Symantec announces to release Norton 360 version 3.0 security solution in India

The provider security, storage and systems management solutions, Symantec Corp. today announced that it will soon release Norton 360 version 3.0 security solution in India. According to the Sunnyvale, California based security firm, Symantec, Norton 360 version 3.0 is an all-in-one security solution for computers with/without internet connections.
In its press release, Symantec stated that the latest version of Norton 360 version 3.0 will come with the performance and security advancements of Norton Internet Security 2009, such as Norton Insight and pulse updates. It is designed to keep the PCs protected and running at peak performance, and increase online backup flexibility for protecting the most important files. It will feature Norton Safe Web, Norton Backup Drive, and free web, email, chat or phone support.
Norton Safe Web is designed to offer protection to online computers. It is a web site rating service to protect online users that delivers site ratings by leveraging targeted crawling, an Intelligent Aging Algorithm and the 20 million member Norton Community Watch. It increases protection by providing ecommerce safety ratings that enable users to conduct a transaction with an online vendor.
Norton 360 version 3.0 will also include Norton Identity Safe designed to protect online identities, usernames and passwords for online shopping, banking and browsing, and prevents key-loggers from capturing private information.

Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores

Palit’s new GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores comes in a large cardboard box with a Battlefield 3 picture on its front.However, the game itself is not included into the box as is explained in the small print. In other words, the Battlefield 3 picture and title are just a marketing trick. The product's accessories are scanty including but a single DVI->D-Sub adapter, a power cable (one 6-pin-> two PATA connectors), a CD with drivers and an installation guide.The card is manufactured in China and costs about $280 in retail shops.

The Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores looks attractive with its cooler’s stylish plastic casing that borrows some elements from Battlefield 3, too. The reverse side of the PCB is open.The card measures 228 x 112 x 45 millimeters. It weighs no more than 1 kilo. A gorgeous selection of connectors is offered: two dual-link DVI ports, one HDMI version 1.4a and one DisplayPort.The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores is closer to the GTX 560 Ti rather than to the GTX 570 in its PCB design. The PCB is shorter and simpler, at least in Palit’s implementation, than the GTX 570's. The power system follows the 4+1 formula with 4 phases for the GPU and 1 phase for the graphics memory.

LG to unveil world’s biggest 3D Ultra Definition TV

LG Electronics (LG) will unveil the world's largest 3D Ultra Definition (UD) TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, The Nation reported.
By combining LG's industry-leading 3D technology and Smart TV function with UD display technology, the 84-inch TV is said to break new ground in immersive 3D home entertainment.
"LG is pushing the limits of home entertainment innovation with this 3D UD TV," said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. "We are bringing together all our Smart TV and 3D knowledge in the 3D UD TV in order to demonstrate to the CES audience that LG is committed to being the world's leading brand for immersive home entertainment in 2012 and beyond."
LG's 3D UD TV boasts superb picture quality with 8 million pixels, four times the resolution clarity (3840x2160) of existing Full HD TV panels. Combined with LG's Slim and Narrow Bezel Design, the 3D UD TV provides the most convincing 3D viewing experience currently available outside of a movie theater. What's more, 3D Depth Control allows users to customize their viewing experience by controlling the 3D effect while 3D Sound Zooming provides users with 3D sound that rivals the output of all but the best home theater systems.
Via the superior display panel, users can access LG's Smart TV ecosystem, which comprises over 1,200 apps and gives users access to a growing range of premium content services such as the 3D Zone where viewers can select from a wealth of 3D movies. The imbedded 2D to 3D conversion engine expands the availability of 3D content to limitless levels. Users can easily browse and navigate the Smart TV ecosystem using LG's new, ergonomically-designed Magic Remote which now recognizes four different types of command input: Voice Recognition, Wheel, Magic Gesture and Point. 

Google wishes Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Google wishes a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to its users. And if you click on the picture, it is written “Google wishes everyone happy holidays!’
And “Happy Holidays” comprises pictures devoted to Christmas and New Year, with every letter of “Google.” And these pictures sing and dance under “Jingle Bells.”
To note, Catholics and some Orthodox countries celebrate Christmas on December 25, the Russian Orthodox Church, on January 7, and the Armenian Apostolic Church, on January 6.

HP Data Center Project ‘to Reduce Energy up to 89%

HP has unveiled Project Moonshot, an initiative to reduce data center energy use by up to 89 percent through the sharing of storage, networking, management, power and cooling across thousands of servers.
HP says the project will simplify data centers for companies operating thousands of servers, by using up to 94 percent less space than traditional server systems, while reducing costs by up to 63 percent.
The company says the project will promote industry collaboration to accelerate the development of “hyperscale” computing environments, including cloud services and on-demand computing. Companies using this kind of computing are facing a crisis in capacity, requiring a fundamental structural change, according to Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager of the hyperscale business unit in HP’s Industry Standard Servers and Software division.

Apple Paying Consumers for PCs

Apple has expanded its recycling program with an option that will pay owners of iPhones, iPads, Macs and even PCs a fair market value for their old electronics, AppleInsider reports.

The website reports that Apple continues to offer a variety of recycling options, including free pickup and disposal of any brand of computer or display through WeRecycle!.
But now, users who own an iOS device or a laptop or desktop computer from any manufacturer can obtain credit from Apple by visiting http://store.apple.com/us/browse/reuse_and_recycle.
“If your product qualifies for reuse — meaning it has monetary value — you’ll receive an Apple Gift Card equivalent to its fair market value as determined by PowerON,” Apple states on its recycling program website. PowerON is a third party company Apple contracts with to run the reuse program.

Google Zetigest reveals top searches of 2011

Google revealed Thursday its 11th annual Zeitgeist – the people, places, culture, and most-searched terms that shaped 2011, The Daily Mail reported.

In the US, Rebecca Black- the teenager whose catchy hit Friday garnered millions of hits, late night talk show appearances, and even a record deal - was the most popular search of 2011.

Surprisingly, American Armenian popular reality star Kim Kardashian didn’t rank in the top ten searches in the US, though the reality TV star whose marriage to Kris Humphries lasted a brief 72 days.

She reportedly placed second in the top celebrity search ranking.

The remainder of the top ten searches reflected a mix of current events, technology, and entertainment – Google’s answer to social networking behemoth Facebook Google+ came in second.

Apple was big in the top ten fastest rising searches, with not one but three searches, including iPhone 5, Steve Jobs, and iPad2. 

More than 5.8million people lost electricity, while flooding destroyed roadways and homes of thousands.

Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Florida woman charged – and later acquitted – of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, was the seventh most popular.

Searches for ‘Casey Anthony’ and related searches like ‘Casey Anthony Case’ grew 2,680 per cent from 2010 to 2011, according to Google.

On a lighter note, the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was one of the most popular wedding searches of the year, as was the Kardashian wedding.

According to Zeitgeist, Japan was a trending topic in nearly every country – no doubt because of the crippling earthquake and tsunami that struck in March.

The Google zeitgeist list - meaning spirit of the times - is compiled from the searches through Google each year. Individual searchers are not identified.|

Google hosts a year-round Zeitgeist page that lets users monitor search terms' popularity over time.

Astronomers detect first Earth-size planets orbiting another star

In a milestone hailed by scientists as a key step toward finding another Earth-like world, astronomers Tuesday announced the discovery of two blazingly hot planets roughly the size of Earth some 950 light years distant, The Washington Post reported.
The discovery “demonstrates for first time that Earth-size planets exist around other stars, and that we can detect them,” said Francois Fressin, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who led the discovery team.
The two planets orbit a star much like our sun, but they whiz around it so fast and so close that their surfaces sizzle like frying pans.
"They’re way too hot to be anything like our own Earth," said Sara Seager, a planet hunter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the discovery team.
The implication: No life — at least life as we can conceive it — is possible on the new planets.
Still, finding these hot Earth-sized planets is "seriously cool," said Lisa Kaltenegger, who studies so-called exoplanets at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, and was not involved in the research. “These discoveries are a great technological step forward.”

Record labels criticise Google over illegal downloads

Google has failed to deliver on promises to tackle illegal file-sharing, according to an organisation which represents music labels around the world, BBC News reported.

The IFPI said guarantees Google had made about copyright infringement 12 months ago "remained unfulfilled".
It conceded that the search engine had made "modest steps", but alleged it was profiting from piracy. 
In response, Google declined to comment on what it called a "press stunt". 
In the report, the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) accused Google of making money from "sites and applications that engage in piracy".
It said, as the world's biggest search engine, it had a "special responsibility" to protect copyrighted music. 
It said some work had been done but that more action had to be taken if Google "is not to continue to be abused as a vehicle for piracy."
"Google also needs to do more to ensure that it does not derive revenue from illegal activity and supports the digital marketplace in which it itself is a participant," it added.

REVIEW: NOKIA LUMIA 800

GADGET NEWS : How a strong have fallen. Seriously, how a strong have fallen! Nokia, once a widespread healthy force in a phone market, has right divided been relegated to a sidelines of both a bill and a tall finish segments. Even as a iPhone eata divided Nokia’s share in a high-end segment, Android inclination have been cannibalizing in to a once undisputed prevalence of all verticals if a market.

With MeeGo approach during a behind of schedule, Nokia’s newly minted CEO Stephen Elop pulled a block upon a plan in Feb and sealed a special agreement with Microsoft, branch Windows Phone in to a Finnish giant’s premier smartphone platform. The Lumia 800 is a singularity of this marriage.

Design

Words can not report how pleasing to see Lumia 800 is. However, you can ‘t help, though to do with a Nokia N9 prior comparison, and, dropping Windows Phone symbol to arrangement and capacitive buttons supplement a two-stage camera shiver symbol Lumia 800 radically share a same chassis. Design wise, you will not contend Lumia 800 trump label iPhone 4, because even a year after a iPhone 4 is extraordinary to see. There Lumia in iPhone 4S measure of 800 is unequivocally durable. It is a great great known actuality that iPhone 4S is utterly frail due to a potion exterior, though not a face of a Nokia Lumia 800 of this issue.

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