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.

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.

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.

Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell

Intel shows an experimental chip that can run at under 10 milliwatts


Intel on Thursday showed an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs on solar power.

The concept processor, code-named Claremont, can run light workloads on solar power by dropping energy consumption to under 10 milliwatts, said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, during a keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. That is low enough to keep a chip running on a solar cell the size of a stamp.

This CPU, also called near-threshold voltage processor, may not become a commercial product, but the research could be integrated into future processors and other circuitry, Rattner said. It is part of a project in Intel Labs to reduce energy consumption five-fold on chips and to bring always-on capability to computing devices. It also will help Intel reach goals to drop power consumption when running parallel processing applications.

The chip is an experimental Pentium CPU and ran on a PC with the Linux operating system. The CPU worked in conjunction with concept DDR3 memory developed by Micron called Hybrid Memory Cube, which is seven times more power-efficient than current DDR3 memory.

The postage-stamp chip was also demonstrated on Tuesday at Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote at IDF. Otellini said Intel wanted to drive down power consumption of chips, and an Intel engineer demonstrated a computer running a small animation powered by a solar panel. After the solar source -- a lamp -- was blocked from the chip, the computer froze.

Today's CPUs operate several times higher than the threshold, said Shekhar Borkar, an Intel researcher, during the on-stage demonstration. At low thresholds, the CPU dropped not only power consumption, but also performance. On full power, the CPU operated 10 times faster.

The company's goal is to deliver a 300-fold improvement in energy efficiency in high-performance computing over 10 years. To illustrate the point, Borkar said that today's servers need about 200 watts of power for 100 gigaflops of performance. The company wants to drive the power consumption down to 2 watts.

Beyond fine-grained power management and efficient memory, extreme-scale computing will require better software and programming models to achieve the goal, and Intel will continue research in those areas, Borkar said.

Intel, Google team to optimize Android for smartphones

Intel and Google announced Tuesday that they would partner to optimize future versions of the Android OS for smartphones and other mobile devices using Intel chips.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrated a smartphone with the upcoming Medfield chip running on Android during a keynote at the Intel Developer Conference being held in San Francisco. However, Otellini didn't mention the version of Android running on the smartphone.

Intel wants to make x86 the architecture of choice for smartphones, and porting Android will provide a larger opportunity to the chip maker in the smartphone market, Otellini said.

"This is a significant step forward to bring Intel phones to market," Otellini said.

Intel doesn't have a presence in the smartphone market yet, but Otellini said a smartphone based on the chip would reach the market in the first quarter next year. Medfield includes a low-power Atom processor. A smartphone with the chip was due in the third quarter this year, but has been delayed multiple times. Intel also is holding a technical session at IDF to show Medfield running on tablets.

Intel and Google will work on optimizing "all" future Android releases for Intel mobile chips at the kernel level, and also in specific areas such as memory management and graphics, said Andy Rubin, senior vice president for mobile at Google, in an on-stage appearance.

USING INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING IN SCHOOLS

TECHNOLOGYS able to connect people all over the world and thanks to interactive video conferencing programs schools are able to talk to one another in completely different countries. No longer will you have just a "pen pal" anymore you will actually end up with a virtual message from them and you are able to make friends clear on the other side of the planet. Thanks to technology students are truly able to see the rest of the world and to be able to connect with other cultures and to see actual places that they are studying and learning about.


There are so many amazing advantages to what video conferencing is providing to schools. Here are a just a few of the many advancements interactive video conferencing is able to provide:

1. Additional course offerings. For students that have been able to excel at their current grade the video conferencing can help to provide them with advanced learning. They can use the program to learn outside of their day to day classroom learning in order to shadow college professionals and many other things. It is a great way to add more learning methods and programs to your child's education if they are not being challenged enough.