HTC

                HTC Lanches One Max Phablet

HTC lanches One Max with fingerprint scanner at 61,490, also introduces tracking devices fetch

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 HTC has finally introduced much awaited One Max, its largest and most expensive of One series of phones with a fingerprint scanner in India. The phone is expected to compete with Apple iPhone 5s.

HTC also launched Fetch a tracking device along with One Max for Rs 2,500. This can be paired (connected wirelessly) with any HTC One series phone. As soon as an HTC One owner walks 10 meters beyond the phone, both device and phone will start ringing.

The One Max pahablet (16GB variant) is however available for pre-order online for Rs. 56,490. The device was unveiled in October this year.

HTC One Max features 5.9-inch full-HD LCD display and runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box with HTC's Sense 5.5 UI on top. It is powered by a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, with 2GB of RAM.

It comes with 16GB inbuilt storage with support for up to 64GB of additional external storage via microSD card. The device sports HTC's UltraPixel rear camera, along with a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera. Like HTC One it has HTC Zoe and HTC BoomSound features.

HTC One Max comes with connectivity options such as 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, DLNA and HTC Connect. The device has large a 3300mAh battery which according to company’s claims  can give up to 25 hours of talktime and 585 hours of standby time for 3G networks. It weighs 217 grams.

HTC is offering accessory Fetch keychain at Rs. for the HTC One Max. It allows the users to activate their phones' ringtone within 15 metres by pressing the button on the keychain.

Recently Apple launched iPhone 5s with a fingerprint scanner and HTC One Max is the only other handset with the similar feature.

HTC One Max key specifications

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.5 UI
5.9-inch full-HD LCD display
1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor
2GB of RAM
Fingerprint scanner
16GB/ 32GB inbuilt storage variants, expandable up to 64GB via microSD card
164.5x82.5x10.29mm
217 grams.

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APPLE

Apple, China Mobile in pact sell iphones.

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 Apple on Sunday announced a deal with China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless carrier, to sell iPhone in China.

In a joint statement, Apple and China Mobile said the iPhone 5s and 5c models will go on sale in Apple and China Mobile stores beginning on Friday, Jan. 17. China Mobile customers can pre-register for phones starting Wednesday Dec. 25.

“Apple’s iPhone is very much loved by millions of customers around the world,” said Xi Guohua, Chairman of China Mobile. “We know there are many China Mobile customers and potential new customers who are anxiously awaiting the incredible combination of iPhone on China Mobile’s leading network.”

Apple chief executive Tim Cook said that "China is an extremely important market for Apple and our partnership with China Mobile presents us the opportunity to bring iPhone to the customers of the world's largest network."

He said "iPhone customers in China are an enthusiastic and rapidly growing group, and we can't think of a better way to welcome in the Chinese New Year than getting an iPhone into the hands of every China Mobile customer who wants one."

Negotiations between Apple and China Mobile took years, with one key hurdle reportedly being the US firm's demand for sales volume guarantees.

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 ‘Adaptxt, the Keyboard app from KeyPoint Technologies welcomes the festive spirit by introducing the special Adaptxt Christmas Keyboard theme for Android smartphones which is in line with the festive celebrations spread all across the world. The theme is designed to let you get into the celebratory mood on the auspicious “festival of love and brotherhood”.

The visually brilliant Christmas theme is designed with a combination of vibrant colour scheme, which captures the essence of the festival in its full might. Free to download from the Google Play Store, theAdaptxt intelligent keyboard add, and the Christmas theme, let you soak up Christmas celebrations in the best of spirit.

The special Christmas theme, a unique feature of Adaptxt, allows the users to customize the colour combinations of the keyboard, in line with the spirit associated with Christmas making it a pertinent expression of the celebratory season. With the colour customization option, the user can either save the new theme or reset back to the existing theme from the Keyboard customization window as well, giving them complete control on the application utility.

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MCAfee Identifies 12 Scams of christmass

MCAfee identifies "12 scams of christmass"

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 McAfee has today released its annual “12 Scams of Christmas” list to educate the public on the most common scams that criminals use during the holiday season to take advantage of consumers as they shop on their digital devices. Cybercriminals leverage these scams to steal personal information, earn fast cash, and spread malware.

Industry estimates suggest that In India, out of 150 million internet users around 10 million internet users are shopping online. A report by ASSOCHAM states that e-shopping during festive season in India for 2013 has witnessed a 65% increase in comparison to last year for products like mobile phones, e-tablets, consumer electronics, home appliances, home decor, furnishings, apparels, etc. Though banks and various agencies are repeatedly propagating the cause of safe online transactions remains a potential challenge in India.

“The potential for identity theft increases as consumers share personal information across multiple devices that are often under protected,” said, Michelle Dennedy, Vice president and Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee. “Understanding criminals’ mindsets and being aware of how they try to take advantage of consumers can help ensure that we use our devices the way they were intended – to enhance our lives, not jeopardize them.”

To help consumers stay alert for greedy Grinches as they surf the web for holiday travel deals and seek out gifts for their loved ones, McAfee has identified this year’s top “12 Scams of Christmas”:

1) Not-So-Merry Mobile Apps—Official-looking software for holiday shopping, including those that feature celebrity or company endorsements, could be malicious, designed to steal or send out your personal data. Criminals can redirect incoming calls and messages, offering them the chance to bypass two-step authentication systems where the second step involves sending a code to a mobile device.

2) Holiday Mobile SMS Scams—FakeInstaller tricks Android users into thinking it is a legitimate installer for an application and then quickly takes advantage of the unrestricted access to smartphones, sending SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the user’s consent.

3) Hot Holiday Gift Scams—Advertisements that offer deals on must-have items, such as PS4 or Xbox One, might be too good to be true. Clever crooks will post dangerous links, phony contests on social media sites, and send phishing emails to entice viewers to reveal personal information or download malware onto their devices.

4) Seasonal Travel Scams—Phony travel deal links and notifications are common, as are hackers waiting to steal your identity upon arrival. When logging into an infected PC with an email username and password, scammers can install keylogging spyware, keycatching hardware, and more. A hotel’s Wi-Fi may claim that you need to install software before using it and instead infect your computer with malware if you “agree.”

5) Dangerous E-Seasons Greetings—Legitimate-looking e-cards wishing friends “Season’s Greetings” can cause unsuspecting users to download “Merry Malware” such as a Trojan or other virus after clicking a link or opening an attachment.

6) Deceptive Online Games—Before your kids are glued to their newly downloaded games, be wary of the games’ sources. Many sites offering full-version downloads of Grand Theft Auto, for example, are often laden with malware, and integrated social media pages can expose gamers, too.

7) Shipping Notifications Shams—Phony shipping notifications can appear to be from a mailing service alerting you to an update on your shipment, when in reality, they are scams carrying malware and other harmful software designed to infect your computer or device.

8) Bogus Gift Cards—An easy go-to gift for the holidays, gift cards can be promoted via deceptive ads, especially on Facebook, Twitter, or other social sites, that claim to offer exclusive deals on gift cards or packages of cards and can lead consumers to purchase phony ones online.

9) Holiday SMiShing—During the holidays, SMiShing is commonly seen in gift card messages, where scammers pose as banks or credit card companies asking you to confirm information for “security purposes”. Some even include the first few digits of your credit card number in the SMS message to fool you into a false sense of safety.

10) Fake Charities—Donating to charities is common this time of year for many looking to help the less fortunate. However, cybercriminals capitalize on this generosity, especially during natural disaster events, and set up fake charity sites and pocket the donations.

11) Romance Scams—With so many niche dating sites now available to Internet users, it can be difficult to know exactly who the person is behind the screen. Many messages sent from an online friend can include phishing scams, where the person accesses your personal information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.

12) Phony E-Tailers—The convenience of online shopping does not go unnoticed by cyber scrooges. With so many people planning to shop online, scammers set up phony e-commerce sites to steal your money and personal data.

To keep consumers protected and ensure a happy holiday season, McAfee has shared additional safety tips which include reviewing mobile apps carefully before downloading.

It also recommends checking the comments section and confirm the app’s legitimacy directly with the parties that the software claims are involved.

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Samsung Galaxy Grand 2

Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Coming to India in first week of january. Price Below 25,000.

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Samsung which is learnt to be planning more investment in India has launched Galaxy Grand 2 phablet, the successor of Galaxy Grand at a price expected to be below Rs 25,000.

Galaxy Grand 2 was globally unveiled in November. Though the company has not revealed the exact price of the device, according to the sources it could be priced between Rs 22,000 and Rs 25,000.  The will hit the Indian market in the first week of January.

The Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 will be available in Black, Pink and White colour variants in select regions.

The dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 features a 5.2-inch HD TFT display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels and runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm processor alongside 1.5GB of RAM. It measures 146.8x75.3x8.9mm and weighs about 163 grams.

It comes with an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera accompanied by an LED flash and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 8GB inbuilt storage, which can be expanded up to 64GB through microSD card. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB and 3G (HSPA+) as connectivity options. The Galaxy Grand 2 comes with a 2600mAh battery which according to company’s claims can offer up to 17 hours of talktime.

Samsung has popular apps like Story Album, which can organise pictures by timelines; S Translator, company's proprietary translation service. It also comes preloaded with S Travel, for  travel details; Samsung Hub, its content service for music, videos and games.

Samsung launched Club Samsung for its Indian infotainment content. It is digital entertainment store featuring 400,000 songs, 5,000 movies, 500 gigs and live TV with around 90 channels.

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Drop Cam

Dropcam's new $199 Pro model aims to be the smart home hub

You and I might see flashy new Web-cam hardware, but the maker sees the centerpiece of the connected smart home.

The 27-year-old CEO of Dropcam, the maker of a video camera that streams to the Internet 24 hours a day, is holding a shrink-wrapped box containing the next major version of that device.

On it is a simple front and side shot of the all-black camera on a white background. On the back of the box are the words "Designed by Dropcam in California. Assembled in China." It's a not-so-subtle homage to Apple. In fact, from across the room, the camera could be mistaken for an Apple product.

To the untrained eye the camera looks like the one the company began shipping last year -- but black in color and a bit thicker. As if channeling Apple some more, Duffy smiles and says not to let looks deceive me. "It looks the same outside, but everything has changed on the inside," he says.

Despite the name, the $199 Dropcam Pro is not a product aimed at taking over the enterprise. Instead, it's a new, top-of-the-line camera that can view 20 percent more of its surroundings than its predecessor -- and can do it with a sharper image, thanks to an all-glass lens.

That same lens, which was developed in house, also boasts a new "enhance" feature that comes close to sharpening up video detail like you see in movies and TV shows. (Picture some geeky engineer clicking his mouse to make an unreadable license plate come into focus, which leads to the bad guys' inevitable capture.)

To show off the feature, Duffy pulls up a decidedly less crime-ridden live video feed of the couch in the company's lobby here. He pinches the screen to zoom in on a copy of Bloomberg Businessweek that's on the table and then taps a small magic wand icon on the glowing screen of an iPad running Dropcam's app. A second later it fizzles into near-perfect clarity

It's a wow feature, and one that Duffy hopes will get existing customers to spend another $200, and entice new buyers alike. It's also an alternative response to one of the most asked-for features by Dropcam buyers -- the option to pan and zoom around the room.

Yet, instead of adding motors and a gear system, the company made the image clearer and sharper with a mix of hardware and software. According to Duffy, adding motors and a gear system to achieve the effect just adds extra costs and can end up shortening a product's lifespan.

"You have to look beyond what people are asking for and what functionality they actually want," Duffy says. "We took from that that they want more detail from anything they have in a room."

Getting that extra clarity was not easy. The new camera takes up about 10 percent more bandwidth than its predecessor. That's a far cry to where the company was when it was in the initial stages of testing, Duffy says. Earlier, the Pro was using up three to four times more bandwidth, something that was resolved with compression. That's been a constant push at the company, where three people work solely on squeezing better video into a smaller amount of space.

"Internet providers have not innovated at all, so we had to do it without a commensurate increase in video," Duffy says.

The hub at home

To you and me, the new Pro model might look like a jet-black paint job on last year's HD model with some better specs, but to Dropcam it's a Trojan horse that could unify and harmonize the onslaught of smart appliances. That's thanks to the addition of Bluetooth low energy (LE) and a new API that lets other companies tap into the Dropcam Pro's Wi-Fi connection and ferry information through Dropcam's existing app and notification service.

"Anything that can talk to your iPhone [or Android device] over Bluetooth LE is fair game for Dropcam Pro," Duffy says. "We want to integrate Dropcam with existing sensors."

That scenario could work out to display things like your home's temperature using a nearby smart thermostat, or allow you to flip your lights on and off in a room -- all through Dropcam's Web and mobile viewing tools. Perhaps one day it could be triggered to adjust home gadget settings when it detects motion, such as a person leaving or returning to the house.

For now, that vision is limited to a "if you build it they will come" type of scenario, and Dropcam's not alone. A similar such wireless networking specification made by the ZigBee Alliance, which has been around for nearly a decade, enables home-related devices to exchange data. Moreover, Nest, which makes a smart thermostat and now a smoke detector, also announced plans for a developer API last month, which could turn the Nest platform into more of a hub. In Dropcam's case, Duffy hopes its new platform will attract makers of connected security systems, light switches, and climate controls to tap into its 24/7 home presence and now fat bandwidth, thanks to the Pro's new dual-band Wi-Fi.

Cloud-powered eyeballs

Paving the road for extra types of utilities is a new set of computer vision technologies that can identify behaviors and events. This allows users to adjust what kind of alerts they want to get in real time or to see their online recording history from the past week or month.

"The first 24 hours after you plug it in, it's in learning mode," Duffy says. "It's looking at patterns of activity, not just regions. It's analyzing paths of objects and then it tries to separate it out to specific categories."

That may sound wildly creepy to some, but Duffy stresses that the video is anonymous when it's processed through the company's servers. And in return, the system promises to help cut down some of the unnecessary notifications people get from the motion alerts system. One example: A camera facing an outdoor area with some trees can learn that when the trees move, it's a frequent pattern that can be ignored.

Paired with the new Bluetooth features, Dropcam's system could add granularity, turning a simple motion alert into a notification that someone has entered the home and which door the person used. That system isn't quite ready for prime time. The company has been working on it for the past two years and plans to introduce it in early 2014.

What's next

While the Pro model may open the company to new buyers and fulfill some popular user requests, it's still limited to the indoors.

That hasn't stopped some Dropcam owners from cobbling together weatherproof housing solutions, including one owner of a public Dropcam feed pointed at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, Calif., just 20 minutes from the company's office. The owner crafted a custom acrylic box with a hole for the camera opening. The hole is sealed shut with silicone rubber. Other fan-made contraptions have been put together using PVC pipes and moisture-absorbing packets.

Duffy says he loves that people are doing this, but he has concerns about the longevity of these projects -- and about the outdoor products from other companies.

"Our standard is a decade. No camera we've seen has met that standard," Duffy says. "It has to be able to handle a Northeast winter or Texas heat."

In the meantime, Duffy reiterates that the company's goal has been to expand what it can do with existing hardware, even the older models.

"We never want to be a company that makes you upgrade your stuff," he says. "Your [2010] Dropcam Echo still works. And we still have users on that, believe it or not."

Funny words from a guy with his hands on the very new thing he's hoping you'll buy.