World's Cheapest Tablet @ $35 (Rs.1750) For Students Released By Indian Government!

Do you remember Sakshat, a $35 Tablet to be released by Indian Government? Well, Union Ministry for Human Resource Development today officially unveiled Aakash Android tablet, which is also known as $35 tablet. Previously, Government named this tablet as "Sakshat" and it was manufactured by HCL. But the tablet released today by government is not that tablet, its Aakash by Datawind. Its specifactions are also changed with its name. This tablet has been developed and manufactured by Datawind in association with IIT Rajasthan and NME-ICT.

Rumors: Android "Jelly Bean" comes after Ice Cream Sandwich!

Starting with Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich, the rumors are on the way that next update of android will be 'Jelly Bean'. If you look at code name of previous versions of android, all are in alphabetical order. Google had announced its plans for the next update of Android which is called Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and that the company will be launching it by Q4 this year. Well, now the name of the successor for ICS is already out and is making news. The new update will probably be called Jelly Bean, however the name or the version number has not been confirmed by Google as of yet.

London Olympics 2012 to be broadcast live in 3D

Olympic organisers and technology company Panasonic announced that London Olympic Games 2012 will be the first sporting event to be broadcast live in 3D. At the IFA technology conference in Berlin, Olympic broadcasting services managing director Manolo Romero said the plan was to distribute more than 10 hours of 3D Games footage around the world every day. The opening and closing ceremonies will be broadcast in 3D, as will more than 12 sports, Romero said. "Under this partnership we are assembling a pool of broadcasters that will provide this 3D coverage, the first in Olympic history, to viewers around the world," Romero said. "This is an important step in the history of broadcasting technology."

Scientists create world's smallest computer

Scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest computer system that is just one square millimetre in size and can fit into one's eyeball. Developed by a team at the University of Michigan, the unnamed tiny device is a pressure monitor that can be implanted in a person's eye to treat glaucoma. It may be just one square millimetre in size but it packs a hefty punch, containing an ultra low-power microprocessor, a pressure sensor, memory and a thin film battery, the Daily Mail reported.

It also has a solar cell and a wireless radio with an antenna that can transmit data to an external reader device, the researchers said. The device is already being touted as the future of the computing industry, although it needs several more years to be commercially available. Its creators -- Professors Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw and David Wentzloff -- claim that as the device's radio needs no tuning to find the right frequency it could link to a wireless network of computers.

IBM unveils a chip that mimic human brains!

IBM Research has unveiled a prototype of a computing chip that can mimics human brains. Computers with processors that mimic the human brain's cognition, perception, and action abilities are a lot closer than they've ever been after IBM on Wednesday unveiled the first generation of chips that will power them. This experiment is a part of the cognitive computing initiative.

In correlation to its multi-year cognitive computing initiative, IBM is implementing the guiding principles of nanoscience, neuroscience and supercomputing. According to an IBM press release, researchers have created the first neurosynaptic computing chips that recreate the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems (brain) by utilizing advanced algorithm and silicon circuitry.

Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion

Yesterday earlier, Google announced that they are acquiring Motorola Mobility, the handset maker's mobile phone division for a sum of $12.5 billion. Google is now going directly into the hardware business in a very serious fashion, and into direct competition with licensees of its Android operating system. But Google also said it wants to acquire Motorola Mobility to defend against patent lawsuits levied by its competitors.

Google will pay $40 per share in cash – a premium of 63% over the stock's trading price yesterday morning. As of yesterday morning, Motorola Mobility's stock was trading at $38.21 a share on the New York Stock Exchange.

Airtel launches 3G services in Gujarat

Bharti Airtel launched its 3G services in Gujarat. By this move Airtel’s 66 lakhs plus customers across the state will be able to enjoy a host of exciting 3G services including superfast mobile internet access, Mobile TV, video streaming, video calling, social networking on-the-go, high definition gaming etc.

Google Translate is Now Supporting Five New Indian Languages

Exploring its services, Google has included five new Indian languages to its translation service. Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Earlier to this Google Language Translation supports Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam & Punjabi. Currently Google translate supports 63 different languages.

Sakshat - a $35 tablet to be released later this month

Do you remember a $35 tablet announced by government of India for students and teachers in colleges and Universities. As per the latest reports, the tablet which has been named as “Sakshat” will be released later this month (actual dates are not known yet).

Indian Government announced a Rs.1,500 ($30) laptop / Tablet PC for students and teachers in colleges and Universities. The device is currently not available for sale in the market as government has decided to launch it for students in later this month. Sakshat is a result of a project undertaken by IISc (the Indian Institute of Science) and 4 IIT’s (Indian Institute of Technology). The objective of the project is to bridge the divide of digital gap amongst the students in India.

Download Internet Download Manager (IDM) v6.06 Beta and Patches

Internet Download Manager (IDM) v6.06 beta has been released. IDM offers advanced browser integration with significantly amended. It also offers improved automatic interception of downloads, enhanced video stream detection in Chrome, Opera and in other browsers which were integrated with network driver.

iPhone 4 launched in India!

After 11 months of International launch, finally Apple iPhone 4 lands to Indian markets. Airtel and Aircel have finally announced the launch of Apple iPhone 4 in India. However it is not clear that when the next iPhone is coming so it is hard to say how bad the timing of this launch is.

In any case, the launch probably showcases some maturity in the Indian mobile market. Both airtel and Aircel are offering something the market calls reverse subsidy on the iPhone 4.

Google confirms Street View is coming to India!

Google has finally confirmed that they are bringing Google Street View to India! They are going to start with the city of Bangalore. Google announced that they will begin imagery collection in Bangalore for the Street View feature in Google Maps.

Google cars and trikes will begin driving and taking street level photographs of public locations around the city. The images will be made available at a later date in Street View on Google Maps.

Ride on Delhi and Ahmedabad buses with Google Transit

Google Maps has released their one the most useful feature of Google Transit for Indian cities like Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Google Transit is a service that calculates route, transit time and cost, and can compare the trip between two locations. Google Maps is now expanding transit coverage of Indian cities, the addition of DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) and AMTS (Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services) bus services to Google Transit. These cities join Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune bus services that are already available apart from 450 cities globally.

LASER sends data at an incredible 26 terabits per second

A data transmission research team based in Germany, Switzerland and Israel has broken the record for data transmission speed from a single laser light source to send large chunks of data at an incredible 26 terabits per second. At that speed, you could transmit the whole contents of the U.S. Library of Congress at an astonishing rate of just ten seconds.

Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion

Another breaking news from the tech industry. To keep Google & Facebook away from buying Skype, Microsoft has announced that they have agreed to buy Skype from Silver Lake, the leading firm in the investor group that picked up a majority stake in Skype in 2009 for $8.5 billion.

According to the reports, Ballmer will now head Skype directly. Once the merger is complete, Microsoft plans to add Skype support to its Xbox and Kinect gaming devices and Windows Phone mobile operating system.

Researchers develop PaperPhone which is a Flexible Smart Phone

A new prototype has been developed by researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and Arizona State University which features advanced thin-film technology that allows it to be thin like a sheet of paper, but function as a smart phone that is operated by both touch and bending.

Now create PDF files on your Android Tablet and Smart Phone

Adobe has just released CreatePDF for Android which enables you to create a PDF on the go. The PDF creation is similar to Adobe Acrobat and this app allows you to create a PDF on any Android 2.1 and above devices, including Honeycomb. It uses Adobe’s online service for file creation, so the file creation process doesn’t actually occur on the device and Adobe says that privacy will be maintained as the service does not keep a copy of the original file or the PDF.

LG rumoured to manufacture MeeGo equipped handsets

Nokia had started the MeeGo platform project in collaboration with Intel. However, Nokia hasn’t launched even a single MeeGo device till date, and only has one rumoured handset that they might release. So where is MeeGo going? Well we have got information from Reuters that LG will be using MeeGo for their devices. LG has joined hands with ZTE and China Mobile to make a better future for the unreleased platform. "It's opening opportunities for the others to come in. Discussions are taking place. You'll see things coming out this year, pretty soon," said Valtteri Halla, a member of the technical steering group of MeeGo, told a developer conference on Friday.

The Blackberry Playbook all set for sale in the US

The Blackberry Playbook is coming to US on April 19th and we shall see the Blackberry’s very own tablet launched for purchase. The Blackberry PlayBook will first be available within North America and should roll out internationally in the near future. The costs, $499, $599 and $699 for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions (Wi-Fi version). I don’t have any confirmed dates for the launch in India, but I will post it as soon as I informed about it.

AutoCad for Android set for launch on April 20

The folks over at Autodesk have finally announced the date of April 20 for the launch of the much-anticipated (at least by engineers) Android version of AutoCAD. In addition to the date, Autodesk made sure to point out that AutoCAD for Android will be free and will have all the same features and functionality of the iOS version. Android 2.1 Eclair was listed as the minimal OS requirements, which means that over 90 percent of current Android devices should be able to run it. A full range of languages will be supported based on the language selected on your device: