A Limited Edition 4GB Monster !!!!

ASUS ARES is the new king of the GPUs. It’s an upgraded ATI Radeon HD5970 with 4GB GDDR5 video memory and overclocked core and memory speeds.

Just in case you forgot, Radeon HD5970 is made of two HD5870. The two Cypress cores in HD5970 have been downclocked from 850MHz to 725MHz and the memory clock has been reduced from 1200MHz to 1000MHz too.

Well, it seems ASUS felt they can do more with such a card, so they’ve added two more gigs of video memory and clocked the cores and memory up to their native speed.

The result is ASUS ARES – the true combination of two HD5870 with a total of 4GB.

The monstrous ARES costs 1200 US dollars, but that’s not the worst part of it. This fella requires three power connectors from a minimum 750W power supply. ARES consumes 350W-450W when loaded, so I guess you’ll need a lot better PSU than 750W.

ASUS ARES is limited edition and comes in stylish aluminum suitcase with ASUS ROG laser mouse. The card, case and mouse look awesome, I give them the credit, but $1200 is to much.

Free facebook access for Airtel users for two months

Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has made access to online social networking site Facebook free for its over 130 million subscribers, the company said Monday.

The offer will, however, be available only for two months till Aug 31.

The Facebook site will be available in English, Hindi and five more Indian languages - Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam.

"For the two-month period, the partnership enables Airtel customers to access Facebook’s full mobile site faster and at no data cost from their Airtel mobiles via m.facebook.com," said an Airtel statement.

Customers, accessing mobile Internet for the first time need to SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321 to take advantage of this offer.

No +/- Clash In The Batteries Now, Thanx To Microsoft

Ever been frustrated by devices not working because you put the batteries in the wrong way? Well, the days of making sure the + and – side of your AA batteries are in the right direction are over, thanks to a new technology developed by Microsoft.  InstaLoad is a new battery technology from Microsoft that gives devices power, regardless of how users insert the batteries. It doesn’t matter which side is positive or negative; the device will simply work.  The technology is in the mechanical battery contact design. Each side of the metal contacts in a device have positive and negative points, rather than just a positive or negative point. The technology works with most barrel-type batteries, so your AA, AAA, C and D batteries are all compatible. It also doesn’t matter whether the batteries are rechargeable or not

Face Detection : New Photo Tagging Feature From Facebook

This is the first of what seems like a series of new features for its popular photo product.
The tests, which some users will see starting today, focus on decreasing the tediousness of “tagging” friends in Facebook photos. In the current Photos feature, users upload photos, click on each face in a photo, tag that photo with the friend pictured therein and continue the process until the album is tagged.
If you’ve got a large album or a lot of friends in a single photo, this process is inefficient and tedious.

Aamir Khan Production 'Peepli Live' Theatrical Trailor

Releasing on 13 Aug 2010

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk is the World’s first 3TB external hard drive

Looking for a place to store about 2000 movies or a few million photos? Well today Seagate gave it to you in the form of FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. The 3TB external flash drive will set you back 250 US dollars but will make sure you won’t run out of free space anytime soon.
And in case you are wondering how would you go about uploading such massive amount of data, don’t worry – the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk comes complete with USB 3.0 and FireWire connectivity options. 

Google Creates YouTube Video Game to Highlight Chrome and Flash

The latest stable release of Google Chrome comes with Adobe Flash built-in. To highlight the addition, Google has created Google Chrome FastBall, a Flash-based game for YouTube.

The FastBall game tasks users to complete a series of web-oriented challenges that integrate with APIs from a combination of Google (Google) and social services like Last.fm and Twitter (Twitter) in a series of YouTube (YouTube) videos. The idea behind the game is to both demonstrate Chrome’s Flash capabilities and the underlying speed of the browser.

The game itself requires a tad too much thought for this early riser, but the more rested among us should try their hand at completing each of the five challenges as fast as possible. If you’re super speedy, try and get the ball from one end of the obstacle course to the other in 66 seconds — the current record — or less.

We should note, that though the game is meant to highlight Google Chrome (Google Chrome) with Flash, the game appears to play quite well in other browsers too. At the very least, FastBall is a fun distraction that demonstrates how Flash can enhance the YouTube experience.

Try It Out

New “Paranormal Activity 2″ Teaser Spreads Across the Web

The first teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 has just been released. For those who don’t remember, the first Paranormal Activity was a smash hit at the box office, grossing more than $100 million despite an original budget of just $15,000.
How did the movie become such a success? Much of it had to do with a successful viral and word-of-mouth campaign that was significantly aided by social media. The film’s producers used Facebook to spread the word to college students and then created Eventful campaigns so that would-be watchers could request shows in their home towns. The film was consequently able to create and sustain buzz without having to finance an expensive traditional media campaign — that came later, after the film was a hit.
The sequel, while not as low-budget as the original, was still produced relatively quickly. Paramount hopes that the film will have the same degree of success as the original, potentially creating a Saw-like franchise for the studio. It comes to theaters this October.
What do you think of the teaser trailer?

70,000+ People Get Facebook Tagged in Huge Panoramic Photo

Now this picture, which was snapped during the halftime of the England-Slovenia World Cup Match, is being circulated around the web and tagged via Facebook Connect. The panoramic photograph has already been tagged with thousands of people and is, in all likelihood, the most-tagged photo in existence.


In addition to this fascinating exercise in photo-tagging, the Glastonbury organizers have also developed a cool mobile app for navigating the festival, including current and upcoming acts on various stages, exits, amenities and more in an augmented-reality interface. Kudos to that team for making such great use of available digital media tools.
The Glastonbury Festival is the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in existence. Although Glastonbury is best known for showcasing musical groups, it also features dance, cabaret, theater, comedy, circus and other types of acts.
Would you like to see more massive photos from events like this tagged via Facebook? What do you think about this from a viral marketing perspective?

Microsoft : We Have One More 'Blunder' For You

Microsoft has decided to kill off the Kin, two Microsoft-branded phones targeted at teenager users, we have confirmed.
The Kin, formerly known as “Project Pink,” was revealed in April and lauched on the Verizon network in May. However, ominous signs emerged for the phone’s demise after Microsoft cut the price of the Kin in half.

However, it doesn’t look like it was enough — the Kin until will be folded into the Windows Phone 7 team after abysmal sales and millions of dollars lost in R&D and marketing.