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Apple Watch comes to the market within two weeks

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From the news announced by Apple that that the customers can buy Apple Watch from its brick and mortar retail stores within two weeks.

The customers can only buy the wearable products by booking a try-on appointment before completing the orders online. This situation is going to change. The customers don’t need to wait long time for using the Apple Watch then.

There is previously news about Apple Watch: the novel smartwatch for iPhones in search of a killer app

From Apple’s announcement, it indicates that the store availability will be also released in Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan on June 26.

The Apple company also explains when they will clear the backlog of orders, and it promises that the Apple Watch will be shipped to anyone who ordered in May within two weeks.

But the Apple Watch models of 42mm Space Black Stainless Steel with Space Black Link Bracelet are out of stocks.

Jeff Williams, the Apple’s senior vice president of Operation, stating that their sales of Apple Watches is beyond their expectations in every way. They are excited as Apple Watches are introduced to more customers around the world. They are making improvements in terms of dealing with backlog of Apple Watch orders, and they appreciate their customers for their patience.

They have the pre-orders for the Apple Watch dated on April 10 before they have the official announcement of the Apple Watch on April 24.

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.

eBook piracy websites will be on the UK High Court’s block list

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The High Court has sent an order to the Publishers Association forcing the Britain’s leading service providers to ban those seven sites in which help the users find the authorized copies of digital books.

Those affected websites are AvaxHome, Bookfi, Bookre, Freebookspot, Freshwrap, and Libgen. All of them are based overseas.

The Publisher Association chief executive Richard Mollet claimed in a statement that one third of publishers make much profit from digital sales, unfortunately this rise in digital market was attributed to online violations. The Publisher Association needs to be able to protect the author’s right from those pirate activities. The writers worked hard to create new works and they need to be paid. The publishers needs innovations and vestments in new talent and material.

The Publisher Association states that over 80% of the works on the offending websites violates the copyright laws. The organization is going to put pressure on Google to stop the services.

The list of website is also including BT, Virgin Media, Sky, Talk Talk and EE. Those websites need to be rectified in accordance with the ruling by June 9.

Apple’s upcoming web TV service which encounters barrier because of the local programming ambitions

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Apple’s aim is always high, as we all know. So there is a no surprise to know its plans for its new web TV service might be postponed because it looks for local support.

The media is good for product’s popularity, it give the platform to make its product to be known by more potential clients. It is apparently that Apply wants programming from local broadcast stations throughout the US, according to Re/Code.

It will take a long process to have the web tv popularized even with so many local stations affiliates. There are also marketing strategies involved.

You can learn that from the existing web tv, for example, Sling TV and even the Watch ABC app that the local programming is limited to certain cities because of the complexity of local cultural protection.

So Apply’s offering will not be able to launched until early fall- a date has been speculated, but there are no evidences it would be announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8.

It reported before that Apple has convinced 25 channels to join the platform which are including ABC, CBS and Fox.

NBC, USA AND Bravo networks may not be in its list as the falling out with Comcast over the X1 web-enable step-top box.

Firefox will suggest advertiser sites to user through scanning his browser history

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Firefox browser, Mozilla is producing a new platform in order to sell more advertising space in a visitor’s tab page. This new platform is call “suggested Tiles”, specifically for advertisers. It is similar to Google that use your web search history to put relative ads within Google Adsence placements, and Mozilla will scan your visited sites following Firefox to advice an advertiser site to visit and display it on the new page.

We learned from Mozilla’s Advancing Content Blog that there are user protections built into the new feature. The visitors can skip the Suggested Tiles function by ticking off a check box within the browser’s settings. he visitors can choose a blank page to avoid the site’s suggestions when they open up a new tab within Firefox.

Even a visitor accept the Suggested Tiles feature, his personal data will be in strictly confidential as it is only corrected by the data. The advertisers won’t have access to get his data. Visitor’s data won’t be tracked or used through his URL’s history on Mozilla. Mozilla will get final approval over all sits for entering into Suggested Tiles program and it needs to visit at least five similar sites before it offers up a related suggestion thought the feature.

To imagine that , if a visitor browsers recipe sites, foodie blogs or other culinary sites he may see advertisements for The Food Network provided by the Suggested Tiles section of a new tab page. There will be a “Suggested “tag on the tile of Mozilla to distinguish it from the others.

In terms of the launch of Suggested Tiles within Firefox, Mozilla is going to produce the new feature bases on the Beta version of browser. The advanced version of current version of Firefox will be on the market soon in the summer.

Spotify can be set with videos, podcasts and automated playlists while listening music

spotifySpotify is creating a series of new features which traditional music content can’t not compete with.

It is qualified with both adding video and automated playlists build in favor of your tastes and daily activity to itsoffering.

Daniel Ek addressed at a conference in New York: “Spotify Now’s start page provides music reference to the time of day and enjoys music what users like.”

Ek pointed out the concept of music schools is changing. People don’t search music according to the school of music but they look at the music stories based on the events and activities.

The positive energy should be deliver through music. We canexpress who we are, how we are feeling and what we are doing during our daily life.

The Spotify will encourage you to integrate music into yourdaily life which leads you a new and natural view of music.

There is also a new Spotify Running feature reported to thepublic, this feature comes with the same beats-per-minute when the user’s running pace are set.

Spotify is cooperated with many big names, like ESPN, the BBC, ABC and Comedy Central with video content support so that it could be built into playlists with live radio and podcasts.

From May 20, the new version of Spotify is first available to iPhone users in UK, US, Germany and Sweden. It will be soon available to other regions as well. However, the publisher didn’t address that whether the new features will be limited to Premium account holders or not.

Light Phone comes with simpler function

 

2The people nowadays spend much time in chatting or browsingon Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp and many other mobile apps, while people don’t have much useful done. There is good news that a new phone is on sale in which could help us get free of those modern trappings.

The Light Phone is setup with a Kickstarter-backed handset which avoids the smart features that tries to keep things as simple as they could.

With this Light Phone can sent text message on the device while it is limited to making phone calls. The phone has a rudimentary dot matrix LED display lighted up while making phone calls.

The Light Phone is capable of connected with a smartphone, the calls can be forwarded by a device visa a companion app,it works independently as there is a SIM card slot.

Its highlighted feature is designed to be light and pocketable, the Light Phone comes with a 3D printed shell which issmaller than a credit card.

The creator Joe Jollier and Kaiwai Tang are ambitious to convince the people to ditch their smartphone which considering as their goal. Actually, the Light Phone is just an emergency backup for using while the people on holiday or on a camping trip.

The customers can buy a Light Phone at $100 due to a project’s Kickstarter Campaign. This campaign will be finished ina few weeks.

 

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 could be on sale as early as July

samsungSamsung is always quick producer. The customers don’t needto wait for long time when the new series are about to launched. Its smartphones and newest Galaxy Note will be on themarket soon.

The IFA Tradeshow will be held in Berlin in September. And the South Korean firm attended this tradeshow as launch stage to introduce its latest Note device to the public.

However, there were sources indicating the Galaxy Note 5 could be addressed as soon as July this summer time which is not confirmed yet.

It is said that Samsung is aiming to finish its preparing work to its prototype by mid-June, but the the latest prototype and final specifications seemed to be known by telecom companies.

The handset is said to be developed and run quicker than weexpected, and the Samsung company wants to put Galaxy Note 5on the market early so that they could make a successful sales over Apple.

There is not much information concerning the upcoming phablet. There is rumor claimed that it is supported by Samsung Pay and it comes an Exynos chip, a 5.89-inch screen and a 4100mAh battery.

Details come from the previous reports stated that there isa curved display could be on board and it is compatible by Galaxy S6 Edge.