Available next month, GM’s AutoNet will let you literally install a WiFi hotspot in your car. The unit plus installation will cost $500 and there will be a monthly charge of $30 for a 1GB cap. There is also a 5GB cap offered but no price is known as of now.
The range will last up to a radius of 150 feet away from you car and would be great for camping, tailgating, and beyond. You could even have traveling video game competitions in your SUV while you drive from Inglewood to Compton.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) has showcased future technology of mobile communications at the HP Mobile Innovations Tour in India.The concept design presented and showcased are a vision for the year 2012 which will provide a “always connected” experience to the users.
“True creativity lies in making the complicated simple” said Phil Devlin from HP ,while showcasing the future technologies at the Mobile Innovations event.
The show unveiled a smart looking digital wallet (above) which will keep track of all your transactions and is like a tablet device which is ultra thin and provides pen device for input other than touch screen.
Another cool design was of a flexible,portable display which will act as a personal reader may be a ebook reader type and is “always on” while connecting to the wireless hub/watch.
Another conceptual design revealed cool gadgets like Personal wireless Gateway with wearable form factor which looks like a watch and is capable of wireless connectivity to act as a wireless hub.
“The current mobile environment is getting increasingly complex as laptops, mobile phones, PDAs and digital cameras all continue to add more features, options and wireless technologies. HP’s perspective of the future mobility concepts follows the philosophy that out of integrated complexity will come disintegrated simplicity”, said Phil Devlin, Manager, Product Marketing, Mobile Business Unit, Personal Systems Group,HP.
According to HP the upcoming Ultra Wireless bluetooth technology which is still in development stage is expected to be 5000 times faster than the present bluetooth technology. He said that the Future bluetooth technology will land up in 2008 and will drive the future technology segments.
Gentlemen, start your engines: Google’s claims of Chrome being the fastest browser are being put to the test. Ready to see how it really stacks up with the competition?
First up, Mozilla. The guys behind the Firefox franchise lashed back Wednesday, saying Chrome may be able to beat its current browser — but its upcoming 3.1 version will leave it in the dust. The next Firefox, now under development with a targeted 2008 release, switches to a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey. Its creators say outperforming Chrome’s heavily hyped V8 JavaScript platform won’t be a problem.
The company’s own speed tests, conducted with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark system, show Firefox 3.1 coming in a full 28 percent faster than Chrome on a Windows XP machine and 16 percent faster on a Vista computer. Percentages aside, the actual time difference amounts to about 500 milliseconds, give or take, in each scenario.
All right, so how about some independent testing? As Mozilla admits, almost all matchups between Chrome and IE or Chrome and Firefox 3.0.1 show Chrome sweeping the competition. When it comes to Firefox 3.1, though, things do get less clear cut.
Lifehacker measured Firefox 3.1 against Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 using three separate scales: initial startup time, JavaScript/CSS usage, and memory usage. For startup, Chrome was the winner over both its competitors. Chrome and Firefox tied on this JavaScript race, and Firefox won when it came to memory. So all put together, it’s basically a draw between the two underdogs when it comes to speed with their next-generation releases, and Mozilla may be able to edge a lead. (Sorry, IE.)
In the end, this race could become anyone’s game. Given that Chrome is only in its first beta and Firefox 3.1 is early in its development, either browser could easily end up stealing the show.
As for awareness, while Mozilla’s CEO went on the record as saying he wasn’t worried about Chrome, clearly, the company is doing careful comparisons. Mozilla’s chief technology officer, Brendan Eich, said his team is “very much in the game and moving fast,” and that “reports of [its] death are greatly exaggerated.” Eich also suggested, albeit jokingly, that they should rename TraceMonkey to “V10″ — an obvious light-hearted jab at Google.
One thing’s for sure: The race isn’t over. Count on seeing more comparisons and claims as each product advances over the coming months. Ultimately, though, we’re talking differences of half a second between the two, so there’s no need to fret over the fractions. Find the browser you like best and stick with it. If that browser happens to be IE, however, be aware that you’re surfing 42 times slower than you could be with one of the other alternatives.
There are many territories that mobile phone companies fight on. Camera phones, music phones, fashion phones… But the big guns really come out to play when you look at smart phones. Let’s check out two of the best in the field, the Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson P1.
Nokia N95 – the king of Nokia
It was also the first mobile phone in the UK to feature a 5 megapixel camera, a fact that undoubtedly helped Nokia sell thousands of units. But it wasn’t just the camera. If anything, that camera was the just the starting point, and they built the N95 up from there!
The Nokia N95 also featured, in what would become a massive selling point, built-in GPS and sat-nav. Not many (if there were even any at all) mobile phones were including that at the time, and the ability to use your phone as a sat-nav… well, it rocked. Since the N95 was built around Symbian Series 60, as well, meaning you could install your own software, and get this awesome Nokia to do things its creators had never even dreamed of. It was, and is, a true smartphone.
Sony Ericsson P1 – the smartphone king
Sony Ericsson P1 has a 3.2 Megapixel camera with 3x zoom and auto focus, a 2.6-inch LCD touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth and support for H.264 video playback.
The Sony Ericsson P1 runs the Symbian OS v9.1 and and UIQ 3.0. It has QWERTY keyboard and 160MB internal memory while there is also a Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot.
But it’s not just about features, the experience of using it is the important thing. If i tell you that which mobile is best for that would be my opinion.
Intel Core™ 2 Solo processor U2200 (1.2GHz, 2MB L2 cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Business
Intel® Core™ 2 Solo Processor14 U2200 Ultra Low Voltage (1.2GHz1) Genuine Windows Vista® Business16 operating system. By utilizing a 48GB2 Solid State Drive (SSD) in place of the typical spinning hard disk drive found in most PCs the VAIO® UX Premium takes Micro PC modernization to a new level. AT&T national wireless EDGE network13 to extend your wireless coverage beyond LAN access networks and hotspots3
Enjoy such features as the slide-up LCD with two cameras, the dedicated control buttons placed within easy reach along the vertical thumb rests and the cleverly designed full QWERTY keyboard embedded in the UX Premium’s curved hand-held form factor. The UX features an integrated biometrics fingerprint sensor, which is a convenient and secure way to protect your computer and the information on it with a simple swipe of your finger. To make sure you have the power you need to stay productive when traveling, as well as to keep you from losing your way, the UX490N Micro PC bundled with a large capacity battery and a Blue tooth® GPS receiver.
David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David’s lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories … and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!’s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company’s global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
What Diggers Like?
What Do Stumblers Like?
Stumblers will like a well taken picture, where Diggers will like a picture of something ‘freaky’ or ‘ hilarious’ even if it is a very blurry photo of someone that might be George Bush falling off a unicycle onto a thousand upturned thumb-tacks.
Stumblers also like a top ten, or similar, list of cool pictures or videos, though they may (due to the nature of Stumbleupon allowing one to select from more interests) like an article which is more poetic, or just a good piece of literature, rather than a piece about a really cool gadget.
Diggers and Stumblers do have a huge impact for one reason: each Digg or Stumble effectively adds a new link in to your page (and not just your homepage – a true deep link) – a huge number of Diggs or Stumblers therefore adds a huge number of links. Whether these be “no-follow” or not.
About Technorati:
Technorati is an internet search engine for searching blogs, and is competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. The Owner and creator of Technorati is Dave Sifry, and its headquarters are in Sanfrancisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site’s Chief Technologist. Over 112 million blogs are Indexed by Technorati.
The name Technorati is pointing to the Technological version of literati or intellectuals. Technorati uses and contributes to Open Source software. Technorati has an active Software Developer community, many of them are from open-source culture. ,and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi_Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer’s Wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs.
The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.
About Online backup:
A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides people the facility to store their data at a cost. Managed backup providers are companies that provide this type of service.
Providers of this type of service frequently target specific market segments.Online backup services are usually priced as a function of the following things:
Which Online Backup To Use:
SOS Online Backup is the most awarded, and best performing backup system.
Continuous always-on data protection. Never lose a file again. SOS Online Backup detects when files change – and just backs up the new 1’s & 0’s – working over any internet connection, and from behind firewalls.
SOS Online Backup keeps an unlimited version history of all of your files, letting you access or share any version of any file, anywhere in the world using just a web-browser.
Consider the warranty and tech support: Because most PC problems Happen in the first year, a one-year warranty should be fine. Check PC World’s Reliability & Service survey, where readers collectively determine which PC makers provide the best and worst technical support and warranty service. Offers of multiple tiers of service are given by most PC makers, so you can get–and pay for–the level of service you want.
Don’t buy additional software unless you really need it: Purchase an operating system, an office suite, and an antivirus package. But if you need more, look for vendors’ software bundles to upgrade your software. For as little as $100, you can often upgrade from Microsoft Works Suite or a similar package to a full office suite like Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition.
Look for connectivity up front: Many PCs now offer a pair of USB ports on the front of the case, so you can connect multiple peripherals without having to fumble around in back. If this is important to you, look for PCs with up-front FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports, audio and video connectors, and USB 2.0 ports.
Check an LCD monitor: If you’re buying a nonbundled display, make sure it will work with the system you want–or that you at least have a money-back guarantee.
Avoid fancy keyboards to save money: Many vendors tell about fancy keyboards with extra buttons for launching apps. Save some money by choosing the cheapest option unless you have a specific need of that Keyboard.
And Only Buy the PC online from any computer selling website that could give you the PC at low price. Like eBay.
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