Apple has launched CarPlay at the sidelines of Geneva International Motor Show 2014. The CarPlay integrates an iPhone with the car, making it convenient to use the phone while driving. To roll out CarPlay, Apple tied up with leading manufactures. 
Users can control CarPlay from the car's native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction, the Apple said in a press release. The CarPlay makes it easy for iPhone users to make calls, use Maps and access many other things even while driving with voice command or a touch. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp, the press release further said. How it works Apple says "CarPlay makes driving directions more intuitive by working with Maps to anticipate destinations based on recent trips via contacts, emails or texts, and provides routing instructions, traffic conditions and ETA. You can also simply ask Siri and receive spoken turn-by-turn directions, along with Maps, which will appear on your car's built-in display. The CarPlay also supports select third-party audio apps including Spotify and iHeartRadio, so you can listen to your favorite radio services or sports broadcast apps while driving." On its pricing and availability, the US tech major says "CarPlay is available as an update to iOS 7 and works with Lightning-enabled iPhones, including iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5. CarPlay will be available in select cars shipping in 2014."
Vietnam sending helicopters to check floating "yellow object", possible life raft of missing Malaysian plane - vice minister No debris found yet The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented aviation mystery", a senior official said on Monday, with a massive air and sea search now in its third day failing to find any confirmed trace of the plane or 239 people aboard. The head of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said a hijacking could not be ruled out as investigators explore all theories for the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 en route to Beijing. "Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," he told a news conference. "As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft, we have to find a piece of the aircraft if possible." As dozens of ships and aircraft from seven countries scour the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam, questions mounted over possible security lapses and whether a bomb or hijacking could have brought down the Boeing airliner. Hijacking not ruled out in missing Malaysian jet-Chief Investigator Hijacking could not be ruled out and all possibilities were being investigated into why a Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 239 people went missing enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the chief Malaysian investigator said on Monday. The investigator said Vietnamese authorities have not confirmed sighting any debris from the plane. Flight MH370 disappeared early Saturday about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet (10,670 metres). Debris not found Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted on Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing more than two days ago. Doan Huu Gia, the chief of Vietnam's search and rescue coordination center, said Monday that four planes and seven ships from Vietnam were searching for the object but nothing had been found. The Boeing 777 went missing early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam, and searchers in a low-flying plane spotted an object that appeared to be one of the plane's doors, the state-run Thanh Nien newspaper said, citing the deputy chief of staff of Vietnam's army, Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan. Also Read: Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared The jetliner apparently fell from the sky at cruising altitude in fine weather, and the pilots were either unable or had no time to send a distress signal, adding to the mystery over the final minutes of the flight. There are also questions over how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports. Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the Boeing jetliner departed Saturday. Warning "only a handful of countries" routinely make such checks, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble chided authorities for "waiting for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates." On Saturday, the foreign ministries in Italy and Austria said the names of two citizens listed on the flight's manifest matched the names on two passports reported stolen in Thailand. "I can confirm that we have the visuals of these two people on CCTV," Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference late Sunday, adding that the footage was being examined. "We have intelligence agencies, both local and international, on board." Also See: Missing Malaysian jet may have disintegrated mid-air, say reports The thefts of the two passports - one belonging to Austrian Christian Kozel and the other to Luigi Maraldi of Italy - were entered into Interpol's database after they were stolen in Thailand in 2012 and last year, the police body said. Electronic booking records show that one-way tickets with those names were issued on Thursday from a travel agency in the beach resort of Pattaya in eastern Thailand. A person who answered the phone at the agency said she could not comment. But no authorities in Malaysia or elsewhere checked the passports against the database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents before the Malaysian Airlines plane took off. 
Possible causes of the crash included some sort of explosion, a catastrophic failure of the plane's engines, extreme turbulence, or pilot error or even suicide. Establishing what happened with any certainty will need data from flight recorders and a detailed examination of any debris, something that will take months if not years. Malaysia's air force chief, Rodzali Daud, said radar indicated that before it disappeared, the plane may have turned back, but there were no further details on which direction it went or how far it veered off course. "We are trying to make sense of this," Daud said at a news conference. "The military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back, and in some parts this was corroborated by civilian radar." Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said pilots are supposed to inform the airline and traffic control authorities if the plane does a U-turn. "From what we have, there was no such distress signal or distress call per se, so we are equally puzzled," he said. A total of 34 aircraft and 40 ships from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, China and the United States were deployed to the area where ground controllers lost contact with the plane on the maritime border between Malaysia and Vietnam. Of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, two-thirds were Chinese, while the rest were from elsewhere in Asia, Europe and North America, including three Americans. Family members of Philip Wood, a 50-year-old IBM executive who was on board the plane, said they saw him a week ago when he visited them in Texas after relocating to Kuala Lumpur from Beijing, where he had worked for two years. The other two Americans were identified on the passenger manifest as 4-year-old Nicole Meng and 2-year-old Yan Zhang. It was not known with whom they were traveling. After more than 30 hours without contact with the aircraft, Malaysia Airlines told family members they should "prepare themselves for the worst," Hugh Dunleavy, the commercial director for the airline, told reporters. Finding traces of an aircraft that disappears over sea can take days or longer, even with a sustained search effort. Depending on the circumstances of the crash, wreckage can be scattered over a large area. If the plane enters the water before breaking up, there can be relatively little debris. A team of American experts was en route to Asia to be ready to assist in the investigation into the crash. The team includes accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, as well as technical experts from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing, the safety board said in a statement. Malaysia Airlines has a good safety record, as does the 777, which had not had a fatal crash in its 19-year history until an Asiana Airlines plane crashed last July in San Francisco, killing three passengers, all Chinese teenagers. Details also emerged Sunday about the itineraries of the two passengers traveling on the stolen passports. A telephone operator on a China-based KLM hotline confirmed Sunday that passengers named Maraldi and Kozel had been booked on one-way tickets on the same KLM flight, flying from Beijing to Amsterdam on Saturday. Maraldi was to fly on to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Kozel to Frankfurt, Germany. She said the pair booked the tickets through China Southern Airlines, but she had no information on where they bought them. As holders of EU passports with onward flights to Europe, the passengers would not have needed visas for China. Interpol said it and national investigators were working to determine the true identities of those who used the stolen passports to board the flight. White House Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said the U.S. was looking into the stolen passports, but that investigators had reached no conclusions. Interpol has long sounded the alarm that growing international travel has underpinned a new market for identity theft: Bogus passports are mostly used by illegal immigrants, but also pretty much anyone looking to travel unnoticed such as drug runners or terrorists. More than 1 billion times last year, travelers boarded planes without their passports being checked against Interpol's database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents, the police agency said.
Singer Justin Bieber and actress-crooner Selena Gomez were reportedly seen together having breakfast and they even hugged and kissed each other during their outing in McAllen, Texas. "Gomez-Bieber came in with their bodyguards for breakfast and were here for an hour and a half," said Lori Johnson, manager of Don Pepe's McAllen Mexican restaurant. 
Bieber ate huevos rancheros, while Gomez had pork chops with grilled onions, tomatoes and jalapenos. Along with their meal, the singers enjoyed public display of affection (PDA) Friday, reports people.com "They were sitting next to each other hugging and kissing in front of the staff. They weren't hiding it and seemed to be boyfriend and girlfriend," said Johnson. After breakfast they visited the Royal Perfumeria shop. "They came in together for about five minutes and he wanted to smell the Givenchy cologne and he wanted Obsession, and Selena was just browsing and looking at the fragrances for women. They were both polite and nice," said shop owner Lydia Gonzalez.
I typically have headphones on when I'm home in New York, whether it's during a jog or a commute. I often crank the volume up, at the risk of hearing loss, so that I could hear my favorite podcasts over loud subways and honking cars. I was excited to see noise-cancelling technology in Sony's new Xperia Z2 smartphone. I've resisted investing in pricey noise-cancelling sets because I'm prone to lose or break them. If it's going to be built into a phone, perhaps I can use that instead of my iPod. Alas, I find the new feature to be more promise than practical, based on the brief time I had with the phone at this week's Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain. But first, I'll go through other features that may appeal to some people. The phone is due to come out in March. Sony hasn't announced a price, though its phones typically sell for $500 to $600 in the U.S. without subsidies or a contract. WATERPROOF: Sony's smartphones are distinctive in being waterproof. It's not something I've felt that I've needed, but you might find it useful if you work as a lifeguard or live near a beach. 20.7 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA: That's even better than the 16 megapixels in Samsung's new Galaxy S5. But lens quality and the focus mechanism are also important. I didn't get to try out the Z2's camera, but it's the same one in the Xperia Z1s, which I've had mixed results with. 4K VIDEO RECORDING: It's impressive that the phone can capture video with four times the details as full high-definition video. But 4K displays are still expensive, so you won't appreciate the extra sharpness for a while. It's more for people who want to take quality video now for the day 4K becomes more common. Now, back to the noise. The phone analyzes ambient noise and produces a countering signal. In simple terms, if the noise is a 7, the phone subtracts 7 to bring it to zero. If the noise is a 5, the phone subtracts 5. Unfortunately, it requires special in-ear headphones, which Sony is selling for 60 euros ($82). A sensor in the earpiece detects the noise, so the phone knows what countering signal to send. This approach keeps the headphones smaller and cheaper than typical noise-cancelling headphones. Noise cancellation is optimized for the office, for planes and for buses or trains. You choose one in the settings. I tried the headphones surrounded by simulated train and plane noise. The technology works, but it doesn't filter out the external noise completely. It also requires me to press the earpiece deep into my ears to notice a difference. Sony tells me the earpiece covers come in three sizes, so a larger one might have helped. I look forward to testing the feature more thoroughly. For now, I'll keep my iPod.
The results of the comedy war between Chutki and Kapil Sharma are out. The latest ratings have revealed that the newly launched show Mad In India failed to outshine the popularity of laugh riot Comedy Nights With Kapil on Colors. It seems like the sudden spate of comedy shows on various entertainment channels have led to an overkill of the genre. According to TVT data sourced from TAM subscribers last week, the latest ratings of Comedy Nights featuring Kirron Kher and Malaika Arora received 8.5 millions viewership while Star Plus' latest offering to the comedy genre Mad In India, featuring Govinda and Karishma Kapoor received net viewership of 3.2 million. Followers of comedy shows have been inquisitive about Sunil Grover's new drag avatar Chutki in his talk show Mad In India ever since he made an exit from Comedy Nights With Kapil, where he played the character Gutthi. Despite the hype and publicity, the show anchored by Manish Paul opened to a dismal response. The opening episode of featuring Baba Ramdev, received 5.7 TVM (Total Viewership in Millions) while Kapil's show's average rating got hiked to 9.6 TVM the same week.opened to a dismal response. The opening episode of featuring Baba Ramdev, received 5.7 TVM (Total Viewership in Millions) while Kapil's show's average rating got hiked to 9.6 TVM the same week. "Comedy needs regular innovation, and the makers need to constantly come up with innovative ideas to retain the interest of the audience. Popularity of the shows are specific to each stand-up comedian's fan following," said Krishna Abhishek, who has been part of Sony's show Comedy Circus, the top ranked comedy show for the last seven years. With the onset of several comedy shows, Sony's Comedy Circus has seen a steep downfall in the ratings. The show which features artists such as Krishna Abhishek, Bharti Singh, Rajeev Thakur, among others, receives an average viewership of 1.5-1.8 million. 
SAB's long running popular daily soap Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashma has also witnessed a slight drop in viewership, lately. Positioned among the top ten shows on TV, Taarak received average viewership of 7.3 TVM in the last few weeks, as opposed it's once average viewership of 7.7 - 7.9 million.
Lady Gaga might sue her ex-beau Rob Fusari if he dares to reveal secrets of her pre- fame life.
RadarOnline reported that Fusari recently begged a judge to seal documents that he had filed in a new lawsuit regarding his relationship, as Gaga could sue him. Fusari is currently involved in a lawsuit with the singer's friend Wendy Starland and filed a separate motion asking the judge to seal the items, so that Gaga will not make him pay "heavy monetary penalties."
The new court documents states that, he and Gaga have specifically bargained for a strict non-disparagement clause and if they are made public, the new documents may constitute a breach thereof. The current situation is an outcome of the lawsuit filed by Fusari when he sued her back in 2010 for 30.5 million dollars.
Mrs Kundra is all set to make a grand appearance on the small screen, but for a brief period With all her contemporaries trying their luck on small screen, Shilpa Shetty Kundra couldn’t be left far Read More...
Looks like the Krrish 3 actor has had a change of heart and doesn’t mind promoting her other cousin Meera’s upcoming film
Priyanka Chopra and Parineeti Chopra have always kept a safe distance from their distant cousin Meera Chopra who will be soon making her Bollywood debut with Gang Of Ghosts. But looks like things are changing at least between the Exotic babe and Meera. We say so coz PeeCee recently took to Twitter to promote Meera’s film. She posted, Read More....
Actress Sunny Leone, who has been a part of the Mumbai entertainment industry since her 2011 appearance on "Bigg Boss 5", says she hasn't made too many friends in Bollywood yet. "I don't have lot of friends here. I am too busy and I don't get to socialize much. I just want to rest at times and take a day off after a hectic schedule," Sunny said. The actress, who will next be seen in horror film "Ragini MMS 2", says she can feel the pressure of carrying the movie on her shoulders. 
"There are also other actors in this film. I had not thought about it (the pressure) till the promotions started. But now there is a pressure because everyone is asking me this question," she added. Directed by Bhushan Patel, "Ragini MMS 2" releases March 21.
