Usman Khalid
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Google launched first eagerly awaited clouding service called Google Drive two days ago. Though the search engine giant were a little late to the clouding competition with the likes of Apple and Microsoft already streaking in the market with their respective services, iCloud and SkyDrive, the company did not need a promotion trumpet or a […]
Apr 26 2012 | Posted in
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It is clear that the service serves only the purpose of storage device, like a hard drive in the user’s local computer machine and do not hold any right to the content uploaded. SkyDrive “5. Your Content: Except for material that we license to you, we don’t claim ownership of the content you provide on […]
Apr 26 2012 | Posted in
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Intel Corporation released the latest line of new Ivy Bridge processors on Monday, April 23. The word Ivy Bridge has been tossed around for about six months or more in the technology industry and the likes of Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Samsung, even including Apple, have been waiting for the release of the new line of […]
Apr 26 2012 | Posted in
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One of the most effective advancement in the technology will be the 3D Tri-Gate transistor. Intel claims tri-gate tech allows an “unprecedented” combination of power savings and performance gains that will allow the perpetuation of Moore’s law for “years to come,” according to a statement by the company. The Ivy Bridge processors will increase the […]
Apr 26 2012 | Posted in
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The real upgrades in ultrabooks and tablets will start with the rise of Win8. Coupled with the new processors, the new version of Windows is expected to run a hot streak in the coming years. However, until that time, the consumers will have to keep their peace with Windows 7, and who knows a faster […]
Apr 26 2012 | Posted in
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AsusTek, Inc. released a new tablet, Asus Transformer Pad TF300 in the US and Europe. The new device is successor to the 2011 Transformer Prime but the company has decided to trim off the Eee Pad Prefix from the name. The Pad TF300 comes preloaded with Google’s latest version of the mobile operating system Android, […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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The Pad comes with all the glory of physical buttons as did the Prime. There is a volume rocker, micro-HDMI and micro-SD card slots on the left edge. A Sleep/Wake-up toggle is on the top of the slate that can now be easily pressed. On the rear right edge is a 1.5-inch speak slit that […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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First off, the TF300 offers a pre-offered 8 GB storage on Asus’ clouding service called MyCloud. The service is free for use until the life of the tablet. The cloud service also offers direct access to user-owned PCs and Macs and @Vibe online music and radio service. The File Manager lets you directly access the […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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Hardware The Pad TF300 includes a 1.2GHz Tegra 3, compared with the 1.3GHz version found in the Prime. However, the tablet has 1GB of DDR3 RAM instead of DDR2 RAM found in the Prime. The TF300 comes in either 16GB or 32GB storage sizes and has 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth 3.0+EDR, a gyroscope, an […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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However, colour contrast is aptly selected to suit the 16M colours. The screen gives the standard Tegra-based 60 frames per second rate. The camera in the front is ample to have a video chat, but unfortunately nothing more can be expected from it. The rear camera, on the flip side—literally, is an 8-mega pixel snapper […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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Google, Inc. has now joined the elite club of cloud services, along with SkyDrive, iCloud, DropBox and many more, with its Google Drive service. However, Google being Google poses more threat to each one of the aforementioned than any other in the bunch. Apple introduced its clouding services last year in the shape of iCloud, […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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Due to a number of features it boasts, using Google Drive is not an open and shut operation. It offers both web-based and local-based drive system. Activating the service activates the web service de facto. However for the stand alone application the user has to download and install the app. Go to drive.google.com to download […]
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in
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