News: TomTom announces web based Live traffic service, for free

Mobile devices with built in GPS capability have become a norm these days and are increasing in market share. In this situation the major GPS players like Garmin and TomTom are trying to redefine their strategy and service offerings to customers. In an interesting move TomTom announced the availability of free HD Traffic service online for many countries (mainly Europe)

News: GE's phase-change method could make Laptops cooler

GE has announced a breakthrough in Thermal Material system that could pave way for faster computing and better heat transfer. GE has been working for DARPA on a new phase-change based thermal conductor that has the ability to cool electronic devices 200% better than copper for 25% the current weight.

News: Google revamps iPhone App, new Name and Design

Google has been enhancing the Google Mobile application for iOS platform constantly. The ability to do voice search, image search and normal text based along with the quick access the mobile apps has definitely made it one of the very useful applications in iOS. Google has announced the the update for the application today, which rebrands the application and also gives it a completely revamped user experience.

News: Motorola XOOM WiFi releasing on Mar 27th for $599

Motorola Xoom was one of the most anticipated Android tablet and was also more of a benchmark device from Google for its Honeycomb version of Android. Motorola has officially announced that it will launch the WiFi version of the device for $599 from all major retailers.

News: Google helps you find open businesses

Google has been optimizing the Search results constantly and have pushed the mobile search with lot of useful features. They have used location based Places, to let you search for businesses that are open now.

News: After flexible displays comes flexible microprocessor

Flexible Displays have been doing the rounds recently, but now flexible microprocessors are getting ready and seem viable.

News: Apple updates its MacBook Pro Lineup, sacrifices battery life

The image of Apple has moved from "Mac" to "iDevices" in the recent years. Apple once known in the niche segment for its Mac line of computers and laptops has reached the mass-market with its iPod and iOS products. Today the MacBook Pro lineup was upgraded behind the scenes, while all the high profile announcements get reserved for iOS devices.

News: Google brings Recipe and more, to make cooking easier

Google is synonymous with search, so anytime there a need for Recipe or to know what to do with an ingredient, then I have used Google for that. This process was definitely not focussed on my purpose of search and Google has made the process of searching for recipe easier.

News: Connect Google Docs and Microsoft Office, with Google Cloud Connect

Microsoft Office is one of the widely used and well known software for authoring Documents, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint. There have been other competitors in this space like Open Office, but the functionality offered and wide usage of the software remains unbeaten. Google has been ramping up its Google Docs offering and announces Google Cloud Connect officially in its blog and is trying to take some part of this market share from Microsoft

News: Amazon ready to fight Netflix, adds value for Prime subscribers

Amazon Prime is a membership service from Amazon which offers 2 day shipping, with no minimum purchase conditions. This service is definitely good, but a bit pricy for normal shopping habits and Amazon is adding streaming service to this to make it more appealing

News: Motorola Xoom Pricing and Updates

The details about Motorola's XOOM tablet running Android 3.0, in a dual-core configuration has been discussed in all the technical blogs and beaten to death. With the launch coming up, there are additional pricing information surfacing now.

News: Apple likely to announce new iPad on March 2nd

iPad 2 rumors have been floating around for a while now and multiple sources had stated that there a newer version of iPad going to be announced soon. Looks like Apple has set the date as March 2nd.

Rumor: ATRIX 4G launching for $150 in RadioShack, $50 less than ATT

Motorola has pushed the ATRIX 4G launch earlier to Feb 22. It was originally planned to be released in first week of March and has now officially moved the date earlier. The phone has been announced to be released with ATT for $199 with 2 year contract and looks like RadioShack may be offering this at a cheaper rate.

News: Google announces One Pass, Digital Content Manager for Publishers

Google announced One Pass service for publishers and it could not have selected a better time. Apple had recently announced its Subscription model and changed its policy for content providers and Apps that offer subscription service. Apple has been received a lot of push back on this new policy and some are even consider legal course of action, so the announcement from Google and the approach taken seems to be a perfectly timed announcement.

News: Android Versions: Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream?

It is known that Google has been naming different version of Android in the alphabetical order of desserts. Given that order the next version of Android should start with "I". The names being speculated are Ice Cream or Ice Cream Sandwich. Apart from naming, the content of the platform is lot more interesting

Gadget: HTC announces FLYER, Tablet with a difference

Microsoft tried with tablet computing in early 2000 and did not have much success, because of the lagging hardware improvements. When iPad was released as a magical, revolutionizing device it definitely got huge attention as always, in reality most of the tablets announced since then have been over-sized mobile devices. HTC has been making impressive Android devices and now they have announced HTC Flyer an Android device with some unique and useful features.

News: Rhapsody likely to fight Apple over App Store Subscriptions

Apple announced the launch of its App Store Subscription model recently and the offer is likely to benefit few services and affect lot more. In simple terms the Subscription model is meant to channelize all the content purchase only through Apple and provide them with 30% share on the sale. Some additional conditions on top of this may be pushing some services like Rhapsody over the edge.

News: NVIDIA announces quad-core chips for Tablets, coming this August

It feels like dual core chips of Tegra 2 were just announced last month and we are still getting used to fact that the next series of mobile handsets or tablets will be powered by dual core chips. We all knew that this was not going to stay this way for long, but NVIDIA just announced the quad-core chips today for tablets and this could come by this August.

News: Synaptics announces ClearPad, likely to make Smartphones slimmer

Synaptics, the Company known for making laptop touch-pads have announced their new venture to build capacitive touchscreen. This new approach to Capacitive touchscreen from Synaptics is said to save 1 mm of thickness of devices. This does not seem much, but the relative benefits from the technology sounds promising.

News: Microsoft enables Tracking Protection, needs user adoption

If you have tried online shopping recently, then you would have noticed the targeted ads that tracks your online activities and shows ads related to that. Google and Mozilla provided different approaches in which users can choose to opt-out of targeted ads. Microsoft has revamped its browser with IE9 and now it has added Tracking Protection to it.