India :the third largest smartphone market in the world

India :the third largest smartphone market in the world

The growing demand for smartphones in India has lead the country to surpass Japan to reach the podium as world’s third largest Smartphone market, following U.S., placed at first and China at second position, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics.

The Smartphone makers like Samsung, Apple and the indigenous mobile manufacturers like Micromax are driving the higher volumes in the country, reports Tech Crunch.

Intel's powerful fourth-generation processors reaches India

Intel's powerful fourth-generation processors reaches India

Intel officially launched its fourth-generation processor, code-named ‘Haswell’ in India. The processor gets its prominence over its predecessors in terms of prolonged battery life, faster CPU and enhanced graphics experience, reports Times Of India.


The world’s largest chip maker said that Haswell delivers up to 50 per cent increase in battery life in active workloads over the previous generation, "The 4th Generation Intel Core processors offer the most significant gain in battery life ever achieved by Intel, up to double the graphics and significant CPU performance improvements that will deliver an exciting user experience," Intel South Asia managing director Debjani Ghosh said.


Leighton Phillips, director of product management & pricing at Intel Asia-Pacific, added, "today's announcement accelerates a new category of 2-in-1 computing devices delivering the best of a notebook and a tablet in amazing new form factors."

Google developing game console and smartwatch

Google developing game console and smartwatch

Google is developing a game console and smartwatch, both powered by Android, and is preparing to release a second version of the Nexus Q media streamer. These devices are all intended to increase Google’s reach beyond smartphones, and to fend off similar plays that are expected from Apple.

Google will be releasing one of these by the end of this year.Whether the smartwatch will be something similar to the existing Sony smartwatch is yet to be seen.Even though Ouya- an android game console was released lately, it has received poor reviews.So the market does not offer much competition for an android game console.With  these devices google is definitely looking to reign supreme.  

Touch free mobile technology developed by an Indian woman

Touch free mobile technology developed by an Indian woman

Touch-free, or gesture recognition, technology is something that mobile phone manufacturers are targeting as the next cool feature in smartphones. It is something that they are trying to develop and implement for years.

Now, the industry appears to advance a step further in making such technology a reality, thanks to the research of Andrea Colaco and her co-partner Ahmed Kirmani. Goan native Colaco and Kirmani won the Massachusetts Institute Technology's (MIT) entrepreneurship competition with their touch-free mobile technology called "3dim"--which provides real-time, millimeter-accurate 3D gesture sensing by employing patented signal processing methods.

They won US$100,000 in funds and will use it to develop the technology with mobile manufacturers which had expressed an interest.

This innovation would obviously eliminate the need to use a keyboard or touch screen for many tasks, as gestures could be programmed into mobile devices to recognize the pattern and then execute the command.

One of the greatest features for touch-free technology will be the elimination of multiple windows to run several applications since, with a gesture, users can move seamlessly from one application to another.

Gesture recognition will also opens up new ways in the gaming industry also.

Sony SmartWatch 2 launched: a water resistant android device

Sony SmartWatch 2 launched: a water resistant android device

Sony's taking a second stab at the fledgling wearable category it helped pioneer with today's announcement of the SmartWatch 2. The Android-powered wristwatch retains the familiar remote functionality of its predecessor (i.e., allowing users to answer calls, read email and texts, snap photos, etc.), albeit now from a larger, 1.6-inch (220 x 176) touch display. Sony's packed all of this "second screen" functionality into a handsome, aluminum body design that's crafted to be dust- and water-resistant (IP57), much like the Xperia Z line before it. And for users that want a little variety, the company's also offering a pack-in stainless steel wristband that can be swapped out for any other 24mm strap (Sony plans to offer alternative straps sometime soon).

The SmartWatch 2 also features support for NFC and Bluetooth 3.0, so you can easily pair it with compatible devices running Android 4.0 or higher -- something like the Xperia Z Ultra, perhaps. As for battery life, Sony claims the SmartWatch 2's rated for a maximum of four days with moderate use. But those with a lighter touch, or a penchant for digital wristwatches, may be able to eke out a full week's worth of juice. There's no pricing information to share at the moment, only a semi-concrete global release date for this September. Which is just about enough time for you (or, more likely, your Dad) to dust off that Dick Tracy impersonation.

Smartphone with flexible display screen by samsung

Smartphone with flexible display screen by samsung

Samsung’s aiming to make smartphone tech a little less rigid with the introduction of new, flexible screens that can be used in smartphones and tablets to make them more resilient.

In the keynote presentation at the tConsumer Electronics Show, Samsung device head Stephen Woo and lab lead Brian Berkeley showed off bendable, rollable, foldable displays with several concept devices. The flexible screens, which Samsung has branded as Youm, are designed to have displays as rich and crisp as current smartphones, but with more options for form factors.

The screen bends around the edge of the device to display information on the side of it, similar to the information on the side of a book. More broadly, flexible screen technology could help improve the resilience of consumer technology devices and make them even more portable.

HTTP 2.0 - connection multiplexing ,expected release in 2014

HTTP 2.0 - connection multiplexing ,expected release in 2014

HTTP 2.0, the next generation of the principal protocol underlying the World Wide Web, is moving closer to implementation. Interoperability testing is due soon and a completed specification is planned in a year, the editor of the draft specification said.

Version 2.0's new capabilities include multiplexing, said Martin Thomson, a Microsoft employee who is the HTTP 2.0 editor at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). "What HTTP 2.0 does is provide full multiplexing, which can send as many requests as you like at the same time," he said.

Interoperability testing should start in about six weeks, Thomson said, with completion expected in spring 2014. "If it's not done in a year, or at least done to the point where we people can implement it, we've failed."

HTTP 2.0 is promised to make Web pages load faster and improve API functionality, said Google's Roberto Peon, who has worked on SPDY, a predecessor protocol also intended to boost Web speed. SPDY and HTTP 2.0 are now largely the same, and the current version of SPDY is expected to be the last one.

Samsung Galaxy NX with interchangeable lenses, and Android 4.2

Samsung Galaxy NX : interchangeable lenses and Android 4.2

Samsung released its first Android-based camera late last year, but that seems to have been merely a test run. The Galaxy NX Camera has just been detailed, and it has the entry model version beaten in just about every way. As part of Samsung’s NX line it’s first Android camera with interchangeable lenses, but the surprises don’t stop there.

From the front, this device could almost be mistaken for a DSLR, but from above it’s clear this is a different animal entirely. Whereas the mega-bizarre Galaxy S4 Zoom is really just a phone with a mid-range point-and-shoot grafted on, the Galaxy NX Camera is a high-end mirrorless camera with all its non-photographic electronics replaced with an Android device.

The back screen is a 4.8-inch LCD touchscreen at HD resolution. Presumably that means 720p in this context, but Samsung wasn’t more specific. Samsung loves AMOLED screens, but the decision to go with an LCD is advantageous for a camera. AMOLEDs tend to have very blown-out colors, and to wash out in direct sunlight. Those are things you definitely don’t want a camera to do, so an LCD makes sense. There is also an electronic viewfinder right above the screen with a resolution of 800×480.

The Galaxy NX Camera can take 20.3MP images — which puts it well outside the realm of smartphones — and uses an APS-C sensor. Even phones with high megapixel counts tend to have minuscule sensors that produce a lot of noise (or miss shots entirely) when conditions aren’t optimal. This unit operates a ISO 100 up to 25,600. If you want to take video with the Galaxy NX Camera, it can do 1080p at 25fps.

 It will run Samsung’s flavor of Android 4.2 with a few camera-specific additions. For example, it’s going to have Smart Mode built-in, which suggests scene modes for your photos based on available light. It’s actually a nice feature to have if you’re not an experienced photographer.

Samsung has not announced a date or price for the Galaxy NX Camera. Judging from the price of the non-Android NX series, it won’t be cheap. Most of those cost in excess of $600. The new Galaxy NX Camera might show up at a subsidized price on a US carrier whenever it does launch. This is an interesting device, but it’s not clear if it’s going to have general appeal. Most folks just use their smartphones now.

World’s first 3D digital brain

The world's first high-resolution 3D digital model of the human brain has been developed by scientists.The 3D model is detailed to the microscopic level and allows to see features smaller than a strand of hair.
The "Big Brain" will be made freely available to neuroscientists to help them in research.From the brain of a deceased 65-year-old woman, researchers sliced 7,400 sections,  each half the thickness of a human hair.
Each slice was then stained to highlight the anatomical detail and scanned into the computer in high definition.Finally the scanned slices were reassembled inside the computer. In all, 80 billion neurons have been captured in this painstaking process which took 10 years to complete.

US Made Intensive Hacking Attacks On China

Beijing: Edward Snowden, a former private contractor with the CIA who leaked the controversial US secret surveillance programme, today made fresh claims about America's cyber espionage against China, including intensive hacking attacks on a top university here.The Tsinghua University, widely regarded as China's top education and research institute, was the target of extensive hacking by the US spies this year, Snowden said in his latest claims to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.


It is not known how many times the Tsinghua University, which carries out a number of China's research programmes, has been attacked by the US National Security Agency (NSA) but details shown to the Post by Snowden revealed that one of the most recent breaches was as early as in January this year.


The information also showed that the attacks on Tsinghua University were intensive and concerted efforts.
In one single day of January, at least 63 computers and servers in Tsinghua University have been hacked by the NSA, the report said.


30-year-old Snowden, who was accused by some of the US officials as a possible Chinese spy, said the information he shared on the Tsinghua University attacks provided evidence of NSA hacking because the specific details of external and internal internet protocol addresses could only have been obtained by hacking or with physical access to the computers.


His earlier revelations that NSA carried out several cyber attacks on China was skilfully utilised by Beijing in asserting that that it was a victim of hacker attacks and Snowden's revelations had proved its point.


The new revelations came after a case was filed by the US officials formally charging Snowden with espionage, theft of government data and conveying classified information to unauthorised person.The charges could make it difficult for Hong Kong which is governed by China to deny his extradition on political grounds under their extradition treaty.


Hong Kong in the past extradited wanted US persons mostly in criminal cases and analysts said that the theft clause could make it difficult for the former British colony to deny any US request.Sensing this, Snowden and his supporters are trying to shift to Iceland where he could get a possible asylum.


The Tsinghua University is home to one of China's six major backbone networks, the China Education and Research Network ( CERNET) from where internet data from millions of Chinese citizens could be mined.
The network was the country's first internet backbone network and has evolved into the world's largest national research hub.

Bug in facebook gives away contact information

The " Download Your Information Tool ", which lets facebook users export all data from profiles,such as posts to their timeline and conversations with friends , may have inadvertently compromised information of 6 million users, says Facebook.People using the tool may have downloaded inadvertently the contact information for people they were somehow connected to.Some people upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, which are then used to suggest new friends they can connect with who are already using the service.

Facebook says to all its users that : "Your trust is the most important asset we have, and we are committed to improving our safety procedures and keeping your information safe and secure,"
To all facebook addicts: Bugs like these and security breaches can occur anytime.In the world of internet there is nothing like a secure environment, so think before you post and share all those personal information on social media.

One more thing : People who were affected by the bug will receive an e-mail from facebook