Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

second most popular browser : Chrome surpasses Firefox

7:13 PM Technology And Information

In the browser wars, Google Chrome has moved ahead of Mozilla Firefox, with a 25.7% share in the market, compared to 25.2% of Firefox's share, according to StatCounter.

Chrome has been in the market for three years and it still trailing behind Internet Explorer, which has a share of 40.6% of the market.



"We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft and Google as the pace of growth of Chrome suggests that it will become a real rival to Internet Explorer globally," said Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter.

Cullen said the firm's stats measure actual browser usage, not just downloads of the browser, which shows that people are using it to access the internet.

Chrome had already passed by Firefox in Britain in August, but still stands behind it in the US.


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Cluzee is the perfect Siri Alternative

4:37 PM Technology And Information

Those of you who have been looking for an Android Siri alternative, there is good news for you all. Cluzee is the answer to all your questions.

What Cluzee Offers

Though Cluzee lacks some of the services like Plex media but it does offer services like core voice that Siri offers. One such cool feature is Cluzee helps you read your schedule. For example; if you have an appointment with your doctor then Cluzee would tell you in advance if there is an issue on the road and it would help you reach on time. Apart from that, the app also does reading of email and reads the text message aloud to the user. Also, user’s speech can be turned into a text or e-mail.



Well, a Cool App

The app is really cool and do so many cool things like it will do the search if you will tell it to do. The icing on the cake is; the cloud-based version of the app is in progress and it will support any phone, computer or tablet gadget that has a web connection which is pretty amazing.


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Facebook 63,206 status character allowance introduced

7:15 PM Technology And Information

Facebook has drastically increased the number of characters users can utilise to express themselves in profile status rants with the former 5,000 character limit being plumped to a hefty 63,206 upper bracket.

Launching with a Twitter-esque and SMS friendly 160 character limit, Facebook's status limitations have been repeatedly increased with the longstanding 500 character cap being upped to 5,000 in March of this year.




"You can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters, including status, group and wall posts," an official statement from Facebook read on the decision.

"For reference, a novel has roughly 500,000 characters. This could be shared in nine posts."

Whilst Facebook has yet to officially confirm the reasoning behind the rather precise 63,206 character cap, the increase sees the world's largest social network still fall short of the recently launched Google+ and its 100,000 character limit.

Will you ever find the need to make use of this character allowance increase? Let us know via the comments box below.

In case you were wondering this whole article used just 946 characters.


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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will blow you away

8:45 AM Technology And Information

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception has got a lot in store for the game lovers. Though it may appear slightly slower than its predecessor “Uncharted 2”, but it is actually a powerhouse.





USP of the Game

The players are going to love the second half of the game wherein you infiltrate a ship harbor which makes way through a cruise ship. The real USP of the game is the story and the script plus the dialogue is funny. The voice quality is so fine and is delivered by the finest voice-over acting of 2011.

Different Aspects of the Game

Another aspect that makes the game so special is the fact that; you can actually hear your character conversing with other characters even while you are passing by the jungles, caves and deserts; it looks so natural. There are 3 aspects about the game which makes it so entertaining. At the first place, it has interesting movie scenes to watch. It has got puzzles to solve to open secret doors and one can enjoy shooting, punching the bad guys.

The difficulty levels starts in the last third as the first two-thirds are pretty easy and can easily be played by a casual player. And you can play it on different gaming gadgets like Playstation.

source : http://www.newgadget.org


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China creates supercomputer with its own microprocessor

11:32 AM Technology And Information

Previously, China stunned the world when it announced Tianhe-1A, the world fastest supercomputer which beat the US ‘Jaguar’ supercomputer by almost a mighty 0.8 petaflops or 800 trillion floating point calculations per second. Now, the communist country announced a new supercomputer which didn’t beat the Tianhe-1A but is nonetheless significant. This new supercomputer is called Sunway BlueLight MPP supercomputer.


What is interesting about Sunway is that none of the microprocessor in it is done by major companies such as Intel or AMD but rather its own microprocessors developed by the Chinese themselves. To compare, the Tianhe-1A uses a combination of Intel Xeon CPU and NVIDIA GPU. With this, it means that the Chinese are one step closer to compete with major markets and potentially be a competitor to the giants Intel and AMD.

The rate on which China is catching up technologically is alarmingly fast. It took 20 years for the microprocessors in the US to be what they are today but experts predict that the same will not be said with China. The microprocessors will be available not only for supercomputers but also for normal usage such as on a desktop or laptop. Should it be available en masse, expect a lot of computers to run on these microprocessors as well. Source : http://www.newgadget.org


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Best Buy cuts off $50 from price of Nook Color

10:54 AM Technology And Information

With the Kindle Fire released, we’d bound to see the prices of its competing devices drop to become as competitive as the Kindle Fire. Some of the devices we had anticipated the price would stumble would be the Nook Color. Our dreams did come true and Nook Color had a $50 slash but shockingly it wasn’t done by Barnes & Noble, the company behind the Nook but by Best Buy instead.




With the cut, the Nook Color now stands at a price of $199.99 instead of the original price of $249.99 making it pretty much the same price as the Kindle Fire. However, this deal is only limited to Best Buy so far but we are expecting B&N to do the same and issue the cut on their website as well. Suffice to say that it is the only way that they can stay competitive in the business as the Kindle is a device not to be reckoned with in terms of popularity.

The cut would further reduce the profit received from a Nook Color by Barnes & Noble. In fact, they may make a loss out of the each device sold similar to what Amazon is experiencing with its Kindle Fire as well. Nevertheless, the reduction in price would definitely cause an increase in demand and in the end that is all that matters.

Source : http://www.newgadget.org/


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Asus Transformer 2 to be unveiled on November 9th

5:41 PM Technology And Information

Transformer 2, which is next generation Transformer Tablet, is all set to be released on November 9th.

Feature Highlights

The release date of Asus was announced at the AsiaD conference. Talking about the technical specifications, the new tablet is just 8.3mm thick, supports USB as well as HDMI connectivity, powered by quad-core Nvidia chipset and has a 10-inch format. There is a provision of SD port for expansion, though it is not an exception as the old Transformer had all these features excluding quad core CPU.



PadPhone News on Air

Asus chairman Johnny Shih referred this device as Transformer Prime and very proudly announced it before the world that the new transformer tablet is even thinner than the most favorite Android tab – Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Another exciting news Jonny Shih announced at the conference was about PadPhone gadget, which is a phone that plugs in to the tablet and what makes it special is the fact that will have Ice Cream Sandwich mounted over it. Also, he said that there is a good news for the current users of Transformer tablet as the tablet might get an Ice Cream Sandwich update in the fourth quarter of the year.


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RIM giving away free apps as compensation for outage

1:29 PM Technology And Information

the company behind the fading Blackberry devices are giving away a handful of application worth almost $100 as compensation for the Blackberry service outage that had rendered a lot of the devices all around the world useless for quite some time. Some of the applications that are being given away include SIMS 3, Shazam Encore and many more. There is no telling how much the company is losing due to the compensation as well as the outage.




The timing for the outage couldn’t even be more troublesome for the company as the Apple iPhone 4S was scheduled to be released at the same week on which the outage happened. The outage definitely gave the people at RIM a PR nightmare as people all around the world criticized the company heavily. The places affected by the outage spanned all across the globe as users not only from the United States that were affected but also in parts of Asia, Europe, South America and many more.

RIM was once a dominant name in the mobile industry but now the company is slowly losing fans because of competing companies such as Google and Apple, two giants that are now slowly gaining shares that was once RIM’s.

Source :  http://www.newgadget.org


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Phone and SMS via Google Voice in GMail

3:55 PM Technology And Information

search engine Google updates Gmail service with the ability to make phone calls directly from the email with just one click using Google Voice integration.

On its official blog, Google said, the phone numbers contained in emails can be clicked and Google Voice will open and the user can melepon directly from email messages.



Thanks to this ability, you no longer have to look at mobile phones and retype the number of people who send you email or chat messages, the light company. "Click 'Call' and you can call. Of course, if you have not installed the plugin sound and video, you will be directed there, "said Google.

Google also said the small green phone symbol will appear next to phone numbers stored in your Gmail contacts list. Google Voice integrated with Gmail Chat in August 2010 and lets users make VoIP calls on Gmail contacts.

At launch, Google's free calls to domestic calls. Even so, international calls are still charged. This is done so that Google remains a profit. The good news, Google plans to continue to make domestic calls for free.
In addition, GMail also has is equipped with SMS. Each account is given a free ration of 50 pieces SMS.
source : ketok


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Google Will Massive Expansion

12:21 AM Technology And Information

Google plans to recruit more than 6200 workers in this year. Looking at the performance in the last quarter, this decision is considered to be the biggest expansion of Google in 2011.

Recruitment news comes after U.S. President Barack Obama is pressing companies to offer more jobs to the community. Google CEO Eric Schmidt became one of the parties who feel.




But Google's attitude that want to expand the workforce, associated companies amounted to 23% growth last year, not so favored Wall Street. Some investors prefer a more efficient approach to maintain their wealth.

On the other hand, several Google executives dismiss such concerns. They assess the company needs an aggressive recruitment for the most intelligent computer engineers and sales representatives to defend their search systems and advertising.

According to the Associated Press, Google plans to add approximately 6131 workers this year after pulling 4600 employees in 2010. Google has not yet say how many employees are spread across the world. Google now has 60 offices in 30 countries.

Although ambitious to have a number of employees 31,000 at this year, Google's workers are still much less than Microsoft which has 88,400 workers worldwide.(inilah)


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