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Fring, a mobile application lets its users make free mobile calls, video calls, live chat from their mobile phones will all their friends. It also allows other internet services like MSN messenger, Google Talk, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.

Now, Fring is expanding its video calling feature to group video calls with iOS and Android apps.

 

 

This new fring feature which is now beta stage lets 4 friends video call each other simultaneously. Interested people can try out this beta build by signing up and input their UDID or IMEI numbers.

Short video of what Fring Group Video Calling –

 

Amazon has joined the fray of offering cloud based storage with Amazon Cloud Drive, offering 5 GB of free storage.

You can store your music, videos, photos and documents on Amazon’s secure servers.

 

 

Currently there is no way to mount your Amazon Cloud Drive to Windows or Mac. Also there are no mobile application to access Amazon Cloud Drive but we know that those apps and Amazon Cloud APIs are coming very soon.

Amazon has also launched The Cloud Player that works on PCs, Macs and Android devices. So if you have all your music libraries uploaded to the Amazon Cloud Drive, you can access it from anywhere in the world as long as you have internet connection and play them directly!

Interestingly, Amazon also told that they do not need a license to store music in Cloud Drive because "the functionality of saving MP3s to Cloud Drive is the same as if a customer were to save their music to an external hard drive or even iTunes.” This riles music industry.

Get started if you want to try out Amazon Cloud Drive.

Mobile phones today have become an essential tool in our everyday life as our primary way to communicate, work, share and collaborate.

A survey conducted by Symantec (a security product and solutions provider) stated that 53% of adults in India have fallen victim to mobile phone loss or theft, but despite that, only two in five Indians currently have a password protecting their devices.

 

 

“The survey results are clear: mobile phone loss and theft is a significant issue for Indians today,” says Gaurav Kanwal, Country Sales Manager, India, Consumer Products and Solutions, Symantec.

Some interesting facts from the survey:

Indians have their phones lost or stolen 1.5 times every five years on average.

77% of victims considered the loss of contact information the worst part of the experience and also a huge inconvenience.

‘Anger’ was the single most dominant feeling expressed by victims of mobile theft.

74% could neither remotely lock nor wipe the phone’s memory after it was lost or stolen.

82% finds the process of resolving the situation difficult; 90% finds the experience stressful.

More than half of the victims said that they were willing to pay a ransom (an average of Rs. 3,692) to resolve the situation, but in reality they pay up to three times the price.

3 in 10 Indians said that the situation was never resolved.

Sources: CIOL

AT&T said it entered a definitive agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) to acquire T- Mobile USA in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion a few minutes ago.
The agreement has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, Deutsche Telekom said in a statement.

AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA provides an optimal combination of network assets to add capacity sooner than any alternative, and it provides an opportunity to improve network quality in the near term for both companies’ customers. In addition, it provides a fast, efficient and certain solution to the impending exhaustion of wireless spectrum in some markets, which limits both companies’ ability to meet the ongoing explosive demand for mobile broadband.
Read full agreement details here.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has now approved the .XXX top-level domain. The adult entertainment sites will officially be able to label their websites with a .XXX domain name ending a 10 year battle.

 

 

The resolution passed despite large-scale protests from the adult entertainment industry, which is angry that they will have to repurchase domain names.

Thousands of adult entertainment website owners recognize the business benefits of .XXX and have already applied to pre-reserve over 200,000 .XXX domains. .COM websites have been able to pre-register their .XXX domain for free since last year, but others will be forced to pay up to $70 to make the change.

We can expect a gold rush in purchasing .XXX domains and equally we will have to wait for how many countries will ban the .XXX sites from its first day.

To compete the HTML5 competence, Adobe released a new experimental Flash to HTML5 conversion tool (codenamed Wallaby)yesterday night.

"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. Its just a matter of dragging and dropping thing to convert flash files into HTML5. The company is specifically hoping this tool will make it easier for designers and developers to get their content onto iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

 

 

Once these files are converted to HTML, you can edit them with an HTML editing tool, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, or by hand if desired. You can view the output in one of the supported browsers or on an iOS device.

Adobe feels there’s still room in the current technological and creative spaces for Flash, but it doesn’t think that either Flash or HTML5 has to exist to the exclusion of the other.

Wallaby is not a final product and is still in the testing and validation phase. Test it from the Adobe labs page http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

Airtel has launched a mobile wallet service called Airtel Money which is effectively a debit card with a limit of Rs 5,000. It has launched a service in Gurgaon which enables mobile payments. The subscriber needs to deposit money in his mobile account (similar to a bank account), and can then transfer money to the shopkeeper’s ‘mwallet’ by sending an SMS.

Retailers need a phone connection and card reader to process credit card payments; while in case of Airtelmoney both the customer and the shopkeeper must have Airtel connections.

Where can you use airtel money?

• Load cash: Load cash on your airtel mobile by visiting your nearest airtel retail outlet.
• Pay bills & recharge: You will be able to use this cash in your mobile for making bill payments (electricity, gas, financial services, etc.) and recharge
• Shop & make payments: Instead of cash, pay over-the-counter merchants such as your nearest kirana store, chemist, etc using your mobile phone. You can even sit at home and pay for services like booking movie tickets online

To use airtel money

• Register by filling in the application form and submitting KYC documents (2 photocopies of proof-of-identity, 1 copy of proof-of-address and a passport size photograph).
• After the above, your existing airtel SIM will be upgraded to the new 64K airtel SIM with airtel money.
• Activate your airtel money account by choosing your MPIN.
• Load cash into your airtel money account by visiting your nearest airtel retailer
• You are now ready to send commands through the airtel money application on your phone and transact anytime, anywhere!

Airtel has launched this service in Gurgaon, Haryana, and plans to extend it to other parts of within the next few days.

Taiwan phone maker HTC, which brought the first Android phone to India is now bringing first Windows 7 mobile phone – HTC HD7.

This phone price has been indicated as Rs 29,990 in India.

 

 

“We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the eagerly-awaited HTC HD7 Smartphone in India. Combining the strength of the airtel brand and network with the innovation and design of HTC and the great user-interface of Windows Phone 7, we are happy to bring another first for our customers that will take mobile communications to a whole new level.” said Mr. Shireesh Joshi, CMO-Mobile Services, Bharti airtel.

This impressive 4.3” high resolution screen with kickstand phone gives an epic cinematic experience. The device comes with an 720p HD camcorder which allows you to capture film with incredible quality and detail.

Quick specifications –

4.3” touch screen with pinch to zoom and 480 x 800 WVGA

1GHz CPU

Microsoft Windows® Phone OS 7

16GB Internal Storage with 512 MB ROM and 576 MB RAM

5MP camera with auto focus and dual LED flash

720p HD video recording

3G, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi

Detailed specs and other details can be found on their official website – http://www.htc.com/asia/product/hd7/specification.html

LinkedIn took an advanced and aggressive measure today in response to Gawker Media’s massive security breach. Most of the Gawker comprised users got an email that their account is suspended from any further data breach.

 

LinkedIn email to users read –

“…In order to ensure that you continue to have the best experience using LinkedIn, we are constantly monitoring our site to make sure your account information is safe. We have recently disabled your account for security reasons…”

The message goes on to explain how to reset your password. They also tweeted, “sorry for the inconvenience, as a proactive measure we’ve reached out to users potentially affected by the gawker breach regarding password”

As word of the breach spread, LinkedIn’s security team cross-checked the list of exposed email addresses against its own database. LinkedIn did not match passwords, but only looked at the corresponding e-mail addresses.

cosmoGeek tweeted earlier that gossip site Gawker has experienced a large data breach and it is confirmed by the company. The user names, email addresses, passwords of people who comment on their website have been hacked. Other sites in this hack include lifehacker.com, kotaku.com, gizmodo.com.

I’ve recently came across this strange news about a Pakistani website (old news indeed), who have got around 12 lakh Indian users. This discussion raised again after the recent attack by Pakistan Cyber Army on over 270 Indian websites including CBI’s official website.

 

 

Cyber war between India and Pakistan is very old and anti-India elements in Pakistan are planning to attack Indian computer networks. There are some websites constantly in news for supporting terrorism. Songs.pk is one of the websites in the list.

The website www.songs.pk has over 12 lakh Indian users who are downloading stuff from these websites daily.

This website is reportedly hosted by a hacker from Pakistan and is targeting Indian users.

The site is infested with bots, worms to hack data from targeted computers.

It will take only a few minutes for hackers to take command of over 12 lakh computers and the number can multiply in every minute.

Songs.pk has 676 traffic ranks in world by Alexa.

It is getting 1627218 page views per day.

According to Yahoo, it has 22168 backlinks.

Estimated worth of this website is around USD 3.56 Million.

This Pakistani website makes profit of Rs 12 Crores per day!

It supplies all illegal money to terrorism.

This news is only for public awareness so that all of you can safeguard from any illegal issues. Before downloading any content from this website, think again. I even wonder why a single Bollywood biggie ever came forward to fight against these kind of sites which promotes piracy and terrorism.