Apple topples HP in global client PC market

Record-setting earnings for the December quarter put Apple ahead of HP as the world's number one PC vendor, with the company's combined sales of 15.4 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs accounting for 17 percent of the total 120 million PC shipments worldwide.
Apple has zoomed past Hewlett-Packard to be named as the top dog in the global “client PC” market during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report from analyst house Canalys.
That’s because Apple shipped more than 15 million iPads and five million Macs combined — representing..................
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Criminals in UK jails using Facebook to taunt victims

In a shocker, nearly 350 criminals in British jails have been found using Facebook with some of them taunting victims and threatening to seek revenge.
All the profiles were closed by Facebook following investigations by prison officials.
In the past two years, nearly 350 people have been caught posting entries on Facebook while serving a sentence, UK Ministry of Justice figures show.
Violent criminals have been using Facebook to taunt victims and their families from jail, it was disclosed yesterday, the Daily Telegraph...........
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Google, Microsoft DMARC: email providers join hands to fight spam, phishing

Fifteen leading email service providers and tech companies have announced a joint effort to fight phishers.
Google, Facebook, PayPal, Yahoo and Agari are among the companies behind the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) spec.
DMARC is a technical specification that standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using well-known mechanisms.
The acronym stands for domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance. Think of it as a set of rules that can make email.............
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Google: not possible for the company to monitor everything on website

As you all know Indian Court asked the Internet companies to monitor all content provided on their sites.Google and Facebook are two of the 22 companies summoned by Delhi Court for hosting explicit offensive content.Indian Court is trying its best to convince Internet Companies to monitor all content provided on their websites, however Google and Facebook clearly said that its impossible to monitor all content on internet.Another hearing on the pleas filed by the companies is slated to be held on February 2.
"I'm hoping there will be a balanced debate around it and eventually the right thing would happen," Google's chief business officer Nikesh Arora said. "We cannot censor the Web. We cannot censor the ability of people to express themselves around the world. You are asking not just censor the Web in India, you are asking to censor the entire world wide web. The Web has no borders. I think the idea of censoring everything and pre-..........
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Motorola's latest Droid Razr Maxx with Amazing Battery Life

Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX Price in India. Motorola is most famous for its slimmest mobile phones which are available on RAZR series. Now company announced the new Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX smart phone in January 2012.
The phone has a longer battery with standard Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery offering up to 21 hours of talk time and up to 368 hours of standby time. It runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system and Motorola has promised to upgrade this smartphone with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in few months.
Droid Razr Maxx has a sportive 4.3 inch super AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) touchscreen display with 540x960 pixels of resolution and is powered by 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM.
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The Upcoming Firefox Features, No Release Date Yet

Last year, Firefox on a train-based release model: every six weeks, another train leaves the station. When a feature catches the train it moves through iterative testing on our Nightly, Aurora and Beta channels and, if that testing confirms its stability and general excellence, it goes out to hundreds of millions of Firefox users. If testing reveals an issue, the feature out for another round of review, and let it catch a later train. The trains have run on time ever since, and the results have been incredible. Firefox improvements reach our users regularly, faster than ever before.
However, when we decided to rebuild Firefox for Android using a native UI, we recognized that the first...............
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HP TouchSmart620 3D Edition PC launched at Rs. 92999

Now, PC users can get the thrill of 3D entertainment with the new HP TouchSmart 620 3D PC in India. The device offers an all-in-one hub of fun and entertainment to the users as they can create their own 3D videos and pictures with the TouchSmart's built-in webcam and share them with family and friends online or via the PC's 58.4-cm (23-inch) diagonal Full HD display.
HP TouchSmart 620 3D comes with an ergonomic design and can recline up to 60 degrees, enabling users to adjust the display as per their liking to view 3D content via Active Shutter 3D glasses. The 3D PC comes equipped with the next-generation TouchSmart 4.0 interface. It allows users to customise their work.............
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Google introduces privacy policy, by Irish and French data-protection agencies

Google Inc., owner of the world’s most-popular search engine, may have changes to its privacy policy assessed by the Irish and French data-protection agencies.
Google said yesterday it will combine more than 70 privacy policies for some of its separate products, including Android software for mobile phones, to create a “beautifully simple, intuitive user experience.” The changes take effect on March 1.
Ireland’s data-protection agency will “be further assessing the implications of the changes now that they are launched to users,” Gary Davis, the country’s deputy data- protection commissioner, said in an e-mailed statement..............
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You're happily browsing your favourite sites using O2′s network

If you're browsing the web on your phone or tablet on O2 UK, then the network could be exposing your phone number to every website you visit. O2 customer Lewis Peckover recently discovered that when you're browsing over 3G on O2, your handset's phone number is often included in the HTTP headers sent to each website you visit, in plain text.
HTTP headers are information exchanged between your browser and the web server before a page is loaded. In theory, the way O2 includes your phone number -- alongside more mundane information like your IP address, browser and OS -- means that any website you visit could easily find out your number. It's worth pointing out that the header used by O2 to send phone numbers -- "x-up-calling-line-id" -- isn't one that's routinely logged by web servers. However, just a couple of lines of code would allow a malicious server to find your phone number just by having.......
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Digital Waves launched a new tablet, named Tabplus Rio, at Rupees 11990

Digital Waves, IT company has announced the launch of a new Android 2.3 tablet “tabplus Rio”. With this launch “tabplus Rio” has ventured into newly competitive tablet market. This tablet has been devised perfectly to fulfil its customer’s needs.
Tabplus Rio is the perfect personal tablet with 1 GHz Cortex A9 processor, 7” screen, very rich HD quality with 800 x 480 pixels LCD, liquid flow 5 point capacitive touch. It having weight of 350 grams and measures 203 x 120 x 13 mm. The tablet’s 1 GHz processor also provides high-speed multitasking, making it an ideal mobile tool for work or play
The “tabplus Rio” is the best choice in personal tablet that features 1GHz Cortex A9 processor with 7” screen enriched with HD Quality. Designed............
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Twitter, Facebook and Myspace launch website Focus on Users, Don't Be Evil bookmarklet

Facebook, Twitter and Myspace engineers have developed a browser plug-in that helps you skirt the horrible intrusion that is Google's new Search Plus Your World. It should send a pretty clear message: it's called "Don't Be Evil".
The tool, actually a bookmarklet, is available from the Focus On The User web site, and was created by a team of engineers from numerous social networking sites — though only Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are named.
These three companies all feel aggrieved by Google's new search system, claiming that it attenuates their importance in search results. But the bookmarklet they've written lets you compare what the new results look like compared to good ol'fashioned Google search.........................
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Aakash tablet maker Datawind is pushing to add the Made in India

Datawind, the maker of the lowest-priced tablet 'Aakash', today said it would make a request to the HRD ministry to specify made in India devices in the proposed tender for procurement of the devices.
According to Datawind CEO Sunit Singh Tuli, Datawind successfully made the $49.48 tablet
Aakash in India despite various pressures. He added it would make a request to the ministry (MHRD) to consider 'Made in India clause' to encourage indigenous production...............
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Protests kill SOPA, PIPA bills, Threatened Internet draws unprecedented support

DU students joined the Internet hacker group Anonymous and other major online companies, including Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and Craigslist, last week in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two controversial bills meant to combat online piracy.
Anonymous hacked into the Department of Justice's website and the websites of other major SOPA/PIPA supporters, causing the websites to go dark last Thursday night.
What would SOPA and PIPA do?
The legislation, known as SOPA in the US House of Representatives and PIPA in the Senate, would use court orders to curb access to foreign.............
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Delhi High Court: Facebook, Google petition hearing today

The Delhi high court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on petitions of Google India and Facebook India challenging a trial court's order to prosecute them for allegedly hosting objectionable content.
"The matter is likely to be taken up Feb 2 or Feb 3,” said Justice Suresh Kait.
The companies had challenged a trial court summons for allegedly webcasting objectionable material.
Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Facebook India, told court that it was impossible to control the content with billions of people accessing the site. "A third party who uploads the content is not touched and we are sought to be liable in the case. Facebook India is not the controller of..................
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Teamgreyhat: Earlier this group hacked many high profile websites

Ankit Fadia has been in the news for being one of India’s first ethical hackers. Ankit Fadia became a favorite target of young Indian Hackers the first week of 2012. In last week, Mr. FADIA  got hacked two to three times by different young Indian hackers. Last week members of Teamgreyhat managed to breach the website of Mr.Fadia and today another Hacker, "Himanshu Sharma" with the code name “нα¢кєя” hacked the same server on which Ankit's website was hosted.
In this attack these hackers have successfully hacked into the Ankit Fadia's offcial site and exposed lots of credentials including sensitive data, student details, Database credentials (DB Name, User Name & Password) and many more. Not only was Ankit's website hacked, 2508 others sites hosted on same server also got hacked and their databases were also dumped by these young hackers. Reportedly, just a few days back..............
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Awesome handsets called Samsung Star 3 & Star 3 Duos

Samsung, the popularly known manufacturer of the various electronic products has come out with a couple of new and awesome handsets called Samsung Star 3 & Star 3 Duos. These two STAR-series phones are mainly designed for those who wish to own a device which is a non-smartphone at an affordable price. Samsung has planned to bring the two handsets into Russia and some other countries of Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa at a later time in this month. These phones comes with some advanced and developed features.
The Samsung Star 3 and Samsung Star 3 Duos promise to make feature phones smarter with better social networking, Samsung’s ChatON and an extremely affordable price tag...............
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McAfee antivirus kit : SaaS for Total Protection, the vulnerable software

Spammers have been exploiting a bug in McAfee's software-as-a-service (SaaS) antivirus software to turn PCs into spam relays. As a result, a number of McAfee's customers have had their emails blocked after their Internet protocol (IP) addresses were blacklisted by anti-spam services.
David Marcus, director of security research for McAfee Labs, posted a blog detailing the two bugs being exploited to relay spam. Both bugs are in one of its products: McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite, formerly known as SaaS for Total Protection, which is a hosted anti-malware service.
McAfee, which is owned by Intel, has been actively developing and testing a patch for both bugs...........
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LG X3 will first smartphone to features quad-core Tegra 3 processor

Lately, LG has really been upping their game in the mobile market. Just a week or so ago, they announced the Spectrum, a phone with both LTE and an HD display for Verizon. Now, details have leaked on the company's X3, an impressive quad-core powerhouse that looks like the Spectrum's bigger brother for GSM networks.
Mobile World Congress so expect the next weeks to be filled with leaks of unannounced smartphones. A couple of new models was released during CES last week, but the mobile phones announced there were mostly for the North American market. The main event of the year for world phones and the telecom industry in general is still MWC in Barcelona. We will be there to report................
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Quantum Tech Could-based system new level of security using so-called blind computing

Scientists have offered up a potential solution to one of the principle concerns about Cloud Computing – security. This came after a study showed how quantum computing can be extended to include cloud services.
The theory was revealed in a report in Science, and has been dubbed “blind quantum computing”. The research was carried out by Vienna Centre for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Vienna.
Blind Quantum Computing
Essentially, what the boffins did was demonstrate how blind quantum computing can be extended to Cloud services, such as Google Docs, but...............
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Retool Education: Apple's release new tools for the education

Apple’s  recover of some new collection for a preparation marketplace has a intensity to renovate both a training and training practice in a nation’s schools, according to an educational during a forefront of bringing record to a college campus.
At a press discussion hold Thursday during Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Apple announced a new iBooks 2 app for shopping electronic textbooks for US$15 or less, a apparatus for formulating textbooks called “iBooks Author,” and a new app for a iTunes U offering.
Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware.................
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DEVELOPERS HAVE PUT INTO SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING APPS

Photographs are a way of preserving a moment in our lives for the rest of our lives. Many of us have at least been tempted at the flashy array of photo printers which seemingly leap off the shelves at even the least tech-savvy. It surely seems old fashioned to talk about 35mm film and non-digital cameras in today’s day and age. To our children, cameras not so feature rich with LCD screens and built in Wi-Fi is as foreign as Atari. However, the innovation of home photo printing is bringing about a new way of preserving our most precious memories. Not only do we have digital copies to keep with us for the rest of our days across hundreds of different archives, thanks to printer manufacturers such as Epson, Hewlett Packard, and Canon, we now have the ability to fill our photo albums, right from the comfort of our living rooms.............
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US technology: Global dominance of the American science and technology enterprise

The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology research and development, but only by a slim margin that could soon be overtaken by rapidly increasing Asian investments in knowledge-intensive economies, according to a report by the National Science Board, the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation. The report comments on the overall status of the science, engineering and technology workforce, education efforts and economic activity in the United States and abroad.
The US remains global leader in supporting science and technology (S&T) research and development, but could soon be overtaken by rapidly rising Asian countries like India and China, a latest report by an American body said............
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Apple is notorious for sitting out CES but 2012 will see many new things

Anyone who says the Consumer Electronics Show is waning hasn't been packed like a sardine waiting for the Central Hall doors to open at Las Vegas Convention Center on the first day of CES. Despite the absence of electronics market leaders like Apple, and the imminent exit of PC heavy hitter Microsoft, CES is still going incredibly strong with more than 2,700 exhibitors in over 1.8 million square feet of space.
From giant multi-level booths with built-in coffee bars in the LVCC to stand-alone tables in hotel suites up the strip, there are a lot of products on display here at CES. More than we care to count, and many of which we'll have trouble remembering in June. What really matters are the.........................
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Website scaling: how to scale the Web and data layers

Load testing should be part and parcel of every Web development effort, and it should be performed early in the process. However, if you think you can load test using your development environment, you're going to have some surprises when you go live. In this article, the authors outline the process of planning your load testing effort, considering which machines to use, how many users to simulate, which tools are right for you, and how to interpret your results.
You're wrapping up a six-month development effort on a complex Internet application or Web Service and you're getting ready to deploy it. The development team was meticulous in its design of a loosely coupled, n-tier Web application. All the necessary ingredients for a scalable, stable, high-performance application were carefully built into the system architecture from day one. The QA team has thoroughly tested your................
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Microsoft is switching to the Resilient File System for Windows 8

ReFS is built on the foundation of the current and almost 20-year-old NTFS file system. But it's been designed from the ground floor to offer several advantages, particularly for servers.
As described in the latest Building Windows 8 blog by Surendra Verma, a development manager on Microsoft's Storage and File System team, ReFS will be unveiled and phased in as part of Windows Server 8, so IT administrators will be able to give it a spin by the end of the year.
Since ReFS uses a subset of features from NTFS, it's designed to maintain backward compatibility with its older counterpart. So Windows 8 clients will be able to read and write to ReFS hard-drive partitions and shares on a server, just as they can now do with those running NTFS. But..................
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Traffic: Website Scaling

Web site traffic was initially viewed as an all-important metric for gauging success on the Web. This assumption was due in part to the lack of other business metrics to explain the .com phenomenon. Now much of the focus has shifted back to profitability, and Web site traffic is only part of the equation. A recent example of what not to do would be Target's introduction of a low-priced Missoni collection. The site attracted so much traffic that Target.com was swamped for several hours on Sept. 13, 2011, leading would-be shoppers to face a cute but frustrating site-down page.
Some might argue that having so much traffic that the website went down was actually good for business. Two-part series on website scaling, Its exploring what it means and how to accomplish it. Part 1 discusses the metrics that apply to all websites, clarifies the true meaning of a "concurrent user," and covers the measures you can take to reach full scalability by defining performance-testing basics.................
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SanDisk's latest release is a device called the memory vault

One of the big worries when it comes to digital photography is that of permanence.  If your online host goes down or your hard drive crashes, you could lose hundreds or thousands of photographs.
SanDisk's latest release is a device called the memory vault.  It's an external hard drive that's capable of storing your data, completely uncorrupted, for 100 years.  That means that - barring any sort of technological breakthrough that lets us augment ourselves and live forever - your photos will live on longer than you do.
It’s risky to store your entire collection of photos on hard drives, because they’re most prone to failure among all types of storage media................
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Online brain: Internet may experience changes in the brain

Too many hours of Internet use might actually change your brain. Researchers in China have concluded that those who are addicted to the Internet may experience changes in the brain that are similar to those seen in individuals hooked on drugs or alcohol.
Are we offloading our brains onto the web? Are programs better than teachers at knowing what we know? Do virtual badges motivate more than grades?  What is it about cartoon foxes that helps us learn to code?   As you can read in our piece “How the Internet Revolutionized Education”, we’ve been tracking on-line education closely for some time now– talking to experts and keeping tabs on an industry that’s exploding as predicted. Over here at the science desk, recent developments on the learning brain are meshing with what we already know of the web’s power to teach................
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GTLD Security: new scheme see it potential security nightmare

What's in a gTLD?
IT IS going to be a great opportunity—but whether an opportunity for business innovators or for rent-seekers and scam-merchants depends on whom you ask. On January 12th ICANN, the body that regulates the naming system of computers connected to the internet, starts accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). There are currently just 21 of these (22 if you count .arpa, used only for managing the internet's technical infrastructure), and most are reserved for specific users: .edu for American universities, .aero for air-transport companies, the recently-launched .xxx for pornography purveyors, and so on. Only four—.com, .org, .net and .info—are open to anyone. Website owners with global pretensions often prefer them to country-code TLDs such as .uk, .ru and .cn (though some of those, like Tuvalu's .tv, have become.................
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Raw milk: passion or confusion?

We are what we eat; however, something as simple as splashing milk over morning cereal requires navigation through an array of choices — fat and lactose content, probiotics, vitamins A and D, homogenization and pasteurization. Claims that pasteurization decreases the nutritional and health value of milk are promoted by a small, but passionate segment of our society.
From 2000-2008, 50 disease outbreaks in the U.S. were attributed to the consumption of raw milk. In Michigan, outbreaks of food-borne illnesses attributable to raw milk consumption occurred in 2010 and 2011.
The milk is contaminated by adding detergent, fat, soda and urea besides its age-old dilution with water. "It is not a complicated process. Urea is................
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India, China collaborate to build worlds largest telescope(30-meter (or 100-foot) telescope)

Cementing ties once again for the greater international good, China and India have decided to work together as partners to build a and operate a telescope in Hawaii expected to be the world’s largest when its built by 2018. The neighbors will each pay a share of the construction cost expected to top US$1 billion for the 30 meter telescope to be built at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano. They will also have a share of the observation time. It’s the first advanced telescope in which either nation has been a partner.
The telescope, known as TMT, will be able to observe planets that orbit stars other than the sun and enable astronomers to watch new planets................
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Boost Mobile to launch LG Marquee smartphone On January 23 For $280

Boost Mobile, ranked Highest in Customer Service Performance and Purchase Experience among Non-Contract Wireless Providers by J.D. Power and Associates¹, and LG Mobile today announced the upcoming release of the sleek and stylish Android™ smartphone, LG Marquee™. LG Marquee, previously available only with a two-year contract, will now be paired with Boost Mobile’s award-winning, no-contract $55 Android Monthly Unlimited plan with Shrinkage, which includes unlimited nationwide talk, text messaging, Web, email and calls to 411.
Previously available exclusively through Sprint, this LG handset comes embedded with a 4-inch 700-nit Nova touchscreen display. It boasts of a 2MP secondary snapper and a 5MP primary camera featuring autofocus, 3x zoom and 720p video recording capabilities..................
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CES 2012: Intel unveils new Classmate PCs, including a convertible tablet

Back in September at IDF, Intel announced that its new line of Classmate PCs would feature the company's latest Atom processor codenamed "Cedar Trail." At CES 2012, Intel has unveiled the refresh to its Classmate PC line—complete with an Atom Cedar Trail CPU, and more improvements.
The latest crop of Intel laptops for the classroom will come in two variants, the standard 10.1-inch clamshell design, and a 10.1-inch convertible tablet. The tablet version of the Intel Classmate PC will feature multi-touch capabilities, and provide a hassle-free writing experience, with Intel’s Palm Rejection technology. The devices have also been optimized for painting, drawing, and e-reader applications.............
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LG's Q4 handset results improve, to launch 5 inch LTE phablet in 2012

As LG seeks to turnaround its handset business, last quarter has brought some positives for the company. In an interview with Reuters,LG’s mobile business head Park Jong-seok stated that LG saw results improving “a lot” in the fourth quarter thanks to solid sales of its Optimus LTE model, which went on sale in early October.
The strategy solidifies LG’s shift from entry-level cellphones to more sophisticated and expensive handsets. “A couple years ago, we were known as a feature phone company,” acknowledged Dr. Jong-seok Park, the President and Chief Executive of LG Electronics‘ Mobile Communications division, in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). “Last year, we quickly switched to being a smartphone company.”..............
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Sony launches HDR-PJ760v and HDR-PJ710V Handycam camcorder, built-in projectors (hands-on video)

Sony unveiled its new Handycam camcorder lineup at CES during its press conference. The Japanese manufacturer came up with some significant improvements on the image side, including an Extended Zoom, a 4X higher megapixels post- processing for still photos, more powerful sensors with higher megapixel counts across the whole lineup, and a very interesting new Balanced Optical SteadyShot technology that provides up to 13 times better stability than the regular Optical SteadyShot (offered only in the high-end lineup which includes the Handycam PJ760V- picture above).
Other new features include enhanced audio capture, an improved embedded projector for the PJ series (included in the Handycam HDR-PJ760V- picture above) with an optional 360 degree speaker, and highly practical features such as Quick Charging, Direct Co...................
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Mercedes-Benz : Facebook's newest frontier

The Facebook application displays a variety of standard, pre-written postings that a driver can publish on Facebook with quick taps or turns of a knob.
If a particular destination is already entered into the car's navigation system, the driver can automatically publish a Facebook posting stating they are en route to that destination, along with an estimated time of arrival, based on the current traffic patterns.
Drivers can also quickly access a list of friends that are nearby, or restaurants in the vicinity that their friends have "liked" on Facebook............
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Sony's first independent smartphone, the Xperia Ion

Call it a long time in the making, but Sony is finally coming out of the woods with a smartphone that’s sure to buckle the knees of some of its competitors and keep them shaken up on wondering what just hit them. Even though we’ve been treated to some memorable Xperia devices from Sony Ericsson, it looks as though the partnership is over, as Sony decided to lay full claim on its line of smartphones. With the debut of the Sony Xperia ion, it marks the first time we’re seeing a smartphone being built in-house – and no longer the result of the former joint venture.
The Sony Xperia Ion price in India isn’t announced yet, the Xperia Ion is the first Sony only branded smartphone runs on Android 2.3 OS popularly known as Gingerbread OS and beautified with Sony’s Timescape user interface with deep Facebook and Twitter integration and variety of widgets.............
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What a beautiful ice sculpture

Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decorative. Ice sculptures are generally associated with special or extravagant events because of their limited lifetime.
The lifetime of a sculpture is determined primarily by the temperature of its environment and thus, a sculpture can last from mere minutes to possibly months. There are several ice festivals held around the world, hosting competitions of ice sculpture carving..............
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Lenovo enters the smartphone game at CES with the S2
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Lenovo enters the smartphone game at CES with the S2

Lenovo, "the world's number two PC company," has just introduced a bevvy of new Android-powered devices, emphasizing their specs and compatibility with Lenovo's "Personal Cloud," which promises to make the company a "personal cloud solution." Liu Jun, Senior VP and President of Lenovo's Mobile Internet and Digital Home business group, explained the significance of the Personal Cloud:
Lenovo is breaking down the barriers of device differentiation and weaving together hardware, software, and cloud services that are connected, experiential, and dynamic. We understand our users need more than just the traditional keyboard and screen for a truly satisfying digital experience. Our Personal Cloud vision integrates all devices, from tablets to TVs, for a comprehensive mobile Internet experience anytime, anywhere............
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’4K’ TVs comes at the beginning of the year

Innovations in tablets and televisions are tipped to return with a vengeance at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, with smartphones and eReaders also set to feature......................
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New year Link Building Strategy in 2012

It’s already 2012 and times are certainly changing in the field of link building and SEO in general.
Many of the traditional methods will continue to bear fruit, however alterations in the cyber landscape need to be navigated in an effective way.
Failing to adapt will simply leave your website behind the steady rate of advancement.
Though there has been many different search engines in the past years, Google reigns as the top dog. It is safe to conclude that Google will not be going anywhere in the foreseeable future. Now we see other contenders that have started to make an impact on Google’s user base. Bing and Blekko are two such search engines...........
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Positive shrinking: things that mean most can help us lose weight

It could be that the act of writing down values and beliefs is the next big fat-buster, as part of a mental diet strategy

Why the need for Positive Shrinking?

There are thousands of books available on the subject of diets as a methodology to lose weight. Okay for a short-term fix, yet in most cases the claims are that after the diet, people either return to the weight they were before or more commonly put on extra weight hence the term ‘Yo Yo dieting’. Science tells us it is a simple equation of energy in versus energy out, this is correct, yet if it really that simple why is obesity such a growing problem? Positive Shrinking utilises techniques and tools that if employed by the user will mean you ‘must’ enable yourself to obtain..............
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Gold to hit record high in 2012

Precious metals analysts expect gold prices to rise for a 12th year in a row and to reach a record high in 2012, but are less optimistic for silver and platinum, according to a survey by the London Bullion Market Association.
Renewed euro weakness was a central theme of the past week, and despite the corresponding dollar strength, gold has displayed impressive resilience. A decent German bund auction failed to allay worries about upcoming periphery debt sales. A point that may have been driven home when the French saw their borrowing costs rise this week amid persistent rumors of an impending downgrade. Spain and Italy will attempt to sell bonds next week and global investors will be eying demand closely. They'll also be watching to see if the ECB steps in to cover and absence of "real" demand; primarily as an indication of the central banks relentless creep toward full-on quantitative measures..........
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Most important step for the proxy website setup

In the present time proxy websites are the part and parcel of the internet. If you want to setup your own proxy website then you need to maintain some steps. They are most important for the proxy website setup. If you read this article systematically then you know about it.
How does a Proxy site work? – Whenever a user tries to access a website, he/she sends a request to the server of the site and if the server accepts the request the user can access the website. However, there are circumstances when you are not given permission to the website, during such times if you use a proxy website, your request goes to the proxy server first, and it then sends a fresh/modified request to the server of the website, thereby making you access it. A proxy site therefore plays the role of a middle man for the user...........
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Windows 8

Microsoft is using its Build developer conference to distribute a pre-beta, developer preview version of Windows 8 .
Windows 8 is Microsoft's combined desktop, laptop and tablet operating system, designed to go from 10-inch touch-only tablets to big screens in your living room, from ultra-portable notebooks to massive gaming systems and business desktops.
Microsoft is using its Build developer conference to distribute a pre-beta, developer preview version of Windows 8.
Windows, being one of the most used OS, brings great challenges for Microsoft to keep its users impressed in the next version of Windows.........
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Lowe's Unveils cloud-based home energy management system

Lowe's, the world’s second-largest home improvement retailer, announced it is entering the emerging smart home market, with an affordable, cloud-based home management system: Iris™. Iris gives customers the ability to control and interact with their home from anywhere using their smart phone or computer. Iris will be available in Lowe’s stores and on Lowes.com in mid-2012.
“Because of Lowe’s partnerships with manufacturers, utilities and service providers, Lowe’s has the ability to offer a simple, intuitive home management solution at a great value,” said Greg Bridgeford, Lowe’s executive vice president of business development. “Lowe’s, through Iris, is working to connect the broadest range of products in the industry and deliver the benefits of a smart home solution that were previously only available to the most affluent consumers.”............
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Affect your credit card technology: 2012 and beyond

As the nation’s banks and financial firms emerge from the wreckage of the financial crisis, they are working out how best to lend to people with tarnished credit.
Overall, credit-card issuers sent 418 million pitches to U.S. subprime borrowers in the first nine months of this year, double the year-earlier volume of 207 million, according to research firm Synovate, a unit of Ipsos. Despite the surge, direct-mail solicitations remain far below pre-crisis levels.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. If you fall into the first group, there's a good chance.........................
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HTC Rhyme comes with special accessory called Charm

HTC Explorer is the smarter phone that makes you privilege in front of your friends. It is easy to use and provides interactive session for you. The user can browse and enjoy browsing as like in desktop. It is also known as HTC Pico.
HTC is out with an Android smartphone, called the  to woo the ladies. The Rhyme comes with a special purse accessory called Charm. Let's find out whether HTC makes a deal attractive enough to impress its target audience.
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Second-generations samsung 27-inch 9 Series monitor unveiled

Samsung has officially unveiled a second-generation 27-inch Series 9 monitor, with the S27A970 to be shown off at CES 2012 next week.
The stylish monitor is a flagship offering from Samsung taking on the mantle from the Samsung T27A950, and includes the company's proprietary Natural Colour Expert tech and boasts a resolution of 2560x1440.
"Interest in user-generated content and a premium computing experience is growing as consumers are demanding products that allow them to better view, edit and share their photos, videos and entertainment content," said Samsung UK's Neil Sawyer
"The new Series 9 monitor, with Samsung's exclusive Natural Colour Expert technology, answers the need for higher resolution and meticulo.............
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Stylishly designed Milagrow TabTop PC for women

The stylishly designed Milagrow TabTop PC for women, which is compact enough to fit in their bags, has toddled into India. Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions has launched what it claims is the world's only TabTop PC for women professionals. The TabTop PC can fit in most handbags, comes preloaded with over 50 applications and has a special UI designed for women. The affordably priced device has been optimized for women and employs a special user interface along with security applications to safeguard personal information.
The tab claims to possess features which take care of the entertainment, computing as well as information needs of women. It is splashed with four vibrant hues of pink, blue, black and gray. This Gingerbread based tablet operates with the help of a 1.2GHz processor along with 1GB DDR3 RAM. It is outfitted with a full HD 7-inch LED backlit 4:3 capacitive multi-touch display...........
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