Aakash tablet goes on sale for Rs 2500 online

Datawind has put up for sale about 30,000 tablets online at a price of Rs 2500 each, with a delivery period of seven days.

NEW DELHI: Datawind, the maker of the world's cheapest tablet has put up for sale about 30,000 tablets online at a price of Rs 2500 each, with a delivery period of seven days.

The seven inch tablet with Android 2.2 is now available through its portal aakashtablet.com. "We have put up on sale about 30,000 tablets online, which will have a cash on delivery of 7 days. We have achieved pre-sale orders of about 400,000 tablets from individuals and corporates. But current supplies will only be limited for individual buyers," Datawind CEO and founder Suneet Singh Tuli told ET.

XSS vulnerability in Babylon search

Recently I installed a software which changed my default search of firefox to Babylon search. It is a popular search engine and ranks high in alexa. The search engine can be reached at http://search.babylon.com/home

The search engine is vulnerable to a perticular type of XSS attack. Since no one has ever reported about a vulnerability in this search engine so I can take the credit

The search engine can be XSSed by first adding a normal string at the beginning and then add the script. Since the search engine has implemented XSS filtering so it can be bypassed by crafting a different vector.

Notice the search term that I have used here. On executing the script, an alert box will be displayed notifying the successful execution of script.
Here is the complete vulnerable url :

http://search.babylon.com/?q=helloworld%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27hackingalert%27%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3Ehelloworld&babsrc=home&s=web&as=0&t=0

Nokia’s Asha phone to hit India this month

The phones, Asha 300 and Asha 200, run on Symbian S40 operating software.

NEW DELHI: Unveiled with much fanfare at its global even in London in October, Nokia's Asha phones were announced in India. The phones, Asha 300 and Asha 200, run on Symbian S40 operating software. They are a crucial part of Nokia's strategy in India and African countries. While Asha 200 will be available from mid-December, Asha 300 will hit Indian market in early January.

The Finnish company hopes that with Asha phones it will be able to woo younger and price-conscious consumers even as it targets the smartphone segment with devices running on Windows Phone 7.

"At Nokia, we strive to offer our consumers the best technology suited to them through affordable and relevant innovations. Nokia Asha 200 and Asha 300 will set new benchmarks in the mobile internet and music space," said D Shivakumar, managing director at Nokia India. Both phones will be compatible with Nokia's 'unlimited music service'.

Intel working on augmented reality chipsets

Total Immersion is working with Intel to bring AR features.

SANTA CLARA: Total Immersion, a pioneer in emerging field of augmented reality (AR), is working with Intel to bring AR features, like gesture recognition, into Intel's chipsets, an executive of the privately held firm said.

Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, Total Immersion's marketing chief Antoine Brachet said consumer acceptance will decide when products would reach the market, but he thinks this could happen in 2-3 years.

Sabeer Bhatia launches free SMS app Jaxtr

NEW DELHI: Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail.com, on Tuesday launched JaxtrSMS, a mobile application that lets users send unlimited free text messages to any other phone anywhere in the world.
He claimed JaxtrSMS is the world's first mobile-based application for sending SMS that is completely open as the recipients do not need to have the app installed It is already available as a free download for all major mobile operating systems - iOS, Android, Blackberry and J2ME. In fact, users in 197 countries have already downloaded the app within a few weeks since the soft launch, said Bhatia, who is CEO & co-founded Jaxtr with Yogesh Patel in US.
JaxtrSMS is unique in that a mobile user can send a text SMS to any mobile phone in the world without requiring the receiver to have the JaxtrSMS application installed on her phone. This "open" facet of JaxtrSMS distinguishes it from other free mobile messaging applications such as Whatsapp where messages can only be sent within a closed network to people who also have the same app installed. JaxtrSMS retains the number of the user and no new number is required while signing up for the JaxtrSMS service.
"15 years ago, we gave you Hotmail.com, the world's first webmail service that freed up e-mail from the confines of the desktop and aided the creation of a global communications network which was completely open and free for users. Today, we present JaxtrSMS which does to SMS what Hotmail did for e-mail. Now, mobile users can leverage our free and open application to send messages to their contacts anywhere across the world without having to pay anything," said Bhatia.
"JaxtrSMS was completely developed in India. I am proud to showcase this as an example of Indian innovation and ingenuity," said Yogesh Patel, president & co-founder.