Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology

Will Brand Apple pull huge premium for the new iPhones?
Apple Inc's much-awaited iPhone 6 may not have an immediate or major impact on company's market share in India, experts said.Premium pricing and not-so-relevant applications may find limited takers for the iPhone 6 in the country, they said. According to company's India website, Apple's new large-screen phones – iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus – will be available in India from October 17 and the new smartwatches only next year.
"Price-point is something that is killing the brand right now. They need to understand that they cannot offer same set of features at such premium price point. It will be difficult for them to justify the price. The latest example is the tremendous response to Xiaomi, which shows that buyers today are not really brand specific but more driven by price and features that a product offers," said Binoy CS, director telecom practice, Frost & Sullivan.

Apple, known for its innovations, has joined the competition for bigger screen phones late.
The two new phones are Apple's entry into the larger than 4 inches, aimed at challenging competitors like Samsung.
The company is yet to unveil the Indian prices for the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. If market buzz is to be believed, the new iPhones will come with premium pricing in India, making them one of the most expensive models by the company.
"Indian market, which is more Android dominated, is unlikely to find major excitement among the buyers, other than the Apple loyalists. Till now Apple has lived by its own rules but now competition seems to be clouding its decision making. The package is certainly not good enough to make an Android user want to make the switch to the iOS bandwagon," said an expert.
Experts said the features and applications Apple unveiled are little futuristic for the Indian market and will take time for find takers here. Things like mobile payment, health applications are little advance for Indian consumers, said experts.

Brand ambassadors galore
Zydus Wellness Ltd will unveil the Everyuth naturals Advanced Tulsi turmeric, which will be a Re 1 sachet and to be launched by Bollywood actor – Nargis Fakhri. The company will also launch 'Donate your calories to help nourish children' campaign for its brand Sugar Free. The event will see participation of Akshay Kumar – Bollywood superstar and chef sanjeev kapoor. The campaign talks about saving the unwanted calories and adopt a fitter lifestyle.

KEY SPECS

Display 4.70-inch	Processor Apple A8	Front Camera 1.2-megapixel
Resolution 750x1334 pixels	RAM 1 GB	OS iOS 8.0
Storage 16GB	Rear Camera 8-megapixel	BATTERY (2G) / Up to 250 h (3G) (2G) / Up to 14 h (3G) Up to 50 h

Journal Addresses Uproar Over Facebook Emotion Study
A scientific journal that recently published a controversial study about how emotions can spread across social networks issued a note today (July 3) to address the uproar caused by the contentious research.
The study, published June 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS), was conducted by Facebook researchers to investigate a phenomenon dubbed "emotional contagion." For the study, the researchers altered the types of posts that could be seen in the news feeds of more than 680,000 Facebook users — making fewer positive posts visible for some individuals, and limiting the number of negative posts that could be seen by others.
The researchers found that emotional states can spread across social networks, but when the findings were published, the research sparked furor among individuals who felt the study violated personal privacy.

APPS REVIEW
Wow! Mumbai gets swanky Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport; world-class facility built at a cost of Rs 5,500 crore will start operation only in February. The state-of-the-art Terminal 2 or T2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. Built at cost of over Rs5,500 crore, the terminal will be thrown open to public within four weeks. Earlier, the operation was to start from this month itself. “Mumbai deserves a world-class facility like the T2,” Singh said, adding that “opening of T2 will inspire other infrastructure projects to achieve similar feat.” Maharashtra governor K Shankarnarayan, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh and Union agricultural minister Sharad Pawar were also present at the event along with other central ministers and bureaucrats. According to aviation experts, development of the airport seems significant for the city as unlike other important airports, CSIA is located in a confined area with no space to expand. Only 1,400 acres are available. “On the contrary, Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports have over 5,500 acres of land available and the development had to be carried out without disrupting the on-going flight operations,” Chavan said. Airport insiders claim that CSIA’s area per passenger is one of the smallest in the world, yet it manages about 19 per cent of the country’s air passenger traffic and about 29 per cent of the nation’s cargo traffic. In 2012-13, the airport handled 30.21 million passengers and 0.6 million tonnes of cargo. According to forecast by aviation experts, the passenger traffic in Mumbai is expected to reach 80 million per annum by 2026. Likewise, the air cargo is expected to reach 2 million tonnes. With the opening of T2, the passenger capacity of CSIA will shoot up more than 40 million passengers annually. Under the privatisation policy of the central government, CSIA was given to private parties for modernisation in 2006. GVK-led consortium bagged the contract for Mumbai airport. The spanking four-storey glass marvel, whose design has been inspired by a dancing peacock, has some of the most advanced state-of-the-art passenger convenience system. It has 208 check-in-counters, 43 security pedestals, 161 elevators, one day hotel and one transit hotel, automated baggage system capable of handling 9,600 bags per hour, and a dedicated 6-lane elevated expressway. The terminal also has country’s largest multi-level car parking area as well as world’s longest cable stayed glass wall (15 metres).

IRCTC UNVEILS WIN8 APP
Providing more options to book train tickets, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation along with Microsoft has developed IRCTC app for Windows 8. After downloading the app, users have to log in with a user ID and a TPIN, which can be generated by clicking a link. Users can find out trains between stations, check reservation status, train timings, etc. The app also shows maps of train routes. Currently, the e-ticketing website logs more than 4 lakh tickets a day on an average.

TERRARIA IS ON ANDROID
Well-known action-packed indie sandbox action-adventure role-playing game Terraria, which is on Xbox Live Playstation and on iOS, has now come to Android. You can make weapons and confront a variety of enemies; either high up in the sky or deep underground. You can gather a number of resources like stone, ore or wood to make a world of your own and defend your buildings against zombies. The game adapted for both tablets and phones has over a dozen environments and over 200 crafting recipes to choose from.

TAKE NOTES ON THE GO
When there is a good note-taking app, you don’t need to look for a pen or notepad. Adding to the list of Evernote and Google’s Keep, is Simplenote from Automattic, the makers of Wordpress. On a very simple and clean interface the notes stay updated across all your devices. There is a share feature that enables you to work in group. The notes are backed up when you change them. All you need is to drag the version slider to go back in time. All your notes can be searched and they can be organized with tags and pins.

EMAIL UPGRADED
Though there are a number of apps to organize our daily routine, email continues to occupy the central place. Tipbit on iOS, claims to be an upgrade of your inbox, and brings your calendar and social media into the email in an easy-to-use manner. You can see a contact’s LinkedIn and Facebook updates as well as their latest tweets, and share them with a single tap. Another feature allows you to search anything in the email with just a tap, without having to paste it into a search engine.

Techno PRODVCT REVIEW
WATCH VIDEO ON YAHOO SCREEN
Yahoo is aiming for a bigger role on iPhones and iPads with the release of its first mobile application tailored for watching video on touch-control screens. The app is called Yahoo Screen. It has been set up to make the experience of sifting through video on smartphones and tablet computers more like channel surfing on a television. Yahoo is rolling out eight comedy series made exclusively for its website, along with clips from more than 700 episodes of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” broadcast during the past 38 years. The app initially will be available only for iPhone and iPad, but Yahoo eventually intends to develop a version compatible with devices powered by Google’s Android software.

OPERA REINVENTS BROWSER FOR IPAD
Opera has a new browser for iPad: Coast. There are no back and forward buttons, instead it works on swipe gestures. It you stumble on an unsafe site, it warns you with a big cross. The home screen has three main elements: a search and address field, Speed Dial grid, with more entries accessible by swiping to the left or right and recently opened sites, that are not currently in a Speed Dial entry. At the bottom of a displayed page, there are two icons: the middle one button takes you to the home screen, the bar button on the right shows recent sites visited. If you long-click a picture, you can save it or set it as the background for Speed Dial.

USE URDU ON THIS NOKIA PHONE
Nokia has unveiled its first mobile phone in India built primarily to target about 15 crore Urdu-speaking population in the country. The dual SIM Nokia 114, priced at Rs 2,579, will support nine languages including Urdu, English and Hindi, and has a talk time of up to 10.5 hours on 2G network. It has features for internet browsing and has a 0.3-megapixel camera, FM radio and video streaming among other features. “Over time we have developed supporting language capability in our device but one thing that we were missing was Urdu,” Nokia India Managing Director P Balaji said.

TRIGGER SMART ACTIONS ON PHONE
A new versatile, multi-featured, extendable Bluetooth low-energy device for iOS and latest Android OS-based smart phones has been launched. Called Gecko, it can initiate control music or trigger your smart phone camera and generate intruder alarms for any of your precious personal belongings. You can stick Gecko to a pill box and get alerted if it is not been used at the scheduled time. You can also stick the device on your baggage while travelling; it will alert you if your bags are moved. It can also act as a smart leash for your pets. The Gecko can be plugged into your DSLR camera and you can use your smart phone to capture images remotely.

TRANSMIT BETTER-QUALITY VIDEO
Lenovo India launched TinkPad Edge E431, a laptop with the OneLink technology that offers a unique dock-and-power connector that can transmit audio and video with a single connection. It is powered by the latest 3rd Generation Intel Core processor, Windows 8 operating system and optional NVIDIA GeForce Discrete Graphics. Built for small businesses, it can be equipped with 16 GB memory (maximum) and comes with built-in dual array microphone that enhances VOIP with advanced noise cancellation. The machine is amplified with a large, intelligent 5-button TouchPad optimized for Windows 8. At 25mm thickness, ThinkPad Edge E431 is one of the thinner business notebooks available in the market.

Sony Begins ‘Upfront’ Sales of Ads for PlayStation 3
TOKYO : Sony has already taken part in the upfront market for the sale of commercial time ahead of the 2013-14 season, for properties like the GSN cable channel and the Crackle digital video website. Now, the company is expanding the upfront selling process to the PlayStation 3 video game system. The Sony Pictures Entertainment is selling ad units in advance, like those that fill the welcome screen of the PlayStation Store, which game players see when they switch on the console.
Instead of going by the fall-to-spring calendar of the television business, these sales are being made on a calendar that runs from July 1 through June 30.
The welcome-screen pitches, which are being called Mosaic Zero ad units, have already been sold to the Walt Disney, to advertise the coming movie “The Lone Ranger,” and the Turner Broad-casting System division of Time Warner, to promote the TNT television series “Falling Skies.” In addition to entertainment marketers, who seem natural advertisers for a video game system, other buyers of Mosaic Zero ad units include packaged-goods makers like ConAgra Foods, for Slim Jim jerky and meat sticks; the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, for Dr Pepper soft drinks; Mentholatum Brands, for Rohto eye drops; and Reckitt Benckiser, for Clearasil.

Samsung to Launch Faster Galaxy S4 Smartphone
SUWON Samsung Electronics Co plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday.
JK Shin, also co-Chif executive of the world's biggest technology firm by revenue, said the phone would be sold in South Korea as early as this month.
"We'll be the first with the commercial launch of the advanced 4G version of the smartphone, "Shin said. The new S4 will use LTE-Advanced 4G technology, an upgrade from conventional 4G called LTE, or long term evolution. LTE-Advanced offers data transmission at up to twice the normal 4G speed.
The phones will be powered by Qualcomm chips. A movie download that takes 3 minutes with conventional 4G would take slightly more than 1 minute, Samsung said.

Google Launches 'Product Listing Ads' in India
MUMBAI Search engine Google on Monday launched a new ad format 'Product Listing Ads' in India to provide users information like images, price and brands of products, which will help people shop better both online and offline.
Everyday, millions of shoppers use Google search to research and discover products to purchase online and offline, and this new format connects users to rich product-information like looks, price and brands, Google India said in a statement.
Product Listing Ads will appear on shopping-related queries on Google.co.in. This feature will initially be placed on the right-hand side of the search results page above text ads, and it will be labeled as 'sponsored', it added.

Conference on Cyber Security
Confederation of Indian Industry Southern Region is organising a follow up conference with the title ACT- “Achieve CyberSecurity Together”. The one day conference will be held on 13th July 2013 at Hotel Hilton, Chennai, TamilNadu. This is a sequel to the conference held by CII in 2010 when the scenario was different from the threats of today.
The objective of the “Achieve Cybersecurity Together (ACT)” – with a theme “Face Cyber Threats & Challenges” is to discuss greatest emerging cyber treats across the nation. The challenges, technological gaps and necessary research directions related to cybersecurity, as well as the best suited instruments to implement the tasks.

Cyber-security has been defined by the International Communications Union (ITU) to mean the collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurance and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment and organization and user‘s assets. It can be considered to involve several major threats including: espionage, cyber-crime, cyber-war, cyber-terrorism, and dis-information campaigns. For example a Cyber-Security breach could involve remotely corrupting the information/knowledge space of people and/or organizations or disrupting the flow of data/information between people and/or organizations. Important elements of a cyber-security culture include: awareness, responsibility, response, ethics, democracy, risk assessment, security design and implementation, security management, and reassessment.

The current scenario is that Cyber security is a necessary consideration for individuals and families, as well as businesses, governments, and educational institutions. It is important to recognize the different types of risks that exist in the online world. Information security, data integrity are concerns which affect everyone today. Information must retain its integrity and not be altered from its original state. Thus, it has become a necessity for individuals and organisations to get acquainted and cope with the biggest intangible threat of the century.

I am writing to invite you & your colleagues/faculty/students to participate in this important conference as an opportunity to discover and share critical intelligence on issues shaping the future of national cyber security and contribute to the conference by submitting paper. The papers will be screened/ shortlisted by the committee and officially published by CII at the conference in form of CD. All conference delegates receive a free copy as part of their registration fee.

Your article should imbibe any one from the below listed topics:

· Cyber Security issues in Social Media
· Establishing Reliable Security in Cloud Networks
· Need for effective National Cyber Security infrastructure.
· Cyber and Network security for Banking
· Cyber and Network security for MSMEs
· New trends in Cyber Forensics
· Future trends in Data Management
· Containing the Deadliest attacks

We would like you to maintain the limit of 500 - 600 words of your paper. The paper to be submitted should be original and unpublished. Kindly send the brief profile of the author with photograph. The paper should be MS word format and authors should give references wherever required as per standard format.