Apple iWatch” Launching With 1.7″ and 1.3″ Variants in October 2014

 many rumors are coming for Apple iwatch. Apple is working on its final launching plans to release its new product Apple iWatch in the span of the coming months . The iWatch will be available to its users with two variants 1.7 inches and 1.3 inch screen . The smart watch will be available for both the genders ie. for Men and Women . The iWatch having smaller screen size  will be available for women with vibrant colors and combinations.
  the wearable apple iWatch will  be launched  with a  OLED display . The OLED display, which will have 320 x 320 pixels resolution will provide a great vision to its users . It is heard from source that  iWatch will have a  flexible display to compete with its other big brand smart watches like Motorola, Samsung, LG etc. Samsung the brand in technology is also working on flexible display smart watch and it will also launch in the couple of months. The Apple iWatch likely to be released at the end of September or in the beginning of the October 2014. In spite of the Apple, In the technology market Samsung Galaxy Gear, Motorola Moto 360, SonySmart Watches will also be seen till the end of this year. Apple Inc. Hired a Nike Key Designer to include a sporty look at its iWatch . The images for Apple iWatch looks a bit very interesting at the moment on the web portal. As per the images Apple iWatch seems so elegant and sporty whether it goes on men or if we talk about women.So Apple iWatch will be so impressive and smart in looks. Users have to wait a bit for the Apple iWatch to be launched in the Indian Markets. Price and other specification are not yet properly disclosed.

Weekly Car Porn: Trikes Easy riding on these three-wheeled machines of fun.

Weekly Car Porn: Trikes

Easy riding on these three-wheeled machines of fun.

For those of you who like to drool over ridiculously good-looking cars, you are not alone. Car Porn is Web2Carz.com's weekly series where we bring you 10 swoon-worthy automobiles every Wednesday that will always be easy on the eyes and get you through the rest of the week! Happy hump day, if you know what we mean! This week we just want to have some fun, and what better way than with these easy riding trikes. They prove three isn't a crowd!

T-REX Modified Aero 3S

Can-Am Spyder

Peugeot Onyx Supertrike

 

Lazareth Wazuma V8F

ALIAS EV Sports Trike

Cinderella Trike

Limo Trike

Piaggio MP3 500 ABS-ASR 2014

Indian Chief Vintage Trike

'70s Lowrider

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha to launch next month

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha to launch next month

If we were to tell you that a new Samsung device called the Alpha was to launch next month and it would be a high end flagship, you would probably be happy. You would be thinking that this is an entirely new handset that you had not previously heard of, and that would be good, but unfortunately you would be wrong.
Instead, the soon to be launched Galaxy Alpha is actually the Galaxy F, or as you may also know it the Galaxy S5 Prime. A flagship device that has gone through several names but is one in the same, but hey it is a real handset, that is almost certain now. At least we have some information regarding when this admittedly exciting device will be landing.
Korean outlet KTNews Samsung will release the Alpha next month to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 6, the company will use an aggressive marketing campaign to take the fight to Apple.
"According to industry insiders on July 13, the Galaxy Alpha, which Samsung will launch next month, is a premium smartphone made of a metal. It is forecast to counter the iPhone 6 scheduled to be released in September. It appears that Samsung will rebound from its recent poor performance with a new smartphone line-up, not the Galaxy S or Galaxy Note Series."
The device will have increased specs and will be a better performer than the Galaxy S5 and will more likely match the recently launched GS5 LTE-A. However, we said that this was an exciting device, a word not often used to describe Samsung smartphones. Along with its blockbuster specs, the Galaxy Alpha (F or Prime) will be the first Samsung smartphone to have a full metal body, finally giving consumers a high build quality along with the undoubted quality of the company?s output.
We are interested to see how Samsung will fit the Alpha alongside the Galaxy S5, the company?s undisputed flagship device and core product. Interestingly Samsung has recently partly blamed high marketing costs for falling profits, but the company is still willing to pour funds for marketing the Alpha around the world in a bid to keep up with Apple's iPhone 6, when that device launches as well this fall.

HP chairman resigns from board amid health concerns

 Hewlett-Packard's board of directors now stands at 11 people, including CEO Meg Whitman and venture capital titan Marc Andreessen.

After a little more than a year as chairman, Ralph Whitworth has resigned from Hewlett-Packard's board of directors.HP confirmed the news early on Tuesday, affirming that Whitworth is departing to focus on personal health concerns. The move is effective July 16.

Whitworth will also be taking a leave of absence from his investment company, Relational Investors, which he co-founded in 1996.

A member of HP's board of directors since 2011, Whitworth was appointed interim chairman in April 2013, stepping in for then-chairman Ray Lane amid the fallout after the Autonomy acquisition debacle.

HP's recovery has been an ongoing public struggle, which CEO Meg Whitman has admitted and stressed repeatedly that this should be expected for at least the next few quarters -- if not the next few years.

Nevertheless, Whitworth had positive words for Whitman's leadership during the transition, remarking that while he is "disappointed to step down from HP's board at such an exciting time for the company, it gives me great comfort that HP is in such talented and steady hands."

An interim replacement for Whitworth has not been named yet. HP's board is scheduled to discuss the appointment of a new chairman during its next board meeting.

Hewlett-Packard's board of directors now stands at 11 members, including Whitman, Lane, and venture capital titan Marc Andreessen.

PayPal puts India on hold

 The numerous and inhibiting regulations issued by the Reserve Bank of India has made the service gradually withdraw from the country

Any company that had its biggest development centre worldwide headquartered in a country that also happens to house 1.3 billion prospective customers would consider it a foregone conclusion that the two scenarios could neatly coalesce into one gigantic opportunity. Instead, the company has decided to hold back any further plans, after having withdrawn from the country in phases.

The outfit in question is PayPal, one of the world's largest and most famous online payment systems owned by eBay. The main reason for PayPal's reticence is because of regulations mandated by the ultimate governing body that presides over financial matters in India, the Reserve Bank of India, which looks at PayPal as a quasi financial body. 

PayPal's service allows anyone with an account to hold cash in it indefinitely and this is something that the Reserve Bank doesn't like at all. Essentially, being able to receive payments for services from abroad would also allow Indians to simply hold cash in their accounts and pay for goods and services online, thereby allowing them to evade income taxes entirely. 

So what the RBI decided to do was to revamp their allowance for PayPal users, from several thousand dollars at a time, to a paltry US$500 per transaction starting March 1st of last year. If that wasn't bad enough, all account holders would have to transfer their cash to an Indian bank account within seven days, effectively closing off the undeclared income loophole. (The service would auto-transfer the cash if it languished in there for over that period.) In other words, Paypal, from functioning as a wallet, has become a mere payment gateway in the country. 

To make things worse, perhaps even absurd, was another rule that to make payments using PayPal you would have to transfer it first to the service using your credit card.

However, in a boost to Indian merchants, the RBI in July last year allowed registered merchants to receive US$10,000 per transaction, bumping it up from the earlier limit of US$3,000 (of course these merchants would have, by then, furnished all relevant details such as PAN numbers and local bank details).

But all of the other stipulations, such as the 7-day rule remained in place. So it's no surprise that the service decided, gradually, to simply pull out rather than offer something half-baked to the Indian public.

So while PayPal expanded its service to 10 other countries this month, bringing its tally to 203, it remains absent from one of the fastest growing and largest e-commerce markets in the world. "It's on the plans, but (I) can't give you a definite answer to announce that this is the timeline or strategy at this point," Sam Hamilton, vice- president of data technology at PayPal, said in the Mint article. 

Some would say that in a country prone to fraud and income tax evasion, the RBI is simply doing what it needs to in order to ensure that it—and foreign players—don’t facilitate law-breaking.

On the other hand, one wonders whether a more elegant solution isn't available so that the evolution of different kinds of payment systems, which the country desperately needs, is not stymied. 

LG G3: Lasers, metallic skin, and the quest for cool

Mobile and pc world. takes a behind-the-scenes look at the last-minute scramble to create LG's latest flagship smartphone.

In the end, it was all about the lasers.
At least, it was to LG, which considered the laser-equipped camera -- supposedly able to focus on images faster than the standard smartphone camera -- to be one of the hallmark features of its G3 smartphone, the latest flagship product of the Korean consumer electronics conglomerate.
Its predecessor, the well-received if relatively modest-selling G2, proved that LG could stand with the big boys in the industry, namely Apple and Samsung and a design-minded HTC, with a different flagship phone. But with the G3, LG set out on a path to create a smartphone it could argue was superior to the competition, which meant injecting a little cool into the phone.
Enter the lasers.
"A laser sounds pretty sexy," Ramchan Woo, head of LG's mobile platform planning division, said in an interview with Mobile And Pc World. "A laser is one of the coolest items around the world."
LG can use all the cool that it can get. Having long played second fiddle to Samsung as the other large Korean conglomerate, LG lacks any real significant brand identity. Like Samsung, LG can tap into its various component units to create solid products, but it doesn't have the cult-like following of Apple or the marketing heft of its Korean rival. With a strong contender in the G3, the experimentally curvy G Flex, and the fan favorite Nexus 5, LG is starting to build a track record of noteworthy smartphones. Even so, many remain skeptical that LG can break out as a coveted household name.
"A lot of the G3's success will depend on how much LG is willing to invest in marketing -- consumers are familiar with the LG brand, but do not seek out its phones," said Avi Greengart, who covers consumer electronic products at Current Analysis.
LG ranked in the top five among global smartphone makers in the first quarter, although it ceded its No. 3 spot from a year ago to Chinese vendors Huawei and Lenovo, according to IDC. With a 4.3 percent share of the market, it lags far behind Samsung, which controls nearly a third of the market, and Apple, with 15.2 percent of the market.

Yet the company feels it has a legitimate shot to go after the competition with the G3. When it launched in Korea in June, the G3 reportedly outsold Samsung's Galaxy S5 by a 3-to-1 margin during their respective launch weeks, according to Korean publication ET News. The G3 debuted in the US on Friday with AT&T, but will be available at all of the national carriers over the coming days.
Critically, the G3 hasalready won praise. Mobile And Pc World senior editor peter coach called it the "perfect flagship phone for early adopters," and suggested that the G3 could cause a major upset over the Galaxy S5.Whether the G3's laser-power camera is a genuinely useful feature or a gimmick remains a little unclear. CNET senior editor Andrew Hoyle conducted a test of the camera vs. the Galaxy S5, and only found it slightly faster and better in low-light conditions.
Still, in an industry where most of the improvements come in the form of better specs and bigger displays, the G3's laser is at least different.
Last-minute laser
It was December, and Woo was starting to feel the pressure.
While most companies typically take a year in between flagship smartphones, LG was on an accelerated schedule. The predecessor G2 had just been released in September, and LG was looking to launch the follow-up a mere eight months later.
The planning had actually come together in 2012, and then LG worked with Qualcomm in May 2013 to optimize the new 801 Snapdragon quad-core processor for the phone. The design of the exterior and internal components of the G3 had been locked in.
Yet executives felt the G3 still lacked that cool factor -- that difference maker that would help the smartphone stand apart from its competitors. The camera, in particular, lacked any real improvement.
Woo found the answer in the unlikeliest of places: LG's Hom-Bot robot vacuum division.
He happened to be at an R&D coffee break with engineers from the division when they started talking about a laser sensor the robot vacuum team had considered using to help gauge distance. The team ultimately decided to use other sensors. But Woo was intrigued, and had the robot vacuum engineers set up a meeting with the outside supplier of the laser.
After one demonstration, Woo was sold.
"There's something about a laser," he recalled. "It can be cool."
But Woo faced a big problem. Adding a major element like a laser required a wholesale design of the G3's mold and internal components -- impossible under the company's normal schedule. Woo had to pitch the laser sensor to Jong-Seok Park, CEO of the mobile division, and convince him to sign off on a last-minute change to the smartphone. Park was instrumental in changing the production process to allow for the laser addition.
Somehow, Woo said, the hardware team managed to redesign the smartphone mold and internal printed circuit board by January.
"I'm still not sure how they did it," he said.
LG's secret weapon

Ramchan Woo, head of LG's mobile platform planning division

Woo felt that the laser-guided camera was the G3's ace in the hole, so he opted not to alert the marketing team.
"The laser was so sensitive -- it was so hot -- that we kept it a secret," he said, a reference to the excitement around it -- and not the temperature.
When showing off prototype units in February and March, LG covered up the hole where the laser sensor would be, with executives saying only that it would be an infrared blaster. ("It is a sort of infrared blaster, so we weren't lying," Woo said.) The actual laser is located in the black pill-shaped spot to the left of the camera, opposite the flash.
On the development side, work was going virtually nonstop. LG had a dedicated facility set up in Qualcomm's offices in San Diego, and the work would be handed off between LG in Korea and Qualcomm, so there was little downtime.

Ferrari's F12 is hellaciously fast yet impeccably civilized

The Good The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta offers breathtaking performance in a beautifully sculpted exterior. The attention to detail is legendary, and the JBL sound system offers great performance

The Bad Infotainment options are predictably sparse, and road noise can be a bit grating.

The Bottom Line The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta is a stunning car that is a thrill to drive fast and a pleasure to drive slow. It's lacking a bit when it comes to interior tech, but with Ferrari's CarPlay partnership, hopefully that will be changing in future iterations.

When it comes to engine placement, Enzo Ferrari famously said "The horse doesn't push the cart, it 

The look

pulls it." In other words: the proper place for the engine in a sports car is in the front, not the back. That mantra would take years for his engineers to finally overcome and start putting engines behind the driver, considered a more optimal place to reduce weight on the front and enable quicker turning. Still, Ferrari (the company) has always maintained a fondness for cars with engines up there ahead of the driver. That fondness is doubly grand when we're talking about a big V12 slung between the front wheels.

Of all the cars Ferrari has built with this configuration, the F12 Berlinetta is the fastest. In fact, before La Ferrari came along, the F12 was the fastest production car the company had ever made. With 730 horsepower on tap, a relatively trim curb weight of 3,362 pounds, and seating for just two, the F12 is a rocketship disguised as a grand tourer. It's brutally quick when it wants to be, yet mostly civilized when it needs to be.

The word "berlinetta" means "little limousine" in Italian, but memories of bachelor parties and prom will likely be far from your mind the first time you see the F12 in the flesh. It has the same long, low, dramatic silhouette as its predecessor, the 599 GTB. That shape looks amazing from outside, and just as good from within, where you're situated low and gazing out over that long nose, looking between the two flares on the hood, making room for 20-inch front wheels.

You might be surprised to learn, however, that perhaps the most beautiful portion of the car is hidden. Now, there are certainly plenty of engine compartments out there that have received plenty of detail. Polished chrome and anodized aluminum and extraneous carbon fiber have all been used in the past to dress up the lumps in cars of all sorts -- but never have I seen something like this. Lift the hood on the F12 and you're greeted by a breathtaking temple to horsepower. Lovers of big-displacement will have a near-religious experience the first time they gaze on the 6.3-liter V12 under the hood. More casual automotive fans will merely be left speechless.

OK, that's slightly hyperbolic, but the engine compartment here is a truly stunning thing to behold. I opened the hood for many a curious onlooker and not a one could retain their glee. Of course, it helps that the rest of the car looks great. Angular in places, curvaceous in others, it's a nod to many of the best parts of the 599 GTB, yet a clean step forward at the same time. The most dramatic piece is the so-called Aero Bridge, a gaping cut-out in the fenders that channels air from the hood to the sides of the car, filling the turbulent void created by the front wheels. Tweaks like this give the car significantly more downforce than the GTB, yet lower aerodynamic drag.

The interior

The interior, likewise, is a mix of new and old -- especially in the model we tested, which featured the same shade of tan hide we've been seeing in Ferraris for decades. However, beyond that and the cross-drilled pedals, everything else is thoroughly modern. The optional "Leaf" seats here are thin with backs of exposed carbon fiber. They look dramatic and racy and offer a good support, but lack adjustment. Shorter drivers will want to opt for one of the multitude of other seats Ferrari has on offer.

The steering wheel is the same as found on the Ferrari FF and 458. I'm usually not a fan of parts sharing, but this part is so good it's hard to mind. Everything you need to drive and drive fast is at hand, including the manettino for changing drive modes, buttons for wipers and turn signals, another to lift the suspension, and even the shiny red one labeled "Engine Start." Carbon-fiber shift paddles aren't far behind, though you can just reach down to the "Auto" button in the center console if you can't be bothered.

Many of the rest of the less-critical functions of the car are controlled through a twistable four-way joystick mounted on the dash, just to the right of the wheel. Things like navigation and infotainment are controlled here. It's a comfortable reach for the driver, but a bit of a stretch for the passenger. They needn't worry, though, as the display controlling all those functions is integrated in the dash just to the right of the large, central tachometer. In other words: a quick glance down for the driver, but impossible to see for the passenger.