Low End Smartphones: Nokia Lumia 630 Dual Sim

If you don't want to spend a fortune for a smartphone then check out Nokia Lumia 630 Dual Sim this smartphone is budget friendly and is equipped with the functionality of a smartphone.

Nokia Lumia 630 Dual Sim - This smartphone is a low-end very affordable Windows phone 8.1 from Microsoft Devices. This is the first Lumia dual sim-card smartphone.

The phone is equipped with dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with 512MB of RAM. The smartphone has 8GB internal storage, and expandable up to 128GB using a micro-SD card. The Windows 8.1 application is very responsive, and menu navigation very easy to use.

It weighs 134g. It has a 4.5 inches Clear Black screen that has good performance with angles. The display is 854 x 480 pixels and build with a very tough Gorilla Glass 3. It has a 5MP camera with no flash.

The phone is powered by a 1830 mAh battery and comes in yellow, black, orange, green, and white.

Japan Provides tourists with free Wi-Fi

Japan is a very lovely country it's clean and they have a very efficient public transportation network, within the metropolis and between large cities. However, finding free Wi-Fi is a challenge. It is not ordinary in Japan to find free Wi-Fi in public areas. This is because most locals are using data plan. It is hard to find free Wi-Fi in Japan specially for tourists. The Japanese government want to change all that by providing Free Wi-Fi as part of an effort to attract more tourists. There is a new program by the government of Japan to provide free Wi-Fi for foreign tourists.

For a foreign tourist to get access to their free Wi-Fi, they need only to present their passports upon arrival to a Japanese airport in order to register for a Wi-Fi card. Then the tourist can use the Wi-Fi card for free Wi-Fi coverage across 45,000 hot spots throughout the entire eastern Japan that includes Tokyo, Hakone, Mt. Fuji, Yokohama, Nagano, Nikko, Kusatsu, Tohoku, Hokkaido and Fukushima.

The free Wi-Fi access lasts upto 14 days, or 336 hours. The Japanese government expects the system to be fully operational by 2016. The trial program was launched earlier this year that will run up to September.

iPhone 5 Useful Trick

Here is one of iPhone 5 useful trick that's really helpful, and one of my favorite. iPhone iOS 7 has a quick Control Center to put your phone in airplane mode, activate Wi-Fi, turn on your phone's Bluetooth, access apps, and change your phone's brightness.  You can also easily access the apps like flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera.

It's easy to activate the Control Center in iOS 7, just swipe your screen starting at the bottom all the way to the top of the screen. That's the easiest way to access it. However, sometimes it doesn't work. Here's another way to access it:

1. Double Tap the Home button on your iPhone, just like switching between open apps or closing them.

2. Swipe the display from the bottom of the screen all the way to the top. This would easily activate the Control Center without any fuzz.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review

Check out Techcrunch Hands On review of the new Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Microsoft Surface Pro 3 boast that it can replace laptops. It is like combing a tablet and a laptop, it has the mobility of a tablet and the utility of a laptop.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 has 3 version high-end, mid-range, and low-end.

Core i7 (high-end) Price starts at $1,549 - It runs on a very powerful 1.7GHz Core i7-4650U that can run at 3.3GHz using the turbo mode. It has a high end graphics by Intel HD 5000. The 12-inch display has 160x1,440 resolution.

Core i5 (midrange) Price starts at $$999 - same processor as the updated version of Surface Pro 2. 

Core i3 (low-end) Price starts at $799 - It runs on a 1.5-GHz Core i3-4020Y. It uses HD 4200 graphics processor.

Here are other main specs:

- Screen size: 12"
- Resolution: 2160 x 1440
- Dimensions: 11.5” x 7.93” x 0.3”
- Battery Life: Up to 9 hours of web browsing4
- Surface aluminum Pen
- 5.0 megapixel rear-facing camera, 5.0 megapixel front-facing camera
- Software Windows 8.1 Pro

Facebook Updates Privacy Features with more Security

Great news to million of Facebook users around the world. Facebook said that they have created a new privacy features that will upgrade the privacy control of their users. They have announced Wednesday new privacy features which let you control what information you want to share with apps for games, a new dashboard for managing app permissions, a new anonymous Login feature and other changes to the Facebook login.

Now it's a “hassle-free to log in and try apps” Zuckerberg said. You can also choose to continue to log in with full Facebook identification or not. It's a way to "to try apps without fear", Zuckerberg added.

Here are the list of New Privacy Features of Facebook:

1. Anonymous Login - using this option you will be able to try an app without sharing your personal information from Facebook.

2. Facebook Login - you will now have an option to choose what information to share if you use an app. Facebook said that in 2013 users logged into apps and websites using their Facebook login credentials more than 10 billion times.

3. App control panel - this will be the one place where you can manage the apps you use. You can manage a particular permissions for every app, you can also remove apps from the dashboard.

Nokia Will become Microsoft Mobile

Microsoft reported that they will close the $7.9 billion purchase of Nokia's handset business this coming Friday. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said that the deal was delayed by a month because they needed to clear regulatory clearances in Asia and that it will be completed on April 25.

"This acquisition will help Microsoft accelerate innovation and market adoption for Windows Phones," he said.

Nokia was the top mobile maker before it was overtaken in recent years by Samsung and Apple. A leaked online said that Nokia brand will be renamed as Microsoft Mobile according to an article on the site NokiaPowerUser.

The leaked letter seems to be a letter to Nokia's devices and services business suppliers.

    "Under the terms of the sale, Microsoft will assume all rights, benefits and obligations of the Nokia Devices and Services business, including Nokia’s agreements with suppliers, customers and partners which pertain to the Devices and Services business. Therefore, the purpose of this letter is to update you that the current terms and conditions that you have with the Devices and Services business will not change.

    Please note that upon the close of the transaction between Microsoft and Nokia, the name of Nokia Corporation/Nokia Oyj will change to Microsoft Mobile Oy. Microsoft Mobile Oy is the legal entity name that should be used for VAT IDs and for the issuance of invoices."

The letter also stated that Microsoft Mobile Oy will be creating new bank accounts, however they will not change the invoice sending method.

Nokia have said that they expect to complete the sale of its Devices and Services Business to Microsoft Corp. this month.

Last September 2013, Microsoft divulge their plans to acquire Nokia for $7.2 billion, and Nokia shareholders agreed to the deal in November.

Internet Data Security at Risk because of a bug called "Heartbleed"

A major security bug has been recently discovered that put millions of usernames, passwords and credit card numbers at risk from hackers. The bug has been exploited by hackers and NSA who snoop at everyone for more than two years. The bug is called "CVE-2014-0160" or "Heartbleed."

This is a different kind of breach, it is not like a web site getting hacked. It is a major bug, the code that suppose to keep servers secure has a flaw. Servers that keep data for thousands of sites. Experts say that this is the worst bug yet and everyone who uses the internet, do business using the internet should be worried.

It is like forgetting to unlock your car or your home, you may never know if a burglar will help themself stealing your stuff.

A Finnish security firm Codenomicon conducted a test exploiting the "Heartbleed" bug to try and steal data here how it goes:

"We have tested some of our own services from attacker’s perspective. We attacked ourselves from outside, without leaving a trace. Without using any privileged information or credentials we were able steal from ourselves the secret keys used for our X.509 certificates, user names and passwords, instant messages, emails and business critical documents and communication."

"Heartbleed" bug was discovered in a type of software called OpenSSL. OpenSSL is used on servers to encrypt sensitive information to protect people’s privacy. More than 500,000 servers were reportedly vulnerable.

Last March, another open-source encryption library "GnuTLS" discovered a bug that fails to correctly validate certificates. Now it's OpenSSL turn.

Administrators and vendors are scrambling to patch this bug since OpenSSL is used by millions of websites and it has affected almost everyone. The only way you website is not affected by this bug is if your website is not using SSL or you have an outdated versions of OpenSSL which are also equally risky.

As for Amazon, they are working to patch "Heartbleed" memory-leak vulnerablities in their Amazon Web Services hosting infrastructure.



Here are Online Tests that you can use:
http://possible.lv/tools/hb/
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/