Motorola Droid 3: Finally its here

"After a series of leaks it finally on verizon website for sale  "

The Droid 3 is a Gingerbread handset, boasting a five-row QWERTY keyboard and rocking a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP chip.

It packs a 4-inch qHD 960x540 display and has 16GB of onboard storage - which is handy because you'll be eating up plenty of space by storing the 1080p videos that it is capable of recording. It also has an 8-megapixel camera for stills, with auto-focus and face recognition and a front facing cam for video calling.

Connectivity on the Verizon version is All–Digital, 800/1900, CDMA EVDO rev A and GSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS, Wi-Fi, DLNA and Bluetooth 2.1 and it has a 1540mAH Li–Ion battery.

Verizon is selling the Motorola Droid 3 for $459.99 on a rolling monthly deal, $199.99 on a 2-year contract. No word as of yet with regards to a UK release - we'll keep you updated though. 

Mark Zuckerberg on Google+ 'Circles'

"Google+ 'Circles' may not be sufficient to beat Facebook"

Speaking after Facebook launched new chat products on Wednesday, Zuckerberg pointed a finger at the 'Circles' in of Google+, which had been touted as the killer feature that made a differentiation with the Facebook model.

The definition of groups is  " everyone inside the group knows who else is in the group," Zuckerberg said. The Facebook founder has always said the idea of asking users to create and maintain group is an impractical one. Here, in the Google+ model, this is exactly what happens.

The core theme behind Circles is that people don't want to share all information to everyone they know and that they would rather want to share select pieces of information to various people in their friends list. For this they need to create groups and share information accordingly. This is pretty similar to the Twitter model of asymmetric sharing whereas Facebook follows the symmetric pattern under which everyone knows who all are in the group.

"Circles are one-way, or asymmetric. Everyone sets up their own Circles and nobody knows whose Circle they are in," writes tech analyst Erick Schonfeld in TechChrunch

Zuckerberg closed in on this apparent flaw in the Google+ model. If everyone doesn’t know who are in the 'group', and more importantly, if nobody knows which group they are in, how can this be called a group?

Google presented Google+ to help users come as close to the experience of real time sharing as possible. "Not all relationships are created equal. So in life we share one thing with college buddies, another with parents, and almost nothing with our boss," according to Google.

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Facebook Confirmed the Awesome as 'in-browser video chat feature with best tech from Skype'

 A one click 10 - 20 sec downloadable video plugin by Skype. 
Facebook has just announced a major new feature that it’s launching in tandem with Skype: video calling.

Here it goes From Now , whenever you browse to a friend’s profile, you’ll see a new button nestled between the ‘Message’ and ‘Poke’ buttons that says ‘Call’. Click that, the other user will see a popup asking if they want to accept a call, and you’ll be immediately connected (you’ll need to install a small plugin the first time you use the service).

You’ll also see video calling integrated into Facebook’s Chat product. Really, you can’t miss it — Facebook is launching a new chat sidebar today that by default it takes the entire right side of the screen, and the first time you click on any user you’ll see a prompt asking if you’d like to make your first video call.

Facebook maked it clear that users will not have to create new Skype accounts to make calls, and that this will allow users to call their friends and family with a very minimal amount of setup (the flow for installing the applet only took a few seconds)

Will be updated soon........

Mark Zuckerberg has topped as Most followed on Goolge+

    


        Facebook founder Mark has more number of followers        on his Google+ account

Yes, the Mark Zuckerberg. Not one of the Madame Tussaud's versions that began to populate Google+ as soon as it emerged into daylight.

The real Zuckerberg has, as I write, almost 30,000 followers. Google CEO Larry Page hasn't yet managed 20,000.

Has Zuckerberg offered some clever aphorisms, some details of his recent animal slaughtering or even news of how his Chinese lessons are going? Not quite, For, in contrast to Page, he has offered absolutely nothing.

This might rather portend that a certain section of humanity has plunged down a very large well in the hope of finding an imaginary friend.

The only thing that Zuckerberg has offered is an expression of surprise that people are surprised that he is on Google+ at all. But that expression of surprise came in a text.

Will everyone have to take sides in this feisty sprint to Google+ popularity? It promises to be even more pulsating than the race between Lady Gaga and Barack Obama on Twitter.

New MacBook Air with 400 mbps flash storage

     New MacBook Air to hit lightning speeds with 400 mbps flash storage.

It looks like Apple's expected Macbook Air refresh could put its ultra-thin laptops at the top of the charts when it comes to speed. 

According to Macotakara.jp, parts manufacturers for the new Airs are using 400 mbps NAND flash storage chips. So what exactly does this mean? Well the chips are soldered straight onto the Airs' motherboard, doing away with any connection whatsoever and bringing with it a possible 100 times performance increase over past models. This coupled with the possible i5 and i7 update could mean the new Apple lightweights are no longer disappointing in the specs department. 

A MacBook Air refresh is expected to arrive alongside the mid-July release of OSX Lion. The new ultra-thin laptops are rumoured to sport the high speed Thunderbolt port, Sandy Bridge processors and the same design as current generation MacBook Airs. 

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Will Google+ app for iphone accepted by Apple

            The fate of Google's new social app reaching a global stable of mobile users is   within the hands ofSteve Jobs.

the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no, not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval," Google's Erica Joy posted on her Google+ account.

The submission also included an iPad app, she said.

Apple and Google have been balancing a relationship as technology partners but also as rivals.

Apple uses Google maps as the primary map application on its iPhone and iPad. But Google has grown to be even more competitive in recent years.

The search giant put out its own mobile operating system, the Android, which has risen to become the primary competitor to Apple's iPhone, and recently, Apple's iPad.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was forced to step down from the board of Apple as competitive pressures between the companies mounted.

Responding to the tension, Apple has been careful to release apps that threaten its core businesses. Apps for Google Voice, for instance, were initially rejected, but an FCC inquiry finally let the program through in November 2010.

It's unclear if any part of Google+ threatens Apple, however.

The new social network does integrate voice chat which threatens the iPhone's native cellular technology, but Skype was recently let through, meaning that basis may be more difficult to defend.

Google+ does do video-chat, which is a direct competitor to Apple's own FaceTime application.

Google rebranding Blogger and Picasa as part of its new SocialNetwork branding

Google will axe two popular brand names, Mashable has reported.

Blogger and Picasa will be renamed as part of a branding push following the release of Google+, the company's new social network. Blogger will be called Google Blogs and Picasa will become Google Photos.

From Mashable:

"Picasa and Blogger were also Google acquisitions, although both companies have been part of the Google empire for far longer. Picasa was acquired in 2004 and Blogger (co-founded by Evan Williams of Twitter) was acquired in 2003 and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world. Although the rebranding could upset some existing customers, it also gives Google the ability to completely integrate both services into Google+."

The move is not without precedent. For example, when Google acquired JotSpot in 2006, the service was renamed Google Sites.

Mashable also reported that while other brands may be subject to a name change, YouTube will not be one of them.

Given that the Google brand has taken some heat recently, we wonder how users will react to the news.

paypal Twitter acc got Hacked

          PayPal U.K Twitter feed Hacked

PayPal's U.K. Twitter feed has apparently been taken over by outsiders critical of the company.

The Twitter handle @PayPalUK on Tuesday featured several negative tweets about the company and multiple links to PayPalSucks.com, a website that encourages users to seek out alternative payment services and touts "eBay/PayPal Anti-Trust Class Action" litigation.

"PAYPAL CAN FREEZE YOUR FUNDS FOR NO REASON, DO NOT USE PAYPAL!!" read one tweet on the compromised account.

"All your paypal accounts are now frozen while we clean up this mess.." another tweet said.

The Next Web received the following statement from PayPal:

PayPal UK’s Twitter feed was targeted by hackers tonight. PayPal would like to reassure all customers that PayPal’s UK customer systems and data have not been breached or hacked in any way. There is no link between customer systems and our Twitter account.

The Guardian supposes that this individual is a disgruntled customer and notes that the incident is not necessarily hacker-related: "Twitter accounts are protected by a simple password which can sometimes be guessed or stolen and means that the service can be accessed by anyone with that password.