We already knew that Simon & Schuster will be publishing Walter Isaacson’s “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” in early 2012. Amazon now started pre-orders to this book which is going to be released on March 6, 2012. Priced at $18, Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. ...

IT World’s Sando Villinger has some interesting findings in Microsoft’s next generation operating system – Windows 8. One of the known or unknown hidden features that various people have discovered since internal builds began leaking over couple of months is the new file system – Protogon. Microsoft recently demonstrated Windows 8 features in a press release. From the IT World article, I’ve also dug up traces of some underlying file system changes that I couldn’t quite make sense of, such as an entirely new file system driver called “NT Protogon FS driver”, which looks like a kernel mode driver for some sort of (yet unknown) file system called Protogon. It’s unclear, whether this is a major new file system or just some minor subsystem ...

Microsoft has given a demonstration of their next generation operating system calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and focused on being equally accessible via touchscreen interface or mouse and keyboard. Earlier, we saw many posts related to Windows 8 in this blog, detailing leak plans, 8 minutes of installation and restoration, etc. ...

Twitter finally introduces the long awaited button – FOLLOW. This is useful to your website to increase engagement with your audience. From the official Twitter blog post - For publishers and brands, adding the Follow Button to your website and using Twitter to stay connected with your audience is a powerful combination. People who follow your account are much more likely to retweet and engage with your Tweets, and to repeatedly visit your website. Adding the Follow Button to your website is quick and easy, and you can configure yours right now at twitter.com/followbutton. ...

Apple released a press note few hours ago and confirmed that an iCloud service, new iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion will be announced at WWDC event on June 6. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 is going to be held from June 6 to June 10 at San Francisco. According to the press note - Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software - Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering. ...

Earlier last week, Google unveiled yet another future innovative technology – Google Wallet. Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone wallet. In simple words, Google Wallet is a result of a partnership that will allow Google to have NFC (Near Field Communication) built in most of upcoming Android devices. NFC is a wireless technology, which among other usages, will allow you to replace your credit card with your smartphone. ...

Whether you’re a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls of sound, GarageBand for iPad gives you all the tools you need to lay down fresh tracks and record music. Guitar shredding on an actual guitar is impressive, but shredding a solo on an iPad using GarageBand is just awesome! Check out this guy killing on his iPad - This guy says - This is me creating a jam track with apple’s Garageband app for the ipad and then shredding a guitar solo over it! I am sorry about the bad video quality, but i could not find a way to record ipad’s screen in a fast framerate. Anyway i believe you will get the idea. Hope you enjoy! ...

Google India has announced Google Maps with Street View for India which lets you explore places around the world through 360 degree street level imagery. This long awaited project which is already live in 27 countries is coming to Bangalore (Bengaluru) from tomorrow 27th May 2011. According to @googleindia twitter account, Google will start gathering images from select locations in the areas such as the Nityagram Dance Village over the next few weeks in Bangalore. ...

Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market and Amazon’s Appstore for Android; Microsoft announced a web based version of Windows Marketplace in conjunction with WP7 Mango roll-out. You can read about the announcement of all new 500 features in Windows Phone 7 Mango in the last post here. The web version of Marketplace will launch with new OS Mango later this year and gives you a chance for discovering apps and games. ...

Microsoft yesterday provided the first look of the next release of Windows Phone code named “Mango” bringing 500 new features. This update will be available to all WP7 devices starting from Fall and the Redmond based firm also announced that new devices from Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE and Nokia (?) will come preloaded with Mango later this year. Some of the major features announced at the event include - Messaging threads, which integrate text, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation The ability to group contacts into live tiles to easily see status updates and send messages Contact cards now feature integrated Twitter and LinkedIn feeds A linked inbox to combine all of your email accounts at once Improved live tiles that provide real-time info and can be more dynamic than before Multitasking support that will help improve battery life and performance Internet Explorer 9, which includes HTML5 support and hardware acceleration Local Scout, which provides “hyperlocal search results” and can recommend restaurants, shopping, etc. Bing on Windows Phone, including Bing Vision, Bing Music Search, and Bing Voice Quick Cards, which will provide relevant info (included related apps) about a product, movie, event, or place ...