More people searched online for Bollywood newcomer Sunny Leone than actors like Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif and cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar, making the adult star the most searched personality this year, according to Google India's annual Zeitgeist.

The Google India Zeitgeist tracks the year's major events and trends based on Google searches conducted in the country. You can check out all the top-chart lists here, which include Bollywood actors, movies, news events, phones, politicians, and sportspersons, or at the end of the article.

Twitter has announced an in-depth list of Trending topics in India this year mapping conversations of over 20 million Twitter users in India. Twitter released the data in topics categorised neatly in Events, News, Politics, Cricket, Bollywood and TV.

In Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan got the most tweets at #WeLoveSRK with his hit Chennai Express this year. In “News” and “Politics” sections #AfzalGuru and BJP's Prime Minister candidate #Modi were the most discussed people on the social networking site.

Indian Army joined Twitter this year and showed the Uttarakhand flood relief work in progress. This year celebrities like Sourav Ganguly, Saina Nehwal, Anil Kapoor and more joined Twitter.

The social networking site saw Indian users discussing breaking news, ranging from international topics like unrest in Syria and Egypt, and Cyclone Phailin. Twitter also saw tweets in real time for popular TV programmers Bigg Boss and Koffee With Karan.

WhatsApp has announced its instant messaging app now has more than 400 million monthly active users with with 100 million active users added in the last four months alone. The popular instant messaging app allows users to send free messages, photos, videos and audio messages to people on your mobile contact list. The app is available for free for iPhone, Windows Phone, Android, and BlackBerry.


WhatsApp's closest competitor is messaging app Line which has 300 million registered users, followed by WeChat which has about 270 million users.

Vodafone India today launched Vodafone Music, the company’s new music service that enables users stream, share and download music and watch music videos at a nominal cost. Vodafone has also launched an Android app that lets users listen, explore and download audio and video songs. This subscription-based service for Vodafone users comes in daily, weekly and monthly packs. The music service is powered by Hungama with a vast collection of songs in various genres and languages.

Vodafone Music Subscription packs

• Rs. 3 A-la-carte pack – Download 1 song
• Rs. 5 Subscription – Unlimited streaming and download for 1 day – Auto renewal daily
• Rs. 10 Value Pack – Download 5 songs – 1 day validity
• Rs. 29 Subscription – Unlimited streaming and download for 1 week – Auto renewal weekly
• Rs. 99 Subscription – Unlimited streaming and download for 1 month – Auto renewal month 

Features of Vodafone Music app for Android

• Listen, explore and download unlimited songs & videos from a collection ranging from Bollywood, Devotional, Regional music and videos.
• Create and share playlist with your friends across social sites. Feeling bored? Then listen to featured playlist created by our expert content creators.
• Context menu and long press based options to play, add to playlist, add to queue & share.
• Share across Facebook, Twitter, SMS and generic share.
• Mini Audio player with playback controls and now playing screen including shuffle & Repeat with queue of songs.
• My account consisting of my albums, my songs, my playlists, my videos, my buddies and my notifications.
• Suggestive search.
• Seamless streaming experience because of the adaptive audio streaming on the application.
• Multiple pricing options basis your needs, subscribe to our Monthly, Weekly & Daily subscription or have fun downloading ala-carte or value packs at affordable prices.

Vodafone users can head to vodafonemusic.in to stream music online from a mobile browser or download the Android app . You can also SMS Music to 111 from your Vodafone number to get more details about the service.

Sony has finally launched its latest console – PlayStation 4 – in the country. Priced at Rs. 39,999, the Sony PlayStation4 comes with a wide range of new and improved features. Pricing of the new games for the PS4 start at Rs. 3,499. Sony's PlayStation 4 has so far met with great excitement across the world. As of December 1, 2013, Sony has sold 2.1 million PS4 units consoles worldwide since the launch in the US on November 15.

With over 25 million daily railway passengers will now have useful information at their disposal, thanks to Railyatri.in for launching a National Railyatri Alert System (NRAS).

Railyatri has launched a push notifications based Android app with localized and personalized information of 5000 trains and 8000 locations in India. Users can simply visit Google Play Store from their Android mobile device and search for “RailYatri”.

Passengers need to simply log on to m.railyatri.in via their Android smartphone to get alerts. The app is currently available on Android and can be downloaded here.

• Nokia Lumia 1520 sports a 6-inch full HD display, runs Windows Phone 8 OS
• Powered by a quad-core 2.2Ghz Snapdragon 800 chipset along with 2GB of RAM.
• The Lumia 1520 measures 162.8 x 85.4 x 8.7 mm and weighs around 209g. 
• It comes with a 20MP PureView camera with auto focus and Zeiss optics with OIS. 
• It has a 1.2MP front camera. 
• The camera also has dual LED flash and supports full HD video recording at 30fps with OIS.
• The smartphone comes with 32GB built-in storage, expandable up to 64GB via microSD. 
• Nokia is also offering an additional 7 GB free Skydrive cloud storage. 
• For connectivity, the Lumia 1520 supports 2G, 3G, 4G, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, NFC and microUSB. 
• The Lumia 1520 comes preloaded with a range of apps such as Nokia Camera app, Nokia HERE maps, Storyteller app and more.

Google has official completing acquisition of Boston Dynamics, a company that is notable for nonindustrial super-fast robots for the US Grey. The current acquisition is wise to be Google's starring push into the business of robotics. Antecedent to Boston Dynamics, Google has seized over cardinal robotics firms in the last six months.

According to reports, Google's Andy Rubin is directional the reserves's secretive robotics league. So far, the damage and filler of the propose harbor't been revealed. Google's else robotics companies let Autofuss and Bot & Dolly, Schaft, Manual Representation, Meka, Redwood Robotics, and Holomni.

In a evidence posted on the Google Advantageous, Chief Administrator Larry Industrialist freshly said: "I am intoxicated around Andy Rubin's succeeding programme. His stylish big bet, Android, started off as a loony air that ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of billions of pockets. It is console really future days for this, but I can't act to see the move.?"

Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, an once academic at the Massachusetts Create of Subject. The affiliate hasn't launched robots commercially, but mechanism with US Blue, Blueness, Leatherneck Corps and the Justification Division's Progressive Research Projects Office.

Boston Dynamics has formulated quite a few robots such as LS3, Pillar, Petman, Cat and BigDog. Videos of its travel robots hold created a lot of turmoil on the web. The BigDog golem is illustrious for its awful gracefulness. It can uprise hills, travels finished downfall, skitters precariously on ice. Oiler, a four-legged mechanism, shows off spurting a car explorer at squealing velocity.

The governance leave shortly actuation 'Netra', the justification ministry's net spy grouping that leave be open of detecting language same 'round', 'fae', 'blast' or 'termination' in a matter of seconds from reams of tweets, state updates, emails, fast messaging transcripts, net calls, blogs and forums.

The grouping leave also be healthy to charm any incertain melody reciprocation release through software much as Skype or Google Tattle, says a telecom section billet seen by ET. "Information Furniture and Cabinet Secretariat are currently investigating 'Netra', which will be deployed by all nationalist instrument agencies," the comment says. "The specifications of the 'Netra' system can be arrogated as icy tailing tests by the Intelligence Bureau and Locker Thoroughbred, and can be wise for providing binary soul make to protection agencies," it adds.

The 'Netra' net surveillance group has been developed by Area for Dyed Word & Robotics (CAIR), a lab low Squad Explore & Process Methodicalness (DRDO).

To hasten its deployment, the domestic ministry will shortly timing DRDO to allot more hands resources to Bangalore-based CAIR, which is also working with the regime's telecom profession arm, Eye for Exercise of Telematics (C-DoT) to adjudge a strategy for chase net use.

The 'Netra' deployment strategy was lately discussed by an apex inter-ministerial set headed by DoT's member (study) and included top officials of the Compartment Secretariate, institution ministry, DRDO, CAIR, Info Dresser, C-DoT and Machine Pinch Response Group (CERT-In). The body also deliberated on shipway to act to machine safeguard incidents, cartroad method vulnerabilities and delegate effectual IT warranty practices crossways the state.

During the meeting, it was also decided that 300 GB of hardware interval for intercepted cyberspace interchange would be acknowledged to a peak ternary guard agencies, including the IB and Locker Secretariate, while an surplus 100 GB would be appointed to the remaining law enforcement agencies, the proceedings of the inter-ministerial committee converging showed. Deployment of 'Netra' by guard agencies is slated to pave the way for a nationalistic internet scanning & coordination centre, which Bharat plans to found along the lines of existing facilities in the UK, US, Prc and Persia.

Ever since news got out that BlackBerry Messenger (or BBM as its known to its hordes of loyal users) would be making its way to iOS and Android devices, we expected it to make a huge splash. The demand for BBM was only highlighted by the number of times the leaked version of the client was downloaded by Android users, forcing BlackBerry to postpone the actual launch because of the massive hit its servers took from the huge numbers.

However, iOS and Android already had a large number of popular IM apps such as WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Viber and Skype. Therefore, while the rush to adopt BBM was expected, we didn’t think it would cause the rest of the IM clients to lose too much ground on account of them being first-movers.

As it turns out, and as our poll shows, we had vastly underestimated the popularity of BBM. Almost 8,000 of our readers responded to the question “Will BBM now be the messenger of choice on your smartphone?”, out of which a sizeable majority (5,728 which translates to 73.4%) said that they indeed plan to rely on BBM more than other clients on their smartphones. Only 1,574 (or 20%) of our readers plan to stick with the IM clients they were using before BBM, while 500 of you (6%) thought you needed some more time to come to a decision on BBM.

Samsung handsets are very popular globally. However, there is one extremely disappointed customer, resentful to the extent that he posted a video online that could now put Samsung's reputation in real jeopardy. On the 2nd of December, a Canadian national Richard Wygand posted a video on YouTube in which he claimed that the Galaxy S4 smartphone he bought was could have led to a hazardous situation. “I just plugged it in to charge it, went to sleep, woke up to smoke and a little bit of burning,” said Wygand in the video. Later on, he shows off the severely damaged power plug of the S4, which appears severely burned and distorted.

The video created quite a frenzy, thanks to a post on Reddit. Soon, Wygand posted a new video giving an update which is quite perplexing. He revealed that in order to receive a similar model replacement, Samsung allegedly asked him to sign a legal document that he remove his videos from YouTube, not to reveal the agreement to anybody in any circumstances and do away with any possible future claims against Samsung.




Wygand also pointed out in the video a widely reported incident in Hong Kong, where a burning S4 was the cause of a building fire. The report was later published by UK tech site The Register. However, the incident largely went unnoticed by smartphone customers. Since posting the second video, Wygand told the source that he hasn't heard anything further from Samsung. This is what was Samsung's response in response to Wygand's S4 experience,  “Samsung takes the safety and security of our customers very seriously. Our Samsung Canada team is in touch with the customer, and is investigating the issue.”

After a lot of speculation and rumours, next gen gaming is eventually arriving in India as we just received a media invite to the PS4 launch event to be held on December 18 in New Delhi. The calligraphic invite appears a bit cryptic, but nevertheless the message is clear.

Since its debut in the US and European markets last month, the PS4 has been creating quite a frenzy selling more than a million units on day one and two million units in just under two weeks and well on its way to achieve its target of selling more than 3 million PS4's by the end of the year. The PS4 sales have also outnumbered the Xbox One, which sold a 150,000 units in its first 48 hours whereas the PS3 sold a 165,000 units in the same amount of time. Analysts have also predicted that the PS4 is likely to sell 49 million consoles in the next five years.

While the confirmation over the launch of the next gen is good news for Indian gamers, catch here is that the launch line up is not as solid compared to the Xbox One. For Sony, apart from Kill Zone: Shadow Fall and Resogun, the launch line up looks a quite feeble, as their launch window got a severe blow with the delay of DriveClub, The Crew and Watch Dogs. If we ignore the third party titles for both consoles, as of now there are a very few exclusives available for the PS4. while, on the contrary Xbox One has titles that are stellar and at the same time offer a lot of variety.

Instagram has formally announced its new private photo/video-sharing and messaging feature called Instagram Direct. The new feature allows users to send each other private chat-like messages that includes text, images or videos.Instagram's new feature is considered as an attempt to compete with Instant Messaging apps such as Snapchat, WhatsApp and Viber.

A new icon appears in the top right corner of home feed. Tap it to open the inbox, where you can see images and videos that others have sent. To send an image or video, tap the camera button for image or video capture and editing screens.

At the top of the share screen, there are two options – share with followers or send to particular persons (Direct). To use Direct, enter the names of the people you want to share image. You can also add caption. Tap “Send” when you're done.

You will receive notifications for who's seen your photo or video, who's liked it and see recipients commenting in real time. Images and videos you receive will appear immediately. You have the option to decide if you want view a photo or video from someone who you're not following.

New Samsung Chromebook is powered by Google's Chrome operating system, which is a refreshing change from the regulars like Windows or Linux. This new in series is much in pace with the other products of Chromebook range.




Google has also joined hands with the leading Internet service providers in India in order to provide delighting broadband offers to Chromebook customers.

Specifications:

• 11.6-inch display, 1366x768 resolution
• 1.7GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos 5 Dual processor with 2GB of RAM
• 100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage, 16GB Solid State Drive
• VGA Camera
• Up to 6.5 hours of active use
• Full size HDMI Port
• Bluetooth 3.0 Compatible
• 1.1 kilogram and measures 17.5mm thin
• Dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n

Facebook has launched the auto diversion videos that the assort announced in September for its raiseable computer. The new pic has been launched for most iOS and Golem users.

Previously, any recording uploaded to Facebook direct or common to the Interest Provender from Instagram looked related to the YouTube videos. A human had to inactivity to give the recording participant, move for it to weight, and then follow the video.

The new update brings motorcar romp cognition to the videos on Facebook, eldest the videos will endeavour on unhearable and then if the individual wants to ticker the recording they can tap on the block or change it to rumbling situation the frequency starts performing. The auto endeavour videos flick present aid advertisers, as group may watch videos that are already playing and care unputdownable.Facebook has also another a stage for users who don't deprivation to exhaust information, that plays videos exclusive when the human is on a WiFi investigation its auto-play recording have it stated, "At archetypal, this lineament present be modest to videos posted by individuals, musicians, and bands. We're doing this to pretend careful we create the physiologist getable see. Over case, we'll proceed to explore how to transport this to marketers in the later." According to Techcrunch, Facebook may travel out the boast for advertisers by New Assemblage.

Facebook lately defended the magnified ads on its textile, stating that 63 proportion of the users connect with the advert brands on the site. The mixer networking heavyweight newly revealed its Country numbers, stating that 9 meg Australians visited the position routine.

Foursquare for iOS has been completely overhauled, with a bunch of visual and performance changes. First, is the entire effort of redesigning the UI to bring it more in line with the iOS 7 design philosophy. However, the major changes reside inside, with improved performance and push notifications. The latest version of Foursquare is 7.0.

Idea Cellular has launched a new version of its 3G dongle called the Idea NetSetter. This new dongle supports speeds up to 21.6Mbps and will be available for Rs 2,160 in Idea’s 3G circles, which includes Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala.

As mentioned above, the new NetSetter functions on Idea’s HSPA network and supports download speeds of up to 21.6Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5.76Mbps. It is compatible with devices running on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows RT, Linux and Mac and is also backward compatible on EDGE and GPRS. Additionally, it has an in-built microSD card slot for cards with up to 32GB of storage.

Earlier this year, Idea had drastically cut down its 3G data rates and NetSetter buyers can avail of these discounted rates. One can opt for 3G data packs ranging from Rs 250 for 1GB of data to Rs 1,250 for 10GB of data every month.

The Facebook survey also found that people preferred reading high quality content about their favorite celebrities, sports teams as well as current events. Now, the social networking site will focus more on quality content instead from the latest meme. This means quality stories will now be showed more prominently in News Feed instead of meme photos. The update will also highlight the posts to the top of the newsfeed on which the user’s friends have commented, to create more conversation around the articles with comments. Facebook has recently started displaying articles based on the users search history and interests. When users click on a link to an article in the Facebook News Feed they can see up to three related articles.

"We've noticed that people enjoy seeing articles on Facebook, and so we're now paying closer attention to what makes for high quality content, and how often articles are clicked on from News Feed on mobile. What this means is that you may start to notice links to articles a little more often (particularly on mobile)."

The study covers 47 countries and includes the price of the 16GB model of the iPhone 5S, and prices are directly from the local Apple stores for each country or a listed official supplier from the Apple site. The report says the iPhone 5S costs the Indians the most in the world when compared with their purchasing power. Indians pay about 22.3% of the national gross domestic product per capita (GDP PPP) to buy the iPhone 5S. The GDP (PPP ) refers to the measure of how much money an average person generates in each country.

The top 10 obsessions of 2013 include:

1. The Royal Baby
2. Miley Cyrus
3. Susanna Reid
4. Andy Murray
5. Game of Thrones
6. Candy Crush Saga
7. Breaking Bad
8. Gareth Bale
9. False Widow spiders
10. Twerking

Sony is creating its own history as PS4 has become the fastest selling console in the UK ever, selling 2,50,000 units in 48 hours, according to officials the PS4 broke the record set by the PSP which sold a 1,85,000 units when it was launched in 2005.

The PS4 sales have also outnumbered the Xbox One, which sold a 150,000 units in its first 48 hours whereas the PS3 sold a 165,000 units in the same amount of time. In a recent update from Sony, the PS4's North American debut was PlayStation's largest ever, with more than 1 million units sold in just 24 hours, now with the global launch expanding to a total of 32 countries worldwide, including Europe and Latin America, Sony has officially announced that more than 2.1 million PS4s have been sold worldwide.

The best part: the PS4 journey has just begun. In addition to an incredible lineup of PS4 games from the best developers in the world, we will continue to introduce valuable new features and services to PS4 in the months and years ahead", said Andrew House - President and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment.

Apart from sales volume, the PS4 is generating more buzz on social media than Xbox One. Catriona Oldershaw, Managing Director UK of Synthesio, said,"Although the PS4 has only just had its European launch, there is still a markedly higher level of online buzz compared to the Xbox". San Francisco, last month estimated each company would sell 3 million units worldwide this year.

WhatsApp Messenger for iOS has been updated with an iOS 7-inspired design. The new version is tailor made for Apple's new iOS 7 OS, which has a flat design.

iPad mini and iPad Air with Retina display is going to be presented in India in the beginning of December 7, Apple’s official distribution collaborator Ingram Micro has declared through a press release.

The distributor has even authenticated that the 16GB Wi-Fi iPad mini and iPad Air with Retina display is going to be offered for Rs. 28,900 and Rs. 35,900 correspondingly. These costs are in row with what we had entirely disclosed approximately three weeks ago.

In accordance with the information we obtained previously, but not declared by the distributor up till now, the 64GB, 128GB and 32GB iPad Air Wi-Fi only models is going to be available at Rs. 42,900, Rs. 56,900 and Rs. 49,900 respectively. The 16GB iPad Air with cellular connectivity at a cost of Rs. 44,900. The 64GB, 128GB and 32GB models are going to be available at a cost of Rs. 51,900, Rs. 65,900 and Rs. 58,900 respectively.

In the same way, the 32GB, 128GB and 64GB  iPad mini with Retina display Wi-Fi only models are going to be available at Rs. 35,900, Rs. 49,900 and Rs. 42,900 respectively. The 16GB iPad mini with cellular connectivity and Retina display is going to be presented at a cost of Rs. 37,900. The 32GB, 128GB and 64GB models are going to be available at a price of  Rs. 44,900, Rs. 58,900 and Rs. 51,900 respectively.

As we stated in our former report, Apple will proceed to put up for sale the  iPad mini 16GB without Retina display at a price of Rs. 21,900 for Wi-Fi version. On the other hand, cellular model is supposed to rise its price from Rs. 29,900 to Rs. 30,900. The iPad 16GB iPad 2 is going to proceed to sell for 37,900 INR and 28,900 INR for the cellular models and Wi-Fi respectively.

Photo sharing service Instagram could be poised to expand into email with rumours circulating that the social media service is beavering away on @instagram.com email addresses.

Techcrunch speculate that the new messaging feature could be rolled out soon after an e-commerce firm unearthed a number of @instagram.com email id’s during database work.

The move follows the introduction of a similar system by Facebook back in 2010 with the introduction of @facebook.com email id’s, fuelling speculation that the social media giant might want to repeat that success now that it owns Instagram.

It is believed that Instagram may also be considering adding IM to its suite of communication tools before the end of the year, taking on the likes of snapchat with private and group messaging features.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is known for making big bets in the world of innovation, and on Sunday night on 60 Minutes he revealed what might be one of his biggest: product delivery by flying robot drones. The service is called Amazon Prime Air and it's slated for rollout sometime in 2015, depending on FAA approval.

Bezos was so excited about the news that he kept the details under wraps until just before the interview with the network began. According to the producers of 60 Minutes, before the unveiling, Bezos said, “If you can guess what it is, then... I will give you half my fortune and send you to Vegas with it.”

Reacting to the unveiling of the Amazon-branded drone, Bezos interviewer Charlie Rose said, “I had no idea what its purpose was at first glance… They actually look like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel.”

You can watch the entire interview on the 60 Minutes website. 

FiLIP helps parents easily call and keep track of their children. Of course, the watch tells time, but it can also pin down a child's location. Parents can program up to five numbers into the gadget, which kids can call with the touch of a button. Using the FiLIP app, parents and other pre-authorized adults can track the child's location, make calls, send texts and set "SafeZones," which are virtual radii around a specific destination.

The FiLIP's simple interface only includes two buttons, one of which is bright red. In case of emergency, the child can hold down the red button, prompting the watch to call the first person in its contact list. If no one answers, the watch calls the other four assigned contacts. It also sends a notification with the child's location to the first contact. While the child waits, the FiLIP plays a relaxing melody.

Each gadget costs $199.99 and with an AT&T plan, parents can pay $10 a month for unlimited location data, as well as voice calling. Users can download the FiLIP app for both iPhone and Android.