NEW DELHI: Seems mobile giant Nokia too is all set to join the big screen phones fray. Speculations are rife that the company is readying its biggest Lumia smartphone yet. According to a report in technology websiteGSMInsider, the Finnish manufacturer is working on a smartphone called Lumia 625 that has a 4.7-inch display. This screen size makes the display of the speculated device bigger than that of flagship Lumia 920 and the upcomingLumia 928.
While details about the upcoming Lumia 625 are sparse, the report c

As long-rumored, YouTube is launching paid channels in a pilot program starting today. A small number of shows, including Sesame Street and UFC, will begin offering channels that can only be accessed after paying an apparently variable subscription fee, which starts at $0.99 per month. A full list of channels can be found on YouTube's Channels page, including offerings from film distributors Magnet and comedy channel Laugh Factory. Some channels will offer yearly discounts, and all will come with a 14-day free trial. For now, the program is apparently quite small, but YouTube will be rolling it out in the coming weeks for current qualifying partners. Paid chann

Everyone wants to be in show biz, and these days — on the web at least — it seems as if everyone is.
Digital and traditional media companies, including newspapers and magazines, have for years been building a video presence on the internet. But until now the offerings have largely been low-budget, single-camera affairs featuring talking heads.

NEW DELHI: Zaakpay, an online payment gateway provider, launched Mpay, its mobile payment processing solution for retailers to enable them to collect payments via the mobile. 
With this solution, users can now buy directly using their mobile phones, quickly and easily,Zaakpay said in a statement. 

The launch

THE HAGUE: Dutch government websites were paralysed for several hours overnight after a mass cyberattack which targeted several ministerial sites, a spokesman said. 
"The government's sites have been the target of aDDoS attack since last night around 8:00 pm (1800 GMT)," Robert Wester told AFP, referring to a denial of service attack in which hackers bombard sites with traffic in order to jam them. 

NEW DELHI: Opera Software said it has signed up with seven Indian mobilephone makers to pre-install its Opera mini mobile web browser in their upcoming handsets, phablets and tablets. 
The Norwegian software developer's mobile web browser will be the exclusive third-party browser to be pre-installed on all Android devices byCelkon, Karbonn, Lava and Intex, while, Opera mini will be pre-installed on select Android devices by Fly, Zen and HCL ME tablets. 

HELSINKI: Nokia will unveil new models in its Asha range of mid-tier phones, after first-quarter results showed a sharp fall in sales of mobile phones while management focused on boosting sales of Lumia smartphones. 
"We are continuing to renew our portfolio, which includes plans to announce innovation and new products in the Asha line in the days immediately ahead," Chief Executive Stephen Elop told investors at an annual general meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google's wearable computer, the most anticipated piece of electronic wizardry since the iPad and iPhone, will not go on sale for many months.
But the critics are already in a lather.

The glasses-like device, which allows users to access the internet, take photos and film short snippets, has been pre

WASHINGTON: The television advertisement that hit the airwaves in Florida last month featured the Republican Party's rising star, Sen.Marco Rubio, boasting about his get-tough plan for border security. 
But most viewers who watched the commercial, sponsored by a new group that calls itself Americans for a Conservative Direction, may be surprised to learn who bankrolled it: senior executives from Silicon Valley, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Reid Hoffman ofLinkedIn, who run companies where the top employees donate mostly t

Nevada, in the month of April 2013, became the first US State that allowed its residents to play online poker for money, legally. Online Poker gained legitimacy in Nevada in February 2013. Other states that will legalise online poker soon in US are Delaware and New Jersey. 

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer hauled in $36.6 million in pay, bonuses and stock last year after just six months at the helm of the internet firm, with some of that time spent on maternity leave.

Mayer's base pay of $454,862 was fattened with a $1.12 million performance bonus and about $35 million in stock, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mayer's annual base pay this year will be one million dollars and she is eligible for many times that amount in stock and bonuses if she hangs on to the post.

Beginning this year, Mayer will also be eligible to enjoy benefits generally available to other top

Finally a new law passed
Indian penal code 233
If a girl is suspected to be raped or gettin raped , then she has the supreme right to kill the man, injure his sexual part or harm that person as dangerously .. that girl wont be blamed fr murder ........
tell as many as u can .. its your power .. create awareness .... Finally  Hoax or Fact: The message is a fact, with some incorrect details like the IPC code. Analysis: The message claims that a new law under IPC section code 233 has been passed, which allows a girl in India to injure a man or even kill him when she is suspecting a rape, or is getting raped by him. Althought the IPC code mentioned is not right,

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates in a high-security Pakistani jail, officials said.

"I received a call from the doctor on duty (at Jinnah Hospital) at 1am (1:30 IST) informing me that Sarabjit is no more," Mahmood Shaukat, the head of a medical board that was supervising 49-year-old Sarabjit's treatment, told.

Another doctor, who was part of the team treating Sarabjit, said he died of cardiac arrest, adding that doctors made several unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate

MOSCOW: Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said on Sunday. "It will not be a copy but exactly the same as the torch at the Olympics," deputy head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vitaly Davydov, told the Interfax news agency. He said he believed the space walk ceremony "had already been confirmed" with the country's Olympic committee, but gave no details about the event. The torch will not be lit at any point because this would not be permitted for transportation to the ISS, he added. A space industry sour

Google has celebrated the occasion of International Labour Day with a doodle on its home page. This day is observed by workers' unions and their members to mark the 'eight-hour day', which called for eight hours each for work, recreation and rest in a day.

India is among the many countries that celebrate Labour Day annually on May 1. The first Labour Day in the country was organised by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan in Madras on May 1, 1923. On this day, banks and other public organisations in Assam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal and Orissa observe a holiday various.

On the same day, Mahara

Bird's eye view of Yuri Milner's Silicon Valley mansion Russian billionaire, Yuri Milner has made the most expensive residential purchase in the US, by buying a French chateau-style home in the Los Alto Hills in Silicon Valley. The master living room The founder of Digital Sky Technologies, and an investor in companies like Facebook, Zynga, Twitter and Groupon, Milner bought his new mansion for $100 million (approx Rs 445 crore). Set on a spectacular 18-acre hilltop site, it looks over San Francisco Bay. This estate is inspired by an 18th-century French chateaux and is organised around a central entry court enclosing a formal entrance on three sides.   The master

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is expected to finalize a $10 billion arms deal with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates next week that will provide missiles, warplanes and troop transports to help them counter any future threat from Iran. A weeklong visit to the region by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will culminate a year of secret negotiations on a deal that Congressional officials said will be second only to the $29.5 billion sale of F-15 aircraft to Saudi Arabia announced in 2010. But the delicate balancing act that was necessary in weighing the differing interests of each nation made it among the most complex ever negotiated. While one goal was to ensure tha

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf's pre-arrest bail plea was rejected by Pakistan's supreme court on Thursday after Islamabad high court ordered his immediate arrest in the same day, according to Pakistan's Dawn website. According to reports, police have reached his farmhouse — where he fled to — with the court's arrest order after the Islamabad high court order to arrest him immediately.

Earlier, Musharraf was ordered to be arrested immediately by the Islamabad high court over the sacking of 60 judges during emergency rule in 2007, but amid high drama he fled from the premises despite thick security blanket.

This image at left is getting viral in social media today. It is captioned, “mermaid found in bulgaria‘. The caption is not true. The image is a combination of three different images combined using a photo manipulation software, most probably, Photoshop. In other version of this story, it is said that the skeleton of the mermaid is unearthed near Black Sea in Bulgaria. Leaning to manipulate photo is a fun activity but to fool other people about fabricated stories is not a good practice. The mermaid skeleton is actually the “Mermaid Skeleton Found!” art by the1calledDAN, 6th place entry in Archaeological Anomalies 13 – Amazing archaeological discoveries! fr

NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems Chairman & CEO John Chambers said two Indians - Padmasree Warrior, 51, its CTO & chief strategy officer, and Pankaj Patel, 58, its executive vice-president & chief development officer - are in contention to succeed him as CEO when he steps down sometime in the next two-to-four years.


Sixty-three-year-old Chamber, the longest-serving chief of the $46-billion internet networking giant, has guided Cisco, once the world's most valuable company, through its rise, fall and rebirth after the dotcom bust of 2000. He took over as CEO in January 1995, when the company earned just $1.3 billion in revenues.

Asked if an Indian