Video sharing websites right now are the most  powerful ways of highlight social evils .However, footage featuring kids, political dissidents in oppressive regimes, or victims of sexual assault needs to be handled with utmost care.
According to the annual report from international human rights organization WITNESS titled Cameras Everywhere states, "No video-sharing site or hardware manufacturer currently offers users the option to blur faces or protect identity". YouTube is taking up the gauntlet, resulting in an announcement of the face-blurring tool. Users can blur all faces in a recording by using the "Enhancements" tool; no option for selective smudging yet.
To use this effect , go to the Video Manager section in your YouTube account, then click on the Edit button next to the video you want to blur. In the page that loads, switch to the Enhancements tab at the top, then click on the Additional features button below the video. Finally, click the Apply button under the Blur All Faces option. Once complete, you can delete the original uploaded video. However, note that the technology hasn't been perfected, so make it a point to carefully go through the modified version before publishing it online.
Google welcome this step ,looking at incidents like the Guwahati molestation case, this step allow selective smudging of faces instead of an all-or-nothing approach. It is going to become a powerful tool for protecting the victim's identity.

Source : Techtree

The Apple Store is back up and it features a brand new notification system for your orders bringing you updates via text messages to your phone.

The new system is called Apple Notifications and if you opt for it, it’d send you text messages about order updates from 8am to 9pm local time. Stopping it is easy - you just have to reply to one of the messages with the word “STOP.”

Source : Phonearena

NIKE, Inc (NKE) declared the launch of the Nike+ Running app for Android, providing more runners with access to the world’s largest running club.
The Nike+ Running app for Android smoothly connect to NikePlus.com that keeps fitness lovers motivated by offering challenges, as well as a dynamic goal progress bar. Through this app runners can share, and compare their runs from anywhere, anytime.
It features a smooth, intuitive user interface— tailored and optimized for Android— that hosts a number of features to enhance the running experience. The in-run navigation is seamless and simple, allowing runners :
• To easily check key run stats,
• To See their in-progress GPS maps,
• Change songs,
• Audio feedback without missing a stride.
As stated by Stefan Olander, Vice President,Digital Sport. "The expansion of NIKE+ onto multiple mobile platforms will allow us to serve more runners than ever before. This opportunity will give even more athletes the chance to experience NIKE+, which makes this an incredibly exciting time for the Running community".
The app also makes sharing of Facebook or Twitter fun with run summary features. Runners can choose from a wide variety of terrain and emotions, as well as tag which shoe they ran in to track shoe total mileage. And for runners recording climate conditions, the app automatically knows the weather, based on GPS location. .
Initially unveiled in 2006, the NIKE+ community has grown approximately to up to 7 million runners. From the beginning NIKE+ has expanded into a multi-sport that includes Nike+ Basketball, Nike+ Training and recently unveiled Nike+ Kinect Training. Every level of athlete finds a variety of products, including a new range of colours in the Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom, as well as the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Sportband, Nike+ Running apps, and iPod nano with NIKE+. Multi-sport users can visit the single-destination NikePlus.com to access all their data— including lifetime NikeFuel points accumulated from all NIKE+ devices— creating a globally connected community of sport.

Source : Techtree

Adobe has unveiled an update for its Reader app meant for Google Android based devices. The Adobe Reader update a new text adding feature with the Add Text tool. After applying the new update you will be able to  fill up PDF (portable document format) based forms. The Adobe Reader is the official Portable Document Reader app for the Android-based smartphones and tablets.
Adobe declared that will not to offer any new Adobe Flash Player installations and have not now  stopped any development on its Reader app. The Adobe Reader app is one versatile app to read all your portable documents (PDFs) on the move and to  enjoy some other features as well
The new Add Text tool allows adding text as well as annotations and file organiser improve the files by letting you create folders, copy, rename, move and delete files any time. Apart these new features, Adobe claims to have added several bug fixes and performance improvements under the hood.

Source : Themobileindian

Chip maker Qualcomm has just placed its results for the past quarter . Though Qualcomm has  met its targets for the first time but has not been able to live up to analysts’ expectatations. To meet the targets it usually provides more conservative estimates for the quarter . Qualcomm’s 3G and 4G solutions, including its Snapdragon S4 chip with integrated LTE is helping the  company to make profits.
Qualcomm registered revenues of $4.63 billion for the quarter, growing 28% over the year, but still down 6% when compared Qualcomm’s latest record-shattering three months. Qualcomm’s net income for the second quarter stood at $1.21 billion.
In a Qualcomm’s earnings Mobile station modems or MSMs have actually contributed .Qualcomm is also ramping up 28nm Snapdragons S4 chip production as it continues to have tons of orders for the 2012 Holiday season.
As stated by Qualcomm’s chief executive Paul Jacobs that "Looking forward, our growth estimates for 3G/4G device shipments in calendar 2012 have moderated slightly, and we now expect the demand profile of the calendar year to be more back-end loaded as new devices are launched for the holiday season. Although our outlook for semiconductor volumes in the fiscal fourth quarter has been reduced from our prior expectations, we are ramping supply of our 28 nanometer chipsets to enable what we expect to be a strong for December quarter for our semiconductor business,"
Bright future of the chip maker can be clearly forecasted. The company is the only one with an integrated LTE solution and it stands out by working on its own processor designs on top of the standard ARM architecture.

Source : Phonearena