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Friday, February 15, 2013
Windows Surface RT : Pros & Cons
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Upcoming WINDOWS 9
Windows 8 could be partly responsible for declining PC sales
Will Microsoft learn from messages like this? As Heise reports, the head of Acer has made statement, that Windows 8 is too complicated and people do not understand the system.
The curious thing about the situation is that Windows 8 should boost the PC market sales. Now the opposite seems to have happened! Due to the many negative reports about Windows 8, this was to be expected anyway.
Sales of notebooks and desktop computers in Q4 2012 decreased by 6.4% compared to the same period last year, the entire year it was 3.2%. One reason for the problems is that many consumers prefer to buy smartphones and tablets, as they don’t require a lot of functionality of a complete PCs.
We hope that Microsoft will learn from all this and present as a better “Windows 9″!
Google’s AdWords Update: Are Desktops The New Fax Machines?
Does Wednesday’s AdWords announcement mean Google is already acknowledging the end of the desktop?
When AdWords was developed, people only worried about ads delivered from websites to people sitting at a desk in front of a computer. No one cared about phones, tablets were not on the market, and notebooks weren't useful Internet devices unless they were connected to a wall, just like a desktop.
Over the last 10 years, the variety of devices and interfaces has increased dramatically, and AdWords has evolved to keep up, adding features, and offering campaign managers more options and ways to manage campaigns.
The Five Ways Users Organize Their Apps And What App Designers Can Learn From This
A new report from German researchers reveals the five main ways people are organizing the applications on their smartphones. Despite the somewhat esoteric focus of a study like this, the resulting analysis has a broader impact on our digital lives. The content found in mobile app stores is growing at an exponential rate. There are over 800,000 iOS applications, just under that on Android, and app downloads are nearing the point where they’re double that of songs. Songs!
And yet, even though we’re heading into a world where we’ll soon have over a million applications at our fingertips, the methods for discovering applications, downloading them to our devices, and managing them once there, are holdovers from the desktop era. The desktop era which, mind you, is now over.
OUYA Android Game Console To Get Annual Hardware Updates, Founder Says
The OUYA Android-based gaming console will get hardware refreshes on an annual basis, founder and CEO Julie Uhrman revealed in an interview with Engadget. Uhrman was at DICE, an annual summit that focuses on video games, where she also announced new game publisher partners for the OUYA platform. The refresh cycle will more closely resemble those of smartphones than those of traditional consoles, which generally enjoy multi-year lifespans extending into double digits.
“There will be a new OUYA every year. There will be an OUYA 2 and an OUYA 3,” Uhrman told Engadget in an interview. That’s a pretty bold declaration of intent from a company that, while immensely successful in their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, has yet to actually ship production-ready OUYA 1 devices out to the general public, though they have already secured retail partners.
You Won’t See Facebook’s Graph Search On iPhone Or Android Anytime Soon
The release of Facebook’s Graph Search has raised much discussion among technology pundits and investors. One of the biggest questions surrounding the highly anticipated feature is its availability on mobile.
After all, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said on a number of occasions that Facebook is a mobile company. “On mobile we are going to make a lot more money than on desktop,” he said at TechCruch Disrupt SF 2012, adding “a lot more people have phones than computers, and mobile users are more likely to be daily active users.” Facebook understands mobile’s importance, so why wouldn't it offer Graph Search for Android and iPhone from the start?
Pebble smartwatch can answer phone, control music
Watches that do more than tell time have gripped imaginations since the 1940s, with Dick Tracy's iconic two-way wrist radio. Since then we've seen all kinds of funky watches, most recently GPS models that can track running distance and calories burned and watches that can deliver tweets, texts and headlines. There are now rumblings that Apple might soon invade the smartwatch space, though the company is maintaining its customary silence.
New Playbar speaker connects Sonos to the TV
Sonos has a new sound bar speaker for improving TV sound and connecting to its wireless whole-home music systems.
Music system maker Sonos has carved out a niche with its wireless music systems. Now it wants to physically connect your TV to better sound.
The new Playbar one-piece sound bar speaker ($699, out March 5) has nine built-in speakers and connects to the TV for improved sound for movies, TV and games. In homes with other Sonos products, the Playbar will connect wirelessly to that current network and can be used to play music.
Top fitness gadgets of 2013 at the Consumer Electronics
The world's biggest technology expo, International CES in Las Vegas, was last week packed with devices designed to transform their wearers into fitter, leaner, more competitive, and yet calmer individuals.
From measuring stress levels to testing the amount of oxygen in your blood, incoming fitness gadgets run the gamut from lifestyle-friendly to medically important, and they now come in a smaller and sometimes unusual forms, from cutlery to jewellery.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Nokia’s Cheapest Windows Phone 8 Lumia, The 620, Gives The Budget Android Pack A Run For Its Money
When Nokia unveiled the 620 back in December it talked about wanting to add something more compact to its lineup. And the phone is certainly pocket-friendly. But the size of the 620′s price-tag is the real focus here: the Lumia 620 is Nokia’s cheapest Windows Phone 8 device by far (the Lumia 510 is cheaper still but that handset runs WP7.5/7.8, not WP8). Nokia’s target markets for the 620 are currently Asia-Pac, the Middle East and Africa, Europe and Canada. The company won’t comment on whether it will be bringing the handset to the U.S. in the future.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Up Coming -SAMSUNG GALAXY S4
It certainly feels like Samsung is taking over the world right now – at least, the Android world. There's no doubt that last year's Galaxy S2 was the phone of the year.
And not in recent times, discounting Apple of course, can we remember the anticipation and expectation of a phone as much as the Galaxy S3.
The name was even 'confirmed' at a recent event by a researcher, which means it's coming closer and closer to reality.
But that's last season's device, and we're looking forward to the next level of what to expect in the Galaxy SIV. The trickle of 'sources' talking about this new device is starting to build to a steady stream, so we're on hand to help let you know which whispers have a notion of truth about them - as well as providing our wishlist of what we want Samsung to improve on the new handset.
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