Apple Sells 7.3 Million iPads During The Holiday Shopping Season

Apple yesterday announced their earnings for the last quarter, and as well as announcing a record profit of $6 billion Apple also announced that they sold a total of 7.3 million iPads in the holiday shopping season.

India’s first tidal power plant gets the go ahead

The Asian giant is on course to build a first in its region: a massive tidal power plant capable of producing 50MW. The name of the company tasked with such a grand undertaking is quite ironic too: Atlantis Resources Corporation, a UK engineering firm specializing in underwater turbines.

SanDisk Launches 128GB Flash Card

SanDisk has just launched their new range of Flash Cards with a massive 128GB of storage designed for use within top end DSLR cameras.

The cards are equipped with a Power Core controller that distributes data across the card more rapidly and efficiently and UDMA-7 interface providing a staggering 100 megabyte per second (MB/sec)2 write speed , allowing for longer continuos burst shooting. Its also allows for video recording for Full HD video, recording at a sustained 20MB/sec write speed.

As you can expect these cards dont come cheap and the 128GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card are currently available to pre-order of $1,499.99 and will start shipping later in the first quarter of 2011.

Say Hello To Parrot Asteroid: The Android Car Stereo

The Android powered Parrot Asteroid car stereo. It’s got a ton of juicy specs too. More after the jump.

Ahem! First, as indicated by the pic above, the Parrot Asteroid is a DIN-receiver with a detachable faceplate. See the physical control panel beside the touchscreen? Yup, that’s detachable.

New Samsung ZX310 9 Series Mobile Performance Laptop

Samsung unveiled its latest ZX310 9 Series premium lightweight laptop last week at CES. The new ZX310 9 Series is thinner than the Mac Book Air and is constructed from duralumin that is double the strength of aluminium and is used in the construction of aeroplanes.

At just 16.3mm thick and 1.31kg in weight, the ZX310 is one of the slimmest and lightest (for its size) laptops in the world yet there's still plenty packed inside.

Beneath the duralumin case lyes an Intel i7 processor, up to 8GB memory, a 256GB solid state drive and it has a 13.3 inch display. The Samsung ZX310 9 Series has been specifically designed with power users and mobile professionals in mind.

50,000 of Kerala's Teachers to Get Discounts on Laptops

Teachers in Kerala will soon be able to purchase their own laptops or netbooks at heavily discounted prices, according to a report by IANS.

An IT@School initiative, this scheme will supply around 50,000 notebooks and Netbooks to the educators in “God’s own Country”. It aims to provide schools with the latest tech-enabled education along with bringing in e-governance to the state’s Education department.

Laptops for all!

“A laptop will cost Rs. 17,770 and a netbook Rs. 11,450. The discount comes to as much as 36-37 percent,” said Anwar Sadath, head of IT@School. According to him, they’ve tied up with HCL, Wipro and RP Infosystems to provide the laptops and Netbooks. HCL and RP will be the ones contracted to supply the Netbooks. He also added that the laptops purchased under this scheme will carry a 3-year warranty instead of the standard one year and that the extended warranty will even include the power charger and the battery.

There’s a catch though (there’s always one, isn’t there?), if you can even call it a catch. The teachers who wish to partake in this scheme, according to The Hindu, need to have completed their training in IT and must receive backing from their head of the institute that they do indeed use IT during their classes. Untrained teachers can also apply for this scheme though, under the condition that they complete their IT training before June 2011.

Hey, that’s not too bad! It’s education all around and teachers aren’t exempt from it either because, as the old adage goes, you learn something new everyday.

Google Organizes Science Fair for Young Minds

You heard that right. Your favorite search engine, Google, has thrown its doors open for budding scientists. The company is looking for kids between the age group of 13 to 18, working alone or in groups of two and three to submit interesting and useful projects.

The Google Science Fair site can help you out with various details regarding the project.  The project should be submitted by the 4th of April 2011 and should contain either a two-minute video or a 20-slide presentation on what exactly your project does or what problem will it solve. You can check out a mock project submission on this link which demonstrates using an autonomous robot to transport various medical items.

Judges for the competition include Vint Cerf, Vice President of Google, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, inventor Dean Kamen and many more. The prizes include a National Geographic Expedition to the Galapagos Islands, a Once in a Lifetime Experience with one of the following partner organizations: CERN, Google, the LEGO Group, or Scientific American and even a scholarship from Google.

So if you have what it takes, you can always give Google Science Fair a try. Check out this neat video of the Google Science Fair below.