Sony's Xperia P to get ICS 4.0 update

Sony India has confirmed the much awaited roll out of ICS update as fourth week of August.


According to Sony, the update will bring in new imporved applications including Sony’s Walkman, Albums and Movies among others.
An image on Sony’s official Facebook page, said: “You're going to love this! ICS Upgrade for Xperia P will be here between 19th – 25th Aug ’12!!”
The update will be made available to users over-the-air (OTA).
Sony Xperia P was launched along with the Xperia Sola and Xperia U in May this year. The Xperia P features a 4-inch display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, has a dual-core Cortex A9 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, 16GB built-in storage (13GB available to the user), no expandable storage, and Sony’s Timescape UI.
The Xperia P also shows off an 8MP rear snapper with the ability to shoot video in 1080p along with a front facing camera for video chatting. The device also supports a micro SIM card and bears a 1,305mAh battery.

Best Android phones below Rs.10,000

1. SAMSUNG GALAXY Y (Rs. 7200)
                                                            With the three-inch touch screen and Android 2.3 Gingerbread interface, you can indulge in over 200,000 apps on the Android Market. This Smartphone is featured with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is powered by 830 MHz ARMv6 processor. With 17-hour battery back-up for 2G, its 2 megapixel camera allows single shot, smile shot and panoramic clicks. With trendy and compact design, this device is optimized with 832 MHz high speed processor and 7.2 Mbps downloading speed.
KEY FEATURES
User Memory: 160MB support microSDHC card (expandable up to 32GB)
Weight: 97g
830 MHz processor
2 MP camera
Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery

. DELL XCD 35 (Rs.8699)
If you are looking for a good 3G experience with best connectivity, including Wi-Fi, this smartphone can be your pick. With thousands of apps through Android marketplace, it comes with 200 MB internal memory and expandable up to 16 GB. It is slim with 3.5 inch display screen and powered by 600 MHz ARM 11. The most effective GPS will ensure you are never stranded anywhere.

3. ACER BETOUCH E110 (Rs.6300)
With 3G connectivity, one can enjoy movies, music and a whole bunch of games and applications at all times. Simply slip a micro-SD card into the handy slot and you have up to 32 GB of storage space to fill. With long battery life aided by 150 mAh battery, the phone has 2.8” resistive screen.
KEY FEATURES
2.8” (QVGA) resistive screen
5-way navi key
3G and Bluetooth connectivity
Nemo Player
Built-in GPS

Conquest launches Evade SUV in India

The Evade SUV is available with petrol and diesel powertrain options and a 4x4 system. Prices start from Rs. 8.5 Crores including duties. View the slideshow for more details

 

Toronto-based Conquest Vehicles Inc has launched EVADE, the company’s first unarmored SUV in India.

 

Did anyone really confuse Samsung products for Apple's?

Apple is claiming that Samusung copied the iPhone and iPad wholesale. But is there any evidence that anyone was actually confused between Apple's products and Samsung's?

I have a certain fondness for courtroom drama.

From the novels of Scott Turow to the pulsating shenanigans of my selfless mentor, Alan Shore of "Boston Legal," the posing and the revelations can often be far more exciting than anything in Henry James or E. L. James.

But though the excitement of seeing excluded evidence being slipped into journalists' hands is precisely the sort of thing the great Shore would have done with innocent eyes and guilty lips, one aspect of the case confuses me.

It gnaws at me like the tags on an H&M shirt. It is this: Is there any evidence that any real human being bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab rather than an iPad because they thought they were the same?

I did hear that Apple's Phil Schiller declared in court his shock at seeing some Samsung designs: "My first thought was, 'wow they've done it again, and they're just going to copy our whole product line.'"

He also said: "Customers can get confused on whose product is whose." (There were allegedly reports of some people returning Galaxy Tabs at Best Buy because they -- somehow -- thought they were iPads. Not that this was any obvious stampede of complaint.)

And yet, despite this alleged potential for confusion, Apple has 68 percent of the tablet market. The name "iPad" has become generic. Apple's large cut seems to be threatened more by cheaper devices such as the Kindle Fire than by Samsung's alleged fine copies.

As for phones, Apple created a very pleasing chart that showed how closely Samsung's phones seemed to have followed Apple's fine designs. The "before" looked Barney Rubble-ish in comparison to the "after."

But while the jury will, sadly, be mired in considering the virtues of tiny but significant points of design, I fear the drama might suddenly disappear from the courtroom as the mold of legalese takes hold.

Though Apple's claim that it never does consumer research was rather undermined by Schiller's revelation that, well, Apple does consumer research, isn't this one moment when the consumers themselves might help Apple more than any lawyer?

How very Alan Shore, how very Erin Brockovich it would be if Apple could parade real people who would tearfully relate how they accidentally bought a Samsung instead of something from Cupertino.

"It looked just the same," Janice McFlounder might say. "And before I knew it, I had walked out of Best Buy with a shiny new phone. But then I turned it over and it said 'Samsung.' I couldn't believe it."

Or what if Michael Kasinada, eyes filled with the hurt of the duped, would stare at Samsung's lawyer and exclaim: "Your clients sold me a fake iPad! It's like a fake Rolex, only more expensive! How could you do that to me?"

Failing the wailing of the pained turning the jury, how about at least producing a few people who bought Samsung's machines and would tell the court: "C'mon, it's obvious. These Samsung Tabs are the same as the iPads! And that Samsung logo is so much cooler!"

Though I am sure that each side's lawyers are having enormous fun in parsing the minutiae of gadget design, I feel equally sure that -- whatever the outcome -- the future will still reveal a huge amount of design similarity.

If the new iPhone 5 has a bigger screen, will Samsung attempt to declare: "Gosh, you got that idea from our fine S3?"

When ever-more vast amounts of money are at stake, it's sometimes hard for any company to be too original. They assume everyone wants the same thing, so they make it. Except for Apple, of course, which does no consumer research whatsoever and manages to make genuinely original products. Or at least products that look so much cooler than anyone else's.

But I have a feeling that some designers occasionally consult lawyers while they're designing. They ask them what they can get away with. They rehearse their arguments even before the product leaves their computers.

And now the lawyers are in court seeing whether some of those rehearsals work on the live stage.

Which is why this case needs far more raw human drama.

Line up some real people and offer them the Samsung Challenge. Give them the Apple-Samsung side-by-side and see if they can tell the difference.

There's been too much technical legal swordplay in the tech world lately. It's time to let the people decide.

The poor, nine pressured humans on the jury need help from the fellow men and women, not from lawyers and employees of the two companies.

Because there's one thing you know about all those people with vested interests: not one will be telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

HP Launches Automated Network Management Software

HP has launched Automated Network Management (ANM) 9.2, a unified network-management platform for converged infrastructure

                                  HP ANM 9.2 includes enhancements to HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi), HP Network Automation, NNMi Performance and NNMi Advanced Smart Plug-in add-on modules (iSPIs). It also provides access to new network-management key performance indicators (KPIs) that deliver greater insight into network availability and performance.

In addition, ANM automates change, configuration, compliance, cloud lifecycle and routine network administrative tasks. It delivers converged network security management by connecting network and security operations, which allows ANM users to correlate security events with network fault, availability and performance events.

“As organizations introduce new technologies to their converged infrastructures, the need for a network-management blueprint for data centers increases,” said Amit Chatterjee, Country Director, HP Software, India. “HP Automated Network Management software enables clients to increase network visibility and save costs like never before with a single solution that optimizes business decisions as well as IT investments.”

ANM 9.2 has enhanced its integration with HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC), which provides single-solution management and visibility of heterogeneous networked devices with automated configuration of network IT tasks.

Dell XPS 14 Ultrabook Launched in India – Price Rs.82,990

Dell has launched Dell XPS 14 ultrabook in India. It has a 14 inch HD+ True Life Infinity display and it comes with the Intel Rapid Start and Smart Response technology. It has the ultra-thing design with aluminium and carbon fibre. It also comes with 3rd gen Intel processors, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000. It would offer up to 10 hours of battery life.
Other features include Ethernet port, a USB 3.0 slot, mini DisplayPort, HDMI port, Waves MAXX Audio 4, backlit chiclet keyboard, multi-gesture trackpad, media card reader, and a 1.3 megapixelweb camera. It has a price tag of Rs. 82,990 .
The XPS 14 will also feature discrete graphics from Nvidia, in the form of the new GT 630M chip with 1GB of graphics. It will have 4GB of RAM , which obviously will be upgradable. It comes with 3 Years Warranty.
Dell XPS 14 Features:
*14.0 inch HD+ (900p) True Life Infinity Display
Edge-to-edge hardened Gorilla Glass
*4 GB or 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz memory
*3rd generation Intel Core i5-3317U or i7-3517U processor
*500 GB SATA HDD or 512 GB SSD drive options with Intel Rapid Start Technology
*Intel HD 4000 video graphics
*High Definition Audio + Waves MaxxAudio 4
Standard full size, backlit chiclet keyboard; spill- resistant
*Glass integrated button touchpad with gesturesupport
*Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 802.11 a/g/n+ *Bluetooth 4.0
*1.3 megapixel webcam with dual array digital microphones
*69 WHr 8-Cell Li-Polymer battery; 65W AC adaptor
*Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional

How to Recover Deleted Contacts Numbers from your SIM Card ?

One of my friend unfortunately deleted my all Contacts phone numbers in my SIM card of My phone.There were some important contacts on his SIM . He presented this problem in front of me I began to tried all.Finally I found this Easy Way to Restore those from his SIM card.
Looking for a trick to regain your lost Phone contacts in your Mobile phone SIM card ?. Here is a wonderful and easy trick to recover your unfortunately deleted or lost SIM Contacts .This procedures requires a Computer and a SIM Reader .To do so see the steps mentioned below
Requirements: Your SIM card to be recovered, A GSM Reader (SIM Card reader), A computer
*. Put your SIM card to your SIM card Reader
*. Install the Driver software for this Device.
*. After installing open the software ( connect the device through USB port )_ (see Screen short)
*. Click the 3rd button ( as shown in above screen short)

*. Clicking the image there list a list of contacts
*. You can either save or copy,,,or do any options in the software

Cars Runs on Water -Built by a Pakistani Engineer

A Pakistani engineer has built a car that runs on water, a feat that left onlookers astounded.Engineer Waqar Ahmad drove his car using water as fuel on Thursday during a demonstration for parliamentarians, scientists and students, Dawn reported from this Pakistan capital.


He said cars could be driven by a system fuelled by water instead of petrol or CNG.The onlookers were taken aback when they saw it and a cabinet sub-committee lauded the 'Water Fuel Kit Project'.Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah, who heads the panel, said the engineer would have their full support.

The media report explained that the water fuelling system is a technology in which 'hydrogen bonding' with distilled water produces hydrogen gas to run the car.Ahmad had earlier told Shah about the unique project and it was taken to the federal cabinet which asked its sub-committee to discuss it.

During the demonstration, Shah himself drove the car.The minister said that Ahmad would be given complete security and the formula would be kept secure.Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh value the project, he said."We own this project and are committed to successfully completing it," he was quoted as saying.

Mobile phones set to provide access control with NFC

Your smartphone is already doing a lot of things than just a phone call. From playing games, clicking photographs, making presentations and watching movies, the definition of what a smartphone can do is expanding rapidly and will continue to expand in the future too. Now, with the advent of a technology called Near Field Communications (NFC), you can now even lock and unlock doors.

NFC is a short-range wireless communication technology standard that enables the exchange of data between devices over a distance of several centimeters.  It’s one of several new platforms that can be used to hold virtualized credentials that previously were stored on contactless smartcards and used to open doors.

The same contactless credentials that are programmed to provide various levels of facility access can now be loaded onto a mobile handset and used with NFC for secure access.  This eliminates the need to carry any other access credentials and makes it easier for security managers to track who is entering and exiting monitored access points,” says Ranjit Nambiar, Director of Sales, HID Global IAM - India and SAARC.

Nambiar states that NFC-enabled phones can make other contactless transactions, as well, including cashless payment and transit ticketing, data transfers including electronic business cards, and access to online digital content.  This makes it easy to combine multiple virtual credentials on a single device for things like secure facility access and the ability to make cashless payments.

Nambiar’s firm, HID Global in collaboration with Sony Corporation, has already   developed a contactless smart card reader platform that embeds secure access control capabilities NFC functionality into laptops and other mobile devices.

HID Global is also working with leading handset manufacturers and NFC semiconductor suppliers to embed NFC technology directly into phones to take full advantage of digital credentials. Recently, HID Global also announced its plan to support its iCLASS digital keys and mobile secure identity on NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphones.  HID Global’s partnership with Research in Motion, manufacturers of the BlackBerry, will enable BlackBerry smartphone users to use iCLASS digital credentials for door access by simply holding their NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphone in front of a door reader in the same way physical smart cards are used today.

Another technology access solution from HID called Secure Identity Object (SIO) will make it possible for enterprises to securely provision and safely embed digital credentials into a variety of mobile devices.

“SIOs will provide an additional layer of security on top of device-specific security, acting as a data wrapper that provides additional key diversification, authentication and encryption, and guards against security penetration. Also, SIOs are created and bounded to one device, preventing it from being copied to another device, thus protecting sites against cloned card attacks,

Twitter takes social spotlight at London Olympics

Athletes, fans, celebrities and the president tweet about the summer games

             Twitter is basking in the Olympic spotlight, with athletes tweeting about the games and fans around the world offering their support on the social network.

Social networks from Facebook to Google+ are seeing numerous users posting comments -- and complaints -- about the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but Twitter is believed by many observers to be seeing the most traffic. In fact, some observers say the games may become known as the Twitter Olympics.

"Twitter is a broadcast medium so it's really best for these kinds of news events," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research. "If you were on a team at school, you would probably share commentary over Facebook. But with the Olympics, it's like the entire world is watching the same thing at the same time, and that's a Twitter thing, not a Facebook or Google+ thing."

Since Twitter is all about sharing common experiences, users have gone to the micro-blogging site in droves to cheer the victories of their Olympic athletes and mourn their losses.

Facebook to test first Open Compute racks

Open Rack solves a number of ongoing problems of traditional data center server racks

Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt.

The prototype racks represent some of the first significant tangible gear from a year-old multicompany effort, called the Open Compute Project, to drive down costs and improve data center hardware, namely by open sourcing the designs.

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"I'm embarrassed to say but it was kind of emotional to see the Open Rack" units, said Frank Frankovsky, Facebook vice president of hardware design and founding board member of the Open Compute Project. "We had been working on Open Rack for a long while."

In April 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project, an initiative to apply the open-source software collaboration model to the world of data center hardware. With this project, buyers of data center equipment could collaborate to design products, or at least the specifications for products, that they would like to see. Vendors can then use these blueprints to build the equipment.

Motherboards, power supplies and electrical subsystems are among the equipment Open Compute is collaboratively designing. A number of manufacturers have signed on and volunteered engineer support, including Asus, Hewlett-Packard, AMD, and Supermicro.

Open Rack can be seen as a test case for this approach. Facebook plans to test the prototypes over the next few months, and, if they work as planned, the company will start using them in its data centers by early next year, Frankovsky said. "From 2013 forward, every rack we deploy in our data centers will be Open Rack," he said. Thanks to how the rack design is freely available under an open-source license, any manufacturer can produce these racks for Facebook or other customers.

At first glance, an Open Rack chassis may appear much like any other rack, though these prototypes carry a lot of thoughtful design.

Today, the most widely used racks in data centers are based on the EIA 310-D specification, which wasn't developed for holding computer equipment at all, Frankovsky pointed out. It actually was created during the 1950s to hold railroad signal relays.

How to Unlock Password Protected Memory Card of Nokia?

One of my friend told me that his Memory Card of his Phone had Locked with password but unfortunately he happened to forgot the password, and he asked me to tell him a trick to recover his forgotten password.I asked for the company of his phone , it was NOKIA. Finally  I got this amazing trick to get the lost passcode of his Mobile phone memory card.
Have you such a problem?, don’t worry I am going to tell a best and simple trick it can be done following some simple steps

Requirement: File explorer (Eg: FExplorer) You can download it from here.

How to Unlock MMC card:

1. Insert the Locked Memory Card into your phone but don’t access it through phone.
2. Run FExplorer (or any other explorer) and Open the path C:\system
3. Where you will find a file named mmcstore 
4. Rename that file as mmcstore.txt
5. Copy that file(mmcstore.txt) to your pc and open that file in Notepad.
6. You will find your password in that file.

MICROMAX Cup India and Srilanka Cricket Series Live at m.zengatv.com

Mobile users can watch India-Sri Lanka Micromax Cup Live (21 July – 07 August,2012) with ZengaTV’s mobile TV application. Mobile video streaming company Zenga TV has bagged exclusive rights to stream the series live through its mobile website m.zengatv.com. The rights also provide users the option to view the highlights, the entire match, view live scores or just the summary.


Viewers will be able to catch up on the coverage even 30 days after a match is played. There is nothing to pay and no software to download.

This India-Sri Lanka Micromax Cup comprises of 5 ODI’s and one T20 slated to start on July 21, 2012 in Sri Lanka. Zenga TV services are accessible across all leading mobile networks such as Idea, Vodafone, Airtel, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance and Docomo. 


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12 tips for using the Google Nexus 7 tablet

How to . . . Take a photo.

Sounds simple enough ... except there's no camera app by default on the Nexus 7. So that means the camera only activates when you're using an app that needs it, such as with a Skype video chat. However, you've got a couple of options to if you want to take a snapshot with the Nexus front-facing camera. One is to download the free Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 app from MoDaCo; another is to use the popular Instagram app, which was just updated for Nexus 7. Just remember that at 1.2M resolution, your photos will often be less than stunning; not to mention that it's tough to take a photo of anything besides yourself using a front-facing camera in a tablet form factor.

Take a snapshot of your screen. Want to save or share what's on your screen? Press the volume down and power keys for a couple of seconds and the Nexus 7 will snap an image of your screen. An icon for that image will then appear in your notification bar with an option to share it, so you don't need to flip back to the gallery to access it. (see images at left)

Use your face to unlock your tablet. Tired of having to swipe your screen to unlock it, yet you're keeping your tablet at home so don't need the security of a password or PIN? You can set up biometric face unlock in Settings -> Security -> Screen lock.

Get quicker access to Google Now. While there's no press-and-hold button to get to Google Now, you can swipe up from the bottom center of any screen to immediately head to the Google Now screen.

Voice activate search. Once the Google Now screen is open, if it's too onerous to tap the microphone button to speak a command, you can just say "Google" and the Google voice search input screen appears.

Learn what Google Now can and can't do. Google Now is pretty slick in fetching and parsing general information available on the Web: "Will it rain today?" "What's playing in the Framingham Premium cinema?" "Nearby Japanese restaurants?" "Translate 'Where is the nearest ATM' to Italian". It's also a really nice way to open websites without having to type in URLs or look through bookmarks. If I say "open computerworld.com" I head to the Computerworld homepage; "go to blogs dot computerworld dot com" sends me to our blogs front page.

However, it's not so useful in acting as a Siri-like personal assistant to manage your calendar -- in fact, as far as I can tell, it doesn't deal with your calendar at all, although it does set alarms. It will also send email for you by voice command, but you'll save yourself some frustration if you learn the preferred structure:

"Send email to subject message "

You can send an email to yourself with "Note to self ".

If you want an app that will set appointments, check your calendar and open apps, try the Assistant from Speaktoit. I've got mixed success having it check for upcoming appointments, since I use multiple Google calendars and it only looks at one. It does a reasonably good job of adding events as long as I remember to just say the phrase "add event" and then let it ask me questions about the event name and time (and make sure to say an ending time as well as start time, because it doesn't default to a particular length). Or, if you can remember the format "add event to it works all at once. However, if you say "add event to calendar," it thinks you want to add an appointment called "to calendar."

Also unlike Google Now, Assistant will open apps for you, which can be handy if you've got a lot of apps on multiple screens.

Create and use email shortcuts. Do you often write the same thing over and over in email responses? If so, you can store a number of different message texts and then call them from a menu. To set this up, click on the menu within the email app to get to Settings and then choose a specific account. You'll see an option for "Quick responses." Choose that and then "Create new," and then save what you've written.

To use one of your saved quick responses, click on the email menu while composing a message (it doesn't actually have to be a reply, it can be any email you're writing), choose Insert quick response and then tap the one you want.

Monitor battery use. Go to Settings -> Battery and you can see what apps and processes have been using the bulk of your battery life.

Rotate screen from portrait to landscape. My Nexus 7 arrived with screen rotation disabled, so I went to Settings -> Display ... but there was no way to enable rotation. It turns out that you've got to swipe down from the top bar to access the notification pulldown "shade," then tap the little icon with the lock and arrows around it.

Access the Nexus 7 manual. If you're an Android power user and quickly rearranged your Nexus 7 home screen away from its Kindle-Fire-like emphasis on purchased content, you might have missed the items already sitting in the included Play Books app: the Nexus 7 Guidebook. Load up Play Books and you'll find it.

New smartphone app allows sharing of mobile Internet access

Travelling and looking for Internet access? A new smartphone app allows users to share mobile Web access for free with other people nearby who have the same app.


Called Open Garden, the app forms a mesh network that enables each person connected to it to relay it to other users.
"Every smartphone is a computer and a router, so we thought it was the right time to interconnect all of these devices together to make general access more ubiquitous," said Micha Benoliel, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based company Open Garden.


"As long as the devices are in proximity they recognize themselves seamlessly. If one device in the mesh has access to the Internet, then the other device can benefit from it," Benoliel added.
If a smartphone user with Open Garden is in a cafe or hotel and does not have access to Wi-Fi, but someone else does, the user can piggyback on the other person's connection.
Benoliel said the functionality could be especially useful for travelers eager to avoid hefty roaming charges.
"You can be traveling and arrive at an airport and instead of paying expensive roaming charges, you can just connect to someone in the airport who has Open Garden," he said.
When there is no direct Internet connection in the network, the app accesses the Web through links to other devices such as laptops or mobile phones. If the person whose connection is being shared leaves the network, the app automatically connects to the next best connection.
The app is available for Android devices, Windows and Mac. It works as a mesh network only if it has been installed by other people nearby to form the peer-to-peer connections.
Benoliel said the app can also be used to interconnect different devices, such as an iPhone and tablets, for free using the plan.
The company is working on features to help users limit who shares their Internet and data connections and how much data they want to allocate to the app.
In future versions, the company said users will be able to connect to social networks to specify desired network sharers.
Despite criticism from mobile carriers concerned about losing revenue, Benoliel said the app could benefit them by helping to decongest crowded 3G and 4G networks by offloading them to WiFi, where there is more capacity.

3G Activation Guide for all networkes in india

AIRCEL 3G:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, put that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS start 3G to 121, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
Vodafone 3G:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, place that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS ACT 3G to 111, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
Airtel 3G:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, put that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS ACT 3G to 121, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
MTNL 3G:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, place that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS ACT 3G to 444, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
IDEA:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, put that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS ACT 3G to 12345 or 3G to 54777, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
Tata Docomo 3G:
To activate 3G service on your SIM, you need to send a message, place that SIM in 3G phone, then send a MSG SMS ACT 3G to 53333 OR 3GLIFE TO 53333, wait for confirmation MSG and allow it to be activated and then select UMTS mode for 3G services.
BSNL 3G:
To activate 3G service in your phone, send “Mobile Brand And Model” to 58355 and receive the settings soon.
Reliance 3G:
Reliance 3G can be activated by three ways such as fill up the form for applying online, or call at toll free number: 1800 100 3333, or send Email to: customerservice@relianceada.com.

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Skyhook promises constant mobile location without battery drain

The company hopes better battery life will spur location-based innovation

Skyhook introduced on Wednesday a new version of its location engine for mobile apps that it said will allow smartphones to determine a user's location once a minute throughout the day without draining the battery

Skyhook's SDK interprets information about the Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers a smartphone has contacted and combines it with the phone's GPS interface to plot the device's current location. Skyhook has developed its own database of Wi-Fi and cellular locations.

Some location services query a server each time they update the user's location. Skyhook downloads compressed information about Wi-Fi access points and cell towers in a five- to ten-mile radius the first time a smartphone registers a particular location. As long as the user remains in that radius, the device can determine location without calling a server. Fewer server calls means longer battery life.

The SDK version launched Wednesday also reduces power use by optimizing how the software interacts with the hardware, including how the directory of Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers is stored, said founder and CEO Ted Morgan. Morgan was coy on the details, but said Skyhook was able to apply what it had learned about hardware through recent work with Sony to enable constant location services on its gaming consoles.

Skyhook hopes its battery-life achievement "will open up a whole new class of location apps," Morgan said in an email.

Developers have been reluctant to build apps that rely on constant location information because of the battery-life problem, he said.

Yet apps have begun to emerge that use location in innovative ways. Social apps can use up-to-the-minute location data to inform users when people they know or might like to meet are nearby. They might also notify the user of a discount at a nearby restaurant. Or, like the iOS Reminders app, they might generate notifications based on the user's location.

The latest SDK from Skyhook comes with one other novel feature: Constant location on a plane. Users who are connected to Wi-Fi on an airplane will now be able to track their own location rather than relying on the pilot. Skyhook had to tap different directories than those that work on land to be able to determine where a plane is, Morgan said.

Android is currently the only major operating system to make available to third-party developers the interfaces the SDK needs to work optimally, according to Morgan.

The Most Environmentally Friendly iPhone Speaker Ever

Bamboo is one of the most environmentally friendly materials. It is a fast-growing grass, is harder than many plastics and as strong as some metals. (It's used as building scaffolding and baseball bats in Asia). Electronics? Not so much. That speaker you bought has a lot of plastic in it that's going to be around long after you've tossed it.

Originally a crowd-funded Kickstarter project, the iBamboo speaker is an attempt at solving the environmental problems associated with electronic accessories and offer up a cool iPhone speaker dock at the same time. It's basically a resonator, which amplifies the sound from the iPhone's built-in speakers. Simple physics: No batteries, no plastics, no silicon.

And for $25, it's economically sustainable, too.

Open Mobile Alliance proposes standard 2D barcode handling system for mobile phones

OMA hopes the standard will will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily and enable interoperability across the 2D barcode market

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding, and resolution of 2D barcodes, OMA wants to stimulate the usage of the codes, it said.

Camera phone users can snap a picture of a two-dimensional barcode to access additional information on the Web about products promoted by retailers and advertisers. Using the 2D code saves the user opening a browser and typing in a URL or search terms to know more about a product. However, not all such barcodes store information in the same way, nor can they all be read using the same software today.

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Consumer usage of two-dimensional bar codes in Japan grew exponentially once the three primary mobile operators there agreed on a common specification to read 2D barcodes, according to OMA. The QR-code was developed by the Japanese Denso Wave software company, and most Japanese phones now come with a built-in QR-reader. While the use of 2D bar codes is quite popular in Japan, adoption of the technology has been relatively slow in the United States, said OMA.

In June 2009, a survey of 800 Japanese people aged 10 to 49 conducted by NetAsia Research found that 76 percent of them had used a QR-code at least once, and the QR code users scanned an average of about five a month.

But two years later, a study by comScore found that only 6.2 percent of U.S. mobile phone users had scanned a 2D barcode in June 2011. In the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany, 4.6 percent of all mobile phone users and 9.8 percent of smartphone owners had scanned a QR or barcode during the month, comScore found.

With its new standard, OMA wants to enable interoperability across the 2D barcode market, which is fragmented by non-standard formats. The current model is not scalable for the wide variety of retailers, advertisers, handset makers, and mobile operators that want to deploy mobile codes to promote their products and services, it said, adding that standardization can increase usage of 2D barcodes and simplify users' interactions with product information.

The standard comprises two different models. The first model is called a Direct Code, a code that is resolved on the handset using a pre-loaded or downloaded application. The code can invoke functions such as launching a browser, initiating a phone call, sending a text message, or storing contact information in the phone's address book. A network connection is not necessary for this format

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Firefox 14 contains vulnerability patches, security-related features

Mozilla published 14 security advisories for Firefox 14.0.1, five of which rated as critical

Version 14 of the Mozilla Firefox browser, released Tuesday, offers several new security-related features as well as patches for numerous vulnerabilities.

One of the critical advisories covers a vulnerability in the "javascript: URL" function that could allow attackers to bypass the JavaScript sandbox and execute malicious scripts with elevated privileges.

Another critical flaw patched in Firefox 14 could be exploited to bypass the browser's same-compartment security wrappers (SCSW) -- a security feature that prevents a Web page from executing code outside of its context.

A critical memory corruption issue stemming from the way the "JSDependentString::undepend" function converts dependent strings into fixed strings was also addressed. If left unpatched it could be exploited to crash the browser and possibly execute malicious code on the system.

The other two security advisories marked as critical cover six other memory corruption vulnerabilities located in various components that could also lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The remaining nine advisories, four rated as high and four as moderate, address vulnerabilities that could facilitate cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and phishing attacks, or could allow attackers to steal OAuth 2.0 access tokens and OpenID credentials, trick users into accepting a rogue SSL certificate, and conceal a malicious URL.

In addition to addressing numerous vulnerabilities, Firefox 14 also secures Google Web searches by enabling HTTPS for search queries initiated through the location bar, search box, or the right-click menu.

"We automatically make your Google searches secure in Firefox to protect your data from potentially prying eyes, like network administrators when you use public or shared WiFi networks," the Mozilla developers said in a blog post on Tuesday. "Google is currently the only search engine that allows Firefox to make your searches private, but we look forward to supporting additional search engines with this feature in the future."

Firefox 14 also comes with simplified URL bar favicons that make it easier for users to determine the level of connection security supported by different websites.

Non-HTTPS websites will have a grey globe icon displayed in front of their URL, HTTPS websites will have a grey lock icon displayed, while HTTPS websites that use an EV (Extended Validation) certificate will have a green lock icon together the name of the certificate's owner displayed in the URL bar.

Another security-related feature in Firefox 14 is the opt-in activation for plug-ins. Also known as "click to play," this feature requires user approval for the playback of plug-in based content like Flash or Java when it is enabled.

The feature is still a work in progress, so for now it can only be enabled by manually setting a flag in "about:config" -- it can't be turned on from the browser's "Options" dialog.

The non-security related features in Firefox 14 include full screen support for Mac OS X Lion, Awesome Bar auto-complete for typed URLs, and support for Pointer Lock API -- an application programming interface that will give Web apps and games better control over the mouse.