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Officially Unlock ASUS Transformer Prime

Asus today released a bootloader unlocking tool for its Transformer Prime tablet after the backlash from modding community. The tool is available for download via the  Asus support website , but Asus warned that those who do take advantage of it will "no longer be covered under the original warranty." When Asus started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. But a complaint among the modding community was the locked bootloader on the Transformer Prime. As one user in the XDA Developers forum noted, "Asus has Encrypted the bootloader on the prime with a 128 bit Encryption which is basically impossible to crack!". The download will only be supported on tablets that have been upgraded to ICS Get our regular updates in Google Currents for Android or iOS platforms click here or scan QR code below. 

Ubuntu Linux to run on Android Phones, A desktop on smartphone.

Have you ever wondered how powerful today's smartphones have become? If you ask Canonical the makers behind popular Ubuntu Linux, powerful enough to run full fledged desktop class OS with ease.  This could simply lead to a future where your mobile phone can double up as a portable desktop and a mobile. With Ubuntu for Android, which the company says launches a full desktop OS experience whenever you connect your phone to a computer screen and keyboard. With it, Canonical claims you’ll be able to use Android on the phone and Ubuntu as your desktop, both running simultaneously on the same device, with seamless sharing of contacts, messages and other common services. The company states that the phone experience will be pure Android–it’s a normal Android phone. When the device is connected to a computer screen, however, it launches a full Ubuntu desktop on the computer display. It’s exactly the same Ubuntu Unity desktop many are...

Move on Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Google preparing Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

Are you still waiting to get Android Ice Cream Sandwich update to your phone like us, well here is a news that might disappoint you a bit. Even though Ice Cream Sandwich is yet to reach majority of Android mobiles, Google on the other hand is already prepping up its successor Android 5.0 a.k.a Jelly Bean. Which might release by second quarter of this year. Even though Ice Cream Sandwich just came out of its wrapper, the looming release of Windows 8 has supposedly inspired Google to speed up its release schedule.  With the recent release of Chrome for Android, Google may finally be ready to take Chrome OS seriously. If Android 5.0 Jelly Bean is really going to make Chrome work as a product, it'll port Chrome OS to mobile devices, sync between desktops, tablets, and smartphones, and take full advantage of the Chrome browser's expanding lineup of games and productivity apps. Maybe Google will even lob off the hydra head of Android fragmentation, kill the And...

Intex Avatar 3D touch dual SIM mobile with 2D to 3D converter in India

The Intex Avatar 3D touch mobile phone recently hit the shores of India.  Bearing a 2.8-inch stereoscopic display that requires 3D glasses (bundled) to view the 3D content, the Intex Avatar also features a one-touch 2D image/video to 3D convertor.  The Intex Avatar is also a dual-SIM device, of the GSM-GSM type .   This mobile device is accompanied by a free pair of 3D glasses for users to view the converted content in 3D. It also comes along with a 4GB multimedia card which contains 10 pre-installed 3D films and lets owners watch 3D videos at the rate of 30 frames per second. Sanjay Kumar, GM, Mobile Business, Intex Technologies India, said:  “At Intex, we believe in addressing consumer needs by constantly innovating and developing feature-rich mobile handsets. India has evolved in adoption of 3D technology. Keeping consumer needs in mind we have introduced this novel feature. Intex is poised to provide unique offerings to all the technology enthusiasts with ...

Windows 95, 98, XP and Linux hacked to run on Android phones.

Are one of those guys who wants to fiddle with their phones. Well here is a new thing to try out. Install full Windows 95, 98, XP or full Linux OS on your Android phones. XDA-Developers forum member mnomaanw  shared a way  to get Linux--along with various old versions of Windows--to run on Android smartphone. His method will let you run either Linux, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows XP on the HTC device, allowing for a bygone desktop experience on your smartphone. These are not mobile themes or ARM version of Windows CE made to look like 98 or XP. These are really the full versions of x86 Intel/AMD compatible Windows that you install on your PC. To install Windows just download the few mentioned APK files. Get an ISO image on your SD card. Install and Run  Bochs apk.  Here are the controls :- It emulate touchpad on touchscreen and left/right mouse buttons on volume  You can also click touch screen to generate mouse left button click.  Back...

Firefox 10 released with Extended Support Release for Businesses, full screen apps, disappearing forward button, WebGL antialiasing, smoother scrolling and more For Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Android. End of Windows 2000 and XP RTM announced.

Following Google Chrome's six week release cycle, Mozilla rolled out the tenth iteration of its popular open source browser Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Though the software does bring an array of tweaks and enhancements for both users and developers, it's perhaps most notable for the fact that it marks the debut of the business-oriented Extended Support Release (ESR)  program Mozilla has been working on with the Enterprise User Working Group it re-established last summer. As the biggest UI tweaks will arrive in Firefox 12, the majority of changes are under the hood: except that the "forward" button now only appears once you've pressed "back." New API,  which lets developers show part of their web page / app in full screen. This can be used for not only video, but games, or even other HTML based apps, such as presentation slides as well. Anti-aliased WebGL graphics and and the IndexedDB implementation has been updated to match the specification.  A...