A collection of mobile phones made by Nokia. Spot the bestsellers. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Shalini Singh:
Amid fresh controversy following reports of the U.S.'s Prism programme targeting the Brazilian President, and the impending launch of the Indian government's own Central Monitoring System (CMS) project, an investigation by The Hindu reveals that the Internet activities of India's roughly 160 million users are already being subjected to wide-ranging surveillance and monitoring, much of which is in violation of the government's own rules and notifications for ensuring "privacy of communications".
While the CMS is in early stages of launch, investigation shows that there already exists ? without much public knowledge ? Lawful Intercept and Monitoring (LIM) systems, which have been deployed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) for monitoring Internet traffic, emails, web-browsing, Skype and any other Internet activity of Indian users.
There was a big row a couple of years ago over BlackBerry encryption and India. Was this a workaround?
Amit Jain:
Google has an inherent incentive in keeping piracy alive. It makes Android a much more attractive option in developing nations and earns Google users, a lot, lot, of users. This certainly cuts into developer returns, who are then forced to resort to ads. This also works out in Google's favor as the largest seller of Ads in the world. Does this affect the quality of apps? Certainly. Are they barely good enough? Certainly. And, that is good enough for Google.
If you are curious about what the features will be for the upcoming Surface RT 2, likely to be called just the Surface, the device will be equipped with a Tegra 4 CPU, 1080P screen, two-step style kickstand and we are also hearing the RAM will get bumped to 4GB too.?We are not sure if the RAM bump will be like that of the Surface Pro 2 that may include models that have either 4GB or 8GB.
These updates will result in a modest bump to the specs to the Surface RT and will help keep the tablet running Windows RT 8.1 with ease. These updates are clearly a evolutionary step for the Surface RT family and is by no means a complete re-write of the device.
We will be curious to see what the price point is when Microsoft releases the device to see if they stick with the $349 price or if they return to the initial MSRP of $499.
Two-step kickstand might be the best improvement. None of the rest matters; they aren't the reason why the Surface RT didn't sell.
From July: Windows Phone is getting some more enterprise features.
The enterprise feature pack will include:
? S/MIME to sign and encrypt email
? Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware, auto-triggered VPN
? Enterprise Wi-Fi support with EAP-TLS
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Enhanced MDM policies to lock down functionality on the phone for more enterprise control, in addition to richer application management such as allowing or denying installation of certain apps
? Certificate management to enroll, update, and revoke certificates for user authenticationWe plan to provide the feature pack as an update in the first half of 2014.
These are all really important for Windows Phone acceptance in the enterprise. The first half of 2014 is nearly four years after its introduction.
Joshua Schnell:
From the looks of it, most of Dickson's part leaks have originated from the DBW's offerings on its Alibaba page. Thing is, Dickson couldn't even be bothered to remove evidence from his blog posts that he blatantly got the images and parts from a seller on Alibaba. The bar code on the iPad mini 2 case is the exact same one that appears on the DBW Electronics Co.'s Alibaba page. The. Exact. Same. One. Heck, some of?the photos are the exact same if you dig around long enough, with the only exception being that the official DBW Electronics Co.'s images had watermarks on Alibaba. Maybe DBW got the parts from the factory workers that Dickson cites, then DBW built prototypes and is then selling them, but either way, something doesn't add up here.
Samsung's CEO JK Shin confirmed the sales of its Galaxy Note range that was introduced couple of years back. At a press meet during IFA, JK Shin said that the Galaxy Note range ? which includes the original Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note II ? sold over 38m units. That's impressive number for a form factor that was ridiculed by many for its size initially.
Shin also confirmed that regarding the Galaxy Note 3 sales, he expects "10m units will be sold", which we assume is the launch numbers considering the mass availability of the device from 25 September.
JK Shin also supported the high price of Galaxy Gear, saying "it provides a lot of functions."
Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear will go on sale in 149 countries from 25 September whereas America and Japan will get it in October.
"Provides a lot of functions" is not synonymous with "offers a lot of functionality".
After over 10 years of using email through clients ? from Outlook to Mail to Sparrow to Mailbox ? I stopped. It was about two months ago. I switched, or began switching, from Sparrow to the Gmail site. On my phone, I deactivated iPhone Mail and switched to Gmail's official app. Now Google doesn't just host and operate my email service, it owns and controls my entire email experience.
I'm uneasy about this, but it was my choice. I made it, and I expect millions more will too. That's because, starting with the introduction of a fast, app-like webmail service and followed by the release of native, Gmail-specific mobile apps, Google has been recreating ? and taking control of ? what had become the last piece of digital real estate users could legitimately feel like they controlled: their inboxes.
Gmail's new tabbed inbox was what finally pulled me over: It accomplishes, using Gmail's enormous data resources, what few, if any, personally designed email filter systems can.
Should we be counting the days until Google turns off IMAP?
While smartphones and smart devices dominate today's headlines, with big smart brands like Samsung and Apple ruling the roost ? these electronics giants were once unknown entities in a mobile market dominated by Nokia.
On Tuesday (3 September) Microsoft announced that it will buy Nokia's phone business for $7.2bn ? marking the sale of the world's most prolific mobile phone brand.
Unsurprisingly, when looking at the list of top 10 most-sold mobile handsets ? the list is dominated by Nokia ? hailing back to its glory days of the 90s and 2000s, before the advent of smart phones massive mobile data use.
Try to guess the only phone manufacturer apart from Nokia in the top 10.
That's right, Nissan has unveiled the Nismo Watch ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show, which begins tomorrow, as it seeks to connect drivers to their cars, and provide real-time biometric data.
More specifically, the watch ? which is still at concept stage ? will monitor the efficiency of a vehicle (by reading average speed and fuel consumption), provide telematics and performance data, monitor drivers' biometric data (via a heart monitor rate) and receive in-car messages from Nissan.
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