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Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation had signed a basic agreement with objective of jointly developing a new generation optical disk of atleast 300GB capacity by 2015. Sony previously commercialized a file-based optical disc archive system in September, 2012. Based on optical disc technology that Sony cultivated for its XDCAM series of professional broadcasting products, this system houses twelve optical discs within a compact cartridge as a single, high-capacity storage solution. Each disc within the cartridge holds 25GB capacity, offering a total range of storage capacities from 300GB to 1.5TB. Panasonic launched its ‘LB-DM9 series’ of optical disc storage devices. This series uses a dedicated magazine of just 20.8mm thickness to house twelve 100GB optical discs. A maximum of 90 magazines can be stored, providing a total storage capacity of 180TB. In addition, Panasonic adopted a newly-developed changer system together with RAID technology to offer rapid data transfer perfor

 The rankings by Akamai Technologies cover January through March and are based on average peak connection speeds. 1. Hong Kong Speed: 63.6Mbps ,  which was more than three times the global average of 18.4 Mbps. 2.Japan Speed:  50 Mbps , which was more than 170% faster than the global average 3.Romania Speed:  47.9 Mbps , which was 160% faster than the global average. 4. South Korea Speed: 44.8Mbps, which was 143% faster than the global average. 5. Latvia Speed: 44.2Mbps, which was about 140% faster than the global average. 6. Singapore Speed: 41.1Mbps, 43% speedieer than year ago 7. Switzerland Speed: 40.3Mbps, 41% speedier than year ago. 8.Bulgaria Speed: 38.2Mbps, 14% increase over the previous quarter. 9. Netherlands Speed: 38.2Mbps 10. Belgium Speed: 38Mbps 11. US Speed: 36.6Mbps 12. London Speed: 36.3Mbps, 53% speedier than a year ago Now lets talk about position of India: Speed: 10.6Mbps Rank: 109  India is second lowest amon

The words from  Wen Tong, head of the 5G mission at  Huawei Technologies , the Chinese telco declared that world would completely roll out with 5G by 2020.  The idea is to increase the thru-put by 1,000 times with 1,000 times more spectrum and 1,000 times reduced energy. A group of telecom firms such as Huawei ,  Ericsson  and  Samsung  have started groundwork on 5G. "This is one of the top priority areas for us. We started work on this in 2009. The standards for 5G will be out in 2015 and rollout could be 2020. We will lead the 5G revolution," he said. Huawei started work on 5G in 2009 and has already deployed 200 engineers on the R&D work. Few major telecom firms Huawei, Ericsson and Samsung have started foundation work on 5G. Huawei declared that 5G is one of the top priority for company, they also revealed that they have started ground work in 2009 and they are pretty confident that standards may out by 2015 and roll out could be by 2020. Huwawei who started g

Nokia as released a new Windows Phone 8 flagship with 41 MP sensor. It's a phone from Nokia not a DSLR. There is no need to wait for this phone. The Phone has three variants Yellow, White and Black and will intially debut at AT&T with a price tag of $299.99 with two year contract. This phone 4G lite network. This Phone is avialble to China and other European countries later this year. Record Setting Sensor is one of the unique feature of this phone. Key Features : 41MP sensor, six ZEISS lenses,  Optical Image Stabilization,  xenon flash ,   The Nokia Lumia 1020 is zoom reinvented , 

Micromax has launched the most anticipated mobile Micromax Canvas 4 for the Indian market with a price tag   ₹   ₹ . 17,999 . Micromax Canvas 4 comes with 5.0 inch 1280 * 720 TRU-HD, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage and expandable storage  up to 32 GB   It comes with a 16 MP rear camera with five element lens, image stabilization  multiple face detection and image panorama , in addition 16 MP rear camera the phone comes with a 5 MP front camera.  Few unique features of Micromax Canvas 4 are flip to mute , which means when phone rings just flip phone to silent the ring tone, make automatic calls by holding phone to ear, while on a call the Canvas 4 turns loudspeaker on when the smartphone is flipped and  video pinning to pin videos on the home screen and look away to pause video. Another unique feature is 'blow to unlock' where in u need to kiss your phone to unlock :P Canvas 4 allows pop up video play like users can pl

Apple's upcoming iOS, iOS7 has apparently a new feature Air Play. This feature lets the user to control an Apple gadget through car dashboard. This makes a sense that there is no need to hook up with a apple gadget all the time to play music, to display maps and more interestingly to talk to Siri. OK fine listening to this feature sounds cool but users can have a pull up, how to access this feature???????? For iOS7 beta version- Scour to "Accessory Developer" settings menu. There u will find two options  ------  >>  one called "iOS in the  Car  over USB" and, --------  >> "iOS in the Car over WiFi." Select an option and hav great time with this cool feature.  So far, Apple has signed up such automakers as Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Ferrari, Hyundai, Kia, and Infiniti to integrate more iOS features into their cars. At  WWDC , Apple VP Eddy Cue said the iOS integration could kick off as soon as 2014, which means the feature itself

The first Web TV which was founded by Steve Perelman in 1995 which later on provided on-live game streaming service. Sony and Phillips started setup boxes with web TV in 1996, which in turn gave simple access to email and internet via dial up modem. Later in 1997, the IT giant  Microsoft acquired Web TV for $425 and tried to expand its service. But unfortunately,    Microsoft could not keep up with the rapidly changing pace of how people were accessing the Internet via broadband connections combined with cheaper laptops and desktops. In 2001 Microsoft named Web TV as MSN TV and as a upgrade in 2004 Microsoft launched MSN TV2 hardware and software service. Now the company has turned its set up box focus to Xbox, the launch of Xbox one console represents the company's latest attempt to merge internet with living room experience.

Astonishingly last year china passed the US smart phone market. The global market rivalry is mainly between Apple and Samsung. They built expensive phones in affluent countries because of the demand from customers. Now more phones are being designed for consumers in emerging markets, who are expected to account for most of the growth in smartphone sales in the future. That presents an opportunity for the major  Chinese phone makers , like Huawei,  Lenovo ,  ZTE , Coolpad,  Xiaomi  and  Oppo .   While Samsung is the biggest smartphone vendor in China, with a market share of 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, according to the research firm Canalys, several Chinese companies have surged past Apple, which holds 8 per cent.   These include internationally recognized names like Huawei, known for network switching gear, and Lenovo, known for ThinkPad laptops, which moved into the No. 3 and No. 4 positions in the first quarter. But there are nearly 400 other little-known makers