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M icrosoft has launched a new webcam dubbed LifeCam Studio with a Full HD (1080p) sensor. The LifeCam Studio features 360-degree view range, improved auto focus and Microsoft’s TrueColor and ClearFrame technologies, which keep the colors bright and the video smooth even under low-light conditions. Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger 2011, which is currently available in beta, supports HD video calling in 16:9 format, a feature that should go hand-in-hand with the company’s new webcam. However, bear in mind that the video software that comes with the camera caps video chatting/recording at 720p. LifeCam Studio will be available exclusively at Best Buy stores later this month for an estimated price of $99.95. It’s currently available for pre-order on the retailer’s website.

N okia today announced three new Symbian^3 smartphones at its Nokia World event: Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6. These three share the OS with the upcoming Nokia N8, which ( according to Nokia ) is the only N-series device which will be based on Symbian^3. The E7 is a device aimed at business users, with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 4-inch, 640×460 pixel touchscreen with Nokia’s ClearBlack technology for improved outdoor visibility and an 8-megapixel camera capable of recording 720p video. It touts 16GB of storage memory, and 350 MB of internal memory. In accordance with its business pedigree, the E7 can create PowerPoint slides on the go. It comes with a price tag of €495 ($638). Nokia C6 has a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen (also with ClearBlack technology), while the C7 has a 3.5-inch AMOLED screen and a case consisting of stainless steel and glass. Both devices have an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and the ability to record 720p video. Nokia C6 has 340 MB of internal user memory, wh

I f you are planning to embed multiple YouTube videos on a web page, you may even consider putting all these videos into a single YouTube playlist and then embed the playlist into your page. This offers two advantages: 1. You can squeeze in more video content in the same amount of (visual) space. 2. A video playlist will reduce the (byte) size of your web page considerably because, technically, you now have to embed the YouTube Flash video player only once on your page. How to Embed YouTube Video Playlists The default embed code for any YouTube video playlist looks something like this (remember to replace the word “ID” with the actual YouTube playlist ID) : <object width="480" height="385"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/ID"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> &

S ome websites may like to make their traffic stats public so that both visitors as well as advertisers can gain more insights into the traffic patterns of that site. Google Analytics, a free and unlimited web stats service, doesn’t offer public reports like Sitemeter or StatCounter. That means if you were to share your traffic details with another person, you’ll have to add him as a user to your Google Analytics account. Since that’s not a very practical solution, there’s a new service called SeeTheStats that will easily solve your problem. Make your Google Analytics Reports “Public” To get started, you simply need to authorize SeeTheStats to access your Google Account and then choose a profile of the website for which you want to make the data public. Then, with the magic of Google Analytics API, the service pulls your Analytics data and generate Flash-based charts (or JPG images) that you may embed as widgets on your website. You may choose to display your website page-views, uniqu

A lthough most people have switched to email, there are those rare occasions when you have to send signed documents with your written signature and a fax just seems like an appropriate solution then. You don’t need a dedicated fax machine any more as there are quite a few good web based services, both paid and free, that let you send and receive faxes using your computer itself without requiring any extra hardware. You don’t need a “fax modem” or even your traditional landline phone to send a fax via the computer. How Internet Faxing Works? Most online fax services work in a similar way. They give you a dedicated fax number and any fax message that’s sent to that number is forwarded to you as an email attachment. Alternatively, if you want to send a fax from your computer to another fax machine, you can send your document as an email attachment to the online fax service who in turn will forward it to the recipient’s fax machine. Choosing an Internet Fax Service After researching the pl

F rom screen separation to USB charging issues, here are the EVO 4G pitfalls users complain about most. Looking into the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint? As the current king of the 4G hill, it has certainly earned its stars, but WiMax juggernaut has it’s shortcomings, too. Like the iPhone 4, early adopters ran into a handful of frequent problems with the EVO 4G. Here are the issues any potential buyer will want to be aware of. Poor battery life Sure, your shiny new EVO 4G will function as a Wi-Fi hotspot, sharing out your 4G signal to up to eight friends, but you had better find an outlet if you want to keep them happy. Although the EVO 4G has roughly the same battery capacity as most other smartphones, heavy 4G use can quickly whittle it down within just hours. It’s not a manufacturing error: Just an unfortunate consequence of pumping data way faster than your 3G peers. USB charging issues A small number of EVO 4G buyers report they have had issues charging their phones via the microUSB port. S

W e review Iomega's eGo portable hard drive with USB 3.0 which boosts transfer speeds up to 10x faster than USB 2.0. Introduction USB 3.0 has arrived, and with it, a whole new batch of drives designed to let you push around those Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoints, and Blu-ray rips of Pulp Fiction , even faster. While most USB 3.0 drives still command a premium, Iomega will be one of the first to drop the USB 2.0 entirely and fold USB 3.0 into all of its drives – without increasing prices – later this fall . We put the new eGo through its paces to see whether the upgrade is worth the wait. Features and Design Iomega hasn’t bothered to give the eGo a facelift to reflect its newfound speed, but that’s quite alright with us. The eGo USB 3.0 remains one of the slimmer drives on the market at just 0.625 inches thick, and its similar shape will allow you to use it with old eGo accessories, like the carrying case. At the moment, opting for USB 3.0 will limit you to only charcoal color, but t

I n addition to writing for their human readers, web writers and bloggers have to consider the digital web crawlers employed by search engines like Google Your business can’t skip the task. Since most would-be readers use search engines to find blog posts, you need to make sure that Google ranks your site highly when those readers search for terms related to your business and the content you’re writing. You could spend thousands of dollars to have a search marketing firm optimize your business’s blog for search engines, but chances are that you can learn a lot of the fundamentals yourself, saving yourself a lot of money as long as you have the interest and the time. Here’s a basic primer on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your company’s blog. 1. Always Include Search Terms in Your Post’s Title When Google reads a website to index it, it reads the code directly, not the snazzy presentation that humans see. The way most blogging platforms are built, the headline or title of your blo

D oes your Windows computer take really long to start-up? Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, with some minor tweaks, you can get your sluggish Windows to start much faster without re-installing Windows or adding any new hardware. The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will decrease. I have been testing a free utility called Soluto and it helped reduce the start-up time of my Windows computer from 3.15 minutes to around 1.25 minutes . All this with a few easy clicks and without confusing the user with any technical jargon. After you install Soluto, it sorts your start-up programs list into three categories: No-brainer – remove these programs from start-up with giving a second thought. Potentially removable – another list of start-up programs that may also be removed provided you know what the

L et’s say a company is about to launch a new product and, as is the standard practice, they have pre-briefed a select group of media outlets and bloggers about the news under an embargo. The launch date is close and writers have already prepared their news stories so that they can push them as soon as embargo is lifted. And then something strange happens – one media outlet publishes the story ahead of time thus breaking the embargo – intentionally or unintentionally. Find Who Broke the News Embargo? Broken embargoes can be frustrating for journalists and bloggers as the limelight (and page views) often shifts to the news publication who did not honor the embargo. If a news embargo gets broken, here’s a simple way that may help you determine the name of the publication that broke it in the first place. Step 1. Go to google.com/realtime and type a few words from the story headline. Step 2. In the timeline, click an area where you have minimal number of tweets around that story. That’s

T he Samsung Galaxy S series of Android mobile phones have been a huge success in the U.S. as well as various international markets. Compare Samsung Galaxy S Phones The Galaxy S phones are available though all major carriers in the U.S. though with a slightly different set of features and under different names – you get them as Epic 4G on Sprint, Samsung Vibrant on T-Mobile, Samsung Fascinate on Verizon and Captivate on AT&T. If you are based in the U.S. and are planning to go for a Galaxy S, the following poster from BillShrink should help you narrow down your choices. The poster compares the common features and technical specifications of the various Galaxy S phones as well as the contract plans. Samsung Galaxy S – What’s Common Samsung Galaxy S – What’s Different

H ard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs. Test Your Hard Drive for Impending Problems You may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk. This should in turn help you decide whether a replacement drive is necessary or not. Step 1: Check your hard disk for errors All recent versions of Windows include a utility called Chkdsk.exe that can check your hard disk for any bad sectors. You may either run Chkdsk from the command line ( see details ) or launch Windows Explorer, right click the drive that you wish to examine and choose Properties. Switch to the Tools tab and click the “Check Now” button under Error checking. Select “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” to perform a thorough disk check. Step 2: Understand the sounds of your disk Do you sometimes hear strange sounds coming out of the CPU box? Well, if the hard d

T his may surprise some BlackBerry users. Do you know that your BlackBerry has a log file where it keeps a detailed record of every single action that you perform on the device including your incoming and outgoing phone calls? To view the log file of your own BlackBerry, go to the home screen, hold the ALT key and press LGLG. If you are using a BlackBerry Storm, display the keyboard in portrait view, hold the number key for while to lock the number keyboard and then type ,5,5 to display the phone log. Your BlackBerry Call History is in the Debug Logs These debug logs may sometimes help you troubleshoot issues with your BlackBerry but there’s one related issue that you should be aware of. Even if you remove the SIM card from your BlackBerry and manually clear all the phone call logs, one can easily read your dialed and incoming phone numbers list from the debug log. This won’t be an issue for most BlackBerry users but if you ever plan to giveaway or sell your old phone, remember to clea

A new report from Forrester confirms a trend we've been reporting: enterprises are turning away from "one size fits all" organization-owned smart phone phone strategies in favor of multi-device, employee owned smart phone strategies. Of the firms polled by Forrester, approximately half are already embracing a multiplatform strategy, and nearly 60% support personally owned smartphones. Many enterprises are considering solutions to augment or replace their Blackberry Enterprise Servers. Forrester has identified the ten most important features for smart phone device management solutions, and ten vendors that offer all ten features. Challenges for the enterprise According to Forrester, IT is struggling with a two-fold challenge: mobile device management and security. To solve this problem, enterprises are increasingly investing in device-agnostic solutions. In the firm's report on mobile application development, Forrester recommends creating Web applications, instead of

T he Internet was created in the United States by the "United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency" (known as ARPA ). It was then known as ARPANET and went online in 1969. The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. See the Internet Timeline .

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D ell has launched its first smartphone in the US, the Android-based Dell Aero, for $299.99 without a contract or $99.99 with a two-year AT&T contract. This product image released by Dell Inc. on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, shows the Dell Aero smart phone with accessories. Photo: Dell Dell has launched the U.S. version of the Aero, an Android-based smartphone that’s selling for $100 with a two-year service contract from AT&T. The company has been selling similar phones in China and Brazil since late last year and has been promising a U.S. version since January. The Dell Aero is now available on the AT&T network, Dell announced Aug. 24. The smartphone, which Dell is calling its first in the United States uses an older version of Google Inc.’s Android operating system than many competing phones on the market today. It runs version 1.5 of Google’s Android mobile operating system, also known as “Cupcake,” while most phones now use version 1.6 or higher. Dell says it has done a sign

H ave you seen a message on Facebook or Twitter offering a free iPad? If you have, it’s likely some of your friends have fallen victim to the latest scam, which spreads through hacked accounts. Twitter’s security-related account @safety recently posted the following message: “If you’ve received a message promising you a new ipad, not only is there no ipad, but also your friends have been hacked.” Twitter also said it will be “sending out password resets to hacked individuals.” The scam is also present on Facebook but it has affected a relatively small number of users. The message “offering” the free iPad is similar to this one: “ u have to check out this website its glitchin right now and sending out ipads to everyone for free! ” The messages usually contains a link, sending you to a website that tries to extract personal information from unsuspecting users. If messages similar to the one above have been sent from your account, you should change the password immediately. Furthermore

O CR software let you easily convert images, such as digital photographs, scanned documents, printed books, etc. into text. Once you perform OCR on an image, you’ll be able to copy-paste or edit the text content of that image without any retyping and it also becomes more searchable. The Best Web-based OCR Services Most scanners ship with some sort of OCR software but if you don’t have a scanner, you can simply capture a photograph of the printed text with your digital camera or even your mobile phone and then use an online OCR utility to extract text out of that image. Meet the best online OCR services that can help you convert images into text. 1. Google Docs – When you upload an image file or a scanned PDF to Google Docs, check the option that says “Convert text to Google Docs format” and Google Docs will automatically perform OCR on the file before saving it to your account. If the OCR operation is successful, all the extracted text is stored as a new document else Google Docs will

W hen Moses thought of parting the sea you can bet he never thought of using a zip. Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki though has created a motorboat designed to look like a giant version of the fastening, with the wake it leaves behind in the water meant to represent its teeth. Suzuki made a scale model of his design back in 2004 but has only now unveiled the full-sized vessel. Zip, zip away: Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki has created a motorboat designed to look like a giant zip which 'opens the sea up' as it travels along Zipping along: Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki has created a motorboat designed to look like a giant zipper which 'opens the sea up' as it travels along Describing his creation, the artist said: 'This work is a boat modelled after a zipper tab. 'As the vessel glides through the water, the wake looks like a zipper coming undone, suggesting the image of the sea opening up. 'The Zipper Ship will travel to and fro between Takamatsu and Megijim

I s the cloud a hacker's paradise? A survey at last month's DefCon hacking conference paints that picture. Sponsored by security vendor Fortify Software , the survey asked 100 hackers who attended DefCon about security in the cloud. A sizable 96 percent said they believe the cloud opens up more hacking opportunities, while 89 percent said cloud vendors aren't doing enough to address cybersecurity issues. Among the hackers surveyed, 45 percent said they had already tried to exploit vulnerabilities in the cloud. Although only 12 percent admitted to hacking into cloud systems for the money, that's still a significant percentage to ponder for companies moving to the cloud, according to Fortify. A Gartner study from earlier this year found that by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no back-end IT assets of their own, planning instead to store everything all in the cloud. Drilling down further, 21 percent of those questioned see software as a service (SaaS) cloud syste

D id you know you can undo a sent e-mail in Gmail? It’s a lesser known feature, but Google just made it even better than it was before. When it first launched, you were given a 5-second window during which you could hit “undo.” Now that’s up to 30 seconds, Google Operating System discovered . The feature is hidden from most users who don’t know where to look, so here’s a quick guide to avoiding social and workplace faux pas with the click of a button. Be aware that the feature is part of Gmail Labs, though. That means it’s still in testing and it might not always work as intended. Go to Gmail Labs Since the Undo Send feature is part of Gmail Labs, you’ll have to navigate to the Gmail Labs page to activate it. Load up Gmail and look in the top-right corner of the page. Between your e-mail address and Settings you’ll see the green Labs icon. Give it a click. Enable “Undo Send” and Save Your Changes   You’ll be presented with a list of features Google is testing in Gmail. Some are very u

If you’re looking for Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts or Jessica Biel online, so be careful! Why?! Because these movie stars top the latest list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, according to the new research by computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. Justin Timberlake must have a thing for dangerous women. Last year, the Web’s riskiest celebrity search was the pop star’s current girlfriend starlet Jessica Biel. And this year, Timberlake’s former flame Cameron Diaz took the top spot on Internet security firm McAfee’s annual list of the most dangerous stars to search for on the Web. Look up one of these people and you almost invite computer viruses and worms to invade your computer. “It’s sort of a little bit of rivalry from the traditional world going to the cyber world,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee’s vice president of threat research. “It’s fascinating how cyber criminals can be so in tune with the popularity of various actresses and models. …They’re actuall

A s smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing their efforts on building applications for mobile devices. Whether it is a native application or a mobile-optimized website, mobile innovation is taking place at a breakneck pace. Native applications still have their place, but increasingly, the number of different device types, operating systems, and screen sizes make developing optimized mobile web apps more and more enticing. Historically, there has been a trade-off between the rapid, iterative, cross-platform nature of web applications versus the more standard UI, support for gestures, and multi-touch and hardware optimizations on the native side. Fortunately, a number of different frameworks are making it easier and easier for developers to create mobile web applications that look and feel more like native apps. Here are six examples. If you don’t see your favorites on the list, add them in the comments below. 1. Sencha Touch In June, Sencha, formerly Ex