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Washington Post to be Acquired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos to buy The Washington Post Image Credit The founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, one of the digital billionaire has decided to buy Washington Post for $250 million in cash. This is an individual deal between Jeff Bezos and Washington Post. According to the Amazon company statement, Amazon.com is not a part of this deal and has nothing to do with the self interest of its CEO.  The Washington Post was founded over 125 years ago and with the purchase of Washington Post, will the saga of 125 years old journalistic will come to an end or not can only be confirmed what Jeff Bezos and Washington Post's current team think of. Will the current editors, general manager or CEO continue to work under the flagship of Jeff or will they go to some other top US or international newspaper agency on time will tell?

India Second in Recipient of Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Program Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Program Image Credit Facebook said that it paid more than US$1 million to scientists who reported bugs on its social networking site, with India stacked up second regarding the amount of bug abundance beneficiaries. "The countries with the fastest growing number of recipients are, in order, the U.S., India, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Germany, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, Sweden, and Russia," Collin Greene, security engineer at Facebook, said in the statement. In an statement on its website, Facebook said that India was second on the list of nations with the increasing number of beneficiaries of Facebook's Bug Bounty program. Facebook had begun the project around 2 years ago to remunerate security specialists who report issues and urge individuals to help keep the site safe and secure. "Our Bug Bounty program allows us to harness the talent and perspe

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), have developed a new kind of 3D TV display for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with 3D glasses to see 3D images, while viewers can see a normal two-dimensional image without wearing the glasses. Blurry 3D TV image for viewers without stereo glasses due to Ghosting (Image Credit: J. Davis) With 3D+2D TV there is no Ghosting for both viewers. (Image Credit : J. Davis) Associate Professor James Davis, along with graduates Steven Scher, Jing Liu, Rajan Vaish, and Prabath Gunawardane of computer science in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz developed this new technique. For more read Detailed Research

Google Opens Glass Users Invite Friends to Explorer Program Google now offers Glass Explorers by letting current users the ability to invite a friend(s) to buy Google Glass. This is similar to what Google did for Gmail in its early days. The condition sets for invite is that the person must be a U.S. resident, 18 years or older, and be able to pick up Glass in person in either San Francisco (SF), New York (NY) or Los Angeles (LA). Here is the Screen Shots of Invitations ( Google+ ) from Google Glass Explorer Invite a Friend to buy Google Glass:  Google Glass Explorer Invites

Yandex Co-Founder Ilya Segalovich Died on July 27, 2013 R.I.P - Ilya Segalovich Ilya Segalovich, 48, co-founder of largest search engine of Russia-Yandex, died Saturday in London after suffering from cancer. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Ilya Segalovich had been responding well to treatment for cancer but on Thursday he suddenly went into comma with no sign of brain activity. He was disconnected from life support on July 27, 2013 and declared dead by Yandex. Yandex was launched in 1997 by two of the school and childhood friends Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich. It is the largest search engine in Russia and fourth largest in the world after Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Sony Xperia Z Ultra Phablet @ Rs.46,990 Sony Xperia Z Ultra (Black) Sony India today launched Sony Xperia Z Ultra to its latest in the range of premium large-screen Android based smartphone. With the launch in India the priced for Sony Xperia Z Ultra is set at Rs 46,990. The 6.4-inch full-HD screen large screen Sony Xperia Z Ultra is IP58 certified waterproof (up to 1 meter and 30 minutes) and dust resistance smartphone. According to SonyMobile, Xperia Z Ultra is a slim and durable Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean) smartphone that offers unlimited entertainment. It will go on sale in the next month from August 2. It weighs only 212 g (7.48 oz) and is powered by Qualcomm MSM8274 or MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 Quad-core 2.2 GHz Krait 400 processor. It is having a 8 MP primary camera and 2 MP secondary camera. It has 16 GB internal memory, 2GB RAM and support for card slot is expandable to 64 GB microSD card. The Xperia Z Ultra is available in three color variants-Black, White and Pur

MediaTek Reveals World First OCTA-Core Processor MediaTek Beats Company like Samsung by Announcing True Octa-Core Processor One of the Taiwan's leading integrated circuit designers, Mediatek, today's announce the launch of world's first true eight-core or Octa-Core system-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices. According to MediaTek, the True Octa-Core chip they developed for mobile devices allows all the eight cores to run simultaneously unlike existing octa-core solutions, which can only activate half of their CPU cores at once. Some improvements in the new MediaTek's octa-core processors include enhanced multi-tasking capabilities and improved current-application experiences like advanced web browsing, smoother UI, superior gaming experiences, efficient video playback etc. Read More about MediaTek True Octa-Core chip @ http://www.mediatek.com/_en/Event/201307_TrueOctaCore/tureOcta_.php or watch the official video: