One of the top leaders of Ubuntu project, Dustin Kirkland stated in a open letter to Ubuntu Community that Ubuntu obtained over one billion users in the world.

Phoronix reported previously and indicated that Ubuntu wont be able to obtain 200 million users by the end of 2015. However, the statistics reported by Kirkland showed a large amount of people use Ubuntu with willingness or unwillingness in the world.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu once estimated it would obtain 200 million users by the end of 2015. This figure concerned the personal PCs or laptops installed the Ubuntu operating system.

The situation made a great change since then. Besides millions of Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus laptops are installed with Ubuntu operating system, the servers of IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Lenovo, Quanta are also pre-installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu is compatible with OpenCompute project.

The problem we concerned is no one could calculate all the Ubuntu users. Ubuntu does not demand each user to register Ubuntu which is different from Apple, Microsoft and Google operating systems.

Dustin Kirkland collected all the public records as he could, including servers, the Ubuntu that deployed in the Cloud, Ubuntu mobiles and the enterprises which used Ubuntu.

The result surprised the public. It turned out there are over one billion users using the Ubuntu operating system in some or other devices. Among its users, most of them are unaware of using Ubuntu operating system.

Apple announced that Apple Pay will be bringing into Chinese market days ago. It worked with China UnionPay and 15 mainstream Chinese banks. The specific details of the banks will be revealed soon.

CMB officially announced that it will support Apple Pay that a new mobile payment mode with speediness and safety.

It is said that users who carry CMB deposits card or credit cards marked with UnionPay, they would add their bank cards to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch to full enjoy the Apple Pay service.

CMB stressed that security and privacy are the cores of Apple Pay. When the users add the credit cards or deposit cards on their devices, their banking details won’t be stored on the devices or Apple server.

In fact, the banking details will be distributed to a Device Account Number, and save into a Secure Element chip after being encrypted. It notifies the one-off, unique dynamic security code for authorization.

Apple Pay is available on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch among the retail stores that support this service.

Among the applications to use Apple Pay for payment, it is supported by iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4 and iPad Pro.

It seems that there will be more banks join the Apple Pay service. Time will tell us all.

Marissa Mayer has been criticized for spending $3 billion to realized continuous acquisitions. Those acquisitions did not improve much its business. FBR Capital lately analyzed that the current value of those acquisitions are under it paid for the acquisitions.

The real value of four acquisitions made under Mayer’s leadership are far below their acquired payments. Yahoo spent $1.1 billion to acquire Tumblr in 2013, while FRB Capital estimated it values at $770 million now. While the values for Brighthroll, Flurry and Polyvore have been shrunk a lot.

This is good news in comparison with other 40 acquisitions in the past three years. FBR Capital estimated that those 40 acquisitions are worthless now.

FBR Capital analyzed that if Yahoo splits off those four acquisitions and sell out, the income might help to meet the shareholders’ demand.

William Bird analyzed the Yahoo Display on Monday, if Yahoo separately sells out those its business sections, they will be worthed at over $3.2 billion. Yahoo Display includes Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and other startup acquisitions it made in the past three years.

Bird felt that the four acquisitions could be valued at $1.4 billion among $3.2 billion. The operation and financial standing of Tumblr is not as good as its rivals, but its users keep growing. The revenue of Brighthroll is over $100 million now, while Yahoo spent $640 million to acquire it then. Flurry and Polyvore both develop well in their fields.

Bird said Tumblr might worth more in the view of correct buyers. It could provide first class product innovation.

He felt that it could attract more bidders if Yahoo sells out those business separately. Only a few companies could afford several billion to acquire the whole Yahoo outright.

According to the reports from foreign medias, Yahoo is now working on shutting down the business in the Middle East. Dubai office, the last office in the Middle East will be closed. 50 employees will lose their jobs.

The confirmed source revealed that they received several emails from the unemployeds and they feel embarrassed. Yahoo has confirmed this news.

On the one hand, it made apologies to those who lost jobs.On the other hand, it confirmed to have the dismission done by the end of next April.

Yahoo claimed that it would keep Dubai office when it carried out the staff reduction plan last year. Judging from this news, the staffs work in Dubai office seem to stand this suffer this time.

Yahoo acquired the Arabic social networking website Maktoob.com in 2009 in order to explore the Middle East market. It is hard to believe that it ends up with failure 6 years later.

Yahoo obtained 400 employees and 65 million users in the Middle East, including Amman, Jordan, Cairo and Egypt.

The leadership of Mayer is controversial. Its business scale narrows down under her leadership. The most respected senior executive Dawn Airey left the Yahoo early this year to challenge another job.

It was previously reported that Yahoo investors hoped Mayer to leave the team or suggested the firm split off its business. The future of Yahoo is alarming.

Google mobile Chrome obtained double monthly active users in the past year, increasing to 800 million.

The growth of using mobile Chrome mostly comes from its Android system. However, Chrome is compatible with iPhone and iPad at the same time. The continuous popularity of mobile Chrome is significant to Google as it faces much pressure from Microsoft in the browser business.

Google announced in May that Chrome browser users were over one billion, but it did not reveal the specific data of desktop users and mobile users. Chrome comes as a default browser on most Android devices. Users are able to download it on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows PC.

Google announced at the Chrome Dev Summit which was held last month that its montly active users for mobile Chrome reached 800 million. This figure was double on year-on-year basis.

According to the data of Net Applications, Chrome is the most popular mobile browser, accounting for 40% of the market share. It only obtained 27% market share in January. The growth of Chrome might contribute to the continuous production of Android devices.

IDC claimed that quantity of Android devices come to the marke will increase to 1.16 billion sets in 2015. There were 1 billion caming to the market last year.

In the meanwhile, the market share of Safari browser decreased from 43% to 36%.

Microsoft persuaded Windows 10 users not to install Chrome browser, on the contrary, it indicated the importance of Chrome. Microsoft Ede and IE browsers are only able to use on its own OS. Windows Phone only obtains about 5% of market share in mobile browser market.

Googel mobile Chrome keeps reachnig more active users. It seems Google wish to manage the mobile browser market.

Christmas is upcoming. There are promotions for electronic products from the tech companies. Google announced that it will offer promotions for Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. The Chromecast will only cost at $10 for promoted price.

According to the report of CNET, Google announced the promotion tactics on Monday. It will reduce the prices of Chromecast and Chromecast Audio to $30 each. What’s more, the consumers who purchase each of its product will obtain a $20 Google Play cash coupon. They can use the coupon to buy movie tickets, music or games. In a word, the prices for such streaming media devices are only $10.

If the consumers purchase both Chromecast and Chromecast Audio at the same time, Google will deduct another $5. They use obtain the cash coupon from Google Play as well.

It is worth noting that consumers can rent a free movie from Google Play if they purchase the Chromecast according to its old policy. It amounts to $3-$6 privilege.

Google offers great promotion for its consumers. The consumers also enjoy the same promotion tactics if they purchase the Chromecast and Chromecast Audio on Best Buy or Walmart.

The network video and IPTV become popular in recent year and the competition between STB and TV Dongle becomes heater. Google focuses on promoting its TV Dongle which is able to connect with TV HDMI port. It only charges $35.It upgraded the second generation of TV Dongle this autumn. It is smaller and brief.

It is reported that Google Chromecast obtains 23% market share, exceeding Apple STB. Amazon obtains about 30% market share.

Consumers can use smartphone to control Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. Many video websites are compatible with Chromecast while playing on TV.

Apple fans have different tastes on tone quality. Each time it posted Beats headphone news, there were comments from the professionals. If you pay close attention to tone quality, what do you think of Devialet Phantom?

To many people, Devialet Phantom is a strange name. However, it caused great sensation when it was released.

Now Devialet Phantom takes on App Store. Its price is not so cheap. It is reported that there are over 10 App Stores selling Devialet Phantom in America. It has two versions: 99db and 104db. They are selling respectively at $1990 and $2390. Users are unable to find the Devialet Phantom on Apple-Chinese website yet.

Devialet Phantom caused a sensation when it was initially released due to its fashion design. It looks like a oval dust cleaner. Its shape is different existing  sqaured and strip-type loudspeaker boxes in the market. Devialet Phantom only has one Power button. Its brief style matches with Apple’s. Because of it applies the wireless connection, it is worth to note its tone quality.

According to the statement of manufacturer, Devialet Phantom sync the management of 16Hz bass and 25KHz hight pitch. It is set with ADH smart sound system which offers stimulation and digital power AMP.

Users can now experience its tone quality at the App Stores there.

Several media presses reported that Apple designed a newer Lightning connector for iPad Pro. This new connector does not apply in old iPad series.

The Lightning connector of iPad Pro supports the connected speed of USB3.0. The public assume that this new Lightning connector would enhance the competitiveness of iPad Pro to battle with MacBook Pro.

However, Apple does not announce this news concerns the newer Lightning connector. It just acknowledged this faster connected function to its third-party cooperators.

iPad Pro is designed for the enterprises and professional users. Thus, there are two versions for options. Those users will experience the faster speed on iPad Pro that benefits from Lightning connector.

For instance, the photographer can transfer the photos from Digital Single Lens Reflex to iPad Pro with ease and quicker by using this new technology. It is more convenience than its predecessor.

USB2.0 port was launched in 2000 and it could maximum support the speed of 480Mbps. The USB 3.0 was released early this year and it is able to support the transmission speed at maximum 5Gbps.

It is reported that Apple’s default connecting line does not support USB3.0 speed. However, Apple would carry out some effective solutions to solve such problem. It designed a newer and faster connecting line for iPad Pro so that it could make full advantage of Lightning connector.

The Apple fans were upset when they found the its rear logo doesn’t shine after Apple released the 12-inch MacBook.

Are you will to buy those suites for iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus if they could shine their rear logo? You might have watched the video tutorial online by some smart guys.

Now there is a foreign website that sells the customized suite the iPhone 6 /iPhone 6 Plus shells to make its rear logo shine. Will you miss this chance?

This site that specializes in cellphone encryption is called The Unlockr. It is selling the turning suite that make the Phone 6/6Plus rear logo shines as the MacBook does. In the meanwhile, this website offers the video tutorial for reference to those who wish to buy the suites.

To make the rear logo shine, the users need to disassemble iPhone and remove the original logo, then install the components to make it shine. It is worth noting that users are in risk of losing the product warranty. What’s more, the installation for shinning logo requires a rather strong practical ability.
Each suite to make iPhone 6 rear logo shine is selling at $34.99, while the ones for iPhone 6 Plus is $37.99. The Unlockr claimed that the suites for iPhone 6S will come soon. If you wish to make a new experience for your iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus, please visit the Unlockr website.