LG set to Launch G2 Smartphone in India on September 30

LG is one of the worlds's largest electronic product manufacturing company.LG has announced to launch the most awaited smartphone G2 in India on September 30.LG has launched the product into the world markets in the last month.LG already had given intimation to the media people and customers through the Facebook. The company just made intimation about the arrival date but it does not give any information on the price and availability. Here we came with the new LG G2 Smartphone specifications have a look. The LG G2 Smartphone Price in India is expected to be around Rs.45,000.

Specifications of LG G2 Smartphone:

The LG G2 Smartphone comes with 5.2 inch full HD screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 which is approximately equal to 423 ppi. The display is somewhat higher than the well-known handsets like Galaxy and Sony Smartphone’s. The Smartphone powered by Quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip-set clocked at 2.2 GHz. The LG G2 runs on the latest version Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Operating System. This new Smartphone is packed with 1 GB RAM. Latest connectivity options includes Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, micro-USB 2.2, 2G and 3G network support. 

Coming to its camera specifications we have information about 13 MP rear camera only. The phone definitely packed with face camera but the information is denied on the capacity. The Smartphone powered by 3,000 mAh battery. Coming to the Smartphone design it is very sleek and stylish and all the hardware keys are placed like all the other Smartphone from the company LG. Already mobile giants Samsung and Sony have introduced their new devices as Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Sony Xperia Z1 into the market. And the experts say that this new LG G2 Smartphone Specifications are enough to compete with the high end mobiles including BlackBerry Z10 and Nokia Lumia 925. 

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Digital wallet app for iPhones by Google

Google is one of the largest search engines in the world.Google has released a digital wallet app for iPhones.
After having a successful working on the Digital Wallet App for Android, now the largest search engine Google Inc has taken an initiative to launch the Digital Wallet App for iPhones. The already existing Passbook program in the Apple devices might lose some busyness after seeing the digital wallet app in the same device. The important motives behind Goggles involvement in the Apples business strategy is the likeness of people for the Apple devices. Peoples willing to throw their wallet never take second decision other than “Apple”.
Features of Digital Wallet App:
The Digital Wallet App Allows users to store loyalty cards.
Scan coupons for discounts.
Web-portals items can be directly purchased.
Money transfer facility through debit and credit card.
Payment details information as soon the transaction is done.

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Apple iPhone Fingerprint scanner claimed to have hacked by German hackers

Apple has recently launched Apple iPhone with Fingerprint scanner technology is claimed to have hacked by German hackers.A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access.
If the claim is verified, it will be embarrassing for Apple which is betting on the scanner to set its smartphone apart from new models of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others running the Android operating system of Google Inc.
Two prominent iPhone security experts said that they believed the German group, known as the Chaos Computing Club, or CCC, had succeeded in defeating Apple's Touch ID, though they had not personally replicated the work.
One of them, Charlie Miller, co-author of the iOS Hacker's Handbook, described the work as "a complete break" of Touch ID security. "It certainly opens up a new possibility for attackers."
Apple representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
CCC, one the world's largest and most respected hacking groups, posted a video on its website that appeared to show somebody accessing an iPhone 5S with a fabricated print. The site described how members of its biometrics team had cracked the new fingerprint reader, one of the few major high-tech features added to the latest version of the iPhone.
The group said they targeted Touch ID to knock down reports about its "marvels," which suggested it would be difficult to crack.
"Fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints," a hacker named Starbug was quoted as saying on the CCC's site.
The group said it defeated Touch ID by photographing the fingerprint of an iPhone's user, then printing it on to a transparent sheet, which it used to create a mold for a "fake finger."
CCC said similar processes have been used to crack "the vast majority" of fingerprint sensors on the market.
"I think it's legit," said Dino Dai Zovi," another co-author of the iOS Hacker's Handbook. "The CCC doesn't fool around or over-hype, especially when they are trying to make a political point."
Touch ID, which was only introduced on the top-of-the-line iPhone 5S, lets users unlock their devices or make purchases on iTunes by simply pressing their finger on the home button. It uses a sapphire crystal sensor embedded in the button.
Data used for verification is encrypted and stored in a secure enclave of the phone's A7 processor chip.
Two security experts who sponsored an impromptu competition offering cash and other prizes to the first hackers who cracked the iPhone said they had reviewed the information posted on the CCC website, but wanted more documentation.
"We are simply awaiting a full video documentation and walk through of the process that they have claimed," said mobile security researcher Nick DePetrillo, who started the contest with another security expert, Robert Graham. "When they deliver that video we will review it."
The two of them each put up $100 toward a prize for the contest winner, then set up a website inviting others to contribute. While the booty now includes more than $13,000 in cash, it was not clear that the CCC would receive the full payout, even if DePetrillo and Graham declared them winners.
A micro venture capital firm known as I/O Capital, which had offered to pay $10,000 of the prize money, issued a press release late on Sunday saying that it would make its own determination about who won the contest.

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Xperia Z1 Smartphone by Sony

Sony's best smartphone Xperia Z1 launched in Berlin recently.Sony is one of the best electronic goods manufacturing company.Unveiled in Berlin at the beginning of this month, Sony's best smartphone yet – Xperia Z1 – was launched in India on September 18. The phone has a 5-inch display, 16 GB internal memory, and runs Android Jelly Bean (4.2). While its processing power is impressive, the best feature of this phone is the camera. It has a Sony lens with an aperture of F2.0, which makes it great for low-light photography. This phone is also dust- and water-resistant provided all the flaps are closed. Sony launched two lens cameras – QX100 and QX10 – that connect to any phone via WiFi. These cost Rs 24,990 and Rs 12,990. Sony also unveiled the Smartwatch 2 for Rs 14,990. This watch is compatible with most Android phones and apart from showing the time, it lets users control functions such as music, etc.

Sony Xperia Z1

Rs 44,990

Value for money: ***1/2

Lens worthy

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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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