Windows 8 Developer Preview

Windows 8 is a system poised halfway between yesterday and tomorrow desktop touch-screen interface. OS seems more to build for tablets and mobile devices than traditional computers.

Stephen Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows unit, told developers Tuesday that they would have only one version of their apps write to the entire Windows 8 user base access, regardless of whether users are running PC or tablet version of Windows 8

Sinofsky said that all applications will run on Windows 7, Windows 8 pcs. More and more consumers are now using Windows 7 than Windows XP. Microsoft has a lot of apps for the new interface: games, a number of social networking apps for Twitter and Facebook, a location-based application called NearMe and much more. The apps themselves to work more like a tablet or phone-based applications than PC-based applications because they run in full screen and without the usual Windows menu.

Windows 8 borrows Metro interface of Windows Phone 7 Metro has called Live interactive blocks tiles that contain live data feeds from e-mail, social networking, instant messaging and other services.

Microsoft has yet to announce a formal release date for Windows 8.

Facebook changes: More to come!

Facebook changes and updates more often this week. You are already familiar with smart lists have a concept that is circles Google. Today at the opening of Facebook, you can change yourself that you are a new feed provides news and news ticker.

Facebook announced changes in the way you news on your side. All news will be in a single stream with the most interesting feature stories first. Facebook reportedly will include new ways to show your appreciation to the left of your friend, videos, and endless pictures of new babies in her new impulses to be unveiled on Thursday. In addition to 'like', users have the option to click on 'read', 'see' and 'listen'. In the future, a 'want' button is also added. The new news ticker has sparked strong reactions from users.

The thin, fast moving - and makes the website very busy.

"I do not like. Too much info in one screen," said one user.

"The news feed just seems more complicated," said another.

"Make it stop! Please God make it stop!" Bad another.

"From today it will be easier to keep up with people in your life, no matter how often or seldom you on Facebook," wrote Facebook engineer Mark Tonkelowitz on the blog of the company.

Facebook is expected to include a platform that allows users to movies, videos and photos to share the launch effectively turning the user's home into an entertainment hub.

Blackberry problems continued for day 3 and Spread to US

RIM, makers of the BlackBerry smartphone is feverishly working on a three-day global fault end as the issue remained on the third day, and now people in the U.S. have similar problems with their BlackBerry smartphone.

RIM Blackberry owner, the last error is due to an accumulation of e-mails to Europe from Asia and South America.

"It's a backlog problem," RIM Software Vice President David Yach says.

"Clearly we are lagging behind in Europe ... if you can imagine, with the global reach of the BlackBerry and the people who use it to contact others around the world, there are many messages to Europe from Asia and South America.

"At that time the backlog has built and influenced our other systems."

RIM (Research in Motuion) UK CEO Stephen Bates said: "Engineers are working around the clock to the problem." The large backlog of messages must be cleared by Thursday morning on the East Coast.

The blackouts have millions of users without e-mail, web browsing and BlackBerry Messaging (BBM) services.

The reason is probably due to problems with the RIM servers in the United Kingdom data center in Slough.

BlackBerry users around the world began reporting problems with their mobile phones mid-morning on 10 October and 02:42 BST, Blackberry sent Britain a tweet that said: ". Some users experience problems in EMEA"

RIM shares fell modestly on Wednesday. The timing of the service glitch could hardly be worse for RIM and Apple on Wednesday launched a major upgrade to its IOS operating system iMessage, an instant messaging service for users of Apple iPhones, iPods, iPads and some covers. It is a direct competitor to RIM's BlackBerry Messenger or BBM.

RIM service, BlackBerry users to send free SMS messages to other BlackBerry users, the devices, a popular choice among young consumers. This has partly compensated for the losses in the commercial market in North America and Western Europe.

Google's search algorithm suggests 'Romney can't win' 2012 Presidential election

London, 29 October (ANI): mysterious search results from Google's algorithm has apparently decided that the U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney a poor chance of winning the election in 2012.

When a user enters the word "Romney can win" in the search, spell check function responds with the message "Did you mean: Romney can not win?" CBS News reports.

The former governor of Massachusetts is the only candidate to suffer from the search engine glitch.

Google has insisted that nothing personally against Romney, and it's just a bug in the system.

"Our Spell Check feature is automated, and while no algorithm is perfect, we are always working on our quest to improve quality," a Google spokesman.

"Last year we have about 500 improvements to our search algorithm launched," the spokesman increasing.

According to the report, the results show a series of articles speculating on the chances of Romney in the presidential election race.

Some top results include MSNBC blog:. "Why Romney can not win in 2012" and a Fox News article entitled, "Christie" Can this election to win, we can not have four years with Barack Obama 'Romney. "(ANI)

Nokia unveils first Windows phones

Nokia introduced the first two Windows Phone-based devices, the Nokia  Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, at Nokia World in London on Wednesday (Oct. 26).

The upper end 800 Lumia with 3.7inch AMOLED screen, 1.4 GHz processor, 8megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and 16GB embedded memory targeted to compete with the likes of Apple and the iPhone 4S Samsung Galaxy S II, while a 710 Lumia 5megapixel camera and 8 GB built-in memory is more focused on the mid-tier segment. Both phones have a battery 1450MAh.

"This is a sleek, well designed phone, with a best in class camera and it has some strong key selling points," says IDC Francisco Jeronimo of Lumia 800, although he admitted that the phone may have difficulty competing in a market where Android and iOS still dominates.

The Lumia 710, he said, was more of a dark horse in the mid-tier segment with a unit was not expected until the second quarter of 2012 surprised.

"This is the most affordable 1.4-GHz processor unit, a mid-price tier unit with high end specs," he said.

Jeronimo said he felt Nokia had in the past year "a long way to go" and notes that Stephen Elop's reign as CEO and company "180-degree" change in strategy seems to be bearing fruit.

"Stephen Elop joined as CEO of the largest phone maker in the world, a new strategy and a new paradigm for Nokia, executed it and more than exceeded expectations by delivering not just one but two new Windows devices," he said, adding "Nokia looks to what was missing for years, to speed match the pace of the market."

Not all analysts were as impressed as Jeronimo, but Jack Gold of Gold Associates postulate that Nokia had missed a chance at the event, and still had not shown the level of regeneration is needed to run the company.

"I am left with many questions after the announcements. How do the new units in a diverse environment fit in a corporate environment? Where is the company the tools to install, activate and manage safe? What Nokia add value to the top flight Windows Phone? What did they do for Windows Phone platform to improve what Microsoft does? Nokia seemed once again to show that they understand how attractive hardware, but fell short range of services that they could discern market, especially with important business user, "Gold said.

"Samsung is a great Windows phone by HTC. Why would a consumer choose a Nokia device?" he added.

Ironically, Jeronimo counters that they want from Samsung and HTC just may be what Nokia needs to increase sales to help by raising the profile of the Windows operating system, which currently owns only 2 percent of the smartphone market.

IDC estimates that as a result of established brands like Samsung, HTC and LG devices with the push Windows Phone operating system, Microsoft's mobile software needs to grow a market share of 11 percent in 2012 to be seen and perhaps the second largest smartphone operating in 2015 with 20 percent market share, behind Android and iOS forward.

These predictions, but will likely depend on the delivery of Nokia devices in the U.S. market. The Lumia 800 and 710 will apparently only available in selected markets in Europe, with the company the company on a U.S. launch until early next year when LTE stabilizes.

Microsoft's restrictive policy on changing the operating system's user interface can make it difficult for handset manufacturers to offer based on their Windows phone that could make it a hard sell for consumers to distinguish.

"Nokia needs to leverage its expertise in hardware, but differentiation will come from their unique services that other vendors can not easily match," said Jeronimo. Gold, however, says that Nokia still has not shown how it adds value to the standard Microsoft OS and launch of the premium price (420 euros, or around Rs.27, 000 ($ 599) for intervention) is risky in a market where the iPhone 4S will cost the same.

"Nokia is competing against the market leaders in almost the same price. There is no benefit acquired by Nokia in a bid to return to the market at a reasonable price with a premium product," says Gold.

In fact, Nokia has lost significant share in the smartphone segment since 2007 and Jeronimo notes, "It will be much more than just a few Nokia phones to take to bring back."

The new devices launched today, can be a "good first step" in the opinion of Jeronimo and more clearly a sign that Nokia is "culture, reintegration of change and focus on growth."

Review of Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro Android Smartphone

Sony Ericsson as a company undergoes a small change, one would expect their devices to do it well. Unfortunately this is not the case, but never really a general concern for users to take issue with much of the SE equipment with the functionality and style. The same can be said about the recently launched Xperia Pro. Here is a look.

Form Factor
Available in three colors - silver, black and red with a chrome rim and a beautifully smooth slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Xperia Pro receives high scores in the design segment. It has a 3.7-inch LED backlit LCD with capacitive touchscreen (480 x 854 pixels) Mobile Sony Bravia Engine to improve the color, brightness and contrast. All in all, it makes for crystal clear viewing in all lighting conditions. The scratch resistant screen was much more adamant about keeping away scratches compared to the Xperia Arc. Android's return home and menu buttons at the bottom of the screen in the form of three physical buttons that are still soft to the touch for activation.

Have had the ability to handle all three colors, it seems that SE has made a slight faux pas in light and shadows of the keyboard fuse model. Stripped of a sensor to adjust the backlighting of the keys to activate and leave them on when the keyboard is out because of light staining of the handset keys are not clearly visible in bright light. This is not the case with dark designs. If you are versatile enough with QWERTY-style, it does not matter a bit like the keyboard, with some space keys are soft, well distributed, provide quick and comfortable typing.

The lack of a hot swap slot for microSD cards is a bit of a problem, but because SE bundles an 8GB card to find a reason to ever remove the card will be difficult. The USB port is square at the top of the handset (a good thing) with a micro-HDMI port on the right above the camera button (bottom) and the volume rocker. The 3.5 mm handsfree connector on the left side above the power / screen lock key

Xperia Pro is designed for both style statement and a simple but effective use to be and do it with a sense of elegance and class.

Features and Performance
Interface
Runs under the hood of the Xperia Pro is a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor that SE has managed to make very effective use. The UI is super literally fought with apps that will directly open to the slightest touch of a finger or gesture. Screen rotation was calm and was free and so was based gesture control of parts of the UI and Anroid 2.3 aka Gingerbread. It scored well in benchmarks and with a score of 37.5 in a single thread running Linpak and 33.8 in multithreaded run.

Sony Ericsson's custom Android UI, but apparently not well designed to smooth on a wide range of smartphones we've tested. But it was not the case with Xperia Pro. The course as an alternative UI Launcher Pro worked so much better in terms of usability. Timescape is also part of the package, and a new UI widget name, type and send you exactly what it says and even make your post to social networks or e-mail is very convenient. Áðáó File Manager also for folders.

Media
Audio options include EQ presets and an option called xLOUD designed to stimulate production through the internal speakers. But the sound quality is top notch, and the rather comfortable hands-free devices that were identified included the advantage. The tone quality is very well balanced and distortion at maximum volume is vanishingly small but non-existent with a higher end quality earphones. An FM radio is also subject, and while it may not be the best reception in some areas, overall it was a non-issue. Unfortunately, the Xperia Pro codec does not support AVI files, so you need a third player or Mobo Rock Player. This 720p files in almost any video format can be played seamlessly.

At the TV market Google takes another shot

Google Inc. makes an effort to bring its Web-savvy television, hoping for a big new market to exploit consumers, despite the lukewarm response to his original offer.

Internet search engine unveiled a revamped version of its Google TV service on Friday, bringing new features designed to make the product easier to use and more attractive to consumers.

The new 2.0 version of Google TV offers new tools to recommend movies, TV shows and online video to TV viewers, making it easier for software developers to create new programs from the TV screen to create.

"There is great thirst for the use of the Internet in the room," says Google VP of Product Management Mario Queiroz, head of Google TV initiative.

But in a sign of the many challenges that frustrated Google's ambitions for the living and the other tech companies including Apple Inc., described the Google TV Queiroz as a prisoner a "long term commitment."

"I do not know the exact month it will rise," he told Reuters during a demonstration of the new product on Google's Mountain View, California headquarters last week. "I think a lot of progress over the last year and the next year will be a lot more progress."

Google TV - currently comes installed on some Sony Corp. TVs and Logitech International set-top boxes - to consumers online video and Web sites on their TV and access to play with specialized applications such as video games.

Google will not disclose how many users of Google TV, which was launched with great fanfare last year. But some analysts say that version 1.0 of the product has been a flop.

"The fire they never attempted to start, even got a spark," says Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.

The $ 299 price for the cheapest Google TV set too high, said McQuivey (Logitech has since lowered the price of its product to $ 100). And the fact that many of the television, perhaps sensing a threat to Google's web-based version of their shows blocked and available on Google TV sets created confusion among consumers, he said.

But television is attractive a market for Google to ignore, analysts say.

For Google, 96 percent of its revenues from advertising last year that television is a significant opportunity for expansion. According to research firm IDC, in the American television this year is expected to nearly 70 billion dollars in the market.

With a foothold in the living room can also be important for Google because the boundaries between traditional media and the internet backlash as Google moves to the rich treasure of amateur videos on YouTube instead of helping with professionally produced content.

Other tech giants also recognize TV options, including Microsoft Corp., has taken steps to Xbox console into a general purpose media player.

In the recently published biography of Steve Jobs, says author Walter Isaacson a conversation where the recently deceased Apple co-founder said he was interested in creating an "integrated television sets" that seamlessly connect to the Internet and all of a consumer electronic devices. Until now, analysts say Apple's foray into the television market has been a rare failure for the iPhone maker.

"The reason these companies are all looking at this market is that there are many markets that 200 million plus units a year and has an installed base of one billion plus screens," says IDC analyst Danielle Levitas, referring to the worldwide sales set of television rights. "You can not ignore markets like big on monitors, which are important in terms of hours and delivered media."

MOTOROLA FACTOR
One advantage that Google could have the television market is the planned $ 12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., a cable TV set-top boxes and mobile phones do.

"If I was Google, the first thing I would do is (Google TV software) in the next round of Motorola set-top boxes, and (on cable providers) says:" We'll give you half-off for these things If Google TV sets in, "said McQuivey of Forrester Research.

Google Queiroz refused to discuss how Motorola could fit into Google TV plans other than to note that Google has said that Motorola plans to run as an independent company after the acquisition closed.

Beginning on Sunday, Google will automatically upgrade the software on existing Google TV Sony devices that are already in consumers' homes, with software updates to Logitech comes shortly after. New Google TV devices from manufacturers like Samsung and Vizio are expected next year.

Google has built a Google TV on the new "Honeycomb" version of its Android operating system. The company has also redesigned the look of Google TV to replace messy, computer-like screen with options with a more minimalist stripe graphic icons that sits at the bottom of the TV screen.

Google's Android Market, the central clearinghouse for smartphone and tablet programs designed to run on Android OS, is now available on Google TV. This means that software developers, smartphone applications, such as Rovio's Angry Birds do could easily versions that run on Google TV offering.

But unlike Internet smartphones, which has become wildly popular in recent years, Web-TV products from Google and other companies face a steep path, as they strive to prove their value to consumers, some analysts say.

"It's an incredibly difficult screen to find out," says IDC's Levitas, noting that unlike smartphones and PCs, television is often watched by more people and have two different experiences - standard TV programs and Web content - must be linked cleverly.

"TV is the last frontier, we crack in the connected experience," said Levitas.

Facebook stops 6,00,000 hacking attempts daily

London: Social networking site Facebook has said that it seems at least 600,000 attempts every day by hackers trying to break into user accounts using stolen usernames and passwords. Facebook has an estimated 800 million users and receives more than one billion logins each day, the Daily Mail said.

The hackers trying to steal user information, spread scams and fraudulent offers or send malicious messages and also trying to sell counterfeit goods to members' friends. Facebook recently announced a guarantee to promote its new "trusted friends" password restoration technique.

Many of the hackers are caught by additional authentication issues, such as asking users to identify friends in photos. "At least 600,000 times a day, we stop a bad guy from getting access to an account, although he guessed, phishing or stolen login and password for an account. It is something we are very proud," spokesman Barry Schnitt Facebook was quoted as saying.

The Google TV Box Without Rooting It will be hacking

Continuation of my potential destruction of Benjy's worth of gear, I pressed "fn" key and left arrow key and the recovery menu. I chose "update will apply from sdcard: / update.zip" with "Enter" key on your keyboard. "OK" button between the arrows did not work. The case went through several boots and setup for a new, revised logo was. My TV was now a large tablet - I had hoped.

Day 1: Install Honeycomb
I have long been of the opinion that the most effective way to get Internet-based content on a TV easily connect a laptop to your flat panel monitor with an HDMI cable. The laptop serves as an oversized remote control. You get a full flash-based web browser, hard drive and keyboard on your TV.

It is not lean-back interface you get with a cable or satellite subscription, but you have an a la carte programming available via web-browser streaming services like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) and others.

"Set-top" products out there that a copy of the cable as a lean-back experience with Internet-based streaming services. They include U.S. $ 59 Roku and Boxee D-Link, among others.

However, none of them being ad-supported service Hulu to see - they force you into a $ 7.99 one month Hulu "Plus" service, and none of them a solution that allows you to watch a Slingbox. The Slingbox place-shifting device that allows you to stream individual "roll" a power over the Internet from a TV source to another location.

It looked like it might change. Google came a year ago with a "set top" of Android-based product called "Google TV", which appeared at least one of these problems, it featured a Chrome browser. Hulu is visible through Chrome.

Does this not say that for a couple hundred dollars I could bury a box in my TV stand that would allow me to regain my laptop? Well, the answer was "No", because when Hulu blocked Google's products access to streams, along with CBS and others.

Price Reduction
I've forgotten my Google search and television through the years - came back on my laptop forever tied to television - and two things caught my attention. First cut Logitech, a manufacturer of the device from Google, prices from $ 249 to $ 99, the second, rumors began that the original semi-failed and poorly evaluated software would soon be upgraded to Honeycomb (Android 3.1 - the flagship Android.)

This meant that a possible solution for my laptop claw-back may be paid, and if it was like Honeycomb on a tablet, infinitely customizable - just like a PC.



The hackers
I started researching and discovered a group of developers inhabit a forum and a wiki called "GTVHacker." This band of modders had successfully rooted Logitech box, giving full control of installed programs, and later had stumbled on a leaked early version of the eternally deferred Honeycomb upgrade and was unofficially came to work on the box. Honeycomb on your TV? Was a TV not a huge tablet waiting to happen?

I chose the leaked Honeycomb update route for my efforts, instead of root. The root user pre-Froyo Android 2.1 and requires some soldering on a virgin box - a box that has never been updated. Although I bought a virgin Logitech Revue Google TV box, my last soldering project - on a smartphone GPS chip - the unit always causes overheating. I decided to play safe with my now relatively more discount $ 89 box.

The first thing I did after shopping it was something to connect my TV to the original software. Netflix reportedly worked well, although I try, You Tube and worked well. CBS-owned Clicker app would not let me see the latest CBS 'person of interest. "As I know, Hulu is not.

After about five minutes of messing with this disappointing experience, I have a FAT32 formatted USB drive and loaded with the drained, long known windedly update file. As recommended, I renamed the file "update.zip".



Upgrade
Following the instructions GTVHacker, along with scary disclaimers about bricking the box, no way to go back and so I began to Logitech Revue with connected USB. Waited two seconds and pressed the button "Connect". I leave for boot logo, automatic restart and get back to the logo, at which time, advised by the hackers, I had the "Connect" button. An arrow and a 'roll barbershop "showed up.

Continuation of my potential destruction of Benjy's worth of gear, I pressed "fn" key and left arrow key and the recovery menu. I chose "update will apply from sdcard: / update.zip" with "Enter" key on your keyboard. "OK" button between the arrows did not work. The case went through several boots and setup for a new, revised logo was in that moment I knew that I had a successful update. My TV was now a large tablet - I had hoped.

Stay tuned: The next phase of my plan would be to figure out how to get apps and content on Logitech Revue Google TV box. The leaked Honeycomb 3.1 operating system was now, for all purposes to run a giant honeycomb tablet.

Google's Share Of China's Search Market Has Fallen From 30% To 18%

Now 77.7% revenue share and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) 18.3%, in the search engine the Chinese market, based on third quarter 2011 data from iResearch.

Approximately one and a half years ago, Google engaged in a public conflict with the Chinese government refuses to censor search results and redirecting traffic to the China Hong Kong office to continue. During this period, Baidu had 10% market share, while Google has lost 11%.

Although Google and Baidu both generates almost all of their revenue on search advertising, their paths also explained by Google as more of a technology company, Baidu and more momentum in the media.

Recent data do iResearch earlier media reports that Sogou, a search engine Sohu (Nasdaq: Sohu) was surpassed by Google in China seems unlikely. By income, Sogou still ranks a distant third at 2.1%.

Q3 total sales reached 5.5 billion RMB search (USD 866 million), up 78% over the same period last year. Search Engine sales increased by a boom in e-commerce advertising spending in the past year.

iResearch data comes from the company's financial reports and estimates of its own tracking systems.

Latest trend in Mobile Technologies

   Fast computing on mobile devices is what customers are looking for away to the growing Smartphone market. Smartphones allow users on the Internet, streaming video, access to Wi-Fi, email, chat, instant messaging, access to social networking and more. Because of the increasing popularity of social media has the mentality of the people also changed. All the major mobile device platform developers new mobile device operating systems. Introducing Android from Google, Apple iOS, Microsoft's Windows 7 for mobile devices and Symbian V3 Nokia delivered a wide range of customers to choose from.

   Tablet PCs, the recent introduction of mobile computers, is also attracting business greatly. Apple introduced the iPhone last year on the market with a tree. Apple iPhone 7,500,000 units sold in the first six months. Microsoft tried to sell the tablets in the past but can not control the market, but Apple's iPhone with a high resolution display and a sleek design attracted millions of customers. Google keeps track of the mobile technology market was established in cooperation with Verizon Wireless to launch Android 2.2 with major changes from previous versions. Android supports third party software system developed by Google developers and open source community. Android helped reduce the prices of smartphones under $ 100. Powered smartphones with Android, the first priority in the smart phone enthusiasts because of its features, customized and value for money price. Soon, Apple launched its iPhone 4G with a number of improvements and new features compared to its previous 3G version. Apple opened the iPhone platform to third-party application support after three years with the first product launch in this category. A large memory of 32 GB free and unlimited access to the iTunes Store for users to help build a strong and loyal customer base.

   The decline in the price of data plans cell phone providers also increased the popularity of smartphones. Thousands of small programs, such as smartphones in small playing areas, photo editors and chatting machines. Mobile applications, the bustle of the city. This also helps companies like Google, Verizon and RIM for their own online applications from third parties that are open.

   In the U.S., launched the Sprint and Verizon their first 4G phone and service this summer that the company moves to 4G wireless networks. With the introduction of 4G technology by telecommunications providers, mobile device manufactures also new compatible devices on the market as well. Customers are looking for features like Wi-Fi, EDGE, IM, social networking access, touch screen, QWERTY keyboard in their gadgets. Application developers and device manufactures are also working on various mobile technologies to improve the safety of these devices. Chip makers, product engineering companies, and handset makers are also rolling out new security features for secure e-mail monitoring and access data from mobile devices. Chinese smartphones, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. are also entering the market in the near future Google Android phones.

   The next decade will be crucial for mobile technologies and the possibilities for mobile phones is far from being achieved.

Future iPad Could Have 3D Gesture Controls, Patent Shows

Ever, may not be the only way you control your iPhone. The iPads in the future could be manipulated by 3D gesture, a patent discovered by openly Apple suggests.

A patent application filed by Apple in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office shows that you could cursors, icons, files, lists, text, images, etc. control various hand signals. There are a series of movements that can be applied to these elements as symbols such as check marks or question marks to manipulate letters or preset patterns, a pattern of the user, or combinations of these.

If Apple adds this feature to the iPhone, it means that you would be able to make your tablet from across the room, similar to the way Xbox Kinect works. The patent is called Siri, debuted integrated voice controlled Apple iPhone 4S, but also to the service with 3D movements can make future devices more attractive.

The patent filing also includes video editing and annotation using a gesture-controlled toolbar. It would provide a range of predefined gesture-based commands for beginners, but advanced users can customize their own controls.

Gestures would work through the front-facing camera on the iPhone, which means that it may not be exclusive to a future iPhone. If Apple chooses to feature in a newer version of IOS, it can work with other devices with two cameras, like the iPad iPhone 2 or iPhone 4 or 4S. But apparently Apple noted that older gadgets may not have the processing power to support this technology.

There is no evidence if 3D gestures will be added to the iPhone, but it is widely rumored iPad 3 will debut in March 2012.

Apple originally filed the patent in the second quarter of 2010.

iPhone 4S coming to India on Nov 24

Apple IPhone 4S

NEW DELHI: You should be able to get your hands on an iPhone 4S in India on November 24th, says BGR, who have had a knack of predicting Apple's India-related launches in the past.

News is that it will not be getting any cheaper, with the 8GB iPhone 4 retailing for around Rs 30,000.

Samsung Overtakes Apple as World's Biggest Smartphone Seller

Samsung Electronics Co., Apple Inc. pulled the last quarter of the world's largest smartphone vendor in the midst of a growing technology and the legal battle between the two companies to be.

Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the fourth quarter with 23.8 percent of the market, Milton Keynes, UK-based Strategy Analytics said in an e-mail statement today. Apple's 17.1 million shipments, comprising 14.6 percent of the market, pushed Cupertino, Calif.-based company to second place. Nokia Oyj maintained its third position, he said.

Apple, which released its iPhone 4S this month held the first place only a quarter after the termination of Espoo, Finland-based Nokia earlier this year. Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, has developed into Google Inc. 's Android software to sell its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers to rise.

"Samsung has come up with products that appeal to all different form factors and specifications out there," said TZ Wong, a Beijing-based analyst at researcher IDC. "It's a strategy they have done very well."

Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment after regular business hours. Nam Ki Yung, a Seoul-based Samsung spokesman declined to comment on estimates of the research company.

Smartphone sales
"Samsung's growth is due to a combination of elegant hardware design, popular Android services, unforgettable sub-brands and extensive global distribution," Strategy Analytics said. "Samsung has proven that it is possible, at least in the short term, to differentiate and grow with the Android ecosystem."

The global smartphone market increased 44 percent from the previous year to 117 million units, according to Strategy Analytics. Nokia declined to 14.4 percent from 32.7 percent a year earlier.

In the broader market cheaper mobile devices including Nokia's first preserved even after the loss of 5 percentage points of share, the researcher said in a separate statement. The 27.3 percent is held 22.6 percent in front of Samsung, LG Electronics Inc. in the third.

Chinese ZTE Corp. phone maker is cheaper handsets helped to 4.7 percent and Apple for the fourth. The worldwide market shipments rose 14 percent to 390 million units, says the researcher.

Samsung, also the world's largest producer of television, today announced record sales of its telephone division, which helped mask a decline in earnings of computer memory chips and panels.

Legal battle
Samsung rose 2.3 percent to ₩ 945,000 at the close of trading in Seoul today. The shares have fallen 0.4 percent this year, compared with a 25 percent leap for Apple.

Apple and Samsung have each accused of infringing patents on technology used in mobile phones and tablets, with lawsuits still pending in Milan and Sydney. Legal battle between the two companies intensified after Apple claimed in a lawsuit in April in the U.S., the Samsung Galaxy devices "slavishly" copied the iPhone and the iPad.

Apple's profits last quarter missed analysts for the first time in at least six years after customers delayed purchases in anticipation of handset new phone. Sales of the new model iPhone 4S, surpassed 4 million in the first weekend of sales, which began on 14 October, topping the previous sales record for the Apple handset.

Samsung and Nokia also brought new phones this month, as consumers increasingly use mobile phones to surf the Web, play videos and access to social networking sites.

 Samsung and Google Talk for pit-type technology Android Ice Cream Sandwich at Apple's Siri voice-command digital assistant. Nokia, which has a partnership with Microsoft Corp. this week unveiled its Windows-based mobile phone called Lumia 800th.

Sony Vaio Y-series 11.6inch review

Sony looks to rival MacBook Air with its scaled down ultraportable netbook version. Let’s find out more about this high-performance netbook

Following on from Apple’s release of an 11inch version of the MacBook Air, Sony has announced 11.6inch version of its Vaio Y series. Powered by a new AMD E350 Fusion dual core processor, the Vaio Y feels very snappy and it’s fast enough for working in a multitasking environment.

One area where the E350 processor is superior to an Atom is graphics performance. Its on-board graphics chip, which shares system memory, is far quicker at rendering 3D graphics, managing around 12fps in a 3D game.

Though the Vaio Y supports 4GB of RAM, it only comes with the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium, thereby limiting the available space to only 3.5GB of RAM. This may annoy the user, as the operating system can’t be swapped out for a 64-bit version, or Windows 7 Professional for that matter, when ordering.

As a result, users still have to retain the older apps that aren’t 64-bit compatible. One area where the E350 processor scores over Atom is graphics performance. Its on-board graphics chip, which shares system memory, is far quicker at rendering 3D graphics, managing around 12fps in a 3D game. We wouldn’t want to use it for strenuous work in a GPGPU-accelerated program, but it’s also capable of playing 720p high definition video so it’s not without its uses.

Previous AMD laptop and netbook processors have been power hungry, resulting in short battery life, and produced lots of excess heat. The latter lead to laptops with loud cooling fans fruitlessly attempting to reduce lap-scorching temperatures. Thankfully the underside of the Vaio Y never became uncomfortably warm, even when churning through our demanding benchmarks. The fan is always audible though, but never loud enough to be a nuisance and we soon got used to it.

The Vaio Y is heavier than most netbooks and some other ultraportable laptops at 1.44kg, but it’s still very light and easy to carry around. The plastic chassis is a little creakier than we would like, but it feels sturdy enough. All of this would be for naught if the battery doesn’t last for a long time on a single charge, but it lasted six hours and 45 minutes in our light usage web browsing battery test. This is good for such an inexpensive laptop and long enough to last a transatlantic flight.

If the Vaio Y looks familiar, it’s because it’s essentially a smaller version of the larger 13.3inch Vaio Y series laptop which has now been discontinued. That model used ultra low voltage Intel processors and also had the benefit of an ExpressCard slot and a four-pin FireWire 400 port. This 11.6inch version keeps the three USB2 ports, memory card slots, HDMI and VGA ports, Gigabit Ethernet connection and 320GB hard disk. Most people won’t miss the FireWire port, but the ExpressCard slot would’ve been useful for adding a 3G modem since one isn’t built in.

One area where the 11.6 Vaio Y differs from its larger predecessor is that both its keyboard and touchpad are necessarily smaller. The keyboard is still comfortable to type on though since its responsive keys give plenty of feedback when pressed. Only the cursor and shift keys are smaller than we’d expect. The touchpad is large enough and feels smooth and accurate. The touchpad buttons feel great, giving just the right amount of feedback when pressed.

The 11.6inch screen is very bright with good levels of contrast thanks to its glossy finish. The glossy sheen does mean that the screen reflects overhead lights, such as fluorescent strip lighting, easily leading to glare. This can look distracting, but it’s not as bad as other glossy displays we’ve seen.

The 1,366x768 pixel resolution is the same as that found on most 13.3inch screens. It is much easier to use most programs on this screen than it is on the cramped 1,024x600 resolutions of most 10.1inch netbook screens. However, some may find text hard to read compared to using the same resolution on larger 13.3inch screens.

Oracle to hire 3,500 employees next year

Oracle has started its recruitment campaign through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube and his official blog

Country IT job scenario seems very optimistic in the coming years. At TCS, the big software now will Oracle Corp. introduce the plan to hire next year.

With the current workforce of 21,000 in India, Oracle plans to hire 3,500 employees in its domestic and global business according to a report in The Times of India.

"With our current employees and the new lease plan to add 3,500 more people, we want to ensure we have the right talents, skills and attitude to the growth of our company's fuel and servicing our customers as they look on their transformation journeys" said Sandeep Mathur, Oracle India said in a statement.

The company has already begun recruiting campaign through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. They also said a post on their official blog.

At this time Oracle has development centers in Bangalore and Hyderabad in India.

The recruitment plan is considered as the result of growth in the company's business units. Recently, Oracle comes with "Oracle Database Appliance" and "Oracle SPARC Supercluster T4-4" to provide customers with choice and a wide range of products and solutions across the database, middleware, applications and hardware in the Indian market.

Google may acquire Yahoo

Google has talked to at least two private-equity firms for financing deal to buy Yahoo Inc.'s core business

Google is reportedly in a talk to acquire Yahoo, the internet pioneer through private equity firm.

Google has talked to at least two private-equity firms for financing deal to buy Yahoo Inc.'s core business, said an unnamed source, according to a report by the The Wall Street Journal.

The report has mentioned that the discussion is in a very primary stage and a formal proposal is yet to be decided. It is also not clearly said which private-equity firms Google is in a talk with.

It is predicted that this acquisition might gear up Yahoo to reach a better financial stage as revenue wise Yahoo is not facing a very good time. For the third quarter which ended on Sept. 30, 2011, the company reported to have a 5 percent decline in overall revenue year over year.

Earlier, Microsoft also wanted to buy Yahoo, but finally it could not. According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, it was good fortune that his company didn't buy Yahoo for a lofty price three years ago.

However, this time, Yahoo's valuation might go lower compared to Microsoft's bid.

Replace your Blogger profile with a Google+ profile

It is the first integration between Google+ and Blogger

In the first integration between the Google+ social networking site and the Blogger blog publishing platform, users will be able to replace their Blogger profiles with their Google+ profiles, the company announced on Monday.

The benefits for Blogger publishers of using the Google+ profile include giving their readers "a more robust and familiar sense of who you are" as well as having their posts surface with an annotation in the search results of their social connections, Google said.

"Plus, bloggers who switch will automatically get access to the Google+ integrations we'll be rolling out in the future," wrote Vardhman Jain, a Google software engineer, in the post.

Of course, since Google+ requires that people use their real name, doing this profile switch may not be a good option for the many bloggers who publish using a pseudonym.

Unifying all Google products
"That's why we've made it completely optional to switch," Jain wrote.

The option to replace a Blogger profile with a Google+ profile is available in Blogger In Draft, the testing site where Blogger publishers can turn on new features before they're generally available to everyone on Blogger.

Google expects the profile replacement option to be ready for all Blogger publishers through the main Blogger site "in the coming weeks."

Google officials, from CEO Larry Page on down, have made it very clear that Google+ isn't meant to be just a stand-alone social networking site, but rather a unifying service that ties Google products together and adds social components to them.

As such, the expectations for Google+ within the company are extremely high already, although it's a fairly new product launched in limited beta in June and to the general public about a month ago. It recently topped 40 million members, according to the company.

New profile will affect online anonymity 
However, it's unclear whether the Google+ real names requirement will deter a significant number of users from linking their various Google accounts with Google+ because they may not want their real identity associated with some or all of those services, such as YouTube and Gmail.

For this reason, it will be interesting to see how Blogger publishers respond to this new option of slapping their Google+ "real" identity on the blogs they publish.

It's well known that many bloggers opt to keep their identity hidden for fear of possible consequences from expressing their opinions, such as problems with their employers and political persecution in countries where dissent isn't tolerated.

Google officials have said that they plan to allow for the use of pseudonyms in Google+ at some point, but it's unclear when that will happen and to what extent it will be possible to withhold one's real identity.

At this point, it's not required for users of Google services to have a Google+ account. However, people who do opt to join Google+ must first set up a public Google Profile which, at minimum, must make their real name visible to anyone who views the page.

Sony to turn Sony Ericsson into 100 percent subsidiary

Ericsson receives £ 918,000,000 as its share of the company and its patents.

Sony Ericsson to acquire 50 percent stake in their Sony Ericsson mobile phone joint venture to make the company a subsidiary in January 2012.

Tokyo-based electronics maker said in a news release Ericsson will pay £ 918.16 million (USD 1.5 billion) in the agreement that several sets of cross-license patents and intellectual property rights covering.

Sony has so far launched its smartphones through joint venture, which began operations in 1981. The agreement will allow phones to integrate into the overall product lineup, as competitors like Apple and Samsung are doing, and better leverage its broad music and film companies.

"In the past ten years the mobile market has shifted the focus from simple mobile phones for rich smartphones that access to Internet services and content. The transaction is a logical strategic step that takes into account the nature of this development and its impact on the market," Sony said its release.

The tie-up helped turn the ailing phone business of both companies, using well-known brands of Sony phone models such as Walkman and Cyber-shot series.

The joint venture has recently been advanced phones under the brand Xperia, Sony and its gaming, streaming and download services network to work on the Android-based devices.

Sony said that the agreement will allow phones to include in its "four-screen strategy" that aims to offer content and linking smart phones, laptops, tablets and TV.

China retains Internet users in an attempt to control social network

Chinese authorities have begun to keep Internet users for allegedly spreading rumors on the net, in its latest measure to help the country to monitor social media sites.

China's State Internet Information Office said the number of online internet rumors were fabricated, and gave the relevant departments to prosecute the perpetrators, according to a Tuesday report from China's state-run news agency Xinhua.

The so-called rumors of a case where a user is allegedly disseminating false information about income tax provisions of the state, falsification of documents. The user was arrested for 15 days. In another case, arrested a Chinese student from Yunnan, after what the government is to spread a rumor about an incident in which eight officers killed a man in his village on blogs and forums. The "rumor" that the man had told officers killed because of pollution generated from a cement plant.

Rumors, or just to stop the flow of facts?
China censors the Internet is already difficult for anti-government and politically sensitive content, and sites with local news organizations to the laws. But last month the Chinese authorities have discussed the need for land control popular microblogging sites, known in Chinese as Weibos who are like the American service Twitter.

While micro-blogging sites have received hundreds of millions of Internet users, the places also a hotbed of rumors. August last year, a top Chinese Communist Party official urged Internet companies to stop spreading false information.

By intervening against the latest round of rumors on the net, the authorities have closed several accounts microblogging, according to Xinhua report. The websites that the accounts needed changes. The authorities are also currently looking for the creators of several other rumors, including a female high school student who paid for sex with an officer is found.

China's State Internet Information Office can not be reached for comment. But according to the report, the office said specific users and sites that are lacking in credibility that an orderly dissemination of information interfere with their rumors. "This is the social order of influence, and should be treated under the law. We will not allow the unhealthy trend of rumors spread on the Internet," the company said.

News of the arrests comes as China has been the importance of online social networks, and the influence they can exert on society to understand, says Phelim Kine, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch in Asia. The lesson was clear when in July, the Chinese Internet users took to micro-blogs of the nation to complain and criticize the authorities handle a high-speed train wreck that killed dozens.

"Rumors can damage the goodness of ordinary Chinese people"
"The government wants to castrate the Weibos. It wants to be able to scare people not sharing information, so think twice about sharing information that may or may not be" sensitive "," Kine said.

Governments have the right to disseminate information that could harm the public to stop, Kine said. But in the case of China's achievements, there is no independent regulatory body set up to determine what information was rumor. "This is a major problem with regard to freedom of expression," he says, adding that the Chinese micro-blogs can ultimately resort to require their users to register their real names.

A number of Chinese Internet users, but said in interviews that they support the government's efforts.

A Chinese microblog user named Chen Zhirong, said that all the online gossip should be stopped and the Internet behind them should be held accountable. "Right now the rumors on the internet and micro-blogs are prevalent before," he said. "For them not to fight and not punish the rumor starters will only encourage the arrogance of the Internet companies' websites."

Another Chinese microblogging users who refused to give his real name, says the authorities should carefully deal with online rumors. "These rumors goodness ordinary Chinese people harm," he said.

Google purchase Motorola Mobility for £7.7bn

Google said that the agreement is not the development of its Android operating system affects

Google has an agreement with mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and tablet to take about $ 12.5 billion (7.7 billion pounds).

The company has offered about $ 40 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday.

Motorola Mobility phones only ships and Xoom tablet with Google's Android operating system. The agreement will mean that Google is now a hardware manufacturer to work closely together to develop Android, says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.

Google will also manage an impressive patent portfolio from Motorola has said Milanesi. Motorola Mobility said earlier this year that it holds about 24,500 patents.

But trade can also be tensions over other mobile phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung, which also ship Android devices to create, she said. Since the launch of Android, Google's new Android release producers, running code release code with others about six months later.

Google may risk alienating the other manufacturers, but Milanesi said: "All these suppliers have so much invested in the platform that they are likely to go."

Google may also choose to accelerate development of its Android operating system on tablet PCs, where it is slower to catch on mobile phones, Milanesi said. The next version of Android, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich," will an operating system designed for tablets and mobile devices.

Google said that the acquisition "supercharge Android ecosystem and competition in mobile computing," said a press release. Google said that the agreement will not affect how Android was developed, and will remain open operating system, Google said.

The company will Motorola Mobility, which has about 20,000 employees, operated as an independent business, Google said. The transaction is expected by the end of this year or early next year.

Motorola Mobility, which separated from the parent company in early January, consists of two groups: mobile devices, making phones, and Home, as set-top boxes and other equipment based IPTV.

Amazon Kindle Fire increases the production

Because of the huge pre-order demand, Kindle is Amazon building one million Fires than expected.

Amazon is to stimulate the production of its Kindle Four tablet, thanks to the huge pre-order demand. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said the company is "to enhance capacity building and millions more than we had planned."

Fire is the Amazon Kindle first Android tablet device, the device starts in the U.S. on 15 November and will cost $ 199 It is not the most tricked-out tablet - that ships with 8 GB of memory (not expandable memory), no camera and no 3G, but the sub-$ 200 price tag and the fact that it runs Android (though Android 2, 3) seems to be more than enough to get people annoyed up.

Amazon has great expectations for the upcoming holiday season. According to Bezos, "September 28 was the largest order ever for Kindle today, even bigger than the previous peak holidays."

"In the three weeks since launch, Kindle orders for electronic ink twice the previous launch," said Bezos. Beyond the Kindle Fire, the company introduced the Amazon Kindle (89 pounds), Amazon Kindle Keyboard (€ 109) and Amazon Kindle keyboard 3G (149 pounds) in the United Kingdom.

Tablets are expected to have a hot item this holiday season. According to a recent report from the Consumer Electronics Association, wishes everyone a tablet for Christmas. In fact, tablets, surpassed only by clothing, adults' holiday wish lists, and only on adult holiday wish lists consumer.

Tablets for consumer wish list, people want laptops, televisions, electronic readers and videogame consoles. After the tablets on the overall list of gifts, people looking for laptops, calmness / happiness and money.

The association says that consumers expect to spend an average of $ 246 (€ 154) on electronics gifts this season - and with the Amazon Kindle Four tablet, which is actually a realistic price.

Amazon also released third quarter earnings report earlier this week. According to the report, Amazon's sales by 44% to $ 10.88 billion (£ 6.80 billion). But net profit falls 73% to $ 63 million (£ 39), compared with $ 268 million (€ 168 million) in the third quarter of 2010.

Accidentally deleted a file? Ways to get back

It only takes a moment of carelessness to permanently delete important data from your PC. But don't worry, you may still be able to recover most of it, if you stop using your-PC immediately and use data recovery software. When a file is deleted, even from inside the Recycle Bin, it doesn't actually vanish from the hard drive.

Instead, the computer merely changes the file's properties to make it invisible to the user. The file truly gets deleted only when the operating system overwrites fresh data to that space. You can try to recover the deleted files using free software.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery
This is a versatile software. It can not only recover the deleted files, but also help you save data from damaged partitions, pen drives, SD cards and CDs. MiniTool puts the retrieved files in folders, but you will have to go through several folders, Lost Files and Desktop, for example, before you find the actual files you were looking for. Once you have found the files, just click "save files" to get your data back. www.powerdatarecovery.com

Recuva
This lacks the advanced features of Mini-Tool , but one advantage of using Recuva is that you can see a preview before saving the retrieved files. This is handy because the computer often changes the names of deleted files to something like $ABC.MP3. www.piriform.com/recuva

Glary Undelete
In our tests, this was the slowest of the three. But one good feature is its ability to home in on the full name of the deleted files. This makes finding the right files a lot easier.

How to Use TrueCrypt to Encrypt Your Sensitive Documents

Unless you encrypt your files, can outsiders easily access them - even without knowing your Windows password - by starting their own special operating system from a floppy or a bootable USB drive.

If you work with sensitive data - because you are a small company, say, or because you can store personal financial documents on your computer - you should consider encrypting them to protect them from prying eyes and thieves, especially if you hold on a laptop that can easily be stolen or lost.

A handy tool for encryption is TrueCrypt from the TrueCrypt Foundation. This free, open source, you can install a virtual encrypted disks or encrypt the entire drive, including Windows drive.

In this article I will concentrate on describing how the virtual encrypted disks, which allows you to protect sensitive documents without having to encrypt your entire disk to create. For other encryption practical how-to's, click the article number, title listed in the right panel.

When you create a virtual encrypted disk with TrueCrypt do yourself a single encrypted file container you can access or decrypt the password you choose.

Like any other file, the file container will be deleted, moved or copied. But no one can access its content without providing the correct password.

The idea behind the container file corresponds to the idea behind the compressed zip files: You can add other files and folders in the file container, and while it remains closed, it appears as a single file in Windows .. But unlike with. Zip files, you can not just double click the encrypted file container to open and download the files open. With TrueCrypt you have the volume (file container) as a disk to install - and to do so, enter your password.

The file container appears as a drive in Windows, similar to the way C and D drives do, and you will be able to access, modify, delete, and many more files and folders to add in the encrypted file container.If you like try using TrueCrypt, begin to download. If you install, you can use the default settings, the installation is quick and easy.

After opening the application, follow these steps to create the encrypted file container:

First Click Create Volume to begin.

Second Keep it the first choice - Create an encrypted file container - selected and click Next.

Third Keep it the first choice - Standard TrueCrypt volume - selected and click Next.

4th Click Select File, select where the encrypted file container, give it a name and click Save. To continue,           click Next.

5th Unless you have a specific reason not to accept the default encryption options and click Next.

6th Secify the desired size of the encoded file to deliver. Make sure it is big enough for files and documents           you want to protect with room to grow if necessary fit. Enter the desired size and click Next.

7th Enter your preferred encryption / decryption password and click Next.

8th Keep the default volume format settings, but moving the mouse around randomly to any secure                      cryptographic strength and create. Click Format to create the encrypted file container.

To use the encrypted file container, you must mount as a drive. The easiest way to do this is to click on the desired drive letter on main TrueCrypt window, click File to locate and select your file container, and then on the mountain. You will be prompted to encrypt the password you have set when the file container. Enter and click OK, then you can open the encrypted files in Windows using the computer (or My Computer). As with other drives, you can see and access it via the open / save dialog boxes in Windows and other programs.

If you want the file container will be automatically mounted when you log on to Windows, you can add to your favorites.

Eric Geier is a freelance writer, tech, become a follower Twitter account of his writings. He is also founder of NoWiresSecurity, so small businesses can easily protect their Wi-Fi network with enterprise-class security.

Microsoft Office 2007 service pack finaly shiped

App Suite to retire mainstream support at six months

Microsoft Tuesday its latest service pack for Office 2007.

Service Pack 3 (SP3), which weighs in 351MB, was sent to the Microsoft Download Center yesterday, and have begun to appear as an optional install from Windows Update.

Microsoft will not start automatically download and install Office 2007 SP3 on customers' PCs for 90 days.

Office 2007 SP3 is the first service pack is SP2 since 2009, and the upcoming end of mainstream support, almost certainly his last.

This service pack debut was not a surprise earlier this month, Microsoft promised to send the update this month.

Microsoft was under a self-imposed deadline to get SP3 in October because it wanted to give business customers six months to test and implement before the suite is a retired mainstream support on 10 April 2012.

When Office 2007 will leave mainstream support, Microsoft provides most customers security updates only during a five year sentence extended support runs through April 11, 2017.

Users can continue to run Office 2007 SP2 - which version do not retire - but all the security updates Microsoft will stop SP2 a year from now.

Links to download pages for the various permutations of Office 2007 SP3 can be found in this Microsoft blog post.

Office 2007 went on general sale in January 2007 with Windows Vista, but was ousted by Office 2010 more than a year ago.

Apple launches in-store pickup of online orders.

Limited to San Francisco stores now, but will be rolled out "soon" in the U.S.

Apple today kicked off in-store pickup of orders on-line store, so customers can pick up their items at three stores in San Francisco.

According 9to5Mac.com, Apple will soon be expanded to pick up stores in the U.S.

Apple's online store has confirmed that the report with a message that read, "Choose a store in San Francisco. Comes in an American store near you."

Three stores in San Francisco now offer pickup: you Stockton St., Chestnut Street and 20 Ave.

Products showing "available now" at the end of the order can be picked up within an hour, Apple said. Customers can also designate someone other than themselves to pick up an order.

iTunes Gift Cards are not eligible for in-store pickup.

The new program expands the limited Apple's online store connections, Apple may have to reserve an item online buyers - most recently the iPhone 4S - for pickup at a local store.

Chrome 15 Released with a Improved Start Page

Chrome

Google has rolled out its version of Chrome 15, Äústable, AU channel. The update brings minor cosmetic changes including a new tab a little cleaner, and has also redesigned the Google Chrome Web Store with a simpler layout.

He Äúnew AU tab page that appears by default for blank tabs, which currently shows a thumbnail grid of the user, AOS most visited websites and provides shortcuts to the user, AOS installed web applications. The new version is functionally identical, but the layout and behavior are tweaked.

Users can scroll between the application shortcuts and page thumbnails by clicking on an arrow or using the navigation bar at the bottom of the page. They can also be several pages of application icons. The possibility Äúpin, AU a thumbnail image for the network is no longer available, but AOS is possible to drag a thumbnail of the application pages. Right-click a program icon allows users to specify whether the application should be opened in a normal tab, a pinned tab or full screen.

Besides these changes, even overtaking Google Chrome Web Store. The design is simplified with a design that feels more application-like. The main content area displays a grid of installable extensions, applications and themes. It will dynamically load more if you scroll down. A sidebar to the left you can search or filter by category, while a navigation bar on top shows breadcrumbs indicates your current location in the navigation hierarchy.

The new version is being rolled out to end users, but it can also be downloaded manually from Google, the AOS website.

Samsung Galaxy Note:freedom's just a stylus away

Samsung Galaxy Note

When the Samsung Galaxy Note was unveiled in September, the consumer electronics giant left us with one glaring unanswered question -- is the Galaxy Note a phone or a tablet?

On Tuesday, Samsung made it clear -- the Galaxy Note is a phone. It makes phone calls after all.

But it's also a large phone. Mini-tablet sized you could say, with a 5.3-inch touch screen sitting between a growing sea of 7-inch tablets and Samsung's own upcoming Galaxy Nexus phone that will feature a 4.65-inch display.

Samsung made the disclosure along with a list of specs for the new device posted below a new advertisement on YouTube for the Galaxy Note that shows the phone's stylus -- yes, a stylus -- being used to take notes, draw, capture screen shots and other functions. Samsung calls the stylus the "S Pen." A shout-out goes to the blog PocketNow for first reporting on the new ad.

So far the Galaxy Note has been shown running a modified version of Android Gingerbread. There's no word yet on whether it'll be upgraded to Google's newer Android release, Ice Cream Sandwich, whenever it launches in the U.S., and no word yet on price.

Google email can used by Oracle in patent case - judge

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp may use an internal Google Inc email Google fought to keep under wraps in a high stakes patent case over the Java programming language, a U.S. judge has ruled.

Oracle sued Google last year, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents.

In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also leveled copyright infringement claims against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programming language through its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Shortly before Oracle filed its lawsuit, a Google engineer drafted an email saying Google needs to negotiate a license for Java.

Google investigated alternatives to Java for Android and concluded "they all suck," the email said. Google sought to prevent Oracle from using the email in its case.

ORACLE 

But in an order on Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that a magistrate judge got it right by finding the email was not protected by the attorney client privilege.

"Google has failed to identify any aspect of the challenged order that was clearly erroneous or contrary to law," Alsup wrote.

Google representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.