How to Import AIM Friends into Google Talk

AIM has integrated its messenger service with Google talk.Now Google Talk and AIM have single login.This means you don't need to login separately in both accounts to talk with your friends.You can easily talk with your AIM friend on your Google talk id.You just need to import all your AIM buddies into Google Talk.

At the launch time of AIM and Google talk integration,there was no tool to automatically add AIM contact list to Google Talk.You have to manually add your AIM friends list to Google Talk.
But now AIM has provided a tool that will automatically imports your AIM's contact list into your Google talk.

This is just a two step process.Click on Import to Gmail.This page will ask you to login into your AIM account.

After you logged into your AIM account,next step is to add your Google talk credentials.Add your Google Talk ID and password.After you added your, it will tell you when it is done.

For now you can import only 38 contacts.If the number of contacts in your AIM list is more than 38,than you have to add them manually.

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Window Phone Mango - Unveiled By Microsoft

Microsoft has revealed more new feature of upcoming Window Phone Mango.According to Microsoft,new window phone "mango" has 500 new features.Window Phone Mango is built and organized around three key themes: easier communications, smarter apps, and the Internet.Mango will support languages including Brazilian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. More than 17000 apps are available for download at window phone app store.Though it is very low as compare to apps in Apple itune store which has more than 500,000 apps.

Microsoft releases window phone in alliance with Nokia.Now Microsoft has contracted with Acer, Fujitsu Limited, and ZTE Corporation to provide wide range of window phones.Now users will have a wide range of window phones to choose from.

Below are some Key features of Window Mango Phone:-

Speech to Text:

Now you don't need to type long messages.Just speech and Mango will automatically write it for you.Microsoft called this feature as Hands-free messaging.It is inbuilt feature of window mango phone.

Deeper social network integration:

You ave more option for social networking sites like linkedin,twitter and facebook.New face detection software will help to tag photos on web more easily and quickly.

Groups Messaging and Threads:

Group messaging will help to send a text, email or IM to the whole group quickly.Switching between text, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation will be easier from now.

Improved Search and Internet options:

Window Mango has approved search with the help of BING.With the help of IE9,you can surf website with more ease.

To checkout all exciting features, click Window Mango Phone Features.

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Watch Out, Nook: Amazon Launches $164 Kindle 3G With Ads

Watch out, Nook: Amazon has just launched a 3G version of its ad-supported Kindle for $164.

The new device, officially called the Kindle 3G With Special Offers, is almost identical to the $114 ad-supported Wi-Fi Kindle except for the addition of 3G functionality. The device is a 6-inch device that displays the occasional advertisement. In return, users get special offers and a $25 discount on the Kindle 3G’s $189 price tag. In a statement, Amazon Kindle director Jay Marine called it “the lowest price for any 3G ereader.”

The special deals associated with the 3G Kindle are similar to the Wi-Fi version. Some of the special offers Amazon will launch “in the coming weeks” include $10 for a $20 Amazon gift card, 20% discounts on 200 HDTVs, and $1 for select Kindle books.

The announcement of the Kindle 3G With Special Offers comes just hours after Barnes & Noble unveiled its $139 touchscreen Nook, a Wi-Fi-only ereader device that is lighter than the Kindle and boasts two months of battery life. Barnes & Noble also claims that it controls 25% of the ebook market, something that can’t be sitting well with Amazon.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Coming in a Few Days With Android 3.1

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is only a “few days away” according to a tweet from Samsung’s Mobile US account.

Furthermore, as clarified in another tweet from Samsung, the new version of Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be sporting the latest version of Honeycomb AKA Android 3.1.

The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is actually a replacement for another tablet in the same name, which Samsung itself thought was unworthy of competing with Apple’s iPad 2.

The device sports a dual-core, 1 GHz CPU, a 10.1 inch, 1280×800 pixel screen, a 3-megapixel back camera as well as 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats, and all of that comes in a case that weighs 1.3 pounds and is only .34” thick.

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Toshiba to announce its new Android Tablet "Thrive"

Toshiba is soon going to launch an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet named "Thrive". The tablet was being advertised for pre-order at JR.com, but has suddenly and inexplicably been pulled down as of the time of filing this report. You can still viewed the Google Cache copy of the page over here. The price quoted was US$579, which is about Rs.26,200 - not bad for what is on offer.

Powered by a 1 GHz Dual core Tegra 2 processor, this 10.1-inch tablet sports a capacitive multitouch screen with 1280x800 pixels resolution. This screen features Toshiba Adaptive Display technology, which adjusts the brightness and contrast to suit the surrounding lighting conditions, practically allowing you to use this laptop even in sunny weather. Adobe Flash support with hardware acceleration is present for an enriching web browsing experience.

Along with a 5 Megapixel primary camera with Auto-focus, Digital zoom and 720p video capture at the back, there is also a 2 Megapixel HD camera at the front for video calling. HDMI output lets you hook up this tablet to your HDTV display using an HDMI cable and watch movies on the big screen in 1080p Full HD resolution. Thanks to the Toshiba Tablet's Resolution+ technology incorporated in this device, even Standard Definition (SD) video content is upscaled neatly, with no details lost.

The tablet features on-board, a GPS, an accelerometer and a digital compass, helping to pinpoint its exact location and motion. Even the battery is the user-replaceable, which is something every consumer would want, and no tablet manufacturer wants to give. This allows you to carry a second battery pack and replace the battery on-the-go when the first battery runs out of juice. Connectivity is taken care of by Wi-Fi (with hotspot capability), USB 2.0 (with one full and one mini USB port) and Bluetooth. No mention is made of GSM connectivity, so that is probably not going to be available in this version at least. An SD memory card slot is also provided to augment the 32 GB internal memory on-board the device.

Toshiba has been delaying the launch of this tablet, and may delay it to the third quarter of this calendar year. The launch date is therefore not clear. We must note here that Toshiba has already launched the Prot g 12-inch tablet in India, so this tablet may be launched soon too.

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Microsoft Head Announces Windows 8 Release

Microsoft leader Steve Ballmer announced that the next version of his company’s operating system – Windows 8 – will be available in 2012.

At the Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo on Monday, Ballmer said the software giant is hard at work producing Windows 8, which is also expected to hit tablet computers, PC Magazine reports.

Ballmer has yet to comment on rumors regarding the features of the new OS.

But he did hint that "there will be a day in the future where it will be hard to distinguish a phone from a slate, from a PC.”

Click here to read more on this software announcement from PC Magazine.

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HTC Flyer: 7-inch Android tablet

The HTC Flyer 7-inch Android tablet is already available overseas, but U.S. shoppers will be able to find it at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile starting May 22. I just received a shipping unit, so here are some first impressions.


First, let's get the basics out of the way. The Flyer is a Wi-Fi-only variant of HTC's tablet, and costs $500--without its distinctive accessory, an $80 stylus. The 4G version will appear on Sprint later this summer as the Sprint Evo View 4G. The Sprint tablet will have a black case and 4G connectivity, while the HTC-branded tablet is silver with white accents.

The Flyer has an attractive design and measures 7.7 inches by 4.8 inches and is half an inch thick. That's comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch, which is, to date, the only other 7-inch tablet from a mobile manufacturer, and measures 7.5 by 4.7 by 0.47 inches.

Although the Flyer has approximately the same thickness and dimensions as the Galaxy Tab, I found this tablet more comfortable to hold. That's because the edges are curved and gently taper, as compared with the Galaxy Tab's dated-looking, boxy design. Also, the tablet gently curves upward at the top/bottom (or left/right if you're holding it in the landscape position); the curve gives the tablet a place for your thumbs to rest.

I was surprised that I preferred holding the Flyer considering it weighs slightly more than the Tab. The Tab weighs 0.84 pounds, while the HTC Flyer weighs 0.92 pounds, but in-hand, I didn't notice the difference.

I do like the 7-inch form. It's very friendly for one-handed operation. For that matter, I also like the T-Mobile G-Slate, which has an 8.9-inch screen. By comparison, Apple's iPad 2 (9.7-inch screen) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (with a 10.1-inch screen, natch) are too unwieldly to hold for any length of time in one hand.

The HTC Flyer is unique for the moment:

it's the first tablet running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread. Samsung recently announced plans to migrate the Galaxy Tab to 2.3.3 as well, but that roll-out started mid-month in the United Kingdom before beginning moving to other European markets and hasn't yet come across the Atlantic.

I was disappointed that HTC decided to ship the Flyer running Google's phone OS, and not Android 3.x. The layout and organization of Android 3.x is far better suited to tablets, and, more critically, the Web experience is far better in Honeycomb than on either 2.2 or 2.3.3. On the Flyer, just as on the Tab, most Web pages present detect the browser as a mobile browser. But I really want the full Web page experience on the tablet, even if I have to enlarge areas to read them fully.

Along with the inclusion of the pen, HTC brings something extra with its HTC Sense overlay. This version of Sense has clearly been optimized for the larger screen of the tablet, and brings a pleasing visual interactivity that Android 2.3.3 lacks otherwise. Unfortunately, as much as I liked Sense on the Flyer, I found myself more looking forward to what HTC will do with its Sense interface on Honeycomb than I did appreciating what it added in the here and now.

The good news is that HTC says the Flyer is upgradable to Honeycomb, and that a Honeycomb update will come. The bad news is the company wouldn't say when. At least HTC has a relatively solid reputation of issuing updates for its phones, so hopefully that efficiency will translate to its tablet, too.

Stay tuned for more hands-on with the HTC Flyer.

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Now Angry Birds Rio for Android available

Angry Birds fans with Android phone will surely love this, Android Market now start selling the famous mobile game. Check it out Android users!

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Android Malware Up by an Alarming 400 Percent

A recent report on mobile malware released by Juniper networks revealed some startling figures. The report suggested a 400 percent rise in malware on the popular Android platform. Google’s Android platform has earned itself quite a reputation since its inception and this is no news. What began as an app store with roughly about 50,000 apps now houses a good 200,000 apps. However, the platform is now being deemed as the biggest distribution point for malware across the mobile platform.

Over the past few months, Android users have been victims of threats ranging from various levels of intensity. What began first as a threat tool for desktop users has now furthered onto the mobile users. Keeping this view in mind, a host of anti-virus applications have been released in a last ditch, but less than satisfactory effort to stabilize the situation. One instance would be the attacks that a malicious app called DroidDream began doing rounds. Google did intervene but most of the damage had been done already.


However, it now remains to be seen how well Google empowers its popular Android.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia acro announced

Sony Ericsson has recently lifted the curtain for the Xperia acro, making it the latest addition to the Xperia range as it was specially designed for users who live in the Land of the Rising Sun. Sounds familiar? Some of our dear readers might just be confused with it being the Xperia Arc, but that is another story for a different day. The Xperia acro will continue to carry the success (hopefully) of the Xperia line, spearheading the challenge with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

It will not come up short where the operating system is concerned, as it runs on the latest version of Android (2.3 Gingerbread if you do not know). With mobile TV functionality being touted, you can expect best-in-class imaging and display technology features from Sony, after all, who else better to do so than they?

The Sony Ericsson Xperia acro will be a flagship model in Japan, and it will be interesting to see how the handset holds up to the others in such a highly competitive market. After all, the Japanese tend to have really different phones from the rest of the world (same with the Koreans), and for something more “mainstream” like the Xperia acro to make a debut spices up things.

As mentioned earlier, the Xperia acro will tout mobile TV functionality, and with its Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine, you will find your eyes more than welcoming the 4.2” display. Not only that, you can capture stunning 8.1-megapixel shots with its camera that boasts the Exmor R engine for mobile handsets, allowing one to shoot low-noise, high quality images and even record HD video (720p) under low light conditions.

There is no word on pricing as at press time, but we do know that the Sony Ericsson Xperia acro will hit Japan later this summer in just two colors – black and white. Surely you can’t go wrong there, right?

Press Release

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HP's Pavilion family Refreshes Pavilion dv4, Envy 14 Laptops

HP has upgraded its Envy 14 consumer segment laptops with new Intel Sandy Bridge processor. Also, HP's Pavilion family gets new dv4 model. Reflecting the HP MUSE (Materials, Usability, Sensory appeal and Experiences) design philosophy, both 14-inch display bearing laptops feature HP CoolSense technology that offers smart cooling to the laptops. Also, a redesign Mini 210 netbook with Beats Audio joins HP's line-up.

New additions to the HP notebook line-up bring a hardware bump that includes Intel Core i5 and Core i3 based models. Imprint finish bearing Pavilion dv4 features 14-inch HD LED BrightView screen. This laptop will be available in Expresso Black and Pacific Blue colors. HP Envy 14 will house Intel Sandy Bridge family of Core i5 or Core i3 microprocessor. Bearing a 14.5-inch HD BrightView Infinity LED display, this Envy 14 laptop will have HP imagepad with image sensor technology for advanced gesture support.

HP has also redesigned the Mini 210 netbook that will measure less than an inch, weigh under 3 pounds and offer 9.5 hours of battery life. HP has added QuickWeb 3.0 that brings along customizable widget dashboard and can connect to web quickly. Basically, QuickWeb 3.0 is like a one stop interface that will let users check their Twitter updates, Facebook posts and talk to friends on Skype.

Following are the pricing and U.S. region availability details:

• Pavilion dv4 for $600 from May 18
• ENVY 14 for $1000 from June 15
• Mini 210 for $300 from June 15

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Spice Mi 410 smartphone to be Launched in June

Spice mobile plans to launch its latest smartphone - Spice Mi 410 - in the first week of June this year, according to a report on The Mobile Indian. This phone will run Android 2.2, and will be an upgrade to the Spice Mi 310.

The Spice Mi 410 will sport a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen display as against the 3.15 inch of the Mi 310. It will be powered by a Qualcomm 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, while its predecessor has a Qualcomm MSM7227 600 MHz processor. Similarly, the camera has also been upgraded to a solid 5 megapixel from a paltry 2 megapixel.

Connectivity options include 3.5G, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, quad-band, UMTS 2100 MHz, and Wi-Fi, along with Bluetooth 2.1. The phone can work as a Wi-Fi hotspot, supporting up to five connected Wi-Fi devices. USB tethering support allows you to use it as a modem to access the internet when you connect it to your computer or laptop. It also has GPS with AGPS to access location-based services. Since it runs Android 2.2, you can always enhance its productivity by downloading apps from the Android Market. The 1GHz Snapdragon processor makes sure that the apps won't slow down, while the 4.1 inch screen with 480x800 pixel resolution will actually allow the apps to run without slowing down, as is usually the case with comparatively inexpensive Android phones, and also look good.

The Spice Mi 410 will come preloaded with a host of free applications, including one from Indian Railways. It will be available exclusively at Spice Hotspots across the country at Rs.15,000, which is almost twice as expensive as the Mi 310.

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