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Samsung’s Galaxy S III could launch as early as May 2012 and be just 7mm thick, according to South Korean sources, with the quadcore Android 4.0 smartphone testing all its creator’s manufacturing expertise. The follow-up to the Galaxy S II had to be slimmer than the 8.49mm best-seller, Samsung apparently decided in March 2011, setting out to use 10- to 20-percent thinner components and a shaved-down PCB, ETNews reports, though the 8-megapixel camera will present a bump on the profile. A 2-megapixel front facing camera for video calls is also promised, along with Full HD video recording. That will support playback via HDMI – presumably using an MHL-compliant microUSB port like many of Samsung’s existing phones – and LTE connectivity is tipped as well. Samsung confirmed last week that the Galaxy S III won’t make its debut at MWC 2012 this month, though did say that the handset would be revealed sometime before then end of July. The company won’t talk specifications, though the leak sugge

If you have a Netflix account and are a fan of streaming media yesterday marked an important occasion for Netflix. Netflix debuted its first original program yesterday, and all episodes are now available for viewing via the streaming service. Netflix’s first original program is called Lilyhammer. The program went live yesterday and is the first original program from Netflix and more original content is coming in the future. The cool part about this is that Netflix put every episode online at the same time. That means you can watch the entire series in one sitting if you like it. I’m a little surprised that Netflix did that; I would’ve thought that they would want to keep people coming back each week. As a fan of movies and TV, I do like the thought of being able to watch every episode back to back. The catch is that if the show is good, you have to wait until they make Netflix also tapped a few more details about the show that I didn’t know when it was first announced. Actor Steven Van

Nokia has officially announced the White Lumia 800, the company’s fourth color version of its first Windows Phone 7 handset, and we wasted no time in getting our fondle on. Set to hit shelves later this month, the white variant is functionally identical to the black, cyan and magenta models we’ve already seen – and reviewed – but has a fashionable new finish. Check out our video and full gallery after the cut. Like the white Nokia N9 before it, the white version of the Lumia 800 is gloss-finish rather than matte. That makes it a little more slippery to hold, though it’s still compact enough to grip neatly in one hand. Glossy phones are usually fingerprint magnets, but the white Nokia manages to hide them reasonably well. Otherwise it’s the same Lumia 800 we know from before, so you get a 3.7-inch WVGA ClearBlack display, 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with 720p HD video recording, and a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm processor. OS is Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and Nokia preloads its Nokia Dr

I think many people understand today that the photos they put on Facebook and other social networking sites can be used against them by employers when searching for a new job. I’m sure a lot of people posting pictures to Facebook have thought better of it after a few hours, days, or weeks and then went back and deleted the photo. The catch is that the photo may be deleted from your profile and as it turns out, often the photos are still the Facebook servers and accessible. According to ArsTechnica, three years after photos were deleted from some Facebook accounts; the photos are still accessible via direct links it has access to. All a person needs to be an access the photos you deleted in most cases is the direct link to the photo, and you can still see it. ArsTechnica reports that it started following this back in 2009 and that some of the links to deleted photos they found still accessible back in 2009 are still accessible today despite being deleted from the user account. The inter

AT&T has put the Samsung Galaxy Note LTE up for pre-order, ahead of the 5.3-inch smartphone-tablet hybrid’s release on February 19. Priced at $299.99 with a new, two-year agreement, the stylus-equipped handset is available to order in either carbon blue or, as shown below, ceramic white. The smartphone has a 1280 x 800 display and uses an active digitizer to work with the digital pen. That can capture and annotate screenshots, be used to write and draw on photos and even video clips, or simply to navigate the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS with Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface. There’s also an 8-megapixel camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Opinion is split as to whether the Galaxy Note counts as a phone or a mini-tablet, though you could argue it offers the best of both worlds. Samsung made it the centerpiece of its Apple-skewering advert for the Super Bowl this weekend. More details on the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note LTE in our full hands-on with the smartphone, and you

Like all tech companies, Google is always on the lookout to hire the best and brightest employees. Often, that means luring workers away from competitors. Google has done just that the recent hire of Simon Prakash, who was formerly Apple senior director project integrity. It’s not clear at this point exactly what Google has in mind for Prakash. According to VentureBeat, the project he will be on is a secret. VentureBeat notes that this is the first time Google has been able to hire way someone so senior from Apple. Another interesting point about this is that the hire comes at a time when the DOJ is investigating Apple and Google along with other companies for having an alleged agreement in place to not poach each other’s employees. The agreement is said to have been put in place to keep salaries low in the industry by limiting competition. Prakash has been at Apple for over eight years and was responsible for product quality across all the Apple product lines ranging from smartphones

Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy Nexus White, the pale color variant of its Ice Cream Sandwichsmartphone collaboration with Google. Functionally identical to the existing Galaxy Nexus – the GSM model, in this case, rather than the 4G LTE version – the new Nexus will go on sale in the UK from February 13 2012. Pre-order listings for the Galaxy Nexus White were spotted early last month, with official images cropping upshortly after. Like previous white Samsung phones, the fascia itself is still black, with the edge and rear of the handset the new color. “After much speculation, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Galaxy Nexus White which follows the great reception the phone has received since it was launched back in November” Samsung UK telecoms exec Simon Stanford said this morning. ”One of the things we at Samsung pride ourselves on is the choice we offer customers, and we’ve enjoyed huge success to date by introducing white variants of our most popular model

In my part of the country, we don’t get to participate in winter sports. We rarely get snow and when we do and couple inches of snow is a lot. That means we would have no use for these cool Buhel Speakgoggle G33 ski goggles that not only protect your eyes from snow and glare, but also allow you to talk using your smartphone via Bluetooth while you fly down the slopes. The goggles use Bluetooth to pair to your smartphone. On the outside of the goggles are large buttons that appear to be usable while wearing gloves. Those controls are for answering phone calls and ending them along with controls for your music. A special microphone is integrated into the goggles that picks up vibrations when you speak through the facial bones and eliminates noise. That is supposed to mean that you don’t have to shout to make a decent phone call while you’re skiing down slopes. The coolest part is that you don’t have to have smartphone to communicate with a group of skiers. The goggles can interface with

By any measure, Twitter is a very popular social networking/microblogging website. Millions of people around the world use Twitter every day to share things as mundane as what they had for breakfast to important business details. Twitter has in fact been beefing up its support for corporate pages by allowing companies more customization with the rollout of more enhanced pages. Something else that Twitter has been used for by more and more people is to share news of current happening events in real-time. Twitter has released one very interesting statistic. An official tweet from Twitter has announced that during the final 3 minutes of the Super Bowl there was an average of 10,000 tweets every second. That’s an insane number to me 600,000 tweets in a minute and over that three minute span 1.8 million tweets were made.

Each morning when my seven-year-old daughter wakes up, the first thing she asks me is how cold it’s going to be. If I tell her a specific number like 50°, she looks at me as if I asked her to solve an algebra equation. The next thing out of her mouth is, “do I need a jacket or not?” That’s all she really wants to know; weather from a child’s perspective can be distilled three basic things – shorts or pants or jacket. I think a lot of us are like that when it comes to the weather. I would love to have this little gadget called the Cryoscope. It would be the perfect thing for letting a little kid figure out exactly what they need to wear on any given day. The Cryoscope is a cool little DIY gadget that was created by a guy named Robb Godshaw, who is an industrial design student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The device is impressively simple in its construction with only a few parts that anybody familiar with computers will recognize. The Cryoscope uses a solid little cube, a p

HTC had done its best to set expectations low for its Q4 2011 financial results, and with good reason: the smartphone company saw revenue and margins slump, and expects little good news in the short-term. Revenue for the three month period fell 2.49-percent year-on-year and over a quarter from Q3, to NT$101.42bn ($3.44bn), the company has announced today [pdf link], with profit ditching almost 12-percent year-on-year to NT$27.5bn ($933m). Meanwhile, gross margins have continued to slide all through 2011, starting the year at 29.25-percent in Q1, but ending it at 27.12-percent. HTC had a relatively strong summer, but lackluster holiday sales soured the year, despite annual revenues being up considerably on 2010. The problem, it’s generally perceived, is too many “me too” phones and not enough legitimate Apple and Samsung rivals. It’s a shortcoming even HTC has conceded; the company said last month that it planned a return to the “Hero Strategy” in 2012, focusing on quality over quantity

Samsung took its current brand of Apple slapping to the Super Bowl this weekend, calling in the stars – some better known than others – to show how the Galaxy Note can help iPhone-addicts find cellular freedom. The 90 second spot, which you can see after the cut, is Samsung’s first Super Bowl ad but revives some of the Korean company’s common themes: that Apple’s brand of queuing, brainwashed automatons can rediscover life if only they grab the stylus or stroke the touchscreen of a Galaxy-series device. Samsung first started its overt anti-Apple strategy with a Galaxy S II advert back in November, portraying iPhone queuers realizing that the new handset they were waiting for had been bested by an Android smartphone already available. The company followed up with a second spot, highlighting the aesthetic similarities between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S. For its Super Bowl ad, Samsung didn’t depart too much from its existing script. Set to “ I Believe in a Thing Called Love ” by The D

Google‘s periodic homepage doodles often celebrate tech, but the search company has looked to French avant-garde cinema with a birthday celebration for François Truffaut. One of the founders of the French New Wave style, Truffaut was born on February 6 1932 and is perhaps best known for the 1959 film The 400 Blows , a part-autobiographical story of an illegitimate child and his struggles through adolescence. Google’s doodle – a three part slideshow of stylized drawings – begins with a sketch reminiscent of the final frames of The 400 Blows, where central character Antoine Doinel stares out at the sea: Popout Truffaut would have been 80 today, and in his 52 years directed over 25 features and shorts. He also produced screenplays for a number of titles, and was an actor in Steven Spielberg’s famous 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The anti-piracy crusade has claimed another victim, with BitTorrent indexing site btjunkie voluntarily shutting down this weekend. Apparently the fifth most popular torrent site online in 2011, btjunkie had opened its doors to download indexing in 2005. “We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate” the team behind the site said in a statement on Sunday, “but it’s time to move on.” Rather than actually hosting files, as was the case with MegaUpload, btjunkie crawled the web looking for torrents. Private and public file-sharing sites were indexed, btjunkie serving up possible download links for peer-hosted content and fleshing them out with user-reviews to weed out bad or corrupted downloads. “This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!” btjunkie Alth

You won’t be able to do anything with it for nearly three weeks, but if you feel so inclined you might be able to go down to your local Walmart and pick up a PlayStation Vita game. There are reports of the launch title ModNation Racers: Road Trip already being stocked on the shelves of the discount retailer. Unfortunately, you shouldn’t count on being able to find an actual Vita until it goes on sale on February 22. This isn’t necessarily retailer error, though with Walmart we wouldn’t automatically give them the benefit of the doubt. It’s possible Sony didn’t put an embargo on the game because giving out early units isn’t that big of a threat (you still need the Vita before you can play it). Or perhaps it’s a way to grab some early sales from customers who would otherwise have had no interest in ModNation Racers but jump are too anxious for their Vita to turn away an early copy. A third possibility is that the early copies are only available to Walmart. Game publishers have been known

The Pirate Bay is literally taking digital piracy to the next dimension, and the process has already begun. The online downloading company told users last month that in addition to the requisite slate of movies, music, and TV show content it offered through means of copyright infringement, it wanted to add files that could be used for 3D printers. So in essence, users are now able to swap physical products in addition to digital products, without recognizing the original owner of the content. The first item available through The Pirate Bay’s 3D printable content section, known as “Physibles,” is the iconic pirate ship that serves as Pirate Bay’s logo. There have already been several downloads of the file, and users have actually uploaded it to 3D printing websites to get their own piece of pirating history. Of course, while the file of the pirate ship is free, users still need to pay for the cost of 3D printing. For the most part, 3D printers are still not marketed for home use and cos

When you switch from an Android phone over to the iPhone or vice versa, there are a few adjustments you’ll have to make. The difference between the two, no matter which versions of the software you’re dealing with, are much smaller than the difference between either and any other software. Windows Phone, Symbian, any number of lesser cell phones are much more difficult to switch to or from when the alternative is switching to Android or iPhone from the other. This article is but one of several in a series written by your humble narrator called “I’m switching to iPhone 4S for a week,” this series having the alternate title “iPhone 4S Up Close and Personal.” The software on the two devices we’re looking at here is the most updated version from either software group,Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich from Google, and iOS 5 from Apple. The devices we’re looking at are theiPhone 4S from Apple and the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung. The iPhone 4S is the same as each iPhone before it in that Apple use

More than 3,300 US GameStop locations are now equipped with PlayStation Vitas. Not to buy, unfortunately, but to give anxious gamers a hands-on look at what the next generation of portable Sony gaming will offer. The demo stations contain playable builds of eight of the most anticipated Vita titles, some of which are launch games but others do not have an official release date yet. The full list of playable games is: Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, Little Deviants, EA Sports FIFA Soccer, ModNation Racers: Road Trip, Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition, Escape Plan, and Wipeout 2048. The Vita launch is exciting since it is the first new generation of Sony gaming hardware in nearly six years. Analysts are also eager to see how it fares against the Nintendo 3DS, which had a surprisingly poor reception in the US in its 2011 launch. And it wouldn’t be GameStop if there wasn’t some sort of related offer that encourages budget-conscious gamers to get rid of their

The Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones are durable, well-built headphones that stand up to their hype. But they also prove that tying in a celebrity endorsement to an audio product can create tremendous brand value, so Monster has decided to team up with a more old-school music sensation to promote its new product, the Gratitude in-ear headphones. The Gratitude has a distinct gold aesthetic and comes with 12 different eartips of varying size and type. The headphone also has a ControlTalk in-line microphone and seamless volume controls. When you’re done tuning out the outside world, the headphones can be tucked away in one of the included carrying pouches. And should you ever have any issues, they come with a one-year warranty. Okay, so now to answer the next question – the one you’ve been asking since you saw the word “Monster” – how expensive is the Gratitude? To grab a pair you’ll need to shell out $229.95. Yeah, Monster products are always at the high of the high end and they usual

'Jodi breakers' is a cheeky entertainer which takes a peek- a -boo into dysfunctional romantic relationships that eventually lead to breakups. Pairing the vivacious and exciting actors Madhavan and Bipasha together for the first time, the film also stars Milind Soman and Deepanita Sharma along with the ever roguish Omi Vaidya and ever charming Helen . This is the first song "Kunwara" from the film, sung by Salim Merchant .Music of the film is given by Salim Sulaiman & lyrics is by Irshad Kamil. Film Name : Jodi breakers Song Name : Kunwara Singer - Salim Merchant Lyrics - Irshad Kamil Music By - Salim Sulaiman

Catch Abhishek Bachchan recording for his song 'Buddhi Do Bhagwaan (ladki hai nadaan)' in his upcoming movie Players. He has lend his voice for this song. Enjoy this bollywood song with lyrics and see AB Jr. putting some humor in it. The music of this movie is from Pritam. Enjoy & stay connected with us.