Tata Sky Everywhere live TV service coming to iOS, Android

Like most live television services, you need a 3G connection to use the Tata Sky Everywhere app.

Direct To Home (DTH) service provider, Tata Sky has announced that it will soon bring an application for iOS and Android operating system based devices which will allow the users of the said devices to watch their favourite television shows whenever and wherever they want. The application is named as TataSky Everywhere but it has not been launched yet. Tata Sky though promised to release on Apple app store and Google Play store very soon.

Like most live television services, you need a 3G connection to use the Tata Sky Everywhere app. Initially there will be around 50 channels and subscribers can avail of the app's benefits by paying Rs 60 per month. Besides, regular TV channels, the app will also allow users to watch movies from its video on demand section.

Recently, Dish TV had also launched a similar app for both Android and iOS operating system based devices. To know more about the app, click here.

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Angry Birds Go set to arrive on Dec 11

Rovio Mobile has teased yet another Angry Birds game with a Go Karting experience and promised to make it available on December 11.

Rovio Mobile has announced a new Angry Birds game, called Angry Birds Go, with go karting experience. The new Angry Birds Go is developed as free-to-play title with several modes and features.

The new Angry Birds Go will remind of you of several retro kart racing games such as Crash Nitro Kart and Mario Kart. Angry Birds Go will be compared and in a way follow similar line of gameplay with new twists and turns.

Basically, the Angry Birds are supposed to race their karts till the finishing line and are allowed to use powers as well as other tricks during the race. Hasbro made TELEPODs can be used to bring in the favorite karts for getting an upper hand in the race.

The Angry Birds Go game will be released as free-to-play for the iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 platform on 11 December.

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Latest Ultrasonic chips promises better gesture controls in smartphones& Tabs

Currently, gesture technologies depend on cameras and proximity sensors; the former depends on light while the later works in short distances

Norwegian start-up Elliptic Labs has developed an ultrasonic chip for mobile phones and tablets. According to a report of BBC, Elliptic Labs is also in talks with Asian handset manufacturers to get the chip embedded in the device.

The chip uses ultrasonic sound waves to trigger an action. For instance, when someone hovers his hand over the chip, the chip calculates the motion of the disturbance and the intended gesture and accordingly results in the related action.

Current gesture recognition systems rely on cameras, which are handicapped in low lights, or the proximity sensors that have a short range. But with the ultrasonic chip, both the shortcomings are addressed effectively as sound waves can travel longer distance and are unaffected by lightning conditions. Therefore users could move their hands over the displays from a distance to operate their devices.

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Automatic app updates in iOS 7 can be disabled

Disable app updates that happen in the background on the iOS 7 software update.

Apple's new iOS 7 software update brought several features and one of them was background app updates. This feature automatically updates the downloaded apps on iOS 7 devices - iPhone, iPad, iPod touch (5th Generation) and iPad mini.

Though the automatic background updates are great they often tend to eat up data packages.

Step one

Open the Settings App (Gears icon).

Step two

Select the iTunes & App Store option from the list on the left panel.

Step three

Select the Toggle button next to the Updates option under the Automatic Downloads header.

After this your apps will not get updated automatically in the background.

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November 1 launch date expected for Apple iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C in India

Sometime back Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C had been listed on Saholic -an Indian online retailer

Apple has said in a statement it will make iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C available in retail market from November 1 in India. Company has not revealed India-specific prices of both the devices.

Sometime back Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C had been listed on Saholic - an Indian online retailer. Saholic has listed all the three versions of the iPhone 5S as well as iPhone 5C, i.e. the 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions of iPhone 5S and the 16 GB and 32 GB versions of iPhone 5C. Though the retailer had also not announced their prices or availability date, the iPhone 5C is expected to be priced upwards Rs 35,000 while the iPhone 5S's price is expected to start from Rs 45,000.

Apple iPhone 5C:

This phone comes with a 4 inch touchscreen with 1136x540 pixels resolution. It has three axis gyro sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, and even digital compass. It would be available in pink, white, yellow, blue, and green colours.

Apple iPhone 5C

The colourful iPhone 5C has 1 GB RAM, 8 megapixel rear camera, and a 1.2 megapixel front camera which is capable of recording high definition videos. Besides, the Apple iPhone 5C has 1.3GHz dual core Apple A6 processor, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB 2.0, GPS with A-GPS, iOS 7 operating system, and a Li-Ion battery capable of giving 9 hours of talktime both on 2G and 3Gnetworks.

Apple iPhone 5S:

Apple iPhone 5S too has a 4 inch retinal display with 1136x640 pixels resolution. Armed with fingerprint sensor, the Apple iPhone 5S also comes with three axis gyro sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, and even digital compass. The display has Corning Gorilla Glass coating as well.

Apple iPhone 5C

Besides, the iPhone 5S has 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.2 megapixel front camera which is capable of recording high definition videos, iOS 7 operating system, the newly announced 64 bit Apple A7 processor, OpenGLES 3.0 graphics processing unit, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB 2.0, and GPS with A-GPS. It has a 1440 mAh Li-Ion battery that is said to provide 10 hours of talktime on 2G and 9 hours of talktime on 3G network.

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