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Twitter toughens encryption to thwart online snooping    San Francisco: Twitter on Friday announced it has toughened the encryption of traffic at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service to thwart online snooping. Twitter followed in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, adding a layer of security called Perfect Forward Secrecy to protect data that users would like kept from prying eyes. "On top of the usual confidentiality and integrity properties of HTTPS, Forward Secrecy adds a new property," Twitter explained in a blog post. "If an adversary is currently recording all Twitter users' encrypted traffic, and they later crack or steal Twitter's private keys, they should not be able to use those keys to decrypt the recorded traffic." The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation is among online rights champions who advocate for this kind of added protection on personal Internet traffic, accor...

Google patents software to help you manage social media presence   London: Google has reportedly patented plans for software that would help people better manage their social media presence by posting on the user's behalf. The software slowly learns how one reacts on social networks and can mimic their usual responses to updates and messages from friends and relations to help cope with the daily data deluge. According to the BBC, the software also analyses continuing interaction and flags messages that demands a more personal response. Google software engineer Ashish Bhatia said that it is often difficult for users to keep up with and reply to all the messages they are receiving and the software is intended to help them manage the data. In the patent, Bhatia envisions a sophisticated system that collects information about all the different social networks someone has joined and tracks what and how they respond t...

Samsung likely to introduce 'wraparound display' in 2014 Washington: After introducing Galaxy Round smartphones, the South Korean mobile manufacturer Samsung is likely to unveil ' wraparound display' for handsets in the next year. Bloomberg has claimed that Samsung will release a handset a three-sided display design, which will allow users to read what's on screen even when a device is viewed at extreme angles. According to The Verge, in which device the wraparound screen would be incorporated isn't clear yet but Bloomberg has claimed that the product launch would come sometime during the second half of 2014. The report said that the display is based on the same Youm panels used in the Galaxy Round, which Samsung released just last month.  

India to have world's largest Facebook population by 2016   Washington: Indians are increasingly logging into their Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the country recording the highest social networking growth of 37.4 per cent this year, according to a new study. India will also have the world's largest Facebook population by 2016, research firm eMarketer found. India, with the highest growth this year, will increase user numbers by 37.4 per cent, while Indonesia's numbers will climb 28.7 per cent and Mexico will grow its social network user base by 21.1 per cent. All three of those countries are also high-growth areas for Facebook, the world's largest social network, which eMarketer estimates will reach a worldwide monthly user base of 1.026 billion this year. The US remains the single country with the greatest number of Facebook users, at 146.8 million this year, and India comes in a distant second. But with India's large population and high expected growth...

Half of all active Twitter users live in just five countries   Washington: Half of all Twitter's active users, who tweet at least once a month, live in just five countries: the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, the UK and Brazil. Using data from PeerReach, online statistics portal Statista created a chart, which shows the 13 countries with the highest shares of monthly active tweeters. According to PeerReach, active users are those who tweet at least once a month, whereas Twitter defines them as those who log in to the service. Roughly 40 percent of Twitter's monthly active users actually don't tweet, and only log in, Mashable reports. The largest share of monthly active users is in the U.S., with 24 percent. Japan was at the second position with 9.30 percent users. Indonesia was at third with 6.5. percent, the U.K with 5.6 percent, and Brazil was at the fifth position with 4.3 percent users. After the top 13 countries, users from every other country in the world represent the re...

China's mobile phone users equal to India’s population   Beijing: China Thursday said the number of mobile phone users in the country have hit a record 1.22 billion at the end of October, making it the largest base for cellphones. Among them, 67.19 percent or 817 million mobile phone users are connected to the Internet and 34.5 percent of them are 3G users, making China the largest base for mobile phones. In contrast, fixed lines are decreasing, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said. The number of fixed line users shrank by 8.82 million in the first ten months to 269 million at the end of October, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The mobile phone users account for 81.9 percent of phone users and fixed line users 18.1 percent. Guangdong, Henan and Sichuan provinces reported the most mobile phone user growth in the first ten months. The number of Chinese mobile phone users hit 1.11 billion at the end of 2012.   

ISRO posts first ever image of Earth taken by Mars probe   New Delhi: A photo of the Earth taken by the Mars Orbiter probe has been posted by the Indian Space Research Organization on its Facebook page on Wednesday. The photo includes most of the Indian Peninsula, Tibet, the Middle East, parts of north-eastern Africa, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. “We have a nice little thing to share with all of you... yesterday in the process of testing our payloads we turned the Mars Color Camera towards the Earth and switched it on... and here is the ‘First ever image of Earth Taken by Mars Color Camera,’” said the post on ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission page. “This image was taken yesterday at around 13:50 hrs from a height of almost 70,000 km above earth and has a spatial resolution of 3.5 km... We are certain we're going to get some great shots in the orbit of Mars,” added ISRO. Launched on November 5, the probe will monitor the Martian crust and atmosphere f...

Facebook to continue showing beheading footages if posted in 'right context' London: In a continued controversy surrounding the extent to which violent content can be shown on Facebook, the social networking giant has reportedly said that it will continue showing footages of beheadings as long as they are in the 'right context'. Facebook has been criticized for allowing graphic content on its site, with the potential to cause psychological damage, especially to teenagers. However, Facebook's UK and Ireland policy director Simon Milner said such footages could expose human rights abuses adding that such content would contain more prior warnings. According to the BBC, the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) accused Facebook of lacking a sense of 'responsibility'. The report said that Facebook had earlier issued a temporary ban on graphic content on its site after a video of a woman's beheading circulated on the site, but relaxed the ban...

World’s most prolific source of spam emails shut down   London: In a series of coordinated raids by Microsoft and US federal authorities, the world’s most prolific source of spam emails has been shut down. India.com The Rustock botnet is an international network of virus-infected computers that has been taken advantage of for years by generating billions of emails each day in order to promote unlicensed online pharmacies and impotence pills. But on Wednesday, security firms noticed email traffic from Rustock completely collapsed, according to the Wall Street Journal. It has now been revealed that Microsoft, backed by US Marshals acting on a court order, seized servers that it’s estimated covertly controlled almost a million Windows PCs. “We think this has been 100 per cent effective," the Telegraph quoted Richard Boscovich, senior attorney in Microsoft’s digital crimes unit, as saying. The servers were rented from commercial Internet hosting firms across the Mid West, who wer...

Google India aims to bring 50 million women online       New Delhi: With women comprising just 30 per cent of the online population in India, Internet giant Google Wednesday said it aims to help 50 million women in the country go digital in a year. "India has over 200 million Internet users and the number is growing. India is on its way to become the second largest Internet market overtaking US. But, only one-third or about 60 million of the online users are women," Google India MD Rajan Anandan told reporters here. Internet can play a very important role in empowering women in India and help them to transform their lives, he added. "Internet can help women achieve self esteem, express their views freely, open up new opportunities and help them to gain education. Our new campaign aims to bring 50 million women online in the next one year so that they can reap the benefits too," Anandan said. Acco...

Twitter adds new search filters to Android and iOS mobile app Washington: Twitter has reportedly added new search filters for its mobile apps on Android and iOS platform. The new search filters allow users to filter searches for specific topics like photos or videos. According to Mashable, another filter allows users to search exclusively from those they follow, and won't return tweets from strangers. The update also lets users to alternate between top tweets and all tweets right at the top of the search screen. The new search filters includes new 'trending timeline' that lists which television shows and nearby events are trending on the platform and will be visible to users when they click on the ' discover' tab within the app. The report said that earlier Twitter's search limitations were a point of frustration for regular Twitters as finding a particular tweet from a feed wasn't always easy...

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‘ISI wants to kill Narendra Modi, gives contract to Dawood’   New Delhi: Even as a heated debate ensues on the safety of Narendra Modi, a report on Wednesday claimed that Pakistan’s Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has finalised a plan to eliminate BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. An English daily reported, quoting central intelligence agencies, that ISI has given the contract to kill Modi to its long time pawn against India, Dawood Ibrahim. The input was reportedly part of a secret note prepared by intelligence agencies after the bomb attacks on Modi’s Patna rally which had left eight people dead. Indian Mujahideen has been found to be behind the terror strike. Modi is already among the most protected people in the country. He is a 'Z+' category protectee of the elite 'black cat' commandos of the National Security Guard and a first-ring of twelve commandos give him proximate security every t...

Google's new features to make search more personalised   Taipei: Internet major Google is adding new features to its popular services like search page, maps and youtube to provide more personalised information especially related to day to day lives of its users. Weather updates at the start of the day of or traffic movement during the office hours are some of the information that most of the users look for daily, Kentaro Tokusei, Product Management Director (Japan) said at the company event here yesterday. Now a user will not have to look for these pieces of information separately. The new feature Google Now provides all these updates on the user's home page, he said. "Providing right information at right time is the main aim of this feature," he said. When asked about the privacy concerns of users, he said the features will not include storing of such specific information if a user does not opt for it. "It would be o...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar  - The Man of Centuries “My only dream was to wear the Indian cap and the Indian colours. In that respect, my childhood dreams have come true……” A man who repeated the history by bringing world cup home, ‘Sachin Tendulkar ‘ the name needs no introduction. A living legend who has kept billion hearts ticking, hopes alive and made impossible turn possible. For some he may be the greatest batsman ever seen in the world of cricket, and for others he may be the God of Cricket, but for me he is more of a mentor who has taught me the real meaning of – hard work, perseverance, passion and motivation. A little master blaster who has scored more than 34,000 runs in a career spanning more than two decades, truly deserves to be called as an undisputed king of cricket. My introduction with Sachin, or you may say cricket, started when I was in college. Living in a boy’s hostel, cricket was contagious that spread its wings faster than Rajdhani, an...

Samsung affecting sales of iPad and iPhone: Apple     San Jose: The patent war between Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc is everlasting, the latest case wherein a top Apple Inc executive reportedly alleged that the South Korean company was affecting the sales of Apple iPhone and iPad. According to reports, Phil Schiller, marketing chief of the US tech giant, appearing before a federal court in San Jose, California, as a witness testified that Samsung damaged the reputation, business and marketing efforts of his company by selling devices that were copied from the iPhone and iPad. In the patent war between the two giants, Apple Inc has accused Samsung of copying its devices including its operating features. Defending the launch of iPad Mini as a competition in the tablet market, Schiller said Apple was merely trying to make better products and that it was not in the competition. "It's much harder to create demand and people question our innovation and desig...

Sony Xperia Z1s features leaked online!     New Delhi: Sony Xperia Z1S reported specs are doing the rounds as Sony is set to unveil a mini version of the Z1. According to Xperia Blog, the leaked images suggest that the Xperia Z1S rivals LG G2, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and also Xperia Z1 on the performance page. The phone, however, is a slight watered down version of the Z1 when it comes to resolution, screen size and battery capacity. Interestingly, it mirrors HTC One Mini. Sony had previously listed the phone on its website but later took it down as camera samples of the Xperia ZS1 were leaked to the web. The Xperia ZS1, like the other Xperia Z phones, is water-resistant and dust-proof. Xperia ZS1 Specifications Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Display: 4.3-inch; 720p resolution Camera: 20.7 MP rear OS: Android 4.3 Memory: 2GB RAM Storage: 16GB internal storage Battery: 2,300 mAh

Sony sells over 1 million PlayStation 4 units within 24 hours   New York: Sony Corp said Sunday that it sold over 1 million units of its latest video game sensation, the PlayStation 4, within 24 hours of its sale in the market. Currently available only in the US and Canada, the company is planning to launch the video game consoles in Europe and Latin America on November 29. The Sony PlayStation 4 went on sale in the US and Canada on Friday, November 15. In a statement, Andrew House, head of Sony Computer Entertainment, said the sale of PlayStation 4 remains very strong in North America. Sony is aiming to sell 5 million PS4 units by the end of its fiscal year that ends on March 31. Robert W. Baird & Co analyst Colin Sebastian has said he expects 2.5 million to 3 million PS4 shipments in the fourth quarter in North America. Both the PS4, priced at USD 399 in the United States, and the Xbox One, with a price tag of USD 499, offer improved graphics for realistic e...

Twitter IPO: 1,600 new millionaires to pay $2.2 bn in taxes New York: US tax department is in for a major windfall from Twitter' blockbuster IPO, which has made 1,600 of its employees millionaires and they will together pay an estimated USD 2.2 billion (about Rs 13,800 crore) in taxes, a research report says. According to a report by US-based PrivCo, a provider of business and financial research on major privately-held firms, Twitter's fantastic public debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), last week, added as many as 1,600 employees of the microblogging site to the US millionaire club. "With an 8 percent tax rate in California and a 32 percent tax rate at the federal level, Twitter's newly-minted millionaires face a tax bill of USD 2.2 billion," PrivCo said. Individually, the US Internal Revenue Service stands to get taxes worth USD 1.72 billion while Californian authorities will receive an amount of USD 479 million. "Twitter's I...

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Apple to announce buyback scheme for iPhone 5C and iPhone 4S offering Rs 13,000 for old smartphones from rival brands     Yesterday, we reported about  Apple making aggressive plans to boost iPhone sales in India and today we have come across some new details regarding those plans. In addition to accepting older iPhones when users upgrade to the iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C, it seems that from tomorrow Apple will launch a buyback scheme for the iPhone 4S 8GB and iPhone 5C where users can exchange smartphones from other brands. The offer is not available on the iPhone 5S at the moment, which we believe is due to the current stock crunch. Apple will accept smartphones including the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10, Nokia Lumia 925, HTC Desire 500, Desire 600, One mini and One dual-SIM, Samsung Mega 5.8/6.3, Galaxy S4 mini, Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 and Sony’s Xperia C, Xperia ZR, Xperia Z, Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra. The ...

HTC One successor said to feature 5-inch 1080p display and KitKat   Back in April, we called the  HTC One the closest thing the world has ever seen to a no-compromise smartphone . Four months later when we pitted it against Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4, we said the HTC One was still the best smartphone on the planet. While HTC has struggled to get the phone into consumers’ hands thanks to tremendous competition (and massive marketing budgets) from Apple and Samsung, those who have bought the One seem to enjoy it very much for the most part. According to a new rumor, the One is about to get even better. We have seen  a few images leak that seemingly showed components from HTC’s upcoming One successor , code-named M8, and now  @evleaks claims to have confirmed some preliminary details. According to a post on his Twitter account on Friday, the next-generation HTC One will feature a 5-inch display with the same 1080p resoluti...

Users can now create customized timelines on Twitter   Melbourne: Twitter has introduced "customized timelines" to give better control to the users for organizing and delivering their tweets on the social messaging platform. The users can design new timelines and name them, in addition to the standard one, to follow new topics on the messaging platform, Stuff.co.nz reports. The creation of customized timelines will give an opportunity to the users to create a separate timeline, prioritizing the tweets that they felt were relevant, when any conversation around an event or topic took off on Twitter. The timelines are public entities, with their own page on "twitter.com", making it easy to share with others so that they can follow, the report added.  

Twitter ties up with Start Sports for in-stream video service    New Delhi: Twitter today said it has tied-up with starsports.Com, allowing users of the micro-blogging site to be able to directly view videos in-stream, without leaving Twitter. As part of the partnership, when a link to starsports.Com is tweeted, Twitter users on mobile will have the option to download the starsports.Com App and watch the video, aiding Star Sports to create a strong sports experience on digital platform, Star Sports said in a release. Earlier this year, Star Sports India also became one of the first 'handles' that viewers can follow through Twitter's SMS service and choose to receive tweets from the account as texts, it added. Star Sports also regularly leads innovative broadcast integration of Twitter to fuel social TV experiences, as has been evidenced during this year's Women's Cricket World Cup, Super Fight Lea...

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Eight killed in road accident in Andhra Pradesh   Hyderabad: Eight persons were on Saturday killed and five others got injured when a vehicle carrying the victims hit a truck coming from the opposite direction in Nellore district, police said. The mishap took place in the wee hours this morning when the driver of the SUV in which the victims were proceeding to participate in a religious event in Nellore, lost control and hit the truck head-on, K Bala Venkateswara Rao, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nellore, said. Six persons died on the spot and two others succumbed in the hospital. All the injured were admitted to a hospital, he said. The victims hail from neighbouring Kadapa district, police added.  

Earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, tremors felt in Delhi   New Delhi: A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck Jammu and Kashmir early Saturday, and its tremors were felt in national capital Delhi as well. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the epicentre of the earthquake was 43 kilometres north of Ladakh capital Leh. Saturday's tremor came days after four earthquakes within three hours brought people in south Delhi rushing out of their homes in the dead of the night. Experts have described the recent quakes as mild tremors caused by a re-alignment in fault zones.  

Rohit Sharma hits Rs 2 crore       In 2011, when Rohit Sharma was going through one of his worst phases in cricket with inconsistent performance and being dropped from the world cup team, a leading news satire website wrote an article citing Rohit Sharma’s appointment as the brand ambassador for Maggi Noodles. The reason, according to the website was that Rohit would often go out to bat and come back in two minutes, making him their perfect brand ambassador. It was also a time when Rohit was hardly representing any brands in India while his team mates and juniors including Virat Kohli had landed themselves a number of brand endorsements. Cut to 2013, a double century in a one day match against Australia and a dream debut in Sachin Tendulkar’s second last test match in Kolkata in addition to being the captain of Mumbai Indians, has made Rohit one of the most sought after cricketer in India today. If sources in the industry are to be belie...

Rupee gains for second day    T he Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened on Thursday in the foreign exchange market, helping the rupee to rise for a consecutive session against the dollar . This was a day after RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan boosted the confidence of investors by assuring that the current account deficit (CAD) would be brought down substantially. Till Wednesday, the rupee had lost a little over three per cent in the past five trading sessions, prompting the central bank to state there was no fundamental reason for volatility in its value. The rupee closed at 63.12/$ on Thursday, compared to 63.32/$ on Wednesday. The rupee gained strength since Wednesday, after the central bank said the CAD for this financial year would be brought down to $56 billion, below three per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). It reached a record high of 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2012-13. The central bank’s preference is for it not to exceed 2.5 per cent of GD...

Salt at Rs 150-200 a kg in Bihar     Rumours of acute scarcity of salt triggered panic buying in half a dozen districts of Bihar on Wednesday and Thursday. According to state government sources, a rumour originated from Madhubani district on Wednesday evening that the supply of salt from Gujarat had been stopped due to the political tussle between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi. Within a couple of hours, the price of salt skyrocketed to Rs 50-60 from Rs 10 a kg. By Thursday morning, the rumour spread to adjoining districts. According to reports, people in Madhubani, Sitamarhi, Samastipur, Supaul, Sheohar and Begusarai districts have since bought salt at Rs 50-150 a kg after rumours spread that the salt would be out of the market soon. Such was the panic that in some places, shopkeepers had to call the police. Though struck by panic at first, the state government soon swung into action. Government officials ra...

Samsung Galaxy Core Plus smartphone launched?       Samsung has discreetly launched a new smartphone, named as the Galaxy Core Plus, which is found listed on the company’s website for Korea. The smartphone is essentially the successor of its previously launched affordable offering, the Galaxy Core, and going by the specs, is likely to be priced around the same price range. In terms of specifications, the Galaxy Core Plus phone does not vary much from the previous model. It comes with a 4.3-inch WVGA (480 x 800) TFT display and is powered by a 1.2GHz processor, though the RAM size on this one is lesser than that on the previous model. So instead of 1GB of RAM, the Core Plus features a 768MB of RAM with 4GB of internal storage, which is accompanied by an additional 50GB of free storage on Google Drive and up to 64GB of external memory support on a microSD card. It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera with the standard...

Don’t worry if you find bugs in iOS 7 – Apple is already prepping iOS 7.0.1, iOS 7.0.2 and iOS 7.1     Hundreds of millions of people will meet iOS 7 for the first time in the coming months after Apple finally releases its new operating system on Wednesday. If you happen to find a few bugs here and there when you update though, don’t freak out — according to a recent report, Apple is already prepping several new versions of its iOS 7 software. 9to5Mac on Sunday reported that iOS 7.0.1, iOS 7.0.2 and even iOS 7.1 have appeared in the server logs for its website, meaning devices running those unannounced iOS builds have visited the site. The report notes that the visits have come from cities in and around Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters, which is a clear indication that the tests are happening internally at Apple. The first version of iOS 7 will be released to the public tomorrow.  

Windows Phone finally overtakes BlackBerry to take third spot in terms of smartphone shipments       Research firm IDC has posted its quarterly report on the smartphone market which suggests that Windows Phone devices have finally overtaken BlackBerry smartphones in terms of shipments. This also means that devices running Microsoft’s OS take third spot in terms of smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013.  According to the report, Windows Phone devices accounted for 3.2 percent of total shipments while BlackBerry devices fell to 2.9 percent from 3.2 percent in the previous quarter. It’s also worth noting that Nokia has expanded its Windows Phone portfolio to lower price points with devices like the Lumia 720, Lumia 620 and the Lumia 520. In fact, the Lumia 520 costs less than Rs 10,499, so it makes sense that the shipments are increasing. On the other hand, BlackBerry only launched its new BB10 based Z10 in January and its...

Steve Jobs reportedly called Android’s founder a ‘big, arrogant f**k’   It’s no secret that Steve Jobs did not have much affinity for his mobile competition at Google, going so far as to say he would destroy Android, which he considered to be a product that was stolen from Apple. His attacks appear to have been even more personal as Fred Vogelstein’s book,  Dogfight: How Apple And Google Went To War And Started a Revolution reveals.  Business Insider notes one especially provocative quote in which Jobs refers to Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, as a “big, arrogant f**k,” and Android itself as a “f**king rip off of what we’re doing.” Jobs later met with Rubin and Google executives Larry Page and Alan Eustace to force them to remove features from Android that were poised to be staples of the iPhone’s design, such as multitouch gestures and the ways users unlock their phones. Had Jobs not been so adamant, Andro...

Pebble smartwatch support for iOS 7 notification update now live     Apple has approved Pebble’s companion app that brings support for all notifications on iOS 7, which Pebble had announced last week . With the update, iPhone users will finally get a reason to buy the smartwatch as they would be able to get many more notifications than incoming calls and text messages. Essentially any app that does a banner or popup notification will be supported by Pebble. The new notification functionality will work on the iPhone 4S and later, running on iOS 7. You can buy Pebble for $150 and can download the free companion app from Apple’s iTunes App Store . Apart from announcing notification support for iOS 7, Pebble had also announced its new SDK that opens accelerometer API for developers.    

Jawbone UP24 launched, finally goes wireless  Jawbone has launched a new smart wristband, the UP24, that finally connects wirelessly with a smartphone app. The UP24 gets Bluetooth Smart (Bluetooth Low Energy) that will connect with the app and push notifications to the band. The UP24 is priced at $149.99, which is similar to the Nike+ Fuelband. The UP24 will track your movement as well as your sleep pattern and will also push automatic summaries every morning. Users can customize it to send reminders via vibration to keep reminding users to keep moving and hit daily goals. Jawbone claims its battery would last up to 7 days. “The UP community has logged more than 500 billion steps and 35 million nights of sleep with UP. It’s an astounding amount of data,” said Travis Bogard, vice president of product management and strategy at Jawbone. “From it, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about how people live, and we’ve applied that knowledge to deliver even more per...

Nokia Goldfinger and Moneypenny claimed to be the first Windows Phone Blue smartphones   Last week we reported about a bunch of codenames of unannounced Nokia smartphones , some of which were inspired by 007 characters. Now it turns out that the James Bond-inspired products – Moneypenny and Goldfinger – could be the first smartphones rocking Windows Phone Blue update, popular leaker @evleaks claims . Windows Phone Blue or Windows Phone 8.1 is expected to sport a new notification centre, a redesigned calendar and a new multitasking menu that allows users to close multiple apps in one go. These details were leaked earlier this year. Nokia is also expected to launch a smaller 8-inch Windows RT tablet codenamed Illusionist

YotaPhone smartphone with dual-displays to be launched by December: Report     Yota is finally going to launch its long awaited dual-screen Android smartphone named the YotaPhone before Christmas, Techcrunch reports . The Russian company has reportedly confirmed a launch before this year, however has not disclosed anything on its pricing strategy. Just to recall, Yota had announced the phone in the end of last year, and showcased it at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year. The phone had created a buzz for featuring a unique dual display design with an LCD primary display and an e-ink based secondary one. It has already been a year of its announcement and the company is also selling it online on pre-orders, but the phone has not been launched yet. The phone is expected to be priced close to $500. Talking of the features, the phone comes with a 4.3-inch 720p primary display and a 4.3-inch (360×640 pixels) secondary electronic paper display. ...

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Shopping online? Be careful with third-party sellers NEW DELHI: Nishant Gambhir is no stranger to online shopping. A digital marketing professional for a company that makes accessories for mobile phones, he is familiar with the world of e-commerce. But recently when he bought two items from Flipkart, he was in for a rude surprise. "I bought a PCIe card for wireless network and a Logitech keyboard. The items were delivered to me," Gambhir told TOI. "But when I opened the packages, I found that I was cheated. The PCIe card was broken. And the Logitech keyboard wasn't new. It was one-year-old and had no warranty. I never had such bad experience with Flipkart  earlier." Flipkart has built its reputation on fast delivery and clean consumer-friendly service. But in the recent months its reputation has taken a beating. Earlier this year, the company changed into an e-commerce platform and allowed third-party sellers to sell goods through its website. "The it...