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Nowadays, more and more people are turning to use Google to help them make their minds to name their children

Nowadays, more and more people are turning to use Google to help them make their minds to name their children. They are prone to look for some names which are in the top search results of Google, making attempts to avoid names which bring up an undesirable search result.  This growing trend for Googling a baby’s potential name is happening around the world.

Particularly, many mothers and fathers are based on the uniqueness criteria to decide what baby name will be. Those names have to be unique enough to rise to the top of search results, much different from other general names.

Many mothers and fathers are based on the uniqueness criteria to decide what baby name will be

Laura Wattenberg, the author of ‘The Baby Name Wizard’ stated The New York Times, that a desire for uniqueness in the digital world has created ‘unspoken competition’ between parents to find the most original name. In fact, parents will type their thinking of a baby name on Google, after being shown the results, they may change their mind immediately if it has been taken “Oh, no, it’s taken. There are already three others with that name”

Another way to make the name different with others is changing the spelling because choosing an original name today seems to be very difficult. For examples, an American couple, Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky, changed the spelling of the name they wished to give their baby daughter from ‘Kalia’ to ‘Kaleya’, as the first version pulled up pictures and search results of strippers, after they Googled it.

A small study on LilSugar, a US site for parents, has revealed that 64 per cent of respondents had Googled their baby’s potential name before making the final decision.

A small study on LilSugar, a US site for parents, has revealed that 64 per cent of respondents had Googled their baby’s potential name before making the final decision.

Google has made its announcement that since the release of Android Market in 2008, 10 billion apps have now been downloaded to mobile gadgets running the operating system

Google has made its announcement that since the release of Android Market in 2008, 10 billion apps have now been downloaded to mobile gadgets running the operating system. So as to celebrate its milestone, some Android developers are going to supply a selection of apps at the dirt cheap price of 10 cents during the coming 10 days.
According to Eric Chu, director of the Android Developer Ecosystem, claimed in a post on the Android Developers blog, ten billion was a great achievement, it was simply amazing.

In the previous week, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market had surpassed 10 billion app downloads with a growth rate of one billion app downloads each month. Ten billion is pretty good going seeing that the platform was only launched in 2008. It means it only takes 21 months to gain a billion downloads.
By July this year, Android Market hit the six billion mark. In the last four months alone, four billion apps have been downloaded to mobile tablets utilizing Google’s operating system.
While it’s taken Android Market over three years to achieve 10 billion downloads, it took Apple’s App Store, which released in July 2008, two-and-a-half years to gain the similar figure.

Android Market was investigated in May this year, making it easier for users to find and discover new apps.
As for the special celebration sale, apps being offered in Android Market on Tuesday consist of Asphalt 6 HD, Color & Draw for Kids, , Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro, Fieldrunners HD, Great Little War Game, Minecraft, Paper Camera, Sketchbook Mobile, Soundhound Infinity and Swiftkey X.

Facebook has released the official launch of Timeline this evening.

Facebook has released the official launch of Timeline this evening. At the current time, New Zealand is the only country to get Timeline while other regions will apply it in the “near future.”

In fact, Facebook initially launched Timeline in at the beginning of September, and quickly provided the means for developers and curious users to enable this spec. A more general launch was scheduled for coming month, but it had not come due to some address technical problems and privacy concerns having to do with the software.
As you know, Timeline is a way to illustrate your entire life, not just the part you’ve been living on Facebook since you took part in a graphical way.

No need Camera with Air Clicker

The Air Clicker is designed as a mechanism appropriately for using nothing more than your hands to capture images, no need camera. Is it special for you?

This is the new design of Yeon Su Kim with two small ring-like handsets wrap a user’s pointer finger and thumb. By making certain hand gestures and connecting to your smartphone through Bluetooth, you are sending photos to your tablet.

The thumb ring has a power button and a camera lens to take the picture while the other piece holds tension-sensing silicon so it can read the positioning of your finger

The thumb ring has a power button and a camera lens to take the picture while the other piece holds tension-sensing silicon so it can read the positioning of your finger. Bending the forefinger will take a photo while cupping your hand captures video.
Obviously the concept of megapixels doesn’t really apply to the Air Clicker. The innovation behind this concept is pretty mind-blowing. More and more people own smartphones means that more and more people are becoming casual photographers. Because Air Clicker doesn’t feature an outstanding sensor, nor does it is equipped with a flash, so in most cases it would take worse photos than your phone on its own. However, this is also regarded as a great idea for the coming launch of camera in the future.

More and more people own smartphones means that more and more people are becoming casual photographers

U.S. district court judge has disclaimed Apple's request that Samsung be ordered to stop sales of certain Android-powered smartphones

U.S. district court judge has disclaimed Apple‘s request that Samsung be ordered to stop sales of certain Android-powered smartphones and tablets due to the patent battle between the two companies.

Apple and Samsung have been revealed in a patent war for most of this year. Particularly, Apple asserted that several of Samsung’s Android-based smartphones and tablets infringe on its own iPhone and iPad. The iThing-maker has been working to stop sales of targeted Samsung tablets since the dispute started.

Apple and Samsung have been revealed in a patent war for most of this year

A Friday ruling from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh officially refuses Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung. The U.S. is just one of the contested battlegrounds, with Apple scoring a victory on Friday when an Australian judge extended a previously placed ban on Galaxy Tab sales for coming week.

The iOS maker consists of more than 20 cases pending in 10 different countries, with the U.S.-based lawsuit having been filed in April. Friday’s ruling effectively blocks Apple’s request that sales of three Samsung smartphone models, plus the Galaxy Tab 10.1, be blocked.

According to a study from the publisher of Parenting and Babytalk magazines The Parenting Group, nine out of ten moms are friends with their children on Facebook.

According to a study from the publisher of Parenting and Babytalk magazines The Parenting Group, nine out of ten moms are friends with their children on Facebook. That’s the way mothers can keep an eye on their children by simply becoming a Facebook friend.

After conducting the research with 1,100 mothers, the group revealed that nearly half of the respondents also adjust the security settings on their personal Facebook profiles to make sure the child can’t see inappropriate photos or video and certain status updates. The study also figures out that a third of mothers with children up to the age of 12 enable the kids to setup an online profile on the social network. Facebook’s internal rules and the Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Act both bans the creation of profiles for children under the age of 13, but it’s difficult to police this rule across 800 million profiles on the social network.

Approximately 30 percent of mothers only allow the use of social networks after homework has been finished

Only 20 percent of the respondents limit Facebook usage when an adult is present. Approximately 30 percent of mothers only allow the use of social networks after homework has been finished and over half of the mothers place a one hour time limit on Facebook usage every day. The 10 percent that are not friends with their child on Facebook, three fourths of that group monitor the child’s page by logging into the social network as someone else. This may consist of another child’s profile or a fake profile created to watch the page. Moreover, 77 percent of mothers are Facebook friends with at least one of their child’s friends.
The study also conducts some questions about smartphone usage. On average, mothers have downloaded about 11 apps for their smartphone, four of them have been for the child to use. Forty percent of moms let their children play games on their smartphone each day and 35 percent allow their child to utilize the smartphone for at least an hour each day.

YouTube has just made its biggest change in this year with the newly redesigned video-sharing site.

YouTube has just made its biggest change in this year with the newly redesigned video-sharing site.

It is regarded as a cleaner, simpler layout with a focus on channels — which makes it feel more TV-like than ever.

According to the official YouTube blog, the new design is targeted at making it easier to find and follow channels, customize your homepage feed, browse recommendations, link YouTube to your Google+ or Facebook accounts, and more.

The new design is targeted at making it easier to find and follow channels, customize your homepage feed

The big change appeared in the YouTube homepage. It places the “homepage feed” which was released at the beginning of the year — smack-dab in the middle of things and pushes consumers to consider the site as a collection of channels and programs.

While the homepage has been the focus of the redesign, the whole site has been tweaked to supply more consistency. There are consistent backgrounds, bigger thumbnails, and a streamlined “watch” page.