Twitter has announced "promoted recording ads" that would appropriate advertisers to collection videos on the micro-blogging position and alter bar the "get and effectiveness" of that proportionality.

Regan extra that Twitter module pay a "outgo per view" represent for advertisers: "This means advertisers only get effervescent when a person starts playacting the recording," he said.

"Additionally, advertisers using Promoted Video screw hit to husky video analytics," specified as how some fill catch the total video, he said.

According to research unfaltering eMarketer, Peep accounted for nearly 0.5 per coin of global digital ad revenues in 2013. The interrogation other that this present gain more to 0.8 per coin in 2014. Twirp revealed conclusion month that its identify of monthly nimble users has reached 271 meg, up nearly 24 per centime from an assemblage ago. In India there has seen a ontogeny of 37% in gregarious networking during 2013 and faculty soul solon than 80 cardinal Facebook and Twitter users by the end of 2014. The micro blogging place revealed that its revenue has magnified to $312.2 million due to amount in ambulatory ads, which are 81% of count advertizing sales.

Released by Google in October 2013, Android KitKat is slowly but surely embracing more and more devices, as manufacturers are striving to provide updates to keep users happy. According to Google data gathered between August 5 and August 12, KitKat now runs on 20.9% of all Android devices. KitKat was at 17.9% in July, and 13.6% in June, so its steady growth is obvious.

While we now have fewer devices running Jelly Bean when compared to last month, this version of Android (including 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3) is still the most widely used, being found on 54.2% of devices. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich currently powers 10.6% of Android devices, while 13.6% are stuck running 2.3 Gingerbread. Last on the list, still giving life to 0.7% of devices, is the very old Android 2.2 Froyo. Other Android versions, like Honeycomb or Éclair, are not listed because they account for less than 0.1%.


It will be interesting to see how things stand after Google launches the brand new Android L (currently available as a Developer preview for select Nexus devices). Let's hope the upgrade process won't be a painfully long one - though we're afraid that this is exactly what will happen in the case of some manufacturers.

In the effort of making 'global email' spam free, Google on Tuesday announced that its Gmail service will now begin rejecting emails that contain misleading combinations of accented or non-Latin characters. Notably, Google had last week announced support for email addresses that contained such characters last week. The search giant on Tuesday said that it is rolling-out some changes to ensure that spammers or scammers cannot use accented or non-Latin characters in suspicious combinations in emails, as similarities between character sets can be exploited to send misleading or harmful messages.

Google said that it is filtering emails for such domains using an open standard, the Unicode Consortium's "Highly Restricted" specification, considering it will strike a 'healthy balance between legitimate uses of these new domains and those likely to be abused.'

"To stay one step ahead of spammers, the Unicode community has identified suspicious combinations of letters that could be misleading, and Gmail will now begin rejecting email with such combinations," said Mark Risher, Spam & Abuse Team, Google.

Google last week announced support for non-Latin characters in email addresses, calling it the 'first step toward more global email'. The company is trying to make the adoption of email addresses containing accented or non-Latin characters widespread by providing partial support in its very popular Gmail service. Google said, "The technology is there, but someone has to take the first step. Today we're ready to be that someone." The first step as per Google was allowing Gmail to recognise addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters, and thus giving Gmail users the ability to send emails to, and receive emails from such email addresses.

Google added that it would soon bring Calendar support for email addresses with accented or non-Latin characters, and also make it possible in the future to create Gmail addresses of the same type.

iberry has launched Auxus Note 5.5, the company’s first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner. It has a 5.5-inch HD OGS display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core with MediaTek MT6592 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera, similar to Nuclea N2 and Nuclea X.
It has a fingerprint sensor below the camera that lets you unlock the phone easily. It has option to configure three fingerprints and has Finger App Lock feature to hide apps to create security profile with apps of your choice to be hidden or shown upon unlocking.


iberry Auxus Note 5.5 Specifications

• 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS OGS display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection
• 1.7 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor with 700 MHz Mali 450-MP4 GPU
• Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS
• Dual SIM with dual standby
• Fingerprint Scanner
• 13MP autofocus rear camera with LED Flash
• 8MP front-facing camera
• Harlequin LED Notification
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC
• 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB
• 3200 mAh battery

iberry has also launched the Auxus AX04i, a variant of the Auxus AX04 phablet with 3G support. Other specifications are similar, including a 7-inch display,Android 4.4 KitKat, 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor.



iberry Auxus AX04i Specifications

• 7-inch IPS display
• 1.3 GHz dual-core processor with Mali 400 GPU
• Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• Dual SIM (GSM + GSM)
• 2MP rear camera
• 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, USB OTG
• 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB
• 3000 mAh battery

The iberry Auxus Note 5.5 and the Auxus AX04i are priced at Rs. 13,990 and Rs. 6,490, respectively. These smartphones would be available exclusively on eBay India starting August 21st.

Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the US by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018, Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India said here Tuesday.
“Even at the current growth rate, we will have 500 million Indians on the Internet by 2018. By the end of this year, India will become larger than the US in terms of number of Internet users. By 2018, India will have twice the number of Internet users as the US does. Almost half the country will be connected through the Internet,” he said while addressing “Digitizing India” organised by FICCI Ladies Organization. He mentioned that it took the country 10 years to go from 10 million Internet users to 100 million Internet users. Now the country is adding five million new Internet users every month. India now has over 200 million Internet users.

He mentioned that the path of purchase has changed in India and people are increasingly using online platform for retail purchase. Talking about the next big technology wave in the world, he said wearable gadgets are expected to take four years to reach a billion consumers. “Everything is getting accelerated with technology. Every new wave of technology has taken half as long as the previous technology. The next big thing will take half the time taken by smartphones,” he said.

Smartphones took eight years to reach a billion consumers. “The future is here. Wearable devices are the next big thing. It is taking on computing. All these wearable devices will penetrate across the world very fast, and with it technology will get better and better,” he added. He also mentioned that software will impact traditional industries in a big way in the coming days. “Like the automotive industry has not changed much in the last 50 years. The next big thing that could happen is the driverless car. In the next 20 years, in our lifetime, software can do anything,” Anandan said. He pointed out that consumers are now connected through numerous devices like television, notebooks, laptops, smartphones and wearable devices as well.

In 2014, 2.8 billion people in the world out of seven billion are connected through the Internet. By 2020, it is expected that five billion people will be using the Internet.

A team of researchers from Microsoft Research were able to modify a regular smartphone camera or webcam to capture – Kinect-like – depth, with the help of simple hardware changes and machine learning techniques.

The team modified the conventional monocular 2D camera by removing the near infrared filter which is used to block unwanted light signals in pictures. Then they made the ordinary camera to act as an infrared camera by adding a filter that only allowed infrared light through, along with a ring of several cheap near-infrared LEDs. They used hybrid classification-regression forests to learn how to map from near infrared intensity images to absolute, metric depth in real-time.


Microsoft claims that experiments were so accurate that they outperformed a conventional light fall-off baseline, and is comparable to high-quality consumer depth cameras, but with a dramatically reduced cost, power consumption, and form-factor.
Modified devices were successfully able to track the depth of user’s hands and face.

Our approach targets close-range human capture and interaction where dense 3D estimation of hands and faces is desired. We use hybrid classification-regression forests to learn how to map from near infrared intensity images to absolute, metric depth in real-time, says Microsoft.

The research team led by Sean Ryan Fanello, Cem Keskin, and Shahram Izadi will present a paper on the work Tuesday at Siggraph, a computer graphics and interaction conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Microsoft just announced the Nokia 130 and 130 Dual SIM, most affordable Nokia phones with built-in video and music player. These have 1.8″ (160 x 128 pixels) TFT displays, run on Series 30+ OS and features FM Radio, similar to the Nokia 108 Dual SIM that was launched back in October in India. These have Bluetooth 3.0 with SLAM that enables multimedia content sharing between phones equipped with Bluetooth, but lacks a rear camera. These are ‎13.9mm thick and weighs just 68 grams.

The Nokia 130 Dual SIM comes with dual SIM support. Both these have a 2G connectivity, micro SD card support up to 32GB, built-in LED flashlight on the back, 1020 mAh battery that promises up to 13 hours talk time and up to 46 hours of playback time.The Nokia 130 and Nokia 130 Dual SIM comes in Red, White and Black colors and is priced at just 19 Euros (Rs. 1,550 approx / US$ 25) before taxes and subsidies. These phones would be available sometime this quarter. As usual, the dual SIM variant has been listed on official India website, so we can expect the phone here soon.

Sony will soon be launching its own curved TV line, starting with this new S90 series. Boasting of 4K resolution, a subtler curve, and better sound quality, these 65 and 75 inch UHD TV sets are poised to become Sony's champions in the hectic contest for the world's best curved living room screen.

A combination of Sony's top display technologies, such as BRAVIA, TRILUMINOS color, the 4K X-Reality PRO engine, and Motionflow XR800Hz are set to compete with rivals in terms of picture quality. But the S90 series isn't just all about show, so to speak. The line also boasts of a new 4.2 channel Multi-angle Live Speaker System that is advertised to guarantee quality 360-degree surround sound. What Hi-Fi?'s exclusive test of those speakers verified that the angled speakers do indeed give a better balance to the sound. The S90 is based on Sony's existing X9005B model and inherits a couple of other features as well, including edge-lit LED backlights, a removable Skype camera, and active 3D, with two 3D glasses included in the box.

The literal eye catcher of these pieces is, of course, the curved shaped, always advertised to give a more cinematic viewing experience. In this regard, however, Sony dares to be different, employing a still unrevealed shallower angle than its rivals. The manufacturer claims that this angle makes images appear less distorted. The likes of Samsung, on the other hand, subscribe to the 4200R theory, basically an angle that produces a curve of a circle with a 4.2 meter radius.

The BRAVIA S90 will come in two models, the 65-inch KD-65S9005B and the 75-inch KD-75S9005B. Sony has not yet revealed any pricing, launch date, or availability, but with IFA 2014 looming over the horizon, it is likely that it will disclose those details next month in Berlin.

Yesterday, there were reports stating that HTC will announce its upcoming flagship device the One W8 on August 20th and launch it on August 21st. However, today HTC has sent out press invites for an event on August 19th. It is anticipated that the company will announce a Windows Phone based on the HTC One (M8) design. No clues about the event can be drawn from the invites that are sent out. The HTC One W8 is expected to boast of similar feature to its Android counterpart with Snapdragon 801 chipset, 2GB of RAM, 16 and 32GB memory and a 5 inch 1080p display. The phone is expected to be dubbed as “One (W8) for Windows”, as per Engadgets source. It also says that it would feature voice over LTE, but it is likely to be enabled by Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1 update.

The latest Windows 8.1 update also adds support to the smart covers like the HTC Dot View case in the Windows Phone. No other details about the specs, pricing and availability of the HTC One W8 are known as of yet. We will have to wait till August 19th and see what does HTC actually has in for us.


It looks like HTC is preparing a mid range smartphone as per series of tweets from popular leakster @upleaks.  Dubbed as A11, for now the device will be from HTC’s Desire line and is running on a Snapdragon 410 processor. This is the first ever 64-bit SoC from Qualcomm that was unveiled in December of last year. It has a 1.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, and an Adreno 306 GPU.The HTC A11 will sport a 4.7″ having a resolution of 480×854-pixels. Running on  Android 4.4.2, the device will also have HTC’s traditional Sense 6.0 UI. It will boast ofa 5MP  rear-facing and 0.3MP front facing camera. Being a mid range phone, it will not have the popular HTC Boomsound speakers. @upleaks also touted Sprint launch of the HTC A11 phone. 

Google has quietly added a new feature to the Android Device Manager that lets you impose a password-protected lock screen on your lost phone, with a big green dialer button on it saying “Please call me”.

Or actually, the message can say anything you like. You type the message into the device manager when you’re remotely locking your lost/borrowed/stolen phone, along with the number you would like the finder/borrower/thief to call. (Hint: don’t type in your mobile phone number, as I did when I was testing the new feature, as that would defeat the purpose.)

They won’t see the number, but when they press the green dialer button, your phone will call that number, and you can then beg the finder/partner/thief to return your phone. You could even talk money. If they sound nice (and obviously they must be nice, if they’ve gone to the trouble of pressing that button), you could be so bold as to ask them out for a coffee/date, under the pretext of “returning” your phone.

If you’re desperate enough to risk a few hundred dollars to get a date, you could even lose your phone on purpose, maybe by slipping it into the pocket of someone you were too shy to approach directly. The new feature is a neat solution to the problem honest phone finders have in trying to figure out who on the contacts list to call to return a lost phone. Obviously you can’t just call the owner, because you have their phone. And if they’ve remotely locked their phone, then you can’t even get into the contacts database to find someone to call in the first place.

After registering a Preliminary Enquiry against Google for alleged mapping of classified areas, CBI has sought help of Survey of India which has alleged that the Internet giant continued to “pollute” the web with classified material despite being warned against it.

As the probe continues, Surveyor General of India Swarna Subba Rao alleged that the Internet giant did not refrain from mentioning classified site even after having been asked not to do so. “During their (Google’s) Mapathon 2013 exercise, they collected lot of classified data and we had approached them to refrain from doing so when we came to know about it,” Dr Rao told PTI from Dehradun.

He said, instead of desisting, Google “polluted the Internet” with the coordinates of classified locations on the map. “They (Google) have expressed their desire to meet me at some hotel but I have been firm of a meeting in office,” he said.

The Survey of India (SoI), the official mapping agency of the country, is the complainant in the case. After initial probe by Delhi Police, the case was handed over to the CBI as the investigation involved a company which is based in the US. Google had not taken permission from SoI before organising a mapping competition in February-March 2013 in which they asked citizens to map their neighbourhoods, especially details related to hospitals and restaurants.

The CBI registered the PE based on a complaint filed by the Surveyor General of India’s office to the Union Home Ministry, in which it was alleged that Google had been indulging in activities of mapping several areas which were not included in the maps of the country.  As per the National Map Policy 2005, “the responsibility for producing, maintaining and disseminating the topographic map database of the whole country, which is the foundation of all spatial data, vests with the Survey of India”.

It was alleged that Google India had launched a nationwide contest and people might have passed on maps and other key details of strategic installations located in other cities and states to the US company, the sources added.

World's most popular free email providers Gmail and Yahoo have made telephone number mandatory for creation of new email addresses in a bid to check spam. Any person wishing to create a new email id needs to provide a telephone number which Gmail and Yahoo use for verification. Google India spokesperson claimed giving phone number was optional but repeated attempts to create a new email address on Gmail by skipping the mobile number requirement failed.

The new chip dubbed “TrueNorth” works to mimic the “right brain” functions of sensory process responding to sights, smells and knowledge from the surroundings to “learn” to retort in numerous things, Modha said. It accomplishes this task by employing a vast network of “neurons” and “synapses,” just like however the human brain functions by exploitation info gathered from the body’s sensory organs.

The researchers designed TrueNorth with a million programmable neurons and 256 million programmable synapses on a chip with 4,096 cores and 5.4 billion transistors. A key to the performance is that the extraordinarily low energy use on the new chip, that runs on the equivalent energy of a hearing-aid battery. This can enable a chip put in in a car or smartphone to perform supercomputer calculations in real time while not connecting to the cloud or different network.

The Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAPSE chip, is capable of 256 million programmable synapses, 1 million programmable neurons and 46 billion synaptic operations per watt, per second. The new chip dubbed "TrueNorth" works to mimic the "right brain" functions of sensory processing "responding to sights, smells and information from the environment to learn to respond in different situations. It accomplishes this task by using a huge network of "neurons" and "synapses," similar to how the human brain functions by using information gathered from the body's sensory organs.


The researchers say TrueNorth in some ways that outperforms today’s supercomputers though an instantaneous comparison isn’t attainable as a result of they operate otherwise. But they wrote that TrueNorth will deliver from 46 billion to 400 billion “synaptic” calculations per second per watt of energy. That compares with the foremost energy-efficient supercomputer that delivers 4.5 billion “floating point” calculations per second and per watt. The chip was made-up exploitation Samsung’s 28-nanometer method technology.

The project funded by the United States Defense Advanced research projects Agency (DARPA) revealed its analysis in a very cover article on the August 8 edition of the journal Science.
“It is an achievement to leverage a method used for commercially out there, low-power mobile devices to deliver a chip that emulates the human brain by process extreme amounts of sensory info with little power,” aforesaid choreographer Han of Samsung electronics, in a very statement.
“This may be a vast beaux arts breakthrough that’s essential because the business moves toward the next-generation cloud and big-data process.”

The color change scam tricks users into downloading malware via a site that claims to let users change the colors of their Facebook profile. The latest iteration of the scam has already affected more than 10,000 people around the world, according to Cheetah Mobile, a Chinese Internet company that highlighted the most recent appearance of the scam in its blog.

The malware begins by advertising an app that tells Facebook users they can change the color theme of their profile. Download the app and you're directed to a malicious phishing site, according to Cheetah Mobile's security researchers.

The website targets users in two ways. First it steals the users' Facebook Access Tokens by asking them to view a color changer tutorial video. Temporary access to the tokens allows hackers to connect to the user’s Facebook friends. If a user doesn’t view this video, the site then tries to get them to download the malicious application. If a user is on a PC, the site leads them to download a pornographic video player. If the user is on an Android device, the site issues a warning saying the device has been infected and advises users to download a suggested app.

The problem, according to Cheetah Mobile, stems from "a vulnerability that lives in Facebook’s app page itself, allowing hackers to implant viruses and malicious code into Facebook-based applications that directs users to phishing sites." Anyone who has already fallen victim to the scam should uninstall the app immediately (this can be done from the "app" menu in your Facebook settings) and change their Facebook password.

 
Yahoo said Thursday it will join an effort by rival Google Inc. Google to create a secure email system by next year that could make it nearly impossible for hackers or government officials to read users' messages. Even the email providers themselves won't be able to decrypt messages.

ASUS launched the highly anticipated Fonepad7 in India for Rs. 8,999. The latest generation of ASUS Fonepad7 is a portable 7-inch palm-sized Dual SIM Android tablet featuring 1GB RAM.

The Fonepad7 fully supports the Android 4.4 Kitkat upgrade, and its 3G function enables ubiquitous internet connection. The tablet is just 110mm wide, and is easy to hold in one hand while reading or watching videos. Dual cameras with the new ASUS ZenUI interface allow you to capture compelling images in every situation.

ASUS Fonepad7 features a Intel Atom Multi-Core Processor 1.2 GHz with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology that puts fast and responsive web browsing, as well as smooth HD video and gaming.
The tablet features 4GB storage and a MicroSD slot for an additional 64GB of storage. It offers 10 hours of 720P video playback or 30 hours of 3G talk time. The ASUS Fonepad7 is available in four vibrant colors options: White, Blue, Black or Red.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Mashable that some users began to notice the change Wednesday — but that it is not yet affecting all of Facebook's mobile users.

The change will only affect users of the iPhone and Android app; messages will remain in the iPad and Windows Phone app. It's not clearly exactly how long it will take for all of Messenger's holdouts to see the change, but the spokesperson said it will continue to roll out over the coming weeks. Although the main Facebook app has been prompting users to download Messenger since April, when the company announced it would be making the switch, users could still access messages without downloading Messenger until now.

Facebook has been slowly ramping up to this change since the spring, when Facebook first announced it would be requiring mobile users to download both apps. Last week, Messenger holdouts received an email alerting them their messages would be moved over to the Messenger app in the very near future. Though some users remain unhappy about the move, Facebook has maintained switching to Messenger will benefit all users as messaging with Messenger is faster and more reliable. The app, which first launched in 2011, already has more than 200 million monthly users, the company reports.

ASUS Chromebox is 12 cm X 12 cm sized fast, compact home or office computer that runs on Chrome OS. It has the latest Haswell processors and supports 4K ultra high definition video playback. The Chromebox works right out of the box with apps for work, play and communicating online or offline. It comes with virus protection built in and updates automatically. It starts up in seconds and gives you quick access to all your favorite websites and apps. It also houses a processor powerful enough for ultrafast multitasking performance in Chrome OS and the connectivity options to choose your own screen size, connect to multiple displays at once and even attach to any VESA-mountable monitor or HD TV. Starting at Rs. 21000/- in India, ASUS Chromebox is an attractive new proposition for those looking for a space saving desktop solution.

About the launch of the new product, Mr. Vinay Shetty - Country Head - Component Business, ASUS (India) said, "We're excited to launch the Chromebox in India. There's been an increase in demand for small form factor mini PCs / HTPCs and the Chromebox would be a great alternative for such applications. With Intel's latest Haswell processors and 4K ultra high definition video playback and running Google's Chrome OS, the Chromebox is a great new device for customers looking for a mini PC."


The ASUS Chromebox boots up in a flash and instantly syncs with Chrome across all your devices so you can bring your bookmarks, preferences and extensions with you. With 100GB of free Google Drive space free for two years you can access all your data and files in the cloud by logging into your Google account. The compact Chrome box is big on connectivity. It comes with high performance 802.11 b/g/n dual-band wireless, four USB 3.0 ports for fast data transfer, HDMI and DisplayPort for connecting to the latest displays and HDTVs, including support for dual displays and an SD card reader for easily accessing stored photos and documents.

The ASUS Chromebox also supports up to 4K UHD playback, letting you enjoy the best quality content from the web. Kick back and relax as you browse the web or view photos from your SD card and with a wide assortment of offline apps, ASUS Chromebox lets you edit documents, play games and use other popular apps without an internet connection.

The Chromebox is easy to use and share. Everyone can have separate accounts where all of their stuff is kept safe, or use guest mode and you can also easily switch between accounts. Parents can also ensure a safe and family-friendly web surfing environment by setting up supervised user profiles. ASUS Chromebox comes with a specially designed high-quality ASUS keyboard and mouse.

Some additional details about the product:
ASUS Chromebox CN60 (Celeron) - Rs. 21000/-
ASUS Chromebox CN60 (Core i3) - Rs. 36500/-
ASUS Chromebox CN60 (Core i7) - Rs. 58000/-

Philips Mobile entered the Indian smartphone market with S308, W3500 and W6610 smartphones back in May. At the launch event the company said that it would launch the I928 smartphone in the country soon. Now Philips I928 and S388, two new Android smartphones have been listed on the official Philips India website along with the price tag. The I928 has a 6-inch 1080p display with 2.5D curved glass screen and narrow bezels, powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek processor, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, f/2.0 lens and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has leather-like back cover.


The Philips S388 has a 4.5-inch qHD display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Both these smartphones run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) and comes with dual SIM support.

Philips I928 specifications

• 6-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD IPS 2.5D curved glass screen
• 1.7 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor with 700 MHz Mali 450-MP4 GPU
• Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Dual SIM
• 13MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, 1080p Full HD video recording
• 5MP front-facing camera
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 7.9 mm thick and weighs 168 grams
• 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS
• 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
• 3000 mAh battery

Philips S388 specifications

• 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) IPS display
• 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor
• Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Dual SIM
• 5MP rear camera with LED Flash
• 0.3MP front-facing camera
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 9.1 mm thick and weighs 136.5 grams
• 1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to with micro SD
• 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS
• 1700 mAh battery

Both the Philips I928 and S388 come in black colors and are priced at Rs. 38,538 (MRP) and Rs. 13,694 (MRP), respectively.

PowerSquare, Inc., a fast-growing startup in the wireless power industry, today announced the launch of its patent-pending Adaptive Position-Free (APF) system that simultaneously refuels multiple Qi-compatible devices. Developing technology that charges more than one device, on a large surface, in any position, has been a key challenge for the ever-evolving wireless power industry. Technology solutions today, however, often leverage expensive multiple-coil systems. As a result, companies cannot go to market with these products and leave them as proof of concept.

“The PowerSquare team is thrilled to launch our Adaptive Position-Free system. The wireless power ecosystem now has a cost-effective way to collaborate and deliver greater innovation around existing standards to consumers,” said Pavan Pudipeddi, CEO of PowerSquare. “Our goal is to partner with developers and create a range of marketable, consumer-friendly devices. With combined experience of more than 50 years, the PowerSquare team has been part of the industry’s evolution. We look forward to playing an integral role in its growth moving forward.”

The company will launch its Qi Wireless Charging Pad, the first PowerSquare branded, APF-based consumer product by December 2014. PowerSquare executives have already contributed to some of the wireless world’s biggest milestones, including the first mobile USB fast charger and the first smartphone embedded with wireless power. They have served a wide range of roles at technology giants including Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and National Semiconductor (acquired by Texas Instruments in 2011 for $6.5 billion).

PowerSquare is a member of the Wireless Power Consortium, the global organization striving to make Qi the worldwide standard for wireless charging. The WPC is composed of more than 200 companies that serve the mobile phone, electronic, battery, wireless power, semiconductor, infrastructure and component marketplaces. PowerSquare’s goal to partner with the ecosystem and develop quality APF-based products helps further the WPC’s objective to improve the wireless power industry.

A U.S. security firm has uncovered what appears to be the largest Internet security breach in recent memory, conducted by a group of Russia-based hackers. According to Milwaukee-based firm Hold Security, which conducted an 18-month investigation into the breach, the online gang stole 1.2 billion username and password combos, as well as more than 500 million email addresses.

The hackers pulled off the data heist, which ultimately scooped up 4.5 billion records, using unsuspecting systems of botnet network victims (in this case, computers with viruses that allowed a single operator to control a large group of affected systems) to test websites for SQL vulnerabilities. When a vulnerability was discovered, the hackers were then able to execute SQL injections, enabling them to send malicious commands to a website and steal its data, including usernames and passwords.
The group managed to steal information from 420,000 web and FTP sites, Hold Security said.

Hold Security's blog post, which details the data breach, also promotes its own services. However, an independent security expert hired by The New York Times confirmed its findings. "Your data has not necessarily been stolen from you directly," the blog post said. "It could have been stolen from the service or goods providers to whom you entrust your personal information, from your employers, even from your friends and family."

The Russia-based cyber gang is comprised of a dozen men in their 20s who began as amateur spammers by buying information on the online black market back in 2011, The New York Times reported. Ironically, the hacking revelation has come during the Black Hat computer-security conference in Las Vegas, which takes place from Aug. 2 to 7.

The Times said Hold Security is trying to develop an online tool to help individual users identify whether or not they were impacted by the data breach. Those who use the Internet for online banking and shopping will likely be the most troubled by the company's report. As for businesses, they are advised to immediately run a check to see if their websites are vulnerable to SQL injections.
"If you haven’t updated your password recently, now would be the time," Adam Kujawa, head of malware intelligence at security company Malwarebytes Labs, told Mashable. "Make sure it’s a strong password containing capital and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. Also, don’t use the same username and password combo for every site. This is especially true for sites that have personal information like the site to your bank or credit card."

Courtesy : Mashable

Just in time for the 2nd anniversary of the Curiosity rover touching down on Martian soil, Google has tucked 3D, explorable versions of Mars and the Moon right into Maps. Shootin’ across the galaxy in Google Maps is pretty easy, as long as you know where to click.

Here’s how to get there:

1. First, head over to Google Maps
2. Down in the bottom left, you should see an icon that lets you put the map in “Google Earth” mode. Click that.
3. Wait for the once-flat map to load in 3D. Then start zooming out. Zoom out as far as you can
4. Once you’re zoomed all the way out, just wait a second. Options for “Moon” and “Mars” should appear at the bottom of your screen, as pictured above.
5. (If nothing shows up, you might have the “Explore” tab closed. Click the pair of upward arrows in the bottom right to expand the Explore drawer.)

Note: You need to be in the “new” version of Google Maps for this to work. If you’ve switched yourself back to the classic version, you’ll have to switch back temporarily.

Google added the heavenly bodies to commemorate the Curiosity rover's second year cruising the Martian surface, and while it isn't quite as flexible as Google Earth, Maps' new feature doesn't require any setup or forethought. There aren't any Street Views just yet, but there's still plenty of magnificent desolation to peek at after you're done plotting your course to the chiropractor.

According to a recent study released by Hewlett-Packard (HP), examined 10 common smart devices, including thermostats, smart TVs and webcams. Each device had approximately 25 vulnerabilities, the study claimed. Many of the vulnerabilities had to do with a lack of password strength and weak protection software. Eight out of 10 devices failed to require passwords strong enough to be useful, and the same amount put users at risk of having their personal information intercepted via cloud services.

Information technology research firm Garner predicts there will be 26 billion individual Internet of Things objects in the world by the year 2020. In 2009, there were only about nine million of these devices sold.

"The fact is, that today, many categories of connected things in 2020 don't yet exist," Gartner research director Peter Middleton said in a statement. "As product designers dream up ways to exploit the inherent connectivity that will be offered in intelligent products, we expect the variety of devices offered to explode."

"Late last year, we were hearing a lot about Internet of Things, and a bit about IoT security, but had not seen anything that focused on the complete picture of IoT security," a statement from HP read. "So, we decided to start the OWASP [Open Web Application Security Project] Internet of Things Top 10 Project, which aims to educate on the main facets of Internet of Things security that people should be concerned with."

Watch brand Timex introduced a phone-free smartwatch Wednesday, the company announced in a statement. Called the Ironman One GPS+, the 3G-connected device's standout quality is its ability to connects to apps on its own, rather than syncing with a smartphone. The company is targeting users who use smartwatches for fitness-tracking, but don't carry a phone and a watch at the same time.

The smartwatch comes with 4GB of memory, MP3 capabilities and a year of free 3G data provided by AT&T. It also supports all fitness-tracking apps and is water resistant for those who prefer to exercise outdoors or in a pool.

As its name suggests, the watch is equipped with GPS to allow the user to track his or her location and make whereabouts visible to others. Meanwhile, the "Find Me Mode" feature lets users fire off customizable alert messages with exact location specifics should an emergency situation arise.
Ironman One GPS+ is available for pre-order on Timex's website for $399. A fancier model with a built-in heart rate monitor goes for $449, and both will hit AT&T and electronics stores by fall.

New leaked images of the Moto 360 suggest that the smartwatch will have a wireless charging dock.

Obtained by Italian blogger Mister Gadget, the Moto 360 is seen cradled in the dock horizontally, so that the face is exposed on its side. It's not certain how the device will charge the Moto 360 wirelessly, although recent FCC documents indicate that it could support Qi charging, meaning it could work with other wireless chargers such as the Nexus 5's.

The back reveals that the smartwatch will feature already-announced features, including a pedometer and IP67 dust and water resistance, as well as a heart rate sensor.Like all smartwatches set to use Android Wear, the Moto 360 will focus on voice controls, reminders, fitness monitoring, suggestions and mapping.

Motorola is yet to officially announce a release date for the wearable, but has maintained that it will launch this summer.

Danish researchers claim to have set a new data transfer world record by transmitting over a single optical fibre at an incredible speed of 43 terabits per second.

Researchers at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) used a new type of optical fibre to claim the world data transfer record. The team has eclipsed the record that was set by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie, by proving that it is possible to transfer fully 43 terabits per second with just a single laser in the transmitter. This is an appreciable improvement on the German team's previous record of 32 terabits per second. The worldwide competition in data speed is contributing to developing the technology intended to accommodate the immense growth of data traffic on the internet, which is estimated to be growing by 40-50% annually.

What is more, emissions linked to the total energy consumption of the internet as a whole currently correspond to more than 2% of the global man-made carbon emissions — which puts the internet on a par with the transport industry (aircraft, shipping etc), researchers said.

However, these other industries are not growing by 40% a year. It is therefore essential to identify solutions for the internet that make significant reductions in energy consumption while simultaneously expanding the bandwidth. The researchers achieved their latest record by using a new type of optical fibre borrowed from the Japanese telecoms giant NNT.  This type of fibre contains seven cores (glass threads) instead of the single core used in standard fibres, which makes it possible to transfer even more data. Despite the fact that it comprises seven cores, the new fibre does not take up any more space than the standard version.

It’s clear that anonymity, in one way or another, is going to be a part of our digital future. But the folks over at JustLeak.it have looked to the past for inspiration in this
braveweird new world.
Leak is a web service that lets you send anonymous emails to people. Just put in a recipients’ email, choose the type of relationship you have with that person (friend, coworker, etc.) and send off your message.

It’s a type of one-to-one anonymity that feels necessary given the number of anonymous sharing networks focused on the broadcast. In fact, Secret was originally built for just this purpose: to send an anonymous message to someone’s email. The Leak service is still pretty barebones, lacking the ability to send attachments, but it does have a built-in network effect through a newsletter, where users can receive the best Leaks of the week in their inboxes.

It’s PostSecret meets Whisper messaging, all in your inbox.
The space around anonymity and privacy (and their intersection) is obviously heating up. But it goes beyond the big guys like Whisper and Secret — Mark Cuban’s CyberDust is picking up steam alongside other one-to-one, ephemeral messaging apps like Confide.
You can try out Leak for yourself here.