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Apple Declared Best Global Brands of 2013 by Interbrand Top 10 Best Global Brands of 2013 Since 2000, Interbrand has been listing world's best and valuable global brands every year. Coca-Cola company remained in top position till last year. This year, the 13 year legacy of Coca-Cola has come to an end, when we talk about the Best Global Brands for 2013. Apple, with the launch of iPhone 5C and 5S, is now topping the list of world's best and valuable global brands. Google which celebrated it's 15th birthday on Sept. 27, 2013, is in 2nd position followed by Coca-Cola. Though Google change in Brand Value has increased 34% that of Apple's 28% from the last year, yet it was not enough to topple Apple to from getting crowned. The top 10 list mostly comprise of technology based companies leaving only McDonald's and Coca-Cola as the non-technology based company. Here is the list of top 10 Best Global Brands of 2013: Apple Google Coca-Cola IBM Microsoft GE

McAfee Named Priyanka Chopra India's 'Most Dangerous Celebrity' Online Priyanka Chopra Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity Online In a recent study conducted by security software maker McAfee, Priyanka Chopra is dubbed as the most dangerous Indian celebrity in the Indian internet world. Priyanka Chopra dethroned Sunny Leone who was in number one position last year. Name of Priyanka is most used by cyber criminals to lure internet users to sites which host malicious software to steal personal details, passwords and spread them to your contacts also. The next to name in the list are Shah Rukh Khan, followed by Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar. The top 10 dangerous celebrities online are     Priyanka Chopra     Shah Rukh Khan     Salman Khan     Kareena Kapoor     Akshay Kumar     Saif Ali Khan     Amitabh Bachchan     Farhan Akhtar     Sunny Leone     Hrithik Roshan If you are searching for terms like wallpaper, nude pictures, videos or pho

BlackBerry Cutting 4,500 Jobs BlackBerry To Fire 4,500 of its Staff After renaming itself from Research in Motion (RIM) to BlackBerry and launching two new models new Z10 and Q10 phone this year, BlackBerry is now feeling the heat of low selling of BB smartphones. BlackBerry has announced that they are going to fire around 4,500 employees. If this year firing is added to the last years, around 9,500 employees were sacked in 2012 and 2013. The new losses will reduce Blackberry's 12,700-plus global workforce by about 40%. The company said that it will cut operating cost by 50% by the end of the first quarter of 2015. Since the beginning, BlackBerry was the favorite of corporate customers and government employees in the US and around the world. They once used to have around 14% of the US smartphones share but now they have less than 3% market share. They are ranking 4th after Windows Phone. The launch of Android based smartphones and iPhone are the main reason for the loss

Google Top Menu Bar Missing & Products' Links Gone from Search Page Google's Old Black Top Menu Bar Gone in New Interface  As the new Google search page design being rolling out, Google is removing the old black menu bar from its search page. Earlier one can find links to Google products in the black menu bar but now the menu bar is missing from the search page in new design. Google Added Apps Tab in Search Page, Top Menu Bar Goes Missing You can now find the Google products link at one place under a new app launcher, a square box made up of 9 small square boxes-"App Launcher". This is located at the right hand of the top of the screen. You have to click on that Apps grid to launch the list of Google Products. Google Revamped Logo with a Flatten One Google has also updated it logo. The new logo is refreshed with a flat style. Earlier the logo was bit solid and have shades which are now removed. The Google spokesperson said, “As part of this

BBM COMING TO ANDROID AND iPHONE DEVICES BBM Android iOS Release Date-21st & 22nd Sept, 2013 BBM one of the most valuable and popular service of BlackBerry phones is now going to be able on iOS and Android devices from this weekend. In a statement issued by, BlackBerry stated that it plans to make available free BBM for Android phones starting from Saturday, 21st September and for iPhones on Sunday, 22nd September. Well, BlackBerry is not giving all the features of BBM on  other devices. BBM for Android and iOS will miss voice and video calling features from the original BBM. Rest features like BBM chat, group chat, sharing files and unique BBM PIN will be available in the BBM for iOS and Android. The voice and video calling features that BlackBerry is not giving could be the reason for it's failure in the mobile messaging market. With already popular mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat and LINE, it will be difficult for BBM to succeed without these

Sound Pioneer Ray Milton Dolby Dead at 80 Ray Dolby, Founder of Dolby Laboratories On September 12, 2013, Ray Dolby, died at the age of 80 in his home at San Francisco. Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. In 1965, Ray Dolby founded today's well know company Dolby Laboratories. The pioneer work of Ray Dolby is still used in the audio industry for music, home entertainment, shows and movies. He was the master of noise-reducing and surround-sound technology. According to the company sources, Mr Dolby was suffering from Alzheimer and was recently diagnosed for acute leukemia. Company President and CEO, Kevin Yeaman, said in a statement, “Today we lost a friend, mentor and true visionary,” He is survived by his wife, Dagmar, his sons, Tom and David, their spouses, Andrew and Natasha, and four grandchildren. The sound and entertainment indus

Annotations, Player Size and Video Quality all in a Single Gear Button   YouTube Annotations & Video Size Settings Missing Google is working on UI for all of it's product. Latest in the trend is YouTube Video Player. As, per the news and what we see above, Google has changed settings panel in YouTube Player. They have removed the annotations and player size settings. The two are now included along with quality options. Earlier the gear button was used for the quality menu only. Before that, there was an option to edit quality and setting at same place: YouTube Gear Button for Annotations, Video Size & Quality Now, the gear button is a single point access for Annotations, Player Size and Video Quality. Look at the following screen for an embedded YouTube video in a website. In this the Player Size is missing as the video is embedded in the website. YouTube Video Setting Gear Button YouTube Annotations Switch-ON/OFF YouTube Video Quality

End of Security Updates for Windows XP OS & Office 2003 Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 Supports Ends Apirl 8, 2014  Image Credit: Microsoft Microsoft has finally announced the date for the end of security updates for its Windows XP operating system. As of now Microsoft is releasing security updates for Windows XP, but due to security issues and to move more users from XP to Windows 8, Microsoft has decided to stop updates in 2014. According to Gartner prediction, more than 15% of medium and large enterprises will still have Windows XP running on at least 10% of their PCs after Microsoft support ends in April 2014. This means, people and organizations using Windows XP SP3 will be prone to bugs and flaws in the OS, as Microsoft is not going to fix those bugs. They will be open to malware, spyware and even viruses. Office 2003 Support Also Ends in April 8, 2014 Microsoft also announced the end of support for Office 2003, in a press conference yesterday in Lagos. Accordi

Google™ Named Android 4.4 After Nestlé® Kit Kat Chocolate Google Android is world's most powerful and most used mobile OS and has recently surpassed 1 Billion smartphone and tablet users. Google unveiled Android 4.4, KitKat   as the next version of Google's mobile operating system, to be named after famous Nestle Chocolate Kit Kat. Earlier Android's versions were also named after sweet deserts: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. Earlier it was though that the new Android version would be named as Key Lime Pie . But news about Android KitKat came as a surprise. It might be a marketing strategy or a mutual business understanding between Google and Nestle, but it will be definitely bosting both brands' product and media coverage. Nestle is now planning to sell more than 50 million chocolate bars with the Android mascot to international markets. According to Google, the idea about naming Android version as Ki

 Microsoft to Acquire Nokia's Device Business Microsoft Nokia Deal Worth EUR 5.44 billion According to the Press Release published by Nokia and Microsoft Corporation, Boards of Directors of both Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation have decided to enter into a transaction to sell Nokia's Devices & Services business, license Nokia's patents, and license and use Nokia's mapping services. The decision to buy Nokia is one of the biggest deal and is taken with the planned retirement announcement of Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. Microsoft will buy Nokia’s devices and services business for €3.79 billion ($5 billion). They will also pay €1.65 billion ($2.2 billion) for Nokia’s patents. The whole deal will cost €5.44 billion or $7.18 billion and it will be paid out in cash. Microsoft and Nokia announced that the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to approval by Nokia’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and o