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This is not some April 1st prank! Its real. Motorola has finally made its “Milestone” device ( aka Droid in US) to Indian shores. Better late than never to behold this Gadget of the year 2009!!

The icing to the cake is that this comes with the 2.1 version of Andriod by default.

P.S. Price is around 32k+

Yes! You read it right  an early leak of Windows Phone 7 series was seen floating on net.

Check out the video below if you don't believe

P.S. Microsoft folks, better hurry up other wise  its like cutting cake for last year’s birthday party!! LOL !!!

Latest Intel Desktop processors

On the notebook side

The all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family is the first to integrate graphics into mainstream PC processors. With Intel® HD Graphics, the processors deliver stunning visuals and smooth high-definition (HD) video playback. It’s also the industry’s first integrated solution to deliver multi-channel Dolby* TrueHD and DTS* Premium Suite home theater audio. In addition, Intel HD Graphics support mainstream and casual 3-D gaming without the need for an add-in video card, and offer full support for the new Microsoft Windows* 7 operating system.

Another intuitive feature available to mainstream notebook buyers includes Intel Switchable Graphics, which allows users who play very graphics-intense games to automatically switch between Intel’s integrated graphics to a discrete version on the fly, without having to re-boot, for optimal battery life and performance.

Google just announced that it's bringing some serious location-based integration to its services, all centered around the new Buzz social networking tool built into Gmail. Google's going to do location better than the usual latitude / longitude coordinates -- it's able to snap those to actual place names and then take context-aware actions depending on where you are. The new location services is integrated into the main mobile Google.com search page and the new buzz.google.com page for the iPhone and Android, and into maps for Android, S60, and Windows Mobile. Buzz is rolling out starting today, and it should hit everyone within "the next few days."

Atlast , I saw Steve Jobs in live..in flesh and blood..thanks to TWIT Live for broadcasting the live feed of the event which is no way possible to see for me otherwise!!

So much to acknowledge..kudos to Apple ( and ofcourse to Steve Jobs!!) for delivering yet another potential mass market device which could be expected to be seen in almost every bodies hands in a couple of years down the line ... ( pricing it at a mere $499 is a killer!! Even I can afford for it :-) )

"Never judge a person by his looks" -- lets see does the iPad live up to its looks...

Detection rates of various anti-virus software available current market!!

Interestingly Microsoft’s free software flared pretty well in the tests though it was in its betas!!!

Google unveiled its Chrome OS operating system during a press event at the company's headquarters, and it's pretty much exactly what was expected it to be: a streamlined Linux kernel booting straight into the Chrome web browser. The code is available starting today.
Download and installation instructions here

You may have already heard, but the unthinkable has happened. That’s right, Microsoft, the self-proclaimed enemy of Linux and free software, has announced that they will be submitting some 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel. Come again? Yes, Microsoft wants to get its code into the Linux kernel. You read that right!

It is important to note that this code has not yet been included into the official Linux kernel. The code has also not yet been thoroughly scrutinized by the wider community to see what the code actually consists of. Is it all code, or does it rely on binary blobs? Will the quality of the code make the grade, or will the community be expected to clean it up and maintain it?

When approached by Linux Magazine as to whether he has even looked at the code, Linus Torvalds (the father of Linux) replied:

“I haven’t. Mainly because I’m not personally all that interested in driver code (it doesn’t affect anything else), especially when I wouldn’t use it myself.

So for things like that, I just trust the maintainers. I tend to look at code when bugs happen, or when it crosses multiple subsystems, or when it’s one of the core subsystems that I’m actively involved in (ie things like VM, core device resource handling, basic kernel code etc).

I’ll likely look at it when the code is actually submitted to me by the maintainers (Greg [Kroah-Hartman], in this case), just out of morbid curiosity.”

So why the patch? Well, it contains three drivers which will enhance the performance of Linux when virtualized as a guest under Microsoft’s virtualization product, Hyper-V. Ahh, now the truth starts to emerge. The purpose of the code has nothing to do with being generous, but rather it is to ensure that Linux will run well under their own virtualization technology. Microsoft has well realized that the world is moving towards free software and that users are implementing Linux in their infrastructure.

Even though the motivation is a purely selfish one, is there anything wrong with that? Microsoft certainly plans to “outsmart open source” and this move should be seen in that light, but at the end of the day they are doing the unthinkable - contributing to free software - and that’s a win.

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Ten of the most significant objects in science, engineering, technology and medicine were selected for the vote.

THE RESULTS

• 1st place - X-ray machines
• 2nd place - Penicillin
• 3rd place - DNA double helix
• 4th place - Apollo 10 capsule
• 5th place - V2 Rocket Engine
• 6th place - Stephenson's Rocket
• 7th place - Pilot ACE Computer
• 8th place - Steam Engine
• 9th place - Model T Ford
• 10th place - Electric Telegraph

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said:

"The public's choice of the X-ray machine as the winner is testament to our insatiable curiosity to find out how things work."

Finally Google answers all of our million requests and updates Google Maps with Navigation support. Which means now one can get turn by turn navigation directions for free!

This feature is introduced with the new Android 2.0(available on DROID) and of course is still in Beta

Just before a day to Windows 7 launch, Microsoft has released the Beta 2 flavor of the up coming Visual studio 2010 IDE..

You can download ISO from here..

All versions..

As expected the upgrades to the HP touchsmart line up to support upcoming Windows 7 has arrived just in time!!

Updates to the Much Familiar HP Pavilion TX 2Z is a welcome note!!

Also are the newly added HP TouchSmart 300 and 600 – at 20- and 23-inches respectively – and the business-centric HP TouchSmart 9100, a 23-inch model targeted at the hospitality and retail markets.

The TouchSmart tx2 uses AMD’s Turion X2 dual-core 2.20GHz CPU with 4GB of RAM (8GB supported), ATI Radeon HD 3200  graphics and a 320GB 7,200rpm hard-drive.  Gigabit ethernet, WiFi b/g, HMDI and a 6-cell battery are standard, together with a DVD burner, and it comes with various touch-control apps for entertainment and media playback.  Pricing will start at $799.99.

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The GIMP is one of those applications that people either seem to love or hate. While it's always been a powerful and capable alternative to big commercial apps like Photoshop, GIMP's multiple floating window interface has been hard for some users to adapt to.
Good news to those of you who love the program but just couldn't adapt to the UI: version 2.8 will feature a selectable single window mode. As you can see in the mock-up above, it's a much more Photoshop-like experience. Hardcore GIMP fans, don't despair. If you've been convinced that multi-window mode is a superior way to work, you won't have to change.
GIMP developers have also been looking at ways of better handling multiple images in the editor. Tabs, of course, were added in Photoshop CS4. Don't expect to see them in GIMP 2.8, however. Peter Sikking offers three reasons in his blogs post that they have decided not to use tabs, instead opting for a movable thumbnail tray (image after the break).

UI customization has always been central to the GIMP. In keeping with that, Sikking anticipates that users will be able to place the strip on the top, bottom, left, or right.
Another idea being considered are "Polaroids" - floating, independent windows that can be used as references while working on an image in the editor. Apart from full images, you'll also be able to select a region and copy it to its own Polaroid - useful for doing detail work.

What do you think about the new concepts for GIMP 2.8? Do you think the addition of a single window mode will attract new users? Share your take in the comments!

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