Nokia X6

Here comes the new Xseries range by Nokia, the Nokia X6 is the latest edition to Nokia’s touch-screen device portfolio. Have great features for music lovers, socializing and entertainment on the move, the slim design makes carrying and listening to your favorite tracks a breeze.

The X6 features 32 gigabytes of memory, can play up to 35 hours of music and has a 3.2-inch touch-screen. It will retail for euro450.

The Nokia X6 is a ‘Comes With Music’ device, so it provides unlimited access to the Nokia Music Store. Also perfect for people who like to snap, tag and share photos and videos. It has superb image quality comes from a 5 mega-pixel camera with Carl-Zeiss optics. With its built-in features to edit videos, show them on TV or online, sharing your memories has never been easier.

The large 3.2-inch display enables you to fit 20 shortcuts onto a personalized home screen – offers one-touch access to the web, your photos, videos and music library – and favorite social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo and much much more.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2

After the Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6 and X3, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 made its official debut on Wednesday. It is the successor to the Xperia X1, the X2 will run Windows Mobile 6.5.

The Xperia panel interface is there with 14 panels on the smartphone and 16 others available for download, including those for Skype, CNN, and Google.

This device got a 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, an 8.1-megapixel camera, and TV out capabilities. The quad-band world phone supports North American 3G bands, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

Specific release date or pricing is not there but hopefully, it won’t be $800 again for the Xperia X2, but, according to the company, it will be available in select markets in early Q4. It will come in two colors: black or silver

Oracle 11g release 2

Yesterday Oracle made an announcement regarding its Database Oracle 11g. The news is that Release 2 of Oracle 11g is now available. Oracle 11g Release 2 comes after a period of two years(11g was launched then). Mark Townsend, vice president database product management. Mark Townsend, vice president database product management believes that the Oracle 11g Release 2 primarily focuses and strives on consolidating hardware and virtualization. As you can expect this release brings with it many new features.

• Real Application Cluster (RAC) now has server pooling technologies – With the incorporation of server pooling technologies, it will become easier to manage and provision database grids. Townsend believes that this update is geared toward dynamically adjusting servers as corporations manage the ebb and flow between data requirements for datawarehousing and applications.
• Introduction of RAC One Node - This is a new addition that makes it easier to consolidate databases that may not be mission-critical but still require redundancy
• Improvements to Automatic storage management – With the improvements made to automatic storage management that add cluster file system tools, it would simplify the process of virtualizing storages.
• Performance improvement and optimization for Oracle’s Exadata storage appliances.
• Data Warehousing gets improved - Performance improvements for data warehousing.

Microsoft to discontinue all previous Zune models

official statement of Microsoft:

Additional flash Zune devices (Zune 4GB, 8GB and 16GB) and hard drive devices (80GB and 120GB) will continue to be available at retail until sold out, though we will not continue to manufacture those devices. In addition to the new Zune HD device, we will also be launching an updated Zune software and service, and the Zune video service will be available on Xbox LIVE this fall. We are committed to our strategy for Zune which is to provide a great entertainment experience through software and services across multiple screens and devices.

PTCL brings 3 way conference calling service

How to Activate

To activate this amazing service simply call 1236 from your PTCL connection.

YouTube in talks with major studios for movie rentals

According to Wall Street Journal, YouTube is currently holding discussions with major movie studios. The topic under discussion is the possiblity of bringing streaming moves on a rental basis. If this discussion ends in a positive note, it could be good News for Hollywood studios as it would get a chance to earn from online revenues. The studios that were approached by YouTube include:

• Lions Gate Entertainment Corp
• Sony Corp
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
• Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros

Here is what Wall Street Journal says as quoted by MacRumors:

YouTube is talking to Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Sony Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. about charging for new titles on the existing YouTube site. In some cases, these titles might be available on the site on the same day that they come out on DVD.

SUPARCO to launch PAKSAT-1R

In the eyes of so many challenges that Pakistan faces, and with misery and bad news surrounding the environment in Pakistan, there is good news for Pakistanis as SUPARCO (Space & Upper Atmopheric Research Commission) gives out details of a satellite which is to be launched on 14th August 2011 and once again China is helping out with this satellite like it has been doing in the previous years.

This Satellite which would be named as PAkSAT-1R would be used for communication and networking, carrying data from tv channel distributions, tele-medicine, tele-education and ofcourse of the broadband internet. PAKSAT-1R which will be manufactured exclusively for Pakistan will be replacing PAKSAT-1