Cnet is reporting that Google has planned to send out 100000 invites to its much hyped product Google Wave.Ive been very keen on this project from beginning and expecting a invite from them.If i get it then i’ll review it for sure.If you get an invite,share with me..
Here is an another leaked video of Microsoft Courier.Its UX is phenomenal for Journalism and note-taking.Just have the video after the break.you will come to know its power and possibilities.It actually runs windows 7 under it with Microsoft’s own hardware.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6820724&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
Long awaited freeware app from Microsoft got released today.You can download it from Microsoft site.
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.
Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.
*Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.
Intel last week showed its new Light Peak technology.What is it actually?Its just another way for transferring data among devices and within the device just as our USB’s.Then what's special about it?Its an Optical Device Interconnect.What makes this so special is that it can carry 10Gbps of data, both ways, simultaneously. Even better, it can carry data through cable that's up to 100 metres in length, with Intel hoping that the cable will progress to being able to transfer up to 100 gigabits per second in the future. Dadi Perlmutter, who is the co-general manager of Intel's Architecture Group, said that Intel hopes to just see one universal cable for computers a bit later on. The reason for this is because smaller laptops can have their usefulness hindered by the need for many cables attached to the sides, for various devices.
I hope Intel would soon standardize this and devices flooding shelves soon.. :)
Do you wonder how?Yes Its true.Microsoft has given permission for custom pc makers in US to start selling new pc’s with windows 7 from oct-13th.So you are lucky if you want to buy custom pc with windows 7.According to Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, several Microsoft representatives have told him that his company, which sells custom PCs nationally out of its Auburn, Wash. facility, can install Windows 7 on new machines, then sell and ship them to customers on October 13.
"For us [system builders], we can buy the OEM editions of Windows 7, which should be hitting distributors no later than October 12, and put them in the hands of our customers on October 13 at the latest," said Bach.
Bach said he had Microsoft's okay in writing.
"We have a long line of customers who are waiting for Windows 7," said Bach, who added that his sales team has taken informal orders for new Windows 7 machines from about 50 customers. Puget Systems will also kick off a more formal pre-order promotion on Monday to offer all customers the option of placing orders for early delivery of new Windows 7 computers.
Source:pcworld
Microsoft's tablet pc’s plan have been revealed by Gizmodo.It may be true or rumour.but its interesting,Take a look at the images and videos.
Today Google has released a new beta product called Google Chrome frame,which according to them
“Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:
canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren't yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8. you can download this and try from this link.
i advice you not to use,since it breaks most of the web pages… :(
I’m organising a windows 7 launch party on OCT-22.Be free to join my party and get to know the facts and features on windows 7.
My party link: http://uk.houseparty.com/party/190208
After years of news about it,now its new round of speculations.There is speculation that Pink could either be one handset or possibly two devices--codenamed 'Turtle' and 'Pure,' according to Engadget.Sharp may be the manufacturer,since they are doing phone together already with Sidekick.Danger team is also there with Microsoft.And its surely going to be based on WinMo 7.
Another speculation is that microsoft is aiming at tablet pc’s again with project pink.Actually the news is based on a microsoft job listing.
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division
Excited by Xbox 360? Fascinated by the technology that powers the Surface? Ever wonder how your Zune HD got built? Bring your talent and passion for building great products to the Manufacturing Test Engineering team! Our team is where all these cool products and more come together. We are a small, high-energy engineering team that builds all the systems that make sure these great products work perfectly as they leave our factories. We literally design and build all the test system used to check our products from the beginning to the end of the manufacturing line and are literally responsible for billions of dollars of products being delivered at the highest quality to our customers.As a Senior Program Manager, you will own a broad set of feature areas and products, working with our mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, design verification and reliability engineers along with Manufacturing to bring a product from concept into mass production. You will also develop partnerships with internal and external organizations to ensure that our products deliver a superior customer experience.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has an nice article on this.Get into this link.
One of my favourite mobile browser has got an make over.Opera team has tried to make an unified experience among its desktop and mobile browsers.The whole interface has been changed.From homescreen to tabbed browsing.You can download and try it.As you know its just 130 Kb matter.Enjoy the beta.Here are the features mentioned in opera site.
Popular features
Living up to our vision of providing the best Internet experience on any device, Opera Mini 5 boasts a powerful new user interface. Merging the best from our desktop browser together with new innovations for mobile phones, Opera Mini is advanced, yet highly intuitive to use.
With tabbed browsing, you no longer need to interrupt one session to start another. Use your Web mail in one window, Facebook in another, Twitter in a third and all that while checking the latest sports results. With Opera Mini, you can easily identify the different tabs and jump between them.
No more hassle with those hard-to-enter usernames and passwords. Opera Mini 5 will remember your credentials, and you can log on to your favorite Web sites with just a single click. The passwords are stored on your phone for your convenience.
When visiting a Web page, Opera Mini displays the overview of the page and suggests where to begin your reading before you zoom in. Opera Mini also detects when on a Web page designed for a mobile phone and displays it optimally.
The user interface has been designed for both touchscreen- and keypad-style mobile phones. With a touchscreen, you can enjoy even easier navigation with our new zooming and kinetic scrolling.
Get your favorite Web page with just one click. Speed Dial is a set of visual bookmarks you see when you open a new tab, like a dashboard for your on-line life. To add a new page, simply click on an empty Speed Dial slot, and Opera will make suggestions based on your browsing history and bookmarks.
Time is precious. Opera Mini compresses pages by up to 90% before being sent to your phone, meaning faster page-load times than in other mobile Web browsers.
The new Opera Mini lets you search for text within a Web page, so you can get to the information you need even more quickly than before.
Scroll at warp speed using your phone keypad or by dragging the page on a phone with a touchscreen.
Happy news to all Anti-virus subscribers.Now soon you can stop your subscription and start using Microsoft Security Essentials,a free antivirus,antimalware software from Microsoft.Since I’ve been MSE beta tester,i got mail from MSE team that soon the full version of the software will be released.
If you want to use MSE you need to have Genuine Microsoft Windows OS.If you don’t have one,Buy a windows 7 copy soon and enjoy the Genuine Advantage.
Yes,Its true.Amazon has backordered both 16GB and 32 GB versions of Zune HD.
Not only in Amazon,Bestbuy.com,newegg.com,buy.com has sold out Zune HD.
Kudos to Zune team…
Microsoft has announced the public technical preview of Office Web Apps a day before.Not everyone can participate in this,but there are ways to join(visit liveside.net).Microsoft office live Workspace users can login to their windows live skydrive and access their exixting documents through new office web apps.Microsoft Word,Excel,PowerPoint viewer has been launched and editor too for some.Onenote link tells us to wait for some time.Its US only program,so i cant review it.Still you can browse for more reviews prevailing around tech blogs.
Excel
powerpoint
Just now we heard of Bing announcing its visual search,now its google turn.Google labs have developed the new service called Fast Flip.
"Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting," explains Krishna Bharat, the man behind Google News.
Even mobile version is available.
Microsoft has launched its latest PMP Zune HD.We have already seen its hands on.But now software and services has been updated.
Zune 4.0 software launched.WoW,WoW….these words came out of me when we saw the Zune’s interface.Superb.You should definitely try it.They have tried to implement the same interface in both firmware and software aiming consistency.Its available for download from Zune site.
Even Zune website have been revamped with streaming services.Here is the screenshot.
New Features in Zune 4.0:
quickplay
Get instant access to the stuff you care about most with shortcuts to favorites, recently downloaded or played music, videos, and more.
smart dj
From any artist, album, or song, Smart DJ will generate a related playlist from the music on your computer and new music from Zune Marketplace.
mini mode
Putting the Zune software into mini mode while listening to music allows you to use your other programs while continuing to see what's playing.
mixview
Launch into Mixview from any artist or album and discover a mosaic of connections to other artists, albums, and fans.
For more info on Zune visit www.zune.net
Microsoft has announced a new feature in Bing,called visual search.You can narrow your search by selecting pictures with their options at the left.This makes searching the whole new way,but at last if you want further search,normal bing search results will appear.The whole webapp is powered by microsoft’s own silverlight.So the interface seems to be smooth as cheese.For know they have made some 100 galleries to try out.Later they will incorporate into bing.
You can try at: www.bing.com/visualsearch
1)Visual search Homepage
Hope you love it.play around it after your break!
The Cliq might be the first Motorola device with Android, but with a 350-person team, it better be good. At least it looks solid on the surface with a custom Android GUI called MOTOBLUR, slide-down keyboard, 5MP camera, 24 FPS video cam, WiFi, 3.5mm headset jack and a screen that better be able to handle a massive amount of info. The phone's interface is built around what Motorola is calling "MOTOBLUR." Think of this as a social media aggregator kind of like Palm's Synergy. It syncs Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Picasa and others onto a customizable homescreen that displays info users want from any of the services.
Microsoft has shown some product demos to its 20000 employees in Seattle in annual meeting held yesterday.Some softies have tweeted their experience which confirms that Bing 2.0 in on the way with some nifty features to better compete with google.
"Saw the demo of Bing 2.0, super impressive! Watch out its release next week!!" tweeted Sushil Choudhari, a software design engineer for Microsoft.
This was re-iterated by Monte Enbysk, Senior Editor, Microsoft Office Live, who explained: "Bing 2.0, out this month, has some exciting new features. Imagine seeing maps plus pics from the neighbourhood of a restaurant to try."
The tweets were spotted by ZDNet, and point to a Silverlight-run version of Bing Maps in the works.
i’m expecting redmondians to launch it soon.
“Its time to Rock and Roll”,its name of the event apple had a day before.Yes,its true.Steve Jobs is back on stage.So one can expect some true innovations on the stage.Its an musical event(ipod related stuff) actually.What did they announce??You can get detailed announcements from http://www.apple.com/pr/.
Now lets take visual tour of the announcements with some info
1)iPod shuffle
Price: 2GB - $59,4GB - $79
New features:3 more colours apart from black,silver.All stainless steel for $99 available exclusive from apple store.
2)iPod Classic
No new features
3)iPod Nano
“Star of the Show”
Price:8 GB-149 USD, 16 GB- 179 USD
New features:
1)Video camera(VGA quality (640 x 480) H.264, with up to 30fps and AAC audio)
2)Special effects for video recording Sepia, Black and White, X-Ray, Film Grain, Thermal, Security Cam, Cyborg, Bulge, Kaleido and Motion Blur
3)Built-in FM tuner with Live Pause and iTunes Tagging
Live Pause-you can pause and play FM broadcasts over period of 15 min.
iTunes Tagging-Similar to the one found in Zune,You can tag the song you are listening to for future purposes.
4)Voice Memos
You can record audio,as mic is included.
5)Voiceover
You can select songs without even seeing the screen,by listening to voiceover(similar to smalltalk)
4)iPod Touch
Price:
5)iTunes
Apple has announced keynote event titled rock and roll…I’m expecting some iPod with camera….then new iTunes with some social features…..then any subscription based library as Zune have…Lets see tomorrow..
There is no OEM shipping their flagship product with any version of linux.But many has started giving linux as choice only for Netbooks.Microsoft have noticed this matter,So they are training their partners and marketing team how to pitch against linux in desktop space.Here is the proof (internal presentation) leaked.
Source:Link
Yes,LG has turned aggressive in Smartphone market.LG is already selling Smartphone’s such as LG KM series featuring S-class interface, a qwerty featuring windows mobile and some touch phones such as cookie,viewty.Apart from this LG has planned to introduce 3 Smartphones all featuring Windows on OCT-6(consumer launch date for WM 6.5).I’m expecting some potential devices from them to drive the market.
