Google on Monday announced its Nexus S, the device that will be the showpiece for the Gingerbread/Android 2.3 release. In addition, the Gingerbread software developer kit (SDK) is now available.
The Nexus S was co-developed with Samsung and will be the first out of the gate with Android 2.3, which on the surface looks a lot like Android 2.2 in terms of user interface.
Like the first Nexus phone, Google will sell the latest version unlocked and with “a pure Google experience.” These efforts are designed to highlight what Android can do before carriers start adding icons, bolting down app stores and carrying out other hijinks.
Generally speaking, the Nexus S looks evolutionary not revolutionary. There’s no dual-core and the screen is similar to what’s found in a Droid. The main implication for the Nexus S is that Samsung appears to be the Android flag carrier these days.
The latest improvements to Android include (blog post):
I got a tip from a little bird that Microsoft may rename Windows 8 in order to better align the product with the upcoming Cloud 365 suite.
This is just a rumor and I have no corroborating evidence to back it up but the name that has been floated is Windows 365.
I wouldnt bet on this tip but the name actually sounds good to me.
Windows 8 rumor : Security updates and Liscensing from Cloud:
Now while I have no reason to believe that this is anything but PURE speculation at this point, he does bring up 2 good points which I will write about soon.
After several delays, Nov 25th was decided on as the date when Mobile Number Portability would roll out in India. Starting in Haryana, a state in the Northern circle users can now opt to change their mobile carriers while keeping their numbers. The terms of switching operators as defined for Haryana and in all likelihood for other cities, are:
1.User will have to obtain a unique porting number by sending a SMS.
2.The code along with filled forms and valid identity proof documents need to be submitted to the new operator.
3. Rs 19 is the switching fee.
4. A user can switch after 90 days of a new connection being activated.
5.Postpaid users need to clear all dues before applying to switch.
6. Prepaid users lose any remaining talk time after switching.
7. MNP request can be cancelled within 24 hours and a new request should be processed within 7 days.
With 3G services starting to roll out, the mobile space should get competitive with operators having some time to announce lucrative deals to attract and retain consumers in the metropolitans. According to the latest statistics about the mobile market size in India, Airtel leads by quite a margin. There are about 509 million users according to the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) report for October 2010. The breakup for some operators is:
1) VLC VLC is one of the most flexible multimedia players available. It supports a vast number of audio and video formats, including H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, and aac, and it supports streaming and TV capture cards. VLC isn't limited to viewing multimedia files, either. It can convert and transcode formats, too.
2) Gnumeric Gnumeric is the spreadsheet portion of the GNOME Office suite (as well as a stand-alone tool). It has been around for quite some time and is an outstanding entry in the spreadsheet world. Gnumeric currently has 520 spreadsheet functions (154 of which are unique) and is faster than any spreadsheet application you have ever tried. Gnumeric can read many spreadsheet formats, but if you're looking for a clone of Excel, look elsewhere.
3) Abiword Abiword is also a part of the GNOME office suite (as well as a stand-alone tool), and it can serve all your word processing needs. With Abiword, you can create and collaborate. It's lightweight, fast, reliable, and (like all tools on this list) free! Abiword can read and write both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice document formats.
4) Audacity Audacity is an incredible piece of software for recording and editing sounds. You can use it to record live audio, convert analog recordings to digital, cut/copy/splice, change speed and pitch, and import/export numerous formats. Audacity can also remove noise and add effects. If you're looking for an open source recording studio, don't overlook Audacity.
5) Inkscape Inkscape is a powerful vector graphics editor similar to Illustrator, Corel Draw, and Xara X. It closely adheres to W3C standard SVG file format, so you can be sure that any SVG file created with (or edited by) Inkscape will work with any other standards-compliant tool. One nice aspect of Inkscape is the availability of numerous tutorials, which you will find on the Inkscape site and on other sites.
Have you ever needed to completely wipe out critical data from a hard drive? As we all know, mkfs doesn’t erase a lot. (You already knew this, right?) mkfs and its variants (e.g., mkfs.ext3 and mke2fs) only get rid of a few important data structures on the filesystem, but the data is still there! For a SCSI disk connected as /dev/sdb, a quick dd if=/dev/sdb | strings will let anyone recover text data from a supposedly erased hard drive. Binary data is more complicated to retrieve, but the same basic principle applies: the data was not completely erased. To make things harder for the bad guys, an old trick was to use the ‘dd’ command as a way to erase a drive. Note: This command will erase your disk! dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb There’s one problem with this: newer, more advanced, techniques make it possible to retrieve data that were replaced with a bunch of 0s. To make it more difficult, if not impossible, for the bad guys to read data that was previously stored on a disk, Red Hat ships the “shred” utility as part of the coreutils RPM package. Launching “shred” on a disk or a partition will write repeatedly (25 times by default) to all locations on the disk. Note: Be careful with this one too! shred /dev/sdb This is currently known to be a very safe way to delete data from a hard drive
2) USB when the Drivers not available
As a way to save a few valuable pennies on newer PCs, manufacturers are increasingly getting rid of the good old PS/2 keyboard and mouse interfaces. As a result, some recent systems only ship with USB ports to which we need to connect a USB keyboard and mouse. USB is all well and good, but what if the driver for your USB controller is not loaded? In practice, this is not a problem, as Red Hat loads the ehci- hcd and uhci-hcd drivers automatically at boot time. There are situations, namely in emergency mode, where the USB drivers won't be available. So you won't even be able to enter a command. This is due to the fact that in emergency mode all drivers need to be provided in the initrd file under /boot, and USB is not there by default. The trick is to add those drivers, so that they will be available earlier. The 'mkinitrd' command can do precisely that with the '--with' argument (this only works under RHEL4): mkinitrd --with=ehci-hcd --with=uhci-hcd /boot/newinitrd-`uname - r`.img `uname -r` Add a new entry in your grub.conf file (always do backups!) that points to this new initrd image, and you're done! Your USB keyboard now works in emergency mode.
There are many cell phones in the market used by the people so there are also some cell phones with the high radiation, this does not tells that these cell phones are harmfull, they are also approved by the by checking the SAR level, so its your choice to select the better..
1) Blackberry Bold 9650, SAR level 1.43
2) Blackberry Tour 9630, SAR level 1.43
3) Motorola Droid X, SAR level 1.43
4) Motorola Stature i9, SAR level 1.44
5) Motorola i576 , SAR level 1.45
6) Verizon LG Chocolate Touch, SAR Level 1.47
7) HTC Desire, SAR Level 1.48
8) Motorola Droid & Motorola Droid 2, SAR Level 1.49
Hi guys We all know that windows 7 has really made the turning point for Microsoft because of its user interface , performance , stability etc, like windows 7 Microsoft is planning to give more features in the upcoming OS Windows 8 which is going to released in 2014, i came to know abut some of the feature in the Windows 8 OS
Microsoft is planning to make Windows 8 an 128-bit operating system, according to details leaked from the software giant’s Research department. The discovery came to light after Microsoft Research employee, Robert Morgan, carelessly left details of his work on the social-networking site, Linked.
“Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan”
The senior researcher’s profile said he was: “Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and long term projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM.”
A move to 128-bit support would be a bold move for Microsoft. Many outsiders were urging Microsoft to make Windows 7 64-bit only, but the company continues to offer a 32-bit version of the forthcoming OS.
Microsoft has said very little publicly about Windows 8, although on a visit to the UK earlier this week, CEO Steve Ballmer denied rumours that Windows 7 would be the last major client OS the company produced. Ballmer admitted that planning was underway on Windows 8, although it’s highly unlikely that the OS will arrive until 2012 at the earliest.
This Slashdot comment raises some interesting points:
“Most 64-bit processors provide 40 or 48 bits of address space; they ignore the other two or three bytes of the address (often they support a larger virtual address space than physical, but even then it’s usually less than 64-bit). I’ve yet to see a consumer- grade machine with more RAM than PAE (36-bit addressing) could address. That said, memory is not the only place where the number of bits is important. Hard drives are typically addressed by 512-byte blocks, so 32 bits gives you 2TB, which is a single disk these days. 64 bits gives you 8ZB, which is quite a lot, but it’s not a completely unreasonable amount; some people are going to find that constraining in the next few years, which is why ZFS uses 128 bits. It’s not that 128 bits are necessary, so much that 65 bits are and 128 is the most computationally-convenient size after 128. Making sure everything in the kernel supports 128-bit filesystem offsets is an important for long-term project.” Seems to me the future of Wine is going to also have be 128 bit to remain relevant and run the future 128 bit Games and Office tools that are geared for the future Windows OS. Possibly by the time of Windows 8 this will be when they finally kill off 32 bit support and release 64 bit and 128 bit versions of Windows. Looks as if the ground work for 128 bit computing is being set now and therefor a future 128 bit release of our favorite Windows re implementation Wine.
NOTE :- This information is based on currently available resources and might become irrelevant after the official announcement of WINDOWS 8
