Space Monkey, wants to combine the benefits of local storage and the cloud. Customers get a 1 terabyte hard drive, which means you can always access your files without dealing with your Internet connection. At the same time, the drive is connected to a peer-to-peer network, and copies of your files are also distributed in chunks to other devices. (They’re encrypted for security purposes.) The network allows you to access your files remotely, and also provides a backup in case your local storage fails — the company says more than half the network would have to go down before files are lost.

The company plans to start shipping devices this summer. It will charge a subscription fee of $10 a month (no extra charge to rent the hard drive). It’s also accepting pre-orders from 1,000 customers who want to pay for two years upfront — those early adopters get to keep the hard drive outright. This however seems to be a US only offering at the moment but we will update all readers if this service is rolled out to the world.

After a lot of playing around, I accidentally stumbled on the Shut Down feature. Here are the steps.

First, you take the mouse to the lower-right corner and wait for the on-screen menu tab to appear before clicking on Settings.

Next click on the Power button.

Then you finally get to click on Shut Down or Reset.

Compared to the Classic interface you can accomplish the same thing with two clicks, this takes a bit longer and some time to get used to…

We have already tried installing this new preview OS on an older laptop and surprisingly enough it worked even faster than Windows 7! The new Metro UI will take some time to get used to, and there are some tricks one must learn to see where the usual items are (or the lack of) but in about 10 minutes i was using the system fluently.

Wanna give it a go?

Just download the Consumer Preview Setup exe from here, and it will decide which version of Windows 8 is right for your system. It’ll tell you which of your apps are compatible with Windows 8 (if you want to upgrade your current system), grab you a product key, and download any tools you may need to create an ISO or bootable flash drive.

If you prefer, though, you can just grab a regular ISO image here, in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. While you can upgrade your system to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, only upgrading from Windows 7 will be treated as a full upgrade. Upgrading from XP or the Windows 8 Developer Preview will only save your user accounts and files, but you’ll lose your Windows settings and programs (so you may want to dual-boot or install it in a virtual machine instead). You can read more about the system requirements and other details at the FAQ.

Via : Lifehacker

The firm hopes the Ubislate, which sells for £22 ($35), will make digital connectivity more affordable. 

A key factor in selecting the finalists was that they demonstrated the potential to become global businesses.

The winner of the competition was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

As well as the prestige of winning, Datawind will get free design consultancy and free software.

Russell Buckley, one of the Smart UK Project judges, said: “We were very impressed by the quality of all the finalists.

“It was a tough decision but we are very pleased that Datawind has won.

“There is a global potential and the will to transform lives and society, all using the resources of a British company.”

Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive of Datawind, said the result was a “great validation of our vision”.

You read that right, 41 megapixels – Nokia has made this happen by combining Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia-developed pixel over-sampling technology. High megapixel count does not equal quality photos, of course – we’re looking forward to seeing how PureView tech works in real life.

Of course, the PureView technology will be coming to upcoming Nokia phones as well, so get used to phones having crazy megapixel numbers in the near future.

The 808 PureView also features something called Rich Recording, which lets you record “crisp, clear audio (…) up to a thumping 140 decibels,” says Nokia.

The rest of the specs mostly spell mid-range: a single core 1.3 GHz CPU, a 4-inch, 360 x 640 pixel screen, 512 MB of RAM and 16 GB of storage.

The device will retail for 450 euros, hitting the market in May.

And, going back to the question we asked at the beginning – whether Symbian is dead, as many have predicted – Nokia declined to say. In any way, even if 808 PureView is the last Symbian we see, at least the PureView technology will live on in other handsets.

IT Peterborough