Benefits and opportunities of NFC technology

Near Field Communication technology, abbreviated NFC, has been present in some smart communication devices such as the Google Nexus, the Samsung Galaxy S II, the BlackBerry Dakota and Nokia C7 smartphones.

Product tablet PCs will be equipped with NFC technology include several other electronic devices such as home entertainment systems, cameras, printers, microwaves and so forth.

NFC technology will create new opportunities, in addition to product users as well as for the business world. Let's look at the benefits and opportunities that exist in the NFC technology. There are three types of how NFC works, namely Emulation Card, Reader/Writer and Peer-to-peer.

Card Emulation
Smartphone is equipped with NFC will be used as a means of payment such as Google Wallet service. Consumers are now in the shopping center can make payment by juxtaposing the smartphone on a device that has been available, without the need to touch or swipe. (contactless).

Reader/Writer
NFC technology provides an easy to read and write NFC tags that can be used, eg for reading smart posters.

Peer-to-peer
Devices that have been equipped with NFC will be able to connect and communicate with each other. For example a notebook with a printer or share photos from camera to the television.

There are several benefits of NFC. Than as a means for ease of payment, NFC can be used for:
1. Full access
2. Consumer electronics products
3. world health
4. Means of collection and exchange of information
5. Coupons and loyalty
6. transportation

In addition, some things are the advantages of NFC technology for consumers and opportunities for the business world:

1. Intuitive. NFC interaction requires only a simple touch
2. Versatile. NFC reach widely diverse industries and has a versatile usage.
3. Basic standards and open. NFC technology follow universally applicable rules such as ISO, ECMA, and ETSI.
4. Where possible NFC technology that can be connected quickly and easily just like on an existing wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
5. Is safe. Transmission NFC is a short distance only a few inches. In addition, the NFC has a built-in capabilities to support security applications.
6. Operate and can work with devices that have used the existing contactless card technology.

Seeing the benefits and opportunities that exist, NFC technology will be able to create new opportunities for the world of advertising and marketing, automotive, financial services and banks, world health, retail, transportation, travel, entertainment and much more.

Have your smartphone is equipped with NFC technology? For those of you who have opinions and comments about NFC technology please write in area below.

15 new levels update in Angry Birds Rio

Silently, Rovio is preparing the latest update to Angry Birds Rio. In addition 15 new levels that can be played, in which there will also be a new kind of grumpy bird. Yes, the latest version of Angry Birds Rio (1.4.2) will showcase some new places, and orange colored bird that has a special ability that is, produce a massive explosion when it clashed with the enemy.

For a while new level of Angry Birds Rio is available only to iOS and PC users. Specifically for Android, the new marketing is done through Amazon AppStore. Here are some updates of the latest version of Angry Birds Rio.
* 15 new levels! The leaderboards and walkthroughs are up and videos will be available soon. For now, please use the walkthrough pages to post your strategies.
* 8 new mangoes to find. Refer to our videos if you need help finding them.
* New achievements to be unlocked (iOS only). Many are “hidden” achievements, so be sure to check out our list.
* Another “thrilling” boss fight!
* As said above, the Orange Bird is now available, which means the whole Angry Birds family has made an appearance.
* Pro tip! Try to hit the luggage. It’s worth 5,000 points!
* A new icon has appeared on the “Play” screen. It’s a music note that links to the Rio Samba Single on iTunes. We’re not sure if this link will be there for other platforms, so let us know.

4 BlackBerry apps for Spice Year of the Dragon

To further enliven the Lunar New Year in 2012, the Blackberry App World presents 4 appslications that you can download on the Blackberry and your Playbook device. Apps that can be honed intellect and fill your free time while waiting for colleagues or relatives.

Chinese Checkers
Simple game that can be played from 2 to 6 users, hone your speed with a strategy game and can fill your leisure time. The concept of the game is to move the entire object to the location in front of you, by running one by one, or jump as well as to accelerate the movement of the object you are playing.

Chinese Zodiac
What will happen to your fortune in the Year of the Dragon? Check your zodiac based on your birth date, and get information about your zodiac in this Dragon. This application will also inform about health, career, relationship with your spouse, and any numbers you have on your luck this year.

Mahjong for Playbook
Your Playbook For tablet users, you can utilize your free time by playing Mahjong games that hone your expertise in finding similar images. The concept of playing mahjong is to choose which can move freely, with similar images from the outer to the inner side. Applications that hone your foresight can be downloaded for free on the Blackberry App World.

XE Currency
For those of you who frequently travel abroad, like the presence of this application will greatly assist you in doing the currency conversion. Conversions that can do up to more than 180 types of currency, will help you quickly in doing currency conversion into other currencies. Download this application for free on the Blackberry App World.

New toy for Instagram users

Music sharing platform SoundCloud, were celebrating the achievement of 10 million users. Related to this celebration, they released a new toy for Instagram users. Is Story Wheel, new features are formulated by two employees of SoundCloud on hackathon event last year.

This feature allows users to create slide-show voiced by their Instagram photos. This service is embedded in Instagram and invited users to choose the best photos she likes to be a slide show. To be more attractive, he will be equipped with a voiceover that result from SoundCloud.

Like a real slideshow, there's no telling how long it's going to last, and no way to pause or rewind it – you're at the mercy of the Story Wheel's creator.

Story Wheel was created by two SoundCloud employees at a hackathon last year, and is the latest product from SoundCloud Labs which showcases experimental projects.

After launching in 2008, SoundCloud only just passed the five million users mark last year, indicating just how fast the growth of the service has been over the last six months.

On top of reaching the 10 million users milestone, over five million official SoundCloud apps have been downloaded and there are over 10,000 apps in development on SoundCloud's open platform, including ones that integrate with professional music software Pro Tools and Cakewalk.

It's not just music that SoundCloud deals in, either, as its content has been labelled with over 3.3 million tags, with audio from books and lectures to bloggers and journalists.

If you're interested in making your own slideshow, head over to storywheel.cc and start narrating your own show, just spare a thought for the person who might end up watching it.

Karaoke Application for iPad users

You love karaoke? A British startup offering application for you who likes to sing while reading the lyrics of songs through mobile devices. Unfortunately, the device in question must have an iOS 4.3 operating system above. Shazam Player, the name of that application, launched last week in the Apple App Store. It can be used in the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch and is a separate application first presented by Shazam.

For information, the company was known for his music identifiers technology. The workings of the application it is by scanning your music library on the device used. The application then adjusts the songs are there with the database owned by Shazam's LyricPlay. After the match, it sends a list of songs by artist, album, or playlist that can be played, complete with lyrics that can be streamed.

June 2011 ago, Shazam acquired Tunezee, LyricPlay service providers. This acquisition makes the song Shazam database increased from 25 thousand to 30 thousand songs. Shazam promised to continue to add new lyrics to the database, and currently, about 50 thousand words they already provide.

Besides playing music and displaying the lyrics, this application also provides access to music videos, reviews the song the relevant, and the artist who sings tour schedule. The application itself is available for free through iTunes.

Angry Birds Seasons update : Year of the Dragon

Angry Birds had just attended in last December, featuring shades of Christmas and full of snow, this time to enliven the Chinese New Year event, Angry Birds Seasons again present with the theme "Year of the Dragon" is the feel of fireworks, lanterns, and filled with charming red color. The "Water Dragon" based on Chinese calendar and the elements it contains.


Angry Birds also presents the opening song with the feel of interesting Lunar, and of course always full of captivates humor from the battle of the green pigs and birds. There are 15 levels in chapter 1 and 3 additional levels in chapter 2, when trying to play it, Angry Birds Seasons provides a quite complicated challenge, so to move the level requiring a strategy to destroy all the green pigs.


Shades of red, accessories such as hats, lanterns, and fireworks coloring the battlefield where green pigs hiding, so for a limited number of birds and accuracy, while requiring tricks to destroy these green pigs.


For you who want to play it, do the update through the iTunes Store or Android Market and will automatically add the level Year of The Dragon in the Angry Birds Seasons.

Nokia Lumia 900, 4G LTE with Mango

Coincide in the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012, Nokia officially introduced the Nokia Lumia 900. Latest gadgets, which has brought the platform Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango.


Display design is not much different with Nokia Lumia 800. This smartphone screen size 4.3-inch Super AMOLED WVGA (480 x 800 pixels), which supported ClearBlack Display technology. Processor 1.4 GHz single-core, plus 16GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM.

This Smartphone is also equipped with Nokia navigation app called Drive, ESPN sports application, and a special version of the CNN iReport application. Not only HSDPA and HSUPA channels owned by Nokia Lumia 900. The phone also equip themselves with the 4G LTE technology (Long Term Evolution) which could bring the user action until the super fast cruising speed of 50 Mbps.


The Lumia 900 is on the big side, with a 4.3-inch screen. It has a solid-feeling plastic body, though it’s designed and cut in such a way that using brushed metal would have gone a long way to making it feel less cheap. The curved design is comfortable to hold, but the surface of the plastic body looks a little bulgy around the edges of the screen.

A 1.4GHz processor and 512MB of RAM power the Lumia 900, about the same specs as the first HTC Titan. During use, we found the Windows Phone OS was much faster overall, scrolling and executing transitions more quickly and smoothly. We had lamented the slowish transitions on the HTC Titan, which has a 1.5GHz processor, so we're happy to find out that rate-limiting factor isn't the OS.


The volume rocker on the phone is located above the sleep button; the camera button is towards the bottom on the right side. Almost every phone in recent memory places the sleep button at or near the top, so seeing a phone with one is the middle feels like looking at a world map with Australia in the Atlantic Ocean.

Vance Kim, the Nokia marketing campaign manager, told this design choice is meant to be more handed-ness agnostic than higher-up sleep buttons, and we quickly saw this was true: either the thumb of the right hand or forefinger of the left hand can hit that button easily, and with more leverage than one located at the top. The remaining issue is accidental presses, which we couldn't get a read on during our short time with the phone. All these buttons are easier to press and have more depth and feedback than those of the HTC Titan.

The Lumia 900's AMOLED display was not the best screen we saw at the show, but the level of color and detail was fine. The phone has an 8-megapixel camera on the back that neither takes phenomenal photos nor is particularly fast. There's also a front-facing camera for video chat.

In our eyes, the biggest red flag, relatively speaking, on the Lumia 900's spec sheet is the battery life: Nokia estimates the phone's 1830mAh battery (a generous size for a smartphone) will get up to 7 hours of 3G talk time and 6.5 hours of video. While the phone is undoubtedly faster than other Windows Phone devices we've tried, this suggests that it's operating at too high a level for a decent battery life.

While we like the Windows Phone OS and the Lumia 900's particular talent for smooth and speedy navigation, most of the other features make us hope Nokia targets the Lumia 900 as a really good mid-range phone, rather than trying to pass it off as a premium handset. The Lumia 900 and 800 are set to launch in March, for as-yet-unannounced prices.

This great storage solutions in Smartphone

You who have a smartphone device may require high data storage media, while the storage capacity is still limited smartphone devices. Or when your mobility is very dynamic, but at the same time you need data in a different space, certainly not a smartphone can be a storage solution. To this solution, Buffalo has announced its storage products, Buffalo CloudStation.

This product is a personal storage media-based computing, so you can send data from your smartphone or tablet PC with ease. Needs a large storage capacity and efficiency of data storage, and security becomes a major factor, especially on smartphone storage media.

See video demo below :


Personal storage device comes with two options, CloudStation Two Drive capacity of 4 terabytes of hardrive that contains two slots each 2 slots, and CloudStation Single Drive with a capacity of 2 terabytes of hardrive slot. To set up process is also easy, simply go to http://cloudstation.pugoplug.com from a smartphone or a computer, will appear to guide the registration and verification by entering your personal email.

If different networks or network error, you must enter the 16 digit code listed on the back of this product, simply inserted via the web. Although as a personal storage, this product can be used for multiple email accounts, such as for family members.

Connected over the internet, can run automatically. Connection can be through wifiLAN as well as 3G smartphones, or computer with a wireless or wired LAN. For portability connection, there is a hole plug ins that can be connected to a computer or smartphone.

For compatibility, all of the smartphone, it has to accommodate personal storage. This product is designed for smartphone users who want to extract data anytime and anywhere.