india rocks in whatsapp number if users

MUMBAI: Mobile messenger service WhatsApp's user base in India has grown to 70 million active users, which is over a tenth of its global users, its business head Neeraj Arora has said.

"We have 70 million active users here who use the application at least once a month," Arora, a vice-president with WhatsApp, said at the fifth annual INK Conference.

He said the total user base for the company, which was bought by Facebook in a blockbuster $19 billion deal earlier this year, is 600 million.
With over a tenth of the users from the country, India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp, he said, adding connecting billions of people in markets like India and Brazil is the aim of the company.

Arora, an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and ISB Hyderabad, said WhatsApp will continue to hold a distinct identity even after the takeover by Facebook and will not get merged with the social networking giant.

He said WhatsApp, which has only 80 employees, will benefit through learnings from the social networking giant.



Arora, who first heard of WhatsApp as a business development executive for internet search giant Google and later joined as its business head, said it took two years to stitch the $19 billion deal announced this April.

Interestingly, Arora said he would have paid a fraction of the sum to buy WhatsApp three years back.

It would have been in "low tens of million" dollars, he said stressing that the company has grown a lot since then.

REVENUE OF MICROSOFT CLOUD INCREASES

It’s taken Microsoft quite a while to get traction in the cloud, and even longer for it to get its cloud data story right. For the longest time, things weren’t looking good. I say that as someone who has worked with – and at various times championed – Microsoft technology for most of my career. As much as I’ve wanted Microsoft to do well in the cloud data arena, I thought it was doomed to an eternity of near misses.

Fast forward

But things have been steadily improving since the summer, especially in the last few weeks. The glass that was half empty in the spring is now nearly full, with a complete HDInsight Big Data service based on Hadoop 2.0; an able machine learning service called Azure Machine Learning; a document store NoSQL database called DocumentDB; a publish-subscribe service for capturing streaming data calledEvent Hubs; a service for processing and analyzing that data called Azure Stream Analytics; a data transformation workflow service called Data Factory; and an eponymous Search service based on ElasticSearch at its core.

Beyond all of these “house brand” products, partnerships announced in the past two weeks mean that customers can or will soon be able to spin up Hadoop clusters based on Cloudera’s Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), running on either Linux or Windows; IBM’s Cloudant NoSQL database, based on BigCouch and Apache CouchDB, is also available; and so is IBM’s relational database standby, DB2. Oracle and DataStax provide access to Oracle 12c andCassandra on Azure, and other partners allow customers to run MySQL, PostgreSQLand MongoDB.

Competitive landscape

Azure competes well with Google Compute Engine’s Cloud DataFlow service and parts of its BigQuery service. In numerous other areas, Mountain View has some work to do to catch up with Redmond. But what about the cloud juggernaut, Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic MapReduce (EMR), DynamoDB,Kinesis, Data Pipeline and CloudSearch each now have opposite numbers in the Azure camp. Amazon does not yet have a service to compete with Azure Machine Learning. On the other hand, its gangbuster-growth service Redshift has no answer from Redmond (although a competitive offering from BitYota is now available on the Azure platform as well as on AWS).

Some of the pieces that have filled out the Azure data story are in preview while others are in general availability. Many of them appeared in just the last 4 months. The drinking water on the east side of Seattle is normally very good, but it seems like something extra got in the reservoir this summer.

what does PC world says about new Microsoft band lets see

’ve never worn an ankle bracelet like the one Lindsay Lohan had to wear while under house arrest. But after two days testing the Microsoft Band, I think I may have an idea of how constricting and confining those electronic monitors might be.

The Microsoft Band is uncomfortable to wear, and its heart-rate tracking, a marquee feature, doesn’t hold up to real-world testing. It’s a shame my first impressions are so negative, because with built-in GPS, a UV sensor, skin temperature and perspiration sensors, and a broad set of smartwatch-style notifications, the Microsoft Band promises a lot of cool features for $200.

Where the best wrist wearables are pliable and unobtrusive, the Microsoft Band is bulky and rigid, and never lets you forget you have it on. Sure, it’s physically large relative to competing fitness bands like the Jawbone UP24, Runtastic Orbit, and Samsung Gear Fit. But the bigger problem is its broad, inflexible display face. Factoring in the bezel around the display, it measures more than two inches long. It’s also straight as a board. A more comfortable chassis would follow the gentle curves of human anatomy.

The upshot is the Microsoft Band never melts away into the background like a proper wearable. During testing, I always felt that something was on my wrist, especially when I banged the band on table tops, or got it caught on shirtsleeves. It’s omnipresent in the worst way possible.

so end of windows of 7 and windows 8 comes

The date to stop selling the software was set some time ago and should help Microsoft move people on to more recent versions of its operating system.

Separately, statistics suggest people are finally moving away from some very old versions of Windows.

The next version of Windows, called Windows 10, is due to be released in late 2015.

Old code

From 31 October, consumers could no longer buy copies of the Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Windows 7. Now, Windows 8 is also no longer available. The change affects both copies bought in shops or loaded on PCs and laptops.

The current version of Windows, 8.1, will be the default version offered on PCs.

The change will take time to feed through into the market, as many PC makers have large stocks of older versions of Windows and will continue to sell PCs running the software.

Those keen to get a computer running Windows 7 will be able to "downgrade" from 8.1 to Windows 7 Professional but relatively few PC firms offer this option.

Gordon Kelly, writing in Forbes, said the policy revealed "Microsoft's determination to distance itself from the original form of Windows 8" despite it being released just over two years ago.

The original version of Windows 8 did not prove popular because it did away with some familiar elements of the desktop version of the operating system.

By contrast, he said, Windows 7 has been available since late 2009 and is still very popular among users. About 53% of Windows users are on the various editions of Version 7 of Windows, he said. The more recently released Windows 8 has only grabbed a 6% market share and has already been surpassed by 8.1, said Mr Kelly.

The change will also clear the path for the arrival of Windows 10, he added.

Separately, market analysis reveals that the numbers of people using the venerable Windows XP operating system has suddenly seen a sharp decline. Data from Netmarketshare suggests that in October this year its share dropped from almost 24% to just over 17%. It is not yet clear what was behind the fall.

winding of mobile handset business in Chennai

s Nokia suspends production at its Chennai facility in India, the company says it has reached an agreement with workers over a severance package.

The company appears to be one step closer to extricating itself from a sticky tax situation in India that prevented it from transferring its Chennai handset-manufacturing facility to Microsoft as part of the sale of its devices business earlier this year.

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The Finnish company last month announced it would wind down production at the Sriperumbudur site after Microsoft terminated manufacturing services from November 1.

Since then, Nokia has been negotiating the details of a severance package that it first offered to the 6,600 employees of the site in Chennai in April. While the majority accepted the package, around 1,000 workers remained and stood to be affected by Saturday's suspension, which has seen Nokia negotiating with unions and India's Labour Commissioner.

According to a Nokia spokesman, the company has now reached an agreement with affected workers.

"We can confirm that constructive discussions with Union representatives and the Labour Commissioner have resulted in agreement on a financial package for Chennai factory personnel," the spokesman said in a statement.

According to the Economic Times, the package offered is between 750,000 rupees ($12,215) and 950,000 rupees ($15,470) depending on an employee's experience, and includes monthly salaries for November and December.

The publication notes Nokia's significance as an employer in the region. After opening in 2006, it directly employed 8,000 people while another 25,000 indirectly benefitted from the plant.

Nokia's Chennai plant was once among its largest facilities in the world but ahead of the sale to Microsoft it ran afoul of authorities in two separate tax claims, both of which were refuted by Nokia.

While Nokia was gradually shifting its focus away from basic mobile phones that were produced at the facility, Microsoft put a swift end to the bulk of its feature phone business this July, when the company announced it was putting an end to the production of Asha and S40 phones. It also announced plans to reduce its headcount by 18,000 worldwide, including 12,500 employees gained through the Nokia acquisition.

As for fate of the facility itself, Nokia last month said it was unable to transfer the facility to a successor due to the continuing asset freeze imposed by the tax department.

no licence to Microsoft

Samsung has issued a court filing regarding its collaboration with Microsoft on Windows Phone and states that it refuses to fulfill its end of the deal as it now sees the software giant as a direct competitor. The business collaboration agreement between the two companies sees Samsung pay Microsoft north of $1 billion in patent royalties and $6.9 million interest due to payment delays. Microsoft took action in early August in an attempt to collect the cash.

nokia reentering into andriod business

Although Nokia sold its handset division to Microsoft, it doesn't mean the Finnish company is done creating its own handsets, with rumours suggesting that it's planning to release a new Android smartphone.

Nokia Corporation's CEO Rajeev Suri recently dropped hints that the company might be planning to re-enter the smartphone market, and now we're hearing that the first handset could be one running Android.

The new report states that the phone will be a flagship device, and will be build by the same team that made the Nokia N9 - the handset which ran on the MeeGo operating system.

Android over Windows

When Microsoft bought Nokia it got the Nokia brand's 10-year licence. This means that Nokia can produce its own smartphones and sell them as rebranded devices, so while they might not be called Nokia smartphones, underneath they will be.

here comes the most awaited Samsung Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 duo

Samsung Galaxy A5 packs 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM.There’s 16GB of built-in memory, which can be further expanded via microSD card slot.

The device's display is a 5" HD Super AMOLED unit (likely with 720p resolution). A 13MP main camera, 5MP front-facing unit, and full connectivity suite that includes LTE round up the highlights in its spec sheet. Samsung Galaxy A5 boots TouchWiz-ed Android 4.4 KitKat.
The display of the Galaxy A3 is a 4.5” qHD Super AMOLED unit. The device’s main camera is an 8MP unit, coupled with 5MP front-facing snapper. Full connectivity suite is also on board, headed by Cat4 LTE. Like its bigger brother, the A3 boots Android 4.4 KitKat with TouchWiz UI.

nokia 130 as external back up for smartphone users

as best part of the  Nokia is that its best feature phones .

if u are a smartphone user and u need long battery for basic calling ,then Nokia 130 is best for  you people .here is the specifications for Nokia 130  .

• Display size: 1.8''
• Radio features: FM Radio
• Maximum standby time: 36days
• Maximum talk time (2G): 13h
• Maximum video playback time: 16h
• Maximum music playback time: 46h
• Charging connectors: Micro-USB
•  price rate 1699 (INR)

nokia largest mobile manufacturing plant shuts down

We lost everything, our education, our youth, our life," says Arun, who joined the factory after discontinuing his degree. 

 

His friend Vinodth says that he joined the plant for its brand value, hoping that it will provide a secure life. "Today we are left with nothing, no education, no job, no income and no respect in the family," he says.

 

The eligibility criteria for joining the plant was 60% at the Higher Secondary level and a transfer certificate. Hence, many like Arun and Vinodth joined the plant, giving up plans for higher education.

 

Another worker Prabhu says the government, both at the Centre and the state, failed them. So did the court and Indian-born CEOs of Microsoft and Nokia, Satya Nadella and Rajeev Suri respectively.

 

"We are the orphans," said these workers on Union Minister for law, telecom and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad's statement that government couldn't save Nokia Chennai from becoming an orphan.

 

4 K COMPETITION HEATS UP

Everyone's vying for top spot at IFA 2014 in Berlin and Panasonic has well and truly thrown its hat into the ring with its new X492 ultra-high definition 4K television.

Competition for 4K TV's has been rife this year, with the likes of Toshiba, Samsung and Sony all unveiling 4K models, and this latest Panasonic offering shows that they obviously don't want to miss out on the action.

Read more: Falling behind its competitors? Panasonic's X800 TV will not support Netflix 4K

The 85in Viera 4K UHD model boasts a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels as well as Panasonic's own 200Hz back light scanning and 4K intelligent frame creation technology.

There are also a host of other features, including: a quad-core Pro5 processor, a 4K studio master drive, 3D colour management system and automatic local dimming to improve the contrast of black and white backgrounds.

The TV even comes equipped with the latest HDMI ports that can support 4K 60fps input.

Read more: IFA 2014 live: All the biggest tech news as it breaks

As you may have already guessed, this TV is certainly not going to come cheap. All this technology places this model emphatically in the high-end range and, although there's no word of a price yet, we're pretty sure our pocket money at ITProPortal won't cover it.

HP HYBRID IN IFA 2014

HP has unveiled five new consumer devices at the ongoing IFA 2014 trade show in Berlin. The new lineup includes two colourful Chromebook models, two HP Envy 2-in-1 detachable hybrids, and the ultraportable 2-in-1 HP Pavilion x2. 

The new 11-inch HP Chromebook and 14-inch HP Chromebook are both thin and light. The 14-inch model is based on an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor and boasts "world-class graphics performrance" while the 11.6-inch model is based on an Intel Celeron N2830. Both models' screens have a resolution of 1366x768 and both promise 8 hours, 15 minutes of battery life. Both also offer Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac and optional mobile LTE/HSPA modules. 

Multitouch trackpad gestures are supported, along with HDMI, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports. The two models also have front-facing webcams and microphones. The 11-inch model will go on sale starting at $199.99 (approximately Rs. 12,090) in either turquoise or white, while the 14-inch model will cost $299.99 onwards (approximately Rs. 18,130) and come in turquoise, neon green. orange or silver.

The new HP Envy x2 devices are available in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch models. Both are powered by the new Intel Core M processor and promise great performance as well as long battery life. The new design features a fabric-covered backlit Bluetooth keyboard which doubles as a cover. The 13-inch model comes with up to 256GB of solid-state storage while the 15-inch model optionally comes with a 500GB hybrid hard drive. 

Alcatel Onetouch IFA 2014 LAUNCH

Alcatel Onetouch has a new range of low priced smartphones and tablets that come in a variety of different colours and sizes that take advantage of one of Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon quad-core processors.

The Pop 2 and Pop 8S both offer 4G LTE connectivity and are among the first devices that include Qualcomm’s brand new Snapdragon 410 processor.

“Our POP series makes the smartphone experience fun, easy and available to everyone,” said Dan Dery, Chief Marketing Officer for Alcatel Onetouch. “These devices offer a choice for every need, whether that’s streaming, browsing or creating content on the go. The POP 2 family is a proud continuation of this tradition.”

Information on the Pop 2 is scarce except for that it has five different colour panels inside the box that come in yellow, red, blue, green and purple with are easily interchangeable.

Further to this it has a download booster, Wi-Fi and can also be bought in a premium edition with the two screen sizes available across the whole range – 4.5in and 5in.

The Pop 8, meanwhile, is an 8in tablet that is branded as an entry level offering that is powered by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor and weights just 309g.

European versions of the device have a 5-megapixel camera on the back and all versions come with a variety of smart feartues including voice calling and TV companion apps to allow control around the home.

There’s currently no indication when the devices will be released and indeed the exact markets that Alcatel Onetouch plans to brings them to 

best phone ever Samsung Galaxy Note 4

From Sony’s successor to the flagship Z2 that was launched earlier this year to Microsoft’s affordable flagship rivaling the iPhone 5c and the likes, the first day at the IFA had exciting new smartphones to show off. However, one of the biggest highlights of the trade show was Samsung’s trump card Galaxy Note 4, which is set to take Apple’s upcoming phablet head-on. Samsung also threw in a surprise package with the Note Edge, which puts the Youm flexible display to use. We bring to you a quick recap of all the smartphone announcements at the IFA, so far.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Without much ado, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Note 4, the next iteration in its Note series and successor to the Note 3. It comes with a revamped S Pen stylus that offers better grip and more functions. The accompanying software has been spruced up for a cleaner, dare-we-say Android L-like look. Snap Note turns photos of printed documents and text into editable text, like an OCR editor. In terms of processing speed, expect two powerful variants; one with Snapdragon 805 chipset, which brings LTE Cat 6 support and another with Samsung’s Exynos 5433 chipset and LTE Cat 4 connectivity. The Note 4 runs Android 4.4 KitKat at launch and with the proprietary interface on top.

linux news

is perhaps one of the hallmark Linux distributions. It is sponsored byRed Hat, the commercial developer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat's investment in the Fedora community is collaborative. Fedora Linux releases often provide RHEL developers with a field test environment that incubates innovative open source software technologies.

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller

Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released in late 1994 as Red Hat Commercial Linux. It was the first Linux distribution to use the RPM Package Manager as its packaging format. The distribution spawned several other distributions, such as CentOS, Mandriva Linux andYellow Dog Linux. Red Hat discontinued the Red Hat Linux distro in 2004, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to meet the targeted needs of enterprise environments.

The Fedora community continues to develop its own Fedora distro as a noncommercial (free) version for consumers who elect not to pay for enterprise support. However, users will discover that the upcoming Alpha release of Fedora 21 may well be a radically different distribution that's more than a desktop OS.

In this interview, Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project's new leader, discusses with LinuxInsider the pressing issues impacting the growth of Fedora Linux and how it is steering the progress of the FOSS (free and open source software) movement.

LinuxInsider: How do you see progress and adoption of the Fedora distro?

Matthew Miller: We are at a point where we have had 10 years of good success. We had a really big burst of popularity a while ago. Since then, it has been coasting. So a lot of what we are trying to address in Fedora and working on now is designed to change that. We are projecting a growth curve as a result instead of a flat status among users.

LI: Is this coasting period a reflection on Linux usage in general?

Miller: I do not think it is Fedora per se that has a problem. I think it is the Linux distributions as a concept and an operating system are not fulfilling expectations as well as they were a decade ago. We are trying to address that at Fedora.

LI: What new features are you planning to help make Linux more fulfilling?

Miller: We are in the midst of our Fedora 21 cycle. The Alpha release should be coming out very soon now. One of the major things we are doing in response to the waning popularity is release three separate Fedora deliverables for this release. We are planning three separate products, if you will, although we are not going to be selling them. We are splitting Fedora into Fedora Server, Fedora Cloud and Fedora Workstation. Each of those is intended to have a target focus.

LI: Is the Fedora community reinventing its brand?

Miller: If you look at Fedora over the past decade, you see sort of a decision to make it one-size-fits-all. But we are now looking at Fedora and asking, 'what is Fedora?' and 'what can we make better?' When you look at Fedora now, you can see that there was a decision to make it a desktop-only distro -- so that was the focus for a while.

LI: Is this a radical change for Fedora?

Miller: When you look at Fedora's history separate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it had a very historic user base of sysadmins. That user base has been important to Fedora and has always been there. That includes sysadmins running Fedora as a desktop and sysadmins running Fedora for a lot of things in production that are not desktop-related.

LI: So why make a change?

Miller: Over the last few years, the focus has changed. There has been a growing tension in the community. So we made the decision to address those other uses for Fedora. We thought it would be better to diffuse those tensions by making separate versions.

LI: Why has the Fedora community not shown much interest in a server release until now?

Miller: One of the reasons there never was a Fedora server is that at one of the very early Fedora conferences in Boston, we had a session to define what a Fedora server would be. I saw a lot of disparity. There were 30 different people in the room discussing 30 different server things. So we made the decision that there would not be a Fedora server.

LI: What will the first Fedora Server release encompass?

Miller: The server distribution is focused on the idea of server role and easy deployment. We will have a policy under it to guide its development.

LI: How different will the workstation edition be from the existing Fedora desktop distro?

Miller: For the workstation version, we are packaging a desktop distro that has all the previous features and desktop choices. We are not taking those away. But we really want to really focus on packaging up a desktop distribution that targets a specific niche that will be really successful. The idea is to make Fedora into the best office distro. We have some people working on exactly what that means. I do not want to get people too excited about changes. It will not be too radically different -- but it will have that new focus. It will be really appealing to office workers. The goal is to have Fedora spread out rather than fade into abomination.

LI: What is your strategy for dealing with the cloud?

MOTO X with awesome spec is back again

Motorola launched the second generation of its popular Moto G and Moto X devices on Friday, called the Moto G (Gen 2) and Moto X (Gen 2). 

While the company has announced India pricing and availability of the Moto G (Gen 2), it has yet to disclose the pricing for the Moto X (Gen 2) in India - though Motoroladid say it will be made available by the end of the month. The company however has disclosed US pricing at $499.99 (roughly Rs. 30,200) unlocked, and $99.99 (roughly Rs. 6,000) on a 2-year contract across select carriers.

Both phones are powered by Android 4.4.4 KitKat, and the company has confirmed it will roll out an Android L update for the two devices - however, there was no mention made of such an update for the previous generation.

microsoft screen sharing for lumia devices

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Microsoft went with its own branding for the curiously named Screen Sharing For Lumia Phones HD-10, but the device looks and works like your typical Miracast dongle: It lets you beam content from a smartphone to an HDMI-connected HDTV so you can watch movies, photo slide shows, and other content on the big screen.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out IFA 2014: Microsoft Devices Announces New Lumias, Accessories, Firmware for an overview of all of Microsoft's devices announcements today.

Here's what's happening with the Microsoft Screen Sharing For Lumia Phones HD-10:

It's Miracast. Don't be fooled by the name. The HD-10 is your basic Miracast dongle.

NFC pairing plate. Like other Miracast devices, the HD-10 uses Wi-Fi for connectivity. But it includes a handy NFC disc, which makes pairing painless on NFC-compatible devices, including many Lumia handsets. Best of all, you can place this NFC disc anywhere in the room so you can more easily pair your handset and the HD-10, which can remain over by the HDTV.

nokia selfie phone lumia 735

he Lumia 730 has a quad-core 1.2GHz processor with 1GB of RAM inside a Snapdragon 400 chipset. The display is a 4.7" ClearBlack unit of 720p resolution. The camera on the back is a 6.7MP unit with a wide f/1.9 aperture for better low light performance.

The Lumia 730 goes on sale this month for €199 with 3G and the LTE Lumia 735 wil cost €219. All new Lumia smartphones, starting with the Lumia 730 will come with three months of Unlimited Wold (Skype calls subscription) for free.

G MAIL EVEN ANDROID IN UNSAFE NOW

flaw in Android's GUI framework let university researchers hack into applications with up to 92 percent success rate.

They tested apps from Gmail, H&R Block, Newegg, WebMD, Chase Bank,Hotels.com and Amazon.

"Changes in the shared memory side channel allow an attacker to infer if there is an activity transition going on in the foreground," researcher Zhiyun Qian, an assistant professor at the University of California at Riverside, told LinuxInsider.

"This is a design choice by modern OSes ... . The same attack may work as well [on other mobile OSes]," he added.

Details of the Flaw

When a new screen or window is shown, the GUI framework allocates a fixed amount of memory in the shared memory register that's proportional to the size of the screen, Qian said. This memory is allocated inside the app process and shared with a separate window compositor process.

Shared memory is commonly adopted by window managers to receive window changes or updates from running applications. This gives rise to the side channel.

When a user downloads a malicious app, the shared memory lets attackers steal information such as login credentials, and obtain sensitive camera images such as photos of personal checks sent through banking apps

linux news

 was just a few short weeks ago that we here in the Linux blogosphere were rehashing the open source world's documentation dilemma -- one of those perennial topics bloggers love to resurrect whenever there appears to be a lull in the conversation.

At the time, alert readers may recall, Linux Girl compared the topic to the ongoing "Year of Linux on the Desktop" debate -- another favorite that just keeps coming back for more.

Well guess what? That one's now back too, courtesy of none other than Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself.

"I still want the desktop," Torvalds reportedly said at LinuxCon in Chicago last week. "The challenge on the desktop is not a kernel problem. It's a whole infrastructure problem. I think we'll get there one day."

Thunderous applause ensued -- at the conference and beyond -- but it was quickly drowned out by the din down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge.

want best budget phone for 5999 rs check this

The Redmi 1S features a 1.6Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage (expandable via micro SD), 4.7-inch 720p IPS LCD, dual cameras (1.6MP front and 8MP rear with 1080p video recording) and dual SIM card slots (one 3G and one 2G). Note that both SIM slots use the older mini SIM standard and not the more common micro SIM - helpfully, the company is including two micro to mini SIM adapters in the box. 

it would be available through flip kart 

Intel poised to launch luxury smart bracelet at Barneys

Intel, moving beyond just making the processors inside tech gadgets, is expected to announce its first luxury smart bracelet in the next few weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Barneys New York will sell Intel's new smart bracelet.Credit: Getty Images

The bracelet is being engineered by the tech company, designed by fashion house Opening Ceremony, and sold at luxury retailer Barneys New York. Intel in January announced plans to move into the wearables market with Internet-connected or smart devices at the Consumer Electronics Show, unveiling plans to make the bracelet in partnership with Barneys and Opening Ceremony as part of the effort.

"One of the greatest opportunities for wearable technology as a concept to be successful is fairly simple -- to design a beautiful accessory that our customers would desire," Daniella Vitale, COO of Barneys New York, said Jan. 6. "It is exciting to be part of an elite group of brands to bring the reality of smart fashion to life."

Mozilla Firefox launches 1999 rs phone in india

he Intex Cloud Fx will have a price tag of Rs 1,999 and will be the best bet for a lot of people to access the Internet. The phone has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen which should keep people in this product catergory happy along with the 2G/3G dual SIM support.

The phone will initially be available only on Snapdeal.com, which you might think will prevent a lot of people in the target audience from getting to the phone. But Keshav Bansal, director marketing at Intex Technologies, says the etailer will take the product to 400 towns in India, especially the Tier 2 and 3 cities. He said the company is confident of selling half a million units of the phone this year with their “massive marketing plan”. Intex has presence in 50,000 outlet, 10,000 of which sell their smartphones.

AMD announces Radeon R7 SSD

AMD said Tuesday that it will sell three 2.5-inch SSDs manufactured by enthusiast house OCZ, allowing AMD to offer high-speed storage alongside microprocessors and graphics chips.

AMD will sell the three SSDs—sized at 120, 240, and 480 gigabytes, respectively—as Radeon R7 SSDs, tying them to its Radeon family of GPUs. OCZ, which was recently acquired by Toshiba, will actually make the drives, together with its own flash chips and controllers. 

Right now, AMD’s new drives sit among the cream of the enthusiast SSD crop, with sequential read speeds of 545MB/sec and write speeds of 530 MB/sec. The number of random read I/O's per second (IOPS) clocks in at 100,000 IOPS, with 90,000 write IOPS. Perhaps more importantly, AMD is offering a four-year warranty that assumes users will write 30GB daily to the drive for each of those four years—far more than most users will likely do.

The prices of the Radeon R7 SSDs will begin at $100 for the 120GB model, AMD said. That’s not a great price, as at press time you could buy the slightly slower Crucial M500 120GB SSD at Amazon for $74.99. Given AMD’s branding, however, we’d say that an SSD/graphics card bundle might not be too far-fetched. 

iPhone 6 at top most best selling phones

                                                                THREE REASONS:-

The rumor mills are at it. The Internet trolls are coming out from under their cyber-bridges. The social media sites are abuzz with opinion, positive and not. September 9 is fast approaching. That’s the date, as rumor has it, that theApple iPhone 6 will be released. Everyone wants to know whether this next generation Apple AAPL +1.38% iPhone will prove that Apple still has what it takes to be the standard bearer in the category.

I vote yes. It’s a preemptive vote, but I have my reasons. I’ve always been an Apple guy, but my reasons for voting that this iPhone will be a winner are based more on my instincts as a branding professional.

Of course, you don’t have to be a branding professional to understand that smartphones have become mission critical to everyone’s lives. They’re no longer nice-to-have conveniences, a way to tell someone you’re stuck in traffic and will be late for dinner. Rather, they’re life lines. We shop with them. Pay bills with them. Document our kid’s first day of school with them. Check into airline flights with them. Jog to music with them. Find out alternate routes around traffic jams with them. There are no excuses or empty rationalizations required for wanting the best smartphone money can buy.

So, my reason one is as follows. Even though the iPhone 6 may be among the most expensive on the market, rumor has it (strongly supported rumor) that it will be made from materials that are scratch-resistant and far more rugged and durable than any other smartphone on the market. More than this, even though it will be more rugged and durable, it will also be lighter in weight than iPhones past. Plus, in addition to the standard 4.7 inch model, speculation has it that Apple will offer a model with a 5.5 inch screen. Much like Apple’s last new release with the iPhone 5, the iPhone 6 won’t be a total reinvention. But, like the iPhone 5, it will offer a few, very simple, very smart features meant to make life easier. People like very simple, very smart things that make life easier. And, I believe they’ll be willing to make the investment, especially the Apple loyalists.

best deal from Microsoft offers custom Windows OS to all first generation Intel Galileo owners

Microsoft is encouraging more hardware hackers to develop Windows-based smart devices and appliances with expanded availability of a preview OS to all owners of Intel’s Galileo board.

The software company has provided a pared-down, proof-of-concept version of Windows designed to work with the Galileo board, which is targeted do-it-yourself enthusiasts who experiment with electronics. The OS previously worked only on a few Galileo boards sent by Microsoft to select developers.

Now users who bought Galileo from Intel or other distributors will be able to run Windows, a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an email statement. Microsoft previously said the OS is a “non-commercial version of Windows based on Windows 8.1,” and part of a pilot project to put Windows in small electronics and Internet of things devices.

“The preview Windows image is another opportunity for makers and developers to create, generate new ideas and provide feedback to help Microsoft continue making Windows even better on this class of device,” the spokeswoman said.

The Galileo board is just a little larger than a credit card and has limited power with a 400MHz Quark X1000 processor, a 32-bit processor based on the Pentium instruction set architecture. Windows has been customized to work within the constraints of the board, which has been used in the development of robots, sensor devices and health monitors