Samsung’s Bada 2.0 is now live along with Bada 2.0 SDK

Samsung’s very own OS, Bada has now been finally graduated to version 2.0. The company had announced the development long time back and now it is finally out for the public. The SDK (Software Development Kit) has also been launched for developers.

The main highlights of the new OS includes better multitasking, new UI 2.0, support for NFC and Inter-Application communication, speech-to-text and text-to-speech, Open AL (Audio Library), in-app ads, HTML 5, push notifications and much more. The new OS will also be supporting three different screen resolutions: WVGA [480x800], HVGA [320x480] and WQVGA [240x400]. This means that we can expect new Bada phones to be out soon with the new update and higher screen resolutions.

Sony’s tablets get official name tags

Sony had announced its entry into the tablet market with two uniquely shaped tablets, namely the S1 and the S2. Well now they have new names, the S1 is now the Sony Tablet S and the clamshell designed S2 is being called the Sony Tablet P.

As for the specs go, the ‘S’ will come in a Wi-Fi only version and will have both 16GB and 32GB versions with Android 3.2 installed. It will be powered by a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, will have a front-facing 0.3MP camera and 1GB of RAM.

The dual-screened Sony Tablet P will have the same Tegra 2 processor with 512MB of RAM and will run Android 3.2 Other features include a front-facing 0.3MP, 4G, and Wi-Fi. It will come in 16GB and 32GB versions.

Like Angry Birds? Try New ‘Angry Anna’ Game

To the millions of fans of Angry Birds, there comes a new game ‘Angry Anna‘. The game is inspired by the Anti-corruption movement taken up by legend Anna Hazare. You will be hitting the politicians (labelled as corrupt) by Anna Hazare and his team. You get 3 chances to clear a level much like Angry Birds.

The game is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac for installation. You can any time play the game using the browser at angryanna.com.

The game is listed at Gamesalad.

I tried playing the game and liked it. The graphics is fine and I liked the flow too. The game but seems more of a copy of Angry Birds than anything innovative, other than linking it to the current anti-corruption movement.

This is a huge applause for Anna Hazare and team. If the game succeeds, it will create a history for Indian Mobile/Online Gaming space, and take Anna to new heights, which is highly deserved.

Good luck for the team.

You may want to play the game and share your thoughts here as comments. Would love to know what you feel.

Google gets started with Southeast Asia Expansion, opens an Office in Thailand

We recently reported that Google is eyeing Southeast Asia for expansion. The search-engine giant has now taken a major step towards this goal by opening an office in Thailand, according to The Nation.

Google has appointed Ariya Banomyong, former Chief Commercial Officer of True Corporation’s Convergence as its first country manager for Thailand. Ariya will oversee Google’s sales and business-development operations in this country.

The search engine giant hosts a variety of Internet-based services and products and generates revenue mainly from advertising. The company is planning to encourage local businesses to go online successfully, and to increase online-advertising spending in the Thai market from the current level of only 0.3 per cent of total advertising spending to a level closer to that in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, which have online-advertising spending of 30 to 50 per cent.

“The number of mobile-Internet users in Thailand is expanding rapidly, having grown three-fold in 2009 and 2010 to represent about 40 per cent of all Internet users. Every day, three out of every five Thai smartphone users employ a search service. This figure is higher than that in many developed countries, including the US, the UK, Germany and Australia. And the most important key word of these mobile searches is restaurant. Through their search behavior, these people are obviously telling us what products and services they are looking for. Our mission is to help businesses to utilize and benefit from this searching,” Ariya stated.

Thailand has around 25 million Internet users, and about 40 per cent of these users access the Internet via mobile devices. Of all the counties in Southeast Asia, Thailand has the highest number of searches – 55 million per day. This makes the country a potential market for Google in Asia.

Which Is The Best Browser: IE8, Chrome, Safari Or Firefox 3.1?

There are continuous changes and progresses in everything especially the technical zone. Net is one of the fastest paced areas that undergo changes pretty soon than any other.

People all around the world use it and want to see changes and developments bringing speed and performance efficiency better ever than before.

Many leading net browsers are available today to surf the net world with utmost efficiency. Now let us see which one of the leading, most widely used web browser is highly acclaimed and why! Different browsers are made keeping different items on priority lists. Hence they hold their separate positions and standings gathering unique liking levels amongst users.


The most successful browser can be the one which has more features that attract most of the users and make them stick to that even with the change in versions. Amongst Firefox, Chrome, IE and Safari, let us compare, contrast and evaluate the best.

Google Dominates Web Search In The US

According to recent statistics even through mobile web searches, Google has been the dominant medium of search used throughout US. Mobile web search trends have only gone higher in recent times. Google has been taking a commanding lead in mobile searches too since its mobile web search launch.

The statistics according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report confirms this. About 9% of the pages viewed via mobile, Google’s search portal have repeatedly come to be popular over Yahoo and Bing. These two sites only get 4.3% and 0.03% of the hits among the other search engine pages viewed.


Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report works on to bring monthly publications about mobile search statistics in great details. They also bring you information on the best of global trends that have been influencing mobile internet in recent times. They also highlight statistics and profiles in Middle East. Their reports have concluded that in January 2010 about 50 million people have been using Opera Mini. This has been a 7.4% increase since December the previous year.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410 – A Review

The new Lenovo ThinkPad T410 is the very latest in its range of business notebooks. This 14.1 inch laptop, with its Core i5 CPU and sleek design, promises high levels of performance. The design of this particular laptop is rather nice – the sides are angularly shaped, and there is a new stylish keyboard/LCD light layout. The system, as a result, looks not only attractive but also more modern. This laptop also promises to be more durable, because of the materials used. The lid in the chassis is made from ABS plastic and a strong carbon-fiber reinforced plastic bottom. And if you are worried about your notebook getting damaged, don’t worry as there is an internal roll cage.


This laptop weighs about 5.2 pounds, there is a standard 6-cell battery, in size and weight it’s almost equivalent to the Lenovo ThinkPad T400, but this one is different in the sense that it is more compact, and far easier to carry around. This is probably due to the tapered edges as well as the plastic bottom.

You will see the ThinkPad logo on the black rubberized screen, the shiny matte-black chassis and palm rest are also there – as with previous models, and of course, the strong and visible stainless steel screen hinges are also there. But there are more ports than with previous models, and also some new types of connections. The bottom of the laptop has also changed – there is now a user-access panel which allows you to install more RAM, or even a wireless card, without having to open up your notebook.

PayPal Will Finally Be Back In India!

Lots of people all over the country will be heaving a sigh of relief as PayPal will finally be resuming their services back in India from the 3rd of March.

Thousands of people all over the country had their transactions reversed as a result of PayPal blocking all transactions coming in and out of Indian accounts. This started happening almost three weeks back with eBay.


This event sparked massive outrage and especially so on counts of racism and many other allegations that were alleged against the corporation. Last week, further developments took place as PayPal was compelled to stop all personal transactions by the Reserve Bank of India. This was because of some issues with compliance of regulations. However, things seem to be taking a turn for the better as PayPal will probably resume their services by the third of this month, and especially their bank withdrawal functions.

There will be some new rules however and now all Indian customers will have to fill in an extra detail called “Export Code” while requesting for a withdrawal. This is being done in compliance with Indian laws concerning any form of cross border financial transactions.

Samsung Releases The Advanced Touchscreen With The Samsung Caliber (SCH-R860)

Samsung takes the cake with the advanced touchscreen which it has developed using the TouchWiz interface which is unique to Samsung. The touchscreen has several advanced features which includes certain Widgets which are specially designed so as to let users personalize them and adapt them according to their phone.

All the social networking websites like Facebook are accessible due to the phone’ s browser which is a full HTML enabled browser. There is mobile IM along with email facilities. The camera is a 3 mega pixel one and comes with a camcorder.


The Bluetooth comes with a stereo facility along with a speakerphone. The Caliber has the MetroPCS applications too. Other than these features the phone has a video and music player which is built in to the phone. The memory is expandable up to 16 GB using an external microSD.

Mozilla to Develop OS based on android!

Mozilla, who are renowned for their successful internet browser, are entering the mobile race, developing a new web-centric OS that will directly compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft.

If the name Mozilla rings any bells it's because they're the tech boffins who put together Internet Explorer, the browser that Windows defaults to. Mozilla took the leviathan computing company on with its Firefox browser, and today it stands as the second most popular browser worldwide.

Now the company who was underdog to Microsoft looks to be playing the same role, but this time against internet mogul Google.

Announced on the Mozilla discussion forum, Mozilla have begun coding for phones and tablets. The BBC revealed the mobile operating system will draw on Android code, with Mozilla writing as much fresh code as possible. The hybrid-like operating system will be named Boot To Gecko.