Xiaomi banned from selling and importing mobile phones in India

The Delhi High Court has reportedly granted an ex parte injunction order against Xiaomi for allegedly infringing on Ericsson's Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).

The ex parte injunction against Xiaomi, reported by SpicyIP, stops the Chinese manufacturer from "selling, advertising, manufacturing or importing devices" that infringe upon Ericsson's patents.

It isn't clear right now if this will affect the sales of all Xiaomi handsets in India, or if the case pertains to any specific devices.

Reports indicate that Flipkart is also implicated in the case,

Xiaomi India head Manu Jain said "While we haven't received an official notice from the Delhi High Court, our legal team is currently evaluating the situation based on the information we have.
India is a very important market for Xiaomi and we will respond promptly as needed and in full compliance with Indian laws. Moreover, we are open to working with Ericsson to resolve this matter amicably."

SpicyIP also reports that the Delhi High Court has under IPR Rules, 2007, directed customs officials to stop Xiaomi's imports, and adds that authorities will visit the firm's offices to ensure compliance.

Will this decision mark an end to the most popular budget cellphone with mid end specs?

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Einstein's note to Marie Curie

A note from Einstein telling Marie Curie not to listen to her critics
Courtesy:AsapScience

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Answer This!

Lets see if you can answer this question

A couple went for a picnic
They have 5 sons and each son have 7 sisters and each sister have 3 babies

In total how many people went for the picnic
(^o^)

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My experience with Redmi 1S

So I have been using Redmi 1S from past few days and believe me, its one of the best phone or I should say it is the best budget smartphone which u can get under 15k (INR). The user interface (MIUI) is so smooth. This phone sports a 1.6 GHz quad core snapdragon 400.
Though its a bit overclocked, but you can underclock it by rooting your device and installing Set Cpu.
Talking about its hardware, this phone has an 8 mp camera which is pretty good for a phone within this range. The best part is the video recording capability.
What if I tell u that this phone can record 1080p video?
Believe me or not but this device really can record 1080p video and that too at ease.
People were posting about the overheating problem. I haven't faced any yet (and i don't want to face ).
But hey what more can u expect from a 6k INR device.

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Concepts of Object

Concept of Object is an important part in understanding object-oriented language.

What is an Object ?

 An object, in real world can be one of the following:

• anything that is visible or tangible.
• something that may be apprehended intellectually.
• something towards which one can direct act or think.

If we study all the things meeting above criteria of being objects, we can say that each of these things has an unique identity, some definitive state or characteristic and some behaviour.
To make things simpler, lets uderstand this using  an example hmmmm, maybe a watermelon.
Okay so for those who don't know what  a watermelon is, it is usually a big, round, green-coloured fruit. Well its not green from inside.
So as mentioned above an object usually has some characteristics and some behaviour.
If we consider watermelon as an object then its characteristics will be - It is round, It is Big, It is green from outside, It is red from inside etc.
Lets talk about its behaviour-- can be used to make juices, tastes sweet and etc.

Similarly we can say that a chair is also an object. Its characteristics are: it has four legs, one back, may or may not have arms. Its behaviour is : it lets you sit on it.

 Object

An Object can be thought of as an entity having a specific identity, specific characteristics and specific behaviour.

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Ubuntu's new OS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr

Canonical launched its new OS, Ubuntu 14.04 which will be the first long term support in two years and will be supported for the next five years. This means that the Linux shop will be supporting this distro until 2019.
The sad part is that you are not going to see Unity 8 in this release, nor will there be any trace of the Mir graphics stack which Canonical is hoping will one day support both its desktop and mobile offerings.

Ubuntu 14.04 is faster, more stable and overall much better than 12.04 and brings far too many update.

A few of the highlights include better support for high-resolution displays, TRIM for solid state drives is now turned on for Intel and Samsung SSDs, Nvidia Optimus support has been improved, and all of the default applications have been updated to their latest stable versions. For the major apps that means Firefox 28, LibreOffice 4.2.3 and Nautilus 3.10. Ubuntu 14.04 is using Linux kernel 3.13.

With 14.04 you can now get menus in windows, minimize windows from the Unity Launcher, customize Launcher menus to suit your needs and even see the full suite of menu items in previously hobbled apps like the Nautilus file browser.

There are many small, easy-to-overlook visual improvements which, while they may not jump out at you, go a long way to making the overall experience of Ubuntu feel much more polished than other Linux distros.
A good example of this is new borderless application windows that get rid of the one pixel, nearly black border element. An equally small, but nice, touch is the new GTK3 window decorations, which mean much smoother anti-aliased corners - something that might not be noticeable without a high-resolution screen, but will be much appreciated if you have one.
In short- Ubuntu 14.04 is not just a great LTS release but one of the best version of Ubuntu yet.

To download Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr- click here

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Say Hello to Google's new project, 'Project Tango' - 3D vision smartphone

Google announced a new research project Thursday aimed at bringing 3D technology to smartphones, for potential applications such as indoor mapping, gaming and helping blind people navigate.
The California tech giant said its "Project Tango" would provide prototypes of its new smartphone to outside developers to encourage the writing of new applications.
Project leader Johnny Lee said the goal of the project, which incorporates robotics and vision-processing technology, is "to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion."
"What if you could capture the dimensions of your home simply by walking around with your phone before you went furniture shopping?"Google said on its Project Tango web page.
"What if directions to a new location didn't stop at the street address? What if you never again found yourself lost in a new building? What if the visually impaired could navigate unassisted in unfamiliar indoor places? What if you could search for a product and see where the exact shelf is located in a super-store?"
The technology could also be used for "playing hide-and-seek in your house with your favorite game character, or transforming the hallways into a tree-lined path."
Smartphones are equipped with sensors which make over 1.4 million measurements per second, updating the position and rotation of the phone.
Partners in the project include researchers from the University of Minnesota, George Washington University, German tech firm Bosch and the Open Source Robotics Foundation, among others.

Another partner is California-based Movidius, which makes vision-processor technology for mobile and portable devices and will provide the processor platform.
Movidius said in a statement the goal was "to mirror human vision with a newfound level of depth, clarity and realism on mobile and portable connected devices."
"Google has paved the future direction for smart mobile vision systems and we're excited to be working with a company that shares our vision to usher in the next wave of applications that fundamentally alter how a mobile device is used to experience the world around us," said Remi El-Ouazzane, chief executive of Movidius.
"Project Tango is truly a groundbreaking platform and we look forward to seeing the innovation the developer community achieves," he added.

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ARTEMIS's pCell Technology

Technologist and serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman on Wednesday announced his new company, Artemis, and demoed its pCell technology.
pCell technology "consistently delivers full-speed mobile data to every mobile device concurrently, regardless of how many users are sharing the same spectrum at once," he claimed.
The theory is legitimate, but "you certainly do not have the whole network's capacity available to an unlimited number of users," said Philip Solis, a research director at ABI Research.
"The more users the network would try to communicate with simultaneously, the more complicated the signals would become," Solis continued.

How pCell Technology Works

Instead of trying to suppress interference, the pCell exploits it -- combining radio signals transmitted from multiple pCell base stations to, in effect, create a personalized wireless network around each mobile device. Think of it as a globe that accompanies the device. This gives each user the full capacity of the pCell.

When a user clicks on a streaming video website in a DIDO (Distributed Input-Output Technology, or DIDO) setup, the data is sent to the DIDO data center, which processes the video data into a radio signal waveform and sends it to the DIDO AP. The characteristics of the waveform are determined by algorithms on the back-end servers. That lets each PC making a request pick out its own video stream. The response uses the full bandwidth of the channel.

Uploaded data also gets the full channel bandwidth.

DIDO is cloud-based. The technology has been successfully tested at frequencies from 1 MHz to 1 GHz.

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Nokia's Android Smartphone

While it is widely expected that Nokia will unveil its first Android smartphone - Nokia X - next week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014,

it is rumoured that the company has more Android handsets in the works.According to a report by Chinese technology website tech.qq.com, Nokia is working on two android smartphone other than Nokia X.All three Android smartphones by Nokia are expected to hit the market in May-June. Nokia X is said to cost approximately $110 (6.8k
The device is said to have a 4-inch screen with 800x480p resolution and a 1-1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor. It will have 512MB RAM, 5MP rear camera, Bluetooth 4.0, Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system and 4GB internal storage     
   

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U.K. based Canonical Ltd.'s Ubuntu Touch OS finally got it's hardware partners and the company promises new phones this year!

U.K. based Canonical Ltd.'s Ubuntu Touch Operating System for Smartphones (a rival to Android) finally got it's hardware partners. The company will be building mid-high end phones with BQ and Meizu, the first manufacturers to confound to the company. It was revealed by the founder of Ubuntu (Mark Shuttleworth) itself.
Canonical had just signed it's first deal to supply a smartphone with its mobile operating system, Canonical founder and product strategy leader Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview here at the LeWeb conference. He wouldn't say which company has agreed to use the Linux-based OS, but said it will be offered on high-end phones in 2014.
"We have concluded our first set of agreements to ship Ubuntu on mobile phones," Shuttleworth said. "We've shifted gears from 'making a concept' to 'it's going to ship.' That has a big impact on the team."
And, he said, Canonical is in board-level discussions with several others: "We are now pretty much at the board level on four household brands. They sell a lot of phones all over the world, in emerging and fully emerged markets, to businesses and consumers."
It's significant progress for a nine-year-old company that has specialized in the Ubuntu version of Linux. But it's a very long way to making even a small dent in the dominance of Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
Shuttleworth knows he's got big incumbent powers to reckon with, along with smaller mobile OS players such as Windows Phone from Microsoft, Tizen from Samsung and Intel, and Firefox OS from Mozilla and a host of carrier partners. He thinks Ubuntu Touch, with a flexible programming foundation beneath and an immersive services-first interface on top, will find a place, though.
"Volume is important. We want to do stuff that people use every day," he said. He doesn't want Ubuntu to occupy only a small niche of the mobile market.l So how will Ubuntu Touch make it to the big leagues? Partnerships with those who offer services -- partnerships with companies like LinkedIn, Baidu, Facebook, Evernote, and Pinterest is one way. Those with online services see Android as a vehicle to drive people to Google services, and they're looking to back an alternative that will give them top billing, Shuttleworth said.
Ubuntu Touch puts those services front and center in a rich way that elevates them beyond mere app icons.
"The look is fresh and clean. It's much more usable than any of the other new phones," Shuttleworth said.
A second part of the sales pitch is that Ubuntu Touch is open, something that appeals to some business partners. It's based on the open-source operating system also at the core of the Ubuntu product for personal computers and servers. And it can run apps written for that Linux kernel, for a Java layer on top that's not far removed from Android's app underpinnings, or Web apps that are the lifeblood for Firefox OS.
It's hard to imagine that Android developers will eagerly to produce a sister version of their apps, no matter how easy the developer tools make it, unless Ubuntu Touch spreads widely. Shuttleworth believes they will, though, since they already have to reckon with a fragmented Android device market and Ubuntu Touch isn't far removed.
"We make no claims for Android compatibility, but we make it super easy for you to target both at the same time and super cool for you to do so," Shuttleworth said.
Another part of the sales pitch is carrier support. He's won Ubuntu Touch endorsements from Vodafone, 3, EE, KT, SK Telecom, Verizon, Deutsche Telecom, T-Mobile, PT, and more, he said. And the final piece: software written natively for Ubuntu Touch will also work on Ubuntu-based PCs and, someday, Ubuntu-based tablets and TVs.
Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, back in the day when Linux on the desktop was, if not exactly a contender, at least a more widely discussed alternative to Windows PCs than it is today. Since then, the company expanded to the server market, with a major focus on cloud-computing infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services' EC2.
Mobile came next -- but so far profits have not followed for the company. Shuttleworth sold Thawte Consulting to Verisign in 1999 for $575 million and and has enough wealth for space tourism -- he became a cosmonaut on a Russian Soyuz trip in 2002. And he's been willing to subsidize Canonical while it grows a business.
If he wanted, the company could become profitable on its PC and server business right now by dropping the mobile work. But for now, it invests in its future because Shuttleworth thinks dumping mobile would cut the company off from a major part of computing.
"It would give it a lifespan measured in years," Shuttleworth said. "Not decades, years." 

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