Blackberry is  about to officially resume the rollout of BBM for Android and iPhone customers around the globe!* In the next few hours, people will start seeing BBM in Google Play, the App Store and in select Samsung App Stores – where it will be free to download.

The demand for BBM on Android and BBM on iPhone continues to be amazing. About six million people signed up for information about BBM at BBM.com. As you know, in just seven hours, about one million Android users were using the unreleased version of BBM for Android. What you don’t know is that more than one million people have found creative ways to “side load” BBM on their iPhone. To help manage this unprecedented pent up demand for BBM, we are implementing a simple line-up system to ensure a smooth roll out. Here’s how it is going to work…

BBM Roll Out Details:

1. Download BBM – the easiest way is to visit BBM.com from your Android or iPhone browser.
2. Once you install the app, open it, and enter your email address to hold your spot in line.
3. We will email you as soon as you reach the front of the line and can start using BBM.

If you are among the millions that took the time to sign up at BBM.com, you can start using BBM immediately without waiting in line.* If you didn’t sign up in advance, don’t worry – we are focused on moving millions of customers through the line as fast as possible.

Our team of developers and engineers has been working around the clock to bring you BBM – and make some upgrades while we’re at it – and some incredible work has been done. I look forward to sharing more of this with you here, on Inside BlackBerry, soon.

For updates on how quickly the line is moving you can follow @BBM on Twitter. I will be back tomorrow with another post to provide you with an update on the line-up and to share more detail about the work the team has done over the last several weeks.

Facebook also disclosed that from September 2012 to September 2013, Time's referral traffic rose 208%, BuzzFeed's increased by 855% and Bleacher Report experienced a boost of 1,081%. Facebook also announced a feature called Stories to Share for page managers of media firms that recommends which stories to share on Facebook.

Andy Mitchell, director of partnerships for Facebook, attributes much of the growth in referrals to improvements in Facebook's News Feed algorithm. "We're getting better at showing the right story at people who are interested in it," he says. In addition, Facebook has shared best practices with media firms, which help them post more effectively, he says. New research from SimpleReach bolsters the claim. SimpleReach found that Facebook drives more traffic to media sites than any other social media platform.

Along the same lines, Stories to Share helps those media firms figure out which stories to post next. The recommendation widget is pretty straightforward: It analyzes your homepage to see which stories people are sharing the most on Facebook even though the media property hasn't yet shared it through its Facebook account. That feature is going live on Monday with 1,5000 news organizations. Stories to Share had been in beta with a handful of news organizations (the company declined to identify which ones) over the past few weeks. 

Google Apps Script Can Do That!

1. Website Uptime Monitor - Receive instant email and SMS alerts when your websites goes down. You can monitor all your web domains for free.
2. Amazon Price Tracker – Keep track of prices of your favorite products on Amazon and get email alerts when the prices go down or up.
3. Read Receipts in Gmail - Use Apps Script and Google Analytics to track your outgoing Gmail messages and get notified when people open and read your email.
4. Gmail Encrypt - You can encrypt your outgoing Gmail messages using the powerful AES encryption and no one will be able to snoop your private conversations.
5. 1-click Website Hosting - Use this Google Script to host your websites, images, podcasts and other media files on Google Drive with one click.
6. Mail Merge with Gmail – Send personalized email messages to your contacts using Gmail. The messages can have attachments and you even write messages in raw HTML.
7. Files Permissions Explorer – See who has access to your shared files and folders in Google Drive and whether they view or edit permissions.
8. Send to Google Drive - You can save your Gmail attachments directly to Google Drive – just apply a particular label to your Gmail message and the included attachments will be copied to Drive.
9. Save Gmail Images - The script monitors your Gmail mailbox and will auto-save any image attachments to your Google Drive.
10. Sort Gmail by Size - Is your Gmail mailbox running out of space. The scripts will determine all the bulky messages in your Gmail mailbox.
11. Bulk Forward Gmail – The auto-forward feature in Gmail only works on incoming messages but our bulk forward script can forward even older email to your other email addresses.
12. Update Google Contacts –  See how your friends and family members can directly add or update their own contact information into your Google address book.
13. Google Contacts Map – The Google Script will plot the postal address of your Google Contacts on a Google Map. You can also export this data as a KML file for Google Earth.
14. Email Form Data –  Google Forms are the best tool for creating online polls and surveys. The script will email you the entire form data as soon as someone submits the form.
15. Twitter Bot – Learn how to write your own Twitter bot that auto-responds to tweets. This particular bot queries Wolfram Alpha to answer queries.
16. Twitter Out-of-Office –  You can create out-of-office automatic replies for people who are trying to reach you via Twitter and they wouldn’t expect a response from you right away.
17. SMS Alerts for Gmail – You can receive SMS text alerts for important incoming messages in your Gmail by connecting your mailbox with a private Twitter account.
18. Extract Email Addresses – The script scans your mailbox and creates a list of email addresses of people who have previously communicated with you.  Useful for building your email marketing lists.
19. Transfer Gmail – Moving to a different email address? The script will automatically copy all your email messages from your old Gmail inbox to another mailbox that could be on any web service.
20. Reminder for starred messages – Get a daily digest with a list of messages that you have “Starred” in your Gmail mailbox and may want to follow up on them.
21. Advanced Gmail Search – Gmail supports a variety of search commands but now you can also use Regular Expressions for searching messages on Gmail.
22. Twitter RSS Feeds – Twitter no longer provides RSS feeds but you can use Google Apps Script to create your own feeds for Twitter timelines, searches and lists.
23. Google+ RSS Feeds – This Apps Script based Chrome add-on will help you generate RSS feeds for any Google Plus user or even search results. Written by Eric Koleda.
24. Translate RSS – You can translate foreign language RSS feeds into your native language with Google Scripts and subscribe to them in your favorite news reader.
25. Gmail Label Feeder -  Create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels that you can later feed into Evernote, Pocket, etc. through IFTTT. Written by Martin Hawksey.
26. Gmail Meter – The script will help you analyze how you use Gmail and generates statistics like how much email you send, average length of messages, turn-around time, etc. Written by Romain Vialard.
27. Gmail Delay Send – While there are browser add-ons that let you schedule emails in Gmail, the script is easier, safer and your messages will be delivered on a specified date and time.Written by Blair Kutzman.
28. Gmail Snooze - When you snooze an email, it disappears from view but reappears in the inbox at some specified time in the future. Written by Corey Goldfeder.
29. Gmail Auto Purge -  Similar to auto-sweep in Outlook, the script will automatically delete older email messages from specific senders after a certain period of time.
30. Gmail Clean-up - Create time-based filters in Gmail that will automatically move, archive or even delete all messages from any particular Gmail label that are older than “n” days. Written by John E. Day.
31. Save Gmail as PDF – The script will save the body of an email message as a PDF file. You can optionally send the converted PDF to your email address.
32. Instagram Downloads – Download photos belonging to specific tags from Instagram to your Google Drive with Apps Script. Written by Waqar Ahmad.
33. GDocs2MD - The script will convert your Google Drive documents into the popular Markdown (.md) format that can be imported into several publishing platforms. Written by Renato Mangini.
34. Force Password Change – If you are an admin of a Google Apps domain, use this script to force all your domain users to change their passwords. Written by Waqar Ahmad.
35. Text Browser – A Lynx-inspired browser that lets you browse the web in text and is written using Apps Script. The browser can also be used as a proxy server for reading web content.
36. Self-destructive Messages – Send confidential messages inside a Google Sheet and the message will disappear after it has been read.
37. Auto-Expire Shared Folders - You can set an expiry date for your shared folders in Google Drive and the shared links will automatically expire at the specified date and time.

Windows 8.1 is now available as a free download for all Windows 8 users. The update includes several new and enhanced features, and notably — perhaps infamously — marks the return of the Start button to the Windows desktop environment. To receive the new version, all existing Windows 8 users need to do is launch the Store app in the modern UI. The Windows 8.1 upgrade will appear as the first large tile on the left; clicking or tapping on it starts the upgrade process.

The most obvious one will be the return of the Start button on the Desktop. While the new button is just a quick doorway back to the Start screen (and doesn't have its own pop-up menu, as in previous versions of Windows), its return has been the source of much discussion, with some saying it represents a capitulation of sorts for Microsoft. Windows 8.1 also includes a Boot to Desktop option, another highly demanded feature Microsoft left out of the initial release of Windows 8.

Windows 8.1 also features deeper integration with SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud-storage service, and it becomes the default place to save new documents. Every file on SkyDrive has a "placeholder" file on the device, similar to an alias, that lets the user interact with the file as if it were local (it shows up in searches, has a preview, etc.). The placeholder files allow users to have fast access to files while keeping device storage open. Another feature that will relieve many users is the auto-updating of apps. Like iOS 7, Windows 8.1 will simply download and install updates to apps when they're available, making manual updates (and the dreaded number on the Windows Store live tile) a thing of the past.

Apple has finally revealed the prices of its flagship smartphones, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, which will hit stores in India on November 1. While the 'cheaper' iPhone 5C will be available for Rs 41,900 for 16GB and Rs 53,500 for the 32GB variant, the iPhone 5S will retail at Rs 53,500 for 16GB variant, Rs 62,500 for 32 GB and Rs 71,500 for the 64GB variant.

A Business Today exclusive report on Monday had said the company was looking to price the iPhone 5C (16GB) at Rs 41,900 and iPhone 5S starting Rs 53,500. The press statement issued by Apple on Tuesday states the iPhone 5S will be available in gold, silver and space grey while the iPhone 5C will come in blue, green, pink, yellow and white.

Apple also disclosed the prices for the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C cases. The iPhone 5S cases will be available in beige, black, blue, brown, yellow and red for Rs 3,200 and the iPhone 5C cases will come in blue, green, pink, yellow, black and white for Rs 2,300.

There has so far been no communication about discontinuing the iPhone 5. The new price for the iPhone 4S 8GB model has been announced at Rs 31,500 even as the iPhone 4 is likely to be discontinued from November 1.

Android and iOS users experience, again, because it seems that the cross-platform BlackBerry Courier is set to relaunch on the two smartphone platforms, soon. At small according to BlackBerry. Wiener Boulben, the companionship's leader marketing seaman, told Reuters in an discourse that the BBM consumer could be inbound on Android and iOS "within days".

Boulben is overconfident that the fellowship has ironed out the issues that lopped up during the low effort at the thwartwise structure BBM guest channelise.BlackBerry had suspended the cross-platform BBM commence fashionable period, after an unauthorized senior writing of BBM consumer was downloaded by a large amount of Robot users, which caused issues with the cloth. Spell the app was obtainable in the Apple App Keep, the issues with the servers meant that steady that app was removed from the accumulation, time iOS users who had already downloaded BBM on their iPhone could travel using it.

This aggregation comes honourable as the ajar text to customers is making its way out crossways the various media channels globally, highlighting BlackBerry's strengths. The set hopes this activity at retentive the client lowborn and also to negative the unswerving bad weightlifting, module utilize in their see.

BBM for Automaton and iOS has been collecting a lot of work. The militia says that over 6 cardinal possibility users get already signed up for the asking once the extend papers BBM goes Whippy. And it was this excitation during the initial propulsion that caused trillions of Automaton users to download the improper BBM variation which led to the issues with the meshwork.

BlackBerry Courier for the two platforms is foreseen to act off with matter supported messaging and forgather chats, with sound and recording chats as fortunate as screenshare state further in next updates. At least that was the slip with the edition that was launched during the defeated crime. Looks like we won't score to inactivity too stretch now.

Teasers circulating the Internet suggest that Google’s next flagship smartphone, the Nexus 5, along with the new OS, Android 4.4 KitKat, will be unveiled on October 28. The teasers don’t say this outright, but in a more subtle fashion.

To start with, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and the Nexus 4 were unveiled on October 29 2012, so speculations presume that the same will happen this year. Google will showcase the next Nexus exactly one year after the Nexus 4.

The second clue on Twitter reads, “This is it”. This refers to the tribute movie for Michael Jackson that premiered on October 28 2009. If these hints are to be believed then Monday, October 28 is the day that Google will lift the veil of Android 4.4 KitKat and the Nexus 5. Google officially showcased Android 4.4 KitKat a while back and accidently showcased the Nexus 5 as well. Since then, the Nexus 5 has appeared in a series of leaks including one leak that came from the FCC.

Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry has announced a cut in the prices of its latest BB10 handsets for existing enterprise customers. However, the offer is only available to the company's existing BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) 10 customers in India.

"As part of our on-going festive season promotions, we are introducing an exclusive offer for our valued BES10 enterprise customers," Blackberry Managing Director for India Sunil Lalvani said.
"BES10 customers can now purchase BlackBerry Q10 smartphone at just Rs 39,990, BlackBerry Z10 smartphone at Rs 29,000 and BlackBerry Q5 smartphone at Rs 22,699," the company statement said.

To retail customers, BlackBerry Q10 is available for about Rs 44,900, Z10 for Rs 27,500 and Q5 for Rs 24,500, respectively.

BlackBerry is publishing an open letter in major publications around the world in a bid to reassure customers that they can count on the distressed smartphone company.

The letter was released Monday on Twitter and will be published in 30 publications in nine countries Tuesday. It acknowledges "these are no doubt challenging times for us and we don't underestimate the situation" but says "you can continue to count on BlackBerry." The missive notes that BlackBerry has substantial cash and is debt free. But it makes no mention of the fact that the company is for sale and could be broken up and sold in pieces.

The stock is trading well below Fairfax's tentative offer on fears that the deal won't go through or that the final price will be lower. BlackBerry Ltd.'s U.S.-traded shares closed up 7 cents to $8.14 Monday.
"We're getting a lot of queries and interest from loyal consumers, from all of our enterprise customers and big government institutions," Andrew MacLeod, BlackBerry's regional managing director for North America, said in an interview. MacLeod said it's important to communicate with customers while the company goes through a difficult restructuring. He declined to comment on the sale process because a special committee of board members is examining that.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone might debut sooner than expected. According to Korean site Naver, which is run by former Samsung employees, the company is gearing up to launch its next-generation Galaxy device in January as a part of an effort to kickstart slowing sales of its current model.

The report indicates the Samsung Galaxy S5 could launch less than a year after its predecessor, the Galaxy S4, which was introduced in March. The S5 may be revealed at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, according to the report. Navel said the device will feature a 16-megapixel camera, a Samsung Exynos processor (not one from Qualcomm) and possibly an eight-core chip.

The Samsung S4 smartphone sold a record 10 million units less than a month after it went on sale, but hit a sales slump in the following months.

HTC has officially launched a mid-range smartphone called the HTC Desire 500 for Rs 21,490 in India. The device is available on online ecommerce stores snapdeal and flipkart as well as across retail stores in India.

Specifications of HTC Desire 500 :

• A 4.3-inch WVGA display with 400 x 800 pixels resolution. 
• It has a quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor with 1GB of RAM. 
• The handset runs on Android 4.2 and comes with integrated Sense 5.0 UI. 
• The smartphone comes with BlinkFeed that gives the user access to newsfeeds from over 10,000 news feeds per day.
• It has 4GB of internal memory, expandable via MicroSD card up to 64GB.
• The smartphone features an 8MP rear camera with an LED flash and a 1.6MP front camera with a BSI sensor. 
• The Desire 500 is capable of 720p video recording. 
• It comes with Beats Audio system and 
• An 1800mAh battery. 
• The smartphone offers dual-SIM, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS with A-GPS connectivity. 
• It has inbuilt Accelerometer, Proximity sensor and Ambient light sensor. 

The Desire 500 is available in Black and Silver colors.

eBay India's recent study of key shopping habits of mobile commerce users in India involving over 1,000 eBay users in October 2013 has revealed that 78% shoppers prefer shopping on mobiles to get great deals on purchases and 60% shopped on mobiles to save fuel, parking charges and long queues.The survey reported that Mobile Phones, Home Appliances and Tablets were the three most purchased items online. Around 75 percent of the people surveyed admitted to shopping from home and 45 percent stated that they shopped at night. 48 percent of the people surveyed prefer credit cards as their preferred payment mode.

Samsung with 44% of the votes is the most popular device for mobile shopping, followed by Sony (12%) and Nokia (10%). The most popular shopping browser remains the default Android browser (79%), followed by Safari on iOS (9%) and IE on Windows (6%).

So, for the past couple of years the search giant has been encouraging manufacturers to build computers that pretty much have just the browser which acts as the operating system on the device.
So you will open a Chromebook to the Chrome OS with its multiple layers of security, cloud storage, and the most popular Google products built-in. Since it won't have to boot up software and interfaces, this new computer will be much thinner, ready to go online in seconds, secure of machine failures as everything will be on the cloud and much more secure. They also have much better battery life, often upwards of eight hours.

So from October 17, Indians will be able to buy at least two Chromebook models - the Acer C720 Chromebook and the HP Chromebook 14. Unlike the earlier versions available in many markets since June 2011, these new devices are very affordable. The Acer C720 is priced at Rs 22,999 while the HP one is costlier at Rs 26,990. This price range is expected to make these devices very popular in emerging markets like India. It also helps that many of these first-time buyers are already exposed to Google's Android operating system.

Apple has finally revealed the launch dates of the iPhones 5s and 5c in India. Both will be available from November 1. India is part of the third phase launch of the new iPhones. The countries in the second wave launch will get the iPhones on October 25.

According to a press statement by Apple, the iPhone 5s will be available in three colours -  gold, silver or space grey, while the iPhone 5c will come in five - blue, green, pink, yellow and white. The India price of these models has not yet been mentioned. But considering the weakening Indian Rupee, they are likely to cost over Rs.50,000.

Those buying from Apple retail stores will get free personal setup service, helping them to customize their iPhones by setting up email, showing new apps from the App Store and more.

The Nexus 5 could be announced as soon as next week with the specifications of the device leaked in an LG D-821 service manual. We've rounded up all the possible release date, price and specs for the Google Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 is likely to be Google's next flagship Android smartphone. It will probably be joined by a new version of the Nexus 10, too. So naturally, we're keen to know what it will offer and when it will be available.

Although the Nexus 4 has had issues with stock shortages, it's been well received and popular with punters. A high-end smartphone for £239 is a bargain even if it's a bit limited on storage.

As per the listing, the Nexus 5 will be hitting retailers on November 14. The price of the two variants of the smartphone is listed as 44,600 yen (approx. $460, Rs.28,500) for the 16GB variant and 49,800 yen (approx. $513, Rs. 32,000) for the 32GB.

Smartphones and tablets are slowly taking over the PC space, and are expected to constitute nearly 80 percent of device spending by 2017. Research firm Garter predicts that by 2017, nearly half of first-time computer purchases will be a tablet. Gartner further states that global IT spending is expected to touch $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.6 percent increase from 2013. “The Digital Industrial Economy will be built on the foundations of Nexus of Forces (which includes confluence and integration of cloud, social collaboration, mobile and information) and the Internet of Everything by combining the physical world and virtual." adds Sondergaard.

“Digital changes the IT market in a big way through the Internet of Things. In the technology and telecom sectors, revenue associated with the Internet of Things will exceed $309 billion per year by 2020.”

Yahoo Mail has gone through yet another transformation. Just half a year after it allowed users to send up to 100 MB of attachments, it has now increased the mail limit to a whopping 1 terabyte or 1,000 GB.

As David McDowell, Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo Mail, told Business Today in a telephonic interaction from the US, "that will take an average user 6,000 years to use up. It is more than what anyone would ever need."

This 1TB of storage will complement the 1TB of storage space available on Flickr, Yahoo's photo and video hosting service. Yahoo has made all premium features of its mail - like the extra storage, disposable email addresses and free mail forwarding - free for all users. New Mail Plus users will now have to pay $49.99 per year, for what will be reduced to an add-free experience only. Earlier users will continue to get this for $19.99 per year.

"We see this as providing more benefits to free users. The premium users are just a relatively small number," explained McDowell.

The smartphone and tablet market has largely matured, so new devices in a series tend to see smaller upgrades and improvements, bringing their offerings on par with the competition. The Note 10.1 doesn’t look a whole lot different, but picking it up and powering on the screen will be a pleasant surprise to those who have used last year’s model.

The two most visually recognizable improvements are in build quality and screen resolution. The Note 10.1 2014 simply feels like a more sturdy, strong, premium device than in previous years. It’s a solid piece of kit with a screen boasting a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, doubling that of last year’s 1280 x 800 display. Better screen, better hardware, packed into a thinner design with smaller bezels.

Specifications of Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

• The Best Viewing Experience

• Multi Window for Multi-tasking

GALAXY Note 10.1 offers you enough screen space to do multiple tasks simultaneously.  You can activate two Apps, such as movie player, note App at the same time. And you can draw or scribble while you are doing something else, like watching movie.

• Sleek and Portable Design

• Smart S Note to make your life easier

• Air Command

• Action Memo

• Pen Window