Amazon's Best Selling products - updated every hour

Know what other people are buying irrespective of sale or no sale and find out whether you need them.


Here is the link for the best selling products which are updated every hour.




Shop Amazon - Best Selling Products - Updated Every Hour

Amazon's Cyber Monday Deals

 Cyber Monday is the monday after the black friday.
Just to sell their stuff the online retailers wanted to have their share of SALE.

Amazon also joined and below is the link for Amazon's cyber monday sale.

This is the link:


Shop Amazon - Cyber Monday Deals Week

Amazon's Black Friday Deals

 As usual Amazon has announced deals for this black friday as well.


Below is the link which will directly take you to amazon black friday deal page.


 This is the link:
Shop Amazon - Black Friday Deals Week

Black Friday Deals and links

Black Friday Deals

  Back in the year 2000 there is very less sales or deals for Black Friday(the day after thanksgiving).We do remember that when we entered a Target to get some body wash the greeter in the front door greeted us with toys and Polaroid cameras.There is no rush or anything like that.

 But after a while retailers started to exploit the fun.Now-a-days everyone waits for the day after thanksgiving to grab something they are waiting for long time.

 A word of caution for people on the deals.


 Electronics manufacturers manufacture products just for black friday.Meaning you may not be getting a real deal.For ex:look for the model of the flat screen tv that you are going to buy.It exactly might not match the one you are looking for.The manufacturers will downgrade the existing model and make a slight change to the model number and give you the TV thats worth for that sale price.


 We will try and update the deals as and when we come across.

 Amazon this year has already started its count down.

Here is the link where you can get to the amazon deal page directly.


Amazon Black Friday deals Page

How Apple let a hacker remotely wipe an iPhone, iPad, MacBook

Gizmodo's Twitter account was recently hacked, after a former employee's iCloud account was breached, and all his Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air) were remotely wiped. It turns out the hacker didn't even have to get the password: he just tricked Apple's tech support.


To read more...

 http://www.zdnet.com/how-apple-let-a-hacker-remotely-wipe-an-iphone-ipad-macbook-7000002141/

LG Display Pays Most in LCD Price-Fixing Settlement

LG Display Co. LPL +5.08% agreed to pay the largest sum among defendants to settle a U.S. case in which it and numerous other manufacturers were accused of price fixing in the liquid crystal display market.

LG Display was one of three defendants that agreed to settle Wednesday the class-action case before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, according to court documents. LG, which is the world's second-largest producer of LCD displays by sales after Samsung Electronics Co., agreed to pay $380 million in damages, including civil penalties to state governments of $19 million.

AU Optronics Corp. AUO +5.65% and Toshiba Corp. 6588.TO +1.97% had also agreed to settle, at sums of $170 million and $21 million, respectively....

 To read more 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304373804577523743169182030.html

Samsung involved in customer Fraud and got caught

Samsung, LG, and carriers fined for price fixing by Korean FTC

Summary: The $40.2 million fine was divided among Samsung, LG and Pantech, as well as Korean carriers SK Telecom, KT Corp and LG Uplus.

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Samsung, LG and Korea's carriers $40.2 million for price rigging and consumer fraud.
The FTC found the companies guilty of working together to fix prices and defraud consumers. The companies had apparently inflated the prices of phones and then advertised them as improved special offers.

To read more in Zdnet click the below link

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/asia/samsung-lg-and-carriers-fined-for-price-fixing-by-korean-ftc/1328

 

 

 

Samsung S3 buyers beware - Jelly Bean is here and Samsung S3 is not having Jelly Bean now

 We just put in a descriptive title so that people are aware of what it is immediately.

 Samsung introduced its Galaxy S3 model with Android Icecream Sandwich. And we here at Claqueurs have enough details to believe that it would be a very long time (read loooooooooooooong time,yes really that long) before you can taste jelly bean.By that time a new android OS would have arrived and you still would be stuck with a version of software that is 2 generations behind.

 Let us see for example:Samsung galaxy S2 was introduced in US last year(September 2011) with gingerbread.Android icecream sandwich was introduced in October 2011. And in february Sprint is the first carrier that promised icecream sandwich in S2 devices. Its june now and there is no ICS yet.But they are introducing S3 with ICS.

 To increase the sales of the S3 they have stopped the upgrade.T-Mobile is the only carrier that has given the ICS update to S2.

 So if you buy S3 its a big question when you will receive the jelly bean update.

 So to avoid frustration stick with apple who at least are as nice to upgrade the old phones with new versions as they become available.

 We at claqueurs are a support group for open source,but this samsung thing makes us irritable and made us switch to apple (iphone).

 We still have high praise for android and not for samsung any more.

Interviews

 So.. the claqueurs team worked in a company that went bankrupt last January.The whole team was looking for jobs and everyone of the settled in a new job(brilliant team).

 There were lot of funny interviews.Funny people that we met on the process.

 The team actually took notes while meeting these people to bring you their experience.In the coming weeks you will be seeing them all one by one.

Samsung did it again !!!

If you are planning to buy Samsung galaxy S2 from any of the US carriers (Sprint,ATT,T-Mobile,Verizon) Hold it.
 They are all running the ginger bread version of Android. And Samsung announced that it will update it to ICS(Ice cream sandwich) in February. Its mid-May and there is no update in the horizon.

 They have updated all the foreign carriers who carry the S2.

 In the mean time samsung has released its galaxy S3 with ICS. So there probably won't be an ICS update for the galaxy s2 owners in the US.

 Again I repeat if you are in the market for a new android phone and looking at Galaxy S2 Hold it.

Either go with the ones that has the ICS or wait till you get the galaxy s3.By the time US gets the S3 google will come with a different version of android and you will be stuck with the obsolete version of android.

 Better go with iphone.(I really didn't want to say this but I said it).

 Here are few pictures of the galaxy s3.

Back after a break

 So... its been a while this blog is updated. 

 During this time some interesting things happened.The editorial group was discussing about a lot of interesting things to post.

 And they are going to be useful as well.

 So hang on for the updates.

 

Death dosen't make someone god

On Android:

 Steve had vowed "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this," and "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong". --- Steve was reported as having sworn to "destroy Android".


On Bill Gates:

 Jobs saying of Gates: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."

This comes from a man who didn't spare a penny for  philanthropy.

 This is how great people reply:

"I don't think that's something we need, some wealth to find root for that one out of a million type person. For most people being able to do mathematics, being able to read, these are great things, and our capacity for doing that needs to expand," Gates said.

Gates added of Jobs: "Over the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things." Jobs was, indeed, mercurial.He explained: "He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it's tough."

I hope you will reflect on what you've done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world's deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

 These are the words of a real human - Bill Gates.

Thanks for reading.


Disclaimer: We are Linux.

UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity

 Dennis Ritchie  (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011):

   While the rest of the world mourns for Steve Jobs there is a small group that mourns for Dennis Ritchie.He is the father of the computer language C. Though he may not be a big name like Steve Jobs his achievement is not a bit less than that of anyone.In fact most of the famous people have been on the shoulders of Dennis.

 Most of the computer applications were written in C at one point of time.Computer science students know about Dennis Ritchie through his book "The C Programming Language". Every computer student must have written some kind of C programming in their early days.

 And by learning C many had earned a good fortune.For many the language C provided and is providing their daily bread and butter.

 His quotes are:
 

•     ^{"I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party."}
•     ^{"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity."}
•     ^{"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."}
•     ^{C has "the power of assembly language and the convenience of... assembly language."}

 Good Bye Ritchie.

RIP.

Amazon KindleFire Specifications and Price

 As promised today amazon announced its long waited Kindle fire.An android driven tablet to challenge ipad.

Its priced for $199.

Click on the below link for more details from amazon:

Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi


Specifications :

Technical Details

Display	7" multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Size (in inches)	7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).
Weight	14.6 ounces (413 grams).
System Requirements	None, because it's wireless and doesn't require a computer.
On-device Storage	8GB internal. That's enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
Cloud Storage	Free cloud storage for all Amazon content
Battery Life	Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.
Charge Time	Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB.
Wi-Fi Connectivity	Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or 802.1X standard with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
USB Port	USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)
Audio	3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.
Content Formats Supported	Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Documentation	Quick Start Guide(included in box); Kindle User's Guide (pre-installed on device)
Warranty and Service	1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the Kindle License Agreement and Terms of Use.
Included in the Box	Kindle Fire tablet, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start Guide.

Here are the pictures:

Let's talk iphone

 Today apple sent out invites to the journalists and publishers regarding the iphone release.

 The invitation was very creative.

 Just by using the icons of calendar app,clock app,map app and phone app they conveyed the message.At the bottom of these icons there is the message stating "Let's talk iPhone".

Apple will be unveiling its next iPhone October 4th at its Cupertino headquarters.

 Here is the invitation for you:

 Nice touch.


Would Steve be there?

How does Sprint prevent people from reading Bad reviews?? -- remove the option

 So I was browsing sprint website and looking for a phone to buy.Since I was so disappointed with my present Samsung Transform I have decided to read the reviews before I make my purchase decision.

 I clicked the user reviews and see that the positive reviews are at the top.I want to see the reviews with 1 star or the negative reviews.I was searching for that sort option but all I found was Featured ,Newest, Highest Rated, Most Helpful.

 There is no way you can sort the reviews with one star or negative or the most critical ones.

All you can see is the praising ones unless the newest ones happen to be negative.If not you will be spending a lot of time searching for a negative review.


 Its like telling people you can rate us with the following 3 options.

1.  Good
2. Better.
3. Best

Here is the screen shot:

This is not good sprint.

Apple looses its iphone.... Again!!!

 So again this year apple has lost its iphone 5 prototype in a bar.Surprising????

 How could such a thing as losing in a bar can take place successively?

 There is a subliminal marketing involved in the loosing of the phone.

 Last year when the expectation of iphone 4 was less or people didn't think much of iphone as they were already satisfied with the iphones they had.

 At that time sprint came up with the fast 4G with HTC EVO.4G had 7 mbps speed.And the phone itself was cutting edge.It had 4 inch screen.Its the first wimax phone.The phone itself can act as a router (tethering) and can connect up to 5 devices.

 So everyone started to talk about the happening thing.And were expecting the EVO.Apple didn't even had the plans to release its phone.Seeing peoples expectation about the EVO apple started to worry.It thought the the demand for the iphone 4 would decrease if most of the people who were planning to switch switched over to the EVO.

 It needed some news of the iphone to come out.So what would it be?It can't be anything related to the feature of the phone.

 So the news of the lost iphone came out.People started to talk.Now iphone is on their attention again.

 History repeats again this year.

Another apple employee looses his upcoming iphone 5 in a bar and then again securities and the police officers search for it again.Here you go they have your attention again. Just increasing the tempo of their release.Had it not be lost we wouldn't care and there would be no news.

 Now there is news all over.

America's got talent 2011 - Finals

Last night four acts performed.

 1.Landau Eugene Murphy Jr
 2.Team iLuminate
 3.Poplyfe
 4.Silhouettes.

 Landau was wonderful last night as was Team iLuminate.Right from the begning I am not a great fan of Poplyfe.And she missed few notes in her song.

 I need to say something about Silhouettes.All the judges were telling that this is a unique act.As far as I recollect it is not.Remember the Oscars where Ellen hosted.They had the real professional dance troupe doing the same act much better.And I am not sure why the judges were saying that they have never seen it before.

 So my pick here is Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.He is a singer and he does it good.Based on the data for the past few years its the singers who are winning it.So he is the one who is going to win.

Is Oracle going to takeover HP?

 So I was calling a friend in a different country and who knows the inside details of HP.

And he was telling me that there are talks going on inside the company that Oracle is going to take over the company.

First the ex CEO of HP joins Oracle.

Then HP stops all its business in mobile technology and tablets with webOS which it bought for 1.3 billion dollars just a year ago.

 Then HP says that it will spin out its PC business or will sell it.

 Then it announces that it will be on the servicing side just like IBM.

So Oracle is another service provider and HP is a good candidate for a takeover now.

Would this happen?

May be.

Lets wait and see.

My picks for the final four of America's Got Talent 2011

 Most of the semi final acts last night did their act very good.But some of them didn't meet the expectations.To point out one "Miami All Stars".

 They were so awsome from the begning of the series.But they didn't do as good as the last time.I am really disappointed.But if they proceed to the finals I will be happy.Just want to see what they have up their sleeve for the finals.

 I am not going to be explaining what happened last night for each and every act.You can watch them in you tube.

 Here are my picks for the final 4 from last night.Lets see whats going to happen tonight.

1. Landon Swank.
2. Smage Bros.
3. Landau Eugene Murphy Jr
4. Team iLuminate.

 Lets wait for the results tonight.