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BMW drives in new-gen 3-Series
German luxury carmaker BMW drove in the next-generation 3-Series sedan in India at a time when it faces increasing pressure from compatriot Audi.
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Huawei to launch cheaper MediaPad 7 Lite Android tab
After the Google Nexus, Huawei is also eyeing the low cost tablet market with the feature rich Huawei MediaPad lite.
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Broadband consumers not getting due?
Acting on complaints received from consumers and consumer organiation, Telecom regulator TRAI today directed telecom companies to provide broadband services in a transparent manner and through updated information.
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Toshiba eyes Rs 5k crore from Indian digital biz by 2014-15
Japanese electronics firm Toshiba today said it is aiming Rs 5,000 crore sales from its digital businesses in India by 2014-15 and will consider setting up a TV manufacturing plant after reaching the target.
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The Daily App: Flipboard for Android, iOS
If keeping up with news and social media is a must then FlipBoard is a must-have app, and it's free.
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BMW drives in new-gen 3-Series
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German luxury carmaker BMW drove in the next-generation 3-Series sedan in India at a time when it faces increasing pressure from compatriot Audi. BMW, which holds a slender lead over Audi to maintain its leadership in the luxury car market, feels that the new car will help gain in numbers. The car, that will be available in petrol and diesel versions, has been priced between Rs 28.90 lakh and Rs 37.90 lakh (all India ex-showroom). tnn
MRPL in red, posts Rs 1,521 crore loss: MRPL posted a net loss for the first time in a decade, even as its crude supplies from Iran were hit due to shipping restrictions under US sanctions. It reported a net loss of Rs 1,521 crore in April-June quarter against a profit of Rs 173 crore in same period a year ago.
Highways min opts for Haldea's expertise: The highways ministry has said it has requested for expert advice from Gajendra Haldea, advisor to Planning Commission deputy chairman, in drafting the model concession agreement (MCAs) for the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway. Haldea has been roped in as the ministry fears that it may encounter "numerous challenges in terms of its conception, structuring, award, financing and implementation" as this is the first expressway project to be taken up by it. Besides, Haldea has "considerable experience" in the public-private partnership domain as well as drafting MCAs.
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Featured Technology Talk
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Swipe Telecom launches Android ICS 3D tablet at Rs 5,999
Swipe Telecom has launched 3D tablet PC called 3D LIFE which runs on Android 4.03 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system. Priced at Rs 5,999, it has a 7-inch TFT five point touch capacitive screen packing 800x480 pixels.
Swipe Telecom's new tablet 3D LIFE is powered by A13 Cortex processor with a 1.5GHZ clock speed, 4GB internal memory and a 512 MB DD RAM.
Swipe Telecom says that the tablet can play videos for 5-6 hours at a stretch, being powered by a 3400 mAH battery.
3D LIFE boasts of a 2MP front camera which supports video calling.
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Huawei to launch cheaper MediaPad 7 Lite Android tab
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After the Google Nexus, Huawei is also eyeing the low cost tablet market with the feature rich Huawei MediaPad lite.
Chinese handset manufacturer, Huawei is planning to launch a low cost version of its MediaPad tablet. To be called as MediaPad 7 Lite, the tablet is expected to compete with other low cost tablet counterparts like the Google Nexus 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. The pricing details however are not available but the company might soon reveal the details about the pricing of the device.
Huawei had announced its entry in the Indian tablet market last year with the launch of the MediaPad tablet. Although internationally several other models of Huawei tablets were made available, India only got the MediaPad.
The MediaPad 7 Lite features a 7 inch display with a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, a front and rear camera capable for high definition recording. The tablet is powered by a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 architecture based dual core processor, 1 GB of RAM and comes with 8 GB of internal storage. The operating system chosen by the company is Android 4.0 with expected upgrade to Android jelly bean 4.1 too.
Similar to the earlier MediaPad, Huawei has given this tablet a metal unibody to give it rich looks and strength. Along with this MediaPad tablet will feature integrated 3G with calling capabilities. For connectivity, the MediaPad 7 Lite has b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth 3.0 and a 4,100 mAh battery for decent backup time as well.
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Broadband consumers not getting due?
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Acting on complaints received from consumers and consumer organiation, Telecom regulator TRAI today directed telecom companies to provide broadband services in a transparent manner and through updated information.
"Authority has been receiving complaints...that service providers are not delivering broadband services in a transparent manner as they are not providing adequate information to the consumers regarding broadband services," Trai said while asking telecom service providers to take care of these issues.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said that the complaints include broadband plans with Fair Usage Policy (FUP) which is making it difficult for the consumers to make an informed choice regarding plans on offer.
Taking note of the issue, Trai directed telecom companies to alert customers either through SMS on their mobile or registered email, each time when usage by the customer reaches 80 and 100 per cent of the limit bundled in broadband plan subscribed by him.
The regulator has even directed the telecom service providers to alert customers through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) in this regard.
USSD are messages sent to alert user at end of each call or sms to inform about balance, mostly in pre-paid connections.
TRAI has asked telecom companies to provide information data usage limit with higher speed, speed of connection upto and beyond data usage limit in printed form to the new subscribers on their enrollment and to existing subscribers through email and through SMS.
The regulator directed all telecom service provider to ensure that speed of broadband connection is not reduced, in all broadband tariff plans, below the minimum download speed of 256 kbps, to an individual subscriber.
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TECHNOLOGY
"Unix never says "please."
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Delhi Transport Corporation 'clean chit' to buses
NEW DELHI: A special drive conducted by Delhi Transport Corporation claims to have found that not a single DTC bus in the capital violates the speed limit. It has also found that only one bus was overtaking illegally, whereas rude behaviour, use of cellphones and smoking by the crew was zero in DTC buses.
The special drive was started on July 20 and will go on till the end of the month. DTC officers and traffic supervisory staff conducted these surprise checks during morning and evening peak hours, said a DTC official. "These officers were deputed across the city at approximately 176 points," said the spokesperson.
These findings may come as a shock to many commuters of Delhi's public transport system. There have been rampant complaints of buses not stopping at the designated spot or trying to overtake buses from the bus cluster service.
The drive results, however, are surprising to say the least. The maximum violations found were to be of not wearing the proper uniform while improper parking also was noted. And only one bus conductor was found to be cheating.
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Famous Scientist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibiotic (marketed under the brand name Prontosil) – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14, he attended school in Sommerfeld (now Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied medicine at the University of Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as medic. After the war, he finished his studies, and worked at the University of Greifswald, where he researched infections caused by bacteria. In 1925, he followed his professor Walter Gross to the University of Münster (WWU) and became professor there himself. He also started working at the Bayer laboratories at Wuppertal. The same year, he married Gertrud Strübe. Later they would have three sons and a daughter.
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Toshiba eyes Rs 5k crore from Indian digital biz by 2014-15
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Japanese electronics firm Toshiba today said it is aiming Rs 5,000 crore sales from its digital businesses in India by 2014-15 and will consider setting up a TV manufacturing plant after reaching the target.
The company, which currently has five group companies in India, is targeting to sell 20 lakh units of TVs and 10 lakh units of personal computers by March 2015.
"I think it is mandatory to have our own factory in India to address the market, which has a huge potential to grow. Our own plant will also give us close association with customers' choice," Toshiba Corporation Corporate Senior Vice President Shigenori Tokumitsu told PTI.
The company will consider setting up a TV assembly plant in India post 2014, he added.
"We have set a target to sell two million TVs and one million PCs with a total revenue of Rs 5,000 crore in India by 2014-05. We will consider about the TV facility only after that," Tokumitsu said, adding the company will continue to import its entire range of PCs for India in future.
Currently, the company imports 90% of its TV panels from Indonesia, while the rest are assembled in India through a contract manufacturing agreement with a local firm.
As part of plans to achieve its target, Toshiba today introduced a range of 22 LED TV models in India, priced between Rs 10,000 and Rs 12,00,000 in the presence of its brand ambassador Sachin Tendulkar.
The firm also rolled out three new range of PCs, priced between Rs 33,250 and Rs 64,000.
"Going forward, we will shift our focus towards LEDs from LCDs. With this new range of products, we expect to become the number one LED TV company in India in this fiscal," he said.
He, however, said the company will continue to sell LCD TVs as consumers still prefer to go for such products. During 2011-12, the company's overall market share in the TV segment increased to 11.1% from 1.9% in the previous year.
The market stood at 40 lakh units. "We are targeting to achieve 13% market share in TVs in this fiscal and the market is estimated to grow to 60 lakh units," Tokumitsu said, adding the company is aiming to corner 15% market share in the next fiscal.
In the PC segment, the company is hoping to achieve a market share of 10 per cent in this fiscal as against 7.2% in the last fiscal with sales of 2 lakh units, he added.
Toshiba India Director (Digital Products, Home Appliances and Services Division) Wu Tengguo said the company currently has 6,000 sales points along with 450 service centres across the country.
Talking about the India, Tokumitsu said 24% of the USD 74 billion Toshiba Corporation's revenue come from emerging markets and India plays a very important role in it.
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The Daily App: Flipboard for Android, iOS
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If keeping up with news and social media is a must then FlipBoard is a must-have app, and it's free. Flipboard for Android and iOS gathers news from Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Twitter and Youtube and displays articles in a single, magazine-style flipbook.
From a developer of the same name, Flipboard searches these social networking sites and displays as many news articles as it can find -- from blog posts to photos, it’s all there. Flipboard also syncs with read-it-later apps such as Instapaper, Pocket and Readability to save articles for future reading.
There are two steps to establishing a new account. The first, choosing categories that will appear on the opening page of the app, such as travel, sports and technology; followed by syncing each desired social media account, which will appear as tiles on the second page. The last page consists of news stories provided by Flipboard. Flipping through each board is graphically appealing and lightening fast.
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Tips to make your browser secure
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Browsers may be among the most commonly used applications, but they also offer the greatest number of attack options for dangerous content on the net.To keep viruses, worms and other malware away from your computer when surfing,it's crucial to configure your browser for security.
The firewall on a DSL router is a good first step for protecting the computer during surfing, says Marco Rinne from the computer portal chip.de. But that doesn't hold true if your browser is out of date: “Internet Explorer 6 and 7 or Firefox 2 no longer satisfy current security standards,” he says. For optimal protection, he therefore urgesusers to keep theirbrowsers updated.
There are numeroussecurity tools already present in Firefox and Internet Explorer. The pop-up blocker,for example, prevents more than justannoying ads. It alsothrottles other windows that can be used to sneak malicious software onto PCs. Phishing filters protect personal dataagainst theft.
Firefox offers additional configurationoptions underthe Settings item in the Security tab of the Options dialog box: thisincludes the ability to block risky or forgedwebsites.It's also a good idea to prohibit websites from installing add-ons on their own. Similar settings are possible under Internet Explorer in the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box, accessible from the Tools menu.
Computer owners should also activate all options for warning against attacks, advises Markus Linnemann, managing director of the Institute for Internet Security (ifis) at the Polytechnic University of Gelsenkirchen in Germany. This applies in particular to warnings about suspicious content to be displayed using ActiveX, Flash, or JavaScript.
Yet the warning mechanism on most browsers alone isn't usually enough, Linnemann says. Those who wish to be especially careful can, for example, use the Firefox add-on 'No Script,' which blocks all active content of a website by default and allows the user to decide which should be permitted. The problem is that most users are unable to determine which content represents a threat to their computer, Rinne msays.
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The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat
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Cartoon of Technology
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11-year-old Indian roller skater breaks world record
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An 11-year-old Indian boy broke a world record by flattening himself enough to skim under poles just 6.75 inches from the ground, Daily Mail reported Friday.
At first glance it looks as if his body is resting on the floor, but Rohan Ajit Kokane is in fact just inches above the ground on his roller skates.
He completed the amazing feat in front of an astounded crowd at a Hong Kong mall.
The event was aimed at promoting exercise among the elderly, the newspaper said.
But record breaking is not a new experience for Kokane — he already holds the Guinness World Record for greatest distance skated underneath 20 cars, at 126 feet 11 inches.
He set the record in Mumbai at the Juhu Aerodrome in Mumbai, India last year.
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“Life is a learning experience, only if you learn."
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