilities to a portable gaming device for the first time.
Google announced that it's making the Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ available in its Play web store for $399 contract-free. Currently available in the U.S, Galaxy Nexus 16GB GSM version ships with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and comes with Google Wallet pre-installed (including a $10 credit to get you started with your new mobile wallet). It features a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM, a 5 MP rear camera, a 1.3 MP front-facing cam, NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and 1,750 mAh battery.
To celebrate the launch of Google Drive, Google is now increasing Gmail free storage in 7.5 GB to 10 GB. The increase will take effect over the next 24 hours.
Google's cloud storage service Google Drive is now official. The service is deeply integrated into Google Docs, will offer 5GB of free cloud storage for documents, videos, photos, PDFs and other stuff. You can also choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month and upgrading to a paid account, will expand your Gmail account storage to 25GB.
Meizu officially announced that the Meizu MX and M9 smartphones will be upgraded to Flyme OS 1.0 (based on Android 4.0) in June 2012. Owners of either devices will be able to upgrade to Flyme 1.0 via an OTA (over the air) push directly on their phones, or by downloading the firmware upgrade from the official Meizu website in June this year.
Norton by Symantec released Norton Identity Safe, a free password manager that eliminates the hassle of remembering passwords while keeping you safe across PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices.
Sprint put up the pre-order page for HTC EVO 4G LTE a bit early as we found out that pre-orders will start on May 7th. If you want then Sprint will remind you when to put down all your money on EVO.
Sprint released an official statement to confirm that Samsung Galaxy S II, Epic 4G Touch. Nexus S including others will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update in 2012.
Microsoft at the Windows 8 Developer Days conference in Japan announced that the Release Preview of Windows 8 will be coming in the first week of June. Windows 8 Release Preview is expected to be more stable and will be closer to to the final build, rumored to be launched in October.
LG today announced that a 5-inch Android smartphone Optimus Vu will be available in White starting next week in South Korea, targeting the "younger" market.
Dropbox announced a new feature that will let you share documents, photos, and videos by simply creating and sending a link to anyone whether they are Dropbox users or not.
Microsoft has released a preview version of its SkyDrive desktop app for Windows (8, 7 and Vista) and Mac OS X Lion users.
Microsoft after updating Skype for Windows Phone, has updated its SkyDrive cloud storage and sharing app for Windows Phone to Version 2.0, which is currently available for download in the Marketplace.
Other than the event invite Samsung sent out last week and a recent video teaser, there is no official information about the handset. However, Vodafone UK just put up a page indicating the carrier will get the new smartphone. Certainly, Vodafone is trying to cash in on the hype surrounding the next Galaxy anyways, we now know at least one carrier that'll have the handset.
The countdown is over and Samsung uploaded the first teaser of its Unpacked 2012 event on thenextgalaxy.com. Samsung will unpacked "the Whole New World" on May 3rd and promising the device will become "a natural side of life", and you can now stand out from…everyone else. "Sheep".
Google has rolled out Google+ SMS feature to 43 countries including India, enabled users to receive notifications and reply to them all via SMS.
Samsung's latest marketing ploy for the upcoming Galaxy phone a crypic tweet: "Destination: tgeltaayehxnx" which is an Anagram for "the next Galaxy" and wouldn't you know it, it's also the URL for an auspicious countdown clock.
Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta tag and updated to version 1.0. The new update, released by Microsoft adds contact searching, landline calling and other minor improvements.
The iPhone Dev-Team has updated RedSn0w (version 0.9.10b7) for Mac and Windows to jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1.
Verizon Wireless today announced that the Samsung Gusto 2 will go on sale in the coming weeks for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract. Samsung Gusto 2 is a simple flip phone, has a 2-inch color display, a large numeric keypad, features a 1.3 megapixel camera, DyVE (Dynamic Voice Enhancement) with noise suppression technology, Bluetooth, VZ Navigator and a Fake Call - allows users to set up a pseudo-call to help them escape unwanted social situations.
Source:- Verizon Wireless
It’s spring time and one again Google is in action retiring many of its products and services. Probably the biggest news for many BlackBerry fans is that Google's officially ending its support for Google Sync for BlackBerry beginning June 1st.
As promised last month, Sony released the Open Beta Version of PlayStation Suite SDK which is now available publicly for Free.
Intel announced that its first smartphone with intel inside, XOLO X900 by Lava will be available in Indian market on April 23rd for around 22,000 INR ($420) (without any contract) from Croma and Xolo.in, followed by availability in other retail chains, general trade and online stores from early May.
T-Mobile announced that the HTC One S will land on its network on April 25th for $199.99 with two year contract. The handset features 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, HTC Sense 4.0, a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED screen, 1GB of RAM 4G connectivity, 8 MP rear-camera, VGA (640x480) front-facing camera, and a 1650 mAh battery.
How much of your emails do you actually read? How quickly do you respond? Now, if you're a Gmail user, you can find out. The Google Team announced Gmail Meter app on the Official Gmail Blog. A Google Apps script developed by Romain Vialard, it can show you stats on volume, daily traffic, traffic pattern, email categories, time before first response, word count and thread lengths; providing an even deeper dive than Google's own Account Activity dashboard.
AT&T announced that the HTC One X featuring new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be available from exclusively form AT&T beginning May 6th for $199.99 and pre-orders will be open from April 22nd.
Microsoft enhancing its SkyDrive service with support for ODF (Open Document Format) - an XML-based file format supported in a number of word processing apps including Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and Corel's WordPerfect.
Google has updated Google Cloud Print for Chrome with the ability to send documents to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich devices running Chrome for Android Beta browser as a PDF doc.
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) today announced that it will launch “nasne,” a new networked recorder and media storage device with built in 500GB hard disk drive (HDD) and digital terrestrial and satellite broadcast tuners. “nasne” will become available in Japan on July 19, 2012, for a price of 16,980 yen ($212).
HP announced that world's first all-in-one workstation with a 27-inch diagonal display HP Z1 Workstation is now available worldwide for a starting price of $1,899. The Z1 offers up inter core i3 to quad-core Xeon processor, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, support for more than 1 billion color, USB 3.0 sockets, a slot-loading Blu-ray writer, SSD / RAID options.
ARM announced the availability of a high performance, power-optimized quad-core hard macro implementation of its flagship ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor.
Pocket, formerly known as "Read it Later," allow users to save their web content to view later on their own schedule - is now available, for free (former version cost 99 cents), on all major mobile platforms including Android phones and tablets, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Amazon Kindle Fire.
Android turns Blue. Reliance has teamed up with Google, launched the Blue Bot campaign as Google wants to encourage users to switch to Android while Reliance marketing their 3G services.
Google updates the Chrome for Android beta which is still only available for Ice Cream Sandwich. In addition to added some language support, Google added many much-requested features like - it brings the ability to select desktop versions of websites, add bookmarks as shortcuts on your home screen, choose which apps to handle links and ability to use Chrome with the system proxy configured in Android settings.
Sprint and LG announced the successor to the popular LG Optimus S, LG Optimus Elite, which will be available in Titan Silver and Whitw on Earth Day - Sunday, April 22nd for just $29.99 with a new two-year contract. The device will become available in additional channels, including Sprint retail, on May 18 and will eventually arrive, on Virgin Mobile too.
Intel announced today the Intel Solid-State Drive 330 Series (Intel SSD 330 Series), a SATA 6 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) solid-state drive (SSD) that gives consumers a more affordable entry into the accelerated storage performance of SSDs.
Microsoft has announced that its next operating system will officially be called 'Windows 8' and will have just three editions: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 RT.
Lenovo IdeaPad S205s, ultra-portable mini notebook is available in 3G/4G (WiMAX) module from Sprint for $199.99 with two year contract. Lenovo IdeaPad S205s offers an 11.6-inch panel (1366 x 768) HD LED widescreen display, a 1.33GHz dual-core Intel U5600 processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi module and a six-cell (4400mAh) battery gives five hours of life.