First there was the dictionaries to translate one language to another. Then came the pocket translators, which was then considered the best ever. Now we have softwares and apps like Google translate and Babel fish to do the same. Well some of us know how hilarious they can be. Fuji Xerox is out to change all that for good hopefully! The photocopier pictured above from Xerox can scan a printed a sheet of Japanese text from a newspaper or magazine and out comes a translated version of it in Chinese, Korean or Engish, while still retaining the original layout.

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USB best known as Universal Serial Bus, has been a digital lives for quite some time. It has bridged connections in the from flash disks to enormous flash drives and much more. Intel has joined with a couple of IT giants like HP, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments to boost the speed of the USB  to 10 times and they’ve named it USB 3.0. The new word is Optical, yes the new USB 3.0 uses use optical, along with copper to boost speeds to around 4.8 gigabits per second, which makes it a viable option for networking and even connecting monitors.
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We expected the iPhone to reach UK by Christmas, according to our previous post. Apple has surprised us with its iPhone launch today in London. Apple has announced O2 as their carrier. Unfortunately UK is also getting the same iPhone launched in US with no sign of 3G. Apple claims that the battery life on the iPhone still isnt substantial for 3G. Here are some of the hightlights from today’s conference.

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Imagine you could do what only Nasa and other space labs with giant telescopes could do. Google shows you how! They conquered the earth with Google earth and now they’ve conquered the skies. Introducing the Google earth 4.2. It’s got a sky feature built in it’s toolbar and exploring the space and the galaxies beyond it is as easy how you got around exploring the earth in Google. With the new sky feature, you can now

• Zoom in to distant galaxies and the nebulae
• Track the movements of the planets and view constellations too
• Watch and learn the lifecycle of a start and different kinds of galaxies
• And of course create and share your own imagery and relevant information, placemarks and much more…

Check out the introductory video from Google for a brief preview. Have fun exploring the skies and go beyond where no man has gone before!

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Mercedes is known to make a drivers’ life more comfortable ( and more lazy) with every new model they release. In fact they were the first, to introduce distance control sensors that automatically brings a car to a dead stop in a traffic jam and then bring the car back to the preset speed as the traffic picks up again. Guess what they are gonna implement now. This time its a laser system that will scan the ahead of you including the potholes and adjusts the S-Class suspension accordingly! Wow! that means you’d be in for a smooth ride all the way and the suspension will do the hard work! I wonder if it can take potholes on the Indian roads though!

The technology, which is slated for the S-Class, was part of Mercedes F700 concept

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Jaguar unveiled the XF Sedan 2009 in Frankfurt yesterday. Headed by styling director Ian Callum, the new Jaguar is loaded with some great features and one of them was created with the help of Apple. The Jaguars call it the Jaguar Drive Selector. Read the rest of this entry »

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An Italian center for Radio Activities (C.I.S.A.R.) created a world record distance for a 5 GHz Wi-Fi link with Ubiquiti Networks, a leading innovator in outdoor wireless broadband solutions. The distance of 304km (188.89 miles) was established from Sardinia Island to Central Italy achieving data-rates of about 5Mbps, using Ubiquiti’s XtremeRange5 (XR5) High-Power Carrier Class mini-PCI radio module and 35dBi 5 GHz parabolic dish antennas.

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Just when i thought Vista runs near to perfect with 2Gigs of memory under the hood, news comes in that there could be performance degradation when using the network interface and playing music at the same time. After a series of tests we have observed that the network throughput reduces by around 10% when the sound card is doing its business.
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