Flipkart’s Big Billion Day Sale angers Samsung, Sony and other tech giants over ‘rock-bottom’ prices

The Big Billion Day sale by Flipkart turned out to be a damp squib as only a small percentage of online buyers could manage to get their hands on the massive deals. So much so, that Flipkart founders issued an apology to the disgruntled customers. While theapology itself was not of much help, if reports are to believed, that should be the least of Flipkart’s worries at the moment. According to a Times of India report, top electronics firms such as Samsung, LG and Sony are not happy with Flipkart for selling off their products at heavy discounts – much below the cost price of said products.

Some of these companies have also suspended fresh sales to Flipkart and may even consider taking legal action as they term Flipkart’s sale pricing as ‘predatory pricing’. According to a senior executive from a company which deals in white goods, their products sold on Flipkart are via unauthorised dealers which makes it difficult for companies to offer warranties on them. According to another company executive, the heavy discounts affects the business of brick and mortar retailers. Many companies will not offer fresh supplies to Flipkart unless they get an undertaking from Flipkart that pricing will not be at unrealistic levels.

LG Electronics India,VP (sales) Sanjeev Aggarwal told the news site that his company steers clear of online retailers and partners selling LG products on Flipkart are not authorised trade partners. For instance, LG 32-inch LED backlit LCD TVs start from Rs 27,000 according to LG’s official website, but Flipkart was offering one 32-inch LG LED TV for as low as Rs 14,900.

Sony India head of sales took a more lenient approach and mentioned that Sony will hold discussions with online retailers to ensure that pricing remains realistic.

Some of the companies apart from the three mentioned above are also considering taking legal action, as they claim that such sales damage their brand value and they want to know the modus operandi behind how products are sold below cost price.

With the festive season just having started, big brands staying away from Flipkart as well as other online retailers will surely hit their sales under the Eletronics section. Consumers should also be extremely careful about things such as warranties. You do not want to end up with a product which does not come with company warranty. As mentioned in the report, since some brands do not have authorised sellers on some ecommerce sites, it is as good as buying stuff off the grey market. Taking into consideration the exponential growth in e-commerce sites, brands should hopefully arrive at a mutual agreement.

Disclaimer: Homeshop18 which is in competition with Flipkart, is owned by Network18, which also owns Firstpost.

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HTC Desire Eye: HTC's selfie-focused smartphone with a 13MP front camera launched

New Delhi: After Samsung and Microsoft, HTC has now introduced its selfie-focused smartphone. Named the HTC Desire Eye, the new smartphone is claimed to include one of the best front-facing cameras.

The Desire Eye has a 13 megapixel front and rear cameras for detailed image quality. Its front camera is the highest resolution front camera to date. Both the front and rear cameras have a dual-LED flash to provide natural tones. The BSI sensors on both the cameras are said to capture crisp photos even in low-light conditions.

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It has a dual-colour, waterproof unibody design with a 5.2-inch full HD display. Beating under the hood is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.

HTC Desire Eye has a dual-colour, waterproof unibody design with a 5.2-inch full HD display. Beating under the hood is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.

According to the company, The HTC Eye Experience takes mobile imaging software to a new level. The HTC Eye Experience's face tracking keeps you framed at all times. Also up to four people in the same room can also be tracked comfortably, with each face cropped and positioned on the screen for maximum clarity.

Its new Split Capture function combines simultaneous photos and videos taken on the front and back cameras into one split-screen image or video, creating a new selfie experience. Crop-Me-In places you at the heart of the action by cropping you from the image or video taken with the front-facing camera and positioning it within the scene captured by the main camera.

Voice Selfie makes it easier for you to take selfies. Simply "say cheese" as soon as you've struck the perfect pose or trigger the video recording with "action" or "rolling" commands.

Additions to the HTC Desire 820 are also included in the HTC Eye Experience such as face fusion, the feature that allows you to merge your face with that of a friend or celebrity for a completely original look and Live Makeup, where you can set the desired level of skin smoothing and preview the effect in real-time before the image is captured.

The option of screen sharing in the HTC Desire Eye brings desktop functionality to smartphone-based video chat.

The HTC Desire Eye will be rolled out across EMEA, Asia and the US from October.

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6 Ways to hack a Facebook Account | Facebook Hacking (New Tricks 2014)

6  Ways to hack a Facebook account, something most of our readers always wanted to Learn, something new about Facebook Hacking. Learn the best attacks for Facebook Hacking with their advantages and drawbacks.
Note:- This tutorial is for educational purpose only and may not be used for any blackhat purpose. The prime aim of this tutorial is to create awareness so that you guys can protect yourself  from getting hacked.
Before learning the actual procedure you should know about different types of attacks, their drawbacks and prevention against these attacks .

1) Phishing :
The first and very basic way of hacking Facebook accounts is via Phishing. Phishing is actually creating fake web pages to steal user’s credentials like email,passwords,phone no,etc.

DRAWBACK :
Users nowadays are aware of these type of attacks and one can not be easily fooled using this attack. You need some social engineering to trick someone.
Prevention :

• Always check the page URL before logging in. This is the most trusted and effective way one can use to avoid himself from phishing.

• Other way is to use some good Antivirus software which will warn you if  you visit a harmful phishing page.
  Even if somehow you have already entered your credentials in a phisher, Immediately Change your password.

2) Keylogging :This is another good way of hacking Facebook accounts. In this type of attack a hacker simply sends an infected file having keylogger in it to the victim. If the victim executes that file on his pc, whatever he types will be mailed/uploaded to hacker’s server. The advantage of this attack is that the victim won’t know that hacker is getting every Bit of data he is typing. Another big advantage is that hacker will get passwords of all the accounts used on that PC.

DRAWBACK :Keyloggers are often detected as threats by good antiviruses. Hacker must find a way to protect it from antivirus.

Prevention :

• Execute the file only if you trust the sender.
• Use online scanner such as novirusthanks.org
• Use good antivirus and update it regularly .

3) Trojans/backdoors :
This is an advanced level topic. It consists of a server and a client. In this type of attack the attacker sends the infected server to the victim. After execution the infected server i.e. Trojan on the victim’s PC opens a backdoor and now the hacker can do whatever he wants with the victim’s PC .

DRAWBACK :

Trojans are often detected as threats by good antiviruses. Hacker must find a way to protect it from antivirus.

Prevention :

• Execute the file only if you trust the sender.
• Use online scanner such as novirusthanks.org
• Use good antivirus and update it regularly .

4)Sniffing

It consists of stealing session in progress. In this type of attack an attacker makes connection with server and client and relays message between them, making them believe that they are talking to each other directly.

DRAWBACK :

• If user is logged out then attacker is also logged out and the session is lost.
• It is difficult to sniff on SSL protected networks.

Prevention :

• Always use SSL secured connections.
• Always keep a look at the url if the http:// is not changed to https:// it means that sniffing is active on your network.

5)Social Engineering :

This method includes guessing and fooling the clients to give their own passwords. In this type of attack, a hacker sends a fake mail which is very convincing and appealing and asks the user for his password.
Answering the security questions also lies under this category.
Drawback :
It is not easy to convince someone to make him give his password.
Guessing generally doesn’t always work ( Although if you are lucky enough it may work!).

Prevention :

• Never give your password to anyone
• Don’t believe in any sort of emails which asks for your password

6) Session Hijacking

In a session hijacking attack an attacker steals victims cookies, cookies stores all the necessary logging Information about one’s account, using this info an attacker can easily hack anybody’s account. If you get the cookies of the Victim you can Hack any account the Victim is Logged into i.e. you can hack Facebook, Google, Yahoo.
Drawbacks :

• You will be logged out when user is logged out.
• You will not get the password of the user’s account.
• Will not work if the user is using HTTPS connections.

Prevention :

• Always work on SSL secured connections.
• Always keep a look at the url if the http:// is not changed to https:// it means that sniffing is active on your network

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Top 50 Earning Blogs!!

Successful Blogs Earning Money Online

For today’s post, I wanted to look at some of the most successful and profitable blogs that are currently online.

For many people that are just starting blogging, it is hard to know how much you can potentially earn. In the initial stages of setting up a blog, it can be tough to keep motivated to keep going when you’re not making much money, but given time and lots of effort a blog can take off  in a big way. The best examples that you can look at are the blogs that are at the top. It certainly inspired me to learn just how much money some of the top blogs make on a daily basis.

The following list of 50 blogs are considered the best in the business. I often get inspired by these blogs, urging me on to put in the work to make my own site the best that it can be. I hope that this inspires you as well!

	Website	Owner	Daily Income	Value	Main Income
1	The Huffington Post	Arianna Huffington	$29,896	$21.82 Million	Pay Per Click
2	Mashable	Pete Cashmore	$15,781	$11.52 Million	Advertising Banners
3	Techcrunch	Michael Arrington	$14,816	$10.82 Million	Advertising Banners
4	Engadget	Peter Rojas	$9,861	$7.2 Million	Advertising Banners
5	Smashing Magazine	Vitaly Friedman	$6,382	$4.66 Million	Advertising Banners
6	Tuts+	Collis Taeed	$5,068	$3.7 Million	Membership Area
7	Life Hacker	Nick Denton	$4,821	$3.52 Million	Advertising Banners
8	Gizmodo	Attila Talos	$3,918	$2.86 Million	Advertising Banners
9	Perez Hilton	Mario Lavandeira	$3,645	$2.66 Million	Advertising Banners
10	Joystiq	AOL	$1,752	$1.28 Million	CPM Advertising
11	Problogger	Darren Rowse	$1,751	$1.28 Million	Advertising Banners
12	Kotaku	Nick Denton	$1,599	$1.17 Million	Advertising Banners
13	Six Revisions	Jacob Gube	$1,587	$1.16 Million	Advertising Banners
14	Noupe	Noupe	$1,400	$1.02 Million	Advertising Banners
15	Venture Beat	Matt Marshall	$1,251	$913,721	Pay Per Click
16	CopyBlogger	Brian Clark	$1,184	$864,861	Affiliate Sales
17	Abduzeedo	Fabio Sasso	$983	$718,239	Advertising Banners
18	Talking Points Memo	Joshua Marshall	$887	$647,750	Advertising Banners
19	WPBeginner	Syed Balkhi	$692	$505,420	Affiliate Sales
20	Matt Cutts	Matt Cutts	$0*	$488,944	Twitter
21	Steve Pavlina	Steve Pavlina	$664	$485,024	Pay Per Click
22	Slash Gear	Ewdison Then	$621	$453,999	Pay Per Click
23	Smart Passive Income	Pat Flynn	$607	$443,406	Affiliate Sales
24	John Chow	John Chow	$555	$405,242	Affiliate Sales
25	Freelance Switch	Collis Ta’eed	$533	$389,517	Membership Area
26	Shoemoney	Jeremy Schoemaker	$485	$354,112	Private Advertising
27	Gothamist	Jake Dobkin	$452	$330,022	Pay Per Click
28	Entrepreneurs Journey	Yaro Starak	$389	$284,170	Affiliate Sales
29	IncomeDiary	Michael Dunlop	$382	$279,505	Affiliate Sales
30	Chris Brogan	Chris Brogan	$371	$271,147	Affiliate Sales
31	Matts Marketing Blog	Matt Carter	$302	$220,834	Affiliate Sales
32	ClickNewz	Lynn Terry	$239	$174,873	Affiliate Sales
33	Dooce	Heather B Armstrong	$229	$167,580	Pay Per Click
34	Coolest Gadgets	Allan Carlton	$227	$166,069	Advertising Banners
35	Tony Robbins	Tony Robbins	$193	$141,526	Affiliate Sales
36	Just Creative Designs	Jacob Cass	$185	$135,497	Advertising Banners
37	David Risley	David Risley	$137	$100,588	Affiliate Sales
38	Car Advice	Alborz Fallah	$127	$92,886	Advertising Banners
39	Sizlopedia	Saad Hamid	$118	$86,842	Pay Per Click
40	Gary Vaynerchuk	Gary Vaynerchuk	$88	$64,744	Affiliate Sales
41	PC Mech	David Risley	$82	$59,955	Affiliate Sales
42	Timothy Sykes	Timothy Sykes	$81	$59,284	Affiliate Sales
43	Joel Comm	Joel Comm	$75	$55,408	Affiliate Sales
44	Tyler Cruz	Tyler Cruz	$74	$54,736	Affiliate Sales
45	Chris Garrett	Chris Garrett	$67	$49,327	Affiliate Sales
46	Money Dummy	John Paul Aguiar	$65	$48,093	Affiliate Sales
47	Retireat21	Michael Dunlop	$65	$47,487	Affiliate Sales
48	Revenews	ReveNews, LLC	$64	$47,122	Affiliate Sales
49	StandOutBlogger	Thomas Sinfield	$59	$43,633	Affiliate Sales
50	BlogBareFoot	Carrie Wilkerson	$37	$27,390	Affiliate Sales

[* - Matt Cutts has stated (see comments section) that he doesn't actually earn any money directly via his blog.  Instead he utilizes Twitter to promote various products and merchandise to his many followers.  Still a viable blog to feature on this list though, as it shows that other methods can be used to make money online.]

This list is only an estimate of the true worth of these sites. If anything, these are probablyUNDERestimates, as many of these sites have many streams of income. Check out our ‘30 Ways Your Website Can Earn You Money‘ to learn of other ways in which you can monetize your website.

It took me quite a bit of time to research this ‘Top 50 Earning Blogs‘ list. I learnt a lot from doing this and found loads of interesting sites and bloggers. I believe that this list helps to illustrate the ladder of success that we all strive to climb up.

OnlineIncomeTeacher.com doesn’t feature on the list YET, however I will strive to work hard to achieve a place amongst these outstanding names.  I hope you feel as inspired as I do!

Disclaimer:- The website’s featured in this top 50 list are only estimates and are not 100% accurate! This is just an indication of how well they are doing regarding making money from their blog. All of the ‘Daily Income’ & ‘Value’ statistics were calculated using the free tool ‘SiteWorthChecher.com’  which can be used to estimate the worth of a website.

If you believe that you deserve a place on the ‘top 50 earning blogs’ list, or know of any blogs that should, please comment below!

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