On Wednesday Google unveiled tablet computer - the Nexus 7 that will start shipping next month. The tablet also could appeal to consumers looking for a less expensive, less sophisticated alternative to Apple Inc.'s iPad & also giving a direct competition to Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire.
The Nexus 7 is designed specifically for Google Play, an online store that sells movies, music, books, apps and other content. That mirrors Amazon's strategy with the Kindle Fire, although Amazon's strength in online retailing has seeded its store with a more extensive selection than Google Play. Amazon declined comment.

Google announces Android 4.1, Jelly Bean
The size and price of the Nexus 7 also matches the Kindle Fire. Both have 7-inch screens and sell for $199. The Nexus 7 is slightly lighter at about 0.75 pound, compared with the Kindle Fire's 0.9 pound.

By contrast, the iPad's screen measures nearly 10 inches diagonally and weighs 1.44 pounds. Apple sells its latest models for $499 and up, though an older version is available for $399.

Customers can start ordering the Nexus 7 through Google on Wednesday, initially in the US, Canada and Australia. The device won't ship until mid-July. Google's announcement that it's putting its brand on a tablet comes a week after Microsoft Corp. did the same thing. Both moves risk alienating Google's and Microsoft's hardware partners. Those companies, in turn, could be less inclined to work closely with Google and Microsoft.

The Nexus 7's price looks like a relative bargain, given that it boasts more features than the Kindle, including a front-facing camera with 1.2 megapixels. The Kindle is believed to be a roughly break-even product for Amazon at $199. Samsung Electronics Co. sells a tablet similar to Google's for $250.

Google has previously put its own brand on a flagship line of "Nexus" smartphones. But that market is more mature than the tablet market, and there was less risk of Google alienating partners, particularly because it didn't price the phones lower than the norm. Much like the Nexus phones, the Nexus 7 tablet will be a showcase for a new version of Google's Android operating system - this one called Jelly Bean.

For Google, advertising dollars are at stake. If Apple retains its dominance and other players such as Amazon and Microsoft gobble up the rest of the sales, they could set up their operating systems in ways that de-emphasise Google's Internet search engine and other services. Apple develops its own system, while Amazon modifies Android for use in Kindles. Microsoft's will run on a new version of Windows.

Most of us live two lives - the physical one and a virtual mirror of it online. When we die, our physical existence comes to an end even as our virtual presence lingers on. So, what happens to all this content we have created, our online accounts and virtual transactions? What happens to all that we have stored in the cloud and, unknowingly, in servers across the globe?


BLOGS, PHOTOS, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS
Like all creative products, literary works, research notes, photographs, etc, that are created online will pass on to the legal heir of the deceased.

There is, however, no specific law in India on this, but they are considered intellectual property and treated likewise. Similarly, legal heirs have the right to access bank accounts and online records with, say, the Income Tax Department. Companies will have first right to stuff lying in official email services and servers.

YAHOO
Email accounts of Yahoo are automatically deleted if it stays dormat for over four months. Yahoo will also close the account if a copy of the death certificate is emailed to cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com.

GOOGLE
Google says that in rare cases it "may be able to provide the Gmail account content to an authorised representative of the deceased user".

But the post on Google Support adds that "any decision to provide the contents of a deceased user's email will be made only after a careful review, and the application to obtain email content is a lengthy process.

Before you begin, please understand that Google may be unable to provide the Gmail account content, and sending a request or filing the required documentation does not guarantee that we will be able to assist you." The same applies to all Google services.

FACEBOOK
Facebook gives friends and relatives the option of memorialising a deceased person's account to protect privacy. "Memorialising an account sets the account privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. Friends and family can leave posts in remembrance," says the Facebook blog.

It also prevents anyone from logging into the account. Facebook does not divulge login details of the account, but "verified immediate family members" can also request the removal of an account.

... AND WHAT OTHERS DO

Microsoft-MSN: Account data on email or any other MSN service is transferred to legal heir after death if verified and preserved till that time.

LinkedIn Twitter: Account shut if 'death verification form' or request submitted.

Flickr: Account is terminated and photographs and content permanently deleted if copy of death certificate is provided.

Orkut: Profile removed if death certificate is uploaded and an online form completed.

PayPal: If death is reported, account will be closed and a cheque made out to the account holder is issued to the legal heir.

eBay: All data of the user on the buy-sell website is deleted if death certificate is faxed to company.

Adobe has announced it will not support Flash Player browser plugin for Android 4.1 and onward.
“There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1,” writes Adobe on its official blog, adding that it recommends “uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1.”

It all started with Steve Jobs, though, who famously called Flash a “relic” from another era in an open letter in April 2010. Apple then said it would not support Flash on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and for a while Flash support was seen as a competitive advantage for Android.

Now, it’s really the end of the line for Flash on mobile devices, as Adobe will disable fresh installs of Flash from the Google Play store after August 15.

One engine is trying to get to know what the web is looking for, providing quick and handy summary information for some searches so you can find what you need quickly. Meanwhile, the other is turning searches social, suggesting information from your friends on social networks and even enabling you to seek a friend’s advice while searching to make sure you get the best answer possible.

Google : Quick Answers

Google started rolling out its knowledge graph across all search tools in May. Now, when you search for something in Google, the engine will try to determine exactly what you are searching for by tapping into information from knowledge databases, such as Freebase, Wikipedia and Google Maps. Since the engine is looking at topics as a whole rather than simple keywords, searches are more intuitive and more likely to provide information about what you’re really looking for.

A summary of some topics also appears on the right side of the page beside your search results. For instance, a search for “William Shakespeare” will bring up a photo of the playwright from Wikipedia along with a brief biography and a short list of his plays.  Google+ results also show up in summary information and search results. In the case of our Giants search, for instance, the most recent update on the team’s Google+ page shows up.

Bing : Social Answers

Bing takes social media searches to a whole new level. Where Google has a summary on the right-hand side of the page, Bing instead provides information from social networks. While the platform only provides information from Facebook, Bing has plans to integrate Twitter, Google+, Quora and LinkedIn into search as well. The toolbar, labeled “What Your Friends May Know,” showcases information about your search topics from friends on various social media sites, and also offers the option to pose questions to those friends to help with your search.

In addition to finding out what your friends know, Bing searches also offer a “What Bing Knows” tab, providing varying levels of information on things like local restaurants, movies, events and people. A “What the Web Knows” tab provides general results from the web. At the time of launch, Bing executive Derrick Connell told Mashable that the goal of the new Bing is to “surface people, not web pages.”

Which Is Best ?

What search engine is best depends on how you plan to use it. While Google’s search may be best for gathering information about your favorite sports team or a famous author, Bing may have the search giant beat in the realm of social and local knowledge.

Facebook announced on Monday that its chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has joined the company’s board of directors, making her the company’s first-ever female board member.

Sandberg — who oversees Facebook’s business operations including sales, marketing, business development, legal, human resources, public policy and communications — will joining existing members such as Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix chairman and CEO Reed Hastings and chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Company, Donald E. Graham.

It’s been previously reported that Sandberg got paid $30.87 million last year, making her the most highly compensated employee at the company in 2011.

Foursquare announced on its blog that the new update of the app (which has been out for more than two weeks for iPhone and Android users) is now available for BlackBerry owners. People with BlackBerrys will now see the new app, which Foursquare says has been “streamlined” to make it easier to access the different features — and, of course, always be able to check-in with a couple taps.

Just like updates for Android and iPhone, the Foursquare for BlackBerry update separates friends, places to explore and your profile into three sections.

Priced at Rs 33,590, HTC on Thursday launched its HTC One S in the Indian market, adding another handset in its HTC One series .

The smartphone features a super-fast dual-core processor, 4.3-inch AMOLED display and 16GB internal memory. HTC claims it to be brand's slimmest superphone yet at just 7.9mm thin. It also has an 8 megapixel camera with functions like autofocus and continuous shooting mode.

"In continuation to the introduction of One series in India, this is a time to bring a highly desirable lifestyle handset for everyone who want to achieve a unique artistic bling and advanced technology," said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.

"HTC One S is truly a complete package of style and performance. It is an easy-to-use smartphone that enriches customer experience with super fast camera with unique ImageSense technology and authentic, studio-quality sound with Beats Audio," he added.

Nintendo Co said on Friday it plans to launch its 3DS LL handheld game console on July 28, with a 4.88-inch display and a 4.18-inch touch panel, both nearly double the size of the current DS model.

Nintendo, which is fighting increasing competition from games on mobile devices such as Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, set an asking price of 18,900 yen ($240)for the new handheld. ($1 = 80.2750 Japanese yen).

The 3DS, which has a touch panel and delivers 3-D imagery without special glasses, has two screens — one is 3.53 inches and the other is 3.02 inches. The LL or XL version's screens are 4.88 inches and 4.18 inches according to the company. Screen inches refer to the diagonal measurement so LL screens are 1.9 times bigger.

Nintendo has sold 17 million 3DS machines worldwide so far. Sony has sold 1.8 million of its PS Vita machines.

Kim Dotcom, the quixotic millionaire founder of file-sharing service Megaupload who’s wanted for extradition to the U.S., returned to Twitter this week to prove to the world he’s still creating new platforms despite his entanglements with law enforcement.

Dotcom also used the new account to announce that “Megabox,” a new music discovery and sharing service, is still on its way despite his still being under arrest. He’s previously said that Megabox, which would compete with similar platforms such as Spotify, would let artists keep almost 90% of the profits made from their music.
Dotcom, arrested in New Zealand after file-sharing service Megaupload was brought down on charges of computer piracy in January, has also been using the reactivated Twitter account (@kimdotcom) mostly to post photos and thank supporters during his ongoing extradition hearing. In true Dotcom style, he’s also been poking fun at his situation, tweeting jokes about the FBI and police.

He’s also met with Apple founder Steve Wozniak, who visited him in New Zealand.

Samsung packed a long laundry list of features into its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. Some of those features are obvious, and others you’ll probably hear about if you pay attention to the commercials. Others may not be worthy of a ton of fanfare, but they’re cool tricks worth trying out nonetheless. Read on to learn what clever secret features you can unlock in that shiny new Samsung Galaxy S III.

1. Use the home button to answer calls

2. Go from texting to talking without tapping

3. Smart Stay keeps your screen off

4. Take screen shots with a swipe

5. Multitask while watching a video

Sharp unveiled the largest LED TV on the planet — the 90-inch AQUOS with 3D technology — at an event in New York City on Monday. Standing nearly four feet tall and spanning more than six-and-a-half feet in width, the screen is big enough to rest about 56 iPads on its surface. It weighs in at a lean 141 pounds (without a stand) and is less than five inches deep.

The AQUOS 90-inch TV may be large, but thanks to LED technology, it uses less than two 75-watt light bulbs, meaning that the electricity it uses will cost owners only about $28 per year, according to the company. 
Sharp is the only brand that offers the three biggest screen sizes for LED TVs at 70 inches, 80 inches and now 90 inches. Other LED manufacturers don’t go larger than 65 inches.

The picture quality is as impressive as its size, with a crisp 1080-pixel display. In addition to carrying Sharp’s propriety SmartCentral system — which allows for web browsing, Skype capability, built-in Wi-Fi and gives access to apps and on-demand services such as Netflix — it is 3D-capable and comes with two 3D glasses.
The AQUOS also comes with AquoMotion 240, which makes fast-action motions in sports or movies seamless without blurring.

The price for such a prize? $10,999.99, so it won’t be in everyone’s price range

With its new Surface Tablet, Microsoft didn’t just break the mold. It smashed it into a million little pieces, chucked them all into the furnace and set the temperature to obliterate. There really is no precedent for what Microsoft did this week. What was once recognizable is gone. The expected is no more. There are no rules, only supply and the possibility of demand. 

Now rumors are starting to coalesce around the thing being launched: a touchscreen tablet, manufactured by Microsoft itself, running on Windows RT (a version of Windows 8), intended to rival Apple’s iPad. Hollywood blog The Wrap cites “an individual with knowledge of the company”, who claims the software giant would be “making a foray into a new hardware category that would put the company in direct competition with rival Apple” — tablets.

This would hardly be the first time Microsoft has tried its hand at a tablet device. Indeed, its first tablet preceded the iPad by the better part of a decade. But it was a bulky laptop hybrid that required a stylus, to which it wasn’t very responsive. Between 2008 and 2010, the company was said to be working on a dual-touchscreen folding tablet — kind of like a book — called “Courier. 

Nokia 808 PureView, that 41-megapixel smartphone Nokia has unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress? Well, it’s finally coming to the U.S. through Amazon.

The device will be available unlocked and unsubsidized, which brings us to the price — a hefty $699.
As far as specs go, Nokia 808 PureView’s claim to fame is its 41-megapixel sensor, still unmatched (in terms of resolution) in the world of mobile phones.

The device also sports a single core 1.3 GHz CPU, a 4-inch, 360 x 640 pixel screen, 512 MB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. It will play nice with AT&T’s 3G network, and it’ll also work on T-Mobile’s network, but only 2G will be supported.

Google Offers app is now available for the iPhone. The app is only available in the United States with deals located in a wide swath of major metropolitan areas. A complete list of cities can be found on the Google Offers website. Users can find nearby offers suing the app’s map view, or they can search for specific deals by category.

Google’s iOS availability may be huge for its Offers platform. When the Android version of the app launched last fall, users spent three times more time on the app compared to the site. That’s a pretty big difference.
As of publishing time, the featured deal is for new Netflix streaming subscribers. After watching three movies or TV shows on the service, you can receive two movie tickets for $1.


After purchasing a deal, you can easily track your offers in the My Offers section of the app. Deals can be redeemed instantly from your iPhone without having to spend time remembering to print and bring your voucher. Google Offers can be downloaded in the App Store for free. It is designed for the iPhone and iPod touch but is also compatible with the iPad.

Which would you rather give up for a weekend — sex or your iPhone? 15% of respondents to one study said they would choose a romance-free weekend rather than go without their beloved device. A recent survey conducted by Gazelle.com (the company that buys your old iPhone) asked 1,000 people who have used the service to trade-in an old device if they’d rather go without sex or iPhone for a weekend. Yes, 15% of people chose sex.

This isn’t the first time smartphone owners admitted they would give up sex over their smartphone. In a related survey by another company, smartphones tied with intimate relationships as two things business professionals said they couldn’t live without. But there’s another relationship between iPhones and people’s sex lives — nearly 4% of respondents to the Gazelle survey reported having used their iPhones while having sex.

Fast forward 15 years, and creating a website seems like an endeavor best left to the professionals. But Mozilla, carriers of the old Netscape crown, wants to change that perception with Thimble, a web-creation tool that promises to make the act of creating a website easier than ever.

Thimble will show you exactly where the website is broken — a missing HTML tag, for example. Even though you’re doing light work, you’re doing that work on a complicated page. The whole process feels far more enjoyable than your usual tutorial, as if you’re learning by doing something important. Even if that something important is a map filled with a Minecraft pig, CatBread and a triple rainbow.

Aside from a basic page creation tool, Thimble has a number of interesting tutorials built in to teach you HTML, and by extension, how to create your own page. One of the tutorials, called “Hack a Map,” gets you started with some pretty advanced code. But the tutorial isn’t about learning the advanced code, it’s about learning the basic errors that are causing the page at the left to show up incorrectly.

Everyone uses Google for minor medical-related questions — but for specific and credible Q&A, Pearl.com says it is the place to visit. Pearl.com has about 10,000 experts in 700 specialties that the site’s creators verify to make sure they are current and legitimate legal and medical professionals. In fact, all professionals on the site must go through an eight-step process, including background checks and a test to prove their skills. For the professionals on the site, answering questions can be a part or full time job paying as much as $40,000 per year.

Pearl.com was formerly Justanswer.com, started by Andy Kurtzig eight years ago, and had 10.5 million unique monthly visitors. But now, he tells Mashable, the site does a lot more than just answer questions, hence the name change and redesign.

For the users asking questions, each question cost $30 for non subscribers, but for subscribers, $49-$99 per month (depending on the category) grants you unlimited questions and access to the site’s archive. If a user signs up for a $49 per month subscription they can ask unlimited question within a specific category. For $99, a user can ask unlimited question in any category. Customers set the price based on how much information they want and the professional they’re relying on for answers (lawyers charge more than doctors, for example).

“Now they have a place to go to get real professional help whenever they need it,” he said. “We make a real, tangible difference in human lives.”

Spotify is adding a mobile radio feature to its iOS app, available for free in the U.S. and to premium subscribers in other countries.

Spotify radio will be available on the iPhone and iPad, enabling users to listen to Spotify’s entire catalog, create stations based on artists, albums or playlists and save the songs they like. Also, the radio gets more personal each time you give a song thumbs up or down.

The new radio feature will become available “in the coming days” as part of Spotify’s next update. Spotify also promised to add the same feature to its Android app “in the coming weeks.”

Consider this: 24% of respondents to one survey said they’ve missed out on enjoying special moments in person because — ironically enough — they were too busy trying to document their experiences for online sharing. Many of us have had to remind ourselves to “live in the now” — instead of worry about composing the perfect tweet or angling for just the right Instagram shot.

Worldwide, Facebook users spend 10.5 billion minutes each day surfing the site — and that doesn’t even include mobile use, according to the company’s IPO filing. Collectively, that’s nearly 20 years per day that people spend living online instead of offline. Facebook users in India, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore all spend an average of more than 20 minutes on-site every day. In Singapore, the figure is a whopping 38 minutes.

If you love this form of entertainment, you’ll be glad to know that Google has launched a YouTube app for Google+ Hangouts which lets all participants share and watch YouTube videos.

To try it out, start a Hangout and have all users load the YouTube app at the top of the screen. Now, everyone can start adding videos, drag and drop them to change the order in the playlist, as well as skip forward or backward.

Participants can also share a video that’s playing with their Google+ circles at any time, or save the playlist (as public or private) to their YouTube account. The app is available worldwide in 60 languages.

New Dropbox iOS App Brings Automatic Uploads

The latest version of Dropbox for iOS (1.5) brings several important updates, including automatic uploads of photos and videos, either using Wi-Fi or cellular data plan. By using this feature customers can earn up to 3 GB of extra free space.

Also, users can now see all the photos and videos they’ve uploaded to Dropbox in Gallery view. Get the latest version of Dropbox for iOS devices here.

At WWDC 2012, Apple unveiled the next generation of iOS. iOS 6 sports more than 200 new features and upgrades — including the new Apple Maps, deep Facebook integration and improvements to Siri.
Although iOS 6 won’t be available on compatible devices until sometime this fall, the first beta build is currently available to developers. We’ve installed iOS 6 on our new iPad (64GB Verizon LTE model) and poked around with the new features.

So which Apple users will be eligible to upgrade to iOS 6 when it becomes available this fall?
iOS 6 will be compatible with iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S models, the 4th generation iPod touch, the iPad 2 and of course the new iPad.

However, not all features will be available on each of these devices. The Flyover and turn-by-turn navigations that wowed the crowd at WWDC? Only available on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and the new iPad. Ditto for Shared Photo Streams, which will also be compatible on Macs running OS X Mountain Lion.

MAPS

Facebook Integration

SIRI


Photo Stream Sharing Safari FaceTime 3G

MAIL


THE EARLY VERDICT

Apple unveiled a lot of new toys today, but the highlight is clearly the ubersexy and powerful MacBook Pro With Retina Display. With this machine, Apple is sending a loud message to the world: We aren’t content to just sell computers — we want to define what people want in them.

While Apple would probably say that attitude has always been in its DNA, it’s really only been delivering on it since it unveiled the first MacBook Air. Before that, Apple machines — the hardware — were certainly capable machines, but their standout features typically had more to do with design (think the original iMac) than usability and performance.

Don’t get me wrong. Apple’s design is excellent, and many of its details — such as chiclet-style keyboards on laptops — have been (rightly) emulated by other manufacturers. It’s even released big, powerful machines like the (now discontinued) 17-inch MacBook Pro. But while those products reliably generate headlines, few people actually buy them.

3D Flyover vs. Tour Guide
Both Google Maps and Apple Maps will be offering a flyover feature for getting a birds-eye view of a particular area. Google’s will be called Tour Guide, while Apple’s will be called simply 3D Flyover.
While we’ll definitely have wait until both are released to do a side-by-side comparison, on the surface Apple’s flyover looks to be a bit more impressive and run smoother. Images in the Maps are rendered in real time in exceptionally detailed 3D. Over the past three years Apple acquired three mapping companies, two of which specialized in 3D maps, which undoubtably helped it create such a robust product at launch.


Siri Integration
Siri gets to make an appearance in Apple Maps. Apple’s digital assistant can give you information on anything from where the nearest gas station is to how much longer your trip is going to take.
The integration offers many of the same features as your traditional GPS, possibly because it’s getting a lot of its power from a traditional GPS company. Leaked pictures of the Maps interface acquired by Engadget indicate that TomTom is providing a good bit of data for the service. TomTom has been offering turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone since 2009, and its iOS app will likely become somewhat if not entirely obsolete with the release of turn-by-turn directions in iOS 6.


Local Search
Both Google Maps and Apple Maps allow you to look up a particular resturant near you. Apple’s version, however, also integrates inYelp information into searches, allowing you to see a particular resturant’s rating and read reviews before you make a choice on where to dine.


Turn-by-Turn Directions, but No Public Transportation
The Apple version of maps brings turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone, a traffic view, and anonymous real-time crowd-sourced incident reports for traffic problems you encounter along the way.
While Apple Maps will bring turn-by-turn directions to the iPhone, it will take away one feature may city dwellers have come to know and love: public transportation directions. In its current form, Apple Maps does not have public transportation directions built in. That might potentially be because most cities write their transportation in GTFS (General Transit Data Feed originally known as Google Transit Data Feed). While that data is open and free to use –- and used by most if not all of the transportation apps out there –- it was developed in part by Google, which may make Apple reluctant to use it.

Facebook announced sweeping integrations for WordPress.org and WordPress.com VIP users on Tuesday morning — allowing you to add your blog content to the social network in one click. The integrations are accessible through a Facebook for WordPress plugin (available here) and allow bloggers and administrators of WordPress-based sites to cross-publish content to WordPress, their own Facebook Timelines and the Facebook Pages they oversee.

“The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners, and makes it simple for anyone to make their WordPress site more social – no coding required,” Facebook engineer Matt Kelly wrote in a blog post introducing the tool. WordPress powers more than 16% of the web, and Facebook, by all appearances, wants to be the web for its more than 900 million users. So, in that context, the integration makes quite a lot of sense for both parties.

Facebook appears to be angling to become a destination site for original, non-user-generated content — as well as more of a gateway to the wider web.

Today, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon all advertise their networks as 4G, and this confuses a lot of people, including their own employees. While LTE is the true 4G network, the HSPA+ networks operated by AT&T and T-Mobile are noticeably faster than their 3G counterparts, prompting them to proclaim them to be “4G.”
After AT&T finally woke up last year and noticed that Verizon’s rapidly expanding LTE network was substantially faster than its HSPA+ network, the company decided to build its own LTE network while still calling its HSPA+ network “4G.” Sprint and T-Mobile followed suit, announcing they too are developing LTE networks. The most notable change you’ll experience when moving from a 3G to a LTE device is a dramatic speed upgrade. LTE networks are on average 10 times faster than their 3G counterparts. Sites load faster, Netflix doesn’t pause every five seconds, and apps download at greater speed.

After getting off to a massive head start, Verizon now has the biggest 4G LTE network in the country, no matter what the AT&T and T-Mobile commercials say. With more than 250 current LTE markets and plans to cover 400 markets with LTE by the end of 2012, Verizon is your best bet if you are looking for true 4G speeds countrywide. In comparison, at the time of publishing, AT&T has 39 markets with LTE coverage, Sprint expects to have six markets up and running by mid-2012, and T-Mobile is in the beginning stages of building its LTE network. Be aware that if you don’t live in a LTE market, you won’t get the faster speeds whether or not you have a LTE device. (If you have an LTE device but are not in an LTE market, your device reverts to 3G speeds.)

Undeterred by its lack of a working LTE network, Sprint released its first LTE smartphone, the HTC EVO 4G LTE, on June 2. If you are in a market where AT&T currently offers LTE service, the HTC One X — which may be the best Android phone available — is your best choice for a smartphone, with the new iPad your best bet for a tablet with LTE.

Verizon offers a plethora of options including standouts like the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung with Android 4.0; the Droid Razr Maxx by Motorola, which has the longest talk time ever for a smartphone; and for those of you who enjoy a physical keyboard, the Droid 4, also by Motorola. Along with the new iPad, Verizon offers great Android tablets with LTE, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7.

Acer launched on Wednesday its latest Android tablet to hit the market, boasting an HD display and a series of powerful specs.

The 32GB Iconia Tab A700 tablet — which is currently available for pre-sale in U.S. and Canada for $449.99 — runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s latest mobile operating system.
Available in black and silver, the tablet features a 10.1-inch full HD 1080p backlit display that produces beautiful images and HD video, with 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution that’s 55% higher in pixel density than many other tablets on the market.

Powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, the sleek device caters to fast web-browsing. Other specs include an HDMI port, a micro-USB port for syncing and transferring files and supports up to 64GB MicroSD cards. The Iconia Tab A700, which comes with high-quality Dolby Mobile 3 sound, can also be connected via HDMI to an external sound system.

It’s been quite the day for the Russian hacker who has reportedly stolen nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords. Now, it looks like the same hacker has also compromised 1.5 million passwords from popular dating site eHarmony.


“After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of our user base has been affected,” eHarmony wrote on its blog. “We are continuing to investigate… as a precaution, we have reset affected members passwords.”

Affected members will receive an email with details about how to reset passwords. The company also included a list of password security tips, such as changing passwords every few months and using different passwords for each Internet site.

The Samung Galaxy S III has a lot of cool features, including a couple of “first evers” among smartphones, like its voice-activated wake-up feature. But is it just as revolutionary in its durability? To find out, SquareTrade, an independent warranty provider, subjected Samsung’s hot new Android phone to a drop test. For comparison, it also dropped another hot phone with which you may be familiar: the iPhone 4S. It’s actually a three-part test. First, SquareTrade dropped the phone from ear level — certainly a fair test since a drop while making a call is probably the worst case scenario because of the phone’s height above the ground. Next, they gave both phones to two small (and super-cute) kids, simulating what a toddler might do to a parent’s phone. (SquareTrade says one in four parents have had their kids damage their phone in some way.)

The news that Facebook might be considering a membership option for children under 13 is garnering plenty of reaction from parents and online safety advocates. Many underage kids are using Facebook already, often with their parent’s help. A recent Consumer Reports study estimated that 7.5 million children under 13 are already using the social network.

Even among the parents who knew about their kids’ Facebook accounts, only 18% had friended them — which would be one of the most basic steps you can take to monitor your kids’ Facebook useage. Facebook is well aware of the problem. The company told Mashable in a statement: “recent reports have highlighted just how difficult it is to enforce age restrictions on the Internet, especially when parents want their children to access online content and services.”

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Parking Douche
 


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My Last Wish

 
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