iBall launches quad core smartphone Andi5T Cobalt 2

iBall has launched its quad core smartphone Andi5T Cobalt 2 at Rs 11,999 in India.

• Body: 8.9 mm slim and light-weight design
• Display: 12.7 cm (5") screen and high quality IPS HD (720P) 1280x720 (294 PPI) display
• Processor: Andi5T Cobalt2 is powered by quad core 1.3 GHz cortex A7 processor and sports a 1 GB RAM.
• Camera: 12MP AF camera with LED flash and video calling support
• OS: Android jelly bean 4.2
• Battery: 1750 mAh battery and wireless display
• Phone Features: Auto call record with folder, dial from SMS directly, smart answer, shake to answer and dial from contact directly

Source by: businesstoday.intoday.in

Apple achieved 500 millionth iPhone sales

Apple has recently reported it’s sold 500 millionth iPhone and a number is growing. After latest launch of iPhone 5s and 5c apple has launched eight devices till now.

A recent report from CoreBrand showed that Apple is the most powerful brand in tech.

Source by: dnaindia

Antoine Leblond Windows Exec leaving Microsoft Corporation almost after 25 years

After appointing Microsoft New CEO “Satya Nadella” now organization is taking new shape and at the same time, those executives who were passed over for the CEO role and those who lost power in last year’s reorganization are starting to leave the organization

Re/Code reports today, is Antoine Leblond. A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to us that Mr Leblond is, indeed, leaving the company. Re/Code cites an internal email from Leblond in which he announces his departure. In it, Leblond writes that “after almost 25 years, I’ve decided it’s time for me to go out and see what the non-Microsoft world has to offer” and stresses that he “will never look back on all of these years with anything but fondness, pride in what we’ve accomplished together, and a real appreciation for having been lucky enough to be part of so many awesome things.”

Antoine Leblond was Microsoft’s Vice President for Windows Web Services, which put him in charge of quite a number of Microsoft products, including the Windows 8 store and the ecosystem around it.

Source by: techcrunch.com

Nokia is preparing to launch the new series of Lumia devices

Nokia is planning to launch the new series of Lumia devices which is running on Microsoft’s Windows platform. On 2nd April Nokia has sent our invitation for a press event, this launch will happen at the same place as the Microsoft BUILD Developer Conference 2014.

More detail: By The Mobile Indian

Facebook is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion – another big acquisition after WhatsApp

Over an investor conference on Tuesday evening, Facebook CEO “Mark Zuckerberg” openly discussed why he was so interested in acquisition of the Oculus Rift and its Team

This is the second major acquisition of Facebook within two months, after acquired WhatsApp for a $16 billion this is second big acquisition.

Facebook is buying virtual reality company “Oculus VR” for $2 billion in stock and cash

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Bing Ads Accredited Professional Program rolled out New Badges and Certificates

Microsoft Bing has rolled out new branding for Bing certificates and badges to the Bing Ads Accredited Professional program now updated badges and certificates are available for use on your marketing material and website.

A new logo will rolled out through the website and the exam colors of “Find a Pro and Membership Directory have been with similar flavours to the brand, with the new look of the brand they also updated certificate and badge to the Bing Ads Accredited Professional Program.

You can access this new badge and certificate on click “use this link” on Congratulations! You are a Bing Ads Accredited Professional. Please use this link to retrieve your certificate from your “My Dashboard” 

Benefits of Bing Ads Certification and Badges

• You are listed in the Accredited Professional Membership Directory
• Listing in the “Find a Pro Directory” to help you to find and connect with user or customer
• A certificate confirming accreditation (recognize you as a Bing Ads expert)
• You can build your resume.
• Use of official badge for your website, blog and other marketing material

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Samsung Galaxy S5 to launch in India on March 27

Samsung is now ready to launch its New Galaxy Series (Samsung Galaxy S5) in India on March 27. Media gets invitations by the company for the launch event in New Delhi on the said date. The new Samsung Galaxy S5 expects to make available by second week of April with the prices above Rs 45,000 in India

Display/Screen & Processor

• 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with full HD (1920x1080 pixels) resolution 
• This touchscreen has been constructed using the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 
• 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC mobile chipset in the handset along with 2 GB RAM

Memory 

• 16 GB and 32 GB versions with memory card slot to support up to 128 GB micro SD card

OS Platform

• Android 4.4.2 KitKat version

Camera

• 16 megapixel camera with autofocus speed of 0.3 seconds at the back and it also boasts of the advanced High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode. 
• The camera can be used to shoot 4K resolution videos. 
• 2 megapixel front camera in Galaxy S5 for video calling

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is powered with 2800 mAh battery with new Ultra Power Saving mode to deliver longer run time. 5th generation WiFi (802.11ac) support along with Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB 3.0, infrared port, NFC, USB on the go, WiFi Direct and DLNA features. Galaxy S5 comes with fingerprint sensor which can recognize up to 3 fingerprints.

Free Voice Calling Feature gets into Facebook Messenger

Recently Facebook has updated its new feature for messenger app for Android and iOS platform with a free voice calling feature for India. This feature already in used by other instant messengers such as Line, WeChat and Viber.

Users can now make voice calls using Mobile Data Network or WiFi whereas data charges are apply but calls are free. The feature was launched in USA last year and feature is powered by the “Voice Over Internet Protocol Technology”.

How to make a free call?

• Open a Message Thread
• Tap on the Menu Button
• Choose the Free Call Option

You can make calls to those contacts who have installed this version of the app.

Nokia Lumia 530 coming with Windows Phone 8.1

Recently Nokia launch with its first Android smartphone, is now reportedly preparing to launch a new Nokia Lumia Series handset called Lumia 530, as per the popular Twitter account EVLeaks.

Nokia Lumia 520 is the entry-level model in the Windows Phone platform based Lumia series lineup. The Nokia Lumia 520 is being sold in India for roughly about Rs 7,700. 

Display: 4-inch IPS LCD display with 480x800 pixel resolution. 
Processor: dual-core 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 mobile processor and the Adreno 305 GPU. 

Important steps for SlideShare Marketing

Currently SlideShare has 58+million monthly visitors and 130+ million monthly page views and this traffic make him the top 200 most visited websites in the world and due to high volumes of traffic its became key platform for marketing and advertising for variants industries domain as an eLearning tools.

• URL for your presentation file are important for Search Engine Optimization and SlideShare generate automatically from your presentation title which is not editable or change, so presentation title should be SEO friendly
• Give more focus on Infographics because infographics are more favorite and liked than presentations and documents.
• Hyperlinks are clickable on inner slides which is important for SEO
• You can also share audio in the form of Slidecaste in SlideShare (Upload an MP3 Audio track file and synchronize it to your slide presentation)
• You can also display / link your presentation to your LinkedIn account
• Your SlideShare Presentations easily embed into your web pages
• SlideShare also support to share your Videos
• You can easily share specifies slide from your SlideShare Presentation to place permalink to specifies slide, for example “/10” (Slide No) -  From Presentation Slide No 10 will directly share on any channels
• To get more benefit of SlideShare you can purchase SlideShare PRO version where you can collect Lead, detail analytic report for individual presentation and many more

Nokia X Compared with Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2

Recently Nokia X launched by this week and this is the lowest cost smartphone among his early three versions (Nokia Android Smartphone).

The Nokia X has been priced at Rs 8,599 for the Indian market which is similar price of the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2.

We have compared the two handsets on the basis of their features:

Features	Nokia X	Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2
Measures	(height, width, thickness) 115.5 mm x 63 mm x 10.4 mm	(height, width, thickness) 121.5 mm x 63.1 mm x 10.57 mm
Weight	128.7 grams	118 grams
Display	4 inch display 480x800 pixels resolution	4 inch display 480x800 pixels resolution
Color	Bright Green, Yellow, White, Black, Orange, and Cyan colors	Black and White

Facebook's WhatsApp adding voice calls after Facebook Acquisition

As reported by multiple news platforms, they announced that WhatsApp now has 330+ million daily users and 465+ million monthly users.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Jan Koum "WhatsApp CEO" said the voice service will be free and begin rolling out to users within the next couple of months.

Media reports put WhatsApp's revenue at about $20 million in 2013.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg defended the price paid for a messaging service with negligible revenue. 

WhatsApp Released New Version 2.11.186 with Privacy Settings and Hindi Support

WhatsApp has released a new update version 2.11.186 with interesting features and brings Privacy Settings. This latest version enables Hindi for the Android smartphone operate on android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher version and users can enable Hindi from keyboard settings or download the Google keyboard from the Google Play Store.

You can access Privacy Settings option under the settings > account menu in WhatsApp, these features allows the user to change the personal information.

Another feature you can see the large thumbnails for video and save or share the Photo or Group icons

Facebook News Feed Product Manager Greg Marra Discusses Its New Look with Jennifer Van Grove of CNET

Facebook announced a revamp of its pages for desktop, which will begin rolling out this week, just days after revealing a new look for its News Feed.

Some of the major changes in the landing page on desktop are:

• In the right-hand column all posts from pages will now appear
• The left hand column will information about businesses like website, maps, cell numbers, business hours, videos and photos
• With information including number of ads running, post reach, page likes and unread notifications and messages.

If we talk about other landing pages or Tab

• Overview Tab:  This page insight, admins will see some key stats about the pages they are watching. 
• Posts Tab: This page insight includes a feature to view the past week’s most engaging posts from the pages you’re watching.

Across the social media platform Kenshoo and Oracle Social Cloud to provide actionable insights

Accounting to South by Southwest, Kenshoo, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer and provider of cloud based digital marketing solutions and predictive media optimization technology, announced integration with Oracle Social Cloud as part of Oracle recently announced open application programming interface based on social media solutions.

This integration will allow analyzing the performance of Owned Social Campaign, Earned Social Campaign and Paid Social Campaign and it will helpful to fine-tune their marketing strategies.

Both the company Kenshoo and Oracle said in a release announcing the integration between Kenshoo with Oracle Social Cloud will enable better coordination and conversation between social community managers in charge of organic content and marketing or agencies managers handling paid media.

Kenshoo, the global leader in predictive media optimization technology, today announced from South By Southwest, a Kenshoo integration with Oracle Social Cloud. The news comes as part of Oracle's newly announced open API-based paid social media solution for its customers.

Panasonic P31 smartphone launches at RS 11,990

Panasonic today announced the launch of its latest smartphone - P31, in India. The Panasonic P31 is priced at Rs 11,990.

This latest smartphone of Panasonic comes armed with below listed features:

• Dual SIM smartphone
• 5 inch touchscreen with 480x854 pixels resolution. 
• 1.3 GHz quad core processor
• Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) operating system
• 4 GB internal storage, and 32 GB micro SD card slot.
• 8 megapixel autofocus rear camera capable of capturing full HD images with LED flash light
• Front it has a VGA camera for video calls as well
• HSPA+ (21 Mbps) connectivity and has WiFi for internet connection
• Bluetooth 4.0 for file transfers too. 
• 2000 mAh battery that promises 9 hours of talktime and 699 hours of standby on 3G networks
• FM with RDS, G-Sensor, Proximity sensor. Light sensor, E-compass, GPS

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Samsung Galaxy S III mini now available online with Android 4.2

Samsung Galaxy S III mini now available online with Android 4.2

Samsung has been looks all set to release the Galaxy S III mini with Android 4.2

Accounting to NDTV Gadgets Samsung Galaxy S III mini Value Edition is now listed as available in Netherlands at various online merchants for EUR 180, which translates to roughly Rs. 15,300. The phone is however, not listed on Samsung's official Dutch site.

The smartphone was first spotted by Gsminfo which claims that the Galaxy S III mini Value Edition features upgraded innards, when compared to the Galaxy S III mini that was launched in October 2012.

Features

• 4-inch display with a resolution of 480x800 (WVGA) pixels
• Powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex A9 (unspecified chipset) processor,
• 1GB of RAM
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-boxes
• 5-megapixel rear camera
• 8GB of built-in storage, which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card

Dual SIM Nokia X Android Smartphone is going to launch by Nokia on March 10th in India around RS 8500

The Nokia X Android Smartphone will be available in India from 2^nd Week of March and its price is around Rs 8500 in India. Nokia X Android Smartphone is already display online on the Mobile Stores Websites.

Maktechblog.com was the first to display this update and media event is going to organize on 10^th March to launch of Nokia X Android Smartphone

Features	Nokia X and X+	Nokia XL
Display:	Nokia X and X+:  4” screens displays with a 800×480 pixel resolution	Nokia XL: 5” screens.
RAM:	512MB of RAM on the Nokia X and X+ gets 768MB of RAM	Nokia XL has 768MB RAM
Processor:	Snapdragon S4 SoC with a dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz	Snapdragon S4 SoC with a dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz
Memory:	4GB internal storage and micro SD cards up to 32GB in capacity	4GB internal storage and micro SD cards up to 32GB in capacity
Battery life:	1500 mAh battery, around 13 hours of talk time on 2G and 17 days standby time	1500 mAh battery, around 13 hours of talk time on 2G and 17 days standby time
Camera:	3 MP on the rear and no front-facing camera	Nokia XL 5MP auto-focus camera with LED flash on the back and 2MP front camera
Connectivity:	Nokia X and X+ have dual SIM slots, 3G cellular data, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.	Nokia X and X+ have dual SIM slots, 3G cellular data, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
Color:	Nokia X is available in its Cyan, Yellow, Black, Green, White and Red colour variants.	Nokia X is available in its Cyan, Yellow, Black, Green, White and Red colour variants.
OS	Android	Android