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According to VascoDe CEO 83 percent of mobiles in the world are simple and do not connect to the internet which means that almost four billion people in the world cannot check their email whenever they wish to do so but now Customers will be able to use apps available until now only for Smartphone users on their simple phones. For the same, a method has been developed by an Israeli company where old or outdated phones can run apps available only for smartphones. The name of the Israeli company is VascoDe company. The system developed by the VascoDe company allows users to obtain apps with the firm’s cloud-based system that requires no downloads and uses the text-based Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), similar to the Short Message Service (SMS). Customers will be able to use many apps available until now for smartphone users only. However, the only difference is that they will see the apps in black and white. According to technology and ...

The WakaWaka Power is a personal solar charger and a lamp. Solar energy has really become ubiquitous these days and we see the technology incorporated into our everyday lives. solar panels are a common sight and even personal chargers like the WakaWaka Power are also available in considerable numbers. WakaWaka is Swahili and is translated roughly to “Shine Bright”. The Waka Waka lamp is a solar-powered LED light designed for use both in first-world campsites and third-world homes. Towards the end of the year, the Waka Waka Foundation followed up on the lamp’s success with a similar product, known as Waka Waka Power. It not only provides light, but can also be used to charge up your electronic gadgets. The idea behind Waka Waka Power is simple i.e. put it in the sunlight, and it automatically starts charging up its 2,200 mAH LiPo battery. The WakaWaka Power device has a total of 5 LEDs on the case, 1 of which flashes to indicate that the unit is charging and the other 4 ...

A new fiber optic technology could increase Internet bandwidth capacity by sending data along light beams that twist like a tornado rather than move in a straight line,easing internet congestion and video streaming, scientists say. The discovery comes as Internet data traffic is reaching its limit amid mounting demand for bandwidth by users of smartphones and Internet-enabled devices, creating problems for network providers. The new technology uses optical vortices, which are like donut-shaped laser light beams. Also known as orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, they were thought to be unstable in fibre until until Boston University Engineering Professor Siddharth Ramachandran recently designed an optical fibre that can propagate them. In the paper in journal Science, he and Alan Willner of University of Southern California, demonstrated the stability of the beams in optical fibre and also their potential to boost Internet bandwidth. "Our discovery...

Facebook to remove ads from controversial pages after major companies boycott site The social networking company will apply new measures from Monday, July 1, following pressure from advertisers Facebook Inc said it would no longer allow ads to appear on pages with sexual or violent content, as the online social network moves to appease marketers being associated with objectionable material  by launching a new system that will create a blacklist of pages and groups even if it previously passed its community standards. The moves come a month after several businesses such as such as Nissan, Nationwide and BSkyB pulled their ads from Facebook amid reports of pages on Facebook that promoted violence against women. Sky's ad for an M&S voucher promotion was placed on a Facebook page called "cute and gay boys", according to BBC News. Facebook said at the time that it needed to improve its system for flagging and removing content that violated its...

FUJIFILM Corporation has announced the forthcoming release of the X-M1,the third premium interchangeable-lens camera from the company. Compact and lightweight,sports the same 16.3 megapixel sensor found in the X-Pro1 and X-E1, as well as up to ISO25600 sensitivity, built-in Wi-Fi technology and an LCD display that tilts vertically. The company has also placed all of the camera's key buttons and dials on the right side for one-handed operation. The camera is equipped with two Command Dials, allowing users to adjust the aperture, shutter speed and exposure compensation quickly with their thumb. Individual buttons are also provided to access frequently-used functions such as White Balance, Burst Mode and Macro, so that you don’t have to go to the menu screen for each change of setting, enabling an intuitive and quick operation. he FUJIFILM X-M1 is equipped with a large and same APS-C X-Trans CMOS sensor as the X-Pro1  with sensor’s unique colour filter arr...

A London-based startup company, produced floor tiles that convert kinetic energy from footsteps into renewable electricity means convert footsteps into electricity. “The Pavegen technology offers the first tangible way for people to engage with renewable energy generation,” Pavegen  Power generating tiles are a growing trend across the world. Pavegen is currently working with the German technology company Siemens to install the tiles in a square in Australia to power the lights there. There are also plans for power generating tiles in Lodon train stations in schools where it can be used to power the lights. The tiles are 45-by-60 centimeters and glow a bright green when they are stepped on. They are made of recycled rubber and other recycled materials and were designed to be retrofitted in place of existing flooring systems.As a person steps on an Energy Floor tile, the tile flexes about 10 mm. That movement is converted into electricity -  15 Watts on...

A prototype "water chip" developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with a startup company. As we know our planet Earth has most of its part covered with water but that water is not fit for drinking because it is present in oceans in the form of saline water. chemists have found a way to desalinate it make this water pure for drinking. Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater by creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater and consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques. The new method requires so little energy that it can run on a store-bought battery. The process eludes the problems confronting current desalination methods by eliminating the need for a membrane and by separating salt from water at a microscale. A photo of water being poured onto a computer ...

Nasa scientists said they were testing a prototype of a robot, the US space agency hopes to send to Mars in 2020 in Chile's Atacama desert. Nasa hopes to use this kind of rover to explore life-friendly sites found by Curiosity, the rover already searching for signs of life on Mars. It has been there since last August. The researchers say the desert, the driest spot on Earth, mimics the conditions of the Red Planet, and the agency has used it in the past to test space-bound equipment. The robot, controlled remotely from the US, will continue testing through Sunday. The solar-powered 771-kilogram machine is equipped with cameras and a drill able to dig up to a meter (three feet) deep. It is testing its sensors, its cameras, its ability to store energy, as it searches for evidence of microbial life in the desert.

Jaguar engineers combined a 1.6-liter turbo supercharged four-cylinder engine (that delivers 502 horsepower) with two electric motors (390 horsepower) for a total output that exceeds 850 horsepower. After several years of tinkering, Jaguar once again chats up the jaw-dropping C-X75 hybrid supercar. When the car's at a complete standstill, racers cranking the C-X75's seven-speed manual transmission can achieve 0-100 mph in less than six seconds. If that's not fast enough for you, the theoretical top speed of 220 mph should set you straight, or at least put you in the next county quite quickly. The C-X75's carbon composite chassis undoubtedly assists in creating a very light footprint. In recent years, the trend in supercars has been driving towards efficiency—lighter weight, smaller engines, and, as is crucially important in tax-heavy Europe, lower CO2 emissions. A spec sheet notes that the C-X75 outputs CO2 emissions at a less-than-Pri...

Poppy is the first device in the world that turns an iPhone into a 3D camera capable of capturing, viewing and sharing full-motion, full-color video and stills in 3D. It is Created by Joe Heitzberg (co-founder of Snapvine) and Ethan Lowry (co-founder of Urbanspoon). There are several apps that can alter an exising images and convert it into 3D images with an iPhone but With the Poppy, you'll be able to shoot your own 3D images and video instantly with just your iPhone. According to the developers, the stereoscopic images produced with a Poppy and an iPhone's HD camera lend a true sense of immersion to your typical snapshots. Poppy lets you capture and share the world the way you really experience it: in three dimensions. WORKING: Poppy works with iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5 and the fifth generation iPod Touch.  You put your phone in and Poppy’s mirrors capture two stereographic images using your iPhone’s single camera.  When ...

Sony has announced two new members in its Xperia family in the form of Xperia M and Xperia M dual. Both these smartphones pack in similar specifications, with the Xperia M dual being a dual-SIM smartphone. Sony Xperia M and Xperia M dual support a 4.0-inch TFT display of FWVGA resolution. The smartphones pack in 1GHz dual-core processor along with Adreno 305 graphics. They come with with 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage of which 2.8GB is user-accessible. The storage can be further expanded by up to 32GB via microSD card. For camera, there is a 5-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and a 0.3-megapixel front snapper. Both these smartphones have a 1,750mAh battery and the connectivity options include Wi-Fi, 3G with HSPA, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC. As these smartphones have NFC connectivity and dedicated sharing apps, Sony is pegging Xperia M and Xperia M dual to be phones with "magical one-touch functions". Sony Xperia M run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) wh...

In the NASA handout image, t he bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun's atmosphere, called a prominence eruption, are seen. A small Nasa telescope was launched into orbit on a mission to determine how the sun heats its atmosphere to millions of degrees, sending off rivers of particles that define the boundaries of the solar system The study is not only related with academics as solar activity directly impacts Earth’s climate and the space environment beyond the planet’s atmosphere. Solar storms can knock out power grids, disrupt radio signals and interfere with communications, navigation and other satellites in orbit. Physicist Alan Title, with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, which designed and built the telescope said that  “We live in a very complex society and the sun has a role to play in it” . Scientists have been trying to unri...

Windows Phone 8 is finally coming to Sprint. Sprint announced their first two WP8 phones today, the Samsung ATIV S Neo and the HTC 8XT. Both will be releasing LTE devices running the latest version of Windows Phone sometime this summer, though specific release dates have yet to be announced. Sprint customers will be having two choices this summer with two new Windows Phone 8 devices launching from HTC and Samsung. Sprint (NYSE: S) and Microsoft Corp. today outlined plans to launch the first two Windows Phone 8 smartphones to offer Truly UnlimitedSM Sprint 4G LTE this summer – HTC® 8XT and Samsung ATIV S™ Neo. Customers will appreciate access to the advanced features and capabilities of these devices with the benefit of unlimited 4G LTE (available in select markets) data, text and calling to any mobile with no metering, no throttling, and no overages, all while on the Sprint network. “We know our customers are anxious to get their hands on these Windows Ph...