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  • Sony Ericsson signs deal with NFC chip maker. (PR)

    Sony Ericsson signs deal with NFC chip maker. (PR)

    Mobile Phone companies are gearing up to offer the Google Mobile Wallet service to their users. Sony Ericsson is next in line after Samsung to join in on the payment system implementation to order its NFC chips from manufacturer NXP. According to the deal Sony will PN65 and bring it to future future Android-based Xperia models.

     

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    Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC Solution for its Android-based Smartphones

    Today NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced that its world leading near field communication (NFC) technology has been selected by Sony Ericsson for inclusion in its Android-based smartphones. Sony Ericsson, a leading, global mobile handset manufacturer focused on communications and entertainment, will use NFC to further enhance its consumers’ mobile experiences, creating a portfolio of smartphones that enable mobile transactions. Using simple touch gestures, consumers will be able to make purchases or connect to a point of sale (POS) terminal, ticketing terminal or location-based promotional tag simply and securely with their NFC-enabled smartphones.

    NXP provides complete embedded, secure NFC solutions and recently announced that its NFC software is open source on the Android platform and enables the Google Wallet application. Sony Ericsson intends to use the NXP PN65 NFC solution in their Android-based smartphones, which includes the NFC radio controller, the embedded secure element and NFC software. The embedded secure element enables NFC to be used for mobile transactions. Building on NXP’s extensive background in secure identification, the PN65 uses advanced cryptography to offer the highest level of security for transactions, with the technology already being extensively used in contactless banking cards, e-passports, e-ID cards and secure access systems.

    “Building on Sony Ericsson’s leadership in Android and mobile gaming, the integration of near field communication into our Android-based Xperia™ portfolio is another step in delivering the most entertaining smartphones,” said Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology Officer at Sony Ericsson. “NFC offers our consumers the ability to broaden their communication experience beyond the phone, and we are poised to drive the development of new, exciting and creative entertainment experiences.”

    “This latest move from Sony Ericsson is another proof point of the strong momentum and potential of NFC,” said Rick Clemmer, president and CEO, NXP Semiconductors. “Based on continued strong customer endorsements we have the opportunity to increase the sales of our NFC products 2-4 times as a percentage of total NXP revenue in the second half of 2011 from the approximately one percent it represents today. NFC offers a game-changing opportunity for mobile phone manufacturers to provide creative and innovative smartphones to their customers.

    NFC is a market proven technology co-invented by NXP in 2002. In 2004 NXP co-founded the NFC Forum to lead the collaboration with all industry stakeholders and help standardize the technology. NFC technology evolved from a combination of contactless identification (RFID) and interconnection technologies. Ranked as the number one contactless IC vendor by ABI Research for three years in a row, NXP is the global leader in NFC solutions, field proven in over 150 NFC trials and landmark commercial deployments worldwide.[/toggle]

  • Apple now sued for “iBooks” Trademark infringement

    Apple now sued for “iBooks” Trademark infringement

    New York publisher John T. Colby purchased assets belonging to publisher Byron Preiss several years ago, and included in that buy were more than 1,000 books published under the “ibooks” name. Apple does however have a trademark for “iBook” which was a laptop they released prior to MacBooks.

    John T. Colby currently owns the copyright to the iBooks name and has decided to Sue Apple for the same.

    [quote]Apple’s use of the mark ‘iBooks’ to denote the electronic library that can be accessed via its iPad tablet computer and its iPhone is likely to overwhelm the good will of plaintiffs’ ‘ibooks’ and ‘ipicturebooks’ marks and render them virtually worthless,” Colby’s lawsuit states.[/quote]

  • Blackberry Bold 9900 / Bold touch will launch in UK, With Three in August

    Blackberry Bold 9900 / Bold touch will launch in UK, With Three in August

    Thanks to a upcoming phone map from Mobile Services provider in UK – Three- Looks like the Bold 9900 will launch in August after all. This is the best Bold to have been announced since the Bold 9000 according to the Company.

    Specs include

    • 2.8 inch capacitive screen 640 x 480 pixels
    • BlackBerry OS (7)
    • 1200 MHz Processor
    • 768 MB Ram
    • 5 megapixels Camera
    • 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm Size

     

    [Three UK]

  • Apple will Pay Nokia $600 Million upfront, and $550 Million Yearly Post That.

    Apple will Pay Nokia $600 Million upfront, and $550 Million Yearly Post That.

    According to Deutsche Bank analyst Kai Korschelt,  The dying breed Nokia stands to sustain in the market thanks to is greatest rival today – Apple. Apple and Nokia announced early on Tuesday that they had reached an agreement regarding a series of patent disputes filed by each company over the past few years.

    Korschelt estimates that Apple will give Nokia a $608 million lump-sum payment up front. post that, Apple will like pay Nokia a 1% royalty on all iPhones sold each quarter as a licensing fee. At the current market sale rate, the fruit company will pay the team at Espoo a whopping $550 Million in yearly licenses.

     

    [toggle title_open=”Close the Release” title_closed=”Read the Nokia release from Tuesday” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Nokia enters into patent license agreement with Apple

    Apple payments to Nokia settle all litigation and have positive financial impact

    Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Apple. The agreement will result in settlement of all patent litigation between the companies, including the withdrawal by Nokia and Apple of their respective complaints to the US International Trade Commission.

    The financial structure of the agreement consists of a one-time payment payable by Apple and on-going royalties to be paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement. The specific terms of the contract are confidential.

    “We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees,” said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia. “This settlement demonstrates Nokia’s industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market.”

    During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately EUR 43 billion in research and development and built one of the wireless industry’s strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10,000 patent families. Nokia is a world leader in the development of handheld device and mobile communications technologies, which is also demonstrated by Nokia’s strong patent position.

    This agreement is expected to have a positive financial impact on Nokia’s recently revised outlook for the second quarter 2011 of around break-even non-IFRS operating margin for Devices & Services.[/toggle]

  • IBM – Milestones from the last Century

    IBM – Milestones from the last Century

    IBM is one of the largest IT companies in the world. Yesterday it turned 100 years old. It has grown from a pre-World War I conglomeration of companies making tabulating machines and time-keeping devices into a globe-spanning technology behemoth that pioneered the development of electronic computers and dominated the mainframe era. The company holds a vast array of patents in a vast number of technologies.

    It has crossed many milestones in the last century. Here are a few of them:

    • 1889 – The Bundy Manufacturing Co., a time recording equipment maker is founded.
    • 1896 – The Tabulating Machine Co., a punched-card, electric tabulating equipment maker is founded
    • 1911 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company is founded which merges the Bundy Manufacturing Co., The Tabulating Machine Co., The Computing Scale Company and the International Time Recording Co. It has a total of 1300 employees.
    • 1914 – Thomas J. Watson, Sr., joins the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and ends up as President in 11 months. The company more than doubles its revenues to $9 million in his first four years.
    • 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company is formally renamed International Business Machines.
    • 1928 – IBM introduces the 80 column punch card which doubles previous capacity and remains a standard for the next 50 years.
    • 1933 – IBM enters the typewriter business by acquiring Electromatic Typewriters
    • 1944 – IBM introduces the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or the Mark I, which is the first large scale computer to accomplish operations automatically.
    • 1946 – IBM introduces the first commercially availabe machine with electronic arithmatic circuits, the 603 Electronic Multiplier.
    • 1952 – Thomas J. Watson, Jr. becomes President of IBM.
    • 1957 – IBM introduces FORTRAN, which is used to this day.
    • 1964 – IBM bets $5 billion on future trends by introducing the IBM System/360 which used Solid Logic Technology microelectronics.
    • 1969 – The first manned mission to the moon included an onboard computer designed at IBM
    • 1971 – Frank Cary becomes CEO of IBM and the Floppy disk is also introduced. It becomes a PC data storage standard.
    • 1981 – IBM introduces the worlds cheapest and smallest Personal Computer at $1565. It partners with Microsoft to supply the Operating System and allows competitors to buy it for IBM-Compatible clones which paves the way for competitors like Dell and Compaq.
    • 1984 – IBM introduces its second generation PC with a 6Mhz Intet 80286
    • 1991 – IBM shocks the industry by announcing its first annual loss of $2.82 billion
    • 1995 – IBM acquires Lotus Development Corp. and its Notes software making it the worlds largest software company. It also launches the IBM Thinkpad running on an Intel Pentium 133Mhz processor. It is an instant success.
    • 1997 – The IBM Deep Blue supercomputer, capable of calculating 200 million chess moves per second, defeats chess Grand Master Garry Kasporov.
    • 2005 – IBM sells its PC business to Lenovo to focus on software development.
    • 2011 – Watson, the IBM AI, which comprises of 90 IBM 750 servers defeats two Jepordy game show champions in a two match game.
  • Internet Usage up by 50% in Tier-2 Cities

    Internet Usage up by 50% in Tier-2 Cities

    Last year, the majority of interet users in India were from the Metros. However, the trend in internet usage is shifting towards non-metro cities. Senior Director Nitin Mathur, Yahoo India, had this to say:

    [quote]”Internet penetration is very low in India right now as compared to other nations. It would surely touch 24 crore by 2015 and given the size of India’s population this too would not be enough. But we see more and more people using internet through mobile devices rather than PC’s. Even right now of the 8 crore internet users more than 2.5 crore access it through mobile devices. As 3G enabled handsets become cheap mobile internet would be the next big thing in the country which would take penetration to the remote corners of the country”[/quote]

    He also said that the company was working towards implementing Yahoo Mail in regional Languages. The company has also started a “Learn with Yahoo” program which educates and trains new users on various aspects of the internet including email, search, and internet safety etc.

  • Microsoft releases SDK for Kinect for Windows

    Microsoft releases SDK for Kinect for Windows

     

    A huge number of developers rejoiced as Microsoft on Thursday announced the new SDK for Kinect on WIndows. What this means is that the already hacked and exploited Kinect will now bring a full Sdk to be used for gestures and computations while in an open framework officially supported by Microsoft themselves.

    This will also begin a new era of Gesture controlled PC games . If you want to download and develop using the SDK head on over to the link mentioned to kick-off.

    [Microsoft Blog]

  • 25 Year Old Man Killed by a Chinese Phone

    25 Year Old Man Killed by a Chinese Phone

    A 25 Year old man, Dhanji Damor from the Panchmahal district of Gujarat, India, was killed by his phone while attempting to make a phone call while the phone was plugged in for charging. He recieved a massive electric shock and was pronounced dead on arrival by doctors at a local hospital.

    This just goes to show the shoddy design and construction of devices from China as well as a lack of quality control. If you can’t afford a branded device then it might be worth your life to not buy a cheap knockoff. Its always safer to purchase a device from a known company. It’s incidents like these that give Chinese technology a bad name which is rather scary if you’ve ever taken a look behind your iDevice.

    http://www.redmondpie.com/unlock-iphone-3.1.3-3g-3gs-with-ultrasn0w/
  • Angry Birds Daily Downloads greater that 1 Million

    Angry Birds Daily Downloads greater that 1 Million

    This week Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka said that the smash hit game Angry Birds is now downloaded more than one million times per day. About 8 months ago in a similar situation the company had given the 2 million number for 2 days, i.e. 2 mill downloads in 2 days. But, for a similar trend to continue for so long is really applaudable.

    Rovio’s super hit angry birds is available in various versions like Seasons, Standard and Rio. Angry birds is also the most cross platform game, available on iOS / Android / Mac / WebOS and soon on Windows Phone 7 Devices.

  • 360,000 Credit Cards Leaked in Recent Hack-Attack to CitiGroup

    360,000 Credit Cards Leaked in Recent Hack-Attack to CitiGroup

    In a recent cyber attack by LulzSec, while earlier Citigroup officials claimed that 200,000 creditcards were compromised. This time around they claim that infact 360,000 credit cards have been compromised and the information has been stolen by LulzSec.

     

     

    [quote]Hackers gained access to a total of “360,083 North America Citi-branded credit cards.Hackers gained access to a total of “360,083 North America Citi-branded credit cards.[/quote]

    The bank also claims that more than 70% of the credit cards have already been replaced, and that the maximum Credit Cards were from California.

    LulzSec the infamous hacking group behind many recent cyber attacks, including various at Sony, Has not yet mentioned any involvement in the case.

  • India’s $35 Sakshat Tablet Coming This Month

    India’s $35 Sakshat Tablet Coming This Month

    The Indian Govt. funded and subsidized 35$ tablet codename “Sakshat” will finally release this month. The tablet was originally pegged at a end 2009 release, But after several trias and fails the tablet is now finally set to release.

    The tablet was designed and developed by MIT will be powered by Android OS and is currently being manufactured at the HCL Technologies plant.

     

    Basic Specs include

    • 7 inch Touch Screen
    • Inbuilt keyboard
    • Video conferencing
    • Multimedia
    • 32GB hard drive
    • 2GB RAM
    • Open Office, SciLab and Internet browsing.
    • Wifi and USB – IO

    The tablet is pegged for University students and will be available for a final price of Rs. 2200/- . We will try and get one device atleast for a quick show and tell here at iGyaan.

  • HTC Sensation : Hands on feat SGS 2 and iPhone 4 : Unboxing Video Now Up!

    HTC Sensation : Hands on feat SGS 2 and iPhone 4 : Unboxing Video Now Up!

    Just as we predicted the Sensation Arrived Tuesday and we took full liberty to unbox the Sensation and do the full thing on video for you guys. (more…)

  • Lulzsec Targeting more Games for its Titanic Takeover Tuesday

    Lulzsec Targeting more Games for its Titanic Takeover Tuesday

    The hacker collective known as Lulzsec has singled out MMORPG Eve Online, Indie-Hit Minecraft and RTS League of Legends as their next targets. All three games faced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday and their login servers went down. Eve took its servers off the Public Internet when it realized what had happened. No news on when it would be back up. The Minecraft servers were the first to recover as they have faced massive DDoS attacks in the past, which might have helped them to rectify the situation faster.  League of Legends seems to have fared no better.

    The arm of Lulzsec seems to have grown long indeed and they seem to be soliciting targets now. They said this in a tweet:

    [quote]Call into 614-LULZSEC and pick a target and we’ll obliterate it. Nobody wants to mess with The Lulz Cannon – take aim for us, twitter. [/quote]

     

  • Bio-Energy Plants to be setup in Himachal

    The Himachal Pradesh Government is ready to setup Bio Energy Power Plants ranging from 100 KW to 1 MW in capacity. The plants would be using a variety of grass called the Congress Grass and Pine Needles as fuel. These plants are causing trouble for farmers in the state but can now be put to good use generating electricity. The state has the potential to generate upto 418 MW of electricity from a number of these Power Plants.

  • LG Announces Nano Ultra Slim LED Cinema 3D TVs.

    LG Announces Nano Ultra Slim LED Cinema 3D TVs.

     

    LG is now bringing 3D experience to lower range TV sets with three new models

    • 32-inch 32LW5700
    • 42-inch 42LW5700
    • 47-inch 47LW5700

     

    Specs include

    • USB HDD recording
    • Integrated tuner
    • IPS panel
    • 8.8mm thick a
    • 1080p resolution

    No Pricing information available yet, the TVs launch this Month and are expected to hit India next Quarter.

    [LG]

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