Google had introduced the science-fiction movie style Face Unlock feature with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update last year. Now in the next major update Google has added Liveness Check for the Face Unlock feature. While trying for the Face Unlock feature users have to blink for unlocking and then accessing the device. Front facing camera on the phone is used while working with this feature. This is the security centric feature.

Google Android developers have attempted to deliver more of a temporary solution to the Face Unlock feature with the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. Liveness Check option added in the Security feature in Settings has been posted by Android Central Forum user Jay2Kings. As soon as the Liveness Check is enabled, the user will have to blink while trying the Face Unlock function to access the phone. Earlier Google introduced the fancy Face Unlock with the Android 4.0 ICS but it faced lot of problems. To fix this solution of Face Unlock Jelly Bean update adds the eye blinking check to see if the user is not using any photo to unlock the device. Liveness Check in Face Unlock, stop gap solution may turn out ineffective against a video of the user or animated .gif image used.

Later this month Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update may be available for selected Google Experience Devices.

Source : Themobileindian

Few years back some of us who created their YouTube accounts have to face some awkward words followed by random numbers as our usernames. And there was no way to change the username. That is, until now. 
Google unveiled (Back in March) for new users the option that user can use their existing Google+ profile name as their YouTube ID. Now this option is available for the existing users. Now whenever you open YouTube there will be the option where you can choose your Google+ profile name which should ideally be your full name, as your YouTube username. However, should you choose to not associate certain videos or comments that you posted in the past with your real name then you can individually disable this option for them.  This feature is only available in the US and for individual users, which excludes partners, brands and organizations.  This feature will be getting soon outside the US also.

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According to the recent reports HP is expected to offer ARM processors based Windows 8 game tablets. It has been Stated by HP spokeswoman that the company has decided to focus on the Intel x86 chips based mobile processors meant specifically for the tablets and netbooks.  Its main focus is to target the business class users with the HP tablets with Windows 8 on them. HP had a hard luck with tablets - be it the Windows 7 based tablets or the HP Touch Pad. . Now the company is planning to play it safe with the next major Windows 8 operating system based tablets. HP is expected to use the Intel Cedar Trail-W processors in its Business centric tablets running Windows 8 operating system. . Not to be neglected, that Windows 8 on these tablets will be a full blown operating system unlike the Windows RT that supports ARM architecture based mobile processors. It has been stated by HP spokeswoman that consumer feedback email played a very important role in deciding to focus on Intel CPU based tablets.

HP sticks to Intel chips only based tablets that may result into less number of ARM based Windows RT running tablets this year. Microsoft has offered Windows RT access to limited number of PC makers in order to maintain a quality. Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments were reportedly allowed to design their chips into two devices - tablets, notebooks or hybrids. Today ARM architecture design based processor which includes the Apple iPad is available in majority. We are expecting to see Intel processor based tablets in the market to compete head to head with the ARM based tablet this year. Large chunk  of the tablets available today are based on the ARM architecture design based processor which also includes the Apple iPad. We expect to see Intel processor based tablets in the market to compete head to head with the ARM based tablets b y the end of this year.

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Recently Google announced its Nexus 7 tablet which will be available in markets like USA, UK, Canada and Australia for approximately Rs 11,000 through Google Play. But before September there are no plans for it to be launched in India. It has been stated that Google and Asus have no plans in place for India right now, and we will be able to announce that only post the 3rd quarter (ending September). Asus is making this first Android 4.1 Jelly Bean device. Android 4.1 OS in this tablet includes an intelligent keyboard that predicts words as you type them, and supports offline voice typing with 18 new input languages, and accessibility improvements. According to the information it will be released sometime in October, around Diwali. Google wants to bring it to India at the earliest as India being a high volume country. But they have to decide what strategy, offline or online they should adopt to sell its low cost tablet.

The Indian online retail market is a small chunk of the overall retail market in India which is worth Rs 45,000 crore. More than 90 per cent of consumers use online services to access travel and finance related activities with everything else including electronics amounting to just a tenth of the total pie. Online pre-orders of Aakash tablet and a BSNL Pantel tablet signifies that the Indian consumer is willing to buy products online if he sees value in it.

Device Specifications:

• 1.3 GHz quad core Tegra 3 processor
• GeForce 12 core graphics processor
• 1 GB of RAM
• 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display
• Near Field Communication (NFC) chip
• Google's Chrome browser

Source : Themobileindian

The official Twitter for Windows Phone app has received important update which brings in the most important and much needed notification to the app. Twitter for Windows Phone has moved on to version 1.5 with this update and has also come up with the new Twitter Blue Bird and many other Bug fixes.

The following options are added into this updated Notification area:

• Mentions - Off, From people you follow, From anyone
• Favorited - Off, From people you follow, From anyone
• Retweets - Off, From people you follow, From anyone
• Direct messages
• New followers

These instant notifications are push enabled. They also support Live Tiles where the latest mentions from any user on the homescreen are shown.

Source : Mobigyaan