We have warned how using iPhone in-built "Erase all content and settings" option on a jailbroken phone can result in a infinite boot-loop, and also suggested the free Cydia package to tackle the issue of "erasing iPhone address book" on a jailbroken phone.

Free iTunes AppStore utility "My Contacts Backup" can not only "Backup and restore" your Apple iPhone contacts but also allows you to wipe the address book clean in a single shot.

Microsoft Kinect has been overall an exciting technological advancement in gesture control, to move things forward and enable use of the technology without any dedicated specialized hardware. Microsoft Research has now came up with "SoundWave" - a project aimed to gesture enable your computer using no specialized sensors or devices but just the in-built speaker and microphone. The technology makes smart use of "Doppler effect" to detect movements and gestures near a computer, the complex algorithm used to send-receive and decode gesture controls have some exciting usage scenarios like auto wake and sleep your computer, playing gesture controlled games and day-to-day computer navigation using air-gestures as shown in the video - add to that you can use this technology in a crowded place with lots of noise and even while playing audio from your speakers .

Full demonstration video after the jump.

As expected Samsung Galaxy SIII finally got unveiled by the company. Marketed with the punchline "Inspired by nature, designed for humans" - the Samsung Galaxy SIII does offer some really nice intelligent features (sees, hears and replies) as shown after the jump. With an impressive hardware set consisting unparalleled power with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, 1 GB RAM, 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display supporting 1280x720 resolution, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.9-megapixel front camera, NFC, GPS (with GLONASS support), 4G LTE and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS there is no mobile phone currently which beats these hardware specification.

Project "Raspberry Pi" with aim to launch a viable - world's smallest yet cheapest computing platform has a new rival. It seems citing the traction gained by "Raspberry Pi", Intel has now unveiled there own plans to launch a ultra-portable PC hardware - Intel's ultra-small "Next Unit of Computing" (NUC) PC.

Intel's NUC is a complete computer, featuring a Sandy Ivy Bridge Core i3/i5 CPU, Thunderbolt, HDMI, and USB 3.0 ports, two laptop memory slots, two mini PCIe headers - all nicely tucked into a portable 4x4 inches motherboard assembly. Since, this is not a final product and not much is know about it - speculations have that the Intel NUC won't be as cheap as "Raspberry Pi" but should retail at approximately $100-$300 range and is expected to arrive in the second half of the year.