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Source : Dragon Blogger  Huawei, one of the leading company for providing reliable communications technology and solutions, has announced the company’s latest smartphone, called Huawei Ascend D Quad. The new device is the fastest quad-core smartphone in the world, that is currently available in the mobile market. The smartphone is powered by a monstrous Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core 1.2GHz/1.5GHz processor and comes with a sleek and a stylish design.

IANS   London : Apple is now worth more than Poland as its stock market value hit over $500 billion for the first time on Thursday, Britain's  Daily Mail reported. Apple is now worth $506 billion - in contrast Poland, with a population of 38 million people, has a GDP figure of just $497 billion. The company, co-founded by Steve Jobs, is also worth more than Belgium, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Apple's value only overtook Microsoft in May 2010 - but since then, their ascent has been rapid, the newspaper said.

Reuters   Seattle : Microsoft Corp unveils the first widely available test version of Windows 8 on Wednesday, giving the public the first chance to try out the slick, new-look operating system it hopes will restore the company's fading tech supremacy. Windows 8, as the first Microsoft operating system compatible with low-power microprocessors designed by ARM Holdings Plc, will run on tablets as well as desktops and laptops. "The operating system has begun to be seen as largely irrelevant," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at fund firm McAdams Wright Ragen, which holds Microsoft shares.

Source : TheMobileIndian Featuring a 4-inch AMOLED ClearBlack display, the smartphone packs a 1.3 GHz single core mobile processor Nokia has announced the successor of its successful N8 smartphone, named Nokia 808 Pure View, at the on-going Mobile World Congress. The Nokia 808 PureView is expected to be available for 450 Euros (Rs 29,750 approx.) in second quarter of this year in Europe. The new Nokia 808 PureView smartphone has made its debut with a humongous 41 megapixel camera with PureView Pro imaging technology. It features a 4-inch Amoled ClearBack display that has a 2.5 D curved glass made using the Corning Gorilla Glass technology.

PARIS, Feb 29, 2012, AP: Interpol said on Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. The internatinal police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.

Nicole Perlroth and John Markoff, Feb 29,2012, NYT: The unsuccessful attack on the Vatican website provides the first complete record of  the modus operandi of the secretive hackers’ collective Anonymous, report  Nicole Perlroth and John Markoff The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organisations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.

America’s most powerful protest groups are joining forces to warn elected officials that they will be held accountable for their actions. The campaign is called Our Polls and its being launched with help from both Anonymous and the Occupy movement. The  AnonOps Communications  website revealed details early Monday this week regarding the hacktivist collective’s latest campaign. Along with the nation-wide Occupy Wall Street movement, Anonymous says they are going after the politicians in America that supported legislation that both entities have largely advocated against.