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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

5 Hottest Gadgets At The MWC 2015

The Mobile World Congress has kicked in and each gadget manufacturer is all eager to draw out their best devices which will modernize the gadget world in their own particular manners.

Thus, precisely here are a percentage of the coolest and most awaited devices in the MWC not long from now being good to go to shake the stage and take the viewers for a twist with their different gimmicks and dashing looks as gathered by the Economic times.

# Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge


A standout amongst the most awaited dispatches from Samsung flaunting a totally distinctive look on the appearance is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The Phone was unwrapped at the Mobile world congress not long from now and is accepted to be worthy competitor to different phones in its range.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge packs in a very much an affluent equipment with great camera and screen on board. It accompanies a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED showcase bragging a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels and runs on the most recent version of the Android OS. The telephone has a 16 mega pixel back camera with a 5 mega pixel front confronting snapper.

The extent that the memory goes, it gets a 16, 64 and 128 GB of internal memory with no alternative of growing it further. On the equipment front, it accompanies an influential processor supported by a 3GB of RAM and the Smartphone is fueled by a 2600 mAh battery.

# Huawei Talkband N1

Huawei Talkband N1 Earphones
Huawei Talkband N1


Here's something for the wellness monstrosities from the place of Huawei, the Talkband N1. These Bluetooth headphones are totally water and sweat safe and accompany 4GB of internal stockpiling memory. It connects through Bluetooth and is equipped for playing the greater part of music configurations.

One of the best peculiarities of the talkband is the voice notices which illuminate you about what number of steps you have taken and the separation left to be secured. Weighing around 18 grams, this Bluetooth headset is extremely lightweight and can stay 108 hours in stand-by mode going on for like 4.5 hours of talk time with playing music for 7 hours.

# Prototype Modular Parts By Yezz Mobile

Yezz Project Ara Modular phone
Up to 11 modules, including the screen, can fit into the phone's shell


This model intended for the Google's undertaking Ara from Yezz Mobile is all situated to tackle the MWC with its diverse methods for collecting a Smartphone. This particular telephone accompanies a metal endoskeleton and various modules fixed to it with help of electro changeless magnets.

It gets the Processor, speakers, back camera, streak, SIM card, battery and remote charging port modules on the once more of the aluminum endoskeleton which are joined to it.

Then again, the Display and front camera modules fixed on to the front. The best part is that, the whole development of the Smartphone is held together by electro lasting magnets.

# LG Watch Urbane LTE



The Korean organization LG is truly setting great pace in the innovation market with its Smartphones, Tv's and part all the more new gadgets. In this way, this time here's something which is normal
LG Watch Urbane LTE Review
LG Watch Urbane LTE
nowadays and is radically trending in the tech world now, Smartwatch. Meet Watch Urbane LTE from LG with the most premium looks and runs on the Lg wearable stage OS.

It is simply not the premium looks, this LG Watch shows off a really decked up spec sheet as well. The presentation is a 1.3-inch POLED showcase with a resolution of 320x320.

The equipment comprises of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz upheld by a 1GB of RAM. The Smartwatch is totally water and dust proof and accompanies an internal stockpiling memory of 4GB. On the battery side, it is controlled by a 700 mAh battery.

# HTC One M9

HTC One M9 Smartphone
HTC One M9 Smartphone


HTC One M9 is supposed to gimmick stereo speakers alongside best materials on the Smartphone to guarantee the best form quality.

The most developed enhancements on the telephone is its back camera furnished with a 20 MP sensor with Sapphire lens. Furthermore now the M9 gets the Ultra Mega pixel camera innovation on the front to guarantee you get staggering selfies.

The telephone accompanies a 5-inch Full HD show and runs on the most recent version of the Android 5.0 Lollipop.

On the equipment front , the telephone gets a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor upheld by a 3GB of RAM and the telephone is controlled by a 2840 mAh battery. 

Source: MWC 2015

Infographic: How to Make More Money with Big Data

Big Data Infographics
Catherine Clifford few days back wrote for Entrepreneur.com in his article 'Why Business That Use 'Big Data' Make More Money (Infographic)' , "Big data is buzzy, and in the event that you drop the expression at a cocktail party, you will most likely gain yourself a few genuine road cred. Also legitimately so. Big data is big news nowadays, in light of the fact that it can possibly have a really significant effect on the main thing for a business. Gathering huge amounts of data and examining it permits ambitious people to improve, all the more deliberately useful business choices."

Clifford goes on, "The infographic underneath was produced by the big data analytics stage Datameer to demonstrate how utilizing data can come about as a part of more intelligent business choices and more income for a wide range of organizations. Think: advertising firms, loyalty programs and online retailers, to give some examples. Observe the infographic for different samples of how big-data analytics are being utilized by businesses to settle on better choices and more money." 



Unlocking Big Data - Make More Money infographics

Thursday, February 19, 2015

BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 update begins rolling out to users

Blackberry OS Update
BlackBerry revealed a significant software update on Thursday, permitting users of its whole suite of BlackBerry 10 devices, for example, the Z10, Q10 and Z30 to get to Android applications, and a host of different features, including Blend.

The organization said the BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3.1 gives users the capacity to get to both the BlackBerry World appstore and the Amazon Appstore that gives access to a host of Android applications already occupied on the BlackBerry stage.

Furthermore, BlackBerry said the new software will permit its users to get to its new BlackBerry Blend offer that awed numerous, when it was divulged last year.

The Blend gimmick lets users get message notifications, read and react to work and individual email, text and different messages, while likewise getting to records, logbooks, contacts and other media, on whatever gadget one is utilizing. It meets expectations over a host of working frameworks including Apple's Mac OS, Microsoft's Windows stage and tablets fueled by Google Inc's Android software.

The software update will likewise present the new BlackBerry Assistant, an advanced assistant that can be utilized with voice or text order to help users oversee email, contacts, datebook and different applications. It matches offerings, for example, Apple's Siri and Samsung's S Voice.

BlackBerry said subject to carrier acceptance, the software overhaul will start to take off to clients around the world, beginning Thursday.


Source: Reuters

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Millions of computers may be compromised by US spyware - Kaspersky report

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has figured out how to conceal spying software profound inside hard drives made by top PC manufacturers, permitting the agency to spy on most of the world's computers, as per cyber researchers and previous operatives.

The nearly protected system was found by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software creator that has uncovered a progression of Western cyber-secret activities operations.



NSA Spyware - System Security Thread
Kaspersky said it discovered PCs in 30 nations contaminated with spying projects, with the most infections seen in Iran, emulated by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria.

The targets included government and military establishments, telecom organizations, banks, vitality organizations, atomic researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.

The firm declined to publicly blame the US for being behind the spying crusade, however said it was nearly connected to Stuxnet, the NSA-drove cyberweapon that was utilized to attack Iran's uranium enhancement office.

A previous NSA representative told Reuters that Kaspersky's investigation was right, and that individuals still in the spy agency esteemed these surveillance programs as exceedingly as Stuxnet.

An alternate previous intelligence agent confirmed that the NSA had added to the prized method of disguising spyware in hard drives, however said he didn't know which spy efforts depended on it.

NSA representative Vanee Vines said the agency was mindful of the Kaspersky report however would not remark on it publicly.

Kaspersky on Monday distributed the specialized subtle elements of its exploration on Monday, a move that could help contaminated foundations catch the spying projects, some of which follow back the extent that 2001.

The revelation could hurt the NSA's reconnaissance capacities, officially harmed by enormous holes by previous foreman Edward Snowden. Mr Snowden's disclosures have vexed a few US partners and impede the offers of U.S. innovation items abroad.

The presentation of these new spying instruments could prompt more prominent backfire against Western innovation, especially in nations, for example, China, which is as of now drafting regulations that would oblige most bank innovation suppliers to proffer duplicates of their software code for assessment.

Peter Swire, one of five individuals from President Barack Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, said the Kaspersky report demonstrated that it is crucial for the nation to consider the conceivable impact on exchange and conciliatory relations before choosing to utilize its learning of software flaws for intelligence gathering.

"There can be not kidding negative consequences for different US engages," Mr Swire said.

As per Kaspersky, the spies made a mechanical leap forward by making sense of how to cabin malicious software in the dark code called firmware that dispatches each time a PC is turned on.


Kaspersky NSA Spyware Infection Report

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Why Big Data is a must in Ecommerce Industry

Big Data and ECommerce
Imagine that Big Data is only one more advertised idea in tech? Reconsider. The buzz encompassing Big Data is a long way from being outlandish. Not just does it permit merchants to addition deeper insights into customer behavior and industry trends, yet it likewise gives them a chance to settle on more accurate decisions to improve pretty much every part of the business, from marketing and advertising, to merchandising, operations, and considerably customer retention.

The following are a couple of more focuses that deeper clarify the effects of Big Data in the ecommerce realm. From enhancing customer experience to creating better products or marketing campaigns, its no doubt that Big Data is the following big thing for online businesses.

More Organized Data


The biggest test for most ecommerce businesses is to collect, store and organize data from numerous data sources. There's unquestionably a considerable measure of data holding up to be examined and it is an overwhelming task for some E-trade businesses to comprehend everything. Big Data makes ready for more organized data and empowers business managers or marketing managers to track and better comprehend a mixed bag of information from numerous distinctive sources (i.e. stock administration framework, CRM, Adword/ Adsense examination, email administration supplier insights, and so on.).

Data-Driven Decisions


Maybe the most capable effect that Big Data has on businesses is that it allows merchants to settle on more educated decisions. Since these decisions are focused around data insights, rather than minor hunches or fragmented information, business managers can take the speculating out of these decisions and anticipate unnecessary using, extravagant trials, or even oversights.

For example, a customer of our own who is in the business of offering bidets leveraged our answer and found that his customers are not as social media smart as he thought they were. Our findings showed that email and telephone calls were his best marketing channels. Thus, he found himself able to make a data-driven decision and centered his marketing efforts on running email campaigns and offers, rather than indiscriminately contributing his financial plan on social network advertisements.

Customized Offers


Big Data likewise lets ecommerce businesses make more customized offers and communications. Big Data empowers merchants to track each client's behavior and put two and two together to focus the best approaches to change over one-time customers into rehash purchasers.

A decent case of this originates from another of our customers, Bikeberry.com. The online store collected various customer data, including skimming patters, login tallies, past buys and then some. Bikeberry.com then utilized that information to make 5 separate offers, to be specific free sending, 5% off, 10% off, 15% off, and $30 off new products. Each of their customers received a separately customized offer, which is controlled by our Customer Profiling Engine to be more important to their inclination and past behavior.

Subsequently, Bikeberry's sales saw an increment of 133% and client on location engagement expanded by ~200%. Likewise, Bikeberry.com was additionally ready to spare more cash by not offering rebates that are so big it would be impossible customers who didn't require an enormous motivator to change over.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

How to bypass WhatsApp's Double Blue Checkmarks : Hacking Tips

Whatsapp Double Blue CheckmarksAs covered in our last article,  Whatsapp did what most are dreading—read messages confirmations once more to the sender. While individuals some are glad about the feature, others are freaking out.

Whatsapp has begun sending back read message confirmations over to the reader by issuing blue double tick marks on the message. This shows and affirms that the message has been read/ seen by the user on the other end.

Awhile ago, a solitary tick would imply that the message is sent and a double tick implied that the message has been gotten on the phone. Then again, there was no affirmation whether the message was seen by the beneficiary and when. Anyway now there is no getting away as the sender will know whether you saw the message and when. While blue ticks could be incredible for some, it could destroy relationships for some others. This could produce an antagonistic results on Whatsapp users and power them to relocate to other visit applications to evade debates.

The last time Whatsapp rolled out improvements to the application was including the last seen time stamp. Numerous did not like it and Whatapp made a change by including privacy settings. With blue ticks, Whatsapp has not made any options for the present.

So how would you get away from the blue tick and make life a little simpler? All things considered, there are a couple of techniques on the web, which lives up to expectations for some while others grumble that it doesn't. The strategy expresses that when you get the message, don't open Whatsapp straightaway. Essentially peep from the notification bar and you will have the capacity to read the message in a split second. The minute you click on the message, Whatsapp will open and your message's blue tick will be sent.

Some say that you ought to put your smartphone in Airplane mode and afterward check the message. Along  these  lines, Whatsapp won't send the read affirmation to the sender. You can then switch over to ordinary mode in the wake of checking the message. While some said that it lived up to expectations, others expressed that Whatsapp quickly matches up after you begin your 3g or Wi-Fi and the read affirmation (blue tick) is sent to the sender.

We found two more traps, which is still to be affirmed by a lot of people out there. In any case, unfortunately, one of this works just for Android users and not iphone. When you get a message from your sender, draw down the notification bar and you will have the capacity to see read message without opening it. In the event that it is an one line message, you are fortunate. This works for iphone as well. In the event that it is dependent upon four or five lines, iphone users can't see this, however Android users can squeeze outwards on the message (deliberately) and extend the notification message to read up to a couple of lines. Yet in the event that the message is longer or there are numerous messages, you can't do anything. We have something better ahead.

Android users can rejoice a little as you can look at all the messages without really going to Whatsapp and sending the blue tick to the sender.

Essentially add an alternate desktop to your launcher, on the off chance that you don't have a clear one. Include a Whatsapp widget in full screen mode on a clear desktop. You are all situated. When you get a message, essentially head on to the widget and look at all the messages in full length. You can parchment and read the whole messages one after the other. Verify you don't click on any message, else you would open up Whatsapp unintentionally. To prevent coincidentally opening Whatsapp, we recommend you introduce an application lock utility and lock Whatsapp with a secret word or example. Go for the same and let us know whether it worked for you. Assuredly this trap functions admirably till Whatsapp rolls out sufficient improvements. We have not possessed the capacity to attempt the same on Symbian, Blackberry or Windows Phone so far. We might upgrade you when we get something.

Do you have some other traps? Why not impart it to everybody.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Samsung launches Galaxy A5 and A3: The Slimmest Smartphones


Samsung launches Galaxy A5 and A3
The South Korean-monster has authoritatively presented Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3, touted as the slimmest smartphones from the company till date. Emphasizing refined full metal unibody designs that are 6.7mm and 6.9mm slim separately, these new phones have huge obvious changes and Samsung has at last adjusted the metal body in the wake of shedding off their adoration for plastic.

The essential center of the company is the adolescent, minute sharing, social-media driven purchasers. To satisfy all the requirements, Samsung offer a progressed 5-megapixel front confronting cam for taking pictures plainly and strikingly. Other fascinating peculiarities, for example, Wide Selfie, Palm Selfie, Rear Cam Selfie, and Beauty Face that were prior restricted to Galaxy Note 4 just, are presently going to be a piece of the software in the Galaxy A3 and A5.

"The Galaxy A5 and A3 offer a flawlessly created full metal unibody, thin plan, unrivaled equipment and the best conceivable social media experience," said JK Shin, CEO and Head of IT & Mobile Communication at Samsung Electronics. "These devices make our progressed Galaxy experience much more available to youthful and pattern cognizant consumers," he further included.

Clients are likewise ready to rapidly and effortlessly share photographs or features on their most loved social media channels with these devices which are pressed with quick system velocity of LTE Category 4 standard.


Galaxy A5 Specifications:

Samsung Galaxy A5 Specifications

- 5inch 720p Super AMOLED showcase.

- 1.2ghz quad-center processor with 2gb of RAM.

- 16gb inherent memory, which can be further be extended upto 64gb by means of microsd opening.

- 13mp auto-center back cam with LED Flash and 5mp front-confronting cam.

- 2,300 mah battery with Ultra-Power Saving Mode.

- Bluetooth: 4.0(ble, Ant+), NFC (LTE form just) and A-GPS/ GLONASS.

- Connectivity- 3g: Hspa+ 42.2/5.76mbps,wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n.


Galaxy A3 Specifications:

Samsung Galaxy A3 Specifications

- 4.5inch qhd Super AMOLED showcase.

- 1.2ghz quad-center processor with 1gb of RAM.

- 16gb implicit memory, which can be further be stretched upto 64gb by means of microsd space.

- 8mp auto-center back cam with LED Flash and 5mp front-confronting cam.

- 1,900 mah battery.

- Bluetooth: 4.0(ble, Ant+), NFC (LTE form just) and A-GPS/ GLONASS.

Both the smartphones run on Android Kitkat (4.4) and helps 4g systems also.

With these smartphones Samsung look to regroup and recover its lost market share in yearly terms in the second from last quarter, as indicated by Strategy Analytics. Samsung said on Friday that it will begin offering the Galaxy A3 and A5 in China at some point in November. It grouped them as mid-level phones, and said they will be dispatched in other "select markets", without revealing the evaluating.

According to consistent changing patterns of the hugely developing Smartphone market, the looks and specifications of the telephone are something which is profoundly being checked by every Smartphone developer. The thickness of the cell phone is, no doubt considered as the primary USP. Prior it was just Gionee Elife S5.1 being advanced as the most slender cell phone on the planet with a 5.1mm thickness. As of late, Chinese cell phone producer Oppo additionally bounced into the opposition by propelling the world's slimmest Oppo R5 cell phone, with the thickness of 4.85mm.

With mixed bag of choices accessible in the market, a client is ruined by decisions and it would be intriguing to see which company would demonstrate its courage in this ceaseless race.

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.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Google to Shut Down Orkut on Sept 30

Google Officially closes Orkut
Google published today that it is shutting down its first social network, Orkut, on September 30.

Orkut, launched in 2004 and named after Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten, who made it, was extremely well known in Brazil, where for quite a long time it was the leading social network. Facebook at last surpassed it the country in January 2012.

Orkut was widely utilized within India, however never picked up footing in the U.S. also with the production of Google+ three years back, the end of Orkut was just a matter of time.

"It's been an incredible 10 years, and we apologize to those still energetically utilizing the administration," engineering chief Paulo Golgher wrote in a blog entry. "We trust individuals will discover other online groups to start more discussions and fabricate considerably more associations for the following decade and past."

Orkut grew out of Google's 20 percent activity, which permitted representatives to utilize a fifth of their working week on side undertakings. Obviously, the social network has since been supplanted by Google+, a more driven administration that ties into a large number of Google's different items. The choice to close Orkut is consequently scarcely amazing – the reality it took so long is most likely all the more a stun.

Beginning today, it will be imposible for newcomers to make another Orkut account. Existing clients can get to the administration as ordinary, nonetheless; Google (Orkut Team) says the three-month period ought to "give the community time to deal with the move." Orkut fans can likewise send out their profile data , community posts and photos utilizing Google Takeout.

The Orkut application will be expelled from Google Play and the App Store later today. You can discover all the more about the progressions and how its client base will be influenced in the advancing months here.

Google Closes Orkut
Orkut users will have the capacity to continue to utilize the network until Sept. 30, however no new account could be made begun today. Orkut profile data, community posts and photos might be sent out with Google Takeout (which will be conceivable under September 2016).