Now you can control your Android phone just by speaking using ‘Voice Actions’. This feature is unveiled at a press event at its San Francisco office in spite of rumors on Video Calling. You require Android 2.2 (Froyo) and higher for these features - Send text messages Say “send text to [recipient] [message]*” e.g. “send text to Allison Miller Running late. I will be home around 9” Listen to music ...

Intel announced its largest acquisition to date , and it has little to do with the chipset market it has dominated for decades. The chipmaker said it has agreed to buy antivirus software company McAfee (MFE) in a $7.7 billion acquisition that will expand its security offerings. Sneak peak of the Announcement - “Today McAfee agreed to be acquired by Intel Corporation. Obviously this is big news for McAfee, big news for Intel Corporation, big news for our combined customers, and big news for both the security industry and the future of the Internet. It’s the company’s common belief that security is a fundamental component of modern computing, and the acquisition reflects its increasing relevance in a completely connected world. The number of connected devices is expected to grow from 1 billion to 50 billion by 2020. This explosive growth of Internet and IP-enabled devices (e.g. Internet enabled TV, IP addressable cars, ATM machines, medical devices) is fundamentally reshaping communication, collaboration and commerce opportunities for individuals, businesses and governments around the world.” ...

Do you want to send or receive emails at your own convenient time? Boomerang is a new beta add-on for Google Chrome and Firefox and lets you schedule Gmail around your own time! Whether you want to move emails about next week’s meeting out of your inbox until next week or want to send your Girl Friend a birthday email 3 weeks early, Boomerang can be very useful. Here is a small How To - ...

Facebook Places is new Facebook feature that allows you to see where your friends are and share your location in the real world. You can now see if your friends are currently checked in nearby and connect with them easily. You can check into nearby Places to tell your friends where you are, tag your friends in the Places you visit, and view comments your friends have made about the Places you visit. ...

Yes, the rumours of a mini iPad are rife once more, thanks to a stated sighting of the so-called iPad 2 by a Taiwanese newspaper. This follows reports last week in a different Taiwanese newspaper, of a similar Apple story. The Economic Daily News, a Chinese-language newspaper, has reported that a smaller version of the current iPad will be available in time for Christmas. The new Apple device will be built along similar lines as the iPad but with a 7 rather than a 9.7 inch screen. And companies in Taiwan have won a number of contracts to build the components. ...

Nokia is all set to roll out its much awaited Smartphone Nokia N8 in the market. The company has revealed its features through a demonstration to the media in Delhi. It is the first handset from Nokia with a 12 MP camera and World’s first Symbian^3 device. Some special features include: 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Customizable HD Video, Face recognition software Connect to Your Home Theatre using an HDMI connection with 720p and 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus surround, Support for Flash video Symbian^3 Features like multi touch support, flick scrolling, pinch-zoom Handwriting recognition for Chinese Orientation sensor (Accelerometer), Compass (Magnetometer) Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers, Wi-Fi Positioning, Ovi Maps with free car & pedestrian navigation Nokia N8 is expected to be available this October in India within a price range of Rs. 22,000 to 23,000 ...

Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding a press event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features.” Google mobile product management director Hugo Barra will demo the additions, which some think should include integrated video calling in the Android mobile operating system. But many think Google (GOOG) should aim higher sooner, since it is critical that Android get off the stick in the video calling arena, especially given that Apple (AAPL) is reportedly planning an aggressive expansion of its FaceTime software in its many devices. ...

Bad news has struck both Research In Motion (RIM) and all BlackBerry users present in Saudi Arabia as the authorities there announced today that they would be blocking some of the BlackBerry services from this Friday. This decisions comes at the time when RIM is already having a hard time in the Middle East with several countries having an objection on the services provided by RIM. The issue at hand is the handling of encrypted data from BlackBerry devices from its own server, unlike other vendors like Apple. This created a dispute between RIM and local governments on the monitoring of private data being transferred from BlackBerry devices. RIM has taken a stand that they will not allow access to the governments for monitoring the encrypted data in a statement issued which reads as follows: ...

Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. Give a link to any image and it will give you a beautiful new way to experience it - along with a nice short URL. Zoom.it converts your image to the Deep Zoom format, which lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole image, no matter how large. Zoom.it runs on Windows Azure and takes advantage of Microsoft Silverlight to provide the richest, most fluid zooming experience possible. ...

Floppy disks, trackballs, serial ports, dial-up modems… All gone. Now it’s time to kill the mouse. Apple unveiled the new Magic Trackpad. Essentially, it’s a larger version of the trackpads that ship with each MacBook and MacBook Pro. But it’s a stand-alone product, meant to be used with desktop computers. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. ...