Nokia Asha in the 'Fastlane' = Multitasking on S40

Today Stephen Elop announced the new Nokia Asha 501 on the stage of the Nokia press in India. It’s the first product of the new generation Ashas with a brand new platform. The design is inspired by Lumia and Nokia picked red as the signature color.

The new Asha platform is based on the SmarterPhone acquisition Nokia made a few years ago. The new interface focuses on swipe events and a new feature called Fastlane.

No more Adobe CS, its Adobe Creative Cloud now...!

Adobe is making a major move into the cloud.
The company is on stage announcing the next big upgrade to its flagship digital editing tools, the Creative Suite, and The Next Web has just revealed that the new version will only be available through its online subscription service.
Adobe previously offered standalone editions of each product, which users could choose to keep or upgrade as new editions were released, but now the only way to receive updates to the product series will be to remain subscribed to the $49.99 per month service.

Scientists Generate Electricity Using Human Brain!

The topic is as interesting as the title. After decades of effort, Scientists have devised a way to generate electricity from brain. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an implantable fuel cell that can generate electricity from a fluid around the brain (cerebrospinal fluid). The result of the experiment was a success since it produced a few hundred microwatts of power from glucose within the cerebrospinal fluid. No adverse physiological effects have been reported so far. This small amount of generated power is of course not enough to run a small fan or any small appliance. But the inventors are not thinking of utilizing this energy to power the appliances. Instead, scientists have planned to make use of this energy in bio-medical field. The amount of electricity produced is enough to power the latest, futuristic and highly efficient brain implants that can help the paralyzed patients to move their limbs.

Google Announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

The next major version of Android is here. Carrying the name Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 isn’t as huge a leap forward as Ice Cream Sandwich was but still brings plenty of new stuff to the table.

Making of Rango: Some Facts & Chit Cat

First for some vital statistics…

Total shots in film: 1,547

Total shots featuring Rango: 1,068

Total animation shots: 1,528

Animation man-hours: 79,724

Rate of animation: Two weeks for five seconds

Longest shot: 1,505 frames

Shots per night: 350 at peak

Render time: 120 million hours (13,670 years)

Opera Mini Next and Opera Mobile 12 released

Opera has released a new beta of the world’s most popular mobile browser, called the Opera Mini Next. This will give you a taste of some of the new features added in Opera Mini, which will arrive in the stable version later this year.

Windows 8 Designing Explained by Sam Moreau

We have said that Windows 8 is a complete reimagination of the Windows operating system. Nothing has been left unexplored, including the Windows logo, to evaluate how it held up to modern PC sensibilities. The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark but when we stepped back and analyzed it, we realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect our Metro style design principles and we also felt there was an opportunity to reconnect with some of the powerful characteristics of previous incarnations.

See Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko mobile OS in action, partners to be revealed at MWC

A year ago Mozilla announced its plans for a mobile OS based on web standards called Boot2Gecko (B2G). Then, in November last year the company showed us simple drawings of its prototype mobile OS and now it has come to this – Boot2Gecko is out for everyone to taste.

How The Pirate Bay was reduced to just 90MB of data

Famed for its vast array of torrents and infamous within the film, television and music industries, The Pirate Bay has become one of the most well known and infamous torrent sites on the web.

Microsoft to release Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29 during Mobile World Congress

Microsoft has announced that they will be launching the beta version of Windows 8, called the Consumer Preview on Wednesday, February 29 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The fact that Windows 8 has been designed from the grounds up for tablets suggests why Microsoft would want to announce its next operating system at a mobile event.

Microsoft to remove Start button from Windows 8

A screenshot from the upcoming build of Windows 8 has been leaked and although it seems similar to the developer preview available right now, conspicuous by its absence is our long time friend, the Windows Start button.

Botnet Similar to Kelihos is Active, but Kelihos itself Still Dead

 

Earlier today we (and may others on the web) reported that the 41,000 computers infected with the Kelihos botnet were still under control of the malware's creator despite Microsoft and Kaspersky's September attempt to "sinkhole" the botnet and render it ineffective. It turns out that the new botnet is actually a variant of Kelihos, possibly controlled by the same masters, but it is not identical to Kelihos — which still remains neutralized. The news comes from a blog post at Microsoft and a clarifying statement Kaspersky sent to Ars Technica. 

The Top Ten Products Of 2011

 

2011 was a banner year for filmmaking tools.
In a landmark year for production and post-production gear, 2011 will most likely be remembered for the tragic events in Northern Japan. Although minor compared to the devastation and loss of life, all the major camera manufacturers (Sony, Canon, Panasonic, etc.) were greatly affected by the disaster leaving factories badly damaged, which disrupted production and distribution for the entire year.

Intel's Medfield series processor debuts on the Lenovo K800

Intel has been trying to get into the smartphone segment for a long time now but they have finally managed to do it with the Lenovo K800, which will be the first smartphone to hit the market running on Intel's 32nm Medfield platform.

Facebook Messenger is now available for Windows

Facebook has just released the Messenger app for Windows 7. It’s been available for iOS and Android for some time too

The app does exactly what it’s supposed to do – bring the Facebook chat outside Facebook. But there are a few more features too. 

The Google Guide to Gingerbread Tips and Tricks

Some Android power users might snort at the idea that they didn't know how to, say, turn a stack of images into a slideshow, but the list should be a nice primer for most Nexus owners regardless. Keep in mind most of these are specific to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Here's Rosenberg's list:

18 iPhone Apps for 3D Artists

There are plenty of iPhone apps available for 3D artists.

We've gathered together a collection of free and paid-for apps that can help you to work smarter and faster.
Even if you have resisted the allure of Apple's iPhone so far, the surprisingly large quantity of 3D apps out there may prove useful enough to make you look twice at the ubiquitous shiny fruit-marked touch-phone.
We've got offerings from the likes of software heavyweights such as Autodesk and Luxology, and a whole host from unknown developers. If there isn't something here to help you with design, workflow or even just that ever sought after inspiration, we'll eat Steve Jobs' hat. 

Crypteks USB Hides an Encrypted Thumb Drive

Everyone who has read the The Da Vinci Code or has seen the movie knows what a cryptex is – an old-timey way to password protect your documents. Except today’s documents typically come in digital form, say a flash drive, rather than paper so as cool as a cryptex sounds, it’s no good to use today.

 

AMD’s $549 Radeon HD 7970 Launched & Benchmarked

 

The highly anticipated AMD 7xxx-series GPU are finally arriving and the first one out of the gate is the Radeon HD 7970. This is the first GPU to utilize the 28nm process technology and according to AMD is the fastest single-GPU graphics card in the market today.

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