FlipBoard - Now it's Official (Android and Apple) Posted by VK18 on 8:14 PM 14 comments

Flipboard, Your Social News Magazine

Flipboard's award-winning experience lets people see everything in one place. By bringing together the world's stories and life's great moments, you can stay up to date with the things that matter most. Flip through the news from your Twitter timeline as well as from outlets like the BBC, USA Today and The Verge. See everything from posts and photos shared by friends on Facebook and Instagram to videos from Stephen Colbert and pop culture nuggets from Rolling Stone. Find inspiration for your travel, style and life from places like National Geographic, Oprah and Cool Hunting.
It’s the one thing to simplify your daily life. Bring Flipboard on the train during your morning commute, catch up over coffee or on vacation, use it as a tool at work or simply to wind down your night. Search for anything or anyone, and make it your own.
You’ll be amazed by what you see.

NOTE: This app is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.
Accolades:
- Webby Award Winner in News and Social categories, as well as People’s Voice Award (2011, 2012)
- WIRED magazine Essential App (2011)
- TechCrunch Cruchies—Best Touch Interface (2011)
- Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism (2011)
- TIME Magazine 50 Best Inventions (2010)
Highlights:

• Be amazed by what you see when everything people are sharing, collecting and publishing in every moment comes together in a single place.
• Search for anything—people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites—and flip through articles, updates, photos and videos in a beautiful magazine format.
• Connect Flipboard to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren.
• Get a quick dose of what’s happening now, in Cover Stories, a constantly updated selection of articles, photos and videos shared by your friends.
• Save anything to read later using Instapaper, Pocket and Readability.
• Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content and social networks on different or shared devices.
• Enjoy Flipboard in 14 localized editions—for Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K.
• Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide, including must-read magazines and blogs, gorgeous photography and special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other topics of interest.
• Access Flipboard quickly through the widget.

Download the free FlipBoard on PlayStore 

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Samsung Unveils The Next Generation SmartTable – Samsung SUR40 (Video) Posted by VK18 on 6:56 AM No comments

This is not the Samsung Biggest  tablets power by Android OS, but an entirely different story. A lot of companies busy with Quad Core Android 4.0 tablet, but Microsoft Surface was busy wowing folks with its larger than life touchscreen experience. Now the next generation of Microsoft Surface is available for preorder, courtesy of the Samsung SUR40. The Samsung SUR40 can be used as a table, wall-mounted screen or kiosk. Combined with Xbox’s Kinect, which already may have business uses, the Surface effort could gain traction.

Microsoft Surface is a platform surface that meets the natural gestures of the hand and real-world objects. This is a 360-degree user interface, 30-inch XGA reflective surface of the bottom surface of the DLP projector which projects the image onto its underside, while the machine frame with four cameras record reflections of light objects Infrared and fingers of the man on the surface. The surface is capable of object recognition, recognition of object orientation / finger tracking, and multi-touch and multi-user. Users can interact with the machine touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as brushes across the screen, or by placing and moving placed objects. This paradigm is a combination of computers known as Natural User Interface.

According to Microsoft and Samsung, the street price for the Samsung SUR40 will be about $8,400 and is available now  at Samsung official site for pre-order in 23 countries.

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LG details Optimus 3D Gingerbread update Posted by VK18 on 11:27 PM No comments

We have already reported that LG Optimus 3D will be getting the Gingerbread update starting November 21 in Europe, followed by other markets. Today, LG has pushed out a press release detailing the various aspects of the update.

This update will bring improved network speed, better 3D experience and improved multimedia functions to Optimus 3D. Apart from Google’s addition as a part of Gingerbread, LG has also added its own enhancements in the update.


LG Optimus 3G Gingerbread Changelog:

From Google: Enhanced power management, advanced copy/paste and user interface (UI) improvements
Enhanced HSPA+ Speed via Faster Packet Data Services – Internet browsing and real-time streaming have become smoother and more seamless with up to 21Mbps HSDPA;
Enriched 3D Experience with 3D Video Editor and Full-screen UI Preview – With 3D Video Editor, users will be able to easily create and edit 2D as well as 3D movies on their Optimus 3D. The preview screen has become wider with a transparent UI, enabling users to capture better quality 3D content;
Improved Multimedia with 2D Video Stabilization and Faster Gallery Activation – Optimus 3D owners will now be able to record high quality video in 2D mode with the video stabilization feature, previously only available in 3D mode. Gallery loading time has also been reduced.

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