2013 New Mobile Phone Introduce by SONY - Xperia Yuga

Xperia Yuga

+Sony  has announced that they are introducing s new smart phone in 2013. The announced model is known as Xperia Yuga. Basically it has 5 inch 1080p display for a better experience in watching videos.

Following is a brief specification about Xperia Yuga

• ModelSony Xperia Yuga (C660X)
• Display5-inch OLED Full HD Display
• ProcessorSamsung Exynos 5 Quad CPU
• Memory128 GB on-board storage
• Camera16-megapixel rear camera, front camera’s specs is under wraps
• Battery3000mAh
• Additional specs
• The phone is packed with IR(Infrared) blaster And the device is waterproof as well.

According to the news from +Sony  the phone is ready to launch in 2013 January

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The Next version of Android OS :Android 5

Android 4.2, the latest version of Google's operating system was rumored to be Key Lime Pie, but as it was an incremental version of Jelly Bean, Android 5.0 is speculated to be Key Lime Pie. These speculations were based on the rumors in Q2 this year, prior to the launch of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean suggesting that the next version could be KLP.

While some Android device users are still awaiting for the Jelly Bean upgrade, Google seems to be prepping the next generation mobile operating system, which could be the next version of the OS

However, there is a sort of confirmation that KLP is the official name of the future release as a Google employee, Manu Cornet drew has posted a comic drawn by him on his Google+ account. The comic shows the evolution of Android depicting the human evolution from ape.

It could be Android 4.3/Android 5.0, but it speculations are strong on Android 5.0 as a couple of handsets from Sony and LG have been spotted on benchmarks to running on Android 5.0, which is rumored to be KLP.

Moreover, the comic is factual with the robot (Bugdroid) standing erect starting from Android 4.0 ICS, which is when the real evolution started for Android in 2011. Besides all this, the most noteworthy aspect is after Jelly Bean, the comic shows a piece of pie with lime and cream, thereby hinting Key Lime Pie as the next version.

Anyways, this is only a rumor and there is no official information from Google regarding Android 5.0 or its features, however, Google could unveil the next version at Google I/O 2013 in May/June

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Create Quick Beautiful Android- i Phone Apps With Yapp

Now a days its the trend that most people use android and i-Phones in their day today use. If you agree that Apple and Android mobile devices are aesthetically stylish and appealing, you will probably want to develop your own attractive mobile app without having to learn complicated coding and graphic design. Yapp gives you the freedom to design an app even for a apprentice.

If you would like to send stylish invitations for say a wedding, birthday party, book club meeting, fundraiser, etc, a new online and mobile (Apple and Android) application and service called Yapp may be of interest to you. Yapp allows you to create stylish and flexible multipage micro-websites, or apps, in the form of invitations, announcements, and similar content. 

How It Works

In order to get started with Yapp, you need to register with a Facebook account (at this point the site doesn’t seem to offer alternative ways to register).

To create a Yapp mobile app, you select from one of over 20 beautifully designed themes — including the Fall artistic Maple, Halloween Moon, Postmarked, and Cosmopolitan Lights. Each theme addresses a different occasion for say weddings, conferences, sports teams, college events, retreats, art openings, etc.

Each theme allows you to include your own custom photo or logo, as well as content information. Next, you develop your app in the Yapp editor, which allows you to create an invitation and schedule page for your event, a newsfeed link back to your website for event updates, and a gallery of photos.

You can send multiple Yapp invitations via email or text message, from either your online or mobile Yapp account. Fortunately, all Yapp invitations are kept within the Yapp app where users can view a schedule of events, view photos, as well as access other information. Unlike websites, Yapp invitations can be viewed offline, as well as send push alerts on mobile devices.

For $5 per app, you can customize the app ID and URL to fit your own website or the name of the event.

The Yapp mobile apps allow users to also create invitations from within the mobile version itself, using the same process as in the online editor.

What’s cool about Yapp is that it requires no prior skills, except the ability to type and add a photo. Yapp apps are similar to the easy-to-use Stationery themes for Apple’s default Mail program.

Let us know what you think about Yapp and how you plan to use it. Also, are there features you would like to see added?

source  MakeUseOf.

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Help To Improve Google Maps & Earn Credit

Google Maps is introducing Google Maps Maker badges as a mark of achievement. Because – there’s a lot that goes into Google Maps. The technology behind it is just one invisible part. The visible contribution which we often fail to see is the community that lends support to Google Maps in many ways. People share information and when it comes to geographical locations around them, then their little inputs goes a long way in making Google Maps as accurate as possible. One of the tools to provide feedback to Google Maps is the Map Maker tool.

The Map Maker tool enables locals to share information with the rest of the world about businesses, school campuses, and any other point of interest that can be pinpointed on a map. This on the ground ‘intelligence’ goes a long way in making Google Maps more accurate for people who use it. To make individual participation more visible to the rest of the world, Google Maps Maker is rewarding users with badges.

Google says:

You can earn badges for everything from making your first edit in Map Maker, to organizing a MapUp event or contributing to Map Makerpedia. Some badges even have stars you can earn for each milestone within a category.

You can start by making the first edit, and hopefully one day climb up to the final level of being a member of the Regional Expert Reviewers (RER) team. Any badge earned will be prominently displayed on a user’s Map Maker Profile, as well as when you hover over a mapper’s username. The Map Maker Badges guide page tells you more.

Source: Google Maps

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Google Maps Offline for Android phones

Google maps are now go offline for android smart phones. Also they have introduced new features

Offline Maps

Wish you had a map when your device was offline? With offline maps, you can save and use certain maps when you’re not connected to the Internet. If you have GPS on the device, the blue dot will still work without a data connection so you know where you are. Whether you’re traveling the world or underground, offline maps can help you navigate the offline world.

Indoor Maps

With Google Maps for Android you can now go indoors. Next time you're running through the airport or shopping in a mall, use Google Maps on your mobile phone to find a specific place or get indoor walking directions.

Directions and Navigation

Whether you’re driving, walking, biking or using public transportation, Google Maps is ready to find the best route for you. Turn-by-turn GPS navigation with in-route adjustments will auto-correct your route if you make a wrong turn. Live Traffic keeps you informed in real-time, and you can also plan ahead based on past traffic conditions

You can have more information on Google 

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Self destructing Text Messages

Text messages are great, but they have the annoying property of being out of the sender's control as soon as they're sent. That's resulted in all kinds of fun for the Internet, and it's also presented a big opportunity for a security company to pick up the slack and impose some sanity and privacy on these communications. A new start-up called Wickr is aiming to do just that with a mobile app that enables users to send anonymous, encrypted texts, photos and videos that self-destruct after a set time period and leave no trace for snoops.

Wickr is designed as a way for users to have complete control of not only how their communications are transmitted and stored, but also how long they're available to anyone, even the recipient. The company, which launched its app this week, is the creation of several security experts, including Robert Statica, a professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Kara Coppa, a former defense contractor and network security operator, Christopher Howell, a former computer crime and forensics investigator, and Nico Sell, who is well-known in security circles as one of the key movers behind DEFCON and Black Hat and has been involved as a founder or adviser of several security companies.

The Wickr founders aim to make traceable communications the exception, rather than the norm, and to return control of private communications to the user.

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How Hackers Use Trending Topics like "Olymics 2012" Against You

As July makes its way into August, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will spend a couple of weeks at center stage. Much of the live action will happen as Americans are at work, and millions of fans will be following the Games online.

A recent survey by SpectorSoft Corporation of Vero Beach, Fla., a maker of computer and mobile-device monitoring and recording software, found that 40 percent of employees plan to follow the Olympics from their workplace computers. Plenty more will be checking out the results on whatever Internet-connected device they have handy.

Big events like the Olympics, presidential elections and the NCAA basketball championships are prime time for cybercriminals because of the scope of interest, drawing the attention of even people who are only casual observers of sports or politics.
But these events only happen periodically, and we know the bad guys don't take a year, or four, off. Instead, online criminals depend on current events and trending topics in order to develop the next wave of social-engineered attacks.
"In the past, we have seen [criminals] leverage the death of a celebrity or a popular event like Black Friday to send phishing emails on that topic, or use black-hat SEO [search engine optimization] techniques and even purchase keywords so their malicious site appears high on search results," explained Brendan Ziolo, VP of marketing at Kindsight, a digital-security company based in Mountain View, Calif.
"Because the user is anxious to see this news or get the latest specials," Ziolo said, "they click on the links without thinking and become infected."



ou would think that after a while, we would become a lot more immune to, or at least more aware of, social-engineered attacks, but the opposite appears to be true.
According to Ziolo and Kindsight's Q2 Malware Report, email that drives users to a malicious website, which then infects visitors with malware via a drive-by download, was the most common attack method in April, May and June of this year.
"The main infection method continues to be email messages luring victims to websites running a variety of exploit kits," Ziolo said. "The victim would typically receive an email message from a business or the government informing them of an issue with their account. This would contain a reasonable-looking link to a website.
"The website would actually host an exploit kit such as Blackhole. This would probe their system and attempt to infect it," Ziolo said.
The use of trending topics to socially engineer an attack needs be successful from the criminal's point of view.
Social-engineering tricks require a lot of time and effort, said Costin Raiu, director of global research and analysis at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow.
"What is standard at the moment is this," Raiu said. "We have automatic bots that scan sites such as Google Trends, Google News and Twitter trends, looking for the topics people like to talk about. Then the bad guys will generate Web pages on the fly on those particular topics and add exploit code into the pages."

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Which Android Smartphones are The Easiest To Modify?

 Android smartphones are pretty dang popular, there’s no denying that. And when something becomes that popular, there are plenty of people who would just love to hack, tweak, and modify everything and anything out of those phones. They’ve been successful too, as people who are active in the Android community hear a lot about rooting phones and installing custom ROMs onto them.

Indeed, Android phones are very tweakable and customizable, even in their stock form without any “hacks”. But for some of us, we don’t care if they’re customizable right when we get them, but instead we want to unlock their complete power to do everything we want them to.

What Is Known as Rooting an Smart Phone?

Almost all Android phones have a way of being rooted. Rooting is the process in which you usually exploit a security hole in the Android operating system or use some brute force attack to gain administrative privileges. Once a person has administrative rights, they can change deep system settings and files — something that is restricted when you first get the phone because the manufacturer and carrier don’t want you to mess up your phone accidently.

However, if you go so far as to root your phone, you’re not doing anything accidently, so no worries there besides a voided warranty. Anyways, if you can change system files and hardware settings (such as the CPUfrequency — that’s why CPU governing apps require root access to run), you can modify just about everything you could possibly want — you now have pure hardware in your hands which you can do whatever you want with.

Why Rooting your Smart Phone?

Some people want to root their phones because they want to be able to use such apps like a CPU governor, and keep the stock operating system on their phones. With root access, some people have been able to install entire Linux distributions onto their phones as an additional operating system while Android is still present, as you can see in the video below.


However, most people who root their phones will tend to install a custom ROM like CyanogenMod. These custom ROMs give the user full control over their phones and enable some advanced features settings to tweak performance and other characteristics. Additionally, they can also use all apps that require root permissions to run, so these people really get everything they want.

Generally speaking, there are plenty of phones which can be rooted and custom ROMs installed. Just look at CyanogenMod’s support devices list — it’s quite massive for comparable projects. However, for some devices you may have to go through more hoops than others, while others simply don’t have enough users to be actively supported. So which phone really is the best one to mess around with?

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Light travel possible through the newely found particle?

Scientists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets.

The potential discovery of the Higgs boson is a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe’s great mysteries, including dark matter and light-speed travel, scientists have claimed.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) unveiled data from the Large Hadron Collider Wednesday “consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson,” an elusive particle thought to help explain why matter has mass.

Announcements by scientists about their analysis of data generated by trillions of particle collisions in the LHC, which is located beneath the Alps, drew avid applause at an eagerly awaited seminar in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

Finding the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass, one of the open questions in physicists' current understanding of the way the universe works.

The researchers stressed the preliminary nature of the results they were announcing Wednesday.

The U.S.-based scientists outlined their final analysis based on more than 10 years of research and 500 trillion particle collisions using the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab Tevatron collider near Batavia, Illinois, whose budgetary woes shut it down last year.

While finding the Higgs boson won't tell us everything we need to know about how the universe works, it will fill in a huge hole in the Standard Model that has existed for more than 50 years, according to experts.

Details From CNN

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A new Generation of Social Networking: Microsoft SOCL

The software giant Microsoft Cooperation has lunched  its new social networking platform SOCL this is still in beta version.

Commonly the aero style theme is used here also to catch the interest of the viewer. This is a great come back from Microsoft to give a fight to Google+ and Facebook

So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.

• So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together.
• So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content.
• To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via “video parties.”

So.cl Profile can be Handle through your Current Facebook Account. Its now open to public. Go to SO.CL and make a free account now.

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The Global Trend :What is SEO, How to improve

Today most of the people are engage in a great battle with the term SEO. Lets find out some facts about it and optimize our web applications easy to use in World Wide Web.

SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is the simple activity of ensuring a website can be found in search engines for words and phrases relevant to what the site is offering. In many respects it's simply quality control for websites. Having said that if there was ever an industry that was little understood by 'outsiders' it's SEO.

Google displays sites it believes are authoritative and relevant. They measure relevance by analysing page content, the words you and I read, and they measure authority (mostly) based on the number and quality of other pages linking to the pages they show, links are like votes

So for this we need to publish our links in high traffic pages. These days Social Networking is a good trend in public. Therefore we can use that to publish our website. Instead of typing the URL just ask your viewers to search your site in a search engine. This is a good way of making traffic and optimizing your site in search engine.

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Be Ready for The Future of Internet: IPv6 unleashed

IPv6 is an Internet Protocol which succeeds IPv4 which currently powers much of the Internet. These protocols are critical as they relate to addressing devices connected to the Internet. We are fast running out of IPv4 addresses, so to get new users and devices online, more addresses are required, and IPv6 solves the problem.
6th June,2012 is World IPv6 Launch Day, when many major websites such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft turn on IPv6 on their homepages. On 6th June 2011, we saw a 24-hour trial of IPv6 on the main website addresses of these sites to test for any problems, but this year IPv6 will stay enabled for the well being of the WWW

Of course, many of the more technical users may already be using IPv6 and many websites have been operating IPv6 on the main website for quite some time. However this event marks a mainstream change as some of the largest websites on the Internet turn on IPv6 for good.

 

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Gmail New Features: Now You can Add Your Own Photos To Gmail Themes

If you’re a lover of Google’s famous Gmail, you’ll be very pleased to note that you can now add your own photos to your Gmail theme. Gone are the days of choosing between Google’s theme choices. Now let your theme is whatever you want it to be.

It’s easy to upload your own photo to Gmail via the Settings > Themes page. The new theme photos are thoroughly integrated with Google+, however, so you can quickly choose photos from your Google+ photo collection if you don’t want to upload photos directly.

When using your own photos as your background, Gmail will limit you to choose between either the Light or Dark theme. If you prefer not to use your own photos, you can use whichever Gmail theme you like.

Not everyone will be able to personalise their Gmail today, though. The new photo background feature will be rolled out slowly over the next few days, so if you can’t see the option straight away you will need to be somewhat patient.

See the promo video by Gmail Team

Source: Official Gmail Blog

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