Technology

Windows Embedded Automotive 7 has introduced a new hands free email and texting infotainment system. The system present in your car will be reading your mails and even replying back on them, just on your voice command. You can also you can give voice commands to it for various applications that are present in your mobile phone without touching your phone. This automation was made possible by three Microsoft teams: Windows Embedded, Microsoft Research and Microsoft Tellme. The replies to mails and messages were made easier by collecting thousands of real world SMS replies and storing these replies as templates [...]

Find My iPhone, the App which helps you find your lost iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is officially free. The makers might have understood its necessity on iPhones and iPads and hence have made the app free. The App basically lets you find your lost iPhone or iPad wherever it might be. You just need to enable Find My iPhone in the MobileMe settings on your iPhone or iPad. Once done, Next step would be to Sign in to me.com from any computer or using the Find My iPhone app on another iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to display the approximate location on a full-screen [...]

Avatar became one of the highest grossing film of all time because of the technology used by James Cameron to portray Pandora and to create the Navi’s tribe. The technology that was used is called Simul-cam, where the image recorded is processed in real-time before it reaches the director’s monitor screen in a transformed form. With the use of this Simul-cam technology you need not spend days creating  visually stunning computer-generated images. Cover via Amazon What if the technology similar to the one used in the film Avatar comes at less than $150?

There is going  to be a Big announcement from Apple iTunes tomorrow, but its not clear what the announcement is going to be. Apple has updated its Homepage and has put up a huge banner,

Image via CrunchBase The Android by Verizon is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to the Apple I-Phone in today’s economy. This smart-phone has introduced new customizable features that the I-Phone does not boast, as well as what are arguably the most useful applications that any smart-phone offers. Now, Android is taking the competition a step further.

Ask plans to shut down its search business and instead focus on  Q and A which differentiates it from regular search engines. As part of the process, Ask will close its offices in Edison, N.J. and Hangzhou, China in coming months. Ask has been shying away from the search business due to tough competition from Google. Ask will continue to place a search box on its HomePage, though the search results would be provided by Google or Bing. Ask had in fact redesigned its website recently which focused more on Q and A and social networking.