In a move that echoes Twitter, Facebook is adding a feature to its service that lets users know the topics of discussion that are trending among the site's 1.2 billion users, whether it's the death of a world leader or the Oscars. Users in the US, UK, India, Canada and Australia will begin seeing a list of trending topics on the right side of their Facebook pages in coming weeks. It will be available in more countries later on.

Facebook, which signaled last year that it would introduce trending topics at some point, said Thursday that the topics people see will be tailored to the user's interests and location. On Thursday afternoon, two users saw topics that included the Academy Awards, American Idol and Republican Sen. David Vitter from Louisiana. Unlike Twitter, which simply lists topics, Facebook's trending section explains why a particular topic is trending. In this case, the 2014 Academy Award nominations were announced, American Idol named new judges and promised a new attitude and Vitter introduced a bill that would require people show photo IDs to make purchases with food stamps.

Facebook is already seen as a place where users go to find out what their friends and family are up to. Stuhar said learning that a friend got married or discovering what his friends are doing on a Friday night is "certainly news," but Facebook has a "much broader vision of where we want news feed to go in the future." 

We have already heard about Nokia's rumoured Normandy's UI, but now, new leaked screenshots seem to have revealed new details of the yet-to-be-announced first Nokia Android device. The new leaked screenshots of the Normandy's UI purportedly reveals the home screen and the notifications page. Notably, the home screen panel's leaked screenshot includes apps for dialer, message, contacts, internet, Twitter, Skype, MixRadio, Here Maps, Camera app, Plants Vs. Zombies, Gallery, Vine, Facebook, Calculator, Calendar, Alarms, Music, Downloads, Radio, Viber, Opera and WeChat. It's worth pointing out that the home screen of the alleged Normandy looks very similar to the tiles-based UI seen on Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices.

Another leaked screenshot of the Nokia Normandy reveals the possible notifications page which is very reminiscent to Asha phone's Fastlane, which is the new Nokia Asha phone's home screen. The leaked notifications page reveals alerts for the alarm clock, calendar, missed calls or messages. There is also a 'Recent' section, which we assume shows the apps that were recently used by the user. The new leaked screenshots also show the dual-SIM support on top left of the screen.

A Twitter user named @picturepan2 posted an image that supposedly revealed the second engineering prototype of the alleged Nokia Normandy Android phone, with a live image showing the Android operating system. There was no word on the version, and a proprietary launcher was also visible.

Samsung has extended its Galaxy Tab line-up by announcing its latest tablet, the Galaxy Tab3 Lite. The tablet is expected to be targeted toward the budget segment as it doesn’t have jaw dropping specifications.

Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 :

• The Samsung Galaxy Tab3 Lite is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. 
• It consist of 1GB of RAM. 
• Also, has a 7-inch WSVGA (1024x600) display. 
• Runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. 
• It is having Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on top is juiced up by a 3600mAh battery. 
• There is 8GB of inbuilt memory which can be expandable up to 32GB with the help of microSD card and a 2MP camera at the back. 
• The Galaxy Tab3 Lite is expected to come in two variants which will include a Wi-Fi only version and a Wi-Fi+3G version, Bluetooth 4.0.

Indians have an habit of stocking goods they no longer use. The general idea is that people store used goods to use later on, though that happens rarely. A new study conducted by e-commerce site OLX and research firm IMRB International says total estimated realizable value of stocked goods in urban in India is whopping Rs. 22,000 crore. The study covers 12 cities of India, 4800 consumers, between the age group of 19 - 60 years.

The first OLX Consumer Research on Used-Goods and Selling Trends (CRUST) Survey for 2013-14 emphasises on the used goods market in urban India, and the attitude of urban Indians towards used goods. 

For now it's only a Google[x] inquiry, but the aim involves a communication lens with a micro wireless fragment and a sensor that can bar a diabetic's glucose levels. For someone with diabetes, glucose levels tell unflagging monitoring, usually by pricking the end of the touch and putting a unload of execution into a glucose measure device. Google's happening lens measures glucose via the buck disposable in a someone's eye. This capital no more slaying and no many yield fingers.

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Today, YouTube launched a new daily series, YouTube Nation, which highlights the best and most enticing videos created on the video-sharing website. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and sponsored by Verizon, YouTube Nation will be available every weekday at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT.

In a response to the glut of video content uploaded on the website every day, the social video platform created YouTube Nation as a way to identify and showcase the most popular videos, as well as videos that are bound to go viral. The videos are hand-picked by curators who decide which content will resonate with YouTube users, and which content will likely produce the most buzz.
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg says these choices aren’t driven purely by algorithms and analytics. As quoted by the Huffington Post:

The series, hosted by Jacob Soboroff of HuffPost Live and executive produced by Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz, will condense the best content seen on YouTube in five minutes.  This includes a rich mix of videos, themed playlists, channel creator highlights and fan feedback. Rather than randomly searching videos online or looking to see what’s trending on morning talk shows, YouTube consumers can now watch the new series to receive their daily dose of popular video content.

When Google originally announced the Nexus 5, the company also announced official cases and a wireless charger for the device. A few weeks later, some of those accessories are finally going up for sale on the Play Store. Starting today, you can pick up the Nexus Wireless Charger for $49.99 on the Play Store. Google says the charger supports the Nexus 5, Nexus 4, and Nexus 7. In addition to the wireless charger, the official Nexus 5 bumper case is also available on the Play Store. While the store lists black, gray, red, and yellow variants of the case, only the latter two are available for reason. The black and gray colors are still listed as coming soon. The bumper cases run $34.99.

In a study conducted by Forrester, true rankings about brands across four categories -- trusted, remarkable, unmistakable and essential -- was measured. CNET reports that 4,551 adults were asked to tell the truth about tech brands and Microsoft was found to be the sole winner.

Forrester insisted that Microsoft was at the forefront of brand building with a unique and distinct brand identity that sets it apart from other brands.

With Microsoft seen as most trusted brand, consumers voted for Apple and Samsung as being innovative companies, with the former ranking highest on "remarkable" and "unmistakable."
UTA Brand Studio's founder and executive director, Larry Vincent said that a lot of the world uses Microsoft products and people relate to it, while Apple is like a prom king or queen, beautiful but not really like us.

Twitter will redesign its website to look more like its mobile app. Twitter made the announcement yesterday, and it tweeted out pictures of how the new layout would look like. The redesign hasn't rolled out completely for everybody yet, but is expected to in the next few days.

The redesign isn't drastic, most notably it moves the profile picture and background art to the upper-left corner, and the compose tweet box is now below it. This allows much more space for the actual feed on the right, which makes for better viewing of rich Twitter media such as images and Vines.

Microsoft's Twitter account was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army just after the attacks on Xbox Twitter and Instagram, right as our calendars turned over to 2014. The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Microsoft News Twitter account and posted a tweet stating that the company sells the user data to the government.

"Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. #SEA @Official_SEA16," the message read.

BlackBerry's new CEO John Chen says that upcoming BlackBerry phones will 'predominantly' have physical keyboards. Ron Louks, former exec at Sony Ericsson and HTC, will run the device business. In an interview with Bloomberg Chen said, “Ron’s a very creative guy. I think he’s more in touch with not only the technology and design to make a phone great but how people like the phone.”

Finally, Chen announced a five month deal with Foxconn Technology to help produce phones for developing and emerging markets.

Mozilla has also announced at CES 2014 that the company will be releasing two high end smartphones based on Firefox OS this year. ZTE, maker of the one of the first Firefox OS smartphones will be launching new devices, the Open C and Open II. Mozilla added that it will publish more details in the coming weeks.

Nokia has officially announced the launch of its Lumia 1320 and Lumia 525 smartphones in India. Both the Lumia’s will be available in the market from the next month. The Nokia Lumia 1320 has been priced at Rs. 23,999, while the Lumia 525 will be available for Rs 10,399. The Lumia 1320 is the latest large-screen phablet from the Finnish handset maker. Nokia has already launched a 6-inch Lumia 1520 phablet in India.

Specifications of Nokia Lumia 1320 :

•  The Lumia 1320 sports a 6-inch IPS LCD display with 720×1280 pixels resolution. 

• It comes with Nokia’s ClearBlack technology and has a pixel density of 245ppi (pixels per inch). 
• The Nokia Lumia 1320 runs Windows Phone 8. 
• It is powered by a 1.7GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor along with 1GB of RAM. 
• The phablet comes with 8GB inbuilt storage, expandable up to 64GB via microSD card. 
• It also comes with free 7GB of SkyDrive cloud storage. 
• The Nokia Lumia 1320 sports a 5MP rear camera with LED flash and features Nokia Camera app. 
• For connectivity, the Lumia 1320 supports 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, GPRS, EDGE and WiFi connectivity. 
• The smartphone will be available in four colour variants such as Black, Orange, White and Yellow.

Specifications of Nokia Lumia 525 :

The Nokia Lumia 525, an upgraded version of the Lumia 520, was unveiled in November last year.

• The smartphone features 1GB of RAM and runs Windows Phone 8. 
•  The Lumia 525 is powered by a a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon S4 processor.
• It has a 4-inch display with 800 x 480 pixels resolution. 
• It sports 5MP camera without flash. 
• Other features of the smartphone include 1430mAh battery, 8GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card, and apps like Nokia’s Here Maps, Drive and Transit.

Towards that end, the company has tied up with Gameloft, offering the buyers up to Rs. 2000 worth of free games. Playing Modern Combat 4 was actually quite good on the Lumia 525, so people who love to game on their phones would actually like this device.

WhatsApp processed more than 54 billion messages on new years eve. The company tweeted that its 400 million users sent 18 billion messages and received 36 billion messages in a single day. The previous record set by the company was 27 million messages in a day in June last year. According to a recent report, the messaging service adds more than 50 million new users each month and aims to reach the half a billion user mark by 2014 mid year. According to a report the company will have more than 2 Billion users by 2014 year end.

The company recently disclosed in a blog post that its 400 million users send more than 16 billion messages every day, receive 32 billion and send 500 million images every day. That's much more than other popular messaging services like Snapchat, which gets 400 million images per pay.

AMD has announced a new milestone in their collaboration with BlueStacks, a joint solution that brings the complete Google Android OS experience to Microsoft Windows- based tablets, 2-in-1s, notebooks and desktops. Optimisations for the fourth generation AMD APU in BlueStacks provide a complete, Android user interface and extensive support for Android apps for entertainment and productivity.

“Users whose devices and preferences span the two ecosystems no longer have to face device-specific restrictions on the benefits of one ecosystem or the other because AMD and BlueStacks have created a seamless user experience between the operating systems. “Now users have access to all the apps — games, communications and content consumption — they love on their Android mobile devices right at their fingertips, while getting important productivity tasks or high-end PC gaming accomplished on their Windows PC.”                        


The new version of BlueStacks running on a Windows PC powered by fourth generation AMD APUs offers:

•    A familiar Android user interface, including settings, configuration and customization controls;
•    The ability to run Android apps within a window or at full-screen resolution leveraging direct access to AMD graphics processing power;
•    Support for hundreds of thousands of Android apps direct from various Android app stores, as well as synchronization between the same apps being run on the user’s stand-alone Android devices.
•    Seamless interoperability through direct file sharing that enables Android apps to access files stored within the Windows file system.

“We’re working with AMD to build the next great PC and AMD’s industry-leading hardware allows for a more flexible experience with Android apps on the PC for end-users,” says Rosen Sharma, CEO, BlueStacks. “AMD shares our vision of Mobile Plus in providing users with easy access to their favourite Android games, mobile apps and productivity tools from all their devices and moving towards a more open/shared ecosystem.”

The latest version of BlueStacks allows consumers to sync Android apps from a mobile device to a PC with FoneLink, a cloud-based service that enables an AMD Windows-based PCs to become an extension of Android mobile devices and vice versa. BlueStacks also adds support for AMD virtualization hardware so that multiple operating systems and their applications can run simultaneously on the same computer.

We have already started seeing it and now here is the confirmation from the horse’s mouth. Intel has officially said that their processors will work on dual-boot computers that run both Android and Windows OS. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich recently said at the CES 2014 that Intel is now the first microprocessor company to support devices that support the dual-boot OS feature.

Consumers using such systems will be able to switch between Windows and Android with just a press of a button. We did see this feature earlier on the Asus Transformer Book Trio which was launched in India last month. The convertible tablet can dual boot on Windows 8 and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

This is a welcoming feature no doubt, but the success of these devices is still dodgy. Consumers will definitely love the access to both the OS on a single device, but a lot depends on the functionality as well as flexibility. Just recently, Micromax announced a new tablet called the Canvas Lap Tab which dual boots on Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.

LG Electronics decided to kick things off at this year's CES by showing off its latest range of 4K OLED TV's. Part of the EC9800 series, it has unveiled a 55', 65' and 77' variant of its latest 4k OLED technology. The 77 inch OLED is called the 77EC9800, has a resolution of 3840x2160 pixels and a pixel density which is four times as many as High Definition. One of the highlights of 4k is the fact that you can sit closer than a 1080p and not see a pixelated structure, something similar to Apple's Retina display. However, according to CNET's Andrew Hoyle, the curved screen featured in the LG lineup is quite glossy and is successful only to a certain degree at reducing reflections.

The new high end TV's mentioned above will also feature an upgraded Motion Remote. Though much has not been revealed about the TV, LG has confirmed that the EC9800 series will include HDMI 2.0 and HEVC decoding.

Meanwhile, LG has finally made its foray in the wearable technology segment, as the Korean manufacturer announced its Life Band Touch fitness wristband. However, the pricing and availability is yet to be announced.

LG's new Life Band Touch can sync with Android and iOS devices via Bluetooth 4.0, though not much has been detailed regarding its compatibility with smartphones, tablets or even both. Notably, the latest wearable from LG can track physical activities such as steps taken, calories consumed or the amount of distance covered. It features an OLED touch display which can work as a watch and shows notifications from connected device. Along with that, LG has also introduced heart beat earphones ( Heart Rate Earphone), which according to a few sources, can check the user's blood flow in the ear.

Blackberry announced a New Year Bonanza offer for its popular BlackBerry Q5 smartphone. Under this offering, customers can now purchase BlackBerry Q5 smartphone at just Rs. 19,990. The BlackBerry Q5 is available in three colors, red, white and black. The attractive offering on BlackBerry Q5 is in line with BlackBerry’s commitment towards the Indian market and will help the brand to reach out to more potential customers.

Sameer Bhatia, Director – Distribution for BlackBerry India said, “The New Year Bonanza aims at providing a powerful mobile device, with cutting edge BlackBerry 10 OS at an affordable price point to the consumers.”

We did mention in our BlackBerry Q5 review that the Q5 is a tad more expensive than what the sweet spot would have been - somewhere around the Rs. 20,000 mark, it seems BlackBerry has finally done some sensible pricing. It's a must buy for those who desperately want a BlackBerry 10 device, but for whom the Q10 is out of budget.

Nokia finally bids adieu to MeeGo and Symbian, the Finnish giant officially confirmed the end of an era via the official Symbian Team account on Twitter.

The deadline has been approved and the Ovi store will not accept any more apps, which means that developers will no longer have access to provide updates or new apps in the Ovi Store. However, devs will still be getting revenue for their apps and all apps currently available will still be available for download.

Nokia's highly anticipated rumored Android phone, dubbed 'Normandy', might still be alive and kicking, according to @eveleaks, as a new tweet by the serial leakster displays the following message loud and clear,"The reports of Normandy's death have been greatly exaggerated."  Bearing in mind the fact that in the past @eveleaks have provided fairly accurate information about rumours and speculations and it's a no brainer if this rumour also turns out to be true.

The dev team behind Normandy is lead by Egil Kvaleberg and Peter Skillman, the same people behind the Asha range of smartphones. The images of the Nokia Normandy point to a 4-inch display along with a dual-SIM variant, with a product code said to be RM-980.

It is highly unlikely that this kind of a device will end up being produced considering the fact that Nokia has decided to sell its smartphone business to Microsoft, however some sources strongly suggest that this device might see the light of the day even in the face of Nokia Microsoft deal.

Security experts hump arise up with a novel way to assure your laptop or tablet hasn't been tampered with and your information compromised - glint apprehend glossiness.

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iBerry has announced the World’s first switchable 3G module octa‐core tablet. The Auxus CoreX8 3G  tablet is powered by Samsung’s  Exynos  5  Octa‐Core  28nm processor with a tri‐core PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU.

Windows Phone users will be elated as Microsoft has announced that their three all time classics - Solitaire, Mahjong and a new version of Minesweeper are now available for download.

Windows PC users have been enjoying these games over the past two decades. Now, these games have been tweaked for non-PC devices. Moreover, these games will have Xbox Live integration, so you can compete against your friends on leader boards. The new Solitaire Collection also has a 'Play', Pause, Resume option, that allows users to transition between their Window devices.

You can find the games from the links mentioned below:
Solitaire for Windows Phone
Mahjong for Windows Phone
Minesweeper for Windows Phone