http://www.techgazing.com What's in IT for you? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:21:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The e-book reader wars are really hotting up. As if slashing the price of its Kindle e-book reader to sub-$200 levels was not enough, Amazon has now released two new models of the Kindle.  The new models are sleeker, more slim than their predecessors, and more importantly, one of them ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/29/theres-a-new-better-kindle-in-townand-its-cheaper-as-well/ Apple's launch of a new display, iMacs and a much beefed up Mac Pro might have grabbed the headlines, but we must confess to being most intrigued by the company's release of what it calls the Magic Trackpad. Quite simply, it looks just like the trackpad you see on a ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/28/apple-introduces-the-magic-trackpad-a-mouse-killer/ Hidden Reflex, an Indian startup company claims to have come out with a web browser specially designed for India. Called Epic, the browser is built on the Mozilla Firefox engine and comes with some interesting features, including an inbuilt word processor and a sidebar that can hold shortcuts to apps ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/26/epic-india-finally-gets-a-browser/ Olive Telecom has unveiled India's first 3G tablet. Called the OlivePad, it comes packed with some very impressive specifications. Its screen is a tad smaller than the iPad's but on the flip side, it comes with high-speed wireless broadband (Tata), USB connectivity, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, two cameras (one at the ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/22/indias-first-3g-tablet-is-here-the-olivepad/ We are not surprised at all, but must admit that the figure is imposing - social networking site Facebook has topped 500 million users. And to mark the occasion, the site has come up with an initiative called Facebook stories, which will feature entries by different users on how Facebook ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/22/facebook-tops-500-mn-subscribers-gets-ar-rahman-and-deepika-to-tell-their-fb-stories/ The iPad might not have arrived on Indian shores yet, but you can be sure of one thing - come Thursday, India will see its first 3G-enabled tablet device. Olive Telecom are the folks launching it - if we remember right, they were the first ones off the mark ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/20/india-getting-its-first-3g-tablet-on-thursday/ Microsoft is definitely in redo and revamp mode as far as its apps go this year. We have had new Windows Live apps, a new look Hotmail and a new MS Office, and now a whole new MSN homepage. While the entire design of the page has been given a ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/19/msn-gets-a-social-network-friendly-makeover/ Almost every cellphone manufacturer these days is coming out with devices with full keyboards - called QWERTY because of the arrangement of the letters - allowing users to type more conveniently. However, we have to hand to one of the newcomers, LAVA, for putting a spin on the concept and ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/17/lavas-alpha-keyboard-phone-perfect-for-newbies/ After a relatively slow start, the global positioning system (GPS) has become a standard feature of pretty much every phone in the Rs 10,000-plus category and some even below it. But having GPS on a device is not enough - you really need to use it to its fullest extent ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/15/getting-the-most-out-of-a-gps-phone/ Vaseline has decided to cash in on the Indian psyche's fascination for  gori chamdi ("white skin"). The company has come out with an application for social networking site Facebook, which lets users change their skin tone and preview their pics.The idea is clear: to promote the concept of fairness. Now, ... http://www.techgazing.com/2010/07/13/want-a-whiter-skin-now-theres-a-facebook-app-for-that/