Outline
Message circulating rapidly on Facebook asks users to "like" a photograph purportedly depicting an entirely black lion.
Analysis
Comments and submissions indicate that many users believe that the image really shows a black lion. However, the lion depicted in the image is not actually black. In fact, the image is the result of the digital manipulation of a photograph depicting a white lion. The image is the work of digital artist Pavol Dvorský (PAulie-SVK) and can be viewed in its original context on the DeviantArt website.
The source image used in the digital manipulation can be seen on the Cute Home Pets website:
A Pakistani engineer has built a car that runs on water, a feat that left onlookers astounded.Engineer Waqar Ahmad drove his car using water as fuel Thursday during a demonstration for parliamentarians, scientists and students, Dawn reported from this Pakistan capital.
He said cars could be driven by a system fuelled by water instead of petrol or CNG.
The onlookers were taken aback when they saw it and a cabinet sub-committee lauded the 'Water Fuel Kit Project'.
Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah, who heads the panel, said the engineer would have their full support.
The media report explained that the water fuelling system is a technology in which 'hydrogen bonding' with distilled water produces hydrogen gas to run the car.
Ahmad had earlier told Shah about the unique project and it was taken to the federal cabinet which asked its sub-committee to discuss it.
During the demonstration, Shah himself drove the car.
The minister said that Ahmad would be given complete security and the formula would be kept secure.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh value the project, he said.
"We own this project and are committed to successfully completing it," he was quoted as saying.
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New images have leaked regarding Blackberry 10 slider phone concept. With Blackberry 10 phones expected to be announced officially by RIM in the year 2013, the latest slider phone concept is giving space for more rumours and discussions. The company has made it clear that they will be announcing the release of Blackberry 10 Touch based smartphone and Blackberry 10 QWERTY phone by 2013. With more images about Blackberry 10 Slider phone being released, analysts believe that the company will also release this product with its touch and QWERTY phone siblings.
Blackberry 10 Slider Phone is rumoured to be code named Blackberry Milan. There have been recent reports regarding the scrapping of the hardware design by RIM. But now, those rumours are taking newer dimensions again with fresh images of BB10 Slider phone concept getting out. As far as the concept design goes by, device features a sleek and sophisticated look with a black exterior body.
The keyboard design seems to be more impressive with sources claiming that a microtrackpad will be placed between the ‘T’ and ‘Y’ keys in the keyboard. One of the objectives of new Blackberry 10 OS is to make it user friendly. The angular keyboard is supposed to be the main source of attraction in Blackberry 10 Slider phone concept. Even though form factor is impressive, there has been increasing reports of users feeling that screen display size could have been much larger. We can expect more changes regarding overall features and specifications of this device once the final version is launched next year.
RIM is expecting to make significant transformations in both its smartphone and tablet segment with their latest advanced Blackberry 10 OS that will arrive with devices set to be released next year. It might also include Blackberry 10 Slider model smartphone which seems to be in work in progress state. RIM is struggling to catch up with its rivals such as Apple and Microsoft as of now.
Company is planning to make greater inroads in to the OS segment with its latest BB10 OS releasing next year.
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Gameloft has brought a chance to all the Batman fans across the globe to experience what its really like to step into the shoes of the Dark Knight and save Gotham from the biggest threat it has ever faced.
After 8 years of retirement from the mask of the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne once again get back into action as Batman. But this time, waiting for him are the mysterious Selina Kyle, aka Cat Woman, and Bane- Batman’s fiercest adversary. Bane is on a rampage, determined to “break the bat!”
The Dark Knight Rises game features random events and multiple missions in which players will be dealing with hostage situations, car chases, jailbreaks and many more different moves and cinematic effects.
The popular characters such as Lucius Fox, Catwoman and Commissioner Gordon of the movie are included in the game.Players can be able to explore hidden items of the city in the game to unlock upgrades with some of the new fighting skills for the Dark Knight.
The game is available for download from App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and for Android mobiles and tablets it is available on the Google Play Store.
Click to download: Google Play Store Apple Store
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Aircel has dramatically slashed the prices of the Apple iPhone 3GS, selling it for Rs. 9,999.Last July Airtel launched the 8GB version of the iPhone 3GS with money back offers for Rs. 19,999 before it went on sale from retailers across India.
The special Rs. 9,999 price is only for customers already possessing an Aircel postpaid connection, or for those customers willing to buy one. iPhone 3GS customers will also have to pay an advance rental, costing them Rs. 3,000, which would provide unlimited 3G data for a year (2GB FUP per month, post which speeds drop to 128Kbps).
In 2G circles, customers who avail of the Rs. 3,000 advance rental plan will get 2,500 local or national SMSes free, 100 minutes of local or STD calls free, and unlimited 2G data for 6 months.
The new Aircel offer, which brings the iPhone 3GS to customers for roughly Rs. 12,999 with some free data, should prove popular, and essentially provides customers a 8GB smartphone with access to the Apple App Store ecosystem and some features of the iOS 6 upgrade, at the price of an iPod touch.
Aircel iPhone 3GS Postpaid Advance rental Plan
Benefits 3G circles 2G Circles
Free minutes/month (Local+National)NA 1000 mins (Local+STD)
Free data/month Unlimited Unlimited
Free SMS/month NA 2500 (L+N)
Validity 12 months 6 months
Device cost Rs. 9999 Rs. 9999
Advance rental Rs. 3000 Rs. 3000
Total Cost Rs. 12,999 Rs. 12,999
Not a bad deal if you are looking for a smartphone in sub-Rs. 10,000 category, quite standing up to the variety of budget Android phones in the market. We can expect a similar announcement from Airtel soon.
LG has launched their new L series smartphones in India – the Optimus L3, L5 and L7. These sleek hi-tech phones run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, except for L3 which runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The new L series smartphones are carved around LG’s design philosophy comprises of five aesthetic elements- Modern Square Style for an easy and comfortable grip, Floating Mass Technology for that sleek look, Seamless Layout, Harmonized Design Contrast and Sensuous Slim Shape.
The LG Optimus and L3 at Rs. 8895,L5 at Rs. 13199 and L7 is priced at Rs. 19900.LG Optimus L3 will compete with Samsung Galaxy Y and HTC Explorer, while the Optimus L5 and L7 will compete with Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos, Xperia U, Xperia Sola and Xolo 900 in the Indian market.So we can expect more miracle from Smartphone Market on coming weeks.
LG Optimus L3 Specifications:
- 3.2 inch touchscreen display
- 240x 320 pixels resolution
- 800 MHz processor
- Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS
- 3 megapixel camera
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- 3G Connectivity
- Bluetooth 3.0
- 1 GB internal memory
- MicroSD card slot
- 32 GB expandable memory
- 384 MB RAM
- Up to 600 hrs of stand-by time
- Up to 12 hrs of talk-time
- 1500 mAh battery
LG Optimus L5 Specifications:
- 4 inch touchscreen display
- 320 x 480 pixels resolution
- 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225A Snapdragon processor
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- Bluetooth 3.0
- 4 GB internal memory
- MicroSD card slot
- 32 GB expandable memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- 3G Connectivity
- Google Play Store
- Up to 900 hrs of stand-by time
- Up to 10 hrs of talk-time
- 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery
LG Optimus L7 Specifications:
- 4.3 inch IPS display
- 480 x 800 pixels resolution
- 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon processor
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- VGA front-facing camera
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- 3G Connectivity
- 4 GB internal memory
- MicroSD card slot
- 32 GB expandable memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Bluetooth 3.0
- GPS with A-GPS
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi hotspot
- DLNA
- Google Play Store
- Dolby mobile sound enhancement
- Up to 550 hrs of stand-by time
- Up to 6 hrs of talk-time
- 1700 mAh Li-Ion battery
Agent Jadoo is an anti piracy software for monitoring the download/upload of latest pirated movies,songs etc on the Internet, launched a few weeks ago.
It is the brainchild of actor /director/engineer Prakash Bhare, techie Stephen Antony, Rashid MA a legal consultant and advocate C.P. Unnikrishnan, a high court lawyer.
Explaining the reasons for launching this new software Prakash says, “Digital media took centre stage in the movie business a couple of decades ago and audiences got access to content through television, tapes, disks, flash drives and so on making it easy to pirate films. This led to two thirds of Kerala’s theatres closing down and yearly film production being reduced to half. Agent Jadoo targets the umbilical cord of piracy —the Internet, which feeds other forms these days.’’ A number of M’Town films have used the services of Agent Jadoo like Diamond Necklace, Thattathin Marayathu, Spirit and Chattakkari.
Agrees Abhinay Deo, director of Delhi Belly, “Piracy is eating into a major chunk of our business. Filmmakers work really hard to reach audiences through their work but illegal uploads of songs and videos affect profits. A software like this is the need of the hour as it’s important to tell people that piracy is illegal and can get one in trouble. Today most educated people put up new releases on various websites without realising how these can affect the complete strategy of a director who wants to reach the masses in his own way. Bollywood or any film industry will definitely benefit from such an initiative.’’
Director Lal Jose of Diamond Necklace is gung ho about Agent Jadoo. He says, “Any person, anywhere in the world, who uploads any songs or films illegally onto any site, will get a direct warning and be served with a legal notice! This software is vigilant 24 hours of the day. Sadly, the industry is also to blame as there has been huge negligence from our side.’’
Allison Patel, director of the film ?, says that such software applications may help but not completely. “The system of filmmaking that we follow in India is not very standard. Yash Dave and I, being technical students tried hard to prevent our film from being downloaded illegally but it still was. We released our film on the Internet for viewers in the US, but within hours it was being watched in India as well. We couldn’t do anything even after being technically aware,” he says.
Agent Jadoo has servers around the world and processes to monitor, detect and tackle piracy related activities on the net. Says Prakash, “Content owners sign up with us and authorise us to act on their behalf. We work with them and the law enforcement agencies as required. We have been able to ensure zero piracy for all the films protected by Agent Jadoo!’’
However, according to Allison, software like Agent Jadoo may only give a short-term solution. “But to stop piracy completely, the Indian film industry needs to work hard. It will take a lot of time before we finally come up with fool-proof solution,” he says.
All said and done, this jadoo is certainly working in M’Town, at least for now and one hopes other segments of the Indian film industry will soon be able to test its effectiveness as well!
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The official Twitter app is already available for Nokia smartphones running on Symbian and Windows Phone 7.5 OS. However, the owners of Nokia feature phone running on Symbian Series 40 had to visit the Twitter mobile site to update their status and access their timeline. Now, Twitter has finally launched the official app for Series 40 feature phones.
The new Twitter for Nokia S40 app brings most of the features that are currently available on Twitter’s smartphone app. It allows you to post your own tweets and follow others tweets. Apart from that, there are @Connect and #Discover features which lets you see your mentions and browse the most interesting Tweets from around the world.
[ Download Twitter for Nokia S40 ]
This may not be much of a concept, but the idea behind it is great. Meet the Nokia N1, the very first model to run Android 4.0 ICS preinstalled.
This phone comes with the 41 megapixel Nokia PureView camera sensor, a HD ClearBlack display and the pure Google experience. Since right now Nokia is teamed up with Microsoft there’s no way you’ll see something like this, but give it some time and maybe Nokia will come around and get rid of Windows Phone. It’s interesting to see those capacitive buttons below the display on the device and they actually look pretty nice. The creator of this 41 megapixel Android cameraphone says that he took the Lumia 800 as inspiration.
I heard that some of Nokia N9 clones made in China and they ran Android, so it’s actually possible to fulfill your fantasy of owning that shell for a device and with a custom OS of your choice.
Labnol.org or Digital Inspiritaion is a popular and award winning technology blog. This blog is owned by Most popular Indian blogger Amit Agarwal. Amit was an IIT Graduate and left his job to be the first professional blogger of India. He is also a premium Adsense publisher and his blog gets millions of page views per month.
When i tried to access his blogs (labnol.org and ctrlq.org) i saw 404 not found error. I was surprised to see that. later i saw a tweet by amit that his blogs have been hacked and deleted by hackers.
Difficult times. Hackers have deleted all my websites.— Amit Agarwal (@labnol) July 1, 2012
As i am a follower of his blogs for years, i know that this is not the first hacking attempt against him. Few months back, his gmail account was also hacked.He also mentioned about his Facebook account hacking in one of his post. This shows that he was always in the target of hackers. But this time hackers have given him a big loss.
Latest News:Amit Agarwal got control over his websites and Digital Inspiration is active again.
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