Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet computers

Google unveiled its first tablet computer Nexus 7 at the developer’s conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Priced at $199, the 7 inch tablet is powered by the latest generation of Android software. Google made Nexus 7 in collaboration with Asus and has optimized the tablet for Google Play.

“We wanted to design a best-of Google experience optimized around the content available at Google Play,” said Hugo Barra, Google’s director of product management.

Google Nexus 7 Tablet

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Mozilla rolls out latest version of Firefox for Android

Mozilla has just announced a new upgraded version of Firefox for Android. The new browser makes mobile browsing faster and easier, in addition to providing users with a new redesigned interface.

“We redesigned Firefox for Android to make it a screaming fast and personalized upgrade to mobile browsing that lets you take your Web experience everywhere you go. You’ll notice dramatic performance improvements that make Firefox on your Android phone super fast with everything from startup and page load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance when you just want to play Mozilla’s Browser Questgame with your friends,” Mozilla wrote on its official blog.

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Research suggests humans evolved from prehistoric sharks

Do you know whom your ancestors belong to? It has been previously said that our ancestors belong to Monkey But Believe it or not –it has now been claimed that humans evolved from a prehistoric shark that populated the seas more than 300 million years ago, according to scientists.

The ancient fish called Acanthodes bronni was the original father of all jawed vertebrates on Earth - including humans. A re-analysis of a braincase dating back 290 million years shows it was an early member of the modern gnathostomes, 'jaw-mouths' that include tens of thousands of living vertebrates ranging from fish to birds, reptiles, mammals and humans.

Acanthodes, Greek for 'spiny', existed before the split between the earliest sharks and the first bony fishes - the lineage that would include human beings. Fossils have been found in Europe, North America and Australia.

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Samsung to launch a Facebook-like Social network next year

Are you fed of with facebook , twitter or Google ? If yes then it can be a good News for you all. After Google and Microsoft’s venture into social networking space, now Samsung seems to be working on a social networking service.

A recent report from The Korean Times, states that Samsung Electronics is expected to launch a Facebook-like social networking site by early next year.

The new social network according to the reports would be accessible on a wide range of devices, including laptops, cameras, televisions etc. To allow users to access the social networking service from any device and at any time, Samsung also plans to integrate the service with Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

When asked about the rumors of the upcoming social network, Samsung claimed that the company is just launching an update for Family Story – a social networking service focused on photo sharing, and storing families’ special moments, accessible on a limited number of Samsung smartphones and Web-connected televisions, since February 2012.

“By the end of the year, we will have a polished and finished version of Family Story that will be offered first to Samsung device users for free. The new service will become available in the first quarter of next year at the earliest. The eventual goal is to expand our social media service across different devices from different companies across different mobile platforms. That includes cameras, televisions and blue-ray players,”Samsung stated.

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