Apple, Gadgets, Android, Microsoft
The official Facebook application for Google Android has been updated and will let you upload photos from your mobile phone. The new Facebook for Android update v1.5.2 also has number of bug fixes and gets SSL layer security.This new update will bring added security and the ability to to use the mobile phone’s inbuilt camera to take images and upload them directly to Facebook. The pictures taken from the camera will be uploaded in perfect orientation.
HTC Thunderbolt is the first device on Verizon to support simultaneous voice and data over 3G. Online sources says that sale will be open from Thursday. The reports says that the device will not ship with the Verizon’s edition of Skype that features both voice and video calling support.
Google has released a WebM Plug in for Microsoft’s latest browser Internet Explorer 9. So, Internet Explorer 9 now got WebM Plug in support with ‘Preview’ from Google to make Internet videos more friendly. As a technology preview, the users are able to play all WebM videos just like the good Internet overloads intended them to, despite the fact that an additional download is needed. Microsoft said that it will allow for support and it appears to be following up on its word.
Cobra’s iRadar system is used since last years by iPhone users, seems to be Android users will be getting it soon. The Cobra used the gdgt live event at SXSW and announced that iRadar will be available for Android phones by this April. It consists of a standard dash-mounted radar detector and an app it takes advantage of your phone’s built in GPS capabilities to provide you the warnings of photo enforcement zones and other potential impediments to your inability drive 55. You can also share the radar alerts with the iRadar users.
The LG’s revolution is the only phone capable of streaming Netflix at the moment, but a enterprise hacker extracted a full system from the LG Revolution this week, make it happen into Android SPIN and subsequently pulled out Netflix juicy innards. The Apps APK is now freely available in the web now. Though it is not good enough, you can browse and add items to your queue. But if you try to play a video the app will informs that Could not reach the Netflix Service. So, the question is Netflix is just simply flip switch to it is waiting for DRM authentication from a Qualcomm MSM8655 Processor?
Google is likely to launch its own social networking site in May this year. According to the technology blog, the search engine giant will unveil Google Circles as its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, reports the Daily mail.
Samsung India Electronics now illuminates through the country with trio of smart phones Galaxy Ace, Fit and Pop. It is just sporting catchy titles, these Android 2.2 powered mobiles offers a boast of incorporating a superior multimedia features such as Active Sync, Social Hub, TouchWiz 3.0 and Quicktype by SWYPE.
The much touted Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 has been released and available for download and is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 with over 39 language support.Microsoft has unleashed Internet Explorer 9 at the South West Interactive (SXSWi) event in Austin, Texas. Corporate VP of Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, has explained the hardware acceleration of IE 9 in Windows 7 and Windows Vista platforms.
Yet another new milestone fron Samsung, testing the limits of convergence, Samsung has just released a Wi-Fi connected robotic vaccum cleaner. It includes an integrated TangoView home monitoring system onto the unsuspecting families and pets of Korea. Like LG’s Hom-Bot, first seen at January.Samsung latest Tango Cleaner (Model : VC-RL87W) features an integrated video camera that lets PC, Smart phone, Tablet users treat the vaccum cleaner as a remote controlled surveillance camera. When not sweeping the floors. The relatively quiet vaccum cleaner operators at 48dB and features a microphone and external lightning.
Adobe has published a security advisory in reponse to a critical security issue in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability affects the flash player for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Android, it also imapcts authplay.dll componet included in the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X. So the entire population of the internet are affected by this, So the warning was the vulnerability discovered may cause crashes and potentially permit hijacking of systems. This issue also affects the company’s Reader and Acrobat Software Products. The better news now is Adobe has found it’s being actvely exploited ‘in the wild’ through .swf file embedded in a Excel spreadsheet, but a fix hasn’t been found until the beginning of the next week.
The official announcement from T-Mobile shows that New Sidekick 4G with lightning speed and stylish communication Hub, delivers evolved messaging and entertainment. The relaunching of Sidekick in Android, they are also making the device very official today with the unveiling of Samsung-sourced sidekick 4G. Though it lacks a swiveling display, T-Mobile is quick to note that the phone is got a ‘pop-tilt’ mechanism that was pretty unique in the market. This is the first Sidekick with a touchscreen 3.5 inch WVGA, android 2.2, 1 GHz humming bird processor, 3MP camera, pretty good looking UI, comes with more Samsung staples Samsung Media Hub, Qik Video calling, DriveSmart texting while driving walk out functionality, Sidekick group text and cloud text forms some Cross-Platform Messaging tool. Pricing, availability and the release will be announced ‘later this spring’.
Many of us are making frantic calls to friends and families in Japan over the past few days witout regard to costs. Now, AT&T Ma. Bell is offering the customers wired and wireless billing relif for calls made on AT&T between March 11th and March 31st. Under this plan AT&T wireless postpaid users will not be charged for international long distance call or text messages to Japan from the US and Puerto Rico. Like this the residential wireline customers can get their credits for upto 60 minutes of direct calling to Japan.
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