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Facebook has added real-time dashboards for measuring the efficiency of its data center’s internal power and water use, the company announced April 18. Two dashboards monitor the company’s Prineville and Forest City, N.C. data centers, measuring both the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness of those facilities, in addition to the ambient temperature and humidity. So far, visitors to the Prineville and Forest City dashboards only see a…

Google marked the 160th anniversary of the first passenger train journey in India with a doodle on its homepage. On April 16, 1853, the first commercial passenger train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay to Thane, covering a distance of 34 kilometres. The train was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan,took 400 invited passengers in 14 carriages on a 57 minute journey. Google doodle shows a steam…

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 – North Korea warned foreigners in South Korea to take evacuation measures on Tuesday in case of war, in the latest escalation of warnings from Pyongyang. “We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war,” its KCNA news agency, citing the spokesperson for its Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. Source Reuters Few weeks back North Korea threatened South Korea with “final…

Lava Mobile has launched the Iris 455 smartphone with 4.5-inch screen,runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The device has a 1GHz dual-core processor and 512MB RAM. The phone comes with 4GB internal storage,that  can be expanded by another 32GB via microSD card. This is another dual-SIM device and it has 1,500 mAh battery which company claims offers up to 6 hours of 3G talk time. The phone has a 5-megapixel…

Facebook  Founder Mark Zuckerberg  had announced about “Facebook Home”, a family of Facebook Apps. for Android Devices. “You’re going to be able to turn your Android phone into a great social device,” Zuckerberg said at the unveiling. “Our phones today are designed around apps, not people. We want to flip that around.” Facebook Home will put updates from Facebook right on the home screen via a feature called Cover Feed….

Samsung and Mozilla have announced that they have Joined to build a new Web browser engine called “Servo”. In a blog post, Mozilla’s Chief Technical Officer, Brendan Eichneed noted that both the companies feel the need to be prepared to take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures. That’s why we’ve recently begun collaborating with Samsung on an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo.” Servo is an attempt…

Videocon launches VT 75C tablet with 2G voice calling.The VT 75C Tablet has a 7-inch display,runs on Android 4.1(Jelly Bean) and is Priced at Rs 6,499. Videocon VT 75C tablet runs on a 1GHz processor  with 512 MB RAM and has 4GB internal storage and microSD expansion up to 32GB. This device has display resolution of 800x480p and 133ppi pixel density.Connectivity features in the device include 2G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0,…

Google Play movies allows users to buy and then stream popular films in India. Buying a movie costs an average of Rs 500 and the renting costs around Rs 120, unless you want it in HD which will cost a little more.   The Play store had some popular films like Ek Tha Tiger, Amazing Spiderman and Premium Rush. Ek Tha Tiger was available for Rs 390 (purchase) and Rs…

Google has made Nexus 7 tablet, with 16GB of storage space.The tablet is available for sale on Google Play for Rs 15,999 in India. Currently the store says it will ship by April 5th, but you can order now.It is the first tablet in the Google Nexus series, a line of consumer devices implementing the Android operating system and built by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner. The Nexus 7…

Google has announced a new note-taking service called Google Keep, which is similar in function to  popular personal note-taking app Evernote. With Google Keep you can Create Notes,checklists and add photos by giving voice input. It’s possible without unlocking your device by the use of lock screen widget. The web version of Google Keep is available here and the company says in the coming weeks it will be directly integrated…