Archive for August, 2011

protect-eyes Endless hours in front of the computer, tired eyes and heavy head. This is how most of us who work with computers for many hours every day feel. Sometimes we are so carried away by what we're doing, we tend to forget how precious our health is. You can always find a better job, but you will never find better eyes than those from the mother nature. That's why you should be careful with your vision and protect it as it should serve you for many years. I am sure that if you will do a simple Google search you will find thousands of results on how to protect your eyes or eyesight from the harm of a computer. I've been there, done that and I have garnered a lot of information, have tested many methods and now I am ready to share it with you.

Biggest Mistakes we Make

The eyes need to stay wet as it is essential for their condition. Our amazing human body has a simple process which helps us moisture our eyes. Yes, it is called blinking. But when we stare at some interesting articles on the web or...
There truly is something to look forward to in the next few months when it comes to the mobile industry. Rumor has it that the iPhone 5 will be released on September 5th (or 7th), along with its new mobile operating system, the iOS 5. However, developers at Apple do not have time to relax because Google is also about to launch the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. And this time, Apple should be really scared as Google has made an unexpected and huge move in the mobile market: the announced acquisition of Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion.

Market Statistics

According to a recent comScore report, the number of Android users in the United States has increased to 36.4 percent while iPhone’s share, has dropped to second place with just about 26 percent market share, almost as equal as the number of BlackBerry users. It has also been foreseen by a lot of tech analysts that the number of Android users might increase by the end of the year. A recent Nielsen survey also shows that Android users have more data usage than those people...
Social Media and online networking tools have taken the world by storm. People who are chained to their office desks round the clock are today in constant touch with family and friends via instant messaging, Facebook and Twitter. Communication has become so convenient today that is almost everywhere. People are more engaged, more connected and more literate (thanks to Wiki and Google) and certainly more interested in the world around. It has certainly revolutionized the speed of information transmission. With more and more people utilizing Smartphones and the internet to use these social media tools, one cannot dismiss its ubiquity and growth ever in this fast-changing society. You can do innumerable things apart from just being connected to family and friends. Business promotion, blogging, online marketing and what not! Social Media for Student Admissions You name it and it's there in the social media. It's only recently that I came to know about social media helping students to get into their favorite universities and colleges. This piece of information I got from one of my friends, aspiring to join his dream college from his childhood. No wonder, he is now going to the classes at the very same college....
google-motorola Breaking News! And it's literally "Breaking"! Google has just announced that they have acquired Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion, all in cash!

Google Eyes Motorola's Patent Portfolio

This is for sure a game changer in the mobile industry. No one really expected such a big news and this must be a serious WTF moment for Apple and Microsoft. In his announcement blog post, Larry Page, the new Google CEO clarifies that the acquisition is aimed at growing threats to Android ecosystem through innumerable lawsuits from Apple, Microsoft and others. Motorola boasts of a decent patent portfolio which is of a great value specially for someone like Google who had zilch in mobile & networking patent space. Acquisition of Motorola seems to be a direct take on Apple which enjoys the integrated software/hardware setup. For the uninitiated, Motorola invented the cell phone more than 30 years back and they inadvertently hold a lot of patents related to Cell phones. Now that Google will own all those patents, should really worry Apple and Microsoft!

$12.5 Billion is HUGE!

$12.5 Billion is a BIG money by any standards. But Google wouldn't mind it as we know that they had...

download-firefox-6

Yet again Mozilla has managed to leak the code of their latest version of Firefox browser! Firefox 6 has been leaked on the web and is available for download right away! Though the official release of the latest version of Firefox was supposed to happen tomorrow (Aug 16th 2011), the Register reports that the Mozilla's FTP server has the downloadable for Windows, Linux & Mac, since August 13th. Mozilla has adapted the fast release cycles which has proved successful for Google's Chrome. Firefox 5 was released just a couple of months back and we already have information about Firefox 7 which is due later this year. Firefox 6 doesn't big any big changes to the UI, but promises a 20% improvement in speed. The fast iterations would mean lesser changes and hence seamless experience doe the users.

Download Firefox 6

If you are the impatient types who don't wish to wait for the official announcement, go ahead and download Firefox 6 Final version right away from the Mozilla FTP server. Direct downloadable links are given below. Download Firefox 6 for Windows Download Firefox 6 for Linux Download Firefox 6 for Mac The post will be updated as...
Consumer Electronics have continued to amaze people around the world with its innovative creations and High-end Technology. South Korean brand Samsung is one company which is making no compromises on the quality with which it delivers its products. The company has made its journey beginning with the communication industry (Cell phones, Smartphones, Tablets) and from there on to the Entertainment sector (LCD/LED Television Sets). And now, it has come straight to the humble household kitchen with its high-end technology through its latest smart refrigerators. When I say smart, it literally is SMART. How often have you heard of refrigerators that are Wi-Fi enabled? Never? Well, Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of such a product in US (soon to be launched all around the globe) which helps you tweet, forecasts the weather, lets you surf recipes and has much more on board to offer. Samsung's coolest of its refrigerator collection, Futuristic RF4289, is a breakthrough product with many unique features in the unit one can ever think of in a refrigerator. Samsung is aiming to create a new trend with the release of RF4289. It's astonishing features include Wi-Fi connectivity on the home network, an 8-inch LCD touch screen embedded on...
As we mentioned last night, Google Plus Games is enabled only for a select few users and will be rolled out to everyone in the next few days. Earlier today, when I stumbled across a tweet from @mahafreed asking "Look who I caught playing games on Google Plus", I had no clue who that could be! Well, see it for yourself! zuckerberg-google Mark Zuckerberg might not have a single status update made on Google+ (at least not publicly), but that hasn't stopped him to be the most followed user on this brand new social network. Mark was one of the first guys to open a Google+ account and many of us weren't sure if it was indeed him. He later confirmed that himself and he even wondered why everyone is so surprised to see his profile on his No.1 competitor site. Now we see him playing games on Google+. May be he will again wonder why it's a big thing. But it really is a big thing. According to some recent reports, people spend most of their time playing games on Facebook. Games like Farmville, Fishville etc have seen a tremendous success...
google-plus-games Let's be honest, Google+ is becoming more and more appealing and we don't know the exact reason for that. Should it be the simplicity that Google use to wrap its product around or we're just sick of Facebook? We have so many products from Google and yet we don't refuse none of them. Google+ is the latest cake that Larry Page & Co are trying to put on our plates. One thing that is great about Facebook is their games. By great I mean that it is well crafted as a product, not necessarily as an improvement to our society, since we all know how much money is lost because of the online games. A good example for that is the Les Paul Google Doodle which was estimated to have caused losses of more than $268 M. However, this can be viewed as a coefficient of how many people use Google and how profitable online gaming could prove to be. And another thing that Facebook is good at is represented by their partners and ability to make wise and profitable affiliations. Zynga is probably their biggest partner when it...
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