After Samsung, LG is the new company to launch an entry-level clamshell smartphone in Korea. Named as Wine Smart, it has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It comes with Kakao Talk messenger with a dedicated launch key for the app, T9 keypad and high-power 1W speaker that would the best output even in noisy audio environment. It is 16.9mm thick and weighs 140.8 grams.

It also has a new safe keeper feature aimed at elderly users. This would automatically automatically send the location information or call the emergency number when the phone is unused for a long time. It has a tiny LED notification light on the outside that would offer notification for missed calls, text messages and more.

It has 1GB RAM, 4GB of internal storage with expansion slot and packs a 1700 mAh battery. It has 4G LTE connectivity and comes the usual set of connectivity features such as WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS. The LG Wine Smart comes in black and white colors and would go on sale in South Korea starting September 26th. No word on pricing or availability outside Korea.

Salora International has launched Arya Z2, the company’s latest budget smartphone. The company entered into the smartphone market last year by launching its PowerMaxx smartphone with 3200 mAh battery, the new Arya Z2 is packed with features. It has a 5-inch HD display based on one-glass-solution (OGS) technology, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582A processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.

Salora Arya Z2 specifications :

• 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS OGS display
• 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582A processor with Mali 400MP2 GPU
• Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• Dual SIM (GSM + GSM)
• 8MP rear camera  (Interpolated to 13MP) with LED Flash
• 2MP (Interpolated to 5MP) front-facing camera
• 7.55 mm thick and weighs 155 grams
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory, 32GB expandable memory with MicroSD
• 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
• 1800 mAh battery

The Salora Arya Z2 comes in Black color and is priced at Rs. 6,999. It is backed by Salora’s own established service network from SILCARE, which has over 250 service centers across 189 cities in India, says the company. It is available exclusively from Amazon and comes with a free 8GB microSD card and a 8 flip cover as an introductory offer.

Search giant Google today said it is working with government to launch a nationwide contest for developing a mobile application for the PM's Office, an initiative to support the Digital India programme.

"MyGov, the citizen engagement platform of the Government and Google are collaborating to launch a nationwide contest to develop a mobile app for the PM's Office," Google said in a statement.

Google said the mobile app will bring the PMO to every citizen and the contest will showcase how Indians can build a world class app. As part of supporting the Prime Minister's vision, Google will run a number of initiatives which also include programmes such as helping women get online, getting Indian SMEs online and showcasing India's rich heritage and culture online which will further promote the digital empowerment of citizens.

The search giant said it will continue to build a vibrant language ecosystem online and help the government transition into the increasingly 'mobile' India. To encourage digital literacy and Internet safety, Google is also introducing curriculum for schools, officials and elected representatives. Google is working with the Department of Information Technology and other state governments to develop these initiatives.  Google India Vice President and Managing Director Rajan Anandan said India is already home to the third largest number of Internet users globally with 245 million users as of June 2014 and is on track to become the second largest user market by 2015 and a 500 million-user market by 2016.

"Yet, there are more than a billion people who will need to be brought online for India to realise the vision of a digitally connected, knowledge economy. Prime Minister Modi's Digital India programme will play a transformational role in achieving this," Anandan added.

Microsoft is offering users who backup their photos to OneDrive the opportunity to double their free online storage for a limited time. From now until the end of September, users can claim 30GB of space for saving twice as many photos in the cloud.

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September, and you will get 30 GB of free OneDrive storage moving forward (15 GB base and 15 GB camera roll bonus).”

Microsoft is marketing the offer at iPhone users who are upgrading to iOS 8 or purchasing a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, but the extra space can be claimed by Android and Windows Phone users, too. Just remember that you must sign up before the end of September, otherwise you’re going to miss out on the 15GB bonus.

By backing up your photos and videos to an online storage service like OneDrive, you can enjoy them at any time and on almost any device without having to store them locally. That’s why a service like OneDrive is essential for users with entry-level and midrange devices that don’t offer a lot of internal storage — or 16GB iPhone users that don’t have the pleasure of a microSD card slot.
By storing your photos and videos in the cloud, you can save local storage space and have more room for apps, music, movies, and more. It also means that if your handset is lost or stolen and you never get it back, you haven’t lost your precious memories.

A new headset has been created which lets you connect to devices just with a glance. Researchers have built a new wearable headset which tracks the users gaze and connects him or her to the devices he or she looks at.

The new gadget is called iGaze and contains an eye-tracking camera which calculates where the wearer is looking and transmits it to all the nearly internet-connected devices, such as stereos and TVs via Wi-Fi. The devices within the field of view reply with a beep played through the headset. When the wearer hears it, they need nod to confirm a desire to connect. The two speakers in the headset then send out an inaudible sound which Mics in the nearby devices use to calculate where the wearer is standing, enabling each device to discern if it has been selected.

Two people wearing the iGaze headsets can also connect with each other. The iGaze will allow wearers to swap files or contact information with a glance or tap on the headset. The device has been developed by Lan Zhang at Tsinghua University in China who said it could let wearers interact with the world in various ways. For example, in museums, the device’s head-up display could serve up extra information when a visitor looks at a given exhibit.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang loves a spectacle. So while you’re reading this sentence, the GPU-manufacturer’s founder is regaling thousands of gamers at a 24-hour gaming event the company is sponsoring in Los Angeles with the announcement of Nvidia’s latest graphics processor, code-named “Big Maxwell.”


Despite Nvidia’s draconian efforts to prevent a recurrence of the leaks that presaged the announcement of its Shield Tablet, details of the new GPUs have been dripping into the Interwebs for several weeks. Here’s the official information: The new GPU will initially be available in two SKUs, the $329 GeForce GTX 970 and the $549 GeForce GTX 980. The GTX 970 has 1664 processor cores running at a base frequency of 1050MHz (boost clock of 1178MHz), while the beefier GTX 980 has 2048 cores running at 1126MHz (boost clock of 1216MHz). The GTX 970 and the GTX 980 both have a 256-bit interface to 4GB of GDDR5 memory running at an effective speed of 7Gbps.

The mounting brackets on cards following Nvidia’s reference design will have one dual-link DVI connector, three DisplayPort 1.2 interfaces, and one HDMI 2.0 port. HDMI 2.0 support is particularly important because it supports 4K resolution at a refresh rate of 60Hz (the older HDMI 1.4b standard is limited to a refresh rate of just 30Hz, which is fine for movies, but terrible for games).

• Dynamic Super Resolution, according to Nvidia, enables the new GPUs to deliver 4K-quality graphics on a 1080p display. The processor effectively renders 4K resolution in the GPU’s frame buffer, and then applies a Gaussian filter to downsample the image to 1080p when it's output to the monitor. This promises to increase visual fidelity without taking a hit in frame rate. The feature is enabled by default in Nvidia’s GeForce Experience utility, and the end user may increase the resolution as high as 5K if desired. Scott Herkelman, general manager of Nvidia’s GeForce business unit, demoed the effect for me at a briefing on Tuesday, and it is impressive.

MSAA works by having the GPU sample multiple locations of each pixel in a scene, and then fully rendering and combining those pixels in the image that’s ultimately rendered on the display. In 4X MSAA, four samples of each pixel are taken. For all its effectiveness, MSAA is very computationally expensive and can significantly reduce frame rate when it’s enabled in a game. Nvidia’s Multi-Frame Anti-aliasing (MFAA) functions in a similar fashion, but it samples pixels over two frames while rotating the pixels. The technique, according to Nvidia, delivers results that are very similar to MSAA without the performance hit that MSAA exacts. Herkelman says MFAA is up to 30 percent faster than MSAA.

Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI) is the third big improvement to be found in the GeForce GTX 970 and -980. Briefly, it’s a new lighting technique that promises to deliver much better image quality without requiring a significant performance hit. As Herkelman explained it, a voxel (a portmanteau for volumetric pixel) stores information about the light in a rendered environment.

Oculus Rift support

Nvidia’s VR Direct technology is intended to benefit upcoming virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift. This bundle of features is designed to reduce latency, allow headsets to take full advantage of Nvidia’s dual-GPU SLI technology, and improve stereo-vision support. Herkelman demoed a new space-combat game for me Tuesday, and it looked leagues better than anything I saw over the course of Nvidia’s 3D Vision initiative. Like the original Maxwell architecture Nvidia announced in February, these new GPUs adopt power-savings tricks originally developed by Nvidia’s Tegra CPU team. Where a GeForce GTX 680 card with 2GB of memory has a thermal design power (TDP) rating of 195 watts, and a GeForce GTX 780 with 3GB of memory has a TDP of 250 watts, the TDP for the GeForce GTX 980 with 4GB is just 165 watts.

Despite the lower power consumption, Nvidia says the GTX 980 will deliver 5 teraflops of single-precision compute performance, compared to 3- and 4TFLOPs for the GTX 680 and -780, respectively (a teraflop is one trillion floating-point operations per second). The new GTX 970, meanwhile, has a TDP of 145 watts and delivers 4TFLOPs of compute performance. Thanks to the lower TDPs, reference-design cards will have two 6-pin power connectors to supplement the power the cards draw from the PCIe bus. In the wake of this product launch, Nvidia is discontinuing its GeForce GTX 780Ti, GTX 780, and GTX 770. The suggested retail price for basic boards based on its GeForce GTX 760 has been reduced to $219.

Acer launches new Acer Aspire E series laptops are available in 29.464cm (11.6 inch), 35.56cm (14 inch) and 39.624cms (15.6 inch) models.
New E series price starting from Rs. 20,999 to Rs. 59,999, the new Acer Aspire laptops are : ES1-511, E3-111, E5-511, E5-471, E5-571 and E5-571G.

• Windows 8.1 and Linux Operating Systems
• NVIDIA GeForce 800M series card
• GB: up to 12GB of RAM and 1TB hard disk
• Precision Touchpad (PTP) that supports six-core Windows 8.1 TouchPad gestures
• 4th Generation Intel Core i7 processor

The New Aspire E5-571 comes up with graphics and non-graphics variants and available in five color (Midnight Black, Titanium Silver, Sapphire Blue, Tiger’s Eye Brown and Garnet Red. While the Aspire E5-471 notebook comes in 35.56 cms (14 inch) screen size that is available in P.

“We are excited to partner with Acer in announcing the launch of the new Aspire E series from Acer based on the Windows 8.1 OS. The new OS provides users with an even more familiar and convenient experience across touch, keyboard and mouse inputs, while improving efficiencies. Activities like powering down and switching between apps are easier than before, navigating with the mouse and keyboard will feel more intuitive and finding great new apps to make the most of the software is simpler than before. We are sure consumers will be pleased with their experience of the new Windows 8.1 OS on the equally new Acer Aspire E series.” said Mr. Neeraj Gill, Group Director – OEM, Microsoft India

Jivi Mobiles has launched its first Android smartphone in India called Jivi JSP 20 at a price of Rs. 1,999. The Jivi JSP 20 is currently the lowest priced Android smartphone in India and is targeted at feature-phone users looking to shift to smartphones.

The 2G smartphone features a 3.5-inch capacitive touch display with One Glass Solution at a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Running on a 1 GHz processor and Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system, the smartphone offers dual SIM (G+G) functionality, WiFi and Bluetooth. On the memory front, the Jivi JSP 20 comes with 128 MB RAM and offers 256 MB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 32 GB via microSD card. The phone features a 2 MP rear camera with flash andis powered by a 1350 mAh battery. The smartphone is available exclusively at Amazon.in. The delivery of the smartphone will start from September 25 and buyers pre-booking the Jivi JSP 20 before September 24 will get a flip cover for free.

Jivi JSP 20 Specifications :

•  3.5-inch OGS capacitive display
• Dual SIM (2G + 2G)
• 1 GHz processor
• Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread
• 128 MB RAM
• 256 MB internal storage expandable up to 32 GB
• 2 MP rear camera with flash
• 1350 mAh battery

 
As U.S. military leaders outlined their strategy before Congress to fight Islamic State militants on the battlefield, the National Security Agency chief said on Tuesday he was watching the media-savvy group's cyber capabilities.Asked whether the Sunni Muslim group was planning cyber attacks on U.S. interests, Admiral Mike Rogers said he could not discuss specifics of the organization's technical capabilities.

"We need to assume that there will be a cyber dimension increasingly in almost any scenario that we're dealing with," Rogers said at a cybersecurity conference in Washington. Islamic State, which controls large swaths of Iraq and Syria, has posted carefully choreographed beheading videos online, trumpeted its violent acts on Twitter and used social media to recruit foreign Islamists to the fight.
"Its public messaging and social media is as slick and as effective as any I've ever seen from a terrorist organization," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York last week.
Cybersecurity expert James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said he did not think Islamic State posed any immediate cyber threat to American interests. While there may be no imminent or specific cyber threat from Islamic State, there is a wide-ranging intent to damage the West, a congressional aide said. Different jihadist groups have talked about launching cyber attacks and it may be just a matter of time before they find someone capable of doing it, the aide said on condition of anonymity.



Rogers, speaking generally on how cybersecurity threats are proliferating across all aspects of American life, said: "There is nothing but increased activity out there." As Pentagon officials told Congress on Tuesday they were preparing for a longer-term campaign against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Rogers said cyber defense was a long-haul effort.


The U.S. Cyber Command he leads hopes to have 6,200 cyber employees by 2016 to detect and deflect such threats, and Rogers urged greater cooperation on cybersecurity between government, business and industry. "There are a lot of groups out there - individuals, nation-states - who feel that this is an area worth investing in, because it achieves positive outcomes for them if they can penetrate systems," Rogers said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit.

At very first it was Google who came up with Google Smart Glass then after a long gap Lenovo also announced of its upcoming Lenovo Smart Glass followed by China’s search giant Baidu who announced Baidu Eye a chinese smartglass to rival Google and now this time it was technology giant Sony who also announced its Smart Eyeglass in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, 19th September, 2014. The SmartEyeglass from Sony is a transparent lens eyewear that works by connecting with compatible Smartphones to superimpose information such as images, texts, and symbols, onto the user’s field of view. Only Smartphones having Android 4.1 or later will be compatible with the SmartEyeglass. Further, Android 4.3 or later is necessary in order to make use of the video functionality of the camera.

The SmartEyeglass will offer the users a diverse range of sensing technologies, which includes an accelerometer, brightness sensor, Gyroscope, a CMOS image sensor, microphone and an electronic compass. The SmartEyeglass makes use of the above mentioned features along with the GPS location information provided by the connected Smartphone, in order to give information most optimized to the user’s current circumstances.

Technical overview of the SmartEyeglass prototype

• Binocular see-trough eyewear display.
• Monochrome green colour.
• Maximum display brightness: 1000cd/m2.
• Embedded camera.
• Accelerometer, gyro, compass and brightness sensors.
• Microphone.
• Bluetooth v3.0.
• WiFi – 802.11b/g/n.
• Separate controller with touchpad along with power, navigation and camera buttons.

The technology giant has made use of its unique hologram optics technology in order to develop a phenomenal lens that can achieve high transparency of 85% and thickness of just 3.0 mm, all this has been made possible without the use of half mirrors that can act as obstruction in the user’s vision. The monochrome display of the SmartEyeglass makes sure that high luminance of up to 1,000 cd per meter square is achieved even when the energy consumption is lower than a color display. This high luminance and low energy consumption delivers a screen with clear readability to the user so that he/she can read text easily in a wide range of environments.

At the announcement, Sony also demonstrated some preloaded apps on the SmartEyeglass. A Localive app provides social feeds aggregation and distribution for surrounding local area whereas its-mo NAVI for SmartEyeglass app provides pedestrian navigation. Sony has also announced the availability of a dedicated SmartEyeglass Software Development Kit (Developer Preview) which would enable developers to think upon new and innovative ideas for creating scenarios where the device can be used. The kit will also boost the development of various applications. The kit comes with an emulator, sample code, tutorials to get started, In-depth developer guides, Design guidelines, API references, test instructions and Publishing guidelines.

Yesterday, Apple commented that iOS 8 the user data stored on iPhones or iPads are fully encrypted, so no one, not even Apple, can access them, even with a court or government order. This is certainly an interesting point for the operating system of the Apple company, and Google seem to think the same. The reason is that a few hours after these statements, the guys at Google have announced that Android 5.0, the next version of the popular operating system for mobile devices, also have default data encryptio.

As we say, by this measure, the data stored on devices with newer versions of iOS and Android will be completely inaccessible, unless the person has the correct password. Three years ago, Google already offers the ability to encrypt our data Phones with Android installed, but this measure, it simply ceases to be a possibility , becoming a default feature. As a result, all users will benefit from this improved safety, because until now, it was an option that activated only those with technical expertise.

Undoubtedly, the two companies that dominate the market for mobile operating systems take such measures is something to behold. Anything that increases the security and privacy of user data is welcome.

HTC hasn't made a tablet since 2011 or a Nexus device since 2010, but pretty soon both lacunas will be brought to an end by the launch of a new device: the Nexus 9. Rumored over the summer and confirmed by The Wall Street Journal's sources today, the Nexus 9 tablet will mark a revival of the Google-HTC partnership that produced the original Nexus One device. The Journal says that HTC engineers have been flying back and forth between Mountain View and their Taiwanese base as the two companies collaborate on the development of the new 9-inch device.

Earlier this month, a patent lawsuit filed by Nvidia against Qualcomm and Samsung mentioned that "the HTC Nexus 9, expected in the third quarter of 2014, is also expected to use the Tegra K1." Once that note was spotted, however, the document was swiftly revised to expunge the Nexus 9's name, with the current complaint on Nvidia's website carrying a later stamp of September 11th. Even without the WSJ's corroboration today, therefore, there's sufficient evidence of the Nexus 9's existence and upcoming release. Knowing that it'll be powered by the K1 processor also suggests that it'll be closer in nature to the high-end Nexus 10 built by Samsung than the more budget-conscious Nexus 7 line from Asus.

The imminent release of the Nexus 9 has also been confirmed by sources speaking to The Verge. No further specs or details are known for sure just yet, but it's reasonable to expect Google will unveil its new tablet alongside the full public release of the big Android L update. Announced at Google I/O in June and scheduled to be available in the fall, Android L marks a major visual redesign for Google's mobile OS, and the Nexus 9 — designed by HTC and underpinned by a very capable processor — sounds like a fitting device to show off the new software in all its glory.

                          ^{HomeKit enables connected devices to work together through a single framework}
  

• ^Messaging

                          ^{Voice messaging is now available to send within texts and iMessages} 

• ^{Touch ID}

                                  ^{Touch ID was first introduced in last September's iPhone 5s}

• ^QuickType

^{iOS 8 provides users with a whole new world of typing opportunities, from swiping rather than typing, or using a traditional keyboard layout.}

• ^{Photos and Camera}

                       ^{The iCloud Photo Library allows you to access your pictures from any iOS device.}
 

• iCloud Drive

        ^{Access all presentations, documents and images in the iCloud to access through any iOS-enabled device}

• Family Sharing

                    ^{Music, films, books and apps can be shared between family members at the tap of a screen}

• Spotlight

                        ^{Spotlight now considers features such as location and context in its searches}

• App Store updates

                                       ^{The App Store has been given an iOS 8 revamp}  
 

•  ^{Send last location to Apple before your battery dies}  

 

• ^{Identify songs} 

• Credit card scanning

• ^{Hide images from Photos app} 

• Phone calls over Wi-Fi