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Be like a dolphin
Dolphins sleep with one eye open, to stay semi-alert to lurking predators and unexpected danger. If you need to use your phone in the wilds of the subway or sidewalk , do so discreetly, reserving at least a portion of your cognitive capacity for minding what is happening around you. Avoid leaving your phone on the table at restaurants, bars and coffee shops where it can easily be snatched.

Lock it up
Most thieves erase all identifying information from a phone within hours, sometimes minutes , after stealing it. Still, passwords on your phone's home screen can help protect your personal information in case it isn't wiped clean.

Know your numerals
Write down your phone's model number, serial number and unique device identification number. If your phone is stolen, you'll want to report these numbers to the police and to your carrier. There are several ways to find your phone's International Mobile Equipment Identifier or IMEI number. On most phones, you can dial *#06# and the number will pop up on your screen. Alternatively, you will find the IMEI and serial numbers on the label under the battery.

Use tracking apps
For the apps to work, the phone has to stay on. Increasingly practiced thieves know to turn the phone off and wrap it in aluminium foil before turning it back on, which thwarts the tracking technology . Still, it is worth installing an application to monitor your phone's whereabouts. Apple makes a free app, Find My iPhone, which can be turned on in Apple's iCloud or downloaded from iTunes. Android users have several options for free third-party tracking apps including Where's My Droid and Lookout. In addition to broadcasting a phone's location, many antitheft apps allow you to remotely lock your phone, wipe it clean of sensitive information and even remotely set off a screaming phone alarm.

Be a late adopter
Last month a woman was held up for her iPhone by two men, one with a gun, in El Cerrito, California, just east of San Francisco. After she handed it over, the robbers took one look at her older model iPhone and gave it back to her.
Just like the Apple fanatics camping out in front of Apple stores before a new iPhone is released, thieves want the latest model, too. Having one can make you a target.

Your Android and iOS phones are killing cognitive thinking and declarative memory, say experts

Dr Hozefa A Bhinderwala, psychiatrist at Saifee and Prince Aly Khan Hospital, received a call from his brother last week. "He said, 'You are the doctor, but I performed a surgery today'."

The specialist's brother was referring to having managed to get his nine-year-old son to let go off his smartphone, which he was worried had grown into "an extended limb". "As soon as my brother would get back home, his son would grab the phone and stay glued to it right until bedtime, playing games and fiddling with apps," says the psychiatrist.

This is not a lone case. Dr Sangeeta Ravat, Head of the Department of Neurology at Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, says the co-relation between mild Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (significant difficulties of inattention and impulsiveness or a combination of the two) among young adults and the excessive use of gadgets has been the subject of debate at recent medical conferences.

And if the Indian smartphone user study is accurate, we have reason to worry. The survey conducted by AC Nielsen across 46 cities in September and October 2012 revealed that the number of smartphones had touched 40 million, and almost half of the users were under 25. The dramatic growth was driven by a desire 'to stay connected and have instant access to social networking sites', it said.

Although the gadgets are designed to make life easier, and the user, work-smart, experts warn that their unrelenting pings and blitzkrieg of updates can throw the brain into overdrive, affecting its cells and blunting the mind over time. Here's all that's at stake:

Declarative memory reduced
Culprit: Reminder features Declarative memory refers to data that can be consciously recalled, such as important phone numbers, date and time of important meetings, and critical dates like your birthdays that we store in our brain. "While earlier, we'd easily remember at least 10 important phone numbers by rote, today we can't recall any other than our own. Our mind is not challenged. Everything is fed in the phonebook, and under categories — family, work, miscellaneous. Sometimes, there are so many, we can't recall the face to the name and number," says Dr Ravat.

A Trojan malware sent via email helped hackers siphon off Rs 1 crore from the current account of a Mulund cosmetics company, according to the chargesheet recently filed by the police. The hacking on January 31 was one of the first major online banking frauds in the city this year.

The kingpin, who is in custody, got hold of the cosmetics firm's account details with a Trojan sent in a mail that pretended to come from the income-tax department, says the 300-plus-page chargesheet. The mail was sent on January 27 to 5,000 email users across India, including Ankur Korani, 29, the director of the cosmetics company.

On January 31, the accused hacked into the firm's bank account and made 12 transactions through Real Time Gross Settlement transfers, siphoning off Rs 1 crore in 45 minutes. Money was sent from 9.15am to 10am to 12 bank accounts in Mumbai, Thane district and Uttar Pradesh. Two brothers, Fajroor Rehman Khan, 26, and Shahrukh, 23, both software engineers, were nabbed in Delhi on March 10. Twenty-one others, who either received money in their accounts or worked as middle men, are also in custody. Cops have recovered a total of Rs 75 lakh.

"The evidence includes the Trojan mails the perpetrators sent to steal the banking username and password," said Mulund police inspector Ramesh Mugutrao.

The fraud came to light when the firm's accountant tried to sign into the current account. The hacker had changed the username and password. The accountant informed Korani, who wrote in his complaint, "When we failed to sign-in into the company's current account with the first set of usernames and passwords... we used the backup... and found out about the fraud." Korani was unavailable for comment and bank officials refused to provide more details.

Announced last year, the Nexus 4 has finally reached the India shores, officially. The phone features a 4.7" True IPS Plus screen with 1280x768 pixels. Inside is a powerful 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, and 2 GB of RAM. The phone runs stock Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) experience, which is widely considered as "pure" by Android fans. Being a Nexus phone, it will be one of the first devices to get the future OS updates. In the camera department, it's equipped with an 8 megapixel autofocus snapper. There's also a 1.3 mp front facing camera for video calls and self-portraits. Other specs include Bluetooth 4.0, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC, and 2100 mAh battery. More tech specs are given at the end of this review.

In the US this phone sells for USD 350 (approx. Rs 19,000). Because of its affordable pricing, the Nexus 4 has got rave reviews over there. In India though, the phone is priced at Rs 26,000, which is on the higher side considering it’s a year old phone and doesn't offer too many tricks other than a robust hardware. Now what took LG such a long time to get the Nexus 4 here? We wonder if it's a case of the demand for the same dropping in the west with the supply remaining high. In such a scenario, the love for India often resurfaces in the manufacturers' minds. But let's not be overly harsh here as this is the first Nexus device to be officially launched in India. All said and done, if you're a fan of vanilla Android, and look forward to being the first to upgrade to a newer version of the OS as soon as it's released, this is the phone for you.

Specifications:

Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with 1.5GHz Quad-Core Krait CPUs.
Operating System: Android 4.2, Jelly Bean.
Display: 4.7-inch WXGA True HD IPS Plus (1280 x 768 pixels)
RAM: 2GB, Memory: 16GB.
Camera: 8.0MP rear / 1.3MP HD front.
Battery: 2,100mAh Li-Polymer (embedded) / Talk time: 15.3 hours / Standby: 390 hours.
Size: 133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1mm.
3G HSPA+ 42, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, NFC.

All the rumors about the next Windows update, called Blue, came true yesterday when Windows CFO Tami Reller revealed that Windows 8.1 will be the official name for Windows Blue and it will be made available free for existing Windows 8 users. And it is to follow Microsoft's previous promise that developers will be able to install a Public Preview version of Windows 8.1 in late June, reports ZDNet.Windows 8 is currently available in handful of versions like Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise and Windows RT, but Reller did not clarify in what versions the Blue will be up for updates.

She also emphasized on having more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store, and said the final version of the Blue will be made available to customers through the Windows Store once it is available. Microsoft is planning to make a public preview of Blue available on June 26, at the Microsoft Build 2013 conference. Reller said that Microsoft planned to disclose more about pricing and the different versions of Blue before the end of May."Windows 8.1 will be a packaged set of updates which customers can say when they are ready (to deploy)," Reller said, emphasizing Microsoft’s strategy using the Windows Store to deliver Blue to focus on giving users the choice about when they deploy the coming update.

Among other rumored features, Blue is to come with an optical Start Button and boot-to-desktop capabilities.

"Kids might break Glass or hurt themselves, and Google's terms of service don't permit those under 13 to register a Google account," it reads.