RIM's BlackBerry Mobile Fusion To Compete With iPhone & Android

Research In Motion has long touted enterprise-level security and management as a selling point of its BlackBerry devices, a key differentiator from the Apple iPhones and Google Android smartphones flooding both the business and consumer market. Now, it seems, RIM has decided to extend its branded management capabilities to platforms beyond BlackBerry, in what could represent a significant strategy change for the company.

"We are pleased to introduce BlackBerry Mobile Fusion -- RIM's next generation enterprise mobility solution -- to make it easier for our business and government customers to manage the diversity of devices in their operations today," RIM vice-president Alan Panezic said in a statement. "It provides the necessary management capabilities to allow IT departments to confidently oversee the use of both company-owned and employee-owned mobile devices within their organizations," he said.

RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is designed, in the words of the company’s Nov. 29 press release, to “simplify the management of smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry, Google Android, and Apple iOS operating systems.” In other words, IT administrators and CIOs will have the ability to control all those devices via a Web-based console, from instituting security policies to managing applications. For those shops continuing to support BlackBerry devices, RIM will include BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3, which offers features such as over-the-air app and software installation.

With BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, RIM has acknowledged the increasingly heterogeneous nature of enterprise mobility, which in turn has threatened the BlackBerry’s longstanding lock on many companies’ IT infrastructure. As the recession slashed corporate budgets for massive smartphone buys, and as the increased popularity of smartphones put more Google Android devices and Apple iPhones in executives’ hands, both small companies and large enterprises saw an influx of personal devices retrofitted for business use.

General availability of the new enterprise server is expected in late March, the company said. RIM's shares climbed 7.5 percent in early trading in Toronto to CAN$18.28 (US$17.76) following the announcement. In addition to BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, RIM is also betting on an upcoming line of “superphones” running its in-development BBX operating system. An exact launch date for those devices has not been publicly declared.

Best 10 Apps For Your iPad

Hey you guys do u want to know which App is the best for your iPad come join me in taking the tour of the 10 best app which revolves around your app world these are the most favorite for almost all the kind of people

1. iMovie

iMovie is for instant video editing. You can shoot 720p video on your iPad 2 camera. With iMovie, editing videos and uploading them to social network sites are brilliantly easier. The app has received a revamped version for iPad 2. The app works smoothly thanks to the tablet’s dual core A5 processor. iMovie is priced at £2.99.

2. GarageBand
It is a comprehensive music app for iPad 2. GarageBand has the digital versions of most of your favorite musical instruments such as guitar, piano, drums, bass and vocals. The app lets you even record the music you produce. There is also the facility to lay down a track and edit it as per your wishes on GarageBand. The app is priced at £2.99 on iTunes.

3. PhotoBooth
PhotoBooth is an app that brings you stupid pictures of yourself. Using the iPad 2’s dual camera, the app can capture images. After taking your own image, you can add silly effects into them to get several distorted images. The app can be downloaded for free of cost and it is now one of hot apps on iTunes.

4. RealRacing 2 HD
Apple iPad 2’s high resolution display is one of the best platforms to play RealRacing 2 HD. You will have an exalted experience to play the title on iPad 2. Great responsiveness of iPad 2’s touchscreen and its brilliant clarity will certainly bring you a matchless experience with RealRacing 2 HD on the device. The game is with a price of £5.99.

5. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD car racing is another outstanding game for iPad 2. Thanks to the device’s superbly clear display and highly responsive touchscreen, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD will be your favorite game on iPad 2. Real-time reflections of cars and textures are there on iPad 2. The car racing title is available for grabs at £3.99.

6. Twitter app
Twitter is a leading micro-blogging site. You can install the official client of Twitter to use the platform on iPad 2. Updating and reading status messages will be stunningly simple on the official Twitter app. Don’t forget to download Twitter app on your iPad as soon you get a copy of the device. The app is free.

7. Facebook app
Facebook is the world’s top social networking site with more than 700 million members. You can track most of your friends and relatives on Facebook now. So getting the official Facebook app on iPad 2 is greatly important. The Facebook app has just arrived on iPad. Yet, it is now one of hot iPad 2 apps. You can download Facebook app for free of cost.

8. Yahoo! Messenger
FaceTime video chatting is there on iPad 2. However, for those who use Yahoo! Messenger, its official app will be unavoidable. Yahoo! Messenger supports video, textual and voice chatting on iPad 2. It is one of early Instant Messaging services in the world.

9. QuickPix – 59p
QuickPix is a famous camera application. It can boost up the camera of an iPad 2 with many photo-shooting features. You can augment the clarity and perfection of images using QuickPix – 59. It is also one of hotly downloaded iPad 2 apps from iTunes.

10. Google Earth
Do you love to keep watching of maps? Then, you have the iPad 2-customized version of Google Earth, an outstanding map service. The app can be downloaded for free of cost. On a better Internet connection, you can enjoy maps in several modes quite superbly. Rightly, there is no competitor to Google Earth.

Sum-up
These are ten top iPad 2 apps for you. There are thousands of other apps and games available for iPad 2 on iTunes. The latest version of Apple’s tablet is now doing great with lots of features and, of course, with many valuable apps. Enjoy your iPad 2 at its maximum with all great apps.

Who Said Gaming Is Bad? => It Increases Creativity

Despite all those bad talks about video games which makes you think that playing it is a sin, playing video games may actually boost creativity among boys and girls, independently of their violent or non-violent nature.A study of nearly 500, 12-year-olds found that the more they played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories.

The research out of Michigan State University, published online in the journal Computers in human behavior, suggests that of the 491 12-year-olds studied, the ones who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether those games are violent--and that the more they play, the more creative they are. Linda Jackson, professor of psychology at Michigan State University (MSU) and project leader, said the study appears to be the first evidence-based demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity, the journal Computers in Human Behavior reports.About 72 percent of US households play video or computer games, says the Entertainment Software Association, according to a Michigan statement.

The MSU findings should motivate game designers to identify the aspects of video game activity that are responsible for the creative effects, Jackson said."Once they do that, video games can be designed to optimise the development of creativity while retaining their entertainment values such that a new generation of video games will blur the distinction between education and entertainment," Jackson said.

First, there is the issue of how one goes about measuring creativity. Jackson suggests this study provides the first evidence-based demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity. Measuring technology use was easy. To measure creativity, her team relied on the "widely-used" Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, which involved having the kids perform various tasks, such as drawing pictures from a curved shape and then naming and writing stories about those pictures.Some of the resulting work was labeled "interesting and exciting," while other work was, well, not. So what does this tell us? That kids who play video games meet one set of criteria for creativity more than kids who don't.

The researchers surveyed 491 middle-school students as part of Michigan's Children and Technology Project. Regardless of gender, race or type of game played by the students, the study found a relation between video game playing and greater creativity.

CompuExpert Wow Keys Uses An iPhone!!!!!!!

Hmmmmm how many of you guys wanted a iPhone docking station inbuilt in your keyboard itself. some of us prefer a conventional computer keyboard, whereas a select few of the modern age technology enthusiasts are now opting for touch screen devices. Well, for those who prefer touch screen, look away now, otherwise keep reading as this may be of interest to you.

CompuExpert have revealed their latest product, a keyboard which holds an iPhone and transforms it from a touch screen display into a more conventional QWERTY style set-up. Named Wow-Keys, the device was exclusively designed to favour the iPhone, which will also act as both a docking device for synchronisation and charging capabilities. Omnio technologies have developed the WOW-Keys product which performs as a nice little multi purpose machine.
The iPhone is an extremely powerful device, especially for its size, and utilising the full power can sometimes be awkward and fiddly. This neat little gadget allows you to hook it up to a monitor and unleash the true multitasking capabilities of the smartphone. Inputting text becomes a lot easier, especially with the extra iPhone hotkeys. The sychronisation with iTunes is a nice touch but it's really all about improving the time it takes to input text and information into the iPhone itself.

The WOW-keys is available for $99.99

Plate Sized Flying Robot To The Rescue

A dinner plate-sized robot capable of self-controlled flight will be the hands and eyes of humans in places too tricky or risky to access, or say you're out repairing fence when, you realize you forgot your box of Gripples back inside the house. Rather than waste time back-tracking, why not just have your flying boomerang-sized robot retrieve them for you?

That's the dream of Queensland University of Technology's Professor Peter Corke, who believes the robot, which weighs about a kilogram, will have a range of practical uses from farming to search and rescue. The robotics team is working on a similar scenario. They're developing small, eco-friendly flying robots that could be used as farmhands and/or sidekicks to help workers cover ground quickly or reach to those hard-to-reach places.

"Anywhere you want to look, where it is too dangerous or difficult to send a person, this kind of technology will be really useful". Creating a robot that is easy to control has been the main challenge for Prof Corke and his assistant, PhD student Inkyu Sa, at the robotics department."If somebody can't just pick it up and use it inside of 10 minutes, then I think we haven't done our job right," he said.

"You'll be able to put your suitcase on the ground, open it up and send the flying robot off to do its job," said Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering professor, Corke added, "These robots could fly around and deliver objects to people inside buildings and inspect things that are too high or difficult for a human to reach easily. Instead of having to lower someone down on a rope to a window on the seventh floor, or raise them up on a cherrypicker, you could send up the flying robot instead."

"I want this thing to be able to be used by anyone". While there are small flying devices already available, none have the ability to perceive and relate information like this one. "We're about the intelligence that sits on the flying machine that makes it possible to do somewhat complex tasks," Prof Corke said. The small four-bladed flying robot would be useful in any disaster situation, for example. "There's a lot of things we want to inspect that are inconveniently high," Prof Corke said.

The research team says they are using cost-effective technology to keep the robots affordable. Within the 2 year, they'd like to attach arms to the robot so it will be able to make repairs.

Alien City Could Be Found Out With Their Street Lights

If you look at the Earth from space, it's pretty clear that there's intelligent life here because you can pick out cities on the night side. Abraham Loeb, of Harvard University and Edwin Turner, from Princeton University, are saying that we might find other civilizations the same way.The reason is that the way we usually listen for aliens -- via radio signals -- may not work that well. One issue is that contrary to popular belief, TV transmissions don't travel all that far.

The proposal comes from Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and Edwin Turner of Princeton uni."Looking for alien cities would be a long shot, but wouldn't require extra resources. And if we succeed, it would change our perception of our place in the universe," says Loeb.

The plan relies on the assumptions that aliens would use artificial lighting when their location on their planet was turned away from their local star, as humans do. This might not be the case for various reasons, but at least some alien races – if there are a decent number out there – would seem likely to have illuminated cities or something like them.

The good thing about this is that, according to Loeb and Turner, exoplanets with such city/hive/beingness-assemblage lighted patches could potentially be picked out from the rest as the variation in total light emitted from it would show a different signature to that from one without lighted areas. Admittedly this would require telescopes more powerful than those now in service, but the pace of development in humanity's telescopes has been rapid in recent times and the wait for such instruments might not be impossibly long."It's very unlikely that there are alien cities on the edge of our solar system, but the principle of science is to find a method to check," says Turner.

City-spotting could be a better means of finding alien civilisations than traditional methods such as listening out for their radio transmissions. This used to be highly favoured, and our own habit of broadcasting radio, TV etc was thought likely to draw visitors to us, too

Nowadays, however, humanity is beginning to emit much less in the way of detectable radio waves as we make much more use of directional signals and cables to carry our comms and content. Unless an alien civilisation were fortunately/unfortunately placed in time and space it might never spot us by these means, and the same goes for us spotting them if the ETs should follow similar paths of development.But our city lights blaze brighter and more numerous every year, so it may well be that future SETI efforts will prefer to search for similar phenomena rather than trying to tune in to broadcast transmissions.