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Logitech Tablet Bluetooth Keyboard for Android 3.0+

                    Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android 3.0+

Logitech's Tablet Keyboard for Android 3.0+ packs in plenty of bang for your buck. In addition to a superb keyboard, the product comes with a protective case that doubles as a stand for your tablet, allowing you to position the device vertically while you type. This all-in-one functionality adds a lot of value to the Logitech unit.
Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android
Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android
Of course, the most important thing is the keyboard itself -- and Logitech's creation is no slouch in that regard. The keys are nicely spaced out and very responsive; I found it comfortable to perform even the fastest of typing. The unit lies more or less flat when placed on a table, with an ever-so-slight upward slant.
The Logitech Tablet Keyboard has five rows; the number keys at the top double as Android function keys when used in conjunction with a function (Fn) button. Those Android keys allow you to open your tablet's browser, music player, calendar, or Gmail app, as well as remotely control music playback and volume on the tablet. These are handy, but I would have liked it better if they had been dedicated rather than combination keys. The keyboard does have dedicated Search, Back, Home and Menu keys.

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If you want a wireless keyboard for your iPad, try "Hands-on: 5 wireless keyboards for the iPad."
Though all of the keyboards I tested offer Delete keys, the Logitech keyboard is the only one on which the key actually functions as you would expect: It deletes the letter that comes immediately after the cursor. For some reason, every other keyboard's Delete key either did nothing or served as a second Backspace key, deleting letters before the cursor instead of after it.

Bluetooth keyboards for Android tablets

If you need a real keyboard to do real work, here are three excellent and affordable options

 Tablets give us new possibilities when it comes to mobile computing. Unfortunately, they also give us new things to pack when it comes to carry-on luggage.
The problem is simple: While a tablet is a great addition to any gadget-lover's arsenal, it isn't typically a replacement for an existing device. Most of us still need physical keyboards for long-form typing -- and with business travel in particular, that means you're lugging around both a tablet and a laptop.

3 Android keyboards

  • Introduction
  • Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android 3.0+
  • Motorola Wireless Keyboard
  • Targus Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard for Tablets
  • Bottom line
By adding a wireless keyboard to your tablet, though, you can transform it from a content-consuming slate into a far more versatile productivity machine. With the aid of a Bluetooth keyboard, I've been able to use my Motorola Xoom for all of my computing needs -- both work and personal -- while away from the office. The keyboard allows me to type desktop-style as needed; the rest of the time, I can use the tablet as a lightweight touch device.When it comes to keyboards, Android tablets do have a disadvantage: Because the tablets come in a variety of sizes and formats, keyboard manufacturers tend not to create the convenient combination keyboards/cases that are available for the iPad. However, there are still some really excellent options out there.

Free GPRS settings For your Mobile Phone


Free GPRS settings For Any Operator Network in World on your Mobile Phone

Get free GPRS settings for any operator/mobile in world on Your Mobile Phone. If you feeling problem to setup gprs settings manually (given below or any other), or after calling many times to customer care they unable to solve your problem, then I have another solution for you. We’ll send free gprs setting right on your mobile phones.
You just have to provide this information :
Mobile No: +country code then your no, exp:             +91-9999999999      ,
Phone Model: any in the world, exp: Nokia N95 or SE W910i or China.
Operator: your mobile operator (GSM only) name, exp: vodafone or O2
Country/region: name of country and region where form your no, exp: India-Delhi. All this information should be in given format, you can write on comments below this article or send sms on the mobile No: +91-********** (Sorry no. has been removed due to some guys using it for call spams, will be added soon) and as soon as possible I’ll send you free gprs settings. We are support gprs setting for mostly available handset like Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, windows mobile, smart phones and we are also support gprs settings for Chinese Mobile.
So now onward don’t waist your time in calling customer care of Vodafone, MTN, AT & T, Orange, Virgin, T-mobile, Virgin, idea, Airtel, bsnl, aircel, reliance smart gsm, O2, or any operator in the world. They ask many question but never satisfied a customer.

For better response and correct gprs settings plz provide all details. For exp you can give some extra details like: Postpaid or Prepaid, wap or web, for mobile surfing or for PC surfing, this make to delivered you to right gprs settings.
BSNL users plz specify zone, i.e. east,west, north or south zone.
Plz put your comments and ideas if you satisfied or not with the service. Some operators/handsets may not supports third party service, so if you unable to receive settings or received an unsupported format, it may your operator/handset issue.
Due to high volume of requests, it may take some time to receive gprs settings. Plz be relax, you definitely got. If not received in 24 hrs plz resend your request.
Free manual GPRS settings :
Most of people have face problems regarding gprs settings on their mobile phones. I have been getting lots of public reviews about how to configure and where to get gprs setting, So I publish here most of gprs settings for most of mobile service operator (India) to enter in your phone mannulay. Here you have manual gprs settings for vodafone, hutch, idea, airtel, bsnl, airtel live, airtel mobile you can enter in your phone and configure mannually.
Manual TATA DOCOMO GPRS Settings:
Under the ‘TATA DOCOMO INTERNET’ WAP profile in Settings:
Connection Name TATA DOCOMO INTERNET
Data Bearer GPRS
Access Point Name TATA.DOCOMO.INTERNET
Username Blank
Password Blank
Homepage any
Connection Security Off
Session Mode Permanent

World’s Cheapest Tablet PC:World’s Cheapest Indian Tablet PC


World’s Cheapest Indian Tablet PC at 50$
Aakash is the new name of India’s aspiration to produce an Indian computing device. Announced by the Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) on July 22, 2010 as “Sakshaat”, it was launched in New Delhi on Oct 5, 2011.
India’s aspiration to create a “made in India” computer was first reflected in a prototype “”Simputer”" that never went into industrial production. Later, the Ministry of Science & Technology launched an India designed laptop named Mobilis and that was launched by Kapil Sibal. Mobilis did not take off and the Govt of Brazil cancelled the order and blacklisted the Indian supplier.
Four years later Kapil Sibal, this time as Minister for Human Resource Development MHRD, the name India gives its Education Minister, announced a new low-cost computing and access device that was supposed to compete with One Laptop per Child, OLPC, a low-cost laptop cum tablet designed at MIT’s Media Lab and led by Professor Nicholas Negroponte with a difference. While OLPC is designed for the underprivileged younger school going children in places that lack both physical and teaching infrastructure, Kapil Sibal’s low cost computer was targeted at urban, college going students.

Top 10 Mobile Applications of 2012

For many of the categories on this list, there are a number of mobile apps that are already available today. But what Gartner makes clear is that we're just getting started when it comes to their use.
For example, location-based services (LBS) - there still isn't one single app which everyone uses to find their friends out in the real world via their mobile phones. Instead, we have a number of similar but competing applications all vying to be the Facebook of location-based apps.
Another example is money payments - this type of service is having more of an impact in the developing world right now where access to banks is more difficult than here in the Western world where people just want the convenience of paying through their mobiles. When was the last time you paid someone or paid at checkout through your mobile phone? Never? That sounds about right.
The List

The full list is as follows:
Money Transfer: This refers to people sending money via SMS messages. Like mobile payments, this service has more appeal in developing markets for now. However, there may come a time when even using your debit card seems passé, while paying for something with actual cash seems downright ancient.
Location-Based Services: As mentioned above, there are still far too many services to choose from when it comes to location-based social networking, fragmenting the market. Your friends on Loopt are often different than those on Brightkite and that list is different than those on Foursquare. But LBS extends to more than social networks - it includes any application that taps into your phone's GPS capabilities to offer up location-based services of any kind, whether that's local business reviews or directions to the nearest Starbucks. Gartner says this will be one of the most disruptive technologies in the future, with a user base growing from 96 million in 2009 to 526 million in 2012.
Mobile Search: No, mobile search isn't new, but on the mobile platform, it may get shaken up a bit. Gartner predicts that consumers won't necessarily be sticking with the search services they know and use on the Web (think Google, Bing, Yahoo) and instead experiment with using a few different search providers that have "unique technologies" for mobile search. While that statement is a little vague, it sounds like good news for services like Taptu who have entered this field with search offerings designed from the ground-up for mobile devices.

Mobile Browsing: Saying that mobile browsing technologies will be heavily used in the future sounds a little bit like stating the obvious. But as Gartner notes, mobile browsing capabilities currently exist only on 60%+ of handsets today. By 2013, that number will climb to 80%, meaning that those who are still using the app-less,more basic feature phones will still be joining the mobile web in mass numbers over the coming years. That's also good news for web developers who can build mobile web applications to cater to this bunch as opposed to focusing all their efforts into building apps for the numerous mobile platforms like the iPhone, Android, RIM, and others.
Mobile Health Monitoring: Another technology whose impact will be felt more heavily in developing markets, mobile health monitoring is still at an early stage of maturity and implementation says Gartner. Project rollouts have been limited to pilot projects for now, but in the coming years the industry will begin to monetize these efforts by offering mobile healthcare monitoring products, services, and solutions to various care delivery organizations.
Mobile Payments: Like mobile transfers, mobile payments are more common in developing markets at the moment, but that is quickly changing. Yet even as this type of service grows, Gartner admits there will be challenges. Mobile payments will be a "highly fragmented market" where there will not be "standard practices of deployment," notes the report. That makes it sound like this is one technology that will still need some work, even when 2012 rolls around.
Near Field Communications (NFC): More popular in some European and Asian markets than in the U.S., NFC still isn't a standard feature on many of today's phones. That may be about to change, too. In late 2010, Gartner says that NFC-enabled phones will begin to ship in volume, with Asia leading deployments, followed by Europe and North America.
Mobile Advertising: Also not new but growing fast, mobile advertising is one of the most important ways to monetize mobile content. Total spending on mobile advertising in 2008 was $530.2 million and it will grow to $7.5 billion in 2012. And mobile advertising will also be used by companies alongside their other campaigns including TV, radio, print, and outdoors.
Mobile Instant Messaging: Gartner says that latent user demand and market conditions are conductive to mobile IM's future adoption. It will appeal to developing markets where mobile phones are often the only connectivity device a user owns. But will it be a major app by 2012? It seems that SMS is still the service to beat, especially in the developing world. We'll have to wait and see on this one.
Mobile Music: Sure, you have the iPhone, but what about your other options? What about mobile music services - especially those for non-iPhone devices? We're still waiting on Spotifyin the U.S., for example, and their competition too. Gartner says that we're beginning to see new innovative models in this area that will include both device (think "Comes with Music") and service bundles.

Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their own and haven't yet seen widespread adoption as well as the already common technologies that are still experiencing growth.
What's Missing?

A glaring omission from this report is that of Augmented Reality. Gartner had even placed this technology on their "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2009" report earlier this year. Do they not think that AR will have a major impact by 2012? Considering that's only a little over a year away, it could just be too soon for AR to see the widespread adoption that we hoped it would have by then. Or it's possible that - as some have suspected - AR is simply a "cool" way to see and interact with the world around you, but hasn't produced any "must-have," highly useful applications just yet. For example, seeing AR views of local businesses and user recommendations is fun, but is it a markedly better experience than using a service like Yelp? For many, that answer today is "no." AR needs to grow out of being a technology you use "because you can" to one you use "because you have to." Until it's the best option to perform a particular task, it may not make Gartner's next list, either.

Future Information Technology 2012

The 7th FTRA International Conference on
Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)














Future technology information technology would stand for all of continuously evolving and converging information technologies, including digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent applications, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications, bio-inspired computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web, user experience and HCI, secuity and trust computing and so on, for satisfying our ever-changing needs.

In past twenty five years or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various IT-based applications, we would find it difficult to keep information stored securely, to process information efficiently, and to communicate information conveniently. In the future world, IT will play a very important role in convergence of computing, communication, and all other computational sciences and application and IT also will influence the future world's various areas, including science, engineering, industry, business, law, politics, culture, medicine, and so on.

Our conference is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization.

FutureTech 2012 is the next edition of FutureTech 2011(Loutraki, Greece), FutureTech 2010 (Busan, Korea, May 2010) which was the next event in a series of highly successful the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services (UASS-09, USA, Jan. 2009), previously held as UASS-08 (Okinawa, Japan,Mar. 2008), UASS-07 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August, 2007), and UASS-06 (Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May, 2006).

Papers presented in the FutureTech-12 will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering(Indexed by EI & SCOPUS), ISSN: 1876-1100.

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal:

October 1, 2011

Submission Deadline:

December 15, 2011

Authors Notification:

February 15, 2012

Carmera-ready Due:

March 15, 2012

Registration Due:

March 15, 2012

Conference:

June 26-28, 2012

All papers accepted and presented in FutureTech 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: (Pending)

The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI) (Pending)
Interacting with Computers - Elsevier (SCI) (Pending)
International Journal of Computer Mathematics - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD(SCIE) (Pending)
Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
Journal of Internet Technology - Taiwan-NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIV. (SCIE) (Pending)
Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications - Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
Cluster Computing - Springer (SCIE) (Pending)
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing - Inderscience (SCIE) (Pending)
Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA







Blackberry Curve 9360

               Blackberry Curve 9360 smartphone launched in India
Research In Motion (RIM) has officially launched the Blackberry Curve 9360 smartphone in India in alliance with Airtel. Blackberry Curve 9360 is powered by BlackBerry 7 OS and 800 Mhz processor.


BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone packed a 2.44 inch display, QWERTY keypad along with optical trackpad, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, 4 GB internal memory and up to 32GB of expandable memory. Weighing at 99 just grams, it comes with a 5 megapixel camera with flash, and supports VGA video recording.

The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is 3G enabled device, and comes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC and Wikitude World Browser.

Blackberry Curve 9360 is priced at Rs. 19,990.

India’s cheapest Android tablet

Akash Ubislate, India’s cheapest Android tablet launched

The much anticipated $35 tablet has been officially launched by Union Ministry for Human Resource Development. The tablet is called Akash Ubislate and will be available to students at the subsidized price of $35 (approx Rs. 1720).




Weighing 350 grams, Akash tablet features a 7 inch resistive touchscreen diaplay, has 256 MB RAM, 2 GB internal storage, 32 GB expandable memory slot, two USB ports, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g connectivity and 3.5 mm audio jack.

Akash Ubislate is powered by Android 2.2 OS and 366 Mhz. Connexant with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor. Premium version of this tablet will also have inbuilt cellular modem (GSM/3G) and SIM card slot.

HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio launched


HTC has launched its second Android smartphone with integrated Beats Audio, HTC Sensation XL. HTC Sensation XL comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and powerful 1.5 GHz processor.

HTC Sensation XL bring a massive 4.7 inch S-LCD touchscreen with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, 8 megapixel camera featuring dual LED Flash, af/2.2, 28 mm wide angle and 720p video recording, front camera for video calls, music player, video player and 3.5 mm audio jack.

HTC Sensation XL features a 768MB RAM, 16 GB internal memory in which 12.64GB is available for user and expandable memory card support. Connectivity features of the HTC Sensation XL include 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA and GPS. At just 9.9 mm thickness the HTC Sensation XL is powered by 1600 mAh battery.

HTC Sensation XL will be available in the Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific from early November.

HCL announced Leaptops Series 39 Notebooks in the Indian market


HCL announced Leaptop 39 Series for the Indian market. In principle, it is Leaptop Series 39 was designed taking into account the weather condition in India. This series is designed to achieve a lower temperature difference of less than 6 degrees on the palm rest area. The HCL Leaptop Series 39 is available in both Windows and Linux versions and has a battery back-up of more than four hours. The leaptop series 39 come with a 14.1 inch wide screen and is powered by Intel’s Centrino and Centrino2 processor technology.

Starting price range for Leaptop 39 Series with the Centrino processor Rs. 39,900 and Rs. 42,990 for the Centrino2 processor technology

Nokia X2-01 launched in India, Nokia X2-01 Music Phone Price

Nokia X2-01 launched in India, Nokia X2-01 Music Phone Price

Nokia X2-01

Nokia has launched a new affordable music phone, Nokia X2-01 in India. Nokia X2-01 runs on Symbian S40 OS and features a full QWERTY Keypad.

Sony to pull out of LCD JV with Samsung


 Sony Corp , struggling with a loss-making television business, is in negotiations to pull out of its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant is aiming to reach an agreement by the end of this year to sell its nearly 50 percent stake in liquid-crystal display joint venture S-LCD to Samsung, the paper said.

Sony intends to rely more on outsourcing to reduce procurement costs to cope with rapidly declining prices of LCD panels due to a global oversupply, the Nikkei said without citing sources.

Spokesmen for both Sony and Samsung Electronics declined to comment .

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo had a similar report on the joint venture breakup in July, which Sony denied.

A well-informed industry source told Reuters in Seoul that such reports seem to be "distorted" because Sony has been negotiating with Samsung over its return on investment in the joint venture, rather than shareholdings.

"Under the contract on the LCD joint venture, the two parties are allowed to discuss such matters, which outsiders could misunderstand as a step for Sony to withdraw from the joint venture," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In April, the two companies cut capital in the joint venture by $555 million as Sony sought to slash its TV losses and Samsung pushed ahead with next generation displays.

. Sony is under pressure to show it can reduce its exposure to the loss-making TV unit and concentrate on developing its strategy for smartphones.

Last week, it announced it will take control of its mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson as it seeks to exploit its music and video applications to help it catch smartphone leaders such as Apple Inc .

Sony reports July-September results on Wednesday. Analysts are forecasting Sony will fall short of its operating profit outlook of 200 billion yen ($2.63 billion) for the year to March 2012, with consumer confidence wobbling in Europe and the United States and as the strong yen bites into profits.

The electronics giant, which competes with Samsung and LG Electronics in televisions, needs to slash costs as it heads for its eighth straight annual loss in its TV business.

Sony has already sold off TV factories in Spain, Slovakia and Mexico in the past few years and outsources more than half of production to companies including Hon Hai Precision Industry. It retains four TV plants of its own in Japan, Brazil, China and Malaysia.

Samsung’s new phones will have flexible screens

Samsung‘s new mobile device lineup will feature flexible screens starting in 2012, the company announced today.

In its quarterly earnings call, Samsung’s vice president of investor relations, Robert Yi, told investors, analysts and press, “The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part. The application probably will start from the handset side.”

After flexible-screen mobile phones roll out, the company plans to introduce the same technology for tablets and other devices.

In January 2011, Samsung purchased Liquivista, a strategic acquisition that will allow it to produce the kinds of displays that were announced today. Liquivista made electrowetting display technology, which is used to create mobile and other consumer electronic displays that are bright, low-power, flexible and transparent.

Flexible screen technology was also a focus of Samsung’s in March, when Yongsuk Choi, director of Samsung Mobile Display, gave an overview of the company’s future mobile device plans. At that time, Choi said most of the flexible-display technology Samsung was working on was still in very early stages.

Flexible displays have been on the fringes of up-and-coming mobile technologies for some time. For example, we saw a bendable e-reader from Plastic Logic back in 2008.

More recently, Sony, in particular, has shown some interesting work in the field, demonstrating its first flexible display at CES in early 2009 and showing off advanced, thinner, more flexible displays just last year.

Still, flexible screens aren’t something we’re seeing on the mass market yet; we wonder if consumers will warm to the idea when Samsung takes the wraps off these new devices.

Samsung recently surpassed Apple as the top smartphone manufacturer, shipping 27.8 million smartphones last quarter. Altogether, Samsung’s current share of the smartphone market is 23.8 percent.

Windows 8 smartphone

A Chinese company says it will bring the yet-to-be-released Windows 8 to the small screen.

In Technology Group has seemingly dedicated itself to merging the Windows PC experience with the smartphone--something the company has dubbed the "post-smartphone." They started with phones running Windows XP a few years ago, and by earlier this year, ITG's XPPhone was available with Windows 7. Now it says a far slimmer, lighter, and energy efficient XPPhone 2 that will run both Windows 7 and the PC version of Windows 8 (once it's released) is in the works.

Though it seems doubtful to me that many consumers will find a need for so much Windows in their pocket, ITG has made sure to pack the XPPhone 2 with the meaty hardware to pull it off. This beast will boast a 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. ITG's Web site also mentions the possibility of an insane 2GHz model. There's also plenty of storage space to house Microsoft's notoriously bulky OSes, with 112GB on board.

ITG is billing the XPPhone 2 not just as a phone but as the "smallest notebook PC in the world," measuring 140mm X 73mm X 17.5mm. The pitch is basically that the phone is easily dockable and can stand in for a laptop, desktop and in-car navigation system.

The success of this kind of a device will likely depend on it being at least more usable than the English translation of its press release, which requires several aspirin to navigate, with sentences like: "The Editor considers that, presently it forms three camps of smart phone in the way of tripartite confrontation--The Apple, Google & Moto, and Intel & Microsoft & xpPhone, of which stands for three complete different technical orientations."

Let's hope they took the money they saved on their translator and put it into engineering.Engadget reports that we could see an XPPhone 2 release as soon as January.

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