It looks like Nokia has pulled out all the stops in delivering a potentially paradigm shifting N86 cameraphone with a camera that they claim has SLR-like optics and is good enough to replace your current compact digital one. With 8GB of internal storage, and a lens system from Carl Zeiss, this device can capture still images at 8 mega pixels, as well as 640×480 video 30 frames per second. The camera has a F2.4 aperture (so it’s able to handle low light conditions) and includes a high intensity dual LED flash. Nokia is also using the internal GPS in the device to geo-tag all the photos. Click here to find out more
N86 8MP camera and 8BG Memory what more could u want??
February 26th, 2009Finally its here!!
February 25th, 2009
The beta tag is gone, the use of extensions seems to be imminent, and Google Chrome looks poised to become the next big thing on the Web-browser market. I’ve been using it for a while, and grow to like it more and more every time I discover something new and excellent that Chrome can do to make my browsing even better.
And there sure are a lot of things that fall into that category. Chrome does neat things with your history, your searching, your most visited pages, and a number of other parts of the browsing experience.
Here’s a few tips to get the most out of Google Chrome: click here
Goldfish iPhone???
February 24th, 2009
Phone users might be ‘cool’ but there’s something of the goldfish about them when it comes to attention spans.
At least according to the latest survey data from Pinch Media which sifted through data from 30 million downloads from the Apple App Store only to find that just 30% of those who buy iPhone apps use them the following day.
Things get even worse after that. Within 20 days, only 5% of those who bought an application are still using it. Unsurprisingly, the drop-off for free apps is even worse than those that people pay for.
Sony Ericsson 12MP Beast!
February 17th, 2009
Business car of the year???
February 15th, 2009
The first embargo-busting pics of BMW’s new 5 series Gran Tursimo ‘Progressive Activity Sedan have hit the interwebs, showing for the first time the exterior andinterior of the handsome midsize sedan-slash-hatch.
The images, which appear to have been taken at some kind of press preview, give us a good look at BMW’s latest styling direction, the last to be influenced by outgoing design chief Chris Bangle. Our verdict? Well, it doesn’t look half bad, to be honest.
A bigger grille, big rims and a body that’s visually heavier than the regular 5 make the GT an altogether beefier offering, and one that should prove very popular in a prestige market where image is everything. The silhoutte is also slightly deceptive: don’t mistake this for your average 4-door “coupe” – the GT is a bona-fide hatchback.
It’s an interesting take on a hatchback too. Not only is the GT a fairly sizable family car, but the hatch itself combines the positive virtues of both a traditional boot and a hatchback. The whole assembly operates like a regular hatch, however the press of a button opens up the hinged lower portion while leaving the rear glass shut (below). Handy for when you just want to throw a couple of bags in the back.
The sheetmetal is also tauter and more heavily contoured than that of the cooking-model 5. The GT’s bonnet creases are more scultpural and more defined, while BMW’s characteristic character line along the flanks of the car is more pronounced than ever.It’s not quite as sleek as its non-SUV stablemates, but the tall stance of the GT is meant to bridge the gap between sedan and crossover wagon.
The cabin is classic BMW and aside from swathes of white leather and some organic-looking inserts on the seats, it should be familiar to anyone who’s driven a modern BMW before.
Microsoft trying to get a bite of the Apple?
February 14th, 2009When I heard that Microsoft will be opening retail stores a-la Apple, my first reaction was, what are they going to sell in there? Windows? Zunes? Xboxes?
In a statement, Microsoft said it hired David Porter as its corporate vice president of retail stores. The former Wal-Mart Stores executive’s first mission will be to define where and when to open the Microsoft stores.
“The purpose of opening these stores is to create deeper engagement with consumers and continue to learn firsthand about what they want and how they buy,” Microsoft said.
But in this economy, these stores will have to do more than just showcase Microsoft technologies and products; they will have to make money selling Microsoft products and even perhaps competitors!
Microsoft could be competing with existing retailers, partners
However, Microsoft’s main problem will be not to irk existing retail partners like Best Buy or Wal-Mart, and OEMs such H-P, Dell, by favouring some and leaving others out of its stores.
A dilemma that Apple did not have as it makes both the hardware and the software (operating system and applications) for its computers; although affecting some smaller Apple retailers that eventually closed shop.
At the same time, large electronic retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Fry’s and others are still important distributors of Apple computers. And large mainstream stores such as Wal-Mart or Target are selling truck loads of iPods.
But Microsoft is no Apple!
Pushey Obama!!!
February 11th, 2009
He has his opponents in Congress, but President Barack Obama is stressing the need to settle the stimulus issue—and fast. On Monday, in his first major news conference since assuming office, Obama warned of economic troubles ahead and presented the stimulus package as a possible way out.
Boston.com:
“This is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill recession,” Obama said. “We are going through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
The president said he is “absolutely confident” the nation can overcome this crisis, but he warned that the government, business, and consumers must change their ways. He also declared Republicans who oppose his massive spending plan on ideological grounds should not engage in “revisionist history,” noting their party presided over a doubling of the US debt and helped create the ailing economy he inherited.
The first and most critical step, he said, was for Congress to approve his economic stimulus package, which he said would put more money into the hands of consumers, encouraging them to spend money, and which would create jobs in both the public and private sectors.
Guess my password!
February 10th, 2009In the end, it’s all a big guessing game. You create passwords to protect your systems; hackers try to guess the password you created.
It’s a game that’s going on all the time. As we reported last week, researchers at the University of Maryland recently completed a study in which four live Linux servers were set out as bait to see how often they would be attacked. The study racked up 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period.
During that time, 824 attempts were successful — the attacker got the server’s username and password. On average, that means that each of the servers was “cracked” almost 10 times a day. And these were relatively anonymous servers, sitting in a university data center and intentionally loaded with mundane, uninteresting data. We can only imagine what these attempt statistics might look like at, say, Bank of America or the U.S. Department of Defense.
So while most security discussions take passwords for granted or treat them as outmoded, the guessing game clearly continues. With this in mind, we asked some experts to comment on the most frequently-used (and guessed) administrative passwords, and how to avoid them.
The University of Maryland was our first stop, since they had just completed the study on this very topic. According to Michel Cukier, the professor who led the study, here are the most commonly-guessed passwords in cyberspace, in order of frequency:
- 1. (username)
- 2. (username)123
- 3. 123456
- 4. password
- 5. 1234
- 6. 12345
- 7. passwd
- 8. 123
- 9. test
- 10. 1
Other experts chipped in a few of their own. Val Smith, CTO of Offensive Computing LLC, notes five that didn’t land in the university’s top 10: “admin1,” “changeme,” “dontforget,” and “letmein.”
“Attackers are generally looking for the username and password that will bring them the greatest reward,” notes Cukier. As a result, the username “root” — which traditionally has given administrators access to multiple systems at the root level — is by far the most frequently-guessed, with “admin” finishing a distant second.
Bail out for Japan?
February 8th, 2009The Bank of Japan will buy 1 trillion yen ($11.1 billion) of shares owned by financial institutions to shore up their capital, which has been decimated by the global stock-market rout.
The central bank will purchase stocks until April 2010, resuming a program it ended more than four years ago, it said in a statement after Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his policy colleagues met in Tokyo today. The bank will hold the shares until at least March 2012.
New Google Earth 5.0
February 7th, 2009Google unveiled their latest version of Google Earth that includes incredible new features – oceans, Mars and time.
Now with Google Earth you can plunge into the ocean to take a virtual tour of the ocean floor. Drop below the surface and explore a detailed map of the ocean floor and thousands of data points including videos and images of ocean life, details on the best surf spots, logs of real ocean expeditions, and much more. Open the “Ocean” folder in the Layers panel to explore the 20 content layers of the ocean. Double click on the “Explore the Ocean” layer and it will fly you to my Ocean Overview video and ten focus areas with National Geographic video clips. Other layers include dynamic sea surface temperature, Census of Marine Life data, Marine Protected Areas, shipwrecks, dive and surf sites, Arkive images, Planet Earth footage from the BBC, and much more. You can even visit a 3D model of the undersea laboratory Aquarius and fly to the Titanic and follow the expedition that discovered it.
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