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Facebook app for iOS gets privacy options

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Facebook has released an important update for its Facebook app for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The new Facebook app 3.5 update adds privacy control options to the posts with a new sharing tool. Besides, users will be able to tag friends as well as places in their posts.
The new Facebook app update is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch users running iOS 4.0 or higher.

The new Facebook update has several bug fixes for the improvement of existing features. For instance, the chat and photo related bugs have been squashed and the Notifications speed has been tweaked. One can now easily select filters from the News Feed.

Several new features have been added as well like now you can tag your friends and places in the posts for your wall. Users now can share the external links from the web view provided by the application. Places and Group Walls underwent a cosmetic facelift.

Most crucial improvement is the addition of the privacy controls on posts and match them with the website settings. This update is applicable only to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The Facebook app for iPad is still missing from action and has surprisingly taken longer than expected to be released.

Evernote for Android with new features launched

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Evernote for Android with new features launched

Evernote has announced new features and capabilities for its version. The new Evernote 3.2 version for Android brings tighter integration with Skitch, offline note search, new options for image viewing, and much more.

Skitch was recently acquired by Evernote. It allows users to easily draw, ink, grab screenshots, annotate and share ones’ favourite images with a little personal touch.

Below are the new features of the new Evernote version and how to use them

Annotating an existing image

If you’d like to annotate (highlight or write your own comment) a snapshot or image contained in an existing note, edit the note and tap on the image attachment. In the popup, tap on Annotate with Skitch; this will work for just about any note that contains images, with the exception of web clips. Once you’ve marked up your image in Skitch, tap on the Evernote icon and the image will be sent back into the original note.

Search when you’re offline

You can now search within your Evernote account even when you don’t have a network connection. In the past, you were able to access certain notes offline, but searching for notes wasn’t possible. Now, premium users can take entire notebooks offline and search within them. Free users can search within notes that they viewed or created on their Android device.

Additionally, premium users can search within their PDFs while offline. Please be aware that this will require downloading and storing more content to your device or card.

Slideshow View for images

Open a note, then tap on an image, photo or something you marked up in Skitch. This will open slideshow view. The image will take up the whole screen on a black background. You can swipe left and right to view all the other images in that note. If your note contains an image and nothing else, then it will automatically open in Slideshow View.

When in Slideshow View, you can edit the note title by simply tapping on it. You can go between Slideshow View and the standard note view by tapping on the Slideshow icon in the top left corner.

Shared Notebook improvements

Whenever someone invites you to access a shared notebook, you’ll receive an email with a link. If you view the email on your Android device and tap the link, the shared notebook will open up right inside of Evernote on Android.

Additional features

Move notes between notebooks: Tap and hold a note in the note list, then choose Move to notebook from the popup.

Redesigned tagging: When adding a tag, you’ll see a redesigned, more useable tagging interface.

Save files to SD card: Tap on any note containing files or images, then tap the Menu and choose Save attachments.

An version of Evernote is also under development and will be launched shortly.

Hackers can trap users through smartphone gyroscope

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Even those users who are extremely security-conscious and read all the user agreements may be overlooking some not so obvious methods through which some malicious apps may extract a lot of information about them. According to a latest report of a research firm – UC Davis, the gyroscope of a smartphone may reveal even the keystrokes entered by the users.

The researchers have come out with a concept app, which is named as TouchLogger, as a proof. The basic problem identified by the researchers is that most users don’t consider it as security risk if any has access to their gyroscope data.

Whenever the users tap the screen, there are some predictable shifts in the positioning of the phone, so the gyroscope can simply figure out which keys you are tapping on the screen.

The proof of concept app is not really accurate – its accuracy, in reading which keys are being tapped, is only about 70 per cent.

But then even 70 per cent accuracy is big trouble if the users are typing their bank account pin/password on their smartphone’s touchscreen. There is every possibility that if further analysis is conducted on the app, the accuracy may improve.

Since all the smartphones use gyroscopes, the vulnerability lies in all the smartphones, whichever platform they might be using.

The keystrokes pressed on the bigger devices may be predicted more accurately since there is more space on the keyboard of tablets, so the shift in the orientation of the tablet may be more perceptible. As a result, the smartphone operating systems may, in future, incorporate a security mechanism to prevent the gyroscope from accessing such data.

Google+ App for iOS gets Resharing feature

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Google+ App for iOS gets Resharing feature

A new update of Google+ has been released for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Punit Soni, product manager for Google+, said in a post on the social network that the update brings a new Reshare feature so that users can easily reshare the posts from other Google+ users. Users will have to tap on the arrow near the comment box to bring up the “Share this post” option box.

Also you can use the iPhone or iPod Touch (fourth generation) to click a photo of yourself and then set it as your Google+ Profile image. Users can now create new Circles from the Circles Destination.

Users who wish to get into group chat can now enjoy Huddle &#151 the group chat segment, with a new AutoComplete feature where you can add users quickly and continue to chat with many.

Notifications were bit of an issue earlier but that has now been fixed with this update &#151 Google+ now provides accurately refreshed notifications when one returns to the app. As an added security measure, Google+ has now two-step verification process as well.

Notably, Facebook too recently rolled out a significant update for the devices. However, there’s still no sight of the Google+ app for the iPad not any information when it would be released.

The new Google+ update can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or from here for iPhone and iPod touch devices running iOS 4.0 or higher.

Quad-core processor loaded tablets coming this year: Nvidia

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Google OS loaded tablets running quad-core Nvidia processor will be released later this year, Forbes quoted Nvidia’s chief executive officer Jen-Hsun Huang as saying.

Currently, most of the tablets come with a single core processor while few new devices like Samsung Galaxy Tab and Acer Iconia come with dual core processors. If the said Android tablet indeed come with a quad-core processor than it will lend huge computing power to the device &#151 enhancing its multitasking capability by multifold.

Nvidia’s next generation quad-core mobile platform processor &#151 Tegra 3 System-on-a-Chip (SoC), currently codenamed as Project Kal-El, will be shown by the end of this year. Next year, we may get to see quad-core processors running smartphones as well.

At the Mobile World Congress 2011 earlier this year, Nvidia talked about the Tegra 2 successor and stated that the tablets running Tegra 3 will debut this year. Nvidia’s next generation Project Kal-el will have four processing cores and 12 cores on single die for the tablets.

The first quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 Soc based tablet is expected to be shown at the CTIA Enterprise and Application on October 11 in San Diego, USA. However, the first tablet based on the processor will be available for purchase only by Christmas.

The major question to think over here – are the mobile/tablet operating systems as well as applications capable enough to make the best of the quad-core processors?

New system from Sept 27 to stop unsolicited calls, messages

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After much dilly-dallying, Indian telecom operators have finally decided to put up a system to curb unsolicited calls and text massages. Notably, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in its earlier order, had mandated that telecom operators put in place a system which curbs unsolicited calls and text massages.

The system &#151 Unsolicited Commercial Communications, which was initially proposed to come up in February this year, will go live on September 27th.

The new regulations mandate two databases – a Do Not Call and a Do Call registry – with 7 preference categories for choosy customers who would like to receive only select calls and SMSs. The new system will automatically include people who have already registered with the Do Not call registry and a “filtering” feature in it will block unsolicited massages/calls from reaching the registered customers.

A new numbering prefix for the telemarketers will allow people to know if it is a marketing call or not merely by looking at the incoming number.

“COAI and its members are pleased to continue our close cooperation with TRAI to make the launch of the UCC system a grand success which we expect will delight our customers,” said Rajan S Mathews, director general, Cellular Operators Association of India.

He further stated: “We believe this is a comprehensive approach to the problem and is our best chance to stop this nuisance to our customers.”

COAI was, however, careful not to set expectations saying that while we expect a smooth roll out, any project of this magnitude and complexity (over 800 million connections, covering 22 circles and 12 operators), bound to have a few hiccups. We hope these will be minor and customers will enjoy this new experience.

If you are not yet registered with the National Do not call registry (now called Consumer Preferncee National Register or NCPR) you can do so by registering your telephone numbers with your telecom service provider for inclusion in the NCPR by dialling 1909. Your number will be included in the NCPR within seven days of the registration of your request with the service provider.

You can check the status of your registration in the NCPR by clicking on “Customer Registration Status”. You can also register by going to your service providers’ website. There you will also get options to stop marketing calls selectively. For instance, you can allow banking related calls and messages and bar the rest.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich to arrive in Oct-Nov

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The next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich is likely to be launched by October &#151 November, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt has announced.

“We have a new operating system, internally known as Ice Cream Sandwich for some reason, which is being released in October/November, which everyone’s really excited about,” said Eric in an interview at the DreamForce conference organised by SalesForce.

Earlier this year, Google announced the Ice Cream Sandwich update at the Google I/O conference. Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to combine the best elements from the Honeycomb (for tablets) and Gingerbread (for smartphones and tablets) into a single OS and uniform user interface.

News trickling in from different sources suggests the iPhone 5, Windows Phone 7 Mango and the Ice Cream Sandwich from Google &#151 all will arrive in the market at approximately same time.

Considering the October timeframe, there are two big conferences. First one, CTIA Enterprise and Applications on October 11 takes place in San Diego, USA, where all major mobile handset, wireless network technology enablers, developers and pretty much every major company in mobile software will be present. Bunch of new handsets are expected to be announced there.

Secondly, AsiaD conference by All Things Digital will take place in Hong Kong where in Andy Rubin, senior vice president of Google is going to be present along with other big executives like Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, Sony Corporation’s executive deputy president Kazuo Hirai and ASUS chairman Jonney Shih. We expect some major announcement or at least a display of upcoming tablets or smartphones.

Last year, Andy Rubin demonstrated 3.x Honeycomb operating system running on the Motorola XOOM prototype at the All Things D’s Dive into Mobile conference. We can expect the Nexus Prime smartphone or Motorola XOOM successor to be shown at the AsiaD conference this year as well.

Latest Asphalt 6 game available for free for Samsung Galaxy S2

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Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 owners are just turned out to be lucky as they can now download Gameloft’s latest car racing game – Asphalt 6 Adrenaline WCG (World Cyber Games) – for free on their devices.

The original game, Asphalt 6, has been around for quite some time now and has been liked by a lot of users. The Asphalt 6 Adrenaline WCG version is the latest instalment of the game that features a WCG specific tab in the game.

Users can play the game using the custom Samsung WCG branded car in the game. Though free, it is not a limited game play version. On the contrary, this version is a full version game with career, quick race and multiplayer mode for the players.

Gameloft’s Asphalt 5 video game was chosen as the official video game for the World Cyber Games 2010 event and Samsung was the lead sponsor of the mobile gaming category. The game is also expected to feature in this years’ World Cyber Games event as the official battle game and that is why this version has been released keeping mind the upcoming tournament.

Although, it is not known as why this game has been made free but it is anticipated that the game will be available for a very limited time period only. Users who are interested in downloading this game should move fast before the offer lapses.

The game is available on the Samsung store for free or users can follow this link to download the game on their Galaxy S2 i9100 devices only.

Now listen to your city’s Big FM anywhere through mobile

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Airtel subscribers can now listen to 92.7 BIG FM even when they are not located in their cities where the FM telecasts its shows. BIG Digital, Big FM’s parent company, has tied-up with Spice Digital as the technology partner and Airtel as the operator for this service.

What this basically means is that if you are a Tamil based in Mumbai, you can listen to 92.7 BIG FM Chennai on your Airtel mobile sitting in Mumbai. This service will be available across all the circles of Airtel.

The service will use FM Streaming Capability and will offer additional service through personalised recommendation for users, special content such as new movies, celebrity specials, and channel language selector to provide the relevant channels to the users.

To subscribe, one has to dial 59270 from his Airtel number. The service does not require the handset to have an FM receiver. The charges for the service has not been announced, however a similar service is already available on Airtel for Radio Mirchi for which users need to pay Rs 10 per week for 100 hours of listening. Charges for Big FM are expected to be similar.

Soumen Ghosh Choudhury, executive vice president and business head, BIG Digital and 92.7 BIG FM, said, “This path-breaking initiative from BIG Digital will make Airtel subscribers feel at home whichever part of the country they are in. The cutting technology used by our partners Spice Digital will ensure the seamless and high quality transmission of 92.7 BIG FM shows anywhere in the country”.

Epson launches iPrint app for Android

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Epson, a known brand for printers and imaging devices, has announced the launch of its new Epson iPrint for mobile devices.

It allows Android mobile phone and tablets users to print documents, e-mail attachments and stored files, using Epson Inkjet printers, over WiFi network &#151 enabling users to get the work done faster and without much hassle.

The has a built-in web browser, which users can use to find and print a web page, or they can also access and print files from online file storage services like Box.net, Dropbox and Evernote. The application also enables the device to scan documents or pictures from the connected Epson all-in-one and share a file via email, save online on online file services or save it on to the device as well.

“The new Epson iPrint app offers fun and useful capabilities including the ability to print photos, and web pages any time to any nearby wireless Epson printer, giving Android device owners the freedom to print virtually anything they want to.” Said Samba Moorthy, division head &#151 sales and marketing, Epson India.

The iPrint application as of now is compatible with some of the Epson printer models that include Epson Office TX510FN, Epson Stylus TX550W, Epson Stylus Office TX600FW, Epson Stylus Photo TX700W, Epson Stylus Photo TX720W, Epson K200, Epson ME Office 900WD.Epson ME Office 960FWD and Epson Stylus Photo R3000 to name a few.

The application is available free of cost for all Android devices and can be downloaded directly from the Android Market or alternatively users can follow this link to download the same.

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