HP Sprocket Pocket-Sized Printer for Smartphones Launched in India

 Instant gratification is the key takeaway for the millennials and keeping this in mind, global PC and printing major HP on Wednesday launched Sprocket - a pocket-sized photo printer - in India for Rs. 8,999.The unique hand-held printer would allow you to print instant pictures (2x3-inch size) and share among friends. Users will need to download the Sprocket app from Google Play Store or Apple App Store on their smartphone, pair it with the printer, place specially-designed HP ZINK papers in the device, switch on Bluetooth, and can then print images.

The device is especially made for the millennial segment which is between age 10-24. But we are not restricting our target to that age group only. People who like to preserve their memories would like to own the 'Sprocket' which is a pretty affordable device," Raj Kumar Rishi, Senior Director, Printing Systems, HP Inc India, told IANS.
"'HP Sprocket allows users print their treasured memories instantly on-the go with just a few taps", Rishi added.
The companion app enables users to print photographs directly from their social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram.

Asus ROG G701 With 17.3-Inch Display, GeForce GTX 1080 Launched in India

 

Taiwanese technology major Asus on Thursday brought its gaming laptop ROG G701 in India for Rs. 3,49,990. It will be available in ROG Armor Titanium and ROG Plasma Copper colour schemes.

Asus ROG G701 features a wide-viewing-angle 17.3-inch display, available in full-HD and 4K UHD resolutions, as well a 120Hz refresh rate with Nvidia G-Sync. It is powered by up to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card.

Powered by up to a seventh generation Intel Core i7 processor, the Asus ROG G701 laptop runs on up to 64GB DDR4 2800MHz DRAM, HyperDrive RAID 0, NVMe, and PCIe technologies for fast storage speeds, the company said in a statement.

As mentioned, the Asus ROG G701 comes with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card, completed with 8GB of GDDR5X video RAM. Its Trinity Display Technology and 4K2K tech make it capable of powering three displays simultaneously, using HDMI, Thunderbolt, and Mini-Display connectors. Also on board is an ESS Audio DAC for superior audio performance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     AIRTAME

There’s no need to throw out an old projector just because it uses VGA, DVI, or HDMI cables. This Wireless Projector Guide will go over a few of the reasons why.

First, let’s talk about the perks of going wireless. After that, we’ll share how you can make a projector wireless using Airtame’s cableless HDMI solution. Then, we’ll cover the different types of wireless solutions you can choose from

How to make a projector wireless with Airtame

There are a range of wireless adapters available that can convert your current cabled projector into a wireless one.

With Airtame, making your projector wireless is easy. Plug Airtame into the projector’s HDMI port, download the app on your computer, and connect the Airtame to your WiFi network.

Your projector doesn’t have an HDMI port? Luckily, Airtame works with your VGA and DVI ports with the use of an adapter (pictured below).

iBall CompBook Aer3 With Rotatable Touchscreen Display, Windows 10 Launched at Rs. 29,999

 

iBall on Monday launched its CompBook Aer3 laptop with 360-degree rotatable display in India at a best buy price of Rs. 29,999 in India, and an MRP of Rs. 34,999. Despite being a rather budget-level offering, the Windows 10 laptop notably comes with a 13.3-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) touchscreen IPS display, USB Type-C port, and a fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello support as well.

The CompBook Aer3 laptop is powered by a quad-core Intel Pentium N4200 processor with speed of up to 2.5GHz coupled with 4GB RAM. iBall claims the laptop comes with RDS3TNEW Technology (Robust Double Spindle 360-degree Technology) that essentially allows users to turn the portable into 4 different modes, i.e., Notebook, Stand, Tent, and Tablet.

The new portable from iBall comes with a 64GB of built-in storage, which is expandable up to 128GB. In audio department, the CompBook Aer3 laptop comes with quad-speakers that have been described as "powerful" by the company. The CompBook Aer3 houses a 37Wh Li-Polymer battery and comes with a "full-sized" keyboard as well. Apart from the USB Type-C port, other connectivity options include a USB 3.0 port and a Micro HDMI port as well. Other connectivity options include Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 and Bluetooth v4.0. It sports a 2-megapixel webcam.

MSI GT75VR Titan Pro and GE63VR, GE73VR Raider Gaming Laptops Launched in India

  MSI has launched a new lineup of gaming notebooks in India. It has announced the GT75VR Titan Pro, GE73VR Raider, and GE63VR Raider notebooks for Rs. 3,24,990, Rs. 1,85,990, and Rs. 1,49,990 in India. All the three laptops feature the latest seventh generation Intel Core i7 processors, Nvidia's current generation GPUs, and are VR ready as well.

MSI GT75VR Titan Pro

Starting with the most expensive GT75VR Titan Pro, it sports a 17.3-inch full-HD display with 120Hz refresh rate. It is powered by the Core i7 7820HK CPU with over 4GHz overclock capability, 32GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and Killer N1535 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipset. The GT75VR Titan comes with 3 GPU options: GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 SLI, or GeForce GTX 1070.

The notebook sports a mechanical gaming keyboard with tactile feedback, more durability, and RGB backlighting under every key. The keyboard was designed in collaboration with Steel Series. It incorporates a sophisticated cooling system, and is loaded with gaming features like True Color Technology 2.0, NAHIMIC VR, an upgraded Dragon Center, and much more.

 

Intel Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs, Motherboards, and Coolers: Your Complete Guide

HIGHLIGHTS

• Intel's new Core X-series family includes a confusing variety of models
• The Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors are very different
• Not all CPU and motherboard combinations deliver the same experiences

For nearly ten years, Intel's Core i3, i5, and i7 brands have held strong in the PC and laptop space. Everyone immediately gets the idea of a hierarchy, with Core i3 at the entry-level and Core i7 at the top end. You don't necessarily need to know that you get two cores and HyperThreading with an i3, and four cores without HyperThreading if you choose an i5. You don't need to know clock speeds, cache sizes, or manufacturing processes - what matters is that when all capabilities are taken into consideration, moving from a lower number to a higher one gives you an incremental boost in performance. Within each generation, all chips work on the same motherboards, use the same kind of RAM, and have the same architectural advantages - with one key exception.

At the very high end, there are Intel's High-End Desktop (HEDT) models, awkwardly clubbed into the Core i7 family. These are often called Extreme Edition chips, though not all of their model numbers actually have that suffix. These CPUs need a different platform altogether, lack integrated graphics, and are based on a souped-up version of the previous-generation architecture. For example, the Core i7 6950X was codenamed Broadwell-E, which is a derivative of the 5th-gen Broadwell architecture, whereas the rest of the 6th generation was codenamed Skylake.

While you can still only get up to four CPU cores with the top mainstream Core i7 after all these years, Intel has pushed out six-, eight-, and ten-core models under the HEDT Core i7 umbrella over the years, and has charged enormous amounts of money for them. In the beginning, it was rumoured that Intel would use the name Core i9 for these products since they were so obviously different from the rest of the lineup, but that did not come to pass. They were called Core i7 even though they didn't really fit that name.

Adding to the confusion, HEDT generations have been launching later and later each year. In our review of the 10-core Intel Core i9-6950X, we pointed out how the much cheaper quad-core Core i7-6700K outclassed it in some tests. Broadwell-E, technically based on the 5th-gen architecture, launched at around the same time as the 7th-gen Kaby Lake lineup.

Now, in 2017, Intel also needs to fend off new competition from a resurgent AMD, which is now selling octa-core Ryzen 7 CPUs and gleefully pointing out how they outperform Intel's latest and greatest while costing a fraction of the price. With Ryzen Threadripper shipping soon, clearly, Intel has a lot of cleaning up to do.Introducing the Intel Core X-series

Finally, we have a Core i9 brand to distinguish HEDT CPUs from the mainstream. Unfortunately, there are a few new layers of complication to replace the old ones. For starters, all new Core i9 models fall under what Intel is calling its new Core X-series, which also includes a few Core i7s and one Core i5 model. Core X clearly isn't about superior performance. Core X also mixes two Intel architectures, Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X (Intel swapped out the -E suffix, but the idea is the same). The two CPU lines are referred to collectively by the code name Basin Falls.

The new Core i5-7640X and Core i7-7740X are based on Kaby Lake-X, while the other two Core i7s and all Core-i9 models are based on Skylake-X. All Core-X CPUs use the new LGA2066 socket and X299 platform controller - which means that not only is the Core i7 family just as fragmented as before, the Core i5 family is too. Core i9 encompasses a few new parts and a few renamed ones, and Intel hasn't improved its segmentation at all in the bargain. The only advantage of this is that the company gets to leapfrog the generation-lag issue and use a shiny new name against AMD's Threadripper when it comes out.

As for the differences between Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X, things can get quite confusing, but we'll try breaking it all down. Skylake-X is what we'd usually consider the "extreme" CPUs for any generation There are seven models in all, starting with the six-core i7-7800X and going up to the top-of-the-line 18-core Core i9-7980XE. Models with up to 10 cores are already available, and the rest are set to begin shipping between August and October this year.

Microsoft's New Kaizala App Is What WhatsApp for Business Should Have Been

HIGHLIGHTS

• Microsoft today launched Kaizala, an app that it has built in India
• The business-focused Kaizala app is already popular with government depts
• The app works swiftly on 2G network and offers offline support

As Facebook chases business and enterprise customers for its popular instant messaging and voice calling app WhatsApp, Microsoft may have just beaten the social juggernaut to the punch. On Wednesday at an event in New Delhi, the Skype-owner launched Kaizala, a messaging app designed to 'get work done' that has already garnered interest from several state governments and businesses in India.

A messaging app in 2017 ought to do more than just enable a few friends talk to each other. This is essentially the pitch of Kaizala, a made-for-India, mobile-only app available on Android and iOS.

One of the major limitations of WhatsApp has been its inability to handle large groups of people. First, there is a cap on how many people you could add to a group (256, to be precise). Then there is the major challenge of making any sense of the conversation that ensues between those tens of dozens of people.

In effect, Microsoft is tackling those two challenges. You can add as many people in the group as you want. If that wasn't enough, you can then add those groups to other groups, the company says. Second, the app offers the ability to create polls, documents, and surveys that could be created from within Kaizala app and then shared to the group to get response from the masses.

If these features don't strike a ring, it's because they are not really meant to make conversations between two friends any more convenient. And that remains one of the most interesting pitches of Kaizala, which had its origin as a Microsoft Garage project. The company wants to serve to customers who have to talk to dozens, hundreds, thousands, and lakhs of people at once.

Microsoft has been testing Kaizala with governments and businesses for months in India. During this period, the company says, more than 30 government departments signed up to the platform. More than 70,000 people from the state government are already using Kaizala for day-to-day work.

Earlier this year, during the state election in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission used Kaizala when it wanted to efficiently survey people in the state. Andhra Pradesh's state government is also one of the major users of the service. The chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu often sends message to the hundreds of thousands of citizens in the state through the app and listen to the feedback.

But Kaizala's appeal isn't limited to government offices. Several major businesses have already signed up for the service. One example is Republic TV, a newly launched media outlet. The company is just getting started. It is now exploring more applications for Kaizala, one of which is using location data of people to offer them texts from nearby groups.

Imagine walking to a mall and automatically getting all the interesting discounted-sales pitches from different shops in that mall in Kaizala app. That's one area Microsoft is exploring, Rajiv Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Office Product Group told this correspondent earlier this year.

There is a pro version of Kaizala too, which gives an organisation advanced admin and user group rights. The pro version is priced at Rs. 130 per user every month. Both of the versions integrate with Office 365 subscription, offer offline support and work swiftly on slow Internet network, the company said.

The public launch of Kaizala comes at a time when Facebook is increasingly looking at businesses and enterprises and wondering how it could make WhatsApp relevant to them and also find a revenue source. Last year, WhatsApp said it will open its platform so that businesses could hook into its service. Months later, the company is still working on the project. And now it already has a major competitor