Now A Wave of Your hand could be your new password

Forgot your password again? No problem, just wave your hand!

Scientists are developing a new technology which can verify a person's identity with a wave of the hand.

A biometric sensor in a laptop or tablet computer scans the unique pattern of veins in a person's palm to verify their identity, the Telegraph reported.

The technology, developed by Intel, could do away with the multiple passwords most people use for websites.

"The problem with passwords - we use too many of them, their rules are complex, and they differ for different websites. There is a way out of it, and biometrics is an

option," Sridhar Iyengar, director of research at Intel Labs said.He was speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week.

The technology would require new biometric sensors to be built into computers. An accelerometer could be used to monitor when someone put the gadget down and automatically

lock it to prevent unauthorised access.

Iyengar added that the palm scanning technology worked much better than the finger-print scanners used on some laptops today.

Read More»

Will you pay Rs 1.2 lakh to own an iPhone 5

Will You Pay Rs 1.2 Lakh To Own An Iphone 5 Within the Days of its Us Release?

Many Apple aficionados in India are willing to shell out as much as Rs 1.21 lakh to own the iPhone 5 within days of its initial release in the US and seven other countries.

DNA reports that four Ahmedabad citizens paid Rs 1 lakh in advance for the phone and will pay an additional Rs 21,000 at the time of delivery.

Bharat Bhagnani in a Forbes blog says the "the grey market is throbbing with 'pre-orders' for iPhone 5, with prices skyrocketing up to almost Rs 80,000 to Rs 1,00,000 for delivery by September end." Bhagnani spoke to grey market dealers in Delhi and Mumbai, who were also willing to offer up to Rs 26,000 for a used iPhone 4S depending on its condition.

But the early iPhone 5 birds in India may encounter a technical hitch. The iPhone 5 comes with a nano-SIM tray and Indian mobile service providers do not currently offer nano-SIMs.

Also unlike micro-SIMs that are used in the iPhone 4S, they cannot be easily cut from regular SIMs using a SIM cutter.

This could mean that the iPhone 5s that eager Indian buyers with deep pockets lap up at premium prices may be as functional as the iPod Touch, though the DNA report quotes an unnamed official from a telecom operator in Gujarat saying that they have placed orders for nano-SIMs.

Read More»

Sound effects come to Google+ Hangouts

Google Has Just Added Another Cool Source of Entertainment : Sound Effects For Google + Hangouts.

As teased by Google’s own Amit Fulay, there’s now a dozen different sound effects built right into Hangouts — expect everything from cheesy applause and laugh tracks to chirping, gongs, snare drums and ticking clocks. Your conversations will never be the same.

Additionally, developers can also include sound effects into their own apps with v1.2 of the Hangouts API. Right now, we can’t tell if Google will eventually allow developers to create their own sound effects, but that could be interesting for live shows and classes.

To use the new effects, start a Hangout in G+ and click on the “Google Effects” tab shown below.

In order to take advantage of this new feature, users will have to make sure they’re updated to the latest version of the Hangouts Plugin: v3.6. It should update automatically, but if you’re having any issues, you can download the plugin here.

These effects are vapid and whimsical, but sure to appeal to a certain set of Google’s userbase. Recently Google + Crossed 400 Million Users and 100 Million Monthly Active Members.Within 12 Months.

Read More»

The New Header Photo Feature For Twitter Profiles

Apparently Inspired By the Facebook Timeline, Twitter Has Also Announced its New Header Photo Style to all Twitter User Profiles. The New Header Photo Style Will Be Active On All Profiles On All Platforms Like Ipad,Android, And IPhone.

Well On the Ipad and Android Twitter  Has Also Added a New Photo Stream Below the Users Most Recent Tweets.

To Activate it On Your Twitter Account Go to Design And Click on Choose Header and Select  Your Desired Image.

Twitter Has Also Announced its New Ipad App. "We Have Rebuilt The App From the Ground Level to Make it Fast,Beautiful And Very Easy to Use", The Product Manager of Twitter Said On the Official Twitter Blog.Recently Twitter Has Confirmed that it Has Dropped the option For Users to Use the Third Partly  Image Upload Service. Thereby Twitter Forcing users to Use its Own Image Service.

Read More»

Twitter Now Forces You to Use its Own Image Service in its Mobile Apps

We knew it was coming, but with the release of its new iOS apps earlier today, Twitter has confirmed that it has dropped the option allowing users to select a third-party image upload service, forcing them instead to use its own service powered by Photobucket.

When entering the options screen in the iPhone or iPad app, Twitter no longer shows an option for “Image service,” instead providing choices only for video upload and read later services:

Previously, Twitter allowed users to choose from Twitter’s own option but also provided support for yFrog, TwitPic, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, Posterous (now owned by Twitter) and img.ly.

Buzzfeed — which broke the news of a potential change in Twitter’s services three days ago — spoke with Twitpic founder Noah Everett, who said he understood the decision but wished it was different:

“They’re trying to control those eyeballs on their apps, they’re an ad-based company, they make money that way.”

The move is part of Twitter’s wider drive to deliver a ‘consistent‘ experience for users. To date, the most high-profile example of this has been restrictions on the growth of third-party Twitter clients, which caused a stink in the developer community last month.

For posterity, here’s what the image upload options used to look like in Twitter for iPhone/iPod touch.

  

Via ThenextWEb

Read More»

Samsung Dismisses Galaxy S4 Launch Rumors

A day after it was reported that it would launch the successor to its popular Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next year, Samsung has taken to its official Twitter account to put an end to rumors of a Galaxy S4 unveiling early next year.

The tweet, which was posted to the company’s Korean account, addresses media reports and states that the “rumor is not true”:

The Korean Times report sourced anonymous company officials, suggesting that the unreleased device’s features would be “more than enough to curb Apple’s latest iPhone,” sport a 5-inch screen, would “definitely use” global LTE networks and utilise Samsung’s Exynos processor.

Samsung decided it would skip Mobile World Congress this year and follow up with an event of its own. With Apple’s iPhone 5 dominating the headlines shortly after launching and becoming available for preorder, a speculative Samsung report helped draw attention away from Apple.

Samsung’s response puts an end to rumors of an upcoming Galaxy S4 launch, for now. The Galaxy S III is heading for 30 million sales by the end of the year – it’s already the company’s bestselling smartphone, so questions would need to be asked as to why increased focus would be placed on its successor.

INSPIRED BY THE NEXT WEB

GET OUR LATEST NEWS ON TWITTER. → Follow @Saikiransama

Follow the latest news on Facebook, like our GIB Facebook page

ARE YOU ON GOOGLE+? → JOIN US ON  GOOGLE+ PAGE HERE

JOIN SAIKIRANSAMA ON:  OR  RSS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SAIKIRANREDDY SAMA IS THE GOODINBLOGGING'S CHEIF EDITOR. HE IS AN ENGINEERING STUDENT BY PROFESSION AND A PART TIME BLOGGER. HIS AREAS OF INTEREST ARE BLOGGING,SOCIAL MEDIA,BLOGGING,SEO, TECHNOLOGY RELATED STREAM. YOU CAN FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER, GOOGLE+, FACEBOOK, OR EMAIL :- SAIKIRANSAMA@GMAIL.COM

Read More»

Google + Has 400 Million Members Now

The Social Networking site Google Plus Now Has 400 Million Users. As Announced By Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra.

He Announced the News Firstly in His Google +Profile  Today.He Also Added that Google Plus Has 100 Million Active Members Monthly.

He A This Week we also Hit an Important MileStone-Over 400,000,000 People Have Upgraded to Google +. It was Only One Year Ago that We Opened Public Sign-up. And We Could Not Have Imagined that So Many People Would Join it in Just 12 Months He Said.

 Has 100 Million A For Comparision ,Google+'s Biggest Competitor Facebook had 955 M active Users Only.

Users Only. Of Course the Methodolog of Counting Active Users Between the Two Companies May Differ, But By Seeing the Numvers Facebook is Currently Approximately 10 Times Bigger than the Google +.But Facebook Has to take Several Years to Reach Such Numbers While Google Plus Managed to do that Within 12 Months.

Read More»

Google buys Snapseed's photo-editing service

Google has snapped up the digital photo editing service Snapseed as part of its effort to compete against Facebook's online social network.

Snapseed is the centrepiece of Google's acquisition of Nik Software, which developed the service's photo-editing technology.

The deal announced Monday gives Google a popular service that competes against Facebook's Instagram, whose tools are widely used to display, touch up and share photos taken on smartphones and tablet computers.

Facebook bought Instagram for $715 million in a deal that closed last month.

Google Inc. didn't disclose the terms of the Nik Software acquisition.

Snapseed could be used to increase usage of Google Plus, a social networking alternative to Facebook.

Although it has grown rapidly since its debut nearly 15 months ago, Google Plus is still experimenting with different features aimed at getting Web surfers to check into the service more frequently.

Google Plus now has about 400 million accountholders, according to a post Monday by Vic Gundotra, a Google executive who oversees the service. About 100 million users come to Google Plus each month, Gundotra said. Facebook boasts 955 million active users.

Read More»