We appreciate brave talk but it gets irritating when someone crosses the line. Chang Ma, the LG’s Marketing Vice President recently crossed the line when we said that LG’s new tablet will be better than the iPad. He told this at the Wall Street Journal interview a couple of days ago. We all know that LG has been working hard on its Optimus tablet lately but these claims make us laugh hard. You can see for yourself when LG brings their product in the market but we don’t think anyone can beat the prowess of the iPad at least for the next couple of years. You can either call these claims foolish or brave but the Vice President will certainly make a lot of headlines through such comments. US will be a big market for the LG tablet and it will be interesting to see how the product fares in the tablet market dominated by Apple right now. LG’s tablet is rumored to be Google centric.

If you thought that hard disks are going to die soon and they are going to be replaced by SSDs – then you are quite right. Why would people go for traditional hard disks when there are these cool SSD lurking around? The only problem with SSDs is that they are not quite popular in the market due to their high price. Even the 64 GB ones are priced at a really high rate. Price will come down but we don’t know why. What we do know is that when they get affordable – these SSDs will quickly kill the hard disk because of their superiority. The SSDs are very small and the power consumption is really less because they don’t have any moving parts. Also, SSDs don’t make much noise while they are in action. Hard disks, on the other hand, start with the irritating whinning noise (remember the noise that you hear when you press the power button?). Higher end cabinets take care of these hard disk noises by giving those rubber screws which absorb all the sound but they come at a price.

Bose has made a lot of high end headphones in the past and has specialized in just that segment. It is quite rare to see a low end set from this company and they have got three of them now. Two are for mobile phones and one is meant for music players. The MIE2i and MIE2 are made for phones and it looks they have been made especially for the iPhone 4. You get StayHear tips along with the three headphones which will give you better comfort in the ear. But we were really intrigued to see that there was no sound isolation or noise canceling features on either of this set. Bose is not giving any specifications about the headphones either which is even more frustrating. The third pair, IE2 is made for iPod Touch and other such MP3 players. It will be available for purchase from August 23rd for $99.95 and MIE2 will ship on the same date for $129.99. The last set, MIE2i, will arrive in October and will set you back by $129.95. We still cannot believe that  [...]

Green ways are now ubiquitous; people have finally woken up to the threat posed by problem of global warming and they are now taking measures to make earth a better place to live in. Accordingly, there are various manufacturers of gadgets like mobile phones and TV advertising their ‘green’ products. Some are trying just to make money while some really care. San Francisco recently held a green week where in they put a green roof on Transbay Transit Center and also unveiled new plans to install charging stations of 5,000 EV in Bay Area. We were intrigued by the variety of options that it had to offer. There were a lots of different forms of transportation for instance, we were amazed by the single person helicopter which only emitted water vapor and also a car powered just by humans which can go up to 30 mph driving uphill. It was a really exciting week for the people of energy storage tech as well, New York was preparing for grid-scale flywheel  [...]

HTC has announced that it will be hosting an event September 15th in London. The company is tightlipped about the details and all it gave us is this smoky image as a teaser. There is a lot of speculation going on in the market about the product it is going to launch. The event is quite close to the launch of Windows 7 and hence we might see some handsets released on the new OS. I personally think that the company is going to launch the HTC Vision, which has been rumored since long. But we are still scratching about what cloud could possibly mean. HTC Vision will be launched soon but we don’t know its exact date. HTC might release it at the September 15th event. This phone is going to be covered by T-Mobile and it will be a 4G handset. But don’t expect the 21 MBPS speed that are often advertised. These speeds are theoretical; they are limited to WebConnect Rocket data cards and not actual handsets. HTC has been dangling this phone as a carrot since  [...]

Touchscreen technology is here and there are reports that it will be incorporated in computers pretty soon. It is already here on the iPad and the recently launched Dell Streak. People say that the mouse is going to die because touch screen is a much better way to communicate with the computer. But we think otherwise; mouse is certainly going nowhere. Remember that if you are using a mouse, you are not touching the screen and hence your view is not blocked. When you are using the touch screen, the view is blocked because your finger covers the screen. Accuracy is also a matter of concern on the touch screen devices. There are capacitive touch screens which offer better accuracy as compared to the resistive ones but it still cannot replace the slim mouse pointer. If the two items are placed really close to each other on the touchscreen, you might accidentally end up touching something else. This cannot happen with a traditional mouse since its pointer is really small it is almost impossible  [...]

There have been rumors floating around that Nintendo was going to come out with the 3DS and they have come true now. Nintendo President Saturo Iwata officially announced the first ever 3D gaming console at the E3 press conference held by the company. In terms of looks, this new product is quite similar to the DSi but there are some new features like three and half inch 3D screen on the upper half and a standard touch screen at the bottom. On the touch screen's left, you have the analog 'slide button' which can be used a joystick and the standard D-pad is also there. The manufacturer did not reveal the technology behind the 3D feature but the president said that you can adjust the depth of 3D by adjusting the slider. You can tune it according to your personal preference. There have been lots of graphical changes in the Nintendo 3DS, the president showed all this in the conference. There is a camera above the upper screen and on  [...]

Qantas subsidiary and Australian discount carrier Jetstar said that they will be introducing iPad into their planes as an in flight entertainment solution. The trials for this will start from June for domestic flights and the company is later planning to make this feature available on all international and domestic flights later in this year. It is not free of cost though, you have to pay a rental fee of $10. Jetstar says that they are one of the first airlines to bring iPads as an inflight entertainment solution. The company is starting with Australian domestic flights first. Using iPad while you are in the flight is really cool, you can use it to access CDs, games, music videos, eBooks, TV programs, movies and lots of exciting stuff. Bruce Buchanan, Chief Executive Office of Jetstar said that they are expecting a rise in ticket sales with the introduction of this service. He also said that the company is looking to enhance user experience with this. Low  [...]

New York. April 12, 2010. Adobe System has finally announced to launch its Creative Suite 5 in May 2010. Not only the Photoshop 5 automatically corrects the lens distortion, but it also straightens the lines in fish-eye shot. In addition, you can also fixes vignetting and the chromatic aberration. The Adobe Photoshop 5 has high-end features for the professional broader designer, and photographers. The Automatic lens correction is based on the Adobe’s testing and close measurements of the camera, especially on their lens kits versions. The Photoshop 5 will ease the barrel and pin-cushioning distortion removal, chromatic aberration for colored fringes along the edges and vignetting the darken corners. You can also create the basic profiles, show their results and share them on the Internet. Adobe has improved the support for (HDR) high-dynamic range photography that allows combining the images of different exposures to produce the required appearance of the composite. As per Adobe,  [...]

The researches from Information Warfare Foundation Monitor and Shadow Server Foundation, United States including Nart Villeneuve and Ron Deibert have released a report – “SHADOWS IN THE CLOUD: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0” on April 6, 2010. They have uncovered a spy network that not only hacked the official Web sites of the United Nations, Dalai Lama office, and of Indian government, but also stole the important, sensitive and classified information. The team also includes researchers from Citizen Lab at University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affaris and the SecDev Group (Ottawa based consultancy). They have published a report namely. It indicates the evidences of links between Shadow network, two people from Chengdu (China) and an underground hacking community. The report highlights that they do not have any evidence about the involvement of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and their government departments in Shadow Network. However, they continued to determine  [...]