Article: What is Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) in Amazon

Online shopping is something that most consumers these days have got used to. With the applications like bar-code scanning and visual search in mobile devices, it has become easier to compare the prices of in-store price and online price of most products. With just few click on the device, we can confirm if the price we are looking at in a store is actually the cheapest or if it is available in any near by stores or online at a cheaper price.

Rumor: Sony to add "Online Saving" to PS3

Sony releases numerous firmware updates for its PS3 console, most of the have little or no consequence to normal user. They are primarily meant to block the attempts to hack the system. There are some updates, that truly add value of the all-purpose console. If the rumors are to be believed the next version 3.60 of the firmware will enable "Online Saving" on the console

News: Android vulnerability still exists in Gingerbread (2.3)

Android has been steaming ahead in terms of its popularity and adoption. The platform is good, open and customizable, but definitely has some flaws too. Researcher from North Carolina State University claims that the security vulnerability that was thought to be fixed in Android Gingerbread (2.3) still is existing in the latest version

News: Promo video of Motorola Atrix is impressive

Motorola Atrix 4G was one of the phones to look forward to, since its announcement in CES 2011. The phone boasted really good features and had the perfect mix of all features in it. The recent rumors of a launch price of $150 with contract and the impressive promo video makes it all the more attractive now

News: Nook Color gets loaded with preview version of Honeycomb

Google released the preview version of Honeycomb to developers recently and it was only a matter of time, when we heard some interesting use of it. Nook Color the cheapest and decent platform of the Android tablet is the easiest target and it has stepped up for the Honeycomb challenge

News: Google may announce Honeycomb on February 2nd

Google has announced an Android event for February 2nd and all trends and news prior to this announcement hints that this event is for Honeycomb official launch.

News: Facebook does HTTPS, atleast the password is secured

Facebook is a social platform with the largest user base and at the same time it is one of the sites that has numerous security and privacy issues. There was a day in which people were even able to access any Facebook account without any password, but Facebook seems to be making some changes to those issues by adopting HTTPS.

News: Google cleanses auto-complete to fight piracy

In desperate times, when you were looking for a torrent download and don't know where to get from, you could previously just Google it. Google had agreed on to fight piracy and to keep up with that it has started removing piracy related terms from its Auto-Complete.

News: Sony announces PlayStation Suite framework, clears way for Xperia Play

Xperia Play has been almost confirmed as the much rumored PlayStation Phone. It can be considered among the worst kept secrets in recent times. The device has been leaked many times and even got a preview by Engadget that was written about in my blog post yesterday. Sony's announcements about PlayStation Suite confirms the plans on this.

News: Sony announces next PSP and its mobile gaming plans

Sony announced the launch of NGP (Next Generation Portable) yesterday in the planned announcement in Japan. The preview images of the device definitely made it appear sleek and polished. The design of NGP seems to be a logical extension of the tried and tested PSP 3000 model.

News: Nook Color gets its first update, improves usability

Barnes and Noble has promised to release updates to Nook Color that will make it more closer to a tablet that the eReader it is currently limited to. Looks like it is going to do that with series of updates and here comes the first one.

Gadget: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play previewed

The portable gaming industry has changed significantly in the last few years and I had tried to capture the same in my blog entry earlier. Sony had a good place in the portable gaming segment with PSP, but now has to switch strategy to stay in this market. While they are announcing PSP 2 later today, they are also developing PSP Phone called Xperia Play.

News: Android 3.0 Honeycomb Preview SDK released to Developers

Google announced the availability of the preview for their upcoming Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK. This gives developers early access to Honeycomb and lets them preview Android SDK (not final). This means that as consumers, we get loaded with what is in store for us in the upcoming Honeycomb.

News: Adam Tablet leaves users wanting more

The much awaited initial impressions for Adam Tablet from Notion Ink are coming in. For more of the news around Notion Ink, I follow the official blog maintained by Rohan and the site called Notion Lovers. I was waiting for the initial impressions from Notion Lovers and it is finally out.

News: Desktop Notification comes to Gmail and Chrome users

Desktop Notifications come in handy when you are on the look out for communicating with someone or if you are waiting for some important mail. This feature had been limited to desktop clients mostly and was not available to web pages and web applications till now and Google is all set to change it.

Apps: Splice is Free, iOS app for Video Editing

iPhone has been able to capture video since the 3GS version and with iPhone 4 the videos became HD quality. As in any attempt with video, there is always a time when we feel like doing some edits on the video. Splice is a free software (compared to iMovie) that allows you to that and lot more.

News: Use opt-out feature to stay away from targeted ads

Ever had the feeling that all your online activities are being tracked these days? Did you search for something and access a different site to see ads related to your search show up, based on the search pattern and trend?

If you don't like this feeling, then you may have a way out

News: Kongregate back in Android Market

Android is said to have an open market place and the last time I heard about an application getting banned in Android, when there was privacy / security concern about it. Kongregate was announced for Android recently and was banned soon enough, but now seems to be back.

News: Notion Ink recovers from OTA update problems

Engadget reported in its coverage yesterday about Notion Ink Adam Tablet reaching some customers. While this was supposed to be a positive coverage, the report from Engadget focus on the update issues that some customers were facing. The OTA upgrade had caused some units to stop functioning.

Jan 24, 2011: News Digest

This post is a summary of technology, gadgets, electronics news and items  that I find interesting from different sources. You never know, something from this list may interest you too... Check it out...


Topics: 
1) Google opens up Cloud printing for Google Docs and Mail
2) Be prepared to buy a phone that is outdated when you buy it
3) Holocube launches 70 inch holographic projector. Why isn't this used for 3D TV?
4) Fan of Matrix Trilogy? Matrix 4 and 5 are being discussed
5) Why such biased coverage for Notion Ink?
6) Google introduces new Weather widget for mobile

News: Motorola Xoom Tablet, price and launch date leaked and disappointing

Motorola announced the launch of its Android tablet (Motorola Xoom) running version 3.0 of the software called HoneyComb. It is said to be the reference hardware of this version of the OS, just like Nexus One and Nexus Two and has lot of features that could finally rival iPad.