Dev Tips & Technobuzz

University Of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication System that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power. Using ambient backscatter devices can interact with each other and communicate with users without batteries they exchange information by pre-existing radio signals from TV and cellular transmissions. For full paper click here

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