Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) released

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Friday, May 11, 2012
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The long-term support (LTS) releases are supported for five years – ideal for organisations undertaking large deployments. Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to.


Samsung Galaxy Pro Now In India Priced Rs 12200

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Samsung today announced the launch of GALAXY Pro Business phone in India. The Samsung GALAXY Pro (B7510) comes with integrated Social Hub Premium and runs on Google’s Android 2.2 Froyo platform.
The 3G HSPA (7.2 Mbps) enabled GALAXY Pro features a 2.8 touch screen with a Qwerty keyboard and has a 800MHz processor.
The Samsung Social Hub Premium gives one-touch access to emails, instant messages and social networking accounts and benefits from the speed and control of the Galaxy Pro’s dual-input interface. It has QWERTY keyboard for professionals who want the tangible feedback of pushing buttons while typing but it also embraces the navigational and intuitive ease provided by a capacitive touch screen
GALAXY Pro comes equipped with ThinkFree Office, so you can Create, open and edit work documents from your mobile – no PC required! You also have access a varied portfolio of business applications from Android Market or APIs for business applications, giving you seamless access to the programs you need for work.
GALAXY Pro comes with an internal memory of 512 MB and can be expanded up to 32 GB using microSD and has a 3.15 megapixel camera with auto focus and 320P video recording facility with a talk time of 660 minutes and 620 hour.

 











Samsung GALAXY Pro is priced at Rs. 12200 and will be available in leading retail stores across India

RIM Launches BlackBerry Style 9670 CDMA Smartphone In India

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Research In Motion (RIM) the Makers of BlackBerry Smartphone today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Style 9670 smartphone for CDMA customers in India for Rs. 23400.


The elegant new smartphone comes in a compact flip design with dual high-resolution displays and a full-QWERTY keyboard. It also features the powerful new BlackBerry 6 operating system.
The smartphone features a full-QWERTY BlackBerry keyboard that makes email, messaging and real-time chats with BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) incredibly easy.
It also comes with many advanced features, including a 5MP camera with flash and support for video recording, built-in GPS for location-based apps and geo-tagging, Wi-Fi for faster connectivity and extended data coverage, and an expandable memory slot for up to 32GB of additional storage.
The BlackBerry Style expands RIM’s CDMA product line in India, bringing the unique BlackBerry smartphone experience to consumers in an all new flip design.
The BlackBerry Style smartphone comes with an optical trackpad for fluid navigation and boasts two large displays, an external screen for quickly viewing notifications and messages and a high-resolution internal screen that makes Web browsing and watching videos a pleasure.
The new BlackBerry 6 operating system retains the familiar and trusted features of the BlackBerry brand, while delivering a fresh, approachable and engaging experience that is powerful and easy to use.
In addition to preinstalled applications for accessing YouTube, BBM, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, the BlackBerry Style offers enhanced multimedia capabilities, including a redesigned media application for a richer experience with music, pictures and videos. It also features a new WebKit-based browser that renders HTML Web pages quickly and beautifully for a great browsing experience.
Key features:
  • Full-QWERTY keyboard and two high resolution displays
  • Support for 3G-EVDO networks
  • BlackBerry 6
  • Powerful new Web-Kit browser
  • Enhanced media player for music, pictures and videos
  • 5 MP camera with autofocus, video recording, scene modes and geotagging
  • Built-in GPS and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)
  • Additional Specs:
  • Approximately 3.8” x 2.4” x 0.7” (closed)
  • Approximately 4.6 oz.
  • 512MB Flash memory, plus an 8GB microSD/SDHC memory card included (slot supports up to 32GB memory cards)
  • Internal display measuring 2.7” diagonal (360 x 400); external display measuring 2” diagonal (240×320)
  • Audio formats supported: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, FLAC, OGG
  • Video formats supported: MPEG4, H.263, MPEG4 Simple Profile H.264, WMV
  • Talk Time: ~4.5 hrs and Standby Time: ~ 10.5 days
  • Network support: Dual Band CDMA/EVDO Rev A: CDMA 800; CDMA 1900
  • Operating System: BlackBerry 6




Logitech Keyboard Case for the Apple iPad 2 makes your tablet look like a MacBook Air

Posted by Engr. Parminder Mangat
Monday, April 25, 2011
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logitech keyboard case Logitech Keyboard Case for the Apple iPad 2 makes your tablet look like a MacBook Air 
Say you’re one of the millions of people who purchased Apple’s latest tablet device, the iPad 2. Chances are you want to protect your investment, especially since your little toy set you back a pretty penny. There’s always the official “Smart Cover” that uses magnets to stick itself to the side of your iPad, but what if you’re a student or someone who does a lot of text entry? Enter Logitech’s Keyboard Case. While it doesn’t have the most inspiring product name out there, just look at this thing. For $100 you get a full keyboard that enables you to use your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode, thank Bluetooth technology for that, and you also get a layer of aluminium to make sure your screen doesn’t get any scratches or chips. We don’t know the exact dimensions of this thing, or when it’ll actually ship, but the price is right if you’re looking to strike a balance between style and functionality.
Now for the bigger question, will Apple ever release a notebook form factor device that runs iOS? Stick an ARM processor into something the size of an 11 inch MacBook Air and you’ve got all day battery life. Then again iOS is designed to be used with a finger, not a keyboard and trackpad … so we’re inclined to think that this Logitech accessory is the closest you’re ever going to get to your dream convertible tablet. If you want something similar to this, but Android flavored, then there’s always the Asus Transformer. It’s a standard run of the mill NVIDIA Tegra 2 packing Honeycomb running tablet, but it also has a separate keyboard dock that runs about $150 that turns your tablet into a notebook.
Are convertibles going to be the future of netbooks and the future of tablets? Let’s wait and see what the future has in store.

Details Emerge on Ubuntu-Powered Tablet

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There's been a rumor circulating for a few weeks now of an Ubuntu-powered tablet computer in the works, and recently several leaked photos and specs have emerged offering more detail on the intriguing device.
Reportedly under development at Taiwanese firm Tenq, the forthcoming model P07 is apparently a 10-inch tablet featuring multitouch capabilities and running Ubuntu Linux Netbook 10.10, according to a report on the Giz-China blog.
Also incorporated in the device reportedly will be an Intel Atom 1.66 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD hard drive. Boot time, according to Giz-China, is "almost instant."

Expected Early This Year
The device's screen reportedly is a 10.1-inch capacitive unit with a webcam built into the bezel. And two USB ports as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI out, and a Micro SD card reader will be standard on the device, which will also feature space for an optional 3G module and a built-in keyboard with cover.
The device is reportedly planned for release early this year. In the meantime, its developers say they are working to polish its touch interface and on-screen keyboard display.
Amid the current tablet mania that's captivated consumers and the media, it's refreshing and exciting to see at least mention of an option that's neither another "i"-device from Apple nor powered by Android, either.
We've already heard news of Augen's dual-booting Gentouch Espresso Doppio--offering users the choice of Android 2.2 or Ubuntu--but an alternative focusing exclusively on Ubuntu could be attractive.
It didn't take long, after all, before recipients of Google's Chrome operating system-based CR-48 notebook computer got Ubuntu up and running on the device.

Ubuntu's Ubiquity
The Linux distribution is increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with on netbooks and the desktop thanks to its many compelling advantages--price is only one of them--and the changes being incorporated into upcoming versions promise even bigger things.

Google Chrome for Linux goes Beta!

Posted by Engr. Parminder Mangat
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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Google Chrome for Linux is finally ready for beta. "Like the Windows version, it's fast , secure , stable , simple , extensible and embraces open standards like HTML5 . But bringing Google Chrome to Linux wasn't just a straight port -- it was a labor of love. Google Chrome works well with both Gnome and KDE , and is updated via the normal system package manager. It has also been developed as a true open source project, using public mailing lists , IRC channels, bug tracker, code repository, and continuous build and test farm -- following in large part the trail blazed by Mozilla . Where we noticed problems in system libraries, we pushed fixes upstream and filed bugs. This open approach to development seems to be working: so far, about 50 developers outside Google have contributed code ( for instance, thanks to Ibrar and Paweł for our FTP stack ), and several Linux distributions even maintain preliminary open source builds of Google Chromium".
Download it http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx) Release Schedule

Posted by Engr. Parminder Mangat
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Ubuntu team is already planning for 10.04 LTS in April 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 (codename Lucid Lynx) LTS will be released Next year on April 29th.

Ubuntu 10.04 Release schedule
December 3rd, 2009 – Alpha 1 release
January 7th, 2010 – Alpha 2 release
February 4th, 2010 – Alpha 3 release
March 4th, 2010 – Beta1 release
April 1st, 2010 – Beta2 release
April 15th, 2010 – Release Candidate
April 29th, 2010 – Final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

detailed release schedule here

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