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Udit Malhotra is fond of Technology, Music, Event Management and Social Media. He has studied in-depth about Mobile & Desktop Platforms and Software Applications thereof. A keen Learner, he draws inspiration from his work experience from a few small businesses and leading global organizations including DELL where he has worked directly at the front-end with Consumers of Technology Products. He enjoys sharing his knowledge by helping other Users. You can also find him on Google+ ! +Udit Malhotra

Android

Android Market achieves a milestone of 10 billion downloads

December 7, 2011 Udit Malhotra Leave a comment

The most widely used smartphone platform The Android OS officially embarked a milestone by achieving 10 billion downloads during the past weekend. Celebrating great success Google also announced top applications at an amazing price of 10 cents, a joint effort with application developers that are a key success to the platform’s growth. The Android crave is set to grow even high with more than 5.5 million devices being activated daily, making sure that mobile applications are the next big thing for people as a key metric to entertainment, productivity and more. The next 10 billion app downloads are not far away with more developers, more users and more ideas to implement. Get set to download all the popular applications at a discounted price for the next 10 days beginning 6^th December 2011. The applications that are a part of the promotion are found below.

Asphalt 6 HD
Color & Draw for Kids
Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro
Fieldrunners HD
Great Little War Game
Minecraft
Paper Camera
Sketchbook Mobile
Soundhound Infinity
SwiftKey X

Enjoy the fun on your Android. Play hard and Rejoice 😉

Blackberry

New Blackberry App World 3.1 arrives Blackberry BETA Zone

December 7, 2011 Udit Malhotra 2 Comments

** Urgent Update **

The Blackberry App World 3.1.0.40 update helps users to resolve issues with their BlackBerry ID’s, for users still facing the same issue can download the application from the Beta Zone to get an immediate fix. The Blackberry App World 3.1.0.38 released earlier during the day faced major issues with users having trouble accessing the app world.

The Blackberry App World 3.1 will allow users to try some latest additions that include Gifting and Begging apps i.e. allowing users to pay for an application that you like or gift an application to your family and friends. The update also takes care of content sensitivity by allowing developers and content publishers to rate their Content Maturity level. Users also have an option to set their desired rating for the content according one’s personal discretion. The latest version allows application usage and functionality while one has only a Wi-Fi connection. The application will now have a better language support, which includes Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Dutch.

If you are interested in trying out more upcoming application to help and get some bugs fixed you can download them from BlackBerry Beta Zone.

All Improvements at a Glance:

Gifting/Begging – allows you to request that a friend or family member pay for any application within App World.
Content Rating – allows content providers to rate the maturity level of their content and for you to filter content based on their desired level
WiFi Only Support – will allow App World to still operate when a you only have a WiFi connection
New Language Support – Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Dutch

Enjoy the update guys. Have fun ;).

Twitter

Free Twitter access for Bharti Airtel users

December 5, 2011 Udit Malhotra Leave a comment

1^st December 2011 Bharti Airtel officially announced free Twitter access for all its users across India. Airtel users will now enjoy free access on to Twitter via web browsers i.e. mobile.twitter.com or using the Twitter short code service via SMS. The users get entitled to this service for free till 1^st March 2012. The free service helps enabling people who are new to Mobile Internet and Social Web to interact by posting tweets and subscribing to their favorite celebrities, friends etc. and be a part of the latest news and interaction. Twitter itself is a very huge network consisting of more than 100 million users and a tweet every second about something new, it’s a micro blogging interface that helps users to share thoughts in 140 characters. If you are an Airtel user, you can activate free Twitter access in by following these simple steps.

Twitter Mobile Website: mobile.twitter.com, you need not activate GPRS to get access to this website, just open it in your phone browser and follow the simple registration steps.
Create a new account on Twitter By SMS: SMS ‘START’ to 53000, upon receiving reply – SMS ‘SIGNUP’ to 53000. Next, type a username (unique and less than 15 characters) and send that to 53000. Once Twitter approves your username, you will get a confirmation message, prompting you to SMS a chosen password to 53000. On completion of this process, your Twitter account will be created. Sign up is only required if a user wants to tweet.
To Follow a specific users just type ‘ Follow Username’ and send it to 53000.
For further details you can also visit: www.airtel.in/twitter
For help and support on Twitter Mobile via web or SMS you can visit: http://support.twitter.com/groups/34-apps-sms-and-mobile#topic_153

Enjoy Tweeting !! Tweet Tweet !! 😉

Social Media

Google bar’s updated look : Whats New ?

December 5, 2011 Udit Malhotra Leave a comment

Google Bar’s Updated look has been finally integrated across major Google services, I saw Google India’s website showcasing it today. Google’s Official Blog had mentioned earlier that the overall revamp of design started 6 months back with the key criteria to enhance user experience by providing a simple and easy interface for users across its services. The new design includes changes to the top bar, which is available across all Google products. The left corner comprises of the Google Logo with a drop-down menu which is displayed when user hovers the mouse over the area, a centralized search box in the center allowing users to search specific to the Google service being used i.e. Google Maps, You Tube, Google + Etc. and the right corner with options for the users to see notifications on Google Plus, Share Options and user account management.

New Look:

Even if users have not signed-in they still may use all services within the Google home page, the menu is automatically displayed once the page loads. To access all items users can click on “More”.

The upper right corner consists of notification icons that display recent activity on your Google Plus account that displays people who have added you to their circles, stream activity and posts directly shared. To view these notifications you can simply click on the red box, it would be gray if you don’t have any notifications.

Another interesting feature is the share box, the best part about this feature is that it is not limited within Google Plus, it can be accessed across all Google services allowing the user with wider options to share and collaborate, one can choose the circles they would like to share with and have an option to add links, photos, videos and location.

The last option on the right is user account management which allows users to sign-out, switch or manage Google accounts by clicking on the picture and selecting the intended option.

Did you like the new changes ? Please share your views with us.