Digital Grep

03/11/2012

iPhone 5 gets overwhelming welcome in Ahmedabad
starts at 45000 for 16 GB model

30/10/2012

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The Best of Google, now in 3 sizes. Introducing Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Shop now at play.google.com/nexus

26/10/2012

Samsung has announced Amazon Instant streaming video service on its HDTVs.

Samsung announced that the popular video service is available for immediate, free download to all 2012 Samsung Smart TVs. The Amazon Instant catalog includes more than 140,000 movies and commercial-free TV shows at a la carte pricing. The app on Samsung TVs also allows access to the more than 30,000 titles available for free to Prime members.
The company also didn't specify whether the app would be coming to its Blu-ray players or other home theater devices.
With the addition of Amazon, Samsung's 2012 Smart TV platform is the undisputed king of content.

16/10/2012

Google Nexus 7 best-selling tablet

Google Nexus 7 has become the highest selling Android tablet. Its main selling point has been its affordable 159-pound price tag.
Britain's largest mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse said it has seen a huge demand for this smaller sized, 7 inch tablet running on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean operating system.

15/10/2012

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Music, Its New Streaming Music Service

Microsoft will roll out the new music streaming service to customers on Tuesday as part of an update to the Xbox gaming console, and then the company will release it as a built-in feature on Windows 8 PCs and tablets starting on Oct. 26.

Customers will have the option to stream music for free (with ads) or else pay $9.99 a month for an unlimited streaming subscription.
Microsoft will also let customers purchase songs through Xbox Music for $0.99, which will operate similarly to Apple's and Amazon's music stores.

11/10/2012

Google started its SMS service today!!

Google has extended its free SMS chat service to India, whereby users can send text messages to mobile phones via Gmail Chat. The SMS service is available in India and 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America. The feature is activated today for Indian users and is available for regular Gmail users as well as those on Google Apps. This feature is available on all the mobile operators in the country. Google initially provides free SMS credit of 50 messages for each user. For every message sent, users' credit would decrease by one. However, this credit would increase by five every time a user responds to the text message by sending a return message. In case, the SMS credit limit slashes down to zero, one credit would increase automatically after 24 hours. Users can also 'buy' SMS credit in case of shortage by sending a text message to their own phone and then by replying to that message. There is a facility for those users do not wish to receive any messages on SMS from any Gmail user.

10/10/2012

Samsung to launch 'mini' Galaxy SIII

Samsung will launch a four-inch 'mini' Galaxy SIII in Germany tomorrow, the company has confirmed, as the South Korean brand seeks to compete with Apple's new iPhone 5.

06/10/2012

The Micromax Funbook Talk P350 hitting availability status and its price in India being given an official mention. The slate will take its place alongside a wide catalog of budget-friendly smartphones and cost-effective tablets from this company.

Running on the Android ICS platform, the slate is wrapped with a Cortex A8 processor clocked at 1GHz and a dual Mali 400 chipset. Visuals are delivered through a 7-inch 800 x 480p TFT capacitive touchscreen, while 512MB of RAM aims to provide a smooth experience. The total ROM implemented here is 4GB, out of which 2GB is system reserved and the remaining is available for hoarding needs. Owing to the microSD card slot, users will be able to extend the storage up to an additional 32GB.

06/10/2012

Facebook hits 1 billion user mark!

27/09/2012

Google marks its 14th birthday with a yummy chocolate cake doodle! :)

18/09/2012

Google Nexus 7 tablet coming to India in November!

The Google Nexus 7 is Google’s flagship tablet device running their latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The device has a 7-inch 1280x800 HD IPS display (216 ppi), 1.2MP front-facing camera, 8 or 16GB built-in storage, 1GB of RAM, a 4325 mAh battery, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It is of course, powered by the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.

Users sitting in India can buy the 8GB Google Nexus 7 tablet from the Indiatimes online shopping website, for Rs. 16,952. The website also offers users an EMI facility divided in either 3 months or 6 month intervals. On eBay, the 8GB Nexus 7 tablet is priced slightly higher at Rs. 17,690 but the seller received 92.9% positive feedback.

Nexus 7 has seen its share of faults. The screen on some devices starts creaking if pressure is applied to it and eventually pops out of its hinge.

17/09/2012

India to build world’s fastest Supercomputer

India wants to get ahead in the technological revolution by building a new supercomputer that aims to be 61 times faster than IBM Sequoia, currently the world’s fastest which has a peak speed of 16.32 petaflops. The computer is based in Livermore, USA and consumes, nearly 7890.0 kW of electricity. According to the Top500 list, the Sequioa is one of the most energy efficient systems in the world.
Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop “petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers” at an estimated cost of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years. Currently India’s highest ranked supercomputer in the 2012 list is the one at CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore which is ranked at 58.
Hopefully this one won’t be another failed IT project and India will finally get a supercomputer in the top ten. :)

Current list of top 10 supercomputers is shown below!