Category: Technology

Samsung Electronics is the world’s second-largest cellphone maker after Finland’s Nokia but trails Apple’s iPhone and iPad in smartphones and tablets.

The iPad surprised competitors with the success of its launch early last year. Samsung responded by choosing Android for its tablets and introduced the seven-inch (17.8 centimetre) Galaxy Tab in October 2010 to take on Apple.

Samsung will launch new versions of the Galaxy Tab this summer in an 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch model. Both will run the latest version of Android, known as Honeycomb.

Samsung expects its tablet shipments to rise about fivefold this year to 7.5 million. Market data provider IHS iSuppli forecast in April that Apple’s iPad shipments would reach 39.7 million this year.

“Android is the fastest-growing platform and the market direction is headed toward Android so we’re riding the wave,” said Younghee Lee, senior vice president of sales and marketing. (AFP)

 

Blogging has taken the world by storm. It is increasingly becoming the most popular method to express one’s thoughts and feelings on the internet, as well as an effective medium to earn a respectable living. These days, all the businesses around the world and specifically the technology industry maintains at least one official web log to announce its latest developments and interact with the consumers.

Pakistan doesn’t lag behind in this field as well. In fact, many top bloggers of the world are Pakistanis who have been featured in a lot of international media outlets. A platform was needed were bloggers, social media experts & enthusiasts could come together and share their experience. “WebX” was founded by a group of bloggers from Bahria University, Islamabad, with a purpose of creating as a platform where Pakistani bloggers across the globe could share and interact with each other. In a short period of one year, WebX has become Pakistan’s largest gathering of bloggers, social media experts & web technologists!

WebX 2010 was the first grand scale national gathering of bloggers and social media experts.

 

Scientists at the University of Alabama also found 3,000 ancient settlements using a new technique of infra-red imaging. The astonishing results have been confirmed by archaeologists with picks and shovels, who have located two of the pyramids found from space. “I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me the ‘aha’ moment was when I could step back and look at everything that we’d found,’ Dr Sarah Parcak told. “I couldn’t believe we could locate so many sites all over Egypt.”

The team analysed images from satellites orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, equipped with cameras so powerful they can pinpoint objects less than a yard in diameter. Infra-red imaging was then used to highlight different materials under the surface. Because the ancient Egyptians built houses from mud brick, which is must denser than surrounding soil, they left a clear fingerprint that the researchers could identify as tombs, pyramids or homes. The technique is so powerful that it can even be used to monitor sites for looting.

Dr Parcak believes there are many more buildings buried deeper than those already spotted – even under the River Nile. “These are just the sites close to the surface. There are many thousands of additional sites that the Nile has covered over with silt,” she said. “This is just the beginning of this kind of work.” The results are a huge boost for the new science of space archaeology.

The Defense Department said on Saturday that the impact on the Pentagon of a cyber attack on Lockheed Martin was “minimal” and it expected no harm to result. “Impact to DoD is minimal, and we don’t expect any adverse effect,”. Lockheed Martin, the U.S. government’s top information technology provider, said that it detected and thwarted “a significant and tenacious attack” on its information systems network one week ago.

“As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure,” Jennifer Whitlow, a Lockheed spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. “No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised.”

Lockheed’s information security personnel are working around the clock to restore employee access to the “information systems network” targeted in the May 21 attack, the statement said.

U.S. officials may get involved in investigating a cyber breach at a company’s request. Homeland Security, for instance, can deploy a team to analyze infected systems, develop mitigation strategies, advise on efforts to restore service and make recommendations for improving network security.

A local mobile company Saturday introduced the much anticipated and latest BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone which allows multi tab browsing, supports multiple video and audio formats and has integrated social networks & RSS feeds in one simple view. This is mobile company’s 8th consecutive feat to be the first to launch the latest BlackBerry handsets in the country. According to official sources in the mobile company, the Torch 9800 is Pakistan’s first slider plus QWERTY pad BlackBerry smartphone which is loaded with the new Version 6 BlackBerry operating system and a 5 mega pixel camera.

It’s art! It’s magic! With colorful balls, magnets and a dash of imagination… It’s one of the most alluring videos I’ve watched all day For this year’s F5 Re: Play Fest, held in April in NYC, the Physalia studio created this wonderful piece around the theme “Happy.”

They teamed up with motion graphics artist Gerardo del Hierro and decided “that happy wasn’t happy for Physalia unless pliers, microchips and a bit of soldering were involved,” and with this idea they created the happiest machine Physalia has built to date. Watch the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlrz66rKjxM

 

The France made rescue and search equipment helped to save the lives of five policemen, who were deeply buried under the rubble when a suicide bomber targeted a compound of Crimes Investigation Department (CID) here on Wednesday.

“I believe the investment we made in procuring equipment and making the manpower able to use them has paid back in this single disaster,” Khushal Khan, the director general of Rescue 1122, told.

“It was a difficult search and rescue operation because the collapsed infrastructure was concert-built and locating the inmates under the rubble was not easy,” said Mr Khan. However the technology made it possible to locate not only the dead bodies, but also those who were alive, he added.

For Windows XP users:

There is a fix to run Skype. Open hidden files First Goto.

C:\Document and Users\profile_name\Application Data\Skype

There you would found a shared.xml file  delete that file and try to login again.

 

For Windows 7 Users.

Goto to RUN type this del %AppData%\Skype\shared.xml or Goto to My Computer enable your ‘hidden file’ C:\Uers\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Skype delete shared.xml file from there.

For Ubuntu Users.

Open terminal on prompt type
#cd /home/user_name/.Skype
#rm -rf shared.xml

Your Skype will be ready to run once again.

A bug-free VoIP communications software application (Skype) was successfully acquired and bugged by Microsoft, after few days of acquisition.

Skype users all over the world feel bugged as well, as the perfect past of Skype has now indefinite future in the hands of Microsoft. Should these users start looking for Skype alternate or wait that Microsoft ‘Genius’ fix the problem? What do Microsoft suggest?

One of the big threats from the global warming moon bat types is that a rise in temperature will melt the polar ice caps causing the oceans to rise, with the cataclysmic result of skyscrapers being under water. Let’s face it, if you think that the commute into Manhattan is bad now… just wait.

There is only one problem with this scenario, Mother Nature isn’t being cooperative. You see it is true that sea level has risen during the 20th century and probably well before that. Scientists estimate that sea level has increased by 7 inches during the 2oth century. The climate change hoaxers use computer models to predict that sea levels would rise anywhere from 15 inches to 2o feet because of global warming in the 21st century. But Mother Nature was never good at computer science. Satellite data proved that the first decade of the 21st century sea level grew by only 0.83 inches. What’s even worse there has been no rise since 2006.

The NASA-funded group claims glacial melt is removing weight that had been pressing down on land masses, which in turn is causing land mass to rise. This welcome news mitigates sea-level rise from melting glacial ice, meaning sea level will rise less than previously thought. However, it is very inconvenient for alarmist sea level predictions. Therefore, instead of reporting the amount by which sea level is rising in the real world, the Sea Level Research Group has begun adding 0.3 millimeters per year of fictitious sea level rise to “compensate” for rising land mass. This isn’t the first time NASA climate-change scientists have fudged data.