Google Links Social Network Contacts to E-mail

Search Engine King, Google has added a new feature for its Gmail users which will result in receiving emails and messages from non shared people across the network. That mean Gmail users is going to get emails from people they may not know and they haven’t shared their e-mail addresses. This new feature has raised privacy concerns among many users.
Thursday, July 9th in San Francisco, Google announced new feature that broadens the contact list available to Gmail users. This feature includes both the names of people on social Google+ network as well as the e-mail addresses of their existing contacts. With the help of these a user can send e-mails directly to the people who use Google+.

From many days Google is integrating their social network Google+ with users. When a person is signing up for Gmail then he or she automatically given a Google+ account. This social network is almost three years old and is a buzz throughout the world. With this new feature the integration between Gmail and Google+ has got stronger. In words of Google, this feature will make it easier for users who use both services to communicate with their friends. And if the recipients do not reply to the e-mail or message then Gmail may and will block future messages from that sender.
Now, there is no surprise for people when they check their e-mails that they received from unexpected and may be unknown persons. Google also said there will be an option for people who do not wish to use this new feature by switching their settings. But experts suggested that Google might have used the option of ‘Opt-in’ and let the users to opt in or opt out this new feature.
A spokeswoman from Google said that the company has planned to send an e-mail to all Google+ users in upcoming days (within a week) to alert about this feature and detailing steps the change the settings if required. There will be an exception for celebrities, public figures and famous persons, who is followed by many fans.

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Speech at CES 2014

Many people gathered to hear the speech of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo at Consumer Electronics Show CES at Las Vegas, Nevada. She unveiled new mission of Yahoo that is to create, simplify, summarize and personalize the massive information on the web today. Hilton Theatre was totally packed with hundreds to evidence the future plans of Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer was not the only one on stage at the LVH Theater. She was joined by David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, cast members of Saturday Night Live John Legend and Katie Couric along with David Pogue, former New York Times technology columnist. It was a strong speech from Mayer as she was on stage after a long gap.

In her speech at CES, Mayer mentioned about a massive shift to mobile industry. Yahoo is throwing its chips into the mobile game and they recently climber to 400 million monthly users and company is expecting huge climb by the year 2017 through connected devices. In a talk to USA Today, Mayer mentioned about making Flickr awesome again at the announcement of the acquisition of Tumblr into the company.

Marissa Mayer was very curious about Yahoo News Digest and made a strong pitch for commitment of yahoo to News in tablets and Smartphone. She also introduced and explained the role of Katie Couric, who recently joined company. David Pogue showcased the digital magazine, Yahoo Tech. For this year, Yahoo will be focusing on video content creation and curation. Marissa Mayer has been roaring success as CEO for Yahoo for last one year.

A successful and an inspiring keynote by Yahoo CEO at the major gadget event clearly indicate that they are not going to fall back. With the announcement of new changes and future plans it seems Yahoo is going to give a tough competition in the category for the toppers.

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Samsung Show at CES 2014

Every year in Consumer Electronics Show, Technology major Samsung unveils its best of the best products for the users. This year also they headed to Las Vegas show to uncover some of its coolest products. Samsung Company is making the most of the electronics show as it is the major event for industry experts especially like Samsung.

Samsung people unveiling their two new Samsung digital cameras in this year’s CES. The NX30 Camera from Samsung featuring 20.3 effective MP with APS-c CMOS Sensor, enhanced image processor and NX AF System for accurate focusing. They are also demonstrating its first premium lens of ‘S’ Series. There is also Galaxy Camera 2 with all amazing stuff also showcasing in CES 2014.

Galaxy NotePro and TabPro tablets also unveiled by Samsung which aim to be very effective for good work and good play. By introducing these technologies, Samsung aimed to grab the top spot in the category of smartphone technology from Apple. These showcased products interface is based on Google’s Android. Galaxy NotePro is having a 12.2” screen and three other TabPros has 8.4” , 10.1” and 12.2” screen size which may go on sale in UK later this year.

First of its kind, Samsung U9000 curved UHD TV also debuted at CES 2014 press conference. This television is the combination of curved screen and ultra high definition (UHD). Here they also announced that Samsung is going to launch three variants of curved UHD TV in the second quarter of this year.

There are many other companies are participating in the technology category such as Intel, Valve, Sony, Sharp, Razer, LG and some other companies. We will have to wait and see that how much impact from these products by Samsung will help company to improve its sales in 2014 year.

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Technology Updates in CES Press Day

CES kicks off with a bang, hundreds of industry professionals and journalists roaming around Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Brian Krzanich, CEO intel, unveiled several new devices including smart earbuds, smart watch and a Jarvis, a smart earphone headset system. He also mentioned Edison, a new system on a chip that is aimed at wearable gadgets.

In CES 2014, Pebble is showcasing a new smartwatch which is named Pebble Steel an updated versions of playful Pebble. Though Pebble is not having booth at this year’s CES event, but the startup is making rounds at technology show to promote its online app store.

On the other side, it was not a good start for Samsung bendy television promotion on the press day at CES event on Los Vegas. Action films Director Michael Bay was addressing the new bendy television from Samsung in front of industry specialists. But, he was embarrassed with the fluffing teleprompter which failed and appeared to be malfunctioned. He strode into spotlight of the CES on Monday to acknowledge and praise Samsung’s ultra high definition curved TV as a future technology boom.

Panasonic uncovered and exhibited its latest 17.8 cm tablet, the Toughpad FZ-M1 which targets business and government users who is expecting reliability from their gadgets. This tablet compressed of Intel Core i5 processor. It is the Thinnest and lightest rugged fanless tablet in the market according to Panasonic claim.

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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 Starts Tomorrow

One of the largest electronics demonstration events of the year, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will kick off tomorrow that is on January 7, 2014 in Los Vegas, Nevada. Most awaited event for the electronic engineers to show their geniuses in front of the world. This event conducted every year in the first or second week of the New Year to start with great new technology.
There will be tons of new technological stuff will be available for exhibition and compete. It is not at all boring the history of the CES event. It is a good chance for manufacturers and consumers to show up their architectonics on the big stage.

About CES
The Consumer Electronics Show is a global stage for innovation and the power of technology. The CES is organized to showcase the latest development and discoveries in the technological industry. This is the stage where CEOs from the most powerful companies in tech industry present their product or vision of products that will shape the next wave of innovation.
From CES Eve party to the official closing ceremony of CES is released and on display in their organization’s official website ‘cesweb’.  There are many things included in the list of events and awards as it depends on the person whether he or she is looking for any mobile technology or robotic action or anything else. Almost every technological thing is added here in this event to notify.
People may be interested in the early news release about what is included in the event of CES. Nvidia, a chip-maker has announced a new processor which is designed for mobile devices for better graphics than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Here we may get the look of Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, Tech Titans keynote, replay of Sony keynote, more events and awards will be followed. For more information about the events in the CES 2014 interested people can prefer official CES web website.

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Blackberry Filed Lawsuit against Typo Product

Smartphone Company Blackberry has filed a document in California court stating that Typo’s new iPhone case rips off the famous keypad of Blackberry phone. Blackberry accused Typo Products of copying the design of its keypad in an effort to capitalize on the Smartphone makers’ goodwill and commercial recognition.
Famous television personality Ryan Seacrest is the co founder of the company Typo Products which is accused in the copy keyboard design matter. According to the report in The StarPhoenix, in the filing document Blackberry said, ” The keyboard product from Typo has caused and is likely to continue the confusion, deception and mistake as to the source of the origin of its products”. Also added, “it is likely to falsely suggest a connection, sponsorship or association between Typo products and its commercial activities with Blackberry”.

Mr. Steve Zipperstein, Chief Legal Officer of Blackberry said that they are flattered by the desire to see our designed keyboard on to other Smartphones but will not tolerate such activity without fair compensation for using their technological innovations and intellectual property.
Ryan Seacrest is the current host of American Idol and also producer to several TV shows. He is the co founder of Typo Products along with entrepreneur Laurence Hallier, CEO of Show Media. The Lawsuit from Blackberry came as the company looking to secure its keyboard design. The keyboard layout and its design specifications detailed in the lawsuit.
Blackberry Company asking for numerous rulings which includes Typo’s profits out of the product sales, damages from Typo and a full stop to further sale of keyboard.

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New Year Celebrations at Times Square New York

The Last day of the year 2013 was celebrated very joyfully. Many people around the world welcome the New Year with joy. Colors, balloons and lights were all around the streets wishing each other a very happy New Year. Many people celebrated with their friends and family members in their hometowns. Singing and dancing whole night along the streets of many countries.

The celebrations at Times Square in New York, United Kingdom have been iconic in the history of America and American tradition for more than 100 years. More than a million spectators gathered at the venue by freezing their toes off to watch the live performance and especially for the historic ball drop.

In New York Times Square people gather to watch and catch the ball drop on the New Year Eve night. People here celebrated with musical performances, celebrity interviews and iconic crystal ball drops from the top of Times Square Building.

Miley Cyrus was one of the performers at Times Square and ringing in 2014. She belted out a medley of her own songs to get it right and stayed away anything that may be controversial. She wore sparkly gold crop top and trousers which covered with a floor length white fur coat.

Live performer Macklemore keeps himself warm in a huge red poncho while on the stage performing Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2014 on December 31st Evening in the heart of Times Square. His pal Ryan Lewis also joined the stage with him to keep the surrounding warm.

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NSA Building Quantum Computer to Crack Encryption Types

The National Security Agency (NSA) is starting a project, under the research program, to build a computer system that will be able to break almost each and every kind of encryption and securities to protect medical, business, banking and government records around the world.
The United States NSA is reportedly racing forward to create a machine considerably faster than classic computers, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. According to the document report provided by NSA whistle blower Mr. Edward Snowden, a research program named ‘Penetrating Hard Targets’ also includes a project in which manufacturing of a cryptologically useful quantum computer is included.

The expectations and implications of the machine manufacturing are very difficult to guess. Strong encryption tools which are used today may be included to crack any type of machine with that quantum computer. Probably, highly secured RSA standards are expected to be included in this machine which can decrypt any system at any time when required. RSA Algorithm is commonly used in web browsers security for emails and financial transactions.
Many scientific communities have been trying to develop such a machine which has revolutionary implications for fields like medicine as well as government records. The National Security Agency of US reportedly sees itself as in a race with Swiss and European Union sponsored quantum computing labs.

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Facebook Scanning Private Messages

The Social Networking Giant Facebook has been accused of scanning private messages of its user’s data to provide it to some marketers. A class action lawsuit has been filed in California federal court against Facebook.
According to the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this social networking company scanned plaintiffs’ private messages containing uniform resource locators that is URLs and searched the website identified in the URL. This is done for the purposes including but not limited to profiling and data mining.

 

The company enables it to mine the user’s data and gain some bucks by sharing it with the other parties like marketers, advertisers and other data aggregates, according to the complaint. This social networking company is said to have violated the California privacy laws and Electronic Communications Privacy Act by its international interception of electronic communications.
High Tech Bridge, A Swiss firm, reported in August that it used an especially dedicated web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 most popular and largest social networks for the sake of testing with respect to user privacy.
The filed lawsuit is asking for the class action status and injunction against Facebook’s practices. It also claims the greater of either $100 US dollars a day for each day of alleged violations or $10,000 US dollars for every user who is claimed to be affected.
But on the other side, Facebook people officially emailed a statement which said, allegations are without merit and they will defend themselves vigorously. With the effect of growing social networks and competitors, Facebook is already lacking users from the last year. Now we will have to wait and see what and how this report will affect its users.

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iPhone 6 on Its Way with Killer Specs and Features

Many Technology experts already amazed with the mechanism behind iPhone 5s. Now after the announcement about iPhone 6, they are out of expectations about the new version. From the month October in 2013, after the sale of iPhone 5s, the Apple Company got back the top spot in the Smartphone industry.
Technology giant Apple has not yet confirmed the release date of iPhone 5s successor but specifications are going very high for iPhone 6. With the start of New Year 2014 expectations of features are likely getting the huge bump in the market. With the sale of the iPhone 5s Apple reclaimed the Smartphone leadership from October 2013 and Tech giant closed out the year as number one again.
The Apple Company has aimed to deliver another game changer model that is iPhone 6, which is expected to possess fresh killer specifications and features that would dominate the older versions. In the last version that is iPhone 5s, Apple people introduced 64-bit computing in mobile devices, which was a latest Smartphone forward-looking.

iPhone 6 New Look
This new version is probably expecting as the first phablet size device and bigger screen size than 4 inch iPhone 5s. Experts say that this version will points to a display panel that is no more than 5-inch and optimized for one hand use.

Details are sketchy for now but numerous revealed patents from Apple suggest that Liquid metal and sapphire will come into play in the making of a virtually indestructible iPhone 6 frame, which of course would stun with radical new look as many phone concepts have envisioned in the past months.

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