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Apple SIM debuts in Japan

Do you have any expression for Apple SIM? It was introduced alongside with the release of iPad Air 2 in last year. Apple SIM allows user to switch to different network operators with ease.

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Apple announced on its official website that Apple SIM debuts in Japan today. Apple SIM supports KDDI internet connection. KDDI teamed up with Apple via its brand named AU. Users can also buy Apple SIM from its retail stores in Japan from now on.

So far, Apple SIM partners for network are including AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile that are from United States, EE from United Kingdom and GigSky which covers over 90 countries.

As KDDI internet supports Apple SIM, the Japanese retail stores started selling Apple SIM there. Before Apple SIM is introduced to Japan, it was sold in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and US Apple Stores.

It is convenient for oversea travelers to use Apple SIM. The users can switch to the local network operator base on their locations. They don’t have to buy local sim cards instead during their journeys. Because of the limitation of localized operators, the supporters for Apple SIM are under expectation.

iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 3, and iPad Pro are all pre-installed Apple SIM for consumers in the mentioned countries above.

Will Google launch its own Android cell phone?

It is reported that Google might launch its own Android cell phone to make its Android system more competitive.

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Google will not team up with mobile manufacturer to launch the new phone as it did like Nexus series. Google might take page from Apple to develop its own processor on the basis of Android system so that it could manufacture cell phone.

The Information reported that Google senior management group is discussing on the strategy concerns self-developing cell phone. Google did not announce other details on its website.

Google sold Motorola mobility at $2.91 billion about two years ago. But it reserved most of Motorola’s patents in order to apply in Android system.

All the Nexus series are made by HTC, LG, Motolora and Huawei. Nexus cell phones are similar to those made by their cooperative manufacturers. Nexus 6 shares great similarities to Moto X, while Nexus 5 is similar to LG G2.

Android cell phone market is composed by thens of thousands of components. Those components are made by thousands of manufacturers. OpenSingnal claimed that there are over 24,000 Android devices using OpenSignal’s applications in 2015, making by 1,300 manufacturers.

Google has necessary to launch its own Android smartphone in order to design better devices and control the Android smarpthone share.

It is reported that Google has negotiated with the chip manufacturer concerned the launch of Android cell phone chips. The chips that will enhance Android devices’ function.

 

Apple releases Android Apple Music

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Apple released Apple Music application to Google’s Play Store on Tuesday.

Apple released the Apple Music application in this June, but this application is just supported on Mac, iPhone and iPad devices.

This Android Apple Music is the sedcond round application launched by Apple. It is for Google’s Play Store application and the first and important version made for Android devices.

The first version that Apple made for Android application is called “Move to iOS”, it allows Android users to update the data to new iPhone with easy.

Apple Music is also a way that Apple rivals with other music streaming media services such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Pandora. To the Apple Music subscribers, they will be able to listen to 30 million songs.

Its subscription fee is the same as other music streaming websites’, its charging standard is $9.99 per month for Apple Music.

If the subscribers pay $14.99 each month, it allows maximum six people to share one account at the same time. In the meanwhile, Apple Music owns its online broadcasting station service called Beats1.

The Apple devices users do not show great interests in Apple Music since it has been released. There were previous reports indicating that Apple Music has vulnerabilities and is short of distinctive functions. Apple is unwilling to abandon the released music streaming media service.

 

WordPress market share accounts for 25% globally

It was an important day for WordPress, the well-known Content Management Platform last Sunday. According to the statistics provided by W3Techs, there are 25% of the websites are built on the basis of WordPress Platform.

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It was initially for bloggers, but WordPress has new function for enterprises as well.

W3Techs claimed: “ among the content management websites we have known, there are 58.7% of them are using WordPress. This figure accounts for 25% of all the websites in the world.” Even though there are changes of using WordPress each month , WordPress’s market share is overall in a steady-state growth.

” By the end of this year, we will glad to see our market share break through 25%. There are still more potential opportunities for us as about 57% of websites have not applied content management system yet. Therefore, I assume there is room to grow for using WordPress”, said Matt Mullenweg, WordPress’s developer and co-founder of Automattic.

In fact, the market share of WordPress did not make obviously growth in the past few years. Its share even dropped down in last year.

However, it is an outstanding achievement if WordPress obtains over half of the market share, and such leading position might possibly result in all kinds of attacks. In the product life cycle, WordPress also encountered a series of information security issues.

Google folds up e-commerce GOSF in India

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Google folds up its online shopping business GOSF in India. GOSF has been launching for three years. It enjoy great popularity as the cyber Monday, GOSF is the first Indian online shopping day that offers the most favarable discounts.

GOSF has similarity Flipkart’s, Amazon’s and Snapdeal’s shopping festivals. There are also intense competitions among those platforms.

Google feels that there are many successful e-commerce enterprises in India, and the users don’t have to wait for 12 months to shop on the best shopping day of the year. Its small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) don’t have to look for localized consumers online.

When GOSF was initial launched in India, Google estimated that only 8 million Indians shopped online among 130 million Internet users. The total online shopping revenue was about $2 billion. India has over 350 million Internet users in 2015. Its online shopping users will increased to 350 million in 2016, and the sales revenue will be over $10 billion.

“We launched GOSF in 2012 to encourage the Indians to shop online and we wanted to provide them the best deals. We aimed to attract all the leading e-commerce enterprises on this platform to develop online shopping,” said Bawankule, industry director of Indian office.

GOSF is known as a platform to help th large-scale e-commerce companies to make big deals and seek for more clients for hundreds of SMEs

According to the statistics, only 90 retails joined GOSF in 2012 and its retailed increased to 550 till December,2014.

Bawankule said the development and influence of e-commerce went well in India. GOSF motivated the Indians to shop in many aspects. Overall, it is time for us to say goodbye. He added Google will continue to invest projects to promote cooperations SMEs in the industry.

70% of scientific research expenditures of global enterprises wasted

It is reported that the large-scale enterprises often invested a great sum of money to launch new technology. According to the latest survey concerns scientific research, about 70% of the expenditure is not applied in the right matters.

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A survey made by Genpact Research Institute shows that American enterprises invested about $600 billion on digital business, while about$400 billion projects did not meet the expectation. In fact, the enterprises invest much of money in IT industry is to maintain their existing or outdated systems instead of purchasing new technology.

Gartner’s data suggested that the scale of global technical expenditure is about $ 400 billion, estimating 5% decline compared with last year. The enterprises put much money on those projects do not perform well. Gartner suggests the enterprises should make strict budget for investments. Wise investors should regularly note its expenditure and make adjustments for better investment.

Gianni Giacomelli, product innovation vice president of Genpact claimed that about 67% of the invested projects either abandoned or did not perform well in Cloud Computing, PPcloud and social technologies.

The silicon valley giants and big banks invested great sum in technologies and they are considered as the leading enterprises in their fields. The survey of Genpact implied that the technical expenditure did not meet its expectation.

Bernstein Research analyzed the report concerned the technical expenditure accounted for revenue ratios among 68 technical enterprises and drafted a chart related to their share prices. The more they put in technical expenditure, the higher risk will lead to declines of their share prices in five years.

Bernstein Research implied the launch research and development expenditures is not an ideal standard for share performance and innovation.

Some Alphabet subsidiaries will come back to China

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As reported, Google’s co founder Sergey Brin implied some subsidiaries of Alphabet have independence to go back to Chinese market after the parent firm has been recombined.

Brin is working as the CEO of Alphabet and director of Google X. Brin stated in a event concerns Project Loon:” even though there are difficulties for our exploration in Chinese market and Google withdrew from mainland China, we built some business sections in Chinese market.”

He indicated that each subsidiary of Alphabet has autonomous rights to design where to it would start its business. Google did not offer service in mainland China right now, but it delivers selling ads to Chinese enterprises.

Wall Street Journal reported last month that Google was working with the related Chinese departments, considering to launch Android app stores in mainland China.

Google withdrew Chinese mainland market in 2010, transferring its Search service to Hong Kong. Brin managed some Google operational business at that time. Brin quit the optional business in recent years. After the company finished its reorganization, it appointed Sundar Pichai as Google’s CEO. Pichai is practical and he has great interest in starting business in China mainland.

Google was regrouped as Alphabet holding company this August. After the company reorganization, Search, YouTube, and Android were regrouped as new Google. Nest , Fiber, life science, self-driving and drone business are split from its prime operating business.

It will be able to establish business with more telecom operators for Project Loon events after the company has been regrouped. China is one of the countries has interest in expanding its Internet overage by Project Loon.

Mesosphere denied Microsoft’s acquisition because low price

According to the news from The Information, Microsoft plans to take over Mesosphere at $150 million, but Mesosphere denied its offer.

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There were rumors concerned Microsoft would take over Mesosphere since this summer. It is said that Microsoft has great interest in its high efficient technology of management of data center.

Outwardly, the reason that Mesosphere denied Microsoft’s offer was Mesosphere asked a price of $200 million, while Microsoft offered at $150 million.

Even though they did not come to an acquisition deal, their technical cooperation will continue. They will integrate DCOS products of Mesosphere data center to Microsoft’s Azure.

DCOS is enterprise edition that offers free open resource for Mesos. This edition is applied by developers.

Mesosphere’s founder, Ben Hindman created the Mesos system when he studied in UC Berkeley. Mesos was once introduced to Twitter by Ben Hindman and its other co founders. Then Florian Leibert introduced it to Airbnb.

Mesosphere’s growth is contributed to the development software containers. Software containers is a popular soft of technology welcome by developers. It could help developers to edit their programs. Once the programs are written, they will be run in any server architecture.

The most valuable software containers is made by Docker, valuing at $ 1 billion. But Mesosphere’s product can manage and repair those large-scale software containers. Their products are compatible with Mircosoft’s need.

Until now, Mesosphere finished its third round financing at $ 49 million. Its investors include Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Harowitz, Data Collective and other important ventures. The Information also revealed that Mesosphere is working on another financing. However, Microsoft and Mesosphere did not response to the above news yet.

Wal-mart will deliver goods with drones to compete with Amazon

Using drones to deliver goods is a common topic nowadays.Amazon has been testing delivering goods with drones. According to the latest news, Wal-mart will be also on trail to use drones to deliver goods from the supermarket to consumers’ parking lots or nearby residents.

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Wal-mart announced on Monday that it had already submitted the application of using commercial drones to US FAA.

The US government banned the application of commercial drones based on its law. Any one who wants to use commercial drones needs to submit the application to US FAA. Then the US FAA allows them to apply the drones as the exceptional cases.

Wal-mart plans to use commercial drones to monitor its supermarket buildings and warehouses besides delivering goods.

Dan Toporek, the spokesman of Wal-mart claimed on Monday that the company wished to build a en efficient supply chain by the application of commercial drones. Wal-mart will enhance the drones delivery system with outdoor tests and find out the convenient delivery service for consumers.

He implied that the company is ready for the test. Once the government approved their application, the company will be able to begin the outdoor tests.

US FAA has approved 2,020 events for application of commercial drones, including aerial photography, gas pipeline monitoring and agricultural monitoring.

It will enhance consumers’ satisfaction level if using the drones to deliver goods. But there were reports concerned accidents caused by drones. It may not be easy to have this plan realized.

Amazon tested with Tribune Publishing to deliver parcels

It is reported that Amazon worked on a short-lived test this fall, delivering parcels with Tribune Publishing’s newspaper trucks on the way.

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You might be able to receive your Amazon parcels in the morning besides coffee, doughnut and newspaper in the future.

According to the confirmed resource, Amazon worked with Chicago’s Tribune Publishing to do this test. The test lasted for one to two weeks and Amazon used the newspaper trucks of Tribune Publishing to send its parcels on the way.

Tribune Publishing is the publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. The taxation issues in related to newspaper deliverers stopped Tribune Publishing to go on delivering parcels for Amazon. In Chicago, the drivers of Tribune Publishing also deliver other publications besides the Chicago Tribune.

Amazon has plans to work with other publishers to test the similar business. Even though fewer people subscribe newspapers in the recent years, the newspaper delivery trucks drive across every corners in the city. It is convenient to deliver Amazon parcels for users.

In last year, Amazon was in attempt to send parcels with taxi and Uber taxi. Recently, it launched another delivery mean named Flex to deliver parcels by using the private cars of contract workers.

If those measures work, they will help Amazon to reduce the delivery expense. The freight of its first half year for Amazon is $4.6 billion, increasing by 28% compared with the same time in last year.

There are intense competitions between one-day delivery and one-hour delivery. For example, Uber and Deliv work with retailers to realize rush delivery.

It is unclear how Amazon operate such kind of delivery service, for instance, how the delivery men collect parcels.