Acer’s new windows 8 based tablets

Acer unveils its two new products  Acer ICONIA W510 and Acer ICONIA W700 which run on Microsoft’s  Wndows 8 operating system.

The ICONIA W510 comes with an attachable keyboard which converts the tablet into a clamshell notebook or flips back to become a presentation device. Acer calls this flexibility “tri-mode, allowing users to touch, type and view”. The keyboard / dock also has its own battery and will extend the battery life of the whole unit up to 18 hours. The ICONIA W510 has a 10.1” IPS touchscreen.

The ICONIA W700 is an 11.6” full HD screen tablet with “Dolby® Home Theater® for multimedia pleasure”. Acer says this is a Windows 8 tablet designed for optimum performance. The ICONIA W700 has a multipurpose cradle allowing the tablet to be connected in landscape or portrait orientations and at angles optimised for viewing or for touch interaction. Users will have to source their own keyboard for use with the W700 as there isn’t one as part of the package. The price of the ICONIA W700 is set to be in the range of $800 to $1000 USD.

HP's Business Oriented Touch Enabled All-In-One PC

Hey, just think about touch-enabled computers to your showroom, or setting up a touch-interactive menu for your customers to browse food and drink items?If we use touchsmart PCs in our business it will have lots of uses.......

Building on the success of the recent HP TouchSmart PC for the home, HP today introduced the market’s first all-in-one, touch-enabled desktop PC for businesses.HP's new range of All-in-One PCs combine the monitor and CPU and the result is a powerful, sleek and elegant desktop.It is priced at Rs 59,990 onwards.It features multi-touch technology, including gestures such as pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag, enabling users to move, modify and share all digital content with natural and intuitive movements.

The HP TouchSmart for business is pre-loaded with Windows Vista® Business 64, a powerful Intel® Core 2™ Duo P8400 processor, 4 gigabytes (GB) of memory, a 320 GB high-speed hard drive and a Virtual LAN (VLAN) driver.

Its 22-inch diagonal high-definition, widescreen HP BrightView LCD display tilts up or down for maximum viewing. Customers can watch and create CDs and DVDs with the PC’s built-in slot-load SuperMulti DVD drive and enjoy high-quality sound through integrated premium stereo speakers. The system’s integrated five-in-one Media Card Reader lets users easily transfer photos, files and videos to their computer from various types of memory cards.

The HP dx9000 TouchSmart Business PC is expected to be available in North America in February.

YouTube introduces its new automatic captions for deaf people

We know that Google is YouTube's parent company.Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site.Currently YouTube offers a manual captioning service but video makers tend not to use it.

The software engineer behind this new technology, Ken Harrenstien, is deaf. "The majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me,"He wrote in the Google blog. His solution combines automatic speech recognition with the current caption system. The translation is not always perfect (in a demonstration the phrase "sim card" becomes "salmon" in text), but Mr Harrenstien says that the technology "will continue to improve with time". Alternatively users can upload a transcript of their video and auto-timing algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken.

The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels. These include National Geographic, Columbia, as well as most Google and YouTube channels.

Wanna know the features of new BlackBerry Curve 8520???

This lightweight (only 106 g) smart phone with its glossy finish and touch-sensitive trackpad makes scrolling smooth (mind your fingers, at times it becomes difficult to keep a tab on the navigation keys and the QWERTY keypad) for an easy navigation experience.

With a music player capable of playing major formats of audio files, decent sound quality and dedicated music keys, this surely is one helluva music machine. Even though it has a killer combo of style and functionality, its battery back up of 4.5 hrs is quite a disappointment.

It comes for Rs 15,990 and works only on an Airtel network.

Blackberry curve 8520 is available online

The dimensions of this QWERTY smart phone are 2.4” x 4.3” x 0.5” and it weighs 3.8 ounces. It offers 4.5 hours of talk time.It facilitates a 2 megapixel camera with video capabilities.It also features MP3 player and sterio bluetooth wireless technology that allows users to connect their phone to computer or stereo headset without any wires.

The Curve is packaged along with a battery charger, stereo hands-free headset, a USB Cable, BlackBerry desktop software and 1GB SD Card. It can be purchased for $129.99.

ASUS' new Eee PC seashell sreies is available in India now.

ASUS, the company that pioneered the netbook category, announced today the launch of the Eee PC Seashell Series in the Indian market.It sport the Super Hybrid Engine that intelligently monitors the programs in use and adjusts the power supply with performance to provide an optimal power saving solution.

NIKON'S D300 AND D3000

Nikon(a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo) announced its two new D.S.L.R(Digital single-lens reflex camera -- is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera)models.
The D300s has many of the same specs as its predecessor — identical resolution and image sensor, 51 autofocus points and Live View — but it adds the ability to capture video in AVI format at a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 frames per second. It also includes an input for an optional stereo microphone.
Nikon D300 Nikon D3000 is a 10.2 mega pixel camera.It includes a new Guide feature that aims to help novice D.S.L.R. users by explaining camera settings and digital photography basics and providing an on-screen demonstrations of how they affect images.

Nikon D3000