Android 4.3 spotted on a Nexus 4

Even though Google did not announce any new Android versions, but we all knew very well that Android 4.3 was under development. Recently, at the Thailand Mobile Expo 2013, a Google Nexus devices was spotted running the Android 4.3. From what the images reveal, the Android build is not very old but there is not much that images reveal. It is very difficult to spot any changes that might be the part of Android 4.3.

HTC Desire 600 announced by HTC

HTC has recently announced a new smartphone into there Android lineup, the HTC desire 600. HTC is bringing that success coupled with some of the other modern industry trends into the newly announced HTC Desire 600. HTC Desire 600 is a Quad-core powered phone capable of running dual SIMS. HTC Desire 600 will be available in only two colors, white & black. Basic specs of the HTC Desire 600 is after the images.

10 Years of Windows XP [INFO-GRAPHIC]

The software maker has created an infographic to detail the changes during the past 10 years. The infographic also pushes people to upgrade to Windows 7 and Office 2010. “Standing still is falling behind,” says the infographic. “While turning 10 is often lauded, in the tech industry it means you’re falling behind,” explains Microsoft’s Kristina Libby In a blog post on Tuesday. “10 years is a long time to have the same old technology.”

The History Of Android OS (Info-graphic)

Android is one of the most popular and the best OS for the smartphones these days. One of the reason behind the popularity of the Android OS is that it supports awesome apps and games. From its birth in 2003 and the Android 1.0 in 2008, Android is ruling the entire mobile phone world in just few years. 

If Android is your favorite mobile OS but you do not know much about it then here is something for you to help. The guys at Xcube Labs developed an Android Infographic which gives the information of thehistory of the Android and its various versions. Have a look at this . 

YouTube Is Killing The TV [INFOGRAPHIC]

YouTube is one of the best thing happened in the world of the Internet. YouTube worked very effectively for the users but we can not say the same for the various other entertainment sources like TV.

Warid Offers 500 Free Minutes and SMS to Subscribers

Warid Telecom now offers its Glow and prepaid subscribers 500 free on-net minutes and 500 SMS to any network through its ‘Muft Hafta’ offer.

To enjoy this exciting offer, customers simply have to activate their new Warid SIM before 15th June or re-activate their Warid SIM not in use since 20th April.

Through the ‘Muft Hafta’ offer, for every 4 weeks of usage, customer will receive one free week every month for six months.

Subscribers will receive their free minutes during the fifth week after they have used their Warid connection for the previous four weeks. The number of minutes offered to the client will amount to 25 percent of the minutes they would have used in the first four weeks. For example if a subscriber has consumed 100 minutes during four weeks they will be given 25 free minutes during the fifth week.

To avail this offer subscribers need to “SMS or Call 3733” from their Warid numbers.

The upfront free 500 on-net minutes and SMS to any network have a validity of 3 days.

Terms and Conditions:

• This offer is for those customers who activate their new SIM before 15 June 2013
• This offer is also for customers who have not used their Warid SIM since April 20th 2013
• 500 on-net minutes and 500 SMS to any other network will be awarded on Call/SMS on 3733. Validity of these minutes/SMS will be 3 days.
• Customer will be rewarded with on-net minutes of the 25% of the amount he/she has consumed within one month.
• The “MuftHafta” offer can be enjoyed by customers after every 4 weeks; that is, the more the usage, the more the Free Minutes you will receive
• Free minutes will be Warid to Warid
• Free Balance upon buying of a new SIM will not count towards Free Minutes
• 25% of the amount i.e. On-Net Minutes will be given to the customer on 25th of every month. Free Minutes will have validity of 30 days.
• This is a limited time offer

Social Media Trends in Pakistan [Infographic]

Internet users in Pakistan are still hovering around 10 to 15 percent of total population in the country, with less than just 2 percent connected with high-speed broadband internet.

Despite the fact, the growth in 2012 for social media usage stood at 50 percent and digital marketing spend by corporations grew by at least 45 percent during the year.

These indicators hint the surge in social media usage in coming days, when more and more people with be socializing online. Facebook remains the top platform with around 27 percent of Pakistani online population registered with it, hinting that there is still huge room available to fill for established social media networks and the new entrants alike.

18 Years Old Student Invents a Device to Charge Cell Phones in 20 Seconds

Eesha Khare, 18 years old American-Indian, from Saratoga in California

Have you Ever thought of fully charging your mobile phone with-in 20 seconds? If yes – then your wishes are going to meet reality very soon.

Top 10 Supercomputers in the World

The 38th edition of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. There are no changes in Top 10 rankings compared to the previous list, however the performance of some machines have increased.

Japanese build K computer is now almost 4 times faster than its nearest competitor with a performance of 10.51 Petaflop/s. It is also the first ever machine to cross 10 petaflop performance level.

Ufone, Mobilink Increase Balance Inquiry Charges. Others to Follow!

During a latest development in telecom sector, Ufone and Mobilink has announced an increase of 5 paisas for balance inquiries. Zong, Telenor and Warid are likely to follow the move in coming days.

Ufone said that new balance inquiry charges will be applicable from May 25th, while Mobilink hasn’t mentioned any date for new charges yet. We are sure that other operators will announce similar increase in balance inquiry with-in weeks.

Pakistan’s First Science and Technology Web TV Channel Launched

Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV channel — with a special focus on education – has be launched in Pakistan.

TechTV.PK is launched by collaboration between Pakistan Science Club (PSC) and Technology Times (a Weekly tech Magazine) and is said to be available with full drive soon.

Mobilink Introduces Blackberry Q10 in Pakistan

Mobilink has announced the availability of Blackberry Q10, one of two devices that were announced earlier this year at the launch of Blackberry 10.

Running on Blackberry 10, Q10 comes with physical keyboard for those avid blackberry users who aren’t com comfortable with the sense of touch.

Nokia Announces Dual-SIM Asha 501 Smartphone

Nokia has announced its Asha 501 smartphone to debut the Asha Platform, claimed by Nokia to offer innovative user interface, a faster and seamless mobile operating system for low-to-mid level smartphones.

Asha 501 comes with solid build and colours at an affordable price. It supports single SIM or easy-swap Dual SIM features.

Samsung Announces World’s First 5G Mobile Broadband Technology

Samsung today announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first breakthrough to offer 5G mobile broadband, that will supprt tens of Gbps of data transmission on mobile devices.

The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks.

Glow Offers Dosti Unlimited Voice and Data Bundles

Daily Unlimited FnN Voice Bundles

Warid has introduced unlimited voice bundles for friends and family number, i.e. Glow customers will now be offered to make unlimited voice calls to 10 on-net FnF numbers at a fixed daily rate of Rs. 9.99 plus tax.

This free unlimited calls are valid round the clock and package validity is one day.

Ufone Brings Iron Man 3 to Pakistan, Offers Free Tickets!

Blockbuster Iron Man 3 – last from one of the most successful sci-fiction sequels – that is topping Box office while bagging $72.5 million in ticket sales in US and Canada only and another $89.3 million internationally, is coming to Cinemas in Pakistan this weekend.

Budget iPhone To Be Available In 10 Different Colors

Apple has been rumored to release a budget-friendly iPhone, which targets not only the US market but also the emerging markets around the globe. The idea has grown considerably over the past few months that has caused too much excitement in every community. The problem is, Apple has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of a cheap iPhone.

Solar Impulse takes off on record-breaking flight across the US powered only by the SUN

• Plane runs on about the same power as a motor scooter 
• Stores power from 12,000 solar cells built into the wings in batteries so it can fly at night

A solar-powered plane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world has taken off from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the sun's energy.

Digital Clock

Every now and again there comes a graphic so good the fresh concept blows you away.

 

The University of Dublin science students have finally finished the

digital clock they have been working on for 4 years.

 

Go to this site to see the results:

 <DIGITAL CLOCK>

This is a real clock, and it's pretty cool.

Galaxy S4, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 Put Together In A Drop Test [VIDEO]

While it hurts to see that some people intentionally drop their smartphones, drop tests are actually a good way to determine the robustness and overall build quality of the device. GizmoSlip recently posted a video on YouTube showing and differentiating Galaxy S4, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 from each other in terms of build quality.

Pakistan’s Internet Start-Up Industry, You didn’t Even Knew About

Did you know? Pakistan’s GDP is merely the size of loss that Apple Computer Inc. has faced since the launch of iPhone 5. Now where do you suppose this countries economy comes from? Pakistan collects a total of around $10 billion from its taxes while around $13-14 billion come from external sources.

People Who Changed Internet

 

40 people who changed the INTERNETOnly 20 listed here.

 The world has become tightly connected since the internet. The web itself has replaced the practice of reading newspaper. Most of us now communicate through e-mails instead of paper and pen. We now watch networks or movies online, it has even become a wide business venture, so much so we can now make purchase and pay our bills through the internet. The web has also transformed friendships through various social media. It also provides us the possibility to reconnect with people from our childhood and it can be a life changing event. Having a great idea is one thing. Turning that idea into a booming company through innovationand execution is what that matters most. Here, these are the people who have the biggest impact on the direction of the web: past, present, and future. They changed the internetand revolutionized the way we lead our lives today. Just imagine the world withoutinternet. 

You can't because it has become our daily life.

How Good is the Camera on the Samsung Galaxy S4?

When Samsung first introduced the Galaxy S4—at an event I'm sure many of us would just as soon like to forget—the company put a lot of emphasis on the camera features as opposed to image quality. Sure, you can record sound while snapping photos with the phone's 13-megapixel shooter, but how do those pictures actually look?

Nokia bets on Camera Tech to Boost Phone Market Share

In a move that could bring bleeding edge digital camera technology into future Nokia smartphone models, the venture arm of the Finnish company is investing in Pelican Imaging, a Mountain View, Calif., startup.

Feature bloat creates storage woes for the 16GB Galaxy S4

Modern gadgets usually have less than the advertised storage space actually available for users, but Samsung is taking software bloat to a whole new level with the Galaxy S4 Android smartphone.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 arrived in consumer hands last week (Verizon customers have to wait until later next month), and Geek.com highlighted something peculiar: The 16GB base model of the S4 is almost half full with preinstalled software that you can’t delete, leaving you with only 8 to 9GB of usable storage space.

iPhone 6 with screen larger than 4″ could come in 2014

Apple had launched a 4″ inch display for its phone last year, and many people is willing that the American company should make its iPhone much bigger as its competitor Samsung do on its smartphones. However Tim Cook the CEO for Apple has said many times that there’s no reason to make a  the tradeoffs currently necessary for bigger screens. But according to a new report, Apple may change its way next year.

Samsung Announces 7-Inch Galaxy Tab 3, Details of Other Tablets Rumored

Rumors of a new family of Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets have been bouncing around for the better part of 2013. We’ve heard a lot about specs, as well as all the sizes Samsung might target for production. So far, there’s been a lot of rumor and speculation, but today we finally start getting actual answers, though they don’t arrive without some new rumors coming to fill the void.

Windows Phone new TVC teases Apple-Samsung rivalry

Previously, we have seen pretty interesting Windows Phone Ads from Microsoft but there was nothing in them which could make ‘em go viral. Recently, Microsoft has uploaded new Windows Phone Ad to their Youtube Channel. This new ad starts off at a wedding where on one side are Apple users, while on the other are Samsung users. A Samsung user is trying to take photos of the couple, when he is mocked by an iPhone users to move aside with his big Galaxy. There is an exchange of mocking dialogues between Apple and Samsung users, which then suddenly turns into a wrestling match. While Apple and Samsung users wrestle, there are 2 workers standing calmly and talking to each other while taking photos & videos of the couple with their Nokia Lumia 920.

iPhone 5 Black Diamond Edition Now Available For $15 Million

Today we bring to you the world’s most expensive iPhone! An England based luxury goods company, Stuart Hughes, has produced the most elegant and expensive iPhone by topping it up with world’s finest diamonds and gold. This eye catching iPhone features a spotless 26-carat black deep cut diamond. Only the ultra rich people can afford this dream as the phone is embedded with 600 flawless white diamonds. The expensively dressed solid gold housing catches the viewers attention. At the back of this high class iPhone, the Apple logo is made with gold and 53 smoothly ingrained diamonds.

Google Glass not going commercial anytime soon

When Google announced that they would be giving out Google Glass to some of the people, everyone started thinking that well than the Google Glass launch must be near. For some time now, we had been hearing that Google Glass would probably out by the end of this year but that is not the case.

Brightex Joins Hands With Mobilink For The Launch Of HTC Butterfly and Google Nexus 4

Brightex, the official distributor of HTC in Pakistan has joined hands with Mobilink for the launch of HTC Butterfly and Google Nexus 4.

HTC Butterfly will be launched on May 2, 2013 and will be priced at Rs. 70,000. Google Nexus 4 will be launched tomorrow, i-e April 26, 2013 at a price of Rs. 43,000.