Apple has officially confirmed acquisition of Beats Music & Beats Electronics in it’s press Info.
Apple announced it has agreed to acquire the critically acclaimed subscription streaming music service Beats Music, and Beat Electronics, which make the popular Beats headphone, speakers and audio software. Apple is acquiring the two companies for a total of $3 billion, consisting of a purchase price of approximately $2.6 billion and approximately $400 million that will vest over time.
Microsoft has confirmed that it is working on a new version of Internet Explorer. Among the features in development are the Media Capture API, that lets Web content manipulate audio and video streams from microphones and webcams, the HTTP/2 protocol, currently being developed by IETF, and Web Audio, an API that lets JavaScript process and synthesize audio. The company also plans to implement a JavaScript feature called Promises that should streamline development of asynchronous scripts.
These features and others are listed on the newly updated status.modern.ie site, on which Microsoft lists a whole bunch of up-and-coming Web standards and its attitude towards them.
Quest Visual, the maker of the incredible Word Lens app, posted on its website that it has been acquired by Google.
Quotes from wordlens website
With Word Lens, we’ve seen the beginnings of what’s possible when we harness the power of mobile devices to “see the world in your language.”
By joining Google, we can incorporate Quest Visual’s technology into Google Translate’s broad language coverage and translation capabilities in the future.
As a thank you to everybody who supported us on our journey, we’ve made both the app and the language packs free to download for a limited time while we transition to Google.
We’re looking forward to continuing our work at Google – stay tuned!
Motorola has made MOTO E boot loader unlock option official. MOTO E has popped up in Bootloader unlock program supported list.
Bootloader is a little bit of code that tells your device’s operating system how to boot up.
If you are a developer, unlocking the bootloader will allow you to customize your device, but keep the following in mind:
For more information on Unlocking your device visit moto website
Here are the list of Samsung and HTC android phone codes
| SAMSUNG CODES | Description |
| *#*#4636#*#* | Displays Phone information, Battery information , Usage Statistics, Wifi Information |
| *#*#7780#*#* | Restting your phone to factory state-Only deletes application data and applications |
| *2767*3855# | It’s a complete wiping of your mobile also it reinstalls the phones firmware |
| *#*#34971539#*#* | Shows completes information about the camera |
| *#*#7594#*#* | Changing the power button behavior-Enables direct poweroff once the code enabled |
| *#*#273283*255*663282*#*#* | For a quick backup to all your media files |
| *#*#197328640#*#* | Enabling test mode for service activity |
| *#*#232339#*#* OR *#*#526#*#* | Wireless Lan Tests |
| *#*#232338#*#* | Displays Wi-Fi Mac-address |
| *#*#1472365#*#* | For a quick GPS test |
| *#*#1575#*#* | A Different type GPS test |
| *#*#0283#*#* | Packet Loopback test |
| *#*#0*#*#* | LCD display test |
| *#*#0673#*#* OR *#*#0289#*#* | Audio test |
| *#*#0842#*#* | Vibration and Backlight test |
| *#*#2663#*#* | Displays touch-screen version |
| *#*#2664#*#* | Touch-Screen test |
| *#*#0588#*#* | Proximity sensor test |
| *#*#3264#*#* | Ram version |
| *#*#232331#*#* | Bluetooth test |
| *#*#7262626#*#* | Field test |
| *#*#232337#*# | Displays bluetooth device address |
| *#*#8255#*#* | For Google Talk service monitoring |
| *#*#4986*2650468#*#* | PDA, Phone, Hardware, RF Call Date firmware info |
| *#*#1234#*#* | PDA and Phone firmware info |
| *#*#1111#*#* | FTA Software version |
| *#*#2222#*#* | FTA Hardware verion |
| *#*#44336#*#* | Displays Build time and change list number |
| *#06# | Displsys IMEI number |
| *#*#8351#*#* | Enables voice dialing logging mode |
| *#*#8350#*#* | Disables voice dialing logging mode |
| ##778 (+call) | Brings up Epst menu |
| HTC CODES | Description |
| *#*#3424#*#* | HTC function test Program. |
| *#*#4636#*#* | HTC Info menu |
| *#*#8255#*#* | launching GTalk Service Monitor |
| ##3424# | Diagnostic mode. |
| ##3282# | for EPST. |
| ##8626337# | for VOCODER |
| ##33284# | Field trial menu. |
| ##786# | Reverse Logistics Support. |
| ##7738# | Protocol Revision. |
Telnet is a network protocol, used to provide bi-directional text-oriented communication facility.
Note: Telnet in is insecure protocol and it is recommended that you use ssh server.
Telnet Server installation
In Debian/Ubuntu
user@techinx$ sudoapt-get install telnetd
In fedora/RedHat
root@techinx# yum install telnet-server telnet xinetd
If you are using Red Hat / Fedora Linux
The configuration file for telnet is /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. To enable telnet server you need to open this file and make sure disable = no read as disable = yes.
Alternately,
root@techinx# chkconfig telnet on
To start telnet server type command:
root@techinx# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Edit /etc/securetty file, In the end of file add pts/0 to enable one telnet session for root. if you need to open more telnet session for root and add more pts/1 pts/2 and so on.
Restart services, you are done!.