Samsung reveals Galaxy Note 8 but holds back on price

The Galaxy Note 8 will become available in the second quarter, but pricing was not available

 Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Note 8 tablet with an 8-inch display, adding a new screen size to its expanding lineup of Note products.

The tablet is 25 percent lighter thinner than the company's Galaxy Tab 2 tablets, said Shoneel Kolhatkar, director of product planning at Samsung. It can display images at 1280-by-800 pixel resolution, and comes with optional 3G connectivity for making calls and using mobile broadband networks. It will connect to HSPA+ networks.
The tablet runs Google's Android 4.1 operating system, known as Jellybean, and has a 1.6GHz quad-core processor. The chip is based on ARM's Cortex A9 processor design, as opposed to the newer Cortex-A15 design used in Samsung's Chromebook and Google's Nexus 10 tablet, which is also made by Samsung.
The Note 8 will be available in the second quarter in North America, Europe, South Korea, the Middle East, Africa, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and some other regions. Pricing will be revealed at a later date, Samsung said.
The device was announced before the start of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week. Samsung is expected to discuss its tablet and smartphone strategy further at the show, including its plans for the enterprise.
The company will announce more tablets this year, said Nanda Ramachandran, vice president and general manager.
"2013 is the year of tablets for Samsung," he said.
Samsung was the world's second largest tablet vendor behind Apple in the fourth quarter last year, according to IDC. Worldwide shipments soared for the company, growing by 263 percent year-over-year to reach 7.9 million, giving it a 15.1 percent market share. Samsung is the world's largest Android tablet vendor, but is still way behind Apple, which holds 43.6 percent of the market.
Samsung already has a Galaxy Note tablet with a 10.1-inch screen and also offers the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II, which has been dubbed a "phablet" for laying midway between a phone and a tablet. Samsung also sells Galaxy Tab 2 tablets with 7-inch and 10.1-inch screens, and an older Galaxy Tab with a 7.7-inch screen.
Screen sizes are an increasingly important consideration for tablet makers. As a companion to the 9.7-inch iPad, Apple last year introduced the iPad Mini with a 7.85-inch screen. Demand for the iPad Mini has been strong, with supplies outstripping than demand.
The Note 8 tablet has features found in Galaxy Note products including the S-Pen stylus to take handwritten notes. The S-Pen's capabilities have been expanded to work with other applications. For instance, Kolhatkar showed the tablet's ability to combine a handwritten note with mapping. He used the S-Pen to write to a friend, telling him to meet him at a Starbucks in New York, linked the note to a Google map page showing the location, and sent the note over email.

LOG TRICK (DIARY WITH AUTO DATE & TIME)

1.   Open notepad

2.   Type ( .LOG ) (no brackets)

3.   Save this file with any name e.g. diary etc.

4.   Reopen the file and see the log book magic.

5.   You will see that the current date and time are automatically inserted.

6.   It will happen every time

Make Bootable USB

If you want to install windows xp on your pc and you feel that your CD drive is not working properly or you have no any optical drive to install windows, than you  can prepare a USB device for installation of windows XP, vista or  7. This is very easy and simple way to make a boot able usb. Normally all notebooks have the option in the BIOS to boot from USB. Many other mother boards like intel 865, 915, 965 etc has also option to boot from USB device. So it is very simple and easy way to install XP on you computer.
To make a bootable usb, first of all you will install a software "wintoflash". you can easily download this software from the web. The size of this software is approximately 17MB. Install it on your computer and then start this program. It has two different paths. In first browse option you will select windows XP disk and in second browse option, select your Pen drive/USB. Click next to proceed. It will copy all files of windows xp from CD to USB. Now click finish to complete.
Now you can use this USB for installation of windows.

Why companies still use the insecure WPA and WEP protocols

A recent survey said nearly one out of four enterprise Wi-Fi networks not only supports the insecure WPA protocol, but also still supports the even more insecure WEP protocol. Why is this? And what's the easiest way for us to determine if these protocols are still in use in our organization?



It's not surprising that many enterprises still use insecure encryption protocols on their WLAN. Over the past 5 to 10 years, as wireless has really taken a grip on both personal and corporate networks, the need for wireless security education and upgrades has increased drastically.
I would argue that the main reason people and organizations still run the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) protocol or even WEP protocol is because of ignorance. If people knew how easy it was to crack WEP, they wouldn't use it. In less than five minutes, virtually any knowledgeable attacker can crack a WEP network and crawl around its systems. If businesses or home users knew that they were at such risk, I would hope that they'd change over to a more secure protocol.
This leads me to my second point. If we have to explain to someone that WEP is an insecure protocol, it's even less likely that they'll have the ability to upgrade to a secure one. The combination of not knowing that a network is insecure and being incapable of upgrading it are major factors in why the WEP and WPA protocols are still in use.
Another reason companies still use them is because they're still being offered as an option on access points. I ran a wireless scan while driving down a major intersection near my home and found numerous access points running the WEP protocol. I was surprised to find so many and was curious to find out more. After some research, I discovered that Verizon had, and might still have, the WEP protocol running on the majority of the home routers that it distributes to customers. So instead of enforcing a secure wireless encryption protocol and eliminating the ability to run WEP on its hardware, Verizon is offering it as a default.
Running periodic wireless penetration tests to determine the security of your network is an important step in determining if you're still running these types of insecure encryption algorithms in your network. Also, auditing the controllers to determine what they're running and "war driving" around your building are easy ways to determine which networks are being seen in your network and if they're using WEP. If you have an internal WLAN using WEP with a system like AirSnort or inSSIDer, you can then start creating plans to secure them.
One of the most common problems within the industry is that many companies just don't think they'll be targets. With a mindset like this, it's only a matter of time before this attitude comes back to bite many unsuspecting victims.