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Friday, April 3, 2015
Sony sold 10 7 million smartphones last quarter
The Xperia line, however, moved 10.7 million smartphones during the quarter, up from 10 million units the quarter before. The Average Selling Price (ASP) of Xperia smartphones also went up, which along with favorable exchange rates resulted in 44.8% increase in sales for the division to $4.396 billion, but a net loss of $120 million, including $78 million impairment charges for the PC business.
The imaging business isnt doing too hot and sales increased just 6% year on year to $1.886 billion, but the division posted an operating profit of $115 million compared to a loss the same quarter in 2012.
LCD TV sales bounced back, which along with reduced cost pushed Home Entertainment & Sound to 24.8% bigger revenue of $3.848 billion and $61 million operating income.
The consolidated revenue for Sony (including a strong Financial Services division) was $22.979 billion (up 23.9% year on year) and the operating income stood at $860 million.
Download OS X 10 10 2 Yosemite Beta 4 14C94b Combo Delta DMG File Through Direct Links
Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Beta 4 (Build: 14c94b) has been seeded and released by Apple to OS X designers and non-engineers (general clients) for upgradation / updation/ installation. The Direct Download Links of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Beta 4 (14C94b) Delta / Combo Update .DMG Files are accessible.
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OS X 10.10.2 Beta 4 Features:
The official changelog and release notes of the fourth beta version of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (Build: 14C94b) have brought several functionality changes such as; Voice-Over, Bug Fixes, Mail and Wi-Fi Improvements.
How to Install OS X 10.10.2 Beta 4 Update Manually?
OS X users can receive the latest OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Beta 4 (14C94b) Update officially, just head-over to Mac App Store >> Software Update option.
Apple Mac OS X developers can visit OS X Dev Center website for official OS X10.10.2 Beta 4 Downloads.
OS X non-developers (general public) and official subscribers of OS X Public Beta Seed Program can visit Apple OS X Beta Seed Program website to download,install and activate OS X 10.10.2 Beta 4 via iTunes without Apple UDID and developer account for FREE.
Apple Mac OS X developers can visit OS X Dev Center website for official OS X10.10.2 Beta 4 Downloads.
OS X non-developers (general public) and official subscribers of OS X Public Beta Seed Program can visit Apple OS X Beta Seed Program website to download,install and activate OS X 10.10.2 Beta 4 via iTunes without Apple UDID and developer account for FREE.
Download OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Beta 4 Combo .DMG / .PKG File (Build: 14C94b)
Top 10 Best Trending Apps for iPhone of 2014
If you own an iPhone and seeking for free apps, then here is the list of best 10 iPhone apps that will guide you towards new feelings. These 10 apps listed in our blog have displayed an outstanding performance across the world and they are completely "FREE".
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express provides you the freedom of editing any photograph in a small mobile space. It is a free photo editing app for iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad. It is a perfect application for simple edits to your photographs on your iPhone.
Download from iTunes
Dashlane
Dashlane is password manager and a digital wallet back-up app. When you purchase anything online, it automatically saves your information and keeps them encrypted unless you unlock your app. The apps basic functionalities are free, but to get more functionalities, you need to upgrade it to premium account.
Download from iTunes
Flipboard is your own personal magazine. It is the best app to get the news on-board that you like. Amazing news from around the world from several news magazine and turns your magazine pages into digital pages.
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IMDB
IMDB is one of the best and handiest movie reference website on the planet. If you want to know the name of a movie by a particular actor or actress, then IMDB is your first choice, as it never fails when it comes to movies and TV series.
Download from iTunes
Kayak
Currently Kayak is among the best iPhone app for traveling information and and bookings. Kayak provides every detailed information for flight, hotel and car reservations. Using this app, you can get the best deals on airfare and other treveling arrangements.
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Onavo Extend
Onavo Extend is a free app that compresses your iPhones data automatically to reduce the usage of it on your iPhone. It save your limit, when you are about to extend it. Its very helpful for those traveling a lot, as in that situation it limits your data usage.
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Smartr Contacts
Smartr Contacts provide a great deal of search functionality including iPhone contacts, Facebook friends, Linkedin contacts and Gmail. The interface is user-friendly, and its designed more like a search app rather than browsing.
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WebMD
WebMD is a medical app, but it is helpful in more than just diagnostic. As you input the symptoms that are causing you problems, it will show whats the ailment. Its the one medical free app that you must have in your iPhone.
Download from iTunes
Cloze
If you have a big friend circle on social sites, then Cloze is the app for you as it collects data such as tweets, emails, facebook posts from different social sites and prioritizes them on your list whom are more relevant to you.
Download from iTunes
Converter Plus
This is not just a simple calculator app, but it is an all-in-one app providing nearly all types of conversions including currency conversions, loan-interest rates, measurements for temperature and more.
Download from iTunes
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
XiaoMi 10 million units sold for the Mi 2 Series
XiaoMi has reached the 10 million units milestone with its Mi 2 series (Mi 2, Mi 2S and Mi 2A) in 11 months. Last year, they sold "only" 7.19 million smartphones in total.
The Chinese company should exceed its 20 million prediction. There have been more than 7.5 million HongMi pre-orders and the Mi 3 is launching this fall before the end of the year.
Everything looking good for Lei Jun, CEO of XiaoMi.
Source : Lei Juns weibo account
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
What on Earth Is Minecraft 10 Things to Know About Microsofts Billion Dollar Acquisition
With over 54 million copies sold, Minecraft represents the biggest niche audience since gaming itself. News that Microsoft has acquired Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion should have gotten your attention, so lets take a look at what Minecraft is. The game itself was released nearly five years ago, so this isnt an in-depth explanation - just a quick guide to get non-gamers up to date with what the hype is about.
1. Minecraft is a video game
This should be obvious, but Minecraft is a video game that was first released in an "alpha" state in 2009. You might be familiar with the concept of a beta, where software is released but continues to be developed to remove bugs. An alpha is what comes before the beta - where youre not just testing for bugs but still developing the key features, and creating art, sound and other assets in case of video games.
Minecraft was originally released as a PC game, but over the years as its popularity grew, it was ported to more platforms. Today, you can get Minecraft for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.
2. Minecraft isnt really a video game
While Minecraft has many game-like elements, its really much more like digital Lego. The game itself doesnt really have a goal - you can explore the world, and build what you want. In Survival mode - which is the closest Minecraft gets to a game, you have a health bar which can be depleted by attacks from monsters, starvation, suffocation and more events.
You can make armour and weapons, and build defences, breed animals and more. Then theres Creative mode, where you have access to most of the resources through a menu, and you can fly around the world. Youre free to build large projects, and just have fun.
3. Minecraft has sold over 54 million copies
Whether you think that Minecraft is a game or not, theres no denying that it is a success. Taking into account all platforms, Minecraft has sold over 54 million copies. You can play Minecraft by yourself and create things on your own, and if you want, you can connect to this huge community in multiplayer worlds, where you can work together to build things.
4. It looks like first-person Lego
Minecraft has a unique visual style that has inspired quite a few imitators by now. Everything is made up of blocks - including your character, and even the water looks blocky. This is a deliberate stylistic choice, although some players use mods to change the way Minecraft looks. Funnily enough, while Minecraft has been described as digital Lego at least partly for this reason, there are now official Lego Minecraft sets you can buy.
5. There is mining, and crafting
In survival mode, you start the game empty-handed and need to hit blocks to collect them. So you can hit a tree, and get some wood, for example. Thats the most basic thing you can do though. The next step is to use the crafting grid to turn those blocks of wood into planks. From there, you can turn the planks into a crafting table, where you can make more complex items - such as a wooden axe, with which you can get wood faster. Keep crafting and your mining becomes better.
The more you mine, the more materials and combinations become possible, and after that, you can start to build highly complex structures. People have made reproductions of Hogwarts and real world locations like the Eiffel Tower, giant Marios bestriding the blocky tiles, and even simple towers to protect themselves. Using special "redstone" blocks that can have more than one state, people have built calculators and even computers, investing a huge amount of time and effort to work it all out and then put them together.
6. You can play Minecraft inside Minecraft
You know how we mentioned that using redstone blocks you can create binary switches and make computers? Setting up several thousand of these blocks, some people have even made a very basic 2D Minecraft that you can play - inside Minecraft. The scale of the work required to do this honestly boggles the mind, and thats just putting it all together.
First, someone had to figure out how to make this whole system of tens of thousands of bricks to work together.
7. The world of Minecraft is 9 million times the size of Earth
The world of Minecraft is theoretically infinite - the areas are made up of chunks that are loaded as required. There are some technical limitations to the total space possible, and therefore, the total surface area is 4.7 quadrillion kilometres squared. The Earth is "just" 510 million kilometres squared, making Minecraft effectively over 9 times bigger.
8. Minecraft helped popularise the "early access" model
Today, paying for a game that is still a work in progress isnt a big deal. Theres Kickstarter of course, where you might pay for something thats barely an idea. And then theres something like Steam Early Access, where you can pay for games that are still being made.
Minecraft is probably the most famous example of the trend - players could buy the game in the initial development stages, the alpha and later the beta, all the way up to the final release. At each stage, the cost of the game went up, but if you bought an older version of the game, you were assured a copy of the final game at no additional cost, along with other benefits. Games like DayZ would come along later and cement the model, but Minecraft is certainly one of the games that set the early trend.
9. Minecraft has a huge fanbase, with merchandise and meetups
There are Minecraft conventions, including the official one - MineCon, which has taken place in locations like Washington, Las Vegas, Disneyland Paris and Orlando, Florida. These events were heavily attended and show how involved the community is. On the Minecraft website, you can buy a lot of merchandise as well, ranging from soft toys to vinyl figures, foam swords, blocky torches, mugs, posters and clothes.
Minecraft might have started as a digital distraction, but it is very much present in the real world today.
10. Minecraft has applications well beyond Minecraft
Minecraft has been discussed as a teaching tool for Computer Aided Design, and for other educational tasks. It can be used to build virtual designs for 3D printers, for example. This year, the Danish Geodata Agency recreated all of Denmark at a 1:1 scale in Minecraft, a virtual world anyone can visit. Minecraft has also been introduced in several schools to teach subjects such as history and science. For example, teachers have taken advantage of the popularity of the game to build multiplayer servers where they can recreate the pyramids, and other monuments, together in Minecraft.
Monday, March 30, 2015
The corridors with Samsung Galaxy S6 Windows 10 and Mattel – Open
Months ago we published the Samsung Galaxy S6 the first rumor in this section, and concludes with the words, “Here you go more of hearing.” That turned out almost every week a truth. As the launch date draws closer, the rumors to swell. But in the meantime, Microsoft will also take nice. What will Google do with toys this week?
Samsung Galaxy S6 leaking, leaking and leaking
It was one big party for people who look forward to the Samsung Galaxy S6 . The only way the smartphone can be more in the news, as Samsung’m actually presents. That’s going to happen soon, but until then you should do the example picture above, where a thick Cnet watermark over slammed. we see not only the Samsung Galaxy S6, but the Galaxy S6 Edge, with a curved screen on both sides. Hip hip hooray. Further rumors were about the thickness of top of the device (as thin as the iPhone 6, according UnderKG and the price (more expensive than the iPhone 6, said AndroidPIT)
My Spanish is not so good. What moettie cost? Available from 747 euros for the 32GB Galaxy S6, to 1049 for the 128GB Edge version. Ka-ching!
Windows on SmartWatch, Asus does’ t
Do you know what this world needs? More smart watches! And rather not just another Android Wear flop, but something else please. As a smart watch running on Windows. Sure, why not, leave that to Asus about. The Taiwanese manufacturer, that an experiment here and not afraid there is apparently working on the first Windows smart watch (Indeed, the Micorsoft Band we do not count). The data should appear from a patent application for a device called “Vivo Watch ‘. The term “Vivo” is used by Asus for its line of Windows products, the term ‘watch’ is English for watch. Hence.
First Windows smart watch? What about using the Microsoft Tape? This is a fitness tracker. Who refuses to say what time it is, apparently.
Screenshots of Windows 10 for smartphones
It will take some getting used to Microsoft. Since the presentation of Windows 10, including the spectacular HoloLens, they are suddenly hip and happening. And then there is so eagerly awaited their latest piece of software. For PCs and notebooks can run all the Windows 10 Preview a while, but how things will look for smartphones was until recently a mystery. Fortunately, there is China, where such things appear just on the Internet. A whole load of screenshots of the new Windows 10 for smartphones, in Chinese.
Looks like Windows Phone 8. What is the biggest difference? The biggest difference is that the Windows Phone 8 now no longer hot. But Windows 10. For smartphone. Do you see
Bonus:? What are Google and Mattel present
Fun and excitement in the technology world. Google and Mattel coexist announce a product. And for once, no one has any idea what it could be. Mattel know you all of the production of plastic Disney figurines, Hot Wheels cars, Barbies and other action figures that you as a child gave an irreparable dent in your worldview. And you all know Google’s social network Google+ and those crazy glasses this year really can not. Together they announce on February 13 something. No idea what it is, but it’s all me what
Friday, March 27, 2015
XiaoMi is now 10 billions worth said CEO Lei Jun
After a new successful funding round, the XiaoMi CEO, Lei Jun confirms through his Sina Weibo account a valuation of XiaoMi of $10 billions. A year ago, his company was "only" worth $4 billions.
As we mentioned in many of our reports, the growth rate is accelerating and it wont slow down with the XiaoMi Mi 3, a Zi Mi (Purple Rice) Tablet or/and Smart TVs.
Lei Jun was a lot compared to Steve Jobs but the man recused that statement a few weeks ago. The CEO says that his company is a lot like Amazon and it is e-commerce first and not a phone maker. Seeing how the Mi Store is growing, Lei Jun might be right since its online store is offering more and more products and most of them are not XiaoMi made.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Windows 10 gets a redesigned taskbar Spartan and Cortana get closer
Microsoft will be detailing the upcoming Windows 10 in two weeks, but the new features keep leaking on a daily basis. Recently we learnt Microsoft is working on a stand-alone web browser called Spartan, which should replace (though not put to rest) the Internet Explorer.
Today we get to see more of Spartan and the brand new and redesigned taskbar, which comes with the new looks of Windows.
So, the new taskbar gets a Modern paintjob, with new icons and simplistic color scheme. The new taskbar is rumored to premiere with the upcoming Windows 10 Consumer Preview, which should make it to the public in the upcoming weeks or months.
We already talked about Spartan. It will be a new web browser distributed within the Windows Store. This will allow Microsoft to update it regularly and bring it up to date with the competition. Internet Explorer won’t disappear due to compatibility issues and its support will continue as many enterprise clients are relying on IE.
The virtual assistant Cortana will be closely integrated with Spartan and will do various searches and tracking processes for you.
Spartan will offer a new way to group opened tabs, it is also rumored to pack themes support though it will be added with an update after launch.
At the Windows event on January 21 Microsoft is also expected to talk about Windows gaming. Windows is supposed to be a unified platform now, with all of Microsoft products being able to work together. What does this mean for the Xbox One? Hopefully we’ll find out on January 21.
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