Dev Tips & Technobuzz

A unique slew of gadget for techies  that hit market for this Christmas The Call Me Gloves   from   HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER & COMPANY, INC These winter gloves allows user to connect to cell phone wireless and allows call control  with a universal "call me" gesture. Speaker - Inside left thumb Microphone - Inside left pinkie. Users can simply hold the thumb to the ear and the pinkie to mouth for two digit calling. These pair wireless with cellphone via  Bluetooth  and provide clear sound even at 39' from phone. Buttons on the left cuff, easily maneuvered while wearing the right glove, answer or disconnect a call. To ensure users don't have to choose between connectivity and warmth, conductive fibers woven into both thumbs and index fingers allow easy operation of a touchscreen while the gloves remain on.  The battery lasts for 12 hours of talk time and recharges in only 30 minutes with the included USB adapter. The gloves

The most awaited gadgets from Nokia customers are tablets and phablets. Today 22Oct,2013 Nokia unveiled  its first tablet and phablet. Nokia Lumia 2520 :  Windows RT based Tablet 10"" 1080p HD display with Gorilla Glass2 protection 6.7MP rear camera with Zeiss lens, 2MP front camera 2.2GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Processor 2GB RAM and 32GB internal storage  supports microSD card upto 32GB 4G Lite connectivity  8000mAh battery free skydrive storage and preloaded with free apps like Micrsoft Office, Nokia's Story Teller and Video Director. Colors: Red, White, Cyan and Black Nokia Power keyboard Price $499 Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320: Phablet with 6"" screen Windows Phone 8 operating system with GDR3 update Lumia 1520 Price: $749 ,  1920x1080p with Full HD 2.2GHz Quadcore Snapdragon 800 chipset 20MP pureview camera 2GB RAM, 32GB expandable storage 3400mAh bateery and also supports NFC Lumia 1320:  Price: $3

Apple is ready to host its second major event for this year where the customers can expect to see new laptops and iPads and also few more accessories. Expected Talks at this event: iPad5 All new look in 5th iteration. Redesigned to look like bigger of current version of iPad mini New design makes lighter and thinner than current full sized iPad. Expected to get finger print scanner 64bit A7 Chip iPad mini2 : ---> Expected to have retina dispay with screen resolution of 2048x1536 , resulting twice the number of pixels compared to present version ----> processor upgrade to A5 or A6 . ----> support for 4G networks iPad keyboard covers It is rumoured that company is working accessories for Apple devices. Upgrading MacBook Pro with Intel's new Haswell Chip, upgarding FaceTime camera and Retina Display

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