Apple has lost the battle against Samsung.

For the first time in four years, Apple is no longer the most profitable handste maker in the world, Research Firm Analytics proclaimed. The honour of making most profitable handset now belongs to Samsung. It is possible only because of the tight-cost controls, affordable prize of handset, high-handset-volumes and big sreen size.

During the second quarter, Samsung's all over globe profit reaches $5.2 billion, while profit made by Apple is $4.6 billion.

Currently "Apple is under high pressure by this mighty fall. Company need to change it's strategy." Strategic Analytics executive director Niel Mawston believes it.

Further he said:
"Apple is now under intense pressure to launch more iPhone models at cheaper price-points or with larger screens to fend off the surging competition and recapture lost profits in the second half of 2013."

At Google's Event Vice president of Android, Hugo Barra has warmed the atmosphere of tech world by announcing that company is planning to bring up new version of Android 4.3.

Barra introduced the second generation Nexus 7 to the peoples at event, which has highest pixel resolution display on any tablet device in the world regardless of the size of screen of tablet.Also there is a bunch of Nexus branded devices like the spanking new Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and the Samsung-manufactured Galaxy Nexus that will receive the Android 4.3 update over the air (OTA).

Some of the good features in Android 4.3 would be that it restrict the reaches of children to sites set unwanted by parents and guardians so that they do not indulge themselves in unwanted sites, it will also include Open GL|ES 3.0 for game developers, a improved camera interface, Bluetooth Low Energy support and general performance improvements. No official release date of Android 4.3 for third-party device makers have been announced yet though.

[Source : Ubergizmo]

 

Facebook, the biggest Social Networking Site has revealed that daily users of Facebook has increased by 27% in this quarter reaching to 699 million on average, and 1.15 billion active monthly active users at the same.

Recent report from Facebook declares the financial results of the company for the second quarter, which ended 30th of June. Revenue for the second quarter of the company summed up to $1.18 billion, falsifying the estimates of Wall Streets. It's 53% of increase compared from the revenue of company that it made in last year's quarter of 2012 i.e. 1.18 billion. There's also increase in the net income of company i.e. $333 million as compared to the net loss of $157 million that company faced in the second quarter of 2012.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder and CEO said:

"We've made good progress growing our community, deepening engagement and delivering strong financial results, especially on mobile." 
"The work we've done to make mobile the best Facebook experience is showing good results and provides us with a solid foundation for the future."

[Source : electronista]

Researchers have found a family of malware that targets both Windows and OS X. Janicab.A, is the trojan which is also unusual because it uses a YouTube page to direct infected machines to command-and-control (C&C) servers and follows a clever trick to conceal itself.

When researchers from F-secure and Webroot documented new trojan threatening Mac Users. Like other recently discovered OS X malware, Janicab was also digitally signed with valid  Apple Developer ID. It also used special unicode character known as right-to-left override to make infected file appear as PDF document rather than a potentially dangerous executable file.

On Monday researchers from Avast published an article reporting that Janicab can also infect computers running Windows. The strain exploits a vulnerability Microsoft patched in 2012 to install a malicious Visual Basic script that can remain active even after infected machines are restarted.

Like the Mac versions, Janicab randomly chooses a YouTube link from a hard-coded list to find the C&C sever that issues updates and instructions. One such page contained the words "just something i made up for fun, check my website at 111.90.152.210/cc bye bye.". Researchers presume the IP address may have been the location of one of the C&C severs.

[Source : ArsTechnica]

Well this gadget is not so fashionable in look, but it occupies a importance in human society as this collar functions as a speaker which is capable of producing sound when there is movement made by your lips muscles. Amazing Design By Nic Wallenberg!

This Human Speaker Collar turns one's mouth into a speaker. Our throats produce sound by one's vocal chords reacting to air from the lungs, and the resulting sounds is then being amplified by the mouth.

The device bypasses the vocal chords and transmits vibrations directly into the upper throat. Wearers can play with the music they emit by moving their lip and mouths. each collar can produce two music notes at one time, so the people using the collars together the more complex that compositions can become.

[Source : Nic Wallenberg]

Akamai has released its State of the internet report for the first quarter of 2013, and when it comes to connection speeds, things are looking up.

According to the company, internet is growing, which has analyzed the Web through it's intelligent Platform analysis tool. It's found that the total number of unique IPv4 addresses hitting the Internet in the first quarter has reached to 734 million, or approx 34 million more than compared to the fourth quarter of 2012.

Meanwhile, Web connection speeds rose by 4%, climbing to a worldwide average of 3.1 Mbps. The global average peak speed was 18.4 Mbps.

South Korea is the world's leader in average connection speed, topping by a highest speed ever i.e. 14.2 Mbps. Hong kong was able to tally the highest peak connection speed of 63.6 Mbps. South Korea's success was due to its position as the world's leading broadband nation, with half of its citizens subscribing to the high-speed connection.

Akamai also offered up some data on security issues on the Web. The company found that attacks originated from 177 countries during the first quarter. Interestingly. China's attack traffic fell by 34% during the period, but Indonesia's impact as a source of security threats grew from 0% share to 20%. The U.S. accounted for 8% of all attacks.

One other interesting tidbit : traffic from mobile devices increased by 19% between the fourth quarter of 2012 and first quarter of 2013, and is double the mobile traffic from the first quarter of 2012.

[Source : cnet.tech]

Plantronics is happy with it's launch of the more improved version of previous BackBeat Go in-ear Bluetooth headphones. There's P2i moisture resistance and reworked internals for better sound back up the sporty wire-behind-the-ear design. Device is enabled with DeepSleep which shut it down automatically when you go out of range without turning the power off allowing it to sleep up to for six months, it can also remember up to 8 devices. The internal batteries give up after 4.5 hours of playtime for music, and an optional microUSB recharging case can provide about two and a half juice refills. Earphones will be available today at various retailers stores in two color choices, Black or White, worth $80.