Style does matter and armbands are easiest and coolest way to carry your phone while jogging, working out and partying. Many armbands are available but this the first time I came across an armband for the iPhone. Belkin’s design is a cool and funky.  It’s made of neoprene that protects your iPhone from sweat and dust. You can also squeeze your keys or other stuff into a small pocket provided in the armband.

“Belkin’s Sport Armband for iPhone ($30, also known as Armband for iPhone) is the simplest design of the ones we’ve seen, but undeniably attractive in its minimalist approach. Though its package is comparatively threadbare—Belkin has designed an all-in-one neoprene iPhone case and armband that cannot be detached from one another, with a single thin metal O-ring for adjustment of the Velcro and neoprene band—what’s there is nice.” iLongue

No, I am not talking about James Cameron’s next release of his Terminator movies but here I’d like to talk about something about which most of us are not aware.  If you have seen James Cameron’s Terminator may guess what exactly I am talking about. CNN has published an article explaining the possibilities of global catastrophic risks in future. For the first time, group of experts from around the world will hold a conference to discuss the risks of a global catastrophic disaster caused by intelligent technologies.

“On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.”

"Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful," said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium. "If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species." – CNN. Click here to read more.

If you’re already satisfied with a 3G network and think it’s enough for mobile browsing, hold your breath! Korea is planning to go for 5G cellular networks. While the European countries are planning for 4G networks with download speeds of 100Mbps to 1Gbps, Korea is taking the giant leap of introducing a 5G network,  but you have to wait till 2012-2015. This clearly tells us that we can expect 5G phones in the future. Read about the article here.

“3G-capable cellular networks are simply handy these days, which let us always stay connected to the Internet, especially handy while WiFi hotspots are hard to reach. When I’m traveling, I always depend on the 3G Internet connection, which I get a USB HSDPA modem hooked up to my laptop, to keep this blog frequently updated.”

It’s very difficult to compare hardware just based on their specification. Benchmarking is the process of judging the virtual performance of software or hardware by running it for a number of times under pre-set conditions. Synthetic benchmarks and Real world benchmarks are two ways used by the websites to compare PC hardware. Well, what’s the difference between these two methods? Jason Jacobs from Techware labs had posted an article exploring the differences between synthetic benchmarks and real world benchmarks.

“You may have noticed that many hardware and software review websites make sure to note when they use real or synthetic benchmarks in a particular review. Some sites concentrate solely on synthetic benchmarks while others concentrate on the so called "real world" benchmarks. The important thing is not to know which one is right or wrong but to understand what the difference is and what you can personally do with the data that you get from these benchmarks you find online. So lets first start with the difference between real world and synthetic in terms of benchmarking.”

Rich Menga from PCMech has published an article asking if it is worth paying money for using email services. Most of us use free webmail services and why not – they’re free. But some people pay money for email services. Why are they paying money for using email if there are free webmail services available around the globe? Read the entire article to answer, is email worth paying For?

“What is the single largest difference between using a free webmail account from a provider (such as Yahoo, Microsoft or Google) and your included from-ISP e-mail? The difference is that your ISP has an obligation to keep the e-mail service running whereas the free providers do not.” – PCMech.