TOP TECH NEWS - 31st AUG

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.



1.Spot a bug on Facebook and they will pay you!



2.Windows Phone Marketplace apps cross 30,000 mark



3.Firefox for Honeycomb tab arriving soon



4.Sony Ericsson debuts XPERIA Ray and XPERIA Active in India



5.LG launches 'RoboKing Triple Eye' smartphone-controlled vacuuming

robot


6.Motorola Pro+ announced with Gingerbread, few other improvements



7.Samsung launches YP-R2, YP-Z3, MP3 HD compatible PMPs



8.Samsung GT-i9220 confirmed as smartphone with dual-band WiFi



9.Samsung unveils Series 7 laptops



10.Samsung Officially Announces The Galaxy S II For T-Mobile, Sprint,

And AT&T



11.Samsung Chromebooks Drop In Price



12.CNN Acquires iPad Newsreading App Zite



13.Zynga Unveils New Game : Adventure World



14.Intel Forms ‘Federal’ Business Unit To Sell Supercomputing

Services To The U.S. Government



15.Sony Unveils a Personal 3D Entertainment Headset



16.VMware Unveils Enterprise Solutions For Samsung’s Galaxy Devices



17.iPhone App Downloads Drop In July



18.HTC Jetstream to launch September 4

TOP TECH NEWS - 30TH AUG

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.




1.Samsung Announces Three New Bada 2.0 Based Smartphones At IFA



2.Android And Apple Now Command Nearly 70 Percent Of Smartphone

Market Share In U.S.



3.iTunes Match Beta Launches for Developers



4.Windows Explorer 8 Gets Ribbon Interface



5.Zynga To Delay IPO Because of Market Conditions



7.Security Breach Causes Nokia To Shut Down Developer Forums



8.Pulse Launches Bookmarklet & Chrome Add-on for Later Reading

Samsung Announces Three New Bada 2.0 Based Smartphones At IFA

Samsung Announces Three New Bada 2.0 wave series Smartphones -  Wave

3, Wave M and Wave Y and they are all set to release this week in

Berlin.

 

 

Samsung Wave 3 features includes :

* 1.4GHz processor
* 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display
* 5-megapixel camera
* 3 GB of storage memory with a 32 GB microSD slot



Samsung Wave M features includes :

* 832MHz processor
* 3.65-inch WVGA screen
* 150 MB of storage memory with a 32 GB microSD slot





Samsung Wave Y features includes :

* 832MHz processor
* 2 megapixel camera with LED flash


Pricing and Availability is yet to be Announced.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to be release in November

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to be release in November

Guest Post By Himanshu

    

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is an forthcoming first-person shooter video game presently in development by Infinity Ward.The game is expected to be release on November 8th, 2011.

screenshots :

     

TOP TECH NEWS - 28th AUG

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.



1.Hurricane Irene Now Has a Twitter Account


2.IBM unveils chips that mimic human brain


3.Microsoft Sues to Stop Motorola Phone Sales


4.Amazon's tablet to cost hundreds less than Apple’s iPad


5.Google to launch Google TV in Europe early next year


6.Motorola Atrix advertisement banned by Advertising Standards Agency

Motorola Atrix advertisement is banned by Advertising Standards

Agency from claiming that Motorola Atrix phone is the most powerful

smartphone in the world Right Now since the Samsung Galaxy SII has a

faster and better processor(1.2GHz processor which is greater than

Atrix's 1GHz processor).

7.Sony drops prices for PSP, Playstation 3


8.Linux turns 20.

TOP TECH NEWS - 27TH AUG

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.



1.Joint brings IM and group chat to Twitter


2.Google+ Lets Users Ignore, Block Other Users


3.Apple Cancels iTunes TV Rentals


4.Apple wins ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab sales in Germany


5.Google plots Hurricane Irene with online map


6.Samsung confirms making next Nexus phone


7.Samsung Launches Three Dual-SIM Phones, Star II DUOS (C6712), Metro

DUOS (C3322), and Metro C3752.


8.HTC Omega with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango to arrive soon

The New Counter-Strike Trailers Released

The New Counter-Strike Trailers Released



One of the most popular first-person shooter games of the decade has 

released two new trailers for their upcoming release.

 
 

 


Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is presently under

development by Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment.

The Game is expected to be release in early 2012.It will be available

for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

 


Beta version will be released in October for testing.

TOP TECH NEWS - 26th AUGUST

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.


1.Google TV Coming to the UK in 6 Months


2.Apple Hires iPhone Hacker Nicholas Allegra


3.WikiLeaks Reveals Pollution Issues in China


4.Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Social News Startup ‘The

Tweeted Times’


5.Microsoft Patenting Multi-Screen, Multi-Touch Gestures

TOP TECH NEWS 25th AUG

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.



1.Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Read Full story here :

http://techniciablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo-tim.html

2.Facebook Announces f8 Developer Conference on September 22nd


3.RIM Launches Inexplicable BBM Music App


4.Tim Cook : The New CEO of Apple

 Read Full story here :
http://techniciablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo-tim.html

5.Skype Launches an App Store


6.Apple Stock Falls Following Steve Jobs’s Resignation

Steve Jobs’s Resignation Letter To the Apple board

Steve Jobs’s Resignation Letter To the Apple board

   


Here is the Steve Jobs’s Resignation Letter To the Apple board :


To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Tim Cook Took Over

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Tim Cook Took Over

 

   


Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO on Wednesday and Tim Cook is

announced as new CEO of Apple inc.



According to Apple,Before to joining Apple, Tim was vice president of

Corporate Materials for Compaq and was responsible for procuring and

managing all of Compaq’s product inventory. Previous to his work at

Compaq, Tim was the chief operating officer of the Reseller Division

at Intelligent Electronics.

Read more about Tim Cook here :

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tim-cook.html





Meanwhile Steve Jobs is Elected as Chairman of the Board.

TOP TECH NEWS - 24th Aug

Today's Top Tech News Across The Web.



1.Google Doodle Celebrates the Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges



2.Samsung Banned From Selling Some Galaxy Phones in the Netherlands



3.Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews
Read this story here
http://techniciablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/social-networking-giant-facebook-hits-1.html


4.Google +1 Button Now Shares Directly to Google+



5.Google to Settle with U.S. Government for $500 Million



6.Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Hits 25M Users



7.Springpad Now Categorizes And Saves Your Facebook Friends’ Likes



8.The New Version Of Yahoo Mail Now Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users

The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

 


The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

followed by YouTube with 790 million unique visitors and 100 million

pageviews in June.Also Facebook is the most-visited website on the

Internet according to DoubleClick.


Facebook received nearly 870 million unique visitors in June 2011.

Gears of War 3 to be released on September 20, 2011

Gears of War 3 to be released on September 20, 2011

Gears of War 3 is to be released on September 20, 2011.Gears of War 3 

will feature four-player co-op for the first time in the series.The Game is 
developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360.

Facebook changes privacy settings on Tuesday

Facebook changes privacy settings on Tuesday

 

 



Facebook made significant changes to its privacy settings
on Tuesday.



Major privacy changes to Facebook privacy include :


1.Much Better profile control:


Profile visibility controls now appear next to content
when you edit your facebook profile.




2.Tags :

Tag reviews : now you can approve or reject photo, status or location

tags this seems great as tags are sometimes preaty annoying.



3.Status Updates & Location


Public updates: Now you will see "Public" option when you update your

status instead of  "Everyone".

Today's Top News Across The Web

Today's Top News Across The Web For Social Junkiee's.



1.RIM Announces New BlackBerry Curve


2.Google Adds Friend Annotations to the +1 Button


3.Twitter Enhances User Profiles With Image Galleries


4.Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet Now Available for Pre-Order


5.HP TouchPad Tablets becomes #1 best-seller Tablets on Amazon


6.Survey: 35 Percent of Tablet Owners Use Device in the Bathroom


7.Windows Phone Reaches 30,000 Apps


8.Daily Dot Launches as Community Newspaper for the Web

X-Men: Destiny to be release in September

X-Men: Destiny to be release in September

   

      

X-Men: Destiny is an forthcoming video game based on the X-Men comic 
book series.The story is being written by Mike Carey, writer of the 
X-Men: Legacy comic book series.


It will be released on the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, and Nintendo 3DS.

It has been established  that it is set to be released on September 27, 2011 in

North America.Destiny is based in San Francisco, which has been

divided into human and mutant areas due to variance between the two

groups.




Jamie Chung, Milo Ventimiglia and Scott Porter were confirmed to 
voice Aimi Yoshida, Grant Alexander and Adrian Luca respectively.

Driver: San Francisco to be release in September

Driver: San Francisco to be release in September

   


Driver: San Francisco is an forthcoming action driving video game 
developed by Ubisoft Reflections.It is planned for release in
North America on September 6, 2011 and in Europe on
September 2, 2011 on on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows,
PlayStation 3,Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS and the OnLive system.

  

Split screen and online multiplayer will also be available for the 
first time in the series with nine different game modes.



The game will also consist of over 120 fully damageable licensed 
vehicles ranging from buggies, muscle cars and sport cars including 
Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Ruf Automobile, Dodge, Ford, Shelby, 
Volkswagen, Pagani, DeLorean and Lamborghini.

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

  


Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion.Google

announced on its official blog.

Larry Page on official blog :

Motorola’s total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of

many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies.

Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge

the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners

and developers everywhere. - Posted by Larry Page, CEO Google.



http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android-google-to-acquire.html


Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain

open Larry Page added.

Google+ games launched officially

Google+ games launched officially


  


Google+ games launched officially on Thursday.You may notice

something new on top of your streams on Thursday -  icon signifying

that Google+ Games had launched officially.

It disappeared and likely to return very soon.


Video Exploring Google+ Games :

   




Official Blog states :

Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the Google+ project, we

want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the

web.


When you’re ready to play, the Games page is waiting—click the games

button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates

from your circles, browse the invites you’ve received and check out

games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is

also where your game accomplishments will appear. So you can

comfortably share your latest high score—your circles will only see

the updates when they’re interested in playing games too - posted by

Posted by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering
on  Official Blog.

Read full article on Official Blog  :
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/games-in-google-fun-that-fits-your.html


They have included 16 games which includes following :

Anonymous Hackers Group Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5

Anonymous Hackers Group Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5

Anonymous Hackers Group is Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5
due to lack of privacy on facebook.

They also claim that facebook is selling user's data to government
and private organisation.



Video released by Anonymous on YouTube :

 

Cool Windows 7 Themes

Cool Windows 7 Themes


Here are some really Cool Windows 7 Themes.Try it for sake of change and to get better interface.

1.Windows 7 Mac Theme

2.Angry Birds Theme

   


3.Transformers 3 Theme

 


4.Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Windows 7 Themes

  


5.Winter Mac Theme

6.Windows 8 themes for windows 7

7. Desk 09 with new windows


     

 


8.Mac Theme Windows 7 Desktop

The Sims Social - New Facebook Game To Be Released Soon

The Sims Social - New Facebook Game To Be Released Soon




The Sims Social will be a Facebook addition to the famous Sims series

and it was announced during EA's 2011 E3 press conference.

The Sims Social Producer Interview :

   




The Sims Social is supposed to be more realistic according to makers of this game.The game is about managing your relationship with your friends just like in real world.



 
The game was announced in June with official trailer :

   

Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook to start her own company

Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook to start her own company


         

Randi Zuckerberg,sister of facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (one of

the most powerfull people in web world) leaves Facebook to start her

own company.

  

Randi Zuckerberg,facebook's Director of Marketing is starting her new

company,RtoZ Media according to AllThingsD.Also,she was recently

nominated for an Emmy for her work with Facebook Live.

 She tweeted :

  

Facebook confirmed this news :

“We can confirm Randi has decided to leave Facebook to start her own

company. We are all grateful for her important service.”

Batman: Arkham City to be released October 18, 2011

Batman: Arkham City  to be released October 18, 2011

   





Batman: Arkham City is one of the Topmost Anticipated Games of 2011.
IT  is the upcoming sequel  Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on DC

Comics' Batman, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft

Windows. It is being developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.The game contains over 400 additional challenges.

Age of Empires Online to be released in August

Age of Empires Online  to be released in August


Age of Empires Online is a real-time strategy computer game under

development and it is set to be release on 16 August 2011.

The game will be a freemium game- free to play normally with the

option of purchasing premium content.

Old Version of Twitter will disappear very soon

Old Version of Twitter will disappear very soon


Here is a bad news for those who loves or still using old twitter

interface - Old Version of Twitter will disappear very soon.


Users who are still on the old system is encountering following

message.

You will automatically be upgraded to New Twitter very, very soon.

  



what do you think about old twitter and new twitter share your

opinion in comment section.

Google+ Hits 25 Million Users

Google+ Hits 25 Million Users

    

      

Google+ now has 25 Million Users from which 63% user are male and 60%

of them are between 18 to 25 years old according to comScore.



The growth rate of google+ is much faster than that of Facebook,

Twitter and MySpace over the same time period.


Screen shot from comScore :

  

HTC to launch 8 new smartphones in Q3

HTC to launch 8 new smartphones in Q3

       


Smartphone maker HTC is planing to launch 8 new smartphones in Q3.
HTC has 20% of smartphone market( 14% android + 6% windows ).



They have reported 12.11 million smartphone units in Q2.

      

The Dealmap sold out to google

The Dealmap sold out to google

    


The search gaint Google has Acquires Daily Deals Aggregator
The Dealmap.

Founded in May 2010 The Dealmap claims 2 million users who check in

to get access to deals from 450 sources that are organized by

location.

"We believe Google provides the ideal platform to help us accelerate

our growth and fulfill our mission. We’re passionate about helping

people save money while having great local experiences, and in Google

we’ve found the perfect partner that shares this passion, as well as

our vision and strategy. We believe that joining Google will help us

innovate in new and unexplored areas of commerce." - Dealmap’s blog

(http://blog.thedealmap.com/).

Google Chrome Is Now Second Most Popular Browser In UK

Google Chrome Is Now Second Most Popular Browser In UK

  

    



Google Chrome is now the second most popular browser with 22% user's

in the United Kingdom, according Statcounter.


according to Statcounter,Google Chrome is also the number three

browser worldwide, with 22.14%  worldwide users.

   

Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Tool

Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Tool

  




 
Today,Adobe released a public preview of Edge, its tool for web

designers.


Adobe Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that

allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web

standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.


Below are the some Edge Preview Highlights listed on adobe labs :

*Create new compositions with Edge’s drawing and text tools.

*Import popular web graphics such as SVG, PNG, JPG or GIF files.

*Easily choreograph animation with the timeline editor. Animate 

position, size, color, shape, rotation and more at the property 

level.


*Copy and paste transitions, invert them, and choose from over 25 

built-in easing effects for added creativity.

Adobe released the video preview last month.