Posted by Visakh Padmanabhan
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 saw a wide range of gadgets and electronic appliances that could further enhance the lifestyle of mankind. You could see various technological giants like Sony, Samsung, LG, and many others fighting it out, by coming up with innovations beyond the wildest of dreams. 
While all these companies were trying to catch the world’s eye with their mesmerizing products comprising of TVs, smartphones, tablets, music systems, laptops, etc., there was one company that captured not just the eyes, but also the voices of those visiting the show.
Blue Microphones are at it again. When it comes to capturing voices, they are a force to reckon with and they have now come out with their new microphones. Yes, the event saw the unveiling of three new microphones, namely the Apple-centric Mickey Digital, the studio-grade Spark Digital and the USB-stick-like Tiki. If you thought that the Mickey for Flip and the Yeti Pro microphones from Blue (presented at the previous CES) were impressive, wait till you get your hands on these gems.
Las Vegas was not to be disappointed and the latest microphones are already making their presence felt. Let’s go through some of the main features of these Apple related microphones.
Posted by Amal Ambili
Cloud computing is a concept we have been hearing for a while. Though many were using cloud services, the term wasn’t much popular as cloud was more of a concept than a resource like the Internet. Cloud computing has gained more visibility with each passing day and now, it looks like Cloud Services are here to stay and has become the future.
Cloud computing, as per definition laid down by National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
In simple terms, cloud computing is just a massively distributed Internet based computing model that allows users to share information and access applications, without installing them from anywhere in the world, provided the user has a computer and an Internet connection.
Posted by Varun Chandran
Have you ever thought of removing space eating applications from your system drive to free up drive space? I bet you have, because we all go for default installation locations in a hurry. After your system drive gets full, you probably go for uninstalling the application and reinstall it on some other drive. What if you get a chance to relocate your applications to another drive on the go?
Yes, I’ve found a way to free up the system drive. The warning message “Your C:/ drive is running out of space” will no more bug you. The tool Application Mover will help you relocate your applications from one drive to another just like that.
Posted by Amal Ambili
As we all know, China is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that they are also the largest market for smartphones.
According to Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting firm headquartered in Boston, USA, China has overshot the United States in Q3 2011, to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume.
This sudden growth in smartphone sales dates back to the previous quarter when the market share in China grew by 58 percent with sales touching 24 million. The US market however fell by seven percent, with just over 23 million handsets sold in the same quarter.
Posted by Godfrey Wilson
Blogosphere is the collection of all blogs on the
Internet. There are more than 172 million blogs in the blogosphere. Bloggers create more than 1 million new posts in the blogosphere every day. With the Internet dominating the world in the recent past, demand for creative writers has grown tremendously. QBurst has a solid group of creative writers who contribute to various blogs. In this post, we plan to analyze the career of blogging.
Blogging as a Career:
By using the term ‘blogging’, we do not point to one blog/website built in Blogspot or WordPress. We rather put the focus on the writer and his articles in various websites. The writer or blogger may have his own website but does not limit to contributing to his website alone. There are 20 million people in the U.S. who have blogging as a career. Guy Kawasaki is a known blogger. He writes for many websites. A collection of his articles for American Express Open forum can be found here. Pete Cashmore, the owner of Mashable is another known figure in the blogosphere.
Posted by Godfrey Wilson
Some time back, eBay launched Paypal Access – a universal login system for the web, and the first of its kind for ecommerce websites. Popular ecommerce web sites, as of now, have their own registration process that every new user must go through. They manage and maintain all the information provided by users, including credit card and SSN numbers. Paypal Access has been launched with a vision to change this and increase the number of sales for small ecommerce store owners.
The Product
Paypal users can now log into any ecommerce website that supports Paypal 
Access, and make purchases without the need of for going through a separate registration process at the website. Paypal Access can be integrated either through OpenID 2.0 specification or OAuth protocol. The feature can also be implemented for mobile versions.
Posted by Amal Ambili
Researchers at Gartner now report that one in every two Smartphones sold in the world, run Android. According to their latest study, Android claims a 52.5 percent market share worldwide, in the third quarter of 2011. About a year ago, their market share was a mere 25.3 percent and by the last quarter, it touched a mark of 43.4 percent. Today, with its stunning operating system and a vast collection of devices, Google sits pretty at the top, stealing market shares from almost every other Smartphone.
Smartphone market has been a churning revolution for a while and so, it’s not surprising to see a steep 42 percent in its growth in just a year’s time. As a matter of fact, sale of Smartphones to end users reached 115 million units in the third quarter of 2011!
Posted by Amal Ambili
During the summer of 2011, some tech blogs talked about a cool new wristwatch that would allow users to communicate with each other! Many people chose to ignore this news as it seemed too good to be true. However, a few who accepted the simple fact that they lived in a world where fantasy could at any moment turn into reality, chose to believe it.
And for them, it didn’t come as a surprise when Blue Sky announced the launch of ‘I’m Watch’, the first real smart wristwatch ever made.
Posted by Godfrey Wilson
An idea or information represented in visual form is an infographic. It may contain graphics, images, charts (pie, bar, column, etc.), graphs, Venn diagrams or familiar icons. An ideal infographic may scroll to at least two web pages in length. Recently, the use of infographics in the Internet has significantly increased. Research companies like Forrester release data as infographics. The best internet companies like Webs, Volusion use infographics either to communicate company information or to explain their products.
This sample infographic explains activities on the internet in 60 seconds.
Posted by Vivek V
Microsoft, one of the oldest tablet developing companies, released their first tablet 10 years ago with Chairman Bill Gate’s prediction that within five years it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America. The release was a complete failure mainly because of the operating system they had used in it – Windows XP, which was originally developed for Desktop PC customers. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, recognized the importance of having a different operating system for tablets from Microsoft’s failure. Apple wrote its name in golden letters in the history of tablets, by introducing iPad in which they included a new operating system called iOS. iPad was a big hit in the US market and very soon Google followed with Android based tablets.
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