5 Technologies That Are About To Die.

#5 Windowed Operating Systems

True, Windows OS have been the most used PC platform in the world for nearly two decades now. But by the time the kids born now grow to use a computer, Windows OS will be extinct or at least it won’t be in the present form where each application you run is displayed in a draggable box that has a title bar and widgets.

Microsoft has already signaled its intent to kill an age old Windows OS by making the tile-based Metro UI the default screen for Windows 8.

#4 Hard Drives

There was a period in the history of computers where cassette tapes were used to store data then came floppy disks and then a small IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive. The next PC had a zip drive and a tape backup unit. However, as different as these disks were, they all used the same magnetic platter technology that's been popular since reel-to-reel tapes ruled the earth.

If the present scenario is considered, it’s solid state drives and they ended the ancient practice of storing our data on spinning magnetic platters. Because they have no moving parts, SSDs are infinitely faster than hard drives and more durable, too. Today, though they cost a lot but in few years they are going to be ubiquitous, same as that of mobile phones.

#3 Movie Theaters

There were oracles about the extinction of movie theaters ever since the advent of television, but it seems the oracle is finally coming true. With HD televisions going mainstream and 3D sets becoming more affordable, the average home theater is almost as good as the average multiplex theater. And as production houses and their cable partners are showing beeline to wards releasing some movies for on-demand viewing on the same day they debut in theaters, a trend which is likely to go viral. Finally, since so much is happening online, be it shopping or banking, the ordeal to go to theater in traffic jams and splash some insane money to watch the movies, is likely to come to an end too. All these and other coming technologies will ensure the extinct of Movie Theaters soon.

 

#2 The Mouse and Remote Controls

In near future the cost of adding capacitive touch capability to screens will be so small that every display, from large-screen TVs to laptops, will have it. Though touch pads and mouse won’t see an immediate extinction, there are gradually fade away.

When it comes to remote controls they too are likely to get replaced by either use of Smartphones to control a television set or by a combination of gestures and voice commands to change channels.

#1 3D Glasses

Ever since the first 3D films hit theaters in the 1950s, viewers have been forced to wear some kind of glasses in order to experience three-dimensional effects. But if we see the recent trends, there are number of glass-free solutions available in the market.

In 2011, Toshiba released the Qosmio F755 notebook, which uses its webcam to track your eye movements and serve up really compelling 3D images, though these are only optimized for a single viewer. Last year, phone vendors HTC and LG both launched handsets with glasses-free, stereoscopic 3D screens that weren't home theater quality, but were good enough for some three-dimensional fun. All this and some future technologies will join forces to make 3D Glasses extinct.
















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Brain Powered Tablet.

Tech giant Samsung is looking to ditch not only the keyboard but the touch screen in favor of mind control.

The technology, which Samsung stresses is in its infancy, would allow users to control a computing device with their thoughts alone.

A project at the company's Emerging Technology Lab in partnership with Roozbeh Jafari, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, the research has already enabled test subjects to launch apps on a tablet, pick a song on a playlist or a contact from an address book and power up or power down the device. However, according to the MIT Technology Review, which first reported on the project, don't expect to see these features rolling out as part of Samsung's 2014 product line-up.

In order to control the tablet with their minds alone, users needs to wear a cap full of EEG monitoring electrodes which only work when wet, meaning that a gel needs to be applied to the head. As Jafari says: "Depending on how many electrodes you have, this can take up to 45 minutes to set up, and the system is uncomfortable."

The ultimate goals of the project are to recognize and isolate the right brainwaves, to develop better sensors that can work without liquid and, ultimately, to offer another form of device interaction, something that could be a true breakthrough for those who, due to disabilities, are unable to operate technology via voice, swipe, touch or gesture.

 Source: Yahoo!

Types of Viruses and what they do?

1. Boot Sector Virus:

 The term “boot sector”is now applied generally to the boot information used by any operating system.

Boot sector viruses became popular because of the use of floppy disks to boot a computer. The widespread usage of the Internet and the death of the floppy has made other means of virus transmission more effective. 

2. Browser Hijacker:

This type of virus can spread itself in numerous ways including voluntary download. It effectively hijacks certain browser functions, usually in the form of re-directing the user automatically to particular sites. It is usually assumed that this tactic is designed to increase revenue from web advertisements.
There are a lot of such viruses, and they usually have “search” included somewhere in their description. CoolWebSearch may be the most well known example, but others are nearly as common.

3. Direct Action Virus:

This type of virus, unlike most, only comes into action when the file containing the virus is executed. it takes no other action unless an infected file is executed again.
Most viruses do not use the direct action method of reproduction simply because it is not prolific, but viruses of this type have done damage in the past. The Vienna virus, which briefly threatened computers in 1988, is one such example of a direct action virus.

4. File Infector Virus:

Perhaps the most common type of virus, the file infector takes root in a host file and then begins its operation when the file is executed. The virus may completely overwrite the file that it infects, or may only replace parts of the file, or may not replace anything but instead re-write the file so that the virus is executed rather than the program the user intended.

5. Macro Virus:

A wide variety of programs, including productivity applications like Microsoft Excel, provide support for Macros. Special actions programmed into the document using a specific macro programming language. Unfortunately, this makes it possible for a virus to be hidden inside a seemingly benign document.
Macro viruses very widely in terms of payload. The most well known macro virus is probably Melissa, a Word document supposedly containing the passwords to pornographic websites. The virus also exploited Word’s link to Microsoft Outlook in order to automatically email copies of itself.

6. Multipartite Virus:

 A virus of this type may spread in multiple ways, and it may take different actions on an infected computer depending on variables, such as the operating system installed or the existence of certain files.

7. Polymorphic Virus:

The Polymorphic virus actually mutates over time or after every execution, changing the code used to deliver its payload. Alternatively, or in addition, a Polymorphic virus may guard itself with an encryption algorithm that automatically alters itself when certain conditions are met.
The goal of this trickery is evasion. Antivirus programs often find viruses by the specific code used. Obscuring or changing the code of a virus can help it avoid detection.

8. Resident Virus:

This broad virus definition applies to any virus that inserts itself into a system’s memory. It then may take any number of actions and run independently of the file that was originally infected.
A resident virus can be compared to a direct payload virus, which does not insert itself into the system’s memory and therefore only takes action when an infected file is executed.

9. Web Scripting Virus:

Many websites execute complex code in order to provide interesting content. Displaying online video in your browser, for example, requires the execution of a specific code language that provides both the video itself and the player interface.
Of course, this code can sometimes be exploited, making it possible for a virus to infect a computer or take actions on a computer through a website. Although malicious sites are sometimes created with purposely infected code, many such cases of virus exist because of code inserted into a site without the webmaster’s knowledge.

Source:makeuseof.com
By: Matt Smith

 

6 TV Sci-Fi Gadgets that Really Exist.

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Microsoft about the Infections and attacks.

Conficker, a worm that started spreading among enterprise desktop systems in 2008, continues to wriggle through corporate networks. But the total number of infected systems shrank during 2012, according to the latest Security Intelligence Report released by Microsoft on April 17.

In the last half of 2012, the average number of infections by the two major wormlike programs, Conficker and Autorun, declined by more than a third compared with the total in 2011, the company said. Worms are programs that spread from computer to computer by exploiting vulnerabilities to automatically compromise networks.Conficker typically spreads by guessing users' password, and Autorun jumps between bootable drives.

While companies are slowly tackling the threat of worms, Web-based attacks especially those that redirect a victim's browser to a site hosting malicious code have taken off, accounting for seven of the 10 top threats encountered by corporate users.

"In the last quarter of 2012, a person in the enterprise was more likely to encounter attacks through the Web than any of the network worms," says Holly Stewart, senior program manager with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.

A distinct difference exists between enterprise users and consumers in Microsoft's data, because the company can tell if the infected computer belongs to an Active Directory Domain Services domain, typically only used in business networks. Consumers were more likely to encounter adware and other potentially unwanted software than viruses and worms, Microsoft's report found.

The Security Intelligence Report also measured the effect of host-based security software on the rate of infection, finding that computers that had no anti-malware protection were 5.5 times more likely on average to be infected with malicious code.

Attackers appear to be focusing on Windows 7 systems, as unprotected computers running the original Windows 7 operating system not the more recent Service Pack 1 version had the highest infection rate, which is 2 percent. In contrast, an average of 4.2 Windows XP systems per 1,000 protected systems showed signs of infection, almost four times higher than Windows 7 Service Pack 1 systems protected by anti-malware.

Microsoft recommended that companies use anti-malware software and other security systems, regularly patch software, and ask vendors about their security development life cycle, which is a method of developing software that takes security into account. In addition, businesses should consider restricting Web sites on their networks to those known to be good and regularly check their own site for security vulnerabilities.

"The security issues posed by the Web are an interesting mix of social engineering and being able to affect servers that are not necessarily under corporate control," Stewart said. "You can lock down end users' systems, but you may not be able to control were they go."

Reports of vulnerabilities declined by 8 percent in the second half of 2012, mainly due to a drop in application vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities reported in Microsoft products shrank by more than a quarter in the second half of 2012, their lowest level since 2005.

The Blackhole exploit kit, which Microsoft refers to as Blacole, accounted for a large proportion of the exploited vulnerabilities in the latter half of 2012, the Microsoft report stated. Six of the top 10 exploits detected in 2012 were components of this cyber-crime kit, Microsoft stated.

source:eweek

The First Indian Satellite Aryabhatta was Launched in 1975.

             Aryabhata was India's first satellite, named after the great Indian astronomer Aryaabhatta. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar using a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle. It was built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to gain experience in building and operating a satellite in space.

              It was built to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics, and solar physics. The spacecraft was a 26-sided polygon 1.4 m in diameter. All faces (except the top and bottom) were covered with solar cells. A power failure halted experiments after 4 days in orbit. All signals from the spacecraft were lost after 5 days of operation. The satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere on 11 February 1992. The satellite's image appeared on the reverse of Indian 2 rupee banknotes between 1976 and 1997.

 Source: Wikipedia.

Yahoo launches Mail app for iPad, Android tablets.

 

Yahoo today released a Mail app for iOS and Android tablet users and a Weather app for iPhone owners.
A Yahoo Mail app has already been in play for the iPhone and Android smartphones, but the new version takes advantage of the larger screen size of tablets. A full-screen reading mode lets you flip through your e-mail messages as if you were reading a magazine.
While in that full-screen reading mode, tapping on your tablet displays a toolbar from which you can rely to or forward the current message, send it to the trash, move it to a folder, or add a star to flag it as important. All your "starred" messages are sent to a specific folder where you can review them all in one shot.
The Yahoo Mail app now supports more languages, including Romanian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Swedish, Greek. The app can be downloaded from Apple's App store and Google Play.
Available for the iPhone, Yahoo's new Weather app kicks off by displaying the present temperature of your current location, with a picturesque photo in the background.
Swiping up displays the full week's forecast followed by full details on your local weather and a map of your area. Swiping to the left reveals the weather in other locations already set up in the default iOS weather app. You can easily edit this list to add or remove locations from around the world.

 Source: CNET news

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Voice activated Vaccumig Robot from LG.

 LG announced Roboking vacuuming robot for the Korean market.
The new Roboking pretty much looks like its predecessors, but it's got more going on under the hood.It takes voice commands and can recognize which direction a person's voice is coming from. That means you could stand at the site of a particularly heinous dirt pile and call it over to come clean it up.

If just talking to your robot vacuum minion isn't enough, it also has a feature that puts it on pause when you clap twice. Yep, that's pretty much just like a Clapper.
The new Robokings can handle up to 100 minutes of cleaning on a charge, and they keep the noise down to only 48 decibels.

Google Glass: Specifications Revealed.

 

 Google has officially announced the complete specifications of Google Glasses. The most important element of the glasses is the ‘glass’ or the screen covering the eye. Google has said that the Glasses will come with a high resolution display. The display is supposed to be so powerful that Google quoted it will be "equivalent to a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away."
The initial editions will have features similar to a medium-budget smartphone. The glasses will come with front-facing 5 MP cameras. The video-recorder does not support HD recording. So while the videos recorded will not be of high quality, the 720p resolution will ensure decent frames.

While the device will come with an internal memory of 16 GB, just 12 GB will be user-available. We think that’s pretty generous considering they’re glasses and not normal phones. Further, storage will be via Google’s cloud computing as the glasses will be synced with cloud. So space shouldn’t really be an issue.

Google Glass supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. While connectivity options are regular, it means that the Glasses will be pretty useless in areas of no connectivity or with low connectivity. Also, with most countries still awaiting Wi-Fi hubs, the Glasses might be targeted at specific regions initially.

 

 The Glasses will support audio via bone conduction. According to the report: The technique essentially turns the wearer's head into an amplifier and it is a sensation that will be familiar to anyone who uses a waterproof MP3 player.

There’s no word on the battery but Google stated that charging once a day would be essential meaning the battery will last for about a day. However, with heavy video recording and conferences, the lasting power might not be the same.

The device can be synced with Android smartphones running the MyGlass app which has already been released by Google in the Google Play store. Google is confident that the glasses have been designed in a way that one-size-fits-all. However, the glasses will come with special nose-pads in case of need for adjustments.

Google has already begun shipping the first edition or ‘Explorer’ edition of the glasses. The glasses are priced at 1500 dollars tentatively for the developer version.

Source:indiatimes.

Tiny ear implant could replace costly surgery, hearing aids.

People afflicted with severe hearing loss often cannot benefit from garden-variety hearing aids, necessitating complex surgery to install a special implant. But new technology from the Fraunhofer Institute could provide the best of both worlds: Huge improvements and simple installation.

The new electro-acoustic transducer from Fraunhofer.

Fraunhofer's device is also an implant, but one that is so small and comparatively efficient that it can be put in quickly and easily — making it a possibility for the extremely elderly or disabled, for whom major surgery is not an option.
The big advance is the German institute's new "electro-acoustic transducer," which translates electrical signals into vibrations. A microphone and relay outside the ear send audio and power over a wireless optical link to the inner ear, where the transducer picks it up and passes it on.Existing implants work in a similar way, but use bulkier and less-efficient hardware that requires wires and potentially hours-long surgery. In contrast, Fraunhofer's device could be implanted in just a few minutes, with one incision.
There's still work to be done on the assembly and optimization of the parts; Hearing aids, like most implants, must be robust and last for a long time without maintenance and replacement.
Fraunhofer engineer Dominik Kaltenbacher is confident it will be a major improvement in the lives of people who suffer hearing loss. "This high performance is necessary for very good speech comprehension," he says in a release describing the technology, "Particularly for high-pitched sounds, which people who are severely hard of hearing find especially difficult to pick up."
Testing is scheduled for 2014, after which it will have to be approved by the necessary authorities before being available for general issue.

Source: nbcnews

Tiny Chiplets: A New Level of Micro Manufacturing.

 

        The technology, on display at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, is part of a new system for making electronics, one that takes advantage of a Xerox invention from the 1970s: the laser printer.

If perfected, it could lead to desktop manufacturing plants that “print” the circuitry for a wide array of electronic devices — flexible smartphones that won’t break when you sit on them; a supple, pressure-sensitive skin for a new breed of robot hands; smart-sensing medical bandages that could capture health data and then be thrown away. 

          The chiplets can be both microprocessors and computer memory as well as the other circuits needed to create complete computers. They can also be analog devices known as microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, that perform tasks like sensing heat, pressure or motion.

          The new manufacturing system the PARC researchers envision could be used to build custom computers one at a time, or as part of a 3-D printing system that makes smart objects with computing woven right into them.

          The technology is still in the future. The researchers are years from simultaneously placing tens or hundreds of thousands of circuits accurately in a fraction of a second. And they acknowledge that this would be only the first step in designing a commercially viable system. 

          The emerging printing technology poses a heretical idea: Rather than squeezing more transistors into the same small space, why not smear the transistors across a much larger surface?

            Moreover, the research could have tremendous economic consequences — feeding the emergence of a new digital era in manufacturing, much as laser printing transformed publishing three decades ago.

By replacing the circuit boards now assembled in factories, the technology would vastly compress a supply chain that spans the globe and employs hundreds of thousands of workers.

            It is one of a variety of technologies related to 3-D printers, which have captured the public’s imagination, raising the specter of homemade manufacturing of everything from tools to guns.

          “Digital fabrication will allow individuals to design and produce tangible objects on demand, wherever and whenever they need them,” Neil Gershenfeld, a physicist who directs the Center for Bits and Atoms at M.I.T., wrote in December in the journal Foreign Affairs.

            While there has already been an explosion in 3-D printing of solid and mechanical objects both for prototyping and increasingly for small production runs, PARC’s scientists believe that there will also ultimately be an ensemble of manufacturing technologies that seamlessly blend microelectronics with mechanical components.

            “You can print mechanical objects, but a lot of things in the world today are more than mechanical,” said Stephen Hoover, PARC’s chief executive. “A lot of the opportunities we’re going to find in the ‘Internet of things’ are going to be about how to embed intelligence at very low cost in a distributed way into the world.”

Source: NYtimes.

Tiny wires could be a breakthrough for cheap solar panels.

A Swedish startup has developed a new technology that it says can boost the efficiency of standard solar panels at a minimal cost using nanowires. Is this the great bright hope for solar manufacturers who have been crippled by the difficult solar market in 2013?

               Chinese solar panel giants are in a bind — they’re churning out too many rock-bottom, commodity solar panels, and losing millions every day. In fact, most solar panel makers are currently laser focused on trying to boost the efficiency of their panels so that they can sell them at higher prices and actually make some money. A Swedish startup called Sol Voltaics says it can help out.

 

Sol Voltaics, which is discussing its product and funding for the first time this week, said it has developed a low cost way to make tiny nanowires out of the semiconductor gallium arsenide. The company turns these nanowires into an ink, which can be layered onto basic solar panels and boost the efficiency of a standard panel by 25 percent.

The idea is that solar panel makers would want to buy this technology because they can sell the more efficient panels at a higher price, and raise their margins. In addition, the overall installed cost of the more efficient solar panels (they produce more power) could be lower by 15 percent to 20 percent.

Swedish solar innovation

Founded in 2008, Sol Voltaics won’t be producing its nanowire ink — called SolInk — at pilot scale until 2015, and commercial scale in 2016. But it’s already started to prove that its technology works, and has had its nanowire cells certified by research firm Fraunhofer for an efficiency of 13.8 percent. This year the company is focused on demoing how its ink boosts efficiency on a larger scale, and in 2014 they’ll work on perfecting the equipment that its customers will use to cover panels with the ink.

With just 20 employees, Sol Voltaics has been operating in a relatively lean mode for a solar manufacturing company. To date the startup has raised just $11 million in funding from private and public funders and family offices, including Industrifonden, Foundation Asset Management, Scatec, Nano Future Invest AS, Nordic Innovation and Vinnova. The company hopes to raise another $10 million to $20 million this year, and plans to cap all of its funding at $50 million by 2016.

Sol Voltaics has some well-known names in the solar and venture capital sectors. The company was founded by Lund University Professor Lars Samuelson, who is an expert on the type of semiconductor that Sol Voltaics uses to make its nanowires. The company is led by Dave Epstein, who is a serial entrepreneur and former partner with Crosslink Capital, and Magnus Ryde, who was the former CEO of TSMC America, is Sol Voltaics Chairman.

How does it work?

Sol Voltaic’s innovation is that it’s figured out how to make tiny wires using the normally expensive but highly efficient semiconductor gallium arsenide. Solar scientists have spent years using gallium arsenide in various ways to make ultra-efficient solar cells, but the only way the material can be cheap enough to actually be used on a commercial scale is if it’s used in very small amounts — hence the nanotech wire part. But, again, in previous years the production of nanowires has also been relatively expensive.

The breakthrough came when Samuelson figured out a way to make the gallium arsenide nanowires in a gas phase instead of in a solid phase. Sol Voltaics calls this their aerotaxy process. Under the right conditions, in an air reactor, the company can grow these nanowires in seconds and store them in a liquid, producing a sort of ink.
Sol Voltaics wants to take this ink and sell it to solar panel makers, alongside production equipment that they can use to layer the ink — inkjet style — onto their own solar panels. The nanowires in the ink act as guides for the light and concentrate it. The company says the capital expensive of the ink and machines add 1 to 2 cents per Watt for the panels.

Sol Voltaics is targeting Chinese and other global silicon solar makers that are struggling and producing many of their panels at a loss right now. Proving that the technology can help them out — and is worth the investment — will take quite a few key partners and demonstrations. The good thing, though, is that if one customer starts using it as a competitive advantage and it works, others will want to use it to keep up.
Some of these huge solar maker players will have to survive, and could adopt and invest in new technologies to do that. The ones that do survive, will see the continued solar panel market explode over the coming years. There was a record-breaking 3.3 gigawatts worth of solar panels — or 16 million individual solar panels — installed in the U.S. in 2012, making solar power the fastest-growing energy source domestically.


Source: gigaom.com

"Nostromo", the Super Computer from IBM Blue Gene/Q.

IBM announced that an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer known as "Nostromo" is being used to process biomedical big data in Poland.

        IBM announced that The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, University of Warsaw (ICM) of Poland is using an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer to gather and process biomedical big data.

        It is named Nostromo, the IBM machine is the most powerful single-architecture supercomputer in Poland, and it is supporting one of the country's key biomedical and biotechnological research initiatives called the Centre for Pre-clinical Research and Technology (CePT).
        More than 500 life sciences and biomedical researchers, physicians and students from a consortium led by The Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) and consisting of three universities and seven research centers of the Polish Academy of Sciences, will use the supercomputer and its supporting e-infrastructure to gain further insight into chronic diseases.
        "CePT, a EUR 100 million project, aims to support Poland's transition towards more preventive and patient-centric health care," Dr. Robert Sot, director of CePT at Warsaw University, said in a statement. "The project will allow the medical community to provide a more holistic approach and open collaboration for the development of innovative treatments and drugs that will improve patients' quality of life over the long term."
          Nostromo will help scientists process up to 16 terabytes of big data per one sequence by running compute-intensive simulations at the speed of 209.7 trillion operations per second (TFLOPS). The supercomputer will use algorithms moving beyond the "routine" sequencing of human or animal genomes to tackle more complex processes that will reveal the rare variants in human genetics—for example, those that cause predispositions to Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, Down syndrome and more. By understanding what prevents protein molecules, which build and maintain human bodies, from folding up properly and triggering a disease, scientists will be able to develop a new drug or treatment.
         "The process of developing and generating a new drug or treatment normally takes up to three years, and costs have nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years," Prof. Marek Niezgodka, director of ICM, said in a statement. "With Nostromo, we expect to increase the simulation speed which will bring us much closer to the era of "personalized medicine," when preventative approaches can be tailored to a specific condition." Nostromo currently ranks number 143 on the Top500.org list and number 9 on Green500.org list of most energy-efficient supercomputers. The system was installed by IBM Poland and Qumak SA, an IBM business partner.

Source:eweek.com

12 Incredible Apps That Need To Be On Your Smart Phone.

12. Atlas by Collins (iPhone, iPad - $6.99)

The robust apps put the world at your fingertips as it features satellite mapping images, physical maps, political maps, environmental maps and even population statistics. Atlas by Collins is also highlighted by street-level viewing for any location on the map!

 

 

11. Any.DO (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

Any.DO is a simple application that lets you keep a to-do list with you everywhere you go. Streamlined through your phone and computer device, it manages your tasks with reminders and an intuitive calendar that's extremely user-friendly. 

 

 

10. Wordament (iPhone, iPad - Free)

Wordament is a Windows-based game that mixes the best of both worlds ("Scrabble" and "Boggle") to present a word vocabulary game that tests your intelligence and speed. It also happens to be the first iOS game that helps you earn Xbox Achievements when you sign in with your username/Windows ID. 

 

9. Highlight (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

First introduced at South By Southwest 2012, Highlight alerts you when a Facebook friend or an individual with similar interests is in your vicinity and allows users to send group messages to those nearby. 

8. Flipboard (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

Flipboard is the worldwide leader in combining all the socially curated news you need. It's impeccable when it comes to daily use and in 2012 it introduced YouTube and Google+ integration along with a partnership with the New York Times to turn your mobile phone into a battery-charged newspaper. 

 

7. Viggle (iPhone, Android - Free)

The Viggle phone app compensates you with gifts from Starbucks, GAP, Amazon and more for watching and checking in to many of your favorite television programs. You also get to do absolutely nothing as Viggle uses audio recognition technology  to do most of the work for you! 

 

6. Paper By FiftyThree (iPad - Free)

A consistent App Of The Day throughout 2012, Paper By FiftyThree allows doodlers and illustrators to embrace the ability to create designs via their iPad. Produced by the Microsoft team that presented Courier, its built entirely on innovation and cleverly labels drawing tools ("sketch" rather than "pencil"). 

5. Pocket (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

Pocket is simple and intuitive, mainly because of its minimal design and control which allows users to change text size and share finished content through a variety of services.

4. Stitcher Radio (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

Stitcher Radio stands out and delivers digital audio files to your ears in a matter of seconds. It's a podcast junkie's paradise as users can dive into past programs, interviews with their favourite sports commentators .

 

3. Vyclone (iPhone, iPad - Free)

When users take a video, the app looks for others shooting nearby and edits the clips togethers to provide a creation built from multiple angles. 

2. Songza (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

This past year with a major update that showcases playlists created for particular moods or times of day. The best part: you won't come across a single ad during use. 

 

1. Google Maps (iPhone, iPad, Android - Free)

It obviously presents a whole new spectrum of competition but there's denying it looks absolutely fantastic on a mobile screen. 

 Source: Tinybites.

 

What is Facebook Home?

     Facebook Home is a new app for Android. It is a new way to turn your Android phone into a social phone. Facebook on Thursday unveiled "Facebook Home" software to place the world's social network front and centre on Android users' smartphones. Home isn't a phone or operating system, and it's also more than just an app.
    Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps. Its new family of apps will let users display mobile versions of their newsfeed and messages prominently on the home screens of a wide range of devices based on Google's Android operating system, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters.
     "Why do we need to go into those apps in the first place to see what's going on with those we care about?" Zuckerberg told the hundreds of reporters and industry executives gathered at Facebook's Menlo Park campus. "We want to bring all this content to the front," he said. It is a move that may divert users from Google services and steal some of its rival's momentum in the fast-growing mobile arena.


Here are some interesting feature of the Facebook Home app for Android:

Cover feed: A constant, fresh stream of photos and updates from your newsfeed, cover feed is always present when you wake up your phone. It lets you stay up-to-date on your friends' latest activities in real-time, all the time. You can swipe through to see more photos and updates, double tap to 'like' a post and comment right from cover feed. Cover feed is for those in-between moments ­like waiting in line at the grocery store or between classes ­when you want to see what's going on in your world.

Notifications: Cover feed is great for seeing everything going on in the world. But when something happens that's more important and directed at you, like a friend posting on your timeline, you'll receive notifications with their profile pictures. To open notifications, just tap them. And if you don't want to deal with them right now, you can just swipe to hide them and keep flipping through cover feed until you want them back.

Chat Heads: With chat heads you can keep chatting with friends even when you're using other apps. When friends send you messages, a chat head appears with your friend's face, so you see exactly who you're chatting with. Messages reach you no matter what you're doing - whether you're checking email, browsing the web, or listening to music. You can move chat heads around and respond to messages. And since SMS is integrated into Facebook Messenger for Android, chat heads include Facebook messages as well as texts. 
 App Launcher: It's as easy to get to your apps in Home as it is on any other phone. Swipe up to see your favorite apps in the launcher. There's also a screen containing all of your apps, and you can drag your favorite apps to the launcher.

Instagram: HTC First is the only phone that comes with Instagram pre-loaded.

How to get Facebook Home
Facebook Home will be available as a free download from the Google Play Store starting April 12. Home works on the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II. Home will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4, and on more devices in the coming months.
Home will also be available pre-installed on phones through the Facebook Home Program. HTC has launched its first phone with Facebook Home name "HTC First". It goes on sale April 12.

Source: ibnlive.in

Top 10 Smartphones and Tablets of Mobile World Congress 2013.

LG Optimus G Pro

5.5-inch 1080p display.
Quad-core processor .
13-megapixel rear-facing camera



Sony Experia Z
10.1-inch slate
1920 x 1080-pixel display
Quad-core processor
Resistance up to 6 inches of water for 30 minutes.


 ASUS PadFone Infinity
5.5-inch
1080p display
Quad-core-powered

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
8 inch screen
Included S Pen stylus with Air View mode and Dual View multiple window capabilities .




Huawei Ascend P2
4.7-inch in-cell HD display
Fastest Web speed.150 Mbps 4G LTE CAT 4 connectivity.
Magic Touch display technology lets you interact its touch screen even with a pair of gloves on.

Lenovo S6000
10-inch
 1280 x 720-pixel IPS display
Quad-core
0.3 Cms thick.
Android 4.2
5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a VGA front-facing shooter.
Set of dual rear-mounted speakers












LG Optimus F7
4.5 inches
Dual-core processor 
1280 x 720-pixel True IPS display

Nokia Lumia 520
4-inch screen
1-GHz dual-core processor and 512MB of RAM
Cheapest Windows Phone 8 device .


Asus FonePad 
7 inches
1GB of RAM and 16GB of onboard storage
Intel Atom processor.
Provides ASUS WebStorage with 5GB of free storage.

ZTE Open
3.5-inch HVGA screen
 256MB of RAM
 800-MHz Qualcomm 7225A CPU.
Mozilla's Firefox OS.


Source:
laptopmag.com

 

List of First orbital Launches.

Upcoming PlayStation 3 Games

Here is a List of some Upcoming PS3 Games

Defiance PS3

Action

Trion Worlds

April 2, 2013

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PS3

Action

Rockstar Games

April 2, 2013

Ninja Gaiden III: Razor's Edge PS3

Action

Nintendo

April 2, 2013

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories PS3

Action

Rockstar Games

April 2, 2013

Guacamelee! PS3

Platformer

DrinkBox

April 9, 2013

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation PS3

Shooter

Nordic Games Publishing

April 15, 2013

Injustice: Gods Among Us PS3

Fighting

Warner Bros. Interactive

April 16, 2013

Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall PS3

Action

Bethesda Softworks

April 16, 2013

Dead Island Riptide PS3

Action

Deep Silver

April 23, 2013

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen PS3

Action , RPG

Capcom

April 23, 2013

Star Trek: The Game PS3

Action

Paramount Digital Entertainment

April 23, 2013

Telltale Games' Poker Night 2 PS3

Card

Telltale Games

April 2013

Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut PS3

Action , Adventure

Rising Star Games

April 30, 2013

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams PS3

Platformer

Black Forest Games

April 2013

Metro: Last Light PS3

Shooter

Deep Silver

May 14, 2013

Resident Evil Revelations PS3

Action , Adventure

Capcom

May 21. 2013

Grid 2 PS3

Racing

Codemasters

May 28, 2013

Fuse PS3

Action

Electronic Arts

May 28, 2013

Ibb & Obb PS3

Platformer

Sparpweed

May 2013

Remember Me PS3

Action , Adventure

Capcom

June 4, 2013

The Last of Us PS3

Action

Sony Computer Entertainment

June 14, 2013

Lost Planet 3 PS3

Action

Capcom

June 25, 2013

Harold PS3

Platformer

Not Available

Q2 2013

BandFuse: Rock Legends PS3

Music

Mastiff

Q2 2013

Zeno Clash II PS3

Action

Atlus

Q2 2013

Divekick PS3

Fighting

Not Available

Q2 2013

Demonicon PS3

RPG

Kalypso Media

Q2 2013

Luftrausers PS3

Action

Devolver Digital

Q2 2013

Thomas Was Alone PS3

Platformer

Independent

Q2 2013

MotoGP 13 PS3

Racing

Not Available

June 2013

Robot Rescue Revolution PS3

Puzzle

Teyon

Q2 2013

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons PS3

Other

505 Games

Q2 2013

Sacred Citadel PS3

Action

Deep Silver

Q2 2013

Abe HD PS3

Adventure

Just Add Water Developments

Q2 2013

Disney Infinity PS3

Action

Disney Interactive Studios

August 18, 2013

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist PS3

Action

Ubisoft

August 20, 2013

Saints Row IV PS3

Action

Deep Silver

August 20, 2013

Madden NFL 25 PS3

Sports

Electronic Arts

August 27, 2013

Puppeteer PS3

Platformer

Sony Computer Entertainment

September 10, 2013

Young Justice: Legacy PS3

Action , RPG

Little Orbit

September 10, 2013

Grand Theft Auto V PS3

Action , Adventure

Rockstar Games

September 17, 2013

Rayman Legends PS3

Platformer

Ubisoft

September 2013

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix PS3

Compilation

Square Enix

Q3 2013

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes PS3

Action

Warner Bros. Interactive

Q3 2013

Skylanders Swap Force PS3

Adventure

Activision

Q3 2013

The Guided Fate Paradox PS3

RPG

NIS

Q3 2013

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows PS3

Action

Activision

Q3 2013

Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational PS3

Sports

Sony Computer Entertainment

Q3 2013

Magic: The Gathering -- Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 PS3

Card , Battle

Wizards of the Coast

Q3 2013

Killer is Dead PS3

Action

Not Available

Q3 2013

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