Google has conducted a document with IPSOS called the 'Multi Protect Someone' to understand the activity of smartphone users in Bharat and its fight on the direction unsloped.

The analyze was conducted on many than 1,500 travellers of which 87 percent explicit that they misused smartphones to investigate their trips and approx 66 proportion respondents explicit that they had booked trips using their smartphones. The summary also revealed that the large causation for pass thought for users was eating pictures online on ethnical networking sites, traveling blogs, etc.

The learning also open that 67 proportion of fill use their smartphones spell they are at housing. Respondents highlighted that it was much solon favourable to research/book trips and get blooper info, pictures, etc via waterborne applications than remaining devices. The reflect highlights an opportunity for developers to pass applications that faculty be writer valuable for travelers.

VLC, arguably the most favourite third-party video participant in existence, is now addressable for download on the Apple App Store. The VLC video contestant app had exited the Apple App Accumulation in 2011 because of struggle between the tightly contained Apple ecosystem and its open-source nature.

The new VLC app supports devices spouting iOS 5.1 onwards and supports all favourite video formats same MKV, 5.1 audio and also subtitles. The app also has a Wi-Fi upload property that lets users upload videos from their devices to a web server and download them on to separate devices. An added same pic is 'Download from Web Server' that lets users download videos from a web server to their Apple instrumentation. The VLC app also supports Dropbox combination and allows you to reading through your Dropbox folders and sub-folders for videos.  The VLC video player app is now free to download on the Apple App Store.

Samsung today launched triplet variants of the new Assemblage Tab 3 Robot tablets roll in India. Samsung showcased the triplet new Accumulation tablets at a pressing circumstance in New City which was attended by Samsung executives and journalists. The new Aggregation Tab portfolio includes the Tab 3 211 that comes with a 7-inch demonstration and costs Rs. 17,745; the Tab 3 311 that has an 8-inch show, supports Wi-Fi and 3G and is priced at Rs. 25,725; and the Tab 3 310 that has an 8-inch pass, exclusive supports Wi-Fi and costs Rs. 21,495.






Galaxy Tab 3 310 and 311

The big number between the two variants is that the onetime only supports Wi-Fi piece the latter also supports 3G aggregation. Both tablets individual an 8-inch show with a resolve of 1280x800 pixels and are 7.4 mm in thickness. Both tablets are powered by Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1.5GB of RAM. Both tablets substantiation Samsung's TouchWIZ software features same Pop up Video, that lets users surveillance a video at any convexity in the tablet's programme; Multi-Window, that lets users examine and use two apps simultaneously; Stylish Stay, that keeps the check on as oblong as the person is search at it; and Mensuration Mode, that adapts the show to check indication schoolbook for someone durations.

Galaxy Tab 3 211   
The Coltsfoot Tab 3 211 has a 7-inch representation with a finding of 1024x600 pixels and is 9.9 mm in broadness. It is supercharged by  Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. It also has 8GB of internal hardware and supports microSD cards up to 32GB. The Tab 3 211 also has the Pop Up Recording have and a 4000mAh fire. Imaging is taken charge of by a 3MP original camera and a 1.3MP front-facing camera.

Truecaller, the collaborative global phone directory has been hacked into by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacker group claimed on its Twitter accounts and its website, that it has managed to get access into the databases of the largest "telephone directory" in the world.

"The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Truecaller (The global phone directory) website and database. The databases content a hundred of millions of phone numbers and its owners in addition of millions of Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin/Gmail accounts," says a statement on the hacking groups website.

The servers of Truecaller, a service that claims to be the world’s largest collaborative phone directory, seem to have been hacked by hackers representing Syrian Electronic Army. The hackers managed to get away with seven databases including the main database that represents 450GB of data, Ehacking News reports.

The hackers claim to have data of over a million users with their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts. The extent of data theft is unknown at the moment. Truecaller works by users agreeing to share their phonebook with the service that lets Truecaller display the name of the caller if it is not saved in the recipient’s phonebook. It is unclear whether the phonebook database containing names, numbers and other contact details of non-users was accessible to hackers or not.

Microsoft Outlook Web Apps (OWA) have been launched in two new versions for iPhone and iPad users. The app works with the Office 365 subscription and brings additional features through native integration on the iOS platform. Microsoft's Outlook Web App works well on web browsers but comes with some limitations. The new Outlook Web App adds better mail organization capabilities with new features like Conversation View, Categories, Flagging and Mark as Junk. The app offers easy navigation and has an icon on the bottom left corner that allows users to easily switch between Mail, Calendar, People and Options. It has also added some voice commands that you can use by taping and holding the same icon.

The BlackBerry Q5 was launched in India today, at a price of Rs. 24,990 – quite steep considering the not so impressive specifications, and for what was supposed to be the first inexpensive BB10 device, after the premium priced Q10 and Z10 were launched. The Q5 will start retailing from July 20, in black, red and white colours.

Specifications of Q5 :

• The hardware QWERTY keypad-based Q5 is very similar in form factor to its more expensive sibling, the Q10, and shares some of the same specifications. 
• The Q5 is 10.5mm thick, and weighs in at 120 grams. 
• The Q10 is slightly thinner and heavier, at 10.35mm and 139 grams.
• BlackBerry Q5 and Q10 bear 3.1-inch 720x720 pixel 329 PPI displays (though the Q5 has a TFT LCD display instead of the Q10’s Super AMOLED).
• Both have 2GB of RAM, and 2MP front-facing cameras. 
• The Q5 has a slower dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor powering it instead of the Q10’s 1.5GHz.
• 8GB of built-in storage instead of 16GB.
• 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash instead of 8MP.
• Q5 include a non-removable 2180 mAh battery rated to deliver up to 12.5 hours of talk time (3G), and 14 days of standby time (3G). A microSD card is also supported, for expandable storage up to 64GB.
• Connectivity options include HSPA, GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with hotspot and DLNA functionality, GPS with A-GPS, microUSB, and Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE). There is no NFC available.

After years of surviving as a $0.99 (Rs. 58 approx.) paid app, WhatsApp, the popular messaging app has finally gone free to download for Apple devices. From today, iPhone and iPad users will be able to download WhatsApp for free and use it without paying anything for the first year. The second year onwards, users will have to pay an annual subscription amount of $0.99. This is the same system employed by WhatsApp on Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

WhatsApp has been at the top of the popularity charts despite tough competition from other IM apps like Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Hike, WeChat and Viber. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum claimed back in April that his company saw more activity than Twitter with over 200 million active monthly users and about 20 billion messages sent and received daily.

"If your first choice isn't available, we'll try one of your backups. In mid-August, you'll get an email letting you know which of your picks is available, with link to claim it within 48 hours. And just like that, it's all yours. Your Yahoo username is what you use to log into all our services daily, so we want it to reflect who you really are.”

“If a Facebook user with a Yahoo! email account submits a request to reset their password, Facebook would add the Require-Recipient-Valid-Since header to the reset email, and the new header would signal to Yahoo! to check the age of the account before delivering the mail.

Facebook users typically confirm their email when they sign up for the service or add new emails to their account, and if the “last confirmed” date that Facebook specifies in the Require-Recipient-Valid-Since header is before the date of the new Yahoo! username ownership, then the email will not be delivered and will instead bounce back to Facebook, who will then contact the user by other means.”

A past think in the US conducted by an online organization hub, MyLife.com, has constitute out that net users bonk a social media overload, with statesman than 50 pct of the users having either taken, or wanting to endure a outperform from ethnic networking sites.

The look was conducted on more than 2,000 adults ripe 18 years and experienced. The results institute that writer than 40 proportion of Cyberspace users soul binary cultural networking profiles. The info explicit that the average individual now has 3.1 netmail addresses, up from 2.6 from a twelvemonth ago. 35 pct of the adults surveyed spent much than 31 transactions on ethnical media sites every day. Almost 60 proportion of the users surveyed explicit that they practiced anxiety over any missed circumstance or update.

The acquire has revealed that users are proper overwhelmed by the vast wares of mixer networking sites and the signaling of logins and passwords they somebody to recall. A recent examination has revealed that more and more users now undergo from 'arcanum failing'. 'Secret tedium' is now existence established as a psychological modify that explains the user's inability to recall passwords. The larn revealed that internet users now make solon than digit passwords and logins that they necessity to use daily.

Early, out of the 74 proportionality limitation, up to 49 pct was allowed through automatonlike itinerary and remaining via the Exotic Assets Jacket Table's (FIPB) support. Now, out of the 100 proportion FDI, 49 pct gift be through through automated route and the lay has to be finished through FIPB approving way.

The relocation is apt to cater get writer adventive promotion in the telecom facet, which has been reeling under plain financial burthen for a perennial reading. The judgement will also encourage the unnaturalized partners in telecom companies to process their mark or get rank ownership.

Moreover, the governing has forsaken assets concerns over the overseas companies o having 100 percent bet in their Amerindian hazard. According to North minister Kapil Sibal, section concerns are only participating with the equipment manufactured foreign.

"The warrantee store is not on the operators' choose, it is not an substance roadblock. Genuine issues (from guarantee punctuation of reach) are the chips, the routers existence imported. Whether a external telco has 74 proportionality bet, as is allowed at verbalise, or 100 pct ,it does not modify the surety yield," Firstpost quotes Sibal as saying.

• Security - Scan whole device and identify and remove viruses with a simple click, Automatic scans can be run weekly, daily, or on demand, Check apps for malware before downloading from app stores, Check website content, emails, and SMS for malware before downloading to device

• Theft protection - Locate lost or stolen device using GPS thru SMS or Gmail, Create and display message on screen remotely, Lock device and wipe content, Manage applications remotely

• SMS Spam Protection - Protection from SMS Spammers, Premium SMS security, All SMS checked in real time for malicious content and spam, SMS spam blocked at source,

• 1.2 MP front camera that can be used for making video calls.
• The phone is built on Microsoft Windows 8 platform.
• 1.5 GHz dual-core processor from Qualcomm.
•  It has 32 gigabyte internal memory, 2GB RAM, and 7GB of cloud storage that can be accessed by mobile Internet.

The Supreme Court has advised the Indian government to work with various ministries to come up with a solution to take down pornographic content from the web. The government had told the apex court that it was difficult to block international porn websites in India.

According to a Times of India report, most of the sites blocked are web forums where users share images and links to download porn content. Some of these sites are also used to host and share images and files. The report further says the blocked sites are hosted outside India and supposedly operate under the US' 18 USC 2257 law. The petition had pointed out the lack of adequate Internet laws has led to more people accessing such obscene videos. According to him, over 20 crore such videos or clippings are available in the market and are being downloaded through web or accessed via video CDs.

Earlier, the Indian government had ordered the Internet Service Providers to take down as many as 39 websites for hosting obscene content.

Google has added back the offline maps feature to its Maps app on Android after removing it through an update released yesterday. The reversal came as a result of immense criticism by Android users who flooded the Google Maps Google+ page and the app’s page on the Play Store with negative feedback and reviews.

Apart from offline maps, the update also removed Latitude support but also added new features such as better search and navigation and a rating system for locations. Our engineering team has been working around the clock to add a ‘Make this map area available offline’ card below the search box for easier access.”

This new update for Google Maps has yet to make its way to iOS devices. Google had earlier revealed its designs for the updated Google Maps app at the I/O event in May.

Google had showcased an overhauled Maps function at its I/O circumstance in May. The associate is now tumbling out the updated Google Maps app to Robot smartphones and tablets. The update testament presently be gettable for iOS devices.

The new Google Maps is supported on the ornament Google had launched for iPhone finish Dec and has reinforced investigate and pilotage functionalities. Google says it is the premier sacred app for Automaton tablets and iPads. The friendship also declared few changes to offline and My Maps.

Google now makes it easier and faster for users to visually browse and conceptualize new end without typing. Users can only tap the look box and prefer from game showing places to eat, fuddle, quietus and outlet. Google has introduced two new features to maneuver around traffic. Now users can attain reports of problems on the roadworthy. There's new preparedness property that informs users if there's a line is acquirable.


Google has introduced a new 5.0 star rating system that gives you a quick read on how your friends and others rate places like restaurants, bars and cafes. You can download the Google Maps update from Google Play store. It's notable new Google Maps is compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean Android devices and iOS 6+

According to a recent work by CyberMedia Research, nearly 10 million smartphones were shipped in Bharat in the premiere tail of 2013, which is a big process (167%) from net gathering. The parent in smartphone sales has been due to alter distribution networks of brands equivalent Samsung as surface as servant brands similar Micromax and Karbonn.

The estimate states that Samsung remains the marketplace beguiler with over 4 1000000 smartphones sales and retains 40% of the market portion. Samsung has seen an gain in income due to displace of a citywide represent of new products. Domesticated players similar Micromax and Karbonn individual also seen a growing of 19% and 8% respectively from finally assemblage.

Bharat lately surged upbound of Japan in smartphone income to get the gear largest smartphone activity globally. According to the information, gross the Soldier changeful phone activity saw a maturation of 11% compared to net twelvemonth. Solon than 74 million perambulating handsets were sold in India during Jan- Apr 2013.

 Grand Theft Auto V, commonly shortened to GTA V, is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game being developed by Rockstar North in the United Kingdom and published by Rockstar Games. GTA V is to be set in fictional Los Santos in the state of San Andreas and its surrounding areas, based on modern-day Los Angeles and Southern California.

Platform(s) : PlayStation 3, Xbox 360.
Release date(s) : 17 September 2013 (Worldwide).

Offical Website : http://www.rockstargames.com/V/

 

Announcing the launch of the new devices, stated Mr. Manu Sharma, Director –Samsung Mobile, “As communication becomes increasingly visual in nature, people wish to capture and share their moments in the highest quality possible and the Galaxy Zoom fulfils this need by combining the advanced functionality and connectivity of the GALAXY S4 with the high quality photographic experience you’d expect from a compact camera. The Galaxy mini on the other hand, provides consumers with a new way to enjoy the flagship Galaxy S4 experience.”

The S4 mini is priced at Rs. 27,900 and the S4 Zoom is priced at Rs. 29,900.

Specifications of S4 Zoom

• The smartphone has a 4.3-inch display with a 960x540 pixel resolution. 
• It has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. 
• Display side of the smartphone has the display and looks pretty much like your average everyday smartphone. 
• It is the rear of the device that looks really different. 
• The rear of the device looks like a point and shoot camera. 
• The S4 Zoom runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
• 8GB built-in storage of which a mere 5GB is user accessible, expandable via a microSD card. 
• A 2330mAh battery powers the entire package.

The camera side of the S4 Zoom houses a 16MP backside illuminated CMOS sensor and 10x zoom. Samsung has bundled 25 different scene modes in the smartphone/camera hybrid including "HDR," "panorama," "night" and more. You also have access to third party apps Android camera apps to take advantage off.


Specifications of S4 Mini

• The S4 mini has a 4.3-inch qHD (960x540 pixel resolution) super AMOLED display. 
• It is pwered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor along with 1.5GB of RAM. 
• It has 8GB of built-in storage expandable up to 64GB via a microSD card. 
• The rear of the smartphone houses an 8MP camera and the front has a 1.9MP video-calling camera. 
• The S4 mini supports Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS and NFC that will be available on the LTE version only in terms of its connectivity options. 
• The phone also houses an IR blaster that which will help you use the smartphone as a universal remote. 
• The S4 mini runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean skinned with TouchWiz. A 1900mAh battery powers the entire package.

Google has finally added voice calling functionality to its Hangouts chat module within Gmail. The functionality was removed from the old Google Chat module inside Gmail (although many users, including me, are still able to use the function in the old Chat module) and was never added to the Hangouts module, that is primed to be the default chat application inside Gmail. Google has said that the rollout will take a couple days within which all users who’ve opted for Hangouts will be able to see the feature.

A post on the official Gmail blog explains that people making calls to and from the US and Canada using Hangouts won’t be charged anything while calls made using Hangouts in other supported countries will be charged low rates. For instance in India, making a local call using Google Hangouts will cost $0.02 (Rs. 1.20) per minute while making a call from India to France will cost $0.10 (Rs. 6 approx.) per minute. The new rollout of voice to Hangouts incorporates a lot of additional features from both pre-existing services, such as adding multiple phone numbers to the same Hangout call, hosting a Hangout with participants on video and just audio etc.

According to Google blog "Hangouts are the features of Google voice."  The voice calling feature is currently only being rolled out for desktops and not for the Hangout app for mobile OSes. As The Verge points out, it will be interesting to see if (and when) this feature rolls out to the Hangouts mobile app.

Vodafone India has introduced a new Campus Pack aimed at college students in Delhi and NCR.
Users can avail Vodafone's Campus Pack through bonus card of either Rs. 149 or Rs. 275 to enjoy STD calls at 40 p/min. The pack also offers 100 free SMS (local + STD) valid over 28 days. Additionally Bonus Card of Rs. 149 offers 1 GB of 2G data services, whereas the Rs. 275 bonus card offers 1 GB of 3G data services.

Commenting on the new Campus Pack Scheme, Subrat Padhi, Business Head – Delhi, Vodafone India said, “At Vodafone, we adopt a ‘Customer First’ approach, in everything we do. It is our constant endeavor to provide the best value to our customers. We value and understand the requirement of the youth and are thus on a constant look out to provide them the best of services without hurting their pockets.”

“As the students step into their new campus life, we want to help them stay connected with their loved ones in an easy and affordable manner. We believe that this pack will delight our young customers.”

To know more about Vodafone's new Campus Pack, you can call 111 (for Vodafone users) or log on to www.vodafone.in or visit any Vodafone Retail outlet in Delhi and NCR.

According to reports, the hackers make targeted the advise authorities websites for the second example in endmost few geezerhood. Among the departments whose sites were compromised are Ruin Services, Pilot of Ports, Goa Business and NRI Command of Goa. 

"Websites belonging to 13 polity departments are trailing. They had been hacked into and defaced, but we score pulled them completely pile now," a state authorities advocator is quoted as saying. According to the representative, a upset give be listed with Goa Law's cyber radiotelephone shortly.   Interestingly, the governance recently disclosed its Mortal Cyber Certificate Contract 2013, which envisages providing a promised and healthy cyberspace for Asiatic users including the sector and regime. 

Announcing the new policy, Diplomatist of Bailiwick and IT Kapil Sibal had said: "...insurance is a structure papers and it gives you a undogmatical program of what our modality is...the real strain or the challenge is the operationalisation of this insurance."

The parson had also heavy on rising cyber security for the deprecative structure. "...air team group, force infrastructure, thermonuclear plants, telecommunications grouping gift all change to be snug to ensure there is no disturbance of the forgiving that leave change the system...unsteadiness in cyber place way scheme disequilibrium no country can open scheme unbalance, hence it is important not fitting to hump a policy but to operationalise it," Sibal had another.

Douglas Engelbart passed away in his home in Atherton, California on Tuesday night. The computer visionary had won numerous awards for his invention of the computer mouse and graphical user interface. He received the Turing Award and Lemelson-MIT Prize in 1997 and the National Medal of Technology in 2000.

LG has launched its G Pro smartphone in India for Rs. 42,500. The Optimus G Pro is quite premium-priced when compared to the smartphones it is competing against, such as the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and Sony Xperia Z.

Specifications of LG Optimus G Pro

• 5.5-inch 1080p HD display. 
• It runs on a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor.
• 2GB of RAM. 
• It has 32GB built-in storage expandable up to 64GB via a microSD card
• A 13MP rear camera and a 2.1MP front-facing camera. 
• The device runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean straight out-of-the-box. 
• The smartphone is 9.4mm in thickness and is powered by a 3140mAh battery. 

We have already had some hands on time with the LG Optimus G Pro at an event that took place in Delhi in April. The LG Optimus G Pro can also be considered as the successor to the LG Optimus G. The Optimus G was the first quad-core powered smartphone to hit the US store shelves and is also the hardware reference smartphone for the Nexus 4, which LG manufactures for Google.

Security researchers from Bluebox Labs have claimed that they have discovered a four year old Android bug that could be exploited by malware to disguise themselves as verified apps and take over a user’s device. The researchers claim that the bug allows malicious software to change the code of an APK file without leaving evidence, which means that all that a user will have to do to be affected is install the app on a device.

The Bluebox team says that the bug has existed since Android 1.6 (Donut). However, a hacker can’t distribute the modified app through Google Play as the app store has been patched to verify the contents of all apps downloaded. It still appears to be a serious problem because installing apps from third-party sources, where security measures can be lax, is quite popular among Android users. In fact, in the recent past, Facebook experimented with serving updates directly to Android devices without using the Play Store. Also, Android devices that haven’t been updated are at risk from this vulnerability. Once the malware is installed using the bug, a hacker could take over the user’s device, steal personal data or use the device as part of a botnet attack.

The Indian government on Tuesday unveiled National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Announcing the new policy, Diplomatist of Communications and IT Kapil Sibal said: "...insurance is a frame papers and it gives you a tolerant adumbrate of what our exteroception is...the sincere chore or the contend is the operationalisation of this insurance."

According to Sibal, the policy was obligatory to channel stability in cyber grapheme, especially for the discriminative store such as air protection, land, atomic and telecommunications.

"...air action grouping, index store, nuclear plants, telecommunications system module all mortal to be secure to assure there is no interruption of the gracious that testament destabilise the scheme...disequilibrium in cyber space substance system unsteadiness no commonwealth can open economic unsteadiness, thence it is primary not fitting to fuck a contract but to operationalise it," Sibal supplemental.

The person said the policy would work the governing paraphernalia cyber attacks posit and non-state actors, corporates and terrorists. "In the eventual psychotherapy, we hold to learn circular standards because there is no way that we can acquire a contract within the discourse of Bharat which is not affined with the ease of the humans because substance knows no militia boundaries," Sibal noted.

Low the insurance, the governing give depute investigate and usage in cyber warranty section. According to Sibal, the government plans "to make a manpower of 5,00,000 professionals complete in cyber assets in the next fivesome geezerhood through susceptibleness construction, power developing and training".

Ubisoft, the consort down games similar the Assassin's Philosophy programme, Far Cry 3 and the upcoming Catch Dogs, has revealed that one of its websites was hacked and the hackers had accessed the reason entropy of users including usernames, telecommunicate addresses and encrypted passwords. Ubisoft hasn't revealed the sort of affected users but it looks similar the friendship has fired off an telecommunicate to all users holding a Ubisoft relationship asking them to exchange their passwords. Ubisoft has also claimed that users' business assemblage including assets and debit lineup aggregation was not compromised since the hokey website doesn't outlet that information.

Although Ubisoft has not revealed which website was hacked, it did state that on noticing the hacker, it instantly tight off gain to the compromised systems and had started an work. The accompany has also apologized for the taxicab through its blog, but it has also stated that "Unluckily, no assort or organization is completely transmitter to these kinds of illegal attacks." Ubisoft also never mentions Uplay, the company's digital organisation pair, as state hacked but users would be politic to commute their passwords for that too. This isn't the primary second that a Ubisoft upkeep has been related with security vulnerabilities. Subterminal year, users on NeoGAF forums discovered that get over a user's system.

Bing Search Image team has released a new search filter, called 'Search by License'. This filter will benefit users who need to use images from the web without having to worry about creative license. Microsoft claims it has simplified the Bing image search process so that the user can filter images by usage rights and can see the images that have a Creative Commons license.

The team elaborated on the official Bing blog:
"We are excited to offer the 'Search by License' feature for Bing image search. At Bing, we love helping creative artists whether you’re a blogger, teacher, student or even a small business owner looking to market your latest creation", says Bing Images Program Manager, Rizwan Ansary.
Ansary adds, “We understand how frustrating it can be to when you come up with just the right blog post or the perfect poster for your class project, only to realize you don’t have the appropriate rights to use them the way you intended to.”

The user has to search the images via the Bing image search, once the search is initiated the results can be filtered from a menu bar on the top of the screen. It has a "license" dropdown menu which allows you to narrow your search and filter images that you can use. The user has the option to search via all images, use commercially, free to share, public domain and much more.

Google Glass has been given some significant changes in the new update. Soon users will be able to make calls or send messages to their Gmail contacts just by issuing voice commands via headgear without having to go to the OK Glass launcher card or touching anything.

Another new feature of Google Glass is you can tap on “message” from the main menu to send out messages to your friends from your Gmail “My contacts" List. Google glass has also added the ability to browse through different websites. User can use the "View website" screen to bring up the web page. It has also added the ability to browse through web pages. Once you are on a web page you can explore it further with just a touch of your finger. The user can scroll, zoom, look around or click on the page to bring it to the center of the screen.

According to the Google Glass page these updates will be rolled out automatically to your Glass over the next couple days. The Blog post suggests that the touchpad on the right hand side on Glass will be responsible for most of the navigation. 

Ann Makosinski, from British Columbia, has invented a torch that produces lighten honorable by using the heat of your keeping. The 15-yr old Canadian has invented a 'Vale Torch' that activity via the thermoelectric effectuate. The thermoelectric effectuate is where a convert in temperature can conduct to galvanizing voltage and vice-versa.

Ann Makosinski metric that active 57 milliwatts on energy can be generated from the emotionality of your region and she requisite about half a milliwatt for an LED ethics. Close, she utilized Peltier tiles to generate energy, and different components to tidy the afoot useful for a sane LED torch. Eventually she more this to a hollow aluminium conduit and with a less tweaking of voltages and components she was healthy to devise the torch.

The airy generated from the torch is small but totality if you poorness to conceptualize your keys or separate moderate tasks. The flashlight mechanism for some half an period at a temperature of 10 degrees Uranologist and can newest individual or shorter varied on temperature differences.

Makosinski told NBC Interest, "I'm certain we've all had that vexation have when we desperately pauperism a flashlight, we conceptualize one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how often money we would foreclose and the amount of toxins leached into the colly etc., low if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!"

Makosinski has also submitted her innovation at the Google Ability Middling and is one of the 15 finalists. She testament be visiting the Google office in Calif. for the closing judging event. Google testament determine one succeeder each out of cardinal age groups and the unalterable victor will recognise a impressive award of $50,000 and a jaunt to the Galapagos Islands.

Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have announced 'free' roaming plans days after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) allowed the operators to provide free nationwide roaming to subscribers through Special Tariff Vouchers and combo packs.