Lenovo to launch smartphones in India next month

Lenovo is all set to launch its range of smartphones in India next month adding to its existing product portfolio of notebooks, PCs and tablets. The company is expected to host a “mega event” for the launch to enter the growing smartphone sector in the country, which is already crowded with tier one brands like Samsung, Nokia, HTC and Sony as well as homegrown brands like Micromax, Karbonn, Spice and Lava that have recently launched their own smartphone portfolios.

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The 101 Most Useful Websites

Here are my picks for the 101 most useful websites of the year. The Most Useful Websites and Web Apps The sites mentioned here, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google. 01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages. 03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes . 04. unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL. 05. qClock – find the local time of a city using a Google Map . 06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 07. postpost.com – a better search engine for twitter. 08. lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, ...

India Become the fourth largest country in android app downloads : GOOGLE

Google's announcements on Thursday brought plenty to cheer to both Android developers and end-users in India. Google announced that Indian developers will be able to monetize their apps via paid applications, in-app products, and subscriptions. Further, Google announced that end users will be able to pay for their purchases in Indian rupees, ensuring greater transparency over the amount charged and, possibly, better deals on apps via country-specific pricing. Google shared these two announcements via a blog post. In the same blog post, Google also shared some interesting stats with respect to Android usage in India. First, the number of activations. According to Google, over the past year, Android device activations in India have jumped more than 400%. It is not clear if Google is referring to the number of activations per day, or the total devices activated till date, but either way, those are impressive numbers. Google added that in the last six months, Android u...

Will we ever… create intelligent robots?

- We made you ‘cause we could. - Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator? In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s film about a space expedition searching for the origins of human life, the elegant, Lawrence-of-Arabia loving android David discovers from a crew member the possible motives behind his own creation – and understandably finds this less than inspiring. But the idea of creating intelligent robots has fired human imagination for decades. These robots have taken many forms in speculative fiction, from the seductive charms of Futura in Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis to the urbane, existential angst of David in Prometheus. In reality, though, how far have we progressed towards being able to create an intelligent robot just “’cause we could”? To understand where we are now, we have to go back about twenty years, to a time when artificial intelligence research was in crisis. Rodney Brooks, then a professor of Elec...

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