Apple Just Launched iPad Tablet PC, its Latest Creation (Story in Pics)

Today (27th Jan'10) in San Francisco Apple just unveiled its latest creation called as iPad - A new human touch enabled tablet computer ever hyped and a new thing every one was talking about, revealed today by Steve Jobs himself.

Priced at $499 in US and will be in other international markets in the June-July timeframe. Here are the complete story of yet another sophisticated cool gadget from Apple, in pictures;

Courtesy - Engadget.com and Behance.net

OnlineCouples.com - Online Networking for Couples

OnlineCouples.com, is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, in a chatroom, or any other online medium. Moreover, the portal is founded by an online couple themselves - Abby Tankenoff and Santiago Merea who met through eHarmony, an online dating site.

OnlineCouples.com, not to be confused with any dating site is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, chatroom, or any other online medium. Here you can meet other couples using social networking features like chat, message, bookmarks, blog etc.

On a second thought, the portal is an example how people from different streams and professions are attracting towards the dot com sector obviously when creators of respective online entity are mentioned in their press releases they don't mean it literally when it comes to technically developing and designing it, what they really mean is their strong willingness to show that are also wants to be part of ever growing social media/ networking phenomena.

10 Google Search You might not Know About

Google Movies Search

Google movies search is accessible over web, mobiles, iPhones just go to google.com/movies, it will automatically trace your location and show latest/ upcoming movies listing in theaters new you and can even play trailers, show ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you.

Google Files Search

Google search commands gives a very useful way to search specific files such as MS Word, PDFs, RTF or even ZIP files, all you have to do is add filetype: after the search, for ex. - 'filetype:.doc' for word documents and 'filetype:pdf' for acrobat PDF files (see pic above).

 

Google Music Search

Google music search is a good option for music lovers that allow you to search latest songs, albums or artist and play them at same time. However, due to legal constraints the Music search is restricted to users in US only.


 

Google Dictionary

 

Google Fast-Flip

As in google's own words - "Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches". One can also read the leading online dailies and websites over their mobiles through fast-flip mobile.

Google Stocks Quotes Search

Google Squared -

Google Squared returns search results in a spreadsheet format. It structures the unstructured data on web pages. So a search for 'Indian Prime ministers' will returns results with names, photo, description, date of birth, party etc., in columns and rows. Interestingly to create one of squared results it takes an incredible amount of compute power to throw results in structured form from all over the web, residing as unstructured form.

Google Live Updates -

 

Google Accessible Search

Google Patent Search

 

More Special Search by Google -

• Search Stories on YouTube


• Google Linux Search -


• Google Apple Macintosh Search -


• Google University Search -


• Google News Archive Search -

A Brief History of Hotmail

Updated: 13 September 2013

Hotmail is one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail in the world started back in 1996, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and later acquired by Microsoft in 1997. Dick Craddock, Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft made an interesting posts on short history of Hotmail, its architecture.

Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million US$ and launched as MSN Hotmail and later rebranded as Windows Live Hotmail and now in 2013 as - 'Outlook'.

...user interface has changed pretty dramatically, too. Hotmail was the first to offer safety innovations like anti-virus scanning for attachments. We integrated the calendar service, built in a reading pane, and added rules, spell checking, search, web messenger, and lots more.

As of 2011, Hotmail had 360 million users per month. It was available in 36 different languages. This year in 2013, Hotmail was replaced with Outlook.com, which features Microsoft's Metro design language, and closely mimics the interface of Microsoft Outlook.

As per the transition of Hotmail to Outlook, on April 3, 2013 existing Hotmail users have been forcibly upgraded to Outlook.com while retaining their '@hotmail.com' email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vacation replies, etc. and thoough they have the option to convert to '@outlook.com' email address.

No Google Nexus Phone, No 3G, No WiMAX...India Shinning

Google has just unveiled a Android based Super phone called - Nexus One phone and India being one among unsupported countries. however people residing in India may psychologically satisfy themselves watching the Inetractive demo , 3D Tour or videos of Nexus One phone until it arrives in India as there is not any mention via Google of how, why and when it will arrive in India. The Google super phone will be available only in US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Noticeably unlike to Apple iPhone Google Nexus is "Unlocked" GSM phone sold and shipped by Google only.

Moreover, unavailability of 3G Mobile technology in India could be strong reason for Nexus phone unavailability, as at present its with BSNL only. Ironically, countries like UK had already made trials of next generation 4G mobile broadband technology.

Question - Why Google didn't approach BSNL? as its also 3G and GSM phone operator in India.

However, India has its own Jugaad of getting Google Nexus by - shipping it to India (US$529 + $60 shipping + import duty = 32k INR approx.) or can also get it from ebay once people people start to resale it.

Best of Indian Startups 2009

All along year 2009, this year has been the year of disruptive ideas, innovations and originality of concept that drove the startups in India when it comes to technology, web and internet. Similar to Best Startups list in 2008 we are compiling a list of some the very interesting and gutsy startups that made impression over the world wide web.

The list is relatively small when it comes to numbers and the basic criteria of choosing the startups in India are - How disruptive is an Idea behind?, Orginality of startup concept, Are they really startup? and lastly how much impact did they made to their similar competitors/counterparts with their first presence.

So, here we go;



VoicePHP - A product by Tringme which is a Bangalore, India-based startup come up with disruptive simple idea of infusing VoIP into PHP by using the familiar PHP programming methodology which can be freely downloaded and is used by majority of web developers. TringMe introduces this simple technology as not an extension to PHP but the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text.



iMO - iMO, a Gurgaon, India based 3-people early-age startup who was able make to Top 50 finalist of Techcrunch 50 and won best presentation. iMo is an app that turns an iPhone/iPod Touch into a video game controller that works with existing PC video games, giving it Wii like capabilities. Unlike using the PC's boring keyboard/mouse one can hold the iPhone like a steering wheel and drive a race car or like a joystick to fly a fighter plane. iMo leverages the iPhone/iPod Touch's built-in accelerometer and touch screen to not just mimic the standard game controllers such as the joystick but add a lot more control to take gaming action to the next level.



VoiceTap - A small but impressive 8 person startup based out of Noida, India and awarded with Asia Top 100 Startups award 2009 by Red Herring. VoiceTap come-up with their product 'Getafixx' - a knowledge engine, which allows a knowledge seeker to connect with experts from around the world using the medium of chat or VoIP and connect knowledge seekers to expert knowledge over the web (chat, VoIP), Gtalk client / Gmail including textual chat or voice or the mobile phone. Voicetap has received seed funding from a Singapore based consortium.



Druvaa Insync - This is a Pune based enterprise startup, which launched its product Druva inSync, an automated laptop backup software which protects corporate data for office and remote users. Available for Windows and Linux features simple backup, point-in-time restores, data deduplication technology.

This made in India software has many advance and impressive technologies such as - timeline based infinite versions of file giving user an option to restore from any point in time in the past, 90% reduction in bandwidth, 10 times faster backup speed with distributed data de-duplication technology and storage utilization, automatic network prioritization and bandwidth scheduling makes it network sensitive. The software managed to bag impressive client list as - NASA, Serco, Emerson and Capita.



What's On India - What's-On-India is an India's premier TV guidance and EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), a Mumbai based start-up funded in 2008 by Sequoia Capital and Nexus VP. Positioned as India's first TV guidance channel What's On India has designed a proprietary, indigenous India-specific EPG Production Platform that integrates Programming information from hundreds of TV channels and seamlessly reach consumers through set-top-Boxes, internet and mobile. What's on India has a target of reaching 20 million homes by the first quarter of 2010.



DeskAway - DeskAway a Mumbai based startup by Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. deliver software as a service (SaaS) over the Internet to the global audience. DeskAway is one of the best Project Management Tool available online, free as well as paid its one of the first such web start-up from India that made mark on web inspite of already available competitors such as BaseCamp, Collab, Zoho etc. (Read Review of DeskAway)



SMSOne.in - SMS One Media is a Pune based startup serving as a very-local newsletter that delivers services to people of India’s most unconnected areas, rural villages where there is no internet, no local newspaper and as usual seldom get electricity supply and thus no TV news access. SMS one thus integrate, interconnect local communities providing the local news, updates over the mobiles as SMS.

SMSOne is also providing a means of self-employment opportunities & social prestige to hundreds of school-college dropouts and youth social workers as franchise/ local reporter who goes door-to-door and collect subscribers name, phone number and other information. The startup has got National Youth Award by Gov. of India and become more prominently famous when first got mentioned in TechCrunch as unique concept startups across the world.



Dhingana - Dhingana is a social platform around entertainment and impressive Indian startup doing really cool things with its products we have reviewed on IndianWeb2.com, the company has developed  impressive apps be it iPhone App, Gmail app or an Orkut App apart from this Dhingana is one of the finest music portal for south-asian community with songs, music and public playlists. The company has also been awarded as OpenSocial Application winner at Google.



Toufee - Developed by New Delhi based startup Day and Night Solutions, Toufee is an online flash movie maker application that lets one create flash movies and multimedia presentations in a matter of minutes with easy-to-use interface and without any knowledge of Adobe Flash or have programming skills to produce Flash animations. The edge of this Indian startup over other similar apps in world market is that its lightweight, easy to use, straightforward and much matured.

Toufee currently ranks in the top 5 flash apps by Adobe.com in it's official flex showcase.