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The idea is very simple. A variety of household equipment now runs on direct current (DC), rather than the alternating current (AC) that is supplied to households from the distribution grid. And these things, LED lighting, flat panel TV or computer monitors, mobile phones and computers, all run on very little power and at low voltage.

These convert the AC supply from the mains to DC at the level of the equipment. What the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras proposes is to run a low-load (100 watts, in place of the typical 4,000-10,000 Watts) DC line to every home, where it would be converted to low voltage, 48 volts, and feed into a separate meter and wiring for lights, TV and fans that run on DC.

Since the power required to run such a system is so low, SEBs will not need to shut this down while carrying out load-shedding. The result would be uninterrupted power supply for a minimal set of appliances.

Such physical segregation of the power supply for a minimal set of household appliances and that for running more power-hungry equipment running on standard AC power will also come in handy for governments to limit their subsidy burden on households. The government could, for example, decide to bear the entire tab for households that only consume power on the DC line.

IIT-M has tied up with the four southern electricity boards to run a pilot project of a few hundred households in every state. The equipment that converts AC from the transformer into DC to be sent to homes must work and household willingness to bear the additional outlay on DC fans and a converter at home must be proved.

If DC wiring were to become standard, solar energy uptake would also get a boost. The larger point is the capacity the present project demonstrates for India's technology institutions and the government system to work together in innovative ways.

In addition to encrypting calls, any attempt to open the casing of the Boeing Black Smartphone deletes all data and renders the device inoperable.

The secure phone marks an extension of the communications arm of the Chicago-based aerospace and defense contractor, which is best known for jetliners and fighter planes.

Such a phone might have prevented damage to Washington's diplomacy in Ukraine from a leaked telephone call. A senior U.S. State Department officer and the ambassador to Ukraine apparently used unencrypted cellphones for a call about political developments in Ukraine that became public.

Boeing's tamper-proof phone is aimed at government agencies and contractors who need to keep communication and data secure, according to Boeing and filings with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Made in the United States, the phone runs on Google Inc's

Android operating system. The 5.2-by-2.7-inch (13.2-by-6.9 cm) handset, slightly larger than an iPhone, uses dual SIM cards to enable it to access multiple cell networks instead of a single network like a normal cellphone.

Due to the phone's security features, Boeing is releasing few details about the wireless network operators or manufacturer it is working with, and has not provided a price or date by which the phone might be widely available, but said it has begun offering the phone to potential customers.

Boeing's website says the phone can be configured to connect with biometric sensors or satellites. Other attachments can extend battery life or use solar power.

The phone can operate on the WCDMA, GSM and LTE frequency bands and offers WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.

The company has been developing the phone for 36 months, said Boeing spokeswoman Rebecca Yeamans.

"We saw a need for our customers in a certain market space" that Boeing could meet with its technology expertise, she said.

A sample purchase contract submitted to the FCC says the phone would be sold directly by Boeing or its agents.

Yeamans said Boeing combined its own engineers with the talent of people who joined Boeing recently through acquisitions that included Argon ST Inc, Digital Receiver Technology Inc, Kestrel Enterprises Inc, Ravenwing Inc, and Solutions Made Simple Inc.

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On Friday, the Delhi Assembly told him, by a majority of 42 to 27, that the version of the Jan Lokpal Bill he was trying to push through, could not be introduced. The Delhi government's rules say that any money Bill has to be cleared by the lieutenant governor before it can be tabled.

In his hurry, or in his contempt for procedural niceties, Kejriwal had failed to get this approval. Kejriwal has resigned, saying both the Congress and the BJP had ganged up to vote against his proposal to table the Bill. This is an opportunistic reading of what actually happened. If Kejriwal was serious about legislating the Jan Lokpal, he simply had to get the requisite clearance.

LG Najeeb Jung would have found it extremely difficult to not approve a Bill designed to combat corruption. Kejriwal wants the nation to see him as a martyr, who gave up office rather than compromise with his principles.

Actually, his decision to quit is a calculated political gambit. By giving up office in dramatic manner, over a clear breach of procedure, Kejriwal is free from his chief ministerial shackles. He has precipitated a period of administration by Jung, before another state election, which the AAP expects to win hands down.

Now, Kejriwal can start campaigning all over the country for the Lok Sabha elections, where the AAP hopes to put up candidates.

In the heat of a deeply contentious election season, this might be seen as brilliant tactical positioning. But it could also disappoint many of his voters who had hoped for a few more months of responsible, clean governance.

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The unknown browsers

MAXTHON

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EPIC

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Extensions that work with smartphones

AirDroid

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PushBullet

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As the world’s leading smartphone maker prepares to launch its own OS, new software will allow it to run as many as “hundreds of thousands” of Android apps.

• By David Talbot on February 13, 2014

New player: Samsung is hoping that allowing Android apps to run on Tizen will help the new mobile OS sell.

If app availability is the make-or-break factor in the success of any smartphone operating system, then Tizen—the secrecy-cloaked OS that Samsung is expected to unveil on a new device this month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona—could leap from the gate fairly strongly.

A few well-publicized app-writing contests have already led to more than 6,000 apps crafted specifically for Tizen. And new technology will allow it to run huge numbers of existing apps written for Google’s Android operating system, which powers the majority of the world’s smartphones. “At a minimum we will be providing tens of thousands of apps able to run on the Tizen platform, and we’ve had discussions that go up into the hundreds of thousands,” says Howie Hecht, director of product management and content platforms for OpenMobile. The company, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, makes an application compatibility layer that will let existing Android apps run on Tizen devices.

He stopped short of explaining how users would get the apps, but Samsung is expected to open a Tizen app store after launching its Tizen smartphone.

By developing its own operating system rather than relying almost entirely on Android, Samsung hopes to give users a unified experience on devices ranging from phones and netbooks to in-vehicle systems and smart TVs.

It is too soon to predict that Tizen will do better than other Android alternatives: Microsoft’s Windows Phone and the BlackBerry OS have picked up only a tiny percentage of the global smartphone market (see “New Mobile OSs May Mean the End of the Closed App Store”). A few others are trying to break into the low end of that market through strategies such as putting the Firefox OS on cheap phones that emphasize Web-based apps (see “The Underdog Operating Systems Set to Shake Up the Smartphone Scene”).

Samsung, which did not reply to a request for comment for this story, is a special case: it is the world’s leading smartphone maker and also the main user of Android. If Tizen becomes a credible alternative to Android, it could threaten Google’s long-term ability to continue steering users to Google products and gathering the data that fuels the Google advertising juggernaut.

Although Google and Samsung recently signed a major cross-licensing deal for intellectual property, a successful launch of Tizen would be the start of a major departure for Samsung and change the dynamics of its symbiotic relationship with Google. Tizen grew out of Nokia’s MeeGo platform and is now being developed by an industry consortium led by Samsung and Intel.

People experience phones largely through their favorite apps, not the underlying operating system. The leading app stores, Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play, each have more than a million, a milestone they passed last year. And that huge lead is part of the reason the Windows Phone OS hasn’t taken off and the BlackBerry OS has all but collapsed.

So while last year the consortium behind Tizen held a series of developer challenges with incentives totaling $4 million to develop a few thousand apps, it was understood that this was not enough to compete. That’s why Samsung sought to make far more existing Android apps available to its new phone using OpenMobile’s technology.

Another factor in Tizen’s favor: numerous companies now make software known as “middleware” that was not available when Android and Apple’s iOS launched. It lets a writer create a new app once, then click a few buttons to put that app in various app stores, ready to run on several operating systems.

Brian Warner, project lead for Tizen at the Linux Foundation, which promotes open-source projects based on the Linux platform (as both Tizen and Android fundamentally are), cites an additional advantage. When the maker of a device also makes the software it will run, the performance can be optimized in ways that don’t happen with operating systems made to work on numerous models. “Keeping in mind it’s impossible to say what any commercial device will be like until it is revealed, I think performance will be a strong point for Tizen,” he says. “I’ve personally seen some apps that have just been incredible in terms of graphics and performance.”

Grzegorz Adamczyk, a developer in Poland, says he finds Tizen faster than Android when using graphics accelerators needed for the 3-D games he writes, which include a helicopter combat action game called FinalStrike3D. “In my opinion, Tizen is a very powerful platform for game development,” he says.

Google is ridding itself of a financial headache by selling Motorola Mobility's smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion. The deal announced late Wednesday comes less than two years after Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in the biggest acquisition of Google's 15-year history.

While Google Inc. is backpedaling, Lenovo Group Ltd. is gearing up for a major expansion. Already the world's largest PC maker, Lenovo is now determined to become a bigger player in smartphones as more people rely on them instead of laptop and desktop computers to go online.

Lenovo already is among the smartphone leaders in its home country, but it has been looking for ways to expand its presence in other markets, especially the U.S. and Latin America. The company had been rumored to be among the prospective buyers for BlackBerry Ltd. when that troubled smartphone maker was mulling a sale last year.

``We will be going from an emerging-market player to a worldwide player in smartphones,'' Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with The Associated Press.

This marks Lenovo's second high-profile deal this month. The company announced plans last week to buy a major piece of IBM Corp.'s computer server business for $2.3 billion.

For Google, the sale is a tacit admission that a company that prides itself on employing some of the world's smartest people miscalculated how much Motorola was worth.

Google previously recovered some of the money that it spent on Motorola by selling its set-top operations last year to Arris Group Inc. for $2.35 billion.

And Google is holding on to most of Motorola's more than 20,000 mobile patents, providing Google with legal protection for its widely used Android software for smartphones and tablet computers. Gaining control of Motorola's patents was the main reason Google was willing to pay so much for a smartphone maker that was already losing money and market share.

The Motorola patents were valued at $5.5 billion at the time Google took over, according to regulatory filings.

Factoring all that, there's a gap of roughly $1.65 billion between what Google paid for Motorola and what Google is getting from its sales to Arris and Lenovo, plus the original value of the patents. What's not known is the value of the patents Google is keeping, as Lenovo is picking up about 2,000 Motorola patents in addition to the phone manufacturing operations.

It's also unclear if Google will have to absorb a charge to account for its apparent miscalculation of Motorola Mobility's value. The Mountain View, Calif., company may address the issue Thursday when it announces its fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes.

Most investors viewed Motorola as an unnecessary drain on Google's profit, a perspective that was reflected by Wall Street's reaction to the sale. Google's stock gained $28.08, or 2.5 percent, to $1,135 in extended trading.

A cellphone pioneer, Motorola Mobility had its last big hit with the Razr flip phone, which came out in 2004. Its product line became outmoded after Apple Inc. released the iPhone in 2007, unleashing a new era of touch-screen phones. Motorola hasn't been able to catch up yet, even as last summer's Moto X received positive reviews.

Motorola's losses are likely to dampen Google's earnings at least for the first half of this year. That's because it's expected to take six to nine months before the proposed sale gets the necessary approvals from regulators.

Buying Motorola will enable Lenovo to join Apple Inc. as the only major technology companies with global product lines in PCs, smartphones and tablets, putting Lenovo in a better position to become a one-stop shop for companies to buy all their devices from the same vendor, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.

``This makes Lenovo a company to watch,'' Gillett said in an email. ``The personal device manufacturer business is consolidating _ and manufacturers must compete in all three device markets, plus emerging wearable categories, or get left out of the next market shift.''

Amazon has filed a patent for the technology called "anticipatory shipping". The technology aims to eliminate a major disadvantage of online shopping: customers cannot receive their items immediately after purchase, but must instead wait for the products to be shipped to them.

The American company will use an array of factors, such as previous purchases, items customers have searched for, and even the amount of time a user's cursor hovers over a product, in order to predict what purchases a person may make, 'The Times' reported.

Using this information, Amazon will send these predicted items to a nearby "hub" or local warehouse.

This would mean that when a person actually clicks to buy merchandise on the website, their chosen item will be housed closer to the buyer's address.

This will allow a package to be delivered within minutes or hours, rather than the days and weeks it currently takes.

"One substantial disadvantage to the virtual storefront model is that in many instances, customers cannot receive their merchandise immediately upon purchase, but must instead wait for product to be shipped to them," according to the company's patent filing.

"The availability of expedited shipping methods from various common carriers may mitigate the delay in shipment, but often at substantial additional cost that may rival the price paid for the merchandise.

"Such delays may dissuade customers from buying items from online merchants, particularly if those items are more readily available locally," the patent document said.

Amazon has been working toward reducing delivery times. The company is experimenting with a fleet of flying drones to deliver packages through the air to a customer, within half an hour of an order being made.

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Jayanthi Natarajan, it would appear, has done immense damage to the economy and to her own party's electoral prospects. She had, it has been reported, been sitting on hundreds of files for no plausible reason, delaying their clearance for months on end, some of them for years. This amounted to criminal negligence, aborting new projects at a time of waning economic sentiment and slowing investment. It is amazing that she was given such a long rope and not relieved of her ministerial responsibility earlier. The long rope, instead of tripping her up, has choked off the economy's oxygen supply. The fall in real capital formation as a share of GDP by about six percentage points is at the root of the slowdown in economic growth over the last several quarters.

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Ian Spandow, who was an ex-senior regional manager in database sales, claimed his December termination was in retaliation for his opposition to what he called a discriminatory practice "of paying Indian employees wages that are substantially lower than those paid to Caucasian employees," according to a civil rights complaint filed on January 7 in a federal court in San Francisco.

When he objected to the practice, he was told by his sales director that the salary would be "good money for an Indian ," according to the complaint. Spandow, who joined Oracle in 2005, sought approval in September to transfer an Oracle employee in India with seven years and a successful track record at the company to California, according to the complaint.

Spandow said his request for salary equal to what the company pays white workers was denied and he was told to offer significantly less -- $50,000 to $60,000, according to the complaint. Oracle's human resources manager insisted that it was fair to offer the lower salary, Spandow alleged in the complaint. Spandow said the firing was unlawful discrimination based on his national origin and retaliation and is seeking unspecified damages, according to his complaint.

Controlled with gestures, these depth-sensing devices will appear in the second half of 2014.

• By Tom Simonite on January 6, 2014

Depth sensing: This Dell laptop has a 3-D sensing camera embedded above its screen, allowing forms of gesture control previously found only in games consoles.

A combined 2-D and 3-D camera from Intel will be built into laptops and tablets from a range of manufacturers, the company announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday. The camera allows a device to be controlled with arm, hand, and finger gestures, and is also intended to allow software to capture and understand the world around it, including people’s facial expressions.

“We see and touch in 3-D, so why do we have to use computers in 2-D?” asked Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel’s Perceptual Computing Group, before unveiling the new depth-sensing technology, called the Intel RealSense 3-D camera.

He said that Intel intends the technology to become ubiquitous, similar to how conventional webcams have become a standard feature of even the cheapest PCs. “This is something that we will be able to embed in many, many systems to drive the cost down,” said Eden, brandishing a slim naked RealSense circuit board, approximately five inches long and as thin as two quarters.

Intel showed seven different laptops and tablets from Dell, Lenovo, and Asus with the integrated depth camera. Such devices are slated to hit the market in the second half of 2014.

Eden introduced several demonstrations of different applications for the new camera, including gaming, photography, and 3-D scanning. In one demonstration a person waved his hand in front of a Windows computer to move the cursor around, closing his hand to grab a virtual page, moving his hand to scroll the page, and tapping in space to perform the equivalent of a mouse click.

In another, the depth sensing enhanced the tablet’s camera app. While composing a photo, a few taps on the screen were enough to isolate the background and foreground, then apply color filters.

 A similar function was demonstrated in a special version of Microsoft’s Skype software: the depth-camera isolated a video caller from his surroundings and set him against various backgrounds.

Intel further announced a partnership with 3-D Systems, which makes 3-D printers, to develop software so the depth-sensing cameras can scan objects and then edit or print a digital double. Several gesture-controlled games were also shown.

Eden said that enabling computers to sense in 3-D should eventually allow software to better understand human behavior: “The computer will be able to track with the 3-D camera exactly my facial expression and be able to respond appropriately.” Eden said that ability could be combined with voice-operated virtual assistant software so people could speak to their devices more naturally.

Like the depth-sensing technology for Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system, Intel’s has two cameras inside – a conventional camera, and one that senses infrared – as well as an infrared light. (The device can infer depth by detecting infrared light that has bounced back from a scene.)

But Intel’s technology will be much smaller than Microsoft’s, enabling what will be the first generation of laptops and tablets with depth-sensing technology built in. Microsoft has for several years offered a version of its Kinect camera aimed at desktop computers (see “Microsoft’s Plan to Bring About an Era of Gesture Control”), and other companies have launched depth-camera accessories (see “Depth Sensing Cameras Head to Mobile Devices”), but they have had minimal success and were not compact enough to be integrated into PCs or tablets.

PrimeSense, which developed hardware used in Microsoft’s Kinect, previously said it was working on a compact version of its technology (see “PC Makers Bet on Gaze, Gesture, Touch and Voice”). However, it hasn’t publically shown one small enough to be embedded into devices. PrimeSense was recently acquired by Apple, which is notoriously secretive about technology under development.

"The (two) consortia are very bullish," a senior industry executive said. They have accepted the terms of support outlined by the government of India, and they will now work on detailed project reports, which could take as much as six months to be ready for submission, the executive said.

With the government's support for setting up the fab firming up at about 40 per cent of the total cost, officials were keen on figuring out if other chipmakers could also be enticed to show interest.

Typically, setting up a chip foundry costs around $4-5 billion (Rs 24,800-31,000 crore). "The idea was, with the incentives firmed up, could we push the fence-sitters off the fence, but that didn't happen," the industry executive said. The deadline to submit initial plans in the fab under a separate call for expressions of interest ran out in November, and there have been no new viable plans submitted other than the two the government had already approved in-principle.

India is trying to create an electronics manufacturing ecosystem to prevent the loss of billions of dollars of foreign exchange in such imports every year. This bill, expected to reach $55 billion (aboutRs 3.4 lakh crore) by 2020 from about $7 billion (Rs 43,600 crore) now, is projected to outstrip oil imports, according to a report commissioned by the industry lobby India Electronics and Semiconductor Association last year.

"We received many rejections and only a couple of expressions-of-interest. We would go ahead with the two fabs which have got in-principle approvals," said the official requesting anonymity, as he was not authorised to speak to the media. "There have been ongoing dialogues with these firms, but Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for instance, said they just don't have the bandwidth for a new greenfield project," the industry executive confirmed.

"The two fabrication units which have got in-principle approval would be ready to manufacture chips in next two to three years," said Ajay Kumar, a joint secretary at India's department of electronics and information technology. The company was keen to share its experience on setting up and running fabs and the supply chains around it.

"Our manufacturing requirements are being met by our existing facilities around the world and we see no requirement to expand. Thus, we don't have any plans to set up a fab in India or anywhere else," an Intel spokesperson said in an email. However, the company was keen to share its experience on setting up and running fabs and the supply chains around it. "Ultimately, we would be willing to help the government create an effective ecosystem for local manufacturing," the spokesperson said. Samsung declined to comment, and an email to TSMC didn't elicit a response at the time of going to print.

In September, India approved one group consisting of Jaiprakash Associates, IBM and Tower Jazz of Israel and another comprising ST Microelectronics, Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and Silterra of Malaysia. Chips from this fab won't exactly be cutting edge, but the fab would be a step towards cutting India's electronics import bill. These chips will typically go into television set-top boxes, televisions, various smartcards and some automobiles.