Google releases schedule for 2013 I/O conference

Google's schedule for the first day of its annual developers conference.

(Credit: Google)

Google has published the schedule for its 2013 Google I/O conference, which features more than 120 sessions on the Android and Chrome operating systems, and a just one keynote, but it's a long one.
The three-day annual conference, which typically assembles more than 5,000 developers, will begin May 15 in San Francisco with a three-hour keynote, according to the agenda released Tuesday evening. There will also be a host of satellite events, allowing developers around the world to view conference sessions and connect with other developers.
Because the company uses the conference to make big announcements, the confab is always hotly-anticipated. Last year, Google demonstrated the next version of Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean and debuted Google Now, the Nexus 7 tablet, and Google Glass.
Google has four sessions scheduled for Google Glass, its new high-tech eyewear, although Google cautions that more sessions may be added later.

But the new products and announcements are only part of the appeal of Google I/O. Every year Google also gives away hundreds of dollars worth of equipment to every attendee, including last year's gift of the Nexus 7 tablet running the new Jelly Bean software.
By far the biggest event at last year's conference was a live video of a team of skydivers jumping out of a plane and landing on top of San Francisco's Moscone Center. The whole experience was streamed live from the Google Glasses that the skydivers were wearing.

Google Plus racks up followers, but not all are devoted

When Google launched its social networking service, Google Plus, during the summer of 2011, tens of millions of people clamoured to sign up for an account.
But within months, critics had panned the new service, pointing to user pages bereft of meaningful content and exchanges. They said the new social site just wasn't, well, social. It seemed as though Facebook had cornered the market -- Google was too late to the party.
Perhaps not. According to data released this week by Internet analytics firm GlobalWebIndex, Google Plus is racking up large numbers of new users and continues to outpace Twitter as the world's number two social network, behind perennial titan Facebook.
The reasons behind Google Plus's growth -- it now can boast 359 million active users, up 33 percent from 269 million users at the end of June 2012, according to GlobalWebIndex -- are complex and tied to Google's effort to build a connecting layer across all its services, including search, YouTube, maps and other products. Log into one, and you've logged into the lot.
Google itself is tight-lipped about its numbers. Its last released figures were in December, when the search giant said 500 million people had created Google Plus accounts.
But of this number, only 135 million were actively posting to Google Plus pages. Millions more were using some of the service's features, such as clicking the "+1" button to show they liked certain web pages.
It remains far behind Facebook, which boasts 701 million active users, according to the report, though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last year claimed more than a billion active accounts.
Still, the volume of Google Plus accounts suggests naysayers were too hasty in calling its demise. Like many social networking services, Google Plus has won over a devoted core of users.
One such convert is New Zealand photographer Trey Ratcliff, whose picture-centric Google Plus page has nearly five million followers.
"It's nice to pop into Google Plus to discover new things. Facebook is pretty good, but it's harder to discover new people or have more in-depth discussions around passions," he said in an email exchange.
Indeed, this may be how Google Plus will find its niche in the crowded social media world: Whereas Facebook is the go-to service for connecting friends, Google Plus is more often used to meet strangers who share common interests.
Google Plus acknowledged as much last year by adding its "Communities" section, which hosts a diverse mass of groups and lets users join a "hangout" -- the popular group video service.
"We're extremely happy with our progress so far, and one of our main goals is to transform the overall Google experience and make all of the services people already love faster, more relevant, and more reliable," Google said.
But some observers remain sceptical that account holders are doing much on Google Plus, and see it as little more than a tricked-out sign-in service for Google's products.
Claire Stokoe, who works as social media manager at Mediaworks, a marketing agency in the English city of Newcastle, said she is doubtful Google Plus will ever catch up to Facebook, but she warns clients not to ignore it.
"An authoritative Google Plus account is one of the factors that will help you rank high on Google (search results)," she said, noting that a popular Google Plus account was an important criterion in the search algorithm that ranks pages.
But she doesn't see the service expanding far beyond the business and marketing world -- at least for now.
"Whoever I ask, everyone has a Facebook account. I don't know anyone who has a Google Plus account unless they are in the industry, and that's because they have to," Stokoe said.
GlobalWebIndex's latest figures show that while Google Plus is the second-most popular social networking service after Facebook, Twitter is actually growing at a slightly faster clip, increasing from 206 million users at the end of June last year to about 297 million today, a rate of about 44 percent.
The study also found that usage was growing fastest among older people, especially with Twitter, confounding stereotypes that social networking is for the young.
GlobalWebIndex is a London-based firm that tracks Internet users through a series of surveys in 31 countries, with an annual sample size of about 120,000 people. It asks respondents which social platform they have directly contributed to in the last month and said Google itself uses its numbers internally.
The study found that Facebook also continued to grow rapidly, at about the same rate as Google Plus.
But the leading social network is also said to be battling "Facebook fatigue" in some countries, with some users growing bored of the service or else bemoaning its myriad changes to privacy settings and other tweaks, including the growing prevalence of sponsored content.
A study by the Pew Research Center in February found that more than half of US Facebook members had taken breaks from the leading social network. While the top reason was they were just too busy, people also cited fatigue with the service.
Judith Catterall, a retired choreographer from Portland, Oregon, said she tried to close her account after getting fed up with changes and a news feed becoming increasingly cluttered with sponsored content.
"It's one of those things where you think 'OK, I have no control,' and that may have been the final straw," she said.
But within 10 days of deactivating her account, Catterall was back on Facebook. She missed her friends.

Yes, you can tweet from Google Glass

LeWeb founder Loic Le Meur

Due to erroneous information provided by a source, the original version of this report misidentified the app as an official Twitter app for Google Glass. It is in fact an app produced by a third party.
There's no doubt about it: Google Glass is already being used to send tweets.
For now, however, it's not known for certain that anyone has done so with an official Twitter app for Google's wearable computer. What is known is that LeWeb founder Loic Le Meur has been testing out a third-party app called GlassTweet that offers users a rudimentary way to tweet photos but little else.
This afternoon, Le Meur tweeted a photograph taken in San Francisco using the hashtag "#throughglass."
Le Meur said that GlassTweet is "very simple, and it's very limited. Basically, you take a picture. You take it with your voice, which is cool, especially when you're driving."
He added that the app offers multiple ways to share a photo. First is Google+, which makes sense given Glass' provenance. Twitter is second.
Though GlassTweet is a third-party app, there's still reason to believe that Twitter has an official app in the works.
TechCrunch reported Monday on the likely appearance of tweets being posted in the wild from what seemed like a Twitter-created app for Glass. But Twitter wouldn't comment about it, and the tweet that spurred the report was quickly removed.
In its article, TechCrunch pointed out recent comments made by A-list venture capitalist John Doerr, who was heard to have dropped hints at a meeting of the Glass Collective that Twitter would likely soon put out an app for Glass.
What Le Meur's tweet showed is that Glass is ideal for tweeting photographs. But the question about such a device -- and Twitter apps, whether official or third-party, for it -- is whether it would be useful for more text-oriented purposes.
That's the obvious challenge for Twitter, and others jumping on Glass. Can they adapt to the device's voice and tap interface? Taking a picture with Glass and tweeting it is a relatively simple function of setting the Twitter app up for the device. Twitter, however, has traditionally been a text input service, used with a keyboard, even if that keyboard is usually on a mobile device.
Now Twitter service is starting to branch out, and Glass could well present its users with new use cases, such as video "tweets" from Vine and audio tweets with a limited time span, a kind of parallel to the 140-character limit. Presumably, Glass could enable users to dictate tweets to Glass, but voice recognition has clear limitations, and plenty of inaccuracy. So it remains to be seen how such applications will play out on the device, and on other similar wearable computing equipment that is sure to come along.

Google doodle pays tribute to workers on Labour Day

The doodle on the homepage shows Google's logo in the shape of building blocks with several men doing their jobs.

Google salutes workers all over the world by dedicating a doodle to the workers on the ocassion of International Workers' Day, 2013, on Wednesday.

Also known as Labour Day, May 1 is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers throughout the year.

The doodle on the homepage shows Google's logo in the shape of building blocks with several men doing their jobs.

The doodle features an IT professional on her computer, a gardener watering a tree, a painter giving the letter 'O' a paint job and a plumber fixing a leak around the letter 'E'.
We can also see a helicopter hovering above the second 'G' and a satellite dish, indicative of modern-day communication, perched on the 'E'.

Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, especially the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Labour Day in India is celebrated on May 1 every year. It is an official public holiday.

In India, the first International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) was celebrated in Madras by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan on May 1, 1923.

May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries.

However, many countries do not celebrate Labour Day on May 1. While in Australia, Labour Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October; in Canada, the day is observed on the first Monday of September.

Though Google had dedicated a doodle to workers in 2012, the doodle was not posted on its India home page.

The Google doodle of 2012, which was not posted on the search engine's India homepage

BB bets big on Z10 OOH campaign to reclaim mkt share from Samsung

BlackBerry had been creating a lot of noise in the Indian handset market until 2012. However, Samsung’s aggressive market push with innovate products has seen the brand capturing a huge chunk of the Indian handset market. Concurrently, BlackBerry’s smartphone market share in India fell from around 15 per cent in 2011 to less than 8 per cent in 2012 as per Convergence Catalyst estimates.

RIM, now renamed BlackBerry, shipped about 5.5 million smartphones to India between January 2012 and July 2012, accounting for 12.1 per cent of such shipments to the country, compared to Samsung Electronics’ 41.6 per cent share and Nokia India’s 19.2 per cent share, according to a report in October 2012 by CyberMedia Research.

In a bid to reclaim its market share, BlackBerry changed its brand proposition to ‘Action starts here’, which was supported by large scale marketing activities. Outdoor played a significant role in that marketing campaign, which lasted for six months.

Now, BlackBerry is bullish once again on the outdoor advertising space to promote its latest handset addition – Z10. The latest outdoor campaign is spread across 34 cities and involves using 300-plus outdoor touch-points.

Commenting on the role of outdoor in BlackBerry’s media plan, Ashish Gupta, Director – Marketing, BlackBerry India said, “Outdoor is an integral part of our media plan. The biggest challenge in outdoor is to capture key strategic locations and plan in advance. We at BlackBerry have a good outdoor planning cycle in place and that’s the reason why we are able to create impressive visibility.”

Gupta further shared that BlackBerry invests around 15-20 per cent of its marketing budget on outdoor, depending on its marketing needs. For this particular outdoor campaign, BlackBerry has used large format media such as bus shelters and billboards. The brand has also included mall facades in Tier II cities and heavy branding in corporate parks is also being done across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. “We are looking at targeting hyper connect ‘BB people’, as we call, across all our outdoor touch-points,” Gupta added.

The campaign has been executed by VivaKi. Gupta also mentioned that BlackBerry will soon roll out another massive outdoor campaign to promote its newly introduced a cheaper entry-level subscription plan in India for its communications services in a bid to increase its share in a price-sensitive and hyper-competitive smartphone market.

It will be interesting to see what communication Samsung will devise for its Galaxy S4 as well as how other handset players will be countering BlackBerry’s latest communication drive.

New Jaguar F Type India launch in July 2013

We reported in detail when Jaguar revealed the new F-Type at Paris in late September 2012. The new Jaguar F-Type resurrected company’s heartland: a two-seater, convertible sports car focused on delivering performance, agility and driving pleasure (remember the E-Type?).

It has now emerged that the new Jaguar F-Type will be launched in India in July.

The Jaguar F Type has won many accolades from various publications and experts. The Jaguar F-Type was recently declared as the 2013 World Car Design of the Year. Commenting on this achievement, Ian Callum, Director of Design, Jaguar, said: ”No design project has given me greater pleasure than the creation of the F-TYPE. It’s a project I’ve looked forward to from the moment I joined Jaguar, and it’s one that’s given my team and I great satisfaction. The F-TYPE is a sports car that is true to Jaguar’s design values – beauty of line and purity of form – and I’m honoured that the World Car of the Year jury has recognised our work with this award.”

The Jaguar F-Type will be sold in India in two engine variants- V6 S and V8 S. The car will come to us via CBR route and is expected to cost INR 1.5 crores.

The V6 engine that powers the Jaguar F-Type V6 S displaces 3.0 litres and is forced fed by a supercharger. The engine has a max power output of 380PS. The F-Type V6 S has an electronically limited top whack of 275 kmph. The Jaguar F Type V8 S is powered by a 5.0 litre V8 supercharged engine that has a max power of 495PS. The more powerful variant has a top whack of 300 kmph. Both the engines come coupled with an 8-speed automatic gearbox that transmits power to the rear wheels.

Acer Iconia Tab B1-A71: for Rs 8K, it comes with low specs, high price

It is yet another affordable tablet launched in India. Acer Iconia Tab B1-A71, for Rs 8K, seems to have come with low specs, high price
Acer Iconia Tab B1-A71, despite coming from a respected PC and tablet manufacturer, seems to have come at least a year late. Had it arrived in the market at this time last year it would have been given a rousing welcome. But at this point of time and a year too late, I am not sure if is going to attract many takers in India, more so when there are innumerable tablets in the same price range offering much better specifications and features than  Acer Iconia Tab B1-A71.
We have many good tablets in the same price band from Indian tablet vendors and the latest HP 7 Slate too comes very close in price when compared to this, though its cost is higher by merely $20 or so. Several tablets already available in the Indian market including from Karbonn, Micromax and Lava seem better poised to impress the tablet fans, as they come with exactly almost same or lower price and matching or better specifications and features.
Lava’s 7-inch Etab Xtron running on Jelly Bean comes for just Rs 6499. The tab despite being priced on lower side comes with rather good specs and features. Coming with 7-inch TFT LCD display it comes with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels. Etab Xtron is powered by dual core Cortex A9 processor which has been clocked at 1.5GHz. Along with 1GB of DDR3 RAM and a Mali-400 quad core GPU, it packs enough punch to run all the features more than smoothly. As far as camera is concerned, Etab Xtron comes with 2 mega pixel front camera for video chatting. As far as its storage is concerned, it comes 8GB 8GB. But you can get as much as 32GB using a microSD card. But this is not the only good tablet in the market.
On the other hand Acer Iconia Tab B1-A71 that comes with 7-inch TFT display with 1024x600p resolution and 170p pixel density, seems a poor cousin of Lava’s 7-inch tablet. It is fitted with 1.2GHz processor, 512MB RAM and has two versions in 8 and 16GB variants. It comes with expandable storage options by using Microsd card. It merely comes with VGA front facing camera for video chatting. It also runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and is priced at Rs 7,999.

BenQ GH650 and GH210 formally announced in India

BenQ has launched two digital cameras belonging to its GH series going by the name GH650 and GH210 and in the process revealed the price of each shutter. The former hails from the superzoom category, whereas the latter qualifies as a member from the point and shoot section.
Beginning with the first digicam, it packs a 16MP Pana sensor and features 2x optical zoom. It offers ISO range of 100 – 6400 and the ability to capture videos at 720p. Measuring 120.2mm x 79mm x 87.1mm in dimensions, it tips the scales at 410 grams. Users will spot a 3-inch LCD screen fitted onto the camera’s form factor.

Additionally, a flash will reserve a seat for itself on the device’s frame showing off attributes like red-eye reduction, slow sync and more. Internally, the snapper presents a storage capacity of up to 98.7MB, but its knack to support a 32GB SD or SDHC card should douse users’ further hoarding needs.
Turning our attention to the other new entrant, it can be seen that this one too carries a 16MP sensor. At 160 grams, it tends to weigh a lot less than the aforementioned camera and even adopts a smaller frame with dimensions of 103.2mm x 58.5mm x 21.1mm. Moreover, it features ISO sensitivity of up to 1600.

Additional highlights of the camera cover a 2.7-inch LCD and an auto flash. Even though the inbuilt storage offering stands to be quite low at only 13.6MB, the overall memory can be expanded up to 4GB using an SD card. In the event this too proves to be insufficient, the device carries SDHC and SDXC card slots, which permit expansions of up to 32GB and 64GB, respectively.

The BenQ GH650 has been made available at an amount of Rs. 11,990 solely in the black color. The GH210 on the other hand has been pegged at Rs. 7,490 and can be found in a hue of red. At present, Flipkart is the only online shopping outlet which has openly announced it plans to stash the low-range model amongst the two. The digicam hasn’t been put up for pre-order yet, but interested folks can ask the e-retailer to notify them when the stock arrives. Those on the look out for additional options can check out Canon’s new range of shutters as well as Nikon’s latest Spring Series.

Rediff homepage gets a makeover, sports grid view

The main homepage of Rediff has undergone a facelift and anyone paying a visit to the website will find every piece of news meticulously segregated in a grid layout. This should appear pleasant to users’ eyes and at the same time, gather tidbits of similar information under the relevant tile.
Having being overhauled on April 29, the online portal which has been the source for proffering details ranging from entertainment to shopping services, now shows off a layout touting 30 headlines. Be it politics, sports or movies; these tiles cover news from various fields and places them under one roof.

Clearly, the company’s e-commerce platform wouldn’t be left behind in this makeover session. While the news-related tiles have received their fair share of room, the trade-dependent section has reserved a massive space on the right side of the page for itself as well. This majorly comes across as an act to draw extra attention by boosting the visibility of this segment.
As everybody knows, acquiring the advantages of the Internet is no more restricted to desktop computers and laptops. Speaking on similar lines, Ajit Balakrishnan, the company’s chairman and CEO said that their services are increasingly being consumed by multiple mobile gadgets. This is why, the transition has basically taken place to smoothen the process of accessing the portal for those employing smartphones and tablets as a medium.

The company has remarked that this development has been undertaken based on user feedback. All things considered, the bumped up version mainly aims at bagging in slate and smartphone owners, while attempting to push forth the highly demanded options from its e-commerce segment. In other words, the fresh layout should not only enhance users’ experience like the official has stated, but also work in the favor of the news portal by attracting more people to consume its services.
This appears to be a bold attempt by Rediff, but even so, there are a couple of things that the company visibly seems to have overlooked. For starters, it takes a while to differentiate between ads and news owing to the similarity of their appearance. Also, the odd placement of tiles has left the homepage with some blank spaces, sporting somewhat of a patchy layout.

Google Glass: Let the evil commence

Summary: Glass has now been 'jailbroken' with a well-documented exploit. So what can you (or others) do with a hacked headset? Apparently, a whole lot.

I was initially interested in contacting Android and iOS hacker extraordinaire Jay Freeman (aka, "Saurik") because he had recently notified the Android development community on Twitter that he had successfully "rooted" his Google Glass headset, with the bragging rights displayed below.

(Image: Jay Freeman)

Freeman has since released a lengthy account of how the exploit was accomplished, providing the bits and the procedure to repeat it, and has offered a number of warnings to the Glass community regarding just how ineffective the security on the device currently is.
I wanted to know from Freeman if, once rooted, it is possible to programmatically disable the "recording LED indicator" on the device, so that one could stealthily record without any indication to the subject that they are being captured on-camera.
As it turns out, there is no such indicator light on the "Explorer" version of Google Glass that has recently shipped to the first generation of users and developers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the headset. Duh.
Still, there's room to make the device even stealthier. As Freeman explained to me during a phone interview, although there's no recording indicator per se, if you are being recorded, it's readily apparent from video activity being reflected off the wearer's eye prism that something is going on, particularly if you are in close proximity to the person.
But that can be changed once a Glass headset is rooted. Because Glass is an Android device, runs an ARM-based Linux kernel, and can run Android user space programs and custom libraries, any savvy developer can create code that modifies the default behavior in such a way that recording can occur with no display activity showing in the eye prism whatsoever.
And while the default video recording is 10 seconds, code could also be written that begins and stops recording for as long as needed with a custom gesture or head movement, or even innocuous custom voice commands like: "Boy, I'm tired" to begin, and "Boy, I need coffee" to end it.
You could write and side load an application that polls the camera and takes a still photo every 30 seconds, should you say ... want to "case" and thoroughly photodocument a place of business prior to committing a crime, or even engage in corporate espionage. Or simply capture ambient audio from unsuspecting people around you.

So while the 12.5GB of usable storage on this first version of Glass is fairly meager for storing HD video, it's plenty of space for storing still image JPG files and 64Kbps compressed audio. And that's not counting storage that could be accessed in the cloud in places like Dropbox, or even using a personal wi-fi connection to a smartphone with a large amount of internal memory.
The 5MP camera and the audio pickup of the current Glass Explorer Edition is fairly unspectacular. But once the device's ROM gets into the wild, and/or if an AOSP version of Glass's Android OS is ever published, there's certainly nothing to stop an OEM from producing a superior headset with optical zoom, a higher-resolution CMOS with superior light sensitivity, possibly even night vision, and significantly better microphones.
While Glass' current battery time is limited to about 5 hours of regular use and 20 minutes of run time while doing video recording, extended recording of video and audio could be accomplished through a thin USB connector wire (painted to match hair and skin color) hidden behind the neck, leading to a large external battery hidden in a coat or a vest such as, say, the $75 12000mah New Trent iCarrier that I carry with me on business trips to charge my smartphones.
Google intended the first version of Glass to look nerdy and clearly like a wearable computing device. But any number of techniques could be used to conceal the active components of the product through good industrial design and color blending, as well as through the use of prosthetics, makeup and hairstyles.
And if the existing Android OEM ecosystem is of any indication, it's a virtual certainty that we'll see Glass headsets that are licensed by third parties.

"Evil Glass" may include all the software necessary to turn a 14-year-old into a walking stealth surveillance device that would have been the envy of the Mossad or China's Ministry of State Security.

Once you have root on a Glass headset, any number of custom software packages could be installed without Google being able to prevent one from doing things that would make your hair stand on end, such as on-the-fly image and audio processing.
This is the kind of stuff that until now, only major intelligence agencies could do with very expensive surveillance equipment. Just wait until Israeli and Eastern European startups, which are staffed with former intelligence personnel who have a huge wealth of knowledge in using this kind of technology, get a hold of this thing.
There are tons of unlicensed Android phones and tablets being produced in China. Once the basic spec of Glass is available, there's nothing to stop an unscrupulous company in Asia from creating a Glass clone that's totally open without any hacking required.
Such an "Evil Glass" may include all the software necessary to turn a 14-year-old into a walking stealth surveillance device that would have been the envy of the Mossad or China's Ministry of State Security only five or 10 years ago.
So we know that once a headset is rooted, the wearer can do all sorts of stuff with the device that Google never intended for them to do with it, and there are Glass applications already in the mind's eye of malicious people ready to use them for nefarious purposes.
But what about stuff that isn't being perpetrated by the wearer? What if a Glass headset starts doing stuff without the wearer's knowledge?
Well, as it turns out, as Freeman so thoroughly documents and explains on his website, there's a lot of potential for that, too.
Because the current implementation of Glass has no "pin lock" like an Android phone or tablet has, the device is always active when it is turned on, and thus it would be relatively simple to inject a headset using a USB-connected device and the Android SDK with an exploit along with a malware playload that say ... snaps pictures and records audio of everything you do, and stores and forwards it over the internet to the hacker without the wearer's knowledge.
In short, if you buy a Glass device, don't let the thing out of your sight.
Will Glass be used to "do the evil" that Google has pledged it would never engage in? Talk back and let me know.

Nokia India introduces Lumia 720

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Nokia India launched the latest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 720, in Chennai on Tuesday. Apart from the latest addition to its power packed devices, the cell phone manufacturer has introduced newer price points.
The Lumia WP8 range is now available  in the price range between Rs 10, 499 for the Nokia Lumia 520 to Rs 38, 000 for the Nokia Lumia 920. Other highlights include the latest EMI offer at zero per cent interest, no down payment and no processing fee features, that will enable customers to avail Nokia Lumia devices in six equal monthly installments.

Fly Mobile launches 4 new Android devices in India

Top of the line F45S boasts a dual core processor, 4.5 inch qHD display, 13 megapixel camera and is priced at Rs 11,500.

Fly Mobile has revamped its Android lineup with three phones and a tablet. The top of the line Fly F45s is priced at Rs 11,500 and comes with a 4.5 inch qHD (960 × 540 pixel) display and dual core 1.2 GHz processor.

This Android 4.1 Jelly Bean phone comes with a 12 megapixel rear camera with features like auto focus and LED flash, and a 3 megapixel unit in the front. It also has 1 GB RAM, 4 GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32 GB, connectivity features including 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, and a 2050 mAh battery. However, there are many phones from Intex, iBall, Xolo and Karbonn with similar specifications and better pricing.
In fact Karbonn offers a quad core phone with all the specs (except camera) matching this Fly Mobile handset, which takes the limelight away from this almost forgotten brand.

Fly has also launched a 5 inch phone, called Fly F51. It comes with a 5 inch display with WVGA resolution of 480 x 800 pixel and it has a 5 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front camera. The Android 4.0 ICS based phone comes with a 1 GHz dual core processor and has 4 GB internal memory and an 1800 mAh battery.
The phone is priced at Rs 7,790, which looks to be on the higher side given that it is a 2G only phone while Spice) and Micromax are already offering similar products at a much lower price.
Fly F40 is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread based 2G only phone with a 4 inch display and 1 GHz dual core processor. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera at the back and a VGA camera up front. There is a 1400 mAh battery powering the device. The phone is priced at Rs 4,500, which is not bad. The company has launched an 8 inch tablet based on Android 4.1 and it is priced at Rs 13,499. The tablet sports a single SIM slot with 3G support. It has an 8 inch display with 1024 x 768 pixel resolution, which is good.
The tablet has a 3.2 megapixel camera at the back and a 2 megapixel front camera. It is well endowed with features like proximity sensor, gravity sensor, accelerometer, video player, video recorder, FM, GPS, GPRS, Edge, 3G and Bluetooth. In fact, it is one of the rare tablets with FM radio. Given the features the price seems to be nice for this tablet too, although much will depend on the quality of the product.
Overall only the tablet from Fly manages to impress us with its specifications and price, and while the rest of the phones are fine in the specifications department, in terms of pricing we think they are slightly on the higher side. May be price correction in the retail market will address that for Fly Mobile.

Women cops only around 2% of total force

Intex has placed the i-Buddy Connect 3G under the spotlight and to be honest, the tablet barely deflects from its predecessor, in spite of flashing a relatively higher price. The slate targets students belonging to grade 1 to 12, proffering NCERT textbooks through the Educlass app which it comes pre-loaded with.
Just like its older brother, the Intex i-Buddy Connect 3G has been constructed around a screen territory that measures 7 inches diagonally. One of its main disadvantages is that it has chosen to treat users to a scoop full of Android Ice Cream Sandwich in this time and age of Jelly Bean.

Nevertheless, the slate in question comprises of agreeable developments with respect to the onboard CPU as well. Instead of packing a single core 1GHz chipset like its non-3G sibling, it has been crafted to a be equipped with a processor housing dual cores clocked at 1GHz. It moreover offers an entire gigabyte of RAM as opposed to system memory of 512MB that has been put forth by the earlier model.
The company has set aside 4GB of onboard memory bearing users’ hoarding needs in mind. This is accompanied by a microSD card slot which has been incorporated to ensure expansions of up to 32GB.
As seen in the picture embedded below, the rear panel has welcomed a 3MP camera in case users’ feel the urge to click images and record videos. One of the benefits of including 3G is that it complements the embedded 1.3MP front-facing webcam’s functions of facilitating live face-to-face conversations. Of course, owners can carry out video conferences over integrated Wi-Fi as well.

Keeping the device alive and kicking while it carries out the aforementioned functions is a 3,500mAh battery. Sadly, details concerning the operation time which users can derive on a single charge still remain out of reach.
Available in shades of black and brown, the Intex i-Buddy Connect 3G is said to have landed in over 50 company-owned stores across India and has been made available through more than 15,000 distributors at Rs. 9,990. As for the tablet being stocked with local e-retailers, it cannot be found on any of the online shopping portals as of now.

Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals

 

 Lost to the world: The first website. At the time, few imagined how ubiquitous the technology would become

A team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched a project to re-create the first web page.

The aim is to preserve the original hardware and software associated with the birth of the web.
The world wide web was developed by Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee while working at Cern.
The initiative coincides with the 20th anniversary of the research centre giving the web to the world.

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I want my children to be able to understand the significance of this point in time: the web is already so ubiquitous - so, well, normal - that one risks failing to see how fundamentally it has changed”

Dan Noyes Cern web manager

According to Dan Noyes, the web manager for Cern's communication group, re-creation of the world's first website will enable future generations to explore, examine and think about how the web is changing modern life.

"I want my children to be able to understand the significance of this point in time: the web is already so ubiquitous - so, well, normal - that one risks failing to see how fundamentally it has changed," he told BBC News
"We are in a unique moment where we can still switch on the first web server and experience it. We want to document and preserve that".
The hope is that the restoration of the first web page and web site will serve as a reminder and inspiration of the web's fundamental values.
At the heart of the original web is technology to decentralise control and make access to information freely available to all. It is this architecture that seems to imbue those that work with the web with a culture of free expression, a belief in universal access and a tendency toward decentralising information.
Subversive It is the early technology's innate ability to subvert that makes re-creation of the first website especially interesting.
While I was at Cern it was clear in speaking to those involved with the project that it means much more than refurbishing old computers and installing them with early software: it is about enshrining a powerful idea that they believe is gradually changing the world.

Twenty years ago Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee asked Cern to give the web to the world free

I went to Sir Tim's old office where he worked at Cern's IT department trying to find new ways to handle the vast amount of data the particle accelerators were producing.
I was not allowed in because apparently the present incumbent is fed up with people wanting to go into the office.
But waiting outside was someone who worked at Cern as a young researcher at the same time as Sir Tim. James Gillies has since risen to be Cern's head of communications. He is occasionally referred to as the organisation's half-spin doctor, a reference to one of the properties of some sub-atomic particles.
Amazing dream Mr Gillies is among those involved in the project. I asked him why he wanted to restore the first website.
"One of my dreams is to enable people to see what that early web experience was like," was the reply.
"You might have thought that the first browser would be very primitive but it was not. It had graphical capabilities. You could edit into it straightaway. It was an amazing thing. It was a very sophisticated thing."

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One of my dreams is to enable people to see what that early web experience was like... It was an amazing thing”

James Gillies Co-author, How the Web Was Born

Those not heavily into web technology may be sceptical of the idea that using a 20-year-old machine and software to view text on a web page might be a thrilling experience.

But Mr Gillies and Mr Noyes believe that the first web page and web site is worth resurrecting because embedded within the original systems developed by Sir Tim are the principles of universality and universal access that many enthusiasts at the time hoped would eventually make the world a fairer and more equal place.
The first browser, for example, allowed users to edit and write directly into the content they were viewing, a feature not available on present-day browsers.
Ideals eroded And early on in the world wide web's development, Nicola Pellow, who worked with Sir Tim at Cern on the www project, produced a simple browser to view content that did not require an expensive powerful computer and so made the technology available to anyone with a simple computer.
According to Mr Noyes, many of the values that went into that original vision have now been eroded. His aim, he says, is to "go back in time and somehow preserve that experience".

Soon to be refurbished: The NeXT computer that was home to the world's first website

"This universal access of information and flexibility of delivery is something that we are struggling to re-create and deal with now.
"Present-day browsers offer gorgeous experiences but when we go back and look at the early browsers I think we have lost some of the features that Tim Berners-Lee had in mind."
Mr Noyes is reaching out to ask those who were involved in the NeXT computers used by Sir Tim for advice on how to restore the original machines.
Awe The machines were the most advanced of their time. Sir Tim used two of them to construct the web. One of them is on show in an out-of-the-way cabinet outside Mr Noyes's office.
I told him that as I approached the sleek black machine I felt drawn towards it and compelled to pause, reflect and admire in awe.
"So just imagine the reaction of passers-by if it was possible to bring the machine back to life," he responded, with a twinkle in his eye.
The initiative coincides with the 20th anniversary of Cern giving the web away to the world free.

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Keeping the web free and freely available is almost a human right”

Prof Nigel Shadbolt Southampton University

There was a serious discussion by Cern's management in 1993 about whether the organisation should remain the home of the web or whether it should focus on its core mission of basic research in physics.

Sir Tim and his colleagues on the project argued that Cern should not claim ownership of the web.
Great giveaway Management agreed and signed a legal document that made the web publicly available in such a way that no one could claim ownership of it and that would ensure it was a free and open standard for everyone to use.
Mr Gillies believes that the document is "the single most valuable document in the history of the world wide web".
He says: "Without it you would have had web-like things but they would have belonged to Microsoft or Apple or Vodafone or whoever else. You would not have a single open standard for everyone."
The web has not brought about the degree of social change some had envisaged 20 years ago. Most web sites, including this one, still tend towards one-way communication. The web space is still dominated by a handful of powerful online companies.

A screen shot from the first browser: Those who saw it say it was "amazing and sophisticated". It allowed people to write directly into content, a feature that modern-day browsers no longer have

But those who study the world wide web, such as Prof Nigel Shadbolt, of Southampton University, believe the principles on which it was built are worth preserving and there is no better monument to them than the first website.
"We have to defend the principle of universality and universal access," he told BBC News.
"That it does not fall into a special set of standards that certain organisations and corporations control. So keeping the web free and freely available is almost a human right."

Launch pad: Micromax Canvas 3D A115

The claim to fame for this new Android smartphone from Micromax is a 5-inch 3D display (800 x 480 pixels).

Micromax Canvas 3D A115

The claim to fame for this new Android smartphone from Micromax is a 5-inch 3D display (800 x 480 pixels). It uses autostereoscopic 3D technology so that the you can view a 3D image without any 3D glasses.

Micromax has preloaded some 3D games and an app to download 3D content. Specs include a 1Ghz dual core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage (expandable by 32GB) and a 2,000mAh battery. Other features include dual SIM, 5MP rear

Launch pad: Spice smart Flo Pace2 Mi 502

Spice smart Flo Pace2 Mi 502:

This is one of the cheapest smartphones with a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) touchscreen and that too in a slim 9.6mm body.

This is one of the cheapest smartphones with a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) touchscreen and that too in a slim 9.6mm body.

Inside is a 1Ghz dual core processor, 512MB RAM and 512MB internal storage for the Android 4.0 OS. It sports a 5MP rear camera with dual LED flash, 1.3MP front camera, expandable storage and a large 2,100mAh battery.

It does not include support for 3G networks though. A screen protector and phone case is included in the box.

Now, charge your mobile phone with water

Researchers in Sweden have developed a new technique where you can charge your devices anywhere without electricity.

WASHINGTON: Researchers in Sweden have developed a new technique where you can charge your devices anywhere without electricity, provided there is a water source nearby. Just add a spoonful and get instant power, anytime anywhere.

Handy for anyone who spends time away from electricity, the small, lightweight PowerTrekk could power critical devices for warfighters and aid workers deployed to remote areas of the world, Fox News reported.

Developed by a team in Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology and made by MyFC, it's the world's first water-activated charging device that powers using fresh or salt water, the developers claimed. It can extend battery life up to 3 watts.

So if you take an iPhone, the charge would be enough for between 25 and 100 per cent of its battery capacity. Any convenient water can be harvested for power, from a kitchen faucet through to a puddle in the jungle.

Solar charging can be affected by the weather and the position of the sun, of course, and not hugely helpful if your urgent power shortage hits at night. Water charging isn't hindered by these external factors. Even in a desert, a spoonful of water from your thermos can give you power.

The new device leverages the team's more than 15 years of research on micro fuel cell technology and small flat Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells at the Department of Applied Electrochemistry at KTH.

To use the PowerTrekk charger, you fill-up water compartment with about one tablespoon, close the lid and connect it to the electronic device with a USB cable. It starts charging automatically as the water inside interacts with a small disposable metal disc causing hydrogen gas to be released.

When the gas combines with oxygen it converts chemical energy into electrical energy. While in many ways fuel cells are similar to batteries, they are different in that electrodes do not become consumed making them finite.

Instead provided water and air is provided to the electrodes, these fuel cells will run. Very green power, water vapor is the only by-product.

Currently, Powertrekk works with devices like cell and smartphones, digital cameras, iPods and GPS. The company is looking into developing their fuel cells to function for larger devices like laptops.

HTC 608t smartphone with dual-speakers revealed

Images of the upcoming HTC 608t handset with dual-speakers and Beats audio technology integration surfaces for China region.

HTC is working a smartphone with model number HTC 608t which will initially be meant for China region. Japanese blog noted that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for Telecom Equipments has certified the HTC 608t smartphone. This HTC handset appears to be a mid-range device.
Running Android mobile operating system, this smartphone appears to be a successor of the current HTC One SV smartphone with a dual-SIM capability.

The HTC 608t will feature dual speakers in the front just like the one found in the HTC One and will have a camera at the back with LED flash above it.
Of course the smartphone will feature Beats Audio integration. No further details could be inferred from the listing. HTC is expected to announce this dual-SIM smartphone sometime later this year.

Apple iPhone 5S with 13 MP camera coming in July?

Leaked documents point at the possible arrival of the purported Apple iPhone 5S with 13 megapixel camera in the month of July.

Apple is reportedly working to bring its next generation iPhone sometime in the month of July. Apple enthusiast French website NoWhereElse.fr claimed to have got its hands on a Japanese Telecom major KDDI's document stating the arrival of the iPhone 5S in July this year. As of now, the authenticity of the document cannot be confirmed.
Apple has been working for the iPhone 5 successor since a while but has been tight-lipped in that regard. Rumors surrounding the iPhone 5 successor cite it to be an iPhone 5S - basically a tweaked version of the iPhone 5.

The leaked document indicates that the next iPhone will be dubbed as iPhone 5S and will arrive with a 13 megapixel camera sensor. This image sensor will bring several bunch of imaging capabilities to make the phone top class imaging smartphone.

Last year, Apple had applied for a patent that basically encompasses biometric features in an iPhone model. The leaked document hints that Apple will be integrating the fingerprint reading capabilities in the iPhone 5S model. It goes without saying that the iPhone 5S will get the next generation iOS 7 update whenever it is ready.
Based on the document, we concur that it is a promotion and marketing document and actual details might change whenever the iPhone 5S is closer to launch.

LG Optimus L3 II E425 Specification

• General

• Network
  GSM
• Style
  Bar
• Dimensions
  102.6 x 61.1 x 11.9 mm
• Weight
  125 g (With Battery)
• Battery Type
  Li-Ion 1540 mAh

• Display

• Display Colors
  256K Colors, QVGA
• Display Resolution
  320 x 240 Pixels

• Memory

• Memory InBuilt
  4 GB (Internal) + 1.75 GB (User Available Memory)
• Memory Extended
  MicroSD upto 32 GB

• Messaging

• MMS
  Yes
• Email
  Yes
• Push Mail
  No

• Camera

• Camera
  Yes
• Mega Pixels
  3.0 MP, 2048 x 1536 Pixels, CMOS
• Camera Zoom
  4x Digital Zoom with Fixed-Focus
• Video Capture
  MP4, 3GP

• Connectivity

• Ports
  USB Port
• Infrared
  No
• Bluetooth
  Bluetooth v3.0
• A2DP
  No
• Wifi
  Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Internet
  GPRS Class 12, EDGE Class 12

• Entertainment

• Music Player
  MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, WAV, AC3, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, WMA, WAV
• FM Radio
  Yes
• Games
  Yes
• Ring Tones
  Yes
• Loud Speaker
  Yes

• Technology

• 3G
  HSDPA upto 7.2 Mbps
• OS
  Android OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
• Interface
  LG OPTIMUS v3.0 User Interface
• Dual Sim
  No
• QWERTY
  Yes

• Network

• Operating Frequency
  Quad-band GSM 850 /900 /1800 /1900 MHz
• Talk Time
  Upto 8 Hours
• Standby Time
  Upto 480 Hours
• GPS
  A-GPS, Google Navigation

• Others Features

• Special Features
  Pre-set equalizer, Gtalk, Messanger, Document Viewer (Excel, Power Point, Word, PDF), Social Networking, Calendar, Alarm Clock, Timer, World Clock, Stop Watch, Calculator, Calendar, Memo, Voice Recording, Multitasking, Quite Time, Advance Quick Memo, Privacy Keeper, Battery Saver, Location and Security, Icon Customizer, Theme (Optimus, Cozywall, Marshmallow), Premium L Style Design

Mercedes Benz reveals the new range of Sprinter van

Mercedes Benz announced the new Sprinter van with a mild facelift and a range of new engines which makes it the first van to meet the future Euro VI emissions standard. Sales are scheduled to begin in June 2013.

The new Mercedes Benz Sprinter van comes with enhanced interior and exterior. Apart from this, it is offered in a new range of engines, which offer best in class mileage. Bookings will open in June,
while deliveries will commence in September 2013.
The new range of engines includes a choice of four and six cylinder units with outputs ranging from 95 hp (70 kW) to 190 hp (140 kW). The performance of diesel engines has remained unchaged. But, the new 1.8L petrol engine with direct injection, now offers 156 hp and is EURO VI compliant. Transmission is taken care by a ECO-Gear six-speed manual transmission or the 7G-TRONIC PLUS seven-speed automatic transmission with lock-up clutch. Mercedes Benz Sprinter van with the BlueEFFICIENCY PLUS efficiency package has reduced fuel consumption to a minimum of 44.4 mpg or 15.4 kmpl (NEDC combined). Price is not revealed yet, it will be disclosed closer to launch dates.

Bugatti shows how their Grand Sport Vitesse WRC achieved 408.84 kmph

Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Car or WRC was in news earlier this month, when it achieved a top speed of 408.84 kmph or 255.53 mph. They have now revealed a video of the same.

Amid all the drama earlier this month, which saw Guinness World Records stripping Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport of it’s world’s fastest car title, and then reinstating the same within a matter of days, Bugatti was in the middle of creating a new record.

Bugatti was at the Ehra-Lessien high-speed test track facility (which features 9 kms arrow-straight tarmac), owned by Volkswagen. They had come along with their Grand Sport Vitesse WRC and racing driver, Anthony Liu. The plan was to record a top speed of their new open-top, which features an engine that generates 1,200 PS. They recorded a top speed of 408.84 kmpl, which makes it the fastest open-top car in the world. Even Guinness World Records, have registered this car as the fastest open-top production car in the world. Watch the video below to see Anthony and Bugatti achieve a 408.84 kmph.

Mahindra Vibe diesel hatchback is a new segment for SUV maker

Mahindra & Mahindra, the largest utility vehicle manufacture in India, is soon to introduce its sub 4 meter hatchback – Mahindra Vibe, thereby foraying into the compact car segment. Based on Mahindra Verito sedan, the Vibe hatchback is scheduled for launch in May 2013 where it will compete with other premium hatchbacks such as the Maruti Suzuki Swift and Hyundai i20, as well as compact sedans.

This spacious hatchback is being offered only with a diesel engine. It possesses a spacious boot, despite the fact that it is being presented in a sub 4 meter category. Powered by Renault’s 1.5 liter K9K diesel engine, also seen in the Verito Sedan, the engine is capable of producing 68 bhp power and is mated to a five speed manual gearbox. Targeting customers on the lookout for power, performance, space and higher level of fuel efficiency, Vibe hatchback is expected to retail competitively at a little below Rs 6 lakhs. With the upcoming Vibe, M&M is expecting to draw the attention of a younger buyer profile while at the same time catering to the needs of diesel engine favouritists in India. M&M is in the meanwhile, thriving on their two very successful compact SUV models – Quanto and Rexton. Rexton is an instant success in Indian markets and is attracting major sales. M&M recently launched their e2o electric vehicle and though the vehicle possesses outstanding features, it has failed to receive bookings to the degree the company expected.

Volkswagen Passat to run on Apollo tyres globally?

Founded in 1976 and Head-quartered in Vadodara, Apollo tyres has reportedly won the contract to supply tyres for Volkswagen Passat globally. In competition were global players like Bridgestone, Pirelli and Michelin.

Apollo Tyres is the largest tyre manufacturer in India. It features in the top 15 tyre manufacturers in the world today, and they aim to enter the top 10 by 2016. The news about the deal between Apollo and Volkswagen was revealed by AutoCar India, but it is yet to be officially confirmed by either Apollo Tyres, or Volkswagen.

In order to realize their dream of becoming one of the top 10 tyre manufacturers in the world, Apollo has already made inroads into Europe. Present in 14 countries across Europe, the company has restructured its R&D team so as to meet these growing demands. Earlier this year, Apollo Tyres opened a global R&D Center at Enschede, Netherlands. Apollo Tyres was also honored with the ‘Tyre Manufacturer of the Year’ Award at an international event in Cologne, Germany. It has also made inroads into African markets. Apart from this, in India, it is all set to bring in their new 4G tyre series ranging from sizes of 12 to 18 inches for Indian markets.
Apollo Tyres is also introducing their Dutch brand Vredestein in India by Q3 2013. This brand will be high performance and durable tyres aimed at Tier I and Tier II cities across India. The range will include Sportrac 5, Ultrac Cento and Ultrac Sessanta and Sessanta SUV tyres. Prices have not been announced as on date. Vredestein is currently official tyre partners for Audi Driving Experience being offered at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida.

McLaren P1 stars in a new video: Tested to Extremes

McLaren P1, the all new British hypercar is currently making sounds for all the right reasons. The car is back in news as McLaren revealed today that they are continuing to test the P1 extensively, as shown in the new video here.

Shown publicly at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, McLaren will begin the deliveries of the P1 in a few months. But until then, they want to utilize every bit of time on their hand in testing their new P1. Here they are seen testing the P1 in the extreme climate of Arctic Circle, in northern Sweden in the video below.

McLaren says, this is all part of their durability testing for the P1, after all they need to turn every leaf in the book in order to deliver a car which they claim is the best driver’s car. Speaking more about their testing phase, “The testing schedule continues at pace, with XP prototypes running extensively across the globe, working to optimise the groundbreaking systems and technologies which have been borne of 50 years of race-winning knowledge and expertise.” Demand for P1 has already crossed the production capacity, which is limited to just 375 units. The new P1 Hyper car will be priced at $1.15 million (INR 6,20,97,700). It is powered by a 3.8 liter turbocharged V8 engine and an electric motor, together offering 903 hp power, resulting in a top speed of 350 kmph. P1 can accelerate from 0 to 100 kmph in 3 seconds and from 0 to 200 kmph in 7 seconds.

Land Rover Experience off-roading events announced for India

Land Rover is celebrating its 65th anniversary and to join in the celebrations, Land Rover India has announced off-roading events called Land Rover Experience across India.

Land Rover celebrates its 65th anniversary today, on April 30, 2013. Packington Estate will be the party ground wherein a “HUE” shaped cake is being flown in for the occasion, by Royal Navy Lynx helicopter.

Air displays will be conducted by a member of Black Cats Royal Navy team (see video below for eg.) who are noted for entertaining audiences with their innovative and thrilling air displays. Besides this, a total of 150 heritage vehicles will be in attendance and on display at Packington Estate which was the original site for testing of Land Rover way back in 1947-48. These vehicles made their appearance towards end of 1960 and early 1970 and were looked upon as a major event in the 65 year history of Land Rover. Along with this, Land Rover will also display their current gen of SUVs, the Defender, Discovery, Freelander, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Evoque – and include the brand’s latest technological innovations in the form of the new Electric Defender research vehicle and the world’s first 9-speed transmission for a passenger car.
Land Rover India also celebrates this 65th anniversary. To mark this historic event, the company will be launching its first-ever Land Rover Experience customer events in the country, which will get off to a start on May 3, 2013 at Sahara Aamby Valley, Lonavala, where customers will experience Land Rover’s unrivalled all-terrain capabilities.
John Edwards, Land Rover’s Global Brand Director says: “Land Rover is celebrating 65 years of proud heritage. It is in fact a dual celebration, as March saw Land Rover deliver the strongest ever monthly and quarterly sales performance in its history.
“Since 1948, every component in our vehicles has been designed and engineered with intent and Land Rover continues to this day, to build the world’s most capable all-purpose vehicles. A blend of refinement, performance and unmatched all-terrain capability make Land Rover vehicles distinctive and unique, ready to tackle the world’s most challenging and inhospitable terrain.”
John Edwards continues: “The all-new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport are the result of unprecedented investment in technology, in engineering and in our manufacturing facilities to produce the world’s first SUVs with a lightweight aluminium body structure. Investing in innovation has always been the lifeblood of Land Rover and we will continue to develop innovative new technology and sustainable motoring solutions for the future, whilst retaining the class-leading and legendary breadth of capability that Land Rover’s heritage is built upon.”