15 years after the company's foundation in a garage in Menlo Park, Google has grown to become the dominant force in the online world. It is pretty amazing, if not a little scary, to see how many parts of our online experience Google controls.

Passcode on the lock screen gives you a basic level of security. If you haven’t updated your iOS device to 7.0.2, you can do so by going into the settings option, then “General,” and selecting “Software Update.”

The Central government has told the Delhi High Court it is working on a comprehensive policy on email use for official communication. Under the new policy, central government officials may soon be banned from using Gmail, Yahoo or any other email services that are based abroad to prevent transfer of data.

Hyundai Move India Restricted (HMIL), India's wares largest car manufacturer, has launched what it calls "the manufacture basic joint mate unsettled application", 'Hyundai Care'. The programme is purchasable for Automaton smartphones at the point, and present soon be disposable for iOS devices. The coating allows users to examine their vehicle's service account, get union reminders, get estimates for repairs, insurance premium calculations and see the pan-India business cloth.

The cure also connects the users with the 24x7 crisis on-road upkeep.

Commenting on the commence of the Hyundai Assist, Mr. Rakesh Srivastava, Sr. Vice Chairwoman Sales & Marketing, HMIL said, "We hit industrial Hyundai Tutelage serving city app to supply features that render real- moment benefits to the customer.We find the Hyundai Fear utilisation give appropriate them to experience Hyundai services in a digitize and thrilling new program. This is another interval in investing the possibility of raisable technology

Everyone’s favorite search engine and benevolent overlord turned 15 years old today. Sort of.
Then-Standford-Ph.D-students Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been working on what would become Google as early as January 1996. They registered the domain name on Sept. 15, 1997, and incorporated the company on Sept. 4, 1998. It “was established” on Sept. 7, 1998 according to Search Engine Watch. And almost all of those dates have been celebrated as the company’s birthday at one point or another.

Fifteen years ago, the internet took perhaps it’s biggest leap forward since the hyperlink. That first advancement created the web, and Google helped make sense of it all, making searches a far more precise and intuitive process.

In their further pursuits to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” the company has revolutionized e-mail, bought YouTube- and yes, maybe sold out its users privacy while generating massive profits for itself with AdWords.
The search engine giant has featured a playful doodle by depicting the popular Mexican birthday game pinata(a container made of papier-mache or cloth filled with candies or small toys).

The letters of Google logo are depicted as guests of the birthday party except the 4th letter 'g'.  The 4th letter 'g' of the logo is blindfolded and it hits the swinging pinata with a stick. Users are given 10 chances to hit the swinging pinata with the stick by pressing the spacebar on their computer keyboards to win candies and earn points. A cake is also displayed in the doodle with two candles '1' and '5' on it.

Google has also announced that it had updated its search engine algorithm with the aim to deliver better search results to its users. 

Facebook introduced the ability to edit status updates starting Thursday. The latest update for the Android Facebook app adds the ability to "edit your posts and comments and tap to see all your changes." However, the editing has not been enabled on any of the Android devices we experimented with.

The editing feature will roll out to Facebook users on the web and Android devices over the next day, Facebook confirmed to Mashable. The editing feature is not included in the latest iOS app, but will likely get pushed out in the next update. Users will see the option to "Edit Post" when they click on the drop-down arrow in the top-right corner of a post.

Editing posts was potentially dicey territory for Facebook, since the it brings the danger of a bait-and-switch with followers. A user could conceivably write, "Who likes ice cream?" and get hundreds of Likes and affirming comments, then edit the post to read, "Who wants to beat up some cats?"
Facebook addresses this issue by marking the post as edited and letting users access the history of any edited post with a click. Google+, which has let users edit posts for some time, works in a similar fashion.

Facebook has been slowly granting users more editing capabilities over their content. Users can edit photo captions (that is, status updates with a photo attached) and the ability to edit comments arrived a few months ago.

Nokia has launched its latest flagship smartphone - the Lumia 1020 in India. There is no official announcement yet on the price of the device, however, Nokia says they will reveal the price one day before it will be available in the market for sale i.e, October 11.


Specifications of Nokia Lumia 1020 :

• The Lumia 1020 combines the much talked about 41-megapixel 1/1.5 inch sensor along with a fast f/2.2 aperture and an optical image stabilization system that has proven to be quite amazing. The phone was globally unveiled on July 11.
• The phone retains its uni-body polycarbonate construction and the phone is available in yellow, white and black. 
• The Lumia 1020 houses a large 1/1.5” sensor, which is comparatively just a touch smaller than the 1/1.2” silicon chip found in the PureView 808. 
• The large sensor combined with the BackSide-Illuminated design will definitely help the Lumia 1020 push the boundaries of low light performance.
• The lens on the Lumia 1020 is made of 6 Zeiss floating elements. Most conventional camera phones use a single element inside their camera assemblies to cut costs.
• It has a dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor with the Adreno 225 GPU. 
• The Lumia 1020 does come with an increased amount of RAM (2GB), but what we feel a little apprehensive about is the 32GB of on-board storage with no possibility to increase it using a memory card.
• The Lumia 1020 comes preloaded with Nokia Music, Nokia Mix radio, the Here Maps suite, Nokia Smart camera and Nokia Rich Recording. 
• It runs on the Windows Phone 8 Amber update, which enables Bluetooth 4.0, double tap to unlock and a clock on the lock screen.
• Lumia 1020 comes with an option where users can go for a camera grip accessory which runs on a separate 1020 mAh battery, a tripod mount and a two stage camera button. The camera grip will be available for Rs. 7,500, the wireless charging shell for Rs. 3,200 and the charging pad will be available for Rs. 4,000.

 Nokia has been tight lipped about the Indian pricing due to the current fluctuation of the Rupee value, but says that it will be close to $800 which is approx. Rs.50,000 in Indian currency. The phone will be available from October 11 onwards in the Indian market.

The new variant of Android 4.4 KitKat will permit updated versions of Gmail for Android, Hangouts for Android, and Google Now.

The Gmail update gives it a preparation see and looks very corresponding to Google Now with cards that makes up the uncastrated Gmail port, making it easier to channelize and human congenial. The new update present materialise for all Android users employed with any Android writing from the ult, withal, fated updates module only live for users of the live duo of versions of Automaton.

The Country update for Android appears with new new contact position indicators. There are no pupil changes in the Area update when compared to Gmail, but features a full operational converse app finished Google+.

The Google Operation app update - and Google Now carry new positioning supported websites that appear in sync with your ongoing emplacement (supported on your device's GPS locating). This would afford you to enjoin your association and friends when you liberal output - a not so average power that is works gradually propulsion out, or so they postulate. The update also brings in Smart-TV game that interact with your receiver.

Twitter has launched a new emergency alert system called 'Twitter Alerts'. Users who sign up for the system will receive emails and SMS text messages from the government and aid agencies that have signed up with the program. To subscribe to the alerts, users can visit the alert page of an organization at Twitter.com/[account]/alerts/. Users can check the profile page of the enrolled agencies and just sign up. Twitter is also giving the users an opt-in procedure, where users can choose the local organizations that the want to subscribe to and can even turn off the alerts from a specific group at any time.

"Today we have a two-way street — residents are informed about hazards in real time and emergency managers receive immediate feedback on the consequences of a disaster," Fugate said in a statement.

Google has announced that YouTube comments will start being powered by Google+ from this week onwards. This means that in order to comment on a YouTube video, you will have to own a Google+ account. One of the main reasons for moving to Google+ is YouTube’s long desire to put faces to names when it comes to commenters, in order to reduce the amount of spam and vicious comments that plague YouTube comments and also to provide video creators a recognizable audience to reach out to.

The shift to Google+ comments isn’t just to cull offensive comments but also, to organize the thousands of comments that can be found on popular videos. This is not really helpful to anyone except for perhaps the commenter himself and may be to the person he is addressing. Under the new Google+ system, comments will be arranged as per the people who are in your circles, the video’s creators and what Google calls “popular personalities”. Also, comments will be threaded so that all replies can be collapsed into the main comment itself, which will vastly reduce the clutter in the comments section and will also make it easier to follow conversations. Video creators and commenters can also allow their comments on a YouTube video shared on Google+, to show up in the comments on the main YouTube site.

Square Trade has performed a series of tests to ascertain the durability of the current generation flagship smartphones.

The biggest surprise was that the most durable of all the phones tested was the Moto X. The test included the Moto X along with the recently launched iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C and the Samsung Galaxy S4. A series of tests were performed on the smartphones, which includes dropping them from a height, sliding it across a table and dunking it in water for 10 seconds. After each test, the damage caused to each smartphone was checked and whether or not the device was in working condition. Here is a quick look at how the smartphones performed in each test.

Valve has prepped leash big announcements and has lifted the veil off the forward promulgation. The band has disclosed Clean OS, a new, liberal operative method supported on Linux. The OS faculty provide you change PC gaming to your big cover TV and is Valve's best measure towards the Steam Box PC.

The UI of the Steam OS is built for light use on the TV. Valve says, "As we've been working on bringing Steam to the living opportunity, we've come to the section that the? environs somebody suited to delivering evaluate to customers is an operating grouping shapely around Clean itself. ?SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Unix with a diversion see stacked for the big strainer. ?It testament be easy soon as a unoccupied stand-alone operative group for living area machines."

Valve also says that subject gamey developers are already on-board with the Unix supported OS and we can expect to see triple-A games locomotion natively on SteamOS by 2014. It seems there present also be backwards sympathy as you leave be fit to alteration your existing games aggregation as good on SteamOS.

The SteamOS present not only immersion on running games from your Mac or PC to the TV. It will also impact at transportation another recreation accumulation to your experience way. The lot says, "We're working with umpteen of the media services you undergo and know. Soon we will solon transportation them online, allowing you to hit your pick euphony and recording with Clean and SteamOS."

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that the Microsoft Surface family of tablets is growing. Two new Surface models — Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 — along with an expanded portfolio of new Surface accessories, will be available at Microsoft retail stores, http://www.MicrosoftStore.com and select third-party retailers and commercial resellers in 22 initial markets, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States on Oct. 22 and China in early November. Additional markets will be announced in the coming months.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry(BB.TO) has agreed to go private in a $4.7 billion deal led by its biggest shareholder, allowing the on-the-go email pioneer to regroup away from public scrutiny after years of falling fortunes and slumping market share.The $9 a share tentative offer, from a consortium led by property and casualty insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd(FFH.TO), will set a floor for any counteroffers that might emerge for Blackberry, which has been on the block since August.
As an investor, Fairfax Chief Executive Prem Watsa is often described as the Canadian Warren Buffett because he also takes the long view.

Blackberry shares peaked above $148 in June 2008 when the company's devices were still the top choice for bankers, politicians and lawyers.The stock, halted pending the announcement on Monday, closed below the offer price on Nasdaq, at $8.82, indicating the market's lack of faith that other bids would emerge.


BlackBerry, based in Waterloo, Ontario, once dominated the market for secure on-your-hip email. But it introduced consumer-friendly touchscreen smartphones only after it lost the lead to Apple Inc's(AAPL.O) iPhone and devices using Google Inc's(GOOG.O) Android operating system.
BlackBerry has until November 4 to seek superior offers, which the Fairfax group has the right to match. The group is seeking financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets to complete the deal and has until that November 4 deadline to conduct its due diligence.

Images making the rounds on the Internet showcase what the interface of the upcoming Android OS 4.4 KitKat will look like. If the images are to be believed, the new OS will bring with it some UI changes along with a new dialler and messaging app.

Currently on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the dialler app is black with the numbers blue in colour. The leaked images showcase the dialler app with blue numbers and a bright white background.
The interface of the messaging app also looks like it has undergone a redesign. The controls of the messaging app have been relocated. Instead of the bottom, the controls now rest in the top right corner. The colour scheme of the native Google apps too looks like they have undergone a rehash.
Android 4.4 KitKat is expected to be unveiled in October along with the next generation Nexus smartphone.

A group of German hackers, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) have claimed that just within two days of the iPhone 5S hitting the hands of the lucky few who pre-ordered it, they have managed to hack the fingerprint scanner on the device. The group, one of the oldest of its kind in existence and the most prominent, said they lifted the fingerprint off the phone’s surface by taking a photo of it. They have detailed the entire process in a post on their site and also showed off a video with the hack being conducted.


The reason the fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5S is tricky to hack is because it scans the living layer of tissue underneath the skin, as a two-factor way of ensuring that the person unlocking the phone is the owner. While the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint provide the authentication, the living layer of tissue is a way of ensuring that people don't run around cutting off the thumbs of iPhone owners to gain access to the phone.

Apple's sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far. So we only needed to ramp up the resolution of our fake", said the hacker with the nickname Starbug, who performed the critical experiments that led to the successful circumvention of the fingerprint locking.

What do the world's top-performing CEOs have in common? Well, for one thing, 53% of them still have their hair. Using data compiled by the Harvard Business Review, Domo and CEO.com created an infographic to show us what a top-performing CEO looks like.

Facebook now allows advertisers reaching roving customers using iOS identifier for advertising (iOS IDFAs). Facebook had launched this dimension as construct of the redesigned iOS 7 app.

Facebook additional that the new iOS identifier app is one of the most requested features from flying advertisers. Usance Audiences enables advertisers to get existing customers on Facebook. The new app allows advertisers to upload a move of existing customers' iOS iDFAs and attain them with related proportionality. This picture is getable for iOS 6 or 7 users who hump not unfit business chase. Advertisers can upload river publicist IDs (either the iOS IDFAs or App Person IDs) within the Knowledge Application and the ads use programming program.

Facebook has originally launched the App Mortal IDs that allowed advertisers to define and communicate group who misused the Facebook's roving app. Facebook is constantly disagreeable to woo advertisers with new features. It has lately declared testing automobile perform videos within Interest Insert on changeful type of the gregarious networking place.

The visitor had latterly launched the Keyword Insights API and Exoteric Enclose API for media companies. The new Keyword Insights API allows word organizations and media outlets to summation the tot assort of posts that are mentioned in a specific period at a proper period. The new semipublic provide API pic module collect exoteric posts and representation it. A Facebook proponent explicit that if a place is not exoteric it gift not be shown. Users faculty be competent to set the isolation features time sign a substance.

Microsoft says it had conducted various studies to review the motion, font, colour, size and form. The company also experimented with mock ads and fake billboards before finalising the logo.

•  The new BlackBerry smartphone runs v10.2 of the BB 10 OS.
• It is powered by a dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro along with 2GB of RAM.
• The BlackBerry Z30 sports a 5-inch Super AMOLED display. 
• It comes with 1,280 x 720 pixels resolution and 295ppi. 
• The smartphone comes with 16 built-in storage and has an option to augment that via microSD. 
• The Z30's camera appears to be 2MP front facing capable of 720p video recording and 8MP rear with an f2.2 lens capable of shooting video in 1080p.
• The BlackBerry 10.2 update brings a new Priority Hub feature, which allows users to manage all their conversations and notifications at one place. 
• It also includes improvements to the audio of BBM Voice and BBM Video chats.
• In terms of connectivity, the Z30 will support 4G LTE, dual-band WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC. 
• The BlackBerry Z30 smartphone includes a 2,880 mAh battery, which the company says is the largest battery ever built into a BlackBerry smartphone.

BlackBerry Z15 Alleged Picture

Apple iOS 6.1 and 6.12 both saw very fast adoption rates from users in U.S. and Canada, according to Chitika, and generally speaking, Apple iOS device owners switch over to the newest OS version pretty quickly, thanks in part to Apple’s update mechanism which pushes new software over-the-air to all devices at the same time, regardless of carrier.

iOS 7 is different because of how much it changes everything. The look of the OS is entirely new, from the ground up, and there are also many differences when it comes to how features work and what’s involved in navigating around your device.

As I noted in my review, iOS 7 is definitely going to take some getting used to, even if the changes it implements are mostly very much for the better. To get started with your own update, check the “General > Software Update” section in your iOS Settings for over-the-air, or plug into a computer with iTunes installed to get it wired. Apple could be facing lots of demand, so don’t be surprised if it takes a little while to find and download the update. The best advice is to just keep trying if you encounter errors.

Design

Circles enter the design language, along with visuals that look nearly transparent, like a pane of glass. There's not much in the way of customization or themes, but your passcode and phone dialing screens take on the color of your background, which successfully ties the look together. The most important part of any deep design work is that it feel smooth and connected from screen to screen, and after some time spent with iOS 7, I do think it delivers an elegant overall experience.

Control Center and Notifications

In iOS 7, you can swipe up from the bottom of the display to bring up quick-access tools, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth access, brightness, Airplane mode, and music controls. Control Center also integrates a small flashlight tool, signaling the death of so many third-party flashlight apps, but you also have quick access to setting an alarm or opening the calculator or camera.
In the Notifications pull-down menu, three tabs show you all your alerts, the calls and messages you've missed, and a new "today" pane that tracks what you have scheduled for the day. It's a small but useful expansion of the current notifications pull-down.
Safari browser & App World

In addition to iOS 7's Safari overhaul, the biggest change to the browser is a unified search and URL field. The fact that past versions kept the two separate for some time was a usability thorn in our side. The long overdue update that combines them into one is therefore both gratifying and enraging, since it was such a small tweak that every other mobile OS (and desktop Web browser) has been taking advantage of for years.

AirDrop
AirDrop works by creating local ad hoc networks among nearby users. So if you want to share a photo, you'll hit the share button, and automatically see others around you who are also on iOS 7 (and who have the feature turned on). From there you just tap a friend's picture and iOS 7 uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to send your photo (and the recipient can accept or decline). It also offers the option to make yourself invisible to nearby iOS 7 users from the Control Center.

Camera and Photos apps

Apple did a lot of work reorganizing both the camera app and how images live in the photo app. The camera app surfaces all your shooting modes so you can swipe and then tap them to frame your shot, such as still, panorama, video, and a square, Instagram-like configuration. The app also offers a basic burst mode in which you touch and hold the main button to take continuous shots from which to pick the best one later.


Screenshots Credits : Shantanu Chauhan

Samsung has launched the new Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear smartwatch in India just two weeks after its global announcement. The devices are available for pre-order with a booking amount of Rs 2000 at Samsung's web store.

Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Note 3 :

• The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. 
• It is powered by Exynos Octa 5420 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. 
• It runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean OS. 
• It has 32GB internal storage expandable via microSD card slot 
• A 13MP rear camera with BSI sensor and LED flash as well as a 2MP front camera for video calling. 
• The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 offers WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, and GPS with GLONASS support. 
• It comes with Gesture, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity and Hall Sensors. 
• The Note 3 has a plastic body with a leather like back cover for a premium finish. 
• The Android device comes with the multi-functional stylus. 

Samsung is offering the Galaxy Note 3 with special EMI schemes during the festival season. The Galaxy Note 3 has been priced at Rs. 49,900.


Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Gearwatch :

• The Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch has a 1.63-inch Super AMOLED screen. 
• 512 MB RAM, 4 GB internal storage and a 1.9 MP camera. 
• The Galaxy Gear watch works with Galaxy Note 3 and Note 10.1 to make/ receive calls and will show notifications from social media apps. 

Samsung says support for other galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S4, will be added soon. The Samsung Galaxy Gearwatch has been priced at Rs 22,990.

MTV's Coke Studio app has been launched for BlackBerry 10 smartphone users. The app also users to listen to their favorite artists, download free content and download videos from the Coke Studio.

MTV's Coke Studio was launched in India in 2011 and features live studio-recorded music performed by various artists across India like A.R. Rahman, Clinton Cerejo, Amit Trivedi and many more. Users get their favorite artists profiles, feature artists updates as well as share content with their friends on social networking sites through the app. Users also get access to the MTV Coke Studio from seasons one to three.

The app provides free content and their are no charges or fees for users. BB10 users can download the app from the BlackBerry App World. The Coke Studio app is already available for free Android and iOS users.

• The new HTC smartphone has a 4.5-inch display with 960 x 540 pixels resolution. 
• It runs Android Jelly Bean OS along with HTC Sense UI.
• It is powered by a quad-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor.
• 1GB of RAM. 
• The smartphone has 8MP rear camera and 1.6MP front camera.
• The Desire 600c comes with 8GB built-in storage and supports additional storage up to 64GB via microSD. 
• For connectivity, the smartphone supports micro-USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, DLNA, GPS/AGPS and NFC. 
• The new HTC phone comes with an 1860mAh battery.

Micromax's Canvas Fun A63 is now available via online retailer Snapdeal.com for Rs. 6,799.

Specifications of Micromax Canvas Fun A63 :

• Powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on the Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 OS. 
• It sports a 10.16 cm multi-touch screen. 
• Supports 512 MB RAM. 
• It also comes equipped with a 2MP rear along with a 0.3 MP front camera. 
• The Canvas Fun A63 has an internal storage of 1 GB, expandable upto 32GB. 
• In terms of connectivity, it has Bluetooth capabilities along with WiFi, WLAN, 2G and 3G among others.
• Other features included in the mobile handset are integrated FM radio. 
• A 1500 MAh Battery, audio and video player. 

This is a budget offering by Micromax and is available in raging red, mystic blue and midnight black color variants.

Nokia has announced the 108, a super-affordable camera phone priced at $29 (Rs.1,800 approx). This is the first affordable Nokia phone to offer a camera within the price bracket.

• The phone comes with a 1.8 inch QVGA (160X128) LCD display. 
• A VGA camera with 2x zoom for clicking photos and taking videos. 
• The phone also comes with Slam technology that allows you to share pictures with others easily.
• The 108 supports dual-SIM, however it will also be available in a single-SIM variant. 
• It has 4MB of RAM. 
• Supports expandable memory up to 32GB using a microSD card, Bluetooth, FM Radio, music player.
• A 950 mAh battery, which is claimed to last for 31 days on standby mode and good enough for up to 13.8 hours of talk time. 
• Both variants of the phone will be available in a plethora of new colours including cyan blue, red, yellow, along with the more traditional black and white.

Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC), a public sector undertaking of the ministry of railways, has launched a new application for devices with Windows 8 software to facilitate users to book e-tickets in addition to the existing portal. The new IRCTC-App has been launched in collaboration with Microsoft.

Giving this information, public relations officer (PRO) Amit Malviya said that CMD, IRCTC, Rakesh Tandon, along with general manager and developer and platform evangelism, Microsoft Corporation, Joseph Landes, launched the new application for the public at a function held here on Thursday. The app has been made available exclusively for Windows devices and users with Windows phone, Windows 8 desktop/tab can download this free application from Windows Phone Store or Windows Store.

Users can plan a trip, make reservations, check the PNR status and use other features which are also available on the website. It will be available throughout the day except from 8am to 12pm and 23:30pm to 12am as per the existing railway guidelines.

The app also offers exclusive services to the users including visual maps of train routes, Windows Phone live tiles and access to saved traveller profiles from multiple devices to mention a few.
Malviya added that this application will help a wide number of users as Windows is a widely familiar platform. It offers the best in class, security required while handling personal and financial data of customers. The move meets the objective of IRCTC among others to focus relentlessly on enhancing customer experience.