The First-ever Indian Intel-powered Cellular Device is now being sold in India

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Technology - Permalink

Fairly recently they proclaimed that the one and only Indian Intel-based cell phone would be released in India. Don’t go crazy about the word Intel in there. People are headlining it to be the very first Intel smartphone. That’s not right. Before now, Blackberry and Nokia have used Intel in their phones, but supposedly it is a new thing in India. The smartphone is called the XOLO X900 and is made by Lava, an Indian manufacturer. The phone is tricked out with some decent specifications, including an eight megapixel camera, a 4.03 inch display, 3G capability, and 1080p HD video playback. Along with the Lava XOLO X900 being sold in India on April 23, the BlackBerry Curve 9330 is to be unleashed into the Indian phone market. The BlackBerry, similar to the XOLO X900 isn’t decked with cool gadgets and wild specs, but it comes with some useful social networking capabilities. Apparently RIM is after the younger population of smartphone users with this particular device. We don’t know if the Lava XOLO X900 will be subsidized for users jumping into larger agreements with service providers. The device is priced to cost about 22,000 rupees, which converts into approximately $424.

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Facebook IPO is Looking to Happen Soon — In May

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Business - Permalink

Serious? You aren’t on Facebook? Only joking, that’d be crazy. The actual thing you might not have heard of is an IPO. “IPO” is just Initial Public Offering; you know, like on the stock market. Citing a number of different people near to the company, a well-known tech forum said that Facebook officials designated May 17 as the date to launch their exciting initial public offering. knowing that, a different rep in San Jose Mercury News told us the actual date isn’t set in stone and could easily switch to be a few days earlier or later than that. The social network giant’s IPO may be the most looked forward to tech stock debut in at roughly ten years. Facebook, started in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm room, is looking to raise $5 billion in this offering. The largest IPO so far for an Internet company is $1.9 billion, that business being Google in 2004. While this appears to be quite an exciting event, there are a lot of people who are wondering about how this IPO will go down. Facebook will probably have a good IPO, but from then on it’s tough to know what will happen. Some of the most anticipated and latest IPOs for big technology companies like Zynga have really gone a bit sour. It will be entertaining to see how Facebook fairs. One exciting idea is that it will probably be a great boost for Silicon Valley. Several of the Facebook people will probably take their wealth and create some cool new startups.

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Tapping into Asteroids is Appearing to be a Plausible Idea for Some Companies

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Science - Permalink

What do two Google Inc executives and Avatar-man James Cameron have in common? Besides bringing in some serious cash, they are all among the many who are funding a venture to potentially mine some precious, rare, and valuable metals from some near-earth asteroids. It looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie or magazine, but it is a legitimate idea that is coming to reality.Planetary Resources, a company located in Washington, will center its focus at producing cheap (but still expensive) robots to launch on surveying projects to asteroids hurling near Earth. The first of these trips will be a easy demonstration flyby around Earth; this mission is anticipated to be launched within the next two years, according to Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson.Like the Ansari X Prize competition, the aim of Planetary Resources is to start deep-space exploration to the private sector. The Ansari X Prize was earned by Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne nearly 10 years ago for completing the first flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere by a manned and privately produced spacecraft. Commercial space trips, as many other blog sites are announcing, are anticipated to start this next year. The first buyers of Planetary Resources are likely going to be top-notch science agencies like NASA, as well as private research institutes. Surprisingly, within the next ten years the company believes they may position observation platforms around Earth. They are going to dive into some of the thousands of asteroids that come relatively close to Earth. The goal? To get precious rocks. Some think it will just make the affluent people more wealthy while the rest of us get to see it in the news.

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