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LG’s theme for its TVs at IFA 2009 is ‘Live Borderless’. This consumer electronic version of the Schengen Agreement is based on panels without visible borders.

Two ‘Borderless’ Full HD LCD panels, the SL8000 and SL9000, use a new injection compression moulding technique that creates a sleek, uninterrupted glasslike surface.

A special sheet of laminate film covers the televisions’ front surfaces, eliminating the line between the screen and the bezel while also reducing glare. The result is a uniform, seamless surface from edge-to-edge, with no visible frame.

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Having over 25 years cell phone making experience, Nokia is now determined to develop its high tech muscles in netbook producing. Ever-evolving net books are also under the spotlight. But things look much better with the new Booklet 3G netbook reveled by Nokia. This functional looker offers a battery operating time of up to 12 hours coming with included WiFi connection, GPS and 3G HSPA.

Weighing only 1, 25 kg, this nice looking mini notebook features an aluminum chassis and has 2 cm in thickness. The Nokia Booklet 3G netbook includes 3 USB 2, 0 connectors, a front facing web camera, SD card slot including Bluetooth connectivity. The netbook operates based on yet unnamed Intel Atom processor features HD video playback, HDMI output as well as 10, 1 inches glass HD video screen.

This Windows 7 based marvel also comes with a SIM slot which is hot-swappable. The Nokia Booklet 3G seems to be a full-functional laptop with the Nokia’s Ovi services it is integrated that has Maps used for Ovi and apply music downloads, the GPS and A-GPS and VPN. The Nokia Booklet 3G Booklet allows video calling with the web camera and is readily accessible to SD card reader.

While main features available are already known, the full technical specifications list as well as its availability is expected to be announced next week. Hopefully, it would be affordable for laptops fans. The Nokia Booklet 3G Booklet offers a genuine mobility with you being in a constant touch with the whole world.
Source:[gadgets-reviews.com]

Facebook is buying a Web service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites, including Facebook’s rivals.

In an interview, FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said the two services will eventually merge, though FriendFeed will operate separately for now. He said FriendFeed was drawn to Facebook’s much larger base of 250 million users.

“Facebook has a really unique opportunity for our team to reach a significant percentage of the world, and that was an opportunity I think everyone on our team was extremely excited about,” he said.

Facebook said all 12 employees of Mountain View, Calif.-based FriendFeed will work for Facebook, whose headquarters is nearby in Palo Alto. FriendFeed’s four founders — Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh — will take on senior positions on the engineering and product teams at Facebook.

It’s unclear what exactly Facebook plans to do with FriendFeed, which centers around the idea of instantaneously aggregating information from online destinations like short-messaging site Twitter, review site Yelp and photo-sharing site Flickr.

Gartner Inc. analyst Ray Valdes said the FriendFeed acquisition should help Facebook open up its site and boost features that show users more information in real time.

“They needed to do something to meet the Twitter challenge,” he said, referring to the messaging site that has shown the type of buzz Facebook once enjoyed.

Chris Cox, Facebook’s vice president of products, said the companies had been talking about a combination for some time, as they’re both working on solving the same problems: how to help people connect with one another over time, how to make these connections work on various devices and how to filter information through friends.

“I think both companies start with the premise that the most valuable information in the world is the one that comes from the people you care about,” he said. “Building technologies that leverage those relationships everywhere you go is where we’re both starting from.”

Cox would not say if Facebook plans to incorporate FriendFeed’s real-time search capability into its site. He said Facebook has already been testing real-time search and that FriendFeed has done a great job with its own search.

Financial terms were not disclosed.
Source:[Yahoo Tech News]

When Facebook launched its latest redesign, it became evident that the company was putting a lot of emphasis on real-time information–inspired, undoubtedly, by the runaway success of Twitter. Now the company’s rolled out two small but crucial new features that put instant updates even more front and center.

First, Facebook is aiming to use the “publisher” tool–formerly known as the status update box–as members’ gateway to the Web at large. Starting Wednesday and rolling out gradually, according to a post on the company blog, a beta version of the new content-sharing box will allow members to select exactly how public or private to make each piece of content that they share. The post by Facebook engineer Ola Okelola explained that something shared on a profile can be visible by friends, friends of friends, friends and networks (school, region, or company), user-created custom friends groups–or everyone on the Web.

Facebook’s probably hoping that this will spur people to share more content: if members know that sharing a video, a photo, or even a status message won’t by default go out to everyone who can see their profile, they might be more likely to share things along the lines of party photos and videos of their kids.

But, wait. There’s more.

In addition, a post on the Facebook developer blog Wednesday explained that developers can now take advantage of live-streaming status update boxes much like the one that CNN used during President Obama’s inauguration this January. “With the Live Stream Box on your website, users log in using Facebook Connect and share updates that appear both within the Live Stream Box and on their Facebook profiles and in their friends’ home page Streams,” the post by Tom Whitnah explained. “Each post includes a link back to the Live Stream Box on your site so users can discover the live event and immediately join based on their friends’ recommendations.”

It’s intended so that people watching an event simultaneously can comment in sync on Facebook. And it’s also supposed to be a no-brainer to create your own, meaning that Facebook is hoping a lot of developers and site owners will jump on this bandwagon.

“The Live Stream Box is easy to install and takes just a minute to set up,” the post added. “To get the Live Stream Box on your website, get a Facebook API key, upload a small file to your website, and then embed a few lines of code into your Web page.”

This is a move clearly aiming in the direction of Twitter, where real-time updates and discussions around events have become so commonplace that members regularly agree on a “hashtag” to flag related posts in advance of the event. (For the inauguration, for example, it was #inaug09.) The question is whether Twitter use has already become the standard for chronicling and commenting on events in real time–will enough people be willing to use Facebook widgets rather than apps built on Twitter?

Source:[cnet.com]

Today’s technology oriented world, life is not possible without mobile phones. The technologies are improving and requirements are also increasing.

To satisfy the requirements, mobiles with latest technologies have come up. Now an individual has not to carry a handy cam or camera along with him when he is traveling to some places because the latest mobile phones carry these qualities. The latest handsets have changed the life of people.

The upcoming handsets are packed with advanced features. One can enjoy the latest mobile features. One has not to go to cyber cafe or depend on PC’s and laptop’s for using Internet. Internet can be accessed on the handsets itself. Some current mobile phones are BlackBerry Bold, Nokia 6600 Fold, Nokia 6600 Slide, Samsung L700 and many more, are coming with amazing features like EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth etc.

Apart from subtle colours, polished finish, simple and elegant design, the latest mobile phones come along with features like EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth for fast data transfer and 3G services for video calls.

Most of the handsets have internal memory storage capacity in which they can store the music files, images files, video files and many more. The devices also have the capability to share the files with other devices. Nokia mobiles are the popular handsets which come with latest technologies. Some prominent models of Nokia includes 6500 Slide, 3600 Slide etc., that provide advanced features to the users.

Besides being capable to store, share files, the devices also provide entertainment with their competent FM radio and music player. The Mobile Phones are blessed with embedded games and have the capability to download more games. FM radios with RDS applications are also present in many gadgets. Some devices have the aptitude for voice dialing and they also follow voice commands. Some gadgets also possess tri-band technology, which helps the users in world wide roaming. Specifications like organizer, phone book, calendar, stopwatch, alarm clock, call log, call timer speed dialing and many more are present in approximately every gadget.

Most handsets are also blessed with Windows Mobile 6.1 for professional people. With features, looks are also important for people, as every one wants to stand out of the crowd, wants to get the appraisal of stunning looks of handset. Some handsets have the property of sliding, some are sturdy in looks, some are sleek with metallic finish which makes the handsets look gorgeous. The latest mobile phones are usually light weighing so that easily carried by the users. Usually, these latest gadgets are pocket friendly.