Android Smartwatches will not work with 3/4 of Android phones!

Always we hear peculiar compatible devices by search giant Google.But contemporary stats reveals something customers are not willing to hear.By Google’s own count, 13.6% of Android phones are running the latest public build of the OS, Android 4.4.Android Wear watches, meanwhile, require a phone running Android 4.3 or newer to work.Between Android 4.3 and 4.4, that’s a grand total of 23.9% of active Android phones that are currently Wear-friendly. In other words, less than 1/4 of the Android phones currently in use can be paired with an Android Wear watch.there’s a pretty good chance the watches won’t actually work with your phone.It also makes it pretty damned hard to give an Android Wear watch as a gift, unless you know exactly which phone the recipient has.

sources:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/less-than-14-of-android-phones-work-with-googles-new-smartwatches/

Google and LG merges on 3D tablet

Google Inc.'s advanced research lab focused on cutting-edge mobile technology, may go on sale for consumers next year.It is working with LG Electronics to make a version of a tablet that captures three-dimensional images, which was developed as part of a research effort called Project Tango. The aim is to have the gadget ready for sale to the general public in 2015.
Google is also integrating the device with Unity, a platform that helps developers create video games.Google's research group is currently making a few thousand versions of the tablet for outside developers to try out, hoping to encourage them to develop games and other applications for the device and accompanying technology.
During a demonstration on Thursday at Google’s developer conference,on the project showed a colleague walking around a building holding the tablet. The device tracked the person’s journey and built a 3-D image of the parts of the building where he walked, including a stair case rising up several floors.
Google engineers say the device should be able to gather enough information to help create 3-D games and “fantasy lands” in real, physical places.
sources:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/26/lg-to-make-a-consumer-version-of-googles-3-d-tablet/

Location-based tracking to cut down bank card frauds.

Banks and card networks like Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are working with wireless carriers to cut down on counterfeit transactions by tying purchases to the location of a customer’s smartphone.In the next few months, AT&T Inc. will test a service that verifies transactions by using a phone’s whereabouts. as long as it has customers’ permission.since people who are out shopping normally carry their phones with them,AT&T suppose that this will be more effective.
Global card fraud cost $12.4 billion last year, according to David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report, a payments-industry newsletter.
 AT&T would use its network data to find a participating customer’s phone, detecting a change in location. For example, the company would be able to confirm that a customer has flown from New York to Paris as soon as she turns on her phone upon landing. AT&T would convey this information to her credit-card lender so that if a transaction is attempted at a store in New York, it would be declined.
In addition to preventing fraud, a phone-location system could also help get rid of false positives -- transactions that are denied because the customer wasn’t in her customary location and forgot to report her travel plans to the bank. 
sources:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-06-26/how-at-and-t-could-keep-crooks-from-using-your-credit-card

Apple cheapens the iPod Touch prices to last stocks

Apple lowered prices of its declining-in-interest iPod Touch portable media players.

The 64-gigabyte version of the newest iPod Touch, at $299, is now $100 cheaper. The 32-gigabyte version came down to $249 from $299. The 16-gigabyte version, now with a rear-facing camera, costs $199 instead of $229.

The price drops hint that Apple is trying to clear store shelves ahead of the release of a new set of iPods, which have seen new introductions about every two years since an initial release in 2001.Apple sold just 2.8 million iPods in the first three months of this year, its lowest total in a decade.Apple said in a press release that the reduced-price iPod Touch devices would ship with iOS 7, but can be upgraded to iOS 8 when the operating system becomes available in the fall. All the iPod Touches have 4-inch displays.

sources:

http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=1300042EBLTO

How to follow Football World Cup 2014 gratis?

Here is few Television,mobile app facilities to get connected with Football World Cup 2014.I found these free ways,while searching the internet.

1. Spanish-language channel Univision is streaming the first 56 World Cup games for free on its website and Deporte app. The only drawback is that the commentary is in Spanish.
2. The official FIFA app for Apple and Android phones gives you real-time updates of all games, updated rankings, photos and video highlights and selected tweets from FIFA and others.
3. ESPN's website is chock full of stats and video highlights.
4. Many news sites, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, offer live blogs of all of the games, offering insights and commentary. This can be a useful way to keep up, especially now that two games are going on at the same time.
5. FIFA's Twitter accounts are FifaWorldCup and Fifacom. Clicking on the official Twitter hashtags, World Cup and World Cup 2014, will take you to Twitter's hubs for the event.
6. Facebook has an official World Cup section called "Trending World Cup." It includes the latest scores, game highlights and a feed with tournament-related posts.

sources:

http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=1300042EBKX6

Google introduces Smart TVs, Watches and Cars

On Wednesday Google announced Android TV, a version of its Android operating system designed to power smart TVs. Android TV is Google's third connected-TV service It compromises with the features, like pulling in live TV feeds and streaming videos from someone's smartphone, with new features like gaming support.Google reveal these announcements as part of its annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco.Android TV will be built into TVs to be released this year from Sony and Sharp as well as set-top boxes from Asus.Google is weaving in features that go beyond simply staring at something on a big TV. People can conduct searches on an Android TV-powered screen to find movies or TV shows, watch them and receive information like cast members' filmographies or lists of Oscar-nominated films in a given year.People can also play video games on their TVs and play against someone using an Android tablet.

TV isn't the only hardware that Google wants to connected through Android. Through a new version of Android called Android Wear designed for wearables like smart watches, Android-powered smart watches can be connected to a person's Android phone and can serve as a kind of remote control when the phone is in someone's pocket.

Cars are also getting the smartphone treatment through Android Auto, a program to connect Android phones to cars.Through voice-guided navigation, people can pull up driving directions, control the music or send text messages.

sources:

http://adage.com/article/digital/google-debuts-smart-tvs-watches-cars/293888/

Google targets new Android, cloud features for businesses

Google decides to pay their attention to the enterprise with announcements about Google Docs and its cloud service at the Google I/O which was held in June 25-26.
Google noted that, users get native editing for Office documents from their Android-based mobile devices or from Google Drive, the company's file storage and synchronization service.That means a user can open a Word document, for example, on an Android tablet and edit it without having to stop and convert it to a Google Doc.All files now uploaded to Google Drive will also be encrypted, not only between the user's device and Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also while the information is at rest on Google servers.
Google didn't leave the cloud out of its focus on the enterprise.The company also introduced the Google Cloud Dataflow, a managed data processing service.This cloud news is more important to the enterprise, and hence to Google's enterprise push, than its Google Docs changes.
sources:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249383/Google_targets_business_users_with_cloud_Docs_advances

Microsoft's New Nokia X2 Smartphone introduces

Last Monday Microsoft covered off Nokia X2 an affordable smartphone to reach the "next billion" people with mobile Internet and cloud services.Given Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia, this Android device is unique in that it also offers Microsoft services.The Nokia X2 will hit the market with Outlook.com, Skype and OneDrive pre-loaded. Users can also download Microsoft's OneNote and Yammer from the Nokia Store. Of course, users can also download Android apps from Google Play.

key specs:

The Nokia X2 offers a 4.3-inch ClearBlack display and 5-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and flash. Inside, there's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor with a dual-core, 1.2-Ghz processor and 1 GB of memory.

Although it's based on the Android mobile operating system, Microsoft is calling the phone's OS the Nokia X Software Platform 2.0."Microsoft is trying to provide a lower-cost device and tap into a bigger ecosphere of applications.The biggest driver is the low cost." Entner(principal analyst at Recon Analytics) said. The phone will sell for a suggested retail price of 99 euros, or about $135.

Microsoft is looking at profitability and popularity. Timo Toikkanen, head of Mobile Phones in the Microsoft Devices Group, said the Nokia X smartphone has top-selling status in Pakistan, Russia, Kenya and Nigeria and the third-best-selling status in India.

sources:

http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=121003S9G7W7

Oracle Buys LiveLOOK for Customer Service Co-Browser

last friday Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to buy LiveLOOK, a provider of co-browsing and screen-sharing technology.LiveLOOK is a cloud-based service that enables customer service representatives and sales agents to guide customers and prospects through screens on the Web or in mobile environments.

Oracle said that more than 100 of its global customers currently use LiveLOOK as an embedded part of the Oracle Service Cloud ,among LiveLOOK 500 customers as company itself mentioned.

David Vap, Group Vice President of Oracle Product Development, said in a statement that "consumers are increasingly conducting transactions across multiple digital channels such as web and mobile." He added that LiveLOOK will allow agents to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Oracle pointed to LiveLOOK's ability to offer one-click access for help with such things as filling out forms or navigating online applications. It also said that "visually-enabled personalized engagements help identify and maximize opportunities for increasing average order size, conversions, up-selling and cross-selling rates." The purchase price was not made public.you can get lot of details about LiveLOOK services from its website.
sources:
http://www.toptechnews.com/

Smart Connected Devices turn your PCs into mobiles.

Global shipments of smart connected devices will increase another 15.6 percent year over year in 2014 and approach 1.8 billion. Smartphone shipments will lead the pack, according to the latest forecast from IDC(International Data Corporation).IDC defines smart connected devices as desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets, 2-in-1s (tablet + smartphone), and smartphones.

Looking further out into the future, IDC expects the number of smart connected devices (SCDs) shipped worldwide each year to grow to 2.4 billion units. IDC anticipates smartphone shipments will outpace total PC shipments by more than 6 to 1 in 2018.

 The market research company expects double-digit growth rates for low-cost Android smartphones, which is driving much of the growth in big, emerging mobile markets such as China, India and Brazil.

In the more mature smartphone markets, such as the U.S. and Western Europe, smartphone shipment growth is slowing down into the single digits.manufactures of inexpensive phones will direct the average selling price bands downward, with the sub-$200 band increasing from 33% of total shipments in 2013 to greater than 43% in 2018, while devices that cost more than $500 are forecast to shrink from 33% of total device shipments to 21.1%.

sources:

http://www.telecompetitor.com/idc-rise-of-smart-connected-devices-relegates-pc-to-an-accessory-for-mobile/

Why Amazon's Fire Phone frightens peer retailers?

Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated smartphone-named Amazon Fire Phone that will give the e-commerce giant yet another piece of ammunition against retailers in its goal to own online shopping through show-rooming and price comparisons.The Seattle-based company's phone includes a feature called Firefly (which appears to be a souped-up version of its mobile app) that claims to recognize more than 100 million products. Firefly employs the phone’s 13-megapixel camera to detect QR codes and Web links on packages to drive traffic to Amazon items.Here my previous post contains more details about  its visual recognition abilities.Amazon Fire owners will receive one gratis year of Amazon Prime with the phone, which offers free shipping on all orders."It will rapidly accelerate show-rooming that retailers are already trying to combat in different ways,"one spokesman said,clarifying its revolutionary abilities.

Firefly also uses audio recognition that will likely attract advertisers focused on second-screen marketing.

The Amazon Fire Phone also includes 3D technology that distorts photos based on how consumers tilt the phone back and forth. The device will be sold exclusively by AT&T starting July 25 for $199 with a two-year contract.

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets run on Google’s Android operating system, but the company was careful to not plug Google into the device's actual features.

sources:

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/why-amazons-new-phone-threatens-retailers-158427

Finally twitter supports animated-GIF format

Twitter today announced a small, but SUPER AWESOME change to its social network: It will now support the ever-popular animated GIF format. The change, the company says, is live as of today on the Twitter.com website, Android and iPhone.

The company is also rolling out GIF support to its API, it seems, which would allow third-party developers to offer similar support in their client applications.

Many social networks today, including Tumblr and even Pinterest, have added support for animated GIFs as the format grew in popularity. Facebook and Twitter, however, have been big exceptions.

There’s some possibility that Twitter, too, could become a bit overwhelmed with GIFs as the change goes live across the site, and everyone starts testing the waters. But it also makes sense in terms of Twitter’s larger goal to become a more rich-media-focused service, as it moves away from being known only for its 140-character text updates.

sources:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/twitter-now-supports-animated-gifs-online-and-on-mobile/

Google's Web Starter Kit simplifies cross-device site development

Google launched Web Starter Kit on last Thursday, a download that consists of all the templates and tooling developers need to create sites that function on any device and any display(which the term you most familiar as "responsive").

Today’s Internet users don’t have just one device. They prefer as physical keyboard for their PCs but they want as touch screens on mobile. These days, no two screen sizes are alike. Users expect the same website to perform differently depending on the device by which it is accessed.

In its introduction to the kit, Google divides the workflow in to three functions: developers can pick a template, build the site and test it out.

The kit is designed to not just create attractive websites across Internet connected devices uses Google Chrome, but all browsers. That’s because it’s based on the Web standards provided by the W3 Coalition to make the Web accessible

Google's Web Starter Kit may tie into some new design concepts coming from Google in the coming weeks and months, including the expansion of its Polymer Web design principles it announced at Google I/O 2013 and the rumored Google Quantum Paper project for Android design.

sources:

http://readwrite.com/2014/06/19/google-launches-starter-kit-for-a-more-consistent-web#awesm=~oHT6OW4nNaS8eG

Project Panama will bridges JAVA and non-Java APIs

Developers of open source Java are moving forward with an effort to let Java programmers access non-Java APIs, including many interfaces used by C programmers.

According to the proponent,the main benefit of this proposal is that it will open up the world of native libraries written in C or similar languages to Java developers without requiring them to write anything but plain Java code.And also he mentioned its functionality as "You just specify what library to load, what function you want to access, and its parameters and return value and the API should do the rest".

The project is intended to provide for native interconnect between code managed by the JVM and APIs for libraries not managed by the JVM.

The challenge will be making the API flexible enough to handle a range of native library types, including C, C++, Windows, Linux, and Solaris, without making the API too difficult to use,and also Good tools will be needed for generating Java code for binding libraries, to accommodate subtle, platform-specific differences, said Nutter, who works as a principal software engineer at Red Hat.

Project Panama provides an alternative to JNI (Java Native Interface) for interfacing Java code to code written in unmanaged languages, said Forrester analyst John Rymer.The proposal, he said, describes technical mechanisms and conventions required for this to work. JNI serves as a Java intermediary that other languages can use to expose an API to Java code, Rymer noted. "The way I read the Project Panama proposal, the team will seek a more streamlined intermediary perhaps direct calls. We'll have to see how this all works out."

sources:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/project-panama-builds-bridge-between-java-and-cc-244434

Amason's Firefly SDK will open new era of mobile apps

It is true that application developers are tired of iterating on activities with messaging, photo-sharing, socializing.Amazon is going to introduce new ways to differentiate themselves from a growing number of app store competitors.That is what we called visual recognition technology,with this developers will not only be able to make their existing apps smarter and more aware of objects out in the real world, they can potentially develop new kinds of applications entirely.

Firefly was introduced as a key feature in Amazon’s just-announced Fire Phone - the company’s first-ever smartphone.Using a dedicated hardware button on the side of the phone, mobile consumers are able to identify almost anything they see or hear using the smartphone’s camera and other sensors, including text, products, movies, TV shows, books, games, CDs, business cards, web addresses, bar-codes, QR codes and more.

Most of the potential use cases for Firefly, from Amazon’s perspective, are all about driving more sales. See or hear anything, identify it automatically, and Amazon will help you acquire it instantly. Hear a good song? Push the Firefly button and buy. See some nice shoes? Buy. Drink a great wine? Buy.

Identification can also serve as just the first step in directing a user to more information beyond just the “what.” For example, a sample plug-in called “Exempli,” also described in the developer documentation, first identifies the musical artist behind a song being heard, then searches an external service to determine if there are any upcoming shows by that artist within a 50-mile radius of the user’s current location.

With this Amason's new technology,it is said that apps will get Dynamic perspective.The goal is to introduce a new way of interacting with on-screen content in a way that’s as remarkable as the “pinch-and-zoom” and swiping gestures were when the iPhone first debuted.In fact, both technologies are about moving away from the tapping and swiping and typing altogether. Dynamic Perspective is about movement and tilting and things you can do with one hand. 

sources:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/with-firefly-dynamic-perspective-amazon-just-opened-up-all-new-categories-for-app-developers/

airport tracking Wi-Fi devices to monitor security wait-time

Wading through airport security can be treacherous for travelers as it often means hours in line with the possibility of missed flights. What if we could skip all of that just by having our Wi-Fi devices tracked?

The technology being used from Blip Systems has already been installed at airports in Amsterdam, Dubai, Geneva, Oslo, and Toronto. Now, it’s coming to Cincinnati’s airport – a declining transportation hub that’s seen a drop from 2008′s 13.6 million passengers to just 5.7 million passengers in 2013.

To date, approximately 50% of passengers have Wi-Fi enabled devices, which are capable of emitting data points which can help airport engineers monitor movements and traffic in security lines, which are passed onto passengers as estimated wait-times.

Sharing this information can help lower stress associated with traveling. “When you proactively have that information, the passengers are actually much calmer, and they find the queuing experience less daunting,” said a higher spokesman.

The BlipTrack solution works by collecting data from BLIP Systems’ Bluetooth and Wi-Fi sensors as well as third-party data sources.

The raw data from the sensors is encrypted and transferred in real-time via Ethernet or mobile broadband to a secure cloud server.

Airport officials claim there is no personal or private data gathered to warrant public notification, but would travelers notice that devices are being tracked around aggressive security gates? The same technology has potential for tracking dangerous terrorists. Clip Systems encrypts data before transferring the information to its servers, but that’s no guarantee that it can’t be hacked or be used by the NSA(National Security Agency-US) to find persons of interest.

sources:

http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2014/06/17/cinncinati-airport-tracking-wi-fi-devices-to-monitor-security-wait-time/

Facebook launches mobile app called slingshot

Facebook Inc launched a smartphone app on Tuesday that will allow consumers to exchange disappearing photos and videos without requiring Facebook accounts, the Internet company’s latest effort to develop mobile services beyond its core social network.

The new app, dubbed Slingshot, allows users to sign up for the service with their mobile phone number and connect with friends in their phone’s contact list or, if they want, by finding their Facebook friends.

Photos on Slingshot disappear from users’ phones shortly after they are viewed, reflecting a growing anxiety about privacy in the age of Internet social networking.

To help mitigate the threat from alternative social networks, Facebook is developing a variety of standalone apps and acquiring fast-growing rivals. In 2012 it acquired photo-sharing service Instagram and in February it announced plans to acquire messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion.

Snapchat, an app that lets users send messages that automatically disappear after a few seconds, turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook last year, according to media reports at the time.

Unlike other messaging apps, Slingshot will not allow users to view the messages they have received from their friends until they reciprocate and send back a photo or video of their own. The rule is designed to make Slingshot a service for which everyone contributes material, although it could require a learning curve that confuses or turns off some users.

sources:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/facebook-slingshot-idINKBN0ES28320140617

Sending Wi-Fi signals through walls can measure baby's heart rate

Parents could watch their baby’s heart rate from another room without using any kind of wearable device or special sleeping pad with a new development out of MIT that uses Wi-Fi signals to track the rise and fall of peoples’ chests.
Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(CSAIL) transmitted a low-power wireless signal through a wall and measured how long it took the signals to bounce back. Changes in the reflected signals allowed the team to measure movement, or even minute chest movements.
Based on a person’s chest rising and falling, the CSAIL group can determine their heart rate with 99 percent accuracy. The system can track up to four people at a time.The CSAIL team has been perfecting its Wi-Fi tracking for a while now. It has also used radio signals for 3D tracking.Along with baby monitoring, the system could also be used in search and rescue scenarios or to track your own health statistics.. The MIT team is now interested in expanding it so it can be used to track emotion, which is also linked to heart rate and breathing.
sources:
http://gigaom.com/2014/06/13/mit-can-now-track-a-heart-rate-through-a-wall-with-wi-fi-signals/

Facebook’s iPad App Becomes An Entertainment Hub With Game Discovery And Trending Videos Sidebar

Over 70 percent of people who use Facebook for iPad played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, so the company is helping them discover or re-engage with games through a new homepage sidebar it starts testing yesterday on its iPad app.It includes social notifications for native mobile and Facebook web games you already play, video trailers for games you don’t, plus Trending news articles and Trending videos popular with your demographic.The growth opportunities could entice more developers to integrate Facebook into their games, and Facebook plans to eventually sell ads for games in this space. By filling the extra screen space with what tablet users love, Facebook hopes its home on iPad can become a more essential part of people’s lives,even if that means bouncing them into other apps or showing them YouTube videos.

For now the test will run to iPad users in the U.S. but eventually is likely to reach all iPad users. There are no immediate plans for a smartphone version of the sidebar, but something similar could be tucked into a sub tab since there isn’t space to display it all the time.

In 2012,Facebook found a huge money maker in the form of mobile app install ads. The proliferation of apps overwhelmed the iOS and Android stores, leaving devs desperate for ways to grow. Facebook leveraged its massive mobile engagement and targeting data to sell developers News Feed ads that score them downloads.Now Facebook is using its new iPad app sidebar to simultaneously help users find games, lure iOS and Android game developers into adding Facebook integrations, and open up more app install ad space.

The first is Popular Games. This section shows off the video trailers for games Facebook thinks you might want to play. Watch the trailer, and if you like it, click through to download or sign up for the game. 

The second opportunity is My Games. This shows people in-app notifications for games they already play, which Facebook knows about through the data it collects from its log-in system. These could include friend requests, someone asking for help with a level, or a notice that it’s their turn to move.

Beyond games, the sidebar houses two other sections. One is a mobile version of the Trending topics sidebar inspired by Twitter that Facebook launched on the web early this year. Rather than just some cryptic word or hashtag leading to a list of mentions like on Twitter, Facebook’s trending topics come with short descriptions explaining why they’re popular. Clicking through provides a canonical link to a news story about the trend, as well as mentions by your friends and other news outlets

sources:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/16/facebook-for-ipad/

Microsoft Delivers IE Developer Channel Release

Microsoft has delivered a Developer Channel release of its Internet Explorer browser aimed at developers.

This release is a fully functioning browser designed to give Web developers and early adopters a sneak peek at the Web platform features.And also Web developers can write tests to automate Web browsers to test their sites.Microsoft mentioned further It's a programmable remote control for developing complex user scenarios and running them in an automated fashion in your Web site and browser.

The Developer Channel release of IE also provides new enhancements to Microsoft's F12 Web developer tools, including enhanced debugging with event breakpoints that help developers get to their event-driven bugs faster. Microsoft also is providing richer analysis capabilities throughout the Memory and UI Responsiveness profilers, and an improved navigation experience that provides more keyboard shortcuts as well as new header notifications. This enables developers to quickly determine whether any of the profiling tools are running or how many errors their page has.

 See more at: http://www.eweek.com/developer/microsoft-delivers-ie-developer-channel-release.html#sthash.X4jlXGsT.dpuf

Smart Apps,cars will reduce crashes while Texting

To reduce the rising tide of car crashes caused by smartphone distractions,lot of countries (all 50 US states) have passed laws banning texting while driving. Unfortunately, those bans aren't doing anything to stop the rise of text-related car accidents.Now it is considered even more dangerous than driving drunk, texting behind the wheel is an issue getting a lot of attention from governments and public safety agencies, with many folks pushing for stricter laws and greater enforcement. But where the law comes up short in curbing the distracted driving trend, technology may step in and offer a solution to the problem of its own making.follow it shows some concurrent and future smart approaches to overcome this issue.

1. There are a host of apps that block incoming messages or distracting alerts on your phone when you're driving, mainly geared toward parents with tech-addicted teens.
2. In one Ford smart car design, the vehicle itself senses when the driver is stressed or distracted and locks your phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode. An recent Apple patent describes technology that would disable texting while you're driving.
3. Many newer auto models already have some kind of in-car communication system built in that syncs with your phone and is controlled either by voice commands or with buttons on the steering wheel so you can keep your eyes on the road.
4. Meanwhile, it's rumored that Google's developing a similar, Knight Rider-reminiscent system called Project KITT, which the company may reveal at this month's I/O conference. 

references:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/texting-bans-arent-stopping-crashesbut-smart-cars-might

Facebook Use Web Browsing History For Ad Targeting

Facebook is now enabling is far more expansive in terms how it uses data for ad targeting.Now, Facebook is using the passive data where users go on their PCs and phones to make its own ads smarter. Advertisers who want to reach Facebook users who are interested in various fields will be able to reach with greater accuracy.Through its ubiquitous "like" buttons on publisher sites across the web, Facebook has long been able to watch the web surfing behavior of its 1.28 billion monthly users.Like(the social network's footprint) is visible across the web, a Facebook user can be recognized on sites where the button is encoded, whether they "like" something or not.

references:

http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-web-browsing-history-ad-targeting/293656/

Google Fit-Google's newest health service

Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps. It will launch the service at the Google I/O conference for developers, being held on June 25 and 26.

Google Fit will aggregate data through open APIs, instruction sets that allow apps to share information, and will also announce partnerships with wearable device makers at its I/O conference.This will be more complicated  because of the given reasons: the concern over privacy and how best to process information as sensitive as health data.Google has been in this field before with Google Health, which also acted as a 

health portal but was shut down in 2012.

references:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/06/12/exclusive-google-to-launch-health-service-google-fit-at-developers-conference/

H-P Apollo 8000-the world’s first completely liquid-cooled supercomputer

From past years of computer history IBM was the sole hardware developer of high-end computing.Now a days,the things are changing.HP is going to challenge this. Recently H-P announced two new computer server products under the new Apollo brand name.

One of the machines, the H-P Apollo 6000, combines up to 160 low-end servers in one rack that H-P says will offer high performance computing capabilities that are superior to existing systems while using up to about half of the energy.

The other system, the H-P Apollo 8000, will be the world’s first completely liquid-cooled supercomputer that lets H-P compete for the first with IBM and Cray in the high end of the market, says Antonio Neri, H-P’s head of servers and networking.The Apollo 8000 cools the machines by sending water through channels built into the chassis surrounding the computers. The warm water is then circulated out of the chassis through a pipe system that companies must build in their data centers. H-P says the warm water can be used to heat parts of other facilities.

references:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/09/h-p-to-challenge-ibm-in-supercomputing-with-apollo/?mod=ST1

Facebook challenges the growth of the WhatsApp in U.S

I cannot believe that there are people who doesn't heard about Facebook if he/she have ever browse the internet.

Facebook is a social networking platform that allows users to connect to friends online. 

Whatsapp is a multi-platform instant messaging application for smart phones which grows magnifficiently from 2009. 

The key different between these two stuffs are Facebook is a website, whereas WhatsApp is an application that needs to be installed on a phone.

Last wednesday(2014.06.04) co-founder of WhatsApp said that the adoption of messaging service WhatsApp in the United States and some other markets is proving difficult.He also cited Japan and Taiwan as countries where “we could have been more successful with a little bit more effort.”

Earlier last year Facebook stated that it would acquire fast-growing WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock.

references:

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/us-whatsapp-facebook-acton-idUSKBN0EG0R320140605
2. http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-facebook-and-whatsapp

HP introduces laptops that can flip over with a 360

You want a laptop that can flip over with a 360-degree display hinge?HP introduced the first time a full-rotation hinge at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Now they are going to bring you much versatile versions called The Pavilion x360 and Envy x360.

The Pavilion x360’s specs are mentioned below.Intel based versions will be available July 20 and AMD based versions will be available July 9.

• 13.3-inch touch display
• Intel Core i3 or Core i5 CPU s or graphics-oriented AMD A6, A8, or A10 CPU s.
• Battery life up to 8.25 hours.
• Ram up to 8GB.
• Storage will range from 500GB to 1TB.
• Weight about 4.3 pounds.
• Colors in red or silver.

HP Envy  x360

Another one is The Envy x360 which will be bigger than its Pavilion cousin.The Envy x360’s specs are given below.HP did not specify a ship date yet.

• 15.6-inch display.
• Heavier 5.8-pound weight.
• Intel Core i3-i7 processors.
• Configured with up to 8GB of RAM.
• Storage up to 1TB of storage.
• Silver will be its sole case coloring.
• Battery life will last up to 7 hours.

references:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2304857/hp-lets-loose-with-laptops-that-rotate-or-split-and-run-windows-chrome-or-android.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

what are the Blogs,Podcasts,Forums and Threads?

This era is informative. Knowledge becomes power. Awareness of everything is only key to be a respectable person.So everyone tries to be get aware.internet become a key media of having this knowledge.today I am going to present you some sources of internet to be get aware.

Website-i think this term is very much familiar to all.it is a place in the internet where a company or an organization ,an individual person puts its information.

Blog-it is a kind of website where a person writes regularly about recent events or topics that interest,usually with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting.they are the most informative ones .you can share your experiences as a student,worker etc. 

Podcast-a recording of a radio broad or a video that can be taken from the internet.Podcasting could turn into an audio form of blogging.

Web discussion forum-a place where people can exchange opinions and ideas on a particular issue

conversation 

Thread-a series of connected messages on a message board on the internet which have been sent by different people.i am using these threads in most of the occasions to troubleshoot my pc issues.

What is Rapid Application Development (RAD) ?

We are always discussing enormous process models to develop cost-effective, error-free software process models like waterfall,spiral,protyping,RUP etc in software engineering. But today RAD becomes a prominent place among them. I will learn this more advance in our next semester. This is only a introduction.

 

 

 

 

 RAD(rapid application development) is a concept that products can be developed faster and of higher quality through,

• The re-use of software components.
• Less formality in reviews and other team communication.
• A rigidly paced schedule that defers design improvements to the next product version.

Some companies offer products that provide some or all of the tools for RAD software development. (The concept can be applied to hardware development as well.) These products include requirements gathering tools, prototyping tools, computer-aided software engineering tools, language development environments such as those for the Java platform, groupware for communication among development members, and testing tools.

The most popular object-oriented programming languages, C++ and Java, are offered in visual programming packages often described as providing rapid application development.

 

 references:
http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/rapid-application-development

MBR vs GPT-Comparison of Disk Partioning schemes

When you are going to install windows operating system,Disk Partitioning is a prior step .There some times you may mess with 2 words GPT and MBR.today I will teach you what it means.
Microsoft offers 2 types of architectures for disk partitioning.
MBR(Master Boot Record)
The original method of partitioning disks is referred to as MBR (Master Boot Record) which was developed during the 1980’s.MBR disks only have 1 partition table to keep track of all the blocks in the partition. If the table becomes corrupt, the entire disk must be recovered from backup. Windows GPT-based disks have multiple, redundant partition tables so that if one is detected as being corrupt, it can self-heal itself from a redundant copy of the table. It is possible to convert an MBR disk to a GPT-based disk and vice versa, but any data must first be backed up and all the partitions deleted.

GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Microsoft adopted the GPT disk partitioning scheme in 2001 from Intel’s EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specifications. It accommodates disk partition sizes up to 18 EB (Exabyte’s) or 1 million terabytes.Another shortcoming of MBR-based disk partitions is the limitation of 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. The extended partition can be further divided into multiple logical partitions. By limiting the number of partitions on a disk, you effectively reduce the number of partitions to organize or manage the data. With GPT-based disks, Microsoft supports up to 128 partitions per disk. There are several partitions reserved for dynamic disks and EFI-boot support so only 124 partitions are available for data.

 

references:

http://www.petri.co.il/gpt-vs-mbr-based-disks.htm