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239 EXTRA magazines hits iPad app store last month - Some good free Apps too By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, June 09, 2011 :: 1:14 PM :: 594 Views :: 0 Comments :: Recently more and more free magazines are hitting the iPad and no doubt other Tablets when they eventually get going. However, I do find them intriguing as these days I just don't have the time to buy papers, and unless we have an election going on, or some disaster going on that requires my immediate attention, these free Magazines are the way to go. Read More..

iOS 5 News - Yes: No More Secrecy by Apple!- iCloud on tap at WWDC 2011 By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, June 03, 2011 :: 6:50 PM :: 580 Views :: 0 Comments :: Apple announced today that it plans to introduce the next generation of its mobile platform, iOS 5, as well as a new cloud service called iCloud at the Worldwide Developers Conference next week on Monday, June 6. This is a highly unusual move for Apple, which normally tries to keep their centre-ring announcements secret until the scheduled event. Read More..

More 3D Patent details released - This time Microsoft with a "3D Desktop Interface" By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, May 08, 2011 :: 10:03 AM :: 676 Views :: 2 Comments :: With Apple patenting number of methods in 3D environment and the talk of iPad 3 being in 3D, the a 3D desktop interface to an otherwise 2D operating system is gaining traction. This is the latest patent is coming from Microsoft, which recently received a patent for what it describes as a "method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface." In summary, this is an interface intended to help you better manage multiple tasks on your desktop. IMO it is still designed for Desktop PC and not mobile devices but, the patent suggests this could be done in a 3D environment with a floor, walls and a ceiling.  Read More..

May be I was wise for not upgrading to iPad2 and wait for 3D iPad 3! By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, May 06, 2011 :: 9:27 PM :: 618 Views :: 0 Comments :: Earlier last year I reported the sightings of lots of 3D patent submissions by Apple. The suggestion that Apple must have plans to introduce it in iOS technology is gaining traction with latest Hot Rumours by RCRWireless reporting that Hollywood is rather adept at telling compelling stories, and the latest plot to come out of the LA studios concerns Apple’s third generation tablet, already in the advanced planning stages and very much 3D, they’re told. Read More..

Intuit’s GoPayment iPad App Goes Live in US, Sadly no plan for Europe By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, April 21, 2011 :: 7:40 PM :: 733 Views :: 0 Comments :: Today InTuit announced:- GoPayment App for iPad Now Available on the App Store - and this must be exciting news for small shop owner. So with GoPayment the mobile payment app allows anyone who sells a product or service get paid on the spot by easily and quickly processing credit cards. This got me excited as I have a customer in UK that we did their web store, and would love something like this due to its low cost. Read More..

Gartner: Apple iOS will Dominate the Tablet Market Through 2015- Android closing by 2015 By Salar Golestanian @ Monday, April 11, 2011 :: 10:56 PM :: 471 Views :: 0 Comments :: This is another great Gartner's Press Release about the Tablet Market. With a difference - It is not just showing some forecast - it also giving some hard advice to the competition to what it is that they are doing wrong. The headline just says that Apple’s iOS will continue to own the majority of the worldwide media tablet through 2015, with 69 percent of media tablet OSs in 2011, and represent 47 percent of the media tablet market in 2015. Read More..

I lost my Smart Phone and I don't really miss it? Why is that? By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, April 03, 2011 :: 2:35 PM :: 491 Views :: 0 Comments :: comScore’s February mobile report  was released today, and it looks like good news for Google and to certain extend good for most providers as they mostly show increased revenue even if they are not increasing market share. Whilst all this is happening, I lost my SmartPhone over a month ago, and I am not missing it. So I am asking myself why not? It could be my age or it could be that I have been there and done it so there is no more excitement in this technology for people like me. Read More..

From Smart Phones to Smart Houses By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, March 10, 2011 :: 2:09 PM :: 488 Views :: 0 Comments :: Imagine if you could experience breathtaking home cinema DVD movies, listen to your whole music collection, watch your favourite TV programmes or just listen to the radio. All from speakers that are so discrete that your guests won't even know where they are? Read More..

Why I would not be part exchanging my much loved iPad for the all new iPad 2 By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, March 03, 2011 :: 7:52 PM :: 518 Views :: 0 Comments :: Spending a Week our Pondicherri office, and as usual - being here in India one gets sheltered from the rest of the world events. Local papers in English and yet only cover local Election news, and even Libya does not have much of a mention than on the page two of the morning paper. However, I noticed today that  Apple iPad 2 event did get a front page mention! Read More..

Verizon Motorola XOOM - The new tablet details are released By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, February 24, 2011 :: 11:59 PM :: 579 Views :: 0 Comments :: Android 3.0 Honeycomb promises to be more suited to tablets than previous versions with Dual-core processor and allowing Flash in the browser.  Android has received a whole new user interface to take advantage of the abundant screen real estate. For example, Honeycomb adds a new way to get at your apps, beyond the shortcuts and widgets that you could pin to the home screens in previous versions of the operating system. Now you can drag and drop apps into shortcut groups, which are displayed in a carousel that looks like it's rotating in 3D. Read More..

PlayStation phone unveiled by Sony as The First Gaming Phone By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, February 22, 2011 :: 10:46 PM :: 463 Views :: 0 Comments :: For the past year, my wife has been begging me to buy a new phone as she says my old phone is mostly unavailable in recent times. I have never been interested in iPhone as to play with iOS with both iPod and iPad so I do not have any need for yet another iOS device. So it is going to be either Windows Phone 7 or an Android.  And neither has convinced me enough until this week’s announcement by Sony for Xperia Play. Read More..

'Esflow' Nissan's Amazing New GT-R's Electric Car to debut in Geneva Motor Show By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, February 10, 2011 :: 11:39 PM :: 494 Views :: 0 Comments :: Back in December Nissan showed off its Leaf electric car with zero-emission technology and practicality with video of the hatchback zipping through snow and water. Nissan will use next month's Geneva motor show to display its new Esflow concept, a rear-wheel-drive two-seater that borrows drivetrain technologies from the production-ready Leaf electric hatchback. Read More..

Native Google Translate for iPhone - Closest thing yet to Star Trek Universal Translator By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, February 08, 2011 :: 10:53 PM :: 494 Views :: 0 Comments :: I am completely amazed with how good it is. I never had an Android phone to check it out before. So this is the first time I have played with this. And I just think it is an absolutely terrific app and I have to give it 5 stars for something that I would have defiantly paid £ for it, Yet it all comes free! Read More..

Sony Next-Generation Portable To Include Arm Cortex Two Quad-Core Chips By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, January 28, 2011 :: 4:49 PM :: 527 Views :: 0 Comments :: The PlayStation Meeting 2011 Sony announced specs for the Next Generation Portable. The official spec sheet Sony was just posted outlining pair of powerful quad-core processors under the hood. A quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor inside and sharing the graphics duties alongside that will be a quad-core Power VR SGX534MP4+ GPU. This is a seriously powerful engine. Read More..

Arguments For And Against 3D - Murch And Ebert Vs Coldewey By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, January 25, 2011 :: 12:49 AM :: 554 Views :: 0 Comments :: An article is making its way around the net today, a letter written to Roger Ebert by an Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer, Walter Murch, decrying a fundamental flaw in 3D filmmaking that he assures us ruins the entire idea. The author David Coldeway thinks that Roger was off the mark in this assessment. And he goes on to dispel some of the information he’s spreading via Ebert’s blog. Read More..

Motorola’s First Android Tablet to Retail for 800 USD/1000 Euro By Salar Golestanian @ Saturday, January 22, 2011 :: 9:25 PM :: 580 Views :: 0 Comments :: Today there has been leaked information Motorola Xoom Tablet by Verizon employee, the long-anticipated Android Honeycomb, will sell for $800 or around 1000 Euro which is similar to iPad pricing. In CES this year, press had access to play with the device. Read More..

Remember Apple Newton in 1990s - 15 million iPads sold in 3 quarters- Did you predict this number? By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, January 19, 2011 :: 9:09 PM :: 532 Views :: 2 Comments :: From the above number, Apple sold almost 15 million iPads last year or just about 90% of all tablets sold.  In fact now it is outselling Macs in units, and closing in on revenues.  The 7.3 million iPads sold just in the December quarter represented a 75 percent increase from the September quarter, and the $4.6 billion in revenue represented a 65 percent sequential jump. (The iPad was launched in April 2010). Read More..

Google Translate Goes Star Trek; only for earth's popular Languages By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, January 18, 2011 :: 11:52 AM :: 457 Views :: 0 Comments :: Last Year, Google launched the Translate application for Android devices, able to allow translation of text for over 50 different languages, with the results delivered using the text-to-speech function of the phone. Now Google Translate brings us closer to the dream of a Star Trek-esque Universal Translator. Read More..

Nintendo 3DS: Formal Press January 19th. The first game preview By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, January 09, 2011 :: 10:37 AM :: 480 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nintendo's newly announced 3DS handheld promises 3D imagery without the need for goggles. At CES press had a chance to play with the device behind closed doors. Nintendo asked the press not to take pictures of the screen turned on because of the near-impossibility of accurately depicting moving 3D images with 2D still photography. The first preview of the 3D games is out today. Read More..

Nintendo warns children under six not to play console in 3D as it may harm their eyesight By Salar Golestanian @ Saturday, January 01, 2011 :: 6:13 PM :: 419 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nintendo 3DS hand-held game machine which is expected to release in February in Japan, should be avoided by children less than six years old as there are health risks involved, or they need to view them in 2D mode. Japanese firm also warns players of all ages to take a break at least every 30 minutes to avoid eye fatigue. Taken from Salar Golestanian News & Blogs.< Read More..

Data centers future as cloud computing grows By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, December 22, 2010 :: 5:32 PM :: 454 Views :: 0 Comments :: As the buzz about cloud computing continues to grow, there are some questions like, is it the end of Data Centres? I have been watching the headline news on Cloud Computing and its impact on Data Centre and traditional Hosting companies.  For example, IDC thinks that data centre capacity is to shrink, because of IT consolidation and the combined response of utility/cloud computing or server virtualisation (with the need for less servers). This is attractive in the current climate, thanks to the need to cut costs and reduce duplication and overlap. The original is at Salar Golestanian Blogs. Read More..

Data centers future as cloud computing grows By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, December 21, 2010 :: 9:38 PM :: 570 Views :: 0 Comments :: As the buzz about cloud computing continues to grow, there are some questions like, is it the end of Data Centres? I have been watching the headline news on Cloud Computing and its impact on Data Centre and traditional Hosting companies.  For example, IDC thinks that data centre capacity is to shrink, because of IT consolidation and the combined response of utility/cloud computing or server virtualisation (with the need for less servers). This is attractive in the current climate, thanks to the need to cut costs and reduce duplication and overlap. Read More..

Today Google Announces Chrome OS Pilot Program, 12.1 Inch Notebook Cr-48 By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, December 07, 2010 :: 10:08 PM :: 608 Views :: 0 Comments :: I have been tracking the development of Chrome OS since it was first announced, Mainly because of my love for Open Source Projects. Chrome OS is another Google backed, open source project, so most of the details have slowly been released since it is hard to keep them secret. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..

Google Earth 6 is the next generation of realism with exciting possiblities through its API By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 05, 2010 :: 11:42 AM :: 533 Views :: 0 Comments :: Having always had a great interest in 3D technology like Second Life and having had some experience in Architecture and the CAD World a very long time ago, I regularly play with Google Earth to check out places I am going, Holiday destinations, Places of interest etc.. Therefore, any improvement from version to version and the possibilities of exposing the API to connect to other applications does intrigue me. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..

Android vs. iOS: List of “Most Desired” Smartphone Platforms the latest in numbers By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, December 01, 2010 :: 11:02 PM :: 591 Views :: 0 Comments :: Having developed 3 Apps for Apple iOS and one for Android, I have a fairly modest understanding of the technology for both platforms. Also,  being an early adaptor I have had the pleasure to have owned the first generation  iPod from day one. I ordered my iPad in UK as soon as it was released.... Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..

Are the new Internet TV devices like Google TV, Apple TV and others good enough? By Salar Golestanian @ Saturday, November 27, 2010 :: 2:09 PM :: 484 Views :: 0 Comments :: Trying to find something on what used to be called the Internet has now reached a new paradigm shift. It’s not so much that various media strategies and hardware devices have carved things up into a tangle of web.  For about 3 years now, I have been very happy with my Sky TV , if you are outside UK, it is satellite broadcast with good selection of movie channels and entertainments + all the free stuff you get over here in UK. On top of that I have a PC under my TV that is quite enough to be used so I can use BBC iPlayer, SkyPlayer.... Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..

Inside the race to hack the Microsoft Kinect By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, November 24, 2010 :: 11:55 PM :: 440 Views :: 0 Comments :: Over a million people bought one of Microsoft's Kinect game controllers in the 10 days after its US launch on 4 November. Most eager customers rushed home, plugged it into their Xbox console and began experiencing a whole new type of gaming – one in which keyboards, mice and multi-button control pads are no longer needed. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..