Fans of the Windows Phone platform have anxiously been waiting for a more affordable Window Phone 8 device to arrive. Apparently, Nokia has been working on one for some time and took many by surprise when it announced a 3.8-inch Nokia Lumia 620 at the LeWeb 2012 event in Paris.
Paul Wallich, a tech-savvy father, used to walk with his son 400 meters each morning to drop him to the bus stop. But Wallich was tired of doing this regularly. So he decided to make such a drone that will accompany his son while he goes to the bus stop, and will let Wallich track his son. Finally, Wallich has made a quadcopter. Want to know how he did that?
A Tricorder is a multifunction hand-held device used for sensor scanning, data analysis, and recording data. This type of device was first shown in Star Trek. Since long researchers have been trying to build tricorder. Now the folks at Scanadu (a Silicon Valley startup who is trying to make and plan to sell consumer-geared gadgets that, along with a smartphone, tracks vital signs like blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate) are developing handheld devices called ‘SCOUT’ that will be able to help people get in touch with their physical health.
The German city of Freiburg started using OpenOffice in 2007. The open-source solution was adapted and used in parallel with Microsoft Word. However, a few years later, the city council has voted in favor of ditching OpenOffice for its inadequate performance and the lack of concerted development of the platform.
Private browsing is a fairly important feature in modern-day web browsers. Whereas the likes of Google Chrome allow regular browsing and private browsing side by side, you can’t avail a similar setting in Mozilla Firefox apparently due to a bug. Now, the Mozilla team intends to fix this bug with the upcoming release of Firefox 20 in 2013.
Google has been able to beat Apple in terms of volume. Android sales have far outdone iPhone sales by a significant margin. However, despite this, the mobile web traffic generated by Android devices is a lot lower than that of iOS devices, a revelation made by IBM through Black Friday data.
Now that we are done with Black Friday, there is one other spending extravaganza this year – the Cyber Monday. And a number of tech companies are pitching in with their best deals for the day. Not surprisingly, Amazon Wireless is offering HTC 8X for a mere $14.99 until this Monday lasts.
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Apple iOS allows you to transfer playlists to iTunes, installed on your Mac or Windows PC. This tutorial will guide you through the steps.