Technology

German company Secusmart GmbH, a Blackberry-owned company, has unveiled a new tablet in collaboration with Samsung and IBM.

The Secutablet is based on the Samsung Galaxy 10.5 and runs on Samsung hardware.

Secutablet offer additional security which is aimed at businesses and governments, but its social media and video platforms which are less protected can also be used on the device.

The Secutablet is compatible with Blackberry 10 and is currently undergoing security certification at the German Federal Office for Information Security.

Facebook’s latest report on “take-down” requests issued by governments across the globe has shown that India ranked second on the list of countries that made the most requests.

The report said that the social media website received 5,473 requests from India during the final six months of last year, reported Tech Crunch.

Facebook disclosed that it provided information in just 45 percent of those cases in India but it did enact 5,832 cases of ‘content restriction’ in India.

Facebook blocked 5,832 pieces of content, including anti-religious matter and hate speeches, during July-December 2014 on orders of Indian government, the highest by any country on the social networking giant’s platform.

In its Global Government Requests Report for July to December 2014, the California-based firm said it has “restricted” 5,832 pieces of content.

Scientists have recently created a double-layered fabric out of silver-coated woven textile that can charge the battery of a mobile phone.

According to a new study by Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, a game-changing foldable patch of fabric wrapped around a person’s wrist can gather enough energy from arm movement to power small electronic devices, Discovery News reported.

A resident of Sevastopol in Crimea, the region which acceded to Russia from Ukraine last year, is suing Google over suspended internet services, Tass news agency reported Monday.

Sevastopol’s Leninsky district court accepted Dmitry Mishin’s claim that the internet giant incorrectly implemented the US president’s executive order when it suspended certain services in Sevastopol. The first court hearing is scheduled for March, the court’s official website says.

AeroMobil aims to hit the skies with its flying car in 2017, and the self-flying car sometime in the years following, it has been reported.

The new model would apparently be robust enough to be able to take off and land from grass strips, not just airport runways, the Verge reported.

The first commercial product would be a two seater and include a parachute. It’s not clear whether AeroMobil would be able to actually achieve that goal, but it does seem like the first prototype was working.

The CEO and CTO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, hinted that this week something big will emerge from Tesla to bring an end to ‘range anxiety’.

The Model S and every other electric vehicle, Tesla’s current flagship, has been known to inspire so-called range anxiety, wherein a driver spends a lot of time worrying about when they’ll next be able to get a full charge, and consequently don’t often drive anywhere near the upper limit of their battery’s range.

Chat application Wiper has been removed from Apple’s iOS App Store in China.

The application is designed to provide users with control over their sent and received messages. It recently rolled out support for bitcoin transactions between users. The tool allows individuals to send crypto-currency to others inside the app’s main chat interface.

According to San Francisco based techcrunch.com, the bitcoin integration got Wiper removed from Apple’s iOS App Store in China.

American conglomerate Google has started a new service that will let us find out before we fly if our airplane will provide us with data as we cruise through the skies.

According to gizmodo.com, Google in collaboration with light-rating service Routehappy, Google will now display airplane amenities on offer when we search for details about our forthcoming flight. It will tell us if we’ll get in-seat power outlets and Wi-Fi, as well as providing details about seat quality and legroom we’ll have in our seat.

The Apple watch is expected to be released in India in June.

The Apple Watch goes on pre-order on April 10 for first few countries, and in the usual Apple style the actual ‘on sale’ date lands two weeks later on April 24. This is the standard delay Apple puts into its mobile devices.

But India does not feature in the list of first countries that will have Apple Watch.

According to gizmodo.com, the prospective sale of the Apple Watch in India might be a result of the country’s emergence as an important market for many brands.

Scientists of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have made a critical breakthrough in wireless energy transmission.

According to Phys.Org, researchers used microwaves to deliver 1.8 kilowatts of power through the air to a receiver 170 feet away. While the distance is not huge, the achievement is being hailed as a critical step toward the development of space-based solar collectors that beam energy back to Earth’s surface.

The CEO and CTO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, hinted that this week something big will emerge from Tesla to bring an end to ‘range anxiety’.

The Model S and every other electric vehicle, Tesla’s current flagship, has been known to inspire so-called range anxiety, wherein a driver spends a lot of time worrying about when they’ll next be able to get a full charge, and consequently don’t often drive anywhere near the upper limit of their battery’s range.

Chat application Wiper has been removed from Apple’s iOS App Store in China.

The application is designed to provide users with control over their sent and received messages. It recently rolled out support for bitcoin transactions between users. The tool allows individuals to send crypto-currency to others inside the app’s main chat interface.

According to San Francisco based techcrunch.com, the bitcoin integration got Wiper removed from Apple’s iOS App Store in China.

American conglomerate Google has started a new service that will let us find out before we fly if our airplane will provide us with data as we cruise through the skies.

According to gizmodo.com, Google in collaboration with light-rating service Routehappy, Google will now display airplane amenities on offer when we search for details about our forthcoming flight. It will tell us if we’ll get in-seat power outlets and Wi-Fi, as well as providing details about seat quality and legroom we’ll have in our seat.

The Apple watch is expected to be released in India in June.

The Apple Watch goes on pre-order on April 10 for first few countries, and in the usual Apple style the actual ‘on sale’ date lands two weeks later on April 24. This is the standard delay Apple puts into its mobile devices.

But India does not feature in the list of first countries that will have Apple Watch.

According to gizmodo.com, the prospective sale of the Apple Watch in India might be a result of the country’s emergence as an important market for many brands.

Scientists of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have made a critical breakthrough in wireless energy transmission.

According to Phys.Org, researchers used microwaves to deliver 1.8 kilowatts of power through the air to a receiver 170 feet away. While the distance is not huge, the achievement is being hailed as a critical step toward the development of space-based solar collectors that beam energy back to Earth’s surface.

Yahoo is set to take the first step towards “eliminating passwords” by introducing a new approach, called “on demand” passwords.

Like two-step verification process, users will be sent a unique time-sensitive code through an app or a text message to their phones when they want to log in. However, users will not be required to type in the primary password first, reported The Verge.

Edward Snowden’s streamed question and answer session with about two dozen people from across the technology and policy world at SXSW has been dubbed as a “call to arms” for tech companies to thwart spying with better privacy tools, a participant of the event said.

Sunday Yokubaitis, president of online privacy company Golden Frog, said that Snowden advised tech firms to adopt more secure technology that could block surveillance altogether or make it too difficult to pursue en masse, reported The Verge.

A report has said that YouTube may now have a subscription option for its best original content.

According to The Verge, the video-sharing website is “exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service.” The subscription will offer users ad-free streaming of certain video content that are part of the program. Such videos are expected to be categorised under the YouTube Originals banner.