According to a press release from Apple, on May 31st Apple is going to unveil its cloud computing platform called iCloud at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) which will be held on 6th June (Monday, next week).

After Oracle and Microsoft announcing their cloud computing services it was very much expected that apple will be soon reveling its strategy on the emerging cloud platform. Thought the site do not contain much information about this platform.

Internet and cloud computing community is eager to know what Apple can offer with iCloud and does it compete to Microsoft’s cloud service Windows Azure.

Also according to the same note at WWDC Apple would also reveals it’s new Lion Mac OS X and more improved iOS 5. WWDC Apple will also allow iPhone developers to test their existing application on iOS 5.

TechGearz will keep you posted on the release of the latest Apple techs in coming days. Keep Reading.

iPad 2 is officially available in India. It is with 7′inch display and very light-weight and thinner than iPad. You can check it out at any iStore in major cities. I just had a hand on it at R City mall iStore. OS was very much the same, but clarity was really awesome. I open techgearz on it and it was really looking cool, just like made for iPad 2.

It is available in 16 gb and 32 Gb version with wifi and 3G. 16 GB with wifi cost you around Rs30,000 and with 3G its wound 36,000.

This weekend don’t miss the action on iPad-2 on your nearest iStore.

MySpace CEO, Mike Jones in an online interview said that its parent company News Corp is planning for a sale or merger of MySpace.  Last year MySpace acquired iMeem to become the large Music sharing Social network, but it seems they could not stand aside of words largest social network Facebook.

According to reports, MySpace has already cut down its resource by 47% i.e around 500 employees where asked to leave MySpace, so that it could continue MySpace with the limited funding that they have today.  Reports also say MySpace is showing a good response after the new design changes that they had last year.

It is also in NEWS that  discussions are going on of sale or merger of MySpace. They are still a private discussion topic at News Corp, but two majors Social Network who could get into this deal and have some advantages too. Google and Facebook.

MySpace has the largest Music database and artist list and it was always the first choice for any budding star for promote his music, until Facebook Pages took on the Popularity. Facebook Page has emerged widely and people are getting used to Facebook Pages for promotion and staying in touch with their fans. Facebooks API and FBML also helped artist to customize facebook pages to their need.

Why MySpace would be a good deal for Google?

Google is looking out for a new edge in Social Network. Its own social network project Orkut and Google Buzz failed very badly in recent years. Google was rumered to come with a new social network Google Me, but it seems they are looking out for an opportunity.

Acquiring MySpace would help Google to directly get into a competition with their so called rival Facebook. MySpace has a large user base and huge music artist base. Google can combine the power of YouTube, MySpace and Orkut to make a fresh entry into Social Network.

Why Facebook should go for MySpace ?

Their is no need for Facebook to go for MySpace. It is already a leader in Social Network. But still Facebook could definitely get advantage from MySpace.

Facebook who is already Popular with Facebook Page, could use MySpace Music base and its own user base for getting into music industry. A high revenue generating market which is now lead by Apple iTunes.

Facebook can also put a full-stop to Googles ambition of  leading Social Networking space. Facebook has already made big plans for this, last year they have hired all the top engineers of Google and also announced their entry into the messaging service with FB mail. They have also spend a lot of efforts in improving their chat experience.

It would be interesting to know what would be the future of MySpace once a top Social Network. Coming days we could see a lot of news regarding this topic and what would be the best deal for MySpace to continue on.

Don’t forget to Post your views, TechGearz would be posting more updates on this event, so stay tuned

iPhone 4 – will it make a change all over again. Well thats a question yet to be answered. But this Ad from apple has some answer to that.

Apple has released a new Ad for iPhone 4 featuring their Product managers and marketing experts explaining new features form iPhone 4, which is expected to make a debut soon.

Most attractive features are 5 Mpx camera with LED flash light and front camera for exclusive video calling. It also has multi-tasking features from new iPhone OS.

Other features in the line are new large battery with 40% extra life compared to current iPhone and new A4 processor chip. Their are also many hardware improvements in new iPhone, like more durable and high quality LED display. HD quality video capture capacity etc.

Check out this exclusive demo to know more about iPhone 4.

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. – By Evan Williams, CEO Twitter.

Twitter always had a special consideration for the mobile section. Its 140 character limit is also a reason for the same, people could easily post to twitter by sending SMS. We have also seen in the recent months how, twitters mobile version of web has transformed in terms of features and looks, which clearly indicated the Twitters grwoing interest towards mobile market.

Following this strategy, Twitter CEO Evan Willams has officialy announced  they are going to accquire Atebits - iPhone App Tweetie and it would be officaly called as “Twitter for iPhone”. This offcial announcement was made on Twitter blog. It also said that Tweeties founder Loren Brichter would be joining Twitter team and will be working on Tweetie for iPad.

Tweetie is a very populate iPhone App, it have also won an awards for 2009 Best Apple Design Award. Its currently available in iTunes app Store for $ 2.99, Twitter has also announced that they will make this app free on iTune Stores, everyone can download it now for free.

Well a iPhone app was expected from twitter, but it would be an acquisition of Tweetie no would have expected. Perhaps this could be  first Acquisition from Twitter, this shows how fast twitter is growing and they may also join the Acquisition league soon.

“It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world—it’s going to be a game changer” – Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

Above words are said by the Apple CEO, may be after he saw the statistics of iPad sale. Yes, Apple sells 300,000 iPads on the first day of its launch. This stats are published on apples official blog on 5th April 2010. According to the blog…

Apple® today announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3. These sales included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores. Apple also announced that iPad users downloaded over one million apps from Apple’s App Store and over 250,000 ebooks from its iBookstore during the first day.

Apple continue the league of revolution, first with the Apple Mac, then iPods followed by iPhone and now the tabloid iPad.  There is also a rumor on April 8th Apple will give a show case its new Apple iPhone OS 4 which would cover many new features like multitasking  etc.

Hope we would find more such innovations from Apple, watch out TechGearz for more updates.

What is HTML 5  ?
Its a new web standard for developing web sites and web applications. W3C is bringing in more advance features in HTML, so that you can develop more interactive features in your web applications and users can access them without downloading any plugins like flash player or Microsoft silverlight plugins or any such replated plugins. These features will be built in your browsers, For example, HTML5 introduced a <video> tag to show videos in your website; in current version of HTML you do it either by <object> / <embed> tags which also require you to download some plugins / activex controls for flash or silverlight.

YouTube has recently launched HTML5 version, which plays video with the HTML5 <video> control. Early you need to download a flash player to view youtube videos and with HTML5 you need not do that. This version was released since Apple launched the iPAD which do not support flash and has only HTML5 video support. So now iPad users can view YouTube HTML5 videos using HTML5 enabled safari browser.

But YouTube do not support Firefox… and what is the reason.

YouTube videos are using H.264 codec to convert their videos which is a patented technology, meaning that it is illegal to use without paying license fees. ( Google and Apple are paying a huge amount for using this codec.)

Which means that if your need to show Youtube videos using HTML5 You need to embeed this codec in browsers HTML parser.

Firefox is a free open souce product which designed with open web concept and they do not believe in using paid codecs in their browser. Firefox support open media format. (.OGG format)

Youtube using H.264 codec has brough a big hurdle for Firefox users. Though Youtube Flash player is still supported and firefox users can view youtube video.  At present youtube HTML5 vides are only supported by Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft IE with Google Chrome extension.

Hope soon firefox will come with some work around to access YouTubes HTML5 videos in Firefox.

Below is a Demo of  HTML5 video, This video is in Open Media Format ( .Ogg format )… u can view it in Chrome, FireFox, Opera, IE with Chrome extension and Safari / other HTML5 compatible browsers

Source Code :
<video src="http://videobin.org/+yz/14s.ogg" id="video" 
width="300" height="240" autoplay controls></video>

Musical Genius.

Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.

Rock and roll over.
Tilt or turn iPod nano on its side, and you’ll listen, watch, and play in new ways. You can flip through your album art with Cover Flow. Or, vertically speaking, see more albums and artists on the screen at one time.

Find your music faster.
It’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. When you find the right song, press the Center button to add it to your on-the-go playlist.

Shake your groove thing.

Sometimes, we could all use a little unpredictability. And now you can shake to shuffle your music. Just give iPod nano a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You’ll always be surprised by what you’ll hear.

Even your photos rock.

Pull hundreds of photos from your pocket and share them wherever you go. Hold iPod nano upright and see your photos in portrait view. Turn it on its side to see them in landscape. Your photos look beautiful in their proper aspect ratio on the vibrant, 320-by-240-resolution display.

Let the games begin.

Now you can get in on games made especially for iPod nano and the accelerometer. They respond to the way you move, so they’re immersive, addictive, and a blast. iPod nano comes with Maze, which lets you work your way through vast mazes by tilting and moving. You can find even more games on the iTunes Store.

the laptop will be powere by Intel core 2 duo processor and it calst around Rs. 93,100 apx.

well its out of budget… lets see when will i b able to buy this sexy lappy…

any ways this realy cools cool stuff and come with Apple’s new Mac Os

some cool features of the MacBook Air includes

A 13.3-inch liquid crystal display, a full-size backlit keyboard and a built-in video camera.

MacBook Air delivers up to five hours of battery life and includes Wi-Fi networking.

An Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 1.6 or 1.8 GHz of processing power, Apple’s standard model contains a 1.8-inch hard drive offering 80GB of storage.

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