Amazon first gave us the electronic reader for reading e-books. Next came applications for Windows, BlackBerry and iPhone. The latest offering by Amazon is the e-book reading software for Mac OS X. The software is free and it lets you read electronic books that you have purchased from Amazon’s Kindle store which currently has 450,000 books on sale. Through the software, you can buy new books or read the ones that you have already bought. You can also view highlights and notes but cannot make new one. Beta version means that the manufacturer’s of the software are currently working on the application and they haven’t completed the work. There are rumors floating around that Amazon is pushing ebook publishers to sign contracts of 3 years. This won’t let publishers to provide the books at a better price to Apple or other companies. Amazon says that the next version will let you make notes and add full text search. You need Mac OS X 10.5 or later for this.  [...]

Are you still using Google Chrome 4.12 (Beta), Opera 10.5, Apple Safari 4 or Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 and thinking that you are using next generation Web browser? Have you laughed when Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser? Then you are absolutely wrong. The software giant – Microsoft has showed something at a Mix conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas, which stunned the Web developers, programmers and normal computer users. Microsoft has released the platform review for next generation Web browser – Internet Explorer 9. It is a prototype browser for showing off the Microsoft’s effort to improve the IE browser. You can view and use this platform at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/. As per Dean Hachamovitch, Internet Explorer GM and his executive told that currently it is a basic framework and its updated versions will be released in eight-week intervals. After that  [...]

Cisco had made a revolutionary announcement about the major advanced Internet router – Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. It is capable of delivering 322 Terabits per second that is triple the 92-Tbps of its predecessor the CRS-1. The CRS-3 is the next generation router that provides 12 times capacity of any other router.  It’s pricing starts from $90,000 U.S. and it is currently in field trials. Cisco is investing $1.6 billion in CRS family and latest member – CRS-3 will completely take the Internet to next generation. As per the company, it will also provide the investment protection for existing 5000 CRS-1 routers across the world. Cisco CRS-3 will be the main attraction point for world’s largest and leading Internet & Telecom service providers including Sprint, Level 3, Verizon Communications and especially for AT&T. As per Cisco, the AT&T had already tested the CRS-3 and it successfully handled the AT&T’s live network between Miami and New Orleans.

It is hard to predict what Apple is going to come out and it is primarily because the company guards its secrets really well. So we were knocked off our feet when we switched on our computer and saw the Apple iPad promos floating on our screens. There had been rumors about Apple trying to make such a device but nothing could be confirmed because the company is usually tight lipped about its plans. A tech enthusiast made up a rough design of such a device, it contained only a screen and headphones connected to it. He was a fan of Apple, and wanted the company to come up with such a product. He even gave a name to the device – iTablet. This device is has a similar design and looks like iPhone on steroids. Tech specs of the device are as follows. Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm) Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm) Weight:  [...]

Finnish mobile giant, Nokia has said that it will be cutting down production of smartphones in 2010 and will be concentrating more on production of mid-range handsets. This is done because the company is unable to compete with other smartphone giants like HTC, Apple and Research in Motion (RIM). Two Korean players – LG and Samsung are also fast emerging and are likely to go ahead of Nokia in Smartphone sales very soon. Nokia thinks they would rather focus their efforts.elsewhere rather than fighting a losing war. Jo Harlow who is the new chief of smartphone department of Nokia, has said the production of such devices would be reduced by 50%. Nokia has even started to cut down on research and development projects in Japan and this is a clear clue that Nokia doesn’t want to lock heads with the reigning big wigs. Nokia’s latest offering in the smartphone market was the N900 which we thought was an effort made by the company to try harder to win more customers in the market.  [...]

Atom has decided to lock horns with Nvidia Ion by bringing competition in the market with their own brand of chipsets with GPUs. The three processors (which come integrated with chipset) are named N450, D510 and D410 are expected to arrive in this month itself. These three promise to deliver better graphics apart from being faster and smaller. The speed of these processors is 1.66 GHz and there will be integrated Intel NM10 Express graphics chipset. Memory controller, CPU and GPU are all integrated in one and you can expect your Netbook size to reduce by 60%. Of the three chips, the D510 and D410 are aimed at HTPCs or nettops and N450 is aimed at Netbooks. The latter has a 512 kb L2 cache and 7 W of total TDP so there will be a significant rise in the battery life too. The D410 also comes with the same 512kb L2 cache but the TDP is of 12W. Finally, the D510 is a dual-core based processor, has TDP of 15 W and has 1 MB L2 cache. Such chipsets are  [...]

For everyone who is planning to get into shape before the heavy eating and the heavy drinking season during christmas, Nintendo brings in good news in the form of the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus. This one is being launched on the 30th of October in the U.K. Its older sibling the Wi-Fit is probably the only form of exercise that most of us get these days. The Wii-Fit plus pack offers around 15 new balance games and six new strength-training and yoga games. Like during actual workouts, this one also has options of customizing the exercise routines to work out specific parts of the body. For example it has specifics regimes for strengthening the arm muscles. It has health routines which help you work on the tummy and also a youth routine which helps you work on the body and the mind as well as the lower body. This one also has a calorimeter which helps you keep track of the exact amount of calories being burnt in a day. This calorimeter estimates the amount of oxygen  [...]

Bringing about a revolution in the way that kids read fairy tales, Disney has launched the Disney Digital books. This is a new beginning for Disney and it hopes that this new way of reading finds acceptance among the kids. It’s got a few trial books on offer as well which include 7 books, 1 Look and Listen book and 1 Story-Builder activity. On offer it has around 500 books which can be shared by three kids in a single subscription. Readers will have to log onto the site and select from the 500 books which are on offer. The website promises to be highly interactive with sound effects and also there is a feature through which the readers can listen to the words being pronounced. This is surely great for the kids who are still learning to read. It has also got an in built story builder just incase the kids want to make their own stories. The monthly subscription charges are around $8.95. Those who are interested  [...]

Well this is a real piece of beauty I must say. It’s very difficult to find watches with both unique functionality and design, and this one undoubtedly tops the list. It’s got the looks, the style and everything else that could definitely make it a showstopper of sorts. It’s got two overlapping disks which graduate from light to dark and at one point it turns absolutely black. The minutes are displayed by the outer gradient and the hours are shown by the inner gradient. It’s got a matte aluminium anodized case with 3 ATM water resistance. The crystal is scratch resistant and is raised above the watch. It comes with a one year warranty and the packaging of this one is done in pure tin. The watch is available in 6 marvelous colours which are Red, Purple, Black, Orange, Blue and Silver. This brilliant masterpiece could be yours for a price of $59. However there are only 200 i-Toc’s available… so what are you waiting for?? Go ahead grab it!!!

BenQ has announced the arrival of three new projectors- the W1000, W600 and the W6000. BenQ claims that this range offers better picture quality with more in terms of brightness and contrast. This one promises to cater to every individuals expectations from a home cinema projector. The first one in this range is the W600. This one is equipped with a dual HDCP-compliant HDMI ports, composite video and single video, RGB, and component video interfaces. It is a 720p projector and it makes use of the 6-segment colour wheel. This one could easily last for around 4000 hours. Its priced at £499. An improvement from the W600 is the W1000. This one comes loaded with a Full HD of 1080p while making use of the Brilliant colour processing.  It includes the Osram’s Unishape technology which is basically used for improvement of the colour and the contrast and could be yours for £999. A  [...]