Google is working on another messaging app -Report

Google is working hard to launch a messaging service similar to WhatsApp. Because what the world definitely needs is another messaging app.

While every tech company under the suns continues to try and crack messaging once and for all without ever really seeming to know how to go about it— the Times suggests  that Google is working on a WhatsApp competitor, initially focused on emerging markets like India.

What’s more, the report claims , the app won’t require users to use a Google login, and it will be free to use. That is, in isolation, arguably not a bad idea; after all, emerging markets are where WhatsApp started, and where much of its popularity continues to lie.

But of all the things that Google needs to offer, yet another messaging app is not one of them. With a cluttered array of ways to receive messages from our nearest and dearest, what the world needs is unification of messaging — not further fragmentation. Hopefully that’s the next trick up its sleeve. 

Matter=Anti-matter ?

credit:azdani Lab, Princeton University

As we all know the matter and anti-matter are totally opposites to each other,as they have protons and anti-protons,which will attack each other when they are placed close.But the scientists have successfully imaged the Majorana particle which is matter and anti-matter at the same time.They created it by placing a string of iron atoms on top of a lead superconductor, forming pairs of electrons and antielectrons -- except for one lone electron at the end of the chain, which exhibited properties of both.

Though more testing is required to confirm its existence.Also it cant exist out of super-conductor.Many physicists believe that neutrinos are really Majorana particles, and proving that this is possible would go a long way toward supporting their theory.

Regional Navigation

ISRO will launch the third of seven series of satellites to put in place India's own navigation system on par with US' Global Positioning System (GPS) from the spaceport of Sriharikota on October 10. The launch has been scheduled at 1.56 AM on October 10, ISRO said today.

The IRNSS 1C satellite would be launched on the 28th flight of India's PSLV-C26 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, some 100 km from here. 

As part of its aspirations to build a regional navigational system equivalent to Global Positioning System of the US, ISRO plans to send seven satellites to put in place the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS). The first two satellites in the series, IRNSS 1A and IRNSS 1B were launched from Sriharikota on July 1 2013 and April 4 this year respectively.

ISRO needs to launch at least four of the seven satellites to start operations of the IRNSS, ISRO officials said.

The official twitter handle of ISRO tweeted, 

source:dna

Royalty-Fueds

In a glimpse of the financial stakes in the smartphone-patent wars, Microsoft Corp.Microsoft said Friday that Samsung Electronics Ltd,paid the software giant more than $1 billion for an annual fee to use Microsoft technology in Samsung phones.

Samsung sells smartphones and tablets powered by Google In Google’s Android software. But Microsoft has said some of its patents are included in Android technologies, such as methods for displaying multiple windows in a Web browser. Therefore, Samsung and other smartphone makers pay royalty fees to Microsoft for each Android device they sell.

Though,both of these giants were shy to bring this partnership to the world.

In the legal fight that started this summer, Microsoft complained that Samsung failed to honor a 2011 patent-licensing contract between the two companies. Samsung said Microsoft’s purchase ofNokia Corp.Nokia’s mobile-phone business in April violated the terms of a business contract between the companies, according to the court filing.

Microsoft is asking a judge to enforce the terms of the 2011 contract with Samsung and declare that the Nokia acquisition doesn’t invalidate the companies’ pre-existing agreement. Microsoft also is seeking $6.9 million in damages because Samsung was late paying the $1 billion royalty payment owed last fall.

source:TWSJ