Samsung Galaxy S4 - Eye-tracking smartphone landed

The long waited Samsung Galaxy S4 unveiled by Samsung yesterday on March 14 2013 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The new smart phone, Galaxy S4, with features like photos with sound from a 13MP rear-facing camera, language translation, group media streaming, infrared gesture control and more.

what is new with the S4?

The S4 is still impressive light, weighing in just above 130g, with new addition of a solid metallic banding around the side of the phone. It's also slimmer than Galaxy S3, the previous version the has been released back 2012, with the phone measuring 136.6x69.8x7.9mm alongside packing in full 5 inch HD Super AMOLED screen.

Hardware 

One of the few major hardware features Samsung introduced was the S4's cameras. A dual-camera mode can capture images from both the 13MP rear-facing and 2MP front-facing cameras, allowing the photographer to be in the video or photograph. Therefore, users can also add audio to still photos, along with other advanced software functions.

The 5-inch, 441 pixel-per-inch Super AMOLED display on the S4 includes "Air Gesture" capabilities that allows users to interact with the screen without actually touching it.

Rounding out the new component set is a plastic body measuring 5.3 inches long by 2.7 inches wide and 7.9mm thick. The S4 runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box on a 1.9GHz quad-core or 1.6GHz octa-core processor and comes with 16GB of storage standard, with options for 32GB or 64GB, while all models come with a MicroSD slot. Powering the device is a 2,600mAh battery.

Please see below YouTube video first look on Samsung Galaxy S4 from AndroidCentral.

Summary

Overall, it seems that Samsung is banking on software improvements and innovations to drive sales, as hardware enhancements were largely iterative. 

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Source: CNET

T-Mobile/Orange customers face yet more price hikes

According Money Saving Expert site the Tmobile and Orange UK mobile network operaters increasing their prices by 3.3% from 9th of May 2013 onward, adding 79p a month to a typical fixed mobile contract . This is not the first time as joined companies already increased back March 2012 by 3.7% (Tmobile) and 4.34% (Orange). This is hidden in their terms and condition and not clearly advised consumers in advance before singing up their monthly contract. We recon fix means fix and prices should not be increased before then.

Who is affected?

Not all customers will be hit. Contracts which aren't affected include: 

• Orange customers who signed up after 2 December 2012.
• Orange business, Sim-only, works and "current pay monthly consumer" customers.
• T-Mobile customers who signed up after 22 January 2013.
• T-Mobile customers on 30-day Sim-only and the "current consumer" plans.
• All customers on EE tariffs

 Are you affected by T-Mobile’s price hike? Or are you worried that your mobile operator might be next to raise prices? Then join Fix Mean Fix campaign led by Which? technology which due to revise by Ofcom14th March 2013. For more information please visit their website on http://goo.gl/TvCy6.


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Source:Money Saving Expert

Samsung Galaxy S4: mock-up

S4 predicted photo

The next Samsung's flagship smart phone is set to release in 14 March this year. With just seven days to go until the grand unveiling of Samsung’s Galaxy S IV smartphone at a special event in New York City, the Korean company has begun the countdown by posting a teaser video clip of the highly-anticipated handset. The clip involves a young boy – the "secret messenger" of Samsung Unpacked 2013 – calling in to take a look at a secret package, please see below clip to see more about event. 

Hardware

Based on rumors we expect the device to pack an Exynos Octa 5410 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz, a PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU, 2GB of RAM, have a 4.99in full HD 1920×1080 display,a 13-megapixel camera, run Android 4.2 out the box, support GSM/WCDMA/LTE networks, and come in 16, 32 and 64GB versions with a black or white colour schem. Furthermore, The Samsung Galaxy S4 may be a sight for sore eyes, literally. According to a New York Times report, the company's "next big thing," to be introduced later this month, will include eye-tracking technology that turns your eyeballs into page scrollers.

Stay tuned for more news Samsung Galaxy S4. 

Source: CNET

Evernote Hacked: Evernote Resets Everyone's Passwords After Intrusion

For what it seems the giant cloud service Evernote has been hacked and all users of an online note-taking app are being forced to change their password after "suspicious activity" was discovered on the company's network. This is including us "Droid Tech News", please see above email we had from the company.

Evernote will also be releasing updates to their apps very soon to address the attack. Thus, if you haven't had an update for your mobile/tablet then head to Playstore/itunes store and check for an update for your device.

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Source: Evernote

New HTC One

New HTC ONE

Exciting times are ahead as HTC has unveiled its latest flagship handset, the HTC One. The brand new device features a full 1080p HD display, quad-core processor and a 13 megapixel camera, as well as a whole host of audio enhancement tech courtesy of HTC BoomSound.
Please see below the first look on this new smart phone from HTC and stay tuned as there is more to come including full review. Please leave your comments below on what do you think of this new flagship smart phone. 

Twitter Has Been Hacked: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Compromised

Security Warning!

Twitter says that approximately 250,000 users may have been affected by the hack, with the hackers gaining access to usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted version of passwords. Not good.

In response to this incident the company said:

"As a precautionary security measure, we have reset passwords and revoked session tokens for these accounts. If your account was one of them, you will have recently received (or will shortly) an email from us at the address associated with your Twitter account notifying you that you will need to create a new password. Your old password will not work when you try to log in to Twitter".

We would recommend to our audiences to visit their twitter accounts and update password as soon as for better. For more information please see below video from BBC technology news.  

Stay tuned for more update.

Source: BBC 

World Wide Web - Cold War

Now days, everybody relies on the internet for business, personal use however, as the technology evolved things got more complicated interms of privacy, copyright materials and the new law currently emerging. But what do you know about SOPA bill (Stop Online Piracy Act)?. Therefore, if you live in the US then we would reccomend to watch below video at least once or just to bear in mind what is happening around the world.

Source: Idlegeek

Facebook looking to buying whatsApp: Rumors

Unofficial sources has confirmed facebook looking to buy WhatsApp. However, this is a gentle move for Facebook because WhatsApp is available on a number of different platforms and has a staggering 100 million daily active users globally, serving few billion messages every day. The mobile app is currently the number-two paid app in the US Apple App Store, where it sells for $0.99. On Google Play, it’s free for the first year, and then $0.99 per year thereafter.

Why Facebook wants for this deal?

Facebook previously bought Instagram for $1Billion not very long, although that number is mostly reflected in now reduced stock options. It’s not clear why Facebook would buy WhatsApp but there are a few possibilities, including augmenting or even gutting the unreliable Facebook Chat and there is of course the legion of WhatsApps users. Please leave your comments below if you have different view.

Stay tuned for more update.

Source: TechCrunch

NASA lost an unencrypted laptop in car!

A Halloween October 13 2012, unencrypted NASA laptop stolen from an employee locked in a vehicle which contains unsecured personal data (Personal Identifier Information) on large number of people. However, it was password protected but not encrypted.

Unfortunately, password protected will prevent Operating System booting but all you have to do attach the hard drive to USB already booted system, and you have full access to the drive.

This was not first time as the organisation lost yet another unencrypted laptop back in March 2012 which containing sensitive data including a number of codes for international space station, names, GPAs, addresses, emails, etc.

Last but not least, the organisation issued direct order on 21st November 2012 prohibited a removal of computers from any NASA facility unless whole disk “Hard Drive” encrypted is enabled or all sensitive file individually encrypted.

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Note: If you reading this article and you have sensitive data in your laptop, remember to encrypt your data or encrypt individual necessary files in advance. .

Adblock Plus for Android

We all do certainly love our gadgets and other free stuff. But it is annoying when you download free applications but you have to live with adds that comes with at the bottom/top of your device. However, we found a decent truly free app for Android users as this is Open Source - Adblock Plus, if you want to download this app please use the link provided for you. In addition to this, there is a browser version and if you would like to know more please see below video.

Please leave your comments below and stay tuned, there is more to come.