Why iPhone 4 white got delayed by 10 months?

Finally Apple released the long awaited oft-delayed white-colored iPhone 4 with FINALLY written in its blog above a picture of the elusive white phone on the homepage of Apple.com. The model expected to arrive last year June got delayed by around 10 months because of design and manufacturing complications.

Earlier test models of the white iPhone 4 produced blurry photos, especially when the flash was used. Its whiteness confused the proximity sensor, which detects when the phone is held next to someone's head and turns off the touchscreen to preserve battery life and prevent apps from being opened accidentally. It was the first white color release with a flash camera making the white iPhone 4's development a "challenging" journey for Apple.

As per Apple officials, It's not as simple as making something white. There's a lot more that goes into both the material science of it, how it holds up over time but also in how it all works with the sensors.

Even Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to be aware of the fuss surrounding white models of his company's gadgets. Last month Jobs made a subtle joke when he unveiled the iPad 2, which comes in both white and black saying that for the iPad 2, we'll be shipping white from Day One.

At the day of release, forty-five people were lined up at Apple's flagship New York store Thursday morning to buy white iPhones. The new white iPhone is expected to rock the market with around 1 million to 1.5 million sales every three months.

Million dollars cars of future designed in 70s

These are rare collection of some of the cars from the 70s designed by Bertone, the Italian auto design firm and niche automaker which are million dollars cars of the future :

1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero

Est. Value: $1.5 million to $2.7 million

Out of the the best 6 models from the auto design firm, the crown goes to car, originally unveiled at the Turnin Motor Show in 1970. To access the driver's seat, you have to open the windshield and climb over the black rubberized hood. Instead of an ordinary instrument panel, the driver would consult a large rectangular screen mounted to the left of the steering wheel.

1967 Lamborghini Marzal

Est. Value: $1.5 million to 2.7 million

Lamborghini wanted a four-seat "grand touring" car, so Bertone created this one from a stretched out Lamborghini Miura chassis. Rather than four doors, the Marzal has just two huge ones that open upwards. Feruccio Lamborghini objected to the amount of window area in those big doors, according to RM Auctions. A lady's legs would be there for all to see.

1963 Chevrolet Testudo

Est. Value: $750,000 to $1.1 million

Bertone, it seems, had a problem with ordinary car doors. The Testudo, based on a Chevrolet Corvair Monza chassis, had a flip-up glass canopy. Even the steering wheel was out of the ordinary. Instead of a circle, it was a rectangle with handles at the outer ends. With its pop-up headlights that laid back flat during the day, the Testudo's design influenced many later cars, including the Porsche 928.

1980 Lamborghini Athon

Est. Value: $222,000 to $326,000

The Athon, named for an ancient Egyptian sun cult, isn't really a convertible. It has no top whatsoever. As a concept vehicle, driving on rainy days was never really required. It is drivable, though, with a 260-horsepower V8 and a five-speed manual transmission. Another million dollars car from Lamborghini after Lamborghini Marzal at the 4th position.

1978 Lancia Sibilo

Est. Value: $89,000 to $148,000

The windows on the Sibilo are set into the body so seamlessly that the car almost seems to have no windows at all. This car was so ahead of its time, it reportedly inspired the cars used in the Arnold Schwazenegger science fiction film "Total Recall," a 1990 movie set in the year 2084.

1974 Lamborghini Bravo

Est. Value: $222,000 t0 326,000

The relatively straightforward except for the checkerboard hood vents V8-powered Bravo stood a good chance of becoming a regular Lamborghini production model. Business trouble at Lamborghini kept that from ever happening, though.
 

Android users to use Google Talk Video Chat soon..

Great news for all Android users.. As Google is all set to enable Google Talk video chat for Android devices.

Android device users will be able to use video and voice chat with any Google Talk contact using another Android devices (phones or tablets). The features will work of standard 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections. Devices with Android 2.3 and all superseding versions will be able to run Google Talk video chat.

Using the new features is simple. On your Android device, from the Google Talk contacts list, you'll see a video and voice chat icon next to each contact. Touch the button for the feature you'd like to use, and chat away. Video can be paused while audio chat continues if you need to navigate elsewhere during a video session. During voice or video chat, text chats from that contact are overlaid on the device screen.

Video and voice chat first came to Gmail late in 2008 and to iGoogle in 2009 and now two years later in 2011 we have video chat enables in our smartphones. Thanks to Android. :)

Android and iPhone : Latest survey reports

The latest US market survey shows a slight slip for iPhone and up-rise of Android causing a tough contest between the two smartphones. Android's popularity has increased at very fast rate and people are taking it as Windows for mobile platform.
Last summer(2010), one-third(33%) of U.S. consumers who were planning to purchase a new smartphone preferred iPhone and one-fourth(25%) planned for Android. Third place was occupied by BlackBerry with 13%. But the last month(March 2011) survey shows how things have changed now with 31% people preferring Android against iPhone with a slight slip on 30% with BlackBerry down to 11%.

As an outcome to this, it has become very tough to predict with any level of certainty which mobile devices will be popular in the future. And because of this variability, it's likely that companies which develop mobile services and content will increasingly deliver their offerings via a mobile web browser, rather than via native mobile apps designed to run on a specific mobile platform because developing several versions of a native app is a big, costly software development and maintenance effort. Making browser based application will make the software able to run on all the platforms but being browser based will restrict them to use certain features which are very native to the platform.

Another outcome of this tough race is the elimination of Windows Mobile from the market falsifying all prediction for Windows Phone 7 to be the #2 smartphone platform worldwide by 2015.

Facebook's way to recharge its burned-out developers

All you guys have been hitting ground frustrated by your job's never ending to-do list. So is the case with Facebook developers but the company has a noble plan to re-energize them which will spring developers for month-long stints with new teams working on different projects under Hackamonth.

This idea comes out of hackathons : short-lived, intense overnight sessions where engineers pound out code, consume vast amounts of caffeine and throw together some kind of working prototype or new product. Generally Hackamonths are month-long night-out sessions, but the company isn't asking its engineers to pull 30 straight all-nighters. Instead, its new Hackamonth program sends developers who have been plowing away on a specific project for more than a year to work with a new team for a month.

There will be around 10% of developers at a time working on a Hackamonth and it is expected to greatly increase the fluidity of our engineering team while sharing of knowledge across teams. Facebook already held three pilot Hackamonths over the past year, with 35 developers participating. Beyond shaking staffers out of their routines, the program also helped Facebook staff several high-priority development efforts, including an iPhone app update and enhancements to Facebook's photos feature.

The concept is similar to Google's 20% time program, though which the company encourage engineers to spend 20% of their work time on projects tangential to their day job. Some of those "20% time projects" have turned into full-fledged Google products, including Gmail, Google News, Google Talk and social network Orkut.

Facebook plans to kick off its fourth Hackamonth this Monday and as per Facebook developers, Hackamonth is more targeted as you have clear objectives to get things done.

Delicious to be sold to Youtube founders

After a long halt, the fate of Web bookmarking service Delicious has been decided as Yahoo is selling the service to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen as a part of their new Internet company, AVOS. Though, financial terms of this deal are yet to be disclosed but the deal is finalized to take place in July this year.

As founders of the largest online video platform, they are expected to run and improve Delicious going forward. Yahoo top officials said that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo for Delicious and they feel AVOS will be an ideal home for the service.

The main reason behind this deal is that the bookmarking site had a steady decline in traffic over the last seven months and Yahoo is no more interested in running the service. Delicious was launched in 2003 with a target of wide fanbase which is ending up to a cult fanbase somehow.

In March, the site saw its first increase in unique visits since July 2010, when around 567000 unique users visited Delicious in March, up from 504000 in February. Yahoo will continue to operate the service until July 2011 before it will get officially transferred to AVOS.

Stars : the new computer worm

A new computer worm named Stars is in news these days as Iran has been targeted though the damage is very slight in the initial stage. The worm is very like other executable on the system and it is likely to be mistaken.

Few months back Iranian nuclear facilities were targeted by a highly specialized computer worm called Stuxnet which was apparently designed to secretly infiltrate the centrifuge machines that refine uranium and make them spin so fast that they would break. It had destroyed around 10% of the centrifuges.

Attacks on Iranian nuclear base is not a new event. Last year, in addition to the computer worm attack, two Iranian nuclear scientists were attacked by unknown assailants with car bombs killing one of them.

As per iranian officials, the offenses like producing computer viruses and the assassination of nuclear scientists are outright criminal and illegal, aimed at preventing Iranians from implementing their peaceful nuclear rights. Without taking this event lightly, Iran Govt. are getting prepared for the worst cyber-attack possible to get shielded from any retaliation.

Friendster to set a new identity - nuking most of the user data

Friendster, the popular social networking site launched soon after Facebook is planning to re-innovate itself for a new identity as it has been struggling for years to justify its continued existence. To re-innovate itself, the site has planned to erase most of the data users have stored on the site.

On Tuesday, it sent an email to each of the registered users to back up all their profile, photos, messages, blog posts and more as these will be deleted on 31st May preserving the basic profile and friend list. For the assistance, Friendster offered an exporter app on its site to let users download their content or port it to third party sites like Flickr or Multiply.

Friendster has no other options as the traffic and active-user count have almost flat-lined over the time. Its current owner, Malaysia Internet company MOL Global, bought the site in late 2009 for rumored $26 million price tag. Friendster's new identity is not yet unveiled but it is appearing to be positioning itself as a casual gaming destination.

Unless Friendster is able to pull off a Phoenix-like rise from the ashes, it will be yet another casualty of the Facebook empire, which has nearly stomped out other competitors like MySpace on its path to total Internet domination. Games and other apps have exploded on the platform, giving birth to companies like FarmVille maker Zynga and, often, netting Facebook a share of their profits.

In an ironic twist, Facebook currently owns the patents on many social-networking features Friendster helped popularize. Facebook quietly purchased Friendster's patent portfolio from MOL last year, giving it the intellectual-property rights to inventions like connecting users within social networks, linking relationship information with outside databases, and compelling users to upload and share their own content.

An end to the search for alien life around us

Allen Telescope Array, operated by The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute(SETI) with a joint efforts from University of California-Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Lab has suspended operations due to the lack of funding. These sophisticated radio telescopes in California were used to scan the heavens for extraterrestrial signals and the project had been funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated more than $25 million to the project.

The project was set on hold a week ago due to state budget crisis and reduced federal dollars. As per SETI officials, the operations is expected to resume in 2013 when the next round of funding goes into effect. SETI since last month has been soliciting donations to fund the Allen project which is around $5 million.

The SETI Institute is based in Mountain View, in California's Silicon Valley. According to its website it employs over 150 scientists, educators and support staff, and gets most of its funding from private donations and non-governmental grants. And the research at the institute is anchored by two centers: The Center for SETI Research, which seeks evidence of extraterrestrial life by looking for some signature of its technology; and the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, which examines the origin, evolution and distribution of life forms on Earth and beyond.

The idea for constructing the Allen Telescope Array was conceived in 1997. Four years later, Allen agreed to fund the venture and construction of the initial 42 antennas, located in Northern California's rural Cascade Mountains. SETI has said it plans to eventually grow the number of dishes to 350. The array's 20-foot-wide telescopes, spread across several acres, don't send messages into space but scan the cosmos for signals of extraterrestrial origin. Unlike previously existing radio telescopes, which scan the sky for limited periods, the Allen Telescope Array probed the universe round the clock. Each of the 42 dishes is aimed at a different area of the sky, collecting reams of data that are being studied by computers for unusual patterns.

Following this lack of funding, SETI is hibernating this project by cutting off a number of staffs and operating with only those who are needed for maintaining the devices through this hibernation period. This long pause has put an end to the search for alien life.

Flynano : The flying air bike we all were dreaming about

Most of us will be amazed with the flying airbikes seen in the movies like Starwars and other future age sci-fi movies and were waiting for such flying bikes to arrive in the market. Here comes an end to our wait as Flynano, the most adventurous water sports enthusiasts is invented by Finnish aviation consultant Aki Suokas.

Flynano with just 70 Kg weight is a single seated aircraft made from carbon fiber composite and will reach speeds in excess of 140 Kmph (over 85 mph). It measures 3.5 meters lengthwise and has a wingspan of 5 meters. Flynano can fly in air to a scary height of 3 kilometers as well as in water with a top speed of 80 Kmph.

The aircraft was recently unveiled at the Aero 2011 expo at Friedrichshafen in Germany drawing a crowd of admirers. Price for the FlyNano will be varying from €25,000 ($36,000) to only €27,000 ($39,000) with three different models to choose from electric, petrol or a racing version.

As per the inventors, they already test run the scale models in the air which showed very good flying abilities and a first full flight test is expected to be conducted by the end of April. Its quite obvious that the order book is filling up rapidly as this new aircraft is quite admirable and irresistible.

It seems, the videos of FlyNano in action flying up high will be available soon over the web.

High-end smartphones for U.S. Army and that's Android based

US Army has chosen to empower itself with powerful smartphones based on Android. The prototype device to be used, called the Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P Handheld) developed by tech nonprofit MITRE, is undergoing several tests.

As per tech experts, this platform will allow soldiers to quickly and (hopefully) securely share geo-tagged notes about obstacles they encounter on the ground. It will also support mapping, critical messaging and other support functions. JBC-P Handheld is an Android-based smartphone framework and suite of applications for tactical operations which will be secure and interoperable with existing mission command systems so information flows seamlessly across all echelons of the force.

Development will be ON once the Army releases the development kit for this platform. They specially need applications that share data and resources across the platform, to avoid the stovepiping problems that have plagued so many military and government information technology projects. The key objective is to integrate the whole system eliminate all communication barrier.

Battery technology and power management have been big problems for commercial smartphones. Bright displays (often necessary in full daylight) and GPS are notorious energy vampires that leave many smartphone owners hunting for outlets on a daily basis. No doubt, military phones will need far more power than these models to operate for longer periods. Military smartphones should also be far more rugged than commercial models, able to withstand sand, dust, water, temperature extremes, impact, concussion and more. Microphones that don't get destroyed by loud blasts will be crucial, as will noise filtering for incoming and outgoing audio (something most commercial smartphones generally do poorly).

With all such features, it will be interesting to see how this high-built smartphone fulfills all military needs.

Apple : The dirtiest data company

The first question striking your head will be What is this dirty data or How and when we call data to be dirty. Lets come to that first.

While talking about environmental impact we talk about recycling habits and consumption of fuels  but what about our text messages and status updates? The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an environmental risk.

The way, the data-centers of these technology companies manages and stores our data, determines the energy consumed by them. "How Dirty Is Your Data?" examines the amount and type of energy consumed by several top tech companies' data centers, the massive warehouses where banks of servers store information. On this test set by environmental group Greenpeace, Apple had the worst score of 6.7% followed by HP with just 9.9%. Apple's score is largely based on its 500,000-square-foot facility coming online in Maiden, North Carolina. According to Greenpeace, that facility will consume as much energy as 80,000 homes in the United States, or nearly a quarter-million in Europe.

The top energy efficient companies were Yahoo! (55.9%) and Google (36.4%) followed by Amazon (26.8%), Microsoft (25%), Twitter (21%),Facebook (13.8%) and IBM (10.9%). While facebook has avoided being on the bottom but as per the Greenpeace report it may come down to the bottom very soon due to its high energy consumption rates.

The tech companies should look after it and their models should be employed and improved upon by other Internet(cloud computing) companies in order to save energy.

Google and Bing still blaming each other

While all search engines are busy optimizing their algorithm to address all our requests, two popular search giants Bing and Google are upbraiding their competitors.

Very recently, an executive for Bing(Microsoft's search engine) recently accused Google of stealing its ideas for designs and products. That followed an allegation by Google that Microsoft was monitoring Google search queries in an effort to copy its results pages. The blame game is getting more common day by day. This war of words is getting even bigger as Bing appears to be eroding at least some of Google's dominant market share.

Google controlled 64% of the U.S. search market in March, down from 67% in February and almost 70% in December 2010, according to market research firm Experian Hitwise. Bing-powered search, which includes Yahoo!, rose to 30% of the market in March, up from 25.7% last December.

Google has added new search interfaces in the last couple of months that target specific categories. For example, a search for "chicken noodle soup" offers a recipes browser, and a query for "Dark Knight Rises release" places a "best guess" about the movie's opening date at the top of the page. These tools try to predict what information the user is searching for and give them an answer more quickly, without having to click through multiple pages. But Bing says this kind of methodology has been a priority for Bing since its inception.

Bing launched in 2009 amid an advertising bonanza billing itself as the decision engine. Since then Microsoft is having an eagle eye on the global search engine market and Google is the major competitor and in fact a dominant of this sector. So this audacious response from both the IT giants is very much obvious. The game is ON, lets see who comes out with the best.

Beware all iPhone users....

Beware all iPhone users, as you are being tracked by none other but Apple.

As per the recent allegation against Apple on a site called iPhone Tracker, Apple devices appear to be tracking their owners' locations and storing data about people's whereabouts without their knowledge. The unauthorized surveillance started in June 2010, when the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released, according to two researchers who say they discovered a hidden tracking file and posted it out of concern for users. Though, Apple has not yet responded to the allegations.

As per the iPhone experts, this data is stored on a person's iPhone or 3G-enabled iPad and on computers that are synced with those devices. There's no evidence, that this data is also transmitted to Apple as it's collected.

By passively logging your location without your permission on these devices, Apple has ultimately made it possible for anyone from a jealous spouse to a private investigator to get a detailed picture of your movements.

The location data appear to be collected at random intervals over time, using cell phone towers to triangulate approximate locations. And these data are stored in a file named consolidated.db, and that it's unclear why Apple would collect this information. It seems to be more like a mistake then an intentional mischief.

No matter what it is, if you are an iPhone or iPad user you must be wary about what you do and where you go because your spouse or an investigator might be tracking your moves.

Google Goggles : An intelligent eye to your cell-phone

We have been looking for a search engine that only search based on text inputs but also supports other formats like images, audio and video. For example if we input an eye pattern then the engine will come up with the persons having similar eye pattern, if we upload an audio clip then it will provide us the audio files having the similar track.

This search engine can be widely used in various sectors including defense and research. Google has come forward with its innovative algorithm covering one step to this concept. Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser.

Though there are still a lot of hurdles in the path to the implementation of this technology as for now it can only match and recognize popular patterns but not the regular one like a toothbrush or a tennis ball. But rapid progress, coupled with the growing number of brilliant minds taking up the challenge, is making intelligent robo-eyesight within reach. With time the system is expected to learn and improve itself to recognize more common items.

The product based on this is contained in a service called Goggles which exists as a standalone application for Android phones and as a feature of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. With Goggles, the user snaps a picture, which is transmitted across cellular networks to Google's servers. Google's computers then tell the phone what they recognized in the photo. This process can take only a second or two and sometimes even less for the Google's Goggles.

Ads that analyze and target its audience

Till today, people go for various offers and analyze them and choose the one that suits you. But now its time for an ad that stares back at you when you glance at it, analyzes you, your age, sex etc and shows you the offer which its analysis suggests will hook you.

That's what Immersive Labs, a New York City startup launching this week, is trying to do. They've created a prototype of a system that allows ads to analyze their viewers. The software they attach to digital billboards tracks everything from viewers demographic profiles, their age, gender, and estimated attention span to how many people they're with and how long they spend viewing the ad.

Walking by a billboard on a chilly day? You might see a hot beverage advertisement. On a stroll with your significant other? That same billboard might instead show you date-themed movies.

It's all part of an effort to personalize ads and make them smarter and the real focus in this effort is to put artificial intelligence so that ads can learn and improve over time. The technology will be getting smarter with time and learning, evolving itself day by day.

Immersive Labs isn't the first to explore the interactive frontier. In Germany, if viewers check-in on Foursquare to a GranataPet billboard, the ad will dispense dog food, giving dogs a taste of their product. And in Japan, NEC has tested out advertising billboards with embedded facial-recognition technology.

So get ready for a digital sexier and smarter advertisement system next to your doorsteps in couple of years.

Investors putting their back to Google

Yes you heard it right, the search giant Google is falling short of investors. The reasons are quite straight forward, Google's stock is exactly where it was in September 2007, and moreover it has fallen 9% since Eric Schmidt announced in January that he would be stepping down as CEO.

As per the investors, for every reason to believe in Google, there seems to be a counterbalancing reason for not believing in Google and this is the major problem for the company.

The company is growing rapidly, but antitrust battles are a threat to growth. Hiring increases could help create the next billion-dollar business, but the weight on margins scares some investors. New management should make the company more efficient, but near-term profits could suffer. And well-received product enhancements aren't enough to reduce some investors' worries about Facebook's threat to Google's business.

Here are the closer look at the major points which Google must look after :

• Slowing growth
• Expense growth with management change
• Facebook competition
• Transparency

But we all know Google and its history which really counts and over all this Google is an inspiration for each and every IT professional through out the world. Though figures are not in favor but undoubtedly there is something lying beneath all these.

Twitter wings getting clipped off

Twitter, which has been doing tremendously well in eliminating the barrier between celebrities and their huge fans. It has offered an online platform to the entire world the fans, the followers and the supporters. It has offered a wide stage to the celebrities, the politicians, the top business leaders and all other popular personalities. Undoubtedly, it has become the most popular among all those people who loves to share updates about them for their publicity in the best way possible. Twitter's popularity has made the twitter fly higher and higher in the  world wide web.

But their are issues which are clipping off wings of this tech high flier. The major issues blocking twitter are Boardroom powerplays, disgruntled founders and CEO shuffling. Twitter has a extra-ordinarily talented team of high-tech engineers but the top management really need to look after their collaboration to keep twitter going up in the sky.

Here are a few statistics which shows the setback of twitter in last few months :

The traffic for the most popular facebook is flying over the edge beating once leading MySpace with a large gap, while twitter is falling short and falls in the second last position while we compare the traffics. US traffic to twitter.com is leveling off.

Not only the traffic but also the average time spent by the user on twitter.com is falling. 47% of the twitter users are not even active on the service and they are no longer using twitter. The average time of users visiting twitter has fallen more than 10% in one year, from 14 minutes to 12.5 minutes.

Not only bad, but there are also some good news for twitter. Twitter usage statistics shows that the sensational micro-blogging site is most popular amongst the tech-savvies. And the users are not only concentrated in US. In fact 70% are from outside US. Statistics also shows that, 50% of the active twitter users prefer using it on more than one platform and some of the users (around 25%) are tweeting on a wide scale making 90% of the worldwide tweets.

Twitter still holds a very strong position over the web and is popular among leading personalities like Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, Amitabh Bachchan and several others. They just need to look after their top management strategies and the corporate stability to keep rising up and make twitter what they would have thought years back.

Why 3D TV failed to capture our living room

3D TV

It has been a long one and a half year since the evolution of 3D TV but it has never succeeded to capture the market. Started by Sony and Panasonic and later joined by several other companies, the technology failed to attract customers globally.

Here are the top two reasons why the 3D display could never became a favorite at living room :

1. Purchase Cost :
One year back, when the technology was just out in market, most of the people complained about the high cost of 3D TV being he main reason why the technology is not yet common. But this is not the case now, as the price of a typical 3D plasma TV which cost around $3000 one year back is now for only $1200 in the market and that too in various sizes and varities. So the purchase cost is no more the top reason.

2. Wearing Glass :

3D Glasses

People also complained about wearing glasses to watch 3D display being a serious knack while watching TV for entertainment. Most of people prefer to work on their laptops or reading news-paper while watching TV. But wearing the 3D glasses prevents them from this multitasking. Apart from this, the rechargeable shutter glasses costing around 120$ is a weird thing which you can wear for long time. Though there are some glasses which look exactly like a sun-glass and are very comfortable.

To eliminate these reasons, the research is on for a glass-free 3D front. Toshiba started selling a glasses-free TV in Japan in December, but it's at the rather unenticing size of 20 inches. Another TV maker, Sharp, is also working on glasses-free models, but like Toshiba's current offering, size is an issue. The 3.8-inch and 10.6-inch prototypes the company showed last fall worked rather well, but at the current size they're much better suited to mobile devices than a living room. 

Glass Less 3D Front

There's a lot of research being done on the glasses-less 3D front. A good indication of how important this area of technology is going to be? Apple is also one of the companies researching it, as shown by the patent the company filed late last year. But it's still not ready for prime time. Or mainstream audiences. Size is the main issue in glass-free 3D as 3D looks glamorous only on bigger display. Bigger is better here.

Apple unveils its latest 64 bit video editing tool

The newest version of Apple's most popular video editing software is finally out as Apple unveils Final Cut Pro X at an event at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas.

Final Cut Pro X is the latest release of the 12-year-old Apple's video editing software. It's the first 64-bit version for the software, capable of utilizing all eight cores and more than 4 GB of RAM of the Mac for professional video editing.

Final Cut Pro X comes with a slew of new features, including advanced people and shot detection, automatic audio cleanup and range-based key-wording, which gives video editors the ability to apply keywords to specific portions of a video. The new Final Cut Pro also sports a feature that prevents audio and video tracks from being pushed out of sync by accident. Photography Bay also reports that Final Cut Pro X will come with feature that automatically matches color between two clips.

Final Cut Pro X will be available for download via the Mac App Store in June for $299, far less than the Final Cut Studio's $999 price tag.

A bus which travels at 250 kmph

The six-wheel super-fast Superbus capable of carrying 23 passengers with a top speed of 155 mph (250 kmph) and at the same time meeting the convenience and flexibility as traveling by car and the speed and comfort very similar to rail journeys.

The very important fact about the 15 meter long Superbus is that it can be driven almost anywhere just like a car as it does not need any track to travel. It comes with adjustable height, rear-wheel steering and a turning circle of about 10 meters.

This prototype of the electric vehicle recently came up on the show at the 2011 World Exhibition of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) in Dubai in the hope of attracting investment for development of a test infrastructure.

As per the manufacturers, this is the first phase where they have developed a prototype, in the next phase they will be demonstrating an industrial prototype and third phase will be of actual implementation. The project was started in 2004 and has cost around €13 million ($19 million) to date using cutting edge technology developed in Formula One racing and the aerospace industry.

Though the Superbus production model is expected to be cheaper at around €2 million ($2.9 million).

Apple's deteriorating relationship with Google

The deteriorating relationship of the two tech giants Apple and Google is well known. The latest book released on Tuesday 'In the Plex',the new page-turner about Google, by Steven Levy talks a lot about it. As per the book, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were pressed to hire a CEO, Steve Jobs was the first person they look for.

Here are someother highlights of his latest writing :

Early days: "The two firms embarked on a potentially glorious, industry-changing alliance in which the veteran Jobs would lend expertise and wisdom to the smarty-pants Internet kids and the two firms together would take down Microsoft."

Eric Schmidt joins Apple's board: "There was so much overlap that it was almost as if Apple and Google were a single company. .. 'If we merge the companies we can call it AppleGoo," Schmidt joked. 'But we can merge without merging.'"

Android's OS becomes more iPhone like: "It took a while for Jobs to understand that Google was becoming a competitor... By 2008, however, the trajectories of the two companies, at least with respect to phones, was less a merger than an impending collision."

Chrome: "Insiders say that over a period of months, Jobs concluded that he was the victim of deceit. The first alarming sign of Google pursuing its vision regardless of its effect on Apple was the Chrome browser."

Android: "Android, though, was much worse. As he learned more about how the benign competitor he had envisioned was actually a full-blown alternative to the iPhone, Jobs became increasingly upset. ... From all accounts, Jobs prided himself as a canny observer, not only of business but also of human character, and he did not want to admit -- especially to himself -- that he had been betrayed by the two young men he had been attempting to mentor."

Jobs visits the Googleplex: "In the summer of 2008, Jobs ventured to Mountain View to personally judge the extent of the violation. He was reportedly furious. Not only did he believe that Google had performed a bait and switch on him... but he also felt Google had stolen Apple's intellectual property to do so."

Steven Levy had already chronicled the creation of the Mac (Insanely Great) and the iPod (The Perfect Thing) - the two blockbuster books about the booming IT industry.

Facebook in trouble again - for at least 50% shares this time

Facebook and Mark Zukerberg are still not out of legal issues as the problems keep coming up for them every few months. Paul Ceglia, a New York resident who sued Mark Zuckerberg last year for 50% ownership of Facebook, has re-filed his complaint with solid proofs this time.

As per Ceglia, he paid Zuckerberg $1,000 for development work on a site called StreetFax, and $1,000 for work on the site the Face Book, which Zuckerberg had already started. The alleged contract also says that Ceglia would own 50% of the software, programming language and business interests of Facebook. That contract was included in Ceglia's suit from 2010.

Ceglia re-filed the suit this monday with high-profile law firm DLA Piper, and he included several alleged e-mails between him and Zuckerberg from July 2003 to July 2004. The amended complaint was first reported by Business Insider.

Click here to view the case filed against Facebook and Zukerberg and the contract agreement between Zukerberg and Ceglia.

As per the mails given as proof, they had conversations and finally settled for a 50-50 ownership of Facebook. This proposal was given by Zukerberg and Ceglia  replied, "OK fine Mark 50/50 just as long as we start making some money from this thing."

Thefacebook.com launched on Feb. 4, 2004 and few days later Zuckerberg mailed Ceglia that he must take creative control and that he didn't want to publicize the site with flyers. On April 6, 2004, Zuckerberg wrote that he had become too busy to deal with the site and no one wants to pay for it, so I am thinking of just taking the server down.

The final e-mail included in the suit was a July 22, 2004, mea culpa from Zuckerberg: "Paul, I am guessing that you don't want to talk to me but I wanted to say happy birthday and that I hope to resolve our differences. I see that what I did was wrong and I am really sorry that I behaved as I did..."

The complaint alleges that at the time of that e-mail, Zuckerberg had received or was about to receive funding from angel investors and was in the process of meeting with venture capital funds to provide additional capital. At no time did Zuckerberg inform Ceglia of these facts.

The complaint goes on to accuse Zuckerberg of multiple types of fraud and misappropriation of assets.

Artificial Leaf to replicate Photo-Synthesis

We have studied since our childhood that plants around us are alive and they use photo synthesis to generate energy for them generating oxygen in the process. We can also say that plants use sun and water from earth to generate energy from them. This fact actuated researchers to replicate photo-synthesis to generate solar energy at low cost to solve the energy crisis overwhelming the world.

No doubt, the most important component of this replicated photo-synthesis design will be the leaves as in the natural model(plant), its leaf is the one who captures sunlight for the plant. Automatically researchers gave their best efforts to design so called artificial leaves and there have been a number of biotech-oriented efforts to use genetically manipulated microorganisms such as bacteria to make fuels directly from sunlight and water. Here are some of the major efforts that realized the design of artificial leaf.

Joule Unlimited, a start-up company that is designing a bioreactor in the shape of a flat plastic pane that grows cyanobacteria from water, nutrients, carbon dioxide, and sunlight. The cyanobacteria are genetically engineered to make diesel fuel directly.

Another high-profile researcher in artificial photosynthesis is Daniel Nocera from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded a company called Sun Catalytix that is using a relatively inexpensive catalyst to split water to make hydrogen and oxygen. The company plans to make a system that can make the hydrogen, store it, and then run it through a fuel cell to make electricity or burn it for heat and power.

As for now, we have prototype to generate hydrogen and oxygen from sunlight when put in water. The prototype which is nothing but an Artificial Leaf.

Something real innovative from Adobe

Adobe had lost its corporate image few months back when there were critics who dislike the toll the Flash Player takes on their laptops' battery life. Adobe has taken its step to regain its corporate image once again with the debut of Creative Suite 5.5.

The suite is a collection of new software that includes three iPad applications; Flash tools better at creating content that reaches devices beyond PCs; and developer tools that bring some of Adobe's strength in design tools to the Web standards world of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. 

The software which was real innovative in this effort is Eazel. Costing around $5, Eazel is a finger-painting app that uses a clever multi-touch interface to eliminate menus. The software is designed with a real innovative interface bypassing the conventional menus with a five finger multi-touch interface. There are different functionality assigned for each of the fingers :

• Thumb   :   For undo and redo
• Index     :   Set colors
• Middle  :  Adjust brush size, 
• Ring      :  Control opacity
• Pinky     :  Access additional settings

 With this move Adobe is surely adapting to a new order with more programming environments than personal computers and more cross-platform programming foundations than Flash. But Adobe still has plenty of challenge. We may see some more innovations in coming days from the team.

Artificial Photo-Synthesis to generate Solar Energy

Energy crisis is a well known problem for all of us. The rate we are consuming our conventional energy sources, it will not last any longer. The other alternative scientists suggested were the non-conventional sources viz sun, tide and wind. The conventional batteries and plates to store energy from sun cost a lot so we needed some economic technique to store solar energy.

Working on this, researchers are trying to replicate nature with an extraordinary attempt to generate energy with a process very similar to a plant. The photo-synthesis process in which energy gets generated from sun and water. The research is going on at Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) in the Department of Energy's Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub. JCAP is one of many solar fuels efforts that seek to bypass the traditional bio-fuel method of growing plants and then convert biomass to a transportable, liquid fuel.

The center's solar fuel generator is designed around tiny wires of silicon placed in a solution. Traditional solar cells also use silicon, which releases a flow of electrons, or electricity, when hit by light. Using nanotechnology, the design calls for rods of silicon "microwires," which allows the material to absorb more light. Rather than only create electricity, these fibers are treated with a catalyst to use the sun's energy for fuel production. A catalyst can react with water to produce hydrogen gas, which can be used as a fuel. A longer-term goal is to discover catalysts that use carbon dioxide from the air in the production of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel such as methanol.

This design intentionally copies the process of photosynthesis, where leaves split water and use carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars. But researchers are seeking to greatly increase the efficiency of converting sunlight to stored energy. Plants spend much of the sun's energy on growing and they store very little.

Game is in his soul..

You won't be surprised if you see a gamer remembering sound tracks of his/her favorite game. Popular games on computer and play-stations spell binds user to their theme music and gamers get used to it.

But out there is an extra ordinary gamer who uses only the game sounds and nothing else to navigate through his favorite game Zelda : The Ocarina of Time. Actually he has got no other choice but to follow soundtracks to progress the game. The gamer, Terry Garret, eliminates all his visual limitation and uses his other sense to go forward in his favorite game.

Garrett went blind at the age of 10 but his passion for game made him still learn to play the classic action / adventure games with help from one of his elder brother. The audio design in the game, where every footstep, enemy, and action makes a recognizable sound–lets him map out the game to the point where he can get through it without dying. This technique followed by him helps him navigate through the game.

At present, Garrett is working on finishing The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. Friends help him research the game, and supplements with walkthroughs that help him know what to expect. Aside from the incredible focus Garrett exhibits by picking out every sound in the game, it's also impressive that he's able to hold all that information in his head without visual fall-backs (arguably even more impressive than playing chess blindfolded).

To make your holiday the most beautiful day of your life

You can never get your honeymoon better than this. Spending days and nights with your soul-mate on this yacht will get you the best days of your life, unforgettable and the most beautiful.

Designed by South Korean Kim Hyun-Seok, the colorful concept yacht has already garnered much attention after winning the 2011 Millennium Yacht Design Award at an international exhibition focused on boat and megayacht technologies. 

The 12 meter long model is designed to match the natural beauty with the fun activity to offer you a perfect holiday. The design is inspired by the Colorful coral reefs and tropical fish. You will be able to try it very soon for an enjoyable, casual vacation and remarkable yachting experience.

Talking about structure, the exterior of the yacht boasts an extensive rear deck with easy access to the sea while the upper deck features a seating area for lounge lizards as well as a diving board for the more adventurous. The round, modular interior is divided by coral-themed partitions, while the cabin's walls are replaced by floor-to- ceiling windows providing panoramic views and a stream of natural sunlight. The interior's fittings and furniture aimed at creating a natural sea-like experience above the water.

The yacht can accommodate up to four guests across two double cabins and is designed to reach a maximum speed of 17 knots(around 30 kmph). The designer is currently working on a mega yacht design of 125 meters with helipad and an indoor pool.

Love is no more blind...

About a year back, we saw a movie LOVE AAJ KAL starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone showing the meaning of love in these days and comparing it with the love of yores.The movie shows that, even though, people these days try to make themselves believe that love is just an infatuation that goes away with time and that there is no such thing as true love or soulmate, in their hearts they still love each other with that passion.

Years back when the typical hindi love stories started in Bollywood, lovers were true and honest and at that time love was to give. Love was blind that time, it never asked anything in return. But these days, love is not blind. It has got eyes, ears and brain as well. It sees, analyzes, compares and then makes the wisest decision better call it the best deal.

I am not saying all modern lovers are the same but ya most of them are. Very rare and lucky people are fortunate enough to get a true lover or soul-mate these days. These days, love stories start in colleges or  schools and ends up when you get married with someone else or you look after your career and break up or most commonly when you find a better option. :)

People say they are in love because having a boy friend or a girl friend has become a fashion these days. And here is where everything gets spoiled.

Facebook joins hand with rival for better results

Taking an initiative to improve its website infrastructure Facebook called reporters, hardware makers and even other internet rivals including Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Shutterfly and several others for the debut. The meeting was all about improving Facebook services with the optimization at both the ends.

Facebook also showed its openness to the world by publishing documents that describe how to build the network of computers that support the site's millions of users and enormous banks of information on Open Compute Project which could also be seen as a potential jab at Google and Amazon, which closely guard information about their infrastructure and facilities.

Optimizing its hardware, Facebook installed its new servers about 31% more energy efficient than previous ones the company used, which were in line with the industry average. They keep cool using outside air funneled through a data center instead of pricey air-conditioning units. Facebook's main data center resides in Prineville, Oregon. A fairly large server farm can ring up an annual energy bill of $10 million but the new Facebook's design could reduce that yearly power cost to $6 million.

The hardware giants Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel had demonstration tables for its server technology in the back of this event, held in Facebook's cafeteria. For the record, Dell is already using Facebook's motherboards in its hardware. It's a very nice move from Facebook to join hands with rivals and hardware specialists to come up with the best.