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Renault launches 'Scala' sedan at a starting price of Rs 6.99 lakh
NEW DELHI: Carmaker Renault India today launched sedan 'Scala' in both petrol and diesel variants, priced between Rs 6.99 lakh and Rs 9.57 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).
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New Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone to go on sale in November: Operators
HELSINKI: Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at European telecoms operators said on Friday.
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18,000 mobiles have fake identity numbers
The Government has found 18,000 mobile phones having fake identity numbers.
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With new Kindles, Amazon shakes up tablet game
Amazon introduced four new Kindle tablets Thursday at a news event in California.
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4G network: Airtel achieves 3,180 TD-LTE subscribers
Telecom Lead India: Bharti Airtel has 3,180 TD-LTE subscribers through its 4G network in Kolkata and Bangalore.
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Renault launches 'Scala' sedan at a starting price of Rs 6.99 lakh
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NEW DELHI: Carmaker Renault India today launched sedan 'Scala' in both petrol and diesel variants, priced between Rs 6.99 lakh and Rs 9.57 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).
"Scala will consolidate what Renault has brought to India. It will enter a very competitive segment. With the launch of this car, we are completing the first cycle of introducing five products in India," Renault India Managing Director Marc Nassif told reporters here.
The company has already launched small car Pulse, premium sedan Fluence and sports utility vehicles Koleos and Duster.
Scala is powered by 1.5 litre petrol and diesel engines and has 5-speed manual transmission. It has 80-85 per cent local content in parts.
Talking about the company's overall sales, Nassif said: "We expect this year to sell 30,000-35,000 units. In 2013, we will try to sell one lakh units."
The company will start export of Duster to the UK by the end of this year, he added.
When asked about new products at the lower end, Nassif said: "We have many many things. We will definitely look at the segment below Pulse in future."
Renault India will, however, not launch any new car next year, but only refreshes and variants of the existing models will be introduced, he added.
The company is currently selling 600-1,000 units of Pulse every month.
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Featured Technology Talk
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Huawei, Intel tie up to bring IT solutions for global market
BEIJING: Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei today announced signing of an agreement with Intel to cooperate in enhancing engineering efforts and bringing new IT solutions to the market.
The collaboration will include enhancing engineering cooperation and building competitive products and solutions for server, storage, data centre and cloud computing as well as jointly going to market in China and other geographic areas.
"Huawei has strong capability in server, storage, data centre and cloud computing. The strategic global cooperation MoU on IT will...allow us both to innovate around customer demand" President of Huawei IT product line Zheng Yelai said in a statement.
The aim of this MoU is to strengthen and highlight the continued focus on server, storage, data centre and cloud computing products, and to share market development efforts, synchronise future strategies and shorten product development cycles, the statement said.
"The key advantage for both companies is the ability to bring new innovative product and usage models to market," Intel corporate vice president and China president Ian Yang said.
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New Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone to go on sale in November: Operators
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HELSINKI: Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at European telecoms operators said on Friday.
The Lumia 920, which uses Microsoft's Windows software, is Nokia's attempt to catch up with Apple's iPhone and a string of popular phones using Google's Android software, like Samsung's Galaxy models.
The new phone, which with its rounded edges and colourful covers look similar to its predecessors, was unveiled on Wednesday and drew a thumbs down from many analysts, who felt it lacked the "wow" factor to make big inroads against rivals.
They were also unsettled by Nokia's refusal to say when the phone, and the smaller Lumia 820 models, would go on sale, or to give details on the price and operator partners.
Once the world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia fell behind rivals in the fast-growing smartphone market and has struggled to catch up, racking up more than 3 billion euros in operating losses in the last 18 months and forcing it to cut 10,000 jobs, as well as pursue asset sales.
By going on sale in November, the Lumia 920 will hit stores in time for the key holiday sales season.
But it will probably be more than a month after Apple's new iPhone and will also face stiff competition from Samsung, which last week unveiled the world's first Windows Phone 8 model, as well as new models from HTC and Google's Motorola.
An executive at an eastern European telecoms operator said he would start selling the Lumia 920 - which features a high-quality camera and touch screen that can be used with gloves - in the second half of November, adding larger countries would receive the model earlier that month.
"The problem is that Nokia has temporarily destroyed the market for its own phones. Nobody will buy the old Windows phone and until the new Lumia comes, the market is absolutely dead," the executive said, declining to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media on the subject.
Industry sources said on Thursday that Nokia had cut the prices of its older smartphones.
Analysts expect the Finnish firm to lose another 700 million euros in the July-September quarter and to sell around 3.6 million Windows phones, down from the last quarter.
In comparison, Samsung sold more than 20 million units of its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone in just 100 days.
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18,000 mobiles have fake identity numbers
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The Government has found 18,000 mobile phones having fake identity numbers. The fifteen-digit number, called International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), is supposed to be unique to each handset. This enables security and law enforcement agencies to pinpoint the actual user.
However, handsets sold in the grey market do not come with this identity number — a matter of concern for security agencies, especially because most of the handsets are brought into the country from China or Taiwan.
“At present, it is difficult to differentiate between the original handset and the duplicated one with same IMEI. But the Department of Telecom is examining the issue,” Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said in the Rajya Sabha.
The DoT, on April 29, 2009, had directed that calls from mobile handsets with fake identity numbers should not be processed. The Ministry of Commerce has already banned import of mobile handsets without IMEI.
But, despite these measures, import of unbranded Chinese handsets has grown four-fold in three years from 5.5 million in 2007-08, according to the Indian Cellular Association. The industry body has been asking the Government for stricter action against fake phones.
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TECHNOLOGY
"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."
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Linkedin adding Facebook Notifications
This new notification feature will keep you notified in real-time when someone likes what you've shared on LinkedIn, views your profile, accepts your invitation, and much more.
The new feature will take several weeks to go live for all LinkedIn members, and push notifications for Android and iOS devices are also in the works.
It's all a part of LinkedIn's grand redesign plans to simplify site and grow it as an everyday tool. This is not a bad tactic for LinkedIn if it wants visitors to come back to the site more frequently. The company wants to be the place where everyone goes to get news and connections that are relevant to their professional lives.
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Famous Scientist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (Italian pronunciation: [enˈriko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
Fermi is widely regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 20th century, highly accomplished in both theory and experiment. Along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, he is frequently referred to as "the father of the atomic bomb". He also held several patents related to the use of nuclear power.
Several awards, concepts, and institutions are named after Fermi, such as the Enrico Fermi Award, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, a class of particles called fermions, the synthetic element fermium, and many more.
In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons". After Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children emigrated to New York. This was mainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism.
The new laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish. Also, the new laws put most of Fermi's research assistants out of work. Soon after his arrival in New York, Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 (preface to Thermodinamics, Dover Publications, Inc. NY).
Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another. On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as "father of the atomic bomb". Michael H. Hart ranked him No. 76 in his list of the most influential figures in history.
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With new Kindles, Amazon shakes up tablet game
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Amazon introduced four new Kindle tablets Thursday at a news event in California. The Post’s Hayley Tsukayama reports :
Amazon sent a shot across Apple’s bow Thursday with the introduction of a 4G tablet that’s hundreds of dollars cheaper than the iPad.
Actually, the company introduced four tablets and a new e-reader: the light-up Kindle Paperwhite e-ink reader, a new version of the Kindle Fire and three versions of an enhanced tablet called the Kindle Fire HD.
The announcement included a 4G LTE-enabled, 8.9-inch, 32GB tablet for $599, which Amazon compared directly with the equivalent iPad in a chart onstage, according to ABC News. A 32GB iPad with a 4G connection costs $729.
There are key differences between the two tablets, of course. The iPad is bigger with a 9.7-inch screen and comes with iCloud storage and a larger variety of applications than the Kindle Fire HD. And, while Amazon is offering a $50 per year data plan for its tablet, the plan comes with just 250 MB of data. Yes, it costs more to have the same amount of data on the iPad (AT&T’s plan is $14.99 per month for the same amount), but Amazon customers won’t be able to do much on the cellular network besides some light e-mail and Web surfing.
Even with those limitations, however, Amazon has pulled off a pricing coup that chief executive Jeff Bezos touted in his remarks to the crowd.
He said that hardware should be simply one part of the services that companies offer to their consumers. “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices,” Bezos told the crowd in California, according to a report from Ars Technica.
So, what does Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD line mean for Apple? Bloomberg reports :
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, who unveiled the devices in Santa Monica, California, is retooling the tablets as consumers face a widening array of choices, including new entries from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. At stake is a piece of a market that may reach $66.4 billion this year, according to research firm DisplaySearch.
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4G network: Airtel achieves 3,180 TD-LTE subscribers
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Telecom Lead India: Bharti Airtel has 3,180 TD-LTE subscribers through its 4G network in Kolkata and Bangalore. The state-run BSNL has provided 50,077 connections through 4G/WiMAX, the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Milind Deora informed the Lok Sabha. Airtel launched 4G TD-LTE services in Kolkata in April 2012 and Bangalore in May 2012. Airtel has BWA licenses in four circles - Kolkata, Karnataka, Punjab and Maharashtra - and 3G licenses in 13 circles in India. Its recent deal to buy BWA license from Qualcomm will enable Airtel to secure a ntion-wide broadband leadership through a combination of 4G and 3G, with its own networks in 18 circles.
In August, Airtel said 3G users of the mobile major Airtel increased to 37,13,000 in Q1 2012-13 from 27,11,000 in Q4 2011-12. The mobile service provider has increased its 3G sites to 18,012 in first quarter of FY 2013 from 10,669 in Q1 FY 2012. The 3,180 TD-LTE subscriber mark is against the expectations of the market. Recently, analysts predicted that TD-LTE subscribers will reach 5 million by 2013 in Indian telecom market. 2012-13 will be the year of mobile broadband. Reliance Industries is planning to launch 4G services in 2013 and their entry will strengthen 4G segment. Indian LTE market will pick up after 2 years as there will be more LTE smartphone launches in 2012-13 from OEMs such as Nokia, Samsung, and Apple, as well as significant surge in data consumption.
In August, Bharti said its ARPU from mobile services and data services in India reduced by 3 percent and 10 percent, respectively, in the first quarter of fiscal 2012-13. Mobile services ARPU decreased 3 percent to Rs 185 in first quarter ended June 30 2012 from Rs 190 in the same quarter previous fiscal. Mobile data ARPU declined 10 percent to Rs 40 from Rs 44.
Total number of data customers of Airtel stands at 38,660,000 in Q1 2012-13 against 35,780,000 in Q4 2011-12. 4G is expected to bring in additional non-voice revenues. Percentage of consolidated non-voice revenue to total revenue in Q1 2012-13 was 26.6 percent against 26 percent in Q1 2011-12.
Percentage of non-voice revenue to total revenue in India grew to 16 percent from 15.6 percent during the period.
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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 word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France
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Cartoon of Technology
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2012 BMW 3-series by Kelleners Sport
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With a history stretching back over more than 25 years, Kelleners Sport has great experience in modifying BMW automobiles.
The company created an extensive range of tuning products for the first 3-Series. Hence, it is both an obligation and an ambition to develop a comprehensive Sports Package for the new model (F30).
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“The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts."
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