Supermoon may cause natural disasters next week

On March 19^th 2011, the moon will make its closest approach to Earth in almost 20 years, possibly triggering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other disasters.

The phenomenon, called lunar perigee or Supermoon, happens when the moon reaches its absolute closest point to Earth. On March 19, the natural satellite will be only 221,567 miles away from our planet.

There were Supermoons in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005, and these years had their share of extreme weather conditions, too. Although there are scientific laws that say the moon affects the Earth, it's still ambiguous whether the lunar perigee and natural disasters is coincidence or not.

British freelance weatherman John Kettley was quoted as saying "A moon can't cause a geological event like an earthquake, but it will cause a difference to the tide. If that combines with certain weather conditions, then that could cause a few problems for coastal areas."

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While hoping for a non-disastrous ‘moon giant’, point your eyes and camera lenses toward the night sky on 19th. If the sky is clear, you’re gonna get an exceptional celestial treat.

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These beautiful flowers are all made up of people - every leaf, petal, stem, feather etc. - the whole thing !

Actual humans.... It is just amazing and so beautiful....... look closely and you will see....

BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC coming soon

Unlike Motorola, which will apparently sell its new Xoom tablet for a whopping $800 starting in a couple of weeks, Research in Motion is taking a saner approach to pricing its forthcoming PlayBook tablet.

CrackBerry.com received a leaked internal document from Office Depot that shows that the PlayBook will be priced at $499.99 for the 16GB model, which puts it in line with the cost of the equivalent Apple iPad. The document also lists an on-sale date of late March/early April, which will precede the rollout of the HP TouchPad by a few months.

While RIM’s pricing is certainly more reasonable than Motorola’s, it still shows an unwillingness to undercut the price of the iPad. There are dirt-cheap tablets running Android from no-name vendors, but no major manufacturer is even trying to price its product at $399 to see if it bring a competitive advantage. (Granted, the Dell Streak can be had for $199.99, but only with a two-year mobile contract with T-Mobile.) It suggests that margins on these devices may be slim for other companies, with Apple able to keep costs down through its supply chain and profits high. Or that one company dropping its price will set off a pricing war that will leave no winners among the iPad competitors. What do you think?

http://us.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet/

Apple iPad vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (P7100) and Apple iPad are both larger tablets that both measure in at roughly 10 inches. Samsung has come to market with a new tablet with excellent features and Apple has basically released the the first successful tablet ever. Apple iPad was released in 2010. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the latest tablet to be released by Samsung at the MWC 2011 at the beginning February 2011. The major differences between Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (P7100) and Apple iPad is the operating system (Android 3.0 vs iOS 4.2), processor speed (1GHz Dual core Vs 1GHz single core), and camera (8 megapixels and the camera is missing in iPad). Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes with the name tag 10.1 to differentiate it from the previous Galaxy Tab model.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Galaxy Tab 10.1 features a 10.1 inches WXGA TFT LCD display (1280×800), Nvidia dual-core Tegra 2 processor, and powered by Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Honeycomb platform was exclusively designed for large screen devices such as tablets. Galaxy Tab 10.1 is made power efficient with low power DDR2 memory and 6860mAh battery. It’s also very light weight and slim, only 599 grams and 10.9mm thickness.

In the context of multimedia, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a 8 megapixel rear and 2 MP front facing cameras with dual surround sound speakers that will provide a wonderful multimedia experience.

Apple iPad
Apple iPad is also a large sized tablet with 9.7” Multitouch LED backlit display using IPS technology that enables wide viewing angle (178 degrees). The display is designed to show the content in any orientation, in portrait or landscape. The device is powered by Apple’s own propriety operating system, iOS 4.2.1.

Some of the special features of iOS 4 are the Multi-tasking, AirPrint, AirPlay and find myiPhone. Using AirPrint you can print the message through wi-fi or 3G. The special feature of iOS 4 is the support for display of multiple languages simultaneously.

Apple Safari browser used in iPad is amazing on the large screen with the multi touch interface redesigned for large screen. There’s also a handy thumbnail view that shows all your open pages in a grid, so you can quickly move from one page to the next.

Another notable feature of iPad is its battery life, it is claimed to be 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music and on 3G data network, it is around 8 hours. The iPad’s other major plus is its access to Apple Apps Store which has hundred thousands of applications and iTunes. Android is still padding out its Marketplace for tablet apps.
http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 hands-on

Unless you're eagerly anticipating your IT department handing one of these to you, something tells us the Stylistic Q550 isn't the tablet you're looking for. Why's that? Everything about the experience screams "corporate," starting with our time at Fujitsu's booth earlier today where business dealings to deploy the tablet in some corporate environment were literally happening before our very eyes. There was only one unit in the vicinity -- and the suits were relentless in trying to get their paws on it -- but we spent just long enough with it to figure out that there are far, far better-suited consumer options out there; as far as we can tell, that's exactly how Fujitsu wants it. That opinion was further reinforced by the presence of a smart card reader on the side (for secure logins), a fingerprint scanner on back, and old-school pen input, which Fujitsu tells us that legacy tablet users (read: medical personnel and field data entry folks) still want. It can take fingers, too, but we felt like the quality of the display is compromised a bit for the dual-mode support. Interestingly, there's no place to store the pen in the tablet anyway; you'll need the accessory case for that.

The company is talking about its custom Windows 7 skin as a key differentiator. The build they had on the demo unit was a little buggy, but at any rate, we came away with the impression that it's basically just a finger-friendly view to launch apps; fortunately, the full Windows experience -- which is just as non-touch-optimized as ever -- is just a tap away. We were hoping the Oak Trail guts would keep everything snappy, but the pre-release code here was actually lagging pretty badly as we navigated from screen to screen. Don't get us wrong: we're sure these are precisely the specs that some enterprise customers are looking for... but as an individual, gadget-loving, tablet-wanting human being, we're pretty sure they aren't the specs that you're looking for.

SocialEyes lets users video chat on Facebook

Startup SocialEyes has introduced a service that lets people have one-on-one or group video chats with friends from hot online community Facebook.

A test version of SocialEyes made its debut in California at a DEMO conference for technology startups and was made available online at socialeyes.com or apps.facebook.com/socialeyes.

SocialEyes was described by some as a more civilised version of Chatroulette, which randomly connected users in vidchats in a service that became known as a stage for bawdy antics by strangers.

SocialEyes users sign on with facebook IDs and can connect with known friends or other members of the online community with shared interests.
"SocialEyes takes the social networking experience to the next level by enabling people to connect with their networks and meet interesting people who share common interests through face-to-face communication or via video messages," said startup co-founder Rob williams.

The San Francisco-based SocialEyes founded by Williams and Rob Glaser has raised $5.1 million in capital, with $600,000 coming from independent "angel" investment and the rest from a round of funding led by Ignition Partners.

"The Internet has brought us all closer, but SocialEyes takes social networking to a whole new level by connecting you face-to-face with people, not usernames," said DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall.