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The South Korean multinational conglomerate company Samsung appears to be showing off the very fabled Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet which would be launched at the coming week at Mobile World Congress 2013. While, there has been a spy-shot that is being circulated of the Samsung Galaxy Note8.0 being released at the MWC. Also, throughout the past week there have been several leaked pieces of the much awaited 8 inch device.

Photos pertaining to the leak were received by SlashGear which shows how the Galaxy Note 8.0 appears like. This phone is a bit over-sized version of Samsung Note II. Also, its features include a Super Clear LCD, a 5 megapixel camera and a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera.

Samsung holds the distinction of making devices available at any and every size possible, and the latest in this edition  is the yet to be released Samsung 8 inch phone cum tablet. This tablet device is slightly larger as compared to Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. Also, this device is similar to the very recent Galaxy phones that have been launched and also the S-Pen the Tab lineup works with.

The yet-to-be launched Samsung Galaxy 8 is similar to Samsung Galaxy Note II and also Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 having a identical bezel, silvery rim and also a second generation pen. It is surprisingly available in the colour white.

Also, there are some mysterious links that are yet to be solved. There is an inclusion of the earpiece speaker that is only seen in cases of Galaxy Note II and various other smaller handsets.

In order to get more news and updates, the Samsung tag portal and the Mobile World Congress 2013 shall be loaded with information throughout the week.

In an astonishing update, Microsoft revealed that it too had been hit by cyberattacks which were identical to those reported by Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc.

In a blog post by the company’s security official it was revealed that there were some of the company’s computers which were infected by malicious software. Also, it was reported that there was no direct instances about customer data being affected due to the same.

a post by the general manager at Microsoft’s computing security unit stated that there were investigations already initiated in the above matter.

Also, another division of Microsoft was undergoing the same issues. The provider of invisible computing horsepower, Windows Azure business disclosed that the company was offline on that very day. There were reports about a lapse of the Web security certificate. However, the reason for disclosure of the certification lapse has not been stated.

These cyberattacks were the latest in line to the many attacks that have been reported in the recent weeks.

The Cupertino, California based company Apple also disclosed that there were few employees who Mac computers were hacked by infiltrators. Facebook reported this attack on Friday, and also stated that the attack affected a numerous companies.

The companies Facebook and Apple were affected by what is termed as the “watering hole” attack. Various employees of the corporations visited the Web Page for mobile developers that was sacrificed as a code which affected their computers. The social networking site, Faceboook said that the company had come to know about the attack last month when it gathered reports of mysterious Internet domains in its various computer logs that went back to a sole employee laptop. Twitter Inc., the popular micro-blogging site, in a statement said that the victim of an attack could have possibly leaked out information about the usernames and email addresses of about 250,000 users.

Sony Inc. has been taking steps to reaffirm its image in the tech market. What can be better than innovation and providing quality services to its users? It has decided to upgrade (Android 4.2.2 version) its flagship water and dust resistant Xperia Z phone. The Sony Xperia Z is still not launched in most parts of the world including India. It has been reported by PC-Tablet that the originally the phone is coming with Android 4.2.1 version and the phone will be upgradable to the Android 4.2.2 operating system. The Xperia Z is an attempt by Sony to Focus on gaming and imaging. The new phone is better than all the other Xperia’s rolled out till this date. The phone has a solid body and look and offers a good 1080p phone display.

Sony has also added up a 13 –megapixel camera and 1.5 GHz processor. The Snapdragon S4 Pro is one of the most potent mobile processors currently available. The Smartphone Xperia z deserves to be called as advancement in innovation and technology by Sony. The biggest advantage with the new phone is that it is protected by a shell. This shell enables the phone to be dust resistant. The phone has 3g connectivity.

Sony’s new phone and its ‘shell’ feature has definitely made people notice it. It remains to be seen though as to how the phone fares out in the longer run against other Android and Apple smartphones. The update will be soon launched in most all parts of the world and can be updated to the 4.2.2 version of Android version.

The brand new Retina iPad mini has supposedly made its first appearance on the Internet where faux pictures mix freely with truth and original product specifications. CNET reports that a website (based in china) has claimed that the leaked image that has been posted by it is that of Retina iPad mini. In case you are not an avid news reader then it’s worth repeating that Apple launched the iPad mini along with the fourth generation iPad in California on October 23rd last year.

The iPad mini has a 7.9-inch display, FaceTime HD and iSight cameras, ultrafast wireless performance and a steady ten hours of battery life. Tech market is ripe with rumors since the day when iPad mini was announced that Apple will soon release iPad mini. Most analysts and technical experts had given pre-indications that Apple is going to launch Retina iPad mini, and now finally, if the reports of the Chinese website are to be believed than it has finally arrived. The leaked image shows an Ipad device with the logo of Apple. Incidentally, the logo is in a shade of blue which is strange.

The device shown in the image is a bit thicker than the current iPad mini. It thus adds credibility to the image as Retina iPad was thicker than iPad 2. Overall it can be said that the picture is real, if we ignore the Blue logo of the Apple on it which indicates that it might be fake. As the tech war between Microsoft and Apple will increase we are sure that we are soon going to find some new leaked pictures of the coming products. Meanwhile, the tech market can be kept busy in speculating whether the recent picture is a real one or fake.

Twitter keeps on modifying itself. A recent change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper implies that your tweets have just got a bit shorter. Twiiter announced this change in December. The change by the microblogging firm means that the upper limit of any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters. This also means that the limit will be 117 characters for https links.

Normally users have 140 characters at their disposal.  In this character limits they can effectively display their message. In case they chose to share a web link, the limit is reduced to 120 characters. The blogging firm has has also announced a change in Twitter’s t.co. link wrapper. The 20 character length of twitter.co has been increased to 22 characters for non-https links and 23 for https URL’S. The effect of these changes will be that the condensed wrapped links will now take up more space and leave you with a lesser space to add your stuff. The reduction of characters from 22 to 20 may not be a matter of worry for most of the users but it may be a problem for some. Thus, it becomes necessary that people who love to tweet pretty long messages and are stopped by twitter’s character limits use some tools to effectively use it. Here are some:

1.    Twishort – http://twishort.com/

2.    Tall Tweets – http://talltweets.com/

3.    Tweet Compressor – http://tweetcompressor.com/

4.    Jumbo Tweet – http://jumbotweet.com/

5.    Maxi Tweet – http://www.maxitweet.com/

6.    TwitLonger – http://www.twitlonger.com

7.    Long Twit – http://lngtw.com/

8.    Twiffo – http://twiffo.com/

9.    Long Tweet Splitter – http://longtweetsplitter.com/

10.  Tweet Extend – http://tweetextend.com/

11.  Ez Tweets – http://www.eztweets.com/

These are some tools which will ultimately help the user to squeeze in more content in their tweets. Happy tweeting guys!!!!

Sony is planning to make a huge announcement and according to market analysts it is announcing the arrival of its next system- the Playstation 4.

The new PlayStation 4 is replacing an almost seven year old outdated circuitry. The recent PlayStation 3 uses chips with less time consuming manufacturing processes but with the same layout and strengths. The latest PlayStation is comparatively faster, due to the fact that Sony is using better techniques. The Japanese multinational conglomerate is trying hard to gain an edge in the arena of gaming system graphics.

Playstations are a huge collection of downloadable games. The PlayStation 3 was launched initially with a 40 GB storage memory, however now its memory size goes upto 500 GB. The astonishing feature of Sony is that it could come up with 1 TB hard drive and make it available at cheaper prices.  The extra storage memory encourages gamers to spend more money by the way of PSN purchases.

News that is making buzz recently is that Sony’s purchase of the streaming games technology company Gaikai. The thing that people are guessing is whether the games will be a spontaneous play feature or whether it will contain an entirely new collection of rental games.

The company’s XrossMediaBar interface on PS4 and PlayStation Portable is gaining a base with the consumers the interface of Sony connected to HDTV or Blu-ray Player is very similar to PS3. The PS4 will start from the base to create a new interface.

Sony Corporation has not turned backwards in the past few years. Backward compatibility has been basically phased out to give way to downloadable and purchasable games. PS 4 does not have access to a big collection of downloadable games. And the excellent back catalog of games is not available with PS4.

A brand new home page layout has been delivered by Yahoo for its news fanatics. The news about the new home page design was announced by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on her company’s blog, which offers the users a modern experience.

The main point of this layout is the news. Users can access this page and customize it according to their interests. If the users have sports or entertainment as their priority, news feed related to only those topics will be visible on the page. In the opinion of Mayer, the current home page has an indefinite scroll options, which lets users experience a non ending feed of news articles. Various social features have also been added as the users can log in there Yahoo accounts using their facebook ID’s. Also stated in the blog was that this Yahoo feature has been optimized for smartphones and tablets. Also, Yahoo has worked upon its speed.

Also, Yahoo has on offer a search box at the top of the page to direct people anywhere else on Web. A new sidebar which is named as “Trending Now” guides the users as to what is making news at that particular moment. The home page users at Yahoo can also monitor the weather and stock informations.

As per the buzz, Yahoo is conducting tests for new Web designs secretly, but some uses were able to notice as the advancements. In the month of October last year, Yahoo made some advancements to its home page, but those advancements were just a small step to a major change.

The people residing in the densely populated city state Singapore have a reason to rejoice. Google has launched its indoor map facility on Tuesday. This makes Singapore only the 2^nd country in Asia to have this kind of facility. The current facility is available to the Android users, who can now find their way out inside large buildings and shopping malls in Singapore. The information which will be available to the user will include floor plans, basic walking directions for any building which has shared its indoor maps with Google.  Google uses the Wi-Fi access points to find out a user’s location and helps in navigation as the user crosses different floors and areas. In total 22 malls have signed up for the launch of Google Maps facility.

The application saw its inauguration in U.S in 2011 with airports and maps being the first to be mapped. Japan then used Google’s map facility in its densely populated capital Tokyo and Osaka. This facility is however not new in Singapore. Wayback in the year 2010, Singtel introduced an application which gives the user directions to shops on its detailed floor plan and store directory. The additional feature of Google maps is that you do not need a separate application to see an indoor map.  It moves on from outdoor maps to Indoor floor plans when the users focus (zoom) into the building on screen. The application can be updated by businesses houses by uploading their floor plans on to Google.

The map facilities are going to be a major factor in the upcoming war between tech giants. The information coming along with maps proves out to be vital for the advertising companies. It influences the user to go to that particular business house which is highlighted on the map thus adding to their profits.

According to a recent survey from  OnDevice Research, a mobile research group, the new iPhone5 ranks fifth in customer satisfaction. In the recently conducted poll, they asked around 320,000 smartphone and tablet users of 6 countries about their satisfaction level with their devices. Around 93,825 people from US believe that Motorola Atrix HD is the best and Droid Razr of Motorola took 2^nd position. HTC’s Rezound 4G took the 3^rd position and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 secured the fourth spot, the much hyped  Apple’s iPhone5 was able to secure only the fifth spot. From the poll it can be concluded that Apple may be lagging behind in consumer interest.

The main reason behind this as explained by Sarah Quinn (On Device Research is that though Apple has one of the most awesome technologies in the world but other tech giants are catching up fast. Android devices are now reporting higher levels of user satisfaction. But these lower rankings will not be a very big problem for Apple as it has taken spot in the overall satisfaction of the mobile devices. Sony Ericsson was behind at 6^th place.

The countries in which survey was conducted were U.K., U.S.A, France, Germany, Japan, and Indonesia. The survey was a simple one and the revealed many facts related to devices but one was still left with curiosity to know that why Google was listed when it is not the actual smartphone maker and why Samsung was at the bottom of the list when it has earned a huge respect for itself in World markets. The On Device Research’s representative answered these questions and clarified that this survey was conducted on mobile web where the survey software could detect the taker’s device. Due to Nexus device, Google was included.

Companies focus on different aspects of smart phones in order to win mass appeal of the customers. In Google’s case, the smart money basically goes for camera development.

The world’s biggest names in the smartphone market rarely ever drops any hints regarding their future projects. However, this time senior Google engineer Vic Gundotra has stated that the company’s future Nexus Smartphones would be equipped with cameras of insanely good quality. The new Nexus smartphones would come with superior camera technology.

Excellent improvements have been made with each generation of Nexus smartphones. However, according to the opinion of the experts the cameras of these phones have not made any significant improvement since the very first Nexus phone.

It seems that this is what Google has aimed for with its forthcoming Nexus technology. The availability of this kind of camera prowess seems to be a mystery but it definitely brings out loud in front of the world that the camera prowess is one of the main aims of Google.

There is also a query regarding the eventual launch date of Google Nexus 5, LG Nexus 5 and the Motorola Nexus X.

Google Nexus 4 has received no major complaints expect the fact that it is in scarce supply. Nexus 4 is already a much sort after gadget by the hardcore Android fans however the camera of this device does not match up the quality of the products available in the market. Also, experts are of the opinion that there have been mediocre innovations in both the hardware and software departments, Mr. Gundotra’s comments come as welcoming news. The much talked about phone is expected to come with a 13 MP  sensor plus software enhancement tools.