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Google Android 4.4 KitKat brings some changes which will definitely raise some eyebrows, specially with users who are touchy about their privacy. After amending their TOS which enables Google to use your photos in advertisements all across the web via Google Shared Endorsement, the company is now making your Google+ photo connected to your phone number which will be shown to any user on their Android mobile phone as Caller ID when they dial your phone number. Currently this "Smart Caller ID" feature which is now live on Android 4.4 shows caller ID photos pulled automatically from verified Google Places and Google Apps customer accounts. This feature will however get expended to include personal Google+ accounts in early 2014, after this expansion anyone with an verified phone number and discovery turned on in G+ profile will have their names and profile photos display on each others screen even if they have not exchanged/saved contact information. Thankfully, users can easily opt-out and disable this feature as shown below.

3D Printing is without a doubt the next big thing, there is already a growing market for desktop 3D printers with thousands of good and bad "things to print at home". Paving the way for second industrial revolution, 3D printing is soon going to change how we construct buildings with automated Robotic Construction System's which will allow us to make concrete structures on site - and the best thing is we already have a working concept system ready doing that demoed on video as shared ahead.

"Contour Crafting" - the company behind world's first working "Robotic Construction System" has built a prototype 3D printer which uses concrete to "print" walls and will enable construction of entire structures on site as demoed in the video, this technology is not only cheaper than today's "traditional" counstruction methodolgy but also very faster as this machine can build a 2,500 square feet house in 20 hours.

Apple formally launched their flagship phone models iPhone 5S and 5C in India yesterday. Bearing an expensive price tag of Rs 53,500/- for iPhone 5S (16 GB) and Rs. 41,900/- for iPhone 5C (16 GB) these phones might find themselves hard to convince their tags to price concise Indian buyer. However, Reliance Communications has devised a smart marketing campaign to make sure it reaches widest possible audience in India, to overcome the hefty price tag the company is offering these devices under a 24 months "not locked to the network" contract with zero down payment and unlimited voice (local and STD across all networks), text-messages and 3G data with free national roaming.

Motorola announces Project Ara, a modular Ssmartphone hardware platform like PhoneBloks. An open hardware project to create customizable, upgradable smartphones.