Microsoft unleashed its in-house 10.6-inch 'Surface tablets' powered by Windows 8 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles.Ending the ongoing rumors over the company on building it's own tablet,Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lifted the curtains of its Surface tablet.
Available in two forms, the Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro version, the tablets are powered by ARM chipset and Windows RT and Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips. Surface for Windows RT
OS: Windows RT Light(1): 676 g Thin(2): 9.3 mm Clear: 10.6” ClearType HD Display Energized: 31.5 W-h Connected: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2×2 MIMO antennae Productive: Office ‘15’ Apps, Touch Cover, Type Cover Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand Configurable: 32 GB, 64 GB
Surface for Windows 8 Pro
OS: Windows 8 Pro Light(1): 903 g Thin(2): 13.5 mm Clear: 10.6” ClearType Full HD Display Energized: 42 W-h Connected: microSDXC, USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort Video, 2×2 MIMO antennae Productive: Touch Cover, Type Cover, Pen with Palm Block Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand Configurable: 64 GB, 128 GB
The Nokia 808 PureView is a Nokia Belle powered smartphone, first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress. It is the first smartphone to feature Nokia's PureView technology, a pixel oversampling technique that reduces an image taken at full resolution into a lower resolution picture, thus achieving higher definition and light sensitivity, and enables lossless zoom.
It features a 41 megapixel 1/1.2" sensor and a high resolution f/2.4 Zeiss all-aspherical 1-group lens. The 808's sensor was the largest and highest resolution sensor in a cameraphone at the time of its launch, a record previously held by Nokia's N8, sporting a sensor 2.5 times larger than that of its predecessor.
The 808 won the award for "Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet" at Mobile World Congress 2012, and the award for Best Imaging Innovation for 2012 from the Technical Image Press Association.
The Nokia 808 PureView is launched in India on 13 June 2012 at a MRP of Rs.33,899 INR and will be sooner available for sale in other countries as well.
Camera
41MP sensor, Carl Zeiss lens, PureView imaging technology and Full HD video
Connectivity
HDMI and DLNA outputs, NFC and Wi-Fi technology
Navigation
Preloaded Nokia Maps, turn-by-turn satnav for over 100 countries
Memory
16GB of built-in memory, expandable to 32GB or 48GB
The Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-i9300) is an Android smartphone designed by Samsung and the successor to the Samsung Galaxy S II. Like its predecessor, the S III is touchscreen-based, slate-sized smartphone, with a significant addition of software features, expanded hardware, and a redesigned physique. In particular, it has an intelligent personal assistant (S Voice), eye-tracking capability, wireless charging, and expanded storage. The 4.8-inch (120 mm) smartphone is powered by a 1.4 GHz quad-core processor.
Samsung unveiled the S III on 3 May 2012 in London. The device was released in 28 countries, including those in Europe and the Middle East, on 29 May 2012, before being rolled out in several other countries over the following few days. Prior to release, 9 million pre-orders were placed by more than 100 carriers globally. A U.S. release is expected in June 2012. Based on a survey in the UK, as of June 2012, the Samsung Galaxy S III is the most popular handset in the UK.Its main rivals are Apple's iPhone 4S and HTC's One X.
The Galaxy S III uses Google's Android mobile operating system, which was first introduced commercially in 2008. Its TouchWiz user interface, like most interfaces, consists of elements such as sliders, switches, and buttons. The interface is more interactive than the Samsung's previous phones, and is influenced by the "organic" customer trend. For example, the "Water Lux" effect has been programmed to produce ripples upon contact. To complement the TouchWiz, the phone introduces S Voice, Samsung's intelligent personal assistant similar to Apple's Siri. Based on Vlingo, S Voice enables the user to verbally issue commands such as playing a song, setting the alarm, or activating driving mode; it relies on Wolfram Alpha for online searches.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing & editing photos, and instant messaging. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks.
Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world, and process over one billion search requestsand about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.
As of September 2009 Alexa listed the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred, as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube, Blogger and Orkut.Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.
