Microsoft unveils new Logo

Microsoft has unveiled a new logo. Bing is the search engine of Microsoft.Microsoft has revamped its search engine Bing by incorporating features such as social search options, 'page zero' tool and adaptability across devices in an effort to better compete with rival Google.

The software giant has also unveiled a new golden orange logo for the Bing .

"It is designed to 'instantly feel at home alongside all Microsoft products', reflecting the growing presence of Bing across Microsoft's various devices and services," said Scott Erickson, a senior director on the Bing brand team, in a blog post.

One of the biggest design updates in the new Bing is a combined region on the right side of the search results page that displays related content both from social networks and from 'entity' entries about people, places and things.

Another new feature, dubbed 'Page Zero', helps user to get useful answers to a query before opening the traditional page of search results.

"Start to type a query, and Page Zero will show you content that's likely to be helpful before you hit 'Enter'," the blogpost said.

Page Zero can also help filter out results that a user don't want by letting you disambiguate between similar or related topics.

"The new Bing is also built to look great and work well across all the devices you use, from phone to tablet to desktop, including recent mobile enhancements," the blogpost said.

Microsoft is has also updated Snapshot, a feature announced a year ago which showed what 'Bing knows' about a person, place or thing.

"The improvements we are releasing in this latest release of Bing.com are the beginning of a new, more modern era for Bing," Lawrence Ripsher, General Manager of User Experiences, Bing said in a blogpost.

"We believe this reinvention will give people faster access to information, more efficient ways to get things done and a unique and human perspective on search, all delivered through a beautiful experience," he said.

Bing is the second most popular search engine after Google, according to Internet analytics company ComScore.

Google search engine has nearly 70 per cent share, while Bing has 17 per cent share in searches, according to the ComScore's latest rankings.

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"Like" on facebook is constitutionally protected right to speech

Facebook is on of the leading social networking sites.Generally,clicking like on facebook is a common act done.Clicking "Like" on Facebook is constitutionally protected free speech and can be considered the 21st century-equivalent of a campaign yard sign, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that said merely "liking" a Facebook page was insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection.

Exactly what a "like" means, if anything, played a part in a case involving six people who say Hampton Sheriff B J Roberts fired them for supporting an opponent in his 2009 re-election bid, which he won.

The workers sued, saying their First Amendment free speech protections were violated.

Roberts said some of the workers were let go because he wanted to replace them with sworn deputies while others were fired because of poor performance or his belief that their actions "hindered the harmony and efficiency of the office."

One of those workers, Daniel Ray Carter, had "liked" the Facebook page of Roberts' opponent, Jim Adams.

US District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk had ruled in April 2012 that while public employees are allowed to speak as citizens on matters of public concern, clicking the "like" button does not amount to expressive speech. In other words, it's not the same as actually writing out a message and posting it on the site.

Jackson acknowledged that other courts have ruled that Facebook posts are constitutionally protected speech, but he said in those cases there were "actual statements." Simply clicking a button is much different and doesn't warrant First Amendment protection, he wrote.

In his ruling, Jackson acknowledged the need to weigh whether the employee's speech was a substantial factor in being fired. But the judge wrote that the point is moot if "liking" something isn't constitutionally protected speech.The three-judge appeals court panel disagreed, ruling that "liking a political candidate's campaign page communicates the user's approval of the candidate and supports the campaign by associating the user with it. In this way, it is the Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one's front yard, which the Supreme Court has held is substantive speech."

The case was sent back to the lower court.

Facebook and the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed friend of court briefs in the case, applauded yesterday's ruling.

"This ruling rightly recognizes that the First Amendment protects free speech regardless of the venue, whether a sentiment is expressed in the physical world or online," Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, said in a written statement.

"The Constitution doesn't distinguish between 'liking' a candidate on Facebook and supporting him in a town meeting or public rally."

An attorney representing Roberts, the sheriff, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment, nor did an attorney representing the employees.

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Google plans for a new interface for browsing on mobile

Google is one of the most widely used search engines.Google is planning to develop a new interface for browsing on mobile.Ben Gomes, the India-bred techie who oversees Google's handling of 100 billion searches a month, believes a new voice-based interface is needed for the next frontier of search centred round mobile phones and tablet computers.
"Now search is becoming mobile - on phones and tablets. The challenge is that it is on a small screen, so it's hard to type. The opportunity is that it's got a really good microphone and a touch screen," he said.
"It can enable a new kind of interface. So we realised we want to build an interface that was much like the way you talk to some person and ask a question," Gomes said.
And while the Google search app can already respond to questions using voice-based software, Gomes told the BBC that the process is "going to get better and more intelligent".
The Tanzania-born, India-bred, US-educated vice-president of search is responsible for helping to answer queries in the shortest time possible on desktops, tablets and phones.
Search is Google's cash cow, bringing in a majority of its USD 50 billion revenues last year. It is also, said Gomes, "about having a continuous conversation with the user to find out what he wants".
Described by BBC as a "boy-like 45-year-old guru of search in Googleplex", the company headquarters in Mountain View, California, Gomes works out of an untidy cubicle with four other top engineers.
Gomes and his team work on "their fine-tooth comb search of the worldwide web to serve up the popular search engine".
He said: "When I joined Google in 1999, search was about basically finding the words that you search for in a document. Then we took this view that we were going to understand what you want and give you what you need."
Trawling through over 20 billion webpages a day, Gomes and his "army of search" - a substantial number of Google's 44,000 employees - use algorithms to make search intuitive, multimedia and super smart.

Gomes is especially proud of Knowledge Graph, a new function launched last year to make the site's algorithms "act more human" in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions.

"It's a database of all things in the world. It pulls together different databases and unifies them into a single coherent one that has about 500 to 600 million people, places and things in them and about 18 billion attributes and connections between those things," he said.

Google handles 100-billion plus searches every month, or over three billion a day. A good 15 per cent of the search questions it sees every day are new.

When Gomes joined Google in 1999 after a stint in Sun Microsystems working on Java programming language, some searches could take up to 20 seconds. Today a search for Ben Gomes on Google shows about 19,000,000 results in .28 seconds.

Gomes, the son of a car distributor father and a school teacher mother, moved to the US 25 years ago. He went to Berkeley, where he received a PhD in computer science.

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Samsung Galaxy Note3 and Galaxy Gear set to launch in India

One of the most awaited electronic gadgets Samsung Galaxy Note3 and Galaxy Gear are set to launch in Indian markets tomorrow by Samsung.Although the consumer electronics major is yet to announce the price of the two devices in India, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear are expected to cost approximately Rs 45,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively. The company had earlier said both these devices would go on sale from September 25.

Samsung, which is the world's top handset maker, hopes the Galaxy Gear will boost the appeal of its range of Android-powered smartphones, as it battles to maintain supremacy against arch rival Apple Inc, which had launched iPhone 5 and iPhone C last week.
Samsung had unveiled these devices at its Galaxy Unpacked event in Berlin. The new Galaxy Note, which is slightly larger than its predecessor, is better equipped for multi-tasking, Samsung said, allowing users to open multiple frames at once. It also has a stylus, called the S Pen. The device has a 5.7 inch Super-Amoled screen and weighs 168 grams.

The phone will be available in jet black, classic white, and blush pink color options. Samsung has incorporated a 13 megapixel rear camera in its Note series product.

The Galaxy Gear, which has a 1.6-inch screen and weighs 2.6 ounces, has a 1.9 megapixel camera embedded in the strap and a built-in speaker that allows users to conduct hands-free calls. Besides photos and hands-free calls, it can perform functions like instant messaging.

The device, which will come preloaded with more than 60 apps, including a step-counting pedometer and S Voice, a voice-activated app akin to Apple's Siri, can however not be used for composing emails or downloading music.

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Twitter set to buy MoPub

Twitter-the social networking site is set to buy the advertising company MoPub. MoPub is one of the advertising company.Twitter decided to buy MoPub company to expand its business.Twitter says it is buying MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising company, as it works to expand its advertising reach ahead of an expected initial public offering that could come as soon as this year.
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. did not give a purchase price. MoPub says that Twitter will invest in its core business and the company plans to continue to build its tools and technology.
Twitter says it plans to use MoPub's technology to build real-time bidding into its advertising platform. The process lets advertisers buy online ads in real time. Twitter says the technology will make it easier for its advertisers to automate their ad buying process.
Research firm eMarketer estimates that Twitter will have $950 million in worldwide advertising revenue in 2014, up from $582.8 million this year.

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5 Top Apps for Smart Devices

Now a days many  people are interested in using smart contents on smart devices.Students are very much interested in using in smart devices.There are many apps for using smart contents on smart devices. The top 5 apps useful in smart devices are as follows:
Since most college going students now have a smart device it is only natural that they use apps to make learning easy and effective. There are lots of apps that lets you access educational content or help with research. Here is a pick of five great apps.

My Class Schedule: Timetable
By Sebastian Mayer
Free: Android
Student life revolves around timetables. But now you don't have to pen it down in a notebook as apps like this let you store all information such as schedules, homework, time-table, exam dates, etc. Easy to use, the apps need you to feed in all the relevant information to keep reminding you about upcoming classes and exams. The time table is colour coded and easy to read. It also has the feature to automatically mute the phone during a class.

Dictionary.com
Free: iOS, Android, Windows Phone
When you get stuck at a word, all you need to do now is open this app and search. The app features English Dictionary and Thesaurus with over 2,000,000 definitions, synonyms & antonyms, daily content including Word of the Day, the hot word & slideshows, audio pronunciations, idioms & phrases, voice search and search history.

Wolfram Alpha
(by WOLFRAM ALPHA, LLC)
Android, iOS: ( Rs 164.24)
A must-have application for students; this app uses its vast collection of algorithms and data to compute answers and generate reports. The app covers a number of domains categorised in mathematics, statistics and data analysis, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering, astronomy, earth science, life science, transportation, etc. This is a complete computational knowledge engine that comes really handy with instant answers to the queries.

Dunno
(by SPACESTATION6 INC.)
iOS, Free
The power of the Internet has made it much easy to research away from the college library. Dunno takes research to a different level by looking up and compiling all possible resources available about a topic online. So there aere sections for web pages, blogs, Wikipedia, images, news, even tweets.

Trello
(by FOG CREEK SOFTWARE.)
Free: Android, iOS
This collaborative tool allows students to do group projects with ease. Students can systematically organise projects and delegate work while others can add inputs and comments. It also lets the students interact with their classmates and keep track of what each person is doing.

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Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E341 laptop launched

Lenovo is one of the most widely used computers in the market today. Lenovo has launched new thinkpads. Lenovo India announced the launch of ThinkPad Edge E431 laptop complemented with Lenovo's OneLink technology which offers a dock and power connector that can transmit audio and video with a single connection. The device is priced at Rs 36,000 (onwards) + tax.

Powered by the latest 3rd Generation Intel Core processor, the new laptop runs on Windows 8 operating system and has NVIDIA GeForce Discrete Graphics.

ThinkPad Edge E431 is built for Indian small businesses and can be equipped with 16 GB memory (maximum) and comes with built-in dual array microphone that enhances VOIP with advanced noise cancellation. At 25mm thickness, ThinkPad Edge E431 is one of the thinner business notebooks available in the market.

"We are aggressively focusing to build our product portfolio to meet business needs. Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E431 is a cost-effective promise to the small enterprise market in India. This latest addition to the line of legendary ThinkPads is easy on the pocket and lives up to its promise of reliability," said Ashok Nair, Director, SMB, Lenovo India.

   Key product Features:

* USB blocker that helps to protect data from security threats

* Clean and smooth touchpad surface with easy scroll and zoom functions

* Continuous software monitoring and alerts for software protection

*720p HD face-tracking technology with low light sensitivity

* Enhanced VOIP with keyboard noise suppression

ThinkPad Edge E431 comes with a three year onsite extended warranty options. The device will be available at Lenovo retail stores and multi-brand outlets across the country.

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