Netherland based Burg was set up in 2007 by Mr. van den Burg. In 2008 it first launched the prototype phone into the international fairs and received positive response. In 2009 BURG was awarded the Most Innovative Product of 2009. In 2010 the company stepped into international sales. Since then it has spread its arm in all countries bringing fashion and technology together.

Now that this nifty watch company, Burg, has pushed the market into India You must know what this is before you grab one round your wrist.

It is simple. Just insert the SIM and you can make and receive calls on it. A Burg Watch Phone is nothing but a wrist watch that can operate as a mobile phone and comes with an inbuilt SIM slot.

The features of the Burg watch phones depend on the price. The low end ones are used to make calls and receive them. The high ends have the features of a modern phone.

For instance, if you use the low end Burg then you will have use the speaker phone to make and receive calls or you may plug in earphone alternatively but for the higher ones you can use the Bluetooth headset to talk.

Features of the Burg Phone:

1. The numbers keys are located on the circumference of the dial of the watch along with the texts. Three letters for each number. 1abc, 2def and so on.
2. You have your contacts saved in the SIM and you can store upto 200/500 contacts. They will displayed on your Burg Watch Phone by pressing those buttons on the right side which are otherwise used to change/set the time of a normal wrist watch.
3. These models have internet connectivity via WAP 1.2.1
4. A Front facing camera with 3X zoom
5. Supports text messages.
6. It has micro SD card support, Vibrate functionality and Multi language support.
7. 48 Hours standby time.
8. 2 Hours talk time.

Other miscellaneous features like voice recorder, alarm clock, an image viewer, speed dial function, calendar function and Call history (upto 10 calls) also form part of the Burg.

All these phones, both the lower and the higher ones, have an AGPS Technology which helps the company to track each and every phone all over the globe. For this, AGPS Burg’s server sends out message to the phone which cannot be seen. The watch phone responds to the message and based on the time in which the server gets response, the location of user is ascertained, which is definitely a good option to keep the children under control.

Burg has established six outlets – 1 in Guwahati, 2 in Kolkata, 2 in New Delhi and 1 in Gurgaon, and it is expected that 20 more are to come all over India. Burg’s Global Sales Director, Mr. Koen, exclaimed that they plan to spread to the North first and then move towards the south.

For more details check out the site: http://burgcc.com/in/

These BURG phones are ranged from INR 9,000 to INR 23,000. It’s a must grab gadget.

Facebook as we know has undergone a lot of changes this year which in turn had a great impact on the fan falling of the page. The foremost being FanGate.  Yes, we NO more have the fanGate as the default landing page for Facebook. This means you can’t restrict users from viewing your page without liking it. PHEW! So does this mean that your fan falling would reduce drastically. Don’t worry the app would still be there but not as the default landing page. So if you are linking your facebook page to your website or elsewhere you can hardcode the link directly but this has a disadvantage too, it would even push your existing users to the fanGate . To escape this you can design the fanGate in a way that it reads “existing users click here to visit our wall”.

The 2nd important change is Pinned Photos. Facebook allows admin to select a post (posted by admin) to appear on top of the page. This means that the admin controls what appears first on the page!. So you already know how to take advantage of this

Next on the line is the page apps. You can define the order in which your apps would appear. Its a asset for app developers as you can showcase your important apps prominently.

Another added advantage is the cover photo. What is it? As the name suggests it acts as cover to your profile and has a width of about 852 pixels. The idea now is to design the cover photo in a way which creates a brand impression and forces users to like the page.

Last but not the least is the private messaging for fans. So you no more need to have a profile to exchange private messages with your fans. Your FanPage does it all!

Have a Look at its features.

The Specs are never ending. Lets check some other features.

I don’t see much shortcoming.

• Definitely 16GB inst much of storage.
• No memory card slot.
• The 720p video recording does not go hand in hand with the camera.
• The price is much higher as compared to Lumia 900.

Overall, HTC Titan II is paving way for future smartphones. Waiting eagerly for Samsung S III. Hoping for some more monstrous releases.

This is a story of a billion dollar application.

Instagram is a FREE photo sharing application. This allows its users and ‘followers’ to capture photographs, apply effects to it and share it on social services.

In short : Snap a Picture > Add some cool effects > Share it on your internal network (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare)

Small Briefings about the past of Instagram:

• Developed by Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger.
• Launched in October 2010
• Back In January Last year hashtags (#tags) were added to discover both the photos and people.
• Later in September version 2.0 went live in App Store
• April 2012, it was available in Android market

Features:

• 4:3 respect ratio: Which is common for majority chuck of handset cameras.
• Hashtags
• New and Live Filters
• Instant tilting
• High Resolution Pics
• Optional Borders
• One click rotation

If this was just this simple application, what made Facebook buy for a whopping $1Billion?

Here is the reason!

The number one thing people do on Facebook is share photos. And Photos are going through mobiles in a big way.

Instagram added 1Million users in the first day it was on Android.

Now Facebook needs to show the investors the traffic after they go public, Instagram is that engine.

Facebook acquired it for $30 per user that is $30 * 33Million users = $1Billion. If Facebook was to be at a value of $80B a day before the takeover it would be then be $81B.

Well will Instagram be worth to Facebook? We will see. But the amount of investments, venture capitalist and awards it has been receiving it is definitely going to be a worth to Facebook.

To download the App visit the Instagram.

Reference: Business Insider and Wikipedia

The vocational skills training courses will be taught in affiliation with the Vocational Training Charitable Trust, UK (VTCT) and will initially offer 3 courses in Beauty Therapy, Nail Services and Hairdressing and barbering. The courses would be of 6 months duration and would teach a batch of 25 students to begin with. CIVT will also introduce job fairs and campus interviews for outgoing students as part of the curriculum and support. CIVT also plans to introduce 1 year skilled courses in hospitality by the end of 2012, as part of their long term goals. All courses at CIVT will be taught by Staff who have been specially trained in delivering these courses under guidance from VTCT. The most modern and advances Institute will offer both training and commercial services in two separate sections.

The affiliation comes as a result of ling time discussions between Lord Rana, Founder and Funder of the CEC and Dr. Stephen Vickers, Chairman VTCT. Lord Diljit Singh Rana, Baron Rana, MBE is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. Pursuant to these discussions, there were visits by key people of VTCT, UK to Sanghol to inspect the campus and study feasibility of the joint project.

The opening on the 28th of April will be attended by the Chairman of VTCT, Dr. Stephen Vickers and Mr. Robin Boyce (Trustee VTCT). A team of 5 will be visiting Sanghol to open the first Cordia Institute of Vocational Training at CEC, Sanghol, Punjab.

BSNL in association with Penta Technologies has instigated another cheap android in the market, the T-Pad series.This Nodia, based corporate has launched three tablets:

1. Penta T- Pad IS 701 R – Priced at 3, 250 INR
2. T-Pad WS704C – Priced at 10, 999 INR
   
3. T-Pad WS802C – Priced at 13, 500 INR
   

In this race to of getting the best in the cheapest expended has lead to the degradation of  the technology. Though this is launched by PSU technologies, it has a durable reliability of BSNL which makes it a handy package which can be ordered for.

A Watch+ Phone! Check out the BURG Watchphones.

The features of BSNL’s cheapest tablet on a comparison to Aakash 2 aka Ubislate 7+:

BSNL launches with attractive data plans for the users bundled with 2G sim. All the three of pads come with 5 GB data plan with a validity of 3 months. After that the users can recharge their account for Rs. 750 for the same data plan.

With 10 lakhs bookings for Ubislate 7+; in first three days the T-pad has grabbed 1 lakh pre-orders. Probably it would be available from 1^st March but Penta has started accepting pre-oders.

Check out Ubislate 7+ a.k.a Akash tablet.

Well now discover what these are and how are these created?

These are modern barcodes called the QR codes or Quick Response codes.

QR (i.e. Quick Response) codes are two-dimensional barcodes that encode digital data. The barcodes can encode website addresses, twitter links, and other information from everything which is online. This is an efficient way to go online from the offline mode.

QR code was created by Toyota and was first introduced in the automotive industry in 1997. Now with the advancement of technology and intervention of NFC and RFID systems into are daily lives, QR codes are soon going to be an unique identity each one would have. This is an unique trade mark to make information flow very easy among the online resources.

You just have to focus your Smartphone camera on the QR and you would be redirected to the destination embedded, mostly a hyperlink (provided your phone has the QR code reader). It contains data like music, links to videos, phone numbers, etc. Have you seen the Blackberry add? I think now you can relate why the girl rotates that QR code which she was wearing in her right hand; because that was stored with her contact.

The traditional way this was presented was in black and white squares arranged like molecules, all congested and over lapping.

QR code is created on the basis of the following:

• Numeric only Max. 7,089 characters (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
• Alphanumeric Max. 4,296 characters (0–9, A–Z [upper-case only], space, $, %, *, +, -, ., /, :)
• Binary/byte Max. 2,953 characters (8-bit bytes)
• Kanji/Kana Max. 1,817 characters

The higher the number of character in the data, the densier the molecules of the QR code become.

Want to Create one?

Click on any of the codes for the type of QR you want Colorful one? or Black and White one? Mentioned sideways are Fourdy Wlog’s QR code.

WWE’12 is a wrestling game developed by Yuke’s and published by THQ Inc (Toy Head-Quarters); released in Q4 of 2011. After some hands on the game now time for the loafts of the game.

Well I am only going to present the towers of the game because I have not found any squats.

• Starting with the music: It has been developed in a style which seems you are watching it live, especially the entrances.
• The game’s presentation is perfect.The animations used in the game is super fast and have the realistic look.
• Like each release this one has the ‘limb target’:  You can target the specific limb/area of the body. Damaging the specific area will make the opponent more submissive.
• Using the offensive techniques is the best part of the game; You have to look for the time when referee is deflected you use the move; Trust me guys this is fun
• Dynamic comeback is yet another feature which I am trying to explore. At any point when you are losing in the game you can  come up with a quick comeback attack which gives you time to recapitulate.
• You play three chapters which revolves around Sheamus, Triple H and a custom wrestler which you can create.

Well on a personal note: You are knocked down and you get the wake up taunt from Randy Orton and he delivers the finishing move, ‘RKO’. my favourite wrestler; my favourite move.

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This release has been priced at Rs. 2,399. (For non pirates )

Available for PS and X-Box only.

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Nokia connects with Windows Phone OS (7.5 here) and squeezed out its two promising phones in December 2011, hitting the racks now – Lumia 800 and Lumia 701. Urbane and unfussy look in company with the classy pinch of the black/white.

Loaded with insigniating colors, viewing videos and text is splendid. Nevertheless this came after an elongated wait but Lumia 800 apparently seems to be boxed up well; when weighed against Lumia 701 on design and performance.

Run through the specifications virtually:

Lumia 800

Lumia 701