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US Drone owners may get fine for flying near fire scenes and obstructing helicopters

It happened in the US that the Helicopters dropping water on a forest fire were grounded for 15 to 20 minutes due to drones.

There were five drones found possibly videoing the wildfire when the firefighters were handling with a wildfire in San Bernadino county over the weekend.

san-bernardino-fireBecause of the helicopters could not fly safety to the fire scenes to drop water to put out the fire as the drones obstructing, the US Forest Service reported a warming concerning flying drones over fires.

If the drones hit the helicopters, it may cause the aircraft damage or human injuries, or even worse, cause helicopters to crash in the air.

During the interview of CNN: “the San Bernadino fire department made blames on the drone owners. The drones caused great loss on this issue. The helicopters can lead to another water drop cycle with 15 to 20 minutes. If so, it could offer a safer environment to put out the wildfire, and better protect the citizens from threatening their lives in the fire.”

FAA carries out the temporary fight restrictions over disaster areas. If drones are found in those areas during the accidents, the drone owners will be at a risk of $25,000 fine. There is not confirmed news that government will investigate the drones found in San Bernadino.

The fire damaged more than 4.250 acres of forest and engulfed Interstate 15 that links to Los Angles and Las Vegas.

An Interstate 15 incident report implied that the incident commanders have to make way to drones when they were into a fire area. The air operations and ground aircraft could not work until the drones leave from this area.

Marshall is to step into smartphone business with the loudest mobile phone we’ve ever met

Marshall is famous for its guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets and headphones. Recently, Marshall is going to enlarge its business by entering into smartphone business.

This android device is named the London and its mainly feature is the loudness of sound. The device is designed with two front-facing speakers and a hifi-grade sound card.

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Marshall implied that this smartphone will be the loudest mobile phone we have ever met. With this smartphone, you don’t need headphones to listen to music.

In addition to this feature, it also has two stereo jacks with individual volume controls. It operates like its ” M-Button”feature on the top of the smartphone that allows users one-click access to their tunes. It is convenient to use.

Konrad Bergstrom, the owners of Marshall said their goal for products is always aiming at better and bigger ones.

He added: “as there was no smartphone on the market for music on the main stage, they create one to give customers the best experience.”

“There is potential market for such device by surveying on the market. There are demands for music device. And they promise Marshall London will be a new an excellent device that you have never met for enjoying music.”

Its other features include a global equalizer to set a universal sound profile for the phone, and it allows the users to record music, reduce the noise and it also has an app to pre-installed DJ.

Some details for this device: the device has a 4.7 display, 2GB of memory, 16GB of storage, a micorSD card, a removable 2500mAh battery, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and 2-megapixel selfie shooter.

Marshall London is said to be delivered to 22 countries between August and mid-September. The smartphone comes with a pair of Monitor headphones. If you are interested in this device, please pay close attention to its release.

Apple updates iPod touch with advanced camera and the iPhone’s processor

Apple made another big success by launching a new line of iPods. The new iPod is updated the iPod touch with improved cameras and a faster processor.Apple Watch maker supports with new nano and iPod shuffle colors to long-overlooked iPod line.

The update iPod with touchscreen-bragging makes it closer to the iPhone siblings, the new version of iPod touch comes with the same A8 processor as iPhone 6 does.

This new feature allows a graphic performance 10 times faster than its previous version that the iPod-based gaming could play better.

The iPhone’s M8 that enables detailed fitness and activity feedback can be seen in the new iPod, coming with an 8-megapixed primary iSight camera and a backup FaceTime HD camera in the front.

Users can buy the new iPod touch at the moment. And they can choose the storage from three options, 16GB, 32 GB,64GB.

Users can access the world music to Apple Music, the App Store, and iOS and the world’s most advanced mobile operating system on iPod. And it offers at reasonable price.

Users can also experience next-level gameplay, take beautiful photos and enjoy favorite music and shows on iPod with the A8 chip and the 8 megapixed iSight camera.

It revealed there are more colors of iPod offered this week. Users can get grey, silver,gold, pink and blue ones.111111jpg

Nokia plans to get smartphone business back through brand-licensing

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Lately, Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri expressed the company’s great willingness to get back into smartphone business again in 2016.

The Finnish Firm confirmed its plans by official announcement to avoid any confusion by the public, however, the company management group also admits that it is a complicated process to get its smartphone business back.

The previous news reported that Nokia only intends to get back its smartphone sector through brand-licensing. In this situation, the company or its partnership will be responsible for all of the producing, sales, marketing and tech support for the products.

The company added: ” if the company could find a high-reputation partner who can in charge of those responsibilities, the company give its design ideas and technology support like they did with the Nokia N1 Android tablet.”

In April 2014, Nokia sold its Devices and Services business to Microsoft company. Thus, it is no longer has manufacturing, marketing and channel distribution capabilities to sell smartphone.

Nokia company indicated in a statement that they will find the right partner who has the ability to carry out the related business process and team up with the company to launch great product.

As the company made agreement with Microsoft, its soonest plan could happen will be Q4 2016. So Nokia won’t have smartphone launched before Q4 2016.

Man was arrested as he charged phone on London overground train

News reported that a man was arrested due to he charge his phone on the London overground train. In the near future, the people live in Britain need to think twice before they charge phones on the London overground train. If so, you are in a risk being arrested.

A man charged his phone on the overground train and he was accused of “abstracting electricity “on a train from Wick to Camden Road on July 10.

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His name is Robin Lee. The community support office caught him when charging his phone and he was arrested on the platform after he got off the train.

He told the London Evening Standard that the office said he was abstracting electricity. The office was very aggressive and said it was crime doing that.

When they got off the train, there were four police officers waiting on the platform. Then the community support officer called them and claim Robin Lee has been abstracting electricity and asked for them arresting him.

Then Robin Lee was taken into custody into the station as he tried to push past the officers on the platform. He was taken to the British Transport Police HQ. He claimed that the officers should not have him arrested. The reason was ridiculous.

A British Transport Police spokesperson claimed that Lee was arrested by unacceptable behavior and he has been reported for this offence.

Even though charging phone on an Overground train could not be an arrestable offence, the public should note that the plug points on the London Transportation are for ” cleaner use not for public use”.

Office 2016 goes to Microsoft’s Office 365 subscribers on Mac

A new version of Office for Mac comes to 365 Office subscribers after five years’ hard working.

Office 365 subscribers can run the Office 2016 version currently, and this new version introduces a much-needed refresh to Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneNote coming with full Retina display support.

In terms of Word for Mac, it has received a novelist Design tab to carry out excellent layouts, colors and fonts with ease. With this design tab, it also allows another user the ability to work on teh same document at the same time.

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Going to Excel for Mac, it will recommend the best charts that suit for your data and feature an improved formula builder.

As for Powerpoint, it comes with an improved Presenter View and a new animation pane features in which the users can design and adjust the animations well.

A push mail support is made for Outlook that updates your inbox always, and OneNote is first application on Mac.

Microsoft has promised to provide regular updates than before, so users can get the latest features sooner than they did in the past.

The Office 365 subscribers can use Office 2016 from July 9. But it is only available for those regular subscribers. The one-time subscription users can not apply Office 2016 until September.

Tidal draws lessons from Apple music cuts half prices for “Family Plan” steaming subscriptions

Tidal copies the business pattern of Apple’s book by offering special discount with “Family Plan” for multi-user households.

It is trying to attract your attention from Apple Music vs Spotify battle waging at the head of the music streaming space. And the Tidal service is going to provide you additional half-price accounts when you register.

There are two options of tiers it offers, with a £9.99 per month “Premium” option and a £19.99 per month. The later comes with hi-rest “HiFi” deal that the 50 percent discounts could amount to significant savings.

The Apple Music can offer up to six users access for a single blanket at the price of £14.99, while Tidal runs with a different pattern. Its users have to pay out for every additional user they add to their account that is similar to Spotify. The users of Tidal music will be paid full-price fees when they add accounts to the maximum.

According to its official company spokesperson, this offer is mainly for the existing users to extend value to their family members.

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Apple Watch swimming app has good quality for waterproof

The Apple Watch comes with a lot of functions. However, it is not a wearable that you could take to the swimming pool from its functions as we knew. So you may need a specific app for your swimming application.

From the report, you are informed that the developers in the UK have invented an Apple Watch app which is made to transform the high-end wearable into your go-to swim tracker. It could detect the users’ activity under the water.

The app is impressive but not imitatively. There is also video made by the developers introducing how to use the app and showing us some surprising water resistance on the Apple Watch’s part in the process..

When you move with your swimming actions, the app applies the Apple Watch’s integrated heart rate sensor to check your health condition with showing off the calories burn and general fitness levels.

The developers have confirmed that they will offer tutorial videos with the app for the users. And there are also suggestions for your swimming bases on the devices Haptic feedback engine.
If you are interested, you could also search for the video for World’s first Apple Watch Swimming App on the internet for your reference.waterproof

Panasonic plans to expand market on Home security in the UK

Panasonic has been working hard to provide appliances from televisions to audio systems and cameras to the public for years, and the company has plans to produce securing system to protect home safe in the UK.

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On July 6, Panasonic released its Smart Home system in UK. This system provides camera,sensors, plugs, motion detectors and sirens to protect your properties safe.

All its smart devices are connected to the firm’s Home Hub. The users can access those devices remotely. As for the cameras, they provide two-way communication according to the tech support.

Coming to a window sensor, the users can check the windows whether they are closed or not with the sensor. The motion detector is set to inform the owners by lighting or receiving an alert when their front door is opened.

The Home Safety Starter is including the window sensor, motion detector and a siren. While the biggest of the three, the Home Monitoring and Control Kit comes with an indoor camera, two window sensors and a smart plug.

Panasonic Smart Home sales and marketing manager, Justin Burnell said they designed the Smart Home System to meet the public’s need. The people may need to check their windows whether closed or not for several times each day. And they worry about the safety of their young children at home alone.

The users can check the home safety problems quicker and easier by monitoring Panasonic Smart Home System on smartphone or tablet. They can be protected better with this system and have fewer worries about home properties.

It is reported that people can buy Panasonic Home Smart System on Currys and Panasonic’s eShop on July 17 in the UK.

Sky plans to launch a video content app for children

 

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With the popularity of high technology, it is very common that more children have access to internet than in the past. At present, Sky is aiming to keep younger users for safe entertainments on its devices.

The broadcasting giant targets its users aged between four and nine for kids of its new launching app. And its content is mainly from the subjects of The Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon.

The parents can choose the options for their children to watch in the help of the feature of “an intuitive and playful experience” provided by the app. The app allows the parents to set up the usage limit for bedtime and the ability to review what they have been watching.

The makers of the new app with Sky are the ones who made the Monument Valley. They are expected to have the app completed by early 2016.

Sky’s chief marketing and digital officer Stephen van Rooyen said they hope the kids can have access to their favorite shows whenever or whatever device they are on hand. What is more important that the parents know its app is creative, engaging and safe for their children.

He added, Sky has always paid much attention to bring fun for the family and that is why they are hoping to launch the new app for youngest member of the household.