Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web's most popular businesses.
Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is widely used in Brazil and India but hasn't caught on more broadly, on Sept. 30, to focus on its other social networking initiatives. The company declined to say how many users Orkut has.

"Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell," Google said in a post on the Orkut blog on Monday.
Orkut was launched early in 2004, the same year that Facebook Inc, now the world's No.1 social network with 1.28 billion users, was founded.

The service's shutdown comes as Google's social networking plans remain in question. In April, Vic Gundotra, the head of Google's social networking services, left the company.


Google has increasingly sought to position Google+ less as a social networking "stream" that competes with Facebook, and more as a means of establishing a unified "user identity" system to improve Google's various Web properties. Last year, for example, Google began requiring users of its YouTube site to sign in with their Google+ identity before posting comments about videos.
The company said it would preserve an archive of all Orkut "communities" that will be available from Sept. 30.

"If you don't want your posts or name to be included in the community archive, you can remove Orkut permanently from your Google account," Google said. 

Tom Scott and Matt Grey's idea for Emojli, a social network that forsakes all other forms of communication in favor of emoji, is not as wacky as it may first sound.  Emoji, which originally grew out of the Wingdings typeface, have evolved into a language of their own with a vocabulary almost as rich as English. Only last month another 250 graphics were added to the list, offering users everything from an emoji middle finger to an image of the Vulcan spread fingered salutation.

And unlike English, or any other written and spoken language for that matter, emoji are universal -- a smiley face is a smiley face. And, with the proliferation of social networks, social network users and the ubiquity of smartphones and messaging services like Line and WhatsApp, it's already got to the point where a status update, post or text isn't complete without an emoji somewhere in the mix.
As co-creator Tom Scott explained: "Matt [Grey] and I both came up with the idea and figured if we didn't build it someone else would. We weren't sold on it until we came up with the idea that even the usernames should be emoji -- at which point we both burst out laughing and decided to build it."


The two are very serious that although the site sounds like a joke, it is not an exercise in satire and that they are fully behind the network. As they say in their launch video, unlike traditional social networks, Emojli will be a haven for anyone trying to escape spam, trolls, memes and hashtags. And that's partly because there's no emoji for spam and thanks to the limited amount of images in the Unicode emoji library, the worst message someone on the network can possibly send is a pile of poo or the aforementioned middle finger.

Since putting up the invite page and opening an Emojli Twitter account on Monday, the network has already attracted 10,000 signups who, like initial Twitter members, will be able to gloat that their username is a single (graphical) character. Emojli is coming soon. In the meantime check out the video or reserve your emoji-only username. And, if your image of choice has already be taken, don't panic, there are 250,000 two-emoji username combinations remaining. 

Android users, beware: 86 percent of Google OS-based devices may contain a high-risk vulnerability.
IBM security researchers uncovered the bug in September, quietly warning the Android Security Team, which two months later confirmed a patch for 4.4 KitKat. But the remaining Android versions do not yet have a fix, leaving them exposed to hackers.

According to June 4 data from Google, about 13.6 percent of Android devices are on 4.4 KitKat, while 10.3 percent are running version 4.3. Most (29 percent) are running 4.1.x, while 19 percent are on 4.2.x.

In last week's public reveal, the IBM team explained that the vulnerability lies in the Android KeyStore, where cryptographic keys and other credentials are stored. By exploiting the flaw, hackers can obtain banking and virtual private network credentials, PINs, and unlock patterns.
This isn't exactly an open door to attackers, though. According to IBM application security research team lead Roee Hay, Google has several barriers in place to slow, if not stop, hackers from successfully exploiting the vulnerability.

With built-in data execution prevention and address space layout randomization, the Android operating system isn't a pushover. Plus, as Ars Technica pointed out, an attacker would need to have an app installed on a vulnerable handset to infiltrate user information.


"Generally speaking, this is how apps are going to store their authentication credentials, so if you can compromise the KeyStore, you can log in as the phone's user to any service where they've got a corresponding app," Dan Wallach, Rice University professor specializing in Android security, told the site.

Applications that require a password to be retyped each time—banking services, for example—are at lower risk than more easily compromised apps, like Twitter, Wallach said. Similarly, users should keep an eye on those apps that load VPN credentials onto their phone, which essentially hand hackers a key to bypass the firewall.

Facebook faces a government investigation in Europe over its study of whether manipulating people's news feeds could change their emotions.

As Business Insider noted recently, Facebook's experiment tweaked the algorithms of nearly 700,000 unwitting users, causing people to see an abnormally low number of either positive or negative posts. People who saw more negative posts wrote more negative posts, and vice versa, showing that their mood was being affected by the kinds of things they were reading on Facebook.

Now, governments in the U.K. and Ireland look set to investigate, according to the Financial Times:

Facebook won't be helped by the fact that the company didn't alter its terms of service to disclose to users that their posts would be used for research until four months after the experiment took place, according to Forbes:

Sony unveiled the Xperia Z2 tablet at the MWC earlier this year. Now the successor to last year’s Xperia Tablet Z1 is available in India on e-commerce site Infibeam ahead of an official launch, priced at Rs 49,990.

Hardware & Specifications
The Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet comes with one of the best internal hardware components in Android tablet devices. This tablet is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC. It contains a combination of 4 Krait 400 CPU cores and an ultra-powerful Adreno 330 GPU. It has 3GB of LP-DDR3 RAM for efficient multitasking and 16GB of internal storage for applications, games and multimedia content. It also has a microSD card slot for storage expansion. In terms of other hardware components, it comes with all the sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope and ambient light sensor.

Screen & Design
This tablet is equipped with a 10.1 inch Triluminuous LCD display with a high screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels making it on par with other tablets. The 10-point multitouch capacitive screen is ultra-sensitive so it can be used with gloves as well, similar to the Nokia Lumia smartphones released recently. The design of the Xperia Z2 Tablet completely resembles to the Xperia Z1 with clean cuts, sharp edges and a sleek design. It is even water-resistant, dust-proof and comes with a shatter-resistant screen due to which it managed to certify for IP57/58 ruggedness standards.

Camera & Multimedia
The Android tablet comes with an 8MP autofocus camera at the back along with autofocus lens. The primary camera can record full HD 1080 videos at 30 frames per second. The secondary front-facing camera is of 2MP resolution which can record full HD videos as well. There are some great multimedia related applications such as the WALKMAN media player. TVSideView can act like a remote control for Sony devices. TrackID can recognise music tracks just by listening to audio playing near-by the device. Apart from this, the device can act as a media server as per DLNA certification and near-by devices can play multimedia content stored in the device wirelessly.

Software & Features
The Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet comes with Android v4.4 KitKat pre-installed along with Sony's custom UI and added features. Sony's customisation options are nicely done, thanks to Xperia themes which can It also comes with additional applications like WALKMAN media player, File Commander, Back Up & Restore Sony My Cloud, Office Suite Pro, McAfee Security Pro, Smart Connect, etc.

Connectivity & Battery
Similar to the Sony Xperia Z Tablet, even the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet will be covered with all the latest connectivity options, be it wired or wireless. It comes with a SIM card slot and Wi-Fi Hotspot in markets where its necessary. Other than that, it is equipped with Wi-Fi ac/a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, IR Blaster, GLONASS A-GPS, NFC, MicroUSB v2.0 and 3.5mm headphone jack. Features like Miracast come in handy when users want to mirror the content on the Xperia Z2 Tablet's display to big screens such as televisions with desired compatibility. It comes with a 6000 mAh Li-Ion non-removable battery which will make this tablet last days without charging with normal usage.

One of the student announcements at the Google I/O was Android One, which is Google's crime at capturing the prayer store in future markets with affordable Humanoid handsets that run Google-blessed software. According to sources in the Asiatic phone ply string, Google has reportedly elite MediaTek as its strategic solvent relative for the utilisation of the Robot One adps, rumored Digitimes.

MediaTek SoCs are seen in a determine of budget handsets merchandising across Bharat at the instant. For the Automaton One level, Google and MediaTek are expectable to energy on releasing handsets that are modify cheaper - think sub-$100 phones. For the Android One initiative, Google testament proffer a set of hardware and software guidelines or meaning design platforms based on which emblem makers are foretold to chassis affordable handsets.

Google has been in talks with MediaTek for the former six months according to Digitimes. Google showcased an Humanoid One telephone at the Google I/O event made by Micromax. This Golem One phone features a 4.5-inch sieve, dual-SIM plan, FM wireless and it was supercharged by a dual-core MediaTek MT6575 SoC.

MediaTek stands a chance to collaborated with Google on incoming Android tablets as symptomless as Humanoid TVs if the Humanoid One externalise goes most smoothly, according to sources quoted by Digitimes.

Another great initiative from search engine giants Google Inc. for girls, that was announced in last Google I/O 2014 conference. Google have announced a helpful program called "Made With Code" to encourage girls to learn programming and coding and also helping them to step forward in Tech field.

Google is offering $20 million funding to this initiative and encouraging young women to show their talent in tech world. Google has has tied up with Girls Inc., Girls Scouts of the USA, Chelsea Clinton, MIT Media Lab, Mindy Kaling, Girls Who Code, Techcrunch and the National Center for Women and Information Technology for the program.

This projects will have separate website, where girls can share their knowledge and shows talent in front of the whole world. The site is offering all the needful resources and also offering projects which will help them to learn how to code and explore the things with their knowledge. The site will also gives the information about basic regional events. The community site will really explore the ideas of there, where they can make discussion between them and can also have the discuss and question with mentor's.

On the blogpost YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said there are “far too few women and far too few young girls” in the technology field, and that less than one percent of high school girls express interest in majoring in computer science.

“Coding is a new literacy and it gives people the potential to create, innovate and quite literally change the world,” - he added

This is not the first time Google is helping people with its ideas, but also have number for programs earlier also. Yearly Google  provides Scholarship's program, Talent hunting and other programs to for the people. Google have taken major initiative to connect the people with internet, and also provides free internet service and education for major of the institution.  Google helps online as well as offline also to people.

Last year also Google have launched a great initiative in India called "Help Getting Women Online" which aims to help 50 million women to get online by 2014 year-end

LG has unveiled its new UB9800 Ultra HD TV lineup along with the first webOS-based smart LED 3D television at the India Gadget Expo. LG says its new Ultra HD TV lineup has exceptional picture quality with a 4K resolution (3840x2160 pixels) that's complemented by rich audio from the forward-facing 5.2 multi-channel sound system designed in collaboration with Harman Kardon, featuring LG's new Ultra Surround Sound concept.

The LG WebOS Cinema 3D TV series, which will be available in India sometime in June in 42-inch, 47-inch, 55-inch, and 65-inch sizes, priced between Rs. 82,900 and Rs. 15 lakhs.

LG says its WebOS Cinema 3D TV features Smart LED Screen technology. The smart television features a Launcher Menu, a UI that presents users with entertainment options and assists in organizing utilities into a neat viewing history. The Launcher comes with an integrated 3D World, a web browser and the LG App Store that has on offer latest movies, television shows and games. This television has a cinema screen design and an ultra slim profile, with finger gesture control on the Magic Remote.

Mr. Rishi Tandon, Marketing Head- Home Entertainment, LG India, said; "This year we have launched outstanding new Ultra HD and Smart TVs, highlighted by our new WebOS platform which will demonstrate how a TV can be truly smart. Looking at the international responses for the new range of LG TVs and a more evolved Indian consumer, we are confident that our Curved OLED, webOS and Ultra HD range will set a benchmark in the Indian Television market. This year, our target is to capture 30 percent market share in the flat panel television market."

The UB9800 Series 4K Ultra HD TVs was first showcased at CES 2014, and consists of 65-inch, 79-inch, 84-inch (seen below) and 98-inch units. LG's new Ultra HD TV models feature 3840x2160 pixels resolution and equip Ultra IPS panels.

The latest LG UB9800 Series 4K Ultra HD TVs equip a proprietary chip that the company claims enhances the Ultra HD resolution and also optimises the overall image quality. Further, the UB9800 4K Ultra HD TV series comes with an up-scaling function that LG claims to take the SD, HD and even full-HD content to near Ultra HD quality by rendering it in sharp.

The new UB9800 4K Ultra HD TVs come with the Tru-Ultra HD Engine Pro that supports a technique called 4K Motion Estimation Motion Compensation (MEMC), which the South Korean manufacturer claims makes the 4K Ultra HD content appear free of motion blur.

The new LG Ultra HD TVs also feature a built-in 4K HEVC 60p decoder. The 65-inch, 79-inch, 84-inch and 98-inch UB9800 4K Ultra HD TV series can decode broadcast signals in both H.264 and HEVC H.265 formats, in both 30p and 60p. Connectivity options include HDMI 2.0, USB and LAN ports. The new models also feature LG's Ultra HD Cinema 3D, that uses Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology to render 3D images with virtually no flicker or cross-talk. The new LG UB9800 series 4K Ultra HD TVs are available in India in different screen sizes of 84-inch (roughly Rs. 15 lakhs), 79-inch, 65-inch (roughly Rs. 4 lakhs), 55-inch (roughly Rs. 2.8 lakhs), and 49-inch (roughly Rs. 1.5 lakhs).

HTC Desire 516 dual sim, a mid-range Android smartphone has been launched in India. It has a 5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) with Sense UI on top. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and 2-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor. It has BlinkFeed with offline reading mode and more new software features.

HTC Desire 516 Dual Sim Specifications

• 5-inch (960 × 540 pixels) qHD capacitive touch screen display
• Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 Processor
• Dual SIM
• 5MP rear camera with LED flash, 720p video recording
• 2MP front-facing camera
• 9.7mm thick and weighs 160 grams
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 3GHSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
• 1GB RAM, 4 GB internal memory, Expandable memory up to 64GB with micro SD
• 1950 mAh battery

The HTC Desire 516 dual sim comes in Dark Gray and Pearl White colors, priced at Rs. 14500 (MOP) and would go on sale in India starting from the end of June.

Flipkart just launched the Digiflip Pro XT 712, the company’s first tablet under its Digiflip Pro brand. It has a 7-inch HD IPS display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with Mali 400 GPU and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support, 3G connectivity and voice calling capabilities.

It comes with Flipkart shopping and Flipkart eBook apps. It also comes with. Rs. 9000 worth launch offers that includes, free shopping worth Rs. 5,300 on Flipkart through mobile app on the device, 1-month subscription of Flipkart First and Free eBooks worth Rs.2300, Flat 50% off on Book Case worth Rs.799 for the tablet and a free Plantronics ML2 Bluetooth Headset worth Rs. 1,199 . It also offers try and buy program that enables you to try the tablet and return it within 30 days.

Digiflip Pro XT 712 specifications

• 7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive multi touch IPS display
• Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
• Dual SIM (2G + 3G) with dual standby
• 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with 500 MHz Mali 400-MP2GPU
• 5MP autofocus rear camera with LED flash
• 2MP front-facing camera
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Dimensions: 113.7 x 185.3 x 9.2 mm; Weight: 285 grams
• Accelerometer, Light Sensor, Proximity sensor
• 3G HSPA+ (via SIM card slots), WiFi 802.11 b/g/n , Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS / A-GPS, USB OTG
• 1GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, up to 32GB expandable memory with microSD
• 3000 mAh battery

The Digiflip Pro XT 712 tablet comes in Black and White colors and is priced at Rs. 9,999. The Black version is already available on Flipkart and the Black version would go on sale on Flipkart soon. 

Ever since Twitter went public the company has struggled to match the growth expected from its investors. Now it looks like the social network may have partnered with a longtime rival in a bid to increase its user base.

This week a dedicated WhatsApp button began popping up in Twitter’s Android app. Tapping the green icon launches a small window inside the app so you can send a funny or interesting tweet straight to your WhatsApp contacts. The new feature is mainly showing up in India, where the Facebook-owned messaging service is particularly popular.

It’s likely that Twitter sees the addition of a WhatsApp button as a way to push into India’s rapidly modernizing market. Making it easy to share tweets over the service should encourage more people to sign up for a Twitter account, especially once they start receiving links to the site from their friends.

On the other hand, partnering with WhatsApp means giving its parent company Facebook a closer look at Twitter’s own data. Whether that gives the social media giant a greater advantage over the competition is unclear, but it shows how WhatsApp may have been worth the $19 billion spent to acquire it.

Scientists bang formed a new proof scheme that could presently use your friends photographs to make a personalised 'lock' for your accounts.

To show with the system, users select a set of faces that are surface familiar to them, but not acquainted to others. The system combines faces from across a mortal's domains of friendliness for e.g., music, sports and the researchers were fit to create a set of faces that were famous to that mortal exclusive.

The images pretend 'Facelock' which consists of a periodical of meet grids and each facility is constructed so that one face is everyday to the human, whilst all remaining faces are unfamiliar. Psychological explore has constitute that humans can distinguish old faces crossways a ample arrange of images, symmetric if the images are of underprivileged level.

The story showed that with unfamiliar faces, it's quite the paired. Steady limited inconsistencies in images of strange faces lead to nonachievement in credit. The images in antithetical poses of the unvarying unfamiliar being may symmetrical travel us to anticipate that they are of assorted group. The system using this psychological number between spirit and unknown group is made use of in artful Facelock.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will apparently be launched on September 25, according to a report from a South Korean website. The much hyped Galaxy S5 frizzled out miserably, which puts all eyes on the Note series. As per the report, mass production of the phablet would start in June-July.  The South Korean smartphone maker could release the phone at IFA, which will be start in the first week of September.

The release could be done similarly to Galaxy Note 3, which was also announced at IFA first and was available for order on September 25^th. Many shareholders have reaffirmed that the upcoming Note flagship will be available on September 25^th.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is expected to have 5.7 inch Super AMOLED display with a QHD resolution. The RAM on both devices is expected to be 3 GB. The smartphone is likely to have a 15 megapixel rear camera along with a 3.68 megapixel front camera. Galaxy Note 4 is also expected to come with software tweaks like Swipe to Launch Motion Launcher and Smart Fingerprint.

Galaxy Note 4 could be available in two versions, a Snapdragon 805 toting version and a version powered by the Exynos 5433.Recently, AnTuTu Benchmark database gave details about the two variants in detail. As with other devices spotted on the database, products that show up eventually find their way into the market.

On the website of AnTuTu, the one dubbed as SM-N910S refers to quad-version of the Galaxy Note 4 running on a Snapdragon 805 CPU, an Adreno 420 GPU with 3GB RAM and 32GB internal memory. The SM-N910C indicates octa-core Exynos processor, ARM Mali-T760 GPU with 3GB RAM version. Exynos version will be powered by 1.3GHz eight-core and will be released in India.  Samsung will release the 4G LTE version in the region where the service is available.

In a bid to create cognizance active emissions from cadre phone towers, the governance is intellection to presently begin an online vein, which give pic assemblage some every peregrine sound rise in the land. The soul electromagnetic land (EMF) emergence site, already beingness mature by the telecom division, present give info active every cadre tower in the land by location and whether it is obedient or not complying.

"The industry and the division of telecommunications (DoT) are working on a website that give enumerate every cadre rise in the country by activity and whether it is lamblike or not complying. It's in chenopodiaceae investigation property and we will eff other two months to staring the testing," Mr. Rajan S Mathews, filmmaker generalised, Pitted Operators Remembering of India ( COAI) is quoted as saying.

According to Mr. Mathews, localised operators instrument be responsible for uploading message in the database, which gift be verified by the telecom division. It's notability the authorities is already investigating the adps in several states including Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra.

The COAI filmmaker generic hopes the new adps gift supply guy myths active emissions from radiophone phone towers. He also spikelike out a WHO story publicized in 2009 that says there's no grounds that spineless signals from radiophone phone towers hump dismissive eudaemonia issue.

The Amerind government has confiscate many intellectual efforts to school people near the transportable sound radiations. It has already made it territory for smartphone companies to support SAR appreciate on handsets.