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Google+ now allows you to live broadcast your video on air and simultaneously on YouTube with just few simple steps. You can stream your content publicly on your Google+ profile, your YouTube channel and also on your blog/website. The feature is called Hangouts On Air, which has been available to selected users for a while, but is only now being released for general use. The ability to use Hangouts On Air will be rolling out to everyone over the next few weeks. You can also plan to stream your content like birthday, marriage or other occasions. As of now, this will broadcast publicly everything. ...

Just imagine how Apple is really worth in terms of cash? Apple’s total sales in 2011 alone were $128 billion! That’s more than the gross domestic product of about 160 nations around the world. Here is an interesting infographic from Best Computer Science Degrees which compares Apple’s massive reach around the world. Some of the eye-popping statistics of the trillion dollar company - Apple’s release of its latest iPad was massive: the company sold 3 million devices in the first 72 hours of release. ...

 Its cloud storage everywhere! You have your files, pictures, videos on your home or office computer that you would like to access from other locations on different devices while on the go. Or you want to maintain a copy of all your data on somewhere on the Internet as a backup so that you can quickly access them from anywhere. This is where the cloud storage is useful. Dropbox has been the leading cloud storage vendor from long time but this may change soon as the software giants Microsoft and Google entered the market with the launch of SkyDrive and Google Drive (it just launched yesterday) respectively. ...

 Macs have generally been the forerunner when it comes to computers and tablets, which is why so many people have purchased iMacs, Macbook Pros and iPads. And while these computers and these tablets have an array of great features, have a great support group, and will not become infected with a virus, some people simply cannot afford their hefty price tags. Rather than considering yourself unlucky to not own a Mac product, there are other options out there that can mimic the Macs—and they can do this with a much lower purchase price. ...

Your day begins with a wakeup call from your Android phone, Google News, then Gmail, Calendar for appointments, Maps for direction to reach your destination. You use Transaltor if you find something interesting that is not in your native language. You use Docs for creating spreadsheets at work, use Google Groups for discussions and spend on Google search rest of the day! Google has become part of our life. Its an interesting question everyone should consider to ask how much of your life does Google own? Popular services like Gmail, Gtalk, Reader, YouTube, Maps, Calendar, Contacts and of course Search shows everything Google ‘owns’ your life! ...

 Maketplace’s Shanghai Chief Rob Schmitz found his way into the factories of Apple’s Chinese producer, Foxconn. Rob recently granted an extremely rare opportunity to visit the factory floor and he is only the second reporter to be allowed till date. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics an computer components in the world. Foxconn produces several common consumer electronics including the Mac mini, the iPod, iPad, and iPhone, Dell, HP, Playstation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox, Motorola, Nokia, and the Amazon Kindle. ...

 Today is a big day for this blog! After blogging for over 2 years under the domain name www.cosmoGeek.info, I have decided to make a strategic move and change the domain name to www.iCosmoGeek.com. When I started blogging 2 years ago, I had no idea it would get this big. Today is very emotional day for me. I feel like I’m seeing this blog future ahead. I have all those good memories running in my mind. I am excited and I am incredibly proud of what I have accomplished out of this blog as of now. But there is lot more to do. ...

Everybody surprised during last month’s Mobile Congress 2012 event where Nokia announced the world’s first phone with a massive 41 megapixel camera. This resolution in fact tops most DSLRs and the professional high-end cameras. Well, megapixels don’t matter at all after a certain point. Read on… Before discussing about the latest Nokia phone hype, read what exactly a megapixel (MP or Mpx) from Wikipedia - “A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays. For example, a camera that makes a 2048 × 1536 pixel image typically uses a few extra rows and columns of sensor elements and is commonly said to have “3.2 megapixels” or “3.3 megapixels”, depending on whether the number reported is the “effective” or the “total” pixel count (as opposed to the 2048 × 1536 = 3,145,728 finished image pixels).” ...

Finally, Apple released its next iPad few hours ago. Before Apple’s event today, there were number of speculations that this ‘Resolutionary’ (that’s what Apple is calling it on its official website) device is called as ‘iPad 3’ or ‘iPad HD’. But, Apple just named this new product as just ‘The new iPad’. Perfect! This naming convention makes sense if you think for long term. Just think about in future, does iPhone 13 or iPad 16 makes sense to you? This also makes sense if you think about the iPhone series. The current iPhone 4S is actually the fifth generation iPhone device, and the next iPhone series is the sixth generation and Apple may call it as iPhone 5. Err, may be or completely not. Hope Apple call the next iPhone just ‘iPhone’, instead of iPhone 5. This is just similar to MacBooks, iMacs or Apple TVs. ...

As we stepped into 2012 we saw a number of tablet computers launched at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) held at the Las Vegas Convention Center last month. Almost a hundred new tablets were launched at the CES last year in different sizes, specifications, operating systems, etc. with the introduction of pressure sensors. This year we saw fairly the same amounts of tablets released with a wave of tablets using the Android and Windows operating systems. ...