Google Introduced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - Galaxy Nexus Smartphone

Google has finally unveiled its upcoming version of Android OS 4.0 for smartphones and tablets named "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich" in collaboration with Samsung, the next generation of smartphone namely Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the support of various new features.

The new Google Galaxy Nexus Specifications are as follows:

• A 4.65-inch 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display
• HSPA+ or LTE (depending on region)
• 1.2 GHz dual-core processor (TI OMAP 4460)
• 1 GB of RAM
• 16 or 32 GB of internal storage
• 5 MP rear camera with flash; 1.3 MP front camera
• Full HD 1080p video recording at 30 FPS; zero shutter lag
• Bluetooth 3.0 and dual-band WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• NFC and a barometer
• 8.94mm thin; 135g light
• 1,750 mAh battery

You can register your advance booking online through official website of Google Nexus. Samsung Google Galaxy Nexus will be available for customers in United States, Europe and Asia from November 2011. 

Google has also launched Android 4.0 SDK for developers with all the improved and new APIs. Developers can get Android 4.0 SDK from here.

What�s New in "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich�?

Google has added many new features in Android 4.0 while many improvements are customized and visual, there are still core enhancements being made. We have listed some of those new features about Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

• Honeycomb-styled interface
• New Roboto typeface used throughout the UI
• New lockscreen featuring quick unlock to camera and notification pane access
• Improvements to multitasking and the notification pane
• Resizable widgets
• Quick SMS responses when rejecting incoming calls
• Improvements to text input, autocorrect and copy & paste
• Real-time voice-to-text input
• Full control over data usage, including usage notifications
• New contacts app featuring better social integration and �Me� profile
• More advanced Calendar and Gmail apps
• Improved Gallery featuring a photo editor
• Improved Camera app including panorama mode and easy sharing
• Cloud connectivity with automatic Google Chrome bookmark sync
• Offline access to emails (past 30 days by default) and web pages (when you save them)
• Face unlock using facial recognition technology
• Android Beam for NFC sharing of loads of content
• Integrated visual voicemail and appropriate APIs
• Integrated screenshots from hardware button combination
• Support for high-density mobile displays such as the Galaxy Nexus� 720p display
• Many, many new APIs

Google To Shut Down Google Buzz, iGoogle and Google Labs

Google has finally decided to shut down its Google Buzz project after introducing its social feature in February 2010. Google Buzz was one of the first steps of Google towards social networking arena and after learning the goods and bads from Google Buzz, Google launched its new Social Networking platform called Google+ in late June 2011, which is considering the one of the successor of Google in social networking arena.

According to the Official Google Blog, �In a few weeks we�ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+, written by Google vice president of product "Bradley Horowitz". The site more said that "While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout."

Its good for Google to shutdown Google Buzz to focus more on Google+ because Google Buzz was not providing the online presence of Google into Social Networking arena. Google announced earlier this week that Google+ has 40 million users, and it seems now is the time to shut down Google Buzz.

In addition of Google Buzz shut down news, the company more said that they are going to close their Code Search project on January 15, 2012. (The feature let users search for open source code on the Internet). Google also said that they will also shut down other Social Media Features includes, Jaiku (Twitter Look alike), iGoogle�s social feature for Google Search and Google Labs will also be shut down on same date.

Download Apple iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad & iPod - Direct Download Links

Apple has officially released its much awaited iOS 5, the latest and newest version of Apple's Mobile OS for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple TV (2nd Generation). Apple has fulfilled its promised which he made to its users regarding iOS 5 with exciting and attracting new features. The latest iOS 5 features includes iMessenger, a regenerated notification system of Mobile OS and other critical updates.

The new iOS 5 also includes the new iCloud feature which supports space up to at least 5GB of storage, through iCloud service users can do many things includes wireless backups and automatic synchronization between your various devices and accessing and syncing photos, music, emails and other media through the cloud. Along with iOS 5, Apple has released several other applications to control your Airport device. In addition to iOS 5, Apple has released a new version of Mac OS X Lion that includes support for iCloud. The new iOS 5 also featuring a slew of new features including deep Twitter integration, a revamped notification system, an updated camera app, a revamped version of Safari and more.

Apple has made the following new changes and updates in its new iOS 5 and have also includes new apps and features:

iOS 5: Notification Center

iOS 5: Lock Screen and Camera

iOS 5: Safari

iOS 5: Gaming

iOS 5: Reminders

iOS 5: Newsstand

iOS 5: iCloud

iOS 5: iMessage

iOS 5: The iPad's magic keyboard

To download the new iOS 5 updates, you need to have a latest version of iTunes 10.5, connect your device, and you will be able to update your device from within iTunes.

Apple iOS 5 Direct Download Links:

• iOS 5 for iPhone 3GS
• iOS 5 for iPhone 4 GSM
• iOS 5 for iPhone 4 CDMA
• iOS 5 for iPad
• iOS 5 for iPad 2
• iOS 5 for iPod Touch (3rd Gen.)
• iOS 5 for iPod Touch (4th Gen.)
• iOS 5 for Apple TV (2nd Gen.)

Facebook Launches HTML5 for TouchScreen Smartphones

Facebook is finally moving towards HTML5 version of Facebook for PC Browsers as well as for Touchscreen Smartphones. Facebook has recently launches its "Project Spartan" named version of HTML5 for Facebook, according to TechCrunch. Now touchscreen smartphone owners can able to use HTML5 on their phones browser by going through this official link: touch.facebook.com.

According to sources the new Facebook for touch based smartphones and devices should work on most HTML5 compliant browsers, including Windows Phone 7, Apple iOS and Google Android. Facebook HTML5 version is still in development process and also it contains lots of bugs and errors with its app and also it has some minor problem to work with Windows Phone 7 smartphones. If you are able to launch touch.facebook.com on your touchscreen smartphones than you will notices different themed and style of Facebook on different platforms. iPhone contains different style where Android has also got different look and feel.

Tell us how you feel about the upcoming HTML5 version of Facebook for touchscreen Smartphones in comments?

Nuance Acquired Swype - A Virtual Keyboard for Android and Symbian Smartphones

"Swype" the most advanced virtual keyboard for Symbian and Android Smartphones has been acquired by "Nuance". For those who don�t know much about Swype Application, Swype is a faster and easier way to input text on any touchscreen smartphones, you can do most of your typing words in fast and easy way with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard at over 40 words per minute. Swype can be used in many devices like smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, televisions and other virtual screens.

For those who don�t know much about "Nuance", Nuance is a producer of voice recognition software for use in corporate environments. Nuance has bought Swype for $100 Million according to AllthingsD.com. The acquisition is expected to be announced tomorrow by Nuance. Nuance has acquired several different companies during 2011. In June, they bought SVOX, who also offered speech recognition software, just shortly after having purchased software developer Equitrac.

Watch Swype Video for more information:


If you want to Download Swype for your Symbian and Android Smartphones, do click on following links.

Swype for Symbian Smartphones - Download Now
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Top Five Operating Systems of 2010-2011 - Statistic Report

According to the current statistic report from StatCounter.com in which they have compared the statistic of Top Five Operating Systems from September 2010 till October 2011, OS includes Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Mac OSX and Linux and its really strange for me to know the result as compare to my previous report.

The current statistic report shows that Windows 7 has finally overtake Windows XP, which is obvious and good to hear from latest Microsoft OS. Windows 7 now holds the total percent of 43.84% share of market as compare to Windows XP which were holds only 38.65% when its was launched back in 2001, but the strange part is that Mac OSX and Linux are going smoothly fine and they are on same platform or line of growing and there is no Ups and Downs as compare to Microsoft's New OS Windows 7.

Have a look at following statistic image of StatCounter:

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How Google Plus Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook Pages?

Changing Facebook�s millions of users to Google Plus will extent, difficult to fight for giant search. Perhaps changing brand to Google Plus would be much easier if Google Plus is able to solve advertisers� huge difficulties with Facebook like as post-click arrangement follow, paid search lack in efficiencies and specific customization.

Advertisers move paid media to their Facebook Pages they wanted to be in front of their audience, perhaps there is a bulk of imperfection in this plan. Without such information, we can only imagine whether media dollars are well spent.

In one or two month, Google Plus will launch its highly appreciated brand pages. These are 4 reasons that marketers have right to be happy and why Google Plus brand pages would deliver a better branded experience than Facebook.

Better Search Opportunities:

The slow CTR makes for a small quality score in Google�s bidding sample, which distinctically increases cost per click for paid search addsmoving to Facebook competes a unique brand domain. 

More Customization:

Facebook ads are the limits to some other ads, certainly with a video or vote, allowing for some branding or creative opportunities. 

Better Analytics:

People who uses Google analysis how much is the data, including metrics like time consumed on page, main content, referring sites and geographical information. It looks affordable for Google to integrate Google�s analysis into Google Plus brand pages.

Google Can Learn from Facebook:

Facebook�s achieved and misconfigure steps offer invaluable moral, giving Google second-drive pros in making a brand page based on brands need for much more customization. Facebook make new way on each connection between brands like musicians and celebrities.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Review and Details

The majority of businesses today use some form of Microsoft software, whether it is in differing versions of the Windows operating system or MS� highly popular Office suite.

 In 2003, Microsoft introduced a new dimension to business intelligence and created the first SharePoint software. SharePoint, in essence, offers a single place for document and web management systems, allowing multiple workers to pursue different tasks, at the same time from one interface, instead of using multiple interfaces to accomplish the same workload.

 Along with the changes to Office in 2007, SharePoint also changed some of its features, implementing a new ribbon style interface that would help catalog often used features, such as reviewing, spell check and media inserts, into easily accessible groups. In the newest version of the SharePoint Foundation 2010, some of the features remained the same, while others were greatly enhanced.

In terms of the collaboration efforts of workers, the 2010 version again enhances this process by not only allowing the interface to be multilingual (before it was just local language), but also allowing for multiple languages to be displayed and used on the ribbon, and adding the ability to change back and forth. There was also the addition of MySites, Profiles, and Communities which give workers better ways to collaborate both in and out of the office.

One of the best features is the ability to access SharePoint through the internet, with an online interface which employees can access no matter where they are. This was actually a move to place familiar and popular Office applications, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, on the web, so that no matter what version you are using, or what location you're in, you still have access to these files.

SharePoint 2010 creates easier access and integration for all of its applications for work and sharing.

The user interface for 2010 does keep some of the elements from the 2007 version, but adds more functionality. Lists, for example, now have an overlay popup when displayed, as well as generating custom error pages. The Content Management feature now brings the enterprise portion to more people within an organization.

A major feature of this version is the ability to use management capabilities on any site within SharePoint 2010; in the previous version, these were locked to a specific site in SharePoint. There is also the ability to group multiple items into one atomic product.

Using either SharePoint 2010 for Enterprise businesses or that of the smaller SharePoint Foundation 2010 can give businesses an edge over their competitors by keeping their project groups on task and working together.