Hasta La Gadget!

Here is a wee bit of news that folks in China, the world’s most populous country, would find interesting if they happen to be users of Microsoft products, especially Microsoft Windows Azure and Office 365. It seems that Microsoft’s cloud service is headed in that direction without any of the torrential rains associated with it, although the Chinese offerings will be under the supervision of 21Vianet, a data center services company that is based in China. Microsoft took the route of licensing their technology instead of serving it up themselves, meaning the service will be subject to Chinese law instead of U.S. law.

According to a Forrester research, the “public cloud market in China will grow from $297 million in 2011 to $3.8 billion in 2020.” This is definitely another way for Microsoft to grow their revenue, especially after seeing the success of Amazon Web Services that currently is tipped to run approximately one percent of the Internet. Google and the rest of the crowd are trying to play catch up here, and Microsoft does not want to lose out on the rather lucrative pie.

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Coca-Cola in Great Britain has come up with what they call the ‘Work It Out Calculator‘, where it was developed in association with ex-Olympian and professor Dr. Greg Whyte, in order to share with the rest of the world the importance of balancing the kind of energy that enters your body, as well as energy spent. This is an online tool which allows you to pick your your favorite Coca‑Cola beverage, and after consuming it, will also share a list of various exercises so that you are able to burn off the calories consumed. Take for example a can of Coca-Cola that has 139 calories – you will need to play 17 minutes of basketball or vacuum your home for 51 minutes in order to burn the entire can. Salsa dancing takes the shortest amount of time at just 14 minutes, and I wonder how many hours of Diablo 3 gaming does it take to do so?

Of course, there would be those who have a different school of thought – avoid drinking all the fizzy drinks like Coca-Cola altogether, and settle for far more nutritious and healthy drinks such as natural fruit juices and of course, water. At least you do not need to run the risk of getting diabetes along the way, but if you cannot give up your daily intake of Coke, the Work It Out Calculator does make for a fun site to visit.

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Here comes a new ATX motherboard from Gigabyte, the GA-F2A85X-D3H. Based on AMD A85X chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and features four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 64GB RAM), one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, one PCI-Express 2.0 x4 slot, three PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots and one PCI slot. In terms of connectivity ports, it has eight SATA 6.0 Gbps, four USB 3.0, eight USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The GA-F2A85X-D3H will become available from early November for 9,000 Yen (about $112). [Product Page]

Earlier today, Amazon launched its first in-house game for Android and iOS, and now they’ve brought another app to the Google Play store. Amazon announced its Cloud Drive Photos app, which, like similar apps, allows users to sync and share photos through the magic of Amazon servers. It’s free, and you get 5GB of storage, but if you need more space, 20GB is only $10 per year, although it would be nice if they threw that in with Prime membership as well. And it goes without saying that this app will play nicely with Kindle tablets as well.

If you were looking for another way to upload your private photos to the cloud, and you have an Android phone or tablet, go download it from Google Play now.

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The pinch-and-zoom interface is something that we are all extremely familiar with, especially when touchscreen devices are all the rage these days. Well, here we are with the Pinch interface that will hook up displays from multiple touch-based devices together, and it is currently being worked on by a research group at the Tokyo University of Technology. Watching the video above will show you how it works, but if your connection is too slow, then perhaps a verbal explanation will suffice.

Basically, whenever you place your thumb and index finger on two adjacent screens and pinch them, the screens will link up automatically without any fuss. You can line them up freely, regardless of whether it is vertical or horizontal, and should the pictures be misaligned, they will even match up, now how about that? All the connected devices will know of each other’s positions over WiFi, so you can imagine the kind of visual effect one gets when connecting iPhones and iPads together. What would you do if you had access to the Pinch interface?

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