Its been quite some time since Facebook added the chat application and now its come up with plans of launching a voice chat application, and it has no one else but voice chat leaders Skype for competition. The application is being created by Vivox and is called Web Voice atleast for the time being. Having worked with second life in the past, Vivox is no debutante in this arena. Coming along with the good news is another announcement which says that the Facebook users list has crossed the 3 million mark. This means that Facebook is already floating in a sea of  goodies and with the new WebVoice service its just expanding its horizons. Also facebook could easily capitalize on the voice chat service by adding advertisements and also they have plans of expanding the service through conference calling. Skype has a stronghold of about 480 million customers and even if all the 300 million customers of facebook add the  [...]

Well this one is for the developers who are bored of the CUPCAKE… yeah I mean the Android V1.5 which according to the pastry oriented Google naming service is called the cupcake, here comes the DONUT. The Android V1.6 has been launched and it’s surely quite a pleasant treat becauses it gets along with it a few new features and also polishes a few of the features which already existed. Well the one that has already sent most of us at Techsoft salivating is the expandable CDMA support. Which means now Android has opened its doors to Verizon, Sprint and Virgin mobile. Plus this one could support screens of resolutions all the way upto 800x480 pixels. The homescreen has an added Quicksearch box which lets you search through the web pages of your choice and the camera has been drastically improved by around 38%. Also they have included a new battery usage system which keeps a track of how much charge is being used by a certain application. So for all those who had  [...]

Well there are so many of us who are used to retweeting on twitter without once thinking about the profit. So here’s where the Whuffie Bank steps in … finally a bank which wants to reward people for their contributions to the web. The Whuffie Bank is a non profit organization which is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina which was inspired by the Creative Common. It aims to reward the users of sites by a certain Karma-like currency. It will keep track of the users activities through out the web including all the posts and the comments so on and so forth. So the more the user contributes to the web the more whuffies he gains. However whenever the user does something which is detrimental to the web his whuffies get reduced. Well how does one use it?? The user just needs to enter his name on twitter and then his whuffies collection is displayed in front of him along with a graph which shows the progress made by the user. It makes  [...]

Going by the facts… internet tablets have never really taken the market by a storm ever. But still Archos is launching not 1 but 2 internet tablets of which the Archos 5 is going to be in the limelight tomorrow. The movie and music playing features of this one are as same as the Archos Media player but is based on the Google Android version of Linux which is quite commonly found in the mobile phones. Its loaded with a 5 inch touchscreen display. Also at a thickness of 1 cm this one could easily be termed ultrathin. This one goes foor sale on amazon from tomorrow and ranges between £199.99 to £369.99. The other internet tablet being launched by Archos is the 9PCTablet and would be out in the market by 22nd October. Actually Archos is waiting for the official launch of the Windows 7 to release this one. This one is going to have a 9 inch screen touchscreen Intel Atom Z510 processor, 80GB hard disk, and built-in DVBT TV. However  [...]

Looks like Packard Bell is trying hard to recatapult its brand with the release of the Easynote DT85 and the Dot m/u. Well the Easynote is surely going to have many techies drooling over it. Its got an absolutely Ki-ller set of features and specs and can easily match upto any desktop. It’s got a 18.4 inch HD monitor, a Blu-Ray drive and an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. It comes loaded with a 4GB of DDR3 RAM and  NVIDIA's GeForce GT 240M graphics chip and also has a 1.25 TB hard drive on board so that you can take along your collection of movies with you. This one is expected to hit the U.K markets by the end of this month along with a $699 price tag. Coming to the Dot m/u notebook… this one is a sleek notebook which almost less than an inch and weighs only 1400g and can easily fit into the handbag plus its lightweight as well. The Dot m/u is offered in two colours black and red. Its got a decent enough battery life of 8 hours.   [...]

This one for sure has got a lot of goodies along with it. For the starters, this one comes loaded with GPS to support Sprint navigation. Since Sprint navigation is an add on service, the user could always use Google maps and other Google services in case he does not want too spend on the add on feature. The missing feature in this one as I mentioned earlier is the Wi-Fi, however this is EV-DO capable. It offers data speeds of around 300Kbps -600 Kbps and can also blow up to 2.4 Mbps. This speed should be more than enough for a decent net surfing experience. The Curve offers a lot of Multimedia features in collaboration with Sprint like the Sprint TV and the Sprint Video and the Sprint music store. Also the inbuilt media player supports various formats like the MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI music files, and MPEG4, WMV, and H.263 video clips. This one has an inbuilt memory of 64 Mb which can be extended upto 8Gb. The sound quality through the speakers was not that great and  [...]

Apple has always been describing its TV lineup as just another hobby and now it has cut off the 40GB model and also brought down the price of the 160GB model by around $100. So what could this exactly mean?? Is Apple planning to end its TV lineup( it has a lot of fans) or is it just devicing some other plan to take it to a different level altogether. The Apple’s site still has the 160GB model listed and also it offers a new software upgrade to its users. With the help of this software, the users can create movie wish lists and watch their favourite regional movies with subtitles. This software can be checked for by the Apple TV and it will download it automatically. However Apple has always maintained that the combined category of TV and media players is still a hobby. Also this combined genre faces tough competition from the cable set boxes and according to most analysts Apple is going through the same phase as Microsoft went through once upon a time with its Windows  [...]

Well imagine you want to fiddle around with your company’s firewall settings… what’s the first thing on your mind?? Well it would surely be browsing the net anonymously. While this is possible to achieve using a computer, however it was a tad bit of an impossible task to achieve using the android phone. But with the collaboration of the open source anonymity network Tor, this has been made possible by the experts at the University of Cambridge. This is possible using the: TorProxy: It is a Tor client and it handles all the communication with the Tor network. Any application can push its data through it and remain anonymous. Shadow: The built in Android browser cannot be configured with the TorProxy and this browser takes its place. All that you have to do is install both of them and then probably wait for the proxy to make the connections and then just blow up the browser. This is just  [...]

Close to the pompous launch of  the HTC Mega, comes in news about the much awaited WinMo device from the Taiwanese manufactures the LEO. It’s probably time now to for the LEO to get its launch treatment. However no official date has been let out as yet, there are a few images of the LEO which we could lay our hands on. And going by the looks of it… boy, this one is surely something. With the brilliant specs and set of features this one surely could send any gadget freak wagging his tongue for more.  This one has got a  480x800 pixel resolution display along with a 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and an impressive 320MB RAM. For the operating system it has the Windows Mobile 6.5 which according to experts is more user friendly as compared to the 6.1. What is surprising here is the absence of a physical QWERTY keyboard. If the leaked pictures are anything to go by, then this one is surely going to be the  [...]

Expect HP to come up with pleasant surprises at the most unexpected times. HP has announced the launch of the Mini 311 which is loaded with Nvidia’s Ion graphics processing unit which marks the entry of  HP into the Graphics enabled gaming netbooks following the Acer Revo and Samsung N510. The inclusion of the Nvidia Ion means that this one could easily play a 1080p video and could make a decent attempt at gaming. A game of Batman: Arkham asylum could be played decently on this one, obviously with reduced details. According to the people at Nvidia the Ion enabled nettop balances power in a much better way as compared to the Ultra-Low Voltage segment  offered in the markets by the likes of MSI X-Slim and Samsung X-series. According to Jeff Fisher head of the GPU department at Nvidia this move by HP is surely going to create huge waves in a market where just until the last month, netbooks were considered to be inappropriate for  [...]