Microsoft security update identifies Chrome as malware

Microsoft and Google war is getting dirtier day by day. From past few months Microsoft is struggling in the browser wars getting stiff competition form Google Chrome. But, now the search giant has found the way to fend off the competition.

According to a latest report, Microsoft issued an update to its security software that mistakenly marked Google Chrome as malware and deleted it from users' systems accordingly. Though the glitch has been fixed, it has left Google stubbed. 

The gaffe comes after it was reported that Chrome is on track to overtake Firefox by year’s end. Buzz too is referring the faux pas to the battle between Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Chrome, for usage share.

Sources cited that users witnessed a Windows Security box that said there is security issue which needs to be removed. While users took the required action, Chrome was eliminated form their PC.

However, Microsoft soon posted an alert of its own, regretting the error. The software titan later on offered new Security Essentials and asked users to reinstall Chrome.

It is reported that approximately 3,000 users were affected.

While most of the users are seeing this as an unintentional error, some are suspicious that it could be a dirty trick from Microsoft’s end.

Microsoft refused to comment on this error.

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Government To Launch $35 Tablet PC On Oct 5

"World's Cheapest Computer is Ready to launch by Indian Government within next week"

The long awaited $35 (Rs 1735) dream tablet promised by the Indian government will finally see the light of the day as the launch date has been fixed for October 5. The low cost computing device touted to be the cheapest in the world, has been a project drawn on lines similar to the OLPC, with the students being the target beneficiaries.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said at a function, "The computer will be launched next month. This is not just a dream, it is a reality". While he said that the name for the device has been finalised and will be announced at the time of the launch, he declined to elaborate further. He stated that this computer will prove to be a very useful tool for students because it can do everything expected of a computer with internet connectivity.

"Sibal said that the tablet has been developed through public-private association. It would be quite interesting to see how the new device boosts the learning abilities of children. We’re quite optimistic about adoption of the new tablet. However, it’s quite amusing to know why all Indian MPs were given iPad 2 for personal use by Indian Government. What do you think?"

“Soon, a $35 computer will be made available to every child in school. The tablet shall help enhance the quality of learning of children,” said Sibal.

Features:

• Touchscreen 
• In-built keyboard 
• Video conferencing facility 
• Multimedia content 
• Wi-Fi
• USB port
• 32GB hard drive
• 2GB RAM
• Web-conferencing
• PDF reader unzip.

Sibal had unveiled the prototype of this device in July last year. It is expected to have a 5 \ 7 \ 9 " touch screen with an internet browser, PDF reader, video conferencing facilities, Open Office, Sci-lab, media player, remote device management capability, multimedia input-output options, and multiple format file viewer. The actual specifications still remain under the covers and will be revealed only when it is actually launched. However, it was reported not long back on this website that the name of the tablet is Sakshat and its specs were also revealed along with the news that it will be launched in June, which never happened. We don't have any reason to believe that it is not the same tablet that is going to be launched on October 5.

The HR ministry has stated that the device will be launched with a considerably low $35 (Rs 1735) price tag at the start, which will eventually be slashed to $20 (Rs 990), and finally to $10 (Rs 495) over a period of time. Let's hope that the government delivers something real on October 5.

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Great Website for Developers & Programmers

If you are a programmer or a web developer who often needs to shuffle between writing code in multiple languages, check out searchco.de – this is an instant search engine for all programming related documentation and nothing else.

You type a function name and searchco.de will pull a list of all languages where that function is available along with the syntax and description. Alternately, you may prefix the function name with the language name – like jquery slide - to limit your search results to a particular language.

In addition to regular programming languages, searchco.de also indexes documentation for Windows and Linux commands.

However, if you are looking to search for code snippets or to debug problems in your existing code, Google’s Code Search is still your best friend. You can even find code using regular expressions, a feature that is not available inside Google's web search.

Google Code Search is part of Google Labs so am not too sure if it will survive once Google retires the Labs section altogether.

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Amazon’s Kindle fire launched for $199

Looks like Amazon has hit the sweet spot once again, this time with it’s Android based Tablet called the Kindle Fire. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bazos unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet at one of the company’s press events and said that the Amazon’s e-commerce power will very well help the Kindle Fire tablet sales to go high and provide Apple’s iPad a tough competition.

Prior to this launch Amazon has already launched many versions of it’s now very famous and sought after reading device – The Kindle. So, going by this the company already has a lot of market experience when it comes to selling Tablets and as our gut feeling tells us – this new tablet from Amazon – “Kindle Fire” is here to stay. Now lets take a quick look at the specs and the features of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet:

Now lets take a quick look at the specs and the features of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet:

• 7-inch IPS panel / display with multi-touch support 
• 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi and 16 million colors 
• Gorilla Glass coating that gives that extra protection to the screen
•  dual-core CPU Storage:
•  8GB internal memory Weight: 14.6 ounces (Approx. 410 grams) 
• Runs on Android but has a really refreshing and different User Interface 
• Wi-Fi connectivity with Amazon Silkcloud accelerated browser. 
• Battery Life: Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback in Wi-Fi off mode and requires 4 hours for a full battery charge 
• USB 2.0 Micro B Connector, 3.5 mm Audio Jack 
• 30 Day free trial of Amazon Prime which includes video streaming 
• Free 2 day shipping 
• Free Amazon Cloud storage – store all your books, music, magazines for free and delete when you are done with them.

However, on the down-side the Kindle Fire does not have a camera or a microphone. Also, the current version of the tablet does not have 3G but we are sure Amazon would be launching the 3G version soon!

The Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon costs US $199 which is just about Rs. 9600/- in Indian currency plus the shipping charges from US to India. The tablet will be available for everyone to buy from November 15th 2011. However, the pre-orders have already started.

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Happy Birthday Google - 13th Birthday

Happy Birthday Google

What were you up to 13 years ago? Maybe you were perfecting the ideal AIM screen name. Or you might have been surfing the “WestHollywood” neighborhood of GeoCities. Chances are, you had been using Yahoo! or AOL as your primary search engines. But Google’s debut on this day in1998 would change the World Wide Web forever.

On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation as Google Inc. — they had received a $100,000 check from an investor made out to Google, Inc., and needed to incorporate that name so they could legally deposit the check.

Prior to the launch, Page and Brin met at Stanford in 1995, and soon decided to launch a search service called BackRub in January 1996. They soon reevaluated the name (and the creepy logo) in favor of Google, a play on the mathematical figure, “googol,” which represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The name embodied their mission to create an infinite amount of web resources. And that they did.

Since then, Google has become a household name to billions of people worldwide. You’ll overhear senior citizens command their grandchildren to “google” the price of foot cream. You’ll witness toddlers punching the screen of the latest Android phone. And chances are, you’ve navigated the circles of Google+ (if not, let’s get you an invite already).

We’d like to guide you on a trip down Google lane, presenting the key products and acquisitions that were born in the first Google garage office, and innovated in the Googleplex. In the comments below, please share how Google has had an impact on your life, and join us in wishing Google a happy birthday!

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Google's green: energy efficient computing

"Better web and Better for the environment"

"Google prides itself on its green operations and puts great effort into cutting down energy use as much as possible and using renewable energy for the power it does need."

Google efforts for Green: 

• Google spent €200 million ($273 million) for its new data center and two years converting an old paper mill factory into a state-of-the-art data center.
• And it was well worth it, the company will save a lot of money on energy bills thanks to the use of seawater for the cooling and the colder climate in the area.
• Google chose the site of an old paper mill that shut down in 2008 due to lack of demand. The mill already had a huge seawater cooling system built, to keep the machinery cold.
• Now, Google has converted the cooling system to keep its thousands of servers from overheating. Google used a water-to-water exchange in the data center and relies on the low ambient temperature to do most of the cooling.

Google've worked hard to reduce the amount of energy our services use. In fact, to provide you with Google products for a month—not just search, but Google+, Gmail, YouTube and everything else they have to offer—our servers use less energy per user than a light left on for three hours.

They’ve learned a lot in the process of reducing our environmental impact, so they’ve added a new section called “The Big Picture” to our Google Green site with numbers on our annual energy use and carbon footprint.

Whenever possible, They use renewable energy. We have a large solar panel installation at our Mountain View campus, and we’ve purchased the output of two wind farms to power our data centers. For the greenhouse gas emissions they can’t eliminate, they purchase high-quality carbon offsets.

By investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy projects and companies, we’re helping to create 1.7 GW of renewable power. That’s the same amount of energy used to power over 350,000 homes, and far more than what their operations consume(Says Google).

Finally, Their products can help people reduce their own carbon footprints. The study (PDF) we released yesterday on Gmail is just one example of how cloud-based services can be much more energy efficient than locally hosted services helping businesses cut their electricity bills. 

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502 Google Sever Error

Google has been down. It will rise again soon, but if you are also getting a 502 error message then you may be wait for such a time.

Many of us are getting 502 or 503 error screens. Some users are also reporting that their Google Apps accounts have also been reduced. Other products such as Google Chat, appear to be affected by rolling cuts.

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Google Plus covering the social market

Google's latest offering ' Google Plus' is steadily gaining ground in the social networking space, so far dominated by Facebook , with the internet giant's social network attracting about 20 million visitors in the initial three weeks and nearly half of these visitors hailing from US and India .

According to estimates by research firm ComScore, Google Plus had 19.93 million unique visitors between June 29 and July 19 period.

The top two countries in this estimate are the US and India. Of the 19.93 million visitors, 5.31 million were from the US and 2.85 million from India.

Another 0.87 million users came from the UK, 0.71 million from Germany and 0.50 million from France.

"I have never seen anything grow this quickly," vice president of industry analysis at ComScore Andrew Lipsman said.

Google Plus, launched on June 28, is Google's answer to rival Facebook.

It lets users post photos, messages, comments and other content from a selected groups of friends.

The service was started as a field trial and the project is by invitation only, which means people can join only if a current member invites them.

Eventually, Google plans to incorporate features of Google Plus in its other services, such as its YouTube video site.

Google CEO Larry Page had last week said that Google Plus had more than 10 million users.

Page said there are "more opportunities for Google today than ever before".

It will be some time before Google catches up with Facebook's scale of more than 750 million users. The other popular micro-blogging site Twitter has more than 200 million registered accounts.

Through 'Google Plus', the internet giant aims to garner a share in the lucrative social networking space that has so far been dominated by the Mark Zuckerberg led popular site.

The service has features like 'Circles', 'Sparks', 'Hangouts' and 'mobile'.

Through Circles, Google targets Facebook's features in which a user's information is shared by default with a large number of his or her friends including their work colleagues and acquaintances, rather than only their close personal friends.

Its "Huddle" feature lets users send text messages to several different people at once, known as group texting.  

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India offers billion dollar opportunity for Apple

India is a hub of nearly all the big players of tech industry. But Apple still has to gain ground over here. While iPad is creating ripples all over the world, India is gradually warming up to tablets.

Analysts are estimating that India can be one of the biggest emerging market opportunities for the iconic iPad and iPhone maker in near future. Analysts believe that India is a $9.4 billion opportunity for Apple in four years.

Budding markets, including India, could add up to 63 per cent of Apple’s mounting sales between now and 2015, representing as much as $70 billion in additional revenue.Over $9 billion revenue milestone in India signals Apple selling 98 lakh iPhones, 57 lakh iPads, a little over 3 lakh Mac desktop computers and nearly 5 lakh Mac laptops, according to a source.

Apple will also benefit from its relationship with telecom carriers in India. It currently share relationship with Bharti Airtel having 156 million subscribers and Vodafone with about 130 million subscribers. Interestingly, these carriers together can offer Apple access to nearly 300 million mobile phone subscribers, who could be potential owners of Apple products.

However, some analysts are arguing that the estimation is grossly excessive.

Apple targets a niche audience and has not yet been successful with its tablet PC, iPad.

Now, Apple is going more aggressive in its approach and is planning to launch cheaper products aimed purposely at emerging markets. Let’s hope, unlike in past, Apple doesn’t ignore India in its future big launches.

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Google Plus is now open for everyone

After being invite-only for nearly three months, Google+ is opening up to everyone.

Writing on its official company blog about the 99 improvements that have been made to the product since launching, Google’s Vic Gundotra wrote, “We’re ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups.”

Today’s update also comes with big improvements to Google+ Hangouts, including the ability to use them on Android devices (version 2.3 and higher). It also includes search, which is a hybrid of content shared on Google+ and results from around the web. “Just type what you’re looking for into the Google+ search box, and we’ll return relevant people and posts, as well as popular content from around the web,” Gundotra wrote.

SEE ALSO: Google+ Hangouts API for Developers

Google+ invites were in high demand when the service first launched in July, and the service attracted 20 million visitors in its first month. Since then, however, the service seems to have lost some of its luster, with a controversy around brand pages fanning the flames.

Facebook has also launched a number of features that challenge what were initially selling points of Google’s offering. The leading social network revamped Friend Lists and made changes to the News Feed, both of which bring Google+ Circles-like functionality to the site.

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, we’ll see if the service can regain the momentum it had earlier this summer.

Google Indication to Launch of Google Plus to everyone.

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Google Wallet launches: Say goodbye to traditional wallets

Google has officially launched 'Wallet', the first pay by phone service 

Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone your wallet. It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone. Simply tap your phone to pay and redeem offers using near field communication, or NFC.

Ahead of other companies, Google Wallet launched first on the Samsung Nexus S on the Sprint Nextel network. Also partnered in the initial scheme are Citibank and Mastercard.

As other Android phones are fitted with the NFC (near field communication) technology, more like services will appear on the market.

Google also said today that it has licensed NFC technology from other major credit card companies: American Express, Visa, and Discover. This means that upcoming versions of Google Wallet will support those credit cards as well.

"In the future, our goal is to make it possible for you to add all of your payment cards to Google Wallet, so you can say goodbye to even the biggest traditional wallets," said Osama Bedier, vice president of payments at Google.

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Apple Becomes World’s Second Most Valuable Brand — After Google [STUDY]

Apple‘s brand is worth $39.3 billion, or 33% more than it was at the start of the year, according to a study from consulting firm Brand Finance.

The London-based company looks at a company’s cash flow and other financial metrics to assess the worth of its trademarks and other intellectual property. At the top of the heap is Google, whose IP is worth $48.3 billion — and likely more after Thursday, when the search giant bought another treasure trove of patents from IBM. (Big Blue itself is currently in fourth place.)
Microsoft slipped to third place, a hair’s breadth below Apple at $39 billion — although Windows 8 may change that equation.
This marks the first time, according to the report, that the world’s top four most valuable brands are all tech companies. Coming in just below them: Walmart, GE, AT&T and Coca-Cola. A couple of banks with slipping reputations — Wells Fargo and Bank of America — round out the top 10.

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Top 10 Browsers

If you are surfing Net & require to make use of feature rich browser then you have so lots of options to select from.Choosing the best for great experience, you will must know about all browsers.To help you select best, today we have come up with the list of top ten browsers with their features.

1. Mozilla Firefox :

This browser is perhaps the world’s favorite browser. The top multinationals have decided to keep it as their default. It is open source browser with the worldwide support from a community of developers and testers. The main features of this browser are:

• Private Browsing
• Instant Web Site ID
• Built-in Spell Checker
• Customization with around a million themes available for free from its official website
• Ships with almost all linux distributions

 

2. Chrome :
This is managed by Google. It is fastest of all browsers that are available today. It main features are:

• Flexible Tabs which can be placed anywhere
• In Built Download Manager
• Private Browsing
• Online Task Manager
• More Secure
• Webshots of last websites visited

3. Internet Explorer :

This is perhaps our first web browser that we might have experienced. It is maintained and developed by Microsoft. The main features of this are:

• Compatibility with older versions so that the visibility is not an issue
• Grouped Tabs
• Private Browsing
• Grouped Tabs
• Web Slices

4. Opera :

This browser is claimed to be the fastest on the planet. This was developed by the telecom company Telenor. The main features of this browser is:

• Visual Tabs
• A number of Addons are available on its official website
• Faster internet surfing even on slow connections
• Content Blocker for young and sensitive audience
• Download Manger with Torrent support

 
5. Safari :

This is developed by Apple for its macintosh Operating System. Some of the features are:

• Private Browsing
• Bookmark Integration with Address Book
• Built in password management feature which is only available in Mac only
• Mail integration
• Inline PDF Viewer
• Tabbed browsing

6. Maxthon :

It is a freeware software that is developed by some firm in China. It was developed mainly for Microsoft Windows. Its main features are:

• Link Validator
• Tabbed Surfing
• Adobe Flash and ActiveX object support
• Programmable mouse gestures and mouse chording.
• RSS Reader

7. Flock :

It is a social networking web browser that is built for Facebook and Twitter. It is an open source project with many contributors all around the world. Its main features are

• Integration of all the social networking account into this single browser
• Support for the sharing for videos, photos and links
• Feed Reader to accommodate all the types of feeds
• Support for third party Firefox extensions

8. Avant :
It is an extremely light and fast browser that is developed by Avant Force. Its main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Flash Animator Filter
• AD/Pop-up Blocker

9. Deepnet Explorer :
It is the only browser with a phishing alarm along P2P connectivity. The other main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Automatic Form Filler
• File Sharing Support
• Mouse Gestures

10. Phase Out :

It is a freeware that is used for the ultimate space exploration. The various features are:

• Pop-Up Blocker and Clean-Up Tools
• Integrated Advanced Search Tool Bar
• Tabbed Web Windows
• Automatic search function on page not found error (404)

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Make Great Apparel for Website

As we know that designing is the best feature for an online site and it depends over designers art of creation. In Delhi professional web design services are not limited. There's plenty of companies offering web design and web development services around India.

But when you go in for your site make it a point to choose a designer who knows the basic of designing and propose you with the various designs. Web design Delhi ought to tell you the professionals and cons of all. In the event you have require a flash website designed no worries... Our web design suggests different web design services which will give you the same result as any other simple HTML site. Some people have a preference to go in for a company that is next-door to them. And a client be supposed to ... because without a doubt you can tell then what you require and they will tell you whether that type of design is feasible or not? For example, in the event you live in Florida then it is better to go for a custom web design. Web design services include design, content formation, and streamlining, programming and complete development of site. So on basis of these things they will tell you whether your idea is feasible or not? There's dissimilar things they must keep in intellect while selecting a professional web design company as like web design * They ought to have team of knowledgeable people in the field of designing. * Here web design says expertise in development of anything from simple to multifaceted e business based web site. This comprises Logo Designing, Graphics Development, banner Designing, Templates designing, Simple and Complex animations, Custom Website design, Real-Estate website development, E commerce based site, Online store development, Online payment access integration, Database Driven Website, Online Community Development, Corporate Website Development , and Search Engine gracious website. *A professional web organization will make sure that the net site designed by them has least amount of flaws, and runs effortlessly and professionally. Their main aim with the pioneering design is to provide the users with great visiting understanding. * Web design suggests in the event that they have worked for numerous clients do check the reviews. You can ask for contact number of people for whom they have done the net site and check for their after website development services. * Most prominently check their portfolio and see how they work in fields of both designing and development. Fallow these basic steps and enjoy with great web design service.

 Web i Hawk is of the widely known corporation which provides Cheap Flash Website Designing Services and also Provides Cheap Flash Website Designing Delhi in all over World.

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Add a Subscribe Button to your Facebook Profile

Share Your views and hear from people even if you are not friends, through Subscription Button on Facebook.

Facebook has recently launched Subscription Button on 14/09/2011 that allows you to follow updates, news, pictures, etc of public regardless of the fact that you are not Facebook friends.

Now onwards users will begin to see Subscription Button along with “Message” and “Poke” Button on Facebook Profile.

Subscription button is placed on the top-right corner of each of your friends profile. You can choose to receive each and every updates or only the important updates from your friends profile,this is one of the best way to keep a tight control for different types of friends that you have on Facebook.

You can also confirm that you really want to share the stuff to non-friend public or not. To check just visit your profile click “View As” button and then on “public” link to see what is being updated in your profile are Public.

Subscription Button can be used in many of the different ways.

You can also use it to:

• Choose what you see from people in news feeds.
• Hear from people, even you are not friends.
• Let people hear from you, even if you are not friends.

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Microsoft unviels Windows 8 with Samsung Tablets

Windows 8 is the name of next version of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by MICROSOFT for the use of PC’s(Personal Computers). Windows 8 is going to be launched in late

2012.

Microsoft promise that Windows 8 will run on every system in which Windows 7 runs and they also promises that Windows 8 will run faster and better. Windows 7 uses large RAM and CPU resources, but Windows 8 is going to use a very small quantity of RAM and CPU resources.

Windows 8 has a very increased speed that is easily noticeable on new systems with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firm Interface).But people with existing systems with no special hardware can also see large amount of reduction in time that is takes in processing.

Windows 8 has many features that attract more and more people towards itself like Customized login system, Start home screen, etc.

Windows 8: Lock Screen

Windows 8: Start Screen

Windows 8: Internet Explorer

Windows 8: Files 

Windows 8: Thumb 

Windows 8: Touch Keyboard

Building "Windows 8"

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Tablets can or cannot replace laptops in Enterprises…Still a Big Question???

Tablet computers today will completely take the place of laptops and desktops in future, if top manufactures of tablets and mobile phones have their way.

“We each company to hand out 50,000 tablets instead of 50,000 laptops.” said Omar Khan, Chief strategy officer of Samsung Mobile. “We want them to have affinity to buy Tablets for email and other field projects.”

There are still many hurdles that have to be jumped off to fulfill Khan’s dream.

But on the other hand, Smith says,” We don’t yet deliver or support any kind of tablets.”He thinks that supplying tablets instead of laptops to the employees would not produce more value and efficiency.

Tablets cannot support large business applications and thus they cannot be replaced in the place of laptops and desktops. They cannot fulfill the need of intense computing which includes heavy loaded spread sheets,complex presentations and graphic designing.

Security of the data is the biggest problem that tablets faces.

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HTC Sued Apple Yesterday in Delaware Court.

HTC is Asia’s 2nd Largest Smartphone producers which is using nine patents bought from Google last week. Google has taken over the ownership against the patents from less than a year. According to U.S Patents and Trademark Office Record, there are four patents that belong to Motorola Inc., two from Palm Inc. and the remaining from Openwave Systems Inc.

Yesterday HTC sued Apple and filed a case against Apple in Delaware Court at U.S International Trade Commission. Apple is already suing HTC, Samsung Electronics as well as other smartphone makers for using the Android OS.

Grace Lei, General Counsel Of HTC says that they will keep on protecting their patented inventions against infringement from Apple unless such infringement stops. He also said that he thinks its their first priority to protect and take care of their business, their industry partners and also their customers and buyers who love to use HTC’s products.

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Dell comes in Partnership with Baidu for Mobile Phones and Tablets.

China is becoming fastest growing market in mobile phones and tablets. Baidu is china’s number one well known brand known for tablets and mobile phones.Its mobile phones and tablets has a great capacity to influence people towards itself.

Dell is going to be in partnership with Baidu,china’s well known brand.

On Tuesday that the two companies are going to develop a Smartphone, but declined to reveal its details and a launch date. "We have a partnership with Baidu and you know we have the Streak 5 tablet, so the partnership will be in that space," said a Dell spokeswoman.

Dell's Streak 5 tablet is a five-inch Android-based tablet that was discontinued in the United States last month.

Dell declined to give a timeline for the launch of the devices, but local media reported on Tuesday, quoting sources, that it may be as early as November.

“I don’t think Baidu is targeting the low-end segment of the market, if they are there are plenty of local Chinese vendors they can work with…This could mean that Baidu may have ambitions for the international market because Dell is an international brand which they can leverage,” said Sandy Shen, a Shanghai-based research director with Gartner.

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