Google is changing the way it is doing its business under new CEO Larry Page and it wants to open up your wallets. With 3 million customers, Google Apps which was launched 5 years ago is helping small businesses in means of Email, Calendar, Docs, and many more. Now, Google is making some changes to its licenses – some good news and bad news. Here is the update received from Google Apps Team to its customers - ...
Apple has finally admitted that the latest “LocationGate” as a bug and it will be fixed in upcoming iOS software update. According to the latest press release a while ago, Apple is collecting data from iPhones, but it is not tracking the location and has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. The main part of the press release - 6. People have identified up to a year’s worth of location data being stored on the iPhone. Why does my iPhone need so much data in order to assist it in finding my location today? This data is not the iPhone’s location data—it is a subset (cache) of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database which is downloaded from Apple into the iPhone to assist the iPhone in rapidly and accurately calculating location. The reason the iPhone stores so much data is a bug we uncovered and plan to fix shortly (see Software Update section below). We don’t think the iPhone needs to store more than seven days of this data. ...
The much awaited Android Gingerbread (2.3) latest smartphone from Google, Nexus S (manufactured by Samsung) is now officially launched in India. This Samsung manufactured phone features a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor and 16GB iNAND flash memory. The phone includes both a front-facing camera to facilitate video-chatting and a 5 MP camera. The price of this device in India will be 29590/- Samsung also announced other Galaxy series devices in today’s event. ...
Effective July 1, 2011, Microsoft has decided to increase retail price of its Certifications Exams. The price increase will vary from country to country and in India, the price change will be effective on Aug 1, 2011. According to the FAQ page: Microsoft recognizes the increased pressures on students and academic institutions during these challenging economic times. Although some of the prices for Microsoft Certification exams for students and academic institutions will increase, the discount will remain significant. Microsoft is dedicated to helping students become more employable for entry jobs in the IT industry. ...
We have seen a classic picture of the legends Steven Paul Jobs and William Henry Bill Gates III in the past – and here is another creative morphed picture of both - Slightly disturbing? Check out this cool video - [via] Celebrity Morphing
Yesterday was an interesting day for many (I mean many) sites around the world which rely on Amazon servers. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), an amazing implementation of Cloud Computing had a major network failure yesterday that triggered a re-mirror of all the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in the North Virginia data centre. This re-mirror combined with a large number of customers trying to fire up new instances to recover from the network failure caused Amazon to hit a storage capacity problem. ...
Apple may start selling the iPhone 5 in September rather than in summer according to a report published by Reuters. This next generation iPhone will have a faster processor and will look largely similar to iPhone 4 - three people with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain said. According to the report - “Apple Inc suppliers will begin production of its next-generation iPhone in July this year, with the finished product likely to begin shipping in September, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. ...
We are know that iPhone can track user location. But, how many of knew that the iPhone constantly tracks your location and records your coordinates alongside a time stamp to a secret file? This secret file is also copied to owner’s computer when the two are synchronised. What’s so bad about this? The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it. ...
The smartphone industry is again on patent issues. Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola - all seems to be currently in litigation. Have you noticed Samsung’s Galaxy line of products? Does they look an awful lot like iDevices [iPhone, iPod Touch]. Apple think so. Apple filed a trademark infringement suit against Samsung last Friday with a U.S. District Court in North California. Apple’s court filing is filled with examples of the copycatting, ranging from product design to user interface. The suit mentions Apple patents from 2009 and 2010 that explain the iPhone’s physical design and various app icon trademarks. ...
The much awaited popular iOS and Android platform game Angry Birds is coming now on Windows Phone 7. The news is revealed at the on-going MIX 2011 event. According to the official announcement, Xbox Live title Angry Birds will be released on 25th of May. Xbox Live was supposed to to start on April 6th but was quietly delayed for reasons unknown. Furthermore, a competent Angry Birds clone “Chicks ‘N Vixens” has stolen the attention of WP7 fans. You can try out this game on your WP7 device here directly from Zune. ...