It’s been a good year for Mac Miller. The 19-year-old rapper played over 200 shows around the country, pumped his Twitter following past 1.4 million and released his debut album, Blue Slide Park, which became the first indie offering to open at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in over a decade.

“Making history is super-cool,” he says, lounging on a plush burgundy chair at the Forbes headquarters in New York. “I still don’t think I necessarily ‘made it’ … my whole thing is always, no matter where I get, to never be satisfied.”

For now, Miller can add another accolade to his résumé: member of the first annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the music category. He’s joined by a broad range of artists, producers, entrepreneurs and executives who are all shaping the future of the music business in different ways.

This year’s roster was handpicked by a panel of expert judges—Randy Phillips, chief of concert promoter AEG Live; Livia Tortella, co-president of Warner Brothers Records; and David Banner, the Grammy-winning rapper and producer—in conjunction with yours truly.

 The central question: Who will be the most influential figures in the music business over the next two decades?

There are some familiar names on the list, to be sure. Honorees including Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and Katy Perry all appeared in ourCeleb 100 issue in June. We reserved 20 slots for recording artists across all genres, though, and many of them aren’t yet household names. There’sEsperanza Spalding, 27, the jazz musician who upset Justin Bieber to win the award for Best New Artist at last year’s Grammys; Conrad Tao, a 17-year-old piano-and-violin prodigy who gave his first recital at age four; and Skrillex, 23, an up-and-coming musician of a very different genre.

“[Skrillex is] a young producer who’s really helped put dubstep and electronic dance music on the map in the U.S.,” says Banner. “He also just received five Grammy nominations.”

Full coverage: 30 Under 30 – Music

Ten places on the list were set aside for music industry players whose primary focus isn’t performing. Three examples: Alex White, 25, a former Universal Music Group intern who founded Next Big Sound, a startup that provides artists and labels with advanced metrics to measure social media campaigns; Kyle Frenette, the 24-year-old manager of Grammy-nominated group Bon Iver; and Spencer Richardson, 27, founder of FanBridge, a company that helps artists market to fans with the help of direct email and spiffy analytics.

“Understanding the relationship with the fan and the lifetime value of a customer is what FanBridge is all about,” says Tortella. “It’s the future of music marketing.”

30 Under 30 in Music: Honorable Mentions

We certainly didn’t forget about Daniel Ek, 28, the founder of digital music service Spotify—he made the list in the Technology category, and is the subject of the cover story for the entire 30 Under 30 package. His 26-year-old colleague D.A. Wallach, the company’s artist in residence, is Spotify’s representative on the music list.

Expect to hear more from all the up-and-comers on this list as the years go on. As for Mac Miller, he’s looking well beyond the coming decade.

“My aspirations are very big,” he says. “I want to be remembered forever.”

For more on the business of music, see my book Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office

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Date: 2011-12-22 Place: London

Google is reportedly developing computer glasses with a "heads up display" that would allow people to use the Internet out in the real world.

According to a New York Times report, the "Google Goggles" are designed as augmented reality devices that send information back to an Android smartphone attached the users' clothing or body.

9to5Google's specialist Seth Weintrub said that the latest prototype looks similar to thick-rimmed glasses but provides "a display with a heads up computer interface".

 "There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be  mistaken for normal glasses," News.com.au quoted Weintrub, as saying.

 According to the report, the device that is said to operate via Wi-Fi Internet  connection or Bluetooth, has been developed in the search giants secret "Google X"  laboratory.

 If the rumours of these computer glasses turns out to be true, the technology could  be the first step towards doing away with touchscreen technology altogether. 

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                                                                                                                     Don2: The King Is Back (2011)

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                                                                                Director:Farhan Akhtar

                                                                                      Producer:Farhan Akhtar

                                  Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Boman Irani,

                                                                                      Don 2 - Movie Review

                                                                           Rating- 5/10

Direction:

In terms of content and treatment, how much further has Farhan Akhtar taken the action flick? There's no easy answer to that. Needless to say Farhan’s creativity and talent takes the film to the next level. He completely justifies himself as a director. But, the film's outstanding topographical and technical detailing hampers the audiences' journey towards the characters.

Acting:

Shahrukh Khan is amazingly stylish in the role of Don. He proves that he can carry a role that is immortalized by Amitabh with élan. SRK indeed carries the entire film on his shoulders.

Priyanka Chopra as Roma who is Don’s Junglee Billi scores well. This girl is extremely confident. Lara Dutta as Ayesha ads glamour and charm to the film. Kunal Kapoor as Sameer Ali apparently plays an admirer of Don. He meets him in Berlin. He does a decent job. Boman Irani as Vardhaanis who is in the journey of taking revenge form Don is absolutely justified.

Synopsis

Shah Rukh Khan as Don is the most elusive, cunning, wily, astute, manipulative, unforgiving crime world who returns with a new set of enemies and greater ambition.

Having conquered the Asian underworld, Don (Shahrukh Khan) has now set his sight on European domination. In his way are the

bosses of the existing European underworld and all law enforcement agencies.

The action shifts from Kuala Lumpur to Berlin, as Don must avoid assassination or arrest, whichever comes first in order for his plan to succeed.

He is the worst nightmare for his enemies. He knows their deepest secrets and fears, and knows when to let them live and when to pull the trigger. Shah Rukh Khan as Don is back with a vengeance in Don 2.

Remember how Don pulled the rug from under everyone’s feet by feigning his own death and pretending as a simpleton impost ring as the Don in the 2006. The story now moves forward. Having fled from right under the nose of the cops, Don has now set his eyes on greener pastures.

The film begins in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and from there the action shifts to Germany. Incidentally, Don 2 is the first film to be shot in Germany.

Verdict:

Don is a contemporary action thriller with good entertainment, peppy music, endearing Shah Rukh and nostalgic memories. You can watch this film and enjoy it as long as you don't compare it with its original version. The 

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This infographic detailing the battle over intellectual property between Apple and Samsung that finally shows just how complicated the patentwars have become.

The intellectual property battle rages on between tech giants – Apple and Samsung. Take a look through the infographic – created by Guys from Online MBA Guide – to study the roots and progression of the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits.

The fued is notable due to the fact that Apple, the ‘world’s most valuable tech company’ by market capitalization and Samsung, which produces around a 5th of South Korea’s total exports, actually trade technology, and have continued to do so even during the patent lawsuit fiascos. If their relationship were to seriously suffer, Apple would run into production problems and Samsung would lose a lot of money.
In April 2011, Apple filed for patent infringement, claiming that Samsung copied its iPhone and iPad designs. Samsung has repeatedly counter-sued, claiming that Apple has infringed on their patents covering 3G and wireless technology.

Courts all over the world have taken on this battle. Europe and Australia, for instance, have ordered preliminary injunctions barring Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from shelves — just in time for the holiday season.

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As fans of Google's Android mobile software well know, each new version is named after a sugary treat, such as Gingerbread or Honeycomb. Android is about to get even sweeter with Ice Cream Sandwich a smooth, feature-rich operating system that will run first on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

The combination of Google's software and Samsung's hardware makes the Galaxy Nexus one of the best candidates to compete with Apple's latest iPhone, though its price is steep. It began selling last week in the U.S. for $300 with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract.

Like the previous phone in the Nexus line, the Nexus S, the Galaxy Nexus was jointly developed by Google Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. It features a slim frame with a large, curved glass screen that's comfortable for chatting with friends and excellent for watching videos. There are 32 gigabytes of built-in storage space on the Verizon version of the phone, but no external slot for a microSD memory card.

The screen, a pocket-busting 4.65 inches at the diagonal, makes the iPhone's 3.5-inches look diminutive. And despite the size, the Galaxy Nexus manages to weigh just 4.8 ounces, slightly less than Apple's offering.

On it, videos and Web pages looked crisp and bright, with rich colors. I started watching a video during testing — an HD copy of "The Help" that I rented from Google's Android Market — and had to force myself to break away to test other features of the device.

With the latest version of Android under the hood, the Galaxy Nexus is packed with new and improved features. Many of them are great; others are simply great in theory.

Overall, the software looks fresher and less cluttered. The virtual "buttons" that usually sit at the bottom of the screen have been redesigned. There's still a "home" and a "back" button, but no "menu" button to pull up various options within an app. Instead, there's now a "recent apps" button that shows what you've been doing lately on the phone.

Another neat change: The buttons are completely virtual, so they change directions when you flip the phone sideways and disappear when you're viewing photos or videos.

Other changes to Android include an overhaul of its virtual keyboard, meant to make it easier to type without messing up — something I've always had trouble with on the stock Android keyboard. I was often able to type more accurately than in the past, but sometimes still ended up with unintended words in my messages.

The Android browser and Gmail are updated, too. Gmail's new functions include the ability to search emails while offline The browser is zippier and has a "request desktop" option so you can check out Web pages in their non-truncated desktop version.

One new feature that falls into the "great in theory" category is Face Unlock, which uses facial-recognition technology to unlock the phone from standby mode. To set it up, you take a picture of your face with the phone. Then, all you have to do to unlock the phone is stare at the screen after you press the power button.

Most of the time it didn't work, though, probably because the phone couldn't recognize my face from certain angles. I was also able to fool it by holding up a shot of my face on an iPhone. So much for security.

Ice Cream Sandwich also has Android Beam, which lets you share such content as a Web page, map or video between two Android phones by bringing the backs of the phones close together. It only works with phones that have this Android software and near-field communication technology, though, so unless you and your friend both buy the Galaxy Nexus you'll be out of luck at launch.

More immediately useful was the phone's 5-megapixel camera, which is the snappiest I've seen on any Android phone. There was almost no shutter lag between shots, even when I had just turned the camera on.

Still, I would have preferred a higher-resolution sensor — 8-megapixel cameras are quickly becoming common on smartphones. In addition, photos I took could have been brighter, though this can be improved somewhat by using some of the available editing options, including numerous color filters and adjustable contrast options.

Like the iPhone 4S and some other high-end smartphones, the Galaxy Nexus can record high-definition videos in 1080p — the best resolution you can get on a consumer camera. I had some fun taking sunset videos with a time-lapse feature, and there are some goofy filming effects to play around with, too.

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Samsung's Series 7 Slate PC with the optional charging dock and keyboard accessories. The stylus, however, is included.....

Samsung's Series 7 Slate PC with the optional charging dock and keyboard accessories. The stylus, however, is included. Photo by Michael Calore/Wired

The jury is still out on Windows 7 tablets — and, at this point, it looks like it may never come in — but with the Series 7 Slate, Samsung at least gives this difficult niche the old college try.
Our last encounter with a Windows tablet dates back to March’s Viewsonic ViewPad 10, which disastrously attempted to combine Windows and Android in one device, dramatically failing at both. Here, Samsung is at least wise enough to pick one, and give that OS its all.
On paper, it gets off to a good enough start: The 11.6-inch LCD is gloriously bright (if you can keep the blasted auto-dimmer from engaging) and offers a 1366×768-pixel resolution. Under the hood, the 1.6GHz Core i5, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB SSD hard disk would be capable specs for just about any standard laptop. And yet, at 1.9 pounds, the Samsung manages to weigh in at not much heavier than most 10-inch Android tablets.

Sure enough, performance is on par with similarly equipped laptops. If you connect a mouse and keyboard, you can even use the device for (very) rudimentary gaming — a testament not so much to the Series 7’s capabilities but rather its stability under load. It didn’t crash during a single benchmark test.
But the Series 7 is a tablet, not a laptop (Samsung confusingly makes both a Series 7 laptop and also this device with the almost-same name). As such, it’s designed with a different use pattern in mind. Like traditional tablets, the Series 7’s display auto-rotates based on how you’re holding it, but the vagaries of Windows means this happens more slowly than you might be used to with iOS or Android tablets. You’ll probably also want to use the included stylus instead of your finger. Clicking through Windows menus and toolbars is just too fine-grained for the average user’s ham-fisted touch. It’s up to you, though, to figure out what to do with the little plastic stick: There’s no place to store the stylus anywhere on the tablet, so consider wearing shirts with pockets from now on.

Samsung also includes a novel feature called the Touch Launcher, accessed via a button front and center at the base of the device. Press this and up pops a familiar icon wall very similar to the typical tablet interface. It’s pre-populated with links to YouTube, Twitter, a web browser, and so on. It all looks so easy, but these aren’t mobile apps — they’re either web shortcuts or Windows apps, many of which Samsung seems to have written itself. As such, they’re inextricably tied to Windows 7’s backend, and the spit-and-twine approach to building this system shows through often. Windows dialogue boxes often require your attention, and the overall lack of polish is distinct. Set the weather app to use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, for example, and the weather widget on the Tablet Launcher home screen doesn’t make the change, only the app itself. The user can add and delete apps to this subsystem, but they have to be already installed on the device, or created as web links.

Aside from the Touch Launcher button, all the remaining buttons and ports are relegated to the sides. They are unfortunately difficult to get at by touch alone: All shaped like slim rectangles, it’s tough to tell the power button apart from the rotation lock button on the right, and the volume control on the left is actually tough to distinguish from the lone USB port (above) and mini-HDMI port (below) without a good amount of fumbling. A microSD slot and headphone/mic jack are also available. A charging dockaccessory ($100) replicates the HDMI, USB and headphone ports, adds an Ethernet port, and props up the tablet for use with a wireless keyboard (Samsung’s is $80).
But the real issues with the Series 7 aren’t Samsung’s, they’re Microsoft’s. To date, most Windows tablets are targeted for “vertical markets” like healthcare and manufacturing management, where users are constantly on their feet and need full-on Windows at the ready. But the Series 7 lacks the ruggedness most of these devices boast. More casual users will likely wonder why none of this works “as well as my iPad,” and that’s a fair criticism.

The response to that issue is essentially why Windows 8 is being developed, at which point the Series 7 may be batting clean-up in a whole new ballgame.

WIRED PC-class features in a tablet body. Possibly the most powerful tablet on the market today.
TIRED Windows remains a struggle with a pen-and-finger interface. Samsung’s Tablet-esque add-on is only three-quarters baked. Dock and wireless keyboard cost extra. Tepid battery life of about 4.5 hours.

The pokey pen comes with, the keyboard is extra. Photo by Michael Calore/Wired

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Starting at a price tag of Rs. 6.99 Lakhs, ex-showroom Delhi, this is a facelift on the third generation of Honda's mid-sizer for India

NEW DELHI: Japanese car maker Honda today launched a new entry-level variant of its flagship sedan City in India, slashing the price by Rs 50,000 compared to that of the existing model.

The company, which is present in India through a joint venture with the Siel Group, had cut the price of the City by up to Rs 66,000 in June also, after implementing various cost reduction measures.

Marketing), at the launch of New Honda City in New Delhi on 14 Dec. 2012. 

 Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) on Wednesday launched   refreshed version of the new City at prices ranging  from Rs 6.99 lakh to Rs 10.22 lakh (ex-showroom,  Delhi). The old City was priced between Rs 7.49 lakh  and Rs 9.89 lakh.

 "Our target is to offer a product as affordable as  possible to customers. So we have launched a new  Corporate Edition of the City that do not have some  features, and we have cut the prices from the earlier entry-level version," HSCI Director (Marketing) Seki Inaba told reporters here.

The company's R&D division is also working on to increase the localisation of components and implement cost reduction activities, he added.

HSCI will start taking booking orders for the new City immediately and delivery will start from January.

The company had introduced the current third generation City in 2008 and has sold 1.36 lakh units so far.

The City sales have been facing stiff resistance from other models in the segment such asHyundai Verna, Maruti SX4 and Volkswagen Vento. While Verna, SX4 and Vento offer both diesel and petrol options, City comes only in petrol variant.

In August, HSCI had launched a new version of its premium hatchback Jazz, cutting the price by over Rs 1.5 lakh from the existing model as it looked to increase sales in a fiercely competitive compact car market.

Talking about the impact on sourcing of components from Thailand due the flood, Inaba said: "Our production was curtailed due to component shortage. However, we have been successful in ensuring components for the new City."

The production of its hatchbacks Jazz and Brio is likely to be normalised from February next year, he added.

"After the impact, we are now seeking alternate locations like China and Japan to source various parts. We are hoping that we will attain normal production level from February," Inaba said.

During 2011, HSCI has lost about half of its production  than its initial plans for the year due totsunami in Japan  and flood in Thailand, he said without giving details.

Asked about the impact of depreciating rupee, Inaba said: "We are trying to increase the amount of export of components like body panels from India to reduce the affect... We do not have any plans to raise the prices of our products."

Stating that the production of its hatchbacks Jazz and Brio would be normalised from February-March next year, Mr. Inaba said: “We are now looking at various alternative destinations such as China for sourcing components…focus is also on increasing localisation of cars that would help bring down our production costs and reduce dependability on other countries for sourcing parts.”

The 2012 City is mechanically identical to the 2011 model and comes with the 1.5-litre i-VTEC engine and a choice of manual or automatic transmission. The 2012 City is prices as below (all prices ex-showroom Delhi):

• Corporate Edition – Rs. 699000
• E MT – Rs. 770000
• S MT – Rs. 820000
• V MT – Rs. 870000
• V AT – Rs. 942000
• V (Sunroof & Leather Seats) MT – Rs.950500
• V (Sunroof & Leather Seats) AT – Rs.1022000

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In my previous post , i have posted on How To Enable Facebook Timeline? . This was an 100% working trick which will help you to activate developer version of facebook timeline Instantly . Not many  were fortunate of getting this new feature so this trick was a blessing for those .

So now you have reached here searching for how to remove this timeline feature . I’m not surprised because many of my friends asked me the same . I helped them in removing their account by the most simple method and I’ll help you in doing the same . Please not that the facebook will soon this change to all the profiles and it will be a permanent change .

To remove Facebook Timeline Developer Version:

• Goto https://developers.facebook.com/apps .
• Select the app which you have created for enabling this timeline , and Edit Open Graph right to the open graph heading text .
• Now a new window with open graph features will appear . Look for the bottom of the left sidebar , You will find a option like Delete App click on that and your app will be deleted.

Please note that the removing of the developer version will not affect your profile when the facebook launches the feature for all profiles .

And After That You Deactivate Your Acc.. And Reactivate It after 20-30 min. .!! =)

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