Nokia Shuts Down Desti after HERE Acquisition

Nokia Corporation will be shutting down Desti on September 3 2014. Desti has already started issuing notifications to its users about about its permanent shut down, following the closure of deal with Nokia.

The Finnish company acquired the personalized travel planning app in May and said that the Desti app will be closed forever after 90 days.

The users using Desti service should save the schedules and share this news with others to access it later after the app shuts down permanently.

However this is a good new for the HERE Maps/Drive users as Nokia will be incorporating Desti’s technology in HERE location search to make it better and more personalized.

Their technology makes use of natural language processing technology and artificial intelligence to offer information to the travellers on the trips base on their choices. So a user will not have to check the hotels, shops and restaurants before planning the holiday.

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IndusInd Bank launches Online Store themorestore.in

IndusInd Bank has launched an exclusive online store for its customers. A website called themorestore.in has been launched to enable customers to redeem their reward points towards purchase of items from an attractive online catalogue as well as purchase attractive merchandise from the site.

This site is similar to Payback.in which was launched by ICICI to allow its customers to redeem reward points.

The MoreStore has three powerful shopping experiences to offer: Redemption, Shopping and Redemption + Shopping.

1. With Redemption, customers can redeem their reward points (across debit and credit cards) against over 200 products listed in the catalogue.

2. With Shopping, customers can shop across categories like lifestyle, health & beauty, gadgets and many more

3. With Redemption + Shopping, they can buy a product from The MoreStore catalogue using their reward points and pay the remaining amount using their Credit Card.

Mr. Anil Ramachandran, Head Retail Unsecured Assets- Credit Card & Personal Loans, IndusInd Bank said,

The launch of The MoreStore is in line with our on-going commitment   to constantly innovate, and to bring to our customers the best services, products and benefits. We already have one of the strongest and most vibrant Rewards program in the country and The MoreStore goes a step ahead by creating a strong and diversified redemption platform. It is, in fact, a  first-of- its-kind  e-commerce solution exclusively for our customers. They can use this dedicated e-commerce website for redemption of their Credit Card and Debit Card reward points as well as for their online shopping.

AMD A8-6410 and A6-6310 Beema CPUs Specifications, already being shipped in HP Laptops

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Until now the HP was offering the AMD A6-6310 Beema APU in the Pavilion 14z Touch, Pavilion 15z, 17z and 17z Touch laptops. But now the same range of laptops are being offered with AMD A8-6410 which has higher base clock frequency and better GPU than the A6-6310.

The new A8 APU is also being offered in HP 245 G3 and 255 G3 as well. We found it in the quick sheet present on HP’s website.

Here are their specs:

AMD A6-6310    4 cores    1.8 / 2.4 GHz clock speed   2 MB L2 cache    Radeon R4 series graphics    15 Watt TDP

AMD A8-6410    4 cores      2 / 2.4 GHz clock speed    2 MB L2 cache    Radeon R5 series GPU    15 Watt TDP

16GB Apple iPod Touch Priced, Discounts on 32 and 64GB models

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Apple is now more serious about its iPod Touch lineup. The company has launched a new 16GB iPod Touch that has built in iSight camera. The new 16GB Apple iPod Touch will now sell for 199 dollars.

The company has also decreased the prices of the 32GB and 64GB models so the prices are down to $249 and $299 respectively.

Other than that nothing has been changed hardware or software wise.

The 16GB iPod Touch used to be sold for $199 which is 30 dollars less than yester year’s model which lacked iSight camera.