The product comes equipped with a 1080p True HD video camera enabling users to capture real-time video and sound. Its 8-megapixel snapper operates without your having to remove your gloves by simply pressing buttons given on the side of the goggles. The camera can automatically adjust for light levels and comes with infinity focus. It uses an built-in viewfinder and on-camera controls. Users can download videos and images from their goggles to their PC and Mac via a mini-USB connection.

Now, a little about its rimless frame. It offers wide fields of view and can withstand extreme temperatures. It’s been fitted with the company’s new Optimum lens. The polarized lens also provides protection from UVA and UVB rays. In addition, metal mirroring provides further protection from the sun.

Other notable features include:

* High-quality camera with a 170-degree wide angle lens
* Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
* Up to six-hour run time
* Software to adjust all settings in the camera
* Option to share content through social media outlets, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (there is also a Zeal online community that users may become part of)

The goggles will be offered in two colors: Green (Moss Green) and Black (Matte Night Black).

SnapTax: This app is designed for taxpayers with a simple return (1040EZ). It allow users to prepare and e-file a federal and state return using iPhone or Android device. The app also allows users to take a photo of their W-2 with the phone’s camera and automatically transfer the info onto their tax return. All that users need to do then is answer a few simple questions, review their return and tap ‘File My Taxes’ to complete their e-filing process. For $19.99, SnapTax enables both federal and state preparation. “SnapTax customers pay when they are done,” the company adds.

TaxCaster: Available for Android devices as well as for the iPad and iPhone, TaxCaster is a free app that allows users to estimate a tax refund. The app scores due to its interactive elements, and allows customers to “enter information using visual icons and sliders “to see where they stand before they file.”

MyTaxRefund: This free app allows taxpayers to check the status of their federal as well as state tax returns. Available now for Android devices, the iPad, and the iPhone, the app helps address queries pertaining to filing of returns, including when their returns are accepted as well as the expected time to receive their federal tax refund (based on IRS projections).

TurboTax Card Mobile: This app is free but only to TurboTax customers who opt to receive their refund on a TurboTax Prepaid Visa Card. The app is available for both iPhone and Android devices. It allows customers to track federal refund, activate their TurboTax Card, check balance, get details of their transactions, locate ATMs and more.

Under the terms of the transaction announced earlier this year, Seagate has gained select elements of Samsung’s HDD business, including assets, infrastructure and employees that enable Seagate to drive scale and innovation. These assets include Samsung’s M8 product line of high-capacity, 2.5-inch HDDs.

Samsung employees joining Seagate include a number of senior managers and design-engineering employees from Samsung’s South Korea facility, who will focus on development of small form-factor products for the mobile compute market. The companies have informed NY Park, senior vice president and general manager, will oversee Seagate’s product development activities in South Korea and serve as country manager of the design center there. He will report to Bob Whitmore, Seagate’s executive vice president and CTO.

The companies have also extended and improved their existing patent cross-license agreement while also expanding cooperation to co-develop enterprise storage solutions.

The transactions and agreements are expected to expand Seagate’s customer access in China, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Germany and the Russian Federation.

The combined value of these transactions and agreements is approximately US $1.4 bn, consisting of 45,239,490 Seagate Ordinary Shares and the remaining balance settled in cash. In addition, Samsung will designate a nominee to join Seagate’s Board of Directors.

Robi Axiata is a joint venture company between Axiata Group, Malaysia and NTT DoCoMo, Japan. The operator believes the solutions will help control costs, reduce manual errors and deliver services to customers without delay.

Comptel claims its Dynamic OSS solutions are aimed at enabling telecom service providers to deliver services flexibly.

The app offers a touch and drag interface allowing users to simulate and explore most functions of the GTN 750 including panning the map, entering waypoints into the flight plan, loading airways, graphically editing flight plans, radio tuning and more.

High resolution North and Central America terrain maps, worldwide NavData, simulated traffic targets and simulated XM weather data are expected to allow the pilot to experience the situational awareness offered by the GTN 750. The app is also configured with product options such as TAWS-B audible alerts, transponder control and remote audio processor control. It also features user-selectable demo settings that allow the user to simulate various flight scenarios by changing altitude, speed, location and more.

The app is available for $24.95 from the App Store on iPad 2 or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

It has a 10.1 inch 340 nit touchscreen with a 1366×768 resolution and is powered by Intel Z670 Oak trail 1.66 GHz processor. This tiny tablet gives you options of 32 Gb or 64 Gb SSD and has 2 GB of RAM. With Windows 7 as the operating platform overlaid by Samsung’s Touch Launcher which has applications optimized for the touchscreen, this device is sure to be a hit with a lot of users, particularly since it is priced at a low $ 699 and is scheduled for release this March.

Samsung has thoughtfully integrated a USB port, an HDMI port and a 4 in 1 card reader along with a 1.3 megapixel webcam and WiMAX. It is extremely fast, claimed to boot under 20 seconds. It is powered by a six cell lithium polymer pack that will last 9 hours on a single charge.

To round out its laptop line-up, it also announced the 9 Series Laptop that will really eat into MacBook Air markets given its specifications. This new 13.3 inch 9 series laptop is claimed to be the thinnest and lightest(2.89 pounds) 13 inch notebook yet available. It is just 0.68 inch thick, 0.11 less than the MacBook Air which weighs in at 2.9 pounds.

It is lightweight and sleek but inside, it is one mean powerful machine. It has the usual Ethernet, USB and HDMI ports along with a headphone jack. It has the powerful Intel Core i5 2537 M processor, an awesome 128 GB SSD for loads of space and 4 GB RAM. It has two 1.5 watt speakers and a sub-woofer for impressive sound. The display is a 400 nit LED backlit display and the keyboard too is backlit so you can work in dim light comfortably enough. This sleek black duralumin housed machine will be available for $ 1600 when released, which should be pretty soon.

Earlier, the two companies worked with North Shore Credit Union (NSCU), a financial institution in Canada, to deliver a new core banking solution with a data management platform based on TEMENOS T24 and Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft believes the new agreement will see both parties collaborate more closely and commit technical, marketing and sales resources to bringing a flexible core banking solution to market, which optimises the use of the Microsoft platform with T24.

Teliasonera has informed that the company will start building the network immediately, and aims to open the network for the first pilot customer during the first quarter of 2010.

The company also informed that the frequencies now received will enable Sonera to build a mobile network that is expected to be more than 10 times faster than current networks.

The licence is valid for 20 years. The price for five 2 x 5 MHz frequency band pairs in the 2.6 GHz band is E819,000, the company added.

Tousi, 40, is General Manager of Consumer Inkjet Systems, a position she has held since 2007, when Kodak launched its line of inkjet printers.

Tousi previously served as R&D manager for Kodak’s consumer inkjet development programme from 2003 to 2007, leading a group of technologists in San Diego, Rochester and Singapore.

Prior to joining Kodak, Tousi was an R&D programme manager for Phogenix Imaging, a joint venture start-up of Hewlett-Packard and Kodak. She previously spent ten years with Hewlett-Packard in technical and product commercialisation roles.

Through this convergent charging and billing solution, the operator hopes to offer services across all end-user segments, something that was reportedly not possible with previous billing systems.

The solution provides a single revenue management solution for all subscribers and services and includes key features such as discount and promotion handling, real-time rating, segmentation, pricing and promotions, Ericsson said.

For consumers and business users, convergent charging and billing provides full control over all communications costs as users have one point of contact and a single invoice for all their services and gives users access to the services they want independent of their subscription type, as well as the ability to pay however they choose. End users can also be kept fully update on their bundled minutes, bonuses and rewards.

Ericsson also informed that this will be a one-year contract and Al-Madar Al-Jadid is expected to launch the new services next year.