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GooGle Is SPyIng US ?
That words across my mine during web-surfing, while my gmail and iGoogle account still logged in. Moreover I like Chrome to get any information through internet. Does Google really spy on me? If you open History in Chrome, you will be amazed by how well-organize Chrome doing it.
How Does Google+ Stack Up Against Facebook?
With Google+, the behemoth of Web search may have finally figured out social networking. Demand for Google+ invites is reportedly through the roof, and critics are generally pleased with how the service works..
Angry Birds Now in Windows Phone Marketplace
At last. Angry Birds is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace—a few hours ahead of schedule and so fresh it hasn’t even been rated yet! Be the first—or just hunker down with your phone and get dem pigs. .
WindOwS 8 is Cool Enough ?
On Tuesday, Microsoft showed off the first tablets running Windows 8, and provided a bunch of new details about the operating system.
Secure Browseing Is The Way To scuess
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
Mozilla And Microsoft Team Up To Offer Firefox With Bing
Mozilla has teamed up with Microsoft and the company will be offering a custom version of Firefox that will come with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine, the standard version comes with Google.
Mozilla and Bing are pleased to make available Firefox with Bing, a customized version of Firefox that sets Bing as the default search engine in the search box and AwesomeBar and makes Bing.com the default home page. (Existing Firefox users can also make these changes by installing the Bing Search for Firefox Add-on).
You can find out more information about the custom version of Mozilla’s Firefox with Microsoft’s Bing over at the Mozilla Blog.
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Sony takes full control of Sony Ericsson for $1.45 billion
Sony has decided to step up its efforts to better compete with the likes of Apple, Samsung, and HTC in the smartphone market by taking full control of its own mobile hardware division.
The Sony Ericsson partnership has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony who has bought out Ericsson‘s 50% share for $1.45 billion. In so doing, Sony believe that it will be able to be more competitive, produce new hardware faster, and allow phones to “seamlessly connect” with other product categories e.g. laptops, tablets, and TVs.
Sony Ericsson was created 10 years ago on October 1st, 2001 and saw a lot of success before the advent of the smartphone. More recently the handsets being produced haven’t been standout products when compared to the likes of the iPhone and more recent Android devices offered by Sony’s competitors.
The buyout not only sees Sony take control of Sony Ericsson, but also includes a broad IP cross-licensing agreement with Ericsson including taking ownership of “five essential patent families.”
Although this could be viewed as a split between the two companies, it seems anything but. Ericsson will now focus on the global wireless market, but has also setup a wireless connectivity initiative with Sony. The aim is to make it simple to connect different devices across multiple platforms.
The buyout is expected to be completed by the end of January next year. For consumers, it will be interesting to see how Sony now pushes ahead trying to grow its market share in the Android smartphone space. You also have to wonder how Sony will choose to use those mobile patents it now owns.
Read more at Ericsson, via The New York Times
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Facebook To Build First European Data Center In Sweden
Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center in Sweden, in Lulea, which is close to the Artic Circle, and this will be Facebook’s first European data center, and it is designed to handle all the European traffic for Facebook.
“Facebook’s data center in Lulea marks the beginning of a new era, as we are now entering a digital industrial age”, says Mayor Karl Petersen, himself an enthusiastic Facebook user with more than 1,350 friends on the social network.
“The City of Lulea, the Ministry of Enterprise, and Invest Sweden has been tremendously persuasive in helping us make this decision. We look forward to joining the community and working with them to provide faster, more reliable and more robust service to people around
the world who rely on Facebook to connect and share”, continues Tom Furlong.
the world who rely on Facebook to connect and share”, continues Tom Furlong.
This is Facebook’s first data center outside the United States, and the third the company will build, it will be made up of three server buildings and the project is expected to be completed by 2014.
Source The Node Pole
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban Appeal In Australia To Get Fast Tracked
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is currently banned in Australia, after an Australian court ruled thatSamsung had infringed on Apple’s patents, and Samsung has been trying to appeal the decision so it can start selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.
Now an Australian judge has decided to fast Track Samsung’s appeal to have the ban uplifted, although no specific date for the hearing has been set as yet.
“I’m quite firm of the view that the matter should proceed on the basis that the lead application be referred to a full court, that it be listed at the same time as any prospective appeal and that the matter be expedited,” Justice Lindsay Foster said.
The various legal cases between the two companies continue in more than twenty different cases around the world, earlier today we heard that Samsung had been denied to have the iPhone 4S banned in Italy.
Source Reuters
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Google Tests Out Google Voice Search Underwater (Video)
Google has been testing out Google Voice Search in Australia, and as well as testing it out in the desert, Google thought it would be a good idea to test it out underwater at the Great Barrier Reef.
Google used a special device for communicating underwater, the device is made up with microphone in the divers mask, which was then connected to some other equipment on a boat where the Androiddevice with Google Voice was located, have a look at the video below.
You can find out more about Google’s latest Voice Search experiments oer at the Google Mobile Blog.
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Adobe Carousel Apps For Mac And iOS Devices Announced
Adobe has launched a new photo app for the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, called Adobe Carousel and the app will let you store your photos online and you can then access them from your Mac or any of your iOS devices.
The Adobe Carousel app works with Adobe’s online storage, which is a paid service where you can store your photos online, and Adobe will charge $9.99 a month for the service of $99.99 a year.
Adobe® Carousel is the only photography solution that gives you access to your entire photo library from all your iPads, iPhones, and Macs — no storage issues, no manual syncing hassles. Enjoy all your photos anywhere you are, and make them look terrific using the same powerful photo-processing technology as Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom® software.
Adobe are offering the service at a discount for $59.99 for the year or $5.99 a month, you can find out more details over at Adobe.
Source 9 to 5 Mac
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The Prop Mobile Laptop Stand (Video)
We have featured a number of different laptop stands here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is called the Prop, and it was designed by Justin Brouillette & Nicholas Pajerski from Make Collaboration, and the designers are trying to raise $18,000 on Kickstarter to put the Prop into production.
The Prop is an affordable and portable laptop stand. It’s thoughtful design combines both form and function to create a simple, yet refined experience. It is affordable because MAKE Collaboration believes design should be accessible to all. The Prop is sleek and efficient, a perfect fit for your laptop; in fact it was designed to be flexible and accommodates most 13″ to 17″ laptops.
You can find out more information about the Prop over at Kickstarter, and it will retail for $18 when it goes into production.
Source Geek
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HTC Rhyme Lands On O2 UK
The HTC Rhyme was announced last month, and now it is available here in the UK from mobile operator O2, who are offering the device on a range of their monthly contracts.
The HTC Rhyme features a 3.7 inch multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, it will come with Android Gingerbread and HTC’s Sense 3.5 user interface.
Other specifications on the HTC Rhyme include HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, and a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and an LED flash.
Source Phandroid, O2
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Nokia Launching A White Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is one the of the coolest designed smartphones we have seen, and luckily the new Nokia Lumia 800 shares a similar design. Nokia has announced that they will be releasing a white version of the Nokia N9.
As well as releasing the white Nokia N9, Nokia will also be releasing a software update for the N9 to bring a range of new features to the device, which include a number of improvements.
The white Nokia N9 will go on sale before the end of the year and will be available in the 64GB version, there are no details as yet on which countries it will be in.
Source Nokia
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BlackBerry Colt To Be RIM’s First BBX Smartphone?
RIM recently announced its new BBX platform, and now we have some details on the first smartphonethat will use the BBX platform, according to the guys over at n4bb, the BlackBerry Colt will be the first BBX device.
The BlackBerry Colt will come with a 4 inch display and is also rumored to feature a dual core processor, plus front and rear cameras, and the device is expected to be launched early next year.
As soon as we get some more information on the BlackBerry Colt and RIM’s new BBX platform we will let you guys know.
Source GSM Arena, Unwired View
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Dell Latitude ST Windows Tablet Announced
Dell has launched another new tablet, although this one is designed for the business market, the Dell Latitude ST, which features a 10 inch display and comes with Windows 7 Professional.
The Dell Latitude ST features a 10.1 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, processing is provided by a single core 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 processor and it also comes with 2GB of RAM.
Other specifications includ a 128GB SSD, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and optional GPS and 3G, there are no details on pricing as yet.
Source Liliputing, Dell
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Lumia 800 vs. iPhone 4S: how the specs compare
It’s no secret that the world of high-end mobile phones is currently dominated by the iOS andAndroid operating systems. To help you get a perspective on their latest releases, we gave you head-to-head spec comparisons between the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy Nexus, and then between the Droid Razr next to the Galaxy Nexus.
While those two platforms are the kings of the hill right now, Nokia showed us what a Windows Phone 7.5 handset can look like this week, with the gorgeous Lumia 800. Why not put it next to the iPhone 4S, and see how they size up?
Of course you’d be wise to look beyond just specs when shopping for a new device. If technical specifications were the only thing that mattered, then Android tablets would likely be taking a much bigger piece of the iPad’s pie. With that said, you can learn a lot about a device’s capabilities by looking at the individual components that it’s made of.
Design and dimensions
Both phones are similarly proportioned, with one exception. The Lumia is slightly wider, and longer by a hair. The biggest difference in dimensions is that the Lumia is thicker than the 4S. As new devices like the Galaxy Nexus and Droid Razr are racing to see who can become the thinnest, it’s interesting that Nokia’s handset measures a little chunkier than the last two iPhones.
Both of these phones are quite the lookers. While you’ve likely grown accustomed to the look of the iPhone 4S by now (it’s identical to last year’s iPhone 4), it’s hard to find a slicker-looking device. An aluminum antenna is sandwiched between two panels of glass. Even if you prefer a more rounded, less angular device, it’s hard to argue that the iPhone 4S isn’t classic Apple design at its finest.
The Lumia 800, meanwhile, brings something that we haven’t seen a lot of in smartphone bodies – color. It will be available in cyan (above) and magenta, in addition to the familiar black. The body of the phone has a more unified build than many recent handsets, with its smooth one-piece body. If you saw pictures of the Meego-running Nokia N9, it’s virtually identical to the Lumia.
Display
The Lumia’s display is slightly larger than the iPhone’s, but has a lower resolution. The screen uses curved glass to create an effect of blending in with the body of the phone. In that regard, the greatest strength of the Lumia’s display may be that it lends itself to the illusion of no separation between display and body. Windows Phone’s heavy use of deep blacks, next to the black front bezel, will only accentuate this effect.
Pixel density tilts heavily in the iPhone’s favor, though 252ppi on the Lumia’s AMOLED display shouldn’t disappoint too many people.
Processor
Nokia went in an interesting direction here, foregoing a dual-core CPU, and instead opting for a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 chip. The iPhone 4S, meanwhile, carries Apple’s dual-core A5 system-on-a-chip, underclocked at 800MHz.
We’ll look forward to getting these two phones side-by-side for some performance testing, but we do already know that the iPhone 4S runs iOS 5 with no lag whatsoever. While some could be let down by the single-core CPU in the Lumia, the Windows Phone software library isn’t currently heavy on resource-intensive apps, so perhaps this single core chip, with a relatively high clock rate, will suffice.
Memory
Both phones are equals in the RAM department, coming in at 512MB. Some were surprised thatApple opted for half of the iPad 2′s 1GB in the 4S, but its performance doesn’t appear to be suffering without the extra memory. Perhaps Nokia and Microsoft came to the same conclusion regarding the Lumia and Mango.
Storage
While neither handset offers SD card support, the iPhone gives you more options for on-board storage. This is another area where Windows Phone’s much younger app library shows its face. Without the extensive library of huge games that the App Store has, there’s less of a need for the extra storage on the Lumia. Still, those who like to store their entire music library or several movies on their device may be disappointed with a maximum of 16GB.
Microsoft’s Skydrive service can help to make up for this, as owners of the phone will get 25GB of free cloud storage.
Battery life
I’d recommend taking the above estimates with many grains of salt. Apple is known for giving solid battery life estimates on both their iOS devices and MacBooks, while many other manufacturers’ claims are known for falling short. With that said, it looks like Nokia is promising longer talk time, and more standby, while the iPhone claims to have longer video playback.
For those more interested in the hardware, the Lumia 800 has a 3.7V 1450mAh battery. The iPhone’s, meanwhile, is a 3.7V 1420mAh model. As always, software and other hardware features can have at least as big of an effect on actual battery life.
Camera
While the iPhone 4S’ camera has been heralded as exceptional for a smartphone camera, the Lumia will also have a particularly high quality camera. We know this because it appears to be identical to the camera in the Nokia N9. The pictures that the N9 takes hold up fairly well next to the 4S (though the 4S still has an edge in terms of color vibrance and lighting).
One major difference in the camera department comes in terms of the front shooter. Namely, the iPhone 4S has one and the Lumia does not. Mobile video chat may not have caught on the way some expected it to, but if you want the option, the Lumia isn’t the phone for you.
Summing up
Regardless of the hardware we compared above, the biggest spec may be that of availability. If you live in the US, you can get the iPhone 4S right now, while there is no information regarding an American launch for the Lumia. Nokia hasn’t had much of a presence in the states for some time, and it doesn’t look like they’re rushing to change that. Perhaps it’s part of a joint strategy withMicrosoft to build an international presence, while easing into the US market. Either way, it will be available throughout most of Europe in November.
We excluded download speeds, as the Lumia obviously has no carrier info for a US release. The iPhone 4S, as you probably know, will get 3G speeds on Verizon and Sprint, and you may get HSPA 14.4 (“4G” according to AT&T) speeds on AT&T.
So while many won’t even have the choice between these two phones yet, the Lumia 800 is significant enough of an entry that it’s worth profiling. Microsoft needs their Nokia Windows Phones to be something special to have a hope of gaining some significant market share, and this phone has the ingredients (particularly in terms of design) to help them do that.
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