Microsoft Corp is cooler than you might think.
A Reutes/Ipsos poll found that just under half of 853 responds between age of 18 and 29 thought Microsoft is now cooler than it was a year or two ago.
The software maker, often derided in Silicon Valley for failing to dream up products that captivate a new generation of social media and mobile savvy consumers ,managed to pip Facebook Inc .In the survey only 42 percent of young adults thought the world's largest network is cooler now than in the past.Twitter scored 47 percent,below Microsoft 's 50 percent.
Part of Microsoft's lift appears to stem from a well-coordinated bitz around it all-new Surface tablets, which have revamped the familiar Windows interface with tile-based,mobile app-friendly look and feel. Its Xbox gaming console and "Kinect" Accessories ,which has in past year also burnished its image around younger consumers.
Apple Inc ,despite falling of favour with many Wall Street investors ,still scored well in the Reuters/Ipsos poll,the first in series that aims to measure brand perception and usage over time for major consumer tech brands.
Microsoft dominates the personal computing area and is still far larger than most other tech corporation on the planet.The survey "definietly shows that Microsoft's efforts are paying off" said Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg.
Digital data generated by india last year, which if stored in Apple's iPhone 5 with 32GB space , will equal over 5,100 stacks of the device, as tall as Mount Everest, a study by EMC-IDC said Wednesday.
"India's digital information in 2012 would equal to more than 5,100 stacks of iPhone 5 device that are as tall as the Sub continents famed Mt Everest " an EMC-sponsered IDC digital universe study said.
The world's tallest peak , Mount Everest stands at 8,848 meters.
India's share of digital information is expected to grow 23-fold between 2012-2020, driven by continued growth of internet usage,social networks, and smartphones among consumers,falling cost of technology,digitisation among others, study said.
"The digital bits captured or created each year in India are expected to grow from 127 EB(exabytes) to 2.9 ZB(zettabyte) between 2012 and 2020" it added.
One EB has 18 zeroez after 1 and ZB has 21 zereos . However , less than half apercent of all digital information is analysed today while 36 percent would provide valuable insights ,it said.
"India's digital transformation is happening at rapid pace exposing gaps in technology invesments that exists in enterprises today.Less than half percent of digital information is analysed today, business and government need to recognise this and invest in understanding and tapping it" EMC India and SAARC President Rajesh Janey said.
The study said that india's digital universe is growing much faster than available storage . "while in 2012 only 1 exabyte of storage capacity was available for every 3.4 exabyte of data. By 2020 data is expected to grow almost thrice to 9.4 exabyte of available storage" it said
it also higlighted that cloud adoption is growing fast and by 2020, 42 percent of digital information will be "touched " by the cloud.
Sony wants you to know that Playstation 4 is comming this holiday season , but not what it will look like.
The japanese electronics giant talked its upcoming console for the first-time wednsday and Presenters played games that were projected on screen in a converted opera house, but the playstation themselves were hidden backstage.
"i don't know that the box is going to be somthing that's going to have dramatic impact on people's felling about games. It will be a color and size fairly comparable to previous consoles " said Jack Tretton , CEO of sony Computer Entertainment of America, the U.S based arm of Playstation Business.
The PS4 will be josting for attention this holiday season with Microsoft's sucessor to the Xbox. Deatils on that device are expected in June . Xbox 360 came out a year before PS3 and has been more popular, largely because of its robust online service, Xbox live, which allow people to paly games with others online.
Sony did reveal that the inside of PS4 will essentially be a "supercharged PC" much like an Xbox. That's a big departure from the old and idiosyncratic design and should make it easier for developers to crearte games.
The PS4 is arriving aimd declines in vieo game hardware, software and necessary sales. research frim NDP Group said game sales fell 22 percent to $13.3 billon in 2012. with the launch of PS4, sony is looking to attract people who may have shifted their attention to games on facebook, tablet computers and smartphones.
One word in a particular language might mean an entirely different name in another , and i do wonder whether Genius of Taiwan did their research before they decided to christen their latest 12-button professional gaming mouse as the flagship model for the GX Gaming Series as the Genius Gila . Basically , "Gila " means crazy, insane , or mad in the context of Malay language .
The Genius Gila is a 2013 CES Innovations Award Honoree , and it is headed to the North American market , althhough i am quite sure that if you were to live outside north america a you will have to import one .
Features on Genius Gila include on-the-fly DPi changes , weight that cater to different people for the "feel" of the mouse , adjustable levels for the LED brightness , pulsation and color , in addition to programing your own macros for personalysed playing style.
FPS gamers will find the Gilla Sniper Mode to be ideal as it slows down mouse movements to a dpi of your choise as long as you hold down the assigned button..These mouse are available at just $99.99
Samsung Electronics said Monday that global sales of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone had topped 100 million since the first model debuted in 2010, cementing its dominant position over US rival Apple.
The original Galaxy S phone , launched in june 2010, sold 25 million units , the south korean electronics giant said in a statement
The Galaxy S II , launched i April 2011 , cracked up the sales of more than 40 million , and the S III has reached the same volume since on the market in May last year.
For Samsung 2012 was a watershed year that saw it take a giant bit out of Apple as it carved out a dominat position in the global mobile computing market.
Samsung saw its shares of the lucrative smartphone market surge to 31.3 percent in the third quarter of 2012 , up from just 3.3 percent in late 2009.
It extended it lead over Apple as top maker of smartphones worldwide, according to research firm IHS iSuppli , which gave Samsung 28 percent of market in 2012 , up from 20 percent the previous year.
Apple shares rose to 20 percent from 2012 from 19 percent , IHS said.
The two tech giants have been embroiled in a long -running patent battle with accusing the other for stealing designs and technology.
Now courtesy viatnamese site SECafe, the Xperia blog reports more design details of the Xperia X aka Sony C650X Odin. Citing a 'reliable Source' , the blog mention that they're not very different from the Xperia Z. But it is exected to be a dual - SIM version and thicker as well as hevier than Xperia Z. It will also comes with a different design on the back- a 'rough' texture with stripes similar to those seen on Xperia E Dual.
Further , the Xperia X should comes with a front facing camera locted in the bottom of the scxreen and not the top as seen in almost all smartphones. Even if the company is experimenting with this feature, It might be a bit weird to get used to the camera .
Additionally , a small cover on the back of the smartphone will be removable , and housed beneath will be two SIM card slot , allowing for hot-swaping and one microSD slot. The Xperia X apparently Won't be water and dust proof like Xperia Z.
While this information is restricted to a prototype of the device , there's a possiblity that many changes may not take effect. Sony is most likely to unveil both the Yuag and Odin during CES next month , so we'll know all the officila details for sure. Watch this space for more rumours on the Xperia Z for and Xperia X aas an when the crop up.
The bigger the better seems to be the new mantra of mobile phone makers. Smasung streched the mobile screen to 5.3-inch with the introduction of its Galaxy Note I Device and 5.5-inch with the Galaxy Note II. Now , the company seems to be aiming even higher.
If reports in korea Times are to be belived , Samsung has already started working on Galaxy Note III, which is said to have 6.3-inch screen.
"The world's biggest technology company has been develouping the Galaxy Note III with a 6.3-inch screen using an OLED display, according to officails afrom a local parts supplier, while the company will start the first commersial scale of the 55 inch OLED TV's from last year ".
the repot also mentions that in 2013, samsung will be cutting down its investment in the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) units and concentrating more on organic ligth-emitting diode (OLED) and plastic-based flexible displays.
According to the grapevine,samsung is expected to unveil Galaxy S IV smartphone early next year, perhaps at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013. Samsung Galaxy s IV is rumored to have a 4.99-inch Super AMOLED full-HD display.
Intel launched a data-center chip using low-power technology found in smartphones , stepping up competition in the nascent microserver market and winning a nod from Facebook.
The Atom chip rolled out on tuesday uses much less electricty than Intel's previous processors for servers and comes as Intel's rivals also eye the low-power server niche.
Energy-sipping chips similar to those used in smartphones and tablets lack the horsepower of traditional server processor made by intel. But data centers that combine many low-power chips instead of just a few heavy-duty processors may provide more computing power for less money, and use less electricity.
Microservers have yet to gain serious traction with traditional corporate customers like banks and manufactures , and the potential size of the market remains unclear.
But Internet giants like Facebook, Amazon.com and Google have been experimenting with ways to use low-power chips to make their data centre more efficient.
At an intel event launching the Atom chips, a facebook infrastructure executive said the social network has found that low-power chips excel at processoing the 4.5 billion updates, likes post and comments its 1 billion active users add to the site every day.
Intel dominates the PC and severs markets, but was slow to design chips for mobile market, where chips using technology from ARM holdings have become ubiquitous.
In October, ARM unvelied new chip designs aimed at microservers. ARM belives servers using low power chips based on its design could account of data centers by 2020.
Diane Bryant, in charge of intel's data center business, declined to say how large Intel belives the microservers market could become . She said the Atom chips have been chosen over 20 upcoming products focused on microservers, storage and communications.
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Nokia has quietly announced the first real "budget" Windows Phone 8 Smartphone . Dubbed as the Nokia Lumina 620, it spots 3.8-inch screen with ClearBlack WVGA display. There is a 5-MP rear camera and a VGA front camera on board. It is powered by 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor with 512MB of RAM and 8GB internal storage (expandable by 64GB ).
According to Nokia , the Nokia Lumina 620 helps in adding more youthful appeal to exisiting Windows Phone 8 range . The unsubsidised version of this smartphone will be available in market for $249 and will atart retailing some time in Q1 2013.
Nokia is betting big on Nokia Lumina 620's Dual Shot technique which helps in creating new colours and textures for this smartphone . So what this ' Dual Shot ' actually does is cast two layer of polycarbonate , asingle base layer and a second colour blends. For example,yellow and cyan are compined to produce a lime green colour.
As Nokia Lumina 620 is a Windows Phone 8 device it will have Tiles for updates direct to the start screen, peoplehub and a Me Tile along with other windows Phone 8 functions.
Currently Nokia is Offering Lumina 920 and Lumian 820 in Windows Phone 8 lineup. It had first showcased both these smartphones at a gala event in september 2012.
Nokia Lumian 920 comes with 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display, wireless charging support and 2000mAh battery. It comes with the 8.7 -megapixel camera with Nokia's famed PureView technology. Othe feature of the SmartPhone include 1Gb of RAM , 32GB internal storage, 1.2 MP front camera, and a Micro-USb port.
As of now Nokia Lumian 920 and Lumina 820 are not available in India but expected to be launched sometimes in december 2012.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Display : 3.8-insh TFT WVGA 800 x 480 clearblack
- Memory : 512 MB RAM, 8GB internal (expandable up to 64GB)
- Camera : 5MP autofocus ,LEd Flash camera, VGA front camera
- Processor : 1GHz Dual Core Snapdragon S4
- Dimension : 115.4 x 61.1 x 11.02 mm
- Operating System: Windows Phone 8
Prominent Samasung - related blog SamMobile has the latest on Samsung Galaxy S 4 rumors. According to the Blog the next generation Galaxy S Device , likely to be called Samsung Galaxy S$ is under develoupment and is codenamed 'Project J' may launch early as april 2013.
"Samsung is having plans to announce the next Galaxy S in April
According to older rumors the Galaxy S4 would have a full HD AMOLED display , aquadcore CPU, the latest version of android , a 13 megapixel camer and the screen size would be 5.0 "
Other rumors had indicated the Galaxy S 4 will feature a 13 Mo camera , a significant upgrade over the Galaxy S 3. There's also buzz about the Galaxy S 4 featuring a 2GHz quad-core processor and 8-core GPU
