World’s largest online retailer and leading e-reader seller, Amazon.com has launched an ultra cheap, wireless-only Kindle on Wednesday. The Kindle “New Generation” is available in different versions including a 3G ($ 189) and a Wi-Fi ($ 139). Version lacks 3G connection is available for only $ 139, while the 3G model is $ 189.
The new Kindle features an electronic-ink screen in a 21% smaller and 15% lighter design, 50% better contrast and 20% faster page turns.
“Kindle is the best-selling product on Amazon for two years running,” says Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com. The sales growth tripled as they lowered the price to $189. They are now excited to launch a new generation Kindle which is smaller, lighter, faster and with 50% better contrast.
“If you don’t need the convenience of 3G wireless, we have an incredible new price point–$139 for Kindle Wi-Fi. Kindle Wi-Fi has all the same features, same bookstore, same high-contrast electronic paper display, and it’s even a tiny bit lighter at 8.5 ounces. ”
“This is the third generation of Kindle and we will have a 4th generation, a 5th generation, a 10th generation and a 20th generation. We will be working the whole time to perfect the purpose-built reading device,” Bezos said.
With a screen diagonal of 15 cm, a thickness of 8.5 mm and weighing 246 g, this new Kindle takes the opposite view of the great DX. Its aim is therefore to be carried around.
Technically, the camera memory has been doubled to 4GB, says Amazon. The screen has also been enhanced. Even if the technology remains one of the electronic ink, which by nature has a much higher resolution than LCD panels and OLED, it should behave better in a bright environment: That is, reading in the sun should not be a problem.
30
2010
Amazon introduces Wi-Fi Kindle @ $139
30
2010
Facebook defers IPO until 2012
The largest social network, Facebook is likely to defer its initial public offering, IPO until 2012 to scale up the company, including the number of users and revenues, reported Bloomberg referring to informed sources.
Another year of growth will benefit the company image in the run-up to IPO, even if the pace is slow. In addition, the founder and current Director General Facebook 26-year old Mark Zuckerberg will call for extra time to brace oneself for work in conditions of liability to shareholders, experts say. Previously it was assumed that Facebook will be released to the stock exchange in 2011.
Mark Zuckerberg said, “At some point along the path, I think it’ll make sense to have an IPO. But we’re not running the company to do that. We’re running the company to serve more people.”
30
2010
RIM may possibly bring Blackpad
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian Phone maker has registered a new domain, blackpad.com, which suggests the next launch of a tablet. Although everything is wrapped in the thick fog of rumors but taking control of the domain name gives us a hint that the next tablet device which will compete with Apple’s iPad would be ‘Blackpad” as the domain name suggests.
Balckpad will be a tablet with a seven inch display with ARM processor, 3G embedded and with dual cameras.
Officially, there is still no confirmation on this. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that RIM was planning a Tablet PC, which takes on a BlackBerry smartphone connects to the Internet and therefore acts only as an accessory for business phones.
Meanwhile if you go to your browser window visiting Blackpad.com, you will see a blank page.
Specification on price or of the launch date has not yet been specified.
30
2010
918 Spyder Hybrid Price, features and information on production details
918 spyder hybrid with truly outstanding design and high-tech motorsport achievements :Beverly Hills Porsche is glad to inform the whole world about Porsche 918 Spyder. The car has no more as a concept because it got green light for development and production. Porsche confirmed its intentions to turn this concept car into reality as a super car. Early guess about Porsche 918 spyder is that it will be priced at around $630,000.The company will disclose more details on its production in near future.
Here are the features of the car 918 spyder Hybrid :
The 918 Spyder will be equipped with a plug-in hybrid power-train
The power train t consists of two electric motors located on the front and rear axle with a combined output of 218 HP and a 3.4L V8 gasoline engine which is mid-mounted and could develop 500 HP.
The car will have estimated total power output of 718 HP
The hybrid power-train in the Porsche 918 should be able to sprint from 0 to 62 MPH in just 3.2 seconds and it could reach a top speed of 198 MPH. Porsche claims this hybrid super-car will return a fuel consumption of 78 mpg with a CO2 emissions level of just 79 g/km.
Here is the content of Official Press release from the company
“In its session today, the Supervisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, gave the green light for series development of the Porsche 918 Spyder. Reflecting the overwhelming response from the public and customers to the Concept Study, the Supervisory Board gave Porsche’s Board of Management the mission to develop a production model based on the car already presented. This concept version of an ultra-high-performance mid-engined sports car with plug-in hybrid technology made its debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show and at Auto China in Bejing, hitting the headlines worldwide. Michael Macht, President and Chairman of the Board of Management of Porsche AG: “Production of the 918 Spyder in a limited series proves that we are taking the right approach with Porsche Intelligent Performance featuring the combination of supreme performance and efficient drivetrain concepts. We will develop the 918 Spyder in Weissach and assemble it in Zuffenhausen. This is also a very important commitment to Germany as a manufacturing base.” The Concept Study of the 918 Spyder allows CO2 emissions of just 70 g/km, corresponding to fuel consumption of 3.0 litre/100 km (94.1 mpg imp) in the NEDC, on the one hand, and the performance of a super-sports car, on the other. This extremely efficient drivetrain technology then forms a symbiosis in the 918 Spyder with truly outstanding design and high-tech motorsport achievements. Further product details of the 918 Spyder will be disclosed in the months to come.”
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30
2010
New Wi-Fi Kindle for USD 139 expected to sell millions
New Kindle Wi-Fi has been announced that Amazon will sell at the unit price of U.S. $ 139 U.S.Amazon does not provide sales forecasts for the new Kindle, but said last week the market has tripled after the price reduction from the previous version.
“With this price level, we are beginning to have enough evidence to say that this is a mass product,” said chief executive Jeff Bezos said in an interview.
He said the sales success of the Amazon Kindle has allowed lower prices even as competitors entered the market. “We sell millions of Kindles the previous generation, and this version will sell millions,” he said. The devices, which are available for pre-order will be sent from Aug. 27
Amazon has improved the contrast of the screen of his new Kindles, but the size of 6 inches remains the same.The pages also saw faster and about 3,500 books can be stored, double the previous version. Both models have a month of battery life.
The Forrester analyst at technology reserch firm, James McQuivey said he did not expect a new Kindle before the end of the year.”This suggests that Amazon is serious when it says ” it came into this market to stay”.
30
2010
iPhone news 2.0 portal! Submit your news today
The iPhone World recently announced the launch of new site section named as My News @ iPhone World. You can catch My News @ iPhone World – http://mynews.iphoneworld.ca ,It allows iPhone World readers/ corporate world and journalists to submit their own news stories / press releases to share with other visitors and the editorial staff.
The idea is behind this project is quite simple: My News @ iPhone World gives the readers a chance to submit their own news articles ( more over there is no need to register on the site one can submit he stories directly) One can say it’s a hassle free site offering what people are looking for.
A modern way of journalism to reach more people:-
On this site It does not matter whether you submit an article from a third party site, a press release site or some news from your own blog or website. As long as you’ve submitted a genuine news article that could be of interest to other readers it will be approved for posting and everyone can grasp the content by visiting onto the site. The approved article will get placement at My News @ iPhone World, and chances are that we might link to it as well from the main page of www.iphoneworld.ca . The whole project is currently in beta stage so it might be possible that users will face problems in accessing few features of the site
In that case, simply leave a comment on to the site with the exact error report so that the portal admin could fix it. Here is the link
29
2010
Phytoplankton declining in oceans due to global warming
The phytoplanktons are declining at a rate of 1% per year as a result of rising temperatures of water bodies. The research was written in the journal Nature by scientist who made their finding by looking at records of the transparency of sea water. The transparency reduces by the presence of planktons.
In a first of kinds study to note the global changes over a long time frame the scientist made these observations. These very tiny marine beings form the first part in the food chain. A typical marine food chain proceeds as phytoplankton – zooplankton – tiny marine animals – which are prey for small fish and then other larger animals. Thus even a small decrease in the number of these tiny species is a cause of great concern as it may disrupt the food chain and eventually the ecological balance.
Even though various substances in the water can reduce its transparency but one the main ones is the concentration of chlorophyll. This is the green pigment that is key to photosynthesis in plants at sea and on land and is also present in the phytoplankton that cover most of the surface of the oceans.
The global study took three years to finish and were done taking the help of satellite measurements to find out the color of the oceans. The higher quality data available since 1950 using earlier shipboard analysis of water samples and recently the images from satellites the team has calculated that since that time, the world has seen a phytoplankton decline of about 40%.
Even though most of the regions around the world show a decline in the population of planktons, the results are not steady. There are exceptions where the population has on the contrary increased. One of such regions is the Indian ocean. Increases are also seen in the coastal zones where fertiliser run-off from agricultural land is increasing nutrient supplies and hence fuelling the increase in their population. The growth of planktons is directly correlated to the temperatures of the water. The warmer ends of water cycles co-incide with a reduction in plankton growth, while abundance is seen higher in the colder regions of water.
Another factor affecting the population of these marine animals can be the huge expansion in open-ocean fishing that has taken place over the century.
Head of the marine programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Carl-Gustaf Lundin, said “Logically you would expect that as fishing has gone up, the amount of zooplankton would have risen – and that should have led to a decline in phytoplankton,”
Whatever the reasons be the presence of these is very essential for the marine ecology. They keeps the oxygen balance of oceans as well, because Photosynthesis by phytoplankton removes carbon dioxide from the air and produces oxygen.
The decrease in their numbers could also further accelerate the warming of temperatures.
29
2010
Now 15 minutes of video upload on YouTube
It is time for the video makers to rejoice. YouTube has officially announced that the user can now post videos for up to 15 minutes. Increase in the limit was the most sought after feature that users had requested. YouTube says users who had formerly uploaded content that was too long will have to delete it and then upload it again.
YouTube is already involved in a collaborative production project with the film Life in a Day, has invited users to create a video on “15 minutes of fame.” With instructions: “Imagine that this video is the only thing that the world will know you, what would you communicate? The deadline for publishing these videos, which will be identified by tag “yt15minutes” has been set for Wednesday, August 4, or next week. These would then be selected and their 15 minutes of fame will be featured on YouTube homepage in a future foreground.
YouTube was launched in 2005 and since then it had the 10-minute limit. People must be thinking about this change. Why now? Joshua Siegel, Product Manager, explains in the blogpost, “we’ve spent significant resources on creating and improving our state-of-the-art Content ID system and many other powerful tools for copyright owners. Now, all of the major U.S. movie studios, music labels and over 1,000 other global partners use Content ID to manage their content on YouTube. Because of the success of these ongoing technological efforts, we are able to increase the upload limit today.”
So go ahead and have a happy uploading of whooping 15 minutes!
29
2010
RIM BlackBerry 9800 on cards with RIM BlackBerry OS 6
Experts believe the official launch of BlackBerry is due in the next six calendar weeks , reports Reuters. The expectation is that RIM and AT & T USA will bring the new device BlackBerry 9800 in the first week of August month The device includes new surface . The BlackBerry 9800 is also features an improved web browser, and a retractable keyboard. During the last year course Rim is losing its market share as android and iPhone are what people are longing for. The company is trying to prove to its critics that the situation was quite obvious to bring the new device into the market to erase previous criticism and to retain the company’s goodwill. Previous criticisms were of the slow Internet browser, the Application Store, and the retrograde touchscreen technology. BlackBerry 9800 whose debut is imminent, it will be a device similar in appearance and “feeling” to the traditional mobile devices RIM, were it not for the presence of a physical keyboard to scroll. Equipped with a touchscreen, the device will offer 4GB of internal memory and a 5 megapixel camera.
On Wednesday, RIM’s share price rose by around 4.5 percent, analysts expect a new Blackberry device by mid-August at the North American market. The BlackBerry 9800 should provide an opportunity to present the long-awaited RIM BlackBerry OS 6. The new operating system relies on a mix between the simplicity of the iPhone and the functions of Android and among the new features a redesigned home screen, universal search, a new music player and integration with major social networks.