'Son Stroke' To Star Telugu Hero!

One of the star heroes in Telugu film industry is now going through a tough situation. No, not in career, but on personal front. The star hero is apparently effected by 'son stroke' . The son of the star hero is in news for wrong reasons of late and it's worrying him in big way.

Talk has it that the son is often hitting pubs and hanging with girls. Though the star hero is not so much concerned about his son's personal life, but he's worried that his son is going into the wrong books of industry people.

His son's nature, life are now being talked about in industry circles much to the embarrassment of star hero. While the hero is planning to establish his son in movies, these kind of rumours surrounding his son are worrying him. 

Also many in the industry are complaining of his son's attitude, head-weight. The star hero is now making efforts to bring back the lost glory and keep his son on track. Let's wait and watch.

Microsoft to stop support for older versions

The processors will require the current version of Windows to get enterprise support.

New Delhi: In a bid to push its latest Windows 10 operating system to enterprise users, the software giant Microsoft is all set to stop supporting older Windows versions on new processors.

The announcement via a report on Engadget notes that the users would now not be able to run Windows 8 or older versions on new processors from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm.

The processors will require the current version of Windows to get enterprise support. Microsoft has further listed out Skylake-based processors that it will support with Windows 7 and 8.1.

However, even that program will last until July 17, 2017.

Apple seeks nod to open single brand stores in India

The DIPP is expected to seek some more information about the proposal.

The development comes after the government relaxed the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy for single brand retailing

New Delhi: Apple, the maker of iPad and iPhone, has sought permission from the government to open single brand retail stores and also enter the e-commerce business in the country. In this context, Apple India Pvt Ltd has sent an application to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). The DIPP is expected to seek some more information about the proposal, sources said.

"The company has sought permission for single brand retailing and sell its product online also," they said adding Apple has not mentioned the amount of investment and number of stores it wants to open.

However, an e-mail query sent to Apple remained unanswered. The development comes after the government relaxed the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy for single brand retailing. The government may also relax sourcing norms for entities undertaking single brand retailing of products having 'state-of-the-art' and 'cutting edge' technology and where local sourcing is not possible. Single brand retailers are also allowed to take e-commerce route for such trading.

At present, 100 per cent FDI is permitted in the sector. But beyond 49 per cent, permission of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) is required. The company sells its products through Apple-owned retail stores in countries including China, Germany, the US, the UK and France. It has no wholly-owned store in India and sells its products through distributors such as Redington and Ingram Micro.

DIGISOL launches in-wall wireless access point

The DG-WM2003WI is specially aimed towards the Hotel Industry.

The DG-WM2003WI works in fat mode and can be managed using Ranger view AP manager or DG-WU2005V controller for mass device deployments.

Mumbai: Smartlink Networking Systems Ltd., one of India’s well-known networking company, under its brand DIGISOL has introduced a new In wall Wireless Access Point specially for the hotel industry. The DG-WM2003WI is IEEE802.11n-based high-performance wireless access point (AP).

It provides guests in a hotel with an all-in-one network and telephony service. The DG-WM2003WI works in fat mode and can be managed using Ranger view AP manager or DG-WU2005V controller for mass device deployments.

The DG-WM2003SI wireless Access Point can provide wireless data transmission rate up to 300Mbps which enhances the sharing of files, photo, audio, video and gaming experience over wireless network. DG-WM2003WI supports PoE, which helps in easy installation by eliminating the need of a dedicated power source.

Product Features:

• IEEE 802.11n 2.4GHz Wireless
• 1 x 10/100 Mbps Lan Port, 1 x 10/100Mbps POE port at backside
• 1 x Telephone Port pass through

Management Features:

• PC based s/w Platform for Management
• Firmware Upgrade
• Batch Configuration Upload/ Download
• AP Locking Mechanism for Admin Security
• User Traffic Graphic Analysis using Utility
• Remote AP Management
• Backup & Restore Settings
• Web Log, Sys Log & Email Alert Support

The DIGISOL DG-WM2003WI is available at price of Rs 7,000.

TRAI slams Facebook over 'diversion', company hits back

Facebook India on January 20 responded to TRAI's allegations, saying it's being singled out.

 It all goes back to December 2014 when Airtel decided to charge separately for Internet-based calls

New Delhi: A day before the open house discussion on differential pricing of data, a full-scale war of words has broken out between telecom regulator TRAI and social network Facebook over the Net neutrality debate.

Terming Facebook's action as diversionary, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said the whole consultation exercise has been reduced to "a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated poll".

"Neither the spirit nor the letter of a consultative process warrants such an interpretation which, if accepted, has dangerous ramifications for policy-making in India," TRAI said in its letter to Facebook on January 18.

According to the regulator, the campaign by Facebook to defend its free Internet platform Free Basics in India is "wholly misplaced" as "the consultation paper is on differential pricing for data services and not on any particular product or service".

Facebook India on January 20 responded to TRAI's allegations, saying it's being singled out. "We would note that we are not aware of a similar request (from TRAI) having been made to any other commentator who did not answer these specific questions," it said in the reply.

"And we continue to believe that the original comments submitted were responsive to the general questions raised in the consultation paper, which clearly covers such topics as the Free Basics programme," Facebook Public Policy Director for India, South and Central Asia Ankhi Das said.

TRAI also spoke of "the self-appointed spokesmanship", in which "you have not been authorised by your users to speak on behalf of them collectively". The regulator went on to say that despite giving an opportunity to people who shared their views through the Facebook platform, "text of TRAI's communication was not in turn conveyed by you (Facebook) to those who had sent responses to TRAI using your platform".

It all goes back to December 2014 when Airtel decided to charge separately for Internet-based calls, but withdrew the plan later after facing protest. The debate heated up after Airtel launched its free Internet platform Airtel Zero and Facebook followed suit with its Internet.org, which was later rechristened as Free Basics.

TRAI has started a public consultation on whether plans or schemes allowing differential pricing of the Internet based on its usage should be allowed or not. This is the first consultation paper from TRAI which has received maximum comments -- around 24 lakh -- till January 7, the deadline which was extended from the earlier December 30.

The social network behemoth claims that the number of comments in support of Free Basics to be more than 1.35 crore as against TRAI's official figure of around 24 lakh. Facebook thinks that "someone with access to designated TRAI e-mail account appears to have blocked receipt of all e-mails from Facebook".

In a separate letter addressed to TRAI, Facebook said it found that "on December 17 at 5.51.53 GMT, an individual with access to the TRAI e-mail account designated to accept comments took action that blocked Facebook from delivering any additional e-mail". The regulator has cited a similar instance of user complaint on non-functioning of an e-mail address during the response period, which was "brought to its notice and the situation was immediately rectified".

"It is surprising that it took over 25 days for you to inform TRAI about this," TRAI said in the January 18 letter. According to TRAI Chairman R S Sharma, the regulator will firm up its views on differential pricing of data services by the end of this month.

Motorola Moto X Force to launch in India on February 1

The handset will be Motorola’s first smartphone to be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset.

The device has got an expandable storage capacity of 2TB, which is one of its distinctive features.

Mumbai: A recent update suggests that Motorola will launch the Moto X Force (Motorola Droid Turbo 2) in India on February 1.

Motorola India GM Amit Boni revealed the news of the smartphone’s India launch at the Lenovo-Motorola event in Delhi. After releasing the Moto X Play, followed by the classy Moto X style, the company is now looking forward to release yet another premium-class device for the Indian Smartphone market.

One of the biggest USP’s of the device as claimed by the company is the shatterproof glass, which will not crack for a period of four years. The Moto X Force employs an ingenious ‘Moto Shattershield’ technology, which has multiple layers of glass material that helps in absorbing shocks.

The handset will be Motorola’s first smartphone to be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset in 2015. The company is so sure about it’s technology that they are offering a four-year long warranty on the Moto X Force’s screen.

The Moto X Force, which is know as the Droid Turbo 2 in the US is priced at $624 for the 32GB variant and $720 for the 64GB variant. The device has got an expandable storage capacity of 2TB, which is surely one of its distinctive features.

The handset has a 21MP rear camera sensor along with a dual LED flash, and is definitely Motorola’s best camera offering by far. The device uses a 3,760mAh battery, supports fast-charging, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The Moto X Force will unfortunately run on Android Lollipop 5.1 instead of the latest Marshmallow OS. 

Samsung producing world’s fastest DRAM

New DRAM is more than seven times faster than the current one’s performance limit.

The newly introduced 4GB HBM2 DRAM uses Samsung’s most efficient 20-nanometer process technology (Photo: AP)

Korea: Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4GB DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface, for use in high performance computing (HPC), advanced graphics and network systems, as well as enterprise servers. Samsung’s new HBM solution will offer unprecedented DRAM performance – more than seven times faster than the current DRAM performance limit, allowing faster responsiveness for high-end computing tasks including parallel computing, graphics rendering and machine learning.

“By mass producing next-generation HBM2 DRAM, we can contribute much more to the rapid adoption of next-generation HPC systems by global IT companies,” said Sewon Chun, senior vice president, Memory Marketing, Samsung Electronics. “Also, in using our 3D memory technology here, we can more proactively cope with the multifaceted needs of global IT, while at the same time strengthening the foundation for future growth of the DRAM market.”

The newly introduced 4GB HBM2 DRAM, which uses Samsung’s most efficient 20-nanometer process technology and advanced HBM chip design, satisfies the need for high performance, energy efficiency, reliability and small dimensions making it well suited  for next-generation HPC systems and graphics cards.

Following Samsung’s introduction of a 128GB 3D TSV DDR4 registered dual inline memory module (RDIMM) last October, the new HBM2 DRAM marks the latest milestone in TSV (Through Silicon Via) DRAM technology.

The 4GB HBM2 package is created by stacking a buffer die at the bottom and four 8GB core dies on top. These are then vertically interconnected by TSV holes and microbumps. A single 8Gb HBM2 die contains over 5,000 TSV holes, which is more than 36 times that of a 8Gb TSV DDR4 die, offering a dramatic improvement in data transmission performance compared to typical wire-bonding based packages.

Samsung’s new DRAM package features 256GBps of bandwidth, which is double that of a HBM1 DRAM package. This is equivalent to a more than seven-fold increase over the 36GBps bandwidth of a 4Gb GDDR5 DRAM chip, which has the fastest data speed per pin (9Gbps) among currently manufactured DRAM chips. Samsung’s 4GB HBM2 also enables enhanced power efficiency by doubling the bandwidth per watt over a 4Gb-GDDR5-based solution, and embeds ECC (error-correcting code) functionality to offer high reliability.

In addition, Samsung plans to produce an 8GB HBM2 DRAM package within this year. By specifying 8GB HBM2 DRAM in graphics cards, designers will be able to enjoy a space savings of more than 95 percent, compared to using GDDR5 DRAM, offering more optimal solutions for compact devices that require high-level graphics computing capabilities.

The company will steadily increase production volume of its HBM2 DRAM over the remainder of the year to meet anticipated growth in market demand for network systems and servers. Samsung will also expand its line-up of HBM2 DRAM solutions to stay ahead in the high-performance computing market and extend its lead in premium memory production.