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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Apple Watch to have 512MB RAM 4GB storage
A report out of investment research firm Cowen and Company has attempted to ascertain a more detailed look at the specifications of Apples Watch with an examination of the devices supply chain. At this stage of production, it has been revealed the watch will sport 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
The RAM will come by way of Samsung, Micron, and Hynix, while the 4GB of onboard DRAM is expected to be supplied by a number of major NAND manufacturers.
Timothy Arcuri of the Cowen Group believes that Apple could potentially ship a variant of the Apple Watch with 8GB of onboard memory, but it is likely that the 4GB model will be the standard configuration.
Also reported is a wireless combination chip similar to the iPhone 5ss Broadcom BCM43342, which sports a GPS radio. This goes against Apples announcement that the Watch will have to be tethered to an iPhone to provide GPS data, which means that it could either be a modified version that doesnt have a GPS sensor, or Apple will disable onboard GPS functionality to save on battery life.
More notably, Apple Watch will be one of the first smartwatches to feature a dedicated system-on-chip. Unlike other smartwatch models which use smartphone SoCs, Apples S1 SoC is expected to provide superior power efficiency due to its specific design. Either way, current reports indicate daily charging for the Apple Watch, but its likely Cupertino will be doing more work in that department leading up to the early 2015 launch date.
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How Little Changes Can Have Big Impacts on Apps and Services
Sometimes, something as simple as the design of an Order Now button can drastically affect the success of your big idea. Should you trust your intuition and hope for the best, or carry out test after test to figure out what the customers want? At a Nasscom panel to discuss customisation and integration - moderated by NDTV Gadgets Editorial Head Kunal Dua - we discussed this and more with various industry experts.
According to R Chandrashekhar, President, Nasscom, intuition is what you use when you run out of data, and that good business requires both data and intuition. "Intuition will tell you what the options are, while data can tell you which one works best," says Chandrashekhar.
Tanuj Mendiratta, Co-Founder and CEO, Appiterate, provides an example that underlines Chandrashekhars point. Appiterate is a company that allows developers to do A/B testing of design on live apps, with India-based taxi company Olacabs as one of its clients.
"Olacabs wanted to turn usage into referrals," says Mendiratta. "They had been trying to make sense of data to increase their footprint on mobile, so they partnered with us in order to strengthen their data science and leverage it to improve user acquisition."
One of the options that the company tested involved a small change is the design of the invite button that resulted in a 55 percent increase in invitations being sent out, and a 33 percent increase in user acquisition, Mendiratta claims.
Emphasising the importance of design in success - or failure - of products, Muki Regunathan, Founder and CEO, Pepper Square, described how the same experience that Olacabs had, is equally true on the Web.
"We used an analysis backed approach, and on one of the projects that we were working on, all we did was change the shape of the call to action button. This one small change led to an increase of 250,000 tickets."
Testing design and content features is a well-established field, and there are several companies that work in this area now. Appiterate - which received VC funding earlier this year - is just one of them, but the Gurgaon-based company already has an impressive client roster, including Spice Labs, Ibibo, Reviews42, Taxi for Sure, and of course Ola.
The company claims to be the only A/B testing product that has a simple drag and drop interface that any business can use to easily test its apps. These changes can be made to live apps, so that the testing is done in real market conditions, and real user behaviour can be studied to gain data.
However, real change to the user experience will only come once this data is shared between different apps, leading to a greater degree of personalisation, instead of customisation, says Ravi Gururaj, Chariman, Nasscom Product Council, and Chairman and Co-Founder, Frictionless Ventures, a funding and incubation company with a focus on cloud, mobile and big data software product ventures.
"The new customisation is going to be personalisation," says Gururaj, "And what will happen is that you will get app-like experiences inside apps. Youll have containers, that bring together a lot of different functionality instead of needing lots of disparate apps."
One roadblock in India towards this end is the slow uptake of API use by developers. Chandrashekhar also points out that as long as companies try to control linkages, developing new ideas will remain a challenge.
"Real growth will come through organic partnerships," he says, "with people who you have never even heard of."
"People are not open to opening up," says Gururaj. "But integration is the norm. No one can make an end to end product now. Even the phones you use, they come from so many different vendors. Then there is the app ecosystem, which is in turn supported by more ecosystems. [People need to] learn to grab and deliver value to the ecosystem."
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Wi Fi is now free when you visit the UK if you have a MasterCard
Using your phone or tablet when youre overseas can be pretty pricey. Luckily, for everything else theres MasterCard, as you can now enjoy free Wi-Fi in the UK thanks to the card in your wallet.
Credit card and payment services company MasterCard has signed up with British Wi-Fi provider The Cloud for free Internet connection in thousands of public places when you come to visit. Download the MasterCard Priceless London WiFi mobile app, available today from Google Play or the Apple App Store, and youll be wirelessly connected to the Web faster than a politician spotting 20p on the floor (thats British for "very quickly") without having to pay out a single pound, shilling or queenpence (thats British for "money").
So when youre on your holiday or travelling for business, you can check email, catch up with your social media friends or even just find your way about without racking up huge data roaming charges or burning through your phone plans data allowance.
The ability to enjoy music and video streaming services over Wi-Fi also saves you from having to pre-load your tablet with films, ebooks or other entertainment for the trip. And it could help you sidestep extortionate Wi-Fi fees from your hotel too.
The Cloud is a company providing Wi-Fi hotspots around the UK in public places including shops, bars, food places and train stations. For the benefit of international readers who may not be familiar with UK institutions, those venues include WHSmith (books, magazines, dirty carpets); Greggs (two sausage rolls for a pound); Pret, Caffé Nero and Eat (skinny lattes, skinnier sandwiches); Marks & Spencer (posh food, nice clothes, sturdy underwear); JD Wetherspoons (cheap beer, cheap meals, broken dreams); and PizzaExpress (students on dates).
The app also offers deals and promotions based on where you are with MasterCards Priceless Cities programme. If you are planning on using the app, its important to note that MasterCard says you have to download it and register for the service while youre still at home, before you travel -- so plan ahead and contact MasterCard for more details.
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Credit card and payment services company MasterCard has signed up with British Wi-Fi provider The Cloud for free Internet connection in thousands of public places when you come to visit. Download the MasterCard Priceless London WiFi mobile app, available today from Google Play or the Apple App Store, and youll be wirelessly connected to the Web faster than a politician spotting 20p on the floor (thats British for "very quickly") without having to pay out a single pound, shilling or queenpence (thats British for "money").
So when youre on your holiday or travelling for business, you can check email, catch up with your social media friends or even just find your way about without racking up huge data roaming charges or burning through your phone plans data allowance.
The ability to enjoy music and video streaming services over Wi-Fi also saves you from having to pre-load your tablet with films, ebooks or other entertainment for the trip. And it could help you sidestep extortionate Wi-Fi fees from your hotel too.
The Cloud is a company providing Wi-Fi hotspots around the UK in public places including shops, bars, food places and train stations. For the benefit of international readers who may not be familiar with UK institutions, those venues include WHSmith (books, magazines, dirty carpets); Greggs (two sausage rolls for a pound); Pret, Caffé Nero and Eat (skinny lattes, skinnier sandwiches); Marks & Spencer (posh food, nice clothes, sturdy underwear); JD Wetherspoons (cheap beer, cheap meals, broken dreams); and PizzaExpress (students on dates).
The app also offers deals and promotions based on where you are with MasterCards Priceless Cities programme. If you are planning on using the app, its important to note that MasterCard says you have to download it and register for the service while youre still at home, before you travel -- so plan ahead and contact MasterCard for more details.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Forgot where you parked the car Its cool iOS 8 will have you covered
iOS 8 might not deliver the improvements to Apple Maps that Cupertino intended, but theres one nifty feature that might make its way through.
As spotted in a screenshot, iOS 8 contains files that reference parking pins, which we assume would give you a reminder of where you parked the car.
Its especially worth noting as the rumour of this feature actually popped up last September, where sources said Apple would use the M7 chip to analyse your parking location and register its exact position, helping you to find it when you return.
Apple said nothing of this during WWDC, so we cant guarantee that this will come in iOS 8 - perhaps well see it in iOS 8.1 instead.
For now, wed take improved mapping data over extra features such as this, however handy it might be. It wont be much use if Apple Maps is telling us we left the car in the middle of Euboea.
After all, it needs to catch up with Google, which rolled out a similar car-finding feature for Google Now earlier this year.
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As spotted in a screenshot, iOS 8 contains files that reference parking pins, which we assume would give you a reminder of where you parked the car.
Its especially worth noting as the rumour of this feature actually popped up last September, where sources said Apple would use the M7 chip to analyse your parking location and register its exact position, helping you to find it when you return.
Park it, pal
Apple said nothing of this during WWDC, so we cant guarantee that this will come in iOS 8 - perhaps well see it in iOS 8.1 instead.
For now, wed take improved mapping data over extra features such as this, however handy it might be. It wont be much use if Apple Maps is telling us we left the car in the middle of Euboea.
After all, it needs to catch up with Google, which rolled out a similar car-finding feature for Google Now earlier this year.
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