Uber has great ambitious to expand its business around the country as it set branches for taxi service in the Scottish cities.

It has recruited drivers in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Uber, the app-based cab firm has taken the operations into effect in Glasgow from 4 pm on October 16.

Max Lines, head of Uber Glasgow said there were excited for the expansion of taxi service in Glasgow. It was the first city to operate Uber business in Scotland and the biggest UK launch till now.

The company also has plan to set branch in Edinburgh in the near future. However, the launch date in Edinburgh is not confirmed yet as there are still a great of preparations need to be done. It will be great if Uber firm has it realized in the next two months.

Uber will expand its taxi service in many Scottish cities in a year, its capital is included, reported The Scotsman.

Uber firm was involved in a long-running dispute with License Taxi Drivers Associations in England. It used the smartphone app to determine fares which is equal to the ones that use a taxi metre. Such app is banned in private cars.

The expansion of taxi service for Uber will bring competition among Glasgow cabbies. There might be agreements made among them.

The debates concern Android app and iOS app has lasted for a long time. According to the the figures from App Annie, indicating the download volume of Android is in the leading position, but iOS has much advantage concerns its revenue.

The downloads for Android app increased from 85% in the second season to 90% in the third season in India and Southeast markets. But the low-end phones did not make much contribution to Android app’s revenue. While the iOS app’s revenue increased from 70% in the second season to 80% in the third season. Please see the attached for reference.

Apparently, China becomes the most important market for iOS app. At present, the downloads in China has run ahead of American downloads. Therefore, the iOS app’s revenue in China is increased due to this factor.

The most popular iOS application classes in America come as social network application, photos&video application, tool and gaming application( according to time-based application).

To developers, they might be happier to launch apps for iOS platform the application revenue comes better and working condition is relatively healthier.

The iOS app seems hard to run ahead of Android’s downloads due to the well-know reasons. More measures and efforts need to be do to compete with its rival.

To improve the workplace environment for its employees, Amazon has carried out a new event, collecting feedback from employees each day, reports The Bloomberg.

The worse working treatment among Amazon’s storage center employees has been criticized. It surprises the public much when New York Times reported that its white collor employees also face worse working environment.

For instance, Amazon made compulsory redundancies policy, encouraging the employees restrain each other. However, Amazon firm and its CEO Jeff Bezos both denied this report.

Fortunately, Amazon seems taking measures to improve its employees’ workplace condition, concerning what aspects would make bad influences to its workplace condition. Amazon is enlarging the application scale of an inner system named Amazon Connections in order to gain feedback from each departments, reports The Bloomberg. It reported that this system ask employees questions each day to collect the feedback concerns employees’ job satisfaction, leadership competencies and training opportunities.

Not all of the feedback come up with anonymity. The human resources team will work on analzying the feedback so that they could learn more about the sources of feedback. But the management group only access to the reports that have been anonymous processed.

It is reported that Amazon Connections was built on the basis of its some system that collecting feedback from blue collor employees last year. It aims to improve Amazon’s workplace condition and enhance employees’ satisfaction.

Engadget reported on Friday that US The Wall Street Journal‘s backstage system suffered hacker attack, leading to a great many of information of subscribers and readers have been stolen.

It was not a good news to those existing readers of The Wall Street Journal.

William Lewis, the CEO of The Dow Jones &Company claimed that the backstage systems including Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal have been attacked by hackers, resulting in the reveal of readers’ data earlier this week.

Lewis claimed that they have found the evidence of hacker attack.

It reported that the purpose of this hacker attack is to gain the specific details of subscribers of The Wall Street Journal, such as full name, address, email address and other private details.

At the same time, Lewis indicated that about 3,500 subscribers’ credit card details have high risk to be stolen. However, they did not find out the prove to confirm this doubt.

Dow Jones & Company will send written notice to those subscribers whose have been stolen in this issue. In another word, if those subscribers do not receive a written notice from this company suggest their personal details are not being stolen.

Concerning to the hacker profile, Dow Jones & Company has not figure out yet.

In the past year, a great many of famous companies and News Media companies suffered attacks from hackers. Many of their customers’ credit card details have been leaked.

New York Times‘ Twitter account was being attacked early this year, and the hacker posted the news that US and Chinese Navy made war. United Press‘s Twitter account was being attacked as well.

Apple’s new OS X update comes to the public.

Users can download the OS X EI Capitan for free from September 30. The update version had been on a public beta for two months and the company promised that performance improvements and refinements have been made.

Craig Federighi claims that EI Capitan modifies the Mac experience and enhances performance in some ways. A great difference has been made in comparison to its predecessors. He continued that the company has received great positive feedback from the beta.

It reports that EI Capitan made improvements to Spotlight, for instance, it updated the natural language search and adjust the resize-able box to move around the screen.

Safari updated a Pinned Sites feature and improved the ability to reduce audio in browser tabs. Regarding the redesigned Mail app, it allows users to delete messages with a light swipe in iOS.

There are also improvements made by Windows management. It enables users to auto-arrange windows by pulling them to one side and go full screen by dragging them to the top.

The system updates a new Notes app that allows the users to drag photos and files into. The new Notes app syncs with iCloud. What is more , it enhanced improvements to Photos, checklist and a new Attachments Browser.

Mac runs Metal with OS X EI Capitan that allows the software developers to avail of a range of new effects, coming to benefit Mac gaming.

Google has updated its virtual assistant Google Now. The modified version of Google Now on iOS and Android makes it a better listener when operating.

Google Now’s new neural network acoustic models allow the system to catch your voice under a noisy environment. This feature helps to enhance the competitiveness with Siri. With the new acoustic models, it will be very userful when you are in the public environment.

Google has updated its service in order to make voice search faster and more accurate. It is expected to get more relevant results to guide users’ way to reach the destination quicker.

The update is releasing to the Google Now apps for iOS and Android system. It is said that it will be also updated to the dictation mode on the Google operating system.

Google Now technical teach stated in a blog post that the new acoustic models are currently applied for voice searches and commands in the Google app on the basis of dictation on Android devices.

The Google Now update requires lower computational resources. Other features come as the new model are more accurate, robust to noise and it responds to voice earch queries quicker. To those who use Google Now often, why not have a try to experience the update one?

Apple Watch’s features had bee considered as smartwatch, notification provider and fitness tracker. A new feature of lifesaver has been listed recently as the Apple Watch helped to save an American teen’s life.

Paul Houle comes from Massachusetts and he suffered chest and back pain after a football training session. Then he used the Apple Watch to keep tracking on his heart rate.

When the Apple Watch statistics showed his vital signs reached at an alarmingly high 145bpm for two hours after the football session, he went to the hospital. It turned out he was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis which was triggered by exercise that can cause muscles to deteriorate and seep proteins.

Being in an interview from CBS San Francisco, Paul Houle told the reporter that he was dehydrated and his muscles started to break down and release a protein into his blood stream which led to his heart, liver and kidneys all to shut down.

Pual Houle spoke highly of Apple Watch’s life-saving capabilities during the interview.  Apple CEO Time Cook made a personal call to Paul shortly when he heard about his story.

In addition to this, Tim Cook promised  to give Paul Houle a new iPhone 6S as well as an offer of a summer internship with Cupertino-based company.

According to Apple’s schedule, it will roll out iPhone 6S to the public on September 25. The devices will be able in stores then. Since it released iOS 9 last Wednesday, many of its fans are eager to update their existing devices to iOS 9.

Apple indicates that iOS 9 has been run on more than 50% of all its compatible devices, attributing to iOS 9 becomes its most-downloaded operating system.

Apple marketing chief Philip Schiller addressed that the feedback from the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus went positive. They look forward to introducing they most advanced iPhones ever into the public starting this Friday.

iOS 9 has make a good start. It was downloaded by more users in such a short time than its any other software release in Apple’s history.

iPhone 6S will be available at retail stores at 8am on September 25. Apple firm suggests its customers should arrive the retail stores early so that they don’t have to wait in a long queue to experience the new devices.

The Apple fans may experience the long queues at Apple Stores on iPhone launch day. Some of then even camped outside its stores the night before. Can you image that?

You will also be able to purchase the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus through authorized Apple resellers and EE, O2, Three, Virgin, Vodafone, and other proved carriers.

Ultimate Ears unveiled its flagship Bluetooth speaker line- UE Boom 2, featuring louder, rangier and more waterproof than its original original Boom.

The update was made based on the success of the original Boom. It packs new gesture control options and allows you to tap the speaker to play and pause or double tap to skip tracks. The UE Boom 2 is useful when you can not access your phone.

UE Boom 2 looks similar to its predecessor,and it is designed with a new acoustic skin. The update even plays nice sound with the wet stuff with carelessness.

It makes not much effect to the functioning of UE Boom 2 if it submerged in up to one meter of water under 30 minutes, owing to the certification of IPX 7 levels inside and out. Its beneath the skin where the real changes are hidden away.

It applies a new speaker array that allows the UE Boom 2 is 25% louder than the original Boom. It plays 360-degree sounds. The company also upgraded its wireless range to twice as much, allowing connection arocss 30 meters.

Users can put the UE Boom 2 into a bike’s bottle holder or to a tripod. The battery life for the speaker can last for 15 hours on a single charge and play excellent sounds when it is connected to additional speakers.

The UE Boom 2 supports the iOS and Android-friendly app. It plays the sound as double volume when you set it as an alarm.

It offers several colors for options and it will be available at the retailers’ stores later this month at reasonable price.