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Indian Students To Get Rs 1,500 tablet PC

Rishabh — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:24:00 +0000

Today, Government of India announced a Rs 1,500 (around $ 30) tablet PC designed specifically for students. The device would be made available to students in 2011.

When the ministry floated the concept of a low cost laptop some years ago, officials said it would cost Rs 500 ($ 10). It will now cost about three times the initial projections.

The ministry expects the prices to drop to Rs 1,000 ($ 20) and reach Rs 500 ($ 10) as innovations are introduced.

The device, no bigger than a conventional laptop, is a single unit system with a touch screen and a built in keyboard along with 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity, USB port and powered by a 2-watt system to suit poor power supply areas.

The ministry also invited private players to produce similar low cost computers.

"When we started the project, the response from the private sector was lukewarm. Now many are willing to join the innovation," Sibal said.

The ministry started its efforts by holding discussions on this concept with a group of experts at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay, a ministry official said.

The low cost tablets will be distributed in institutions by the HRD ministry. The final price will depend on the transportation cost.

"We will give some subsidy on the device. As far as transport is concerned, if the transport cost in less, the government can bear that as well," Sibal added.

Cisco Unveils the iPad Killer

Rishabh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:20:19 +0000

Cisco has unveiled its first entry into the tablet computer space: the Cius, a 7-inch HD business collaboration device running the Google Android operating system. It is a virtual desktop and telecommunication machine, complete with a front facing 720p HD camera and a second, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera.

The device is designed to be mobile. It runs a modified version of the Google Android operation system. It also comes with 3G capability, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Micro-USB support. Cisco claims that the device will go for eight hours “under normal usage.”

Tablet Specs

802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, 3G/4G data and Bluetooth
3.0HD video (720p) with Cisco TelePresence solution interoperability for lifelike video communication with the simplicity of a phone call
Virtual desktop client Android operating system, with access Android marketplace applications
Collaboration applications including Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and Share, WebEx, Presence, and IM
Tablet Highlights:
7” diagonal, high-resolution color screen with contact-based touch targets
HD Soundstation supports Bluetooth and USB peripherals, 10/100/1000 wired connectivity and a handset option
Detachable and serviceable 8-hour battery for a full day of work
Highly secure remote connections with Cisco AnyConnect Security VPN Client
HD audio with wideband support (tablet, HD Soundstation

256 GB Flash Drive By Kingston

Rishabh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:02:41 +0000

Kingston, which is a renowned name in USB and Flash drive market is out with yet another innovation of theirs. This time, they have introduced 256GB USB flash drive with the name of Kingston DataTraveler 300. It also comes with a 5 year warranty. With such huge capacity Flash Drives being introduced in the market, we can see the external hard drives getting obsolete.

DataTraveler 300 Product Features and Specifications:

Capacity – 256 GB
Speed – Data transfer rates of up to 20 MB/sec. read and 10 MB/sec. write
Safeguarded – includes Password Traveler security software for Windows
Convenient - does not require Administrator rights to access the Privacy Zone
Dimensions – 70.68 mm x 16.90 mm x 21.99 mm
Enhanced – for Windows ReadyBoost on Vista-based systems

J1CK.Tweet – Mobile Tweeting Simplified.

Bibhas — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:06:30 +0000

Everyone who use Twitter from mobile always fancy a Twitter app that’ll outrun the ones he has already tried. And obviously enough, none of the apps really satisfies people. Then they again look for a better one. The case is more sinister with those with the most popular Java embedded OS. The number of Twitter app on this platform is more than any other platforms, and that makes it confusing to choose the best one among them.

We’ve been using all the available Twitter apps available for J2ME platform, looking for the best one, and for quite sometime, we were really happy with Snaptu – A mobile app with support of various web services. The twitter client present in Snaptu is really good. Its the most feature rich app present out there. But, only features are not the measure of a great app.

The main minus point of Snaptu is, it loads for several seconds on each step. Every single click needs to communicate with the web server. Hence making it to use high data transfer. And it also reduces speed of work radically. So we were looking for yet another alternative and came across this app – J1CK.Tweet. A Twitter app developed by J1CK Mobile Systems S.L.

Like all the other apps, this one also supports almost all the features of Twitter. Friends timeline, mentions, Direct Message, retweet, favorites, follow/unfollow, follower list, following list, hash tags, latest trends and searches with them etc etc..

So what is special?

It has got a really Simple UI that even a kid can understand if he knows how to press the up-down and the side keys.
Inbuilt Twitpic support. You can see the pic even without clicking it. it’ll just show up with the tweet.
Inbuilt camera support. You can just capture a pic from within the app and tweet it immediately.
More importantly, Its FAST. Tweeting uses the phone’s native text editor that makes it much faster to load(instantly) and easier to type.
Support for Touchscreen and QWERTY enabled phones.
To add more, it has support for 11 languages! That’s the most any mobile twitter app has ever provided. Languages includes – French, Italian, German, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Basque and of course English.

Now, every good thing Has to have a fault, right? This one has got one too. This app doesn’t support Auto-refreshing. Means you have to refresh it when you need. It might seem a bit irritating, but It actually makes things better for limited data users.

This app works on every single device that supports Java. Maybe its not tested in all devices, but should work fine. And it is also available in Blackberry.

So if you want to give it a try, download it from Here.

And for any type of problem encountered, don’t hesitate to contact the team.

iPhone 4: The Camera and iMovie

Rishabh — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:23:09 +0000

The new iPhone has a bigger sensor for the main camera. It’s backlit and has bigger lenses too. Instead of having a higher resolution, however, the sensor maintains the same 5 megapixel count. They are bigger dots, however, so it has a higher ISO—or sensitivity to light. That means that you would be able to take better photos and video in low light conditions, and your pictures will look a lot better.

The camera also has a LED-based flash, which works both for photographs and video. To focus, both for photographs and video—you just need to tap on the screen.

The video conferencing camera
In the front, there’s a video conference camera, with standard VGA resolution. This camera will be used with third-party applications, as well as Apple’s own video conference solution.

iMovie for iPhone

The new iMovie for iPhone works on even 720p high definition. You can use it to cut the video clips, add automatic Ken Burns effects for still images and a music soundtrack taken from your iPhone’s tunes. After you are done with your movie, you can export it to 360p, 520p, and 720p.

It’s a separate application, however, it doesn’t come built-in with the iPhone 4.