Technology Updates

Earlier it was expected that Windows 10 wouldn’t arrive till October. But, now you won’t have to wait that long. Today Microsoft made an official announcement of the upcoming launch of Windows 10 launch. This happened at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) summit in Shenzhen, China. The software giant hasn’t given an official date but said that it will be release this summer. The most advanced and complete Windows OS will be released in 190 countries and 111 languages. The official blog post by Microsoft says: We continue to make great development progress and shared today that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Windows is being provided as a free upgrade to the existing users and the users can avail this offer starting this summer. The millions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 customers will be getting this offer. This free offer is valid just for a year, after that users will have to pay some undisc...

You may find it hard to believe, but a US based company Outernet is aiming for providing free Wi-Fi to every person on earth using low-orbit earth satellites. Outernet, also calling themselves as Humanity’s Public Library, is a global broadcast data startup currently being incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995 by Saša Vučinić and Stuart Auerbach. They recently began providing free Wi-Fi to 1.3 billion people across North America, Europe and most of the Middle East. They have covered regions of Asia Pacific by end of 2014 and by June 2015 the company aims to provide free internet to everybody across the globe. Currently, it is providing 200 MB of data per day through its high-speed signals, but soon it would be upgraded to 1 GB. The company is eying on providing 100 GB of data per day to users across the globe According to MDIF, the initial content access includes int...

Microsoft is unveiling new features and details of Windows 10 with every passing day. Windows 10 is poised to be the best and complete operating system ever built by Microsoft. Yesterday, it was leaked that Microsoft will be delivering new updates by using the peer-to-peer technology used in Torrents. Today, Microsoft made an announcement via its blog about the storage savings in the new version of Windows. Microsoft said that it is working on reducing the “disk footprint” of Windows 10 which will give more data storage to you. With the new improvements being made, you can save nearly 15GB of storage depending upon the computer configuration. So let me break it down to you, how Microsoft aims to achieve this much space saving: Using the file compression technique, Windows 10 will now use 2.6GB lesser on 64-bit machines and 1.5GB lesser storage space on 32-bit machines. Microsoft isn’t making Windows 10 to use separate recovery image for OS’s refresh and reset options. This will f...

The long-awaited moment has finally arrived. After replacing different services used for texting, photo sharing, and video calling, Facebook is ready to challenge PayPal and other money transferring services with its Facebook Messenger. Now your favorite Facebook Messenger won’t be just used for sending texts and cute smileys. Facebook is now going to provide you a way to settle the friendly debts right from the chat-box. Today Facebook announced a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger. This service will let you connect your Facebook Messenger with your Mastercard or Visa debit card. By clicking on a simple “$” button, now you can send money to your Facebook friends on the desktop, Android and, iOS. This service won’t cost you extra money transferring charges. The rival friendly payment app Venmo, owned by eBay’s PayPal unit, charges 3% extra commission fee on each transfer. Facebook will do the same for free. Facebook said in a news release: "Today we’re adding a new...

Take a look back to when we were kids. VCR’s, large batteries, walkman, cassettes – all the bulky retro stuff. All that stuff made us think that we were at the edge of technological advancement. Then walked in our CD’s, our classic mobile phones, mp3 players and all. These took us to another level of awesomeness altogether. Just when we thought that this is it, we are living in the future; came in our pen drives, hard disks, iPod and what not. Everything got smaller and smarter. Did you ever think that we can potentially use a battery as thin as a plastic wrap? Did you ever fathom that you could wear a flexible battery? A new flexible and ultra-thin battery has been developed which is thinner than a credit card, and this could be integrated into various applications such as wrinkle-smoothing patches, smart cards and watch straps. I mean, WATCH STRAPS! Imagine charging your phone from your watch. This flexible battery, about 0.5 mm thick, achieves its ultra-thinness by positioning ...

The launch date of Goolge’s Project Ara modular phones is coming nearer and big names like Toshiba are showing off the first modules for Ara. Inspired by Project Ara, One Education- One Laptop Per Child’s non-profit partner is working on a new educational laptop for the past one year and its soon to be launch has been confirmed. This hybrid modular laptop/tablet is named XO-Infinity. The very first XO laptops were shipped back in 2007 and since then there has been a constant improvement in the specifications and performance. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hasn’t launched any new device in past few years; now its Australian partner One Education is revitalizing the project. XO-Infinity is a new modular laptop design which is promised to outlast a childhood.

Microsoft Convergence 2015 is being held at Atlanta, GA from March 16-19 2015. In yesterday’s conference Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela revealed that Microsoft will be dropping its Internet Explorer brand with the launch of its Windows 10. He also informed that Microsoft’s Project Spartan is currently working on a new brand name for its upcoming explorer. As per Capossela they will continue to have Internet Explorer along with a new browser internally coded as Spartan based on its research Project Spartan; Microsoft is still working to get a name for this new browser. Hence whether the new name will be “Microsoft Spartan” or “Spartan” is not yet confirmed however the Internet Explorer will be totally killed, this is confirmed by The Verge report. (Please note we have used “Microsoft Spartan” name just as a reference to the new explorer). Some users feel that mere “Spartan” should be the new name for the browser however Microsoft feels that by adding “Microsoft” in...

The Lumia 640 is listed at £170, while the Lumia 640 XL is priced at £219. And the listing for both phones state the available from 28 April onwards. Microsoft Lumia 640 XL was recently put for preorder in Germany. The Lumia 640 offers a 5" HD LCD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It packs Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB of expandable storage, 8MP rear camera with LED flash, 1MP front camera, DLNA support, and 2,500 mAh battery. Microsoft Lumia 640 XL features 5.7" HD LCD screen with ClearBlack technology and the same Snapdragon SoC as the Lumia 640. However, this handset features a 13MP rear camera with Carl Zeiss f/2.0 optics, and a 5MP front camera for selfies. It packs 1 GB RAM, 8 GB expandable storage and a 3,000 mAh battery.

The Galaxy Tab S2 pair, including the 8-inch model in testing and the larger 9.7-inch slate, mark Samsung's departure from the 16:10 aspect ratio in the company's tablet top tier, as well as in the more affordable Galaxy Tab A and Tab A Plus models. The switch to a 4:3 aspect, present in current iPads and Google's Nexus 9, means better web and picture browsing experience but also not quite great news for video fans. Resolution will also be the same as rival models at 2,048x1,536 pixels. Other than that, the tablets will be treated to the company's AMOLED goodness, befitting their upmarket position The specs of the flagship tablets were previously revealed and will include an in-house Exynos 5 Octa chipset, paired with 3GB of RAM. 32GB of storage will be on board and there's no reason to expect the lack of microSD expansion, with all the room that can be found on a tablet. The worrying fate of the test unit, which is said to be up for destruction after completion ...

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How would you like a download speed of 1TB per sec on your smartphone? Sounds unbelievable, doesnt it! Researchers at University of Surrey have managed to achieve a breakneck speed of 1TB under test conditions, while testing Fifth Generation Mobile Telephone or 5G network in University of Surrey labs. This was disclosed by Professor Rahim Tafazolli at the #V3 Enterprise Mobility Summit. Professor Rahim Tafazolli is the director of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at University of Surrey and has been overseeing the 5G tests. Prof.Rahim told V3 that, “it was the first time in the world that such speeds had been achieved, far faster than any other tests such as Samsung’s 7.5Gbps results.” Explaining the working of 5GIC, the professor said that it had been researching on the latest technologies which can support 5G services. The technological innovations meant that the research team had been able to achieve the 1Tbps results. “We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and on...

Last week Sony surprised everyone by saying that it would only be bringing the Android 5.0 Lollipop update to its Xperia Z series of devices. Replying to a Sony Xperia M2 user about the Android 5.0 Lollipop update, Sony apologised for not updating devices other than those in the Xperia Z series. To remind you, Sony has already started updating the Xperia Z series devices to Android 5.0 Lollipop from last month. It had first promised that update in October last year, alongside Google's official announcement for the Lollipop OS. At CES 2015 in January, Mike Fasulo, President of Sony Electronics, had confirmed the Android 5.0 Lollipop update rollout for the Xperia Z range for February. The popular Sony Xperia Z lineup includes devices namely the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1S, Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia Z1 Compact, Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet, Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3v, Xperia Z3 Compact and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.

Earlier the data which was transferred to our computer was not accurate and had drops while travelling a long way to its final destination that is you. The data which travelled in the form of light has certain drops in midway due to various reasons. Now, researcher believe it’s all over. How would it sound if we take the light all the way to the computer or TV, projecting it through the air over the last few meters and only converting it to an electronic signal at the end? That sounds amazing isn’t. The researches at Oxford University is working on the similar technique with a system that takes light from the fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 gigabits per second. Ariel Gomez, a Ph.D. student in photonics at Oxford University who describes the system in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters says that such indoor optical wireless probably wouldn’t replace Wi-Fi, but if compared with data rates of 3 terabits per second and up, it’s cer...

Hello everyone! In my last blog post, I wrote about Microsoft Lumia 435. Today, I chose to write on how to find your android device which is lost. I think we all agree that it becomes very difficult to find your phone when you’ve lost your phone somewhere around. Most of us start making calls although it doesn’t make any sense if vibration mode too is off. Here I am going to tell you a better way to find your android device if it is lost somewhere around. You can use Google’s official Android Device Manager to locate your phone, here are the simple steps: 1.Go to Android Device Manager by Google in your desktop browser, follow the link HERE. 2.Login with the same Gmail account you used to activate your Android Device before and registered in Google Play. 3.Now you will see your device name and last login date. Also, you will be seeing three options i.e. Ring, Lock and Erase. 4.By clicking on Ring, your device starts ringing at high volume which help you find your phone in ...

Microsoft Lumia 435 is a budget-friendly smartphone with 4" LCD display (480 x 800 pixels), which runs the Lumia Denim update out of the box. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 mobile chipset wit dual-core CPU powers the device, coupled with 1 GB RAM and 8 GB of built-in storage. It is worth noting that one can add up to a 128 GB microSD card to expand the storage. At the rear us a 2MP fixed-focus camera for sharing images over social networks, while the front is home to a VGA camera. Packing 1,560 mAh battery, the Lumia 435 supports 3G networks. It can also use the GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS.

A US-based independent startup called Outernet is on its way to change the world by doing something unimaginable. Outernet aims to provide free internet on earth using the low orbit satellites. Now, Outernet is aiming something huge. This weekend, Outernet made an announcement which says that with the help of U.K. Space Agency, Outernet is going to launch three new nanosatellites at the beginning of 2016. Clyde Space, a technology company from Scotland, will be making these nanosatellites.Out of the total world population, half of it don’t have good internet connection. This media startup Outernet distributes internet like a radio broadcast. It wasn’t much time ago when Outernet started providing its service to the 1.3 billion people of North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe

How to Remove shortcut Virus? I will explain four methods step by step which can help you remove shortcut virus from your computer. Shortcut Virus Removal Method 1: Step1: Connect the device which is infected by the shortcut virus, check for every folder/file on the drive/device is visible and not hidden. For this open folder and search options–> view–>select show hidden files and folders–> apply changes. Step2: Download Autorun Exterminator from the link provided here extract the folder and run the file which is named as “Autorun Exterminator” this will automatically remove shortcut virus from your device. Shortcut Virus Removal Method 3, Using Command prompt: Open the Command prompt, click on start–> Search–>cmd–>Enter it will open the Command prompt, type in the following command Replace the drive “E” with the desired/infected drive/pen drive you want to scan, for eg; if you want to scan and remove shortcut virus from drive G, Replace “E” with “G” Copy ...

Release date 1 March, 2015 It’s official. HTC One M9 is the first big launch from Mobile World Congress 2015. After months of leaks and speculation, HTC has launched its latest flagship, the HTC One M9. The earlier leaks were pretty much accurate and the successor to M8 doesn’t suggest any major design changes.I’ve been a fan of HTC design team and HTC One M9 is surely one hell of a beautiful beast. But, if you’ll look at the phone, you’ll start wondering if it’s the same HTC One M8. Yeah, nothing much has changed. The aluminum feel looks the same and same is the 1080p resolution and 5-inch display. The BoomSound speakers at the front are reminiscent of the One M8.

AeroMobil has been around for five years, pursuing the dream of building a functional and (somewhat) practical flying car. Its third-gen prototype was revealed last October, and today at SXSW, AeroMobil CEO Juraj Vaculik revealed a bit more about the company's past and future and the challenges that remain to go from prototypes to fully fledged consumer vehicles - which the company plans to accomplish in 2017. Vaculik and his co-founder Stefan Klein's dream of building flying cars wasn't simply a result of wishing to free their cars from the bonds of earth. As natives of what is the present-day Slovak Republic, they were motivated by a desire to escape the oppression of the then-communist government of Czechoslovakia. Of course, the Iron Curtain fell in that country 25 years ago, but the dream of driving and flying in the same vehicle remained.

Shortly after Microsoft wrapped its epic Windows 10 keynote today, we had a chance to see the latest version of the next-gen OS running on some honest-to-goodness hardware. Using a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet on display here at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, we got to experience the software in a slightly more final form than when we last saw it. New features include a button for bringing the Start Screen to full-screen, a notification center, revamped Photos and Settings apps and, most importantly, Cortana voice search built right into the desktop. In addition, we got a closer look at the so-called Continuum feature that allows the UI to change depending on what device you're using (laptop, tablet).

HTC Desire 820s YOU ARE HERE:GADGETS HOMEMOBILESMOBILES NEWS HTC Desire 820s With 4G LTE and Octa-Core SoC Launched at Rs. 25,500 by NDTV Correspondent, 12 March 2015.HTC on Thursday launched the Desire 820s in India at Rs. 25,500. The smartphone was first announced in November, and was tipped to launch in India at Rs. 24,990 by an established Mumbai-based retailer on Wednesday. The HTC Dot View case will also be available for the HTC Desire 820s, but there is no pricing detailed by HTC. The dual-SIM (Nano-SIM) Desire 820s features 4G support for FDD bands (1/ 3/ 7/ 8) and TDD bands (38/ 39/ 40/ 41) in India. Other than that the Desire 820s packs almost identical specifications to the Desire 820 - apart from sporting a 64-bit 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor with 4G LTE connectivity and Mali T760 GPU instead of the 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC (1.5GHz quad-core + 1.0GHz quad-core) of the original. The octa-core MediaTek SoC is coupled with 2GB of RAM.

Vaio, The former Sony laptop unit, on Thursday launched its first smartphone in Japan

The result is a group shot of at least 1,151 people captured by the 5MP camera of the Lumia 730. The photo was taken yesterday in Bangladesh, with participants required to sign in to keep track of just how many were there. According to Guinness previous selfie-related records include Ellen DeGeneres' most-retweeted Oscar selfie and the biggest selfie chain - 279 people standing in line and taking selfies.

Indian Government Launches ‘Digilocker’, Cloud Storage for the People Ministry of Communications and Information Technology under the Government of India has launched a personal cloud space for the Indian Citizens. Instead of storing your important documents in scanned form in your computer, Google Drive or in some other third party cloud space like Dropbox, now you’ve got a fully secure platform owned by your own government.

USB Type C is one of the hottest topics of discussion in the tech world these day. This new USB standard has been around for some time but some recent developments like arrival of USB Type C on the thinnest ever Apple MacBook and Google’s brand new Chromebook Pixel has put its name on everyone’s lips. This new generation of USB will also break compatibility with existing connectors and it will improve its use for thinner devices. Telling about the advantages of using USB Type C, Google has released a video in which product manager Adam Rodriguez talks about Google’s commitment towards adopting new standards and its effort to bring USB Type C to its Android devices soon. USB Type C has a symmetrical design which ensures no more plugging the USB cable in wrong manner. It provides data, display and power through a single port which trims down the number of ports in devices. Apple has done the very same in its new thinnest ever Apple MacBook by reducing the number of ports to one, excl...

Finally WhatsApp rolled out its WhatsApp Calling features for all the Android users in India. This can be downloaded either from Playstore: version 2.11.528 or from the WhatsApp website: version 2.11.531 or even it can be activated if users get an “invite” by receiving call from some other user who has already activated the voice calling feature.

Looking at the growth market of smartphones, one of the biggest flash memory storage manufacturer SanDisk decided to launch a Dual USB drive for smartphones. SanDisk Dual USB Drive will allow users to store and share information from smartphone and tablet directly without the need the of any USB data cable.

There was news that Microsoft was keen to invest in Cyanogen, the makers of alternate Android operating system or Mod to keep a check on Google’s growing aspirations in the smartphone and tablet operating system. The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Google’s open source Android OS while Apple’s closed operating system iOS takes the third place. Microsoft which has its own Windows Phone operating system is a distant third and Microsoft has been trying hard to make a dent in the smartphone OS market but has met with repeated failures. Its only chance of catching up with Android is its planned Windows 10 operating system which it says will be a cross platform single OS for all devices like PC’s, smartphones and tablet. Last month Bloomberg had reported that Microsoft would be investing in the highly popular alternate Android OS called CyanogenMod through its makers. Cyanogen develops an Android-based interface called Mods for smartphones and tablets that lets users ...

Happy Birthday “.com.” The international internet revolution began exactly 30 years ago on 15th March, 1985 and today we have millions of dot coms. Our world wouldn’t be the same without these dot coms, actually we cant imagine a world without them.

Microsoft Office 2016 Preview (Beta Version)If you were eager to get in on Microsoft's technical preview for its Office suite, it looks like now is your chance. Participation in the preview was originally limited to those who received an invite, however it appears to be open to the public as of today, albeit still under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). All you have to do to give it a shot is head over to the source link below and click the "join" button in the row for Microsoft Office Consumer Technical Preview. After an initial sign-up process, you should be able to download the latest Office preview software.