The much-awaited and debated "$35 tablet" will be launched on October 5th. The tablet was supposed to launch in the month of June, but the project was delayed as HCL tender was cancelled, owing to bank guarantee related issues. India Government will subsidize the cost by 50%, so a student would have to pay only Rs. 1,100/ for the device, though it is not sure whether this holds true during the launch phase or not. Features - 7 '' Touch-screen
- 2 USB ports
- 32GB HD
- 2 GB RAM
- Video-conferencing facility
- Multimedia content
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This year is quite definitely amongst the most activity filled ones for browsers in a long time. Chrome 14, for example launched earlier this month and it has not been a long time, since Firefox 6 came out. Just yesterday, Firefox 7 launched. While the quick release cycle brings quicker updates, it doesn't necessarily mean big jumps in terms of features and performance. But, Firefox 7 is different. Firefox has been plagued by memory management issues for a while now, and this new version might just fix those niggles. Mozilla claims that users should notice that the browser loads and also opens tabs quicker. Also, those who keep several tabs open should find the experience to be smoother. Mozilla claims that the performance boost should be roughly between 20 and 50 percent. There's also hardware acceleration support for HTML5 animations. Tabs that have several images should benefit by the tweaks made. We're not sure how well the browser is able to handle plugins, as often is the case with most browsers, plugins tend to sap a lot of system resources and that's something that's hard for browser developers to fix. Firefox 7 is out for download for Windows, Linux and Mac. 
Bharti Airtel may reportedly well be on its way to coughing up a whopping 50 crore, as a fine for having allegedly violated CLI norms. According to a report in The Times of India, Bharti Airtel attempted to conceal its CLI, or calling-line identification mechanism, and made promotional calls to non-Airtel consumers. If found guilty, Airtel may have to shell out a hefty fine. DoT, as per the report, stated that deceiving the CLI mechanism was a breach of the license conditions. The calling-line identification mechanism, is the one most of us are familiar with, and also refer to as Caller ID. Therefore, with the tampering of the CLI norms, Airtel may be charged with the violation of Clause 41.19 (iv) of universal service access licence norms. According to this clause, the CLI mechanism cannot be tampered with, by any mobile operator, since CLI translates to security. Additionally, it is being learnt that in the Madhya Pradesh circle alone, several instances of the CLI mechanism being tampered with have come forward, by the way of complaints to the DoT. The report however also adds that Airtel denies having received any statement as such from the DoT, and would hence, not comment. 
The Skin is also pretty well-equipped. The screen measures 4.0 inches with a resolution of 480x800. It's 3G ready with full HSDPA and HSUPA bandwidth support. Powered by a 1GHz processor, the Skin uses a different variant of Android called 'Flexy', since the conventional OS wouldn't really work on this type of screen layout. Other features include an 8MP camera plus a front-facing VGA camera, 720p video recording with MKV and AVI support out-of-the-box. According to various sources, Samsung has confirmed that they will be putting this into production as the large scale manufacturing of these flexible AMOLED displays will begin in Q2 of 2012. If all goes as planned, we can expect the phone to hit the shelves by the end of 2012. The final product may not look exactly like the one in the picture, but at least it will be the next step in mobile evolution. 
Full HD or 1080p resolution was a thing of wonder back in the day, but now it has become common and therefore not really exciting, anymore. Panasonic showed off their 4K-ready plasma TVs, last year, but powering so many pixels does require some intense processing power. While today's discrete graphics cards can easily go beyond that resolution, Intel is aiming at achieving this with their onboard GPU, which will ship inside Ivy Bridge processors, sometime next year. Intel is very confident about their new technology and say that the Multi-Format Codec or MFX engine is capable of playing multiple 4K videos at the same time. Now, before you get too excited, remember we are talking about simply powering a display with that resolution or decoding such movies, you won't be able to game at that resolution using just the IGP. We'd like to see them try, but highly doubt that would happen. In a way, this is more of an evolution, rather than a revolution, since 3 years back, AMD and Nvidia already had IGPs (Integrated Graphics Processors) that could easily do 1080p, so this is not very surprising. Let's hope they launch it by 2012.