Face Recognition On Android 4.0 Can Be Tricked

     Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has a cool new feature, where the users can unlock the mobile device using face recognition technology. Well, it seems like the face unlock feature which Google showed off with much enthusiasm (though it failed a couple of times during the announcement) can be easily tricked. The timing of this new bug will strike Google and Samsung (because the video shows a couple of Samsung devices in use for the demo) hard since the launch is nearing. However, we believe that Google will come up with a solution soon.

      The video below shows how the guy uses an image of himself from the Galaxy Note to unlock the display on the Galaxy Nexus. If it's this easy to trick, we can't seem to figure out the point of this new feature. Users might as well use the typical lock pattern which is a bit harder to trick. Watch the video below to see how easily the demonstrator tricks the Galaxy Nexus. This, however, doesn't take anything away from the other neat features that come packed with ICS

Quickly Repair your Mobile Phone dropped in water

    Many of you get your mobile phone wet by one way or another. You worry as you mistakenly drop your mobile phone in water. It can also get wet if you are out in a heavy rain. However, there is no need to panic. It is possible to save your wet mobile phone by quickly repairing it. In order to save your mobile phone from water damage, you can consider these easy and simple solutions:

Act rapidly :

The first thing you have to do in order to save your wet mobile phone is to act rapidly. Quickly remove all the detachable parts as well as covers possible such as the back cover, battery, the SIM card, memory card etc. Next, take a piece of cloth or a tissue paper to wipe the excess water you are able to notice within the mobile phone. Make sure that you dry it completely. If you don' t do this, the water inside the mobile phone will begin to evaporate and gather in places which will be difficult to reach.

This will save your wet mobile phone and it will start working if it was under water for just a little while.

Using a hairdryer :

Take a hairdryer and begin drying the mobile phone while giving more consideration to the place where the battery is located. The battery housing usually consists of tiny holes to let in air (so giving more space for water) inside the mobile phone.

Make sure that you are not holding the hairdryer very near to the mobile phone. Keeping it too close to the mobile phone may harm the electrical mechanism of the mobile phone. Keep on drying the mobile phone from a safe distance for about twenty to thirty minutes.

If solution number 1 and solution number 2 don't work, try solution number 3. 

Drying for a long time:

Take off the covers as well as battery from the mobile phone. Put the phone in a dry as well as warm place to let the water inside the phone evaporate gradually from the little holes in the mobile phone.

What is VoIP and SIP

In telecommunications, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is the new buzzword as many companies and individuals try to take advantage of the cost savings it offers. Another new term connected with VoIP is SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) due to the appearance of many SIP phones. The main difference between SIP and VoIP is their scope. VoIP is actually not a discrete technology but a family of technologies that are primarily concerned with setting up voice calls across packet networks like the Internet. SIP is just one of the technologies that are under the VoIP umbrella.

There are many technologies used in VoIP. There are technologies that are used to convert and compress the audio signal; there are technologies that are used to format the digital data and transmit it to the destination, and there are technologies that are used by devices to communicate with each other. SIP is in the latest of the three. It is a protocol that standardizes signals to initiate, terminate, accept, reject, hold, or redirect VoIP calls. It is basically a language used by the phones in order to communicate what it wants to do with each other. SIP is not concerned with how the voices are carried across the network once the call has been initiated as other protocols are used for that.

What confuses most users is the difference between VoIP handsets and SIP handsets. Keep in mind that a SIP handset is also a VoIP handset. The products that are commonly called VoIP phones require to be connected to a computer, and the computer has to be turned on in order to conduct calls. It is not very desirable to have a computer running just so you can make and receive calls. SIP phones are able to do the signaling without the need for a computer. It can, therefore, be plugged into an Ethernet outlet and connected to the Internet. In this scenario, only your modem needs to be constantly powered to give the SIP phone access to the Internet. In this manner, SIP phones behave more like traditional phones.

Creating the next Nokia Tune: Listen & Vote

Introducing the Nokia Tune Remake.
You may have heard about this little competition that Nokia are running at the moment. There’s something ever so slightly special about it – namely the prize

The Nokia Remake gives you the opportunity to create the next version of the Nokia ringtone. To put that into perspective, your work could be featured on over 100 million phones around the world! That isn’t all either, the winner will also take home a cool $10,000. Got your attention? Good 

The competition launched over a week ago and, needless to say, there have been some awesome entries! These will eventually be whittled down to 10 finalists. Five chosen by the number of public votes (“Likes”), and five by the specialist judging panel.

As we can see below The Five Most ‘Liked’ Entries are currently as follows – but that could all change.

1. The Great Marvelous – 35,976 likes

2. Progressive Nokia – 11,993 likes

3. Nokia tune China Classical Ver – 8,470 likes

4. Nokiorchestra – 4,829 likes

5. NOKIA CHINESE – 3,381 likes

Have a listen and vote for your favorites!

Remember, if you feel like being a music maestro, you have until the 2nd October to submit your entry on the competition page

Download Now Windows 8 (DP)

    As promised earlier today at the Build Conference,The developer preview is up for grabs now on the newly launched Developer site.There are two kinds of builds available over the Developer site.First is with Developer tools and a 64 Bit version while the other version is Without the Developer tools in 32 bit as well as 64 bit version.

BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.

Here are the details of the Developer Builds and Windows 8 Videos that are up now on the site http://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011

Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

64-bit Windows Developer Preview

Windows SDK for Metro style apps

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview

Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview

28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Download Now

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Download Now

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

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Building "Windows 8" - Video #1

Windows 8 Hands-on at Microsoft Build 2011

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ANDROID – THE MOST ATTACKED MOBILE OS: MCAFEE

Malware attack on mobile devices, especially on Android platform, has surged in recent times, the computer security software maker McAfee said.

According to McAfee report, malware threat on Android device raised to 76 per cent since last quarter, making it the most vulnerable OS in the market. The report noted Android as the ‘most attacked mobile operating system.’

“This year we have seen record breaking numbers of malware, especially on mobile devices, where the uptick is in direct correlation to popularity,” Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement.

Android over took Nokia’s Symbian OS as the most popular target for mobile malware developers. The rise of malware attack on Android may help cyber criminals to steal personal data from Android users.

The security firm added that these malwares may appear in “everything from calendar apps, to comedy apps to SMS messages to a fake Angry Birds updates”.

Interestingly, the report revealed that the hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous were some of the prominent cyber news generators in 2011 Q2.

Google Voice Users Can Now Export Texts, Voicemails & Phone Numbers

An update to Google Takeout, the search giant’s data export service, now allows Google Voice users to retrieve all of their account data.

“We believe that our users should be able to export any data that they create in (or import into) one of our many products,” Google engineer Anthony Jawad writes in a post on the news.

“This means that all of the data associated with your Google Voice account, from your call history to voicemail messages, greetings and call recordings, is now available for download,” he adds.

The Google Takeout update, also announced by way of the quirky YouTube video below, comes courtesy of The Data Liberation Front, a team of in-house engineers building products to help users move their data in and out of Google.

Google Takeout was first released in July. The service launched with the ability to export data from Buzz, Contacts and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, and your Google profile.

Next Generation of BlackBerry Smartphones to Play Android Apps

After a rocky summer, Research in Motion appears to be righting the ship. And consumers will have one big surprise with the release of new smart phones: some of the devices will play Android apps. But there’s a catch: the new smart phones won’t hit the market until 2012.

Running on a new operating system, called QNX, the devices are the result of a partnership with Google. The collaboration gives BlackBerry users access to some 250,000 Android apps. The new version of BlackBerry’s mobile OS is a “radical overhaul” of the BlackBerry interface, says TG Daily’s Raven Lovecraft.

Still, for analysts and critics, there remains one question: Will this be enough to help RIM keep pace with the rest of the mobile market?

MOBILE PHONE CAMERA AS WEBCAM

Now A days everybody owns a mobile phone with camera.And it is really interesting and simple to use your mobile phone camera as webcam for your yahoo,gtalk or any other messenger.So if you dont have a webcam and doesnot want to waste money on buying a new one then this is the best solution for you.For using your mobile camera as a webcam you need to have a symbian mobile phone or a windows mobile phone as the application that we will be using only works on the symbian or windows platform.This application is free to download and use.Moreover,It is an open source project .

The Download Link For this application Is given below

Click Here To Download Smartcam

For Smartcam to work you have

1.Install it in both your computer and mobile phone.

2.Bluetooth in your mobile and computer.

First download and install the windows file in your computer and then mobile file in your mobile phone.Now connect both the devices using bluetooth.

Now you can use your mobile phone camera as a webcam.