Microsoft officially announced Windows 8 Thursday at a massive event in New York City. Windows 8 will be available in 140 markets and in 37 languages on Friday. Users can start downloading Windows 8 at 12:01 a.m. and copies will be available in stores at midnight local time at retailers around the globe. For a limited time, upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for a special price $39.99 (or INR 1,999 in India). If you want, [...]

Samsung Electronics have officially announced the Galaxy S III mini smartphone. They says S III mini is “compact yet powerful smartphone“. Even thogh they call it “min” the display is 4.0-inch Super AMOLED. The GALAXY S III mini is powered by Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The Galaxy S III mini comes in two memory capacities; 8GB and 16GB and a microSD slot which will allow you to expand the memory all the way to 32GB. [...]

Apple announced iPhone 5. iPhone 5 will be released on September 21st, pre-order starts on 14th. Shape : Similar to iPhone 4/4S. Display size changed to 4” and aluminum + glass back 4-inch Retina display with a resolution of 1136 x 640 with a pixel density 326PPI Thinnest phone ever made by Apple, 7.6mm thick. World’s thinnest. 112 grams. 20% lighter than 4S 16:9 aspect ratio Vertical pixels add a 5th row of icons to [...]

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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S3 yesterday but they didn’t provide any price details. Now the online retailer Clove UK has announced that they are now taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S3 16GB White/Pebble Blue. It is an unlocked phone(contract free) so you can use any sim. It’s pre-order price is £429.00(excluding tax) that is around 700 USD, coming on May 30. Samsung Galaxy S3 Features Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich Quad-core processor 4.8 inch HD [...]

Google released Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. With Google Drive, you can: Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built [...]

With Account Activity Reports you can learn what’s going on in your account, e.g. how many emails you have sent and received, how often you have searched on Google, from which countries you have logged in and how often your YouTube videos have been viewed. Every month the Account Activity Report will collect and summarise data across your Google account – e.g. sent emails or top searches. Data deletion at the data source, e.g. in [...]

Apple released the new version of iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. One of the main change is its seems like the battery issue is fixed. Main changes are Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during initial rollout) Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation) Camera face detection now highlights [...]

Nokia announced the Nokia 808 PureView 41MP smartphone. It has a 41MP cam, but can you take a 41MP photo using 808? Answer is NO. So why they are saying it’s a 41MP cam? The 808′s image sensor is not only larger in resolution, but physical size. It’s larger than the ones in most–if not all–current smartphones as well as the majority of point-and-shoots. The 8-megapixel iPhone 4S, for example, has a 1/3.2-inch type sensor [...]

Apple released new version of it’s operating system – Mac OS X Mountain Lion to the developers. They are planning to release it’s stable version in this summer. Apple says You’re about to use your Mac in all-new ways with OS X Mountain Lion. Because it’s designed with innovations from iPad and it works even better with iCloud. And that makes everything you do on the Mac smarter, easier, and even more fun. Applications like [...]