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Paris Attacks: European Demand For Security Technology Will Likely Increase ...
International Business Times
Companies will pitch police on new safety and anti-terror tools at the Milipol conference, which will take place in Paris this week. Getty/Jacques Demarthon. Following the grisly citywide attack in Paris that left 129 dead and 352 injured on Friday ...

Lead researcher Anastasia Powell said the findings indicate that new laws were needed to deal with online abuse. “That one in 10 Australian men and women have had a revealing image distributed without their permission is highly significant,” Powell said.
Three in five Australians have been the target of online harassment and abuse with women and young adults being the softest targets, an RMIT University study reveals.
Women and young adults are most likely to report being sexually h

Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an e-mail to all his employees citing the alleged racism incident in Australia as ‘unacceptable’.
Two days after a Apple store manager in Melbourne apologised to a group of teenagers for alleged racism; Apple CEO Tim Cook has shot an e-mail to all his employees citing the incident as ‘unacceptable’.
The Apple store manager at Highpoint Shopping Center had reportedly kicked six black college students out of the store due to concern

THERE IS no denying the fact that mobile apps—those nifty little software applications, now an inseparable part of every smartphone, tablet and computer worth its name—have changed the way we go about our daily lives. From allowing us to interact with companies we do business with to providing games to pass time with, these applications seem to be the answer for almost everything under the sun these days.
While most of them are useful, plenty of them are, in fact, not—in any sh

Soudures J.M. Tremblay Unveils an Innovative Welding Technology That Will Set ...
Marketwired (press release)
This afternoon, Les Soudures J.M. Tremblay (SJMT) unveiled, surrounded by its clients, partners and employees, the very first robotic friction stir welding (FSW) cell in production in Canada. While this welding technology has been known for many years, ...and more »

Google Doodle for Children’s Day: The winning doodle was by P Karthik from Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Visakhapatnam
Google India today celebrated Children’s Day by featuring a doodle drawn by P Karthik from Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Visakhapatnam. The 9-year-old as the winner of the recent Doodle 4 Google contest, which is held every year.
This year, Google had invited entries from children across the country to create doodles on theme ‘If I could create something for India, it

As smartphones become people’s primary cameras, there is growing demand for built-in image-processing apps in smartphones. But image processing quickly drain a cellphone’s battery.
Researchers have developed a new technique that consumes much less battery and bandwidth while processing images taken through smartphone cameras.
The system sends a highly compressed image to a central server, and the server sends back an even smaller file, which contains simple instructions for modifyin

The winning doodle focuses on recycling waste plastic. (Source: Doodle 4 Google)
Google India today celebrated Children’s Day by featuring a doodle drawn by P Karthik from Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Visakhapatnam. The 9-year-old as the winner of the recent Doodle 4 Google contest, which is held every year.
This year, Google had invited entries from children across the country to create doodles on theme ‘If I could create something for India, it would be…‘ The best entry

Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an e-mail to all his employees citing the alleged racism incident in Australia as ‘unacceptable’.
Two days after a Apple store manager in Melbourne apologised to a group of teenagers for alleged racism; Apple CEO Tim Cook has shot an e-mail to all his employees citing the incident as ‘unacceptable’.
The Apple store manager at Highpoint Shopping Center had reportedly kicked six black college students out of the store due to concern

“You have to take the decision keeping in mind where your users are and not what you or your company think.”
(Illustration: Pradeep Yadav)
Snapdeal was quick to respond with its Snap-Lite mobile website when Flipkart suddenly changed its mind to ditch its app-only strategy for smartphones. The recent launch of Flipkart Lite shows that Flipkart is somewhere unconvinced of its plans. Rival Snapdeal, on the other end, is comfortable with their ‘app-also’ strategy. Snapdeal

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

Telling about people and their situations from only 140 characters may not seem easy, but a new first-of-its-kind study is using 20 million tweets to understand the real-world situations.
To date, no research has tapped the vast data from social networking sites to study situations. This Florida Atlantic University research provides insights about the psychological experience of a typical workday or week.
Corresponding author David Serfass and co-author Ryne Sherman wanted to learn about the kin

There are already a large number of fitness and medical apps that let users track their fitness, consult doctors and even make appointments online.
The health sector is one of the fastest growing in India. According to some statistics, the industry size is expected to touch $160 billion by the end of 2017. This growth can be attributed to rising awareness among people about their health, easy access to information and a growing capacity to spend on better healthcare facilities.
So it would have

Swipe Junior comes with a customized UI, pre-loaded with apps for kids and on-cloud connectivity. The company says that it is shock-proof and durable and comes in blue and pink colours.
Swipe Technologies, on Children’s Day has launched Swipe Junior smartphone, specifically built for kids for Rs 5,999.
Swipe Junior comes with a number of special features which makes it suitable for children aged between 5-15 years. Some of these include parents operated control system, which lets parents

Other self-driving cars that Google has been testing on California roads and highways were involved in 17 minor collisions since May 2010, according to the company.
A car built by Google that drives itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly. A police officer in the tech giant’s Silicon Valley hometown pulled over the prototype car Thursday because it was going a traffic-tying 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.
The officer spoke with the person in the driver’s

Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium.
Google’s new flagship is the Nexus 6P by Huawei, and according to the guys behind it the ‘P’ stands for premium. With the Nexus 6, we saw Google move its Nexus phones from the mid-Rs 20,000 budget range to the higher Rs 40,000 price bracket. Now with the Huawei Nexus 6P, Google is sticking to this pricing, a conscious strategy where the tech giant i

ZTE USA, the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. and second largest in the no-contract market*, today announced that ZTE is driving across America to prove just how game changing their mobile devices are. Get the chance to experience the first high-fidelity audio smartphone series, Axon, and the only Android-powered smart projector, ZTE Spro 2. Beginning Friday, November 13th at the home of the Chicago Bulls and running into next year, consumers check out the ZTE Experience Tour a

Karthik, Group 1 winner of 7th Doodle 4 Google competition held on the occasion of Children’s Day, sketched
‘Plastic to Earth – Machine’.
Google’s homepage for India has a doodle drawn by P Karthik from Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Visakhapatnam, marking Childrens Day and the birth anniversary of the India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Karthik, Group 1 winner of 7th Doodle 4 Google competition held on the occasion of Children’s Day, sketche

People react and keep warm using thermal blankets near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal attacks in Paris, France (Reuters)
Facebook launched a check-in feature to let people know that friends in Paris were safe after a series of bombings and shootings in the French capital killed at least 120 people.
The “Paris Terror Attacks” safety check let people signal whether they were out of harm’s way, then notified all those they know at the leading social network.
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