Showing posts with label Tech News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tech News. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Introducing Google Cast for audio

Google Cast for Audio to send music directly to Internet Connected Speakers
Google today launched Google Cast for audio, which will let clients send music straightforwardly to internet-joined speakers, much the same as it already does with feature and pictures on Tvs.

Truth be told, utilizing Cast for audio will be much the same as utilizing Chromecast today when the first compatible speakers begin to touch base "in the spring", Google said. Tapping a button on your favorite music or radio app or Internet App will launch the service on your speaker, furthermore much the same as Chromecast, this usefulness will be accessible over the Web, Android and ios platforms.

Google said Denon, Sony and LG would be among the first gadget makers to assemble items that backing the new gimmick, with additional to take after later in the year.

The primary Google Cast Ready speakers will first be accessible in the US this spring from lead brands Sony, LG, and HEOS by Denon with more brands nearing later in 2015 with the backing of chip makers Broadcom, Marvell, Mediatek and framework integrator Libre Wireless.these items will join a developing Google Cast biological system, which incorporates more Android Tvs, diversion comforts and set-top boxes. 




Source: Introducing Google Cast for audio <Google Blog>

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

4 Ways Big Data Will Impact India in 2015

Big Data and IndiaFast data systems and less expensive smartphones, will drive the appropriation of a lot of people new administrations, and set new desires regarding client experience. As I see it, four advances/administrations will make the biggest impact in the Indian telecom market, in 2015. They are Big Data analytics, Internet of Things, Mobile Financial Services, and Network Functions Virtualization.

Here are the four ways how BIG DATA will impact India:

1. Big Data and Analytics both will have a light run beginning 2015 and will be a big boost for the KPO businesses in India: a recent by NASSCOM and CRISIL Global Research and Analytics predicts that the global Big Data business will reach $25 billion by 2015, up from $5.3 billion in 2011; the Indian business in Big Data will reach $1 billion by 2015. (Source: NASSCOM)

As indicated by research by Avendus Capital, the data analytics showcase in India is relied upon to reach $1.15 billion by 2015, and will represent a fifth of India's learning methodology outsourcing (KPO) business of $5.6 billion. (Download Complete Report from here)
2. Big Data & Analytics To Trigger Jobs Growth for India: Big data demand will achieve 4.4 million jobs globally, however one and only third of those jobs will be filled. Gartner says the demand for Big Data is growing, and enterprises will need to reassess their abilities and aptitudes to react to this opportunity. Jobs that are filled will bring about genuine monetary and aggressive profits for associations. US is required to have a shortage of 140,000 – 190,000 analytics experts by 2018, which opens up an enormous open door for item and administration organizations in India. (Source : Gartner)

3. Digital India Powered By The Big Data From Smart Cities: The Indian government's $17 billion driven 'Digital India' program can possibly be an amusement changer for the nation. Coupled with the submitted interests in Smart City Projects by Indian government where it plans to create 100 smart urban communities and has apportioned INR 7060 crores (USD 1b) which is simply the seed cash and not overlooking CISCO's dedication of Usd1.7b in smart city innovations in India. The key trigger for smart urban areas is the Big Data that can be leveraged to enhance resources and make operations of a city more effective. (See Complete Digital India Project Details from here)

India as well as governments crosswise over APAC & Middle East including Japan, Qatar, India, China, Sri Lanka and South Korea, are setting out on smart city initiatives to oversee vitality and asset utilization and plan for further development. These initiatives over the locale will drive huge energy in the advancement of keen social framework arrangements that consolidate progressed analytics, the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine cooperation.


4. The mobile Explosion And Big Data Analytics: With wearable health innovation consolidating in mobile telephony and the way that India is slated to touch 170m-200m imprint in smart telephone reception by 2015, mobile will be the trigger for big data will begin to assume an enormous part in both health innovations and publicizing. That is on account of mobile produces very nearly 10x more data than Pcs. By transforming billions of exchanges each and every day, mobile showcasing organizations like Inmobi refine focusing on capacities and empower ongoing choices focused around geo, client setting and significantly more. In a review led by a global outsourcing monster, more than 80% of the respondents in Indian urban territories communicated the craving to purchase wearable tech, especially in health and wellbeing.

 These are the big 4 reasons in which Big Data is pulling in a great deal of consideration and investment in India and is additionally ready to go about as a significant impetus in general development of the nation's economy. 

Do share your thoughts and ways in which Big Data will impact India or different countries in Asia.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Micromax Launches Cyanogen - Powered Brand ‘Yu’ for Advanced Users

Micromax Launches Cyanogen
Micromax, the second biggest cell phone company in India, has some incredible plans for the promising new future. Presently with the aim of giving a remarkable user experience, the company disclosed their new brand called Yu.

As per the company's Yu Televentures, will be a completely claimed subsidiary of Micromax Informatics. It's the posterity of a tie-up in the middle of Micromax and Cyanogen. Cyanogen is, obviously, known world over for making one of the best custom ROM's for Android cell phones. So this tie-up will definitely mean great things for the Indian consumers.

Micromax prime supporter Rahul Sharma said "This will be a diversion changer in India, as well as globally as well. Yu has been imagined for building an ecosystem of associated devices and offer modified experience to users."

Cyanogen Micromax for Advanced UsersConsidering the utilization for a gadget with substantial adaptability is for advanced users, the results of the brand Yu will be sold online. The company is as of now in chats with e-trade organizations to clear a path for the take off of these devices. The principal gadget from this brand will be presented one month from now.

In accordance with the open source nature of Cyanogen, Yu will be setting up a gathering where the users can help with ideas and tweaks for the operating framework. The proposals from this gathering may get consolidated in the fortnightly updates. For people who whine about the inaccessibility of updates on Indian producers, this ought to be inviting news.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Google Glass - A Failure? Ebay selling at half price

Google Glass - A Fail Experiment?Following two years of popping up at prominent occasions donning Google Glass, the contraption that changes eyeglasses into spy-motion picture commendable engineering, Google fellow benefactor Sergey Brin walked out and out into a Silicon Valley celebrity main street occasion on Sunday.

He'd cleared out his pair in the auto, Brin told a journalist. The Googler, who heads up the top-mystery lab which created Glass, has scarcely abandoned the product — he as of late wore his pair to the shoreline.

In any case Brin's timing is not favorable, nearing as numerous designers and early Glass clients are losing enthusiasm toward the greatly built up, $1,500 test form of the product: a cam, processor and stamp-sized machine screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass edges. Google Inc itself has pushed back the Glass take off to the mass market.

While Glass may discover some particular, even lucrative, utilizes as a part of the work environment, its prospects of turning into a purchaser hit within a brief span of time are thin, numerous designers say.

Of 16 Glass application producers reached by Reuters, nine said that they had ceased chip away at their projects or surrendered them, generally due to the absence of clients or constraints of the gadget. Three increasingly have changed to producing for business, abandoning customer projects.

A lot of bigger engineers stay with Glass. The almost 100 applications on the official web site incorporate Facebook and Opentable, albeit one noteworthy player as of late surrendered: Twitter.

"On the off chance that there was 200 million Google Glasses sold, it would be an alternate point of view. There's no market right now," said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put advancement of a Glass diversion on hold in the not so distant future and is taking a gander at different stages, including the Facebook Inc-possessed virtual-reality goggles Oculus Rift.

A few key Google representatives instrumental to creating Glass have left the organization in the most recent six months, including lead designer Babak Parviz, electrical building chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, executive of engineer relations.

Furthermore a Glass subsidizing consortium made by Google Ventures and two of Silicon Valley's greatest financial speculators, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, quietly erased its website, steering clients to the primary Glass site.

There's no market as of right now

Google demands it is resolved to Glass, with many engineers and officials chipping away at it, and also new fashionista supervisor Ivy Ross, a previous Calvin Klein official. Several thousands use Glass in the pilot purchaser program.

"We are totally energized and as energized as ever about the open door that wearables and Glass specifically speak to," said Glass Head of Business Operations Chris O'neill.

Glass was the first extend to rise up out of Google's X division, the hidden gathering tasked with creating "moonshot" products, for example, heading toward oneself cars. Glass and wearable devices general add up to another innovation, as smartphones once were, that will probably require significant investment to advance into a product that clicks with consumers.

"We are as dedicated as ever to a purchaser launch. That is going to require significant investment and we are not going to launch this product until its completely prepared," O'neill said.

Google Wearable Electronics - Ecommerce WebsiteBrin had anticipated a launch in the not so distant future, yet 2015 is presently the probably date, an individual familiar with the matter said. 

GLASS SELLING…  ON EBAY


After a beginning blast of energy, signs that consumers are abandoning Glass have been building.

Google named the first set of a few thousand Glass clients as "Pilgrims." But as the Explorers hit the roads, they drew gazes and jokes. Some individuals saw the gadget, fit for surreptitious video recording, as an unpalatable protection interruption, criticizing the once-pleased Explorers as "Glassholes."

"It looks super geeky," said Shevetank Shah, a Washington, DC-based expert, whose Google Glass now assembles clean in a drawer. "I'm a card convey geek, however this was one card too much."

Glass now offers on ebay for as meager as half list cost, Buy now.

A few designers as of late have felt unsupported by financial specialists and, at times, Google itself.

The Glass Collective, the subsidizing consortium co-run by Google Ventures, put resources into just three or four little new companies by the start of this current year, an individual familiar with the statistics said.

A Google Ventures representative declined to remark on the quantity of ventures and said the Web site was shut for effortlessness. "We simply thought that it was' simpler for entrepreneurs to come to us specifically," she said.

The absence of a launch date has provided for a few designers the feeling that Google still treats Glass as an experiment.

"It's not an enormous enough stage to play on truly," said Matthew Milan, author of Toronto-based programming firm Normative Design, which put on hold a Glass application for logging practice and biking.

Google Glass MarketPortable amusement organization Glu Mobile, known for its prominent "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" title, was one of the first to launch a diversion on Glass. Spellista, a puzzler discharged a year prior, is still accessible, yet Glu has ceased chip away at it, a representative for the organization said.

An alternate designer, Sean Mccracken, won $10,000 in a challenge a year ago for making an outsiders themed video amusement for Glass, Psyclops, however Google never put it on the official center for Glass applications, making it harder to discover. He has stopped chipping away at updates.

Still, there are some energetic designers. Cycling and running application Strava discovers Glass appropriate for its clients, who need constant information on their workouts, said David Lorsch, VP of business advancement. Furthermore business visionary Jake Steinerman said it is perfect for his organization, Drivesafe, which discovers if individuals are nodding off at the worst possible time.

In April, Google launched the Glass at Work program to help make the gadget helpful for particular businesses, for example, medicinal services and assembling. So far the exertion has brought about applications that are generally tried or utilized at organizations, for example, Boeing and Yum Brands' Taco Bell.

Google is offering Glass in mass to a few businesses, offering two-for-one rebates.

Crowdoptic, which uses Glass as portable computers for specialists and other individuals out of offices, is presently being used at 19 U.s. hospitals and anticipates that that will develop to 100 hospitals right on time one year from now, said Chief Executive Jon Fisher.

Alex Foster started See Through, a Glass advertising analytics firm for business, after a wander firm recently withdrew its offer to back his shopper situated Glass wellness organization when it got to be clear no enormous buyer Glass discharge was fast approaching.

"It was obliterating," he said. "The majority of the buyer glass new businesses are either totally dead or have turned," to big business products or adversary wearable

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Sundar Pichai takes control of Google's crucial products

Sundar Pichai Google
That being said, we figure congrats are in place. As indicated by Re/code, Sundar Pichai, the senior VP at Google who used to simply be in charge of the Chrome, Android, and web applications teams now essentially has control of very nearly every other Google product division of note. Look? Google+? Advertisements? Indeed the organization's framework? The majority of that has been obviously left CEO Larry Page's plate and onto Pichai - not an enormous astonishment considering his uplifted conspicuousness inside Mountain View over the previous months. Pichai, a nine year Google veteran, was even supposed to be one of the main decisions for Microsoft's new CEO, however the part inevitably went to long-term organization insider Satya Nadella.

In any case, that is a considerable measure of force in one man's hands, particularly considering that the publicizing division Pichai inherited fundamentally pays for the various peculiar, astounding things Google gets to do. It's important that not every Google product falls under Pichai's recently opened umbrella, however. There's Youtube, for one; that still stays under Susan Wojcicki's control, which she assumed control recently. Goodness, and all the truly perfect stuff - Nest's developing web of-things group, the biotech advancements in the works at Calico, the moonshots under development at Google X - are all still immovably in Page's pocket. Actually, his adoration for the recent may be what brought about this seismic initiative move in any case. Re/code notes that Page has communicated an enthusiasm toward concentrating on the "greater picture" stuff that'll characterize what the Google of tomorrow will look like, coating up with prior reports that he's been tapping inward ability to evaluate what enormous, world-changing problems Google ought to truly be attempting to fix.


Source : Re/Code

Friday, October 24, 2014

Indian Air Force asks personnel not to use Xiaomi phones

Chinese smartphone creator Xiaomi which took the market by storm with its low valued Mi3 and Redmi 1s smartphones is again under the magnifying lens. 

The Indian Air Force, in an alert issued to IAF staff and their relatives, guaranteed that Xiaomi made smartphones and tablets are sending private user information to remote servers placed in China.

Earlier Xiaomi was under flame subsequent to there were various security concerns with its Mi Cloud messaging administrations. Xiaomi then made the Mi Cloud a discretionary administration in the fallout of security allegations.
Xiaomi Air Force Security


"f-secure, a main security arrangement organization, as of late did a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, the organization's budget smartphone, and found that the phone was sending transporter name, phone number, IMEI (the gadget identifier) in addition to numbers from location book and instant messages once again to Beijing," the IAF note says.

A few months back, the armed force additionally located a comparative security hazard and issued a statement"every Internet organization and telecom administrator in China, both outside and household, is held legitimately subject for all substance imparted through their platforms."currently Xiaomi is researching the matter since India is a significant market. 

We will update you as often as possible on any further advancement.

Source: Indian Express

Response from Xiaomi

Xiaomi Redmi Phones

I read your article about the Indian Air Force round to their staff encouraging them not to utilize gadgets made by Xiaomi. I might truly want to elucidate a couple of key focuses.

1. Xiaomi does not gather any data without user consent

We offer different Internet based administrations, for example, Mi Cloud and Cloud Messaging which oblige data to be put away in the cloud. We take thorough precautionary measures to guarantee that all data is secured when transferred to Xiaomi servers and is not put away past the time needed. Users will dependably be advised in advance in circumstances when we require your individual data, and will need to sanction the solicitation.

Mi Cloud and Cloud Messaging are pick in administrations which users can turn on and off whenever, giving users complete control.

2. The concerns raised by F-Secure have been completely tended to

We accept the warning roundabout issued by IAF is focused around occasions around 2 months back. It alludes to the F-Secure test done on the Redmi 1s in July 2014 about the enactment of our Cloud Messaging administration (which empowers users to send instant messages free of charge). We promptly tended to the concerns raised, which was specifically recognized by F-Secure after 4 days.

It would be ideal if you allude to this post by F-Secure affirming their worries were tended to:

F-Secure

3. We are as of now moving our Indian users' data to servers outside of China

Since ahead of schedule 2014, we have been relocating our administrations and comparing data for Indian users from our Beijing data focuses to Amazon AWS data focuses in Singapore and USA. This relocation will be completely finished before the year's over.

This aides enhance the execution of our administrations furthermore give some significant serenity to users in India in guaranteeing that we treat their data with the most extreme care and will dependably keep up the most elevated privacy models.