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Axis – Yahoo’s New Browser for Smartphones and Windows
Yahoo introduced a new browser named Axis that works equally on smartphones and Windows.
According to VentureBeat, the browser runs on iPad and iPhone as a separate standalone browser and as an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, with support for Android and Windows Phone coming soon.
What is special about the Axis Browser extension:
Since a lot of browsers are already used on iPhones, iPads, and Windows pc, then why Axis…? The answer is given by Yahoo:
First of all, Axis is a browser extension that can be used equally with Chrome, Firefox, or Mozilla. Moreover, Yahoo itself called it a “search Browser”.
That’s why Axis offers a faster, smarter search with instant answers and visual search previews.
The search bar, complete with horizontally-scrolling site previews, mimics what Axis looks like on a desktop computer.
Visit the official Axis page for more info.
Let’s see whether it competes with the other browsers in the market or not.
May 26, 2012
Pebble iPhone Compatible Wristwatch
Kickstarter is famous for new and emerging ideas. what’s now revealed..? it is iPhone compatible Pebble Wristwatch. which is not only compatible with iPhone but also supported Android smartphones, just like Google project Glass this device is also innovative and is setting new trends.
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Pebble iPhone Compatible Wristwatch Features:
When talking about the iPhone-compatible Pebble Wristwatch, it uses an e-paper display just as Paper Phone and is similar to the screen on the Amazon Kindle Fire, and connects to the iPhone (and Android devices) via Bluetooth. Pebble uses vibrating alerts to tell the wearer of incoming calls, emails, calendar alerts, Facebook and Twitter messages, weather alerts, and more.
It also has an extensive SDK for developers and its own “Pebble watch app store”. It will also be waterproof enough to swim with, but it will not be a dive watch. The smartwatch is available in different styles and features
The company behind the watch even has experience with smartwatches. Pebble has been making a BlackBerry-compatible watch called the in Pulse and is a graduate of the Y Combinator start-up incubator. It has now received pledges for $3.8 million from 26,500 backers on Kickstarter for a watch that will retail somewhere around $150 when it goes on sale this fall.
Pebble told MacRumors that it’s treating Kickstarter as a discounted pre-order mechanism, and once the funding period closes in a month, it will continue taking orders to make iPhone iPhone-compatible watch on its website. US buyers can pre-order a Jet Black Pebble watch via Kickstarter for $115, while foreign buyers will pay slightly more to cover shipping. Pebble has now passed the $4 million mark.
source: macrumors
April 21, 2012
Google Project Glass – Smart Project by Google Revealed
What will you say about the glasses that you are wearing?
Can you make a video call using them, or can you trace your friend or some coffee shop… of course not, but I can tell you that all the above is possible, how…?, Google will answer.
A couple of days ago, Google has just unleashed what looks to be the most innovative product yet called Google Project Glass.
What is Special about Google Project Glass:
This project, which is developed by the Google team, aims to make our lives completely hands-free. The device is capable of taking photos, doing check-ins, getting directions, video chat, listening to music, and getting directions.
The actual device is a pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits in front of your eye (the left, for now), and leaks surrounding the glasses have been popping up for months. It’s a fully integrated Google Apps experience.
What’s more than this, the project could potentially not just sit around your head – this tech could get as close to your body as a contact lens.
The image you’re looking at right now is a contact lens being developed by Google X, which Google X employee Babak Parviz notes allows pixels to be sitting right on top of your eye.
See the video below to explore chat, navigation, video, music, and much more on Google Project Glass.
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So, what will be the future when every sort of facility is near your retina?
source:slashgear
April 20, 2012

Apple’s new iPad 3 sales top 3 Million just in Hours

Apple has officially launched its new iPad 3 on Friday 16 March 2012 and just in 72 hours its sale top 3 Million. It is a great sale of the history, and credit goes to its incredible design, remarkable outlook, and great functions, Everyone which induced the users to have it in their hands.

Why New iPad 3 is PreEveryone

wants new iPad 3 because the new iPad boasts a stunning retina display, a beefed-up A5X dual-core processor, quad-core graphics, 4G capabilities, and a longer battery life than its predecessor, the iPad 2.

Design: and Features:

The new iPad Wi-Fi models are available in black or white colors. Apple has packed a huge amount more pixels into the 9.7-inch screen – 1536 x 2048 to be exact. However, despite the fact that the Cupertino brand makes a big thing about the 330 PPI density of the iPhone 4, we’re looking at a screen that’s technically a lot less sharp than its smartphone brethren – around 264PPI.

see the details of a new tablet

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
		CDMA 800 / 1900 – for Verizon
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
		CDMA2000 1xEV-DO – for Verizon
	4G Network	LTE 700 MHz Class 17 / 2100 – for AT&T
		LTE 700 MHz Class 13 – for Verizon
	Announced	2012,16 March
	Status	Available. Released 2012, March 16th

BODY	Dimensions	241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm
BODY	Weight	662 g

DISPLAY	Type	LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	1536 x 2048 pixels, 9.7 inches (~264 PPI pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Scratch-resistant glass, oleophobic coating

SOUND	Alert types	N/A
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Card slot	No
MEMORY	Internal	16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	DC-HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, 73 Mbps; Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot (carrier dependent)
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
	USB	Yes, v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, check the quality
	Features	Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection
	Video	Yes, 1080p@30fps, video stabilization, check the quality
	Secondary	Yes, VGA, 480p@30fps, video calling over Wi-Fi only

FEATURES	OS	iOS 5.1
	Chipset	Apple A5X
	CPU	Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
	GPU	PowerVR SGX543MP4 (quad-core graphics)
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, compass
	Messaging	iMessage, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML (Safari)
	Radio	No
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	No
	Colors	Black, White
		– MicroSIM card support only – iCloud cloud service – Twitter integration – MP4/MP3/WAV/AAC player – Photo viewer/editor – Audio&video player/editor – iBooks PDF reader – Google Maps – TV-out

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Po 11,560 mAh (42.5 Wh)
	Stand-by	Up to 720 h
	Talk time	Up to 9 h

Availability:

The new tablet is already available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK, and the US Virgin Islands and now also available in 24 more countries starting at 8:00 a.m. local time on Friday, March 23 through the Apple Online Store. Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.

March 28, 2012

Goodbye to Android Market,Hello to Google Play
Goodbye to the Android Market and hello to Google Play….who said so, of course, one name and it is Google, week, the famous search engine, and now a popular technology target setter.
Let’s come to the story.
Google is bringing changes day by day to bring new horizons in the field of mobile technology and now it has made a change in its online apps store. It says that Google’s apple store is no longer is called the android market but it is known as Google Play.
Starting from the week, all of Google’s digital media services (like games, apps, e-books, music, videos, etc ) have been remanded to fly under a brand new banner: Google Play.
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That’s right, gadget buffs, despite some delectable new rumors, Google Play isn’t a new tablet from the folks at Mountain View, but rather a unified brand that seeks to tie the company’s digital media services together.
It’s also entirely cloud-based. If you purchase and start watching a movie on your smartphone, you can pick up where you left off on your LCD monitor. Google Play keeps your content in sync, but without downloading content to each of your devices.
There are some perks, too. Google points out that with Google Play, you can:

Why Google Play:
because it can
- Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
- Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
- Browse the world’s largest selection of eBooks
- Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles
- Check the best-selling games and make them a part of your device.
This store is just like iTunes, and some of the persons also criticize its name of Google Play, but still, it is a great place for users to collect updated and latest materials for their phones free or at a low affordable price.
So why wait? Just visit the official Google Play Page
source:maximumpc
March 19, 2012
USES of NFC Technology in Smartphones for Wireless Communication
Hi friends, many of us have heard about NFC technology while roaming around the globe, but some of them (including me) may not be familiar with this term…so let’s see what NFC is? and its use in Smartphone applications.
What Is NFC?
Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters.
Emerging NFC standards allow users to transfer information by touching devices like smartphones, Apple, Samsung Galaxy, and many more.
It is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States.
Many smartphones currently on the market already contain embedded NFC chips that can send encrypted data a short distance (“near field”) to a reader located, for instance, next to a retail cash register.

Shoppers who have their credit card information stored in their NFC smartphones can pay for purchases by waving their smartphones near or tapping them on the reader, rather than using the actual credit card.
Co-invented by NXP Semiconductors and Sony in 2002, NFC technology is being added to a growing number of mobile handsets to enable mobile payments, as well as many other applications.
Uses of NFC technology in Android phones in daily life:
The following are the common uses of NFC in our daily routine.
NFC and Social Sharing:
NFC simplifies and expands social networking options:
- File-Sharing: Tap one NFC device to another to instantly share a contact, photo, song, application, video, or website link.
- Electronic business card: Tap one NFC device to another to instantly share electronic business cards or resumes.
- Electronic money: To pay a friend, you could tap the device and enter the amount of the payment.
- Mobile gaming: Tap one NFC device to another to enter a multiplayer game.
- Friend-to-friend: You could touch NFC devices together to Facebook friends with each other, or share a resume, or to “check in” at a location.
Bluetooth and WiFi Connection:
NFC can be used to initiate higher-speed wireless connections for expanded content sharing.
- Bluetooth: Instant Bluetooth Pairing can save searching, waiting, and entering codes. Touch the NFC devices together for instant pairing
- WiFi: Instant WiFi Configuration can configure a device to a WiFi network automatically. Tap an NFC device to an NFC-enabled router.
E-commerce:
NFC expands eCommerce opportunities, increases transaction speed, and accuracy while reducing staffing requirements. A Personal Identification Number (PIN) is usually only required for payments over $100 (in Australia) and £15 (in the UK).
- Mobile payment: An NFC device may make a payment like a credit card by touching a payment terminal at checkout or a vending machine when a PIN is entered.
- PayPal: PayPal may start a commercial NFC service in the second half of 2011.
- Google Wallet is an Android app that stores virtual versions of your credit cards for use at checkout when a PIN is used.
- Ticketing: Tap an NFC device to purchase rail, metro, airline, movie, concert, or event tickets. A PIN is required.
- Boarding pass: An NFC device may act as a boarding pass, reducing check-in delays and staffing requirements.
- Point of Sale: Tap a SmartPoster tag to see information, listen to an audio clip, watch a video, or see a movie trailer.
- Coupons: Tapping an NFC tag on a retail display or SmartPoster may give the user a coupon for the product.
- Tour guide: Tap a passive NFC tag for information or an audio or video presentation at a museum, monument, or retail display (much like a QR Code).
So, from the above-detailed introduction about NFC, the time will come when every industry of smartphones will be occupied by this way of Communication.
Via: Wikipedia
December 6, 2011
Unlock your door with your Smartphone using Lockitron
Now, this is the future, guys. Hate carrying around your keys or digging in your purse to find them? Perhaps you’re at work and need someone to grab something from your home, but you don’t have a key to give them?
Lockitron is a deadbolt locking system that allows you to send a simple text message or use your NFC-enabled smartphone to quickly and easily unlock your door/gate/barn/whatever.
No more hiding keys under welcome mats or behind fixtures. You can even send virtual keys to friends or family and give them full or temporary access (perfect for those crazy exes).
You won’t have to replace the locks – just get a new virtual key.
Lockitron is compatible with most standard deadbolts and, according to the company, takes less than 15 minutes to install with a simple screwdriver.
Requirements for the proper use of Lockitron.
The only requirements include:
- A broadband internet connection and an available Ethernet jack on the router
- Ability to place a base station with a wired internet connection within 10-30 feet of the door
- Wood door – for metal doors, it is recommended that you place a piece of wood, cardboard, or rubber between your door and the inside Lockitron unit, and place the base station 5-10 ft. from your door.
- Proper door-frame alignment – sagging doors, damaged doors, or damaged frames will cause Lockitron to jam when operating
Lockitron isn’t just the future — it’s available right now for $300 with no monthly fees for basic service, which includes the ability to give out temporary or permanent keys to guests or co-workers from your smartphone or laptop. Text messaging access (for dumbphones) is a premium service.
Do comment with your feedback to let the reader know about the usage of this smart device.
via:phandroid]
November 10, 2011