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Rarely talk over smartphone? Don’t like the idea of some providers offer? And don’t want to pay a lot of money per month but still want to have plenty of data? T-Mobile has the plan that you might have been waiting for, if you know where to find the plan.

T-Mobile has a plan that offers 5GB of 4G data, unlimited SMS, and 100 minutes of talk time, for only $30 per month you can have all of those services. According to CNET’S report, this is the cheapest prepaid plan from any of the major U.S carriers. While some plans that have been made by other providers as well as Verizon’s pay-as-you-go which starts at $60 for only 500MB of data, $70 to get you to 2GB, the ST&T’s prepaid plan that includes 1GB of data with the price of $65 per month, and Sprint’s pay-as-you-go-plan which offers unlimited data with the price of $70, T-Mobile has a breakthrough with its newest plan of smartphone services.

Regarding to the plan made by T-Mobile, it is not listed on its official web site, it is not because the search was not completely done, but according to CNET’s reporter, a few weeks ago after getting the news of T-Mobile’s plan, the reporter tried to check it on T-Mobile’s “Bring Your Own Phone” page but he got no prepaid option there. If you do a search for T-Mobile’s prepaid plan, you will be redirected to its prepaid site. The home page of the site shows you the impression that plans begin at $50 per month for 500MB of 4G data. Even so, if you check for the page listing all prepaid plans, then scroll down to the bottom; you will discover the magical $30 option.

On the site, if you want to use the plan as your smartphone data services, you have to either order a SIM card for your phone, which will cost $10, or buy a new phone instead. You will also find a small notation if the plan is prevailed only for new activation.

However, the speed of T-Mobile’s plan is fairly decent, and if your device is Nexus 4, this plan can be used to share connection with your laptop and it can work fine. When we come back to the term of “new activation only”, this could mean that you cannot switch to this plan from anything you’re on now, it might also mean that if you want to activate a new line of service, T-Mobile might not let you port your previous number to the new line.

I think there are many different smartphone plans that could fit to your needs. Whether the T-Mobile is good or not, we cannot generally make the conclusion as it has a plus on its connection service and also cheap price, while other weaknesses still found.

Cloud services give you the alternative hosted services . It provides you services through internet and a single connection around the world wide . Cloud services use the idea of computing resources which are the customers’ want. The companies will rent the hardware and software to their customers who use their service . It is very simple when you want to get a service through web browser . It will remove the day-to-day hassle from IT management an it will give permissions to the new companies.

Cloud services offers three advantages for you. The available advantages are the infrastructure , platforms, SaaS (Software as a Service) . The cloud services have become more popular due the downturn of economic aspects . It gives you more flexibility with hosting services , and also the cloud services provide you with both public and private cloud services. The flexible services also convenient for any folk.

The definition of Cloud Services is a set of internet service provider with high-scaled solutions. You can interact with internet solutions without any hesitation. You’ve proven the internet solutions by the existence of Google and Yahoo’s email . Even you can make a desktop client solution which processes data hosted in a cloud engine software and you can also access them from your iPhone . That’s impressive! Moreover, you can control your cloud computing with an iPhone which always in your pocket. Imagine that, how easy this life is.

How could the iPhone related to Cloud Services? iPhone provides three ways which can afford the users to keep them connected to the internet such as EDGE, 3G, WiFi. If you are the iPhone users, you already realize if you won’t be able to create your work such as design and presentation on iPhone. What makes iPhone very impressive is because of its ability to review information and make small , byte sized responses . In the other words, the iPhone will never replace the function of your computer and your laptop. That’s why you have to keep the data in two devices (iPhone and computer), and cloud computing will help you for this. You can save your data in Cloud engine software will ease you to review your daily activities from iPhone. You can find the cloud engine software easily in online market. However, iPhone is the only device which is made to fulfil your needs on cloud services by control it on cloud control panel.

Using iPhone to control your cloud services is easy and of course a simple way. You can even control the cloud services anytime you want and anywhere you are. All of cloud services is the important thinng on the computing and the IT maintenance landscape, because of its beneficial function and flexibility. Maintaining data with cloud computing is another advanced technology that we have never seen before.

Recently Inq Mobile has announces an application that offers more social-media services than Facebook Home, but it is closely to Facebook Home in the operation. The application that has been launches by Inq Mobile was SO.HO. The company wants to be the first thing you see while picking up your Android device by replacing the role of your launcher that is usually appear as well as TouchWiz, HTC Sense, stock, and so on. Not only offering easy access to check Facebook updates, SO.HO comes to let you see updates also from Twitter and Instagram.

Using SO.HO on your Android smartphone will ease you to see notifications from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in one screen, and then you can check one by one of them right away. To get started using the application, you will need to install the most recent version of SO.HO, on your Android. After that, connect the social media accounts you want to see the updates from. Once you have finished the step, you can simply switch social media accounts from the top left-hand corner menu.

The format for social media feeds is comfortable on the eyes, and it includes in-line images so that you do not have to open any other application to view them. If you used to apply a manufacturer launcher, you may feel if the quick launch icons along the bottom of the screen you notice is a bit out of place, it is because SO.HO application mimics stock Android 4.0. If you want to top off the appealing look of this home replacement, it is also featured a bit of function too. This social media menu will let you post quickly the updates to Facebook or Twitter, and also offers a straight link to Instagram though it doesn’t take you right away to the photo sharing menu. Moreover, you can also like or leave a comment on things included in the application.

If you are intended to make SO.HO as the first thing you see when you click on the Home button, it is important to make sure that you select the application as default when you are given the option. If not, you can still benefit it as a standalone application to access all three services at once.

According to the information given by the owner, Inq Mobile, SO.HO application is still in beta and the company will be adding more of its users’ favorite social networks in the future.

Most of procrastinators say if learning languages drains more time and spends certain costs. That statement is just a reason since the latest technology has been making our life easier. Let’s say some applications which help us learn languages completely simple, they’re such a reflection how easy our life is. Similar to Babbel for mobile and Rosetta Course – samples of language learning applications – Duolingo comes to enter the ring and it has a lot of promise.

Duolingo is a language learning application that turns learning a language into a game, more than the other applications do. Once you launch this application, you are given a few hearts that represent your health pool that you do not want to lose during learning each level. Hearts can be lost if you answer the questions incorrectly. After finishing a lesson with hearts remaining, you will get an achievement to track your progress in the application.

To use this application, you just need to install a free copy of Duolingo for your Android device. This application is quite easy to manage, if you already have an account of Google+ or Facebook, or other social networks account, you can simply login using one of the account. But do not forget to make sure to check out the privacy settings on both of these social media options before you tap OK.

Duolingo currently has relatively limited language choice bit it is still sufficient if you are trying to learn one of the more popular languages but the Chinese language is still missing. You may opt for Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, or Italian. Besides that, Duolingo offers English translation to all of languages served except German.

While this application compared to the previous language learning application named Rosetta Course, the methods of Duolingo app is pretty similar to Rosetta Stone’s. In this application you are instructed to pick the picture that matches the words mentioned at the top of the screen. Duolingo requires a little bit more interaction while checking your answer than the other applications. As a bonus, this application offers some more practical exercises for learning the words, spelling and associated grammar.

Overall, Duolingo offers more features than other language learning applications have. Whether the method used is better or not, it actually depends on the student who uses the application. What do you think about this application?

All this time, we have acquainted with photo sharing application as well as the Instagram. But do you know if there is a quick photo sharing application named Analog Camera? If you feel it’s still strange to you, then let me explain through this blog post.

Analog Camera is a simple photo editor coming from RealMac software (the same folks who ever made the to-do-list application, Clear). Similar to Clear, the application has a minimalist design and intuitive controls that ease you to do photo sharing job quicker and easier.

Like other applications, the Analog Camera surely has the good and the bad side. This application is known and seeded to be an excellent photo sharing application for its capability of turning the sharing photos activity into an easy three-step process. The intuitive interface only requires swipe gestures to navigate the application. On the other hand, this application does not have basic fine-tuning controls that are usually found in another photo sharing application. Instead, in Analog Camera, you won’t see brightness, contrast, or saturation control.

Generally, Analog Camera is not a full-featured photo editor in the same pitch as applications like KitCam or PhotoToaster. This application only offers a couple of features which favor convenience and quick sharing. Once you launch this application, you will immediately find the viewfinder that will let you take a photo right away. On the top of this application, you will see thumbnails of your picture library which needs a downward swipe to see the picture, also, you will find the image in square form, so there is no need for landscape shots in this application.

Apart from the bad side of the application features, Analog Camera has nine filters that let you touch to see how each filter affects your photo look. The filters are not incredibly exciting but at least they are serviceable for quick photo sharing. Anytime you want to take another picture or grab one from your picture library, you can do a simple swipe down cancels the current project so you can start fresh.

Through Analog Camera for iOS, you can post photos to Facebook or Twitter with message attached along them. You also have the option to save the image to your camera roll, send photos via e-mail, or open it for further editing steps. Besides that, Analog Camera has better photo editors available although this could not be easier for quickly shooting a photo, sending it out in a minute or less, and slapping on a filter. In other words, this application has swipeable interface that makes sharing photos a snap and to add too much more might only slow the process.

The bottom line is the Analog Camera is good just the way it does. It will ease you in snapping photos quickly, adding filters and sharing. While if you need tons of frames, filters, and sliders to fine-tune your photos, you have to go look for elsewhere.

Steven Sinofsky said if it is too early to determine the winners and losers in PC industry since it evolves with new form factors. The former boss of Windows sees if Windows 8 is just doing fine, despite analyst reports that PC sales have declined, in part; it is because of tepid consumer interest to the 7-month-old operating system. Sinofsky revealed “It’s hard for me to look at selling 100 million of something and not be happy” at the D11 conference held on Thursday.

It can be said if the Windows 8 sale, since it has been launched, has reached the number of 100 million licenses. When asked why those Windows sales still have not regained PC sales overall, it is suspected to be Sinofsky suggested patience. The leader said if it would take a long time to make things play out and when it is going, you have to resist the urge to pick winners and losers.

At the earlier today, Microsoft started to shift course a bit with the OS. It came up with a series of new functions and features for Windows 8 which will be coming up in an update later this year, and of course some shortcomings of the operating system will be announced.

If we go back to talk about the Windows 8.1, we will probably know if the biggest reset of Windows 8.1 will be called as “Start tip” which refers to something of a half-step toward taking back the Start button that has been wanted by many critics. While clicking on the Start tip, it won’t take you to the familiar Start menu found in the previous version of Windows; instead, it will take users to the PC’S start screen to be customized if you want.

When being interviewed, Sinofsky did not talk about the Windows update so much. He talked more about software development and some of the challenges of innovating in a large organization nowadays.

"It's really just a classic Microsoft challenge -- you have all these people, and you want to align them," Sinofsky said, according to a live blog of the event by The Verge. "It's a management challenge, there's no shortage of ideas. You have to get them all on the same path.” He also did not declare about his departure from Microsoft corp., just a few weeks after the Windows 8 launched.

At d11 conference, Steven Sinofsky stated if his exit from Microsoft corp. was truly his choice. He is now teaching at Harvard Business School and sure about what he is doing and what he will do next. He also added if he compare his life while in sabbatical and his life now, he realized if he learned by writing and teaching.

A number of sources report that HTC is going to release a huge 5.9-inch smartphone in the second half of the year. The handset will be larger and more powerful. The Taiwanese analyst, Laura Chen said if this fall should be more convenient and sophisticated.

Are you a big fan of HTC devices? If yes, then you have to read this!

Apart from the ultra large screen size, other details tipped for the device is an upgraded processor, though the specific is still unclear. If we consider the HTC’s history of making cooperation with Qualcomm, we can infer that Qualicomm’s Snapdragon 800 chipset could power the phablet.

Fertile handset tipster @evleaks has also seemingly collected evidence that HTC is now trying large, pointing to a forthcoming HTC devices with the codename T6. Considering that rumor pans out, HTC phablet could boast a screen size similar to Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Note 3.

Newly unveiled details for HTC’s new phablet T6 include 2GB RAM, a quad-core 2.3 GHz processor, a 5.9-inch 1080p HD display, 16GB internal storage and a rear camera that uses the same ultrapixel image processing like the HTC One has. T6 also powered by Android Key Lime Pie, the device may feature a large 3,300mAh battery, a digital stylus, and something we have not seen from an HTC phone in some time, it’s the microSD expansion slot.

Amid the finer points of T6, TheUnlockr media reported an updated version of Sense UI with a more customizable Blinkfeed experience. HTC is also issued to be cooperating on a protective case with an additional 1,250 mAh battery life. The earlier HTC rumors are reinforced with the analyst’s statement, Chen, who said that HTC plans to introduce an M4 smartphone in June that should be offered on a global market. Coming to the third quarter, HTC must be ready to announce an updated take on the Butterfly device.

Peeping at the near term, Laura Chen suggests that many things seem to be on the upswing to HTC, stating that “the worst is over” for the handset maker. After the HTC One has been launched, through a slow start, the company has successfully sold five million units.

The question is, could the new HTC phablet surprise and grab people’s attention in the global market? Let’s wait and see how the handset marketing will be going.

New features and functions will be available soon on Windows 8.1 since Microsoft is in the process of developing the 7-month-old operating system called Windows 8. Something new that the company wants to pursue on its new Windows 8.1 is the insiders called “Start tip” that gets users back to their PC Start screen. It means that Microsoft will not be bringing back the Start button as many users have been requesting.

Microsoft actually has endorsed some of its users have been requesting. The company informed on May 30 that Microsoft will introduce something that a person close to Windows engineering is calling a “Start tip” that lets users to go back to the Start screen in Windows 8.1. The “tip” has a purpose as a Windows logo which sits on the left hand side of the toolbar when Windows 8 users are working in the conventional desktop mode. If they are using the touch-focused tile-based interface, users will have to hover over the lower left corner of the tip to pop up.

The “tip” feature on Windows won’t launch the familiar menus like the previous version did. Instead, it will take users to their start Screen. By using Windows 8.1, users are allowed to customize that Start screen to replicate something close to the old Start menus, listing all applications that are available to them if they want. It has not been indicated whether the Start tip will be enough to quite critics who are claiming for the ease of use that comes with familiarity. The start tip is closely a half-step toward a Start button.

Besides the Start tip, Microsoft also plans to make several changes and updates to Windows 8 including:

If you are curious about the Windows 8.1, a preview version may help you fill the curiosity that will come out at the time of Microsoft’s Build developer conference at the end of June, and Microsoft says Windows 8.1 will arrive for its users later this year.

It has been around six years since the emersion of the smartphone revolution and whether we realize it or not, we have been a part of the evolution itself. However, sometimes we might think if ‘home’ is where the phone is. If we ever come to this statement, we can be categorized as people who can be called as The Immersives: keeping tabs on Facebook ‘friends’, checking e-mail, debating on Twitter , snapping pictures of food to upload on to Instagram. It would be so rare if any of us did not have at least one toe dipped in the stream.

We are all just “The Immersives” sometime. You may see this since people keep doing to bury their face in the small screen while walking, or take them in danger by blindly read a message while driving. It seems like we cannot live without the phones as we need a meal in every single day.

Immersives are actually the targeted audience for Facebook home, a new version of the social network’s application that was announced. ‘Home’ feature is the first page you see when you pick up the phone. It is a major release that utters the extent to which Facebook needs us to stay imersives to help it get its bottom line. The major technological question is: Who is in control – our phones, or us?

Facebook is the flag bearer of the prior stage. In a press event held last month, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckeberg searched to position this ‘Home’ application as a breakthrough for “us”. He revealed of Smartphones are designed around phone applications not people. People have little control on any platform of what their phone serves up for them whenever they pull it out of their pockets.

Facebook Home is probably the first of what Wired’s Steven Levy has already coined as the super application since it is always on, always current, and it appears as the first thing you see whenever you access Facebook. The super applications come with an easy way, if you are immersed in one thing more than others, let’s say we use Facebook almost a quarter of our time using smartphones, then why should not your phone give you the option to put that application on a virtual lining.

Facebook’s trick for this valuable real estate is a slick move. Yup, advertisements are coming but it comes as a bit of smartphone fatigue has already started to set in. It ups the stake from an earlier game by Microsoft to open the lock screen to user customization.

According to the latest report of The Wall Street Journal, Google is issued for its plan to go into the cellular business. The company is looking to build cellular networks and offer service to emerging markets as well as Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Writing anonymous sources, WSJ unveiled that the networks would be available outside of big cities, where the service is spotty or not available yet. For this plan, Google is reportedly working with local companies on a possible deployment and making strategy of the business models to support the networks.

Besides that, Google is also targeting to build low-cost phones using its Android operating system, consider a satellite-based wireless system which is also new, and test the use of different types of wireless frequencies. This news was stated by WSJ. Google seems to look at different technology fields and possible deployments, and it may use a combination to deliver wireless services to the folks.

By the long Google’s lunge these several years, Google aims to make everyone around the world connected to a high-speed wireless service, and the company wants people around the world will use all of its services. The wireless network initiated by Google is just another development of the fiber-optic deployments that Google has made in selected city in the U.S.

Emerging markets do need to build physical fiber networks to deliver internet service for their own. Most of overseas countries which do not have an established landline infrastructure prefer to skip it entirely and put their focus on the mobile networks improvement that are easier and less costly to spread.

The Google’s plan to build wireless networks in emerging markets seems to be a continued evolution of Google from a simple online search engine to a company that develops phones through its Motorola unit, offers software as well as Android and Chrome, makes hardware such as the Chromebook, build next-gen tech such as Google Glass, and serves the internet services Google Fiber.

It’s all okay to follow the journey of the giant tech company since Google works to increase people’s intention to use and benefit its sophisticated products and innovation that will ease them too.

Tumblr’s popularity nowadays is getting more reputable. Found as a social network, Tumblr is planned to be turned into a profitable company. Actually, turning Tumblr into profitable company is such a daunting task for Yahoo, but the fact says it’s far from the point.

On a blog post written by Marissa Mayer, she said if the Yahoo’s deal for Tumblr with the amount of $1.1 billion does not mean to screw it up. She’s talking about Tumblr on her blog post, but if people are scrupulous, Mayer’s statement was only her smart way to invert what she must be hoping Tumblr becomes for Yahoo: a threat to its older, established, classified culture which has been short on innovation, creativity and user-focused design for these long years.

On the other hand, Tumblr itself will be far from getting screwed up since it gets used to its new home under Yahoo. Tumblr is seemingly to have a bright future because something likes a design lab and an already-functioned charter city under the supervision of the Yahoo brand.

When Marissa Mayer worked at Google and led all product management and design efforts, she popularly relied on data about users’ behavior to inform her strategy choices for Google’s products. At that time, some crews argued that her strategy of choosing one shade of blue over another, made users fractionally more likely to click was not really design.

Talking about Yahoo-Tumblr deal, it is not about two technology companies linked up to share both strengths. It’s more likely about two different ways of doing business being pitted against each other to do a battle of meeting and boardrooms which is now controlled by Mayer and her trusted deputies.

Whether the existing Yahoo eventually will have to learn the Tumblr’s success as a part of the new landscape of successful online properties, someone else (or Ms. Mayer) will have a task to take Yahoo ever further than it’s now and strip the company down to the studs in order to rebuild Yahoo for a new digital world.

Focusing on problem solving field, Google has been standing as a strongly integrated company in the world. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve many big problems. An issue that arises along this company’s lunge is that the company is currently addressing a quest to increase the number of female computer engineers.

Google’s co-founder, Larry Page said that Google had been focused on recruiting more women to ensure that the company did not end up with all male workers. "The only answer is, we have to start early and make sure we get more women and girls excited in technology. There's no question we will double the rate of progress", Page added.

The giant company has a number of year-round initiatives which aims to hire and educate more women to be programmers; the program includes scholarships and events. The annual event developers’ conference offers a rare public, visual example of the industry’s gender gap and the company’s progress. In the past, the amount of women who became attendees and speakers was low. But since the conference held in 2008, Google started to working to shift the numbers. Based on Google’s Vice President, Megan Smith stated if this year, there is an increasing number of women who join the tech after the last conference.

Google’s program to increase the amount of women programmers is a smart way to improve women’s skills which are not only limited in certain fields but can also be expanded to the technology field. Thus, young women nowadays can be very interested in having an impact to the world’s progress.

Xbox One seems to be a new inspiring technology for Microsoft to build the new Kinect for Windows sensor. The company will finally deliver a Kinect sensor which works similar to the sensor found in Xbox One. Microsoft has just announced on Thursday that the Kinect for Windows sensor will use the same technologies key to the new Kinect sensor for Xbox One. Both of these technologies will allow people to pull out commands using voice and gestures.

The Kinect sensor will have a high-definition color camera and a noise-isolating multi-microphone array. It will also feature a part which will be a technology called Time-of-Flight, that measures how long it would take for photons to bounce off an object. A plus, these features guarantee greater accuracy and precision while detecting your voice commands and body movements.

Similar to Xbox One counterpart, the Kinect for Windows sensor will be able to pinpoint more body parts, providing more accurate skeletal tracking. Kinect’s sensor will also use a greater field of view to handle a variety of room sizes. This sensor equipped with a new infrared feature that will help the sensor work better, especially in the dark conditions.

The launch of Kinect for Windows sensor might be something waited, since the Kinect for Windows sensor’s launch and the corresponding software development kit means that developers will be capable of creating applications that can take advantage of the features.

On a blog post issued on Thursday, Microsoft stated, “We're continuing our commitment to equipping businesses and organizations with the latest natural technology from Microsoft so that they, in turn, can develop and deploy innovative touch-free applications for their businesses and customers. A new Kinect for Windows sensor and software development kit (SDK) is a core to that commitment." This smart technology could be another bridging step to the other more sophisticated technologies that the Microsoft will be developing. 

As we know, there have been a lot of hacks happened to social media users including Twitter. After a long series of embarrassing hacks, finally, Twitter rolled out a new two-step login to help its users prevent unwanted interferences. The two-step login is a verification system which will be optional for users to fill a phone number registration field, e-mail account and six-digit code that would have to be entered, via text message, each time they log in to the site.

Jim O’Leary, Twitter’s security team, said in a blog post “Every day, there is a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from the people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.”

The new idea comes in the wake of repeated hacks to reputable Twitter accounts in recent months. Last month, The Associated Press’ Twitter account was jeopardized by someone who falsely made a tweet if there had been a bombing at the White House. This case was the latest in a laundry list of media organizations hacked in recent months. Amid them, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Washington Post, “60 Minutes”, CBS, and “48 Hours”.

Another soiled Twitter account case happened in 2011. Fox News saw its Twitter account was compromised and used to send a fake message that President Obama had been murdered. In February, Jeep and Burger King got a similar hack. And on the beginning of 2013, Twitter itself was hacked, as the result, around 250,000 user names and e-mail addresses were exposed.

Most cases of Twitter hacks happened to users whose accounts have easy-to-guess password, been accessed via public Wi-Fi, or the users forgot to log out after using their Twitter accounts. Accounts can also be accessed if a user loses her or his phone while the Twitter account has not been logged out yet. Different way used by hackers to their targeted high-profile victims. Hackers usually send deceptive e-mails that encourage the victims to enter personal information.

For all the cases that ever happened to the Twitter users, Twitter’s security team, O’Leary said that the security upgrade is not a cure-all. He stated, “ Of course, even with this new security option turned on, it is still important for you to use a strong password and follow the rest of Twitter advice to keep your account secure.”

Microsoft and Google seem to have found a new idea in the recent skirmish over YouTube on Windows Phone 8. Both of them announced this idea on Friday, May 24^th 2013 that they are going to build a new version of a native YouTube app which will be available for Windows Phone 8. The YouTube application is planned to be available in the Windows Store in few weeks later.

According to CNET, yesterday they received a statement written by Google and Microsoft that revealed if Microsoft and YouTube were working together to update the new YouTube application for Windows Phone to enable compliance with YouTube’s API terms of Service, in which the ads sustainability was included in the coming weeks of YouTube application launching. Microsoft said if it would replace the existing YouTube application in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during the time of preparing the new one.

Meanwhile, when the two notable companies are developing the new application, Microsoft is going to replace its Microsoft-developed YouTube application that was released on May 8 and it was updated yesterday with the older version, not so functional or good HTML version of the YouTube application for Windows Phone.

Microsoft has been claiming that Google has been keeping the access to APIs which is needed to create a truly functional YouTube application for Windows Phone. This is what Google’s public API for mobile application vendors wanting to be used in building YouTube mobile applications.

On the other hand, Google, for its part, has revealed if Google intended to be the one developing any native YouTube applications for mobile platforms. However, the users of mobile platforms Google who did not support this plan, preferred to use Google’s mobile YouTube site. For this reason, Google also made it clear if it planned not to launch many applications for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8, mentioning low market acceptance for the platforms as the reason.

We do not know what will happen next, but as Windows mobile users, you might impresses with both ideas since you can choose to using a native YouTube application or YouTube’s mobile site.

The iOS or Android application, Instagram is now available with “Photos of You” feature that allows you to tag people, things or brands in your photos.

Running behind the lead of its social-network owner, on May 2, 2013 Instagram introduced its new photo-tagging feature to let users tag people, things and brands to the photo they upload and share through the service. The new feature called “Photos of You”. This is remarkably the photo-sharing platform’s colorful interpretation on tagging.

The application users can tag any Instagram account onto their photos; it could be a friend, cat or burger joint along with the photo while uploading. Those who have been tagged in the photos will receive notifications and they have to choose whether they want to publicy the photos on their own Instagram profiles in a new section named “Photos of You”.

It has long been known if the right-handed people – who are about 90 percent of the population – have left-hemisphere dominant brains, and left-handed people the vice versa. But the division of making conclusion actually is not that simple. Around 95 percent of right-handed people, the left hemisphere almost handles language and the right emotion and image processing; on the other hand, just around 20 percent of lefties experience such strict division. This research is based to the result of some researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

According to the report published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit’s researchers found if most people who hold their cellphone to the right ear have left-hemisphere dominance.

This report might make you wonder, then, who cares? The researchers’ leader, Michael Seidman, director of the division of otologic and neurotologic surgery in the Departent of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital, said if these findings actually have several implications. The main of these findings is that it can help us better understanding the language center of our brain. He added if establishing a correlation between cerebral dominance and sidedness of cellphone use, it may be possible to develop a less-invasive, lower-cost option to set the side of brain where speech and language happens rather than the Wada Test, which refers to a procedure that injects an anesthetic into the carotid artery to put part of the brain to sleep to map activity.

What’s more? The findings also reveal that the cellphone use may not be correlated to brain, head and neck tumors, knowing that nearly 80 percent of people who became the research subjects hold the cellphone to the right ear and yet cancer does not appear more often on that side of the brain, head, or neck.

A research done by Dr. Seidman before he looked into cellphone handedness was that he noticed if most people use their right hand to hold cellphone to their right ear. After that, the research team started to send online survey to 5,000 people who were either patients undergoing Wada and MRI for non-invasive localization or with an online otology group. The 90 percent of the respondents were righties with 9 percent lefties and 1 percent ambidextrous.

Questions that were served at the survey including time spent talking on cellphones, diagnoses of head or neck tumors, and hand dominance for tasks such as writing. According to the survey, almost 70 percent of right-handed respondents held the phone on their right ear, 25 percent to the left, and the 7 percent to either ear. Next, 72 percent of lefties used their left ears, 23 percent used their right ears and 5 percent had no preference.

As a Taiwanese computer maker, Acer has proven its integrity to its consumer through its effort of developing the quality of its products of tablets, notebooks, etc. In an event held on Friday in New York, Acer recently launched the new touch-based notebooks and tablet named Aspire R7 notebook, Aspire P3 Ultrabook, and the Acer Iconia A1 tablet.

The Aspire R7 notebook features a 15.6 inch touch screen and a switch that allows users to rotate and flip the screen as the position needed to convert it in tablet. The company’s new design configured the keyboard closer to the edge of the lower tray and switched the trackpad closer to the screen. Thus, you will be in ease to use the touch screen. The Aspire R7 notebook costs $1,000 and this product will be in stores by the middle of May with an exclusive U.S partnership with Best Buy.

Besides the Aspire R7 notebook, Acer unveiled the Acer Aspire P3 ultrabook which can be converted into a tablet, as well as the Acer Iconia Android tablet with 7.9 inch touch-based screen that will be retailed starting off by June with the price offered $169. The P3 is now available with the price of $800.

In the event, Acer CEO JT Wang said, "Users will have the opportunity to enjoy a totally different experience through those devices". The Taiwan-based computer maker said about the products during the event held in Milk Studios in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, with their tag line “redefining the computing experience through touch”.

As we know, nowadays the entire PC market is growing slower, but Acer has experienced even more than most of its rivals. Acer ever lost its big bet on Netbook, which has caused to steep shipment declines in recent time. The first-quarter global PC shipments of Acer dropped until 31 percent than the previous year. The company has been betting their popularity by producing low-priced, touch-based Windows 8 devices to boost the results, as well as the company’s tablets running other operating systems such as the Android.

The new notebooks and tablet by Acer seem like a flogging to its rivals since there are still a few companies who dare to develop their products into what Acer does.

The world is seemingly now running behind Google’s Android operating system and the company is now working hard to prove its integrity to provide the customers with the latest version after the 4.1 version, Jelly Bean operating system. As reported, the new version of Google’s Android operating system would be named Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie that was spotted in its server logs. As luring as the name of delicious food, the new operating system runs most wanted features.

Based on the information by Google analyst, numerous smartphones and tablets with this new updated version were used to access this website. Types of phone that were tested with the new Android 4.2 were Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Y, Sony Xperia Arc S, and Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

As we know, the current Android operating system version is 4.1 Jelly Bean is still being used by many phones and available in the global marker. But the time seems running fast as Google now has introduced its new Android operating system named Key Lime Pie to keep up its enthusiasts. Actually, the older version of Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich is yet to be rolled out in many Android devices imagining how awesome the next version would impress them.

The Key Lime Pie is rumored to be the next version after the Jelly Bean but it may stick with the Jelly Bean moniker. According to CNET’s review pertaining to the new version Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie, there is a little of new software treats the update has in store. Due to Android’s open nature, it has been many items on our wish list can be achieved through enraged tinkering or installing specific applications using Google Play.

Whether this operating system will overwhelm people’s Android device or not, Google –brand features that could ease the consumers to access more applications with more conveniently is being awaited by folks.

Evernote Food’s original version has one menu item as well as My Meals. In the latest version of Evernote Food, the menu item, My Meals does not have to work alone anymore; the new sections such as Explore Recipes, My Cookbook, and Restaurants have been added. Let me show you the new features!

If you are the type of person who likes to spend your spare time by browsing recipes, the Evernote Food 2.0 may be a good friend for you. Through this application, especially on the Explore Recipes menu, you can browse over a huge selection as many as thousands recipes all over the Web. You will find recipes from places you will likely recognize such as the AllRecipes.com or Clean Eating.

Using My Cookbook will ease you so much more. Though this menu, you can check any previous recipe you’ve saved though the application along with those you clip on the Web. If you are about to save a recipe, you are allowed to add tags and notes, so that you can easily find it later based on its category tagged. Fortunately, Evernote and Evernote Food are linked each other to let you an easy access to your saved food information.

The next menu is the Restaurants. This menu is a newly surprising feature to the Evernote Food application. Using this menu, you can search by the type of food you would like to eat or by the location of noted restaurants. In this application, you are probably going to find better searching results by typing the location than the type of food because some restaurants may be miscategorized online if they do not manage a Web site or social network account.

In the new version of Evernote Food 2.0, My Meals remains an area for collection photos of the steps of making dishes or the finished product along with notes you type.

For the whole function of this application’s features, they do make a lot of sense. You can use several platforms for sharing images of food which can also end up on Twitter and Instagram. The latest version of Evernote Food 2.00 can be easily replaced with the previous Evernote if the new one does not have other menus as well as Explore Recipes, My Cookbook, and the Restaurants, apart from the My Meals category. 

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The arrival of iPad Mini among the gadget markets seemed like a trouncing for the previous version of iPad. The Apple suppliers chain in the Asia admit if the iPad Mini’s trends and shipments indicate that it is overwhelming the iPad in popularity.

In Apple’s second quarter on January to March, over 19.5 million iPads were sold out, 12.5 million amongst were the iPad Minis, and this information was an estimation of Taipei-based Digitimes that cited sources. The publication defines the number of shipments.

On December, DisplaySearch expected Apple to sell 6 million iPad Minis in 2012 but then upped to more than 12 million.  All of those sales would take place in Apple’s first quarter that ended on December because the iPad Mini was not released for sale until November 2012.

If we are scrupulous about the excellence of iPad Mini against the regular iPad, we may find some reasons. First, the iPad Mini is augmented reality. It is said so, because this gadget is a sophisticated technology that combine the virtual objects with the real ones. But when it comes to decide which type of iPad should be bought, the iPad Mini might overwhelm your mind by considering its shape which is lighter and smaller than the regular iPad. The next reason is that about the price offered by iPad Mini. For the smaller shape, the iPad Mini becomes more popular than the regular iPad because it has a lower cost with more convenient features.

David Hsieh, the DisplaySearch analyst said, “It seems people especially like the size. It is lighter, slimmer and easier to carry, referring to Mini’s 7.9-inch display versus the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen.

The iPad Mini’s popularity comes despite having a relatively low-resolution non-Retina display and older silicon if compared with the iPad 4. Sameer Singh at Tech-Thoughts put iPad Mini’s shipments at 12 million as the highest estimation in the most recent quarter ending in March by estimating the lowest possible number of shipment to be a little less than 9 million.

However, both of the iPad Mini and regular iPad have their excellences to impress the iPad seekers. Which one could impress you most?