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Google to replace Nexus line with Android Silver: Report....

NEW DELHI: Google may be planning to kill the Nexus line soon in a bid to focus more on the top-end segment with the upcoming Android Silver range. According to a report by TheInformation.com, Google plans to offer a premium Android experience with Silver line of products, starting with the US.

"The expensive effort involves dumping the Nexus phone brand in favour of a new programme called Silver, under which manufacturers and wireless carriers will be paid to produce and sell high-end devices that closely adhere to Google specifications, according to four people briefed on the project," the report claims.

The internet titan will severely restrict the number of non-Google apps pre-installed on Android Silver products, in a bid to crack down on bloatware. As per Google's mandate, if carriers and manufacturers choose to put their apps on these handsets, users must be able to uninstall them. At present, apps preloaded by manufacturers and carriers cannot be uninstalled unless the device is rooted.

Android Silver products will also get prompt software updates and will have top-end features like advanced voice recognition and water resistance. These features will help position it better against other top-end devices like iPhones and Samsung Galaxy smartphones, which dominate the US market.

In a way, these rumoured Android Silver products will be similar to Google Play Edition devices, which include some of the top devices by manufacturers like HTC, Samsung and LG but without any software customizations.

Google Play Edition devices feature stock Android software, but are still sold with the branding of the manufacturer — like Samsung, HTC and Sony — not Google. Instead, Android Silver devices are expected to carry Google's branding, not the manufacturer's.

Unlike Google Play Edition and Nexus products, Android Silver devices will be heavily promoted by the internet search giant. The report, citing four sources at the company, says that Google will spend up to $1 billion on marketing this upcoming range.

In the US, both Nexus and Google Play Edition devices are available only via the company's online store; Google Play Edition devices are not sold outside the US. However, Google will reportedly set up kiosks at telecom carriers' stores to market Android Silver devices, with especially trained employees showing top features to prospective buyers.

The report says that Google has already roped in LG and Motorola to produce the first Android Silver devices. Other potential partners in this programme are said to be Chinese companies looking to pe*****te the high-end smartphone market of the US. Samsung, HTC and Sony are, however, still not convinced to join the programme.

This is not the first time that rumours about Google killing the Nexus line have surfaced on the internet. In January this year, a Russian tech blogger tweeted that the Nexus line will be replaced by Google Play Edition products in 2015.

It is not yet clear if and when the Android Silver programme will be rolled out in markets like India and Brazil, where telecom carriers do not subsidize smartphones.

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Don't like Windows now? Wait a few months for the upgrade...

Rumors about Windows 8.1 updates and Windows 9 indicate Microsoft is serious about stepping up its development pace...

If rumors can be believed -- and absent clear communications out of Redmond, rumors will be parsed and passed on at a feverish rate -- Microsoft is serious about stepping up the pace of Windows development. It's yet another sign that the new Microsoft is finally getting with the times.

Recent leaks from Russian blogger Wzor and Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft sources indicate that the company's nine-month-old unified Operating System Group is gunning for a Windows update every four or five months. To a world accustomed to waiting three or four years between OSes, this is dizzying stuff. Foley says:

The powers-that-be are encouraging the Windows development team to see how much they can get done within a much shorter timeframe and then plan to deliver whatever is baked in the next few months. That's a much different way of operating from the carefully (overly?) orchestrated plan/build/test/deliver schedule the team followed in building Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Wzor claims that a second update to Windows 8.1 will drop in September (Foley's sources say August, but at any rate, just in time for back-to-school and holiday sales) and will include the version of a new Start menu that Microsoft showed off at its Build conference this month. This second update -- speculation over what it will be called ranges from Windows 8.2 or Windows 8.1 Update 2 to (Windows 8.1 Update) Update or 81UpUp -- is "unlikely to include the ability to run Metro-Style apps in floating windows on the desktop." Stay tuned for Windows 9, reportedly coming in the spring of 2015, for that feature.

WinSuperSite's Paul Thurrott believes the reason Microsoft is being "cagey and vague" with Windows details is because "Microsoft doesn't want to commit to releasing these and other updates at a specific time and in a specific update. And not because they might be late. Because they might be early.... Microsoft [is] decoupling these new features from major product revisions. Instead, they will deliver them as soon as they can."

One factor spurring the new development pace is undoubtedly the need to fix Windows 8 and drive up adoption. As InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard observes, "The term 'Windows 8' is anathema in the market. Everybody, from CEOs to 7-11 clerks, from Tallahassee to Timbuktu 'knows' that there are problems with Windows 8."

There's also recognition in Redmond that the times, they are a-changin'. As Thurrott says, "In this age of cloud computing and the 'evergreening' of the services we use every day, Windows needs to be quicker. And [Executive VP] Terry Myerson is making it happen."

With Windows now being used in just about every major consumer product that Microsoft makes, GottaBeMobile points out that "the OSG has to keep enabling software features on different products quickly or risk getting left in the dust by iOS and Android."

Another sign of the changing times: Microsoft will reportedly debut a free, cloud-based version of Windows this fall. By giving away a basic version of Windows and requiring a subscription to add a fuller set of capabilities and features, Microsoft would be carrying its new business model for Office over to Windows Cloud. Microsoft's recently released Office on iPad requires users to have an Office 365 subscription to add features.

Whatever the motivation, the accelerating pace of upgrades is good news for Windows diehards.

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Apple's success in China sets stage for iPhone 6, new products......

Strong sales of iPhones in China and emerging markets sets the stage for Apple to reap even higher profits after it launches the next iPhone and other new products, analysts said.

At least 15 brokerages raised their price targets on the stock by as much as $60 to a high of $700 after it reported bumper results.

Shares of the company were up 8.5% at $569.49 in premarket trading on Thursday.

Apple's enlarged share buyback, bigger dividend, a larger iPhone 6 and new products would all drive the stock higher, RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani said in a note titled "Buy before Tim does it himself".

On Wednesday, Apple reported sales of 43.7 million iPhones in the quarter ended March 29, far outpacing the 38 million that Wall Street had predicted. Revenue from greater China climbed 13% and Japan sales rose 26%.

Apple approved another $30 billion in share buybacks till the end of 2015 and authorized a rarely seen seven-for-one stock split, addressing calls to share more of its cash hoard while broadening the stock's appeal to individual investors.

Many Apple observers are betting on another successful product emerging from its secretive labs in Cupertino, California in the second half of this year - perhaps an iWatch for users to wear on their wrist. Chief executive Tim Cook has promised new product categories for 2014.

"We believe the iPhone 6 will prove to be a big hit in China and elsewhere around the world, while the iWatch opens up a new product category for Apple, and we believe the ramp with China Mobile will accelerate in the second half of the year," Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White said in a note.

Microsoft takes Iowa from corn to .com

Fiber, low-cost power has Microsoft building nearly 1.5M square-feet of data center space

Computerworld - Star Trek fans know that Capt. James T. Kirk will eventually be born in Iowa. So, in one respect, this state already has a notable tech reputation.

Now, it has another.

Microsoft is building some 1.16 million square feet of new data center space, Iowa officials said Friday. This is Microsoft's second data center in West Des Moines.

Microsoft's other data center, which is being expanded, is now at about 300,000 square feet, said Clyde Evans, West Des Moines' director of community and economic development. It's also about 7 miles away from the planned facility.

State officials put Microsoft's total investment in their state at more than $2 billion. It will also cement Iowa's reputation as a data center hub state.

The primary reason Microsoft and others including Google and Facebook are interested in Iowa, said Evans, is that the state sits stop some major transcontinental fiber routes. It also has low electric power rates, which for a large user, may be 3 cents to 4 cents per kWh.

Something else that may have appealed to Microsoft, said Evans, is an investment by utility MidAmerican Energy in wind energy, which has made it one of the largest wind power generators in the U.S.

For all its size, the Microsoft data center will only employ about 80 people. Data centers, generally, are not big job generators. But the jobs they do create "tend to be very well paying," said Evans.

But data centers have very high property tax valuation, "and they are not a big drain on municipal services, they are not big users of police, fire, EMS or public works services," said Evans. "They are a kind of cash positive operation for the community."

Large data centers, which are used to support cloud operations, tend to cluster. Facebook opened a data center in Altoona, Iowa and Google has spent more than $1 billion in data center development so far in that state. North Carolina is another state that has drawn sizeable data center development.

What was the First Antivirus Software?

Today, antivirus software is an important part of protecting our computers and our private lives. Anti-virus applications keep our computers safe from more than just viruses; it also fends off spyware, Trojans and other forms of malware that can ruin a computer or steal private information, which can ultimately lead to identity theft.

Just a few decades ago, though, there was no such thing as antivirus software. In fact, back then, there wasn't even a use for it since the internet was not used by the populace yet and the threat wasn't a widespread problem. Viruses were contained within the small network of computers that pre-dated the internet.

The first known virus was created in 1971and was dubbed the Creeper Virus. This virus was spread using the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the world's first digital networking communications method, which was funded by the United States Department of Defense and used by government research groups and universities. When the computers were infected, the message "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" appeared on the screen as it replicated itself to spread to other computers within the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

The Creeper Virus was eventually deleted by a program known as The Reaper. You may consider The Reaper the first antivirus software, but the word "virus" wasn't used as the official name of a computer invasion of this type until it was coined by American computer scientist Frederick B. Cohen in 1983.

The Creeper was followed by several more viruses, but the first official antivirus software was developed a few years later. It was called self-reproduction software. This means that the software simply kept a virus from creating copies of itself, which is the primary function of a virus. It really didn't protect the computer from multitude outside forces like today's internet security software does.

The actual removal of viruses using anti-virus technology didn't begin until the late 1980s. The first removal of a computer virus is believed to have been performed by Bernd Fix in 1987. Fix, a computer security expert, is credited with the removal of the Vienna Virus. The Vienna Virus is still used throughout the world. It infects uninfected files in a computer every time an infected file is run. Fortunately, this virus can be detected and removed with today's antivirus software.

Some believe that Fix may not have been the first person to remove a computer virus, however, because right around the same time, the Atari Corporation developed G Data antivirus software, in conjunction with G Data Software, Inc. Soon after, G Data was followed by UVK 2000. These antivirus software applications were developed for Atari Corporation's personal computer line that was created in 1985.

No one can be sure exactly which program was the first antivirus software, but one thing is in fact clear to the millions of computer users that log on each year; thanks to those early programmers and computer-security pioneers, our computers and personal information are safe from hackers and viruses.

About Computer Viruses....

The first virus on the arpanet in early 1970 was creeper virus.It was created by Bob Thomas at BBN technologies.It was an experimental self replicating program.

The first virus that came into wild was elk cloner virus.This virus was created by Richard Skrenta in 1981 when he was a student in high school.He created it as a joke and inserted it in a game on a floppy disk.The elk cloner virus get activated on its 50th use and displays a poem "Elk Cloner: The program with a personality."

Farooq Alvi Brothers of Lahore,Pakistan created the first pc virus in 1986.It was a boot sector virus.

The term virus to denote a self replicating program was first used in 1969 in a short story of a Galaxy Magaine written by David Gerrold.

The first windows virus was WinVer 1.4 and the first virus to attack .exe file was Groove.

Do you know 70% virus writers work under contract for the Organised crime syndicates.

The first antivirus program used wildly was Bernd Fix in 1987.Though there are many confusions about it.

Many antivirus companies use Fred Cohen's strategies to remove virus.Fred Cohen published one of the first academic papers on viruses in 1984.

John McAfee and Eugene Kaspersky,the founders of the most famous anti virus companies started mailing list to remove viruses before they founded McAfee and Kaspersky anti virus software.

Make your Computer Talk
Have you ever wondered how can you make your computer speak whatever you input to it like in the movies? Would it not be fun? If only it was possible! Rejoice, because now it is possible. Well, if you wish to know how to do this, then you have come to the right place. With this trick, you can create a script in Windows which will make your computer speak whatever you input to it.

To create one such talk script, follow the steps given below:-

Make your Computer Talk

Steps

Open Notepad.
Copy and paste the exact code given below.

Dim Message, Speak
Message=InputBox("Enter text","Speak")
Set Speak=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
Speak.Speak Message

3. Click on File Menu, Save As, select All Types in Save as Type option, and save the file as Speak.vbs or "*.vbs".
4. Double click on the saved file, a window will open like the one in the image. Enter some text in enter text column and click OK.

Now your Computer will speak / talk what you typed in Step 4. Try it yourself.

Windows Compatibility: This VBS file can be executed on all versions of Windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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New battery technology uses power of everyday motions to charge cell phones A new breakthrough in battery power could mean that all consumers need to do to charge their mobile devices on the move is to keep moving.

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