Saturday, May 05, 2012:
There are new announcements in the technology world almost everyday. To ensure that you get a complete dose of what happens in the technology world, we have compiled the top 10 stories for the week that are making news across the world. From the launch of Samsung Galaxy SIII to the unveiling of Indian tablets like Attitude Daksha and Aakash, we have listed the leading stories that will certainly catch your attention, if you have already not read them. Check out the top 10 picks of the week.
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Attitude Daksha To Go Official In May; Pre-Book Now!: The low-cost educational devices seem to be the next big thing in the emerging tablet market in India. There have been a slew of new tablets launched this year. To name a few, Wishtel Era, HCL MyEdu Tab, Micromax Funbook,DataWind UbiSlate tablets and many more have already jumped on the educational tablet bandwagon in India. Now, the latest one to join is the new Attitude Daksha tablet. Developed by the Telmoco Development Labs Pvt Ltd, a technology startup company based in Kerala’s IT hub Technopark, the Attitude Daksha is priced at Rs 5,399 to compete with the growing fleet of budget educational tablets in India. Read More…
You Can Now Book Karbonn's Smart Tab 1 Online!: Although Karbonn has yet not officially announced the availability of its first Android tablet, 'Smart Tab 1' in the market, the tab is available for booking online. The company has started taking pre-orders for its new low cost Smart Tab 1 on its website. As of now, the company is tight lipped about the exact availability of the tablet. Interested buyers can book it online for free. And once the product is officially released, the product will be available for cash-on-delivery. Read More…
10 Desi Android Tablets Below 10K In India @ 2012: The much elusive Aakash 2 tablet is yet to make an official entry, but it is still one of the most coveted and talked about tablets in the town. However, much before its arrival, there are many Aakash rivals or say, budget Android tablets, which have been launched in the Indian market recently. We take a look at the top sub-10k desi Android tablets released in India in 2012. Although, there have been many budget tablets launched in India this year, we have shortlisted only those that are available in the commercial market through retail or online stores. There are other educational tablets such as Aakash, ClassPad, AllGo Stamp and few others, which are not available for the consumers presently. Check out the latest released cheap Android tablets in the Indian market here. Read More…
Microsoft's Open-Source Subsidiary Starts Delivering: It has not been long since Microsoft announced its open source subsidiary and the company has started delivering too. Here comes the first deliverable from Microsoft's open source subsidiary called Redis On Windows. The company has announced the release of an updated version of Redis on Windows. Redis, a VMWare sponsored project is an open-source, in-memory, networked, key-value data store with optional durability. Redis is written on ANSI C. According to a blog post written by Claudio Caldato, principal program manager for Microsoft Open Technologies, this is a 'a new and significant iteration' of Redis on Windows. Read More…
Vivaldi Linux Tablet Almost Ready For Shipping: Earlier this year Linux enthusiasts were super elated with the news of an all open tablet in the making. To add to their delight, few more details were revealed of the device this week. When the tablet made news in the beginning, it was called Spark but now it has been renamed as Vivaldi. Reports suggest that the tablet is almost ready for production and shipping. Originally, the tablet was supposed to have 512 MB RAM but it has now been increased to 1GB. So many of those who placed orders for the 512MB one, will have a better configuration in store. Read More…
MIT, Harvard University Join Hands To Offer Free Courses: MIT and Harvard Universities have come together to introduce the edX initiative, with which the two premier educational institutions will offer free of cost education to students all over the world! It is a non-profit initiative. Anant Agrawal, the president of the edX initiative terms this initiative as the 'the single best change in education since the invention of the printing press'. edX will be an independent organisation. edX will build on the MITx platform. This platform was announced in 2011. The board has plans to open the platform to other institutions so that they can also share their content on the same platform. Read More…
Meet AISHA, India's Answer To Apple's SIRI: Micromax launched Superfone A50 Ninja last week at a price tag of Rs 4,999. It is an affordable smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system powered by a 650 MHz processor. It sports a 7.9-cm multi-touch capacitive screen and is a dual SIM phone. Apart from the regular features, the Superfone A50 Ninja comes with an extra-ordinary artificial intelligence speech handset assistant (AISHA). But is it similar to the intelligent personal assistant application app in Apple's iPhone 4S? In an e-mail interview with Rahul Sharma, co-founder, Micromax Informatics Ltd, we find out more about AISHA's abilities and what all it can do like Apple's SIRI. Read More…
Samsung SIII Finally Unveiled!: After months of speculations about its specs and look, Samsung finally launched its flagship product, Samsung Galaxy SIII yesterday at an exclusive event. Galaxy SIII runs Ice Cream Sandwich aka Android 4.0, has a 12.19-cm (4.8-inch) –as reported in earlier reports- 720p Super AMOLED display along with a 8 megapixel back camera and a 1.9-megapixel front facing camera. Read More…
Now HTC Desire S Available For Rs 15,990: The price of HTC Desire S has come down to a new low of just Rs 15,990. To promote its new flagship ONE series of smartphones, HTC is heavily slashing prices of its previous generation phones. The new price of HTC Desire S will give tough competition to other phones of its class like the Samsung Ace 2 and Motorola Defy Plus. Besides, HTC will soon roll out the Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Desire S model. So, this might give HTC a winning edge for customers who are looking for an Android ICS smartphone around the price of Rs 15,000. Read More…
UbiSlate 7 To Reach Retail Stores In Six Months: DataWind: The much-awaited UbiSlate series of tablets have been launched by DataWind. Giving a sigh of relief to the tablet enthusiasts, who pre-booked their UbiSlate tablets in 2011, the company is all set to ship the paid pre-booked devices first by May onwards. In a bid to clear the air, just before the launch event, DataWind hosted another event where Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, DataWind talked about its former partner Quad, the difference between Aakash and UbiSlate, status of the pre-booked tablets, and more in this exclusive interview with EFYTimes. Read More…
Diksha P Gupta, EFYTIMES News Network
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