Philips unveils Freeview HD recorder and receiver

Philips has announced it’s the latest manufacturer to bring out a Freeview HD PVR.Designed by Pace but branded by Philips, the HDT8520 HD recorder boasts a 500GB hard drive.

This can hold 125 hours of HD content, 1080p HD up-scaling, and USB and Ethernet ports for enhanced connectivity.There is also the ability to live pause TV, with a three-hour buffer limit and DD5.1 audio output.

The recorder also comes with an eight-day EPG, parental locking and consumes less than 1W of power when in standby mode.

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Google Health gaining up Partners

Google health, you might remember this word which i was talking about an year ago. Yeah Google health is moving forwarnd in health care technology market. This might be a good move by to capture the online market not only through search engines but also in diversified backgrounds.

Recently google has acquired Picnic a online photo editing portal and it made three acquisitions in three weeks. This shows Google is very keen in holding the grip over the online world especially to face the competetors like Microsoft, Yahoo etc.


Google health is one which basically offer an online medical portaal where we can research medical conditions and issues, find doctors and track down other health related websites or articles. You can also compile and store a health profile by adding test results, names of medications, insurance information, and electronic medical records from your computer or from third-party partners.

Google is dealing with partnering with some major firms which are medical stream to increase their business. One of Google's new partners is Surescripts, a company that lets its subscribers access prescription information through the Web. Doing this surescripts members can store and track their prescription history via google health.

Also Google has tied up with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Citizen Memorial Healthcare (CMH), and Iatric Systems.

Recently Google health teamed up with withings wiki Body scale which is product that records Body weight, mass and BMI (body mass index) and then wirelessly sends that information to a connected device such as a computer or smartphone.

Well google health has still some concerns to think upon as experts say that information stored on Google health is not secure as it uses a commom password which gmail account has.

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Novell gets with an $2B takeover offer from Elliot

Novell Inc. shares has gone up to 28 % in a day as Novell has received an unsolicited offer from private equity firm
Elliot Associates LP, a company stockholder, to acquire the Waltham enterprise software company for $5.75 per share in cash, amounting to about $2 billion.

Well Elliot holds about 8.5 percent of Novell Common stock till date and it stated that its acquisition offer constitutes a 49 percent premium over its current value.

The Waltham-based open-source network software company confirmed the proposal in a press release Tuesday and noted that its board of directors would review the acquisition offer.

In a letter to the Novell board of directors, Elliot Associates noted Elliot owns about 8.5 percent of Novell common stock to date.

J.P. Morgan is serving as Novell’s financial advisor, with legal counsel coming from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

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Nokia C5 unveiled.

Nokia is geared up with the C-series Mobiles as i mentioned in the earlier post about nokia. C series model new C5 smartphone is unveiled by Nokia and it is hoping to benifit from a increasing demand in smarthphones which are expected at a cheaper price.

While Nokia still continues to lead the global smartphone market with an around 40 percent share ,but it not able to compete with iphone and blackberry.

"It is products like this that will grow Nokia marketshare in the smartphone segment and help them to increase their average sale prices," said John Strand, chief of telecoms consultancy Strand Consult.

Volumes on the smartphone market are seen surging in 2010, with some analysts forecasting up to 50 per cent growth, as handset vendors are pushing advanced features, once exclusive to pricey top-end models, into cheaper and cheaper phones.

C-series mobiles are more focused towards the usage of socialnetworking sites on mobile as there has a growing demand for mobiles featured with social networking. Nokia earlier smart phones come from E-series , Nseries, x-series.

Well when coming to specs of C5, The new Nokia C5 is an elegant design , Nokia C series mobile phone.Nokia C5 is a smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing data.It features high speed 3G HSDPA/HSUPA,GPS, and 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash.Nokia C5 is an affordable price smartphone from Nokia.

The key features of the new Nokia C5 mobile phone are:

* Symbian OS v9.3, Series 60 rel. 3.2
* 2.2-inch display screen
* 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
* Secondary VGA videocall camera
* 3G HSDPA/HSUPA
* GPS with A-GPS
* Ovi Maps 3.0
* Nokia Messaging
* Facebook applications
* Internal memory 50MB
* mircoSD support up to 16GB card,2GB card in the box
* Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
* USB v2.0 microUSB
* Stereo FM radio
* 3.5mm audio-jack
* Stereo IHF speaker
* 12mm thin
* Colors:White, Warm Grey
* MP4/H.264/H.263 player
* MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMV player
* Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
* Video/Photo editor
* Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace apps
* Standard battery, Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-5CT)
* Stand-by: Up to 630 h (2G) / Up to 670 h (3G)
* Talk time: Up to 12 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)


Nokia C5 Price in India : The new Nokia C5 price will be around Rs.8,400 in India.Nokia C5 will be launched in april-may 2010.

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Google acquires Picnik

Google inc. acquiring strategy is going well. As Google CEO said earlier they are in a plan of acquiring a small size companies one for every month and bigger one's in one or two numbers per an year. This time Google eyed on Picnik an online photo editing portal. With this acquisitions the count reaches 3 in three weeks.

Google didnt reveil any financial terms on this acquisition. Picnik is a seattle based start-up which has an headcount of 20 employees.

And after this acquisition, picnik employee will turn up to Google's office and start working with picasa team. Now that's a fair deal to the employees too.


Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference conference on Monday, said that Google was beefing up its ranks as business conditions improve.

"The bottleneck for us right now is engineering. How many engineers can we find given that we have all these great opportunities?" Pichette said.
Picnik allows users to edit online photos from directly within a Web browser, eliminating the need for special, stand-alone editing software.

Now i started thinking like there are growing number of entreprenuers in India , and i see most of the entreprenuers are turning towards Web based startups and why not Google or any other foreign companies look on to Indian start-ups.

Is that Indian start-ups are not so innovative or they are not going into main stream business of Web. Yes i have seen most of them shifting them selves to E-business or Social networking concepts but i stronlgy feel , the startups should look on international market or should look on for a product which can really penetrate international market.

Recently there was a company named Notion ink which created an Ipad which goes on head to head with Apple. Well i feel this is how we can really create an image in the international market.

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