Free Windows Azure Webinars in January 2011

Illustrative examples of this are three new webinars that the Redmond company will offer in January 2011. 


Customers looking to embrace the Cloud that feel they might need some extra guidance or just some convincing should attend the webinars focused on Windows Azure. 

Covering the benefits, best practices and implications of embracing Windows Azure, the webinars will be available completely free of charge.  read more at softpedia

XWave: The iPhone App That Almost Reads Your Mind

Ok, so the app doesn’t exactly reads your mind but it visualizes whatever brain waves XWave head gear senses while clamped to your head. The head gear costs $100 and once you put it on, it senses your brain waves and analyzes them to provide some very useful information. The iPhone app is free of cost and interacts with the head gear once it is inserted into the ear phone jack of your phone. read more at techperiod

Technology trends for 2011

Enterprise Social Networking needs to be something much more than the usual social networking and that realisation will drive the evolution of different kinds of interactive platforms–  platforms to facilitate and influence human interactions OUTSIDE defined, formal business process workflows and hierarchies- for knowledge and experience sharing, collaboration, for building relationships outside the formal defined business environment and for fulfilment for a common purpose that the members of the community share.  read more at moneycontrol

Things NOT going to happen in 2011

Prediction ain’t easy. But that doesn’t stop many would-be pundits from trying to read the 2011 tea leaves, with sometimes hilarious results.

The antidote? ABI Research’s annual take on what’s NOT going to happen next year in many of the markets.

The Wholesale Applications Community will not go anywhere fast.
After adding significant numbers of members this year, the initiative looks to be plagued with divisive intentions and counterintuitive political forces. It is a simply case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. While the consortium wrangles to get everyone’s input accommodated in a highly politicized environment, other apps initiatives – driven ostensibly by single powerful entities – are running away with the swag.


BlackBerry will NOT be eclipsed by enterprise iPhones.
Android will NOT begin to eclipse Apple in 2011.
Nokia will NOT collapse in a heap.
Google TV is NOT dead on arrival, and yes, it will live past 2011.
Location-based advertising will NOT be huge.
read more at ciol

Android Laden Sony Ericsson Phone Images Leaked

Sony Ericsson is said to be working on two major smartphones - Xperia X12 ANZU and PlayStation Phone Zeus - based on Google's Android Mobile OS. To join these high-end Android phones from Sony Ericsson, yet another Xperia series model codenamed Hallon was spotted online. Japanese weblog Blog of Mobile, noted that the Hallon is all set to join Anzu and Zeus.

Apparently, the photos of this Sony Ericsson phone, dubbed Hallon, was clicked using a Sony Xperia X12 Anzu. These test photos are uploaded on Picasa in two different sets here and here.  We already mentioned about Xperia X10 successor X12 Anzu that may be announced anytime next year. According to the Japanese blog, the Xperia X12 Anzu carries the model name LT15i, while the phone that was clicked carries model name MT15i.  read more at techtree

Apple may ship IPad 2 in February

The HTC Wildfire entered our review labs coyly offering the goodness of Android 2.1 Éclair. Even though by then Google had released Froyo, the update was still to come. Today, the official HTC Support page has posted that the Android 2.2 Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) update is now finally available for this beauty.   read more at ciol

Ericsson, NSN, ALU, Huawei to run 3/4 of world n/w

With major outsourcing deals looming, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, and Huawei new link may end up running three-quarters of the networks on this planet, says Infonetics Research.

“Fierce competition among telecom service providers around the world is driving them to increase operating expenses, and that in turn is forcing service providers to outsource more of their network tasks, because outsourcing is one of the last remaining ways to cut opex,” notes Stéphane Téral, Infonetics Research’s principal analyst for mobile and FMC infrastructure. read more at ciol

Dell launches new Android phone

Dell has launched a new smart phone in Hong Kong called Venue - a 4.1 inch device running Android 2.2 Froyo.

The phone uses a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. It has a 4.1 inch AMOLED screen with pixel resolution of 800 x 480.The 8 mega pixel auto focus camera has an LED flash, and the phone has a built in memory of 1 GB that is expandable to 32 GB. It also supports A-GPS for maps and navigation.

Dell's Venue features the company's new user interface (UI), has an HSPDA interface, can be synchronised to other devices, and supports WiFi . It is also compatible with Microsoft document files. read more at telecomyatra

Intex to launch an Android phone for around Rs 5,500

Intex Mobiles, an Indian handset brand, is to join the Android bandwagon with a smartphone powered by version 2.2 or Froyo in February.

Sudhir Kumar, assistant general manager of the telecom division at Intex, said to Telecom Yatra, "We will launch an Android 2.2 phone in the first week of February and it will priced at around Rs 5,500."

The Intex Android smartphone will be equipped with a 3.2 mega pixel camera, 2.8 inch resistive full-touch screen, WiFi and GPS.

This phone from Intex will the cheapest Android handset in India and is expected to challenge Micromax A60, which is priced at Rs 6,999. read more at telecomyatra

Android to Dominate 39% of Tablet Market by 2012

The end is near, it's 2012, yes, the end is near for Apple's iPad established kingdom on the tablet computer market. According from the analysts of Piper Jaffray, Android has a very strong chance of dethroning the iPad and takes a healthy portion of its share in the tablet market up to 39 percent.  read more at techgeeze

Samsung Galaxy S sells 9.3M units near 10M target

This 9.3 million Galaxy S sales was really the number we're looking at compared toMicrosoft's 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 units sold on retailers and operators. The goodnews here is that Samsung is almost on its targeted 10 million sales from its announced goal two months ago for its Android-loving superphone. read more at techgeeze

How to Install and Remove/Delete/Uninstall Apps and Games in Windows Phone 7

Unlike the earlier versions of Windows Mobile where installing an application or game was very time-consuming, Windows Phone 7 offers access to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hub which is very similar to the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. You can now install and remove apps and games on your Windows Phone 7 device very easily. Install Apps and Games on Windows Phone 7 Just click on the Start button and tap on the Marketplace.
read more at techperiod

How to store large amount of data in Android

SDK Version: M3 The internal storage of an android device is very limited, so if your application downloads or somehow generates a large amount of data to store, you should save it on the external storage, the sd card. Even 1mb of data takes much space compared to the whole internal capacity on most of [...] read more at techperiod

4G Phones: Better for Verizon Than for Consumers?

Pricing plans aren't available yet, but consumers will likely have to pay high tariffs to enjoy all the downloads, video chat, and digital media

Now that Verizon's (VZ) LTE network is available to use with USB data sticks, the next logical question is: When are the 4G handsets arriving? Recent Verizon comments, combined with lead-up teasers for CES, suggest such handsets will arrive sooner rather than later. One reason why: Verizon can't wait to get more devices on the speedy new network.
via businessweek

Android 2.2 Froyo update for HTC Wildfire rolls out

The HTC Wildfire entered our review labs coyly offering the goodness of Android 2.1 Éclair. Even though by then Google had released Froyo, the update was still to come. Today, the official HTC Support page has posted that the Android 2.2 Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) update is now finally available for this beauty. The [...]  Read More....   techperiod