October 2010

 

Not on Facebook? Facebook still knows you

If you hate the idea of social networking and have never been on Facebook, then Facebook knows nothing about you. Correct? So how come when you set up a profile on the social network for the first time, it can suggest friends for you?
That was what someone who contacted me over the weekend wanted to know.Read more..

 

Sony TVs is the first to incorporate Google TV

 

Sony LCDs build in Google TV, cost $599 and up

Sony NSX-GT1 series of TVs is the first to incorporate Google TV.

Today Sony announced full details on its NSX-GT1 line of LCD TVs and its NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray player, the first products of their kind equipped with the Google TV service.
The TVs range in size from 24-46 inches, in estimated selling price from $599 to $1,399, and will ship starting October 16 (preorders available now at Sonystyle.com and Best Buy.com). The Blu-ray player is available at the same time for $399. Read more..

 

 

New Robot car

 

How Google's new robot car: Crazy good or crazy crazy?

There is something charming about engineers who decide they will alter the world. Just because they can.
So Google's announcement that it has already been testing cars that drive themselves should be met by warm feelings in many of one's more imaginative nerve-endings.
As I grasp this vastly ambitious project, Google is intending that these cars, manned as they are by vast arrays of excellent soft- and hardware, will avoid crashes and allow for fuel savings and more cars on the road (as, deductive reasoning goes, there will be no crashes). They will also allow drivers to get drunk to skunk levels, given that no self-respecting Google car would actually let the drivers take the wheel, even when they're sober.Read more..

 

Two million US PCs recruited to botnets

The US leads the world in numbers of Windows PCs that are part of botnets, reveals a report.
More than 2.2 million US PCs were found to be part of botnets, networks of hijacked home computers, in the first six months of 2010, it said. Read more..

 

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7

Techies have a new choice on the smart phone market. Monday, Microsoft announced the launch of the Windows Phone 7.
"Microsoft and its partners are delivering a different kind of mobile phone and experience — one that makes everyday tasks faster by getting more done in fewer steps and providing timely information in a ‘glance and go' format," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballamer said.
Large tile displays and clustered functions and content are just part of what Microsoft hopes will separate their offering from the competition. iPhone and Android have grabbed increasingly larger shares of the market in recent months.
The company says the phone will be available for purchase this holiday season at AT&T and T-Mobile USA stores, as well as on Amazon.com.

 

 

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta for Android, Maemo

Mozilla on Thursday released a Firefox 4 beta for Android and Maemo devices, a release that includes features like pinch-to-zoom, the Awesome Screen, and synching.
Pinch-to-zoom is now supported on multi-touch devices, Mozilla said. The beta also add access to Firefox Sync and the Awesome Screen.
Sync provides seamless activity between the Web browsing and mobile experiences; make a change on the mobile Firefox and it will automatically appear on the desktop version as well. That applies to browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, form-fill data, and open tabs across devices. The Awesome Screen, meanwhile, gives instant access to recent history, bookmarks, and tabs by tapping the Awesome Bar.

Under the hood, Mozilla said it made two big architecture changes. The alpha release included Electrolysis, which allowed the browser to run in a separate process from the one that rendered Web content - thereby producing a more responsive browser. This beta release now adds something called Layers, which Mozilla said improves overall performance and graphics areas such as scrolling, zooming and animations

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