Google to launch New Devices at Android Event "The Playground is Open"

Not to be upstaged by Microsoft's Windows 8 launch on the 26th and Apple's probably-the-iPad-mini event on the 23rd, Google has just sent out invitations for an Android-related announcement on Monday, October 29 at 10:00am ET. The invitation reads, simply, "The playground is open."

BitTorrent App- Now Download Torrents in Android

Nobody in the present modernized world will be unaware of the Torrents. You might have downloaded many stuff on your PC or Mac via Torrents.

Planet of The Smartphone Apps

The ever growing popularity of Smartphones among the modern peoples and Apps which was considered a novelty few years ago are now an essential & integral part of their life. Presently there is an app for everything.

Google Drive Is Live With 5GB of Free Storage

You must have heard of GOOGLE DRIVE before and this time the most awaited rumor is live.Drive is a free storage system for photos, videos, documents, PDFs and will also allow users to 'drag and Drop' their files from Macs or PCs instead of storing them on their own hard drives. The system works cool with phone apps on both Androids and devices such as iPad or iPhone.

Official Wikipedia App for Blackberry PlayBook launched in App World

Official Wikipedia App for BlackBerry PlayBook is now available in BlackBerry App World. Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled.

Read It Later Gets a Make-Over & Changes Its Name to Pocket

Read It Later started back in 2007, just a month after the iPhone debuted, but before the arrival of the App Store, and long before the Kindle and the iPad. A handful of users signed up and supported the service, and together we learned what was possible with a “read later” button.

Opera Mini 7 for Android Released

Opera Software released Opera Mini 7  for Android users. It can be downloaded from the Google Play Store (earlier known as Android Market). Opera Mini currently has nearly 162 million users all over the world. 

The Best High-Tech Holiday Gifts

Many of you might be really thinking of buying a high tech gift for your friends and family. Many of your minds will be popping out with a extremely large number of Gadgets.

Here's look at the best of what will make the people on your shopping list smile in this holiday season. In order to make your last minute shopping a bit easier, I'm going to give you a couple recommendations.

Apple iPad 2

Ranging in price from $499 USD to $829 USD, depending on the storage and communications options you choose, the iPad has established itself as the clear leader in this category. This is the gadget that all tablet lovers are going to want this Holiday, as it plays music, movies, TV shows, runs applications, and is a great eReader too. So if you’re budget is up to it, this iOS powered iDevice will be a sure winner for your loved ones. It's more expensive than any but there's just nothing else like it.

Price Starts @ $499 Shop the Apple Store


Apple iPhone 4S

  

Ranging from $99 USD to $399 USD, Apple’s iPhone 4/4S is the most popular smartphone in the US, and likely around the world.  Siri, available only on the 4S, will remake the way users interface with their iPhones, and is perhaps the biggest draw for new and existing iPhone customers alike. Order now at the latest  as many carriers, as well as Apple.com reported lengthy lead times and delivery dates that are quickly nearing the end of December. 

Price Starts @ $99 Shop now at Apple Store 

Kindle Fire 

One of the biggest battles this festive and holiday season is between the Kindle Fire And the Nook Tablet. I have only used Kindle Fire & I suggest that Kindle Fire is the best e-reader worth your money. Don't buy it expecting a fully realized tablet experience - the hardware is a bit slower and it's missing features like the Bluetooth Connectivity - But then too I say its The Best e-reader ever made in the world. It can also run a set of Android Applications including Angry Birds, Words with Friends, Netflix and Hulu Plus.

Price Starts @ $199  Shop at Amazon eStore

Droid RAZR

 If Apple’s smartphone isn’t your cup of tea or is outside your budget, the Droid RAZR, available on Verizon Wireless in the US, also represents head-turning technology within the Android ecosystem. While a little more expensive than the entry level iPhone, at $299.99 USD, it sports “advanced artificial intelligence,” learning the user’s work habits, and speeding up those tasks it knows you’re going to perform most often. Yes then It would be a wonderful experience to try a RAZR. 

Price starts @ $299.99  

Peel Smart Remote 

This stylish, pear-shaped universal remote control sits near your entertainment center and syncs with an iPhone, iPad or even iPod Touch, allowing you to control your Television, Cable Box, DVD player or Set Top Boxes like a Roku.It basically turns your iOS devices into a Remote controller that can control your whole gadgets. The app is a great visual guide that shows programs in photographic tiles. Want to watch "Sherlock Holmes" ? Just click on  it.

Price Starts @ $ 79  Shop at Peel Store online

 

Apple MacBook Air

As the only non-iOS/Android powered product in this gift guide, the Apple MacBook Air is both a Windows as well as a Mac based computer. The entry level model comes with 2GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. This ultra-thin, SSD equipped ultra-notebook ranges in price from $999 to $1599 USD, and may be a bit on the pricy side. However, as current models don’t have DVD drives or Ethernet ports, you’ll need to remember to buy the external SuperDrive as well as the appropriate adapter not only for your desktop monitor, but its Ethernet adapter as well; and this will push the entry level price up by $137 USD.  You may also want to invest in a USB hub or two. Despite all this, however, the Air is proving very popular with consumers and enterprise users alike.

Price Starts @ $999

Pop Phone

This retro handset plugs into your smartphone, allowing you to talk using an old fashioned receiver. It's for all those who like and dislike that receiver. The phone can stay in your pocket or handbag. It's a trendy, sleek and stylish accessory popping up on the streets of New York And Los Angeles. Celebrities like Lenny Kravitz and Jamie Lee have been spotted with the Pop Phone. It comes in more than Ten beautiful and trendy colors. It's a fun gimmick but it's also being touted as a way to limit the amount or quantity of radiation entering and harming the body.

Price Starts @ $ 30

Asus Transformer Prime

The $499.99 USD Asus Transformer Prime is technically a tablet, but with its $149.99 Transformer Dock, it instantly becomes a powerful, light weight ultra-notebook, capable of satisfying most of the needs for a computing device in this category.  The best thing about this device is its ability to function as both a tablet and keyboard-based computer.  While the device currently runs Android’s Honeycomb 3.2, its sure to get an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, ensuring that the device will provide a number of years of usability at roughly half the price of Apple’s MacBook Air.

Price Starts @ $ 499.99 

Driinn mobile phone holder 

If you're looking for an easy stocking stuffer, this clever phone holder makes the process of charging a smartphone a bit neater. It comes in a ton of colors and is available everywhere. Just do some searching online.

Price Starts @ $ 10 

Five NEW Android 4.0 tablets to debut at CES 2012

Coby Electronics has revealed that five new Android 4.0 tablets will launch at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this coming January

The scramble to take the new flavor of Google's Android operating system for a test drive has been pretty intense since the source code was released in the middle of last month. The first commercial hardware products running on Ice Cream Sandwich, though, will not hit the shelves until early in the new year. One of the first to break cover was Acer's Iconia A200 tablet, which is now going to have some company. New York's Coby Electronics will be launching five new Android 4.0 tablets at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this coming January.

ARM Cortex A8

Unfortunately, Coby has revealed very little about its new batch of capacitive multi-touch tablets but here's what we can tell you. The five tablets will be available in 7-, 8-, 9-, 9.7-, and 10-inch form factors and will all be powered by an ARM Cortex A8 processor running at 1GHz, supported by 1GB of system memory. It's unclear how much onboard storage will be included (existing Coby tablets have settled on 4 GB) but there will be microSD expansion available.

Also up for speculation at this point is whether the new tablets will be additions to the range or replacements for older models, which currently run on Android 2.2 or 2.3. There will be built-in Wi-Fi and an HDMI out port supporting 1080p output but beyond those few details, Coby is remaining tight-lipped.

The company has hinted that the new Android 4.0 tablets will be easy on the wallet but hasn't revealed exactly how budget-friendly they'll be when they are made available during Q1 2012. We will keep you posted.

Adobe warns of Virus Attacks on Windows

Hackers are exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Reader to attack computers running Windows, Adobe said.

A patch for the critical vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat is expected by next week, the company said in a blog post.

The vulnerability, which is being exploited in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows," could allow an attacker to take control of the system, Adobe said.

Adobe is finalizing a fix and expects to release an update for Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows no later than the week of December 12, according to an Adobe advisory.

"Because Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and Adobe Acrobat X Protected View would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing, we are currently planning to address this issue in Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X for Windows with the next quarterly security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, currently scheduled for January 10, 2012," the company said. "We are planning to address this issue in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X and earlier versions for Macintosh as part of the next quarterly update scheduled for January 10, 2012. An update to address this issue in Adobe Reader 9.x for UNIX is planned for January 10, 2012."

The issue does not affect Adobe Reader for Android and Adobe Flash Player.

Adobe's advisory credited Lockheed Martin and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange with reporting the issue. Lockheed spokeswoman Jennifer Whitlow told Reuters that the problem was identified through the company's normal monitoring activities but that the company had not been penetrated in the attempted attack. The defense contractor was targeted in an attack earlier this year believed to be related to a breach at SecurID token maker RSA.

How to control your Android via PC

AirDroid is an Android App that allows you to control you to control your device remotely from your computer. If your device is charging in another room or otherwise out of reach, or you're really busy and can't be bothered to constantly pick up your device to respond to alerts, this is a great way to stay connected while not hurting your productivity (as much). Follow these three easy steps to set it up:


STEP I :  Begin by installing the AirDroid app from the Android Market.
                 

STEP II : Open AirDroid and hit the Start button to launch the server.

               

STEP III : Open a browser and enter the URL listed in the top field. In the log-in field on the page that  loads, enter the password as it appears on your Android device.

                

STEP IV :  Hit enter to log in and control your Android device remotely.
                

From here, you can control almost anything you'd be able to control while holding your phone. You can adjust/delete your notifications and ringtones, read and send SMS messages, backup and uninstall apps, and monitor your system's storage information.

HP is still making Tablets

In the most dramatic stay of execution since Robin Hood shot an arrow through Little John's noose, HP has decided that webOS will live on as open source. And there was much merriment and backslappery throughout the land! Also: good work, HP. This couldn't have worked out better.

The news came today after months of uncertainty about the platform's future, with rumors ranging from death to a sale to a life of powering printer apps. Now, though? An unlimited future, according to HP's press release:

HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other hardware manufacturers can deliver ongoing enhancements and new versions into the marketplace.

HP will continue to actively develop for the platform as well, and perhaps most importantly will pursue "Good, transparent and inclusive governance to avoid fragmentation." Hopefully, then, succeeding where Android so far hasn't.

So what does this mean for you? Well, if you bought a $100 TouchPad, you may just have nabbed the tech deal of the decade (and there's another round this weekend!). But more importantly, there are suddenly four viable(ish) mobile choices where it seemed certain there would be three. And a promising, capable, different OS is now in the hands of any and everyone who wants to make it even better.

Updated: In a brief interview with the Verge, HP CEO Meg Whitman indicated that HP's not just committing to the platform; the company's going to invest in the hardware it supports, as well. That means HP tablets, most likely, though Whitman said smartphones were unlikely.

Of course, now that webOS is open source, anyone can make a tablet or phone or refrigerator on the platform. But if HP having skin in the hardware game means that they'll be aggressive about keeping the software competitive. More good news, on a day we were expecting the opposite.

QWERTY + Gingerbread + MiniPro = Xperia Mini Pro

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro has still to be launched in many territories across the world, but will apparently be making its debut in the Indian market , priced at Rs.15,399. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and bearing a full-fledged 1GHz processor [ a wondrous inclusion ], the size is so handy and the Xperia Mini Pro also features a full Qwerty slider keypad. 
Specifically, the Xperia Mini Pro has a 1 GHz Scorpion processor with an Adreno 205 GPU, part of the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset. It comes with 512 MB of RAM. The Xperia Mimi Pro has a 3 inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and the great thing is that it runs by the Sony Mobile Bravia Engine. Its 5 MP auto focus camera comes with LED flash , is capable of 720p HD video recording and also features smile detection, geo-tagging and image stabilizing features.

OS	Android OS, v1.6 (Donut), upgradable to v2.1
Chipset	Qualcomm MSM7227
CPU	600 MHz ARM 11
GPU	Adreno 200
Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM
Browser	HTML
Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors	Black, Red, Pink
	- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player - TrackID music recognition - Google Search, Maps, Gmail,    YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk - Document viewer - Voice memo - Predictive text input

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Po 930 mAh
	Stand-by	- Up to 285 h (2G) / Up to 360 h (3G)
	Talk time	- Up to 4 h (2G) / Up to 3 h 30 min (3G)

SIZE                              Dimensions	90 x 52 x 17 mm
Weight	120 g

Key features :

• Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G (7.2 MBps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA)
• 3" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen, HVGA res (320 x 480), Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine
• Full four-row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
• 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
• 512 MB RAM
• 5 MP autofocus camera, LED flash, geotagging
• 720p video @ 30fps, continuous autofocus
• Front facing VGA camera
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• microSD slot (32GB supported, 2GB card included)
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
• Voice dialing
• Adobe Flash 10.3 support
• 331 hours of standby time