Micromax's Dual-SIM Superfone Ninja2 A56 Launched For Rs 6000.

Looking at the deluge of multi-SIM phones flooding the market often makes me wonder how poseurs managed their multiple handsets before these devices came along. Regardless, the newest entrant in this segment comes from Micromax, which has announced a dual-SIM smartphone named the Superfone Ninja2 A56. An elder sibling of the Ninja A50 and Aisha A52 "Superfones", this one also comes preloaded with A.I.S.H.A, the company's voice assistant app (made infamous by its raunchy TV commercial).

Facebook will ask the phone number to all users!

Soon, each network user of Facebook will be greeted with a notification message, which asked to provide a valid phone number. The action taken for reasons of security, is designed to prevent potentially dangerous situations in which a hacker manages to hijack and change user account password to block the victim’s own profile page.

Among others, the link above the News Feed section will provide a training guide for users to choose passwords safe and timely identification of fraud attempts, which may inadvertently provide access to account information on Facebook.

Kick The DNSChanger Trojan Out Of Your System With McAfee's Free Tools.

Is the prospect of being locked out of the internet by the DNSChanger virus  giving you the heebie-jeebies? Long story short, this malware, created by phishing scammers, will prevent lakhs of infected systems worldwide from accessing the internet after the FBI pulls the plug on its DNS infrastructure. The US federal authority has been maintaining the rogue servers to ensure that everyone has time to cleanse their systems of the virus. Unfortunately, it still resides in an estimated 270,000+ computers.

DNS Changer Virus May Kick 2.7 Lakh Users Off The Internet.

As reported earlier, you may be in for the worst case of the Mondays, if your computer has been infected by malware capable of forcing you off the internet on the 9th of July. The worst part is that in most cases, you may not even be aware of the virus' existence. Dubbed as DNSChanger, the security scourge had infected over 4 million computers last year. 

It originated as part of an online advertising \ phishing scam, wherein crafty cybercriminals had unleashed a virus that altered the DNS (Domain Name System) settings of infected systems. If that sounds likeBangla and Bhojpuri to you, the DNS is

Google Builds Artificial Brain Which Can Recognize A Cat.

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented-reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: look for cats.

The neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which is actually no frivolous activity. This week, the researchers will present the results of their research at a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Google scientists and programmers will note that while it is hardly news that the Internet is full of cat videos, the simulation nevertheless surprised them. It performed far better than any previous effort by roughly doubling its accuracy in recognizing objects in a challenging list of 20,000 distinct items.

God Particle Discovered: The Real Quest Begins Now.

Scientists working at the world’s biggest experiment Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva reckon they may have found the last piece of the jigsaw that explains how the universe works.

Physicists working at world’s biggest experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider said that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.

A representation of the search for the Higgs boson.

LHC is a 27 mile tunnel deep under the border between France and Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, when the universe started and to find the Higgs boson. The LHC costs about around 10 billion USD to build and involved 10,000 scientists from around 100 countries.

Scientists all over the world are searching for existence of this particle for around 50 years.

“I think we have it,” Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN, said in an interview from his office outside Geneva, calling the discovery “a historic milestone.” His words signalled what is probably the beginning of the end for one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science. If scientists are lucky, the discovery could lead to a new understanding of how the universe began.

Today’s Technology “Game Changers”: IPv6 and Cloud.

“Game Changers” in technology force a decision: Adapt or die. When repeating rifles gained popularity in the late 1800s, a business of manufacturing muzzle-loading or breech-loading rifles would have needed to find a way to produce a repeating rifle or it would have lost most (if not all) of it’s business to Winchester. If a fresh-faced independent musician is hitting it big on the coffee shop scene in 2012, she probably won’t be selling out arenas any time soon if she refuses to make her music available digitally. Just ask any of the old-timers in the print media industry … “Game Changers” in technology can be disastrous for an established business in an established industry.

That’s pretty intimidating … Even for tech businesses.

Shifts in technology don’t have to be as drastic and obvious as a “printed newspaper v. social news site” comparison for them to be disruptive. Even subtle advances can wind up making or breaking a business. In fact, many of today’s biggest and most successful tech companies are scrambling to adapt to two simple “game changers” that seem terribly significant:

• IPv6
• “The Cloud”

Antibodies from Rabbits Improve Survival of Leukemia and Myelodysplasia Patients Receiving Stem Cell Transplant

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center's Bone Marrow Transplant Program have demonstrated that the use of antibodies derived from rabbits can improve the survival and relapse outcomes of leukemia and myelodysplasia patients receiving a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor.    

Recently published in the journalBone Marrow Transplantation, a study led by Amir Toor, M.D., hematologist-oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and member of the Developmental Therapeutics program at VCU Massey Cancer Center, retrospectively compared the outcomes of 50 patients who received rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) before receiving a transplant of stem cells from an unrelated donor to the outcomes of 48 patients who received a transplant of stem cells from a related donor. While unrelated stem cell transplants typically have poorer outcomes than related stem cell transplants, the results from this study showed similar outcomes for each group in terms of mortality, relapse and the development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common complication that can occur after a stem cell or bone marrow transplant in which the newly transplanted material attacks the transplant recipient's body.

Samsung Galaxy S III gets Consumer Reports top score on three carriers

The Samsung Galaxy S III lives up to its high expectations: It's one of the most advanced Android smart phones we've seen. This newest Galaxy star is our new top-ranked smart phone on the three carriers on which we've tested it.

With this phone, Samsung unseats HTC from the highest position in our Ratings of smart phones from AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile, which had been occupied by HTC's One S, Evo 4G LTE, and One, respectively.

Helping the Galaxy S III's showing is a huge (4.8 inch) and high-definition (720p) screen that makes the phone among the best we've seen for a range of tasks, including making and taking calls and typing on its virtual keyboard.

Also, like the aforementioned HTC smart phones, the Galaxy sports a superb high-definition camera that, among other talents, can shoot a series of photos in rapid-fire succession while in camera mode, as well as snap a still picture at any moment while shooting a video.

BlackBerry App World passes 3 billion download milestone.

Despite suffering from diminished handset sales, Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerryhas revealed that its BlackBerry App World service has surpassed the 3 billion app downloads milestone.

Having already been surpassed by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS in terms of number of available apps, the BlackBerry App World has hit the latest milestone figure despite falling far behind the more than 20 billion iOS and Android apps to have been shifted to date.

“BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook users around the world have downloaded over three billion apps since 

VLC Player Finally Coming To Android Soon.

When it comes to playing video files, there is one tool that is up to the job even if all other media players have refused to play it, and that’s VLC. VLC is a favorite for media enthusiasts and works on a variety of operating systems including Linux, OSX and Windows.

On the mobile side though, VLC has been in active development since what seems like the beginning of time. From alpha builds and beyond, little has been said other than we know it is eventually 

New Cell Phone Jamming System Being Developed For Use In Automobiles

While many of us do it, even if we shouldn’t, the truth is that driving while talking on the phone can be more than just a little dangerous. Whether you are using a hands-free system or not, talking can distract you from paying proper attention to the road, and that’s why more and more countries around the globe have begun passing rules to limit, restrict or flat-out ban the use of cellular phones while driving.

With the idea of banning phones becoming more and more common, researchers in India have begun working on a new technology that will block a driver’s signal but apparently it wouldn’t affect the phones of other passengers in the vehicle. While they don’t highlight exactly all that goes into the process, apparently the system that is being researched would use

iPhone 5 Getting Samsung Exynos-Based Quad Core A6 Processor

We can pretty safely assume that Apple is going to unveil the next iPhone this fall, but now anonymous “industry sources” have indicated that the so-called iPhone 5 will be boasting a quad core processor. That’s not too surprising, considering there are already devices like the Galaxy S III with quad core processors, but there’s more to this story.

You may have heard earlier this week that Qualcomm has contracted Samsung to manufacture some of its Snapdragon processors. This is interesting, considering that Qualcomm competes directly against Samsung in the chip industry, even if the North American version of the S III uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. Well, it looks like Samsung is getting an order from Apple too.