Google has announced the next generation of mobile payment service named Google Wallet at an event yesterday, this service makes use of the NFC(Near Field Communication) technology to authorize payments and for now it will be available for Nexus S, the live trials have already begun with full service release expected to follow soon which will make most of the high end Android mobiles compatible with the Wallet service.
Gmail has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs using which a user will now be able to search Google docs and Internet right from their Gmail account.
It may not look like a big news to most of you, but those having interest in robotics will definitely appreciate it. A four legged robot named Ranger recently covered 14,3 miles (23 kms) in 10 hours, 40 minutes, and 48 seconds (speed: approx 2km/hr), while breaking the previous record of 12.8 miles by Big Dog. (more…)
What? Really? That’s the kind of reaction i had when i first read about this breakthrough innovation from Intel. To just give you an idea about the intensity of this experiment, 50Gbps data transfer speed can transfer an HD movie in just a second. (more…)
Translating a document to other foreign language can be baffling. At the same time if your foreign language is broken, you can be in deep trouble.Well no worries now, as always Google has a solution. Yesterday Google has introduced native translation services inside Google Docs which allows you to translate your online documents over 53 language.
Blu-ray and HD-DVD created so much hype when they were introduced. But HD-DVD died a monotonous death, and Blu-ray emerged as the winner. Now, Blu-ray is again in the news, as Sharp has made a substantial jump in the field of disc storage capacity. This new Blu-ray disc, VR-100BR1, is capable of storing 128GB of data on single-write discs, while re-writable disc can manage 100GB data at a time. (more…)
Google acquired Picnik back in March this year but it’s only now that Google has integrated Picnik’s online photo editing tool for the users of Picasa Web Albums. Users can now directly edit all their photographs they have currently in their web albums with out leaving their account.
Qualcomm has announced the availability of the advanced 1.2 GHz dual core Snapdragon CPUs that will power the future smartphones, Currently 1GHz CPU is the standard norm in the high end smartphones, this will change once these new breed of highly capable mobile processors hit the market, with these processor chips you would also be able to play 1080p video on your smartphone or you can use the TV Out feature to play the high definition content on your HDTV.
Digital cameras already supports the 3D shooting, now its the turn of mobiles to join the 3D bandwagon as Sharp has introduced an industry’s first HD 3D camera module which will be used in Smartphones and digicams in the near future.
Manual Deskterity is a new kind of multi-touch technology which uses both finger touch and Stylus Pen as input to manipulate the objects on screen simultaneously, you can use variety of gestures using your fingers and at the same time using stylus to take notes, edit, crop photos thus using touchscreen in a more natural way.
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