Google, Apple chiefs visit China

Google chief Eric Schmidt then Apple Inc's CEO Tim Cook has visited China to try to expand their presence in the Chinese market. Schmidt's visit will be monitored by the IT sector as Google continues to be facing serious problems in China making use of their gmail accounts getting partially blocked every once in awhile. Apple is facing severe challenges with Chinese authorities investigating labour practices at Foxconn manufacturing units, which produce the bulk of Apple's products and assemble them.

 Each visits increase competition to the mobile software scene in China, the earth's biggest smartphone market. Schmidt gave tips on how to develop start-up companies to mobile software personnel at a meeting on Friday in Beijing. Google just has a compact share of the Chinese search market at 15.4% that's covered with a Chinese domestic company Baidu which controls 78.6% of it, according to a domestic research company Analysys International.

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Samsung unveils bendable, unbreakable display Youm

Korean electronic giant Samsung is apparently inching closer to smartphones with flexible screens. For the ongoing trade fair Electronics Show (CES) 2013, the company showcased Youm, a flexible type of and unbreakable display concept. The display technology was showcased by the South Korean manufacturer in 2011 and contains been improved over the years.

Youm displays are manufactured using OLED and you will be impervious to cracks even when dropped from your height, based on a Samsung executive. A technology of the future, Youm was shown on a screen measuring 5-inch (diagonally), having all around 720p resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. The prototype were built with a wraparound screen that covered the right side of the heart. tool and may very well be helpful to view stock tickr and such information, thus providing more screen space to users.

 In the keynote, Samsung also showed a youtube video detailing the options for this display technology. It demonstrated that the display may be folded like a wallet or maybe a book and also rolled up.

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Microsoft to change Messenger with Skype in March

Bay area: Microsoft on Wednesday posted out to you word that it's going to "retire" its Messenger online chat feature on March 15 and replace it while using Skype internet telephony service it bought not too long ago.

Microsoft sent an e-mail message advising Messenger users to update to Skype employing their same account information prior to the deadline.

 "You are able to instant message and video chat... much like before, and as well discover new means of residing in touch with Skype in your mobile and tablet," Microsoft said from the message.

 The Redmond, Washington-based technology giant announced in November who's was shutting down Messenger in preference of merging users into Skype.

 The transition began late recently while using discharge of Skype 6.0 software that lets people check in towards the online communication service using Microsoft accounts. Messenger will likely be disconnect in most country but China.

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Steve Jobs honoured with 'iPhone memorial' in Russia

MOSCOW: A memorial to renowned tech innovator and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unveiled in Russian town of St Petersburg on Wednesday.

 The monument, a huge replica of an black, late model iPhone using a screen that displays a photo and video slideshow of Jobs' life, is located in the courtyard with the heart.} St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

 On the back, the monument includes a QR code which observers can scan before being directed to an online site commemorating the Apple co-founder.

 The Progress IT Fund held a competition not too long ago to pick a designer with the monument. From more than 200 project ideas, the fund chose St Petersburg native Gleb Tarasov's, entitled "Sunny QR Code".

 Jobs, credited with helping to build Apple in a computer giant, died in October, 2011 after a long struggle with cancer.

 Apple products, and this includes the iPhone and iPad, enjoy widespread popularity among mostly urbanised, middle- and upper-class Russians.

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Google ignores India, Apple picks pace ---- Learn to serve

NEW DELHI: At a time when Apple is ramping up its India operations, the company's main competitor in smartphone and tablet industry, Google, is missing for action. During the last 2 yrs, Google has launched six Nexus smartphones and tablets which consists of hardware partners but merely one such device has created its strategy to India.

 Nexus devices, which run unmodified version of Google's mobile operating software, are believed best in their class and so are primary competitors for iPhones and iPads. "Easily ought to buy an Android smartphone now, Let me buy Nexus 4. At your buck ($299 for basic model) it is deemed an incredible affordability. But even 50 days after it had been provided in the usa, it truly is yet to succeed in India," says Gaurav Shukla, the editor of an blog called androidOS.in.

 "It is just a serious problem for smartphone enthusiasts here because only Nexus devices provide 'pure' Android experience," he adds.

Only 1 Nexus in India
 India is definitely an Android country. "In Q3, 2012 around 3.8 million smartphones were shipped near you. Of these, 3.01 million, that is over 70% of the heart.} market, were powered by Android," says Manasi Yadav, a niche analyst with IDC.

 But Android's success near your vicinity seems despite Google and not on account of it. Even Nexus S, the sole Nexus device to launch in India, debuted here eight months after its global launch. Recently Motorola, after being acquired by Google, banned its business in India.

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Chipmaker Nvidia showed off its newest Tegra mobile processor

Sin city: Chipmaker Nvidia showed off its newest Tegra mobile processor, its next thing in its expansion into tablets and smartphones and also unveiled a fresh hand-held game device.

 The Tegra 4 chip, with four central processing cores, will be Nvidia's first to incorporate LTE technology for high-speed telecommunication networks, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said with a news conference in Las Vegas on Sunday before Gadgets Show.

 He also introduced a different hand-held gaming device with a Tegra 4 chip and a built-in screen. Nvidia intends to flip it on to consumers, an exotic move with the chipmaker.

 It, which he termed as Project Shield, runs Android games currently entirely on smartphones and tablets and may also stream video game titles from PCs.

 "Everything you do using your Android device just works here," Huang said. "Here is the culmination of 5 numerous years of work."

 With PC sales suffering due to economic uncertainty plus a growing consumer preference for tablets, Nvidia has staked its future on leveraging its graphics expertise to create high-performance processors for cellular phones.

 Huang wouldn't say once the Tegra 4 chips or hand-held game devices could be available.

 The organization makes inroads in tablets but competition from larger rival Qualcomm has some on Wall Street concerned this company may find it hard to keep its mobile business growing fast. Qualcomm already offers 4G technology rolling around in its chips.

 Huang said Nvidia's new Tegra chip boasts improved image processing capabilities for digital camera models in phones and tablets. Huang also said the Tegra 4 chip lets tablets load websites faster than devices using rival chips.

 Nvidia's previous Tegra 3 mobile processor is utilized in Google's Nexus 7, considered one of simply a couple of tablets to create inroads against Apple's iPads. The Tegra 3 chip can be found in Microsoft's recently launched Surface tablet.

 On the event, Huang also introduced a cloud product referred to as the Nvidia Grid, a server and software product meant to remotely handle graphics computations for game titles rather then on consoles just like the Xbox in game-players' living rooms.

 He explained Nvidia would sell the Nvidia Grid packages to companies enthusiastic about hosting and streaming cloud-based games.

 "The Nvidia Grid is our first fully integrated system product," Huang said.

 In November, Nvidia forecast revenue below expectations as a result of slowdown in tablet-processor shipments and a troubled PC market, but shares from the heart.} graphics chipmaker rose on the announcement of any quarterly dividend.

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Taliban silence another critic

 KP senior minister Bashir Bilour among nine killed as suicide bomber attacks ANP’s meeting 

Taliban claim responsibility for suicide attack

Regarded synonymous with “anti-Taliban resistance”, Senior Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour succumbed to wounds minutes following a suicide bomber blew himself up leaving nine dead and 18 injured.

“We lost an excellent leader,” said Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan while paying tribute on the late party leader.

The Saturday’s assassination of senior KP minister comes every week after an audacious attack on Pakistan Airforce (PAF) base inside Baacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar was foiled.

Bashir Bilour was returning from the party meeting in Dhaki Nalbandi area near historical Qissa Khawani bazaar when he was attacked. He was immediately rushed to nearby Lady Reading Hospital from where his body was transported by an hour or so later.

Lady Reading Hospital Executive Dr Arshad Javed said Bashir Ahmad Bilour was delivered to hospital “in critical condition” as they suffered chest and stomach injuries through the blast.

The ANP leader was immediately operated upon to save lots of his life. However, efforts of any team of doctors proved futile, leaving the country mourn the death of a fierce opponent on the heart. Taliban.

Bomb squad experts said the suicide bomber detonated his explosives if your ANP meeting was at its peak.

“The suicide bomber walked into your house where the meeting was taking place and detonated his vest,” Shafqat Malik, chief from the heart. bomb disposal squad, said.

Zahidullah, 30, a shopkeeper in your neighborhood, said he was standing to Bilour’s rear if the bomber struck.

“The meeting involved to end after i heard a noise and very soon afterwards I saw a blue flame after which the blast hit,” he told AFP.

Peshawar SSP Khalid Hamdani also told reporters that the suicide bomber walked to join the ANP’s elections-related public meeting. Bashir Bilour had survived at the very least three such attacks previously.

On the list of dead were Kabali Police headquarters SHO Sattar Khan plus the late minister’s personal secretary Noor Muhammad.

KP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain brushed aside impressions that Bashir Bilour was not provided enough security.

“This isn't true. Our security personnel are one of the dead,” he told an exclusive TV channel.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility with the attack, justifying the attack inside the name of “war” against “secular elements” in the united states.

The TTP said it had targeted Bilour in revenge with the death of a single in their elders.

“We claim responsibility for killing Bashir Ahmad Bilour. It's revenge for that martyrdom your elder Sheikh Naseeb Khan,” TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP.

Expressed his shock and grief over the killing of Bilour, Pm Raja Pervez Ashraf announced one-day mourning nationally today (Sunday).

The national flag would fly at half-mast today, he said.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government also announced three-day mourning across the province. Bilour’s funeral could well be held at 2pm today and he could be buried at Syed Hassan Pirbiri cemetery in Peshawar.

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Organizations as Learning Systems Vital for Pakistan 's Future Progress

Renowned Human Resource Development practitioners unanimously underlined the need to make Pakistani organizations true learning systems in order to secure a competitive advantage. They said it during the first meeting of the Training Forum, Islamabad Chapter entitled 'Organizations as Learning Systems' held at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) here. The panelists included Amra Mubashir, Head of Organizational Development, Ufone, Naushad Javaid, Director People Excellence, Telenor, Dr. Sadia Nadeem, Head of the FAST Islamabad Business School and Iftikhar Chaudhry, Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu member firm.

Highlighting various aspects of the concept of learning organizations and its relevance with Pakistan's future growth and development, the panelists stressed the need to view organizational learning in a holistic manner particularly with the involvement and commitment from all levels of the management hierarchy in organizations. They also talked about the advantages of knowledge sharing for competitive growth and institutionalizing learning within organizations. They further highlighted the deep links between learning and cultural forces and stressed that developing a culture of learning in Pakistani organizations was very much doable. They pointed out the necessity of documenting local success stories in the form of case studies so that Pakistan's coming generations can learn and take advantage of exemplary indigenous management practices. The first meeting of the Training Forum was declared a huge learning and networking success and participants eagerly expressed their resolve to make meaningful contributions towards sustainable learning systems in public and corporate sector organizations through regular interactions and other initiatives.

The Training Forum is a network of professionals with an interest in Human Resource Management as well as Training and Development. The network shares ideas and knowledge on key contemporary Management issues.

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