Samsung announces Series 7 touchscreen monitor for Windows 8

Samsung has announced the Series 7 SC770 touch monitor, the first of its kind by Samsung. The monitor has been designed with Windows 8 in mind and has a multi-touch display that supports up to 10 touch points at a time.

The monitor also has a adjustable stand that allows you to tilt the display up to 60 degrees, making it easier to use the touchscreen. The 24-inch panel has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with a viewing angle of 178 degrees.

Other than that Samsung also announced a non-touch monitor – the Series 7 SC750 – which has a 27-inch, FullHD panel. This one does not tilt back like the SC770 but lets you rotate it sideways 90 degrees to be used in portrait mode for viewing documents and such.

Both models are expected to go on sale in the first quarter of 2013 but no prices have been provided so far.

LG 55-inch OLED TV pre-orders begin in South Korea for $10,000

It’s been a year since we first saw LG’s massive 55-inch OLED TV. The television was then showcased to a wider audience at CES, where it dazzled onlookers with its picture quality and amazingly thin design and even managed to nab the Best of Show at CES 2012 award.

Now, a year later, the design has gone through a bit of a change and more importantly LG is finally ready to start shipping out this TV to eager customers, starting with its home country – South Korea.

The LG OLED TV (Model 55EM9700) will hit South Korean stores this month, with deliveries beginning next month. It will be priced at KRW 11 million, which is approximately US$10,000, not too expensive for such a large OLED display (early LCDs and plasmas were way more expensive and nowhere as good).

The OLED panel has one of the thinnest bezels I’ve seen and the entire thing is just 4mm deep. This is possible because OLEDs don’t need space consuming backlight assemblies the way LCDs do and are self illuminating. The panel has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and has a WRGB sub-pixel layout, with an extra white sub-pixel. If you’re worried about over-saturated colors, LG claims that their panel produces images that are vibrant yet natural looking.

Of course, it would be wise to wait for CES as you are likely to find way more alternatives this year in the OLED segment, along with some more 4K panels.

Sikandar Naqi Joins Zong

Sikandar Naqi, the Senior Executive Vice President – Corporate Development, PTCL, has joined Zong, we have confirmed with sources who are directly aware of this development.
Mr. Sikndar Naqi is reportedly not given any portfolio at Zong for now. Currently his position at company is said to be an advisor to CEO, which we anticipate to change soon.
This hints that Zong is likely to see more shifts in its management line in coming days.
Sikandar Naqi previously worked with CMPak when it had acquired Paktel from Millicom of Luxemburg.
Mr. Naqi is said to be the man behind the unveiling of CMPak and various other early initiatives taken by the company then.
Sikandar Naqi, before joining CMPak, had worked for InstaPhone as executive director.
He was recently the SEVP for Corporate Development at PTCL and was responsible for key functions at the company.
In a related news, Director Sales at Zong has reportedly resigned from his position.

China Controversially Bans Internet Anonymity Threatening Privacy

Chinese are controversial in so many ways. China comes under harsh criticism from freedom activists every time it does anything against its netizens. This time, Chinese government hasbanned internet anonymity for internet users forever. Although most users do use their real names while engaging in any online activity, from their profiles to commenting on a blog, but some users do prefer to remain unnamed. It protects their privacy and keeps them away from trouble that might ensue from their words.China recently passed a law which necessitates citizens to identify themselves online when signing up for the internet and other telecommunications services. Chinese citizens have to disclose full names when ordering landlines, mobile phones, and internet connections. This means that those netizens who have created their online accounts with pen-names will now have to let go of their nicknames and start, for example, tweeting and blogging under their real names.

The government print mouthpiece, People’s Daily, justified the act by saying that “absolute freedom of the network does not exist… the virtual society and social reality are inseparable”. Most people would like to make-belief and want virtual world to be different than social reality and most do use internet in that way. It is an escape for most netizens and they prefer anonymity than being revealed.

In a way, it would be taking virtual existence into real social life when people talk about what they have said online, whilst what they have said online, should be read online, rather than talked about in a face-to-face conversation. It beats the purpose of writing a blog post, when you can give a talk instead. For a lot of people, there are no forums to talk on and this is true for the Chinese who like to vent their true feelings about their government.

How to Download Youtube Videos on Mac in Single Click!

Video sharing websites seldom allow you to directly download their videos so you must watch them online. Such behavior may successfully protect the websites’ copyright but also brings users a lot of trouble: you cannot save the videos on the computer to watch them later anywhere without Internet connection.

There are already a lot of online video downloaders for Windows. But how to download Youtube videos on Mac? iTube Studio by iSkysoft will help you to Download Youtube Videos on Mac in Single Click!

Easiest Way To Download Youtube Videos on Mac

Step 1:

First of all, you should visit the official website of  iTube Studio to download a full installation package. It is perfectly compatible with Mac OS X.

Step 2:

Launch your Safari after the installation and open the webpage containing the videos you want to download.

Move your mouse on to the video (no matter it is playing or paused) and you will see a floating download button. Just click it. You can download several videos at the same time but this will lag the speed.

* If you have other browsers (Firefox or Chrome), iTube Studio may ask you to install a plugin on them. Otherwise you cannot download videos in such browsers normally.

Step 3:

Now, your download queue is shown in the software. You can see the download progress, video size, and time remaining on each task and pause or delete any of them.

All the video are ready to be played immediately when the download is finished. The only thing you should do is to wait!

• You can also drag the video link to the icon of iTube Studio on the dock or paste it in the software to start downloading without opening the browser.
• Convert the videos you download into MP4 or iOS device format.
• This software works not only for YouTube but also for Vimeo, Metacafe and Break as well.

Important notices

• You will be given a trial to use iTube Studio for free. After the trial, the price is $29.
• This software may not work on Opera, Chrome or other browsers that are less popular.