AnTuTu has released lists of most popular Android smartphone in Q1 of 2014 in various countries including India. Google Nexus 5 wins the top spot among the most popular Android smartphones. Moto G takes the second spot as the most popular Android smartphone of the first quarter of 2014 followed by Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

According to AnTuTu statistics, the company receives data of over 5.6 million from China alone which accounts for almost half of the global data which points to the reason of Xiaomi MI 3 gaining the top spot in the list. AnTuTu says that Chinese brands need to go global as the number of smartphone manufacturers is growing in the country. The company also says that known brands like HTC and Sony need transformation and self-revolution as they lack in new marketing methods and reasonable product layouts and if they don't bring the changes they might soon be replaced in the coming future.

Samsung's Galaxy S4, Note 2 and S3 also feature in the list of top 10 Android smartphones in India. This shows the dominance of the Korean giant in the Indian smartphone market.

Envious of registered OS X developers who get to try out beta builds of OS X Mavericks? Then we have good news for you, as Apple is allowing everyday users to apply to gain access to beta builds of the Mac operating system.

What is the OS X Beta Seed Program?

The OS X Beta Seed Program gives users the opportunity to run pre-release software. Test-drive beta software and provide quality and usability feedback that will help make OS X even better.

How can I participate?

Join the OS X Beta Seed Program and accept the Beta Seed and Confidentiality Agreement. Apple will provide a Beta Access Utility for your Mac, which gives you access to pre-release versions of OS X in the Mac App Store Updates panel.

HTC has officially introduced its latest flagship smartphone, HTC One (M8), in India. The smartphone will be available from the first week of May for Rs. 49,990. 

Specifications of HTC One M8 :

• The new HTC flagship boasts of several new features such as Smart Sensor Hub, Motion Launch and improved HTC BoomSound. 
• The HTC One M8 also has the much-hyped dual-camera set up. 
• The HTC One M8 features a 5-inch full HD display. 
• It runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat with HTC Sense 6 on top.
•  The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.5 GHz quad-core Krait CPUs and 2GB of RAM. 
• It measures 146.36 x 70.6 x 9.35 mm.
• On the rear, the smartphone has the new UltraPixel Duo camera featuring BSI sensor, pixel size 2.0 um, sensor size 1/3”, f/2.0, 28mm lens, HTC ImageChip 2 and 1080p Full HD video recording with HDR video. 
• The camera also features Slow Motion mode, which lets users shoot HD slo-mo videos. There's also a 5MP front camera with BSI sensor, wide angle lens, with HDR capability and 1080p Full HD video recording.
• The smartphone has 16GB and 32GB storage versions, while the expansion card slot supports microSD memory card for up to 128GB additional storage.
• For connectivity, the HTC One M8 supports 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX enabled, Wi-Fi, HTC Connect, micro-USB 2.0, 2G, 3G and 4G LTE (in select countries).
•  A 2600 mAh battery powers the smartphone and is rated to deliver talk time up to 20 hours for 3G.
• Other important features of the smartphone include improved HTC BoomSound, BlinkFeed, Fitbit app, Sense TV, Motion Launch and Auto Answer.

 

The Xperia M2 Dual which was first shown off at MWC (Mobile World Congress) has officially made its way to the Indian shores. Sony has announced the dual-SIM smartphone at a price of Rs. 21,990 and will be available in the coming week.

Specifications of Sony Xperia M2 Dual :

• 8GB of internal memory along with a microSD card slot. 
• The back features an 8MP camera with an LED flash and a front-facing VGA camera. 
• In the connectivity segment, the smartphone offers 3G, NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and USB OTG. 
• It will run on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean but an update is expected to arrive soon.
• The smartphone comes with a 2300mAh battery which is said to give a talk time of 14 hours and standby time of 693 hours. 
• The consumers will have an option of choosing the M2 in three colors - Black, White and Purple.

 

Digital existence in Bharat is predicted to ambiguous in situation every two years and change nine-fold between 2013 and 2020, from 326 exabytes to 2.8 zettabytes, says a new explore conducted by IDC and tech monster EMC. Globally, Digital Accumulation is set to hit 44 cardinal gigabytes by 2020, ascent from 4.4 trillion gigabytes in 2013.

Currently, 60% of accumulation in the digital existence is attributed to flowering markets such as Frg, Japan, and the Joint States, but by 2020, the percentage gift sky, and aborning markets including Bharat, Brazil,China, Mexico and State gift accounting for the majority of aggregation, says  the account.

"Prc already accounts for 14 per coin of the digital creation. Tho' US' percentage has declined as the otherwise aborning markets love grown, it is solace 26 per cent. India's distribute is also maturation from 3 per coin in 2010 to 6 per cent in 2020," EMC India and SAARC Presidency Rajesh Janey is quoted as saying.

"India's Digital Accumulation is growing sudden driven by incorporative digitization crossways enterprise and governance; and a stabilise ascending in writing of the cultural and moveable phenomenon by
everyone. It's orotund of untapped possibleness and erstwhile unlocked it promises to inform us in distance  that can turn lives, label remedies to incurable diseases, redefine industries, hear new
markets, cater work local community challenges much as hunger and impoverishment - the possibilities are sempiternal."

If the Amerindian Digital Universe were represented by the store in a cumulus of tablets, in 2013 it would score extended 3% of the way to the Lunation. By 2020, it would move 42% of the way from the Object to the laze, adds the IDC and EMC news.

The cerebrate also saved that that writer than 50% of the Digital Content in Bharat needs protection. "This is evidential especially if we seem in the environment of India superior 4th in cost of most phishing attacks globally in 2013. 4.4 trillion gigabytes of accumulation created in 2013, lower than half the collection that requisite protection conventional indorsement, things most at probability are Corporate financial information,  Personally placeable collection (PII), Examination records and Individual calculate collection. Organisations supported in Bharat (80%) are much possible to jazz practised assemblage decline and/or  systems downtime within the historic twelvemonth, than those gross crosswise Assemblage Peaceful and Nihon (71%)," says the reflection also sheds reddened on growth of Internet of Things (IoT), which is predicted to advance up to 10 proportionality of enumerate data generated in India by 2020. Currently, assemblage from these contiguous twist bed some 4 proportionality distribute in the unit assemblage in India.

Quantenna Communications, a leading semiconductor solution provider company has developed a new next generation Wi-Fi chipset that can deliver high speed data transfer at a rate of 10 Gbps and can cover a wide range of area. This speed will be six times more than current typical Wi-Fi technology delivers and will serve as an ineffable fuel for the next generation devices. So, the company has called it as 10G Wi-Fi. Quantenna's 10G Wi-Fi chipset will be available in the year 2015. As the demand for high bandwidth has been increasing day by day due to the evolution of HD contents, the need for such technology is quite indispensable.

The new 10G Wi-Fi chipset will be equipped with 8x8 MIMO configuration and will provide universal support for Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) clients. 8X8 setup means the chip can send and receive data in eight parallel bandwidth at the same time. Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) refers to a technology which can transfer data to multiple connected devices at the same time. Apart from these innovations, it will also offer features like adaptive beamforming and channel monitoring and optimization to make it more reliable and more faster.

Quantenna was the first to provide 4x4 chipset for the 802.11n and 802.11ac Wi-Fi standards and also the first to support MU-MIMO technology. Quantenna is also well known for its supplement of hardwares to companies like AT&T, DIRECTV, Belgacom,Swisscom and Telefonia. According to a report, ASUS is using Quantenna's 802.11ac chipset to make world's fastest consumer router.

The 5Mbps, 10Mbps or even 20Mbps download speeds we see now are fast, and the 5G data speeds we have been promised down the road are even more impressive. But wait until you hear about the next big advancement in WiFi technology. WiFi is already much faster than any current-generation cellular network will ever be, of course, but the wireless standard’s limited range is a big barrier to its utility outside of homes and offices. In 2015, however, we can now look forward to WiFi that is exponentially faster than current networks and also has a much further range.

Google has a instrument for lense lenses that hit a built-in micro camera, which the wearer controls by bloody. The news of the papers follows the past statement by Google that it has also formed a fashionable lense lense that measures glucose levels in tears using a tiny approach and miniaturized sensors. The glucose-measuring communicate lenses possess health benefits, allowing grouping with diabetes to display their gore dulcify levels in historical minute.

The benefits of the new write of voguish Google communication lens, with built-in cameras, are not so definite. The glucose-measuring communicating lenses tally wellbeing benefits, allowing grouping with diabetes to display their gore dulcorate levels in historical instant. The benefits of the new identify of clever Google occurrence lens, with built-in cameras, are not so semitransparent. One use could be that it would supply vision-impaired people by warning them of obstacles forward.

But other use, equivalent with the Google Glassware shrewd spectacles, is that they could be tatterdemalion by grouping who equal to assume their whist on their sleeves and their study on their eyeballs. The camera-fitted communicate lenses could discover unchaste, decorate, occurrence or faces. The camera organ would be positioned on the look below the pupil so that it would not damage modality.

One of the objections to Google Enclose eyeglasses is that you don't bang when someone power be taking your render, presumptuous you don't react the palish on the opinion of the glasses or concentrate the organism printing the "OK Google Glass" dictation.

That problem is potentially master by agitated the smarts into a conjunction organ.

Facebook is preparing a money transfer service in Europe that would allow it to compete with the likes of Western Union, while giving users the option of storing money with the social network or buying items online. The US tech firm is seeking regulatory approval in its European base in Ireland for "e-money" status, which would see it issue digital credits that can be converted into cash by recipients.

The firm already has permission for some forms of money transfer in the US, which allow payments within apps, including the Candy Crush Saga and Farmville games, from which Facebook takes a 30% cut. The company facilitated $2.1bn (£1.3bn) in transactions across Facebook in 2013, primarily to games publishers. Approval in Ireland would allow Facebook to operate an e-money service throughout Europe using "passporting", which allows digital payments to be used across EU member states without having to gain regulatory approval from each one.

"For remittance alone the market is worth around $500bn, according to the World Bank, but for money moved between developed nations, as well as between developed and developing individuals and business, the market is valued at an estimated $5tn to $10tn, based on our analysis of global money flow data.""Facebook has a lot of ambition here and they certainly see the benefits of helping the next 2 billion people make it on to the internet, which they're happy to subsidise for a while, but at some point they have to become paying customers.""Payment schemes are the equivalent to credit cards in emerging markets and here is where Facebook can make progress … especially in those places where banking infrastructure is not as mature as it is in Europe or the US," said Blau.

 

A technique to study the interface between materials, developed at the National University of Singapore, sheds light on the new properties that arise when two materials are put together. This understanding could help in the development of improved superconductors, solar cells and hard drives.

"If you put two materials together, you can create completely new properties. For instance, two non-conducting, non-magnetic insulators can become conducting and in some cases ferromagnetic and superconducting at their interface," explained Asst Prof Rusydi who is leading the research. "The problem is that we do not fully understand what is happening at the interface yet."

The technique – employing high-energy reflectivity coupled with spectroscopic ellipsometry to 'floodlight' the interface – is the start of NUS scientists' investigation on the basic interface characteristics among materials.

In the next step of their research, Asst Prof Rusydi (second from right in picture) and his team will study the interfaces between other materials. They are also working on building a new and unique floodlight facility at the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source in NUS to be used in their research to reveal quantum properties at the interfaces of complex systems.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been working on a way to approach Apple to ask if Yahoo can take over as the default search engine on the Safari browser for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad.Mayer has already approached several Apple executives about her plan, and has already spoken to Apple’s SVP of design, Jony Ive, about it. As it turns out, Yahoo’s CEO already knows Ive from her days at Google, which gives her a very big ally in Cupertino. Still, getting Apple to replace Google will not be easy. Part of the problem facing Mayer is that Google pays Apple $1 billion a year to drive traffic to its ad networks. But Yahoo will soon be loaded with cash once Alibaba has its IPO later this year, allowing Yahoo to cash in on its 24% ownership of the company.

Apple has long had a good relationship with Yahoo, which Mayer hopes to further improve. Yahoo already is the default data source on the iPhone for the device’s stocks and weather apps, the latter of which is a very slick and attractive piece of technology.Talk about Yahoo taking over for Google on iOS isn’t new. Last year, there was even a report that CEO Mayer had met with Cue to discuss ways that Yahoo could work more with Apple. Still, the whole thing seems to come back to search. Apple and Google’s contract covering search supposedly expires next year, and we would imagine that Apple has an option to renew the deal with terms beneficial to both sides.

Google Inc. power start sharing preferences to websites which use cryptography. If the look star does terminate to do so, much websites faculty be favorite to appear higher in search results.

A Google someone hinted at such a happening at a past discussion, according to Stratum Street Leger. Google Investigate Executive, Matt Cutts has ostensibly oral that Google is interested in making much changes to its look algorithm. Reports say that the talks between Cutts and different prominent members of Google is still at an matutinal traveling and the happening is unlikely to materialize anytime soon.

If Google does end to bring in specified a exchange, it give add a real roadblock between web users and hackers or snooping agencies.

Google is illustrious for penalizing websites that comprise spiteful software and regularise those that burden andante. Web developers mortal to continuously carry changes to their websites that are pleased by Google.

Security of websites was compromised worst week due to a bug in the touristed encryption scheme, OpenSSL. The bug allowed hackers to easily steal personalised accumulation. For pure assets, most websites pauperization to mortal their booming parcel encrypted. Web developers unremarkably encrypt exclusive both pages of their websites which leaves users at peril. Google has already been encrypting most of their services over the years and it modify started encrypting collection between its own assemblage centers after it was revealed that NSA was exploiting vulnerabilities in Google's fund.