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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Amazon tablet will be launched in August

Amazon tablet
It seems Amazon will use its long-awaited tablet on the market to challenge Apple by the end of the year.

Taiwan-based component makers say that the online retailer will launch a tablet PC in August, with an aggregate worldwide turnover in 2011 to 4,000,000 units, according to a report from the tech site DigiTimes. With monthly orders is expected to hit 700,000 to 800,000 units a month of the tablet launch is timed to take advantage of pre-Thanksgiving shopping rush, DigiTimes' sources pointed out.

Facebook and Twitter war for users

Facebook and Twitter

Earlier this month social media site Twitter, and Apple tech powerhouse together to make tweeting easier for iPhone, iPod touch users.
Apple owners will now be able to tweet directly from your camera, photos, maps, YouTube and Safari apps.

Twitter rival Facebook - partly owned by Microsoft - not expected to have similar functions to produce the iPhone.

World’s First Solar-Powered Laptop Launches in US

World’s First Solar-Powered Laptop

Sunlight is not the best friends for most laptops, especially those with reflective screens, but this netbook thrives on. Samsung NC215S is billed by the company as the world's first solar-powered laptop, with a large solar panel on the front.

Google now provides five more Indian languages

Google

WASHINGTON: Internet search engine giant Google announced Tuesday the expansion of its translation to include five Indian languages ​​- Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu - and so increase the range to a potential half million inhabitants.

"From now on it the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent with Google Translate now supports five new experimental Alpha languages​​: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu," said Ashish Venugopal, a researcher at Google.