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Twitter the micro blogging service has added a new feature which is called as "Suggestions for You" from Friday. Suggestions for You helps the users to find other Twitter accounts that falls into their friends circle or the accounts that they might find it very interesting. Definitely at least a dozen of accounts will reflect your interest among a hundred million users on Twitter. The real problem will be is finding all of them but this features definitely gonna help us all.

The algorithms used for the "Suggestions for You" in finding other Twitter accounts of potential interest is based on various factors which includes the people they follow and also the people you follow. A list which contains all the suggested Twitter accounts to follow are displayed when a Twitter user clicks on the "Who to Follow" link which appears on the Twitter homepage. Twitter has also planned to make this new feature available to the developers of desktops and smartphone applications for Twitter.

A similar kinda feature has already been implemented in the famous social network site called "Facebook" is called "People You May Know" where it suggests possible new friends to members.

A year ago, Samsung unveiled its first solar powered mobile phone. Now, Vodafone has announced its solar powered mobile phone.

In India, around 20 million mobile phone subscribers are being added every month. Among those majority are from rural areas where the electricity supply is a big problem. About 1/3rd of Indians do not have receive electricity, but they do get plenty of sun. Keeping this in mind, Vodafone Essar Ltd. has now come up with its latest mobile phone which makes use of solar energy in India to better serve the nation's energy-starved rural masses.

This latest gadget is been called as VF 247 Solar Powered Phone and is expected to be available in market from next month i.e, from the month of August. The cost of the is Solar Powered mobile phone is 1,500 rupees which is almost equal to $32. To charge VF 247 fully, it needs to be in contact with direct sunlight for 8 hours. This charge stays up to 8 days on standby and gives 4 hours of talk-time. This latest gadget has an FM radio and a powerful torch light and comes with an electronic charger.

Nokia Corp. recently announced its latest smartphone which has been named as Nokia X5-01. This latest smartphone has a display screen of 2.36-inches with a resolution of 320x240 QVGA. It's a QWERTY keyboard gadget which comes with a 4 directional navigation buttons in the keyboard. This mobile phone is mainly targeted become a popular gadget among teens who love social networking like Facebook, Linkedln, Orkut etc., and also can access videos and listen to music directly from the web.

If you take a look at the snapshot of Nokia X5-01 which has been displayed above looks big but in actual the dimension of this smartphone is just 74.3 x 66.44 x 16.85 mm which makes the gadget to be very compact and handy. As of now no information on the price of Nokia X5-01 or the availability has been revealed.

Apple said that its latest model of iPhone will become available in more than a dozen additional countries starting this Friday. Apple Inc. has already sold more than 3 million iPhone 4 smartphones since its launch which was a month ago. Earlier iPhone 4 was available only in US, Britain, France, Germany and Japan. In US the cost of this smartphone is $199 for 16GB model and $299 for 32GB model.

From 30th of July, iPhone 4 will be available for sale in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The issue on wrong indication of Signal strength in the iPhone 4 is being corrected by providing bumpers which were made available through an application that can be downloaded to iPhones from Cupertino. Also the bumper which fits around the sides of the iPhone will be available for free to all the buyers of iPhone 4 smartphones through the end of September.

A week back, i was browsing through a site where i found an very interesting article. After reading the content i felt that it would be great if i share it with others as well. I have given my best in the process of explaining it through this post.

This article was based on the Nokia corp's latest mobile concept which is called as Nokia Kinetic. Jeremy Innes-Hopkins is the creative designer for this Nokia Kinetic concept.

Nokia Kinetic concept is that whenever a mobile phone receives a call or a SMS, an electromagnetic force will be created at the base of the mobile phone so that the entire weight is made to fall on to that spot making the device to stand up. If the user is not interested in picking up the call, he can just give a gentle tap to the cell phone which will make the gadget to fall down. The device will them resume its standby mode.

But as of now there's no confirmations regarding the Nokia Kinetic concept design to become true. But this concept looked pretty cool for me. So i wished to share it with all of u. Doesn't this concept look cool?

India has come up with its latest gadget which costs only $35 and is aimed to be used right from Elementary schools to the Universities. It is an touch screen laptop which has been developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Science (IISC). The main focus for introducing this gadget is to bring a better education and also to improve the technical skills which will boost the growth of Indian economy.

Linux based computing gadget will be introduced in the next year where the first users will be the university students. There will be internet connection given to these devices in all 22,000 colleges which will be available to the students for just 1,500 rupees ($35).

This latest tablet can also be run using solar power. It has web browsing and video conferencing capabilities along with media player and other features. The cost incurred to develop this device was $35 and government may subsidise 50% of the price for the students. This initiative is mainly taken in order to improve the educational system in India where the literacy rate is just 63% when compared to China which has 94% and other developing countries.

On Thursday, Nokia corp. announced its Q2 results. The net profit in the the second quarter was 40% less when compared to its last years Q2 profit. Q2 profit was Euro 227 million i.e, is around $290 million. But Nokia corp has said that the market share in the smartphone sector remained at 41% which has not chamfed from the previous year.

Even though Apple inc. is giving a strong competition against Nokia, Nokia corp still holds the record of 24 million smartphones which has been sold globally. Still Nokia remains the global leader in the mobile market as it has sold 432 million devices which doesnt tally even if we combine the smartphones sold by its 3 closest rivals.

The reason behind the profit fall is due to less sales in North America which dropped by 19% and also due to the European financial crisis which resulted in lesser currency conversion. Currently, Nokia Corp owns 1,29,000 employees world-wide.

Earlier in May, ASUS announced that they will be producing two ASUS Eee Pad tablets. One Eee Pad will be of 12-inch tablet which will be running on Windows 7 Operating System and other one will be of 10-inch tablet which will be running on Windows Embedded Compact 7 Operating System. Now it seems that ASUS will be using Google's Android Operating System for its smaller Eee Pad tablet instead of Windows Embedded Compact 7 Operating System.

Google's Android Operating System is becoming popular day by day among the smartphones which makes sense for ASUS to adopt this Operating System for its Eee Pad tablet.

In Computex 2010 which held at Taipei in June, Eee Pad EP101TC tablet was demonstrated. At that point of time this tablet was running on Windows Embedded Compact 7 Operating System. Actually, ASUS had a good tie up with Microsoft for a long time, but in Feb, ASUS announced its Android based Nuvifone A50, which was developed with the partnership of Garmin.

Along with ASUS many others are dumping Windows. Lenovo, Dell, Cisco's Cius will be using Android for its tablets. HP will be using WebOS which is also called as dubbed Palm for its own tablets.

Yesterday, Yahoo announced its Q2 results. In the Second Quarter, Yahoo's earnings has climbed up to 51%. This was achieved by cost cutting methods which helped to produce dramatic revenue gains. The problems faced by Yahoo is similar to that of other companies which is been recovering from Great Recession.

Yahoo also faced problems similar to Google, most of the payments were done in Euros. Due to European financial crisis, currency rates resulted in fewer dollar conversion. Otherwise Yahoo would have done fairly well. It earned $213 million in Q2 which ended in June which  represented a 51% increase from net income of $141 million at the same time last year. After deducting the commissions which was paid to its ad-partners, its revenue was summed t o $1.13 billion which came $30 million lower than the estimates made by analyst.

Now Yahoo has predicted its Q3 revenue which would either remain unchanged from last year or it might increase by 4%.

Hi friends today i have come up with a latest gadget which is a wireless mouse for your laptops or notebooks. This wireless mouse is been called as Swiftpoint Mouse. It is a super tiny gadget and looks super cool.

We should hold this wireless mouse just like pen and as usual, it has a left button, right button along with the scroll wheel in it. This gadget has a 1000 dpi sensor in it which helps in proper navigation. Swiftpoint Mouse can last for an hour with just a 30 seconds of charging. It is been said that this latest gadget when charged for 1.5 hours at its full can last for 2-4 weeks and will be indicated by a LED battery.

Swiftpoint Mouse is expected to be launched into the markets in the mid of August. Now, this latest wireless mouse is available for pre-order with a price of $70.

Google on Thursday announced its Q2 result. Google's earnings in this quarter has gone up by 24%, but it did not reach the mark as targeted. The reason behind for not reaching the targeted revenue for this quarter is due to the financial crisis in Europe. The companies 1/3rd revenue comes from Europe and the payments are being made in Euros. The Euro conversion to USD has gone down which has resulted in lower revenues.

In the end of Q2, Google added nearly 1200 employees to their strength thereby increasing the total strength of employees by 21,800. Even though there were rising expenses, financial crisis and currency squeeze, Google has mad a notable profit. Before the announcement of Google's Q2 result, its share was at $494.02 but after the announcement, its share fell by 4% which was around $19.82 fall in its share.

Now Google is planning to borrow up to $3 billion even though its having $20 billion in cash. This will be the first time that Google is going to have a debt in its 6 years as a public company.

The average click per ad price has increased by 4% from the last year but the growth has become slower from past 2 quarters.

Apple, 3 weeks back launched its latest model of iPhone. In the first 3 days, it sold 1.7 million iPhones which outsold its previous version of iPhone. Soon after its release, even some issues raised.

In my earlier post i had written about the issue of antenna which is seen in Apple's latest iPhone. After hearing a number of complaints from the customers, finally, Apple Inc. has arranged a press conference which will be held on Friday. Apple Inc. will be discussing about their latest iPhone based on the complaints received regarding its antenna.
 
After a careful testing on the Apple's latest model of iPhone, Consumer Reports has concluded that when the iPhone is held in a certain way, the signal bar displayed is incorrect. Earlier Apple had told that they were using incorrect formula to indicate the signal strength and this can also be seen on other phones as well. But, Consumer Products did not find any signal problem in other phones. The signal problem occured only in latest iPhone model.

Consumer Products also have said that, covering the black spot with a case or a duct tape will eliminate the Signal problem. Now the speculations is that, Apple should provide "Bumper" case to the iPhone buyers which costs $29.

On Tuesday, Microsoft added Facebook, the most popular social networking site to their Outlook. The users can view their friends status updates, profile, pictures and so on by using Outlook itself. They have implemented a box called the "People Pane" in the Outlook where the users view their friends profile pics and their activities.

Earlier in February, Microsoft had integrated other two social networks. They were "Linkedln" and "MySpace", which was called "Outlook Social Connector". Microsoft is expecting more partners to be added down the line.

Outlook Social Connector can be downloaded for Outlook 2003 and 2007 from the Microsoft Download Center. The users who are using Outlook 2010 can download it through Microsoft update itself.

India's biggest software giant Infosys announced its first quarterly results for this financial year on Tuesday. There was an 2.4% fall in the net profit. This was due to the financial crisis in European countries which the major reason for this 2.4% fall.
A year earlier, Infosys had made a profit of 15.25 Billion rupees in the first quarter but this year in the first quarter it just made a net profit of 14.88 Billion rupees which is around $316 million.

Infosys has said in a statement the the revenues from US and other new markets had improved but there was an decline in the European markets. After the announcement of their quarterly results, Infosys share went down by 3.25% i.e, 94 rupees in the early afternoon trade. But Mumbai's sensex went up by 0.27%.

In the last quarter, Infosys has added 38 new clients and an addition of 1026 employees which resulted in the total employee strength of 1,15000. Infosys also said that they had planned to hire 36,000 more employees this year.

Google recently announced that it will be releasing its new android app inventor software. This software development program let's the users to create their own android application for their smartphones. To create your own android app you do not require your programming skills. No scripting or programming skills are required create your own android app. This software lets you to use blocks that are seen from the front end in which your app looks. These blocks represent different app behaviors, all you have to do is to use correct blocks for your own apps which you have planned to build. You can place buttons, blocks or colors you want in your app all by just a click away.

The best part is that Google's android app inventor provides access to GPS location sensor. Using this facility the users can create their own app wherein they determine where they are or where their car is been parked and so on. Google project leader Harold Abelson said that they wanted the users to become the creators not just the consumers. This application was tested successfully by 6th grade students, women, nursing students and many more and none were from computer science background.

India on 12th July 2010 successfully launched its PSLV-C15 rocket into the space. PSLV-C15 carries a payload of 5 satellites. Three months ago, country's space ambitions suffered a setback when a rocket crashed into Bay of Bengal due to some component failure. This rocket was the first Indian made cryogenic powered rocket. India's credibility boosted in September 2009 when data collected from moon mission showed the presence of water in moon.

PSLV-C15 was launched from Sriharikota(which is about 50 miles from Chennai) under perfect weather conditions. The rocket included an advanced remote sensing satellite which was called as Cartosat-2B, a satellite belonged to Algeria, other 3 smaller experimenting devices which belongs to India, Switzerland & China were also released in this launch.

Now India is aiming to launch its first manned space mission in the year 2016 which will definitely grab a large share for launching commercial satellites in this multi-billion dollar market.

Recently Motorola and T-Mobile announced their latest Motorola Android 2.1 mobile handset which is called as CHARM. As of now, the release date or the cost of their latest gadget has not been revealed.

The features of CHARM is, it runs on Android 2.1 operating system with Motoblur & Flash Lite browsing, it has got an TFT display of 2.8-inch with Gorilla Glass and it's a touchscreen, it has an in-built camera of 3MP with digital zoom, has got proximity, accelerometer & ambient light sensors.

Apart from these main features, additional features include Bluetooth 2.0 plus ERD, GPS and Wi-Fi connectivity, this mobile has got an storage capacity of up to 32GB from micro-SD card and has the capability to plan & capture video at 24fps(frames per second). The playback codecs which this gadget supports is AAC, AAC+, ACC+ Enhanced, MPEG-4, WMA9, H.264, MP3, WMV v9, AMR NB. It has the supportability for Exchange, Gmail, IMAP & POP email.
While coming to the size of CHARM, it has a dimension of 67.2x98.4x11.4mm and the weight of the gadget is 110 grams.

Hello friends, today i have some interesting news for you. Its all about Mouseless - an invisible mouse. Computer users will be using the mouse as usual to interact with the system but in actual there will be no mouse hardware. Hence the researchers have named it as the "invisible mouse".

Some scientists who were working with the Fluid Interfaces Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge Massachusetts, were very much interested in creating an invisible mouse where there will be no mouse connected physically. They wanted their new creation to interact with the system as hardware mouse do.

The basic requirement for this invisible mouse are an infra-red laser beam & a camera. This both devices are connected to the CPU. User will place his hand as if he was using an physical mouse, when there is change in the hand or finger movement, bright spots will be shown up. This will be interpreted by the inbuilt camera which will translate the movement or the clicks. The cursor which will be seen on the screen will act accordingly as if an real hardware mouse did it. There are no plans to commercialise this latest invention. The scientists spent $20 to build this mouse.

Acer has recently announced its latest gadget which will be on markets in near future. Its an Netbook which is been called as Acer Aspire One D255.

The configuration of this latest gadget are, it has an 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 processor and the specialty of this processor is its hyper threading capability in which the Operating System will notify that you are using 4 processors. Apart from this main feature, Aspire One D255 has a 10.1" LED Backlit display screen of 1024x699 pixels resolution, 250GB Hard Disk Drive, 1GB DDR2 memory and an integrated graphics card which is manufactured by Intel (Intel GMA 31509), has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, gives an longer backup because of 6 cell battery.

Other than these information, Acer did not reveal about when it will be available in the markets for sale and no information was given on the price of their latest gadget.

Yesterday, electronics giant Sony displayed their upgraded version of playstation3. This new playstation3 has a storage space of 160GB and is expected to be on sale from the end of July which will have a new white version on offer.
Their previous PlayStations were supporting only toggle buttons, but now this gaming device lets the gamers to control the play with swings, jabs & other natural movements. Actually, they have upgraded their PlayStation because their rival Microsoft are using their Kinet technology to their gaming console Xbox 360 which will use a 3D camera and gesture recognizing software which will help the gamers to use their body movements while playing the games.

The company has told that the price for their newer version of PlayStation will be the same at which they used to offer it for 120GB console. Later it also said that they will be introducing a 320GB model. Both the models will be available only in Japan from 29th of July 2010, later they will be revealing their worldwide release.

Coming to the cost of this gadget, 160GB model costs 29,980 yen which comes closer to $341 and 320GB will cost 34,980 yen which is around $398.

The image which is displayed above is an electrical car which has got Intel applications installed in it which was displayed on Intel Research Day in Mountain View, California.

This vehicle have many features like recording the speed of the vehicle, braking, steering and has ability to record video footage from inside and outside the car. After recording the video, the information will be sent to the police and insurance company when an accident occurs. This will make insurance companies to determine the cause of accident and the fault very easily. Intel is talking to various car manufacturing companies regarding the design of the cars such that they would be connected to the Internet always using various Wireless technologies.

Along with the balck box technology, various safety features will be included such as, on-board camera system to recognize the street signs, sensors which will monitor the road conditions and if any pot holes appear in the road, then a report regarding the location will be sent to the road maintenance establishment. Along with these features, some other features will also be added into it.

Insurance companies are seems to be very happy about this latest technology which will definitely help them to speed up the claiming process and help insurers to get the money reimbursed in quick time.

According to the sources, Google is set to release its Android 3.0 which will have have lots of User-Interface with a lot of animations in it. The minimum recommended requirements for its new OS version would be a 1Giga-Hertz processor, a RAM of 512MB, 3.5" display screen. Also a new resolution of 1280x760 pixels will be available for the Android tablet pc's which has a display of 4" or higher than that.

This latest version of the Operating System from Google is mainly built for their Android tablets where Google and Verizon will be teaming up to build those tablets. They have also completely revamped the User-Interface so that it could completely eliminate the need of third party interface shells like MotoBlur, HTC Sense and so on. 

Along with their latest version of Android Operating System, Google is also planning to launch their Music service with Android 3.0 headsets. Now there gonna be a real competition with their rivals Apple and its iTunes music service. Google will also be upgrading their Google TV with Android 3.0 which helps to stream the music well. Definitely Google will make a huge revenue from their latest launch. This launch is would be in the Q4 which will be in the mid of October.

The Walt Disney Co. acquired Tapulous on 1st of July 2010. Dinsey also owns Pixar Animation Studios which is been based at Emeryville.

In the picture, we can see the screen shot which was released by Tapulous which shows its latest and new finger-tapping music application for iPhone. This application is been called as "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica." Tapulous already has 30 million users where they use their popular games like Tap Tap Revenge on Apple platforms. Artists such as Metallica, Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are been added in various versions of Tap Tap Revenge.

Disney has said that Tapulous Inc.'s small staff will remain at the company's headquarters which is located at Palo Alto. This small staff is in the high-tech developer community across San Franscisco which will be very much beneficial for them. Furthermore, Disney did not disclose the terms of acquisition. Disney earlier had seen some success on its own mobile applications such as Alice in Wonderland Lite and JellyCar2 which has recorded more than a million download. Now, Disney have also launched their latest iPad application which will help the users to explore and buy their latest and classic movies.

On Friday, Apple Inc. was totally stunned to find out that these many years they were using a wrong formula to indicated the signal strength in the form of bars on iPhones.

After the release of their latest gadget iPhone 4 on 24th June across US and other 4 countries, Apple heard  lots of people worldwide complaining that this latest model shows a sudden plunge in signal strength when users grip the iPhone at the small black strip which present at the edge of the phone. Many users have called this point as "the death grip" for the mobile phone. In the first three days after the release of iPhone 4, Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s.

Apple has concluded that, in actual the high bars which are in the first place are never real and hence users see some wrong display of 4 or 5 bars of the signal strength when it shouldn't like that. In actual, it was because of wrong formula which was implemented on the iPhone to indicate the signal strength. Moreover, this formula was implemented when original iPhone was launched in 2007 and right from there, this formula exists.

Now, Apple has said that this problem will be fixed within few weeks & a freeware will be released for the iPhone 3G, 3Gs and 4 models. Also they have planned to make the bars little taller so that the visibility will be more clear to the users and even this will be included in this freeware.

On Wednesday, Google announced its new tool that helps the readers to specify what kinda stories they are interested in reading. This tool will be available in the English language version. This tools helps the readers to highlight the topics which they have mentioned through Google. Say suppose we want topics on entertainment, sports, finance, stock, computer, gadgets etc., this tool highlights the specific topics which was fed by the users or the readers. Even the readers can have an advanced search which can be more specific. The news section shows in the format of summaries automatically which is well customized till the user is logged in. Apart from this, readers or the users have the option of excluding newspapers, broadcaster and blogs which they don't wish to visit.

On the left side of this tool, highlights on the latest news which has gained lot of media attraction will be displayed. On the right side, local weather, information on the reader which includes: the location, IP address, Zip code will be displayed. One more tool helps in sharing the stories in Facebook, Twitter and Buzz. There are so many keyboard shortcuts been introduced in this new tool which helps in quicker navigation.