tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47928939614421714662024-03-19T03:58:49.228-07:00TechTrendzExplore new Technology Trendsvamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-10453740005078042232024-02-23T06:40:00.000-08:002024-02-23T06:40:31.717-08:00Exploring the Latest Technology Trends in IT<p> Title: Exploring the Latest Technology Trends in IT</p><p><br /></p><p>In the ever-evolving landscape of Information Technology (IT), staying abreast of the latest trends is not just an option but a necessity. With each passing day, innovations emerge, reshaping the way we work, communicate, and interact with the world around us. From artificial intelligence to cybersecurity, let's delve into the cutting-edge trends shaping the IT industry today.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning:</p><p> AI and Machine Learning continue to dominate the IT scene, revolutionizing processes across industries. From predictive analytics to personalized recommendations, the capabilities of AI are seemingly limitless. Organizations are leveraging AI to automate tasks, enhance decision-making, and unlock insights from vast datasets.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Edge Computing:</p><p> As the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferates, the demand for Edge Computing grows. Edge Computing brings computational power closer to the source of data generation, reducing latency and enabling real-time processing. This trend is particularly crucial for applications requiring instant responses, such as autonomous vehicles and smart cities.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Cybersecurity:</p><p> With cyber threats becoming increasingly sophisticated, cybersecurity remains a top priority for organizations worldwide. From ransomware attacks to data breaches, the stakes have never been higher. Consequently, there's a growing emphasis on proactive measures, such as threat intelligence, encryption, and Zero Trust architectures, to safeguard sensitive information.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Solutions:</p><p> The shift towards cloud computing continues unabated, with organizations embracing hybrid and multi-cloud environments for enhanced flexibility and scalability. By combining public and private clouds, businesses can optimize workloads, mitigate risks, and streamline operations. Additionally, Multi-Cloud strategies offer redundancy and resilience against downtime.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Quantum Computing:</p><p> While still in its infancy, Quantum Computing holds immense promise for tackling complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers. From drug discovery to optimization algorithms, Quantum Computing has the potential to revolutionize various fields. Although commercial applications are still years away, investment and research in this area are accelerating.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR):</p><p> AR and VR technologies are blurring the lines between the physical and digital worlds, opening up new avenues for immersive experiences. From training simulations to interactive marketing campaigns, AR and VR are transforming how we perceive and interact with information. As hardware becomes more accessible and software more sophisticated, the adoption of these technologies is poised to soar.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. 5G Technology:</p><p> The rollout of 5G networks promises to usher in a new era of connectivity, offering faster speeds, lower latency, and greater bandwidth. Beyond enhancing mobile communications, 5G is set to enable breakthroughs in areas such as IoT, autonomous vehicles, and telemedicine. As infrastructure matures and coverage expands, the full potential of 5G will gradually unfold.</p><p><br /></p><p>In conclusion, the realm of Information Technology is a dynamic and ever-evolving domain, driven by relentless innovation and ingenuity. By embracing the latest trends and technologies, organizations can gain a competitive edge, foster growth, and navigate the complexities of the digital age with confidence. So, whether it's harnessing the power of AI or harnessing the speed of 5G, the opportunities are limitless for those willing to embrace the future of IT.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-8321212836993277792023-04-28T08:40:00.003-07:002023-04-28T08:40:56.293-07:00US Consulate in Hyderabad releases video on prohibited items at Nanakramguda facility<p> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Hyderabad: </span><span style="color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The US Consulate in Hyderabad recently released a video regarding prohibited items at its Nanakramguda facility. The consulate serves as the largest US diplomatic mission in South Asia, and all visitors, including applicants for passport and visa services, individuals attending meetings or events, and even US citizens, must undergo security screening upon arrival.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">It is mandatory for visitors to carry government-issued identification, which must be the original document. Photocopies of IDs are not accepted. Additionally, visitors must ensure that the name on their identification matches the name on their appointment.</p><h2 id="m_4106895857893773076gmail-h-list-of-items-prohibited-at-us-consulate-in-hyderabad" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px;">List of items prohibited at US Consulate in Hyderabad</h2><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">There are several items that cannot be taken inside the US Consulate General in Hyderabad.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Following is the list of prohibited items at the consulate</p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Cell phones</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Battery-operated or electronic devices,</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Bags including purses, travel bags, backpacks, briefcases, and suitcases (Unsealed plastic bags, small cloth bags and zip folders)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Food or drink items</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Cosmetics</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Sealed envelopes or packages</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Flammable items</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Sharp objects</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Weapons</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Long-handled umbrellas, and</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Powders of any kind, including religious-related powders or spices.</li></ol><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">As the list is not exhaustive, other items can be prohibited at the discretion of security staff.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Upon arrival at the consulate, visitors will be asked to place all their belongings in a tray that goes through an X-ray machine. If any prohibited items are found, the applicant will be asked to leave the premises and come back after keeping them somewhere outside the premises of the US Consulate.<br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px;">New address of US Consulate at Nanakramguda</h2><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The new facility of the US Consulate in Hyderabad is located at Sy. No. 115/1, Financial District, Nanakramguda, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500032.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The new consulate office was built with an investment of USD 297 million and is situated on a 12.2-acre site with 54 visa processing windows.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">On March 15, 2023, the consulate officially ended its lease of Paigah Palace and began operations at the new facility on March 20, 2023.</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-35340153620093801672023-02-01T07:31:00.002-08:002023-02-01T07:31:41.368-08:00Old income tax regime vs new income tax regime: Which one should you choose?<p> </p><h2 class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondarytextcolor); font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major changes to the new income tax regime in the Union Budget 2023, including lower tax rates and a tax rebate on income up to Rs 7 lakh. But how does it compare with the old income tax regime? Here is all you need to know.</h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d Story_stry__highlights__9IosL" style="border-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); padding: var(--widgetgap);"><h3 class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d Story_title__dp5qB" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">In Short</h3><ul class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d Story_highlights__list__FRRjs" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; text-indent: -1.5em;"><li class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">New income tax regime gets major overhaul</li><li class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Old tax regime sees no change</li><li class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New income tax structure now becomes default tax regime</li></ul></div><div class="jsx-99cc083358cc2e2d Story_description__fq_4S description tbl-forkorts-article" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--widgetgap); max-height: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primarytextcolor); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/author/koustav-das" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Koustav Das">By Koustav Das</a>: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday gave a <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/business/budget-2023/story/budget-2023-overhauls-new-income-tax-regime-earning-of-up-to-rs-3-lakh-made-tax-free-exempt-2329040-2023-02-01" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">makeover to the new income tax regime</a>, with lower tax rates and introduction of standard deduction. However, the old income tax regime -- which allows for deductions such as home loan interest payments -- was left untouched.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primarytextcolor); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">While the changes to the new income tax regime, which has now been made the default personal tax structure, have received wide coverage, several are confused about whether the amendments to the new income tax regime make it more attractive in comparison to the old regime.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primarytextcolor); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primarytextcolor); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">WHAT CHANGES IN THE NEW INCOME TAX REGIME?</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Among the major announcements made by the finance minister, the most important one was the extension of rebate for annual income up to Rs 7 lakh, applicable to people under the new income tax regime.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Currently, those with income up to Rs 5 lakh do not pay any income tax in both old and new tax regimes. I propose to increase the rebate limit to Rs 7 lakh in the new tax regime. Thus, persons in the new tax regime, with income up to Rs 7 lakh will not have to pay any tax,” the finance minister said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">n addition, a standard deduction of Rs 50,000 has also been introduced under the new income tax slab. This means, a salaried taxpayer would be eligible for an upfront deduction of Rs 50,000 from the total taxable income under the new income tax regime as well -- earlier, this deduction was only available under the old structure.</p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">THE NEW INCOME TAX SLABS</h3><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The finance minister also rationalised <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/business/budget-2023/story/how-much-income-tax-do-you-pay-now-under-new-tax-regime-quick-guide-2329102-2023-02-01" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_self">tax slabs under the new income tax regime</a>, reducing the number of taxable brackets to five. The new tax slabs are 1) 0-3 lakh - Nil, 2) Rs 3-6 lakh - 5 per cent, 3) Rs 6-9 lakh - 10 per cent, 4) Rs 9-12 lakh - 15 per cent, 5) Rs 12-15 lakh - 20 per cent and 6) 30 per cent for anything income above Rs 15 lakh.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The government said these measures will provide major relief to all taxpayers who opt for the new regime.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">For instance, any individual with an annual income of Rs 9 lakh will be required to pay tax worth only Rs 45,000, which is just five per cent of his/her income. It marks a 25 per cent deduction over the Rs 60,000 that needs to be paid under the existing structure. Similarly, an individual with an income of Rs 15 lakh would be required to pay only Rs 1.5 lakh or 10 per cent of his or her income, a reduction of 20 per cent from the existing liability of Rs 1,87,500.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Abhishek Soni, Co-Founder of Tax2win, said, “The introduction of new slabs with lesser tax rates under the new tax regime as well as the announcement of introducing a single simplified common ITR form in the future, clearly shows the government's objective to simplify the income tax for the common people.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Further, no tax is levied up to Rs 7 lakh of income, a big relief for millions of salaried individuals,” he added.</p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">NEW VS OLD INCOME TAX REGIME: WHAT'S BETTER FOR YOU?</b></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Does the makeover make the new income tax regime make it more attractive <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/budget-2023-old-income-tax-slab-vs-new-income-tax-slab-2329074-2023-02-01" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_self">in comparison to the old tax structure</a>? Let’s find out.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new income tax regime should become a clear choice for those earning Rs 7.5 lakh annually, given the introduction of a Rs 50,000 standard deduction, which will make them eligible for claiming a rebate on income up to Rs 7 lakh.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What if your income is higher?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Unlike the new income tax regime, slabs under the old tax structure have not been changed under the budget – income up to Rs 2.5 lakh exempt from tax, 5 per cent tax on income over Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, 20 per cent tax on income above Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh and 30 per cent on income above Rs 10 lakh.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The old tax regime has been the mainstay for taxpayers in the country despite higher tax slabs, as it offers more scope for tax deductions to individuals with higher annual incomes and more investments.</p><div class="embedded-entity" data-embed-button="ckeditor_image" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.image" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="8152e8e1-3034-4a9f-8d88-39d06b7d475a" data-langcode="en" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap);"><article class="media media--type-ckeditor-image media--view-mode-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="itgimage" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="image-style-medium-crop-simple" height="181" loading="lazy" src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/styles/medium_crop_simple/public/2023-02/regime_1.jpg?VersionId=1JI1ZmssBg_ulw1f3vR9u5.CdrG.7PyM" style="border-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 688px;" title="" width="763" /></div></div></article></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">You can claim several deductions under the old income tax regime under Section 80C, Section 80D and more. Not to mention, they are also eligible for an upfront standard deduction of Rs 50,000. With these, the taxable income of an individual with investments reduces drastically.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPARISON</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">For example, with an annual salary of Rs 9 lakh, you can claim several deductions – under Section 80C, Section 80D, interest on home loan and NPS of Rs 50,000 – to bring your taxable income to literally zero. Simply put, if you can claim deductions to bring taxable income to Rs 5,00,000, the tax amount becomes zero due to the rebate applicable under Section 87A.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">In comparison, people opting for the new income tax regime will have to pay Rs 45,000 as tax on an annual income of Rs 9 lakh as they cannot claim deductions to reduce their taxable income.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">In fact, individuals with annual income slightly above Rs 10 lakh will also have a lower tax outgo under the old tax regime as they can claim all the deductions to bring down their taxable income drastically. On the other hand, those with an annual income above Rs 10 lakh will have to pay tax at a flat rate under the new income tax regime after standard deduction, in the absence of deductions.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">MADE UP YOUR MIND? WAIT..</b></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The old tax regime still looks more lucrative for people with higher annual incomes, but only if they have the investments to claim enough deductions.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, for individuals who do not want to invest in too many long-term tax-saving schemes or do not have a housing loan, the new income tax regime could be the answer.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-34146318941273918142023-01-05T20:33:00.002-08:002023-01-05T20:33:53.344-08:00US Consulate General Hyderabad asks visa applicants to visit its new centre This new location will be effective from January 8<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hyderabad: The US Consulate General Hyderabad on Thursday asked all applicants visiting the Hyderabad Visa Application Centre for their scheduled appointments, document submission and passport collection to visit the new location i.e., Lower Concourse, Hitec City Metro Station, Madhapur, Hyderabad.</p><p><br /></p><p>This new location will be effective from January 8.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-29710228377195382082022-11-19T04:37:00.005-08:002022-11-19T04:37:53.609-08:00International flights from Hyderabad to shift to main terminal<p> <strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hyderabad</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;">: Going abroad from Hyderabad? Then note that all international departures will be shifted to </span><a href="https://telanganatoday.com/tsrtc-starts-bus-service-to-hyderabad-airport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2196f3; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Rajiv Gandhi International Airport</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;">’s main terminal from November 28.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFpn7ZbY9EYprKRsO5nl5l_blT_U1RRv6kA-Gwgp7LjnRChZIhhThvydBHx33kCEl3FN2PDDktVmamcoXw4LOhA8kqla_h2mAx8F7QJyitGICUKGxRXXENmD_lM-lbj-88tTFB9iRYGqTYA9waReptVxiXjCvKx7PRbiJFrznJ89nn_Bafi1_aFzrSw/s816/Hyderabad-Airport-1_V_jpg--816x480-4g.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="816" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFpn7ZbY9EYprKRsO5nl5l_blT_U1RRv6kA-Gwgp7LjnRChZIhhThvydBHx33kCEl3FN2PDDktVmamcoXw4LOhA8kqla_h2mAx8F7QJyitGICUKGxRXXENmD_lM-lbj-88tTFB9iRYGqTYA9waReptVxiXjCvKx7PRbiJFrznJ89nn_Bafi1_aFzrSw/w570-h335/Hyderabad-Airport-1_V_jpg--816x480-4g.webp" width="570" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;">“International departures will be shifted to the main terminal from the erstwhile Interim International Departure Terminal (IIDT) effective 28th November 2022 (sic),” RGIA stated.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">To clear confusion regarding any departure or arrival of flights, <a href="https://telanganatoday.com/hyderabad-airport-launches-ev-charging-and-bio-diesel-filling-stations" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2196f3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Hyderabad airport</a> has provided the helpline number: 040-66546370.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Earlier, there were separate terminals for national and international flights. Given the rush of passengers, a temporary terminal was set up on the right side of the airport for international passengers.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Check-in, security, immigration, and customs checks were conducted there. However, henceforth, passengers will be sent to the main terminal.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">On the other hand, the expansion work of the airport is going at a brisk pace. As the works are progressing, the development is very likely to be completed by 2023.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://telanganatoday.com/migration-help-desk-opened-at-hyderabad-airport" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2196f3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">RGIA’s</a> initial capacity was 1.2 crore passengers per annum, which went up to 2.1 crore in 2019 (pre-covid). The airport is currently undergoing a major expansion that will raise its capacity to 3.4 crore passengers per annum.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-26034233067751232052021-05-24T01:09:00.003-07:002021-05-24T01:09:57.117-07:00Motorola One Action is getting Android 11 update: Details here<p> <span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Motorola has started rolling out the</span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/these-features-are-coming-with-android-11/story" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Android 11</a><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">update for its</span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/motorola-one-action-india-launch-specifications-features-price/story" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">One Action</a><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">handset launched in 2019.</span></p><p class="ft-sec pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt card-point pd-b-20 br-rd-bl-br-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The firmware brings all the goodies of the latest operating system, including a refreshed UI, notification history, chat bubbles, and one-time permissions.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Currently, the update is seeding in Brazil and is expected to be rolled out in other markets in the coming days.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Here's our roundup.</span></p><div class="mg-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30" data-cname="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="pd-t-20 pd-b-20 pd-l-20 pd-r-20 pd-t-md-30 pd-b-md-30 pd-l-md-30 pd-r-md-30 ft-sec br-rd-10 bg-primary bg-iris-blue-lt jump-links-parent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 30px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="bd-4 md-bd-4 cl-ink-dk ft-pr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">In this article</div><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><li class="mg-t-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a class="dp-fx jump-link" data-id="tl79992" href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/realme-x7-max-s-launch-date-announced-specifications-features/story#the-phone-has-a-63-inch-lcd-screen" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-ib wd-ht-px-5 br-rd-pr-50 bg-iris-blue-dk fx-basis-5px mg-t-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 5px; font: inherit; height: 5px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 5px;"></span><span class="mg-l-10 sec-reg-1 sec-md-reg-1 cl-iris-blue-dk" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The phone has a 6.3-inch LCD screen</span></a></li><li class="mg-t-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a class="dp-fx jump-link" data-id="tl79992" href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/realme-x7-max-s-launch-date-announced-specifications-features/story#it-sports-a-12mp-selfie-camera" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-ib wd-ht-px-5 br-rd-pr-50 bg-iris-blue-dk fx-basis-5px mg-t-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 5px; font: inherit; height: 5px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 5px;"></span><span class="mg-l-10 sec-reg-1 sec-md-reg-1 cl-iris-blue-dk" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It sports a 12MP selfie camera</span></a></li><li class="mg-t-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a class="dp-fx jump-link" data-id="tl79992" href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/realme-x7-max-s-launch-date-announced-specifications-features/story#it-is-fueled-by-an-exynos-9609-processor" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-ib wd-ht-px-5 br-rd-pr-50 bg-iris-blue-dk fx-basis-5px mg-t-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 5px; font: inherit; height: 5px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 5px;"></span><span class="mg-l-10 sec-reg-1 sec-md-reg-1 cl-iris-blue-dk" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It is fueled by an Exynos 9609 processor</span></a></li><li class="mg-t-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a class="dp-fx jump-link" data-id="tl79992" href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/realme-x7-max-s-launch-date-announced-specifications-features/story#motorola-one-action-pricing" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-ib wd-ht-px-5 br-rd-pr-50 bg-iris-blue-dk fx-basis-5px mg-t-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 5px; font: inherit; height: 5px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 5px;"></span><span class="mg-l-10 sec-reg-1 sec-md-reg-1 cl-iris-blue-dk" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Motorola One Action: Pricing</span></a></li></ul></div></div><div class="tx-decoration-none jump-at" data-id="tl79992" id="the-phone-has-a-63-inch-lcd-screen" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="pd-t-20 mg-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt br-rd-tl-tr-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="slug dp-fx fx-al-ct" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); align-items: center; background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -28px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="wd-ht-px-8 br-rd-pr-50 z-index-1 bg-iris-blue-dk evt-connector" data-hooked="tl79992" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; height: 8px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 8px; z-index: 1;"></span><div class="cl-lt cl-iris-blue-dk mg-l-10 mg-l-md-20 bd-6 md-bd-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Design and Display</div></div></div></div><h2 class="pd-t-10 bd-4 md-bd-4 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The phone has a 6.3-inch LCD screen</h2><div class="pd-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><figure style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="asp-ratio r-16-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 327.375px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 582px;"><img alt="The phone has a 6.3-inch LCD screen" class="dp-bl wd-full br-rd-10 lazy" src="https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l15520210523175426.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 582px;" title="The phone has a 6.3-inch LCD screen" /></div></figure></div><p class="ft-sec pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt card-point pd-b-20 br-rd-bl-br-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Motorola One Action has an edge-to-edge screen with a punch-hole cut-out and a prominent bottom bezel. On the rear, there is a triple camera setup and a fingerprint reader for secure biometric authentication.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The device bears a 6.3-inch Full-HD+ (1080x2520 pixels) LCD display that offers a 21:9 aspect ratio.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It is available in three shades: Denim Blue, Pearl White, and Aqua Teal.</span></p><div class="tx-decoration-none jump-at" data-id="tl79992" id="it-sports-a-12mp-selfie-camera" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="pd-t-20 mg-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse br-rd-tl-tr-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)); border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="slug dp-fx fx-al-ct" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); align-items: center; background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -28px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="wd-ht-px-8 br-rd-pr-50 z-index-1 bg-acadia evt-connector" data-hooked="tl79992" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #4d4d4d; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; height: 8px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 8px; z-index: 1;"></span><div class="cl-lt cl-acadia mg-l-10 mg-l-md-20 bd-6 md-bd-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Information</div></div></div></div><h2 class="pd-t-10 bd-4 md-bd-4 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)) rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It sports a 12MP selfie camera</h2><p class="ft-sec pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse card-point pd-b-20 br-rd-bl-br-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)) rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The <a href="https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-motorola-one-action/p?skuId=303" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Motorola One Action</a> has a triple rear camera setup comprising a 12MP (f/1.8) primary sensor, a 16MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide lens, and a 5MP (f/2.2) depth sensor. For selfies and video calling, there is a 12MP (f/2.0) front-facing snapper.</span></p><div class="tx-decoration-none jump-at" data-id="tl79992" id="it-is-fueled-by-an-exynos-9609-processor" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="pd-t-20 mg-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt br-rd-tl-tr-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="slug dp-fx fx-al-ct" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); align-items: center; background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -28px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="wd-ht-px-8 br-rd-pr-50 z-index-1 bg-iris-blue-dk evt-connector" data-hooked="tl79992" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #004852; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; height: 8px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 8px; z-index: 1;"></span><div class="cl-lt cl-iris-blue-dk mg-l-10 mg-l-md-20 bd-6 md-bd-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004852; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Internals</div></div></div></div><h2 class="pd-t-10 bd-4 md-bd-4 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It is fueled by an Exynos 9609 processor</h2><div class="pd-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><figure style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="asp-ratio r-16-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 327.375px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 582px;"><img alt="It is fueled by an Exynos 9609 processor" class="dp-bl wd-full br-rd-10 lazy" src="https://i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com/images/l59020210523175520.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 582px;" title="It is fueled by an Exynos 9609 processor" /></div></figure></div><p class="ft-sec pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 bg-iris-blue-lt card-point pd-b-20 br-rd-bl-br-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #edf9fa; border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Motorola One Action draws power from an octa-core Exynos 9609 chipset, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">The device now runs on Android 11 and packs a 3,500mAh battery with 10W charging support.</span><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">It offers support for connectivity options such as dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port.</span></p><div class="tx-decoration-none jump-at" data-id="tl79992" id="motorola-one-action-pricing" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="pd-t-20 mg-t-10 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse br-rd-tl-tr-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)); border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 20px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="slug dp-fx fx-al-ct" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); align-items: center; background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: flex; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -28px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="wd-ht-px-8 br-rd-pr-50 z-index-1 bg-acadia evt-connector" data-hooked="tl79992" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #4d4d4d; border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; height: 8px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 8px; z-index: 1;"></span><div class="cl-lt cl-acadia mg-l-10 mg-l-md-20 bd-6 md-bd-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Information</div></div></div></div><h2 class="pd-t-10 bd-4 md-bd-4 pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)) rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "DM Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 30px 0px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Motorola One Action: Pricing</h2><p class="ft-sec pd-l-28 pd-r-20 pd-l-md-48 pd-r-md-30 solid-tint-lily-white-gray-nurse card-point pd-b-20 br-rd-bl-br-10px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(242, 246, 242), rgb(233, 237, 233)) rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 48px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span class="dp-bl pd-t-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">In India, the Motorola One Action handset, launched in 2019, carries a price tag of Rs. 10,999 for its sole 4GB/128GB storage variant. The device is up for grabs via Flipkart.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-43519599077898704212020-04-24T03:13:00.002-07:002020-04-24T03:13:25.124-07:00iPhone SE teardown: What happens when you put an iPhone 8 motherboard into the iPhone SE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The new <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_se_(2020)-10170.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone SE (2020)</a> is going on sale today and an early teardown shows the similarities between it and the <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_8-8573.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 8</a>.</div>
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The “Jiang Teardown” video was posted by <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wenzhou Ao Technololgy</i> on YouTube (the channel’s name is translated from Mandarin). In the video, the new iPhone SE is torn down side by side with the iPhone 8 to highlight the differences. Although the video is in Mandarin, English captions are available.</div>
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The phone is just as easy to open as the iPhone 8, with barely any heat needed to soften the adhesive holding the display in place. Once removed, the display comes apart from the frame and is held in by the same ribbon cables as the iPhone 8. Upon inspection, it’s hard to even tell which phone is which from the inside.</div>
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The side of the battery, and the layout of the components are identical between devices. The presenter noted that the display assembly looks to be universal and installed the iPhone SE’s display onto the disassembled iPhone 8. It turns out they are the same part.</div>
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The layout of the motherboard is even exactly the same, so an attempt was made to swap out the SE’s board with that from the iPhone 8 and hooks it up to see if it works. The first hurdle is that the battery connector is different on the SE – it’s similar to the battery connector from the <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_11-9848.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 11</a>. So he removes the new battery and replaces it with one that would power the iPhone 8 board.</div>
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The smartphone boots up normally. Remember, at this point – there is an iPhone 8 logic board that was fitted into an iPhone SE. The display, speaker, and haptic engine all work perfectly. However, the differences start to show when he opens the Camera app. The main camera does not work, but the front-facing one is working with no issues.</div>
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Most components in the iPhone SE are directly carried over from the iPhone 8. The timing of its release is a strategic way for Apple to save money on components it has already been manufacturing for years.</div>
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<strong style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Hong Kong:</strong> Huawei Technologies Co overtook Apple Inc to claim the No. 2 spot in smartphones in the first quarter, moving a step closer to its avowed ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market.</div>
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The networking giant, shrugging off a barrage of accusations that it aids Chinese espionage (which it’s repeatedly denied), grew shipments 50% from a year earlier, research firm IDC estimates. It was the only name in the top 4 that managed to expand volumes as the overall market slid for the sixth consecutive quarter.</div>
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Huawei’s been steadily gaining on Apple and Samsung Electronics Co. with an increasingly high-end line-up of devices, particularly in its home market of China. The iPhone maker this week projected quarterly sales that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting demand for iPhones has stabilised after a disappointing holiday period. Samsung also enjoyed a spike compared with the fourth quarter thanks to the launch of the marquee S10 range in February. IDC reckons Huawei should cling to the No. 2 spot over the rest of 2019.</div>
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“The overall smartphone market continues to be challenged in almost all areas, yet Huawei was able to grow shipments by 50%," said Ryan Reith, program vice president with IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers. “This new ranking of Samsung, Huawei, and Apple is very likely what we’ll see when 2019 is all said and done."</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-77156180276624623252017-06-15T16:09:00.002-07:002017-06-15T16:09:21.594-07:00Google hires Apple's lead SoC architect with plans to build its own microchips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Google has hired Manu Gulati as Lead SoC Architect, suggesting that the company could be designing its own chipsets. Gulati was the chief chip architect at Apple and is the prominent face behind the Cupertino-based company's custom A-series chipsets. Gulati recently <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/manu-gulati-283346/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #ff0048; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">updated his employer</a> from Apple to Google on LinkedIn and <a href="https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-manu-gulati-pixel-chips-1202464014/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #ff0048; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Variety reports</a> that Google is indeed looking to build its own chipsets.</div>
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Google has been posting several SoC-related job postings including Hardware Engineer, Mobile SoC Architect, Mobile SoC Memory Architect among others. Some of the job descriptions suggest that Google is looking for chip architects who can define the architecture of SoCs powering future generations of smartphones and tablets.</div>
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Qualcomm and MediaTek are the major chip suppliers for most smartphone makers right now. Google currently uses chipsets from San Diego-based Qualcomm for its Pixel range of smartphones. Apart from Qualcomm and MediaTek, Samsung, Huawei and Apple also design custom chipsets based on ARM designs for their mobile devices. Recently, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi also joined the race with its own <a href="http://www.digit.in/mobile-phones/xiaomi-mi-5c-launched-with-companys-in-house-surge-s1-soc-33934.html" style="border: 0px; color: #ff0048; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pinecone SoC</a>.</div>
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Google's desire to build its own chipsets dates back to 2015 when <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/with-apple-in-mind-google-seeks-android-chip-partners" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #ff0048; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Information reported</a> that the company discussed Google-designed chips with chip manufacturers. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/behind-the-pixel-google-s-first-real-threat-to-apple-s-iphone" style="border: 0px; color: #ff0048; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bloomberg recently reported</a> that Google plans to eventually switch to its own microchips for Pixel smartphones. With Gulati, Google has an edge over others in the development of efficient chipsets for mobile devices.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-17536915990168588402016-02-04T21:32:00.005-08:002016-02-04T21:32:58.600-08:00How Google passed Apple to become the world's most valuable company<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For most of the past five years, Apple has been the world's most valuable company, with oil giant ExxonMobil a close second and other companies far behind. But recently, Apple's earnings growth has slowed, while Alphabet — the company <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9128375/why-google-is-renaming-itself-alphabet" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">most of us know as Google</a> — has seen its profits continue to grow. The result: Alphabet <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-alphabet-research-idUSKCN0VB1KD" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">passed Apple</a> late on Tuesday to become the world's most valuable company.</div>
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It didn't last, as Apple <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-market-cap-passes-alphabet-google-2016-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">regained the lead</a> on Wednesday morning. Right now the two companies have basically the same value — around $500 billion.</div>
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The remarkable thing about this is that Apple's 2015 operating income (that's profits, basically) of $71 billion was more than three times Google's operating income of $20 billion. So you might expect Apple's market value would be considerably higher than Google's. The fact that Wall Street is valuing them about the same is a signal that the market is a lot more optimistic about Google's growth prospects. Investors expect Google's profits to continue going up, whereas Wall Street thinks Apple's massive iPhone profits have nowhere to go but down.</div>
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Google does a lot of different things. It has a browser called Chrome, a smartphone OS called Android, and a wide variety of online services such as Google Maps, Gmail, and Google Docs. Google's parent company, Alphabet, is working on self-driving cars, residential broadband networks in several cities, and a lot more.</div>
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But Google's revenues overwhelmingly come from one thing: advertising.</div>
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Ads account for about 90 percent of Google's overall revenues, and of this ad revenue three-quarters comes from ads on Google's own websites — including a large share for Google's market-leading search engine. The remaining quarter comes from Google's ad networks, which sell ads that appear on other people's websites.</div>
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Some high-profile Google products aren't directly ad-supported, but most of them indirectly support Google's ads business — and especially its flagship search engine. For example, creating Android and giving it away to smartphone companies helps ensure that Google's search engine and other online services remain popular with mobile users. Similarly, owning the leading web browser, Chrome, helps Google steer users toward its search engine.</div>
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This is worth a lot of money: Google <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1-billion-to-keep-search-bar-on-iphone" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">paid Apple $1 billion</a> in 2014 to ensure that Google was the default search engine on iPhones. And until 2014, Google <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486196/internet/mozilla-banked--274m-in--12-from-google-firefox-search-deal.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">paid hundreds of millions of dollars every year</a> to ensure Google is the default search engine for the Firefox web browser (more recently, Yahoo has outbid Google to be the default).</div>
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While Google makes most of its money from ads, Apple makes most of its money from selling iPhones. The iPhone is a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">lot</em> more lucrative than any of Apple's other products. Apple sold 231 million iPhones in 2015, generating $154 billion in revenue. In its most recent quarter, Apple generated twice as much revenue from the iPhone as all of its other products — iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and so forth — put together.</div>
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Like Google, Apple has seen its revenue soar over the past few years as the iPhone has gotten more popular. But unlike Google, it looks like Apple is seeing a slowdown in its previously rapid growth. In its most recent quarter, Apple's revenues were up just 2 percent compared with a year earlier.</div>
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The issue seems to be that the iPhone is close to saturating its market. Apple dominates the market for high-end smartphones so completely that most of the people around the world who can afford to buy an iPhone already have one. Apple will be able to continue selling tens of millions of iPhones every quarter as their existing users upgrade, of course. But Apple's iPhone sales last quarter were almost identical to its sales a year earlier. That suggests there may not be much more room for iPhone sales growth.</div>
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To continue growing, then, Apple needs to come up with another massive hit. And it hasn't been able to do that. The iPad is pretty popular, but it's nowhere near as popular as the iPhone, and its sales are actually declining. The Apple Watch seems to be a pretty successful product by conventional measures, but, again, it's nothing like the iPhone.</div>
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Of course, Apple could always surprise us. The company has a talented staff and tens of billions of dollars to invest in new products.</div>
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But Apple's stock price suggests that Wall Street, at least, isn't optimistic about Apple's chances of coming up with anything new that will match the iPhone's success. A key statistic to watch here is the price-to-earnings ratio — that is, the company's stock price divided by its annual profits.</div>
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If the P/E ratio is high, that means Wall Street is paying a premium in hopes that profits will rise over time. A low P/E ratio signals that Wall Street expects profits to stagnate or even decline in the future.</div>
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Fast-growing technology companies have share prices that are 20, 50, or even 100 times their earnings. Google's P/E ratio, for example, is about 35.</div>
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In contrast, Apple's P/E ratio is about 10. That means Wall Street is valuing Apple like a sleepy utility company — still highly profitable, but with little prospect for future growth.</div>
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Apple's charismatic founder is dead, while Google's are still around</h3>
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There are lots of technology companies that have one big hit and then stop growing once that initial product matures. Yahoo, Twitter, and eBay are all examples of companies that seem to have hit a wall.</div>
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What makes Apple and Google remarkable is that they were able to follow up an initial hit — early PCs in Apple's case, a search engine in Google's — with many other successful products. Apple had the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Google has had Gmail, Google Maps, Android, Chrome, and so forth.</div>
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It's impossible to say exactly why some companies continue to thrive while others turn out to be one-hit wonders, but one common theme seems to be that the most successful companies still have their charismatic founders at the helm. Apple struggled during Steve Jobs's absence between 1985 and 1997, then enjoyed an amazing resurgence between 1997 and Jobs's death in 2011. Google has been under the control of its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, since the beginning.</div>
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Founders have an unmatched level of respect among rank-and-file employees. Because they've been at the company since the beginning, founders have relationships with people all across the country.</div>
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This is particularly important when a company needs to make a big change. Employees at once-great but now-struggling companies have a tendency to romanticize a company's early days and resist necessary changes. In these moments, no one has more credibility than a company's founders to put these concerns into perspective and make the case that the company needs to change if it wants to survive.</div>
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Founders' greater credibility also allows them more leeway to take big risks. Ordinary CEOs serve at the pleasure of the board, so they constantly have to worry that they'll lose their jobs if they go too far out on a limb. Founders tend to be more secure in their jobs, which makes them more able to take big risks and push through necessary changes.</div>
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Apple, of course, lost its visionary founder to cancer in 2011. It's now run by Tim Cook, a man who is by all accounts an able manager but doesn't seem to have Jobs's vision. Prior to Jobs's death, Cook's focus was on optimizing Apple's operations, not creating new products. Alphabet, on the other hand, is still run by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They've made big bets on everything from Android to self-driving cars. Some of those bets have failed, but others have been big hits.</div>
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That might be one reason Wall Street is bullish on Alphabet but bearish on Apple. The iPhone is a great product, but there's little reason to think Cook will be able to create more products like it. On the other hand, the market seems to be hoping that Page and Brin are just getting started.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">WASHINGTON: Video streaming can be much better for the environment, requiring less energy and emitting less carbon dioxide (CO2), than some traditional methods of DVD renting, buying and viewing, a new study has found. </span></div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br /><br /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The researchers cite modern devices such as laptops and tablets as the reason for this improvement, as they are much more efficient than older, energy-sapping DVD players. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Furthermore, the driving that is required to go and buy, or rent, DVDs makes this method much more energy- and carbon-intensive, researchers said. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A significant proportion of the energy consumption and carbon emissions for streaming comes from the transmission of data, which increases drastically when more complex, high-definition content is streamed. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In their study, the researchers, from America's Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and Northwestern University, estimated that if all DVD viewing in the US was shifted to streaming services in 2011, around 2 billion kg of CO2 emissions could have been avoided and around 30 petajoules (PJ) of energy saved — the equivalent of the amount of electricity needed to meet the demands of 200,000 US households. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In 2011, they estimated that 192PJ of energy was used, and 10.4 billion kg of CO2 emitted, for all methods of DVD consumption and streaming in the US. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />From this, they calculated that one hour of video streaming requires 7.9 megajoules (MJ) of energy, compared to as much as 12 MJ for traditional DVD viewing, and emits 0.4kg of CO2, compared to as much as 0.71kg of CO2 for DVD viewing. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To arrive at their results, the researchers compared video streaming with four different types of DVD consumerism: DVDs that are rented from online mailers; DVDs that are rented from a store; DVDs that are purchased online; and DVDs that are bought from a store. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Video streaming was limited to TV and movies and did not include shorter videos that are streamed online through YouTube etc. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />They found that video streaming and the online rental of DVDs required similar amounts of energy; however, the renting and purchasing of DVDs from a store were much more energy intensive, due to the impact of driving. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Our study suggests that equipment designers and policy makers should focus on improving the efficiency of end-user devices and network transmission energy to curb the energy use from future increases in video streaming," said lead author of the research Arman Shehabi, from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Such efficiency improvements will be particularly important in the near future, when society is expected to consume far greater quantities of streaming video content compared to today," Shehabi said. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The study was published in Institute of Physics Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters.</div>
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First the mobile phone, now the car. Having revolutionised personal communication<a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="8016" data-inline-quote-symbol="AAPL" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/AAPL" style="color: #2d648a; font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Apple </a>now wants to change the way we drive.</div>
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The technology group will next week launch its first in-car operating system with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo as it attempts to take the lead in a fierce race to dominate tomorrow's smart cars.</div>
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The breakthrough comes amid a swirl of market rumours that Apple could be eyeing a bid for electric carmaker <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="74213" data-inline-quote-symbol="TSLA" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/TSLA" style="color: #2d648a; font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Tesla Motors</a>. <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="19004" data-inline-quote-symbol="GOOG" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/GOOG" style="color: #2d648a; font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Google </a>and other technology companies are already working on plans to develop their own car models alongside traditional automotive manufacturers.</div>
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The deal marks the first time that Apple is embedding its software in devices other than its own branded products. The choice of the Ferrari, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz is seen to be in keeping with the US tech group's high-end phones.</div>
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Apple's head of internet software and services, Eddy Cue, joined the Ferrari board in 2012, saying at the time that he had "personally dreamed of owning a Ferrari since I was 8 years old and have been lucky to be an owner for the past 5 years."</div>
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Cars connected to the internet and seamlessly integrated with personal communication devices are seen as the harbingers of vehicles that can drive themselves, mobile offices and "mobility solutions" for cities where all vehicles are controlled or monitored from a central database.</div>
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Carmakers are engaged in a fierce battle for control of car dashboards as incumbents fight with technology companies such as Microsoft and IBM to develop the software systems that will power the connected cars of tomorrow.</div>
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Rupert Stadler, chairman of Audi, used his keynote speech at January's Consumer Electronics Forum, the technology industry's annual symposium, to herald a new era of "connected cars" that would see automobiles become "the largest social mobile devices we own."</div>
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The official announcement of Apple's deal will be made at next week's Geneva Motor Show, sources told the Financial Times. A number of other manufacturers are expected to incorporate it into models in 2014. Apple, and the carmakers declined to comment</div>
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Drivers will be able to use Apple Maps as in-car navigation, as well as listen to music and watch films. Calls can be made through the system, which will tie into the Siri voice recognition platform so that messages can be read to the driver who can respond by dictating a reply.</div>
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An Apple powered car has been expected since the launch of its updated iOS 7 software. Cars can already play music through Apple devices but this allows the iOS software on the screen to be built into the car.</div>
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Apple showed the first images of the "iOS in the Car" platform at a developer conference last year, which in effect mirrors the iPhone on the in-car display.</div>
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SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is on track to post its second consecutive year of record earnings as a rebound in its semiconductor business shields the South Korean tech giant from a slower smartphone market.</div>
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The world's biggest memory chipmaker is likely to see its semiconductor earnings charge to a three-year high - a much-needed shot in the arm - just as sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone begin to flag, analysts say.</div>
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The global chip market has rallied since late 2012 due to a supply crunch caused by years of cautious investment to support prices, and conversion of factory capacity to produce more profitable chips used in smartphones and tablets.</div>
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The market further tightened following a fire in early September at a China plant owned by SK Hynix, the world's No.2 chipmaker. The drop in supply helped divert customers to Samsung, whose heavy investment in cutting-edge chip-making technologies has made it head and shoulders above smaller rivals like Micron Technology Inc.</div>
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"As of now, there is no real competitor for Samsung in the (memory) chip business," said Lee Seung-woo, a tech analyst at IBK Investment & Securities. "This dearth of players is expected to allow Samsung to post considerable operating profits throughout this year and next year, even if demand flags."</div>
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Samsung is estimated to post an operating profit of 38.5 trillion won ($35.85 billion) this year, up a third from 2012, according to a survey of 45 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. The company said on Friday operating profit is likely to reach a record 10.1 trillion won in the third quarter.</div>
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Contract dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip prices jumped 9 per cent in the second half of September from the first half of that month while spot prices soared 37 per cent.</div>
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UBS estimates supply of DRAM chips by SK Hynix would shrink by 14 per cent in the fourth quarter, plunging the overall DRAM market into a supply deficit of some 7 per cent. The South Korean firm aims to fully restore operations in November.</div>
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Shares in Samsung rose 0.6 per cent on Friday, after advancing as much as 3.1 per cent on Wednesday prior to the earnings guidance announcement. Financial markets in South Korea were closed on Thursday due to a public holiday.</div>
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Samsung estimated third-quarter operating profit rose 25 per cent from a year earlier, the slowest since the third quarter of 2011 when profit shrank 11 per cent.</div>
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Samsung's mobile devices business has helped the company report a record profit every quarter since last year, except the first three months of 2013.</div>
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The division, which generates two-thirds of the company's total earnings, is stalling as sales of the Galaxy S4 slow and the high-end market rapidly saturates, analysts say.</div>
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"The concern that high-end smartphones could see slower growth is a valid one. But Samsung has both the speed and fast-follower tendencies of Zara and a portfolio spanning high- and low-end products as well as components such as a brand like Swatch," Lee at IBK said.<br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><page2 style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Barclays estimates S4 smartphone sales will have dropped to 16 million sets in July-September from around 20 million in the two months following its late April debut. Sales may slip further to 13 million sets in the fourth quarter, according to Barclays.</page2></div>
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Samsung is widely expected to have sold 86-88 million smartphones in the third quarter, up from 76 million in the second quarter, as the company increased shipments of cheaper models to emerging markets.</div>
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Profits at its mobile division are seen at 6.4 trillion won, better than the second quarter's 6.3 trillion won but down from a record 6.5 trillion won in the first three months.</div>
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Underscoring the slowing pace of growth in the industry, Taiwan's HTC Corp posted its first ever quarterly loss on Friday, hit by fierce competition and supply chain constraints.</div>
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Samsung is now hoping new products such as the Galaxy Gear smartwatch and a curved smartphone, which it plans to introduce this month, to help sustain growth momentum.</div>
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Hot on the heels of Samsung, LG Electronics Inc is planning to introduce a curved smartphone in November, the Wall Street Journal reported. LG previously said it would introduce such a model by the year-end.</div>
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As Samsung battles slowing growth at the top end of the market, Kevin Packingham, the chief product officer of its US mobile business, abruptly left the company. That was the second major management change in the United States this year where Samsung fiercely competes with Apple Inc.</div>
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Samsung said on Thursday that Packingham left the company for personal reasons. The departure followed the appointment of Gregory Lee, a former head of Samsung's Southeast Asia business, as the chief of Samsung's US unit in July.</div>
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Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday.<br />
The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations about the <a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html">National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts </a>have provoked significant backlash within an American technology industry that U.S. government officials long courted as a potential partner in spying programs.<br />
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Executives from the Tor Project say its DoD funding is more like a research grant than anything else.<br />
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The civil liberties group is gaining steam in its challenge to government surveillance.</div>
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Google’s encryption initiative, initially approved last year, was accelerated in June as the tech giant struggled to guard its reputation as a reliable steward of user information amid controversy about the NSA’s <a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/">PRISM program</a>, first reported in The Washington Post and the Guardian that month. PRISM obtains data from American technology companies, including Google, under various legal authorities.<br />
Encrypting information flowing among data centers will not make it impossible for intelligence agencies to snoop on individual users of Google services, nor will it have any effect on legal requirements that the company comply with court orders or valid national security requests for data. But company officials and independent security experts said that increasingly widespread use of encryption technology makes mass surveillance more difficult — whether conducted by governments or other sophisticated hackers.<br />
“It’s an arms race,” said Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, based in Mountain View, Calif. “We see these government agencies as among the most skilled players in this game.”<br />
Experts say that, aside from the U.S. government, sophisticated government hacking efforts emanate from China, Russia, Britain and Israel.<br />
The NSA seeks to defeat encryption through a variety of means, including by obtaining encryption “keys” to decode communications, by using super-computers to break codes, and by influencing encryption standards to make them more vulnerable to outside attack, according to reports Thursday by the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica, based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.<br />
But those reports made clear that encryption — essentially converting data into what appears to be gibberish when intercepted by outsiders — complicates government surveillance efforts, requiring that resources be devoted to decoding or otherwise defeating the systems. Among the most common tactics, experts say, is to hack into individual computers or other devices used by people targeted for surveillance, making what amounts to an end run around coded communications.<br />
Security experts say the time and energy required to defeat encryption forces surveillance efforts to be targeted more narrowly on the highest-priority targets — such as terrorism suspects — and limits the ability of governments to simply cast a net into the huge rivers of data flowing across the Internet. <br />
“If the NSA wants to get into your system, they are going to get in <span>. . .</span> . Most of the people in my community are realistic about that,” said Christopher Soghoian, a computer security expert at the American Civil Liberties Union. “This is all about making dragnet surveillance impossible.”</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-60019286147154120922013-03-21T05:23:00.000-07:002013-03-21T05:23:31.093-07:00Nvidia puts graphics accelerator in the Cloud<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Nvidia has introduced the concept of remote graphics acceleration in Windows, Linux or Mac-based clients.<br /><br />Called the Nvidia Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) runs complex video applications such as those from Adobe Systems and Dassault Systèmes on a server and sends the graphics output over the network to be displayed on a client computer. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br />“Design firms, film studios and other businesses can now give their creative teams access to graphics-intensive applications," said said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA.<br /><br />The system is based on 16 NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA GRID VGX software it will support up to 16 concurrent users.<br /><br />“It enhances the design experience for SolidWorks users from any PC or Mac,” said Bertrand Sicot, CEO, SolidWorks, Dassault Systèmes.<br /><br />“With centralised access to fast GPUs, designers can more quickly and easily deliver high-quality 3D models,” said Sicot<br /><br />Available in the US in May, NVIDIA GRID VCA is offered in 8 GPU or 16 GPU configurations, with pricing starting at $24,900, plus an annual software license of $2,400.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nvidia.co.uk/vca" style="color: #015a84; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">www.nvidia.co.uk/vca</a></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-48762149937094804672012-07-18T02:06:00.002-07:002012-07-18T02:06:33.468-07:00Record-Breaking Laser Hits 500 Trillion Watts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laser physicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have broken the record for the highest-power laser shot with a collection of beams delivering more than 500 trillion watts of peak power.
Wired U.K.
The National Ignition Facility fired 192 beams at the same time, delivering 1.85 megajoules of ultraviolet laser light to a target a mere two millimeters in diameter.
To put those numbers into perspective, the 500 terawatt figure is 12,500 times greater than the demand for electricity in 2006 in Britain, which averaged out at 40 gigawatts.
“For scientists across the nation and the world who, like ourselves, are actively pursuing fundamental science under extreme conditions and the goal of laboratory fusion ignition, this is a remarkable and exciting achievement,” said Richard Petrasso, senior research scientist and division head of high energy density physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a press release. “The 500 TW shot is an extraordinary accomplishment by the NIF Team, creating unprecedented conditions in the laboratory that hitherto only existed deep in stellar interiors,”
The National Ignition Facility is the world’s foremost laser research establishment, producing lasers than can regularly carry more than 100 times the energy of any other laser. The 500 terawatt firing hits a milestone set in the late 90s when the facility was being planned, and takes researchers a step closer to the goal of igniting hydrogen fusion.
“NIF is becoming everything scientists planned when it was conceived over two decades ago,” NIF director Edward Moses said in the release. “It is fully operational, and scientists are taking important steps toward achieving ignition and providing experimental access to user communities for national security, basic science and the quest for clean fusion energy.”
Source: Wired.co.uk<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-50133867074658647112012-04-07T22:55:00.000-07:002012-04-07T22:55:19.543-07:00Intel, AMD Readying Next-Generation ChipsIntel is expected to launch the first of its “Ivy Bridge” processors at the end of April, with AMD following with its first “Trinity” APUs in May.<br />
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices reportedly are preparing to launch next-generation chips over the next few weeks.<br />
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Intel initially was expected to roll out its new 22-nanometer “Ivy Bridge” chips this spring, but earlier this year, executives, citing production problems, said they were delaying the release until June. However, recent reports say that the giant chip maker will roll out the first Ivy Bridge Core processors—for both desktop and mobile devices—later in April, with more coming the following months.<br />
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The Ivy Bridge chips are expected to offer users a performance bump over the current “Sandy Bridge” processors, but the real enhancements will be around the graphics capabilities and power efficiency. Among other features, the Ivy Bridge chips will be the first offering Intel’s 3D Tri-Gate transistor architecture, which will offer a 50 percent cut in power consumption over current chips, according to Intel.<br />
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Intel officials also are looking to the Ivy Bridge processors to add fuel to their Ultrabook push. There are currently more than two dozen Ultrabook models on the market, from vendors like Acer, Asus, Dell and Lenovo, powered by Sandy Bridge chips. However, Intel executives have said that the Ivy Bridge processors will herald in the second wave of Ultrabooks, and in a post on Intel’s ChipShot site, blogger Becky Emmett said there are 10 more Ultrabooks that have been announced and another 75 designs coming later in 2012.<br />
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Intel this week kicked off a massive advertising and marketing campaign—said to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars—around Ultrabooks. The campaign will offer everything from television ads to interactive Websites.<br />
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For its part, AMD is expected to launch the first of its “Trinity” accelerated processing units (APUs) for PCs May 15. According to several reports, the first of the hybrid CPU-GPU chips—based on AMD’s new Piledriver core—will be mobile APUs for notebooks, with desktop chips coming later.<br />
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Trinity will succeed the current “Llano” processors, which AMD officials have said have been the most successful product launch in company history. The new APUs reportedly will have better performance and graphics than the current chips, which are based on the Bulldozer core. The Trinity chips also are expected to run at higher frequencies.<br />
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Like larger rival Intel, AMD official are expecting some of the Trinity chips to fuel their push into very thin and light notebooks, what some company executives have referred to as “ultrathins.”<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-2141639663265316642011-09-25T02:01:00.000-07:002011-09-25T02:01:26.581-07:00Internet as important as food, air and water: surveyCisco has revealed in a study that one in three college students and young professionals consider the Internet to be as important as fundamental human resources such as air, water, food and shelter. This study is based on the second annual Cisco Connected World Technology Report that examines the relationship between human behaviour, the Internet and networking's pervasiveness in 14 countries across the globe.<br />
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In a teleconference held here on Thursday, Mahesh Gupta, Vice-President, Business-Borderless Networks, Cisco (India and SAARC), said about 33 per cent across the globe and 95 per cent Indian college students and young employees admitted that Internet was as important in their lives as water, food, air and shelter. More than half of the respondents globally (55 per cent of college students and 62 per cent of employees) said they could not live without the Internet and cite it as an “integral part of their lives.”<br />
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On the social life, people had indicated that Internet was more important to them than dating, going out with friends or listening to music. Mr. Gupta said within certain countries, including India, updating Facebook was ranked as the highest priority than socialising. About 91 per cent of college students and 88 per cent of employees globally had Facebook account. The other interesting factor was that two-thirds of students and more than half of employees (58 per cent) felt that a mobile device (laptop, smartphone or tablets) was the most important technology device in their lives. For young employees, India came second globally when it comes to importance of mobile device usage (71 per cent), behind the U.K (74 per cent), but ahead of Australia (66 per cent), China (62 per cent) and the U.S. (62 per cent).<br />
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In India, 68 per cent of young employees preferred to use smartphone and consider it as their most important device.<br />
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Keywords: Cisco, internet, Cisco Connected World Technology Report<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-57396477993006315842011-08-16T08:35:00.000-07:002011-08-16T08:35:54.816-07:00Dell Vostro 360 All In One Desktop Tech Specs LeakedDell Vostro 360 specs have been leaked. Ahead of any official announcements or hints, Dell Vostro specifications appeared on a PDF on Dell support website. Dell Vostro 360 is Dell’s All In One desktop. There’s no information available about the price of this desktop or release date. The features include – Front camera on the top of screen with a privacy cover, camera activity light, microphone, optical drive slot on the side, power button, activity light etc. On the back side, there are multiple ports. Power connector, VGA-Out connector, network connector, line-out connector, 4 USB 2 connectors, 8-in-1 card reader, 2 USB connectors on the side, headphone and microphone jacks, volume and brightness buttons.<br />
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Inside the box, there’s Intel H61 Express Chipset with support for Intel Core i3, i5, i7, Pentium Dual Core processor support. The system will support up to 8 MB total cache depending upon the processor type. Intel HD / HD 2000 / HD 3000 Graphics (on-board supported, depending upon the processor). The system will support external NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M GPU for enhanced graphics. Dell Vostro 360 supports maximum 8 GB RAM. Other details are available on the PDF link we mentioned above.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TnRVde4HBIo/TkqOLC8GF4I/AAAAAAAADO4/t3tIzUK58ks/s1600/dell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="254" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TnRVde4HBIo/TkqOLC8GF4I/AAAAAAAADO4/t3tIzUK58ks/s320/dell.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-41742256771034207392011-05-20T23:27:00.000-07:002011-05-20T23:27:12.044-07:00Mega satellite GSAT-8 successfully put into transfer orbitCountry's mega geo-stationary satellite GSAT-8 was successfully deployed in an elliptical geo-synchronous transfer orbit on early Saturday by the Ariane-VA-202 rocket, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. "The 3.1-tonne satellite was injected in the GTO 31 minutes after it was was launched at 0211 IST and separated from the rocket's upper stage at 1,800 km above earth," the official of the state-run space agency said.<br />
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Earlier, the rocket lifted off successfully from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana off the South American coast with two other payloads.<br />
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Ariane-V of Arianespace belongs to the European Space Agency consortium.<br />
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The Indian spacecraft carries 24 high-power Ku-band transponders for direct-to-home (DTH) services provided by state-run and private broadcasters.<br />
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The space agency's master control facility (MCF) at Hasan, about 180 km from Bangalore, started receiving the signals from GSAT-8 within minutes after it entered the geo-synchronous transfer orbit (GTO). The MCF also took command and control of the heavy satellite.<br />
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The satellite will be gradually put into the 36,000-km geosynchronous orbit over the next couple of days and its antenna and solar panels will be deployed.<br />
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"The MCF will test and monitor the health parameters of the payloads by June 1. It will be available for DTH services from July 1," ISRO director S Satish said.<br />
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Along with GSAT-8, the space agency sent the global position system (GPS) aided geo augmented navigation (Gagan) as an additional payload to improve the accuracy of the US' GPS.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-9633000710355941352010-11-18T23:30:00.001-08:002010-11-18T23:39:11.537-08:00First look at Google BigQueryIn this blog I would primarily be talking about the Google BigQuery API. This has been a major step in the computing world to provide database as a service on cloud computing environment. BigQuery API has been designed to analyse huge amounts of data in really less timeframe. Interface of the service is quite straightforward, and involves HTTP calls to get data from the tables.<br />
Since Google BigTable is a NoSQL oriented database, the format of BigQuery doesn't support JOINS but is able to support lots of other features like grouping, ordering, ranges, rejection and so on.<br />
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Overview:<br />
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BigQuery API only provides a basic querying mechanism to the end users. There is no functionality that allows you to manipulate the data once uploaded into the BigTable structure. You can only append more data into the structure or fire SELECT queries against the data. This makes BigQuery engine more of an analytics tool over trillions of rows of data.<br />
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BigTable is a part of Google's storage servers and can be run without the need of any additional hardware. Moreover, the API has been exposed via simple HTTP and JSON, which are easy to put in any application. One can leverage these benefits to cut down on the hardware costs of setting up high performance systems for analysis.<br />
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The whole process of carrying out analysis on some dataset involves two basic steps:<br />
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1. Importing data into the BigTable structure (Through Google Storage and import job)<br />
2. Running the queries against that data<br />
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Importing the data:<br />
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In order to analyse your data, you should do following steps to port your data into the Google BigTable system:<br />
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1. Ensure that you have Google Storage and BigQuery enabled account with Google.<br />
2. Upload the data in CSV format to Google storage using their storage manager HTTP interface. Header information is not required. Only the columns of CSV must match the structure of the table as specified in subsequent steps.<br />
3. Use cURL tool to get the authorization key which can be used in subsequent calls to the HTTP service exposed. Command to be executed is :<br />
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curl -X POST -d accountType=GOOGLE -d Email=<email>@gmail.com -d Passwd=<password> -d service=ndev -d source=google-bigquery-manualimport-1 -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin<br />
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This call will return an authorization key whose format is similar to :<br />
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DQAAAK8AAADlegSF4xMNrCgUrxFv3NFCYbBp4KCpdhOCOioIfJ7txXrRB9FYcvDAv7ooGvmaWoDCj_<br />
SPHolxr9Q6gK8-cd4SR_QkIv3QcM_pQlVADtMWtv63hqzdz16KMZ1tDizeyOIe-vJNenAYqrjX4xVSTH2F<br />
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Just keep a note of the key as it will be used further. Down the line, I will refer to it as AUTH_KEY<br />
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curl -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=AUTH_KEY" -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"data": {"fields": [ {"type": "string", "id": "name", "mode": "REQUIRED"}, {"type": "integer", "id": "age", "mode": "REQUIRED"}, {"type":"float", "id": "weight", "mode": "REQUIRED"}, {"type": "boolean", "id": "is_magic", "mode": "REQUIRED"} ], "name": "<bucket_name>/testtable" }}' 'https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v1/tables'<br />
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bucket_name is the name of bucket where you want the reference of your table to be created. Buckets are nothing but folders inside Google storage.<br />
5. After you have successfully added the table, import process needs to be triggered to port the uploaded CSV data into the BigTable structure. Following command will do the same :<br />
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curl -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=AUTH_KEY" -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"data": {"sources": [{"uri": "<bucket_name>/<data_file_name>.csv"}]}}' 'www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v1/tables/<bucket_name>%2Ftesttable/imports'<br />
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* Please note that testtable is the table name that you have created in step 4.<br />
* Response to this kind of a request is a JSON string which is of a format : {"data":"kind":"bigquery#import_id","table":"<bucket_name>/testtable","import":"<import_id>"}}<br />
* import_id is useful in getting the current state of the import process. It also returns errors in case it has encountered any. Any errors will just fail the import process and rollback everything.<br />
6. To know the status of your import process, just fire the following command:<br />
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curl -X GET https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v1/tables/<bucket_name>%2Ftesttable/imports/<import_id> -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=AUTH_KEY"<br />
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Querying the data:<br />
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After the data is successfully ported, you can query the database using BigQuery. Just download the bqshell tool from here and build the code with all the required dependencies. The tool works on python and has a detailed "how-to" to install it.<br />
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This tool has a login console in which you can specify the username and password and query the sample datasets or your own datasets that you create using cURL. This tool is a parser to the JSON responses returned from the BigQuery API and displays them in a SQL output fashion. Alternatively, you can also use cURL calls to query the database and see the JSON response yourself.<br />
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* BigQuery API shows good performance in scenarios where you have huge amounts of data that needs to be processed. Running any query on almost 28 million rows uploaded in a test data set gives back response in just 2-3 seconds. The time includes request post and response recieved times as well.<br />
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* There are sample data sets provided by Google themselves, one of which contains 60 billion records and queries get executed in 4-8 seconds. For more reference, please visit the following link : http://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/docs/dataset-mlab.html<br />
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* One of the drawbacks is that there is no way to insert data without the upload and import job process. One can also not delete any record from the table once inserted. In order to change the data, you will have to delete the table and do the complete import process again. One thing worth mentioning is that in case you only need to add data to an existing table, you can do so by firing another upload job for the CSV file containing additional data.<br />
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For more info.... search on Google below</b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Tech. never ends</div>vamsinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449579213528962192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792893961442171466.post-1943094271460222842010-09-28T00:32:00.000-07:002010-09-28T00:35:35.989-07:00jQuery in Action!Learn about 2 different jQuery plugin patterns (pattern A and pattern B) -- by the end of this tutorial, you should be able to grasp the basic behind writing custom jQuery plugins. jQuery books as well as a few online tutorials were used as references in writing this tutorial.<br />
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Tutorials for writing jQuery plugins are plentiful on the Internet as are jQuery books. When I was learning about writing jQuery plugins for the first time, one of the difficulties that I had while looking at jQuery plugin tutorials written by other people was that they merely explained what code needed to be implemented in order to make a jQuery plugin function. This is often enough, but I like to be thorough. For example, some of the basic questions one may have when beginning learning about how to write a jQuery plugin are<br />
# What is the difference between using $.myfunction and $.fn.myfunction?<br />
# What does the dollar sign mean?<br />
# What does the jQuery function jQuery.extend do and how to use it?<br />
# How to initialize my jQuery plugin and pass it function parameters?<br />
# How to provide default values for and how to override initialization parameters? If you are curious about in depth implementation of jQuery interface for adding your own code into existing framework, this tutorial is for you!<br />
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In this jQuery plugin tutorial I will walk you through the process of writing your own jQuery plugins. This process is the same every time you decide to create a new plugin. Once you understand how your JavaScript code can be integrated into the main jQuery object you will no longer need documentation and will be able to focus on programming plugins.<br />
Objects in JavaScript<br />
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As you may already know, JavaScript is an object-oriented language. It would be improper to describe jQuery to someone who had not yet studied objects in JavaScript. The basic philosophy of object design in JavaScript is that when you declare (or define) a function, that function is by default a class and can be instantiated as an object. We can use the new operator to instantiate copies of the same class. It just so happened that instead of the traditional keyword class, JavaScript prefers the keyword function. It is interesting to note that a class in JavaScript can be used both as a class from which other classes can be inherited (by implementing what is known as prototype inheritance) or the same exacty construct can be used as an actual function that we can call later.<br />
The main jQuery object<br />
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The main jQuery object is simply defined with the keyword function as an object whose identifier name is $. For a deeper insight into what this really means, I have written another tutorial What does the dollar sign mean? Be sure to read it if you're still confused about the dollar sign identifier notation.<br />
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The jQuery object is equivalent to a global function, such as window.$. You see, in JavaScript, when you extend the window object (that must exist in all browsers by design), or in other words, attach new member functions with the dot (.) to the window object, it means that you will be able to call that object either by window.myobj(); or simply myobj(); You are allowed to do so because every function you attach to the window object can also be called from the global scope in your script. Internally, the jQuery object is created like so:<br />
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var jQuery = window.jQuery = window.$ = function(selector, context)<br />
{<br />
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// other internal initialization code goes here<br />
};<br />
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This precise declaration allows us to refer to the main jQuery object by the identifier name jQuery, or the dollar sign ($). You need to know that jQuery, window.jQuery, window.$ or simply $ can be used interchangeably, because as the declaration stated in the code block above tells us, it refers to the same object in memory. Please note the selector and context parameters of the jQuery function object. The selector is usually a string that selects a number of elements from the DOM. It can also be the this object (a self-reference). The jQuery selector parameter accepts the same values you would expect to use in a CSS style definition. For example, consider the following jQuery object call:<br />
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// Select all elements of class: "someClass" and<br />
// apply a red border to all of them<br />
jQuery(".someClass").css("border", "1px solid red");<br />
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// Select an element with id: someId and insert dynamic html into it<br />
jQuery("#someId").html("So Bold!");<br />
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// Exactly the same as above, but using $<br />
$("#someId").html("So Bold!");<br />
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This is an example of how powerful a short jQuery statement can be. You dont need to worry about writing your own document.getElementById functions that tend to clutter the code. With just one line of code, jQuery selects all elements of the requested type by scanning the entire DOM and applies the desired effect. Many people use jQuery just for the intuitive element-selector functionality, but if you like this so far, you are going to love the rest of the features at your command when you work with the jQuery framework. It's good to note that jQuery cares about cross-browser compatibility.<br />
jQuery Plugin Entry Point<br />
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I would like to begin with a jQuery plugin example code as seen used by most people, followed by an explanation of what it means. But because I am targeting the absolute jQuery beginners who may not have enough experience with JavaScript, I'd like to clarify a few things first. When learning a new language or a framework such as jQuery, you need to understand where the entry point of your plugin program is. Traditionally, for years prior to jQuery, some JavaScript programmers liked to execute their crucial code in the window.onload function as illustrated below:<br />
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// Override the onload event<br />
window.onload = function()<br />
{<br />
// the page finished loading, do something here...<br />
}<br />
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This code actually overrides the onload event of the HTML tag. All this means to us is that our code will be executed soon as the page is finished loading. It makes sense because sometimes pages take time to load, or the downloading process is segmented by the browser architecture. We would not want to compile and execute any JavaScript code on a page that is currently being loaded. The jQuery internal architecture also utilizes the window.onload event, but before it does so, it checks whether the entire DOM (document object model) has been loaded because it is very important. It is not enough for jQuery to know that the page has been loaded, we must ensure that the DOM has been fully constructed. This is achieved by listening to the DOMContentLoaded in most browsers, but we don't need to worry about this at all because jQuery takes care of this for us internally. To provide us with this functionality, jQuery gives us a new method called ready that we can call on the main jQuery object itself. When writing a jQuery plugin, we use the ready function to check whether we are 'ready' to execute our plugin code. Please note that this is not yet the plugin code, this will be the entry point of our plugin. You can think of this as a jQuery's version of window.onload function:<br />
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// Define the entry point<br />
$(document).ready(function()<br />
{<br />
// The DOM (document object model) is constructed<br />
// We will initialize and run our plugin here<br />
}<br />
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Let's think for a moment that we are writing a plugin called Shuffle. Assuming the plugin provides two separate functions for initialization as well as execution of the base code, the code may have looked something like the following:<br />
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// One way to initialize plugin code<br />
$(document).ready(function()<br />
{<br />
jQuery.Shuffle.initialize( "monalisa.jpg", 5, 8, 67, 1500);<br />
jQuery.Shuffle.run();<br />
}<br />
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More than often, the code above can be improvised. Is it required to use this specific format for initializing and executing our plugin? No. For me personally, because I come from C and C++ background writing computer games, I like to separate initialization and execution function calls like I show above.<br />
Internal definition of a jQuery plugin<br />
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The coding style is entirely up to you but also depends on what you are trying to accomplish. It is easy to think that a plugin must be written, initialized and executed in a certain way all the time but this is simply not true. The reason you see many different styles and syntactical differences in jQuery plugin code is that the programmers are trying to accomplish different things. Additional knowledge of JavaScript Inheritance and function closures may help here quite a bit.<br />
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First let's talk a little about the following syntax seen in many a plugin written by jQuery programmers. It is very easy to get confused about it especially for programmers with only intermediate knowledge of JavaScript. So, this may seem quite ambiguous at first.<br />
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(function($){ ... })(jQuery);<br />
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What is going on here? First of all, in a real-world scenario, the three dots would be replaced with actual code that we would like to be executed. Here we see a definition of an anonymous function (also known as function closure), that takes a parameter called dollar sign ($). The function is wrapped in parenthesis, but why? You see, the function in this example is an anonymous function that has no reference to itself, but by wrapping it in parenthesis, the JavaScript syntax allows us to reference to an anonymous function we just created. We could have added a dot (.) after the function definition wrapped in parenthesis and called a member function that this function object supports. We could then add the dot at the end of that statements as well, and call yet another member function that can be executed on the type of the object returned by the previous function. This chaining feature of JavaScript language is common throughout many other script languages, for example Perl. It is a common script-language feature because it makes your code miniature.<br />
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So, by wrapping an anonymous function with parenthesis we can reference to that function's memory location without actually refering to the name of that function - and well, we can't do that because the function has no name! Furthermore, not only can we reference to a function that has no name, we can also call that function in the same statement that created it. And that's exactly what's going on here. The nameless function is defined, wrapped in parenthesis, and then that function is immediately called. This is only one example of the function closure usage that you will see throughout jQuery and other advanced JavaScript code.<br />
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Why would someone do such a thing? There are several reasons. This is done to minimize code length and more importantly, to hide parameters that start with the dollar sign character from the global scope of the script. The real reason for doing that is for cases where you are using multiple frameworks that may use the dollar sign function object in the global scope of the program (which is a very bad design idea in itself). But in real circumstances, when would we see that happen? That depends on circumstances and developer's choices. Since in this tutorial we are not using any additional frameworks or outside code, this obscure and sometimes confusing syntax is not necessary and the chances of creating a conflict are zero. When learning, it is sometimes a good idea to simplify. Let's take a look at a very basic plugin construction idea:<br />
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Final Thoughts<br />
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Well, this tutorial has already taken several hours to write and edit. I hope I pointed out some of the things that made jQuery plugin development more clear for you. Have fun building jQuery plugins!<br />
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Interestingly enough, I also found some books about jQuery on Amazon:<br />
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