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Microsoft announces Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

Post last modified:September 24, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft has announced the ARM based Surface 2 and inter haswell based Surface Pro 2.

Surface 2:

10.6-inch 1080p screen.
NVIDIA’s 1.7GHz quad-core Tegra 4 chip.
single USB 3.0 port.
Battery lasts 10 to 12 hours on a single charge.
3.5 megapixels front camera and 5 megapixels back camera.
improved kickstand.

Price:
32GB Version – $449.
64GB version – $549.

Free 200GB of SkyDrive storage for two years.
free international Skype calling and hotspot access for one year.

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Steam OS – Linux-based operating system

Post last modified:September 24, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Valve has announced the Steam OS, a Linux-based operating system for the TV and living room.

Main features:

In-home Streaming.
access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.
share Steam games with your family members.
Family option – control over what titles get seen by whom.
All the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS.

Note: SteamOS will be available soon as a free download.
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Bing for iOS 4.1 released

Post last modified:September 21, 2013
Post category:Apps
Post author:Manikandan

Bing for iOS 4.1 is now available for download.What’s new in this version?

Get to popular features from the homepage menu.
Popular Now – see the seven trending searches of the day.
Nearby – see a map of local businesses near your current location.
Images – see the twenty most popular image searches of the day.
Weather – get the current conditions in your location.
Share to Facebook and Twitter apps.
Save images to the camera roll.
Upload images and bookmarks to SkyDrive.
Sync bookmarks and images that you save with the latest version of the Bing Desktop app (PC) and Bing apps (iPad and Android).
Explore other iOS apps from Microsoft without leaving the app.
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Google Introduces new flat logo and a new search page

Post last modified:September 20, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google introduced a new flat logo and a new search page design for its homepage. Google will be rolling out this update across most Google products over the next few weeks. In this new update google also brings an updated Google bar that streamlines user experience across products and devices.

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Free Quickoffice [Android] [iOS]

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Apps
Post author:Manikandan

The new free Quickoffice is now available for download.it allows you create and edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Main features:

Create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
Access files in Google Drive and on your device
Open and view PDF files
Share files through previously shared Google Drive folders
Attach files to emails
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Apple launches iOS 7

Post last modified:September 19, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Apple launched iOS 7, new version of Apple’s mobile operating system.This is a free update for ios.

Main features:

New flatter design.
All new Control Center.
Notification Center with new today feature.
AirDrop for iOS- share photos, videos, contacts.
smarter multitasking.
New Camera filters.
Safari -Unified smart search field,New tab view.
iTunes Radio.
Redesigned Siri interface,new female or male voice an uses Bing, Wikipedia, and Twitter.
turning off Find My iPhone or erasing your device requires your Apple ID and password.
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Yahoo app for iOS 3.2 released

Post last modified:September 19, 2013
Post category:Apps
Post author:Manikandan

Yahoo app for iOS7 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?

Ability to save articles.
Receive notifications for breaking news.
Improved experience for slideshows and videos.
Revamped visual design of the app.
Improved news section filter.
Enhanced for iOS7 .
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Léon Foucault’s 194th birthday google doodle

Post last modified:January 13, 2016
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Léon Foucault’s 194th birthday with a new interactive digital version of the Foucault pendulum doodle on its homepage.

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth’s rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and although he did not invent it, is credited with naming the gyroscope.
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Mozilla firefox 24 released

Post last modified:October 30, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 24 stable is now available for download.

What’s new in this firefox 24?

Support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.
Implemented Close tabs to the right.
Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out.
Accessibility related improvements on using pinned tabs.
Removed support for Revocation Lists feature.
Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads.
Major SVG rendering improvements around Image tiling and scaling.
Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console.
Removed support for sherlock files that are loaded from application or profile directory.
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Thunderbird 24 released

Post last modified:September 18, 2013
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 24 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. What’s new in this version of thunderbird?

Message threads can now be ignored or watched.
Emails can now be sent to IDN based email addresses.
Zoom functionality is now available in the compose window.
In the Compose window, ctrl/cmd + and ctrl/cmd – now change the zoom setting rather than the font size.
In Twitter, replying to a tweet now replies to all users, just like on the Twitter website.
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