What made Flipkart open an offline retail store

NEW DELHI: A nudge from employees has opened up a fresh avenue of growth for e-commerce company Flipkart in the offline retail space, besides boosting internal pride in the brand.

A few months ago, Flipkart opened its first brick-and-mortar store called 'Fliptomania' in Bangalore after several employees called for company-branded products on 'sticker', or employee feedback walls.

Flipkart received repeated requests for company-branded T-shirts, coffee mugs and stationery. The Bangalore store is open to both employees and outside customers, and has witnessed heavy footfalls.

Encouraged by this, the company is planning more such stores at its offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, besides unveiling its branded products on its website for its employees.

"Deliberately, these products come with a very nominal price tag just enough to cover the cost price," says Arathi Vedantham, director of internal communications, Flipkart. Vedantham, however, did not disclose the revenues or footfalls from the store.

"These products instill a sense of pride and belonging among employees. Quirky things like even laptop stickers are a huge hit," she said.

Some of the employee messages read, "Can we have more of Flipkart branded T-shirts. I want to gift these," added a company spokesperson. Outside customers contribute just 10% to the total store footfall.

Building its brand has a twofold effect on a company — it augments the market valuation and pumps up employee pride. "By owning a brand, in some cases, the market valuation of a company has risen by 1.6 or 1.8 times from its original valuation," says Harish Bijoor, brand expert and CEO, Harish Bijoor Co.

Bijoor cites the examples of soap companies like Marico and Chandrika, which started out by manufacturing soaps for other companies before selling them under their own brand. The companies, he says, became very successful after introducing their own branded soaps.

Flipkart is all set to ride its own success with the Bangalore store. It is now preparing to cater to the next employee request for a baby line of products. So serious is the company's involvement in this initiative that it has hired a young designer, Subin Kurian Verghese, for designing in-house products.

The company spokesperson claims it had never advertised its offline range of products, and that they were a hit among buyers from day one. The Bangalore store sells merchandise like T-shirts, jackets, stationery, apparels and laptop stickers under its brand
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SBI Capital Markets appoints Rajnish Kumar MD and CEO

SBI Capital Markets appoints Rajnish Kumar MD and CEO

Investment bank SBI Capital Markets has appointed Rajnish Kumar as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with effect from today.

Kumar has replaced V G Kannan who was elevated as the investment banks’ Managing Director and Group Executive (associates and subsidiaries) of the State Bank of India, earlier this month, the company said in a release issued here today.

Prior to this, Kumar was the Chief General Manager (project finance and leasing SBU) at the SBI.

Kumar joined SBI as a probationary officer in 1980 and held several key assignments across various business verticals, including two overseas assignments in Canada as well as the United Kingdom.

He has vast experience in handling large credit, project finance, foreign exchange and retail banking, the release said.

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Why CEOs identify themselves as yajamans and their CXOs as kartas!

Why CEOs identify themselves as yajamans and their CXOs as kartas!

The word karta is a legal term referring to the head of a Hindu Joint Family. The word yajaman is a religious and feudal term referring to the patron. The two words are often used interchangeably but they mean very different things. They represent two levels of leadership.

Simply put, a karta is the alpha pack leader whose pack is made of those lower in the pecking order: betas, gammas and omegas, while a yajaman is an alpha whose pack is made of other alpha pack leaders. Karta is a leader who leads followers. Yajaman is a leader who leads leaders. Let us understand this in terms of cooking an Indian thali with multiple dishes.

What does a karta do when he is asked to prepare an Indian thali? The response depends on whether he knows to cook and/or whether he knows to manage. Thus we have four possibilities – he knows to cook and manage, he knows neither to cook nor manage, he knows only to cook and he knows only to manage. If he knows to cook and manage, then he will design the thali, allot a dish to other cooks, and allocate the most important dish to himself. If he knows neither to cook nor manage, he will shout at everyone until they figure out a way to create a thali.

If he only knows to cook, he will find everyone else not good enough and end up preparing the thali himself. If only knows to manage, he will use the democratic process to get one cook to design the thali and others to prepare a single dish such that process is efficient and effective. Further, a karta demands complete obedience from his karya-karta, his followers. He is dismissive of those who challenge his authority or think differently.

A yajaman approaches the project differently. For the karta, getting the thali ready is target and the team is but a tool. For the yajaman, the team is the target and the thali is but a tool for enabling the team to be better. At the end of the project, the yajaman will have not just the thali but also a team of thali-makers who can create thalis even in his absence, enabling him to move on to other projects. He even enables the thali-makers to create more thali-makers. He allows them to think differently and invests time and energy to make them see why his approach is better.

He is even ready to change tracks and learn from others if a better idea comes along without feeling hurt or insecure. In modern objective driven management, the purpose of the institution is to achieve the target.

People are just tools and mediums to do so. You matter only because you perform, because you contribute to organisation success. After that, beyond that, you have no role. This ecosystem thrives on the karta model. We seek kartas and karya-kartas, all talks of talent management notwithstanding.

Those who seek in terms of legacy building and creating sustainable institutions have to think less about objective and more about people. The objective is but a tool to enable people, transform followers into leaders and leaders into leader-creators. It is all about mindset. It is all about gaze or darshan.

Attempts have been made in this direction by introducing the concept of the balance scorecard. But this is done half-heartedly for the shareholder is more interested in dividends and profits and less about people. A lot depends on timing and life cycle of an organisation. Focussing on profits rather than people is important for start-ups and new companies in early stages of evolution.

But when this becomes a malignant disease when it can be seen even in later stages of evolved business houses. It indicates a lack of maturity born of deep insecurity. We are too busy achieving numbers in the short-term to think of people in long-term. One can say, a karta is trapped in tactics while a yajaman thinks strategic.

Words like karta and yajaman are mindsets. They are NOT designations. Yet, typically, in my experience, people use the words to indicate layers in a organisational pecking order. Thus all CEOs identify themselves as yajamans and want their COO and Sales heads to be kartas. The mind unfortunately has nothing to do with organisational charts.

It has to deal with how we see the world around us. A karta wants to control. A yajaman wants to enable. A karta cannot handle failure. A yajaman has faith and patience to know that lasting success takes time.

Devdutt Pattanaik, writes & lectures on relevance of mythology in management. He is the author of Business Sutra: an Indian approach to management

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Hospitality skills sought after in healthcare

Hospitality skills sought after in healthcare

The Healthcare industry is currently evolving into a patient-centric model that aims at improving the patient’s overall experience within the hospital. This is leading to an increase in demand for hospitality professionals with an expertise in operations and service excellence

In the last few years, Indian hospitals have been trying to position themselves globally as leaders in health systems and patient care. However to meet global standards, they also need to deliver high levels of customer service, for this hospitals need to champion a service culture focussed on patients.

In a recent TimeJobs.com High Tea chat session Jacob Jacob, chief people officer of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd said that within the Indian healthcare industry there is an increase in demand for experts in operations and service excellence functions. The reason being, healthcare industry is currently orienting itself into a total patient-centric model that aims at improving patient’s overall experience.

“Hospitality professionals are increasingly finding relevance within healthcare vertical as service excellence is equally important in both healthcare and hospitality verticals. For professionals with more than 14-15 years of experience, there is an increasing opportunity in support level roles within the industry,” said Jacob.

Another role that has big potential in the Healthcare industry is clinical research, with most of the institutions focusing on creating a dedicated division for this area. This directly points towards job openings for a variety of professionals connected with clinical research, in various capacities.

Hinting at the potential job opportunities that the healthcare industry would be throwing open in the coming times, Jacob said that most of the hospitals are planning expansions which would consequently create more job opportunities for support functions as well as core functions going forward.

According to the latest RecruiteX report (Jan-Jun 2014), the key takeaways for the Healthcare/Pharma industry are:

• Expansion into the high potential rural and peri-urban markets

• Specialisation and capabilities led hires, focused to increase efficiency across the value chain, and increase services accessibility.

• Focus on leadership competencies as they are most critical for success in pharmaceutical organisations

• The industry seems to be planning expansions in tier II and III cities and is looking for senior level recruits who can handle these units

• With companies planning to expand their networks, demand for support functions is expected to be high

• Industry needs to work on cost effective solutions to grow

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Career mistakes freshers must avoid

Career mistakes freshers must avoid

Freshers need to adapt to a different way of life when they land their first job. Here are some tips 

There is nothing to beat the feeling of the thrill of an appointment letter and the high of being able to get your own salary. You have worked hard, built your skills and diligently hunted for a job and finally got it! However, there are things you need to keep in mind when you start your first job:

Focusing more on money than on building the career

“Getting a good salary is no doubt important, but having joined a company, being focused more on money than the job and the responsibilities it entails can prove costly in the long run,” says Nikhil Chandoor, recruitment head (IT division), REG Services, Bangalore. “It is the job and what you do at work that ensures a successful career. The skills you sharpen, the responsibilities you take on and the problem solving abilities you display that helps build a career with a dream income, not the other way round.”

Confusing your boss with the headmistress

“Your boss is not the all powerful guy you make him out to be. He/she has to report to his/her boss and has to deliver within the limitations set by them. Candidates with `under two years experience’ often go to the boss with problems. As a co-worker you are expected to come up with solutions,” says Chandoor. “In fact, ensuring the boss does not get flak for your non-delivery is one good way of chalking out a good career path.”

Taking a job where you do not learn

Sticking to a job of your choice where you enjoy what you do and are constantly learning are some essential aspects that industry professionals strongly recommend.

“Freshers are under tremendous pressure from parents, relatives and peer groups to get ‘that dream job’. In their rush to satisfy this expectation, the kind of work they want to do gets shortchanged,” says   Sudha Ramalingam, HR head IT, TechnoLeague, India, one of the companies that focuses on global placements for several technology giants. “A smarter move is to take up a job, which helps build your skills and provides you with a platform to learn.”

Sticking to your group within the office

“Candidates in the `under two years experience’ category often continue to hang out with a set of people, within or outside office. Making connections within office and relying on them is a good strategy for career development,” says Ramalingam. “This coupled with building connections with other professionals (off and online) can help expand your vision and provide a broader perspective of the company and industry in general. A great opportunity to help give the new fillip to any career.”

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5 reasons men should groom their privates

5 reasons why men should groom their privates (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)

Men spend hours obsessing about grooming the hair on their head but tend to ignore their pubic hair.

It is only when they are going to have sex that they begin to groom their privates. The fact remains that ungroomed privates are not only a complete turn off, but are also unhygienic. Here are five reasons why men should groom their privates.

Cleanliness
Heat, sweat and bacteria form around the crotch and remain there for a long time if it gets entangled in the pubic hair. Trimming or shaving it off will help keep that area clean and free from any unwanted infections.

Makes the erection look bigger
Ungroomed pubic hair tends to hide your penis, which makes it appear smaller. Shaving away all the extra hair will make it appear at least an inch longer.

Looks healthier
A well groomed crotch looks healthy and clean. The cleanliness will ensure that you don't have any infections or outbreaks and it will also keep your penis healthy. Besides, it will enable you to keep an eye on unwanted warts or rash.

Appears more inviting
A clean well groomed penis appears more inviting to your partner. Pubic hair can be a complete turn off for most women while performing oral sex. If you want her to go down on you, you need to groom your privates.

Can increase sensitivity during sex
The skin around the crotch is sensitive to touch. Shabby ungroomed pubic hair restricts direct contact to this sensitive skin. Shaving or waxing it off, will give your partner better access to this area, thereby making it a much more intense experience
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LinkedIn pays $6M to settle labour violations

The US Department of Labor said an investigation found LinkedIn Corp in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

NEW YORK: Professional networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees, the Labor Department said.

The US Department of Labor said an investigation found LinkedIn Corp in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. It said the violations occurred at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.

Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn said in a statement that it was "eager to work closely with the (Labor Department) to quickly and equitably rectify this situation. This was a function of not having the right tools in place for a small subset of our sales force to track hours properly; prior to the (Labor Department) approaching us, we had already begun to remedy this."

The company agreed to pay the back wages once it was notified of the violations and to take steps to prevent them from happening again.

Federal law requires that hourly employees get paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rates for hours they work beyond 40 per week
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Indian IT Inc split over curbs on SEZ tax breaks

A recent 'clarification' by incometax authorities is causing heartburn among many software companies establishing units in special economic zones (SEZs).

A recent 'clarification' by incometax authorities is causing heartburn among many software companies establishing units in special economic zones (SEZs). It has also exposed differences of opinion between the major companies, with Infosys agreeing with the government and others disagreeing on whether or not companies are eligible to claim tax breaks.

Late last month, the Central Board of Direct Taxes came up with its interpretation of what is known as the '8020' rule, leading companies such as Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to the conclusion that the government is making it "extremely restrictive" for them to claim tax deductions on profits from SEZ units. "Every single IT firm in the past 10 years that has set up an SEZ unit would be impacted," said Dinesh Kanabar, deputy CEO of KPMG in India, adding the financial impact could be "very huge". KPMG said since there is no publicly available data on the number of employees operating out of SEZs, it is difficult to put a number on the impact it will have on a firm or the industry.

Under Section 10AA of the income-tax law, units relocating to SEZs can claim tax deductions on profit only if 80% of plant and machinery is new. Software companies wanted the government to say that in the case of people, moving manpower to the SEZ should not be counted because there is only a limited pool of talent available.

But CBDT instead clarified that technical manpower transferred to SEZs cannot exceed 20% of the total in the first year. "Flexibility (of movement) should be allowed. It is normal in the technology sector, and one cannot penalise people. This will lead to a distortion in hiring practices," said a Nasscom spokeswoman.

Kanabar said he expects almost all IT companies to challenge this circular in court.

India is estimated to have exported software worth $85 billion (Rs 5 lakh crore) in 2013-14.

"All companies would be impacted as they have availed the benefits of operating out of a SEZ," said a Mumbai-based consultant. Moreover, since the circular is silent on the date it comes into effect, there is added confusion.

Rajiv Bansal, the chief financial officer of Infosys, told ET that the CBDT clarification is true to the letter and spirit of the government's intention when it provides tax breaks to companies. Technical manpower must be counted in the '8020' rule because human resources are the backbone of the software industry.

On the other hand, the finance head of MindTree is of the view that the underlying principle of setting up SEZs is to encourage employment and the CBDT clarification will only serve to restrict the mobility of software employees.

"It is a huge disappointment," said Rostow Ravanan.

Wipro CFO Suresh Senapaty, ET learns, has written to the finance ministry asking for the circular to be withdrawn. A Wipro spokesman declined comment on the report.

A KPMG note on July 29 said, "Given the highly technical and competitive nature of software development, some technical persons having prior experience are required to manage the critical functions of software development in a new unit."

Therefore, it argues, the movement of technical manpower from an existing unit to a new SEZ unit should not be a constraint in availing deduction.

Industry executives maintain they are taken by surprise by the circular as an earlier government panel headed by N Rangachary had proposed that only 50% of the billable employees in an SEZ unit in its first year should be new employees
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Hackathons are the new IT career fairs

Hackathons are events where participants have to create an application or solve a software problem in a defined time period.

BANGALORE: As IT companies look for more skilled talent to provide better value to global customers, hackathons are becoming a major recruitment tool, as also a vehicle to evaluate tech employees.

Hackathons are events where participants have to create an application or solve a software problem in a defined time period. Wipro, Amazon, Mindtree, Informatica, Accenture and Cognizant are among those running such coding challenges to hire quality software programmers. "There will come a time when we won't go to campuses to hire. We will ask people to solve a problem statement and then come to our office for interviews. The compensation will be based on the quality of skills," Wipro CEO T K Kurien told TOI.

Wipro also partnered with coding platform HackerEarth to run a week-long coding challenge in June for its employees. The initiative, which involved eight challenges with different levels of complexity, saw over 4,000 employee registrations from across 22 countries. "We intend to do one hackathon every month. You realize people's competency once you go through a hackathon. You find that competency sometimes doesn't reside at the top of the pyramid; it lies right at the bottom," Kurien said.

Gone are the days when companies would advertise for armies of Java or C++ programmers on job portals or newspapers. Employee referrals, too, might take a backseat. As new technologies like cloud, analytics and mobility take centrestage, firms are willing to pay a premium to hire programmers with niche skills like CoffeeScript, Knockout, Responsive Design and Bootstrap, after putting them through a live grind.

Ravi Gururaj, chairman of the Nasscom Product Council, said hackathons can help assessment of a range of attributes - ability to perform under time constraints, an engineer's versatility when pushed into unfamiliar "out-of-the-box" and "on-your-feet" scenarios. "It can also provide good clues on design sensibilities, presentation skills and team collaboration ability of the engineer," he said.





Sanat Rao of the software product think thank iSpirt , noted that in Silicon Valley, the bar for computer science is very high and companies such as Google and Yahoo are focused on testing the fundamentals in their hiring process. "For such companies, hackathons are the new career fairs," he said.

Amazon in India runs a Speed Geeking contest across premier technology institutions like National Institutes of Technology (NITs) where students have to solve five coding cases in 30-45 minutes. The winners get pre-placement interviews with Amazon. Last year, around 2,000 students across six NITs participated in the coding contest, following which Amazon conducted 15 pre-placement interviews and hired five people.

READ ALSO: Microsoft kickstarts global 'one-week hackathon' for employees

Amazon also runs an annual internal hackathon called Srujan that is open to employees across Amazon Web Services, Kindle and Amazon Retail. Employees are given real-life problems to work on and have to come up with solutions. The winners would work on implementing the big idea.

A number of coding platforms like Techgig, HackerEarth and HackerRank run coding challenges to ease the process of talent discovery for companies. Avnish Anand, product head in coding platform Techgig.com, said, "If you want to go in for mass hiring, you can deploy an army of tele-callers to get the job done. But if you want to hire the best coders, hackathons give you a cost-efficient discovery channel to get best-of-breed talent."

Sachin Gupta, co-founder of HackerEarth, said hackathons reduce the time to market and make the initial screening process easy for companies. "In a traditional model, a company will have to screen 90 people to get the top 15 and then shortlist the top five candidates. Hackathons cost half of what HR recruiters charge from companies, which is between 8.5% and 15% of the CTC (cost to company)," he said
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Microsoft may give Windows 9 free to Vista, XP users

According to Foley's sources, Windows 8.1 Update 2 is expected to land on August 12, on the company's monthly Patch Tuesday. 

Could Microsoft go as far as giving Windows 9 away for free to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users? This may well be the case as the focus moves away from Windows 8 towards its successor, which is expected to land in spring 2015.

In a blog post, ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley cites rumours that Microsoft could be offering "some kind deal" to users of the three operating systems to entice them to move away from legacy platforms. Such a deal, she writes, could be in the form of a free upgrade.

Microsoft has offered such deals to kickstart transitions from older platforms to newer ones in the past, but given the large contingent of Windows XP users out there, a freebie might lure them to Windows 9 - rather than Google Chrome or Apple's OS X.

On track

According to Foley's sources, Windows 8.1 Update 2 is expected to land on August 12, on the company's monthly Patch Tuesday. It's said to be a minor one and won't be mandatory, and its content is expected to include minor design changes, but nothing spectacular.

Instead, the focus will be on Threshold, also referred to as Windows 9, which is expected to place a particular emphasis on getting some crucial features - like a new start menu - baked in
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Samsung dealers threaten boycott over e-pricing

 Samsung dealers across the country have threatened to boycott the company's products over pricing concerns. 

As it grapples with depleting market share, Samsung Electronics — the world's biggest mobile-phone maker by shipments — has got itself in more trouble as hundreds of Samsung dealers across the country have threatened to boycott the company's products over pricing concerns. The dealers said that they would stop stocking Samsung phones unless the South Korean tech giant takes steps to narrow the wide gap in pricing between its phones sold at various multibrand outlets and on ecommerce sites.

"How can the company expect us to meet targets when customers can buy its phones online at huge discounts? Samsung gives us a 5.5% margin, while the same phones are being sold online at 20-30% discount," said Sunil Arora, a Samsung phone dealer in the Capital. Arora said that around 300 dealers have joined the movement, mainly due to drummed-up support through Facebook and WhatsApp, and the number is growing. 

"Samsung executives have requested us not to take any drastic steps and have promised to change things. We have given them time till August 15. If we don't see any positive steps, we will black out Samsung hoardings at our shops," he added. 

Asked about the unrest in the company's distribution network, Asim Warsi, VP (marketing, mobiles and IT), Samsung India, said that dialogue with channel partners is an ongoing process. 

However, the numbers tell a different story. Globally, Samsung has reported its worst quarterly profit in two years due to slowdown in sales of its smartphones and tablets. IDC estimates that Samsung's glob al smartphone shipments saw a year-on-year drop in the second quarter, from around 33% market share to 25%. The company has attributed this to increasing competition from lowand mid-end Chinese phone makers. 

In India, after being hit by manufacturers of lowand mid-end phones, who are now selling online at cheaper prices, Samsung's sales in the high-end category saw stiff competition from Sony and Apple's flagship devices. Its market share in the Rs 30,000and-above category dropped by around 50% -from 72% in 2012 to 34% in 2013, according to IDC figures. In the same period, Sony's market share grew from 1% to 18% and Apple's market share grew from 18% to 22%.

However, Warsi said that Samsung is still the dominant player in the market. "We still have more than 40% market share in terms of value but it's true that due to dynamic market conditions we are losing market share in the Rs 30,000-and-above category ," he said.
Sanjay Sahni, another Samsung phone dealer, said, "Forced by stiff targets set by Samsung, some distributors used to offload their stocks in the wholesale market at big discounts and the same phones used to find their way online. In the last 15 days, after we started our agitation, online price of the S5 has stabilized. It has gone up from Rs 33,000 to Rs 38,000. But that's not enough. Samsung committed the biggest blunder by slashing the price of its flagship device by around 20% after just two months of its launch. We were caught in the lurch with unsold stocks and now loyal Samsung customers don't want to buy them because they are scared that the prices might fall further."
 

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Xiaomi beats Samsung in China smartphone market: Study

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier.

SEOUL: Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co to become China's top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter, a market research company has said. 

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei.

During the April-June period, Samsung's China smartphone sales decreased to 13.2 million units from 15.5 million a year earlier. Lenovo trailed Samsung by a margin of 2 million units. 

Xiaomi is little known in Europe or in North America because it sells nearly all of its smartphones in mainland China. But strong growth in China alone was enough to vault Xiaomi to a top five position among the world's smartphone makers from nowhere the previous year. 

Last week, another market research firm Strategy Analytics said Xiaomi became the world's fifth-largest smartphone vendor for the first time in the second quarter, surpassing LG Electronics Inc. 

Canalys said China was the world's largest smartphone market during the second quarter, with nearly four in every 10 smartphones sold there. 

Jingwen Wang, an analyst at Canalys, said Xiaomi's rise was thanks to its competitive prices and focus on its own mobile software known as MIUI. 

Samsung reported last week its lowest quarterly profit in two years for the second quarter, partly blaming a slowdown of cheap smartphone sales in China. Samsung said it faced higher competition from local brands and weaker demand for its 3G handsets as Chinese consumers shifted to 4G smartphones. 

Samsung and Apple Inc were the only non-Chinese vendors among the top 10 smartphone brands in China. Apple sold 6.8 million iPhones in the second quarter, up 58% from over a year earlier, Canalys said
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Samsung Galaxy Alpha pics leaked online

The images, posted on Chinese micro-blog Weibo, feature the white variant of the alleged Galaxy Alpha phone.

NEW DELHI: A week ahead of its expected launch, Samsung's much talked about metal bodied smartphone, Galaxy Alpha, has appeared in full glory courtesy of a tipster who has posted high quality images of the phone.


The images, posted on Chinese micro-blog Weibo, feature the white variant of the alleged Galaxy Alpha phone. The phone features a metal frame complete with chamfered edges (similar to the iPhone and HTC One (M7)). 

The front of the phone features a checkered pattern houses the display, with a hardware Home key and capacitive back and app switcher keys, placed below it. The right edge features a power button while the left sports a volume rocker key, both also made of metal.



The rear panel has a removable back cover featuring matte finish, a camera lens and a single LED flash accompanied by what looks like a heart rate sensor. The speaker outlet is not at the back. The back does not appear to be made of metal and also features a textured pattern slightly different from the one seen on the Galaxy S5's back. 

The images are similar to the ones published by SamMobile, two weeks ago. 

 

Recently, it was reported that the phone will be unveiled on August 13. 

As per recent screenshots of the phone's AnTuTu benchmark test results, it sports a 4.8-inch 720p display, is powered by Samsung's Exynos Octa 5433 processor and 2GB RAM, has a 12MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera, and runs Android 4.4 KitKat. 

Earlier rumours have said that apart from the high-resolution screen, the premium version of Galaxy S5 is said to have a metal body, 20MP rear camera, 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor and 3GB RAM. The rumour mill also says that Galaxy S5's premium variant will also come with an eight-core processor option in markets where 4G penetration is low. 

In contrast, the original Galaxy S5 has a plastic body, ​5.1-inch Full HD screen, 16MP camera on the back and 2GB RAM; the smartphone comes with Snapdragon 801 as well as eight-core processor options
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BCCI requests ICC to appeal Anderson verdict

New Delhi: The ICC has confirmed that it has received a request from the BCCI to appeal against Gordon Lewis' decision on the Ravindra Jadeja-James Anderson spat. The game's governing body will now consider the written report submitted by Lewis that found both the players not guilty in the hearing.

As per the ICC Code of Conduct, when the person in question has been acquitted of all charges, the right of appeal rests only with the chief executive of the ICC. That decision now falls upon Richardson, who must take a call as to whether to file an appeal or not within five days. Richardson has until August 10 to appeal to the ICC; if he does, a three-member panel will be formed within 48 hours of the said appeal, an ICC statement said.

Anderson had on Friday been ruled not guilty by retired Australian judge Lewis of the Level 3 offence the touring Indian cricket team had charged him with. In his verdict, Lewis stated that a lack of video evidence against Anderson and a biased testimony had forced him to turn down India's claim that the fast bowler had pushed Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridgein early July. He had also overturned the 50% match fee fine imposed on Jadeja by David Boon, the match referee, for his role in the confrontation.

BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel confirmed that the board had requested the ICC to file an appeal. "What we have done is we've written a letter to the ICC saying we are not happy with the verdict," he was quoted as saying by Reuters. "We don't have a right to appeal in this case."

Anderson and Jadeja were involved in a heated confrontation during the lunch interval of the second day's play at Trent Bridge, which led to accusations of the England bowler physically and verbally assaulting the Indian allrounder. Anderson exchanged words with both Jadeja and India captain MS Dhoni as they left the field and then the row escalated in the pavilion corridor. The touring Indian team has alleged that Anderson pushed and abused Jadeja, while England have also counter-charged the latter. India are adamant that Anderson instigated the physical clash but the home team counters that Jadeja was just as aggressive and had to be pulled away by his captain.

Although there was no official confirmation from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the Indian team management is unhappy with unconfirmed reports that there is no video evidence available of the alleged altercation between Anderson and Jadeja despite the fact that a camera had been installed outside the dressing rooms at Trent Bridge.



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