0 DoT to test technology to locate mobile phones in real time

The Department of Telecom (DoT) is planning to run a pilot project to test a new technology that will help the authorities to track lost or cloned mobile phones on a real time basis. The department is planning to adopt a technology that has been developed Telecordia to track cellphones in real time.



According to a Times of India report, Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar has directed the officials concerned to start working on the proposals made by MNP Interconnection Telecom Solution of installing Central Device Information Registry (CDIR).

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0 Google I/O 2013 starts May 15 2013

Google has just announced the dates for its annual I/O event. The event kicks off on May 15th 2013 and ends on May 17th 2013. As of now, registrations aren’t open. They are expected to open in early 2013. The event will take place in Moscone Center in San Francisco.



No details are known as to what Google will show at the I/O event in 2013. Speculations are high that we may just see the next iteration of Android, 5.0 KLP (Key Lime Pie) make an appearance at the event.

At Google I/O 2012, Google showed off Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 tablet and the nexus Q music streamer. Google also had quite a dramatic stage show with Project Glasses.

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0 Wickedleak launches 4.7-inch Wammy Sensation ICS smartphone

Wickedleak has launched the Wammy Sensation, an Android 4.0 ICS based smartphone for Rs. 16,000.It boasts of dual-SIM capabilities 2G GSM 800/850/1800/1900MHz and 3G:WCDMA 850/2100MHz. It has a MTK 65771.2GHz Cortex A9 dual-core + SGX531 GPU and 1GB of RAM. It has 4GB built-in storage expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card.



The 4.7-inch touch Screen has an IPS panel with a 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. The front of the smartphone has a 3MP camera for video calls and the rear houses a 12MP camera with Panoramic Shot 260 Degree. The Wammy Sensation has a 2,000mAh battery. The device seems to be quite slim at 8.6mm and is also quite light at 145gms.

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0 Nokia's third star for the Windows Phone 8 lineup

Nokia has just announced its latest addition to the Windows Phone 8 lineup, the Lumia 620. The Lumia 620 is the third phone in the WP8 lineup, and will cost customers $249 in the US, off contract.


Nokia's Lumia 620 is a 3.8-inch handset with a ClearBlack WVGA display powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and 512 MB of RAM and a 5MP camera. Nokia has also conveniently added a microSD card slot that supports up to 64GB of storage.

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0 Shekhar Kapur and A R Rahman launch Qyuki, a social network

In partnership with Cisco, acclaimed creative personalities Shekhar Kapur and AR Rahman today launched a new social networking platform called Qyuki. First announced in February this year, the social networking concept has finally come to fruition and aims to provide a collaborative platform that will enable a dynamic creative community.

Qyuki aims to differentiate itself as a social media community built around the desire to create - “a community for the right-brains of india to collaborate,” as Mr. Shekhar Kapur puts it in a nine-city Telepresence Interconnect organised by Cisco today. The website which is presently live, seems at first glance, to be an interesting mashup between Pinterest and Deviantart but with an India focus.


The founders plan to not just concentrate on urban India, but also reach the so far untapped creative talents from villages and grassroots India. Since a large section of these users come online via mobile devices, Qyuki has planned a mobile strategy which includes apps on various platforms and the soon to be launched mobile website – m.qyuki.com.

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