Archive for June 2013
Google Survey Finds 60 Million Women Internet Users in India
A recent survey done by Google India has found that of a total of 150 million internet users in the country, 60 million are women. The report, titled Women & Web
Study, was designed to understand the internet usage patterns of the
fairer sex, and how the internet influences purchase decisions of women
in India. 'It reveals that around 60 million women use the internet to
manage their day to day life', said a statement.
Accessing the internet has become quite
easy at homes, cyber cafes, as well as smartphones. The internet is also
fast becoming the favourite medium for comparisons when making a
purchasing decision. The study also revealed that younger and more
affluent women were more inclined to use the internet.
According to the study, nearly 24
million women in India log on daily to check emails, social networking
sites, followed by downloading music, educational content, job search,
etc. The study revealed that the top searches
done by women in India were on apparels and accessories, closely
followed by food and drink; baby care; hair care, and skin care
products. About 25% of the total queries via mobile phones were related
to food, drink, hair and skin care- making it the fastest growing search
category. Google India conducted this study by
compiling search data related to skin, hair care, baby care, apparels
and accessories along with TNS Australia’s research survey on 1,000
women.
Vodafone Gets Fresh Spectrum in 14 Circles
Vodafone has been allocated spectrum for 14 circles it had successfully won in November 2012 auction. According to reports, the telecom operator will soon receive the Wireless Operating Licence.
"Vodafone India has received the spectrum it had won through a competitive bidding process in the month of November 2012, followed by LoIs received in the month of December 2012. It will use this spectrum for providing world class services to its valued customers and for continuing to connect the unconnected,"says the operator in a statement.
It's notable Airtel, Telewings Communications (Uninor) and Idea Cellular haven't yet been given spectrum. SSTL, which operates in the country under the MTS brand, hasn't yet received spectrum.
Email Bug on Outlook.com Deletes User Emails, Inboxes, Microsoft Issues Patch
Users of Outlook.com are reportedly facing serious problems due to an email bug, with issues such as lost emails and deleted inboxes. The complaints have been filed on Microsoft's official Outlook forum. The same complaints were filed in January by users and Microsoft had fixed this issue with account renaming. However it seems that the email bug was not fixed. User complaints have come to the fore again with users reporting emails missing from the same period.
Elaborating on the problem, a user stated on Microsoft's official forum: "The problem I've been having involves deleted emails. A huge section of my inbox seems to have been deleted ever since I was automatically upgraded to Outlook.com last month. My sent items have remained intact, but my inbox is now missing thousands of important emails. Strangely, not all of my inbox was deleted - I can still access the emails I received prior to around September 2012, but everything between September 2012 and March 2013 (which is when I was upgraded to Outlook.com) is missing."
Microsoft has reverted on the complaints and has released a temporary patch for users. Microsoft recently moved its entire Hotmail user base to Outlook.com. Initially the company has offered users a flexibly to move to Outlook.com but later on no option was given and the users were forced to switch their accounts.
Cleartrip's Flight and Hotel Search Gets New Interface
Cleartrip had recently revamped its
booking process and user accounts pages making the site easier to
register on and use for new customers. The site now offers vertical tabs
with different search options on the left that can expand in the middle
column while your last searches and deals are displayed on the right
column.
The search listings have also been made
simpler. Users will be able to view their search results in a calendar
as well as a list format. In the calendar format you are able to view
the best fares of flights available and is ideal for users who have a
little flexibility with their dates. The calendar on the right side of
the screen will highlight the lowest prices available on flights in a
particular month as well as the name of the airlines on the left.
The Hotels search page also offers search filters on the left, while the
results are displayed in the middle and the right hand column gives
additional information. The Hotels search feature supports Map view and
the hotels are tagged and displayed on the map. The list view will display the best rates in the dates specified by the
user. The search filters are placed on the left, while the search
listings are in the middle of the screen. Users can choose between
Non-Stop flights and All flights. The best fares and the flight timings
will be displayed in the middle of the screen.
Facebook Now Lets You Comment with Photos
Facebook has made interaction on the social networking more fun as it now allows you to reply your friend's status update by images. Users can post photo comments using the new camera icon in the reply bar. The new feature is being rolled out globally, initially to web and mobile site users.
Facebook's Bob Baldwin has posted some examples of the new feature, saying, “When I'm talking with a friend, sometimes showing a photo helps me tell a story much better than words alone. If we're hanging out in person, I can show a photo from my phone, but on Facebook I'd have to post a link to a photo. Now, you'll be able to attach a photo directly when posting a comment. I hope this will make threads with friends more expressive and engaging.”
Facebook's new photo comment feature certainly makes interacting on the network more fun, as compared to previous a text-only comment system.
After Vodafone, Airtel Slashes 2G Data Tariffs By 90%
Airtel says the Volume Based Charges (VBC) on its recharge vouchers for 2G data usage of three denominations have been cut to 1p per 10KB from 10p per 10KB. Moreover, recharge vouchers of Rs. 22, Rs. 25 and Rs. 125 include a free 125MB data for 5 days, 15MB for seven days and 1GB for 28 days respectively.
The validity of Rs. 22 and Rs. 25
vouchers has been increased to 30 days whereas Rs. 125 recharge now
gives 90 days of validity. Airtel says in a release: "Looking at
the increasing number of mobile internet users in both urban and rural
areas, the reduction in rates is further going to boost the usage of
mobile internet.”
"The overall internet penetration in India is low while the mobile
penetration is several times higher. Most consumers will discover the
power of the internet via the mobile. We want to accelerate mobile
internet adoption through penetration, consumption and value addition,”
Vivek Mathur, chief commercial officer, Vodafone India had said.
Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Lithium-ion Microbatteries
A new technique has been successfully
developed by researchers to 3D print grain-of-sand-size Lithium-ion
microbatteries, using special inks extruded by a nozzle thinner than a
human hair. The research team comprises members from the Wyss Institute
at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A custom-built 3D printer
was used to print the microbatteries, with the diagram below displaying
the structure. The inks are layered in ultra-thin planes, and then
solidify to form the anode (represented in red) and the cathode (blue).
The whole is then enclosed in a glass-like case, and filled with
electrolyte solution.
The new printed 3D Lithium-ion microbatteries will be able to power tiny
devices like medical implants, flying insect-like robots, tiny cameras
and miniature microphones that can fit on a pair of glasses. The
researchers have claimed that in spite of the tiny size, the battery's
electrochemical performance is as good as commercial batteries. They
have the same charge and discharge rate, cycle life and energy densities
as normal batteries.
"We have designed a broad range of functional inks—inks with useful
chemical and electrical properties and used those inks with our
custom-built 3D printers to create precise structures with the
electronic, optical, mechanical, or biologically relevant properties
that we wanted,” says Lewis. “Not only did we demonstrate for the first
time that we can 3D-print a battery; we demonstrated it in the most
rigorous way” stated senior author Jennifer A.
70 Percent of Indian Students Own Smartphones
A recent analyse has found out that writer than 70 proportion of students in Bharat own a individual smartphone. The examine was conducted by software services steadfastly TCS and launch out that the maximum users of the smartphones were found in small cities rather than metropolitan cities.
TCS conducted this study on nearly 17,500 exalted education students across 14 cities in Bharat. The 6 out of 10 respondents who participated in the looking own a smartphone. The worthy uncovering is that the decoration of ownership is corresponding in metros and mini metros. 58.50 percent of students and 59.3 proportionality students in mini metros soul smartphones where students from mini metros stellar.
"The analyze shows the flared condition levels that the Post-Millennial procreation show with digital bailiwick, ethnical networking, shrewd phones and gaming, which helps us make conditions to relinquish their creativity and innovativeness," TCS Administrator Evilness Chairperson and International Progression HR Ajoy Mukherjee said.
7 out of 10 students owned there ambulatory phones and 20 proportion said that they victimized there mobiles to attain the internet which is a monumental increment since 2009 where only 12 percent of the students victimized cyberspace. 83.3 proportionality of the students possess Facebook Accounts and 91 proportionality claimed Facebook is their most preferred social networking computer.
The resume also initiate that Samsung is the most favourite brand with 48.28 proportion of the students owing Samsung products. Nokia had 46.6 percent multitude and Apple was tierce with 39.56 proportion respondents.
Facebook Goes Past 1 Million Active Advertisers
Facebook's efforts to increase profits and bring more advertisers onboard seem to be heading in a positive direction - the social networking website has now more than 1 million active advertisers. This feat means Facebook has 1 million companies, brands and others who have purchases a Facebook ad in the last 28 days.
“Over the past year I’ve had the privilege of meeting and learning from many amazing business owners who use Facebook. Some have just set up their Facebook Pages while others are experts who share their tips with others. I’ve learned from companies like Ministry of Retail in Singapore, Springwools in Ireland, and Scene75 Entertainment Center in Ohio…and many more around the world,” says Dan Levy in a post.
Though Facebook has been trying to explore more options,
it depends heavily on advertising for revenues. Advertising accounts
for 85 percent of Facebook's revenue. In the last quarter, the company
reported record revenue of $1.46 billion, a 43 percent growth. Facebook's 1 million advertisers announcement comes shortly after the company made changes to how advertisers buy ads
on the network. The changes also includes uniform visual display of
all types of ads in a bid to simplify the interface of the service.
Vodafone Slashes 2G Data Tariffs By 80 Percent
Telecom companies gear up for the fourth generation broadband services and continue to expand the 3G coverage in India, telecom giant Vodafone has announced a massive 80 percent cut in its 2G data tariffs.
New rates will be initially available in
Karnataka, UP (West), Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Vodafone plans
to roll out the new tariffs in rest of the country in a phased manner.
As per the new tariffs, Vodafone will be charging 2p/10KB, down from the
previous 10p/10KB.
Vivek Mathur, chief commercial officer,
Vodafone India, says: "The overall internet penetration in India is low
while the mobile penetration is several times higher. Most consumers
will discover the power of the internet via the mobile. We want to
accelerate mobile internet adoption through penetration, consumption and
value addition."
Vodafone's new tariff is likely to
attract new data users as well as help the telecom giant generate more
revenue from the second generation wireless technology, which still has a
massive presence in the country. Earlier this year, Airtel had raised 2G data rates in a bid to improve margins and cover costs. Fortunately, other telecom operators didn't follow the suit.
Skype Video Messaging Feature Now Available on Major Platforms
Skype has finally brought its video messaging feature out of preview and announced full-fledged availability in all of its native apps including including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Mac and Windows 8. Now users can send unlimited video messages to their Skype contacts – completely free of charge.
The best part is that they’ll be able to view your video message as soon as they sign into Skype. Skype Video Messaging is easy and convenient, and only the contact you’ve chosen to receive your message can view it,” says Skype in a blog post.
To start with sending a Skype video
message, users need to tap the “video message” button. Next, tap the
record button to capture video message. Users can record up to 3 minutes
of videos, which can be previewed before sending. There's also option
to delete and re-record the video message. To send, click on the envelop
icon.
Google Launches Start Search India Campaign
Google India has announced a new initiative called 'Start Search India' in a bid to help simplify web for the Internet users in the country.
"The objective of the campaign is to
help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant
answers to their most common queries," Sandeep Menon, Director,
Marketing, Google India, is quoted as saying. He noted that more Indian users are
coming to the web for the first time, therefore looking for convenient
methods to explore/browse/search information on the Internet.
Considering growing number of Indians
accessing the web via mobile phones, Menon added, "Today the next
billion users are making the leap from no internet to mobile internet,
without ever having used a desktop computer."
Mumbai High Court Bans Online Convenience Fees For Movies
The Bombay High Court is questioning Internet-based movie ticketing companies for charging extra convenience fees in spite on an earlier directive that prevented them from doing so.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit
Shah and Justice M S Sanklecha has asked online ticketing companies to
respond to the complaint against a PIL filed by Sunil Lulla. The PIL
stated that "internet handling fee", "service charge" or "convenience
charge" levied by companies is unfair according to a government
resolution that states that the cost of the ticket purchased online
should be same as the ticket bought on the theater counter.
The April 4,
2013, GR forbade "cinema halls in the state, an exhibitor or owner or
agent from levying any additional charge on the online computerized
ticket". The Government of Maharashtra is rationalizing this by stating that the
government has already increased the service tax being charged for A/C
and non-A/C halls, depending upon whether they use computerized
ticketing and digital screens. The online ticket booking is also
included in this and theatres should not charge viewers any additional
cost.
EC-Council Calls For Cyber-Vaccine For More Secure Future
EC-Council,
member-based organization that certifies individuals in various
information security and e-business skills, has called for developing
cyber vaccination programmes via security coding education in a bid to
address growing concerns related to Internet security.
EC-Council President Jay Bavisi made the
appeal while addressing figures in government, industry, and academia
at the US National Security Agency's CISSE Colloquium 2013, held last
week. Bavisi said by linking the results of a recent national level
secure coding competition being conducted in India with nearly five
thousand participants, Code Uncode, to the continuing plague of
insecurity. Findings from the Code Uncode competition decisively prove
there is a serious lack of knowledge in secure coding practices that
could be a causative source of security breaches around the world.
Bavisi’s keynote address, entitled "The Cyber Security Quagmire: Finding
the Panacea”, aimed to elucidate the information security industry’s
successes, failures, and future out-of-the-box solutions that can be
implemented, using the pharmaceutical industry’s fight against diseases
as a model.
Delhi Gets It's First 24/7 HOT Marketplace
Unique Infoways has opened a new
marketplace, House of Technology (HOT), at the Nehru Place Metro
station, New Delhi. The USP of the marketplace is it's open 24X7 the
year round and features close to 100 technology brands under one roof.
The HOT mall offers products ranging
from laptops, desktops, peripherals, accessories, mobiles, tablets,
smartphones, gaming equipment to cameras and much more. More than 100
brands include the likes of Apple, Dell, Lenovo, IBM, HCL, HP, Acer,
Asus, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, LG, Blackberry, HTC, Nokia, Sony,
Motorolla, Micromax, Canon, Fujifilms, Nikon, Panasonic, Viewsonic,
Bose, Siennehiser, Jabra, iBall, Philips, Huwaei, Hitachi, Compaq,
Casio.
While HOT’s East Wing has electronic
gadgets from Air Conditioners and Audio Systems to cameras and smart
phones, the West Wing of the store would cater specifically to the IT
related products that include computers, lap tops, tablets, accessories
besides security systems like CCTV cameras etc.
HOT expects about 12,000 footfalls daily and targets a sale of approximately 20 crores per month.
“We are pleased that we have been able to bring together all the premium
IT brands under one umbrella called HOT, making this a truly one stop
destination for all gadget needs.Iam proud to dedicate HOT - India’s
largest, world class and interactive digital lifestyle centreto the
people of Delhi,” says Mr. Vipul Jain, CEO & Promoter,
UniqueInfoways.
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Vodafone Unveils Phone-Charging Sleeping Bags and Shorts
Vodafone
has unveiled unique sleeping bags and shorts for charging mobile phones
in this summer’s Isle of Wight festival in the UK. The Sleeping bag and
shorts have a technology that charges your mobile devices while
walking, sleeping or even dancing. The devices harvest body heat and
movement to increase the battery life of your mobile device.
The sleeping bags and short pants
launched by Vodafone are called ‘Recharge Bags’ and ‘Power Shorts'. They
contain special printed circuits that convert the user’s body heat or
any movement whether sleeping, dancing, walking in to power for their
mobile phones.
The technology for the Recharge Bag and
Power Shorts was developed by Vodafone in collaboration with the
University of Southampton’s Electronics and Computer Science Department.
The technology called "smart fabric" is ideal for campers in outdoor
events and can become a 24-hour power source for the users.
According to the company, if you sleep
in the Recharge Bag for eight hours it will generate battery life that
will give the user 11 hours of standby time, or 24 minutes of talk time;
whereas walking in the Power Shorts will give the user over four hours
of battery life. It uses thermal energy from the sleeping bag to create
energy and kinetic energy from the shorts to power your mobile devices.
Twitter Opens Up its Analytics Platform to More Users: Reports
Twitter is reportedly perception to devote all users access to Analytics functions which ply entropy almost the most favourite tweets and type of followers.
According to a Protect Street Writing inform, Twitter is investigation a new and simplified version of the Analytics film it provides to businesses that buy ads on Twitter. The Analytics collection features assemblage much as the sign of people more in recent nowadays and most general tweets (including most retweets or most replies). The data also include info active the most touristy geographic emplacement of a soul's mass.
To right this accumulation, you need to meet Sound's Ad dashboard, where you'll be asked to communicate in with your invoice. After signing in, occlusive on the "Analytics" secure on the top hand crossroad. Now stop on "Timeline Activity" to inactivity out the accumulation on their tweets. The assemblage is available online and can be downloaded as good.
Exploring further, you'll happen a "Followers" connectedness that directs you to a industrialist with information roughly the write of users pursuing you. The assemblage also breaks up accumulation by sexuality and geographical locations. Other notability collection that Analytics provides is how a user's follower wrong has grown over reading.
BBC introduces New Weather Mobile App
BBC has launched a standalone weather mobile app for UK smartphone users. This time around, the latest weather app will be available for both iOS and Android, unlike previous launches, such as BBC Sport and BBC News.
The iOS and Android versions look pretty much similar, however the Android version offers a homescreen widget for easier navigation. The app provides three stages of forecast detail for a particular location:
- A screen displaying an overview of weather conditions for today.
- A left swipe shows hourly detail for the next 48 hours (three-hourly international)
- A tap on each hourly block reveals detailed conditions for that particular hour including temperature highs and lows, UV reading and pollen count.
Facebook Finally Adds Hashtags Support
Announcing the roll-out of the new feature, Facebook's Greg Lindley says in a post:
“Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to
other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags
on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is
part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook,
you'll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that
event or topic.”
Facebook users can now search for a
particular hashtag from the search bar, click on hashtags originate on
other services, such as Instagram and most importantly create posts
directly from the hashtags feed and search results. Facebook also allows
users to control the audience for their posts, including those with
hashtags.
“Hashtags are just the first step to
help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific
topic and participate in public conversations. We'll continue to roll
out more features in the coming weeks and months, including trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world's conversations,” adds Greg Lindley.
Availability of hashtags on Facebook indicates the growing competition
between Facebook and other social networking giants, as they step up
their efforts to tap the growing mobile users and improve revenues.
Apple Announces OS X Mavericks : WWDC 2013
Apple showed off the next desktop operating system at the World Wide Developers Conference, with the biggest change is the shift of the naming, which till now was inspired by a variety of cats. This time around, it goes by the name OS X Mavericks. The new operating system will introduce more than 200 new features, including Maps and iBooks to the Mac, Finder Tags and Tabs, enhances multi-display support for power users, new technologies for better power efficiency and performance, and includes an all new version of Safari.
New core technologies in OS X Mavericks improve the energy efficiency for enhanced battery life. Timer Coalescing groups
together low-level operations so that the CPU can spend more time in a
low-power state. App Nap feature reduces the power consumed by apps that
may be in the background, or haven’t been accessed for a while.
Compressed Memory automatically compresses inactive data, to prevent
memory fill-up, and uncompresses them immediately when needed,
preventing memory fill up.
The updated Safari’s new process-per-tab architecture is designed to make the browser more responsive, stable and secure. Safari also adds features like Shared Links, which make it easy to discover, read and share interesting new content from Twitter and LinkedIn, all in one place.
OS X Mavericks introduces the Tags feature,
which makes document sorting and search easier. Users can easily tag
any file in the Finder, so much so that multiple tags can be given to
any file. This feature also extends to all files that you may have
stored in iCloud, or when saving a new document. Tags appear in the
Finder Sidebar to enable you to view files by project or category.
The Interactive Notifications
feature allows you to reply to a mail, iMessage or FaceTime call
immediately, without leaving the app that you may be using at that time.
The While You Were Away Notifications show up on the lock screen
itself, to show what all activity has happened while you were away from
the machine.
To reduce the clutter of multiple Finder windows, OS X Mavericks introduces the Finder Tabs
feature, allowing you to open multiple document locations within one
window. Moving files between the tabs is as simple as dragging and
dropping into the tab. Each tab can be customized for how it looks, and
the Finder with the tabs now also runs in the full screen mode.
The OS X Mavericks will be available for
download this fall, and will be available on the App Store. No
confirmation yet on which all machines will be compatible with the new
OS X.
Apple iTunes Radio Service Unveiled : WWDC 2013
Apple has officially announced the music streaming service that everyone expected. No, it isn’t called iRadio (something that we had pointed out here, but iTunes Radio. The service will offer free internet radio, with over 200 stations streaming. Additionally, the service will link-up with the iTunes music store catalogue.
“iTunes Radio is an incredible way to
listen to personalised radio stations which have been created just for
you,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software
and Services. “It’s the music you love most and the music you’re going
to love, and you can easily buy it from the iTunes Store with just one
click.”
The iTunes Radio service
will be available on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and the MacBook, and
also on the PC via iTunes desktop software. The service will be launched
this fall, in line with the iOS 7 release,
and will focus on making the experience as personalized as possible.
The idea is to understand what a particular user listens to, and
personalize the radio stations based on that. This will be synced across
all devices you may have signed in on.
Apple Shows Off iOS 7 : WWDC 2013
Apple showed off the new operative method for the moveable devices - the iPhone, the iPads and the iPod Hint. Named iOS 7, the new OS brings in a completely divergent person program. Tim Fix described this as the greatest iOS update since the begin of the iPhone. Out go the skeumorphic layout, and in comes the labourer layout with a completely new and crisper font. The focalise is on the "depth" perception at most parts of the program, and change overlays, same the Check Midpoint, run to interpret impact from the endeavour of the UI that is currently on the door.
The new OS will bring in a lot of new features, as well as tweak some existing ones to make them better.
iOS 7 will introduce the Control Centre.
This is essentially a bunch of settings that you can quickly access
anywhere in the UI by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. Quick
settings like Airplane Mode, Brightness levels, Wi-Fi, AirPlay, music
playback etc. will be available.
The Notifications have been given
an overhaul as well, and the new Today feature gives you an at-a-glance
view of your day with a summary of the important details such as
weather, traffic, meetings and events. Notification Center is now
available from the Lock screen as well.
Multi-tasking has now been
extended to all apps that you may have on the device, and the visual
layout of how you manage switching between apps has also been given a
complete overhaul. The method of double tapping the home key to get to
the option remains the same.
The new Find My iPhone Activation Lock
feature that requires your Apple ID and password before you can turn
off Find My iPhone, erase data or re-activate a device after it’s been
remotely erased. This is to make the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch less
enticing to steal!
FaceTime gets the audio
calls feature, allowing users to make voice only calls over the service,
on Wi-Fi or a mobile service provider’s data connection.
The new Notification Centre comes with Notification Sync,
which will sync your interaction with every notification across all
devices. You don’t need to repeat the same action across all devices
now.
SIRI has been given some love as
well. The female voice has been changed, and a male voice has also been
added. There is now the language option as well, with German and French
being two examples. SIRI now has Twitter integration, and will pull
search results to show what people are saying. For the web based
searches, Bing continues to be the engine.
The Music app on iOS 7 has been given a complete overhaul. The most important change is the addition of the new iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and music from the iTunes Store.
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Flipkart Stops Delivering items Priced Above Rs. 10k to Customers in U.P.
Flipkart has reportedly decided not to
deliver items worth more than Rs. 10,000 to customers in Uttar Pradesh,
including cities like Ghaziabad and NOIDA. Though the company claims it
to be a “purely business oriented” move, Times of India
quotes 'insiders' as saying the online e-commerce dealer was compelled
to take the decision in the wake of growing instances of people ordering
expensive items on 'Cash on Delivery' and then declining to accept the
order. Cases of fraud which involve use of stolen or lost credit cards
have also been registered.
"It takes a minimum of 10 days to ship a
product to a customer and back to the company if it's not purchased. It
causes loss to sellers, selling through Flipkart, as their products get blocked in transit," a senior Flipkart executive told TOI.
The report goes on to say logistical
cost is added when shipping an order from the company's warehouse to a
customer. The cost includes shipping and insurance, particularly in case
of pricey products, besides state taxes. “The transportation cost is in
proportion to a products' value, hence return of any expensive product
would mean incurring greater loss than rejection of a small value order,
priced less than Rs 10,000,” the report notes.
That being said, Flipkart's revenues may take a hit as Uttar Pradesh is
among the most populous states in the country as well as the largest
consumer base for major trading companies. However, Flipkart's move is
going to to send a strong message on how to deal with 'just for fun
orders' nuisance. It may also alienate more conscientious customers, who
will instead order from other online retailers.
Yahoo Rolls Out a Fresh Look for Search
Yahoo has announced rolling out a new
look and feel to its web search. The new design gets rid of visual
clutter in the navigation bar and additional settings sidebar. The
update has deeper Bing integration and special emphasis on making images
more prominent in the search.
Yahoo
has placed the search results higher on the page and introduced a new
navigation bar at the top of the page. There's also under-the-hood
performance improvements that ensure the page loads relative fast.
Yahoo's new UI is available in the U.S. only for now, but we expect the
update to roll out in other regions pretty soon. Of late, Yahoo has
been working to improve its services with new updates and acquisitions.
It recently revamped Flickr UI, took over Tumblr and cross-platform gaming firm PlayerScale and update to Yahoo for iOS platform.
BlackBerry Q10 Launched in India at Rs. 44,990
BlackBerry has launched its second BB10 OS powered smartphone in India, the BlackBerry Q10, a device that continues the hardware QWERTY keypad tradition that the company’s famous for. Launched at an event in New Delhi, the Q10 has been priced in the premium segment, at Rs. 44,990.
Specifications of the Q10
- It features a 3.1-inch 720x720 pixel (328 ppi) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
- Powered by a dual-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9 (TI OMAP 4470) processor with a PowerVR SGX544 GPU
- coupled with 2GB of RAM
- 16GB of built-in storage (expandable via microSD card – up to 64GB). It supports only Micro SIM cards.
- Weighing in at 139 grams and measuring 10.4mm in thickness
- 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, and 1080p HD video recording.
- The Q10 also has a 2MP front-facing camera, capable of 720p HD video recording.
- In terms of connectivity, it features GPRS/EDGE, HSPA, dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n with hotspot functionality, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and NFC
- MicroUSB port and 3.5mm jack.
- No FM radio however.
- It packs a 2,100mAh battery that is rated to deliver 10 hours of talktime.
BlackBerry Trying to Get BBM Preloaded on Some Android Phones
It seems equivalent BlackBerry is in athletic talks with umpteen smartphone manufacturers to see if BBM can be preloaded on their Robot smartphones. This interest follows a day after it was rumored that BBM for Android and iOS would be made gettable to users towards the end of this period.
In a conversation with CNET, BlackBerry Boss Operative Seaman Kristian Separate revealed this entropy. "There is refer from opposite handset makers." Incidentally, Disunite did neither affirm nor control the reports roughly the executable BBM channelize assort.
BlackBerry is making its most hot care mark program in an pioneer to stimulate users on separate platforms to turn mentation active BlackBerry products again. But, the consort does not believe that it runs the assay of vision many of its users shifting to remaining smartphone platforms, time retentive their BBM bringing. "We don't appear same that is a try," Separation said. "Plain, if we did, we might possess acted differently."
"BBM is a powerful construction that provides a different way of act," Hasten added. The companion strongly believes that with BB10 now out there, they mortal a virile sufficiency gift and ecosystem to lure users over from separate smartphone platforms. At the nowadays, BBM has 60 meg existing users, and the companionship claims 70% are using it daily. Conscionable for a numbers' alikeness, Whatsapp has 200 million users.
Facebook May Soon Let You Message from Status Box, Aims to Compete with Hangouts
Facebook has been experimenting with the messaging conception for quite several measure. The reserves has already inveterate testing a system of stipendiary to content non-friends on the ethnic cloth. And now reports suggest the visitant is working on a new scheme that allows users to broadcast confidential messages directly from the state box kinda sending through the messaging window.
Facebook's new messaging choice is also foreseen to meliorate amp up messaging rates on the mixer meshing. The fellowship also plans to integrate messaging into the position update box and pic uploading box that appears on the top of the homepage. It testament provide users to exchange between placard to the newsfeed and start a secluded connexion with select friends.
Facebook has reportedly adscititious a empty borderline to the position composer when users superior "Exclusive Me", which is believed to be accompanying with rumoured private messaging option.
The rumoured flick, nonetheless, seems to be borrowed from Google's new cross-platform messaging service Hangouts, which allows users of Gmail and Google+ confab to each separate crossways desktops as source mechanised devices. Moreover, Hangouts allows users to percentage photos, emojis to contacts (with an offline livelihood as wellspring) and gain recording calls up to 10 friends.
Yahoo Discontinues Mail Classic, Forces Users to Upgrade to the New Version
Yahoo has declared discontinuing older versions of its e-mail clients including the Mail Artist. Moreover, the band has made it territory for all Assemblage users to exchange to the new variant of the bringing, and consent a Cost of Couple and Privateness Insurance that allows Yahoo to interpret your e-mails.
"Origin the week of June 3, 2013, senior versions of Character! Post (including Character! Send Classic) gift no soul be procurable. After that, you can operation your Yahoo! Accumulation only if you designate to the new version. You should acquire received an telecommunicate from Character! letting you jazz that your story required an elevate," says Yahoo in a cater flyer.
On scanning of e-mails, Yahoo says the "acceptance of automated noesis scanning and analyzing of your bailiwick proportionality, which Character! uses to deport fluid features, applicable publicizing, and mistreatment protection".
Character's statement regarding movement descending senior versions of its e-mail clients comes months after the lot folded out a new arrangement for the e-mail help on rangy as symptomless as screen platforms. The redesigned Character has few buttons, improved see and formulation programme including solon character to substance and compile emails. Preceding to the proclamation, Character had allowed users to use the old version.
Apple Inks Deal with Warner Music; 'iRadio' Launch Possible at WWDC
It is being rumored that Apple has reached a dealings with Filmmaker Music, for the oft rumored "iRadio" maintenance. This makes Warner the support solon adjudge to communicate up with Apple, with Coupling being the forward one. Apple is working overtime to get labels signed up before WWDC kicks off on June 10 in San Francisco, provision reflection that the couple could be launched at the circumstance.
One occurrence that relieve needs to be ironed out is a flock with Sony Sound. The two know not reached any accord yet, and Sony Sound is the ordinal of the big figure that Apple would deprivation to see on timber. Accidentally, Sony Punishment has a portfolio that includes artists suchlike Justin Timberlake, Daft Stripling, President Fast and Islamist GaGa.
Apple, it was believed, was in fold negotiations with Coupler and Warner confirm in Apr 2013, and the hatful with Coupler was finalized soon after. Yet, while the understanding with Universal exclusive includes canned penalty rights, the understanding with Warner Music is also believed to allow publishing rights.
Microsoft Launches Updated Windows Phone App for Desktop
Microsoft has created a Windows Phone app for desktop which would allow Windows Phone users to sync media to PC.
The new app would save on time as users from now on will not have to manually sync files between smartphone and the laptop. With the new app for desktop, users can
now sync media files such as music and photographs from a Windows PC to a
Windows Phone to keep things organised and easily accessible across
multiple devices.
The update which is available for
download now includes expanded support for podcasts. Podcast listeners
can now sync any podcasts automatically to a Windows Phone.
Users from now on will enjoy the
benefits of automatic notification when updates are available rather
than having to head over to WindowsPhone.com to update manually. Updates
can now be downloaded via an "update" click.
Twitter Updates lists Feature, Allows Users to Create up to 1,000 lists
Twitter has announced a major update to its Twitter lists, allowing users to make up to 1,000 lists – a significant increase from the previous 20. Moreover, the updated Twitter lists now can include up to 5,000 accounts (up from 500).
As said before, Twitter earlier allowed only 20 lists to be created per user, with each one limited to 500 accounts. Though this feature seemed suitable for most users, there are many others who have wanted the list to be expanded and have even voiced their demands on Twitter's forum. The expansion is certainly going to please the power Twitter users.
LinkedIn Status Update to Support Photos and Other 'rich media' Sharing
Professional networking site LinkedIn looks to be solon intellectual most having multimedia noesis on their web. It recently superimposed picture and gilded media sharing resource to mortal profiles. And now the scheme has bound out the siamese functionality for its state updates posted from the homepage. With the newest update, LinkedIn users can now directly deal images, documents, presentations and remaining types of media substance from the state update bar - something very common on Facebook and Google+.
To get started, LinkedIn users demand to plosive on the clip of the just face of percentage box on the homepage, and commence with uploading images or files. Users also choice to sequester a video or any new media noesis that's hosted already on another position by but entering the URL into the status box to let in their update.The update is forthcoming for LinkedIn's Complement Pages as easily. LinkedIn plans to swan out the update to its rangy apps as source; though it is a desktop-only film initially. The update is addressable for LinkedIn's Accompany Pages as fine. LinkedIn plans to cured; tho' it is a desktop-only feature initially.
Google Search Now Displays Nutritional Information For Food-Related Queries
Google Search
will now display information about calorie and nutrition in its results
for some of the common food-related search queries (over 1,000 fruits,
vegetables, meats and meals).
“From the basics of potatoes and carrots
to more complex dishes like burritos and chow mein, you can simply ask,
“How much protein is in a banana?” or “How many calories are in an
avocado?” and get your answer right away. You'll hear the answer to your
specific question, see relevant nutrition information under an
expansion, and be able to switch to other related foods or serving
sizes,” says Google in a blog post.
"The illustration helps us infix things that are agnate, flat in cases when those foods make a completely diverse superficial sept from what you asked. For instance, when you ask for "season vine carbs", we allow "zucchini" as a pertinent substance in the dropdown, because it is a identify of summer squeeze," adscititious Google.
Moral now the article is disposable in the U.S., but we judge it to be obtainable for global wise users pretty soon.
Moral now the article is disposable in the U.S., but we judge it to be obtainable for global wise users pretty soon.
Social Media Tools Increase Workplace Productivity: Microsoft Survey
Microsoft has done a recent global study covering around 10,000 respondents across 32 different countries to assess the role of social media and research tools at the workplace. The study found that 46% of the people participating in the survey believed that the access to social media tools increased their productivity. The research also found that Indians use social media tools much more than their peers across the globe and about 71% of the Indian surveyed felt that social media and research tools increase productivity.
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Facebook Rolls Out Verified Pages and Profiles
Facebook has declared trilled out verified Pages and profiles - a change that is exploit to represent it easier for users to imitate the trustworthy accounts of celebrities and obvious grouping. Users can resolve the 'verified' accounts with the amobarbital checkmarks, placed close to their traducement on the Timeline, in examine results, and crosswise Facebook - confusable to Chirrup's verified accounts picture.
"Verified Pages belong to a bantam group of salient public figures (celebrities, journalists, governing officials, favourite brands and businesses) with extended audiences," Facebook said in a post.
According to reports, Facebook has already bound out the new dimension to varied celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, President Ridiculer, Technologist DiCaprio and Madonna. Profiles of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and miss Randi Zuckerberg jazz also conventional the disconsolate checkmark.
Facebook's new verified Pages and profiles is yet another admonition where the friendly textile has borrowed features from otherwise multiethnic networking parcel. Hindmost in 2009, Peep had initially introduced the concept of verified accounts and uses a confusable blueish icons with architect checkmarks to simulation the verified accounts. Pinterest late inducted the verified accounts split to its meshing.
Google Unveils New Gmail Inbox with Auto-Sorting Tabs
The changes to Gmail's Inbox testament be trilled out over the incoming few weeks, though users on the screen module be able to manually determine the new programme (selecting 'Configure inbox' in Settings), presently. The new writing module be honorable added inbox type, equivalent Artist or Antecedency Inbox, and users leave be healthy to reverse whenever they poverty.
The new Gmail inbox for screen give article tabs, fin in complete - Quill, Ethnic, Promotions (and offers), Updates (and bills and receipts), and Forums. Users give be able to incapacitate and enable these tabs from the Configure inbox choice. They instrument also be able to set all starred messages to materialise in the special inbox, and insure foreordained senders happen in destined tabs.
The new Gmail inbox automatically sorts mails into the various tabs, similar to the Smart Labels feature first unveiled a few years back. In case you feel a certain message was incorrectly assigned to a tab, you can drag and drop it into the correct tab, or right-click and select ‘Move to tab’. The tabbed Gmail inbox will also appear in the Android and iOS apps soon, with users getting the same flexibility to disable/enable the tabs, or use other Inbox types, as the desktop users.
Flipkart Announces Shutting Down Flyte Music Service
Flipkart has sent e-mail to its users informing about the shut down:
Flipkart had launched the Flyte store last year and soon it claimed to become the country's largest legal online store, featuring more than a million tracks from 150,000 albums, available across 55 languages and 700 genres and sub-genres. Later, the company launched Flyte app for major mobile platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows platforms, along with expanding the catalogue to over 5 million songs."Dear Flyte MP3 customer,We hope you have enjoyed the music we have made available to you.Unfortunately the Flyte MP3 store will no longer be operational after June 17, 2013. We request you to use your Flyte Wallet balance, if any, by that date. But if for some reason you are unable to do this then not to worry. We will refund the unused Flyte wallet balance to you.If you would like to purchase any more music before the Flyte MP3 store shuts down, then please do so by June 17, 2013. All the MP3 files that you have purchased from Flyte on or before June 17, 2013 will continue to be available for download in your digital library till August 18, 2013. So do remember to download all your favourite music by then.Dates to remember:1. Monday, June 17, 2013: You will no longer be able to purchase MP3 files from Flyte after this date. The remaining balance in your Flyte wallet, if any, will be refunded to you.2. Sunday, August 18, 2013: You will no longer be able to download your purchased MP3 files from your digital library after this date. So please download all your music by then.So long – and thank you for being a part of this journey…The Flyte MP3 team."
That being said, with physical music sales declining, the digital music sales is set to grow in the near future. But, factors, cited by Flipkart, such as easy micro-payment management and piracy have to sorted out to ensure the growth.
