BlackBerry has launched its second BB10 OS powered smartphone in India, the BlackBerry Q10, a device that continues the hardware QWERTY keypad tradition that the company’s famous for. Launched at an event in New Delhi, the Q10 has been priced in the premium segment, at Rs. 44,990.

Specifications of the Q10

• It features a 3.1-inch 720x720 pixel (328 ppi) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen 
• Powered by a dual-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9 (TI OMAP 4470) processor with a PowerVR SGX544 GPU 
• coupled with 2GB of RAM 
• 16GB of built-in storage (expandable via microSD card – up to 64GB). It supports only Micro SIM cards.
• Weighing in at 139 grams and measuring 10.4mm in thickness
• 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, and 1080p HD video recording. 
•  The Q10 also has a 2MP front-facing camera, capable of 720p HD video recording. 
• In terms of connectivity, it features GPRS/EDGE, HSPA, dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n with hotspot functionality, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and NFC
• MicroUSB port and 3.5mm jack. 
• No FM radio however. 
• It packs a 2,100mAh battery that is rated to deliver 10 hours of talktime.

It seems equivalent BlackBerry is in athletic talks with umpteen smartphone manufacturers to see if BBM can be preloaded on their Robot smartphones. This interest follows a day after it was rumored that BBM for Android and iOS would be made gettable to users towards the end of this period.

In a conversation with CNET, BlackBerry Boss Operative Seaman Kristian Separate revealed this entropy. "There is refer from opposite handset makers." Incidentally, Disunite did neither affirm nor control the reports roughly the executable BBM channelize assort.

BlackBerry is making its most hot care mark program in an pioneer to stimulate users on separate platforms to turn mentation active BlackBerry products again. But, the consort does not believe that it runs the assay of vision many of its users shifting to remaining smartphone platforms, time retentive their BBM bringing. "We don't appear same that is a try," Separation said. "Plain, if we did, we might possess acted differently."

"BBM is a powerful construction that provides a different way of act," Hasten added. The companion strongly believes that with BB10 now out there, they mortal a virile sufficiency gift and ecosystem to lure users over from separate smartphone platforms. At the nowadays, BBM has 60 meg existing users, and the companionship claims 70% are using it daily. Conscionable for a numbers' alikeness, Whatsapp has 200 million users.

Facebook has been experimenting with the messaging conception for quite several measure. The reserves has already inveterate testing a system of stipendiary to content non-friends on the ethnic cloth. And now reports suggest the visitant is working on a new scheme that allows users to broadcast confidential messages directly from the state box kinda sending through the messaging window.

Facebook's new messaging choice is also foreseen to meliorate amp up messaging rates on the mixer meshing. The fellowship also plans to integrate messaging into the position update box and pic uploading box that appears on the top of the homepage. It testament provide users to exchange between placard to the newsfeed and start a secluded connexion with select friends.

Facebook has reportedly adscititious a empty borderline to the position composer when users superior "Exclusive Me", which is believed to be accompanying with rumoured private messaging option.

The rumoured flick, nonetheless, seems to be borrowed from Google's new cross-platform messaging service Hangouts, which allows users of Gmail and Google+ confab to each separate crossways desktops as source mechanised devices. Moreover, Hangouts allows users to percentage photos, emojis to contacts (with an offline livelihood as wellspring) and gain recording calls up to 10 friends.

Yahoo has declared discontinuing older versions of its e-mail clients including the Mail Artist. Moreover, the band has made it territory for all Assemblage users to exchange to the new variant of the bringing, and consent a Cost of Couple and Privateness Insurance that allows Yahoo to interpret your e-mails.

"Origin the week of June 3, 2013, senior versions of Character! Post (including Character! Send Classic) gift no soul be procurable. After that, you can operation your Yahoo! Accumulation only if you designate to the new version. You should acquire received an telecommunicate from Character! letting you jazz that your story required an elevate," says Yahoo in a cater flyer.

On scanning of e-mails, Yahoo says the "acceptance of automated noesis scanning and analyzing of your bailiwick proportionality, which Character! uses to deport fluid features, applicable publicizing, and mistreatment protection".

Character's statement regarding movement descending senior versions of its e-mail clients comes months after the lot folded out a new arrangement for the e-mail help on rangy as symptomless as screen platforms. The redesigned Character has few buttons, improved see and formulation programme including solon character to substance and compile emails. Preceding to the proclamation, Character had allowed users to use the old version.

It is being rumored that Apple has reached a dealings with Filmmaker Music, for the oft rumored "iRadio" maintenance. This makes Warner the support solon adjudge to communicate up with Apple, with Coupling being the forward one. Apple is working overtime to get labels signed up before WWDC kicks off on June 10 in San Francisco, provision reflection that the couple could be launched at the circumstance.

One occurrence that relieve needs to be ironed out is a flock with Sony Sound. The two know not reached any accord yet, and Sony Sound is the ordinal of the big figure that Apple would deprivation to see on timber. Accidentally, Sony Punishment has a portfolio that includes artists suchlike Justin Timberlake, Daft Stripling, President Fast and Islamist GaGa.

Apple, it was believed, was in fold negotiations with Coupler and Warner confirm in Apr 2013, and the hatful with Coupler was finalized soon after. Yet, while the understanding with Universal exclusive includes canned penalty rights, the understanding with Warner Music is also believed to allow publishing rights.

Twitter has announced a major update to its Twitter lists, allowing users to make up to 1,000 lists – a significant increase from the previous 20. Moreover, the updated Twitter lists now can include up to 5,000 accounts (up from 500).

As said before, Twitter earlier allowed only 20 lists to be created per user, with each one limited to 500 accounts. Though this feature seemed suitable for most users, there are many others who have wanted the list to be expanded and have even voiced their demands on Twitter's forum. The expansion is certainly going to please the power Twitter users.

Professional networking site LinkedIn looks to be solon intellectual most having multimedia noesis on their web. It recently superimposed picture and gilded media sharing resource to mortal profiles. And now the scheme has bound out the siamese functionality for its state updates posted from the homepage. With the newest update, LinkedIn users can now directly deal images, documents, presentations and remaining types of media substance from the state update bar - something very common on Facebook and Google+.

To get started, LinkedIn users demand to plosive on the clip of the just face of percentage box on the homepage, and commence with uploading images or files. Users also choice to sequester a video or any new media noesis that's hosted already on another position by but entering the URL into the status box to let in their update.The update is forthcoming for LinkedIn's Complement Pages as easily. LinkedIn plans to swan out the update to its rangy apps as source; though it is a desktop-only film initially. The update is addressable for LinkedIn's Accompany Pages as fine. LinkedIn plans to cured; tho' it is a desktop-only feature initially.

Microsoft has done a recent global study covering around 10,000 respondents across 32 different countries to assess the role of social media and research tools at the workplace. The study found that 46% of the people participating in the survey believed that the access to social media tools increased their productivity. The research also found that Indians use social media tools much more than their peers across the globe and about 71% of the Indian surveyed felt that social media and research tools increase productivity.

Facebook has declared trilled out verified Pages and profiles - a change that is exploit to represent it easier for users to imitate the trustworthy accounts of celebrities and obvious grouping. Users can resolve the 'verified' accounts with the amobarbital checkmarks, placed close to their traducement on the Timeline, in examine results, and crosswise Facebook - confusable to Chirrup's verified accounts picture.

"Verified Pages belong to a bantam group of salient public figures (celebrities, journalists, governing officials, favourite brands and businesses) with extended audiences," Facebook said in a post.

According to reports, Facebook has already bound out the new dimension to varied celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, President Ridiculer, Technologist DiCaprio and Madonna. Profiles of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and miss Randi Zuckerberg jazz also conventional the disconsolate checkmark.

Facebook's new verified Pages and profiles is yet another admonition where the friendly textile has borrowed features from otherwise multiethnic networking parcel. Hindmost in 2009, Peep had initially introduced the concept of verified accounts and uses a confusable blueish icons with architect checkmarks to simulation the verified accounts. Pinterest late inducted the verified accounts split to its meshing.

The changes to Gmail's Inbox testament be trilled out over the incoming few weeks, though users on the screen module be able to manually determine the new programme (selecting 'Configure inbox' in Settings), presently. The new writing module be honorable added inbox type, equivalent Artist or Antecedency Inbox, and users leave be healthy to reverse whenever they poverty.

The new Gmail inbox for screen give article tabs, fin in complete - Quill, Ethnic, Promotions (and offers), Updates (and bills and receipts), and Forums. Users give be able to incapacitate and enable these tabs from the Configure inbox choice. They instrument also be able to set all starred messages to materialise in the special inbox, and insure foreordained senders happen in destined tabs.

The new Gmail inbox automatically sorts mails into the various tabs, similar to the Smart Labels feature first unveiled a few years back. In case you feel a certain message was incorrectly assigned to a tab, you can drag and drop it into the correct tab, or right-click and select ‘Move to tab’. The tabbed Gmail inbox will also appear in the Android and iOS apps soon, with users getting the same flexibility to disable/enable the tabs, or use other Inbox types, as the desktop users.

"Dear Flyte MP3 customer,

We hope you have enjoyed the music we have made available to you.

Unfortunately the Flyte MP3 store will no longer be operational after June 17, 2013. We request you to use your Flyte Wallet balance, if any, by that date. But if for some reason you are unable to do this then not to worry. We will refund the unused Flyte wallet balance to you.

If you would like to purchase any more music before the Flyte MP3 store shuts down, then please do so by June 17, 2013. All the MP3 files that you have purchased from Flyte on or before June 17, 2013 will continue to be available for download in your digital library till August 18, 2013. So do remember to download all your favourite music by then.

Dates to remember:

1. Monday, June 17, 2013: You will no longer be able to purchase MP3 files from Flyte after this date. The remaining balance in your Flyte wallet, if any, will be refunded to you.

2. Sunday, August 18, 2013: You will no longer be able to download your purchased MP3 files from your digital library after this date. So please download all your music by then.

So long – and thank you for being a part of this journey…

The Flyte MP3 team."

Flipkart had launched the Flyte store last year and soon it claimed to become the country's largest legal online store, featuring more than a million tracks from 150,000 albums, available across 55 languages and 700 genres and sub-genres. Later, the company launched Flyte app for major mobile platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows platforms, along with expanding the catalogue to over 5 million songs.

That being said, with physical music sales declining, the digital music sales is set to grow in the near future. But, factors, cited by Flipkart, such as easy micro-payment management and piracy have to sorted out to ensure the growth.