Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Samsung Galxy Note on Nov 2 In India
Samsung is all set to launch its latest smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Note in India on November 2.
The company will live-stream the launch event from Battersea Power
Station in London, which can be viewed in India from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
on next Wednesday.
The most interesting aspect of this device is its advanced smart pen called the ‘S Pen” that allows users to scribble messages, annotate, write notes and sketch drawings on the screen. The company claims that the phone has the most advanced pen-input technology, which includes functions like ‘pressure sensitivity, preciseness, speed and more”.
Though there is no official word on the pricing yet, it is expected that the phone will cost somewhere around Rs. 30,000 in India.
Via: TechBU
Real-life 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Sushil Kumar (C) hugs his wife as he is congratulated by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan after Kumar won about $1 million on an Indian game show in Mumbai October 25, 2011. Kumar, a government clerk from India's eastern state of Bihar, has become the first person ever to win about $1 million on the popular Indian version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire." Picture taken October 25, 2011.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Incredible Double Rainbow Arcs Over London
As the line from folk story Dick
Whittington famously said, the streets of London are paved with gold.
But what about the pots of gold found at the end of these double
rainbows, arcing over the capital this afternoon?
Those
lucky enough to catch a glimpse of this phenomenon might well have been
rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of the fortunes awaiting
them in four locations in the centre of the city.
As
these incredible images show, two rainbows stretched over central
London in a dramatic image sweeping over the capital's landscape.
The
bright colours of the rainbows starkly contrast with the brooding, dark
clouds with a bit of sunshine and blue sky peeping through after a day
of blustering showers.
It is thought the rainbows could have stretched from between Russell Square and Covent Garden in the centre of the capital. 
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Today
Via : FunOnNet
Android Beats iOS in App Downloads
The Android operating system now leads in total app downloads, another benchmark in the race to dominate the smartphone market, according to ABI Research.
The market research firm's Singapore office said Android overtook iOS in the second quarter of this year with 44 percent of mobile app downloads being delivered to Android devices, compared to 31 percent going to iOS gadgets.
Android has grown much faster than ABI's earlier projections have suggested. In 2009, Google's OS facilitated just 11 percent of total app downloads. At that time, the firm projected that figure might grow to 23 percent by 2014. Instead, 2011 seems to have been the year that Android made its move on iOS. As recently as August 2010, ABI reported that iOS still held a dominant 52 percent of the market for mobile app downloads.
“Android’s open source strategy is the main factor for its success,” says Lim Shiyang, an ABI research associate. “Being a free platform has expanded the Android device install base, which in turn has driven growth in the number of third party multiplatform and mobile operator app stores."
According to ABI, Android’s install base now exceeds iOS by a margin of 2.4-to-1 worldwide; by 2016 that will grow to 3-to-1.
Shiyang says the open source factor alone could be enough to explain Android's success, but ABI also notes that growth in iPhone shipments slowed in the middle of 2011, likely as consumers decided to wait to buy a new iPhone until the next model (which we now know to be the iPhone 4s) was released. While Apple growth was slowing, Android shipments increased 36 percent in the second quarter.
Of course, the picture for the last quarter of 2011 could look very different, thanks to the October release of the iPhone 4S, which has already broken sales records. And Apple users still download more apps per user than Android by a 2-to-1 margin, according to the ABI report.
“Apple’s superior monetization policies attracted good developers within its ranks, thus creating a better catalog of apps and customer experience,” says ABI's Dan Shey.
In the end, both Apple and Android win. ABI expects global app downloads for 2011 to hit 29 billion total, a huge increase from 9 billion downloads in 2010. That's thanks to a total smartphone install base that's expected to grow 46 percent this year.
Lucky Chap !!
This is from the Northwest Territory , this chap is lucky to be alive. The guy survived the bear Attack.
The bear jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent and he managed to Get it off of him and shoot it.
One tough camper!
The bear jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent and he managed to Get it off of him and shoot it.
One tough camper!
KINDA MAKES YA WANT TO STAY AT HOME AND HIDE UNDER THE BED, EH?
IN TIME Official Trailer
Billa 2 -- Prequel To Billa
Interstingly the Director is Chakri Toleti who directed Eenadu movie
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Nokia's Announces Windows Phones
Today is the day when Nokia will unveil much
awaited Windows phones in London. The event will start at 9 AM (UK
TIME), a big day for Nokia after poor sales with Symbian.
As usual there have been few leaks and as per the new reports the company will launch atleast three new devices powered by Windows.
- Operating System: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS
- Display: 4.3″ Clearback AMOLED Display
- Processor & RAM: 1.4 Ghz Snapdragon, 1 GB RAM
- Camera: 8 MP with dual LED Flash
- Memory: 16 GB/32 GB Inbuilt
- Others: Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC & 1800 mAh battery
- Display: 116.5×61.2×12.1mm
- Weight: 142 g
- RAM: 512 MB
- Expandable Memory: No SD card slot
- Battery: 380 hr idle time on 3G & 50 hr music playback time
- Talktime: 5 hr talk time on 3G
- Berlin – 10:00 AM
- Dubai – 12:00 PM
- London – 09:00 AM
- New Delhi – 01:30 AM
- New York – 04:00 AM
- San Francisco – 01:00 AM
- Sydney – 07:00 PM
- Mumbai -13:30
Article Credits
Steve Jobs Book -- 7 Intersting Things
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s hotly anticipated bio of the Apple guru
came out on Monday, but the media has already got its hands on the book.
The notoriously private Jobs gave Isaacson unprecedented access,
granting him over 40 interviews. Here, seven revelations:
Jobs said Google was guilty of “grand theft” when HTC released an Android phone that borrowed or approximated many of the iPhone’s popular features. Apple promptly sued Google, in one of the early shots of the ongoing mobile patent wars. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs told his biographer in an “expletive laced rant.” “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who also served as an Apple board member from 2006 to 2009 before quitting due to conflict of interest, tried to settle the lawsuit, Jobs told him, “I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.”
2. He regretted delaying cancer surgery
After being diagnosed with a rare type of operable pancreatic cancer in October 2003, Job delayed having surgery for nine months, instead adopting a vegan diet and trying alternative therapies. Years later, Jobs told Isaacson, with what his biographer notes was “a hint of regret,” that “I really didn’t want them to open up my body, so I tried to see if a few other things would work.” In a 60 Minutes interview, Isaacson says, “He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it... I think [at the time] that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking.”
3. He thought he might die young
As a young man, Jobs suspected he wouldn’t live to a ripe old age, telling John Sculley, Apple’s onetime CEO who fired Jobs in 1985, that “none of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.”
4. He wanted to help Obama — his way
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” Jobs told Obama when they met in the fall of 2010, insisting that the administration needed to be more business friendly. Jobs wanted to help create political ads for Obama in 2008 on par with Reagan’s acclaimed “morning in America” spots, but clashed with Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod. Jobs was also frustrated by an overly fussy menu served at a White House dinner for innovative CEOs that he helped plan. The fare included a shrimp, cod, and lentil salad and a chocolate truffle dessert.
5. He had little respect for Bill Gates
Jobs once said of Gates: “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” At another point, he said, “Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”
6. He didn’t always shower enough for corporate life
After Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, the young geniuses and their financial backers brought on Michael Scott to help run the company as CEO.
According to Steve Jobs, Scott “was hired mainly to manage Jobs, then 22,” and one of his first orders of business was trying to get Jobs to bathe more frequently, says the Associated Press. “It didn’t work.”
7. The Apple II was inspired by a Cuisinart
Though the legendary Apple II, released in 1977, was praised for its clean aesthetic, it was originally going to look much different, and far more complicated, with a Plexiglass cover, roll-top door, and metal straps.
While Jobs was shopping in a department store, a Cuisinart food processor caught his eye, and he decided he wanted the computer’s case to be made of molded plastic instead.
Via : Daily Beast
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chak De Phatte !!
Man Of The Match
Man Of the Series
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