Motorola Atrix 2 now available in India for Rs. 22990

Motorola Atrix 2 is now available in India from online retailers such as Letsbuy and Saholic. The Motorola Atrix 2 has 4.3-inch (960 x 540 pixels) display and is powered by 1 GHz dual-core processor. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS (Android 4.0 ICS update in Q3 2012). It has 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, Full HD (1080p) video recording and VGA front-facing camera for video calls. Other features are similar to the Motorola Razr that saw a price cut in India recently.

How to Install Windows 8 Alongside Windows 7 (Dual-boot)

Let’s say your primary computer is running Windows 7 and you would also like to install Windows 8 on the same computer but while keeping the old Windows 7 installation intact. What are the options?

You can either run Windows 8 as a VM but for the best experience, you should consider installing Windows 8 on a separate partition of your computer’s hard disk. The advantage is that you don’t have to fiddle with your existing Windows installation and you can easily switch between Windows 8 and your existing Windows version with a press of the restart button. In technical terms, such an arrangement is also known as dual boot setup.

Why Windows 8 says that your Password is Incorrect?

Windows 8 and Microsoft Account (or Windows Live ID)

Microsoft has made one important change in Windows 8 around user accounts. You can sign into Windows 8 using your online Microsoft Account (the new name for Windows Live ID) instead of creating a local user account. There are two advantages here:

Read this before you Download Windows 8:

If you have been following all the good press around Windows 8 and are waiting to try it on your own computer, here’s the good news. The consumer preview version of Windows 8 (just a fancy name for beta software) is now available for download and it is very likely that your existing system specs are good enough to run Windows 8.

How to Upgrade your Computer to Windows 8:

Let’s say your existing Windows computer is running XP, Vista or Windows 7 and you want to upgrade to Windows 8.

This is an upgrade so you’ll be overwriting your current version of Windows but before you take the plunge, please note that your existing software programs will only be preserved if you are moving from Windows 7 to Windows 8. If your PC is running Windows XP or Vista, all your files and data will be preserved but you won’t be able to use the software apps after upgrading to Windows 8.

Facebook Users Watch 500 years of YouTube Video Every Day!

Do you know that “500 years of YouTube video” are watched on Facebook every single day?

Google has released new statistics around YouTube usage across the world and the world’s favorite video website continues to set new records. Here are some highlights:

ARCHOS announces Child Pad with 7-inch display and Android 4.0 at $129:

ARCHOS7 has announced a new Android tablet for children, called the Child Pad. It has 7-inch display, powered by 1GHz processor and runs on 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It comes with 1GB RAM and has Kid friendly features such as Kids App Store powered by AppsLib which has 10,000 apps in 14-friendly categories including games, entertainment, communication, multimedia, books, comics, sports and more.

LG Wireless Charging Pad WCD-800 announced:

LG has announced a new Wireless Charging Pad (WCD-800), successor of the Wireless Charging Pad (WCP-700) that was launched last year. The new charging pad is large to fit large phones that could be placed both in horizontal and vertical directions on the base cradle. This lets the users read messages, emails and view calls comfortably when placed in the vertical manner and they can conveniently watch TV and movies in horizontal way.

This is 75.8mm in length above the bottom bracket. It useselectromagnetic induction method and is also equivalent to the electric charger and is compatible with all devices compliant with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) ’s Qi standard, the global standard for wireless power.   The charging area is double the size of LG’s previous wireless charger, the WCP-700.

The LG Wireless Charging Pad, WCD-800 is expected to be available first in Korea followed by North America in first half of 2012. No details about the pricing yet.