Google has recently released improved version of its  e-mail tool Gmail for both the Android and iPhone platform. some of the features of the new Gmail is that its faster and users can check their mails while offline. According to Joanne McKinley, a mobile engineer at Google : “You would definitely find it a lot faster to perform various actions like searching, navigating and opening emails. It will also allow you to open recent messages and compose when there is drop in data network.”  the new application need not be downloaded.  All one need to do is point the browser to gmail.com.  One of the advantage of this app is it runs on Balckberry, Android ,iPhone and later on Palmpre too from Google’s point of view. Some of the other features include

1. Allowing users to select multiple messages and process them to different folders like trash, inbox, sent etc
2. A floaty bar .
3. With the given search bar easier retrieval of old messages.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Data intensive computing has been less costly nowadays due to cloud computing.  Cloud computing allowing users to buy resources online.  One major problem that plagued may users was the inability to upload large amount of data and this area has remained costly and time consuming.  Amazon announced a new file transfer protocol     which makes transferring copious amount of data a breeze and it does not requires heavy infrastructure.

One of the biggest bottle necks in cloud computing many say is the upload and download of data from the cloud.  The major bottleneck in this upload and transfer of data is the TCP a layer in the internet which is responsible for the transfer of data. TCP is fine for small amounts of data but when it comes to large amount of data it is very sluggish.

Transferring data across the United States making use of a  100-megabits-per-second (Mbps) Internet link making use of TCP can result in a latency of 100 milliseconds causing a  loss of 1 percent of packets, which translates to transfer rates at the rate of 10 Mbps and less.

Amazon Web Services makes use of technology developed by Aspera, based in Emeryville, CA and it is called the Fast And Secure Protocol (FASP).

“It  is an alternate bulk data moving protocol,” says Michelle Munson, Aspera’s CEO and cofounder. “The inefficiency [with TCP] is really very noticeable when transferring large amounts of data,” she says.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Moto W233 is the first cellphone to be made entirely from recycled plastic. The plastic comes from recycled plastic bottles. Its also the worlds first carbon neutral phone. Motorola has offset the co2 required to make , distribute and operate the phone via investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation programs through an alliance with Carbonfund.org.

The W233 earned Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree Product Certification based on an extensive product life-cycle assessment.  The features aren’t  what many would like to have since it is a basic dual band phone with a 128*128 color display ,WAP browser and the ability to add an additional 2 GB memory. The standout feature is the amazingly high battery life that it offers which includes up to 18  days of standby time.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

In these times of recession many companies faced with rising costs and are trying to scale down their expenditure on hardware and valuable real estate in terms of office space. So many articles have been written regarding  cloud computing and how scalable it is and how dynamic is the architecture. Most of these tech babbles cannot be comprehended by many. Starting tommorrow we will analyse cloud computing in detail and how we stand to gain from this fast emerging technology being embraced by all.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

One of the worlds most popular socail networking site has come out with a lighter version of Facebook called facebook lite. Facebook is a massive site hogging valuable bandwidth due to the innumerable applications on it. The new Facebook is lite and is moving in the direction of Twitter displaying many features of Facebook. Facebook claims that the reason for issuing a lighter version is to bypass the bandwidth problems faced in many countries. The new site is easier to navigate and at the same times faster and there aren’t many distractions.
The features are more twitter like and many believe that people will use lite more than the original apparently due to its ease of use.
.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Zune HD is being brought out by Microsoft expected to be released on September 15, 2009. It comes in 16 and 32 GB version. Microsoft is planning for a September 15 2009 release. Platinum and lack are the default colors of the music player which is set to compete against iPod range of players. The music player comes with a 3.3 inch OLED touch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It runs on the Nvidia Tegra APX with independent processors.  It also has multi touch capabilities. Other features include accelerometer, HD Radio tuner, 720p high definition video output, WiFi connectivity, Web Browser, games and Equalizer. The player promises playback time up to 33 hours for music and video play back up to 8.5 hours. As expected the typical search engine would be Bing. The keyboard can be accessed from the bottom of the screen by swiping up . The keyboard features landscape and portrait mode. Other  features include zooming and pinching due to the built in accelerometer. Other colors will be available through the Zune Originals page from September 15. the market palce will include games and many feature rich applications.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Opera 10.0 is finally out and they have built on existing features rather than bring in new ones. Opera has been the pioneer when it comes to new features having introduced the tabbed concept much earlier than anyone else. However the tweaks include a thumbnail view of all the tabs.
As more and more tabs are opened the size of the thumbnails get decreased dynamically. One can also pull them to one side of the screen which looks good on a wide monitor.

The search bar can be now enhanced by pulling the edge on the left.  the mail feature has been greatly improved and is a suitable replacement for Outlook. The new Opera is fast with a faster rendering of the javascript page and other added features making it a worthy alternative to other web browsers.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

JoliCloud is a OS exclusively designed for netbook. It is fast boots up in real time and is based on Ubuntu . The best thing is it is free . Web applications can be installed using Mozilla Prism and most of the applications like open office org can be installed since it is based on Ubuntu. Usage of Firefox prism allows web applications to be installed individually and separate instances of the applications can be opened using this arrangement.  this will be installed on ultra portable notebooks making browsing a wonderful and hassle free experience. Jolicloud is in its alpha stage and invite are out to test the operating system.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post

Mozilla Firefox is very popular among most of the internet browsers for its versatility and the umpteen number of plugins that one can add to it to enhance internet browsing experience. In this age of Youtube and embedded videos one cannot do away with flash plugins but outdated plugins have become an easy source of entry point for hackers to attack systems.

The problem basically lies with the original vendors who ship outdated plug-ins and Firefox will be addressing this issue when they release their next updates for Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 respectively this coming Tuesday. Once these updates have been insatalled users will be able to see a warning message when there flash plugins are out of date and below a link where they can download the latest plugin will be provided.

The message will be displayed as follows “You should update Adobe Flash right now. Firefox is up to date, but your current version of Flash can cause security and stability issues. Please install the free update as soon as possible.” This stems from the fact as many as 80% percent of the Firefox users have outdated Flash plugins which posses serious risk whereby a hacker can compromise on security issues. Mozilla will follow the same with other software vendors to provide a very nice user experience of using Firefox.

Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post