The Pioneering Indian Intel-powered Phone is now Out in India

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Technology - Permalink

A few days ago it was announced that the very first Indian Intel-based smartphone would be released in India. Wait before you go nuts about the word Intel in there. Many are proclaiming it to be the only Intel smartphone. Not exactly true, actually. Up to this point, Blackberry and Nokia have used Intel in their phones, but reportedly it is a new idea in India. The smartphone is named the XOLO X900 and is made by Lava, an Indian manufacturer. The phone is built with some alright specifications, including an eight megapixel camera, a 4.03 inch display, 3G capability, and 1080p HD video playback. Along with the Lava XOLO X900 appearing in India on April 23, the BlackBerry Curve 9330 will be released into the Indian smartphone market. The BlackBerry, similar to the XOLO X900 isn’t glimmering with sick stuff and amazing specs, but it is packed with some great social networking capabilities. Supposedly RIM is targeting the younger population of smartphone users with this particular phone. We don’t know if the Lava XOLO X900 will be cheaper for users jumping into bigger agreements with service companies. The device is going to cost about 22,000 rupees, which converts into roughly $424.

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Facebook IPO is Looking to Take Place Soon — Maybe in May

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Business - Permalink

What? You haven’t joined Facebook? Just kidding, that’d be unbelievable. The real thing you might not have known of is an IPO. “IPO” is just Initial Public Offering; you know, like on the stock market. Referencing some different people inside to the company, a popular tech forum said that Facebook representatives designated May 17 as the D-day to launch their much-anticipated initial public offering. On the other hand, a different source in San Jose Mercury News told us the actual date isn’t concrete and could simply shift to be a couple of days earlier or later than that. The social network giant’s IPO may be the most anticipated technology stock debut in at roughly 10 yrs. Facebook, started in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard apartment, is shooting to raise $5 billion in this offering. The biggest IPO so far for an Internet business is $1.9 billion, that company being Google in 2004. While this seems like quite an heralded event, there are groups of people who are critical about how this whole thing will go down. Facebook will probably have a good IPO, but from then on it’s hard to say what will happen. Some of the largest and latest IPOs for big technology companies like Zynga have really gone downhill. It will be entertaining to see how Facebook does. One exciting thought is that it will most-likely be a great jump for Silicon Valley. Lots of the Facebook big wigs will probably take their lumps of cash and ignite some powerful new startups.

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Mining Asteroids is Appearing to be a Plausible Idea for Space Enthusiasts

Posted by admin - April 25, 2012 - Posted in: Science - Permalink

What do two Google Inc executives and oceanographer James Cameron have in common? Besides having a lot of money, they are shelling out some cash for a company to one day dig up some incredible, rare, and valuable metals from some asteroids passing Earth. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie or magazine, but it is a real idea that is coming to pass.Planetary Resources, a company in Washington, will point its focus to making budget robo-spacecrafts to launch on surveying trips to asteroids hurling past Earth. The first of these projects will be a elementary demonstration mission around Earth; this trip is thought to be launched within about 25 months, according to Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson.Like the Ansari X Prize competition, the goal of Planetary Resources is to start deep-space exploration to the private sector. The Ansari X Prize was achieved by Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne nearly 10 years ago for completing the first flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere by a manned and privately built spacecraft. Commercial space missions, as many other blog articles are saying, are expected to takeoff later this next year. The first customers of Planetary Resources are likely going to be top-notch science agencies like NASA, as well as private research institutes. Surprisingly, within the next ten years the company believes they may position observation platforms around Earth. They are going to dig into some of the hundreds of asteroids that come relatively near Earth. The objective? To find precious elements. Likely this will just make the affluent people richer while the rest of us get to see it in the news.

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