Google team to visit Jammu & Kashmir and to interact with them - G|Kashmir - a Google Initiative.

An eight member team from Google headquarters in the US will visit Kashmir Valley next week to interact with students, IT professionals and amateurs here. "An international team of eight members of Google from the US will be coming on Monday and they will attend an interaction session with the students, entrepreneurs and IT professionals here," organising group Mercy Corps' Kashmir head, Usman Ahmad, told PTI. He said around 800 people from the ...

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Is Flipkart deleting Negative reviews on their site and masking it with fake Positive Reviews?

Flipkart is the India's fastest growing e-commerce website. Flipkart was started by two Amazon's ex-Employees and Notably both of them were IIT Alumini. Flipkart's fastest Service and Cheap Price tag made them famous by Mouth Spread without any great Advertisement and Publicity. Flipkart is sometimes mentioned to be India's Amazon. But Flipkart differs from Amazon in a great Aspect i.e., Their Reviews. The Product review in Amazon website ...

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Samsung to launch flexible screen Mobile Phones in 2012

Samsung‘s new mobile device lineup will feature flexible screens starting in 2012, the company announced today. In its quarterly earnings call, Samsung’s vice president of investor relations, Robert Yi, told investors, analysts and press, “The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part. The application probably will start from the handset side.” After flexible-screen mobile phones roll out, the company ...

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Nokia Kinetic – New Flexible Phone To Be Launched Soon

Nokia demonstrates yet another device- Nokia Kinetic, a new phone model that is flexible and could be bent and twisted easily. This model has been revealed this October in London at the Nokia World 2011 Nokia technology show. It is a 5 – inch model resembling a tablet. It has a flexible AMOLED screen. It offers two applications- a photo viewer and a music player. The phone has two modes – the convex and the concave. To select some icon on the screen, ...

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Anna University B.E.(Part Time) Degree Examinations Nov/Dec-2011 Exam Time Table

ANNA UNIVERSITY  CHENNAI - 600 025 TIME TABLE - B.E.(Part Time) DEGREE EXAMINATIONS NOV/DEC.-2011  CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATIONS  Anna university Exam Time Table for Bachelor of Engineering (BE) for Part-time Students has been released by Anna University. These Semester exams are going to be held in November / December 2011. The Complete Time Table for All Branches of BE Parttime for Nov / Dec 2011 can be download from the following ...

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Samsung beats Apple in Smartphone Sale

For the first time, Samsung Electronics Co shipped more smartphones in the latest quarter than tech industry darling Apple Inc. On the surface, this may look like a big upset in a world that affords the iPhone maker adulation and outsized expectations. The real reason, however, has more to do with timing and Samsung's variety of offerings and prices. Apple sold 17.1 million iPhones in the third quarter, 3 million fewer than expected. Samsung, meanwhile, ...

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RIM Facility Center in India to spy on Blackberry Users

Research In Motion Ltd. has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, according to people familiar with the matter, but the move hasn't fully satisfied India's appetite for access to messages on the popular smartphones. Last year, India threatened to shut down BlackBerry encrypted email and instant messaging services because it couldn't wiretap them. The government put the ...

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Google Offers a copy of Groupon's Business - Copycat Google makes big changes to daily deals business

Google Inc unveiled big changes to its fledgling daily deals business on Thursday in the midst of rival Groupon Inc's IPO roadshow. The largest Internet search company said its Google Offers business will distribute daily deals from at least 15 other daily deal sites, including Gilt City, kgbdeals, TIPPR, Plum District and Juice in the City. Google Offers subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area will get the new deals first, but the company ...

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New 'Socialbot' threat steals private info from Facebook - Do you know all your FB Friends?

Do you really know all your Facebook "friends"? Beware, if your answer is 'No', as researchers say you could be putting your private details at risk every time you say 'Yes' to an unknown friend request. A team at the University of British Columbia in Canada found a worrying way to evade Facebook's security measures entirely and harvest information from the popular social networking site. They created a team of "fake" Facebook users who were able ...

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Sony to buy out Ericsson's 50% Stake in the Joint Venture for $1.47 billion

LM Ericsson and Sony Corp. announced on Thursday they will go separate ways as Ericsson sells its 50 percent stake in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson to Sony for (euro) 1.05 billion ($1.46 billion). Sony Ericsson will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony and integrated into Sony's platform of network-connected consumer electronics products, the Japanese company and Swedish wireless equipment firm said. The transaction gives Sony an opportunity ...

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Nokia Lumia 800 - The First Real Windows Phone said Microsoft

Nokia Lumia Windows SmartPhone Launch : NOKIA has launched its long-awaited first Windows 7 smartphones on October 26 2011 at Nokia World 2011 Event, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the smartphone race to chief rivals, Apple, Samsung and Google. But some analysts say it may be too little, too late, for the world's top mobile phone maker. Nokia Lumia Windows SmartPhone Price Tag : With price tags of $560 and $360, the Lumia 800 ...

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Asus Eee Pad Slider Features, Technical Specifications, Price

Eee Pad Slider Features : The Eee Pad Slider is one of the growing mountain of Android tablets seeking (and generally failing) to challenge the iPad. But don't write it off immediately, because it has a secret weapon hidden under its gloss black display: a five-row keyboard. One of the biggest complaints from potential tablet owners is the lack of easy data input. The answer to that complaint is generally two-fold -- firstly, tablets are designed ...

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Julian Assange says 'Financial blockade' may close WikiLeaks

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said on Monday that his controversial website could be forced to shut down by the end of the year because a 10-month-old "financial blockade" had sharply reduced the donations on which it depends. Calling the blockade a "dangerous, oppressive and undemocratic" attack led by the United States, Assange said at a news conference that it had deprived his organization of "tens of millions of dollars," and warned, ...

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Google Plus user base crosses 40 million mark

Google's online social networking service 'Google Plus' (Google+) has crossed 40 million users mark since its launch in June. Google Plus now has attracted 40 million users, reflecting the huge interest in the social networking site which was opened to the public on September 20. Earlier, the service was available only through invitation as part of trial runs. Interestingly, rival Facebook Inc took three years to reach the 25 million users mark ...

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Top 5 Operating Systems for Business

Top 5  Operating Systems for Business #1: Windows XP  Logo : Company : Microsoft Launched Year: 2001 #2 : Windows 7 Logo : Company: Microsoft Launched Year: 2009 #3 : Windows Vista Logo : Company: Microsoft Launched Year: 2007 #4 : MacOSX Logo : Company: Apple Launched Year: 2002 #5 : Linux ( Red hat,Fedora,Ubuntu) Logo : Company: Red hat,Ubuntu,etc., Launched Year: 1991 - First Linux ...

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Top 5 Internet Search Engine Web sites

Top 5 Internet Search Engine Web sites #5 : Ask Logo : URL : www.ask.com  #4 : Bing Logo: URL : www.bing.com #3. Yahoo Logo: URL : www.search.yahoo.com #2 : Baidu (Chinese) Logo: URL : www.baidu.com #1 : Google  Logo: URL: www.google.com &nb ...

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Facebook tracks Logged out users

Facebook has denied allegations that it tracks users when they are logged out, saying it only uses tracking cookies to personalise content and to make the social networking site more secure. An Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic, recently claimed that when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify ...

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Tim Cook has same vison as me: Steve Jobs

Tim Cook, after joining Apple Inc in 1998, quickly gained the trust of Steve Jobs, who had recently taken back control of the company, according to a biography of Jobs to be released on October 24. Jobs initially oversaw supply chain after he returned to Apple in 1997 following a 12-year hiatus. By turning that responsibility over to Cook, Jobs was able to focus on product vision and broader strategy, instead of the nitty-gritty of manufacturing ...

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Gaddafi image spammed out by Hackers to imitate AFP

A computer security firm warned that cybercriminals were attempting to exploit Agence France-Presse photos of slain Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi in an email scam. The email contains malware designed to infect personal computers running the Windows operating system, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at British-based computer security company Sophos. "Hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of (Gaddafi) death, ...

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Groupon cuts IPO valuation by less than half

Groupon (www.groupon.com), the wonder story that has gradually gained a lot of doubters, is moving forward with a scaled-back initial public offering, and is showing some better progress toward profitability. The company said Friday in a revised S-1 filing that it will sell 30 million shares at $16 to $18 a share, which would raise up to $540 million and value the company at $10.1 to $11.4 billion. The company will only offer a small five percent ...

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Microsoft sued for monopoly abuse by Israeli firm

Microsoft Corp used its monopoly position in computer operating systems to block the PC-sharing business of MiniFrame Ltd, according to a lawsuit filed by the small Israeli technology company. The world's largest software company, which supplies the operating systems on 90 per cent of the world's PCs, unfairly changed its licensing agreements and bullied MiniFrame's potential customers to prevent it from winning valuable contracts, the Israeli ...

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iPhone 4S actual(original) manufacturing cost $188

Apple Inc's spends at least $188 in component costs to make each of its fifth-generation iPhone 4S, consultancy and research firm IHS iSuppli estimated on Thursday. The cost to make the iPhone 4S, which starts at $199 for the 16GB version with a wireless plan contract, totals at least $196 when $8 in manufacturing cost is added, according to an analysis by IHS iSuppli, which broke open the phone. Apple has never revealed how much it costs to ...

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Vodafone to pay Rs 25k fine for pesky calls

In a significant judgment that could benefit millions of mobile phone subscribers troubled by pesky telemarketing calls and messages, a district consumer forum last week directed Vodafone Essar Limited to pay Rs 25,000 to a doctor who had subscribed to the DNC - Do Not Call Facility - but still kept getting calls from various companies. The forum held the service provider guilty of deficiency of service and ordered it to pay Dr Ashesh Gala Rs 20,000 ...

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SIRI - She brings in a security loophole in IPhone 4S

There must be nobody who never talked about SIRI the awesome voice recognizing feature in the new IPhone 4S. Some interesting stuffs that she is capable of doing. 1. You tell her, remind me to call my dad. She will. 2. You ask who is the Prime Minister of India, She will answer you. 3. You ask her about the weather she will show you. 4. Tell her to send a message,make a call,write a mail to your friend. She will help you. So, while driving, if you wanna text somebody, you need not take your phone out. Just tell SIRI, she will do it. :P Check out live SIRI here. Alright Siri, you help ...

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