Gadget: iPhone coming to Verizon this Tuesday?

Ever since Apple launched iPhone in 2007, it has been exclusive with AT&T and it has proved to be both good and bad for AT&T. While the iPhone brought in lot of customers initially, it also clogged the bandwidth and forced AT&T to improve their network in some major cities.

Business: Amazon to sell Android Apps

AppStores are the gateway to the mobile market in Mobile Devices and Tablets giving users access to applications on the devices they own. The different applications both free and paid available for the variety of devices across different platforms, solve the varying needs of all kinds of consumers.

Gadgets: GE announces cameras... Really?

General Electric has announced its line up of Cameras today in CES 2011. GE is not new to this segment, but it is no where near being a player in this market. Canon just announced its lineup and it has further lowered its entry level point and shoot price point to less than $100 (Canon Source). At this rate, even though the pricing from GE is sounding competitive, its features and performance is going to find it hard to make any impact.

Article: Move over Smartphones, "Mobile Devices" are here

Motorola DynaTAC, 1983

Mobile phones have come a long way since Motorola released the first phone in 1983, after 15 years of development and spending over $100 million for it. The phone was introduced for almost $4000, but with the primary intent of calling people. Things have evolved significantly and far more rapidly in the 90's and more so in the last couple of years.

Business: Skype acquires Qik, extends its Android presence

Skype gave a New Year gift for iPhone users, by allowing two way video-calling from its iPhone application. This application was available even for iPhone 3GS users and was not limited to Wi-Fi usage alone. Though the feature provided competes with the basic capability provided by the FaceTime application of Apple, this has been approved and continues to be allowed by Apple. We as consumers are definitely not complaining though.

Gaming: Intel announces Razer's Sixense

Ever since the introduction of motion-controlled gaming from Nintendo Wii, the other players in the gaming industry have tried playing catch up. Microsoft and Sony entered this much dominated space with Kinect and Move which were completely different approaches to this segment. While Sony enhanced the approach from Nintendo with more precision and high definition graphics, Microsoft has gone with controller free experience.

Gadget: Motorola ATRIX 4G Announced

Motorola Mobility Inc is the spin off company from Motorola Inc and it has timed its launch to perfection with some back to back announcements that are big for the company. Along with the major announcement of Motorola Xoom the first Honeycomb tablet, the company announced the launch of Motorola ATRIX 4G smartphone.

Gadget: Official Honeycomb Tablet Announced

Google has been keeping the news of Android Honeycomb, well under covers for a while now. There was only a small reveal by Andy Rubin during the All things Digital event, that gave away to the rumors of a version of Android built from the scratch exclusively for tablets. This announcement made at the time, when almost every other manufacturer was already jumping on the Tablet train with the current releases of Android (Froyo / Gingerbread).

News: 3D movies coming VUDU

3D was popular early in 2010 right around the release of Avatar and hence CES 2010 was bombarded with all the 3D TV launch and few 3D media announcements. One year since, there has not been any major 3D movie that kept the audience raving about it, there has not been any major 3D media that is making consumers rush to buy 3D TV, but people are still stuck with 3D.

Gadgets: Notion Ink is back on spotlight

Notion Ink, the Indian company with a big dream made lot of news in CES 2010, when it showed the prototype Adam tablet running Android. The device had different looks, Pixel Qi display and held a lot of promise and amidst lot of negative press and crazy pre-order period, the company is once again back for CES 2011.

Business: Qualcomm acquires Atheros

Qualcomm (QCOM) is acquiring Atheros Communications (ATHR) for $3.1 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first half of the year. Qualcomm is already a major player in the Chipset industry and with the recent trend of Mobile and Tablet war, this acquisition is likely to strengthen the product portfolio and value of Qualcomm significantly. Atheros is a leading player in Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth chipsets.

Gaming: Mobile Gaming market is evolving

Nintendo DS line of products and Sony PSPs have been the major players in the mobile gaming category. With the introduction of iPhone and and the improvement in hardware and rendering engines recently, mobile gaming seems to be taking a paradigm shift. The mobile gamers, who used to be just hard core games on the move are being replaced with casual gamers and occasional hard core gamers. The run away success of games like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja and many others can vouch for this emerging trend.

Meta Info: ASUS CES 2011 Updates

This is the gist of information from the ASUS Event from CES 2011

ASUS has become the first company to receive the Carbon Footprint Award and it is just one of the 3397 other awards the company has received. ASUS, based on the company claims is Number One in Portable PC reliability, Number One in Motherboards and Number Three in Portable PC sales.

A quick run down of some of the items announced today by ASUS

Smartfish Keyboard - Aligns and adapts to your typing style...

Since the dawn of computers, keyboards have been a primary input device. The form and function of the device has stayed pretty much the same for quite some time now. Recently with the developments in touch screen interfaces, there have been touch screen keyboards coming into almost every other device, still the place for traditional keyboard is undisputed.

Gaming: Finally Angry Birds hits the console

After beating around the pigs in small 3.5" screens, the Angry Birds are likely to get the first console home through PS3 / PSP. Angry Birds are all set to launch in PSN as Minis later tonight and the pricing is yet to be finalized. Who cares about pricing, when it comes to Angry Birds? The next strategic step for the developers should be to have a motion picture campaign, with no less than 3D support.

Source: JoyStiq
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Photography: Eye-Fi goes Hi-Fi

Eye-Fi card is a SD card that uses Wi-Fi to upload images directly to the cloud. Since the data is constantly uploaded to the cloud, in theory if we have constant connectivity then this card is likely to give us infinite storage. I have been thinking of buying this card for a while, not for instantaneous uploads from the locations, but mainly to cut the boring task of searching for the cable to do a simple task of downloading the images that I have taken in my dSLR.