Body Cameras for London Police will be applied from early 2016

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The London mayor Boris Johnson announced that the government plans to supply 20,000 body-worn cameras for the officers of the Metropolitan Police force.

The body-word cameras will be applied over the next ten months in order to equip all the police officers with the recording devices by April next year.

The cameras can record whatever the police encounter which can be used to gather evidence in the filed and enhance the public trust due to the police accountability.

Metropolitan police are now busy testing the device, it is a part of a trial that 6000 video clips may be tested each this summer.

It is said that the London’s police force will become the most camera-equipped in the world. The body-word cameras record the proposals receive regulatory backup from the on-duty.

Johnson told the public in the statement, the camera quipped device is an amazing technology and it will help the government to build trust and assist the police to their jobs, and also provide the public the watch the officers more accountable.

Johnson continued that the government has plans for the application of technology of Body Worm Video for more officers in a single city than anywhere else in the world, and it would be a great technology improvement towards the 21st century police force in London.

Over 50% of Android devices are operating Jelly Bean or KitKat

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It is well-known that Google’s Android operating system has a obviously fragmentation problem, but the latest versions of this system seem to be developed.

We have learned the new figures from the web giant that more than half of users are operating either KitKat or Lollipop. These two operating systems take up a combined market share of 51.6%.

Lollipop just takes up over 12 % of the share on its lonesome, but the old versions of Android system like Gingerbread( Android edition 2.3) and Cream Sandwich( Android edition 4.0.x) has become the popular editions.

KitKat( Android edition 4.4) is the most popular version of Android and it takes up 39.2% of the share, while its old edition Jelly Bean( Android edition 4.1) is 37.4% of the share when taking all its incarnations into account.

We can see from the Google’s figures that those 50% all Android applicants have a display resolution of 240 dpi, which suggesting the market keeps up with the latest developments at about half of the share.

The Google offered the announcement of its next-generation operating system Android M last week, and features of this next-generation operating system come with NFC payments, biometric security and longer battery life.

Sony Mobile cuts down the staff in Europe amid restructuring

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News from the local publication 8till5 suggested the firm’s smartphone is going to cut down 975 jobs in Sweden, which including its key manufacturing and R&D centers.

This cut doesn’t surprise the public much as Sony previously announced that it would carry out cost-cutting measures in order to make profit for its mobile business by next year.

Since Hiroki Totoki has been appointed as head of the division in October last year, he was working hard on job cuts in Europe and China which were reported not before long of this appointment.

Sony has been working hard to become a major player in the field of smartphone sector. It is unable to compete with Apple and Samsung as they are at the high end of the market. In addition, it could not compete with the budget manufacturers in the emerging markets either.

There were rumors indicating the company would give up its smartphone business completely, but this would not seem to be occurring in the near future as there were news given by Sony that it just launched the Xperia Z3+ as its new featured handset.