OG Contest: Win a 6MP Digital Camera and more!

OG Contest: Win a 6MP Digital Camera and more!

April 6th, 2009 by Annkur

Fast approaching our 2nd anniversary we are giving away a Digital Camera and some more goodies to our readers. Here is your chance to win a 6 Megapixel Kodak Digital Camera, spy remotes or the worlds smallest card reader

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All you need to do is pickup your favorite article from OnlyGizmos and blog about it (and drop us the link below). Also Twitter users with more than 500 followers can twit about the post. Rules downstairs

Rules:

• 1 Person can participate only once in this particular giveaway
• Just leave a comment below with the link of your blog post / or the Tweet status about your favorite article. (Example of tweet status link)
• Only 25 randomly selected tweets would enter the contest, though all blog posts qualify
• Blogs participating in the contest should be more than 3 months old with at least 10 posts live as on 6/5/2009
• You can pickup any article from the site
• The contest is open from 6th April to 6th May 2009 (Comments shall be closed on the post to indicate that the contest if over)
• Winners shall be chosen randomly via random.org
• We can ship prizes worldwide. So contestants from all countries can participate
• Be sure you enter your correct email id while entering the comment below for us to contact you in case you are the winner
• @netra - one of the most trusted names around the web would run the random query to chose the winners

Prizes to be won:

• 1x Kodak 6 megapixel digital camera
• 2x Micro Spy Remote
• 5x Worlds smallest memory card reader

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Update: Please note to qualify for the contest you need to select some post from the site other than this CONTEST POSTING. Here is an example of an ideal entry.

Google phone to be announced Monday

By Michal Lev-Ram

Google is expected to unveil its mobile phone plans on Monday. That would end two years of speculation that the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant has been working on a cell phone or, as has been more recently suggested, a mobile operating system for multiple manufacturers and devices.

A source close to T-Mobile and Sprint confirmed to Fortune that the companies are likely to be the first U.S. mobile operators to carry Google-powered cell phones, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Taiwanese phonemaker HTC has been named as a potential Google partner, which sources close to the company have also confirmed.

The question, though, is whether Google can change the wireless carriers’ long-entrenched ways, in which they insist to a large degree on controlling what phones and software their customers use. Google has publicly stated that consumers should be able to download any software they wish, and use any mobile device with whatever wireless network they prefer. The company has lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to adopt such an approach in an upcoming auction of wireless spectrum. Google has also said it plans to bid in that auction, though it’s not clear what its long-term plans would be if it won.

Even if Google doesn’t become a wireless operator, getting the established carriers to carry phones compatible with the company’s software and services will be a potential boon.

Google Confirms Friend Connect

Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.

Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.

Friend Connect will work with existing standards such as OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, as well as with data access APIs from Facebook, Google, and MySpace. The announcement comes on the heels of similar announcements from MySpace and Facebook (MySpace’s Data Availability and Facebook Connect). As Michael noted on Friday:

The reason these companies are rushing to get products out the door is because whoever is a player in this space is likely to control user data over the long run. If users don’t have to put profile and friend information into multiple sites, they will gravitate towards one site that they identify with, and then allow other sites to access that data.

Erick Schonfeld

Intel to Deliver Quad-Core Chips for Laptops

The chip will be released after Intel's Centrino 2 platform, code-named Montevina, is launched in the second quarter. Montevina is an upgrade to the current Centrino mobile platform that puts WiMax and Wi-Fi networking capabilities on a single chip. Montevina will include processors based on the Core 2 microarchitecture and the quad-core notebook processor could be included in the platform.

The initial quad-core laptops will be desktop replacements, weighty laptops that will appeal to gamers and office workers requiring processing power, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst with Insight 64

The initial quad-core processors will strain battery life and may first make their way to the high-end gaming and workstation notebooks that require heavy processing power, said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager, Intel Mobile Platforms Group, earlier this year.

Google, SingTel and others to build submarine cable

Web search company Google Inc has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between the continents.

Google and the five telecoms companies said in joint statement that the 10,000 km (6,200 mile) undersea fiber optic cable, connecting the United States to Japan, will cost $300 million.

Google's partners in the consortium, dubbed Unity, comprises Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corp, Pacnet, and Singapore Telecommunications.

The cable will provide much-needed capacity to sustain unprecedented growth in data and Internet traffic between Asia and the United States.

"The Unity cable system allows the members of the consortium to provide the increased capacity needed as more applications and services migrate online," said Jayne Stowell, a spokesman for the consortium.

The consortium said it has picked NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system, which is expected to be ready for service in the first quarter of 2010.

(Reporting by Daryl Loo; editing by Louise Heavens)