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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, The year 2011 has been a very memorable year for Microsoft. The company posted record revenue for the June-ended fiscal year and sold out a whopping 500 million copies of its Windows 7. However, when it comes to new product release, it was not a good year for the Redmond based software giant. Notwithstanding Office 365 and Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has no more new product releases in 2011. But, next year seems to be more dynamic for Microsoft. The company has plans to launch many groundbreaking products in 2012 like Windows 8 OS, an Apple App store -like Windows Web store, Windows 8 tablets and many other products. Here we discuss five much-craved Microsoft products for next year.

Windows 8 is Microsoft’s next major update to its Windows operating system for PCs. Microsoft launched Windows 7 three years back. The computer world is now looking for the next biggest update for the OS. Microsoft previewed Windows 8 at Computex Taipei, 2011 and it will realize mid next year. The new Windows OS will support ARM chips, so it will run on both tablets and personal computers alike. The famous Metro-style user interface, fast web browser Internet Explorer 10 and a dedicated app store will boost Windows 8.
Internet Explorer 10, successor to IE9 is under development at Microsoft. The company released the first IE10 Platform Preview in April at the MIX 11 conference in Las Vegas and it will come live on Windows 8 next year. Along with the Metro UI of Windows 8, IE10 will work quite marvelously. The new version of Internet Explorer will bring you a fast internet experience with lots of features over its predecessor.
To compete with Apple App Store and Android Market, Microsoft has announced a state of the art app store for Windows. The company has made a revolutionary announcement that its Windows 8 app store would support open source apps from third party developers. The Redmond software firm, which is known for its closed software development approach, has taken such a decision to enrich its app store with more apps. Windows 8 app store will deliver apps for both tablets and personal computers.

Microsoft has just hinted its plan to integrate its Xbox gaming console with live TV. So as to make its Xbox system more useful, the company will update look of its Xbox Live service with a Metro-style look. Moreover, users of Verizon’s Fios cable TV service can choose between 26 various channels on their Xbox gaming device. The channels include HBO, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Many other TV shows will also appear on Xbox.

Every one may have heard about Microsoft’s plan to launch its own tablets with its tablet-friendly Windows 8 OS update. Raising direct competition to Androids and Apple iPad, Microsoft is to design its own Windows 8-based tablets. But, analysts have expressed doubt in the chance for success for Windows 8 tablets. Global tablet customers have already embraced iPad and Android tablets; so there is less chance that a new platform from Microsoft will gain momentum.

According to reports, Microsoft is working with a project to launch a social media site, dubbed Social in fight against both Facebook and Google+. After making a space in web searching with Bing, the Redmond technology firm seems to work out a challenging social media site. Analysts are also cynical of the need for one more social media site, especially when Google+ itself has not made any influence. Anyway, Microsoft has better reasons to come with such a platform.

Of course, Microsoft has to take some brave decisions to remain competitive in the tech market today. In a time desktop computers are replaced by tablets, the company will have to do many more things to remain a big player. Indeed, next year will be a bit crucial for the company, “Next year will be altogether different. Microsoft is prepping the big kahuna of its product arsenal, Windows 8. The company hasn’t set a date, though most analysts expect the flagship operating system to debut before the end of the year,” says Jay Greene of CNET while listing out five things to look for in 2012 for Microsoft.

Onstar Navigation System

Onstar Navigation SystemOnstar Navigation System, A few months ago, an OnStar customer in Shanghai hit the button on his mirror and made a special request. Could the call center operator propose to his fiance for him?

Of course, the operator replied. And when the motorist’s girlfriend hit the button herself later that day, that is exactly what OnStar did. She said yes.

It was yet another milestone in what has been a banner year for OnStar in China. In addition to successfully resolving their first kidnapping, OnStar’s Chinese operators are now handling more than 1 million calls a month. That is a third of what their counterparts in the United States handle each month, but there are about 6 million subscribers in North America compared with just more than 400,000 in China. That means OnStar customers in China are hitting the button a lot more frequently than those in America.

“It’s definitely becoming a reason to buy (a General Motors Co. product) in China,” said Diane Jurgens, who will take over as president of Shanghai OnStar on Jan. 1, noting that Chinese customers consistently rate the firm’s telematics system as one of the five most important reasons for choosing a GM car or truck.

But Jurgens said marketing OnStar in China still poses challenges. While American consumers respond favorably to the company’s commercials that replay actual accident calls, Chinese consumers think the company is trying to jinx them by sending bad energy their way. So OnStar has focused on touting its other features in China, such as turn-by-turn navigation assistance.

That has turned out to be surprisingly popular in a country where roadmaps often are obsolete by the time they are printed.

GM launched Shanghai OnStar Telematics Co. Ltd. as a joint venture with its Chinese partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., in 2009. It now controls 70 percent of the telematics market in China.

But analyst Jim Hall of 2953 Analytics LLP questions how much of a boost that is providing to GM’s sales in what will soon be the world’s largest car market.

“They could be the leading telematics company, but that and 50 cents will probably get you a good cup of tea in China,” he said. “In China, branding is what is important.”

Apple Iphone Ipad

Apple Iphone IpadApple Iphone Ipad, Reports are saying Apple has actually done it – Cupertino’s gone and acquired flash controller and SSD startup Anobit for $500m as expected.

So Apple, the maker of the Jesus phone, will have a base in the Holy Land. Anobit’s Herzliya headquarters will likely become Apple’s Research and Development centre in Israel. Anobit’s flash memory performance and endurance-enhancing controller technology is used in Apple’s iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air.

What will happen to Anobit’s OEM supply to other companies of its SSDs and flash controller chips is not known. Supplying technology components as an OEM will be a new experience for Apple – and it may decide it doesn’t want to continue that business.

On the other hand, Apple is in the post-Jobs era and all sorts of things could happen from here on in. Neither Apple nor Anobit is commenting on the deal

New Planet Discovered 2011

New Planet Discovered 2011New Planet Discovered 2011, The two planets, part of the newly discovered Kepler-20 solar system, are the smallest discovered to date. They were spotted as part of NASA’s Kepler mission, which was designed to survey our region of the Milky Way to try to identify habitable planets.

“For the first time, we’ve found honest-to-God, Earth-sized planets. That’s never been done before,” said David Charbonneau, a professor of Astronomy at Harvard University who was involved in the research. Charbonneau, who is from Ottawa, is one of several Canadians involved in the project.

“What we ultimately want to do is find planets that might have life on them. To find a planet that’s habitable, you need a planet that’s roughly the same size as the Earth,” Charbonneau said.

But the planets also have to be the right temperature, and these are too hot. Two weeks ago, the Kepler team announced the discovery of another planet that was just the right temperature for life, but too big.

“We’re looking for a Goldilocks-type planet,” Charbonneau quipped, meaning a celestial body that orbits its star at a distance that is not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to be present.

The newest discovery shows that the Kepler team has the ability to find an “Earth twin” and just needs to push out to find planets further from their stars, Charbonneau said.

The two rocky planets – Kepler 20e and Kepler 20f – are part of a five-planet solar system located about 1,000 light years away. The other three planets are large and gaseous.

Research on the project began in May 2009. The team knew it was onto something after analyzing the first year-and-a-half of data, Charbonneau said, and about two months ago, was able to prove that the planets existed. The team submitted its results for publication, and the research was published Tuesday in the journal Nature.

A little more than 40 people co-authored the paper.

The ultimate goal, Charbonneau said, is to see whether we’re alone in the universe.

“I think it’s one of the greatest questions in science,” Charbonneau said.

“It was really just speculation for human history, but in our lifetimes we’ll hopefully know the answer.”

IPhone 4S Price Philippines

IPhone 4S Price Philippines, If you’ve been living outside of the US, Canada, and the other “lucky” countries that got the iPhone 4S already, we have good news and bad news: The good news is that you can probably get your own iPhone 4S today, but the bad is that you may have to pay more than we do here in the colonies. And I mean a lot more.

On Friday, the iPhone 4S dropped in Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. Pretty good news for those who have been waiting with baited breath, but the price tag can be pretty scary, according to Macrumors.

As we noted in our earlier report, pricing in Brazil is indeed very high due to the import duties imposed on such devices there, one major reason why Apple and Foxconn are working on ramping up production of iOS devices in the country. Pricing for the iPhone 4S through Apple’s Brazilian online store starts at the equivalent of $1410 for the 16 GB model and moves up to $1628 for the 32 GB model and $1845 for the 64 GB model.

Pricing in Russia is nothing to laugh at, either: Prices there range from $1131 to $1350. Other countries are not quite so different from U.S. pricing, with Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates clocking in at $700/$800/$900 in those markets.

Windows Phone CES 2012

Windows Phone CES 2012, Well, Nokia has just sent out press invitations confirming its plans for an CES press event at the Las Vegas convention center. From the looks of it, the phone company is slated for a presentation the afternoon of January 9, the day before CES formally starts, and the focus is clearly going to be oriented towards something Windows Phone-esque, as the press invitation depicts the (surprise, surprise) Windows Metro UI tile theme.

On the press invitation, Nokia says to “Join our press conference and get the latest news from Nokia, hear from some of the leading minds in the industry about the future of smart devices and applications and witness stunning demos of Nokia technology in action.” Really, Nokia? Can you be any more generic than that? Although we’re guessing that it’s going to be somehow Lumia-related, just saying.

Nokia hasn’t done a huge amount lately, having been overshone by the likes of the plethora of Android devices (and I’m looking especially at you, long-awaited Galaxy Nexus) as well as the ever surging popularity of the iPhone 4/iPhone 4S variants from Apple. We’ll be looking forward to what they’re going to have store this year at CES.

iPhone 4s Battery Life Problem

iPhone 4s Battery Life Problem, Multiple reports, citing the owner’s display, “said hatred” in the forums, have confirmed that the new iPhone 4S suffers from “batterygate” – or unpopular smartphone life. Apple bad battery unsurprisingly details published on the battery problem, stating that “a small number of customers,” suffer from battery life lower than expected which is not really a new issue of new smartphones, but a problem of very unusual phone that afflict society perfectionist.

Speaking of perfectionism, Apple would have to deliver an update that will end the problem, according to new reports; the software update iOS 5.0.1 will be here soon.

The update of new software coming on the air (or OTA), by accessing the application into the phone, and the “software update.” Application developers are already using the new update iOS, and reports have confirmed that the minor update of the system solved the so-called bug that caused the battery to clear the tiny iPhone 4S.

According to experts, the problem of leakage of the battery of the iPhone 4S was due to the bug found in the introduction. To begin, it is the characteristic of the IOS operating system, which uses the GPS smartphone, and used by several applications, including Apple’s own applications, to get the location of the user. Some of the best examples of applications that are generously function localization of your iPhone are Facebook, Twitter, Apple’s Photo app, and exclusive feature of the new iPhone, Siri.

Yes, Siri also drain your iPhone battery 4S, in fact, each application requires an Internet connection. Siri works by encoding your voice, and it will send data to the servers of Apple and Apple computers will transmit the requested data to the user. Continued use of 3G wireless services and Siri, can also significantly reduce your battery life.

Reports indicate that the new IOS 5.0.1 will arrive this month.

The iPhone 4S is one of the most successful products of the company based on the amount of pre-ordered units, and the volume of units that were shipped to the United States, not only, but also to other parts of the world, including emerging markets in Asia and Europe. The new iPhone 4S would be sold in more countries in Asia, Europe and Central America starting November 11. Is it possible that the new update iOS happen before the release of the iPhone 4S in other countries next week?

Most Expensive IPad 2 Golden

Most Expensive IPad 2 Golden, An iPad personalized with gold, diamonds and chips Tyrannosaurus rex bone is considered the most expensive gadget in the world.The British luxury goods specialist Stuart Hughes has set up the device of £ 5m.

The iPad 2 is encrusted with diamonds 12.5 carats and has 53 separate gems forming the iconic Apple logo.

The rear section was formed in 24 carat gold and weighs two pounds.

But the most expensive part is actually the front mainframe is made of the oldest rock in the world has to offer – Ammolite.

From Canada, the stone is more than 75 million years.

Just to complete the unique design, which is part of a thighbone of T-rex 65 million years old was razed in stone.

The final touch is a simple cut 8.5 carat flawless diamond inlaid in platinum surrounded by 12 stones satellite.

Despite the high price, one of the devices is said to have been sold to an anonymous buyer.

Stuart Hughes is known for creating “ultra-luxury”, including a £ 219 995 Macbook Air and iPhone with diamonds and platinum costs £ 20 995.

It was claimed earlier this year; he had built a super yacht locked up in gold worth £ 3 billion for a businessman from Malaysia anonymous.

Google TV Update Announced

Google TV Update Announced, Assuming that the initial version of Google TV “was not perfect,” Google has announced a software update to provide a better user experience.Writing in the Google TV blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President Product Management, and Vincent Dureau, Director of Engineering, note that more than three billion page views per day, sites like YouTube are proving to the request for the Web Entertainment is already big, with this upcoming show at the show.

“The Google TV platform contributes to this development by allowing content creators to add new programming you already enjoy on your TV. Given so many choices, we are committed to providing the best way to discover and engage with high quality entertainment on your TV, whether that comes from your cable provider or satellite (DISH, Comcast, DIRECTV, etc.) or the web (YouTube, Netflix, and thousands of others). The initial version of Google TV was not perfect, but he launched gave us the opportunity to learn. It is too early, and we work hard to move forward each update “, they say.

The update of the software focuses on four areas of user feedback:

“1. Keep it simple

The interface is now much simpler. The new customizable home screen welcomes you to your favorite content quickly. And “all applications”, you can see all your shortcuts, like your Android phone or tablet.

2. Make easy to find something interesting to look

We have improved the search through the Board of content from Live TV, Netflix, YouTube, HBO GO, and more. But what if you do not know what to look for? There is now an application called “Movies & TV ‘which allows you to easily browse 80,000 movies and TV through cable or satellite, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and many other sites. If you have opted for recommendations, we can better anticipate what you want to watch the next.

3. Increase TV on YouTube

We are launching a new experience of YouTube specifically designed for Google TV. It is now easy to get to your favorite HD quality entertainment on YouTube. And we have integrated more closely with Google TV search YouTube, so you can turn virtually any topic – mountain biking, cooking, etc. – in a channel.

4. Bring more applications to the TV

We open the TV to the creativity of content creators large and small through the Android Market. Android developers can now bring mobile applications to existing or entirely new television. Initially, the number of applications will not be great – applications that require a touch screen, GPS, or the phone will not be displayed – but 50 developers were seeded the market with cool and useful applications for television. We look forward to see the number of applications grow. ”

This update of the software will be coming to Sony devices starting early in the week beginning October 31 and Logitech devices shortly thereafter. “We look forward in the coming months with the announcement of new software and new features on the new chipsets from multiple hardware partners,” says the blog.

steve jobs biography 2011

steve jobs biography 2011, Easily the most anticipated titles of 2011 – made its debut today, offering a warts-and-all view of the icon of the culture and the technical assistant who co-founded Apple.

Apple, meanwhile, promised to make public a video of the job “memorial service, which was shrouded in secrecy when it took place last week. For those interested in the video, called “Celebrating Steve” Apple’s website advises: “Coming Soon Please come back later.”

The announcement of plans to display the video came just hours before Monday’s release of “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson. The author apparently had the blessing Jobs to write an account unvarnished, and jobs submitted to interviews over several years, including just before use is dead.

The book and video are sure to be engulfed by fans, admirers, colleagues and students of life in employment, which all seem to have an insatiable interest in a man whose cultural influence can be seen and felt in many areas of our lives – cell phones and computers are just a little. His death, October 5 at the age of 56, after a long battle with cancer, has raised emotional reactions and tributes from around the world.

The memorial service was held Wednesday at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, under tight security, in part to push the demonstrators. Speakers included former Vice President Al Gore, and Apple closed its stores for several hours to allow employees to watch a live stream of the event.

Jobs have decided to cooperate with Isaacson because the executive wanted her children to better understand after he left their lives. Jobs would have encouraged his friends and colleagues, to be honest with the author as well.

The book was at the head of the list pre-order from Amazon for weeks, which means it is almost certain to be No. 1 on the bestseller list this week.