Friday, 29 July 2016

BlackBerry DTEK50 Android Smartphone Launched


BlackBerry DTEK50 Android Smartphone Launched

BlackBerry Ltd divulged a second Android-construct handset in light of Tuesday, a gadget joining Alphabet Inc's well-known programming and expansive application inventory with the Canadian organization's security and profitability highlights at a lower cost.
The faded cell phone pioneer is trusting the DTEK50 will offer in more noteworthy numbers than the Priv, its first telephone utilizing the Android OS, which Chief Executive John Chen has said endured as a result of its high cost.
Blackberry said the 5.2-inch touchscreen-only DTEK50 is available from Tuesday for pre-order from BlackBerry's online shop in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands for $299 (generally Rs. 20,000). It arrangements to start dispatching the gadget on August 8.

At its November launch the Priv, which features a slide out console, cost $699 (generally Rs. 47,000) without an agreement in the United States and CAD 899 without an agreement in Canada. Blackberry trimmed the Priv's cost in April. 

Calling the DTEK50 "the world's most secure Android smartphone," BlackBerry said it will ready clients on the off chance that somebody is making remote utilization of its camera or amplifier, or getting to the telephone's area data. 

BlackBerry did not declare any circulation manages significant US bearers, with introductory US deals rather anticipated that would come for the most part by means of Best Buy Co Inc, Amazon.com Inc and BlackBerry's own particular online store.


Key Specs.

Design
Size

Height 147 mm / 5.79 in
Width 72.5 mm / 2.85 in
Depth 7.4 mm / 0.29 in


Weight
135g / 4.76 oz


Navigation
All-touch screen, with intuitive gesture based navigation


Keyboard
Onscreen BlackBerry® Keyboard
Contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalised learning engine that gets to know the way you type with on screen flick typing or seamless flow typing.


Dedicated keys
Volume Up/Down, Lock (for Power On/Off)
Customisable BlackBerry Convenience Key (usable as Mute Key when on an active call)

Display
Resolution
424 PPI
1920 x 1080 resolution
24-bit color depth


Screen Size
5.2” diagonal
16:9 aspect ratio

OS
Operating System
Android OS

Performance
Processor
Qualcomm 8952 with 64 bit Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 (Snapdragon 617 Octa -Core, 64 bit)


GPU
Adreno 405, 550MHz


Memory
3 GB RAM
16 GB Flash


Expandable memory
Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD memory card (Up to 2TB)


Ports
USB 2.0 fully supported with standard microUSB 2.0 cable (included in box)

Power
Battery


2610 mAh 4.4V non-removable Lithium Ion battery QC2.0 Enabled – 50% charge in 51 minutes

Battery life
Up to 17 hours mixed battery life
Up to 17 hours talk time
Up to 24 days’ standby time
Up to 40 hours’ audio playback 
Up to 8 hours’ video playback

Camera &
Video
Rear Camera
13-megapixel auto-focus camera.
Phase Detect Auto Focus.
(PDAF), Fast focus lock.
HDR.
6-element f2.0 lens.
Dual Tone LED Flash – Enhanced photo color balance.
4x digital zoom.
Continuous & touch to focus, face detection, image stabilisation
Panorama, Burst, Live Filters
Multi-frame Low Light Enhancement
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps


Front Camera
8MP Fixed-Focus, f2.2
1.125um pixel size
84˚ wide angle/field of view lens
Image & video stabilisation
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
Selfie Flash
Wide Selfie Mode (also known as Selfie Panorama)
Multi-Frame Low Light Enhancement

Multimedia
Image formats
BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WEBP


Audio & video formats
3GP, 3G2, AAC, AVI, ADTS, ASF, AWB, DIVX, FLAC, IMY, MID, MKV, MOV, MP3, MPEG-4, MXMF, OGG, OTA, RTTTL, RTX, WAV, WEBM, WMV, XMF


Audio & video encoding/decoding
MPEG-4, AAC+, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, DivX, EVRC, FLAC, H.263, H.264, H265/HEVC, MIDI, MP3, OPUS, PCM, QCELP, VC-1, VORBIS, VP8, VP9, WMA, WMA 9/10, WMA Pro, Xvid, eAAC+


Streaming protocols
HTTP(S) Progressive Download, HTTP(S) Live Streaming (HLS) version 3, RTSP (RTP, SDP
)
Apps
Pre-loaded apps
BlackBerry Applications:
BlackBerry® Keyboard, BlackBerry® Hub, BlackBerry Calendar, Contacts by BlackBerry, Notes by BlackBerry, Tasks by BlackBerry, BlackBerry Camera, BBM®, DTEK™ by BlackBerry®, BlackBerry Device Search, BlackBerry Launcher, BlackBerry Services, BlackBerry Help, BlackBerry Password Keeper, Microsoft exFAT Technology for BlackBerry, BlackBerry Content Transfer, Yahoo!® Finance

Android Applications:
Gmail™, Hangouts™, Google Chrome™, Google Drive™, Google Maps™, YouTube®, Google Play™, Google Photos, Messenger (SMS), Android Device Manager

Alerts & Notifications

Tone, Vibrate
On-screen or white LED indicator
(Some notification options are user configurable)

Networks & Connectivity
Network bands
North America and Latin America:
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 20, 29, 30(2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz)
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific:
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 20, 28A (2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)
TD-LTE 38, 40, 41 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)


Wi-Fi
802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz
802.11 a/n 5GHz
802.11 ac 5GHz
4G Mobile Hotspot
Wi-Fi Direct


FM Radio
Supported


Bluetooth
4.2 Low Energy (LE) and EDR


GPS
Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS
Support for User Plane and Control Plane GPS
GLONASS, BeiDou
OTDOA
Pre-loaded Google Maps


NFC
NFC technology is used to create a connection to share information between your BlackBerry device and other NFC-enabled devices or NFC tags. Features on DTEK50 that use NFC technology include Android Beam, Tap and Pay, and Tap and Go.


Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
Proximity
Ambient light
Hall Effect

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

At that point, a startup shutdown.

At that point, a startup shutdown.

In life, individuals recollect how things finished. A couple might be fluffy about the points of interest of their romance, for occurrence, however the particulars of a separation are dependably starkly clear.

All things considered, if the sun is setting on your startup, it's essential to make the last impression that leaves everybody with positive musings about you and your organization.

Tragically, this is typically happening while the organization is in all out fiasco mode: you're worried, your connections are fraying and your determination is devastated. All things considered, you should make a move so as to end the turbulence with however much balance as could reasonably be expected. You can't change the past, yet you can unquestionably decide how you are recalled.

Rip the Band-Aid off
- Nothing shows signs of improvement with time when you're discussing a fizzling startup. It resembles pulling a Band-Aid off- - the slower you act, the more difficult it feels. Consistently that passes by disintegrates your funds, your connections, and your rational soundness. The sooner you can slow down, the sooner you can go ahead to concentrate on something positive.

On the off chance that things didn't work out, that is alright. New businesses fall flat constantly, and there will dependably be another possibility.

Take proprietorship
- an ideal approach to confronting a coming up short wander is to take full responsibility for the result. Nobody needs to hear an account of victimhood or that the issue was another person's issue. The more you can take possession and acculturate the disappointment, the better gathering you'll likely get.

One method I've discovered actually helpful - and even cathartic- - is to compose a letter to myself clarifying, in the subtle element, why things didn't work out. Once the contemplations were out of my head and onto the page, I had the point of view to then reference the letter when discussing the business to individuals later on.

Give your group an unmistakable answer - Telling your group that it's amusement over is terrible. Be that as it may, what you need to maintain a strategic distance from is giving an unclear, non-particular purpose behind the shutdown. Be as clear as could be expected under the circumstances about what happened, where things stand and how this will influence them. On the off chance that they can't expressive what transpired, you didn't make an incredible showing with regards to articulating it to them.

On the off chance that conceivable, offer individuals any help that you can. That may mean opening up your system to help them discover an occupation, or if nothing else giving a sparkling reference.

Thank your clients - Your group and financial specialists may speak to many connections, yet your clients likely speak to hundreds or even thousands- - a number of which you didn't understand you had. These are the general population that will probably bolster you, later on, so telling them the amount you value them is critical.

In the event, that conceivable, offer the last blessing that is as individual as could be expected under the circumstances. Possibly you're shutting down your eatery. Offer to cook the last dinner yourself utilizing your most loved formula. Individuals will recall the offer- - regardless of the fact that they never take you up on it.

Level with your speculators - What you may discover astounding about telling your financial specialists that they lost the greater part of their cash is that they definitely know. Give your speculators credit; they're brilliant. Disclose to them what you set out to do, what presumptions fizzled and why. You don't have to apologize, you have to clarify.

What's more, thankfulness for their backing is pretty much as vital as a relevant clarification. Speculators adoration to back business visionaries that they know and love, regardless of the possibility that things didn't as a matter, of course, work out as expected amid a past cooperation.

Thank your loved ones - All through the excursion of building a business, the fervor and coming about the strain that you've experienced is reflected in the majority of your own connections.

Not just do those near you merit thankfulness for their bolster, they likewise should realize that you're alright. They have likely viewed your disposition change and are legitimately concerned. They'll need to realize this is behind you and that it's alright to discuss what happened.

Reset and reload - Much like a marathon runner needs to chill off, pulling the attachment on a startup qualifies you for take a break as well. In case you're excessively down and out, making it impossible to rest, accept a position that requires as meager thought as would be prudent to keep the bills paid while you take an ideal opportunity to clear your head.

What's more, when the dust settles, an ideal approach to putting the past behind you is to concentrate on what's to come. Put the majority of that anxious vitality into building something awesome and making utilization of what you realized.

There is always a next time.

By what means would we be able to expand efficiency in creating nations?

Developing countries have a history of determinant operating arrangements and pay through industry-level collective bargaining and union action. In his recent article for IZA World of Labor Carlos Lamarche from the University of Kentucky reviews the present evidence on collective bargaining in developing countries. Understanding the implications of such arrangements will effectively guide evidence-based affairs of state in promoting effective rules and policies. So, what will the profession apprehend on this issue with relevancy developing countries?

Lamarche demonstrates that late experimental confirmation from Latin America shows that arranging work rules at firm level as opposed to industry level may prompt more prominent profitability picks up.

Because of restricted information accessibility and quality and also the wide differing qualities of the institutional courses of action the confirmation on this issue for creating nations is meager. It is rich for more created economies, for example, the US and Europe, and it is bounteous on the impact of aggregate haggling on wages however not on profitability.

Haggling does not take after a solitary model crosswise over creating nations, or even nations in an area. Frameworks in Latin America change uncontrollably: Argentina has an exceptionally concentrated framework, and has one of the most astounding scope rates in the Western Hemisphere; though dissimilar to Chile has a decentralized framework.



Latin America gives the chance to concentrate on nations which have drastically changed the important organizations in the short-run. This permits us to see how changes in aggregate bartering can enhance efficiency since Labor market changes actualized in the mid-1990s over the district changed establishments and altogether decentralized transactions.

Furthermore, inside Latin America, Argentina is a particularly important case since it has solid unions and especially high aggregate dealing scope rates regardless of decentralization changes. This is important to look at the impacts of work works on coming about because of aggregate haggling concessions to profitability.

Argentina's generous business sector arranged changes in the mid-1990s brought decentralization into its aggregate bartering framework particularly moving from the customary and across the board business wide concurrences with restricting standards for understandings at lower levels to firm-level haggling.


Lamarche demonstrates critical contrasts in the impacts that work hones arranged in Argentina through aggregate haggling have on work efficiency prior and then afterward the changes. These outcomes propose that firm-level arrangements are connected with higher work profitability.

The relationship amongst profitability and work rules on releases, new advancements and preparing are certain after the decentralization. It was negative some time recently. These outcomes show that while industry-level haggling may bring down profitability by limiting administrative adaptability in light of business sector changes, firm-level transactions are more effective and enhance efficiency.

In spite of the proof talked about in Lamarche's article, the observational confirmation on the impact of compensation bartering on work profitability is simply starting to rise for creating nations. The assortment of institutional settings, financial conditions, and aggregate dealing scope and arrangement levels crosswise over creating nations, even in the same district, highlights the trouble of making cross-country inferences. In any case, Argentina's experience demonstrates that arrangements decentralizing aggregate haggling to the firm level can expand work profitability.

Of his work, Carlos Lamarche says: “In my article, I try to point out existing limitations of the analysis of collective bargaining in developing countries. I found myself very skeptical of fundamentally uncovering causal relationships and finding policies that can be easily generalizable from country to country. This is perhaps not too surprising… Nevertheless, I hope the article stimulates further discussion and analysis on the topic. I hope future generations of economists will advance knowledge to help improving institutions in developing countries.”
കടുത്ത സാമ്പത്തിക പ്രതിസന്ധിയാൽ കഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്ന കെനിയയിലെ ഗ്രാമത്തിലുള്ള ഹോട്ടലിൽ ഒരു ടൂറിസ്റ്റെത്തി.
റിസപ്ഷനിലെ കൌണ്ടറിൽ ഒരു നൂറുഡോളർ നോട്ട് വച്ചശേഷം അയാൾ എടുക്കാൻ പോകുന്ന മുറി പരിശോധിക്കാൻ പോയി.
ആ തക്കം നോക്കി ഹോട്ടലുടമ ആ നോട്ടെടുത്ത് ഇറച്ചിക്കടയിലെ പറ്റ് തീർക്കാനോടി.
ഇറച്ചിക്കടക്കാരൻ കാലികളെ വിതരണം ചെയ്യുന്നയാളുടെ കടംവീട്ടാനോടി.
കാലിക്കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ കാലിത്തീറ്റ കടംകൊടുത്തയാളുടെ കടംവീട്ടാനോടി.
കാലിത്തീറ്റ കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ മുതലാളിക്ക് പൈസ കൊടുക്കാൻ ഓടി .മുതലാളി മുമ്പ് ലോഡ്ജിൽ മുറിയെടുത്ത പൈസ കൊടുക്കാൻ ഹോട്ടലിലേക്കോടി.
ഹോട്ടലുടമ തനിക്കുകിട്ടിയ നൂറുഡോളർ നോട്ട് റിസപ്ഷനിലെ കൌണ്ടറിൽ വച്ചങ്ങനെ നിൽക്കുമ്പോൾ, നേരത്തെ മുറി നല്ലതാണോയെന്നു പരിശോധിക്കാൻ പോയ ടൂറിസ്റ്റ് തിരികെവന്ന് മുറി ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടാത്തത് കൊണ്ട് നൂറുഡോളർ നോട്ട് തിരികെയെടുത്ത് ഇറങ്ങിപ്പോയി‌.
ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ ആരുംഒന്നുംനേടിയില്ല, പക്ഷെ അത്രയുംആളുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ കടത്തിൽ നിന്ന് മുക്തരും ഭാവിയിലേക്ക് പ്രതീക്ഷയോടെ ഉറ്റുനോക്കുന്നവരുമാണ് !
ഇതാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ ലോകത്തിൽ നടക്കുന്ന മിക്ക ബിസിനസുകളുടെയും അവസ്ഥ !🙄🙄
അഥവാ ROLLING......

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

India is set to become the youngest country by 2020


This demographic potential offers India and its economy an unprecedented edge




Every third person in an Indian city today is a youth. In about seven years, the median individual in India will be 29 years, very likely a city-dweller, making it the youngest country in the world. India is set to experience a dynamic transformation as the population burden of the past turns into a demographic dividend, but the benefits will be tempered with social and spatial inequalities.

These are some of the findings of the ‘State of the Urban Youth, India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills,’ a report published by IRIS Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with UN-HABITAT.

A closer analysis of the urban youth suggests that greater political participation, engagement at a policy level and urgent attention to improving their quality of life can ensure that India enjoys the benefits of this dividend.

The report traces the incredible rise — and the eventual decline — of this cohort in India. The population in the age-group of 15-34 increased from 353 million in 2001 to 430 million in 2011. Current predictions suggest a steady increase in the youth population to 464 million by 2021 and finally a decline to 458 million by 2026.

By 2020, India is set to become the world’s youngest country with 64 percent of its population in the working age group. With the West, Japan, and even China aging, this demographic potential offers India and its growing economy an unprecedented edge that economists believe could add a significant 2 per cent to the GDP growth rate.

But the report suggests urban spaces have not necessarily aided the quality of life enjoyed by Indian youth. A telling sign: one-fifth of the Indian urban population lives on less than a dollar a day. Additionally, the report finds that while income levels in cities may appear to be higher, the cost of living is also constantly increasing, resulting in shrinking savings, inadequate access to health care and lack of quality education. Maternal mortality remains the ‘top cause of death among young women.’ Further, more than half of young urban women are anaemic, pointing to inadequate food and nutrition.

The report’s findings indicate that the problem is not urbanisation per se but the inequalities that it seems to accentuate.

While India is undergoing a demographic transition, regional disparities in education mean the benefits will not be evenly spread across the country. The report says the southern and western States will be the first to experience a growth dividend as they accounted for 63 percent of all formally trained people. The largest share of youth with formal skills was found in Kerala, followed by Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. Among those undergoing training, Maharashtra had the highest share, Bihar the lowest.

The unequal access to opportunity and the lack of emphasis on education remains a persistent problem. The report finds that a person in an urban area has a 93 percent greater chance of acquiring training than someone in a rural area.

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