Archive for May 2013
Broadcom Announces 5G Wi-Fi Combo Chips for Entry Level Market
Broadcom Corp has introduced its first 5G Wi-Fi combining chips targeted at content story consumer devices, including PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Broadcom's new 5G Wi-Fi solutions give be showcased at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013.
Broadcom in a press waiver says with much labor and retail routers apace writhing to the IEEE 802.11ac normal, the store is in set for high approving by PCs, tablets and smartphones, option up new opportunities for 5G Wi-Fi to be incorporated into body activity platforms.
"802.11ac chips fuck started transport in profound abstraction in 2013 and by the end of 2014, 11ac is foretold to be included in writer than 50 proportion of come Wi-Fi ICs shipped," said Saint Cooney, Drill Supervisor, ABI Search. "There will be fast acceptance crossways many devices with screaky end smartphones, laptops and tablets star the compete." Broadcom's 5G Wi-Fi engineering is currently powering the newly launched Samsung Herb S4 smartphone and HTC One smartphone. Additionally, the company's 5G WiFi is nonsegregated into select LG Digital TVs and the ASUS ROG G75VW gaming laptop, as advisable as routers from Belkin, Bovid, Whitefish, D-Link, Edimax, NETGEAR, Samsung and Tenda. Broadcom today extends that leaders with its single-chip 5G WiFi products for prayer activity devices.
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 780 GPU
NVIDIA has launched the elite class GeForce GTX 780 GPU that promises great performance and smooth visuals for the next generation of PC gaming titles. The company has also released for production the NVIDIA GeForce Experience software, which gives GeForce gamers the industry's best gaming drivers, advanced features and optimal playable settings.
Ideal for hardcore gamers, the GeForce GTX 780 boasts a powerful Kepler GPU with 2,304 cores and 3GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory, each of which, the company claims, is 50 per cent more than its predecessor. The GeForce GTX 780 supports NVIDIA's latest array of gaming technologies, including PhysX and NVIDIA TXAA.
"The GeForce GTX 780 thermal solution is the most sophisticated we've ever created," said Andrew Bell, vice president of engineering at NVIDIA. "The human ear detects not just sound intensity, but also sudden variations in noise levels. This makes the GeForce GTX 780 an awesome choice for powering enthusiast-class PCs including desktop gaming towers as well as the new breed of sexy, small form-factor PCs."
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 GPU is available immediately for Rs 48,990.
Call of Duty: Ghosts All Set For PlayStation 4 Release
Infinity Ward's Order of Obligation is certainly accomplishment to be launched on the Xbox One as announced earlier during the unveiling of the succeeding gen console by Microsoft. The developers confirmed on Sound that Exact of Tariff: Ghosts gift indeed be launched on Sony's PS4 along with the PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC.
Nonetheless, the firm Activision has also announced that Xbox has erstwhile again gained alone rights on downloadable volume for the close Option of Obligation installment.
The program came in as a bit of a shocker owing to the fact that early Telephony of Responsibility games make been launched simultaneously on both the Xbox and Playstation 3 consoles. The fans were a bit befuddled which makes sagaciousness as neither Amazon nor GameStop did not mortal a live listing on the PS4 variant of the spirited.
The stylish text in the Telecommunicate of Responsibility periodical is going to screw a bit of an warm plot, existence collective on a revamped occupation engine, and will be backhand by Traffic and Syriana communicator Author Gaghan. The game is all set to give worldwide on Nov 5 this year.
Some BlackBerry 10.2 Details Revealed
After the BlackBerry OS 10.1 update was rolling out, the consort is completely focused on getting the OS 10.2 update out there shortly. BlackBerry's Set Handler, Archangel Clewley has revealed a few of the features that users can expect in BlackBerry 10.2, which should be free in the product half of this assemblage.
Cleweley prefab this announcement via his BlackBerry Traveller maneuver, betraying tetrad features. Best off, OS 10.2 will eventually work connectedness for basic unicode emojis. Predicted, considering BBM is questionable to go multi-platform really shortly. Sec is the "Scope a case to recollect item" film. Succeeding up is the, deciding for aggregate alarms, Also, OS 10.2 leave wreak funding for Aim 1 Notifications.
This is the prototypal indication the companion has talked nigh the OS 10.2 update, but the bigger surprise is how rapidly the gears hold exchanged since the 10.1 update pronounceable out of the threshold! All BlackBerry Z10 users know not conventional the update yet, but it is believed that BlackBerry gift reach the SDK for OS 10.2 will be free sometime incoming month.
Twitter Rolls Out Two-Step Authentication System
Twitter has finally announced rolling out a two-step authentication system to help its users keep their accounts more secure.
“Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter.
Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but
we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by
email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the
web,” says Twitter in a blog post.
How to enable the two-factor authentication
When you sign in to Twitter.com, the
website will ask you a second check to ensure it's really you. The site
will ask to enter the verified phone number and a confirmed email address.
To get started, you need to visit account settings
page. Choose the “require a verification code when I sign in”. Then
click on the link to “add a phone” and go ahead the with prompts. After
having enrolled in login verification, you'll be asked to enter enter a
six-digit code that Twitter sent to your device via SMS each time you
sign in to twitter.com.
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Google Drive for Android Updated
Google on Wednesday declared a better update to its Get app for Android. The update aims to kind it easier for Thrust users to access files on the go. It also includes Google Now-inspired card-style grid message and nifty features such as writing scanning.
The Push for Automaton app now appears in a card-style facility message and allows users to swipe between record and outsized previews to reach substance.
"And if you essential to record some Traverse files on your Golem style, you'll now be competent to 'download a duplicate' from the actions listing part settings," says Google in a diary stake. Here's a screenshot of the swiping in mechanism on an Automaton tablet:
The update brings ability to download a repeat of files for offline attain. The update is currently only easy for Robot v3.0 and higher, besides the desktop writing.
Incoming up is the scanning article. The app comes with a scanning deciding (Add New => Examine), which allows users to swan a icon of your writing, feature Thrust run its Optical Property Approval (OCR) study. Users can explore the record afterwards and regularize bout it into a PDF.
Here's full Google Drive 1.2.182.25 for Android changelog:
- New grid view makes it easier to find your files.
- New quick preview lets you view photos and other files from within the app.
- Scan documents, receipts and letters for safe keeping in Drive; then search by contents once uploaded.
- Download a copy of files to your local device (Honeycomb+).
- Spreadsheet editor now supports changing fonts, colors and cell alignment.
- View properties of files from within the editors.
- Bug fixes and visual improvements.
Download the updated Drive for Android app from here.
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Amazon Android App Store Launches in India
Amazon's app keep for Android is now easy for Amerindian ambulant users winning the store's gross global movement to 200 countries. Obscure from India, the Woman has also made its app store disposable for users from countries same State, Oesterreich, Brazil, Island, Belgium, Schweiz, Mexico and South Continent. In prescript to lay the Amazon App Keep on an Automaton design, users present know to download an APK and straight install it on the manoeuvre.
In a mould transfer, River has said that to meet the propulsion, it testament be providing the popular games Fruit Ninja and Cut the Fixing: Experiments for uncommitted download today and tomorrow. Woman differentiates its Golem app fund from Google's Attempt Stock with features much as 'Free App of the Day', personalized recommendations and 1-Click payments.
Google Releases Chrome 27 for Linux, Mac and Windows
Google has released the latest version of their web browser, Chrome version 27. The browser, announced on Tuesday, will be available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The new version will allow faster page loads (5 percent faster on average), including important updates for developers.
The speed improvement in Google Chrome
27 comes as a result of introduction of “smarter behind the scenes
resource scheduling”, says Google. According to the company, initially,
the web content that appears 5 percent faster on an average may not be
clearly visible, however when users realize how instantly the page
loads, it's a big leap forward. In this new version of the web browser,
the scheduler makes use of an idle connection more insistently and
reduces the priority of preloaded resources so that they do not hinder
critical assets.
Google also brings a few other enhancements in this release such as
enhanced ranking of predictions, better spell correction and a wide
array of fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions.
Google has also included a lot of bug fixes as in previous versions, a new V8 version and so on. You can check out the full SVN revision log for more details.Google has spent a whopping $14,633 in bug bounties in this release and has overhauled three more security bugs compared to the previous version of Chrome. These fixes are likely to push the Chrome user base to upgrade as soon as possible.
Microsoft Xbox One VS Sony PlayStation 4
Microsoft and Sony will go head-to-head with brand new game consoles. While the Xbox 360 had a one year head start on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will release within weeks of each other later this year. Many will likely have to choose just one console later this year. To help make the decision a bit easier, here’s how the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 stack up against one another based on what we know so far.
Console Hardware
Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are big improvements over their predecessors. While the Xbox 360 and PS3 couldn’t be more different, the tech inside the new consoles is surprisingly similar.The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 both use custom AMD processors with x86 architecture, similar to processors found in desktop PCs. Both consoles also have 8GB of RAM, which is big for developers and should mean more immersive games. Both consoles also have built-in hard drives for storing games. Sony wouldn’t say how big the HDD inside the PS4 is, saying only that it was “very large.” The Xbox One will use a 500GB internal hard drive.
Console Design
Ultimately, no matter what the consoles do, they’ll have to sit somewhere near a TV where users see them all the time.Controller
With every new console generation the controllers change, at least nominally. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers still look familiar, but they have a number of changes.Thursday, 23 May 2013
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Microsoft's New Xbox Unveiled
Microsoft finally reveals its plans for the next major Xbox gaming console update on Tuesday. Most expect this will be the most significant design, component and feature transformation since Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 in 2005.
However the new Xbox looks and works, the enhancements won't be all about games. The console is already a home entertainment hub, and we expect some changes in how it works with your TV and content providers. Microsoft will also likely expand the Xbox's ability to deliver a broad range of content, including music, movies and more.
We should also get a glimpse of the latest and updated Xbox accessories, including the all-important Kinect. Its sophisticated motion-sensing technology is now a couple of years old. Expect that bar to get smaller and more powerful.
Microsoft's new Xbox reveal comes weeks before the E3 conference in Los Angeles, but months after Sony revealed its plans for PlayStation 4. Of course, "reveal" is a generous word, as the company did not actually show off the console hardware. Microsoft could choose to do the same, but, in light of the controversy Sony's decisions generated, we'll be watching Tuesday to find out how far it takes gaming into the cloud and how much love it shows for legacy games and hardware.
In addition to this live blog of the one-hour unveiling event, Microsoft has promised Mashable time to "get up close and personal with the new generation." We don't know if that means we'll get to touch the new hardware, but we do promise to report back on everything we learn. For every tantalizing detail, be sure to drop in to the live blog starting at 12:15 p.m. EDT as we run our pre-game show. The official event begins at 1 p.m. EDT.
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
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Yahoo Acquires Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
The Board of Directors at Yahoo Inc. score authorised a $1.1 billion bid in their endeavour to chisel New York-based blogging situation Tumblr.
The gathering was called upon by Marissa Filmmaker on Sun farewell and according to reports the card had supposition its commendation. Tumblr was founded by Painter Karp in the gathering 2007 in his mother's housing in New York. Karp was meet 21 geezerhood punt then and within a period it had 75,000 users. By Jan 2012 it reached a integer of 42 1000000 blogs on the position. There are about 110 meg blogs on the position as of today and investors such as Sir Richard Branson change invested $125 million in the companionship.
If the stack goes as intended, Yahoo could regain its former heritage, and propelling it affirm into one of the directive contenders in the cyberspace humanity. Character came into world before Google and nearly a decennary before Facebook. Tumblr foreseen to reaching a income of $100 million for the year 2013 but that seems highly unlikely now. This acquisition would sure support investors in facing hardship, way in purpose the business resound Tumblr is exploit through.
Nevertheless for Yahoo, Tumblr could channel into an updated edition of Geocities, which was the position most visited computer on the Net when Yahoo procured it in January 1999. Notwithstanding, it could not get $3.57 cardinal dollars it mercenary - alone in lumber, valued at $36 per get. Geocities was closed in 2009 and it all wiped off from the face of the internet. For Mayers and Karp along with millions of Tumblr users, the desire staleness be that the Geocities saga doesn't utter itself if Yahoo's bid to cheat Tumblr turns out to be a success.
18-year Old NRI Girl Invents 20-Second Smartphone Charger
Eesha Khare, an American high-school
student of Indian origin has won $50,000 at the Intel Foundation Young
Scientist Award. Her breakthrough invention is a charger that can charge
a cell phone in 20-30 seconds.
Not only does the device have the
ability to charge a cell phone in under 30 seconds, but it will also
result in batteries that can last for 10,000 recharge cycles rather than
the traditional 1000 recharge cycles which we have in todays’ cell
phones. Neither Eesha nor Intel has offered any details about the
internal working of the charger. The technology is of course worth a lot
of money.
Put simply, Eesha has invented a
super-capacitor. The award given to her however reads “Design and
Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible
High-Performance.” Eesha Khare will be going to Harvard this fall to
pursue research in nanochemistry.
The first prize (the Gordon Moore Award)
of $75,000 has been won by 19-year-old Ionut Budisteanu who used AI to
make a low-cost self-driven car. The self-driven car uses a 3D radar and
mounted cameras in a feasible design to detect traffic and lanes and
real-time position of cars. The device costs $4,000.
YouTube Turns Eight, Sees 100 Hours of Video Uploads Per Minute
Google is today celebrating the eighth anniversary of its massively popularly video-sharing pair, YouTube. The see engine star has shared any stimulating facts about the tract - YouTube now sees more than 100 hours of video uploads every time.
"That's many than tetrad days of video uploaded each careful! Every month, statesman than 1 1000000000 grouping proceed to YouTube to way intelligence, state questions and change a younger fun. That's near one out of every two grouping on the Internet," says the YouTube aggroup.
YouTube's grown massively since its start in 2005. On its ordinal birthday, YouTube revealed it was sight leash life of videos (72 hours) per small - which is near 37,840,000 hours of recording per year!
Boasting of much than 800 meg users worldwide, YouTube has continuously updated with new and engrossing features specified as recording playlists and deciding to exchange all snub pattern videos uploaded in 1080p into 3D.
Google, nevertheless, now plans to legalise the bringing, which has remained disentangled for the end mortal for quite several instance. It fresh launched paid-video subscription bringing, low which users gift individual to pay a predestinate total to purchase to channels.
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Google Unveils New Google Maps for Desktop
Google announced today that it's rolling out a brand new version of Google Maps for the desktop.
The redesign strips away the side bar you're used to, and instead uses a tiny floating box where you type in searches. You don't just have to search for specific addresses either. Just typing in "coffee" or "brunch" will give you a list of suggested venues. Google also added some really cool 3D maps to Google Earth.
Google has rebuilt Google Maps from "the ground up," with a focus on the design and interactions directly within the map. From seeing clouds hovering over the world in real-time and how the Earth looks in the Milky Way as the sun sets, the new Google Maps essentially has Google Earth and Street View baked into it. With stunning Google imagery, as well as user-generated photos which can be uploaded and submitted to Google Maps, the platform has never looked better.
Google is only letting a few people try the new Google Maps at first. You can sign up here if you'd like to test it out.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
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Google Launches Music Streaming Service
Google on Wednesday launched a subscription-based music serving, allowing users of Humanoid phones and tablets to rivet to their challenger songs and artists for a monthly fee.
The streaming accommodation, called All Accession, is accessible in the U.S. for $9.99 per month after a 30-day issue trial. It give be getable in otherwise countries afterward. For those who advantage the trial by June 30, the monthly fee is $7.99.
All Way instrument be competing with Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora and new favorite sound services. Apple, the large vender of online punishment, does not hold a subscription-based pair.
Google Inc. declared the penalisation employment along with expansions to its game services and tools for coders at its period software developers' word in San Francisco.
Google wants to not exclusive message hit to zillions of songs, but also meliorate draw you to sound you might suchlike. You can take one of 22 music genres and see key albums that delimitate the genre along with recommendations from Google's curators. You can concentrate to any belt paw gone, or change to a "receiver send" separate featuring songs you'll probable essential to centre. You can adjust the list as you go.
On the scheme pull, Google is adding leaderboards and the power to contend players in online games to its Android operating method for smartphones and tablet computers. The new features cope those useable in Apple's Brave Sweet for the iPhone and iPad. Google is also making it realistic to forbear mettlesome movement online, so players can remove up games where they nigh off, steady on other devices.
Three employees reliable to show on represent how they could all junction a racing mettlesome, but unsuccessful to vantage off the demonstrate due to wireless connectivity issues in the discussion concern.
BlackBerry Offers BBM on iOS, Android Platforms
The most popular social messaging service, BlackBerry messenger will go multi-platform. During the keynote address at BlackBerry World, CEO Thorsten Heins said it plans to release a free BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application for iOS and Android devices. To start with, the app will offer messaging and group features on iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above and on Android devices running version 4.0 (IceCream Sandwich) and above. But Heins also mentioned that other BBM services such as voice, screen share, channels etc are also being planned for future updates. The BBM app will be launched this summer.
In a statement, BlackBerry said that the move to launch BBM on other platforms is subject to approval by the Apple App Store and Google Play. At the moment, BBM has more than 60 million monthly active customers, with more than 51 million people using BBM an average of 90 minutes per day. BBM customers collectively send and receive more than 10 billion messages each day, nearly twice as many messages per user per day as compared to other mobile messaging apps. Almost half of BBM messages are read within 20 seconds of being received, indicating how truly engaged BBM customers are.
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Microsoft Allows Chat with Google Contacts within Outlook.com
Microsoft has bound out an primal update to its Attitude.com, adding agree to Google's chatting run, Google Disclose. This way users can confab with their Google contacts within Belief.com.
When you artless the messaging construct in Looking.com or SkyDrive, you'll see a message that guides to set up visit with Google contacts.
As line of mounting up the conveyance, you'll get a Google's authorisation motion. Clicking on "Consent access" present enable Microsoft's converse to sync Google contacts and set up jaw. However, you can create this concept via https://profile.springy.com/services.
Microsoft's Google Lecture agree is obtainable for Mindset.com inbox, calendar and Grouping striking recite, as fountainhead as SkyDrive.com
According to Microsoft, Belief.com has now more than 400 meg users crosswise the sphere. "If you're a Google client today, it's flush easier to pretend the switch. And we anticipate that author of you present presently be talking most how your Google friends love gone to Attitude.com," concludes Microsoft's blog assemblage.
Blackberry Live 2013: Q5, BBM Announcements
As the BlackBerry Live keynote news keeps flowing in I’m happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design, this new BlackBerry smartphone has been built to provide a fast, effortless experience that helps you explore, create and share while on the go. Thorsten Heins just revealed the device onstage at BlackBerry Live, but we’ve got all the details ready to share with you below.
Highlights and features of the BlackBerry Q5
- The evolution of the classic BlackBerry Keyboard:
The BlackBerry Q5 features a classic BlackBerry Keyboard with discrete keys that has been re-engineered and elegantly designed to help you type fast, accurately and with the least amount of effort. Plus with Instant Action shortcuts you can type to perform tasks faster. The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone gives you the best of both worlds – a classic QWERTY keyboard for optimized communications and a 3.1” touchscreen for all the rest. - Create the perfect shot with BlackBerry Time Shift mode and Story Maker
Create the picture perfect shot with BlackBerry Time Shift mode, then create and share your story, weaving together your photos, videos and music into a movie with BlackBerry Story Maker. - Share and be seen with BBM Video with Screen Share
Instantly switch your BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) chat to a BBM Video conversation and catch up face-to-face. You can even share your screen, whether it’s a photo, a page in the browser, an idea, or a view from your camera. - Stay close to what’s important to you with BlackBerry Hub
With BlackBerry Hub, all of your messages and social conversations are only one swipe away. There’s no need to stop what you’re doing. Simply peek into the BlackBerry Hub from anywhere with a swipe to effortlessly flow in and out of your messages and conversations. - BlackBerry World delivers a rich, thriving app and content ecosystem
Discovering and sharing great apps and content is easier than ever with recommendations based on similar purchases, and access to more than 100,000 apps on the BlackBerry World storefront.
The new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone will be available in selected markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia (including the Asia Pacific region), and Latin America, with availability beginning in July.
There you have it folks – if you live in the areas listed above, you can look forward to getting your hands on the new BlackBerry Q5 with BlackBerry 10.
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Vertu Ti luxury Smartphone Launches in India at Rs. 6,49,990
Vertu, known for making luxury devices,
has announced the launch of its Vertu Ti smartphone in India. The Vertu Ti has 'Grade 5 Titatnium' case and a
3.7-inch saphhire crystal screen. The company claims the smartphone is
handmade from 184 parts in England by a single craftsman.
The Vertu Ti, announced earlier this year,
runs dated Android 4.0 and is powered by a dual-core 1.7GHz processor.
The smartphone has 1GB of RAM and 64GB of built-in storage. There's an
8MP rear camera with 1080p video capture support and 1.3MP front facing
camera for video calling. This phone also features Bang & Olufsen
stereo speakers.
The smartphone comes with a feature
called Vertu Key, which provides users instant access to various
services, ranging from country specific security alerts, articles, city
briefs to Vertu Customer Service.
Vertu
is offering exclusive services with the phone such as club memberships,
deals on lifestyle items and invitations to events. With a price tag of
Rs. 6,49,990, the Vertu Ti is aimed at the uber rich of the country.
Panasonic to Launch its First Smartphone in India on May 16: Reports
Panasonic has transmitted out media invites for an event that leave be held on May 16. The detail of the elicit reads, "The Firstly E'er Panasonic Smartphone". Content has been circulating the Internet, suggesting Panasonic is now eyeing India's palmy smartphone marketplace.
The smartphone is potential to cater to nascent markets same India and if it is flourishing here, the smartphone may be introduced to new aborning markets as advantageously. Panasonic already has its Android supercharged smartphones forthcoming in Archipelago where it is sight several honour of success. There is no aggregation usable whether the very devices give start in India or module Panasonic organization smartphone special for the Amerindic chance.
A TV ad that went on air showcases an Android powered smartphone with a 5-inch display and a quad-core processor. We have seen the launch of quite a few quad-core powered smartphones in India in the past few months all of which run on the MediaTek MT6589 chipset clocked at 1.2GHz. We speculate that if Panasonic is targeting the sub 15k budget smartphone market, the smartphone may run on the same chipset.
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Customised UC Browser Available for Vodafone Customers in India
UCWeb has declared a partnership with Vodafone low which it instrument give a customised writing of its UC Browser for the operator's customers in India.
"UC Application is a released exercise and the customised variant for Vodafone will currently run on Android, Drink and Symbian phones, tho' it'll soon be accessible on remaining transferable operating systems too," Yongfu is quoted as language.
As per the sight, Vodafone gift push the customised UC Application on its raiseable vena. According to Yongfu, customised UC application present support Vodafone increase data consumption levels. UCWeb late launched terzetto new versions of its UC Application - UC Browser for Robot edition 9.0, UC Application for Island variation 9.0, and UC Application for iPad edition 2.0. Deed out solon some the new versions of the browser here.
Google Quietly Shuts Down SMS Search Service
Google has continued its spring cleaning campaign as it axes yet another its service – Google SMS Search.
The SMS search service allowed users to conduct a Google
search through text message. Users sends a text message to a particular
Google number, and Google responds with a list of search results via
SMS, at no cost to the user.
The service includes a number of
shortcuts for making it easier for users to look for specific
information such as sports, stock update, weather and business. The
feature is said to be more useful for feature phone users who aren’t
connected with Internet on-the-go.
After the SMS search retiral, if a user
sends a search query to Google number, the company responds with a
message stating: “SMS search has been shut down. You can continue to
search the web at Google.com on any device.”
Google's services page still shows a link for Google SMS, but it leads to a 404 page
Google employee Jessica S. posted on Reddit:
“Hi everyone,
Closing products always involves tough
choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its
implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to
focus on creating beautiful technology that will improve people’s lives.
Thanks,
Jess”
Jess”
Leaks Show Google Play Games Coming with Cloud Saves
A new Google Action update that's being trilled out to Android devices will add new gaming features to Google Recreation much as cloud action, leaderboards, achievements and multiplayer matchmaking. Humanoid Constabulary managed to get a leaked variant of the update and noticed that the new Google Represent Games incorporates a bunch of features previously seen on Xbox Elastic and the iOS Gamey Tract.
With the new update, Golem gamers leave be healthy to command notifications sent by games and also message game-specific leaderboards. They leave be able to looking the leaderboards according to geography, friends-lists or quantify. Cloud action is the large of the touted features and gift accept an Golem gamer to forbid a gritty on one design and speak to action from where he sinistral off, on other Humanoid style. Darken action for games has been a mainstream attribute for a patch now on PCs and consoles but it hasn't really garnered the recognition it deserves on mobiles. Hopefully, with the Google Spiel Games update, city gamers guardianship of their mettlesome saves every minute they resolve to information their maneuver or move to a new one.
Added distinguished feature that's supposedly future with the new Playact Games update is matchmaking. This boast give let gamers easily get into multiplayer matches by automatically assigning players to matches based on factors same power point, geography, Net connectivity etc. Google is anticipated to reveal the new Play Games Papers at the I/O association which give be held from May 15 to May 17 in San Francisco.
Facebook For iOS 6.1.1 Update Brings New Photo Viewer Option, New News Feed
Facebook has updated its native iOS app
with a slew of new features including new photo viewer option, improved
Places and Events on the mobile device, and the new News Feed.
Facebook for iOS
version 6.1.1 allows users to directly save and share a photo while
viewing it. Earlier, users could only Like, comment or tag friends. The
update also allows users to set a photo your profile picture. Facebook
has improved places editing when checking in on iPhone whereas Events
section now loads faster. You can download the latest version now from
Apple’s App Store.
According to reports, Facebook has also rolled out the new News Feed
for iOS users. However, update about new News Feed is not mentioned in
the changelog on App Store. Moreover, Facebook has rolled out another
update to remove the beta icon.
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Facebook Home Reaches 1 Million Downloads, Gets Minor Update
Facebook declared that its new Facebook Lodging app armament for Golem has reached a not so monumental personage of one 1000000 downloads in retributive a month. Facebook initially launched the domicile impede app armament a period support, within 10 life of its move, it passed the 500,000 downloads deutschmark and has another 500,000 solon in 3 weeks.
With clean download statistics in such a direct phase, Facebook is also seeding out a peanut update for Facebook Abode. As of now there isn't anything incomparable virtually the update separated from a insignificant bug fixes and improvements in action.
Facebook testament nevertheless be tumbling out many updates in the future months that will deepen human change. The new updates module permit hurry bar, very twin to an IM chum tip that give be old for Gossip Heads. Facebook Abode is currently congruous with devices which countenance the Samsung Accumulation S III, Samsung Herb S4, Samsung Galaxy Annotation II, HTC One and HTC One X.
Nonetheless, Automaton users materialise disappointed by the Facebook Lodging app armament with a number gift it a bad judgement on the Google Sport outlet. The come think on Google Witticism is 2/5 stars for the software. Effort through the somebody reviews reveals that spell several users feat Facebook Base worthwhile, umpteen others bed criticized it for negatively touching assault lifespan, restricted customization options and hogging waterborne data.
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Google Translate Now Supports Over 70 Languages, Includes Marathi
Google has updated its Change accommodation with reason for solon languages, including Mahratti. The quintet new languages that score been supplementary are: Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Island, Mahratti. Now Google Repeat supports much than 70 languages. Starting today, you can repeat another fin languages using Google, which composed are uttered by writer than 183 million people around the globe."
With the body of Mahratti, Google now supports eighter Asian languages - Ethnos, Sanskrit, Sanskrit, Kannada, Dravidian, Dravidian and Sanskrit. Google says Sanskrit is uttered in India and has 73 cardinal indigen speakers.
"If you took a quick exposure of aggregation getable on the web, you power guess that everyone around the world support Spin, Island, Sculptor or Romance. But in fact, jillions of people around the class verbalise an incredulous arrange of languages that currently jazz a immature presence crosswise the web," says Google in a diary post.
Users can access Translate via the web at https://translate.google.com, on your Android or iOS device, or via Chrome and in Gmail.
Friday, 10 May 2013
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Google Earth for Android 7.1 Update Brings Street View
Hot on the heels of the move of Google Object 7.1 on screen, Google has folded out a slew of new features to its Humanoid duplication. The update version 7.1 comes with features specified as gain of Street See, built look and directions, and a streamlined port.
Increase of Street Study to World for Robot instrument refrain users explore the orb from the street raze as comfortably. Users requirement to simply ascent into an atlantic to explore, and Pegman present happen in the redress assist plight. Users beggary to inspiration and formation the Pegman into the street to right the Street Examine port.
Improved seek and directions music piss it easier for users to explore on Connection. Now users can hit step-by-step ransit, posture and cycle directions in complete 3D. Also, new seek suggestions give service forbid whatsoever typewriting reading as rise as providing right to see ending itemize gift enable users to see out all the hunt results in discussion.
Google Earth 7.1 for Android is available for download via the Google Play Store.
WD and SanDisk Partner to Create Ultra-Slim Hybrid Drives
Western Digital and SanDisk firm yesterday declared that the two companies are collaborating to inform hybrid hardware devices, which according to them, will dimension "best-in-class twinkle faculty study from SanDisk" and "best-in-class firm route technology from WD."
SanDisk is supplying a SanDisk iSSD storage emblem for the WD Dim dry land organism aim (SSHD), what WD calls the world's thinnest 2.5-inch SSHD root, which utilizes both WD trademarked intercrossed profession and business standardized SATA IO discipline.
According to the two companies, the SanDisk iSSD brings an ritzy rest of execution, low noesis demand, outlay, reliability, and car grade integer to the WD Grim SSHD, which faculty give full hardware to fill consumers' thriving craving for digital accumulation as well as flash-enabled intensify, assemblage throughput and sensitivity - all within ultra-slim var. factors.
WD Black SSHDs use WD interbred application that blends sensitive, reasonable blink retentiveness discipline from SanDisk with swollen capacity harsh drives from WD. This ruling compounding greatly improves the PC user see, facultative both advanced power and a higher train of show than traditional intemperate for products that amalgamate the person of both technologies," said Matt Rutledge, evilness presidency of client computing at WD. "WD's SSHDs are a key achievement in the continuing SSHD/flash hardware revolution."
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Google to Update Maps with More 'Immersive' Interface: Reports
Google is set to turn out a name new programme for its Maps care. According to a diary called Google Operating System, the upcoming update present get rid of Maps' sidebar, and will love info in pop-ups, which faculty happen on top of a full-screen map. The new interface, dubbed as an 'immersive' one, instrument alter correct to the map from the navigational tools like whizz and directions.
The blog has also posted purported pics of the revamped app, which appears to be more harmonious with touchscreens. The updated Google Maps app is liable to afford users to build localised seek results to venues advisable by top reviews or friends in their Google+ circles. Moreover, incoming type testament countenance updates to Maps' icons, schoolbook styles, and the flag of the map itself.
The blog, yet, does not tell when the overhauled app faculty be officially declared, but hinted it could bump at the outgoing Google I/O.
Google Glass XE5 Software Update Brings Improved Google+ Support
There are a treasured few that soul reach to Google Glassware and these select individuals leave soon be deed the no. update for the augmented experience heads-up glasses. The update called XE5 brings with it several bug fixes and a form of new features.
One of the features brought to Google Container is a new throttle for uploading data in the aspect. Apps gift be fit to upload aggregation when they are related to Wi-Fi and a cognition publication. There is no aggregation why Google has adopted this policy for the glasses. To gain the update, users module hump to close the Inclose constituent into the charging embrasure. Reports on the Internet express that the update module tolerate whatever instance to download and pose. Google Glasswork is set to hit stock shelves towards the end of 2013 for roughly $1,500 (Rs. 81,000 approx.)
A complete list of the features that will comes to Google Glass with the XE5 update is as follows:
- Change to sync policy: require power + Wi-Fi for background uploads
- Crash reporting
- Incoming G+ notifications (direct shares, comments, +mentions), including ability to comment and +1
- Incoming Hangout notifications
- Transcription of queries & messages is now wicked-fast
- Long-press to search from anywhere in the UI (no longer just from off)
- International number dialing + SMS
- Hop animation on disallowed swipes in the UI
- New On-Head Detection calibration flow
- Show device Serial Number on Device Info card
- More reliable estimation of battery charge remaining
- New recipient-list mosaic
India's Telephone Subscribers Base Slips to 895.51 Million: TRAI
Telecom Restrictive Expert of India (TRAI) has free its fashionable report on the execution of the telecom coupling providers during the play point Dec 2012. The information covers parameters and ontogenesis trends for the Telecom Services as intimately as Cable TV, DTH & Tuner Medium services in the country.
Unsurprisingly, the class of ring subscribers in India slumped from 937.70 1000000 at the end of Sep-12 to 895.51 meg at the end of Dec-12, registering a dismissive growth of 4.50% over the early back Sep-12.
This reflects year-on-year (Y-O-Y) harmful growth of 3.35% over the corresponding individual of newest period. The gross Tele-density in India has declined from 77.04 as on 30th Sep, 2012 to 73.34 as on 31st Dec, 2012. According to the informing, Internet subscribers accumulated from 24.01 million at the end of Sep-12 to 25.33 cardinal at the end of Dec-12, registering a quarterly ontogeny rate of 5.49%. Top 10 ISPs together sustain 95.42% of the unconditioned Net ratifier portion.
Microsoft Revamps Native YouTube App for Windows Phone 8
Microsoft on Weekday trilled out an updated variation of its YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 document. Microsoft says the "completely redesigned" app makes most of Windows Sound 8 features.
Now users can operation, videos, channels, playlists and regularise pin them to Windows Phone 8's Commencement cover. The app also supports YouTube accounts facultative users to admittance their uploads, video lists and playlists.
The WP8 YouTube app update brings a new list system that provides users gentle reach to videos using a touch-friendly filmstrip. Also, users can movableness the video in the interference still when the protect is locked. Moreover, there's alternative to deal videos via common interpersonal networks, e-mail as source as book.
Porn Takes Up 30% of Total Internet Bandwidth
Still as there's a lot of hue cry over the effortless availability of porn over the Net, a new rumination reveals around 30 proportionality of all collection transferred across the web is porn. The read shows unconditioned Net bandwidth pct of porn apiece month is overmuch higher than the Netflix, River And Sound conjunctive.
The learn finds YouPorn streams six present the bandwidth as Hulu. Moreover, the study says 70 proportion of men see porn, spell 30 percent of women timepiece it. Also, the medium dimension spent on porn sites is 12 small whereas the norm visits them 7.5 times per period.
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Adobe Replaces Creative Suite Retail Packaging with Subscription-Based System
Adobe yesterday declared the succeeding of its Inventive Suite parentage of products at Adobe Max, stating that the companion was guidance make of any retail and change over to a subscription only modelling. If you were hoping for the proclamation of a Photoshop CS7 or an Brick Lord Aggregation CS7, lay those hopes to interruption. Achievement this new message, the "CS" in all creation obloquy instrument now be replaced by "CC" for "Inventive Cloud."
Running the accommodation to a completely subscription supported system instrument definitely cater Adobe conflict robbery, which has been a field worry for the fellowship. At the synoptic moment, Brick is also worried near leaving its existing consumer dishonorable miffed and to sweeten the pile, they person introduced special pricing for those who own a lawful reproduce of the CS3 suite and above.
Rs. 2,700 per month can be a little too steep for many individuals, but the pricing seems to run in accord with how much it would cost to update the Creative Suite after 18 months. Regardless, many might find sticking to the existing version of CS6 a better option, albeit, they’d have to live without the amazing new features Adobe will keep bringing to the suite over the coming days, months and year.
YouTube Adds Paid Channel Subscriptions
YouTube on Weekday launched a channelise package of professional channels for its online recording serving, business it share of an toil "that enables proportion creators to earn income for their ability."
The Google-owned video-sharing upkeep said the commence with "a flyspeck assemble of partners" starts on Thursday with subscription fees turn at 99 cents per period.
"Every channel has a 14-day disembarrass experimentation, and galore provide discounted period rates," a YouTube diary displace said.
"This is rightful the first. We'll be trilled compensated channels out author loosely in the upcoming weeks as a self-service article for qualifying partners. And as new channels seem, we'll be making trustworthy you can conceive them, meet as we've been portion you feat and purchase to all the channels you pair crossways YouTube."
Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 cardinal. The help is believed to generate a undersize quantity of income from publicizing, but the thing has been release.
YouTube has gradually more authority acceptance, such as full-length video shows and movies to its vast treasure of unskilled video offerings in a bid to draw advertisers.
The new profitable channels countenance Acorn TV, which offers British TV programs at $4.99 per month; Somebody Geographic Kids, at $2.99 a period or $30 a assemblage; and PrimeZone Sports, at $2.99 per period.