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Nokia X series of phones to come pre-loaded with WeChat
WeChat comes preloaded on the recently launched Nokia X, and will also be available on Nokia X+ and Nokia XL when they are launched in India in the second quarter. WeChat is among the fastest growing messaging apps with a 379 percent increase in users during the period of Q2 to Q4 2013, topping the GlobalWebIndex’s Q4 2013 report in terms of growth.
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Google Play Movies and Music All Access serving several new regions now
Google Play Movies which lets you pay for and download flicks onto your Android device and Music All Access have been rolled out to more regions. 37 new countries have welcomed the former, while Greece, Norway, Slovakia and Sweden have been added to the latter’s list.
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Snapdeal to launch GOQii fitness band and services in India starting at Rs 5,999
e-Commerce firm Snapdeal has partnered US-based GOQii to bring the latter’s fitness band and services to consumers in India.
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Budget Windows Phone devices from Karbonn, Lava will start at Rs 6,000; to launch this June
Domestic handset players Lava and Karbonn will launch Windows-based smartphones in the coming few months. Karbonn’s Windows Phone devices will be in the price range of Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000, while Lava’s range will start at Rs 6,500.
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New India Assurance uses mobile apps to woo customers
New India Assurance, one of the largest general insurers has launched mobile apps to enable customers to renew their policies or buy new ones.
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Nokia X series of phones to come pre-loaded with WeChat
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WeChat comes preloaded on the recently launched Nokia X, and will also be available on Nokia X+ and Nokia XL when they are launched in India in the second quarter. WeChat is among the fastest growing messaging apps with a 379 percent increase in users during the period of Q2 to Q4 2013, topping the GlobalWebIndex’s Q4 2013 report in terms of growth.
WeChat social experience brings all it’s features including “People Nearby,” “Shake” and “Draft Bottle,” and free stickers for Nokia users. Teaming up with messaging apps appears to have become an upcoming trend among budget device makers. Earlier, Micromax had teamed up with BlackBerry’s popular messaging service. Now, all Micromax Canvas devices come preloaded with BBM.
“We are thrilled to bring WeChat to the Nokia X smartphone family. We continually aim to bring people the best smartphone experience with our innovative hardware and software, and WeChat is a perfect addition to help people stay connected and share more joy with friends,” said Bryan Biniak, Global Vice President and General Manager, Developer Experience, Nokia.
In India, the Nokia X, has been launched at a price of Rs 8,599. As we saw in our encounter with the Nokia X, it’s an odd phone and the initial impression it left on us was not very good. But we will have to wait and see how Nokia tunes up the X series.
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Featured Technology Talk
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MTS unveils aggressive data plans, targets heavy users
Sistema Shyam Teleservices rolled out Super Unlimited data plans Tuesday targeting heavy users on both the prepaid and postpaid platforms.
The Indian arm of Russia's Sistema runs CDMA-based mobile services under the MTS brand in nine regions.
Sistema Shyam's postpaid customers will now avail of 40 GB on a data plan with a monthly rental of Rs 999 with a 30-day validity period.
Prepaid customers on the other hand will have to fork out monthly rentals of Rs 999, Rs 1298 and Rs 1498 for accessing 20 GB, 25 GB and 30 GB of data respectively. The prepaid data plans also have 30-day validity, SSTL said in a media statement..
The company's chief marketing & sales officer Leonid Musatov claimed "the super unlimited data plans were designed to provide at least 300% more value than plans offered by competition".
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Google Play Movies and Music All Access serving several new regions now
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Google Play Movies which lets you pay for and download flicks onto your Android device and Music All Access have been rolled out to more regions. 37 new countries have welcomed the former, while Greece, Norway, Slovakia and Sweden have been added to the latter’s list.
Play Music All Access lets users stream and listen to songs at a set monthly rate. You can create a library of up to 20,000 tracks from the ones you already have on your mobile device or PC (including iTunes) and songs heard via the music service, and store it in Google’s cloud locker provided for the same.
What’s more, there’s no need to upload tracks that Google Music already has since it recognizes the songs you have on your device and adds them from its catalog. The music can be listened to even when offline as long as you’ve saved it to your gadget when you did have internet access. After a 30-day free trial, it’s $9.99 a month for the service.
Next comes Google Play Movies which can be downloaded from the company’s online marketplace at a price. The additional regions which will be getting it cover Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Gabon, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Ivory Coast.
Apart from these, TalkAndroid notes that Luxembourg, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Sweden, Togo, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zambia are also on the list.
Google Play Movies doesn’t just host flicks, it also offers a variety of TV shows for download as long as you live in the US, the UK, Japan or Australia.
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Snapdeal to launch GOQii fitness band and services in India starting at Rs 5,999
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e-Commerce firm Snapdeal has partnered US-based GOQii to bring the latter’s fitness band and services to consumers in India.
The six-month plan will cost Rs 5,999, while the 12-month package has been priced at Rs 9,999.
Customers will be able to place orders for a GOQii subscription directly from Snapdeal.com with the complete plan including the proprietary GOQii band, the GOQii Personal Coach service and the GOQii app, Snapdeal said in a statement.
The subscription fee includes advice and motivation from the fitness coach and experts via video/audio calls and a messaging service.
This puts you directly in touch with the fitness instructor and allows them to keep a closer eye on your workout. While it’s always easy to turn off a wristband or any other device which keeps telling you to pump it up, it’s much harder to do that with a voice, that you have become familiar with.
“The GOQii philosophy is driven by the passion for healthy and meaningful living. Having used many other wearable tech products, I felt that something was missing – they were just a bunch of gadgets, apps and online data-crunching solutions, which lacked sustained engagement, motivation, customized advice or a human connection.
I needed something more than data; I was looking for a complete solution for a more fulfilling way of life. With GOQii we have created the solution,” Vishal Gondal, founder and chief executive of GOQii had earlier said in a press statement.
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TECHNOLOGY
"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."
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Yamaha recalls luxury sports bike
Japanese bike maker Yamaha is calling back its super sports bike YZF R1 (998CC) in India to fix a potential problem with the super luxury bike that retails for around Rs 16 lakh.
The company said around 100 units of the bikes may be called back to fix the defect, and this is being done as part of a global exercise.
"Yamaha Motor Co., Japan, has determined that a defect which relates to headlight lead coupler overheating and melting, exists in YZF-R 1 motorcycle falling within certain production numbers. This headlight sub-lead must be replaced at the earliest in the motorcycles falling within certain production numbers," the company said.
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Famous Scientist
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science.
In physiology and psychology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on the sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism. In physics, he is known for his theories on the conservation of energy, work in electrodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, and on a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics.
As a philosopher, he is known for his philosophy of science, ideas on the relation between the laws of perception and the laws of nature, the science of aesthetics, and ideas on the civilizing power of science. The largest German association of research institutions, the Helmholtz Association, is named after him
Helmholtz was the son of the Potsdam Gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosopher Immanuel Hermann Fichte. Helmholtz's work is influenced by the philosophy of Fichte and Kant. He tried to trace their theories in empirical matters like physiology.
As a young man, Helmholtz was interested in natural science, but his father wanted him to study medicine at the Charité because there was financial support for medical students.
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Budget Windows Phone devices from Karbonn, Lava will start at Rs 6,000; to launch this June
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Domestic handset players Lava and Karbonn will launch Windows-based smartphones in the coming few months. Karbonn’s Windows Phone devices will be in the price range of Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000, while Lava’s range will start at Rs 6,500.
“We will come out with four devices with Windows-based operating systems by the end of May or starting June in the price range of 6,000-12,000,” Karbonn Managing Director Pradeep Jain told PTI.
Lava International CEO and MD Hari Om Rai said: “A series of Windows-based phones will be launched under the Lava brand by July. These will be priced in the range of Rs 6,500-8,500.” He said the phones would be have Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processors and feature the Windows Phone 8 platform.
“We expect the Windows-based phones to represent 8-10 percent of the volume of Lava smartphones starting July-August” Rai added.
For Xolo brand of phones, the expected timeline of launch is the coming quarter. “We at Xolo believe that Windows OS has certain goodness to offer for a certain market segment and it will help us reach a desired 15 percent share of the smartphone market by end 2014,” a Xolo spokesperson said.
Last month, at the Mobile World Congress Microsoft had announced that it would be working with nine new Windows phone partners, including Foxconn, Gionee, JSR, Karbonn, Lava (Xolo), Lenovo, LG, Longcheer and ZTE. HTC, Huawei, Nokia and Samsung are already making Windows-based devices.
As per the IDC figures of the last quarter of 2013, Android had a 78.1 percent share of global smartphone shipments while the Microsoft Windows Phone platform share stood at 3 percent.
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New India Assurance uses mobile apps to woo customers
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New India Assurance, one of the largest general insurers has launched mobile apps to enable customers to renew their policies or buy new ones.
According to an estimate, 65 per cent of mobile users in the country access the internet through mobile phone and 40 per cent of them are "active" data users.
A senior official of New India Assurance said the company had launched two applications – one for the customer and other for the agent – on operating systems including Blackberry, Android and Windows.
“We launched the applications two weeks ago on a pilot basis. The New India Customer app is for customers who can get new policies or they can renew their current policy. We have already launched lot of mobility solutions", New India Assurance deputy general manager K Ravi Shankar said.
Stating that there was good response to the initiative, he said 20,000 downloads of the app had been made so far. Besides this, the company is also focusing on creating awareness among rural people on insurance products by launching a mobile van to reach the prospective customers in their place itself.
New India Assurance chairman and managing director G Srinivasan said the mobile van was flagged off from Madurai last week. "Our objective is to offer insurance policies even in a tier-4 towns. This mobile van will travel to remote places and offer our services", he said adding the plan was to extend the service across the country.
Noting that at present bulk of business was contributed by major towns and cities, he said future of general insurance was expected to come from rural areas and from micro, small and medium enterprise segment.
Cholamandalam MS General Insurance and Japan-based Mitsui Sumitomo Group also recently forayed into the mobile application space enabling customers to buy or renew their current health insurance policies.
The Chennai-based company launched 'Chola MS Wellness', targeting people using mobile phones that run on adroid- operating system. The company has allocated Rs 25 lakh towards this initiative and appointed an "external agency", Cholamandalam MS General Insurance managing director S S Gopalarathnam said.
Cholamandalam, which has insurance products across accident, health, liability, motor, property, travel and rural segments, was initially offering medical insurance through the mobile phone space. Soon, the app would be offered for other operating systems.
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Tips to make your browser secure
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MUNICH: Web browsers are the key to the internet. Without them the internet is an impenetrable black box.
Browsers may be among the most commonly used applications, but they also offer the greatest number of attack options for dangerous content on the net.To keep viruses, worms and other malware away from your computer when surfing,it's crucial to configure your browser for security.
The firewall on a DSL router is a good first step for protecting the computer during surfing, says Marco Rinne from the computer portal chip.de. But that doesn't hold true if your browser is out of date: “Internet Explorer 6 and 7 or Firefox 2 no longer satisfy current security standards,” he says. For optimal protection, he therefore urgesusers to keep theirbrowsers updated.
There are numeroussecurity tools already present in Firefox and Internet Explorer. The pop-up blocker,for example, prevents more than justannoying ads. It alsothrottles other windows that can be used to sneak malicious software onto PCs. Phishing filters protect personal dataagainst theft.
Firefox offers additional configurationoptions underthe Settings item in the Security tab of the Options dialog box: thisincludes the ability to block risky or forgedwebsites.It's also a good idea to prohibit websites from installing add-ons on their own. Similar settings are possible under Internet Explorer in the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box, accessible from the Tools menu.
Computer owners should also activate all options for warning against attacks, advises Markus Linnemann, managing director of the Institute for Internet Security (ifis) at the Polytechnic University of Gelsenkirchen in Germany. This applies in particular to warnings about suspicious content to be displayed using ActiveX, Flash, or JavaScript.
Yet the warning mechanism on most browsers alone isn't usually enough, Linnemann says. Those who wish to be especially careful can, for example, use the Firefox add-on 'No Script,' which blocks all active content of a website by default and allows the user to decide which should be permitted. The problem is that most users are unable to determine which content represents a threat to their computer, Rinne msays.
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Cartoon of Technology
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Airtel launches 3G services in Bangladesh, starting with Chittagong and Dhaka
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Telecom major Bharti Airtel Thursday said its subsidiary in Bangladesh has launched third generation (3G) services.
Airtel Bangladesh's 3G services will be available initially in Dhaka and Chittagong and will be extended to the whole country in a phased manner, the company said.
The telecom operator also introduced various packages for its customers, according to a release by Bharti Airtel.
In September, Airtel India's largest private telecom operator announced that its Bangladesh arm had won 5 Mhz of 3G spectrum for USD 105 million in an auction.
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“Only passions, great passions,can elevate the soul to great things."
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