BlueStacks, a Silicon Valley-based software company and android software maker, is making BlueStack App player for the upcoming Windows 8’s metro interface. The company will make all the 400,000 android apps on the android market to work on the new windows interface. The start-up showcased a functional demo that featured Android apps appearing almost the same as that of the Windows-based apps in the new Metro interface. Bluestacks’ app player emulates the Android apps on [...]

Apple Inc. has recently introduced iBooks2, successor to the popular e-book reading app iBooks at the Big Apple education event held in NewYork on 19th January. Well, it would be better to say that Apple has reinvented textbooks for the iPad. iBooks2 comes with a host of great new features but the one that stands out among them is the new textbooks section of iBooks. Apple has partnered with leading education companies like McGraw Hill, [...]

Mark Shuttleworth has announced another UI innovation. He calls it Heads-Up Display aka HUD. It is set to be the future of menus on the Ubuntu desktop.P A new menu system?? Thats right. A new menu system. HUD aims to replace the application menus from the app as well as from the global menu and integrate it along with Unity interface. Under HUD, menu options will be searchable from the Unity dock. Take a look [...]

Normal TV, LCD Display, LED Display; So many technologies already available in the market and now there is one more in the list: OLED Display. You all may be wondering what it is !! Let us analyze this in brief, its working, and its pros and cons. What is OLED? OLED stands for “Organic Light-Emitting Diode”. It uses organic materials for the emission of light by the use of electric current. How does it work? [...]

All the Counterstrike lovers,a port has been made to play Counterstrike 1.6 on android.Yes, you heard me right! Valve’s Counterstrike has been ported to Android devices.Thanks to the developers at XDA who have released the Android version using the Unity 3D engine. As of now, there are two versions available : 5o version for Android 2.0+ (but not ICS), ARMv6+, GL 1.0+ and 6p version for Android 2.3+, ARMv7, GL 1.0+. All the Counterstrike gamers [...]

Notion Ink yesterday announced Adam II range of Android tablets. Adam II will run ICS on a Texas Instruments OMAP44XX processor alongside Wi-Link 7.0 and Phoenix Audio Power Amplifiers. The company has also announced a Modular Based Software Architecture. Adam II will also flaunt a PowerVR SGX5xx GPU. TI OMAP over Tegra? Why not? Amazon and Barnes and Noble took the same choice with Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet respectively with more than impressive results. [...]

Wait, $199?? Thats it? Yeah, Amazon launched its pretty hyped Kindle Fire a few weeks back and here we are, still confused if we should get it or not. With all the pretty and sometimes cheap tablets around in the market, one gets easily confused as in which one to buy. In situations like this, it is always suggested to list down why exactly you need a tablet, if you need it at all. I, [...]