Archive for August, 2010

Looks like just recently Google sailed into Skype’s waters. And now Google is making another move to improve their services. Google brought out a new page that shows Twitter conversations and other real-time content. Google is calling their real-time search enhancement the best one to date. The Google Real-Time Search services were launched in December. The aim was and still is – to bring [...]

I do remember YouTube having a Movies section where you had to pay to watch a film. Looks like they’ve given it more thought and re-freshened the movie section. They now have loads of FREE films available on this new Movies category, which are available in HD and/or standard view. Who needs TV any more?

As of today, I’m glad we didn’t become Techbook. Looks like Facebook is trying to claim the word “book” as its own. Facebook has sued a website, named Teachbook, for the use of the word “book” in their name, since it trespasses on Facebook’s trademark. Facebook is not trying to gain money from it. Apparently, all it wants to do is to make Teachbook change its [...]

Yesterday, we published an article that the Samsung Galaxy Tab was announced. Looks like now we’re up for some more news about this new tablet! We’ve found this video of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab floating around the net. Looks like the Android 2.2 works really smooth on it. And it even shows a comparison of the Galaxy Tab to the Apple iPad! Well so far we know that the device will have [...]

Ever since DirectX 10 came out with Windows Vista, most gamers have upgraded (changed, rather) their OS to vista to experience games with DX10. Games look better on DX10 no doubt, but it is equally true that switching to DX10 sacrifices a lot of FPS (Frames Per Second). Now this difference may be little while playing on lower settings with highly capable graphic cards but as you increase the details [...]

If you’re a Gmail user, you should have already noticed a little pop-up telling you about the new feature of Gmail. This new VoIP service links to the Google Voice app to bring you calls to landlines or other Gmail users. Google says that calls to Canada and the U.S. should be free for, at least, the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at very low costs. The company also [...]

Samsung announced that it will be introducing a new Android tablet to battle the Apple iPad. They are also hoping that the success of the Samsung Galaxy S phones will have a positive impact on the new Android tablet. The rumours were confirmed on Tuesday, when Samsung released a teaser video and a website for the new tablet. There’s still not much info available about the product, but so far [...]

Netbooks are often said to be underpowered due to the Intel Atom CPUs that are being put in them. Well, that’s about to change. On Monday, Intel announced that their  new dual-core Atom processor will be shipped along with a dozen of new netbooks. These new netbooks will be manufactured by  ASUS, LG, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung and Acer and they are said to have “new levels of support” [...]

There has already been a lot of discussion going about that HP will release either a Windows 7 tablet or a webOS one. Well HP made a decision and released it to public. And guess what? It’s both of them (Windows 7 and webOS). Todd Bradley said that the Windows 7 tablet will come “in the near future” and we can get our hands on the webOS device “early next year”. HP say [...]

Well it was no secret that the Chrome Web Store was coming, since at the Google I/O it was announce to come later this year. They finally opened a preview of the Chrome Web Store for developers. This short paragraph from the Chromium Blog explains what is it all about: Developers can now start uploading apps and experiment with packaging them, installing them in Chrome (using the latest Chrome dev [...]