Apple's Homekit Devices Are Available For Sale



Apple's revealed smart home technology known as Homekit which is a certified devices that allow to control lights with voice command and turn them off and on and adjust room temperature as well as other appliances from the iPads, iPhones and iPods.


These five devices are: Elgato is a device that controls temperature, humidity, air pressure water and energy consumption as well.Ecobee costs $ 250 which controls thermostate via WiFi connectivity.Lutron is available at $ 230 which is a smart bridge device allows users to control lighting system.iHome is a Wi-Fi connected plug that allows users to turn on and off home appliances.Insteon hub lets users control various home gadgets like door lock, switches and other light systems.


Apple announced Homekit software a year ago at Apple's developers conference.Google also announced that it is developing such software that controls gadgets in the home and in commercial settings, called Brillo.

Microsoft App Judges Your Age From A Photo



Microsoft has launched a new website known as How Old.net that utilizes facial recognition software to determine your age based on a image.It is a website where users can upload a photo and API has to estimate how old is and also guess about gender.

Microsoft's demo app was released during build conference in San Francisco, a few days ago.Microsoft's Machine Learning APIs is a really fun tool which can detect faces in a picture and then guess the age of that person and their gender.


Two Microsoft engineers Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian said, "we sent e-mail to a group of several hundred people asking them to try the app demo for a moment and give us feedback.Estimating that at least 50 people would want to it a shot."We monitored our real time analytics dashboard to track usage and, within a few minutes, the number of people using the site vastly exceeded the number of people we had sent our email to.Within a few hours, more than 35,000 users had visited the web page from all over the world."


Age and gender recognition features are focal points for Microsoft and we want to improve this technology, a senior program manager at Microsoft Ryan Galgon said."Any usage of the app, even if it results in inaccurate renderings, is good usage, because Microsoft gets more data to improve its systems," VentureBeat's Jordan Novet said.

Facebook Allows Users To Send And Receive Money With Messanger App


Facebook has annoounced that it is adding a new feature to its Massenger app that will allow US users to send and receive money through it.According to a Facebook statement this service facility will be available in the next months.


To send money, users can tap a new symbol icon "quot; in the Facebook chat room.Add the amount you want to send and debit card number then tap "pay" button on the top right side.To receive money for the first time, open chat room and tap "add card" button then enter debit card number.Once you enter a Visa or MasterCard debit card number, you will be able to create a PIN code to provide security the next time when you send money.The money you send may take three days depending on the banks you used. 


Facebook handles more than one million transactions every day on its site for games as well as advertisers since 2007."We use secure systems that encrypt the connection between you and Facebook as well as your card information when you ask us to store it for you."

This new feature is rolling out in the US in the coming months accross Android, iOS, and desktop.

New Apps Analyzation For Malicious Behavior Have Discovered

 In July 2013 the Russian software company "Doctor Web" discovered malicious apps in the app store "Google Play".Doctor Web, comes with its own terms and conditions, informed Google, the apps were still available for download for several days.Doctor Web estimates that in this way approximately 25,000 smartphones were used in order to cheat and make money illegally.

Computer scientists have made software which helps to discover malicious apps in the app store, from the German Saarland University.This software notice where the app gains sensitive data and where data is going from the smartphones and if software finds any link between source and sink then it gives information about suspect behavior or reports about that.

"Your address book is read, hundreds of instructions later and without your permission an SMS is sent or a website is visited", said Erik Derr.

The computer scientists from Saarbrucken use new technique to recognize a link between source and sink and give suspicious combinations as input.
Erik Derr said, "So far we have tested up to 3000 apps with it. The software analyzes them fast enough that the approach can also be used in practice."

NSA Using Leaky Apps Like "Angry Birds" To Get Personal Data From Smartphones

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Recent documents reveal the NSA and 
GCHQ is using the apps so-called leaky apps to collect data from smartphones.

According to documents provided by Edward Snowden and published in the New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica Monday__ the National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarter (GCHQ) have been collecting information and data about a user’s age, address books, gain information from web browsing etc from cell phones.From Angry Birds to apps which are able to share pictures and location like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter as well as Google Maps are called leaky apps and use to collect data.

The New York Times reports:-

                                                    Since then, the agencies have traded recipes for grabbing location and planning data when a target uses Google Maps, and for vacuuming up address books, buddy lists, phone logs and the geographic data embedded in photos when someone sends a post to the mobile versions of Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter and other services.

All type of data that has been collected, the spy agency can place together everything like the location of tagging photo, web browsing history and phone call records to put together a picture of where you have been and what you were doing.

The two spy agencies have been collecting data since 2007 and the NSA saw its budget from $204 million to $767 million.

It is not clear that companies know that their apps were being used in this way.Angry Birds creator Rovio has reported that the advertising that come with the free version is handled by a third party company called Millennial Media.

At this time the NSA and GCHQ collection methods are unclear.


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GT Racing 2 Reaches to Google Play

GT Racing 2 Reaches to Google Play:-





GT Racing 2 has now arrived to Google Play, the game consists of 67 licensed cars, 30 manufacturers e.g Dodge, GM, Ford, Ferrari and Nissan, and 13 tracks, including the real Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.Test your driving skills by completing 1,400 events.GT Racing 2 works on Android devices and works with Android 2.3 or higher.The Game requires approximately 1GB of storage space.To check out the game on Google Play.



DoE Has An App For Finding Alternative Fueling Stations

DOE Alternative Fueling Station Locator iPhone app :-




Fuel Stations Location are now available on free iPhone app.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fueling Station Locator web site, which lists over 15,000 stations from all over the U.S country.The app also displays addresses, phone numbers, and operating hours for all stations.Database is searchable by zip code.The app contains locations of electric-car charging stations, biodiesel, natural gas, ethanol hydrogen, and propane stations.Today there are 12,746 public alternative fueling stations in the United States.The Alternative Fueling Station Locator app is now available for download from Locator site, or iTunes.


Answer surveys and earn Google Play credits

Google Consumer Surveys has released an Android app.Right now US-only, the app will notify users of a new survey each week, which will consist of ten questions. Upon successful completion of the survey, users will get Play Store credit.Questions will range from, “Which logo is best?

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