tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87453625476201777912024-03-05T03:19:33.048-08:00TechCrunch360...technology reloadedGirish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-11474339250903217252015-03-28T22:13:00.000-07:002015-03-28T22:13:51.983-07:00Telescopic Contact Lens Lets You Zoom In 3X<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There have been some exciting developments about contact lenses of late. Scientists have been successful in designing smart lenses which can monitor glucose levels of diabetes patients. Even Google took interest and announced the creation of a set of contact lenses that have an in-built camera. Now, The Switzerland-based researchers are now designing magnifying contact lenses which are capable of zooming only using a wink.<br />
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The <u><a href="https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ethz.ch%2F&ei=rToWVfTCOoumuQTDoYDgAg&usg=AFQjCNE2IwdcXsPYMvFlZXYA1QVnZQEKxQ&sig2=1QzwybgEvkVjLtffeu6hkA&bvm=bv.89381419,d.c2E">Swiss Federal Institute of Technology</a></u> revealed the new concept in California at the American Association of the Advancement of Science meeting. The visual aid comprises smart glasses and a set of telescopic lenses. This set-up can tell apart winks and blinks which account for normal and zoomed vision. These are said to be helpful for people who are visually impaired.<br />
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These lenses are made-up of rigid material which makes them seem slightly larger than the usual ones as they cover the white region of the eye. Aluminium mirrors inside the 1.55 mm wide lenses reflect light and magnify the image by about 2.8 times its size. As the user winks, the signal is blocked upon which a polarized filter guides all the light in the direction of the telescopic portion. Regaining normal vision requires winking the left eye.<br />
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The telescopes within the lenses were initially funded by <u><a href="https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darpa.mil%2F&ei=PjoWVfKhFsuwuASzjILIDg&usg=AFQjCNE0lyD4AwSCvq9gn2ldSKBl2J4QyA&sig2=wP8aMKpz5euN3Y9oDgcDhA&bvm=bv.89381419,d.c2E">DARPA </a></u>which were to be used as slim cameras with their aerial drones.Later, they were transformed into vision enhancing system. The initial models limited the amount of air reaching the eye so they could only be worn for short periods.<br />
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Although the team behind the system has made many major improvements since the first versions, it hasn't been tested in humans and the amount of time they can be worn is still restricted, so it will unfortunately be a while before we see them on the market. <br />
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We hope to see the product available in the markets as soon as possible. This technology will pull the human evolution into a new era. "Bionic humans" with far reaching capabilities.<br />
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Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-40773044089535328312015-03-27T21:51:00.000-07:002015-03-27T21:51:53.427-07:00Amazing Transformation van into a small living area<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Closest thing to a transformer we can get… and actually buy. Sure, it’s not as awesome as a semi-truck at first glance, but that makes the transformation of this humble van that much cooler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since the 70’s, VW van has lost its appeal, but this is the VW’s ticket for the future. Just like the original, it tends to people who are free spirited and longing for the great outdoors, but it’s designed for the age of world wide web, iEverything and composite alloys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See what happens when you push one button on this thing. It's unbelievable that how they managed to cram all those things inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What it all comes down to is love. Not judgement based on looks or appearances, just love. While our judgement can be so ingrained within us, whether it be skin color, ethnicity or age, love will conquer all as it simply does not know prejudice.</span><br />
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Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-2091052791202476732015-03-25T21:40:00.000-07:002015-03-25T21:40:54.879-07:00Dutch Company Powers Streetlights With Living Plants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04wXy5Tcn-BX_7jObdlfGdnkMAi23vyTR4TYv7wraCmGemUMSL1jFzxiu7T2vpFD5awdXtuiJ5_B-DQnOuSD3thru8uNe8BnbfgUpnyQ93L6qXfqOqI7oyL9Dr9b16jW36hW3A8vFkOjP/s1600/plante3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04wXy5Tcn-BX_7jObdlfGdnkMAi23vyTR4TYv7wraCmGemUMSL1jFzxiu7T2vpFD5awdXtuiJ5_B-DQnOuSD3thru8uNe8BnbfgUpnyQ93L6qXfqOqI7oyL9Dr9b16jW36hW3A8vFkOjP/s1600/plante3.jpg" height="402" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, there are reports of a new green method to provide power for people, which if utilized correctly, can replace present-day energy companies. This was discovered by a Dutch company that found a way to harvest electricity coming from the most unlikely of sources: plants.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Researchers have been looking for ways to generate electricity basically out of thin air. The founders sat down, looked at the world, and asked themselves where could we harness energy to be used by humans? Then they found it in the by-product of photosynthesis in plants.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The co-founder of Plant-e believes that the new technology is revolutionary. By using plants to generate electricity brings a clean and new energy option to the table, and even better the company plans to expand this technology to wetlands and rice paddies where the electricity can be generated on a wider scale. This invention could mean power could be brought even to the poorest cities!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, Plant-e’s way of providing power through plants is interesting but not practical to use, especially in the United States and Japan, countries that use a monumental amount of electricity. Presently, Plant-e and other green technology companies like them are researching if it is possible to get around this situation.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The tiles are made from ordinary glass and have about the same weight as those made of clay. The tiles are installed on top of a black nylon canvas, under which air slots are mounted. The black color absorbs heat from the sun and the air starts to circulate. The hot air is then used to heat up water, which is connected to the house's heating system via an accumulator. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The beauty of the system is that it cuts energy costs throughout the year, during dark winter days as well as night time, due to its capacity to store heat in the isolating layers of air under the canvas.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The SolTech Energy System generates about 350 KWh heat per square meter, depending on climate, angle of roof and cardinal direction. For additional technical data visit SolTech Energy's <u><a href="http://www.soltechenergy.com/en/">webpage.</a></u></span><br />
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It seems that we have just barely started to see the capability of e-ink.The broadest use is obviously in tablets but, since the development of adaptable e-paper i has solid potential in fashion industry also. Take the Volvorii Timeless peep-toe heels, made by new Lithuania-based startup iShüuTechnologies, as of now looking for subsidizing on Indiegogo.<br />
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The shoe come in both highly contrasting, on account of an adaptable e-link show incorporated in upper portion of shoes it can be tweaked to a mixed bag of designed outfits. Concealed into an empty cut out of shoe's sole is a Bluetooth low-vitality recipient, which permits the wearer to program the e-ink show in either square dark or white, or with an example to match their outfit.<br />
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An alternate remote module in sole permits the shoe's presentation to be charged without links. On the other hand, it obliges so little power, it will just need to be charged like clockwork at most.<br />
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The group is presently offering the Volvorii Timeless shoes as a prize for an Indiegogo brisk riser vow of $149, restricted to 10 sets; the consistent crowdfunding cost is $249. RRP is yet to be declared. The group is assessing a conveyance date of December not long from now; you can discover more information on the <u><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/volvorii-timeless" target="_blank">Volvorii Indiegogo page.</a></u><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A company called <a href="http://www.laserpowersystems.com/" target="_blank"><u>Laser Power Systems</u></a> as created a concept for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u></a>-powered car engine.The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u></a> is radioactive, and the team uses bits of it to build a laser-beam that heats water, produces steam, and powers an energy-producing turbine.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thus "if your car is powered by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u></a>, you would never need to refuel it". As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u> </a>is one of the most dense materials on the planet and a small sample of it can give 20 million times more energy than a similarly-sized sample of coal.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He believes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor" target="_blank"><u>Thorium turbine</u> </a>about the size of an air conditioning unit could more provide cheap power for whole restaurants, hotels, office buildings, even small towns in areas of the world without electricity. At some point, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u> </a>could power individual homes.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He understands that people may be vary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium" target="_blank"><u>Thorium</u> </a>because it is radioactive - but any such worry would be unfounded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the Windows 10 release gets closer, excitement around the OS is growing among those waiting to close the curtain on Windows 8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker, sees more customers wanting to upgrade to Windows 10, and is bullish about the OS, said Peter Hortensius, chief technology officer at Lenovo, during an interview at International CES in Las Vegas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Windows 10 will succeed the current Windows 8.1 operating system, which has been criticized for its radically different touch-based tablet user interface. Windows 10 will resolve many problems affecting Windows 8.1, which is a good OS but has its issues, Hortensius said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For example, Windows 10 will boot straight to the desktop, something Windows 8 can’t do. (A spring update for Windows 8.1 added the feature, however.) That’s a common-sense approach that is bringing customer confidence back in the OS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The UI change, multiple OS editions, and program compatibility issues didn’t go down well with many, and enterprise customers preferred to skip Windows 8 and are still upgrading PCs with the older Windows 7. Windows 10 brings back many familiar Windows 7 features, which Microsoft hopes will please OS loyalists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The new OS removes program incompatibility issues plaguing Windows Phone and Windows 8 versions for Intel and ARM processors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One big change in Windows 10 is the return of the Start menu, which was abandoned in Windows 8. Also, Windows 10 will scale from mobile to desktop devices, and applications will be compatible across all devices. Microsoft offers different versions of Windows for mobile phones, desktops and servers, and Windows 10 will unite those editions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A report from The Wall Street Journal has suggested that Apple wanted their watch to measure a host of bodily functions, such as blood pressure and stress levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, the company figured that strap tightness, skin types and hair issues disrupted the smartwatch's accurate readings and decided to have the sensors removed.</span><br />
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Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-4325303881072034422015-01-18T00:18:00.001-08:002015-01-18T00:18:19.413-08:00Samsung fingerprint scanners may be more like Apple Touch ID<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since the Galaxy S5 launched, Samsung has been including fingerprint scanners inside the home button on its high-end devices. But the major difference betwwen the Samsung scanners and Apple's Touch ID is that on a Samsung phone, you've to swipe the finger over the reader unlike Apple's implementation where users simply place their finger on the home button.<br />
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Of course, Samsung’s current home button may be a little too skinny to get a good look at your fingerprint. SamMobile cites sources who believe Samsung will make its home button slightly bigger to accommodate the new sensor.<br />
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A more reliable fingerprint scanner won’t just make Samsung smartphones more secure; it could do a lot for Samsung’s mobile payment ambitions. A key part of Apple Pay’s success is that Touch ID biometric authentication is reliable and quick, so you’re not standing at a cash register trying to get your iPhone to recognize your finger.<br />
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Samsung is developing mobile payment software with Paypal and biometric verification firm Synaptics. A mobile payment system based around an effective fingerprint reader is much more likely to be successful than the rumored LoopPay case that would emulate soon-to-be-obsolete magnetic credit card swipes.</div>
Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-49601963697711874272015-01-17T23:48:00.000-08:002015-01-17T23:51:40.752-08:00How to Add Touchscreen Home Button on iPhone, iPad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apple's forthcoming smartwatch poses a conundrum for advertisers: How to tap the enticing possibilities of the tiny gadget without overwhelming consumers with messages.<br /><br />At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, mobile-marketing firm TapSense plans to release an Apple Watch ad-buying service. The service will provide a first glimpse of how businesses can serve up ads on the watch, even though the gadget will not be available until later this year. <br /><br />At issue: The same qualities that render the watch exciting to Madison Avenue, such as the ability to detect customers approaching a store and to zap an ad directly to their wrists, also risk alienating those customers. <br /><br />Apple declined to comment on the use of its watch by advertisers, and will not attend CES officially. But many companies that make devices and services based around Apple products will be there, including several that are working with WatchKit, a software-development tool Apple released in November that allows developers to build watch-tailored applications. <br /><br />Using that tool, developers are devising Apple Watch ad formats including interactive wallpapers on the watch dial with brand logos and personalized clock faces, said TapSense's chief executive Ash Kumar. His product helps developers insert ads, bought and sold instantaneously, in those apps. <br /><br />The watch's main screen allows the display of several tiny icons, including for email, weather, time, and potentially a few favorite service and retail apps. <br /><br />Businesses could use those apps to notify customers of special deals, but only within already-opened apps, Kumar said. Otherwise, the vendor risks annoying consumers by introducing an ad that is out of sync with whatever they are doing. <br /><br />If a consumer is using a transit app on the watch to monitor delays, for example, an advertiser could insert a marketing offer that would light up on the watch face for a ride-sharing service or a deal at a coffee shop nearby, Kumar said. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">New technology is getting more personal. So personal, it is moving to connect and analyze our movements, our health, our brains and our everyday devices. <br /><br />Welcome to the so-called "Internet of Me". One of the major themes at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is connecting thousands of objects that people use each day -- clothing, cars, light bulbs and home appliances. <br /><br />But the challenge facing developers is making that information useful, and the CES is increasingly seeing inventions related to digital "coaches" and ways to improve health or fitness, or get better information about our cars or appliances, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association in his outlook for the show. <br /><br />"The key to all of this is that something happens in the physical space, and we digitize it and feed it back into the physical space," he said. <br /><br />"No longer the focus is on what can technologically be done but what is technologically meaningful." <br /><br />Some of the new devices on display at a preview Sunday included apps to monitor and improve the quality of sleep, a connected baby bottle to measure infant nutrition intake, and sensors that analyze one's golf swing to compare it to that of the pros. <br /><br />Smart clothing, connected smoke detectors and dozens of new smartwatches and fitness devices are also in the mix. Smartwatches and other wearables are far more prominent at the show than ever before. <br /><br />These new technologies "continue the trend of deploying the internet in a personal way," DuBravac said. "Nothing gets more personal than wearables." <br /><br />He said this represents a "third phase of the internet," after personal computers and mobile devices, to wearables and other connected objects. <br /><br />"We are moving the internet now from two billion smartphones to 50 billion objects," he said. "We are taking the internet to new places, to your wrist. And you are going to see that across the show... It's not just about the distribution and dissemination of information. The way we use the internet will change." <br /><br />CES, which officially opens Tuesday, is one of the world's biggest trade fairs devoted to technology, with some 36,000 exhibitors and an estimated 160,000 people in attendance. <br /><br />The show also features new big-screen televisions with "ultra" high-definition displays, and an array of drones for personal and industrial uses. It also includes expanded sections for robotics and automotive technology. <br /><br />The exhibition opens amid a mixed economic outlook for the global technology industry. The Consumer Electronics Association, which organizes it, said spending on technology rose a mere one percent in 2014 to $1.024 trillion, but that it is too early to know the trend for 2015. <br /><br />"We have a very mixed spending picture," CEA analyst Steve Koenig said. The market is being driven by strong demand for new products like tablets and smartphones in emerging economies in Asia, and by modest economic growth in North America. <br /><br />The picture is clouded by economic stagnation in the eurozone and Japan and "weak expectations" in big emerging economies such as Brazil, Koenig explained. <br /><br />Russia, another large emerging economy, is being hit by economic sanctions that could dent tech spending. <br /><br />The association predicted a drop in tech spending of 5% in Europe and Latin America, and it remains unclear whether the rest of the world will pick up the slack. <br /><br />Koenig said smartphone and tablet sales are growing at a healthy pace in China and other developing economies, and demand for new televisions is being driven by a "robust upgrade cycle" to the "ultra" high-definition displays. <br /><br />At the same time, spending is being capped by the decreasing price for new mobile devices. <br /><br />"A flood of low-cost devices is coming into the marketplace," he said, noting the prominence of phone makers in China such as Xiaomi, which has pushed into the top ranks of manufacturers.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The world's biggest maker of TVs will unveil the first sets powered by Tizen software at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, and all the Web-connected models it sells this year will run the operating system. The company also may demonstrate at CES how the TVs communicate with its washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The controlling Lee family is trying to reinvent Samsung as a purveyor of internet-connected appliances to grab share of a market that may be worth $7.1 trillion by 2020. Samsung wants to generate revenue from Tizen applications and services just as Apple and Google do from their operating systems, and the Suwon-based company is emphasizing TVs and consumer electronics after falling a year behind schedule on a Tizen-based phone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">"In smartphones, there's no chance that Samsung's Tizen can edge out the two dominant operating systems," said Claire Kim, a Seoul-based analyst at Daishin Securities "But in TVs, Samsung may have a chance."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Samsung's rise to No. 1 in global phone sales depended on Google's Android. Nearly all of the 243 million smartphones Samsung shipped through September 30 ran the software, which Google typically gives away in return for mobile advertising revenue and a share of app sales.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Samsung faces the strongest challenge to its phone supremacy after posting the smallest quarterly earnings in more than two years. Operating profit at the mobile-phone unit, the company's biggest cash generator, slumped 74% in the September quarter and sales fell about 33%.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">That's prompting the company to look for new sources of revenue. Tizen emerged after Samsung joined Intel and NTT Docomo, among others, to develop an alternative to Android and build its software capabilities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Helped by Samsung, LG Electronics and dozens of other producers, Android runs about 84% of smartphones. That splinters the pool of profits, with many vendors losing money in a crowded market, market researcher Strategy Analytics said in October.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">While Apple only has 12.3% of the market, the Cupertino, California-based company's ownership of its operating system gives it greater control of every stage and a slice of each transaction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">"The value of an operating system is like intellectual property, you get a piece of the action regardless of the minor changes and you get to set the rules of the game," Tom Kang, research director at Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Technology Market Research, said by e-mail. "It's much preferable for a giant like Samsung to be able to steer its own fate."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Shares of Samsung rose 0.2% to 1,333,000 won at the close of trade in Seoul. The stock dropped 3.3% in 2014 after a 9.9% decline a year earlier.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Google and Apple typically receive about 30% of every application, song or movie purchased to run on their operating systems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Google's 'other' revenue, which includes the mobile Play store as well as Chromecast hardware, was $1.84 billion in the September quarter. In the same period, Apple had sales of $4.6 billion for iTunes, software and services.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">By using its scale in consumer electronics and No. 1 position in TV shipments, Samsung could use the unveiling of Tizen sets to create a new standard for the industry. Samsung's TV shipments may decline to 48 million units this year from 50 million last year, Daishin Securities estimated in December.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Building the TV business around Tizen will help create "a much more intelligent and integrated system," Won Jin Lee, executive vice president at Samsung Electronics, said in a January 1 press release.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Samsung's initial forays into Tizen haven't developed a breakout hit. Its first phone using Tizen was more than a year behind schedule. The wristwatches Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo were released in April, and both are compatible with many of Samsung's Galaxy phones.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The company should improve its future competitiveness by pushing ahead with initiatives for its 'smart home' and 'smart health' businesses, co-chief executive officer Kwon Oh Hyun told employees in a January 2 message.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Samsung will be the biggest exhibitor of consumer electronics at the Las Vegas show, displaying TVs, tablet computers, smartphones, printers and cameras. The company will show off its Galaxy Note Edge phones with a wraparound screen, its virtual-reality headset and audio products.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Operating profit at the consumer-electronics division, which oversees TVs and appliances, probably dropped to 250 billion won ($227 million) in the fourth quarter from 660 billion won a year earlier, according to the median estimate of six analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">In the third quarter, the unit's profit dropped to 50 billion won from 350 billion won because of falling prices and competition with Japanese and Chinese producers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Vice chairman Lee Jae Yong is helping oversee Samsung's transition as he takes more of a leadership role since his father, Chairman Lee Kun Hee, was hospitalized in May.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Samsung is transferring about 500 engineers from its mobile-phone division and allocating them largely to the internet initiative, people familiar with the matter have said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">"There certainly is a limit to just being a hardware maker without having its own operating system," said Ko Jung Woo, a Seoul-based analyst at BS Securities. "It's positive for Samsung to brace for the next new battle, where all products will be controlled under one software platform."</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01982607108240360834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-49562671028292427202015-01-06T00:36:00.000-08:002015-01-06T00:36:13.240-08:00HP unveils 23.6-inch virtual reality desktop monitor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2015 could be one of the most interesting years in Apple's history. It's moving into a whole new world with the Apple Watch, a device that's as much about high fashion as high tech, and with the tablet market showing signs of saturation it needs some bright ideas to reinvigorate iPad sales. There are two new operating systems to prepare, an enterprise push to explore and some new musical directions — and there might even be a stylus. Here's what we think (and in a few cases, hope) we'll see from Apple in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />We're fascinated by the Apple Watch, especially the one we can't afford. Will rich gold-watch buyers be willing to own a device that may well be obsolete in a year or two? That speedy obsolescence happened with the original iPad, so you'd have been pretty gutted if Apple had persuaded you to spend thousands on a gold one. How Apple handles the obsolescence issue — if it handles it at all — could make or break the Apple Watch as high fashion as well as high tech.<br /><br />We're also really interested in what developers come up with, because so far there's no obvious killer app for the Apple Watch or any other smartwatch. What they do is interesting and often cool, but there's nothing making us slap our heads and go "of course! How did we ever manage without it?" Here's hoping we see it in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The ongoing process of putting Retina displays in everything with an Apple logo on it will continue in 2015. In 2014 it appeared in the iMac with Retina 5K display and we should see them appear in the smaller iMacs and hopefully in a Retina MacBook Air too. We know Apple wants to make it, but processor delays have stymied the appearance of a Retina display in its ultraportable laptop. Hopefully 2015's processors will solve that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sales of iPads have slowed, but they might pick up again in 2015 if tablets do indeed have PC-like replacement cycles: the iPads people bought in 2012 will be showing their age this year, especially come the next major iOS update. As ever, Apple will have plenty of new ones for them to buy: updated iPad Airs and minis — the latter still relevant despite the iPhone 6 Plus due to its much lower price tag — and maybe the much-rumoured iPad Pro, a bigger-screened iPad for power users.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The reason the 5K Retina display appeared in the iMac rather than as a display for the Mac Pro is bandwidth: the existing DisplayPort technology in the Thunderbolt connector doesn't have enough of it. DisplayPort 1.3 in Thunderbolt 3 does, but it won't appear until Intel's Skylake processors ship. They're due for a 2015 launch, which raises the possibility of a 5K-capable Mac Pro towards the end of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We're on an annual upgrade cycle for OS X, so Yosemite's successor should be released in the Autumn. After OS X 10.10's major visual revamp don't expect dramatic differences in how OS X looks or works, but we think the blurring of the lines between OS X and iOS will continue. They'll remain separate beasts but they'll continue to find ways to reach out and touch one another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here's another annual update due in the Autumn, and hopefully it'll be less buggy than the first couple of releases of iOS 8. We've got an iOS 9 wish list already that includes a better, more useful Siri, the ability to default to third party apps and hide the stock Apple ones we never use, and better music services. On the subject of which...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Beats Music is coming to iOS, possibly before iOS 9, and it's likely to be merged with iTunes. Apple may also launch HD music downloads: the most recent iPhones support headphones with Lightning connectors for HD audio, and the Mastered for iTunes programme means Apple already has the necessary masters for HD files.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apple has established an iPhone rhythm in recent years, and that rhythm involves a major redesign every second year and a minor spec bump, usually with an exciting new feature, in between. 2015's a 'tweener year, so we'd expect to see a minor update to the iPhone 6 in the form of an iPhone 6S, and it's possible that HD music and a Home app for HomeKit might be the sales pitch this time around. We're also hearing persistent rumours of a new 4-inch iPhone for 2015 too. Could an iPhone 6C for developing markets be on the cards?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">MobileFirst for iOS apps, the first fruits of IBM's partnership with Apple to push iPads into the enterprise, look great, but the ball is just starting to role. Enterprise is an area of great opportunity for Apple, and having IBM on the same team makes for a very powerful partnership. iOS was doing pretty well in business already, but that's small potatoes compared to what the Apple/IBM push might achieve in 2015 and beyond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />We're still not convinced that an Apple TV set is worth the bother — making TVs is a crap business with crap margins — but the 'hobby' is desperately overdue a refresh. We already know that Apple may be positioning it as a HomeKit hub for connected home devices, because the code is in its latest operating system update, and we hope the long-rumoured App Store for Apple TV is imminent too. The market for media streamers is getting awfully crowded, and the rivals are awfully good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We know, we know, Steve said "if you see a stylus they blew it." But Steve Jobs was very good at wrong-footing everybody and making them think he meant "never, ever" when he actually meant "not now." Remember his dismissal of video on iPods? Of native iPhone apps? Of seven-inch tablets? Apple has been quietly patenting smart pen ideas for a few years now, with two more added recently. Maybe it's for the iPad Pro / Plus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Will Apple start tweeting? According to Fast Company, it's advertising for a 'social media expert' in LA, and it's already hired Musa Tariq, who previously led social media for Nike and Burberry. Could tech's most secretive company start getting chatty in 2015?<br /></span></div>
Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-75767974711302626282015-01-04T04:32:00.000-08:002015-01-04T04:32:30.853-08:00Intel invests $24.8 million to speed up launch of Google Glass rival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A month ago, Italy's Luxottica said it was joining forces with the US chipmaker to develop glasses that combine its top fashion brands with technology that could allow wearers to access information about their health or location.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01982607108240360834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-57790263366775205922015-01-04T04:25:00.000-08:002015-01-04T04:25:16.690-08:00Strings, an app to let you delete sent text, photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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you ever woken up full of regret about the messages you sent the night
before? A new smartphone app could help! Seattle-based startup Be Labs
has announced the successful completion of beta testing for Strings, a
new messaging app that gives users complete control over their personal
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they want and even take it back, the company said. The app combines
granular control over who sees what with multi-conversation context and
rich media to create a simple and intuitive way to have interactive,
personal conversations.</span><br />
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unique conversation, making it possible to have multiple conversations
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also allows users to fluidly incorporate rich media, including
unlimited-length videos and high-resolution photos, into their
conversations. Users always maintain the ability to delete a string of
conversation at any time. Once deleted, the string and all its
associated content is removed from every users' phone and from the
Strings servers — immediately and permanently.</span></div>
Girish Jagwanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15916616433133790077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-56229857822445210512015-01-01T09:47:00.003-08:002015-01-04T01:52:38.522-08:00Samsung beats Apple in consumer satisfaction in US: Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">South Korean tech giant Samsung has edged past arch rival
Apple in the American Customer Satisfaction Index despite receiving a lukewarm
response to its flagship Galaxy S5 handset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Samsung, who came under increasing pressure in the wake of
declining profits, received a satisfaction rating of 81 points out of a
possible 100, two points ahead of arch-rival Apple, Fox News reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The data published this week by the American Customer
Satisfaction Index saw Samsung taking precedence over Apple in terms of
consumer satisfaction despite the latter introduced with great fanfare
larger-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones, with 10 million units sold over
their first weekend.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01982607108240360834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745362547620177791.post-72718485878467999022015-01-01T09:46:00.000-08:002015-01-04T01:53:11.881-08:00Samsung to unveil Tizen-powered smartTVs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that all its new smart
television products launched in 2015 will be powered by the Tizen operating
system, marking a fresh effort by the company to increase the usage of the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Smart TVs offer additional software and connectivity
functions, such as video streaming and web browsing capabilities. Samsung
demonstrated TV sets powered by Tizen at developer conferences last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Televisions would be an addition to the modest stable of
Tizen products, which consists of a few smartwatches and cameras despite years
of development and support by the world's top maker of smartphones and TVs.</span></div>
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Samsung's failure to launch a smartphone powered by the system. Some analysts
are skeptical about the platform's viability despite Samsung's standing as top
smartphone maker, especially as Android and Apple's iOS tighten their grip in
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Developers say that until there is a meaningful user base
for Tizen they will have little incentive to make innovative software
applications for the system, deemed crucial if Samsung is to convince wary
consumers to try it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While the launch of Tizen-based TVs will increase the
platform's user base, it is unclear if that alone will be enough to pique
developers' interest. Users of smart TVs tend to use fewer apps than they would
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in Samsung's smart-home business. Tizen can also run on devices with low
computing power such as refrigerators and washing machines, offering a way for
users to monitor and control such devices remotely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Feel frustrated every time Apple releases an iOS update and asks you to empty storage space on your iPhone or move data to iCloud? You're not the only one.<br /><br />In fact,according to the times of India, a lawsuit has been filed against Apple in a US court (Bay Area federal court), alleging that the Cupertino giant doesn't inform users about the space required by updates, prompting them to move data to iCloud, Apple's freemium cloud storage service.<br /><br />According to a report by SiliconBeat, the plaintiffs claim that iOS 8 can take up as much as 23.1% of the advertised storage capacity on Apple devices. Apple doesn't disclose the actual storage space the OS takes and peddles the iCloud service to users who have no other option for saving their pictures and videos. The plaintiffs seek damages and changes to Apple policies under California state law.<br /><br />The complaint also mentions that the actual storage capacity offered by Apple iOS devices is not close to the capacity advertised by the tech giant.<br /><br />As per a Forbes report, the complaint claims, "the discrepancy between advertised and available capacity is substantial and beyond any possible reasonable expectation. For the Devices, the shortfall ranges from 18.1-23.1%."<br /><br />The complaint alleges that Apple reduces the size of the storage allocated to users for storing media while the size used for system resources (inaccessible to users) stays unused.<br /><br />As per the plaintiffs, Apple "knows, but conceals and fails to disclose in its advertising, marketing or promotional materials," the discrepancy related to storage space.<br /><br />They also allege that Apple offers less storage than advertised, so that it "could sell that capacity on iCloud in a desperate moment."<br /><br />The complaint also mentions iOS 8 being bloated and using a large part of storage space.<br /><br />Apple has not commented on the matter, yet.</span>
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