Blue Bugle: Mobile, Desktop & Web Technologies

Facebook is the largest social network, and hence it is practically understood why people want to capitalize on its one billion users. Many of Facebook’s users are in the upper side of the economy and could be potential buyers of products and services. Hence, companies create Facebook pages and try to reach potential audience by asking people like you to comment and like these pages. This will make sense to you if you know the concept of viral marketing. Viral marketing works just like how a virus spreads through your body—it is automatic and highly accelerated. In the same way, when you like a particular page on Facebook, you are actually recommending that page to all of your friends. They will be able to see this page on your profile page and timeline. Going further, if you have fifty friends in Facebook, the page you like reaches fifty people and by mere chance five out of those fifty may like the page. If each of these five people has fifty friends, the page will reach a wider a

Asus has been quietly manufacturing great tablets while Apple iPad and Nexus tablets have been ruling the market (Even the Nexus 7 has been manufactured by Asus). Asus makes two types of tablets—Vivo Tabs, running MS Windows operating system and Transformer tablets running Android. Some if not all of these Android tablets are good based on tech specs. We will look at these Asus Android tablets in this review. The Windows Vivo Tab, we will set aside for later. The tablets produced by Asus currently are these: Transformer Pad Infinity, Transformer Pad (TF300), Eee Pad Transformer Prime, Eee Pad Transformer, Eee Pad Slider. Here’s the comparison of tech specs. Click on the image to see the full size. Based the specs, you can see the Eee Pad range is quietly going out of style. The Transformer Pad and Infinity pad are the current tablets with good specifications. If you check out our article about tablet processors , you can find out the Infinity’s Snapdragon S4 is slightly more

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C.org) has announced that the HTML 5 specification has become final. If you are confused what it is all about, check out the advantages and features of HTML 5 . This will mark the future of the web, without Adobe Flash and other such insecure technologies. You may probably know about Apple’s long-term disapproval of Adobe Flash . Even Adobe accepts Flash is more or less insecure. In HTML 5, you have amazing list of features, all of which are compared in HTML5Rocks , a web collaboration that talks about the features and benefits of this version. In short, these are the features offered in HTML 5. 1. Graphics HTML 5 can show you graphics without the help of any external technologies. The supported list of technologies include 2D/3D Canvas, CSS 3D transforms, WebGL, SVG, SMIL, etc. With these new 2D and 3D transform features and web fonts, you can use HTML 5 to create presentations on web pages. 2. Offline Capability Another feature of HTML 5

The major operating systems working on various tablets are Apple iOS 6 on iPad, Android (various versions) on a number of Android tablets, and Microsoft Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Pro  on Surface and other Windows tablets. Other less popular ones include the BlackBerry Tablet OS, WebOS (HP), etc. Let’s take a look at these operating systems and see the major differences. The Market Tablet market share of each of these tablet operating systems is as follows (including mobile & tablet PCs and data for the year 2012). Data has been provided by Hitslink market research. According to the data, the most number of tablets sold are by Apple, and the only tablet that they sell is iPad (besides iPad Mini, which is more or less a phablet though). Apple is still ‘king of the avenue’ in this regard. The Differences Here are the major differences between these tablet operating systems. This will enable you to make better decisions when you buy a new tablet. Property Android

Android tablets are highly popular today, outpaced only by Apple iPad. The powerhouse of a smartphone or a tablet is its processor, the core that actually performs the work you are doing. You might have always wondered what the processor on a tablet is all about, and how different it is from the processor used on a regular PC. You might have heard a lot of names, ARM, Cortex, Exynos, Tegra, Snapdragon, etc. In this article, you will find the answers to your questions. Microprocessors are mainly of two types—those which work on a PC and those which work on handheld devices. This is not a strict difference; the ones that work on PCs could also work on tablets with necessary tweaks and changes. However, it all depends on the architecture used. The operating systems you know, such as Android , Apple iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, all depend on the architecture of the processor used on the system. The two main architectures out there are ARM and Intel X86. X86, which we will not deal with

If you think you should buy the new iPad, think again. We have a breakdown of the qualities and drawbacks of the fourth generation Apple iPad here that will help you in making a decision on the purchase. Apple iPad is by far the most popular of tablets out there, and has become an icon on its own. But the real question here is whether you should buy it if you already own iPad 3. Android tablets like Samsung Galaxy Tab and Google Nexus 7 are competing hard with iPad for a place in the market. This is not reason alone to go with iPad. See the advantages and disadvantages here. Tech Specs Instead of looking at the technical specifications of iPad 4, we will compare them with the previous iPad here. Property iPad 4 iPad 3 Display 9.7 inch LCD IPS res: 2048x1536; 264 ppi (Retina Display TM ); oleophobic coating. 9.7 inch LCD IPS res: 2048x1536; 264 ppi (Retina Display TM ); oleophobic coating Processor Dual-core A6X 1.4 GHz

Nexus 4 is Google’s fourth generation smartphone running Android operating system . The phone is as usual high end and the first product running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.1. It is also the only high end smartphone priced very competitively (that is if you purchase the Google Nexus 4 from Google Play store, not from a carrier). The price of this Google smartphone starts from 299 dollars (that is the base model). This is also the first time Google is teaming up with LG for smartphone manufacturing. Do you need further reasons to buy Nexus 4? Here they are. Also, there are a few reasons not to purchase this smartphone. Tech Specs First up, the technical specifications. Property Value Dimensions Height 133.9mm Width 68.7mm Thickness 9.1mm Weight 139 g Connectivity Besides GSM & GPRS, 3G UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSPA+; HSDPA at 42 mbps; no LTE The Display 4.7 inch; LCD IPS; 1280x768 px; 320ppi

You may have come across great apps that you would love to install on your iPhone but you cannot since Apple hasn’t approved it. You have to jailbreak your iPhone before you can install such an app. Apple has stringent guidelines in place for including an app in its store. Getting Apple’s approval is a difficult process for app developers. Let’s look at why people jailbreak iPhones, iPads, and other Apple products. In 2010 Apple went to court against jailbreaking iPhones. They argued that it was a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). However, the court ruled against it and made jailbreaking legal. Unlocking vs. Jailbreaking You have probably come across the term unlocking. It is the process of removing the control over the phone by telephone operator. If you unlock the iPhone, you will be able to have it work with any carrier out there. It is different from jailbreaking. When you jailbreak an iPhone, it is not unlocked, but in order to unlock a phone, y

RIM, the maker of famed BlackBerry smartphones, is at the worst times of its trade. Share price of this Canadian company is falling rapidly. RIM’s shareholders have lost in billions when the market capitalization of the company came down from its peak of 83 billion dollars to 6.05 billion today. We are not only looking at the business side of the BlackBerry maker, but at the smartphones as well. BlackBerry smartphones have obvious disadvantages and flaws and coupled with the company’s doomed outlook, it is apt not to go with a BlackBerry smartphone. Expectation of a comeback of RIM with the release of BlackBerry 10 operating system in January next year is bleak at best. Disadvantages Obviously RIM did not target regular customers. Its main target was business users. Business users purchased BlackBerry smartphones for its industry-standard security, looks, and the trademarked QWERTY keyboard. All of these aspects (except for the security, of course), have in fact caused the doom o

Apple has released the latest iMac . And I looked at the model and read specifications. It is awesome to the extreme. The iMac comes in two main flavors—21 inch and 27 inch, and with processor and memory tweaks, you can get a brilliant desktop computer with extreme configuration. Let’s look at the pros and cons of this iMac here. Technical Specifications Firstly, the Tech Specs of iMac. Here it is … Property 21-inch model 27-inch model Display diagonal 21.5 inches; 1920x1080 resolution diagonally 27 inches; 2560x1440 resolution RAM 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz (2 slots of 4 GB each) or expandable to 16 GB (2 slots of 8 GB each) 8 GB (2 4 GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (expandable to 16 or 32 GB) Hard disk 1 TB (5400 rpm); upgradable to 1TB Fusion drive 1TB 7200 rpm; upgradable to up to 3 TB of normal hard drive or Fusion drive or 768 GB flash drive Processor choices Quad-core Inte

Surface is Microsoft’s tablet computer running Windows 8. Two versions of the tablet are there: Surface tablet running Windows RT version, and Surface Pro (due to be out in January) running Windows 8 Pro ( difference between Windows RT and Windows 8 ). Did you know recently Microsoft reduced the number of orders for Surface from 4 to 2 million units (that is the contract number given to manufacturers in Asia)? This is because of terrible sales record of the tablet. While on one side the Windows operating system is selling like hot chocolate, Surface is not selling enough. The main reason behind the tablet’s lukewarm reception is probably the price. Surface basic unit comes at a price tag of 499 dollars and with the keyboard cover, price starts at 599 dollars (yes, hundred dollars for that keyboard cover). One thing that many don’t know is the actual price of parts that make up Surface tablet. The market research firm, iSuppli has given us a breakup of parts that go into Surface