Nokia, the largest mobile phone manufacturer, has lost the position of top smartphone platform maker that they had for 10 years. Google is now the leading smartphone platform maker followed by Nokia and Apple. The research firm Canalys published this survey on Monday reporting that 32.9 million handsets are running on Google platform.
About 5 years ago Nokia was an icon in the smartphones industry and I believe it was their best time. I remember when Symbian looked so awesome. The variety of phones that Nokia suites every class of buyers and Nokia is still the largest mobile phone manufacturer. But when it comes to smartphones, Nokia has lost it.
Windows Azure is a very sophisticated cloud computing platform. I first tired Windows Azure when it was in CTP, and after a long time I tried it again and was impressed by the improvements. The Windows Azure SDK 1.3 enables you to use Remote Desktop Services to access your Windows Azure roles that gives the access to the configuration of virtual machine. You can install apps on your cloud VM via remote desktop.
How about installing SQL Server on your Windows Azure VM Role and using it instead of Azure Table and SQL Azure to store data? Not really a good idea but in my opinion, it can be a good idea for the temporary storage of data.
With about 1900 lines of code, this developer has tried to explain Inception through code. This code written in C language simulates the sequence of events that happened in the movie.
If you haven't seen Inception, you may not know how awesome this is. The author Mark Szymanski commented in the code:
BlackBerry came up with something this cool after a long time. The Playbook tablet was unveiled few months back but the consumers were able to get their hands on the device at the CES2011.
I I am surprised by the performance and the UI of this tablet. The hands-on video by neowin shows the smoothness of this device.
Announced at CES 2011, the second version of Microsoft Surface is awesomely smarter and only 4 inch thick. The smartest thing is that it uses PixelSense technology which equips every pixel with infra red recognition ability that makes it able to recognize objects and even read the text on the paper that are placed on Microsoft Surface 2. Watch this official promo:
