Apple iPhone 6 & 6+ & iWatch Launch Event.

September 9 2014 has been one of the historic event for Apple Inc.As Apple decided to release its latest products such as iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus and Apple iWatch, they have created several new ideas to attract the trend setters.With the help of military forces and tight securities the Apple Launch event held at Cupertino,CA headed by its CEO Timothy.D.Cook.Under Cook's management Apple hired numerous designing legends for the betterment of the company.Here is the complete Apple Launch Event on September 9 2014 21:00


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PMO India Ruling The Social Networks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the world's second-most followed politician on Twitter, having added two million followers in the first 100 days of his government, says an official blog on the micro-blogging website.

At 6.13 million followers for his personal account @narendramodi, he is second to US President Barack Obama who has a massive following at 46 million. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono holds the number three slot with 5.37 million followers.

If combined with the followers of his official handle @PMOIndia, several of which would overlap with his personal account, Modi's total followers are 8.5 million and growing.

"His Twitter account (@narendramodi) has crossed the six million follower mark since his election win, while the official account of the Prime Minister's Office (@PMOIndia) has grown more than 40% since his swearing-in ceremony," the blog added.

In an earlier list released by Twitter in June, which did not consider "politicians" exclusively, Modi was the fourth most followed in the "world leader" category. Here the top slot belonged to Obama, the second to the Pope, who had 14 million followers across nine accounts in different languages. The third spot, occupied by Yudhoyono, was soon taken over by Modi by July with his steadily climbing following. While Yudhoyono has fewer followers than Modi today, the Pope currently has 15.3 million followers across his nine accounts.

On Facebook as well, Modi maintains the number two position at over 21 million likes for his verified page, again second only to Obama, who has over 42 million likes.

Modi has been using Twitter not only to post messages relevant to Indians but also for diplomatic courtesies. After BJP's win in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he thanked various world leaders on Twitter when they tweeted their congratulatory messages to him. Most recently, before his visit to Japan, he posted a series of tweets in Japanese. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded in English. Of the three people that Abe follows on Twitter, Modi is one.

The Japanese tweets were posted with the help of the Indian embassy. The brainchild behind them is reported to be Hiren Joshi, a 44-year-old electronics engineer from Pune, tasked with managing Modi's digital presence across platforms and hand-picked by the former Gujarat CM back in 2008.

Nearly 40 ministers and ministries also have a presence on Twitter. "Since taking over as the PM, @NarendraModi has added more than 2 million followers in the first 100 days of his government and is now the second-most followed politician in the world on Twitter," said an official Twitter blog posted on Thursday.




Five most followed politicians on Twitter

Barack Obama: 46 mn followers

Narendra Modi (@narendramodi and @PMOIndia): 8.5 mn (6.1 and 2.4 mn) followers

SB Yudhoyono (@SBYudhoyono, president Indonesia): 5.37mn followers

Abdullah Gul - (@cbabdullahgul, former president of Turkey): 4.93 mn followers

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (current president of Turkey) - 4.65 mn followers)

Five most popular politicians on Facebook

Barack Obama: 42.4 mn likes

Narendra Modi : 21 mn likes

Mitt Romney: 11.3 mn likes

Prabowo Subianto (Indonesian politician): 8.5 mn likes

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: 6.4 mn likes.

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Microsoft's New App Snipp3t Connects You With Celebrities.

 If you cannot get enough of what your favourite celebrities are up to, Microsoft has a new app for you. 

The "Snipp3t" lets you subscribe to celebrities and get personalised headlines, social media feeds and news about what the celebrity is up to. 

"Tap on a celebrity to view their detailed profiles and explore a timeline of news stories about them. You can also tap on to a news story to get all relevant story content (news articles, photos, videos and social mentions) in one place," the app description read on Apple's App Store. 

The app asks you to "personalise with Facebook" and then updates your news feed while giving you more options to follow more celebrities. 

It is not clear why Microsoft made the app for iOS-only rather than Windows phone. 

But for now, snipp3t users can keep a track of their favourite celebrities in a prompt and well presented way. 

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3 Facts To Protect Your Data Online.

The circulation of nude photographs stolen from celebrities' online accounts has raised questions about the security of storing information over the internet, a growing practice known as the Cloud.

Apple confirmed that some celebrity accounts were compromised by a targeted attack on usernames, passwords and security questions.

Although Apple said there was no general breach in any of its systems, such as the iCloud storage service, it appears hackers were able to gain access to individual accounts simply by figuring out passwords and answers to security questions.

So if celebrities' information isn't safe, then whose is? Here is a closer look at how safe data is when stored remotely on these services.



Q. What is the cloud?

A. The cloud is a way of storing photos, documents, email and other data on computers located elsewhere, so you're not using space on your computer, phone or other device. Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft all offer cloud-based storage. Smaller companies like Dropbox and Evernote do, too.

The advantage is that you can access the same information from any device. And if you lose your phone, for example, you don't lose your vacation pictures.

The drawback is that you are putting your information somewhere else, so you run the risk of a hacking attack on those systems and accounts.

Q. Is it secure?

For the most part, yes. Companies invest a lot on trying to ensure that people's private information stays private. "The short answer is that the cloud is often more secure than other storage".

But that doesn't mean it is completely immune. "Like a lot of internet services, there are a lot of attackers who have a lot of time,".

Q. How can individuals make their data more secure?
A. You need passwords to access your accounts, so choosing a strong one is important.

Tim Bajarin, an analyst at technology research firm Creative Strategies, recommends having different passwords for each account you hold online, so a breach in one system won't compromise another.

It is also important to have a number and punctuation mark in each password, or a creative spelling of a word to make it harder to guess. Also, avoid using common words or notable birthdays as passwords. A strong password is particularly important if you store sensitive information online.

Another way to make your information harder to hack is called multi-factor, or two-step, identification. That means the first time you log onto an account from a new device, you are asked for a second form of identification. Usually, that involves getting sent a code as a text on your phone or an email.

"If you have physical possession one of your other devices, the identification is really hard to break,".
Most major cloud services, including Apple's iCloud, Google's Google Drive and Dropbox, offer this kind of protection. Amazon's Cloud Drive is the notable exception. But you usually have to turn this on.

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App That Pays You For Exercise.

Dude can you believe this an App is paying you for your exercise/fitness?? Awesome Do try this.

Will you miss your workout if you had to pay for it? If money motivates you more than fitness, an app is here to either reward or punish you. 

Pact is an app which uses money to track your fitness goals. When you set up Pact, you give your credit card or PayPal information. 

You also have to set your fitness goals like a pledge to workout a certain number of times in a week or eat healthy and Pact makes it specific. 

Now enter a set distance you have to run. You must also decide the penalty you are willing to pay if you miss the workout. 

The minimum penalty is $5 (Rs.300). The app tracks you when you check into a known gym and monitors how long you stay. 

You can also wear a fitness band or use your phone's GPS to log miles. Reward money comes from people who failed to honour their pact.

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Facebook Rolls Out 'Bandwidth Targeting' For Advertisers.

Social networking giant Facebook has rolled out a new "bandwidth targeting" feature globally for advertisers to help them reach people based on the type of network.The move is especially relevant in emerging countries like India, where limited data plans and feature phones are common.The US-based firm, which has over 1.32 billion users globally, already offers advertisers to reach people based on the type of device they use (smartphones, feature phones and tablets) as well as device model and operating system.India, which is Facebook's second largest market in terms of user-base, has nine lakh SMBs leveraging its platform.

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Govt. Launches ".bharat" Domain Name.

Indian government has launched the .bharat domain name in devanagari script covering eight languages including Hindi, Konkani and Marathi.

With the launch, individuals of companies who are interested in owning a website with domain name in Hindi language would be able to book the name in Hindi script. 

The name would have '.bharat' in Hindi script as its extension instead of commonly top level domains such as .com, .net or .in. 

The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) will soon also launch the Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) in other Indian languages like Bangla, Urdu, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati.

The project is worth around Rs 35,000 crore which aims to provide high-speed broadband connectivity to 2.50 lakh gram panchayats in India by March 2017. 

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Samsung Vs Apple On Sep.

September looks primed to be one of the biggest months for smartphone buyers in quite some time. Not only is Apple expected to debut a new, larger 4.7-inch iPhone 6, but now it appears that Samsung will launch its monstrous Galaxy Note 4 during the month as well.

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Facebook Sued Over 25000 Users

Facebook Sued over 25000 User's Privacy. Many Facebook users have growing concerns about the way the website uses thier data.Now 25,000 users are together filing a "class action lawsuit" against Facebook Ireland,which handles all accounts outside of the US,claiming that the company has breached the EU data laws. Here is what actually is,

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Google Acquired Gecko Design!!!

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has confirmed that it has bought Gecko Design to bolster its lab which is devoted to technology-advancing projects such as self-driving cars and internet-linked Glass eyewear.

Founded about eight years ago,the California (US) based Gecko Design specializes in working with engineers on designs early in the creation of new products.

"This is an incredible opportunity for everyone at Gecko,"president Jacques Gagne said in a post on the company's website referring to Google's research lab,he further added,"We are very excited and honored to join Google X and work on a variety of cutting edge products,".

Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

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Apple Inc.'s New Programming Language.

Introducing SWIFT

               

                   Swift is an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.Writing code is interactive and fun,the syntax is concise yet expressive,and apps running lightning-fast.Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X Project - or for addition into your current app -- because Swift Code works side-by-side with Objective C.

                        

                               Swift is the result of the latest research on programming languages,combined with decades of experience building Apple platforms.Named parameters brought forward from Objective-C are expressed in a clean syntax that makes APIs in Swift even easier to read and maintain.

 Please do visit : http://swift-lang.org

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Ice Bucket Challenge !!!

The internet has gone viral with videos of celebrities and other popular personalities taking the "Ice Bucket challenge" and daring three others to do the same. Here is what you need to know about it:


What is the ice bucket challenge?


       It's an effort to raise awareness of ALS where participants must dump a bucket of ice cold water and then dare someone to do the same. If they can't, the alternative is to donate $100 to the ALS association

How did it start?
        
          The ice bucket challenge went viral on social media after a US baseball player and ALS patient, Pete Frates, floated the idea of the challenge in a video on a social networking site. He got the idea from a friend


The impact 
        
         More than 1.2 million videos were shared on Facebook between June 1 and August 13. The challenge was mentioned more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29, after Frates' appeal


The funds 
        
        According to the ALS website, it has so far received nearly $23 million.


What is ALS
        
        Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is also referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord


Incidence 
       
         ALS is thought to be affect 2 people every 1 lakh of the global population


Life expectancy 
        
         About 20% people with ALS live 5 years or more, up to 10% live more than 10 years and about 5% live up to 20 years after diagnosis.

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