Salora Launched Zapper 3G Dongle for Rs. 1,599

Salora International has launched a new high speed 3G USB Dongle which can be used to connect internet at high speeds. Salora offers the new Zapper 3G SIL 300B will give connectivity at a maximum downloading speed of 14.4 Mbps and an uplading speed of 5.76 Mbps. It is a 3G dongle which supports SIM cards of all the network operators and also supports microSD card to expand the memory of the device up to 32GB.

Latest Update Brings Opera Chromium a New Tablet UI

The Norwegian browser company Opera has succeeded in fixing their position in the internet space where a handful of leaders are ruling the community. Opera could achieve this with the support of a dedicated fan base. Opera’s Facebook page bears over 6 million likes of fans from all over the world and we can take it is a proof for how fans are taking this user friendly browser. In order to move with the technology advancement Opera has extended its services to Smartphones and tablets. In fact portable devices are now Opera’s biggest market. A long time back Opera has made their browser compatible with Android platform too, which makes the company to achieve a large market share as now people prefers to access internet over portable devices.

Google Glass Gets Music Too

The search engine giant Google’s flagship product Google Glass has succeeded in attaining a significant popularity among the user groups even with the short span of time after unveiling. The younger generation around the world, who are the big fans of the device treats it as a smart glass and considered it as an useful accessory. Fuelling this trend Google adds some additional features to Glass to make it more attractive among folks. Google adds a voice command to Google Glass which allows users to hear their favorite music from Google Play Music and it gives all access to songs as well with Google’s spotify like streaming service. By saying “OK Glass, listen to” and then tell your favorite song name or artist, Glass will start to play the song which you want to hear. It also comes with the function ‘Shazam like’ which also helps you to identify songs. 

Japan Developed A New Glass to Translate Menus into Other Languages

In Japan a augmented new reality glass is developed that can translate menus in real time. The new invention was unveiled at a gadget fair in Japan and promised to distribute among the visitors of 2020 Tokyo Olympics. NTT Docomo was demonstrating its new development where cameras and computers combine together to give the user a whole different view of what they are seeing.

The new device features an overlay the unknown language of menus into the viewers preferred language also with the signs and menus in an understandable form. The new device will be a best companion for travellers in places where the foreign language menus are not common.

While displaying the new gadget at CEATEC in Japan Docomo commented to reporters that "Character recognition technology enables instant language translation for users travelling abroad and reading restaurant menus and other documents." Developers are almost finished their work to make an application which can turn a flat surface into a touchscreen, with a finger ring relaying positioning information to the device that lets wearers "touch" tags that only they can see, and even to perform an Internet search.

The new device also can be used to identify people using facial recognition feature and can search for people and watch their profile on a smartphone directory.

Dropbox 2.4 Features Screenshot Sharing

Dropbox has launched new version which supports Windows and Mac operating systems. Dropbox 2.4 is now available for download and contains many more exciting features. The new version comes with Screenshot Sharing to exchange print screens and images in a better way. One can select PrtSc (Print Screen) in windows or the corresponding key combination in Mac system and a pop up window will appear and you can save the image to Dropbox folder by selecting the option “Save Screenshots to Dropbox”

The new Dropbox 2.4 edition also supports capturing of selected area of the screen instead of going for the full screen capturing. One can use Alt+PrtSc combination to capture a particular window and the key combo Ctrl+PrtSc or Ctrl+Alt+PrtSc helps you to copy links to images and you can keep it in the clipboards for fast sharing. By replacing the Ctrl key with Shift key (Shift+PrtSc or Shift+Alt+PrtSc) it will copy the image to the local clipboard and not to the clipboard in Dropbox.

Facebook Introduces Auto-play Videos for Smartphone Users

Facebook is going to introduce a new feature to auto-play videos for mobile users. The videos playing in the news feed will be in silent mode but if wanted user can expand the clip by selecting on it and it will play audio also. Initially this feature will be available only to the videos posted by individuals, celebrities or musicians. Facebook is the most popular social networking site around the globe in these days with 1.15 billion users and they are planning to explore the new chances of ad placements with the new movement. By introducing the new feature Facebook describes it as "explore how to bring this to marketers in the future" and it will give a new experience to the users to view television like ads.

Facebook is currently testing this feature among a small group of Facebook users to know how the program is working in real environment and also to assess user feedback about the video playing. It is expecting that Facebook will charge corporates $1 million to $2.4 milion for a 15 second auto play video ads.  

Run-n-Read, New Device to Read while Running

It was yet considered almost impossible that reading a book while running, it is worst difficult to focusing eyes on words and the flipping of pages makes it not possible. Some developers called Weartrons based on New York City has developed a new gadget called Run-n-Read offers an awesome solution to this difficulty and allows you reading books and papers while you are on treadmill or even walking. The device can be attached with your shirt with its clip or to the headband and there is an e-reader application installed with the device which will track the movement of your head and shoulders. The concept works with the synchronization of text to the bouncing of the head so the text will moves upon like the eyes do when we read. To turn the pages the user should tap on the screen of the device. In addition to reading the books the Run-n-Read gadget gives you the information about the steps that you have taken and calories burned from that. One can pre-order the device through Weartrons website by paying the cost of 55 USD. It is expected that Run-n-Read will be delivered by first quarter of 2014.

VMware Workstation 10 Adds Windows 8.1 Support, Includes Virtual Tablet Sensors

VMware has announced the release of its virtualization software, VMware Workstation 10 ($249, $119 upgrade) in addition to VMware Fusion 6.0 and VMware Player 6.0. VMware Workstation 10 may prove to be the best means to trial of the forthcoming Windows 8.1. The latest Linux distributions as well as the Windows 8.1 has been upgraded with the regular Easy Install feature thus automating the installation process and physical Windows 8.1 systems can be converted into virtual machines in a few clicks.

Lexar Launches JumpDrive M10 Secure USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Leading flash drive manufacturer Lexar launched a new USB pen drive JumpDrive M10 Secure for those who loves to store their important information locally even there is chances for cloud storage. The JumpDrive M10 Secure is specifically designed for the executives who required extensive travelling and required to keep sensitive information. Aaron Lee, director of product marketing, Lexar says the JumpDrive M10 Secure is for those class who wants more data security than any average person.

The JumpDrive M10 Secure is available in four different storage capacities-16GB, 32GB, 64 GB and 128 GB

Google Gives Apps for Desktop on Chrome's 5th Birthday

Chrome is the lightweight flagship browser that originated from an open source project by Google called Chromium and Chromium OS. Now Chrome is celebrating its fiveyears of browsing with the internet community and with this five years Chrome is one of the most widely used browser among a variety of other products. Within these five years Google has made 29 versions to Chrome application.The main strength of Chrome is considered as the wide variety of extensions and add-ons, a powerful Javascript engine and a quick release development cycle that makes it stand on the competitive end of the curve.

On celebrating the wonderful 5th birthday Google launched a new feature to the Chrome users and it is a "new breed of Chrome Apps" and is described as For Your Desktop.

Chrome is popular for its online add ons especially the ones associated with Chrome Web store. Now Google is trying to make a change on the ongoing trend of working online with web based applications and tries to wipe out the border lines with the online apps and the traditional desk top applications. The apps in “For Your Desktop” section do not require an internet connection once it is downloaded to your desktop. They can be used in offline mode.

Google Announced New Version of Android OS: KitKat

By surprising many geeks Google announces the next version of android Jelly Bean. The internet giant announced that the next Android 4.4 version will be named as KitKat like the iconic Nestle candy bar. But Google did not revealed further about what will be the attractions of the new version or when it will be launched out. The Nestle website also confirms this news that Google’s latest version of operating system will be named after the "popular chocolate and wafer confectionery" and the new KitKat website offers to "make an amazing Android experience available for everybody".

While knowing about the new move the technology communities have many doubts on the new cream baked by the two international giants. John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships says that the name change decision came when Google "realised that very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie", but many are going to see it as a marketing move.

Airtel Starts 4G Services in Delhi

India’s leading tele services provider Bharti Airtel is all set to launch its 4G services in Delhi, the capital city of India. Airtel is already provides the fourth generation tele services in Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune and Chandigarh. As a part of expanding the 4G network to Delhi Airtel has entered an agreement with Huawei, which is a Chinese leading manufacturer of systems and equipments to develop the infrastructure and to implement the exchange server equipments. Company officials commented on the reports that "We are planning to launch 4G services in Delhi by September and has selected Huawei for the network,"

Airtel is now concentrating their business on 4G segment and as part of boosting up the 4G operations company has slashed the prices of various 4G plans upto 31 percent. In 2010 Airtel has won spectrum for high speed broadband service and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) in four telecom services areas of Kolkata, Maharashtra, Punjab and Karnataka. Airtel has invested around Rs. 3314.36 crore for this purpose.

Some Tips to Improve the Sound Quality of Skype

Microsoft’s video chatting application Skype becomes one of the widely accepted application among the cyber world. Once after the introduction it has managed to grab the attraction of people who uses internet and even the increased number of other competitive apps. But many people makes the complaint about Skype is that during times of high traffic in the internet Skype’s performance is little bit disappointing as it loses the sound quality or feeble sound it gives. To help out in such situations we can try some little things which will gives great results. When you are using the Skype application during peak load time do not go for any movie download simultaneously which will lessen the bandwidth and connectivity and in turn affect the conversation. Please make sure that while connected with call, not engaged in online gaming activities or other applications which requires high bandwidth from the same network as it will reduce the quality of the output.

Many people are using system’s built-in speaker system to make and receiving calls during a call. This is a major cause for the poor quality of signals received. Instead of in-built sound system, if you can use a headset microphone to call then it will give a better sound experience. Skype official website recommends several brands headset and speakers and you can find a number of such systems from Plantronics and Logitech.

If you are using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity to make the calls it will affect the user experience of the call as there are chance of feeble sound or even broken calls, better if possible should connect the computer to the internet directly with an Ethernet cable.

If the Skype version installed on the computer is an older one then it will not have advance functions of newer versions which will help you for better user experience of the application. In such cases check for recent updates on the help menu and if there is any newer version is available should go for an upgrade to the newer version or install the new version to the system.

Please make sure that the person on the other end of the call also using the updated version of the application as it also has equal importance on the quality of the conversation.

Microsoft Acquired Nokia Business for 7.17 Billion USD

Microsoft announced on Monday evening, the much expected news that it has finalized the deal with Nokia to takeover “substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services.”

The total price of the deal is $7.17 billion of which $5.0 billion is the consideration for Devices and Services business acquisition and the remaining $2.17 billion is for patent licensing deal

Back in 2011 Microsoft entered in a partnership with Nokia but now Microsoft has acquired the major part of Nokia’s business. As a part of the new contract Stephen Elop who is the CEO of Nokia will be the new Nokia Executive Vice President of Devices & Services of Microsoft. From this movement it is expected that there are chances of being Elop will be appointed in a key position in the Microsoft toppers. this could be a strong signal about the future of Microsoft’s executive leadership.

Google Brings Touchscreen Experience to Chrome

The latest developer ‘Canary' version of Google's desktop internet browser can support swipes, pinches and other hands-on operations.

Touch screens are already the standard for mobile devices -- even BlackBerry's latest flagship keypad phone the Q10 also offers a high-definition touch screen in support of its QWERTY keyboard. Likewise, without the leaps and bounds made in multi-touch and finger-tracking technology, the tablet would still be something a doctor prescribes to treat illnesses and not something that schools are starting to prescribe as a means of boosting children's educational attainment.

Indeed, so big are touch screens that according to Lux Research, the market for haptics -- the technology that provides a tactile response to a touch command -- will experience a 16-fold increase over the next 12 years as touch and gestures become the norm for everything from smartwatches to control pads on running machines. "An emerging wave of haptics offers the potential for a more intuitive and information-rich touch experience than today's simple whole-device vibration," said Anthony Vicari, 

Lux Research Associate, of the company's research, published on Tuesday.

Samsung Launches Smartwatches in September

Samsung Electronics plans to introduce a wristwatch in September that can make phone calls, play video games and send e-mails , potentially beating its archrival, Apple, to market with a piece of technology that moves mobile communications beyond the smartphone.

The watch, called Samsung Galaxy Gear, would be shown off "around the time" of an electronics industry trade fair in Berlin that begins September 6, a person briefed on the matter said. Samsung has scheduled a media event for September 4 at which it is also expected to introduce the Note III, a new version of its "phablet," a cross between a phone and a tablet. Apple reportedly plans to show off its first wrist-worn device, expected to be called the iWatch, at a Sept. 10 event in Berlin.

Skype Introduces 3D Video Calling Feature

Instant messaging and video-calling service Skype is reportedly working on the prospects of 3D video calling and the current limitations with the 3D technologies stopped the company from launching the feature.

Microsoft's corporate vice-president for Skype, Mark Gillett said that the lab experimentation has been done to analyse the capability of 3D screens and 3D capture.

Gillett said that there has been a lot of progress in screens and people have started to buy televisions and computer monitors capable of delivering 3D image, but there is a lack of 3D capture devices and the company has been working on just that, BBC reports.

According to the report, the vice-president said that Skype is working with the technology where multiple cameras need to be attached to the computer, precisely calibrate them and point them at the right angle and are now aiming at using that technology to make it work in practical with supporting devices.

Gillet agreed with Hollywood director James Cameron who said that all forms of entertainment will eventually be 3D but warned that 3D video chats will take longer to catch on than other uses.

He further added that the penetration of 3D technology would be more on televisions and computers before eventually reaching the smartphone market, the report added.

Huawei is on the Way to Develop 5G Technology

As most of the people across the globe yet to introduced to fourth generation (4G) mobile technology, Chinese communication giant Huawei Technologies is on the way to develop fifth generation (5G) and the reports says which is likely to be on air by 2020.

Huawei officials reveals that currently they are running the project on high priority and 200 researchers working on the project but the company did not answered to the queries related to the features of the proposed technology or the budget they have employed for the mission.

Huawei Technologies official Wen Tong told that by 2020, there will be billions of connections and 5G can provide massive connectivity. The technology will enable people to have a fibre network like user experience on a wireless connection.

It can provide speed of 10 GBps, which is 100 times faster than the mobile technology used these days, Tong added.

South Korean giant Samsung has also announced that it has successfully tested 5G technology and it will be ready for commercial roll-out by 2020.

Now to cater the on growing customer demands and to cope up with the technology evolutions, mobile service providers across the world are upgrading their exchanges to high-speed long term evolution (LTE) or 4G networks where Huawei leads the segment by providing more than 85 such networks. It also a trial run to test the speed on its 4G technology on high speed MagLev train in Shanghai. Huawei has deployed an LTE network to support wireless connectivity on the train, which runs between the centre of the Shanghai district to the International Airport. The total length of the track is 31 km and the train achieves a speed of up to 431 km per hour.

App to Hear Your Lover's Heartbeat Through Mobile Phone

Researchers have developed a new app that lets long-distance lovers listen to each other's heartbeats regardless of the distance between them. Pillow Talk, a combination of a wristband and app from UK design company Little Riot, connects partners separated by miles by transmitting their heartbeats in real time.

The wristband picks up the wearer's heartbeat and transmits it via Bluetooth to the iOS or Android app. "You are connected directly to your partner via the app; you will receive his/her heartbeat, and they will receive yours. "By plugging in your headphones or the pillow speaker you can lie in bed and hear the realtime heartbeat of your loved one. The result is an intimate interaction between two lovers, regardless of the distance between them," the company said on its website.

Pillow Talk began life in a slightly different form as a university product of founder Joanna Montgomery in 2010. The project has since received more than 750,000 views on Youtube and worldwide attention, the company said.

Microsoft's New e-mail Service Outlook.com Becomes Trendy

Microsoft made a big move today by pulling the plug on Hotmail and replacing it with a fresher, cleaner, simpler email service called Outlook.com. Within just a few hours of its birth, Outlook.com witnessed 1 million sign-ups. So In this article we are trying to flash light to the trendy features of Microsoft Outlook.com email service which makes it popular even within the initial days of its debut.  

Signing up for the service is pretty basic and you're good to go after a few steps. A note of advice here, captcha is case sensitive while verifying your account. Once in, you're greeted by a simple blue and white themed Inbox. The colour is set by default and you can always head to the settings menu to change it. Overall, the design incorporates Metro style Windows 8 touches.

You can now link social accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr. Apart from that, you can also access a horizontal menu for your Mail, Contacts, Calendar and SkyDrive by clicking on the Outlook icon.