BUG on Motorola page

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In this year motorola release their product model name W230. In the reference page ( http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=219 ) contain a error. He specified 7 African languages but it is not african languages it is asian languages. and also specify Hinglish ( It is a new language created by motorola) not English.

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Samsung Unveils Advanced Digital Cameras And Camcorders

Samsung India announces the launch of its new, advanced 2008 series of Digital Still Cameras and Camcorders. The company announced the launch of its advanced ‘NV’ series, ‘I series’, ‘L series’ and ‘S series’ of Digital Still Cameras.

R Zutshi, Dy MD, Samsung India, states that “Keeping with the changing consumer preferences, the new 2008 series of Samsung Digital Still Cameras comprises of Digital cameras with resolutions of 7,8 and 10 mega pixels, larger sized LCDs and sleek form factor. We have introduced colour options across our different models as well”.

i85 comes with an 8.1 Mega pixel camera resolution, 5x optical zoom lens, 3” TFT LCD screen, Face detection, personal multimedia player with MP3 as well as capability to record Movie Clips in MPEG 4 Format, movie editing and a Flash animated User Interface. It is priced at INR 14,990

The L830/L730 Digital Still Cameras come with 8MP/7.2MP camera resolutions, 3x Optical zoom and 2.5” LCD screens. They come with an Advance Shake Reduction feature , MPEG 4 movie recording capability and have a compact aluminium body. The L830 is priced at INR 10990 and the L730 is priced at INR 8990

Samsung also announced the launch of two new entry-level digital cameras — the 7.2 mega-pixel S760 and the 8.1 mega pixel S860. Through the Samsung S860/S760 Digital Cameras, much emphasis has been placed on user convenience and a reliable shooting experience, with 8.1/7.2 million pixels and a 3x optical zoom. These are characterized by stylish design and a selection of four colors: silver, black, pink and blue. They are equipped with a Mode Dial that allows smooth switching between various shooting options, from Automatic Mode to Video Recording.

These use advanced face detection technology to provide the best portrait shooting experience. Furthermore, the S860/S760 Digital Camera models enable clear shots without flash in indoor settings, by supporting up to ISO 1000, and using Samsung’s exclusive Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) technology for correction of hand-shake. They have an extra E button and shortcut keys on the rear side, providing easy access to various functions such as color adjustment and red eye correction. While the S760 is priced at INR 6990 , the S860 is priced at INR 8990. The Samsung DSC Lineup is priced in the range between INR 5990 to 19,990.

Samsung also announced the launch of its new range of sleek, compact digital camcorders. Samsung’s new line up consists of the VP-HMX10A, VP-MX10A and VP-DX10. Samsung’s advanced Flash Memory technology provides a lot of user benefits like longer battery life and QuickStart in three seconds.

These Camcorders are compact enough to fit in the palm, easy to use with innovative touch screens. The swivel grip — able to rotate at 135 degrees — provides an easy way for consumers not only to hold the camcorder but also to shoot video at very low or high angles. The VP-HMX10A camcorder delivers HD picture quality resolution easily viewed on the 2.7-inch high-resolution touch panel LCD screen. Samsung’s 50 fps technology enables the VP-HMX10A to capture exceptionally detailed videos, recording to 4 GB of internal flash memory (1Hr recording), working in H.264 at 720p or SD/SDHC/MMC+ cards that extend more recording capacity. The VP-HMX10A is priced at INR 34,900 and the Samsung camcorder range is priced between INR 13,900 to 34,900.

Source : PCWORLD

Xerox WorkCentre 5020, An A3 Mono Multi-Functional Product Launched

Xerox India announced the launch of Xerox WorkCentre 5020, an A3 mono multi-functional product that can print, copy and scan. The newly launched Xerox WorkCentre 5020 is targeted at the SME segment and will be offered at a price point of INR 75,000.

Xerox WorkCentre 5020 has been bundled with features including “ID Card Copy” that allows copying of both sides of an ID or small document on to one side of a sheet of paper saving both time and paper. In addition, there is a “Poster” feature that enables a user to print a single-page document onto 9 sheets of paper, which can be linked together to form one poster-size document

Sharing details of Xerox WorkCentre 5020, Princy Bhatnagar, Director, Office Business Group, said, “With the launch of Xerox WorkCentre 5020, we now have a portfolio of over 20+ products for the Indian SME market. The newly launched machine offers business critical functions and caters to the total cost of ownership and ease of use requirement of SME segment making it a true value for money proposition.”

Xerox WorkCentre 5020 comes with 64 MB memory and has Power Save and Toner Save features that consume less electricity. It is Windows Vista-compatible and large paper capacity of up to 800 sheets. With a speed of 20 pages per minute and copy resolution of 600 x 600 dpi, the newly launched Xerox WorkCentre 5020 has been designed to fit virtually anywhere in the office space.

Source : PCWORLD

Mozilla Unleashes Firefox 3 Beta 4

Author : Gregg Keizer

Mozilla accelerated towards the final of Firefox 3 by posting the fourth beta for download and immediately confirming that it would give developers just a week before it froze the code on the next.

Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's interface designer, touted several improvements that debuted in Beta 4, including full-page zoom, offline data storage for Web apps and a revamped download manager. The browser's performance has also been boosted, said Beltzner and more of its irksome memory leaks have been plugged.

"Changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile-guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple," said Beltzner in a post to the Mozilla developer centers. "Web applications like Google [ Gmail ] and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long browsing sessions."

Reducing Firefox's memory consumption has become one of the hallmarks of Version 3's development. The browser, which has been blasted for tying up increasing amounts of memory the longer it's open, now uses an automated cycle collector to free any unused memory and a new allocator to reduce memory fragmentation. Mozilla has estimated that it's plugged "hundreds" of leaks so far.

Updated release notes boasted that Beta 4 contains more than 900 enhancements since the mid-February Beta 3, including very visible changes to the browser's look and feel. It is now more in line with the appearance of native applications on the various operating systems on which it runs, said Mozilla. But as the open-source developer unveiled the newest beta, it also confirmed that it would freeze code for the next build, Beta 5, on March 18. Last week, Mozilla's executives, including Mike Schroepfer, the company's chief engineer, decided that there were too many bugs remaining in Beta 4 to move from it to release candidate stage, and announced that a fifth preview would be necessary.

Firefox 3 Beta 4 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 36 languages from Mozilla's site. However, as he has done in the past, Beltzner again warned casual users to steer clear. "We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 4 milestone release," he said. "It is intended for testing purposes only."

To some extent, Beltzner's advice has gone unheeded. According to Web metrics vendor Net Applications, Firefox 3's share of the browser usage market nearly doubled in February over the previous month.
Mozilla has not committed to a release date for a final of Firefox 3, but based on earlier major upgrades, it's unlikely to unveil the finished product before April.

Source : PCWORLD

Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2, IE8 Betas

Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
The company announced the releases at its Mix08 conference in Las Vegas.
Implemented as a plug-in, Silverlight is Microsoft's horse in the industry's race to provide the most eye-catching visual effects; it competes with Adobe's Flash Player and related technologies. Silverlight is cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device, Microsoft said.
Version 2 features support for managed code and developing with multiple languages, including IronRuby, IronPython, JavaScript, and .Net. The beta is available from Microsoft's Web site.
Internet Explorer 8, meanwhile, offers capabilities such as improved interoperability and full compliance with the Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 specification. That beta is available at Microsoft's official Internet Explorer 8 page.With Silverlight 2, Microsoft brought out a host of early adopters, including NBC Sports, which is using Silverlight for upcoming Olympics coverage; Hard Rock International, of Hard Rock Cafe fame; and Cirque du Soleil. Display capabilities both for the Web and mobile devices were highlighted.
NBC Sports plans to use Silverlight to Webcast 2,200 hours of coverage. "You're going to be able to go online and you're going to be able to consume video how you want it, when you want it," said Perkins Miller, senior vice president of NBC Sports and Olympics.
Hard Rock showed a Silverlight application enabling users to zoom in onto pictures of rock memorabilia, while Cirque du Soleil showed a performer-casting intranet application featuring video. In the mobile space, Weatherbug demonstrated a weather information application running on a Nokia phone.
Microsoft's Silverlight impressed Mix08 attendee Chris Pels, president of iDevTech, a consulting firm focused on Microsoft technologies. "I think it really takes the user experience to a different level and especially through the browser," Pels said.
"I was very interested in the mobile device aspect of it, too," he said. Microsoft Silverlight still must prove itself in the marketplace, Pels said.
Among the Silverlight innovations touted by Microsoft is "adaptive streaming," which gauges bandwidth capabilities on the client.
"Basically, it can automatically pick the appropriate bit rate and encoding to use," said Scott Guthrie, general manager in the Microsoft Developer Division. He had recently blogged about many of the capabilities cited at the event.Also featured in Silverlight 2 are SOAP and REST (Representational State Transfer) support and capabilities for cross-domain networks, for calling services on a network. Sockets-level programming for the client is enabled as well.
While the predecessor Silverlight 1 focused on video, Silverlight 2 has emphasized .Net development and transactional functions.
A rich UI framework in Silverlight 2 is based on Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology. "What this gives you is a really rich way to use controls to build your sites," Guthrie said. Data binding, styling, and animation are enabled.
Silverlight has a default look and feel but also can be customized; beyond setting styles and colors, implementers can control templating capabilities and do custom state changes.
Silverlight developer tools include Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 and Expression tools. These tools and XAML can be used to help position Silverlight as a platform for serving up display advertising. A preview of Visual Studio and Expression Blend capabilities for Silverlight are now shipping.
Microsoft announced a beta release of its Expression Studio 2 tool, featuring PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) in the Expression Web tool and Silverlight support. The beta is accessible from the Microsoft Expression site.In conjunction with the Silverlight 2 beta, Microsoft is shipping via an open source license 2,000 unit tests that cover Silverlight.
Microsoft also plans to improve WPF later this year, offering more controls, streamlined setups, and improvements for startup performance and graphics.
With Internet Explorer 8, CSS 2.1 support will help developers and designers write pages once and have them render properly across different browsers, Microsoft said. A WebSlices capability enables users to mark parts of pages as WebSlices and monitor information. A Favorites bar displays WebSlices visuals.
New navigation features for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) also is featured in Internet Explorer 8, focused on the back/forward navigation stack and address bar. Enhanced protection from deceptive Web sites is featured, as are phishing filter enhancements.
Microsoft representatives did not have information on when Internet Explorer 8 or Silverlight 2 would be ready for general release.
Also announced at Mix08 was a preview of SQL Server Data Services, providing a building-block, on-demand service for developers and businesses seeking data storage.

Source : PCWORLD