Steve Jobs the late Apple co-founder has been honored with Grammy Award for his significant contributions to music. The recording Academy has announced the recipients of its Special Merit Awards 2012.

The former CEO of Apple has been named as the recipient of a Trustees Awards 2012 for ‘Outstanding Contributions to the industry in a nonperforming capacity’. The Trustees Award category has been designed to recognize the individuals, who have made their ‘significant contributions to music in areas other than performance’. Steve deserves the award, as he is the one who had contributed significantly to the music.

The Recording Academy said that, Steve Jobs the former co-founder and CEO of Apple has helped in creating the products and technology, which has transformed the way of consuming music, TV, movies and books. The innovations of Jobs are creative visionary which include iPod and its counterpart the online iTunes store. He also created revolution in the industry and the distribution and purchase of music.

The Apple Computer Inc has received the Technical Grammy Award in the year 2002, in recognition of the outstanding technical significance to the recording field. The company is still the leader, with its new technology and in-demand products like iPad and iPhone. Among the recipients of Grammy Awards, Steve Jobs was the one of them along with Brazilian composer and arranger Antonio Carlos Jobim, soul performer Gil Scott- Heron and Roger Nichols an audio engineer, who will be honored posthumously. The Grammy Awards will be held at the ceremony of 54^th Annual Grammy Awards on Saturday, February 11, 2012 and would be telecast the next day.

Apple VS Samsung Patent lawsuit strikes with another four new patents lawsuit, and this time the handful of changes to the legal fight between the giant took place in Germany, Mannheim Regional Court.

According to the reports, Samsung has now added four new patents to its ongoing infringement against Apple related to the telecommunications standard technology WCDMA for 3G mobile handsets, which was filed in April.

The four new complaints, together with use of emoticons, strike as the international patent battle between Apple and smartphone competitor Samsung persists to escalate.

The spokesman for the company states that Samsung claims four new patents; out of which 2 are standard-related patents and the other 2 are utility patents. The court states that it would make these claims separate from the April lawsuit.

Samsung’s four fresh patents are, European Patent 1679803, European Patent 1720373 (B1), Deutsches Patent 10040386, and European Patent 1215867.

On Friday, Samsung says that it does not request a ruling with Apple products that utilize Qualcomm baseband chips. That applies to the iPhone 4S, which is the merely product of Apple to date by using a Qualcomm baseband chip. While, the spokesman of Samsung says that a regional German court in Mannheim held a hearing on the April case, stating that it would announce a ruling on March 2.

Certainly, the matters discussed on Friday are merely a few of the numerous legal battles between Apple and Samsung across the globe. In April, Apple made the initial attack in the court against Samsung, with a lawsuit claming that the South Korean tech giant is copying the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad, and Samsung fast fired back, although the lawsuits between the two tech giants continue to increase.

E-books and downloadable audio books carry on growing in popularity day by day. E-book 2011 sales have better than doubled year-to-year. According to the January 2011 sales report from the Association of American Publishers, the first month of the January illustrates that E-book net sale increased by 115.percent than the sales report of January 2010. Last year sales report was $32.4 Million and this has been increased to $69.9 million in revenue against a year ago.

The sales of Downloadable Audio Books have increased by 8.8 percent than the previous year sales, which is from $6.0 million to $6.5 million. The report even stated that full 2010 analysis, E-book sales have increased yearly and considerably in all 9 years of tracking the category.

Books on CD or tape were also down slightly, as were textbooks and academic books. Only religious books grew by 5.6 percent, from $49.8 million to $52.6million.

While, Adult Hardcover category reduced from $55.4million to $49.1 million, Adult Paperback dived from $104.2 million to $83.6 million and Adult Mass Market turn down from $56.4 million to $39.0 million.

In the Children’s or Young Adult category, the Hardcover sales for 2011 January was $31.2 million and where as in 2010 the sales report was $31.8 million. While, Paperbacks were down by 17.7 percent, in 2010 the sales were $30.9 million and now it is $25.4 million.

Higher Education group, the sales have slight dropped by 1.4 percent, in 2010 the sales report was $387.6 million and where as in 2011 the report is $382.0 million. At the same time the University Press Hardcovers sales has also been decreased by 14 percent compared to last year’s  sales which were $4.5 million and this year it is $3.9 million and even the University Press Paperbacks have also tasted the decline taste from 6.7 million to 6.2 million; which is nearly 7.8 percent decrease.

However, in Professional and Scholarly Books the sales report has increased by 1.3 percent, in 2010 the sales report was $51.2 million and in 2011 the report stands at $51.8 million.

Finally, the majority of the increase is probable to arrive from conventional e-book readers like the Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook.

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Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 5: Apple is planning to release iPad 2 and iPhone 5 with Dual Core SGX543 Graphics card and Ultrafast. Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are the Second Generations devices coming into the market.

Apple was advanced with new features as drawing polygons in video games process. Apple iPhone 4 is providing new acceleration for the encoding and video decoding with rich quality resolution for Apple’s Face Time in iPhone 4.

Apple’s second generation iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will bring out the best features like quick graphics card with 1080 HD quality.

Apple’s custom system chip is anticipated to make out from SGX535 using in iPhone 3GS. Now SGX543 graphics card and video core are available for the second generation devices with the higher resolution. Apple was updated with the fast video processing for the iPad and iPhone 4 from VGA component video outputs HDMI modern. Several high ends Smartphone’s and tablets are providing HDMI output. Apple’s next custom system chip SGX543MP2 which it will come out with SGX543 cores. Apple officially did not announce any information about iPad 2 and iPhone 5.

Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 9: The updated version of Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 9 has been released on 14 January, 2011 and it is ready for download to the users.

Recently, Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 8 has been upgraded; it has rectified 1400 small defects in that version. But the Firefox 4 beta has only rectified only 700 minor defects when compared to the earlier update. Beta 9 will be the final beta of Firefox4 on the Mozilla and the stable release version will be available by the end of this February.

Present update of beta 9 has improved features of faster start-up time, bookmarking, accelerated in viewing complex animations. It also includes application tabs, Panorama, Integrated Firefox synchronization between pc’s and mobile phones and extended support to HTML 5.

The Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 9 has been included with features of WebM and HD video, 3D graphic provided with WsbGL, hardware acceleration and the Mozilla Audio API which helps the users to create visual experience along with sound effects.

GreenPois0n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is available for free download. The link for downloading GreenPois0n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is given below. The functionalities of GreenPois0n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak are revealed too.

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Now, GreenPois0n supports iPhone 4, iPhone 3G S, iPod touch (4th Generation), iPod touch (3rd Generation), iPad.

In the coming days, Chronic Dev team is planning to release GreenPois0n to support Apple TV (2nd Generation) and iPod touch (2nd Generation).

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Samsung has released its another Smartphone as Samsung Galaxy K. Samsung Galaxy K will run on Android 2.2 Froyo operating system. Samsung Galaxy K is having 3.7- inch AMOLED screen.

Samsung Galaxy K smartphone is having features such as Wi-Fi function, 1 GHZ CPU processing, Abode flash for photos, 3G tethering, T-DMB TV, Micro SD card slot, GPS and FM radio.

Samsung Galaxy K is providing 5 mega pixel camera, 512 MB RAM for storage and 8GB of internal memory. Samsung Galaxy K will be available in two colors such as White or Black. Samsung Galaxy K smartphone is available for $70.

Samsung Galaxy Tab: Vodafone plans to release Samsung Galaxy Tab in Spain. Samsung Galaxy Tab is having 7-inch display screen with 1024X600 resolution LCD display screen and 3G processing functions.

Samsung Galaxy Tab is also having new features such as 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera, 3-mega pixel auto focus for back end camera, Wi-Fi function, GPS, 720p HD video recording, Micro SD card slot, 512 MB of RAM for storage and 1 GHZ cortex A8 processor.

This latest Samsung Galaxy Tab will runs on Android 2.2 operating system. It is having 380 gm of weight. Samsung Galaxy Tab is available in Spain for 199 Euros with 18 months contract.

Windows Phone 7: Microsoft has launched its latest operating system as Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 operating system is the latest version operating system from Microsoft.

Earlier, Microsoft lost its shares in OS market due to iPhone and Google Android Software. Based on this competition, Microsoft released its latest operating system, Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft Chief Executive, Sreve Ballmer says that this latest Windows Phone 7 will success World widely. Microsoft has combined with the mobile company’s such as Samsung, LG Electronics, Taiwan HTC and Dell.

Microsoft has linked with some major networking company’s such as Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone and AT&T. Over all, more than 30 countries will use this latest Windows Phone 7 operating system.

Nokia C7:Nokia has announced its latest mobile phone as Nokia C7. Earlier, Nokia has released many successful series such as C series, E series and N series etc.

The latest Nokia C7 will support 2G and 3G networks. Nokia C7 mobile phone is having 130gm of weight, 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive display screen, micro SD card slot and Dual LED flash.

Nokia C7 mobile phone has 8GB of internal storage memory, 256 MB RAM and 1 GB ROM for storage. Nokia C7 is providing expandable memory up to 32 GB.

Nokia C7 is having 8-mega pixel camera of fixed focus. Now, you can get your Nokia C7 for $466.