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Facebook is all set to bring its in-browser Skype powered video chat facility

in a short while. Both the companies will be benefitting with the partnership

since the 750 million plus Facebook users will have voice and video chat

option to communicate and will also substantially increase the current 170

million user base for Skype.

Skype and Facebook have been working on the deeper integration like

Skype 5.5 for Windows, allows users to chat with Facebook friends.

Apart from portable and desktop computers what to look forward is the

experience of the new video chat service on the new breed of

smartphones and tablets since it will further enhance the already the

biggest social networking platform.

Now call your friends right fromFacebook

Microsoft Acquires Skype

MS has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion

dollars. This brings MS the new

opportunities in its untouched social

space.

Hot News

App millionaires... sorry, billionaires!

What you need is an app idea and youget a global market of more than 250

million smartphone and tablet users with

devices such as iPhones and Androids.

Build an app and release it through the

application store.

The opportunity is huge in both volume

and value. A 2011 report by Gartner

predicts annual worldwide mobile app

downloads will reach 185 billion by 2014.

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Also both of them have software stores with huge

library of applications to choose from. Nokia also came

up with Ovi store, but has not been able to make a big

impression.

As of today Nokia has shaken hands with

Microsoft to take on Apple and Google

and will be coming up with new range of

smartphones with Windows Mobile 7 platform

loaded around first quarter of 2012. Now lets

see if the Nokia’s new strategy saves its losing

customers.

iPhone and Android rock the boatApple iPhone and Google Android are the ones, which

have changed the entire smartphone industry and

have pushed down Nokia from market

dominating position to the third place and

ended its 15-year smartphone market

leadership. Nokia has been struggling

to the advancements of iPhone and

Android, ever since their introduction.

IPhone and Android run on Unix based

desktop class software but Nokia still drags its

Symbian platform, which is like Win98 in

today’s era of smartphone software.

Delivering Concrete Information

Editorial Team: Prof. Kavita Venkatachari and IT Club

-Ira Rani

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Simmtronics launches India’s

first Solar powered PC

Simmtronics Semiconductors

has announced the launch of

its new range of ultimate truly

Solar power operated Desktop

PC. It is also the first company

across the globe to launch a

desktop PC based on Solar

Power.

The most important feature of

this desktop is it can work for 3-4

days, without sunlight.

Simmtronics Solar PC is

available at a price of Rs

29,999/- only.

Logitech New Z906 Speakers is

Ready For The Masses

The new Logitech Surround

Sound, 500W powered speaker,

Z906 is ready to hit the stores. It

features 5.1 surround sound

that surely bring realistic sound,

and a 165W bass subwoofer

that will rock your house. Made

to bring you audio experience

at the quality of theater in your

living room.

Mobile Phone ‘Wallets’ a realityby 2012

Researchers from Strategy

Analytics and ABI research

predict that by 2012 mobile

phones will come equipped

with new technology enabling

small payments to be made by

simply flashing the handsets.

The technology would allow

consumers to use their phone

as an access card or a wallet

by merely waving it over a

wireless reader and in some

cases entering a pin number

into the phone. Travelers in

Tokyo and London are already

using the technology to access

public transport, and Nokia hasintroduced four new products

based on the technology,

however the high price has

slowed down its widespread

adoption.

Apple and Google have also

reportedly researching on this

technology.

Microsoft to launch Xbox 720 in

2012 – 2013

MS plans to launch its next

version of Xbox, The Xbox 720 in

2012 – 2013. While Sony alreadyadmitted to be thinking about

the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo

are also developing a Wii 2.

Apple iCloud, the cloud the

way it should be?

Apple will be releasing its latest

service iCloud this fall. It will

seamlessly integrated into your

applications, so you can

access your content on all your

devices such as phone, iPad

and computer anytime. It is

compatible with both Mac and

PC. There have been quite a

few cloud services in the past

but none have been able to

generate high amount of

popularity, but iCloud seems to

be very promising since it syncsall your files like, music, photos

and documents, across all your

devices. And all this is done

automatically in the

background. No user

intervention is required.

Apple will be offering this

service for free and will only

charge you for the extra

storage required above 5 GB.

Your purchased music, apps,

and books, as well as your

Photos, don’t count against

your free storage, only your

documents and other files

count.

Software of the Month

OpenOffice, is an open-source

application suite and free software,

whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets,

presentations, graphics, and

databases.

It also supports Microsoft Office

formats.

- Anurag Mahawar

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It was April 3, 2010, when Apple reinvented and

completely revolutionized a whole category of

product, TABLET. Apple named it iPad. Everyone inthe technology pool was thrilled to see such an

invention. Rival mobile device makers saw a great

opportunity and an untapped market.

As of today there are many players in the tablet

arena innovating every second and enhancing the

way people use technology or rather touch the

technology. Tablets have picked up very fast and

are being increasingly used by many facets of

industries such as manufacturing, medical services,

logistics, education and many more. Some of the

organizations that

have deployed

tablets across

include Standard

Chartered Bank, GEand Hyatt hotels.

Tablets have

bridged the gap

between small form

factor of a

smartphone and a

bulky laptop and

considered todayas the most

important invention

in the post PC era.

Two major products

in the Tablet space

are Apple iPad 2

and BlackberryPlaybook. Both are great products of there classes.

Design: IPad is 10.1-inch tablet and playbook is a 7-

inch tablet. Both iPad and playbook have a slick

design. But the screen size to go for is a user’s

preference.

Processor: Both the tablets come with dual core

processors running at 1 GHz., resulting in a lag free

user experience. These processors are more thansufficient for running heavy applications and videos.

THE NEW ERA OF TOUCH

Operating System: Playbook comes with the QNX OS

developed by Blackberry that focuses on multi-

tasking and gesture based controls for quick navigation. iPad comes with iOS which is a Mac OS X

based OS, used on Macintosh line of computers.

In comparison what iOS lacks is the customizability of

the user interface but what scores is the simplicity,neatness and elegance.

Apps: Its mind boggling to see the amount of apps or

applications available on the iPad for almost every

purpose, the games are giving a competition to Sony

and Nintendo. There are more than 500,000+ apps

available for the device including games.

On the other hand the amount of apps available

on the playbook is paltry. To address this issue

Blackberry has decided to make playbook

compatible with Android apps, which is another

platform for

tablets

comparable to

iPad. It has more

than 200,000+

apps available.

This feature will be

enabled in the

future updates to

be released for

Playbook.

Web Browsing and

Email: Both the

products are

groundbreaking in terms of web browsing and email,

but playbook has a slight edge over iPad for web

browsing since it supports interactive flash content on

the websites. Flash is not supported on iPad which

leaves a user stuck on sites dominated by flash

content.

A far closer contest is there between the tablet

manufacturers. However, when it comes to

Operating system and apps iPad outshines

everybody.

-Prateek Kedia

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1. Electronic visual display for computer

2. Which is world’s most complete, open &

integrated business software & hardware

systems company

3. Intel 4004 was the first commercially

available computer processor designed

& mfd. By ________ maker Intel

4. Physical components that make up a

computer system

5. What grew from 1981 as an OS for IBM PC

6. What is a form of computer data storage7. Most popular commercial spreadsheet

application.

No it’s nothing like fancy malls deployinghumanoid robots to drive your car to the

parking lot. Engineers in US have

designed a parking garage that doesthe parking for you. A computer

program controls the machine thatmoves the car from the drive in lobby tothe efficiently designed car cubbyholesunderneath. Because it eliminates the

need for driving lanes and ramps, thisgarage fits 67 cars where a traditionalparking garage would fit 24.

Behind the wheel is a computer software

program responsible for parking cars.And, it's parking in the most efficient andenvironmentally friendly way possible.

"It combines elevator equipment withhorizontal movement," says Ari Milstein of

“Automotion Parking Systems” in WestHempstead, N.Y. You pull in and thecomputer tells you when to stop. Answer

a few questions, take a ticket -- and

leave!. "The car then gets transferredfrom the elevator here onto a storage

retrieval unit," The retrieval unit thentakes the car, spins it 180 degrees, andplaces it in its proper cubbyhole. This

engineering marvel saves space,squeezing 67 cars in this New York Citygarage where 24 would normally fit.

If the car is sticking out for any reason,the robots stop operation. Demand in

the United States is stacking up for thesepeople-free parking garages, wherecustomers are happy to not tip ... anddrive out without the dings.

-Source: www.sciencedaily.com

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