Akash manufacturer Datawind accuses Quad of intellectual violation

Datawind and Quad – the manufacturers of the low cost Indian tablet Akash are in a feud. Datawind has accused that Quad Electronics have violated the intellectual property rights as they signed an agreement with the IIT-Rajasthan for the sake of the development of the gadget. However, it is not the first time that the Akash has been seen in a controversy.

Suneet Singh Tuli, who is the CEO of Datawind has said in a statement that it was Datawind that developed the low-cost tablet with its own intellectual. Quad was given the sub-contract of the same. That is the reason why the intellectual property rights remain with Datawind, Mr. Tuli said.

He further made a claim that it was Quad who has signed an agreement of non-disclosure with IIT-Rajasthan. There was also the manufacturing services agreement to confirm the same.

When the confirmation about Datawind’s claims was needed to be confirmed, emails were sent to both IIT-Rajasthan and Quad. However, none of them replied back. A notice has been sent to Quad regarding the violation of intellectual property and the company is ready to approach the court if the issue remains unresolved.

Sony launches the Xperia S in India

Sony has finally launched the Xperia S handset in India. It was a much-awaited and a lot talked of handset from the house of Sony. The handset is tagged at a price of Rs 32,549. The handset is the first by Sony under the brand name Sony Mobile Communications. Sony was earlier paired with Ericsson and made business as Sony Ericsson.

The phone has a 4.3 inch TFT touchscreen and is scratch-resistant. The screen has a resolution of 1280 X 720 pixels. The OS in the phone is the Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The best thing is that with time, you can upgrade it to Android 4 or Ice Cream Sandwich.

The 1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor powers the Xperia S. The phone has 1GB RAM. The 12.1 MP camera is good enough to give you crystal clear pictures as it also comes with auto focus. LED flash and 16X digital zoom gives more power to your pictures.

Apart from the 12.1 MP camera, the phone has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera.

Features & Specifications

Resolution	1280 X 720 pixels
Screen	4.3” scratch-resistant TFT touchscreen
RAM	1GB
Processor	1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core
Camera	12.1MP and 1.3 MP front-facing
Connectivity	Wi-Fi
PlayStation certified	Yes
Expandable Memory	32GB
Operating System	Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Price (Rs.)	Rs 32,549 (in India, approx.)

Facebook purchases Instagram for $1 billion

Social networking giant Facebook has bought the image sharing app Instagram for an amount of $1 billion. The purchase has been done partly cash and partly in stock. Instagram is a photo-sharing app specially used in mobiles. Facebook has bought the app to strengthen their dominance in the mobile photo-sharing world.

Interestingly, Instagram that is only about a couple of years old has only about 1/14th of traffic as compared to Facebook. However, it has its own strong points and that is why Facebook was desperate to own the app. Instagram gives users the power to add photo effects as well as add filters.

Instagram did not have a decent revenue flow, in spite of having around 30 million users. When the company started the team consisted of nearly 12 employees. The entire team will now go with Facebook.

This will also be a first time for Facebook when it will be acquiring a team, a product that has such a huge number of users.

Bharti Airtel to start 4G services in India today

Bharti Airtel might be the first company in India to introduce the 4G services. It will make commercially available broadband services in India with high-speed wireless connection. It has been understood that Airtel had paid around Rs. 3,314 crores for the 4G services spectrum.

It will cover four circles in the country – namely, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kolkata and Punjab. The 4G services will be launched in Kolkata today – Tuesday April 10. The company from China, ZTE – the telecom equipment maker, has assisted Airtel in setting up the network in Kolkata.

The three other circles will soon by covered by Bharti Airtel. There will soon be the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) in the remaining circles, but it is still not clear which circle will be given the priority.

It is understood that the Reliance Industries which already has the nationwide license of the BWA spectrum, which they acquired in 2010 have also began their preparations to start their services in their circles soon.

The Flashback Trojan infects millions of Macs

The products of Apple have hardly been vulnerable to viruses or worms. However, history is in the making. There’s a Trojan called Flashback that is on a Mac-infecting spree all over the world. By now, it has taken more than half a million Macs in its grasp and is still threatening to devour many more.

According to the experts in the field, this could potentially be one of the biggest security threats that have hit the Macs until now. It has been more than a couple months now that the Trojan is playing with the Macs and its security. The Trojan targets Macs that are run on the OS X.

Dr. Web is a security solution vendor in Russia, which boasts of the details and how danger the Flashback can be. The United States has seen the largest amount of infected Macs with more than 56%. Canada is at number two and the United Kingdom stands at number three in the most infected list of Macs.

If people visit a JavaScript code, the system gets infected easily. As a matter of fact, there are loads of sites with this malicious code and infected pages. Once the link is activated, an exe file is downloaded and the PC gets infected.