Dell earns $6.5 million, thanks to Twitter

Those who say that Twitter is nothing more than a place where people share inconsequential experiences in their lives might want to listen up. Dell told Bloombergon Tuesday that it has earned an estimated $6.5 million in sales of PCs, accessories, and software, thanks to promotions on Twitter.

Dell's vice president for the company's online unit, Manish Mehta, told Bloomberg that over the past three months alone, the number of people who have started following Dell's tweets has risen 23 percent. The company's DellOutlet account, which is home to most of the vendor's sales announcements, currently has almost 1.5 million followers. But unlike some companies, Dell has made Twitter an integral part of its operation. Bloomberg reported that "more than 100 employees send out the tweets" to customers.

"It's a very vibrant channel for us and it's growing aggressively," Mehta told Bloomberg, referring to Twitter. "It's not just our reach and growth that has progressed, it's that it's happening globally."

Mehta told Bloomberg that its Twitter accounts are followed by people in 12 countries. Brazil users alone spent $800,000 in the past eight months, he said.

Samsung's Bada Aims to Bring Apps to All

Samsung has revealed a bit more about Bada, a new mobile phone platform that's supposed to bring apps to cheaper smartphones.

Bada will include a lot of the features you'd expect in a smartphone, such as motion and proximity sensors, accelerometers, face detection, and location-based services. Bada-based phones will focus on apps, and Samsung, like so many others, is trying to attract app developers with openness and flexibility. It's worth noting that Samsung will allow apps to control the dialer, send messages, anbd access contact lists. These are the kinds of features you see in, say, the iPhone.

But Bada phones will not be like the iPhone. Samsung calls it a "smartphone for everyone," in essence bringing the app-centric mentality of high-end smartphones down a notch to cheaper feature phones. The manufacturer believes there's a market for that, citing its own survey that found 42 percent of feature phone users willing to pay for apps, and 54 percent of those people saying they'd pay up to 5 Euros (roughly $7) for apps.

So far, Bada has attracted some heavy hitters, particularly in gaming. Electronic Arts, Capcom, andGameloft (developer of Ubisoft-licensed games, among others) will release games on the platform. Twitter and Blockbuster are also getting involved in Bada.

What's the catch? Samsung hasn't announced any phones yet, but I doubt Bada phones will be as desirable as high-end smartphones. Still, it's too early to judge. But in the United States, I see one potential snag: Any phone that consumes a lot of data, including Samsung's existing Omnia phones, is subject to thesame $30 or more for monthly data as high-end phones such as the iPhone and the Droid.

At that point, is downgrading worthwhile? If you want apps, you can get an iPhone or Droid Eris for $100, and Palm's Pre or Pixi for even less. At least then, you're getting proven app platforms instead of a fledgling one.

JetFlash USB

The new JetFlash 600 USB Flash drive is the latest addition to the existing Transcend USB flash drivefamily. According to Transcend the JetFlash 600 USB drives can delivers up to 18MB/s writing speed and up to 32MB/s reading speed.

The JetFlash drives need no introduction; it is already been popular with the masses. The New JetFlash 600 is windows 7, Vista, XP, ME, 2000 compatible. JetFlash 600 Drives can also seamlessly work on different operating system such as Linux and Mac, and efficiently transfer data between them. 

JetFlash 600 USB drives which are now available in India comes in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage capacity and carry a lifetime warranty.

The USB drive comes with free Elite Software and data management tools.

One just needs to plug the device into the USB slot and the device gets instantly recognised and ready for use. JetFlash 600 USB drives do not require any drives or external power supply.

JetFlash 600 offers ample storage space and is extremely light weight. 

JetFlash 600 are priced as follows
4GB – 1200 INR
8GB – 2000 INR
16GB – 4000 INR
32GB – 8000 INR 

Samsung forays corby

Samsung forays two new Corby brand handset into Indian telecom market. The Phones which will soon be on sales are Corby Plus B3410 and Corby Pro B5310.The handsets supports slide out QWERTY keypads and designed specially to cater youths.

The phone offers social networking over the popular social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and my space. The handsets have TouchWiz sidebar to connect with these widgets.

Here in India the name Corby plus (B3410) has given to Samsung model number B3410 but in other market it is not popular with this name. The Corby name is specially given because of its popularity in India. The fact is that Samsung has noticed a decent sale of its first Corby Phone the S3650.

The Corby pro is having rich features like Wi-Fi,3-2 MP camera and having 100 Mb memory with GPS integration. The phone have3.5 mm jack and the will cost around 13,900.

The Corby pro is Mid-segment handset comes with GPS and Wi-Fi enabled. It has 2 Mp camera and 3.5 jack and will cost around 10,500.

Global warming

More than 1,700 British scientists have signed a petition insisting that global warming is man-made, a spokesman said Thursday after leaked emails sparked a row over the science behind climate change.

The emails, intercepted from scientists at Britain's University of East Anglia, a top centre for climate research, have been seized upon by sceptics as evidence that the experts twisted data in order to dramatise global warming.

But the British scientists' petition, released on the fourth day of a landmark United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, insisted the evidence was clear.

"We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities."

Some of leaked emails expressed frustration at the scientists' inability to explain what they described as a temporary slowdown in warming and discussed ways to counter the campaigns of climate change naysayers.

A spokesman for the Met Office, Britain's national weather service, said its head John Hirst had written to 70 colleagues last Sunday asking them to sign "to defend our profession against this unprecedented attack to discredit us and the science of climate change."

The petition was then forwarded to scientist colleagues to generate support "for a simple statement that we... have the utmost confidence in the science base that underpins the evidence for global warming," the spokesman said.