In 2013 Nokia sold its Devices & Services division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, This is when Microsoft Mobile was born. Not to mention how it turned out to be a biggest disaster for Microsoft, it wrote off billions of dollars (nearly the deal amount) and laid off so many employees.

If you wonder how Nokia has comeback into smartphone world, you need to know this clause from Nokia-Microsoft deal

“Upon the closing of the transaction, Nokia would be restricted from licensing the Nokia brand for use in connection with mobile device sales for 30 months and from using the Nokia brand on Nokia’s own mobile devices until December 31, 2015.”

Microsoft sold its Microsoft Mobile business to Finnish based HMD Global, which is now making Android based Nokia Mobiles.
Nokia confirms that the strategic agreement covering branding rights and intellectual property licensing with HMD Global Oy (HMD).

As part of this HMD announced series of Nokia android lineup Nokia 3, 5, and 6.

NOKIA 6
The Nokia 6 features a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 3,000 mAh battery, and a fingerprint sensor. The glossy black special edition model has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.

NOKIA 5
The Nokia 5 is a smartphone with a 5.2 inch display, an aluminum frame, and four color options: blue, copper, black, and silver. It has the same Snapdragon 430 chip as its sibling, but only 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage.

NOKIA 3
This phone has a 5 inch 1280 x 720 pixel IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass, a 2,650 mAh battery, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a microSD card slot, and a MediaTek MTK6737 quad-core processor.
Despite the fact that this is the cheapest phone in the new Nokia lineup, the Nokia 3 does have a few nice features including NFC, a fingerprint sensor, and an 8MP wide-angle (84 degree) front camera. The phone has an aluminum frame and polycarbonate body.

Microsoft Today at its conference in San Francisco Announce the anticipated Next Step in it's iteration of Operating Systems.

No it Is Not Windows One, not WindowsTH, Windows X Nor even Windows 9.

Windows have thrown an egg on the face of an Army of rumoured towards its next Operating Systems Name to Finally announce its next Generation of Operating System as Windows 10.

Boasting an announcement of over 1.5 Billion Users of Globally, Microsoft Takes its Unified "One product family. One platform. One store" Philosophy. A Philosophy Microsoft has tested with the largely unliked Windows 8 iterations.

Joe Belfiore noted of future transitions, "We want all these Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius, and now with Windows 10 it's like a Tesla." a statement which no doubt is testament to the Vision of Where Windows Priorities lie.

Some of Windows 10 Preliminary Features include:

The Start Menu  - Windows 7 users will buzz with pride to know that Windows 10 comes with a familiar start menu while Mobile User will find it Great that it is re-sizable with live tiles and your favorite apps.

New Task View Button - There’s a new task-view button on the taskbar for quick switching between open files and quick access to any desktops you create.

Snap Enhancements - You can now have four apps snapped on the same screen with a new quadrant layout. Windows will also show other apps and programs running for additional snapping and even make smart suggestions on filling available screen space with other open apps.

Everything Runs in Windows - The Operating System is afterall called "Windows", So Sticking to its Root, Windows Apps from the Windows Store now open in the same format that desktop apps do and can be resized and moved around, and have title bars at the top allowing for maximize, minimize, and close with a click.

Finding Files and Searching the Web Fast - File Explorer now displays your recent files and frequently visited folders making for finding files you’ve worked on is easier.

Multiple Desktops - Makes it very easy to compartmentalize/create section for different purposes or projects and quick switches between these desktops easily picking up where you left off on each desktop.

Its expected that the final product will see the addition of other useful features as the product develops further. Windows 10 is slated to ship at some point within mid-2015.

Microsoft says the technical preview of Windows 10 for PCs will come out on Wednesday and will be available at Preview.Windows.com. Here is an introduction of the Windows Insider Program for Windows 10:

Source: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/

The Streaming Playlist Service,currently in Beta, FMGEM is now giving away Free Lifetime Premium Upgrades  at Official Launch to those who sign up within the next 24 Hours. The website at the time of writing has garnered so much traffic that 50 servers had to be added to account for the traffic.
FMGEM is available in your Browser with the Feature of a Draggable Playlist and any via a Streaming Radio App Android Device.
Here is how the service describes itself in a nutshell:

FMGEM is new kind of community for music and video lovers built around a revolutionary web player that runs right inside your browser.
FMGEM seamlessly integrates YouTube™, SoundCloud™, Vimeo™, Discogs™, DailyMotion™ and the Aol On Network™ to let you easily search and stream great content as well as build and share playlists.
FMGEM also helps you discover great content that is being streamed, mixed, discussed and voted upon by the FMGEM community.
Over ten thousand hours in the making, FMGEM was designed from the ground up to be smarter than the average music & video service because we know you are too!
Become a gemster today. You'll love it. It's a way of life.

FMGEM is also Looking for:

1. UI/UX (art, icons, etc.)
2. Videos... we want to have awesome videos for our landing page
3. PR/Bloggers promotion/marketing

So What are you Waiting for? Make Your Way to Www.FMGEM.com, as they say "It's a Way of Life".

Source: r/Music

Google Has Acquires Revolutionary Login Startup, SlickLogin For an Undisclosed amount. Slick Login is a 3 man Team, 3 month old Tel Aviv Based Startup which has designed and implemented a Sound based Login system which uses low frequency sound to authenticate a user.

The Crunchbase record suggest that the Company has a Patent For sound based User Authentication which is a sure sign that Google could use this technology to bolster its Arsenal.
We have to say that this Acquisition would appear off the bat to lead to the addition of a Sound Based Login On All Things Google.. If Google chooses to.
The Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Update: The Company has yet to launch their product.

Source: CultOfAndriod / SlickLogin.com / CrunchBase

Nokia in its official US Youtube channel posted a cryptic video spanning 15 sec. The video has the title " Have you heard what's coming ". With the sound of an accelerating car in the background a message fades in saying "See and hear what you’ve been missing,"  The video ends with the logos of Nokia and Windows Phone. This conforming it will be a phone.

Probably this can be next flagship device of Lumia line up. Series of leaked details suggests that it can be Lumia Icon aka Limia 929.

Source: Youtube

Elon Musk who is more often compared as the real life Tony Stark, first started his business life by co-founding PayPal the gone on by starting major companies like Tesla Motors and Space-X. He is one of the few successful billionaires who has the zeal to change the world into a better place.

Musk recently announced his interest towards a transit system called Hyperloop in an interview to Pando Daily (Video below), He said this is a faster system than traditional methods.

“This system I have in mind,  how would you like something that can never crash, is immune to weather, it goes 3 or 4 times faster than the bullet train , it goes about an average speed of twice what an aircraft would do. You would go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes. And it would cost you much less than an air ticket or car, much less than any other mode of transport, because the fundamental energy cost is so much lower. And I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it,  you generate more power than you would consume in the system. There's a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries.  Yes, [this is possible,] absolutely”.
—Elon Musk to Pando Daily, July 12, 2012

"What you want is something that never crashes, that's at least twice as fast as a plane, that's solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time",  --Musk to Bloomberg

Musk through his Twitter account said he will publish the Hyperloop alpha design by Aug 12

Will publish Hyperloop alpha design by Aug 12. Critical feedback for improvements would be much appreciated.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2013

World Wide Web is a great place for communication,commerce and many more and is evolving at an unimaginable pace. To stride this ever increasing virtual world adequate resources have to be provided by the responsible bodies. To this, couple of years back Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it will be adding approximately 1,400 new top-level domains.

As a result we have seen .xxx a TLD pornographic websites, .art for artists and other.

Today New York Mayor Bloomberg and speaker Quinn announced a new unique .nyc web address for new yorkers and businesses.

“Having our own unique, top-level domain – .nyc – puts New York City at the forefront of the digital landscape and creates new opportunities for our small businesses,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “They’ll now be able to identify themselves as connected to New York City, one of the world’s strongest and most prestigious brands.”

Though registrations are not yet open you can pre-register with some domain name vendors like uniteddomains where they have 30K preregistered and other.

Source: NYC.gov

Google and Bharti Airtel collectively announced a new program called Free Zone aka free internet in India.

As being the 2nd largest Telecom market in the world and recently in India mobile internet traffic has surpassed desktop, With all this Google is eyeing to engage more users in its services. This program was launched in Philippines last year.

How Free Zone works:

Airtel mobile customers can access the service by visiting g.co/freezone or airtel.in/freezone. People can access Google services like Gmail,Google+ and Google search for free of cost. Only the first page of a website linked from search results is provided at no data cost. While surfing a green bar will be displayed at the top of the browser indicating free zone is applied at that moment.

Downloading an attachment from Gmail and accessing web pages other than listed in the search result will cost you. A warning will be displayed  if you are accessing a page that cost.

Many people have hard time when Google shutdown its feed aggregator service Google Reader. Though many services have terminated Google Reader got a huge disappointment from users.
Digg, social news website responded to Google reader cut off by saying that it is going to build a feed reader through a blog post.
Recently, today Digg wrote a update on developing its alternate to Google Reader. In that the company say

Over 18,000 people signed up to provide feedback on the product.
and people mainly request three things…

1. Make it fast.
2. Keep it simple.
3. Let me import my feeds and folders from Google Reader

Beta focus on core elements like

1. Easy migration and onboarding from Google Reader.
2. A clean reading experience that gets out of the way and puts the focus squarely on the articles, posts, images, and videos themselves.
3. Useful mobile apps that sync with the web experience.
4. Support for key actions like subscribing, sharing, saving and organizing.

The company also mention 60 days after beta launch we can expect an

1. Android app
2. third party integration like Evernote
3. Search.
4. Notifications.

Digg Reader will ultimately be a ‘freemium’ product.

Firstly I should say, Apple is one of the superlative companies that never compromise when design is concerned. During the first day (yesterday) of the developer conference WWDC 2013 the company unveiled new version of its mobile os, iOS7, and is reportedly said to be to the most substantial update since the original iPhone.

Apple provided the developers with iOS 7 beta software and SDK at developer.apple.com.

What's New in iOS 7 ?

Apple completely revamped the iOS 7 with whole bunch of new features and simple yet stunning user interface.

From simple things like typography to complex new features, every detail got attention from the designers resulting in a stunning look of the new mobile os.

Control Center | Notification Center | improved Multitasking | AirDrop | enhanced Photos | New Siri | iTunes Radio

Along with these new feature Apple released a Find My iPhone Activation Lock feature

The "activation lock" feature is designed to render a phone inoperable when a thief attempts to turn off another program that locates missing devices without first supplying an account password, according to Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.

iOS 7 Compatibility

iOS 7 will be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation) this fall. Some features may not be available on all products.

Control Center

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iOS 7 brings in one of the handy additions allowing quick access to most used apps.

Control Center gives you quick access to the controls and apps you always seem to need right this second. Just swipe up from any screen — including the Lock screen — to do things like switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, or adjust the brightness of your display. You can even shine a light on things with a new flashlight. Never has one swipe given you so much control.

Swiping up from the bottom of the device on any screen brings you the following screen which include switches to lock the screen, airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and you can also adjust volume and brightness levels and also can control media player.

Control center is similar to android quick settings which is swiped from the top of the screen, which also includes the notifications.

Notification Center

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iOS 7 got a new tabbed Notification center. Unlike iOS 6, where notifications can only be seen on lock screen – users cannot interact on lock screen. This is hold off this time.

The notification area includes 3 tabs Today, All and Missed. Today tab gives a view of notifications that shows your calendar events and other notifications that you’ll need. This tab also give weather information. “All” tab will give you a list of all the notifications that you have. Missed will show you notifications that you have not given attention for a while.

Multitasking

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With the responsibility of Jonathan Ive iOS 7 offers up a smarter way to multitask. When users tap the home button twice, it will display preview screens of apps that are open. Unlike before, the screens are previews of actual apps rather than just a small app icon. iOS 7 incorporates a learning algorithm that takes note of when users utilize certain apps and keeps those up to date with new content before they are launched. So, for example, if someone wakes up and checks Facebook, iOS 7 will learn that behaviour and have Facebook updates ready to go in the background before the app is opened. The new mobile OS also uses intelligently scheduled updates and will update during power efficient times. For example, when the device is connected to Wi-Fi. It's also able to respond to push notifications, updating apps that send out notifications.

With improved Multitasking in iOS 7, developers have the ability to enable any app to multitask in the background with a new API. Users have the ability to switch between their apps in a more visual and intuitive way, and iOS 7 pays attention to which apps you use most and automatically keeps your content up to date in the background.

AirDrop

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Simple Fast Secure sharing.

AirDrop is an entirely new way to quickly and easily share content with people nearby. When you’ve got something you want to share, AirDrop shows you your contacts close by. Just select who you want to share with and AirDrop does the rest. AirDrop transfers are peer-to-peer so you can use it anywhere, without any network or set up required, and transfers are fully encrypted so your content is protected and private.

Photos

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iOS 7 includes a redesigned Photos app that introduces Moments, a new way to automatically organize your photos and videos based on time and location. You can zoom out to see all your photos organized by Moments, Collections of Moments and Years. iOS 7 includes iCloud Photo Sharing, the easiest way to share just the photos you want with just the people you want. With iCloud® Photo Sharing, family and friends can contribute their own photos and videos to your shared photo streams, and the new Activity view displays updates from your shared streams all in one place.

Siri

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Siri sounds better than ever with new male and female voices and includes Twitter search integration, so you can ask Siri what people are saying on Twitter*. Siri also now has Wikipedia integration, providing access to the world’s most popular Internet reference site. Siri offers Bing web search within the app and the ability to change device settings and play back voicemail.

iTunes Radio

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The Music app has a beautiful new design and includes the new iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and an incredible catalog of music from the iTunes Store®, combined with features only iTunes can deliver.

iTunes Radio is the best way to discover new music. When you tune into iTunes Radio on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac®, PC or Apple TV®, you’ll have access to stations inspired by the music you already listen to, Featured Stations curated by Apple and genre-focused stations that are personalized just for you. iTunes Radio evolves based on the music you play and download. The more you use iTunes Radio and iTunes, the more it knows what you like to listen to and the more personalized your experience becomes. iTunes Radio also gives you access to exclusive “first listen” premieres from top selling artists, Siri integration plus the ability to buy anything you hear with just one tap.

For more News on WWDC stay tuned to TGH.

Swiss telecom company Swisscom set up a challenge for people at Zurich to stare at the Galaxy S4 for an hour.

As the new Galaxy S4 has eye tracking capability the company used this feature for advertising in a public place.

Many may think this is a piece of cake for them, but the hardest part is they are using epic distractions to get your eyes off the phone, like barking dogs, motor cycle crash, arguing couple and other.

All eyes on the S4 from iGAMIFY on Vimeo.

Google on its ProjectGlass Google+ page made it clear that the company wont accept Glass apps with facial recognition technology.

“we won’t add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place. With that in mind, we won’t be approving any facial recognition Glassware at this time.”

Apart from a huge hit as a consumer product, there are no strong privacy principles towards the usage if it.

One of the possible scenario of privacy is, Consider you’re at a restaurant or a mall, attending a visit to unknown place and your photo is captured, identified and matched against the facial database. All this is being done with out your knowledge.

So, Google not taking risk without a strong privacy protection system.

Here is the Google+ post of Project glass..

Glass and Facial Recognition
When we started the Explorer Program nearly a year ago our goal was simple: we wanted to make people active participants in shaping the future of this technology ahead of a broader consumer launch.  We've been listening closely to you, and many have expressed both interest and concern around the possibilities of facial recognition in Glass. As Google has said for several years, we won’t add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place. With that in mind, we won’t be approving any facial recognition Glassware at this time.
We’ve learned a lot from you in just a few weeks and we’ll continue to learn more as we update the software and evolve our policies in the weeks and months ahead.

Speaking at the All things Digital D11 conference, Apple chief Tim Cook spoke his interests on wearable gadgets. He said "Glass form-factor may be difficult". And when Walt mossberg asked about other form-factors like wrist and other, he spontaneously said "Wrist is interesting".

By this way he talked we can understand the speculation on iWatch may be true.

Here is the footage of Mr.Cook on wearables.

From intelligent personal assistant navigator (Siri) to self-driving cars, Internet of Things are getting huge traction and no doubt in recent years we will be surrounded with different devices sharing information to assist us in our daily life.

At the D11 Conference today a company called August unveiled a smart digital lock systems for home doors. The designer of this locking system, Yves Behar is well known for his work with One Laptop Per Child, OUYA and Jawbone products. Yves Behar along with Jason Johnson founder of InterQuest Communications announced this product.

For now this system works with an iPhone app which allows sharing the virtual keys with other users having the app. You may give access to your friends for a specific period of time.

The system keeps logs of people who access the door and also sends info like photos and status to your phone.

Google today introduced a new way to manage your Gmail inbox with different customization options. This change will occur in both desktop and mobile platforms.
Generally, How organised you may be but your inbox may contain lot of clutter, flooded with different kinds of stuff. Even though you may label your mails, new subscriptions and mails have a chance to clutter.
Today Google released new inbox which helps you organise your inbox with simple customization.

Desktop
The new inbox groups your mail into categories which appear as different tabs on top of your Gmail’s inbox column. You see Primary tab on opening Gmail then you can simply choose which categories you want and your inbox is organized in a way that lets you see what’s new at a glance and decide which emails you want to read when.

Google automatically organises mails into tabs. You can also customize by dragging and dropping messages among the tabs, set certain senders to always appear in a particular tab and star messages so that they also appear in the Primary tab.

Mobile
Android 4.0 and above and iPhone and iPad users can enjoy this feature. Users can also switch off this feature if they dont like and switch to other styles.

This feature will be rolled out to every one within few weeks. If you'd like to try out the new inbox on Desktop sooner, keep an eye on the gear menu and select Configure inbox when it appears in the Settings options.

Experian Marketing Services’ Simmons Connect mobile and digital panel uncovered some facts on how people in US spend time on their smartphones.
This study exposed some info .. An average adult expend 58 minutes daily on their device.
And they also discovered that 'on what activity people are using their smartphone for most of the time'.

On average, smartphone owners devote 26% of the time they spend on their phone talking and another 20% texting. Social networking eats up 16% of smartphone time while browsing the mobile web accounts for 14% of time spent. Emailing and playing games account for roughly 9% and 8% of daily smartphone time, respectively, while use of the phone’s camera and GPS each take up another 2% of our smartphone day.

This study also disclosed a very important statement that iPone users spend more time than Android users

ReadMore at Experian.com

Slomo (Slow motion) videos are always interesting because we can enjoy every detail of the frame. Like in fight scene of Sherlock Holmes movie. Creating a slomo video would require a high-speed camera and some good editing software which allows us to control how fast or slow playback should be.

Google on Tuesday announced a new slow motion enhancement tool to the YouTube video editor. Now users can use this feature to their new and existing videos.

To create a slomo video, users have to open video manager, select a video, then click the Enhancement tools tab and now you can see a tortoise icon top right. From there you can set the intensity of your slow motion.

This video footage was reduced to 1/8th of its actuall playback speed using youtube slow motion tool.

Google play so called Google store for android apps, books, music, videos and games got published with a new cool design. This design is now available to smartphone and tablet users.
The motive for this new design is to help users finding content quick and easy.

Today we’ve started rolling out a redesigned Google Play store on Android phones and tablets that is simple, clean and — most importantly — helps you find great entertainment, fast. – android blog

Via Official Android Blog

Today The Pirate Bay, Worlds largest p2p file-sharing site (torrent provider) switched its country code TLD to .gl (refers to Greenland ).
Until today it thepiratebay.org was redirected to .se (Sweden) ccTLD. May be the site is expecting that the Swedish authorities might seize the .se domain.

So without further due, we hereby announce that we have moved our servers from the evil North Korea to the greatest fuckin nation in the entire world. --TPB

via TorrentFreak

Long rumoured ‘Facebook phone’ is not actually a phone, but it is an overlay of apps over android platform called Facebook Home because it replaces boring android Home screen with cover feed containing status with background cover image of the person whom you are viewing status.
The new user interface is very cool, you can watch it below