"Huawei announces world's first 10 inch quad core tablet"

The tablet also has an 8 megapixel camera, and 3G data speed of 84 Mbps. It will be available after March

Huawei, a Chinese handset vendor, has announced a 10 inch tablet powered by a quad core processor, at the Mobile World Congress 2012. The tablet, called Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, has a Huawei 1.5 GHz quad core processor, Google Android 4.0 operating system and a 10 inch IPS high definition display screen.

"Most consumers use tablets for entertainment purposes such as gaming, viewing multimedia content, browsing the internet and reading ebooks," said Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei Device. "We have created the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD to excel in all of the entertainment capabilities including speed, power, web browsing, high definition display and audio, and we have packaged it all in a compact and portable body."

The tablet runs a Huawei proprietary 1.5 GHz K3 quad core processor with embedded graphics processor. This Huawei processor is also making its debut with

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"BSNL tablet gets over one lakh pre order requests"

Public sector telecom operator, BSNL, which recently launched extremely low cost tablets along with two mid range tablets, has got a tremendous response from Indian consumers. The three tablets, bundled with its connection, are in the price range of Rs 3,499 - Rs 12,500. They are manufactured by Noida based Pantel Technologies.

Virendra Singh, managing director of Pantel Technologies, said to The Mobile Indian, "We have received more than one lakh pre booking orders over phone and online for the three tablets which we have launched in

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"Patent war looms as Yahoo demands licensing fee from Facebook"

Yahoo demands licensing fee from FB for using technology

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector.

Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook's ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service, according to a source briefed on the matter.

Representatives from the two companies met on Monday and the talks involved 10 to 20 of Yahoo's patents, said the source, who was not aware of what specific dollar demands Yahoo may have made for licenses.

Yahoo did not elaborate in an emailed statement on details of its discussions with Facebook, but indicated it would not flinch at taking the social networking giant to court over its patents.

Yahoo said other companies have already licensed some of the technologies at issue, and that it would act unilaterally if Facebook refused to pay for a patent license.

"Yahoo has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders to protect its intellectual property," the company said.

The meeting between the two companies was first reported by the New York Times.

A Facebook spokesman said: "Yahoo contacted us at the same time they called the New York Times and so we haven't had the opportunity to fully evaluate their claims."

Should Yahoo wind up suing Facebook, it would mark the first major legal battle among technology giants in the social media sphere and a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech stalwarts such as Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Motorola Mobility.

Yahoo's patent claims follow Facebook's announcement of plans for an initial public offering that could value the company at about $100 billion.

Several social networking companies, including Facebook, have seen an uptick in patent claims asserted against them as they move through the IPO process.

However, most of those lawsuits have been filed by patent aggregators that buy up intellectual property tosqueeze value from it via licensing deals, and none by a large tech company such as Yahoo.

"Markets likely to see profit booking before budget: Rahul Chadha, Mirae Asset"

India's GDP growth is slowing down: Mirae Asset inv

What to your mind is a bigger event risk for investors for the next three to six months? Would it be anymore European problems that could come out or crude which could be a big problem for the equity market? 

Over the next three months, it is more a concern on the rising oil. Greece, for the time being, looks like has been settled, though you keep hearing all these voices where a section in Europe believes that the damage would be far less if Greece is made to leave Euro at this point of time.

But that is a remote possibility. At this point of time, particularly for emerging markets like India, rising oil remains a big vulnerability and we have seen that in the past. It was the case in 2008 and 2011 where oil impacted consumer demand and derailed the recovery.

India is to come out with its Q3 GDP figures. The expectation is around 6.3 to 6.5. Do you think it is reasonable? 

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"2G case: Russia's Sistema seeks protection of $3 bn investment from Indian govt"

NEW DELHI: Russian conglomerate Sistema on Tuesday said it has approached the Indian government seeking protection of its USD 3.1 billion investment and plans to file a petition for review of the Supreme Court order cancelling its pan-India 2G licences. 

Sistema has a joint venture with India's Shyam Group,Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), in which theRussian government also has a stake of 17.14 per cent.

"...cancellation of SSTL's licenses following Sistema's investment of billions of dollars into the Indian cellular sector is contrary to India's obligation under the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) including obligations to provide investments with full protection and security and obligations not to expropriate investments," Sistema said in a

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"Garage start-up: Atul Hemani’s IT firm Omnitech InfoSolutions now in four continents"

Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd.

The phrase 'garage start-up' seems to be synonymous with the technology world, and it's something we share with the likes of Google and Apple.

After all, Omnitech was born in a spare garage owned by my partner Avinash Pitale's father in Thane, Maharashtra, in 1987. We specialise in offering end-to-end IT solutions.

I was keen to start something of my own right from my engineering days. After graduating from Mumbai's VJTI Institute in 1985, I joined Hindustan Computers Limited(HCL) as a customer support engineer.

That's where I met Pitale, the co-founder and current joint managing director, who had similar entrepreneurial aspirations. But empty pockets can float no venture, so we had to hang on to our salaried jobs for nearly two more years. 

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"New Technologies that can change our day-to-day lives"

Startups working on a clutch of new technologies that can change our day-to-day lives:

It's about a firefighter who can download the design of a burning building onto a handheld device," US President Barack Obama's statement in his State of the Union address last year, hints at just how revolutionary indoor navigation technology can be. 

After all, many a rescue mission has lost precious minutes hunting for the exact location of trapped miners in a coal mine, or finding where exactly in the debris pile of an earthquake-hit site, living beings might be calling for help, or, as Obama mentioned, where exactly inside a burning

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"INDIAN - Govt to set up agency to scan Twitter, mails"

The government is setting up an internet scanning agency which will seek to monitor all web traffic passing through internet service providers in the country.

NEW DELHI/BARCELONA: The government is setting up an internet scanning agency which will seek to monitor all web traffic passing through internet service providers in the country. The scanning agency to be calledNational Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), will issue 'actionable alerts' to government departments in cases of perceived security threats.

The move comes as the government has been unable to prevent many terror attacks, in the absence of a credible internet scanning system.

According to the minutes of ameeting held on February 3, 2012, at the National Security Council Secretariat under the PMO, the National Cyber Coordination Centre will 'scan whole cyber traffic flowing at the point of entry and exit at India's international internet gateways'. The

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"Facebook denies accessing users SMSes"

Facebook is being accused of snooping on its users' text messages, but the social network says the accusations are inaccurate and misleading.

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is being accused of snooping on its users' text messages, but the social network says the accusations are inaccurate and misleading. 

The company is among a wide-ranging group ofWeb entities, including Flickr and YouTube, that are using smartphone apps to access text message data and other personal information, according to a Sunday Times report (behind a paywall).

The newspaper said Facebook "admitted" to reading users' text messages during a test of its own messaging service. The report also says information such as user location, contacts list, and browser history are often accessed and sometimes transmitted to third-party companies, including

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"CB Series: Match 11 India vs Sri Lanka - Highlights"

India won by 7 wickets (with 80 balls remaining)

Sri Lanka 320/4 (50 ov)

India 321/3 (36.4 ov)

Duration: "6 minutes"

Belong to Cricket: "CB Series Match 11 India vs Sri Lanka "

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The Man of the Match is Kohli: "To be able to chase 320 in 40 overs in a must win game, and put that sort of a batting effort together was a great team effort. I committed a few mistakes in the last games after getting to 20 and 30, trying to middle every ball, which doesn't happen always in international cricket. This shows our character as a team, and how well we can execute our plans. It is about working hard and sticking in there. We will be rooting for Australia in Friday. This is a special feeling, probably my best one-day innings so far."

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"The Impact of Bad Bosses"

New research has found that bad bosses affect how your whole family relates to one another; your physical health, raising your risk for heart disease; and your morale while in the office.


The psychological climate in which you work has a lot to do with your health and happiness. Recent research has found, perhaps not surprisingly, that bad bosses can affect how your whole familyrelates to one another. They can also affect your physical health, raising your risk for heart disease.


Now, new research illustrates how bad bosses can shoot themselves in the foot, hindering their employees' morale, rather than helping it.

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"Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome"

Google has pledged cash prizes totaling $1 million to people who successfully hack its Chrome browser at next week's CanSecWest security conference.


Google will reward winning contestants with prizes of $60,000, $40,000, and $20,000 depending on the severity of the exploits they demonstrate on Windows 7 machines running the browser. Members of the company's security team announced the Pwnium contest on their blog on Monday. There is no splitting of winnings, and prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis until the $1 million threshold is reached.


Now in its sixth year, the Pwn2Own contest at the same CanSecWest conference awards valuable prizes to those who remotely commandeer computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in fully patched browsers and other Internet software. At last year's competition,

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CB Series: India STUN Sri Lanka! -"Kohli masterclass keeps India alive"

The CB series table is crowding again, with one game to go. India and SL are now tied on points at 15, but the latter can go one better on Friday. They will have to, else India will play Australia (19 points) in the final.


Points Table:

Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR	For	Against
Australia	7	4	3	0	0	19	+0.553	1687/323.0	1425/305.1
Sri Lanka	7	3	3	1	0	15	+0.162	1739/323.3	1691/324.2
India	8	3	4	1	0	15	-0.593	1793/365.0	2103/382.0

The Man of the Match is Kohli: "To be able to chase 320 in 40 overs in a must win game, and put that sort of a batting effort together was a great team effort. I committed a few mistakes in the last games after getting to 20 and 30, trying to middle every ball, which doesn't happen always in international cricket. This shows our character as a team, and how well we can execute our plans. It is about working hard and sticking in there. We will be rooting for Australia in Friday. This is a special feeling, probably my best one-day innings so far."

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