LG Optimus Net P690

Review: Successor to the popular Optimus One, the new Optimus Net P690 has instantly been accepted as a budget friendly smartphone, mostly because the phone is a feature rich package. Optimus Net P690 has a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixel resolution and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.

Samsung Galaxy Y S5360
Price: Rs 7,500

Samsung Galaxy Y S5360

Review: Packing a 3 inch capacitive touchscreen, the new Galaxy Y is quite popular amongst users of all ages and occupations etc. It’s one of those mobile phones that come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread pre-loaded and with a flavour of TouchWiz user interface layered on it. Galaxy Y GT-S5360 mobile phone houses an 832 MHz processor to run the mobile operating system smoothly with 290 MB of RAM.

Sony Ericsson W8
Price: Rs 9,300

Sony Ericsson W8

Review: Sony Ericsson’s Walkman series mobile phones come with the special Walkman software and audio profiles loaded in them. The new Sony Ericsson W8 features a nice 3 inch capacitive touchscreen display and Walkman branding targeted at music lovers. By default the mobile phone bundles a 4 GB microSD card for music files.

Motorola Fire XT311
Price: Rs 8,950

Motorola Fire XT311

Review: Android is indeed cumbersome to use with a Qwerty smartphone in candybar form, but if there’s a capacitive touchscreen involved, the task is a wee bit easier. Motorola Fire XT311 is a Qwerty candybar phone with 2.8 inch capacitive touchscreen display supporting 240 x 320 pixel resolution.

Micromax Superfone Lite A75
Price: Rs 8,900

Micromax Superfone Lite A75

Review: Micromax launched the iPhone 4-mocking Superfone with a bang and quietly slipped in the Superfone Lite, which is a stepped down version of the former model. Superfone Lite A75 comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Micromax offers a 3.75 inch capacitive touchscreen display to enjoy Gingerbread goodness to the maximum without spending more.

Samsung Galaxy Note

General features: Samsung galaxy note is well supported with 2G, 3G & 4G networks. This mobile phone weights 178g with dimensions of 146.9 x 83 x 9.7 mm. The most prestigious feature of samsung galaxy note are it’s touch and sensitivity.

Display & Sound: 16M colors, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 800 x 1280 pixels, 5.3 inches (~285 ppi pixel density) and multitouch feature with TouchWiz UI v4.0 are some of the features which makes this handset unique than the other available handsets in the market.

Memory and Data: Samsung Galaxy Note is supported with internal and external memory slots supported with 1GB of RAM which makes the processing of this handset like supersonic jet. Internal memory supports 16GB/32GB and 32GB external memory support. All other extended data features like GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth are also quitely supported with it. Data speeds of 21 Mbps, HSDPA and 5.76Mbps, HSUPA makes this handset the pearl of the necklace.

Samsung Galaxy Note

Camera & Other Features: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash camera with advanced Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization features.

Samsung Galaxy Note is supported with Android OS, v2.3.5 (Gingerbread), Dual-core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with Exynos chipset. It also supports HTML, Adobe Flash browsers, GPS and JAVA.

Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 2500 mAh with standby time upto 960h and talktime upto 26 h 10 min

Samsung Galaxy Note Price in India: The price in India is 31,710/- INR.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Presented to the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

Internet industry and users all across the world are showing their anger towards this move from U.S. government and several internet giants decided to show their protest through online “Blackout”. Wikipedia.org, the largest online encycliopedia in the world is one of the protesters which made the 18th,Jan 2012 Wednesday memorable in the internet history by getting down for 24 hours it’s english version of online wikipedia.

Everyone who is somehow connected with internet industry is against to such bills which are intended to make internet a prison of thoughts. Everybody talking about SOPA & PIPA in their own way like:

Cbsnews.com Says: Having trouble using Wikipedia today? That’s because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an “Internet blackout” in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Guardian.co.uk Says: SOPA/PIPA Blackout
The internet seems a little …. quiet today, don’t you think?

Wired.com Says: Hundreds, if not thousands, of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement.Hundreds, if not thousands, of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement.

Let’s see what happens in future.

Below is the list of top 5 hottest gadgets.

1) Lenovo smartphone

Lenovo smartphone

2) Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

3) LG Z330 Ultrabook

LG Z330 Ultrabook

4) Motorola’s Droid Xyboard 10.1

Motorola's Droid Xyboard 10.1

5) Huawei Ascend P1 S

Huawei Ascend P1 S

Source: Yahoo News

We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction by introducing three new features:

1. Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you will be able to see on your results page;
2. Profiles in Search, both in autocomplete and results, which enable you to immediately find people you’re close to or might be interested in following; and,
3. People and Pages, which help you find people profiles and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest, and enable you to follow them with just a few clicks. Because behind most every query is a community.

A beautiful journey begins
Search plus Your World will become available over the next few days to people who are signed in and searching on https://www.google.com in English.

While there may be 7 billion people and 197 million square miles on Earth, a septillion stars and a trillion webpages, we spend our short, precious lives living in a particular town, with particular friends and family, orbiting a single star and relying on a tiny slice of the world’s information. Our dream is to have technology enable everyone to experience the richness of all their information and people around them.

We named our company after the mathematical number googol as an aspiration toward indexing the countless answers on webpages, but that’s only part of the picture. The other part is people, and that’s what Search plus Your World is all about. by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

U.S. authorities are moving toward taking legal action against Wegelin & Co, which could lead to an indictment of one of Switzerland’s last pure private banks, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes, according to two persons with knowledge of the case.

You don’t become synonymous with the term “Internet search” by resting on your laurels, even if some pundits anecdotally believe the quality of Google’s search results are declining as the company focuses on its other services.

Nevertheless, you’re still using Google for search, right? And do you think you’re using it to the best of your—and its—search abilities? Randomly typing in a word or phrase is good way to search. It’s even better if you know to put the phrase in quotation marks, so Google will search for the exact term. But there’s so much more you can do. Google has spent over a decade fine-tuning crafty tricks to help you search more efficiently.

With these ten tips, you’ll be able to dazzle your friends by finding the most obscure information, long lost data, and that maddening bit of trivia no one else can score. Even just everyday information, like what time it is, becomes a power tool in Google search. To complete your search skills tutorial, we’ll also show you how to rub your new mutant super-search ability in the faces of those around you.

[Via: Pcmag.com]

Even as the Apple iPad 2 is ruling high controlling market forces with élan, the tech horizon has started talking about the their iteration of the tablet. Much is being spoken about on the hugely potential device, and now we get wind of something new on that front. Apple is said to have begun the process of certifying components designed to be used in the third generation of the iPad.

Folks at Digtimes have come up with confirmation on that front, though the Apple iPad 3 is expected only sometime during the beginning of next year. It is being noted that certification of component makers such as Radiant Opto-Electronics and Taiwan-based Chimei Innolux is almost over.

Said to sport a screen size of 9.7 inches as in the case of the iPad 2, the third generation iPad will get backlight modules and light bars from Taiwan companies. Meanwhile, the actual panels are to be supplied by Chimei Innolux. If you have been tracking news on Apple for some time now, you would know South Korean companies – including Samsung and LG Display – have been panel suppliers.

With the certification of companies having been kick started, we guess we have enough reasons to believe that the iPad 3 is right on track. That also evokes the query as to whether the iPad 2 will fade into oblivion as soon as the third generation device arrives. iPad 2 owners needn’t worry. Chances are that the iPad 2 will be retained and have its price lowered as a budget-priced option once the third generation device makes its entry.

The report has also rubbished speculations that had earlier said that the iPad 3 would sport AMOLED panels. More on that later as we expect juicy info to start flowing in from now on. Stay tuned.

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It Happens Only in China!!!!

Google said Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail, its e-mail service, had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China that were aimed at stealing their passwords and monitoring their e-mail.

In a blog post, the company said the victims included senior government officials in the United States, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries, military personnel and journalists. ….read full story

If you are much aware of data theft and computer security then it’s good to listen the thoughts from Google’s executive chairman “Eric Schmidt”

“Get a Mac if you want to be secure”

What are his thoughts? Have a look from the courtesy of The Telegraph UK:

On internet security, Mr Schmidt said: “You could use a Mac instead of a PC.”

Mr Schmidt also included Apple as one of his ‘Gang of Four’ major technology platforms. He said that Google dominates information, Facebook in identity and social networking, Amazon in shopping and Apple in making “beautiful products”.

[Via: Thetelegraph]