Nokia 808 PureView set to launch in India on June 6

Nokia's much-hyped 41MP camera phone, 808 PureView, is scheduled to release in India on June 6. Nokia has posted a countdown timer on www.nokiapureview.in, a dedicated website for the upcoming smartphone, which suggests the phone should reach the country in 29 hours, 52 minutes.

Nokia is also conducting a quiz on the teaser site. Visitors have to answer a quiz before being directed to the timer on the teaser site. Visitors can also add email ids to get notified “when the action begins” according to Nokia.

Nokia's 808 PureView camera phone has already been in news for a while. The device recently went up for pre-order at online story, “buytheprice”, for Rs. 32,000; however, Nokia India didn't confirm the pricing and said it will reveal the original pricing at the launch. The Finnish company has however started taking pre-orders of the device. Those who are waiting to lay their hands on the new Nokia device, visit www.nokiapureview.in.

To refresh your memory, Nokia's camera phone was first showcased at the Mobile World Congress event held earlier this year. The Nokia 808 PureView features a large high resolution 41MP sensor, which comes with high-performance Carl Zeiss optics and new pixel oversampling technology. The device runs on Nokia Belle operating system.

The Nokia 808 PureView is powered by a single-core 1.3GHz processor. The device features 512MB of RAM, 16GB built-in storage, USB-on-the-Go, Bluetooth 3.0, HSDPA 14.4Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps, Wi-Fi N with DLNA, GPS and A-GPS, stereo FM radio, and NFC connectivity. To know more about the new Nokia 808 PureView , visit www.nokiapureview.in.

Nokia, meanwhile, is extensively promoting its new smartphone on social media sites. That being said, lets wait till June 6 to see if India becomes the first nation to receive the 808 PureView.

HP, Oracle Clash Over What Their Hurd Deal's Wording Means

Hewlett-Packard said Oracle committed itself to porting its core software products to future versions of Itanium in a 2010 partnership agreement with HP, while Oracle said that deal fell far short of a true contract, as the companies' lawyers gave opening arguments on Monday in a courtroom in San Jose, California.

HP sued Oracle for breach of contract last year after the database giant announced in March that it would stop developing new versions of its future products for the Itanium processor. Itanium powers HP's so-called Business Critical Systems hardware for highly demanding enterprise applications, but Oracle says the chip line is reaching the end of its life.

On Monday, the companies' lawyers faced off before Judge James Kleinberg in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Oracle co-President Safra Catz and HP board member and former enterprise business chief Ann Livermore, the main negotiators of that agreement, looked on in the courtroom. Livermore was set to testify later Monday. In the first phase of the trial, Kleinberg, without a jury, is to rule on whether the two companies had a valid contract.

HP's attorney, Jeff Thomas, focused in on the wording of the so-called Hurd Agreement, in which the companies reaffirmed their longstanding business partnership after Oracle hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd and HP sued Hurd for breaching a confidentiality agreement. Both he and Oracle's lead attorney focused in on a paragraph of the agreement that said Oracle would "continue to offer its product suite on HP platforms ... in a manner consistent with the partnership as it existed prior to Oracle's hiring of Hurd."

That clearly means Oracle has to keep porting its database, middleware and other key software the HP's HP/UX version of Unix for its Itanium-based Integrity servers, Thomas said.

"The language of the contract itself is perfectly consistent with HP's interpretation," Thomas said. "It cannot remotely be squared with Oracle's interpretation."

Oracle's lead attorney, Daniel Wall, called that clause of the deal "brief, breezy language" and said actual porting contracts are far more detailed, covering the scope, time period and monetary terms of an agreement, among other things. Catz, Livermore and the other high-level executives and lawyers who crafted the Hurd Agreement lack the knowledge to hammer out such a deal, Wall said. With all due respect to them, "they couldn't negotiate a porting agreement on a dare," Wall said.

Instead, the Hurd Agreement was chiefly a deal involving personnel, not software porting, Wall said. "It's a tiny fraction of this bargain," he said.

India ahead of US, Japan in PC security: McAfee

India may have low penetration of computers, but it is ahead of countries like US, Japan and Singapore when it comes to basic PC protection, says a report by security software maker McAfee.

It conducted a global study across 24 nations, analysing data from voluntary scans of an average of 27-28 million PCs per month to determine a global estimate of the number of consumers who have basic security software installed.

Finland had the highest number of 90.3% PCs with a basic security software solution in place, followed by Italy (86.2%) and Germany (85.55%).

Basic security protection is defined as working anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall technologies.

India ranked 14th on the list with 82.67%, while China ranked 17th (82%), followed by Japan and US at the 19th spot (80.65%) and Singapore at 22nd position (78.25%). The global average stood at 83%.

According to estimates, India had a total installed base of over 60 million PCs at the end of 2011.

"Its gratifying to see that the majority of consumers have gotten the message that at the very least they need to have basic security protection installed," McAfee Co-President Todd Gebhart said.

"Protecting digital devices against cybercrime from malware not only benefits each of us personally, but also serves to discourage illicit activity and preserve the integrity of the Internet," he added.

Cases of cyber-attacks against banks, technology firms, e-stores and government agencies are on the rise and have cost millions of dollars worth of losses, McAfee said.

However, 17% of the PCs scanned either had no anti-virus installed or the software was installed, but disabled.

Spain (16.3%) topped the list of countries where the PCs scanned did not have a security solution in place, followed by Japan (13.2%) and China (12.9%).

About 10.9% of the PCs scanned in India did not have a security solution, placing India at the 8th spot.

The study suggests often people do not understand that once the trial subscription expires (which came pre-installed with the PC), they are no longer protected.

Some consumers may disable their security protection on purpose, for example to play online games, while some PC users believe they do not need protection if they simply adhere to safe surfing best practices, it added.

"Security software is consumers' first and, in many cases, only defence against cybercrime," the study said.