Microsoft Uses De-Blurring Technology To Clarify Bing Maps

Bing receives a lot of flack as a search engine, but it has some cool features. One of them is Bing Maps, a robust competitor to Google Maps – and it’s now a bit sharper than before.

Clarity comes courtesy of a de-blurring algorithm developed by Microsoft. Originally intended for consumer cameras, it has been adapted to help de-blur images on Bing Maps. A crisp satellite image is an obvious ideal, but due to the motion of the satellites and/or planes used to take photographs, blur can sometimes rear its fuzzy head – and, as most amateur photographers know, it becomes more prevalent the further a camera zooms in.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Specifications and Price in India

Samsung announced their latest smartphone powerhouse Galaxy S3 on may 2nd to stay in top of the smartphone market. The galaxy s3 is not just a high end smartphone but it introduces some new features and trends in mobile phone technology. It also have the latest available version of the Google Android OS. Samsung bundles this super phone with some intelligent and unique features like S-voice, Smart Stay and S-Beam which'll definitely a good move from  Korean manufacturer as most company's focusing on hardware features rather than utilizing it effectively.

The iPhone 5 - Coming JUNE 2012 (4G)

The all new iPhone 5 is already buzzing with speculation. Will the new iPhone 5 be a complete redesign? Yes! Korea's IT News reported that the iPhone 5 is likely to be housed in "Liquidmetal". Liquid metal is the industrial name for an alloy of nickel, titanium, zirconium, copper and other metals. Apple was granted rights to use it in August of 2010. The current Apple iPhone release wasn't much to rave about, although people do really like Siri, the personal assistant. However, the new iPhone 5 is going to have some amazing new hardware and features like 3D video and pictures, newly designed keyboards and 4G speeds to name a few! This is made possible by the new A6 processor which will also be featured in the iPad 3.

This phone is going to be loaded with awesome new features like video chat on 3g and 4g (no longer restricted to WiFi only), face recognition and extreme downloading with 4G. (List of possible features below). The new iPhone 5 features are speculated, but have been well received by the public and will typically follow suit based on previous releases and their features.

Like the recently release iPad 3, this new iPhone 5 will be equipped with a dual core A5X chip processors, much like the iPhone 4s (A5) and higher

First “Google Tablet” to be Released in July, Priced $149 to $249

Search giant Google will be going to release of its first tablet computer in July 2012 ,report suggests over the weekend. Earlier sources claimed that Google will release their first tablet in May 2012 in the price tag of $249 but Google wants to tweak the tablet and lower its price from the present $249.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said the company plans to market “a tablet of the highest quality,” perhaps in reference to the leading competitors products, such as Apple’s iPad.

Convert Text To Speech

Text
to speech is a brilliant technology that can be used in a lot of different
ways. Ever since Windows‘ Microsoft Sam, text to speech has been pretty
accessible to your desktop commoner.

Speech to text is usually the more popular technology, but can
text to speech actually be used for any real benefit? Surely you may not enjoy
reading huge passages of text. It helps the visually impaired, too. I’ve laid
text-to-speech tracks over top of my Winamp playlist before, to
memorize and study certain things. That’s a technique that I continue to use to
this very day.

Let me introduce you to three solutions if
you’re interested in using text to speech in similar ways.