• The LG Optimus L9 II features a 4.7-inch true HD IPS display. 
• It is powered by 1.4GHz dual-core processor. 
• It has a 2,150mAh battery. 
• The smartphone comes with infrared transmitter for Quick-Remote. 
• The company did not confirm other details of the smartphone such as camera capability or the pricing.
• According to the previous leaks, the Optimus L9 II features 1GB of RAM.
• 8GB built-in storage, expandable storage.
• 8MP rear camera and 1.3MP front camera.

After a couple of months of heated conversations and adrenaline fueled debates on its looks and design, the seventh version of iOS, Apple’s venerable mobile operating system, will, in all probability, be made available for general consumption on September 10. The date was leaked online through an email sent by Nuance, the company responsible for Siri, the voice assistant on iPhones and iPads, to Owen Williams, a developer.

he email which was live on Nuance’s servers has now been taken down but it’s highly unlikely that it contained incorrect information considering the fact that Nuance works very closely with Apple. iOS 7 will mark the biggest change for the mobile operating system in terms of looks and design. Under the direction of Jony Ive, the Senior Vice President of Design at Apple, iOS will forsake skeuomorphism (design that emulates real-world objects.

The latest entrant to this type is Flatparty. Launched by Rector of Advise for Earthborn Resourcefulness Exercise, Shashi Tharoor at an circumstance in New Metropolis unalterable week, the new social networking website aims to infix users with their origin and friends as considerably as targets the businesses. In constituent to basal mixer networking features such as transmission intercourse, Flatparty has a limit of new features specified as knowledge to channelise matter content, command events, coordinate meetings and conferences, excerpt attendance of participants, groups.

The material also has journal, polls, installation, videos and penalization sections. The wide grasp of features are aimed at providing a level to the head open, politicians, persuasion leaders, etc. to introduce their take public/ groups through this mixer networking computer.

According to Mr. Anto Toms, the lot module soon move out raiseable edition of Flatparty. There are also plans to incorporated ads on the meshing in the nearby coming. "Flatparty is set to offer identifying somebody experience and attain leading finished original document features, powered by tops engineering, based on world-class explore and process," said Anto Toms time giving a presentation on the new meshwork.

You can sign up for Flatparty.com from here.

Google’s primary search domain for Palestine has seemingly been hacked, with the standard Google search interface for the region being replaced by a political message from its hackers.

From the information available so far, it doesn’t appear that Google’s own servers were hacked — instead, it seems that Google’s Palestinian domain was hijacked and redirected to another server altogether. How that was done, exactly, is unclear. One current theory is that Google’s top-level domain provider for the region was compromised, allowing hackers to point the domain somewhere else.

“uncle google we say hi from palestine” taunts the defaced page, “to remember you that the country in google map not called israel. its called Palestine”

India has gone past Japan to become the third largest Internet population, rising to 73.9 million users – a 31% growth as compared to the last year. India is now behind China (second largest) and the U.S. at the top. The new statistics were revealed in the comScore study India Digital Future in Focus 2013.

After iberry, WickedLeak and Spice, Xolo has launched a smartphone powered by the MediaTek MT 6589T chipset.

Specifications of Xolo Q1000 :

• This smartphone has a 13MP rear camera with BSI2 and a 5MP front camera. 
• The smartphone houses a 5-inch display with a 1280x720 pixel resolution. 
• This seems a tad disappointing seeing that there are smartphones that show off a 1080p display available in the market under Rs. 20,000. 
• The display of the Q1000S also shows off OGS, which explains how the smartphone manages to boast of a 6.98mm slim form factor. 
• A 2500mAh battery powers the package and the company claims that the smartphone will last for 327 hours of 2G standby time, 425 hours of 3G standby time, 22.5 hours of 2G talk time and 12.5 hours of 3G talk time. 
• The quad-core processor has a clock speed of 1.5GHz and the smartphone sports 1GB RAM. It runs on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS.
• The device is expected to have a launch price of Rs. 19,000.

Google has announced a massive update for its Google Now service. The update brings new 'cards' like event tickets, public transit card, reminders, college football scores and adds new sharing capabilities. All these functions will show up automatically once the user logs into Google Now. Google Now is the company's intelligent voice assistant which uses location data and search history to give you accurate information. It gives you personalized information about your favorite sports teams, the local weather, how long will it take to reach home from work and topics that you have previously researched.

Google Now users can now set reminders while searching for music artists or TV shows on Google and will be able to see a “remind me” button on the panel by the search results. Users will be reminded about upcoming events, albums, books, as well as TV serials by their favorite artists. Users can enable or disable all these features by accessing the Google Now settings. The updated Google Now application is available for Android 4.1 or higher users on the Google Play store.

According to comScore’s Web Rankings report for July 2013, Yahoo’s bouquet of sites served more unique visitors from the U.S. in that month than Google’s websites. The report pegs Yahoo visitors for the month at about 196.5 million helping it take the top spot on the list followed by Google with 192.2 million, Microsoft with 179.6 million, Facebook with 142.2 million and AOL with 117.3 million. According to the blog Marketing Land, the last time Yahoo topped the monthly unique visitors list was in May 2011 when it beat Google by about 8.8 million visitors to take the top spot. It’s worth pointing out here that the U.S. contributed about 11.4% of global Internet usage in 2012.

Google Chrome 29, the current variant of Google's common Web browser is out now for Windows, Mac and Unix. Similar old iterations, Chrome 29 doesn't make monolithic changes to the array but kinda incremental ones to pre-existing features. In the latest type, Chrome's combined URL and activity bar, branded the 'Omnibox', gets the power to work suggestions based on the sites that you recently visited. Chrome users on Mac gift now also be able to invite notifications from installed extensions, something Google refers to in their blog as 'rich notifications'.

Another engrossing characteristic that has expended unfilmed with Chrome 29 is the 'Reset button'. The correct fix lets you shift all installed extensions and return the browser to its groundbreaking advise while possession bookmarks, chronicle and saved passwords where they are. To judge the correct fix, you'll individual to withdraw into the 'advanced settings' writing in Chrome's settings card. Google also claims to hit built beginning action and scrolling in the new version of Plate on Robot and acquire also additional supporting for the WebRTC arrange that allows video streaming and natter within the browser without any plug-ins.


To manually update your Chrome browser, head to the ‘About Google Chrome’ section in the settings panel. If you’ve yet to try out Chrome, you can download it here.

Vodafone India and ICICI Bank have brought their mobile banking/wallet solution, the 'm-pesa' service to the Delhi NCR region. Vodafone will offer its customers a mobile money account with ICICI Bank and a mobile wallet issued by MCSL. The service will be available through 1400 specially trained authorized agents across 130 Vodafone exclusive retail stores in Delhi and NCR region. The Vodafone m-pesa or ICICI Bank Mobile Money service will allow customers to make cash deposits, withdrawals and cash transfers to any mobile phone or bank account in India. The company has established a huge network of authorized agents through which the customers will be able to deposit and withdraw cash from their account. The service will be beneficial to customers in remote areas. The service will also allow customers to shop at retail outlets and pay for mobile services like recharge, DTH recharge, and pay utility bill payments among others.

Instagram is now banning third-party apps that have 'Insta' or 'Gram' in their names. Connected apps which have the Instagram name or logo in their app icons, or even an Instagram stylized font in their product or marketing materials have been banned. According to the updated brand guidelines Instagram states, "Don't: Use 'Instagram,' 'IG,' 'Insta' or 'Gram' in your app name."

Luxogram was sent an email from Instagram that stated it cannot "allow other applications to look like they might be official Instagram applications or endorsed or sponsored by us. Earlier guidelines given by the company were: While you cannot use the word "Instagram" or "IG" in your product's name, it's ok to use one (but not both) of the following: 'Insta' or 'gram.'"

Luxogram is currently serving more than 1 million people a month and its developers say that its unlikely to make all of the changes that Instagram wants, and will probably have to shut down the service for good. The move affects dozens of businesses like Statigram, Webstagram, Instadrop, Gramfeed and Instagallery among others.

This means players with 4G licence and ISP licence can apply for unified licence by an additional amount of Rs. 1,658.67 for pan-India. Moreover, the new guidelines are likely to ensure voice tariffs don’t go further up, following cancellation of telecom licence by Supreme Court. Right now, Airtel is the only player to offer 4G services in the country. The company plans to expand its 4G base to new circles such as Mumbai and Delhi later this year or early next year. Reliance is likely to start its 4G services by next year.

Google has introduced beta support for Hindi handwriting and ability switch to native Hindi language for Android. Desktop users can also access Hindi support through a Chrome extension, called Input Tools, available on the Chrome store.

According to ever growing pile of rumours surrounding Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5S and the low-cost iPhone 5C smartphones, the handsets will be launched on September 20, ten days after both are officially announced. Tech Maniacs, a Greek blog credits an anonymous tipster for revealing the two iPhones will be launched on September 20, after they are announced at an official event on September 10, while the iPad 5 and the iPad Mini 2 are expected to be revealed some time in October and launched on October 25. Tech Maniacs also revealed that the final version of the massively redesigned iOS 7 will be out on September 16. 

These images showed that iPhone 5C could look very similar to the iPhone 5 except for its plastic back and reliance on curved edges. Also, the images didn’t show physical volume or mute buttons, which made us suspicious about the veracity of the photos. The speculation about the iPhone 5C’s pricing is also all over the place with different sources claiming the “low-cost” phone could cost anything from $300 to $500 (Rs. 19,300 to Rs. 32,000 approx.).

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) in Tamil Nadu has worked hard to make the Mozilla Firefox browser available in Tamil. All the features of the browser like settings, navigation bars, tools, history, and other instructions will be in Tamil. To install the browser users can download a plug-in for Tamil from the official Mozilla site – Home>Firefox>Languages.

The Tamil Language project was coordinated and acknowledged by the Mozilla Foundation. The service has been launched at an event today and an official release from FSFTN states:

The number of telephone subscribers in India has hit 900.05 million at the end of May 2013 from 2013 from 897.02 million at the end of April 2013, registering a monthly growth rate of 0.34%. According to the latest telecom subscription data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the share of urban subscribers has decreased to 60.59% from 60.71% whereas share of rural subscribers has increased from 39.29% to 39.41% in the month of May 2013.

According to the TRAI, private operators hold 88.18% of the wireless market share (based on subscriber base) where as BSNL and MTNL, the two PSU operators hold only 11.82% market share. Users have continued to extensively use the Mobile Number Portability services. As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of May 2013 about 93.56 million subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number.

You can check out the latest telecom subscription data in more detail here.

According to a Reuters account, 'Zeus' virus that was used to move $70 million from U.S. banks in 2010, is now existence victimized to make fake 'likes' and cultural media people on Instagram.

The virus is a boon to marketers and can be helpful in creating marketing campaigns and promoting products on sociable media sites. According to RSA, the security division of darken computing visitant EMC, a 1,000 Instagram "likes" cost marketers approx $30, while around 1,000 followers gift expenditure roughly $15. Hackers deceive these packages on Net programmer forums along with title correspondence info. Interestingly a collection of 1,000 title correspondence lottery expenditure honourable $6. This shows that grouping are lief to sped a lot of money in creating internet bombilation and amount popularity of a quantity.

Cyber criminals use automatic software programs to falsify 'likes' and people. Hackers use a amidship server to interact the putrid computer and forces it to place 'likes' for special users via vindictive software. Zeus is the ordinal of its kindly virus that has been pioneer by guarantee firms.

According to Don Pol, a elder department investigator with Hollow Invulnerable Activity, the Zeus virus has deliberate hundreds of trillions of PCs in fitting over pentad life.

State-run telco MTNL's website Mumbai last week was allegedly hacked by a Pakistani hacker operating from Australia. The website was restored soon after the attack, though some users complained of facing problems in accessing the site. MTNL's compromised website showed the following message: "MrCreepy Was Here. Napsters CrEw. Happy Independence Day Pakistan. http://Facebook.com/m3creepy. Greets: SEEKER, Dr.FREAK, MKHAN SWATI, And All Pakistani Hackers :D".

Google's services, including the popular Google Search, suffered a rare outage on early Saturday morning. The outage was noticed around 4.20am IST and lasted for around 5 minutes. All Google services were disrupted. If a user tried to access Gmail or Google Search, the web browser returned 502 error.  Around one hour later, GoSquared, a web analytics firm, said that it noticed a 40% dip in the pageviews.

"Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared's real-time tracking — around a 40% drop, as this graph of our global pageviews per minute shows," noted GoSquared. Google's services dashboard that monitors and shows the status of Google services had a pink dot in front of each one, indicating that they were offline for the said duration. Clicking on each dot, revealed a generic message confirming the outage.

Nokia’s app store that caters to S40, Symbian and Asha devices has reached a total of 2 billion app half of which can be accorded to low-end S40 and Asha phones. According to a statement issued by Nokia, the Nokia Store has seen total global downloads of 10 billion and accounts for 80 million app downloads from Indian users every month, with 168 app developers each responsible for apps downloaded over a million times.

This number highlights the fact that Nokia’s Asha line-up of low-cost phones has been a success especially in burgeoning markets and the low-end segments. However, to put that number in context, both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store have either crossed or are very close to 50 billion app downloads each. Nokia has obviously bet on Windows Phone for the high-end segment, but even the app download numbers for that platform are small.

Microsoft is shutting set its Games for Windows Springy marketplace on Lordly 22nd. In a connectedness banknote on the troupe's Xbox parcel, Microsoft reveals that its Points system and PC Marketplace module be blocked, signification Games for Windows Springy users leave no person be healthy to get games. The guest software give be uncontrived initially, so previously purchased games and proportionality testament plant be purchasable for customers.

The order comes retributive days after sometime Regulator employee Jason Holtman revealed he had connected Microsoft to focus on "making Windows a great structure for gaming and reciprocal entertainment." Holtman spent digit age employed on Valve's Clean digital distribution platform, and it's liable he'll be absorption on siamese succeed at Microsoft. The software hulk has mostly ignored PC gaming over the period to correct on Xbox. Games for Windows Living is widely criticized by PC gamers over its DRM mechanisms and dull ports of Xbox titles. Although the instinct care isn't move hair fully, it's understandably the opening of the end for Games for Windows Resilient.

BlackBerry has announced a new addition to its QWERTY touch and type range, the 9720. The smartphone is available in five colours and showcases specifications that have been around for quite some time. The device is aimed at the entry-level market looking to get their hands on a smartphone with a physical keyboard.

Specification of Blackberry 9720 :

• BB OS 7.1 and has a 2.8-inch touchscreen display with an HVGA resolution.
•  The smartphone shows off a QWERTY keypad as well. 
• A 1450mAh battery powers the smartphone. 
• Under the hood, it has an 800MHz CPU with 512MB RAM.

"The BlackBerry 9720 smartphone gives you all the essentials of the BlackBerry smartphone experience to support a communications centric lifestyle. It has the best keyboard and functionality for BBM, as well as an updated BlackBerry 7 OS that adds many enhancements.

Amazon’s online store for Indian customers has added a new section that will sell computers and accessories, which includes laptops, tablets, printers, storage and PC components. Like in the case of other categories, Amazon will not stock the products but will instead act as the middleman between the actual seller and the buyer, and in cases where the vendor qualifies, guarantee the transactions with its ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’ promise.

A look at the ‘Computers and Accessories’ section on Amazon.in reveals that although the store has numbers, it still falls short of established Indian online retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal.Since it launched in June, Amazon India has been quietly increasing its scope. At launch, the Amazon India marketplace sold books and blu-ray/DVDs. Now apart from the ‘Computers and Accessories’ section, it’s also selling mobiles and accessories, cameras and accessories and portable media players.

Nokia's Lumia 925 is now up for pre-order in India via various online stores such as Flipkart, Indiatimes and HomeShoppe18. As per the listing on Flipkart, the Nokia Lumia 925 is priced at Rs. 33,999.

Specifications of Nokia Lumia 925 :

• A 4.5-inch AMOLED display with 1280 x 768 pixels resolution and 334 ppi pixel density. 
• It runs Windows Phone 8 and is powered by 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and 1GB of RAM. 
• 16GB built-in storage and 7GB cloud storage (Skydrive).
• An 8.7MP rear camera (with PureView technology) and 1.3MP front camera.
• For connectivity, the Lumia 925 supports Bluetooth 3.0, WLAN IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, NFC, GPS and USB 2.0.
• The smartphone comes preloaded with IE 10, social apps including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, Nokia Music and location and navigation services include HEREDrive+ and HERE Maps.
• Comes with a 2000 mAh battery, which is rated to deliver 12.8 hours of talktime on 3G.

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have finally launched the service and the corresponding iOS app (the Android version will be launched by the end of September). Mixbit incorporates features and elements from YouTube, Instagram and Vine, among others, and allows users to upload up to 256 video clips (16 seconds long) and photos and combine them to create a video. Mixbit also lets users edit the videos by placing the clips in any order possible and also importing clips (or photos) from projects created by other users.

Once a user has created a project, the project is uploaded to the Mixbit site and then can be shared to Facebook and Twitter, to select Mixbit users or made entirely private or public. Even after the project has been uploaded, the video is still saved as individual clips, which means users can continue editing their videos and even add or remove more clips.

You can view some of the videos already created by users on the Mixbit site and also download the app for your iOS 6 device.      

Google's latest update to its Maps app on the two major platforms brings advertisements at the bottom of the screen after a user performs a search. The new feature is aimed at end users as well as businesses. The ad includes a title, ad text and a link to get directions. Users can either tap or swipe upward to get more information. Google brands this as a new click type, “Get location details” and results in a standard CPC charge.

Videocon d2h has added the 1000GB storage capacity version of the HD Recorder, for their Direct to Home (DTH) service. The company says that this translates into 1775 hours of recording. This DVR was unveiled at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards held at Macau.Mr. Saurabh Dhoot - Director, Videocon Group on this product said, “We are thrilled to launch India’s First High Definition Digital Video Recorder (HD DVR) with an unprecedented 1000 GB storage capacity.

Videocon d2h, at the moment, offers 444 channels and services on its DTH platform, including 22 Full HD channels. The service is offered with the MPEG-4 and DVB-S2 technology, and the channel packages start at Rs 220 per month.

E-commerce giant Flipkart received a major funding of $200 million last month, and has now launched a new e-book reader and store app for iOS and Windows Phone as well as a web interface. Flipkart uses the FlipSync technology which automatically syncs the last read location, notes, highlights and bookmarks on every device when you log in to the Flipkart e-books app. The app also offers previews in the 'FlipThru' section that allows users to read 10 percent of the ebook before buying it. Interestingly the company has named these features on the same lines as Amazon.

Flipkart's new Android, Windows Phone and new web apps will allow users to purchase books from within the app. However, this feature is missing from the iOS app as Apple charges 30 percent cut on every purchase. Flipkart has also revamped its existing Android app and has added several improvements. The Flipkart e-book apps are available for free from the respective app stores.