Britain gives go-ahead to test driverless cars on roads

Driverless car testing will be restricted to vehicles with a person present and able to take control should the need arise, Britain's Department for Transport (DfT) said.
             
The DfT said on Wednesday that after carrying out a review into driverless cars, it found there were no legal barriers to the technology being tested on British roads.
             
It is now working on a code of practice for driverless cars, due to be published in the spring, with vehicles expected to be tested on roads across the country from the summer.
             
Britain's auto industry has been growing strongly – the value of British car exports has doubled in the past 10 years – and lawmakers hope that driverless car technology could help sustain the sector in the decades to come.
             
"I want Britain to be at the forefront of this exciting new development, to embrace a technology that could transform our roads and open up a brand new route for global investment," Transport Minister Claire Perry said in a statement.

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Moto E Android 5.0 Lollipop soak test begins in India

The Facebook page of Motorola India reported about the soak test invites. The page also explained why the  update has been delayed for most Motorola devices.

The soak test will run for around a week or two and if everything works out well, the new Moto E will be launched in the Indian market soon.

The new Moto E will offer:

Android 4.4 KitKat
4.3-inch qHD IPS display
1.2GHz quad dual core processor
4GB storage (32GB expandable), 1GB RAM
5MP rear camera
1980mAh battery

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Xiaomi handsets set to begin production in Chennai

The Chennai plant is expected to fulfill Xiaomi’s production demand in the next year or two. Outside of its very own borders, India is the hugest market for the Chinese company. Xiaomi has released four handsets in the country so far, covering the Mi 4, Redmi Note, Mi 3 and Redmi 1S.

The company’s decision to manufacture its devices in India may lower down the cost incurred on it.

Xiaomi has already joined hands with online retailer Flipkart to sell its phones in the country. Now, the company is planning to vend its products through its won portal Mi.com.

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Google seals deal with Twitter for tweets in search

Tweets will be visible in Google search results as soon as they are posted. It is likely to start by June. A Google spokeswoman on Thursday confirmed the partnership between the two companies.

Twitter and Google engineers have started working on the project. However, the terms of deal were not disclosed. The tweets will start showing up on Google later this year, according to sources.

Google previously had to crawl Twitter's site for the information, which will now come automatically from Twitter.

Google had a similar arrangement with Twitter back in 2009. Twitter’s feed became a core part of a Google real-time search feature under which it served up fresh content from Twitter and a variety of other sources, including Facebook, Myspace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca.

 

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Reliance launches Jionet brand Wi-Fi service from Kolkata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata today launched the 'Jionet' brand Wi-Fi service from Park Street. Adjoining areas like Loudon Street and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road were also likely to be covered in the first phase of the soft launch.
  
The first mobile phone service in the country was launched when Modi Telstra patched through a call in 1995 between then chief minister Jyoti Basu in Kolkata and then Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram in Delhi.
  
"All my Wi-Fi friends, I am tweeting using #WiFiKolkata. So proud to be first Wi-Fi Metro city in India. Congratulations to us all," Banerjee unveiled the service with this tweet.
  
The service is available for public from 6 PM and initially would be offered free, subject to fair usage, a company release said.
  
Earlier, company officials had said the Wi-Fi service would turn to be a paid service only after a formal commercial launch was done and that would happen once the entire city coverage was complete.
    

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Apple roars back to close smartphone gap with Samsung

Surveys released today showed the popular iPhone 6 and 6 Plus helped Apple pull to a virtual tie in the fourth quarter with Samsung, which has been the leader for the past three years.

The research firm Strategy Analytics said Apple and Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones each in the last three months of 2014 for a market share of just under 20 percent.

A separate survey by IDC analysts said Samsung had a tiny edge over Apple with 75.1 million units sold. Apple "beat everyone's expectations," said Ryan Reith at IDC.

Even more surprising is that Apple managed to increase the average selling price of its phones at a time when many consumers around the world are looking to low-cost handsets.

Another surprise was growth of iPhone sales in the US, "which is considered a saturated market," according to Reith, and in China, where competition is intense.

"Sustaining this growth and higher (selling prices) a year from now could prove challenging, but right now there is no question that Apple is leading the way," Reith said in a statement.

Samsung, which belatedly entered the market pioneered by Apple, had dethroned the US firm as the world's top smartphone vendor in the third quarter of 2011.

The South Korean electronics giant then went on to replace Nokia as the global leader in overall mobile phone sales in the first quarter of 2012.

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सूरत ऑटो एक्‍सपो में दिखेंगी रॉल्‍स-रॉयस और BMW

रॉल्‍स-रॉयस होगी बड़ा आकर्षण
सूरत ऑटो एक्‍सपो 2015 में शामिल होने वाले विजिटर्स के लिए सबसे बड़ा आकर्षण रॉल्‍स-रॉयस की गाड़‍ियां होंगी. गौरतलब है कि इस बार ऑटो एक्‍सपो में टाटा, हुंडई, स्‍कॉडा, फोर्ड, रिनॉल्‍ट, टोयोटा, बीएमडब्‍ल्‍यू, फिएट, निस्‍सान, मिनिकूपर जैसी बड़ी ऑटोमोबाइल कंपनियां शामिल होंगी. इसके साथ ही इस बार टूव्‍हीलर सैगमेंट में हारले डेविडसन, बजाज, वेस्‍पा, यामाहा और अन्‍य कंपनियां भी शामिल होंगी.

सफलता की सीढ़‍ियां चढ़ता सूरत एक्‍सपो
गुजरात के ग्रोथ आइकन शहर सूरत में यह ऑटो एक्‍सपो लगातार तीसरी बार ऑर्गनाइज होने जा रहा है. गौरतलब है कि हर साल इस ऑटो एक्‍सपो में लोगों और पार्टिसिपेट करने वाली कंपनियों की संख्‍या बढ़ती जा रही है. मसलन पहला सूरत ऑटो एक्‍सपो 8 से 11 अप्रेल के बीच आयोजित किया गया था. इस आयोजन में मारुति, टाटा, हुंडई, स्‍कॉडा, टोयोटा, बीएमडब्‍ल्‍यू और ऑडी ने पार्टिसिपेट किया था. इसके साथ ही एक्‍सपो में भाग लेने वाले पार्टिसिपेटर्स 25 करोड़ रुपये की डिमांड क्रिएट करने में सफल भी हुए थे. इसके बाद 15 से 18 फरवरी से आयोजित होने वाले ऑटो एक्‍सपो में फोर व्‍हीलर्स के साथ-साथ टू-व्‍हीलर सैगमेंट में भी पार्टिसिपेटर्स शामिल हुए थे. इस बार ऑटो एक्‍सपो से क्रिएट होने वाली डिमांड लगभग 38 करोड़ रुपये थी. इसके बाद अब तीसरे सूरत ऑटो एक्‍सपो को 20 से 23 फरवरी के दौरान ऑर्गनाइज किया जाना तय हुआ है. इसके साथ ही इस ऑटो एक्‍सपो में डिमांड के प्रतिशत के बढ़ने की संभावनाएं प्रबल हैं. इस वजह से एक्‍सपो में शामिल होने वाली कंपनियों की संख्‍या बढ़ गई है.

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Nissan may advance launch of 3rd Datsun vehicle in India

The company that last week launched a compact multi- purpose vehicle Go+ to add to the Go small car will expand its network in small towns to boost sales of its Datsun brand of vehicles.

"The target we announced about getting 10 per cent market share in India is still our dream but 2016 is just round the corner. So we will have to go step by step. How long will we take to reach there? Cannot say at the moment," Corporate Vice-President & Global Head of Datsun Vincent Cobee told PTI.

Last year, when Nissan launched the Datsun Go in India, marking the global comeback of the brand after nearly three decades, it had said that it was aiming to garner 10 per cent share in the Indian passenger vehicles market by 2016.

So far in the April-December period this fiscal, according to Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) passenger vehicle sales were at 18,94,932 units, up 3.67 per cent from 18,27,866 units in the same period last fiscal.

Nissan's total passenger vehicle sales during the same period this fiscal stood at 35,042 units as against 23,927 units in the year-ago period.

Cobee said the last 10 months since the launch of Datsun Go have been a learning process in India and the company was now planning to get to the next level.

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Jaguar to launch offroader to enter luxury SUV segment

With F-PACE, Jaguar will enter the ultra popular segment of the luxury sports utility vehicle in a radical departure for the 80-year-old brand.

The company is also planning to launch two diesel powered Range Rover models in North America in 2016 with new engines promising fuel savings of upto 30 percent when compared with gasoline engine powered models.

The fast-growing luxury car segment has traditionally been dominated by German brands Audi, BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, but JLR is among those seeking to take a bigger slice of the profitable market.

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China smartphone maker Xiaomi wants a bite of Apple

In the next five to 10 years, Xiaomi has the opportunity to become the world's number one smartphone company," Lei Jun told the Chinese-organised World Internet Conference.

Xiaomi, which takes its name from the Chinese word for millet, has excelled in China's cut-throat smartphone market by delivering high-performance products at cheap prices.

In less than five years, the Chinese company has become the world's number three smartphone vendor, behind only Apple and South Korea's Samsung, shipping 17.3 million phones in the third quarter of 2014, according to International Data Corp (IDC).

Xiaomi claims sales of more than 61 million smartphones last year, up 227 per cent from 2013, with turnover more than doubling to USD 12 billion.

But critics say the firm has simply copied the look of Apple's iPhones, thriving because of weak intellectual property protection in China.

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50,000 units of Redmi phablet go out of stock in 5 seconds: Xiaomi

Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi India Head disclosed the latest flash sale figures on Twitter.

Xiaomi on Monday claimed to have crossed 500,000 registrations this week for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and Redmi 1S altogether. Xiaomi India Head revealed the figures on the Twitter.

Manu Kumar Jain took to social networking site Twitter to announce the news.

"Today's sales of Redmi Note 4G: went out of stock within 5 seconds. Thank you Mi fans for your awesome support.. @MiIndiaOfficial," he tweeted.

Xiaomi has launched three handsets - Mi 3, the Redmi 1S and the Redmi Note in India.

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Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash-source

The outages were not caused by an outside attack, the person said, declining to be named because the discussion concerned internal Yahoo matters.

Microsoft's Bing search engine powers Yahoo search under a 10-year deal announced in 2009. Yahoo was not immediately available for comment. Microsoft confirmed the outage, but declined to comment on the cause.

On Friday afternoon, users who typed search.yahoo.com got an error message saying that Yahoo engineers were working to resolve the issue. The search engine appeared to be working again later in the day.

After the crash, Microsoft's roll-back procedure failed, forcing it to shut down its groups of linked servers to get back the point where everything worked smoothly, the person said.

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An app to delete inappropriate sent text messages

The app has been developed by Be Labs, a Seattle-based tech firm. It gives users complete control over their personal conversations.

The app allows you to take back your messages by controlling the feature "if and when content is deleted, immediately and permanently", media reported.

The recipients must also have the app installed on their phones for it to be effective. Strings is available for download in the iOS App Store. New smartphone app lets you take back messages
  
Have you ever woken up full of regret about the messages you sent the night before? A new smartphone app could help!
  
Seattle-based startup Be Labs has announced the successful completion of beta testing for Strings, a new messaging app that gives users complete control over their personal conversations.

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RailYatri.in launches fog impact predictor app

"We launched this feature to help the train travellers manage their journey better. Every day, during the fog season in north India, about 60-80 trains get delayed. Passengers are stranded on railway stations for hours at the end," Manish Rathi, co-founder and chief executive officer, RailYatri.in said in a statement here on Friday.

"During these chaotic times, the conventional sources are not so reliable due to the heavy rush. We believe that the mobile technology, coupled with our data intelligence can help simplify train travel," he added.

This new feature in the RailYatri train app -- Fog Alerts - will allow travellers to plan and book their train journeys after ensuring that their selected train has the minimum probability of getting affected by fog.

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