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Gadget and Techno Updates
Google Said : “Desktops dead in three years”
Mar 5th
John Herlihy
A charming young buck by the name of John Herlihy of Google Europe believes, like most people in the Western World that desktop PCs will be dead in the next few years. However, he believes they’ll become irrelevant by the year 2013, which may put a damper on some PC makers’ sales forecasts.
Smiling John, shown here, said:
“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs,” Herlihy told a baffled audience, echoing comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the recent GSM Association Mobile World Congress 2010 that everything More >
iPad Skin
Mar 5th
Booq Boa Skin XS
While you’re waiting for your iPad you can stock up on all the new accouterments you’re going to need. Like the new Boa Skin XS from booq! “Designed specifically for the iPad, Boa skin XS gives today’s creative professional stylish options to protect their new gear.”
Boa skin XS offers sleek, colorful protection for your iPad on its own or in conjunction with another bag, backpack or purse. The soft neoprene skin protects your gear from scratches and scuffs, while the rigid base provides impact protection from drops or mishaps. With the base wrapped in a tough booq Twylon More >
Orbyt, El Mundo Paid News Internet Application
Mar 5th
Orbyt
This Thursday a famous Spanish daily newspaper will launch a paid news application for the internet and smartphones users. The new application called Orbyt (http://www.orbyt.es) and it will be fully accessible next week.
To be able to access news from Orbyt, user must pay 14.99 euros (about 20.5 dollars) per month or 60 euro cents per day.
Orbyt provide subscribers with full access to the paper edition of El Mundo as well as a range of other services including archives, video reports and news commentary.
Ramirez said El Mundo’s new paid news application could be transformed into an “electronic kiosk” that provides content More >
World’s Fastest Browser
Mar 4th
Opera 10.50
Opera announced the release of Opera 10.50.They claim that this is the world’s fastest browser.
The 10.50 versions has a brand new interface, making its screen footprint cleaner and leaving more space for content, improved support for HTML 5.0 and CSS3, and added Aero Glass, Aero Peek and Jump Lists support in Windows 7. What can be more awesome than that?
If your concern is about privacy, than Opera has an excellent privacy feature. It’s easy to remove specific sites (as opposed to your entire history) from your browsing history, so you don’t have to worries about your boss finding out you More >
Robots that teach Chinese
Mar 3rd
Robots that can play football
Robots that teach Chinese, computers controlled by moving the eyes and flying alarm clocks were among the weird and wonderful gadgets wowing crowds Wednesday at the world’s top high-tech fair.
As the IT sector seeks to bounce back after a disastrous 2009, firms sought to woo punters at this year’s CeBIT fair in northern Germany with fun and futuristic inventions ranging from the mind-boggling to the downright silly.
Learning Chinese but finding it tough to find people to practice with?
Meet Amy, the beautiful and uber-smart talking robot with 400,000 sentences at her command and a brain that is programmed More >