Microsoft is a very new comer to the mobile phone industry and just from its start it seems a bit confused, the Kin phones have hit the markets just weeks ago and these were not so impressive in fact quite ordinary when compared to some other Smartphone of the industry. Now the new thing from Microsoft’s side is that it has shifted its interests completely towards the production of Windows phone 7 and with that the release of Kin for Europe has also been delayed.

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Until last week this News was seen that Microsoft has produced only 500 Kin phones and after that it development procedure has been almost stopped. Now what was the factor that has diverged Microsoft for the further development of Kin? The company for such questions is completely quite but I must say that this is all because of quite ordinary development of Kin, the Kins were supposed to be the Youth Phones but the appearance even can’t be appealing for the youth as they have become satisfied with the blackberries and iPhones.

Apart from external looks, the features of Kin are also not very impressive, they were supposed to be the major promoter of Social networks but that facility is also quite limited and no exciting response has been seen for that from the user’s side.

Thus we can see that the latest project by Microsoft has headed towards the failure and from the actions of company we can also assume that the company is backing off from the Kin’s side.

The internet giant Google is very consistently working for bringing some new and amazing technologies for its users and recently the company has taken a very major step in bringing a new feature of video and audio communication for the users, Google has made a very big cash offer to buy the VoIP firm global solutions by bidding an amount of $68 million. The company has not done much discussion about this new acquisition only a little information has come out.

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In a statement by company it has been discussed that “The web is evolving quickly as a development platform, and real-time video and audio communication over the Internet are becoming important new tools for users” and further “GIPS’s technology provides high quality, real-time audio and video over an IP network, and we’re looking forward to working with the GIPS team at Google to continue innovating for the web platform”.
This offer by Google actually came one day before the I/O conference and it is reported that this company fits very well between Google’s existing voice service, Google voice and acquisition of Gizmo 5. Emerick Woods, Global IP Solutions CEO also discussed about this new action by Google and according to him “With Google’s global reach, scale and widely recognized leadership, we are confident that our existing customers will continue to be fully supported while we continue to enhance and extend our products and technology at Google”. So overall we can say that this new acquisition can prove to be really affective for both of the companies and the actual benefit will surely go to the users in the form of some new exciting new features.

Hp Envy Series:

HP can be easily called as the king of computers and laptop industry because it has development some huge blasters for this industry which have earned a big name for the developers. The Envy series of HP is one of the best laptop’s series which features ultimately stylish designing and a really awesome technology. Previously we have seen that HP had replaced the 13 inch and 15 inch laptops with the 14” and 17” respectively but now a new thing is that HP is planning to bring such a look for these laptops that will be a replicate of the apple’s laptops.

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Both of these new Envy laptops are powered by Intel processors and with that they offer 8GB RAM, along with that the two new notebooks also comes with a TrueVision HD webcam and a mini display port connector. Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer Notebooks, Personal Systems Group, HP while discussing about the implementation of new designs said that “With these new designs, we offer customers a broad portfolio of notebook PCs and Minis that are innovative on the outside and the inside” and also “Each notebook provides a unique experience for the customer and allows customers to express their personality”. Thus we can clearly see that HP is focusing highly on the designs of its future laptops so as to attract more and more customers towards its side.

Source: HP via T3, HP Press Release,

Opera 10.52

Opera one of the finest web browsers of the world is now enhancing its network on the Mac platforms, recently the company announced the release of Opera 10.52 browser that will boost up the several new and affective enhancements and it is claimed to be 10 times faster than the earlier version of this web browser. It has been reported that Firefox and Chrome are producing very tough competition on the Mac platform and with the release of this new Browser, opera will also join this competition.

Some of improvements which are brought in the new browser include user interface, cocoa integration, Carakan and the new graphic library and it will bring a faster and smoother browsing experience.  Along with these features the new browser also supports multi-touch gestures and a growl notification support that will show the notifications if the pop up has been blocked or the download has been completed. Another exciting thing notified about this new browser is the Turbo Compression Technology which makes the net surfing easy even at the very congested networks. So this was all about the new Opera 10.52 browser for Mac users that is quite better than the previous version and it has got the capabilities to bring the Opera’s name among the top web browsers.

The most desperately awaited technology gadget from Apple ‘the iPad’ has been finally released at the start of this month in US and people really appreciate this one by actually getting it into their hands. The technological experts also have got the chance to review the device deeply and after their keen consideration, the iPad has been showed up of having some limitations especially for the printing and sharing files. It has been seen that the iPad has no file browser or native printing support but there are some applications which allow you to print and share files of your iPad.

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The absence of this feature might not be a big one for many people but for those who want to carry their iPad in the business atmosphere, it is quite an issue. Some of the most common and best applications for the file sharing of iPad are iTunes; which is chiefly concerned with the sharing of multimedia files, iWorks; which is use to share iWorks documents online, google documents and some other. A print and share application is also brought for iPad but the files shared by this application can only be read by itself only and no other application will have the access to that. So this is the issue which is facing some lacking in the iPad but as it is a newly developed device and the developers will surely work for its enhancement thus we can expect that in future the company will focus on this issue as well.

Source: Apple via PCWorld

eBay is considered to be the most powerful and famous e commerce website along the world but in China Taobao.com is trying to get the hold of online transaction and beat the record of eBay. Recently new news regarding the Taobao policies has been provided by some media and it says that it is planning to open a side-wide transaction data which will let the users to learn the buying trends in the world’s biggest markets.

According to the media Taobao will open up a large swath of its transactions and demographic data that will be aggregated from across the site and any kind of personal identifiable data will be excluded from that. The popularity of Taobao is also quite well and according to some estimate 170 million registered users at the end of last year and transaction value on the site in 2009 reached 200 billion yuan (US$29 billion). Like any other e commerce site it provides full facility for the buying and selling of goods and the sections for auctions have been defined separately. The company is bringing some exciting new strategies that have been moving from acquiring new users to offering some more quality for services for the existing users.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Vertical Landing is the latest that the US Military has achieved that they can boast about and all for good reason. Through the dedication of the F-35 team and the expertise of the technology and the engineering that was used and carried out and successfully executed, this vertical landing has proved to the world that this supersonic machine can actually land in constricted spaces (this experimental landing was carried out in a space of ninety five square meters) whether afloat or even if it is on shore and land. This kind of a vertical landing could only have been possible through the advanced and innovative technology that they have used and this certainly is a feat which is a milestone for military aviation and all the great possibilities it has now opened up.

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The representative of the team for this Lockheed Martin experiment were proud to announce this achievement which took place on 18th March of this month and they were pleased to inform that vertical landing for the F-35 only means that the security measures and goals that the US Military aims at for their own country as well as for the help that they will extend to their allied nations and their military as well- will only benefit greatly from this kind of a breakthrough achievement in naval aviation.

This is actually something of a very unique capability that this supersonic Fighter aircraft has achieved and hopefully this can only be improved upon and eventually be bettered as this was only a practice flight and landing that was met with success. Not only is the F-35 the world’s most advanced fifth generation fighter aircraft at the moment but this only adds to the unending possibilities of the machine- a feather to the military’s cap.

PlayStation Move

The motion controller by Sony has been long rumored by different news media and now the company has finally revealed this amazing piece of technology and it has given the name as PlayStation Move and this is the company’s step to beat the Nintendo Wii in the console war. This new device was actually unveiled at playstation presentation held in the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco and the complete mechanism was shown to the audience that how the Sony Move will get integrated with the PS3.

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The company has also claimed that this device will be the ultra-sensory device of its kind and for the complete working it requires the use of Wand like device that is a little more round than the Wiimote plus the Sony’s eye camera used as a sensor that will track your movements. According to the company they will launch this device in three different bundles; the first one will be carrying the PS# Move control for those who always owns the eye cam, secondly you can also buy it with the eye cam and a PS3 control, the third package will be having motion control with camera and a game that will be coming with a price under $100. Thus this new amazing device will bring a fantastic feature for the playstation users to enhance their gaming experience.

Sony 3D TV

The 3D TVs have been something which is highly awaited by people because of its features and capabilities and now Sony has finally given a time for the release of its 3D TVs and that is they are going to release the 3D TVs in JAPAN and other markets of the world till June and this news has been announced this Tuesday. New firmwares upgrade to its playstation 3 console that adds 3D support and also some other 3D compatible electronics will be released to coincide with the TV launch.

First of the all the company will launch two sets of 40 and 46 inch models that will come bundled with two pair of 3D glasses at the price of ¥290,000 (US$3,215) and ¥350,000 respectively, this will be the first part of its 3D launch and the next 6 sets will be launched till July and they will include: 52 and 60 inch models with 3D glasses and four 3D ready models that will have a 3D circuitry inside. The cheapest of all sets is claimed to be the 40 inch model that will require additional glasses and transmitters and it will be coming at ¥220,000. Thus we can say that the Tuesday’s announcement has showed up the complete plan of company related to 3D and because of the capabilities of 3D platform it can be expected to be a fantastic hit.

Nokia has been seen to be very consistent in bringing some innovative new phones for the international mobile markets and this trend of company is still not stopped because on a YouTube video the glimpse of new X10 phone have been provided for the lovers of Nokia’s X series which is the exciting one in terms of its multimedia capabilities and powerful handling of other activities. The new phone seems to be coming with a Symbian operating system which is thus a very fantastic update for the earlier handsets developed by the company in the same series.

The X10 as seen in the video looks really dashing handsets with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and multiple customizable home screens because of the Symbian 3 operating system and also a 600MHz CPU from ARM. The other capabilities of this handset are also quite awesome like a 3.2 OLED screen with capacitive touch screen technology which is reported to be quite a huge update of Nokia for the international markets. Some other specifications revealed in the video are 32GB of memory, 256MB of RAM and a 5MP camera with flash. Thus the phone seems to be coming as a big hit for the company and very soon the official announcements will be received from the company’s side.