Facebook is pulling ads from pages that contain violence or sexual
content.
The social network said that on Monday, it will expand its definition of
pages and groups that are too controversial to carry advertisements.
Facebook has sought to strike a balance between giving its 1.1 billion
users the freedom to post what they want and providing advertisers with space to
sell their products.
In May, Facebook lost more than a dozen advertisers, at least temporarily,
after the activist group Women, Action and the Media urged an advertising
boycott to protest hate speech on the Facebook site. The controversial content
included grisly photos and mottos that encouraged rape, abuse and other violence
against women.
The company said then that it would review its guidelines, update training
for employees and increase accountability for those who post such matter. It
also said it would work more closely with women's groups. Some of the companies
that initially pulled their ads — including automaker Nissan and the car-sharing
service Zipcar — said then that they were pleased with Facebook's response.
Facebook had already banned ads on certain pages. The new policy will
expand on the categories affected by the ban. In the past, a company selling
adult-theme products could have ads running on the right side of the page, for
instance. Those pages will be ad-free starting Monday.
"We recognize we need to do more to prevent situations where ads are
displayed alongside controversial Pages and Groups," the company said in a
statement Friday. "So we are taking action."
Facebook will continue to remove entire pages if they are deemed to violate
its terms of service. The new policy covers pages that are permitted, but
controversial.
Facebook said the new restrictions won't have a meaningful impact on its
business.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Although standard classes are out for summertime
School leaders say about $2,500 in destruction was completed to the
Godfrey-Lee university district athletic sophisticated early Sunday morning by
mysterious vandals.
“We’ve experienced some damaged home windows down there just before, but practically nothing to this extent,” said Godfrey-Lee Superintendent David Britten.
Law enforcement are investigating the early morning vandalism at Lee Discipline, which transpired concerning about 5 and 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, June thirty.
Britten stated stability cameras confirmed a pickup truck travel in to the unlocked area, which is situated off Godfrey Avenue SW at Lee Avenue in Wyoming, beside the district’s Early Childhood Schooling Heart and also the East Lee Campus alternative substantial university.
Soon after busting a few parking lot lights to darken the world, Britten explained the vandals broke into your football field’s press box, harming the public announcement process.
The vandals broke an grownup training moveable classroom window for the complicated and destroyed a faculty vehicle. They also broke via a garage door into the baseball subject push box and stole a flat screen Tv set, Britten said.
Police had been alerted into the vandalism from the school alarm technique, which Britten thinks the vandals activated by trying to enter the elaborate fieldhouse.
The incident lasted a few half hour, he stated. The initial harm estimate is about $2,five hundred even so the district is still compiling a injury inventory.
These types of disrespect demonstrated to the neighborhood useful resource is disappointing, reported Britten.
“Schools are having difficulties because it is,” he mentioned. “To believe that anyone has that minor regard they would steal from their own individual group is upsetting.”
Although standard classes are out for summertime, the athletic sophisticated is utilized for Tiny League baseball and several sporting camp activities, he reported, in addition as some summertime college systems.
The intricate has actually been hit by vandals before, but to the lesser diploma. Britten recalled an incident wherever a person previously broke in to the elaborate concession region kicked out some windows.
The fairly isolated community advanced was not gated “because we accustomed to roll it shut and it didn’t make any difference,” he mentioned. “There’s a great deal of unobserved ways to climb a fence and obtain in there.”
Britten stated the district may possibly take into consideration adding some added lighting for a safety measure when bond-funded track and area advancements get started this summertime.
“We’ve experienced some damaged home windows down there just before, but practically nothing to this extent,” said Godfrey-Lee Superintendent David Britten.
Law enforcement are investigating the early morning vandalism at Lee Discipline, which transpired concerning about 5 and 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, June thirty.
Britten stated stability cameras confirmed a pickup truck travel in to the unlocked area, which is situated off Godfrey Avenue SW at Lee Avenue in Wyoming, beside the district’s Early Childhood Schooling Heart and also the East Lee Campus alternative substantial university.
Soon after busting a few parking lot lights to darken the world, Britten explained the vandals broke into your football field’s press box, harming the public announcement process.
The vandals broke an grownup training moveable classroom window for the complicated and destroyed a faculty vehicle. They also broke via a garage door into the baseball subject push box and stole a flat screen Tv set, Britten said.
Police had been alerted into the vandalism from the school alarm technique, which Britten thinks the vandals activated by trying to enter the elaborate fieldhouse.
The incident lasted a few half hour, he stated. The initial harm estimate is about $2,five hundred even so the district is still compiling a injury inventory.
These types of disrespect demonstrated to the neighborhood useful resource is disappointing, reported Britten.
“Schools are having difficulties because it is,” he mentioned. “To believe that anyone has that minor regard they would steal from their own individual group is upsetting.”
Although standard classes are out for summertime, the athletic sophisticated is utilized for Tiny League baseball and several sporting camp activities, he reported, in addition as some summertime college systems.
The intricate has actually been hit by vandals before, but to the lesser diploma. Britten recalled an incident wherever a person previously broke in to the elaborate concession region kicked out some windows.
The fairly isolated community advanced was not gated “because we accustomed to roll it shut and it didn’t make any difference,” he mentioned. “There’s a great deal of unobserved ways to climb a fence and obtain in there.”
Britten stated the district may possibly take into consideration adding some added lighting for a safety measure when bond-funded track and area advancements get started this summertime.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Consumers have their hands full with mobile devices
Consumers are filling their hands, pockets and purses with smartphones and
tablets. One mobile device, it seems, is not enough.
Statistics bear this out. Increasingly, consumers from Silicon Valley to the Midwest, South and Silicon Alley are employing a business phone — increasingly, Android — as well as a fun phone filled with apps, usually iPhone. Add to that the ubiquitous tablet, and you have an armload.
Dual tablet-smartphones use is reflected in soaring sales figures for tablets — they are expected to whiz past PC sales for the first time in 2015, market researcher IDC says — and smartphones. Some 1.75 billion smartphones were sold last year, says researcher Gartner. (PC shipments surpassed 350 million in 2012.)
"Consumers are using devices based on what they need and when," says Bob Tinker, CEO of MobileIron, a mobile management and security company. "It could be a smartphone at a restaurant or a tablet on a train. It all depends on the task and space available. But they have multiple options."
Many of the new users in the family are kids: 37% of teens have smartphones, compared with 23% in 2011, says Pew Research Center.
What it all means in the real world is that mobile devices seemingly are everywhere. Restaurateur John McDonald watches customers stack their phones and tablets on tables or recharge them at restaurant bar outlets to replenish batteries.
"Before, it was either you used Apple or BlackBerry," says McDonald, a restaurant owner and entrepreneur in New York who recently added a Samsung smartphone to his handheld stash.
"Smartphones are our new, smaller PCs — and they are everywhere," says Rich Miner, general partner at Google Ventures, an investor in Divide, an app for the management of multiple smartphones.
Samsung has fragmented the market's dynamic and become the world's No. 1 smartphone seller, with sleek design, appealing technology and aggressive marketing.
Consumers juggle between phones to maximize battery use. And the choices of consumers have gravitated from traditional PC operating systems to Apple's iOS to, now, Android phones. The key is whose software — and apps — win out in the end, says Howard Hartenbaum, a general partner at August Capital.
Yes, some even employ the mullet strategy, named after the awkward haircut made infamous by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus in the 1990s — short in front (business), long in back (party).
Of course, there are consequences with so many devices in fewer hands, such as competition for Wi-Fi at major events and bloated phone bills.
Some $50 billion is wasted each year in the U.S. on unused voice, texts and data, says market researcher Validas.
That has spawned apps such as Divide and Zact, which help manage the cost of smartphones as they multiply among family members. FreedomPop offers a free service similar to Zact, which is a paid-subscription model.
Statistics bear this out. Increasingly, consumers from Silicon Valley to the Midwest, South and Silicon Alley are employing a business phone — increasingly, Android — as well as a fun phone filled with apps, usually iPhone. Add to that the ubiquitous tablet, and you have an armload.
Dual tablet-smartphones use is reflected in soaring sales figures for tablets — they are expected to whiz past PC sales for the first time in 2015, market researcher IDC says — and smartphones. Some 1.75 billion smartphones were sold last year, says researcher Gartner. (PC shipments surpassed 350 million in 2012.)
"Consumers are using devices based on what they need and when," says Bob Tinker, CEO of MobileIron, a mobile management and security company. "It could be a smartphone at a restaurant or a tablet on a train. It all depends on the task and space available. But they have multiple options."
Many of the new users in the family are kids: 37% of teens have smartphones, compared with 23% in 2011, says Pew Research Center.
What it all means in the real world is that mobile devices seemingly are everywhere. Restaurateur John McDonald watches customers stack their phones and tablets on tables or recharge them at restaurant bar outlets to replenish batteries.
"Before, it was either you used Apple or BlackBerry," says McDonald, a restaurant owner and entrepreneur in New York who recently added a Samsung smartphone to his handheld stash.
"Smartphones are our new, smaller PCs — and they are everywhere," says Rich Miner, general partner at Google Ventures, an investor in Divide, an app for the management of multiple smartphones.
Samsung has fragmented the market's dynamic and become the world's No. 1 smartphone seller, with sleek design, appealing technology and aggressive marketing.
Consumers juggle between phones to maximize battery use. And the choices of consumers have gravitated from traditional PC operating systems to Apple's iOS to, now, Android phones. The key is whose software — and apps — win out in the end, says Howard Hartenbaum, a general partner at August Capital.
Yes, some even employ the mullet strategy, named after the awkward haircut made infamous by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus in the 1990s — short in front (business), long in back (party).
Of course, there are consequences with so many devices in fewer hands, such as competition for Wi-Fi at major events and bloated phone bills.
Some $50 billion is wasted each year in the U.S. on unused voice, texts and data, says market researcher Validas.
That has spawned apps such as Divide and Zact, which help manage the cost of smartphones as they multiply among family members. FreedomPop offers a free service similar to Zact, which is a paid-subscription model.
These types of access to the encryption process
The Countrywide Stability Agency has backdoor access to all Windows
computer software considering that the release of Windows 95, in accordance to
informed resources, a advancement which follows the insistence with the agency
and federal regulation enforcement for backdoor “keys” to any encryption,
according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Owning such “keys” is crucial with the export of any encryption permitted underneath U.S. export manage legal guidelines to international consumers.
The NSA plays a notable part in deliberations around no matter if these types of items might be exported, and routinely turns down any requests above a specific megabyte degree that exceeds NSA’s complex ability to decrypt it. Which is been the conventional for many years for NSA, as well as the departments of Protection, Commerce and Condition.
Laptop or computer stability specialists mention that the Windows software package driver utilized for protection and encryption features includes uncommon attributes which give NSA that backdoor entry.
These protection specialists have discovered the driving force as ADVAPI.DLL. It enables and controls several different protection functions. These professionals mention that on Home windows, it truly is located at C:\\Windows\system listing of anyone’s computer that employs Home windows software.
Nicko van Someren suggests the motive force incorporates two distinctive keys. One particular was employed by Microsoft to regulate cryptographic functions in Windows even though yet another in the beginning remained a mystery.
Then, two months in the past, a U.S. stability agency concluded which the 2nd critical belonged to NSA. Evaluation with the driver revealed that just one was labeled Vital while the opposite was labeled NSAKEY, according to resources. The NSA key apparently had been created to the software package by Microsoft, which Microsoft resources really do not deny.
This has permitted restricted use of Microsoft’s source code computer software which allows for these kinds of programming.
Access to Windows resource code is supposed to become very compartmentalized, in fact producing such steps much easier for the reason that a lot of the persons working over the software package would not begin to see the accessibility.
These types of access to the encryption process of Home windows can enable NSA to compromise a person’s whole operating process. The NSA keys are stated to become contained inside all variations of Home windows from Home windows 95 OSR2 onwards.
Acquiring such the key critical within your Home windows working process makes it “tremendously less difficult with the NSA to load unauthorized stability expert services on all copies of Microsoft Home windows, and once these stability companies are loaded, they're able to properly compromise your overall functioning process,” according to Andrew Fernandez, main scientist with Cryptonym Company of North Carolina.
Keep in touch together with the most important breaking news stories about significant developments round the globe with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the high quality, on the internet intelligence information source edited and published by the founding father of WND.
Owning such “keys” is crucial with the export of any encryption permitted underneath U.S. export manage legal guidelines to international consumers.
The NSA plays a notable part in deliberations around no matter if these types of items might be exported, and routinely turns down any requests above a specific megabyte degree that exceeds NSA’s complex ability to decrypt it. Which is been the conventional for many years for NSA, as well as the departments of Protection, Commerce and Condition.
Laptop or computer stability specialists mention that the Windows software package driver utilized for protection and encryption features includes uncommon attributes which give NSA that backdoor entry.
These protection specialists have discovered the driving force as ADVAPI.DLL. It enables and controls several different protection functions. These professionals mention that on Home windows, it truly is located at C:\\Windows\system listing of anyone’s computer that employs Home windows software.
Nicko van Someren suggests the motive force incorporates two distinctive keys. One particular was employed by Microsoft to regulate cryptographic functions in Windows even though yet another in the beginning remained a mystery.
Then, two months in the past, a U.S. stability agency concluded which the 2nd critical belonged to NSA. Evaluation with the driver revealed that just one was labeled Vital while the opposite was labeled NSAKEY, according to resources. The NSA key apparently had been created to the software package by Microsoft, which Microsoft resources really do not deny.
This has permitted restricted use of Microsoft’s source code computer software which allows for these kinds of programming.
Access to Windows resource code is supposed to become very compartmentalized, in fact producing such steps much easier for the reason that a lot of the persons working over the software package would not begin to see the accessibility.
These types of access to the encryption process of Home windows can enable NSA to compromise a person’s whole operating process. The NSA keys are stated to become contained inside all variations of Home windows from Home windows 95 OSR2 onwards.
Acquiring such the key critical within your Home windows working process makes it “tremendously less difficult with the NSA to load unauthorized stability expert services on all copies of Microsoft Home windows, and once these stability companies are loaded, they're able to properly compromise your overall functioning process,” according to Andrew Fernandez, main scientist with Cryptonym Company of North Carolina.
Keep in touch together with the most important breaking news stories about significant developments round the globe with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the high quality, on the internet intelligence information source edited and published by the founding father of WND.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Samsung's Latest Is Galaxy S 4 Zoom, 'Only Device You'll Ever Need'
Samsung says the Galaxy S 4 Zoom, its 10th new phone in the last three
months, is the "ultimate smartphone and camera experience in one."
Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4 Zoom June 12, calling it "the only device you'll ever need."
The combination high-end camera and smartphone was unveiled 12 weeks after Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4, its latest flagship smartphone. Since then, Samsung has also introduced the Star, the Nemo, the Win, the Mega, the Core, the Galaxy S Mini, the Galaxy S 4 Active and, just two days ago, the entry-level Galaxy Ace 3.
Who says creating great things takes time?
The S 4 Zoom runs Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), has a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 960 by 540 and can connect to up to six different band sets of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, as well as 3G, 2.5G, WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth and A-GPS.
To the technology features of the Galaxy S 4, it adds 10x optical zoom, a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, and OIS and Xeon Flash.
Samsung calls it the "ultimate smartphone and camera experience in one."
A feature called the Zoom Ring solves the matter of spotting a must-have photo while on a call. A twist of the Zoom Ring activates an In-Call Photo Share feature, so users can capture and send the image to whomever they're talking to. (Presumably, one can also just do a lot of uh-hum-ing, snap the photo and not share it with the person one is supposed to be conversing with.)
The Zoom Ring can also activate Quick Launch and Shortcut features, for instant access to various camera modes.
A Photo Suggest feature can help budding photographers grab a great shot by connecting them to a library of images showing how others have done it, and even suggesting nearby locations from which to gain the best vantage point.
In the same vein, Smart Mode Suggest takes into account light levels, focal length and face detection, and an optical image stabilizer helps to steady the lens when the user's in a shaky situation.
A Story Album feature lets users arrange images and videos in a timeline to share with friends, as well as edit images, and through a Samsung deal with Blurb, prints can be ordered directly from the device.
Using the Samsung Link, images can be transferred to a laptop or tablet, and with HomeSync they can be sent to a personal cloud.
"As communication continues to become increasingly visual in nature, people wish to capture and share their moments in the highest quality possible, but often do not have the space or inclination to carry a dedicated camera for this purpose," JK Shin, Samsung president, CEO and head of IT and Mobile Communications, said in a statement. "The Galaxy S 4 Zoom changes this forever."
The camera-phone includes Samsung S Voice, S Translator and ChatOn; 8GB of internal memory; and a microSD slot supporting up to 64GB.
It measures 4.94 by 2.5 by 0.61 inches and weighs 0.24 pounds. By contrast, the Android-running Galaxy Camera that Samsung introduced last year measures 5.1 by 2.8 by 0.75 inches and weighs 0.66 pounds.
Samsung offered no details about availability or pricing.
Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4 Zoom June 12, calling it "the only device you'll ever need."
The combination high-end camera and smartphone was unveiled 12 weeks after Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4, its latest flagship smartphone. Since then, Samsung has also introduced the Star, the Nemo, the Win, the Mega, the Core, the Galaxy S Mini, the Galaxy S 4 Active and, just two days ago, the entry-level Galaxy Ace 3.
Who says creating great things takes time?
The S 4 Zoom runs Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), has a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 960 by 540 and can connect to up to six different band sets of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, as well as 3G, 2.5G, WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth and A-GPS.
To the technology features of the Galaxy S 4, it adds 10x optical zoom, a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, and OIS and Xeon Flash.
Samsung calls it the "ultimate smartphone and camera experience in one."
A feature called the Zoom Ring solves the matter of spotting a must-have photo while on a call. A twist of the Zoom Ring activates an In-Call Photo Share feature, so users can capture and send the image to whomever they're talking to. (Presumably, one can also just do a lot of uh-hum-ing, snap the photo and not share it with the person one is supposed to be conversing with.)
The Zoom Ring can also activate Quick Launch and Shortcut features, for instant access to various camera modes.
A Photo Suggest feature can help budding photographers grab a great shot by connecting them to a library of images showing how others have done it, and even suggesting nearby locations from which to gain the best vantage point.
In the same vein, Smart Mode Suggest takes into account light levels, focal length and face detection, and an optical image stabilizer helps to steady the lens when the user's in a shaky situation.
A Story Album feature lets users arrange images and videos in a timeline to share with friends, as well as edit images, and through a Samsung deal with Blurb, prints can be ordered directly from the device.
Using the Samsung Link, images can be transferred to a laptop or tablet, and with HomeSync they can be sent to a personal cloud.
"As communication continues to become increasingly visual in nature, people wish to capture and share their moments in the highest quality possible, but often do not have the space or inclination to carry a dedicated camera for this purpose," JK Shin, Samsung president, CEO and head of IT and Mobile Communications, said in a statement. "The Galaxy S 4 Zoom changes this forever."
The camera-phone includes Samsung S Voice, S Translator and ChatOn; 8GB of internal memory; and a microSD slot supporting up to 64GB.
It measures 4.94 by 2.5 by 0.61 inches and weighs 0.24 pounds. By contrast, the Android-running Galaxy Camera that Samsung introduced last year measures 5.1 by 2.8 by 0.75 inches and weighs 0.66 pounds.
Samsung offered no details about availability or pricing.
Guthrie explained within the put up
Microsoft has launched numerous updates to Windows Azure to really make it
a lot easier for builders to make back again ends to mobile customer
applications.
The brand new abilities include cell expert services these types of as tailor made API help, Git resource manage support, Node.js Node Packaged Modules (NPM) assist and a new .Web API by means of NuGet. In addition, Microsoft is giving a cost-free 20MB SQL databases selection for mobile companies and Websites, too as Android thrust notification guidance.
"Windows Azure Cell Services delivers the ability to simply stand up a mobile backend which will be utilized to aid your Home windows 8, Windows Cell phone, iOS, Android and HTML5 shopper programs," reported Scott Guthrie, corporate vice chairman with the server and equipment enterprise at Microsoft, in the June 14 website write-up.
Setting up along with the initially preview, in accordance to Guthrie, Microsoft supported the flexibility for developers to simply increase their facts back-end logic with server-side scripting that executes as portion of client-side CRUD operations towards their cloud back data tables. Nonetheless, together with the new updates, Microsoft is extending this help even more and introducing the power for builders to also make and expose personalized APIs from their Cellular Companies back conclude and easily publish them to their mobile consumers without having to associate them using a data table.
"This capability allows a complete established of recent scenarios?aincluding the opportunity to work with facts resources apart from SQL Databases (by way of example: Table Solutions or MongoDB), broker calls to third get together APIs, integrate with Home windows Azure Queues or Provider Bus, function with tailor made non-JSON payloads (e.g. Home windows Periodic Notifications), route client requests to products and services back on-premises (e.g. with the new Windows Azure BizTalk Providers), or simply put into action functionality that does not correspond to your database procedure," Guthrie explained within the put up. "The tailor made APIs might be penned in server-side JavaScript (applying Node.js) and may use Node's NPM offers. We're going to also be adding guidance for tailor made APIs penned utilizing .Internet later on at the same time."
"This functionality enables a complete established of latest scenarios?aincluding the opportunity to get the job done with information resources besides SQL Databases (for example: Table Expert services or MongoDB), broker calls to third social gathering APIs, integrate with Home windows Azure Queues or Company Bus, work with custom non-JSON payloads (e.g. Windows Periodic Notifications), route shopper requests to solutions again on-premises (e.g. while using the new Windows Azure BizTalk Providers), or simply put into action operation that does not correspond to some database procedure," Guthrie mentioned inside the publish. "The customized APIs might be composed in server-side JavaScript (utilizing Node.js) and can use Node's NPM offers. We'll also be including guidance for tailor made APIs created employing .Internet down the road at the same time."
The new launch permits personalized APIs being prepared using Node.js, and also the tailor made API programming model follows the Node.js convention for modules, and that is to export functions to take care of HTTP requests.
"Integrating authentication and authorization with Custom APIs is really effortless with Mobile Expert services," Guthrie wrote. "Just like with info requests, personalized API requests take pleasure in the similar built-in authentication and authorization guidance of Cell Expert services (together with integration with Microsoft ID, Google, Fb and Twitter authentication suppliers), and it also allows you to simply combine your Custom API code with other Mobile Services capabilities like force notifications, logging, SQL, etc."
The brand new abilities include cell expert services these types of as tailor made API help, Git resource manage support, Node.js Node Packaged Modules (NPM) assist and a new .Web API by means of NuGet. In addition, Microsoft is giving a cost-free 20MB SQL databases selection for mobile companies and Websites, too as Android thrust notification guidance.
"Windows Azure Cell Services delivers the ability to simply stand up a mobile backend which will be utilized to aid your Home windows 8, Windows Cell phone, iOS, Android and HTML5 shopper programs," reported Scott Guthrie, corporate vice chairman with the server and equipment enterprise at Microsoft, in the June 14 website write-up.
Setting up along with the initially preview, in accordance to Guthrie, Microsoft supported the flexibility for developers to simply increase their facts back-end logic with server-side scripting that executes as portion of client-side CRUD operations towards their cloud back data tables. Nonetheless, together with the new updates, Microsoft is extending this help even more and introducing the power for builders to also make and expose personalized APIs from their Cellular Companies back conclude and easily publish them to their mobile consumers without having to associate them using a data table.
"This capability allows a complete established of recent scenarios?aincluding the opportunity to work with facts resources apart from SQL Databases (by way of example: Table Solutions or MongoDB), broker calls to third get together APIs, integrate with Home windows Azure Queues or Provider Bus, function with tailor made non-JSON payloads (e.g. Home windows Periodic Notifications), route client requests to products and services back on-premises (e.g. with the new Windows Azure BizTalk Providers), or simply put into action functionality that does not correspond to your database procedure," Guthrie explained within the put up. "The tailor made APIs might be penned in server-side JavaScript (applying Node.js) and may use Node's NPM offers. We're going to also be adding guidance for tailor made APIs penned utilizing .Internet later on at the same time."
"This functionality enables a complete established of latest scenarios?aincluding the opportunity to get the job done with information resources besides SQL Databases (for example: Table Expert services or MongoDB), broker calls to third social gathering APIs, integrate with Home windows Azure Queues or Company Bus, work with custom non-JSON payloads (e.g. Windows Periodic Notifications), route shopper requests to solutions again on-premises (e.g. while using the new Windows Azure BizTalk Providers), or simply put into action operation that does not correspond to some database procedure," Guthrie mentioned inside the publish. "The customized APIs might be composed in server-side JavaScript (utilizing Node.js) and can use Node's NPM offers. We'll also be including guidance for tailor made APIs created employing .Internet down the road at the same time."
The new launch permits personalized APIs being prepared using Node.js, and also the tailor made API programming model follows the Node.js convention for modules, and that is to export functions to take care of HTTP requests.
"Integrating authentication and authorization with Custom APIs is really effortless with Mobile Expert services," Guthrie wrote. "Just like with info requests, personalized API requests take pleasure in the similar built-in authentication and authorization guidance of Cell Expert services (together with integration with Microsoft ID, Google, Fb and Twitter authentication suppliers), and it also allows you to simply combine your Custom API code with other Mobile Services capabilities like force notifications, logging, SQL, etc."
Friday, June 14, 2013
Facebook releases information on NSA requests for user data
Looking to shield itself from a growing public backlash over damaging
revelations that it turned over user data to the National Security Agency's
clandestine Internet surveillance program Prism, Facebook said late Friday it
had reached an agreement to divulge some details about the government requests
it receives for information about its users.
Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, said the company had urged authorities "to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to comply with."
The result, he said, is Facebook's first-ever report on requests from the government for its users' information.
Facebook says that in the second half of 2012, the total number of requests for user data that it received from all local, state and federal authorities was between 9,000 and 10,000. Those requests targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts. Facebook complied with 79% of the requests, it said.
The information does not break out national security requests.
"The government will only authorize us to communicate about these numbers in aggregate and as a range," Ullyot said. "This is progress, but we're continuing to push for even more transparency."
In a statement, a Google spokesman said the deal that Facebook struck with the government was not sufficient.
"We have always believed that it's important to differentiate between different types of government requests. We already publish criminal requests separately from National Security Letters. Lumping the two categories together would be a step back for users," he wrote. "Our request to the government is clear: to be able to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures, separately."
Google has gone to greater lengths than any other Web company to disclose the nature and number of government requests for information about its users through its semiannual "transparency report."
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other technology giants have been pressing the Obama administration to allow them to publicly disclose more information about the national security requests they get under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
The three-decade-old law lets intelligence agencies monitor the communications of non-U.S. citizens who are believed to be outside the United States and involved in terrorist or other criminal activities.
FISA bars companies from even acknowledging they have received such requests. That secrecy has created a firestorm of controversy after revelations that technology companies have been turning over foreign users’ data to NSA.
Google published an open letter this week to Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller to give it more freedom to share with users the number and scope of national security requests.
"Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users' data are simply untrue," Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, wrote.
Facebook and Microsoft made similar public statements.
Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, said the company had urged authorities "to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to comply with."
The result, he said, is Facebook's first-ever report on requests from the government for its users' information.
Facebook says that in the second half of 2012, the total number of requests for user data that it received from all local, state and federal authorities was between 9,000 and 10,000. Those requests targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts. Facebook complied with 79% of the requests, it said.
The information does not break out national security requests.
"The government will only authorize us to communicate about these numbers in aggregate and as a range," Ullyot said. "This is progress, but we're continuing to push for even more transparency."
In a statement, a Google spokesman said the deal that Facebook struck with the government was not sufficient.
"We have always believed that it's important to differentiate between different types of government requests. We already publish criminal requests separately from National Security Letters. Lumping the two categories together would be a step back for users," he wrote. "Our request to the government is clear: to be able to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures, separately."
Google has gone to greater lengths than any other Web company to disclose the nature and number of government requests for information about its users through its semiannual "transparency report."
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other technology giants have been pressing the Obama administration to allow them to publicly disclose more information about the national security requests they get under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
The three-decade-old law lets intelligence agencies monitor the communications of non-U.S. citizens who are believed to be outside the United States and involved in terrorist or other criminal activities.
FISA bars companies from even acknowledging they have received such requests. That secrecy has created a firestorm of controversy after revelations that technology companies have been turning over foreign users’ data to NSA.
Google published an open letter this week to Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller to give it more freedom to share with users the number and scope of national security requests.
"Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users' data are simply untrue," Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, wrote.
Facebook and Microsoft made similar public statements.
Finest Obtain because of into the profusion
Microsoft Corp said it might open five hundred particular retailers within
existing Greatest Acquire Co Inc shops inside the United states marketing solely
Windows-based tablets and computers and also other Microsoft solutions in an
exertion to revitalize product sales of its flagship functioning program.
The world's premier software package organization, which previously features a chain of 70 or so of its very own Microsoft Retailers and kiosks inside of shopping malls, reported on Thursday the initiative would increase more than 1,two hundred Best Get Microsoft-trained profits associates that can help shoppers.
Microsoft's new Windows 8 running technique has marketed greater than one
hundred million copies given that start in October, but revenue of recent
tablets and PCs managing the computer software, and its personal Surface area
pill, haven't been as robust mainly because it hoped. An up to date variation
called Windows eight.one is scheduled for release afterwards this 12 months.
A part of the challenge has actually been that Microsoft has struggled to obtain the attention of consumers at substantial merchants including Finest Obtain because of into the profusion and recognition of Apple Inc's iPad and tablets functioning Google Inc's Android procedure.approach, which incorporates dedicating additional area to more-profitable products like tablets and cell telephones.
Most effective Buy, the world's largest buyer electronics chain, has also been trying to use its clout with suppliers to fight on the internet and discount rivals and increase in-store targeted visitors, profits and profitability.
The world's premier software package organization, which previously features a chain of 70 or so of its very own Microsoft Retailers and kiosks inside of shopping malls, reported on Thursday the initiative would increase more than 1,two hundred Best Get Microsoft-trained profits associates that can help shoppers.
A part of the challenge has actually been that Microsoft has struggled to obtain the attention of consumers at substantial merchants including Finest Obtain because of into the profusion and recognition of Apple Inc's iPad and tablets functioning Google Inc's Android procedure.approach, which incorporates dedicating additional area to more-profitable products like tablets and cell telephones.
Most effective Buy, the world's largest buyer electronics chain, has also been trying to use its clout with suppliers to fight on the internet and discount rivals and increase in-store targeted visitors, profits and profitability.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
First Borders, then Best Buy. Now Amazon's gunning for Safeway
For the last five years, Amazon has been working to figure out an online
business that has claimed its share of carnage -- grocery delivery.
Here in the company's backyard, it's deployed a fleet of green, refrigerated trucks to bring produce, meats, boxes of cereal, and more to customers' front doors 24 hours a day, whenever they choose. And the company has tinkered with pricing formulas, as well as the kind of goods it offers, trying to come up with the right mix that engenders loyalty and still earns a profit.
Asked, after so many years of experimentation, if the company planned to move AmazonFresh beyond Seattle at the company's annual shareholder meeting last month, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos sounded optimistic about the possibility, if decidedly noncommittal. He said that the AmazonFresh team has "made progress on the economics over the last year," adding that the company has "been doing a lot of experiments" to figure out how to please customers and make money.
Amazon has apparently hit on that formula. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that it quietly rolled out AmazonFresh to a second market: Los Angeles. And Reuters reported that Amazon will bring the service to the San Francisco Bay Area later this year, and could launch it in as many 20 other cities in the United States and abroad, depending on how well AmazonFresh fares in the two California markets. Amazon declined to comment for this article.
Why does Amazon want to deliver groceries -- a business where so many before it, notably Webvan and HomeGrocer, have failed? It's all about getting more retail dollars from consumers. Amazon's ambitions are as vast as its product selection; it wants to be a digital shopping mall where consumers turn for their every need, be it books, movies, clothes, electronics, or even groceries.
"Like everything, (AmazonFresh) is a wallet share play -- Amazon's attempt to capture more of the consumer's dollar," said Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru-Kodali.
AmazonFresh has the potential, perhaps more than any other Amazon business, to habituate customers into buying from the company regularly. Unlike buying books, movies, and so much else that Amazon offers, shopping for groceries is a weekly, or even daily, activity. If Amazon can persuade consumers to buy their milk, bread, shampoo and laundry detergent from AmazonFresh, it may well move itself one step closer to convincing them to purchase other items from the company as well.
The grocery delivery service isn't just about capturing more retail dollars, though. Amazon will be able to capture more data about customers as well. Just as it uses its insights about the books that customers have purchased in order to recommend similar titles, it can learn more about consumers based on groceries they buy. Those details can be plugged into algorithms that can predict what might be of interest, then target products and ads to those shoppers.
Moreover, AmazonFresh moves Amazon even closer to its customers, who often rely on the United Parcel Service or the U.S. Postal Service to deliver its goods. With AmazonFresh, customers get goods directly from Amazon.
And in the long-running Seattle trial, they can order more than just cheese and crackers. Along with groceries, shoppers can pick up Walter Isaacson's best-selling book "Steve Jobs" for $17.74, a set of $299 Bose QuietComfort 15 noise-canceling headphones, and the B.O.B. Revolution SE baby stroller for $335.56. And they can get it all within hours of placing their order. AmazonFresh could help Amazon figure out delivering online purchases at a speed most of its retail rivals can't touch.
For all the promise, there are plenty of pitfalls for Amazon. Despite the bloodshed in the online grocery business during the dot.com boom, there's still plenty of competition. Two companies, FreshDirect and Peapod, continue to develop their own online grocery delivery services, focusing primarily on the east coast. Walmart is testing its Walmart To Go service in a handful of U.S. cities. And a handful of supermarket chains, such as Safeway, offer home delivery in certain markets.
In addition to the competition, Amazon will have to accept the slim margins of the grocery business. That's rarely been an issue for Amazon, which has throughout its existence, squeezed rivals from markets by selling goods for the narrowest of profits.
In the grocery business, though, margins are already tiny. Amazon will be hard-pressed to compete on price. Indeed, surveys by The Seattle Times and Seattle-based Geekwire show that prices at AmazonFresh are often higher than at local markets. What's more, Amazon charges $10 to deliver most orders under $100.
Amazon has tinkered with its formula in Seattle to find success. Here, AmazonFresh has rolled out "Seattle Spotlight," a section of the site that offers foods from some of the city's best known spots, such as Top Pot Doughnuts, the Pike Place Fish Market, and Caffe Vita. It even offers dinner fare such as lasagna and panna cotta La Spiga, a top Italian restaurant, and comfort food, such as meatloaf and chipotle mac n' cheese from Skillet, another popular dining spot.
"This is going to be very, very expensive for them," Forrester's Mulpuru-Kodali said. "It's going to be hard to make a profit in this space and even Amazon doesn't have infinite resources to lose money forever."
But for Amazon, the gambit isn't about making money from online grocery delivery. It's about getting people in the habit of buying everything they could possibly need from Amazon. If the company can pull that off, it knows the profits will eventually come.
Here in the company's backyard, it's deployed a fleet of green, refrigerated trucks to bring produce, meats, boxes of cereal, and more to customers' front doors 24 hours a day, whenever they choose. And the company has tinkered with pricing formulas, as well as the kind of goods it offers, trying to come up with the right mix that engenders loyalty and still earns a profit.
Asked, after so many years of experimentation, if the company planned to move AmazonFresh beyond Seattle at the company's annual shareholder meeting last month, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos sounded optimistic about the possibility, if decidedly noncommittal. He said that the AmazonFresh team has "made progress on the economics over the last year," adding that the company has "been doing a lot of experiments" to figure out how to please customers and make money.
Amazon has apparently hit on that formula. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that it quietly rolled out AmazonFresh to a second market: Los Angeles. And Reuters reported that Amazon will bring the service to the San Francisco Bay Area later this year, and could launch it in as many 20 other cities in the United States and abroad, depending on how well AmazonFresh fares in the two California markets. Amazon declined to comment for this article.
Why does Amazon want to deliver groceries -- a business where so many before it, notably Webvan and HomeGrocer, have failed? It's all about getting more retail dollars from consumers. Amazon's ambitions are as vast as its product selection; it wants to be a digital shopping mall where consumers turn for their every need, be it books, movies, clothes, electronics, or even groceries.
"Like everything, (AmazonFresh) is a wallet share play -- Amazon's attempt to capture more of the consumer's dollar," said Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru-Kodali.
AmazonFresh has the potential, perhaps more than any other Amazon business, to habituate customers into buying from the company regularly. Unlike buying books, movies, and so much else that Amazon offers, shopping for groceries is a weekly, or even daily, activity. If Amazon can persuade consumers to buy their milk, bread, shampoo and laundry detergent from AmazonFresh, it may well move itself one step closer to convincing them to purchase other items from the company as well.
The grocery delivery service isn't just about capturing more retail dollars, though. Amazon will be able to capture more data about customers as well. Just as it uses its insights about the books that customers have purchased in order to recommend similar titles, it can learn more about consumers based on groceries they buy. Those details can be plugged into algorithms that can predict what might be of interest, then target products and ads to those shoppers.
Moreover, AmazonFresh moves Amazon even closer to its customers, who often rely on the United Parcel Service or the U.S. Postal Service to deliver its goods. With AmazonFresh, customers get goods directly from Amazon.
And in the long-running Seattle trial, they can order more than just cheese and crackers. Along with groceries, shoppers can pick up Walter Isaacson's best-selling book "Steve Jobs" for $17.74, a set of $299 Bose QuietComfort 15 noise-canceling headphones, and the B.O.B. Revolution SE baby stroller for $335.56. And they can get it all within hours of placing their order. AmazonFresh could help Amazon figure out delivering online purchases at a speed most of its retail rivals can't touch.
For all the promise, there are plenty of pitfalls for Amazon. Despite the bloodshed in the online grocery business during the dot.com boom, there's still plenty of competition. Two companies, FreshDirect and Peapod, continue to develop their own online grocery delivery services, focusing primarily on the east coast. Walmart is testing its Walmart To Go service in a handful of U.S. cities. And a handful of supermarket chains, such as Safeway, offer home delivery in certain markets.
In addition to the competition, Amazon will have to accept the slim margins of the grocery business. That's rarely been an issue for Amazon, which has throughout its existence, squeezed rivals from markets by selling goods for the narrowest of profits.
In the grocery business, though, margins are already tiny. Amazon will be hard-pressed to compete on price. Indeed, surveys by The Seattle Times and Seattle-based Geekwire show that prices at AmazonFresh are often higher than at local markets. What's more, Amazon charges $10 to deliver most orders under $100.
Amazon has tinkered with its formula in Seattle to find success. Here, AmazonFresh has rolled out "Seattle Spotlight," a section of the site that offers foods from some of the city's best known spots, such as Top Pot Doughnuts, the Pike Place Fish Market, and Caffe Vita. It even offers dinner fare such as lasagna and panna cotta La Spiga, a top Italian restaurant, and comfort food, such as meatloaf and chipotle mac n' cheese from Skillet, another popular dining spot.
"This is going to be very, very expensive for them," Forrester's Mulpuru-Kodali said. "It's going to be hard to make a profit in this space and even Amazon doesn't have infinite resources to lose money forever."
But for Amazon, the gambit isn't about making money from online grocery delivery. It's about getting people in the habit of buying everything they could possibly need from Amazon. If the company can pull that off, it knows the profits will eventually come.
Leblond also talked up some formerly disclosed
Some Windows OEMs showed off coming compact form-factor Home windows 8
tablets as element of Computex this 7 days.
Microsoft failed to get the wraps off its rumored 8-inch Area on the clearly show. Though the corporation did share a couple of much more tidbits about a lot of the variations it's creating to Windows 8 together with the 8.1 "Blue" launch that can likely make these smaller sized devices far more usable.
Among the new small-screen gadgets that Microsoft's companions showed this week were the 8-inch Acer Iconia W3 (with the outsized keyboard); the Lenovo MiiX 8, an 8-inch tablet with a stylus and 3G; 8-inch AMD Temash-based reference machines from Gigabyte and Quanta that corporations can personalize; as well as the 7-inch quad-core Inventec gadget.
A person from the critical alterations Microsoft is touting for this coming era of gadgets is improved portrait-mode help. Home windows Corporate Vice president of System Administration Antoine Lebond discussed what's approaching the portrait-mode entrance for the duration of his remarks at Computex this 7 days:
We did some function in Home windows eight.one to own portrait-specific Get started monitor layouts that work a great deal improved. The entire applications which can be in the box truly function just as very well in portrait mode as they function in landscape.
We did some get the job done within the product interface amount about edge detection and such things as that for making it easier to possess smaller sized bezels on these products so that OEMs and folk who build products similar to this could establish exactly the sorts of gadgets they need, and Home windows eight.one will probably be good on them.
Which is fantastic news for anyone that has been pissed off when looking to use their Surface RT or Professional -- or other Home windows eight or Home windows RT tablets -- in portrait method to no avail.
Leblond also talked up some formerly disclosed Windows 8.1 features, including the Metrofied Computer Configurations, far more flexible Snap selections, and touch-keyboard autosuggestion improvements as generating smaller-screen Home windows 8 gadgets workable.
Microsoft's disclosure before this 7 days that it'll make Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote (Office Dwelling & Student 2013) available on sub-10-inch Intel-based Windows eight.1 products left some scratching their heads, as desktop versions of these apps on Business office are not touch-optimized.
I'm wondering if Microsoft might be making the Metro/Windows Store versions of these applications available while in the box, instead. The Metro-Style versions of these four apps are in development as part of Microsoft's "Gemini" wave of products. Maybe there's a Metro version of your Office Home & Student 2013 SKU coming?
http://www.windows7retailbox.com/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2010-full-retail-pack-p-3547.html
Microsoft failed to get the wraps off its rumored 8-inch Area on the clearly show. Though the corporation did share a couple of much more tidbits about a lot of the variations it's creating to Windows 8 together with the 8.1 "Blue" launch that can likely make these smaller sized devices far more usable.
Among the new small-screen gadgets that Microsoft's companions showed this week were the 8-inch Acer Iconia W3 (with the outsized keyboard); the Lenovo MiiX 8, an 8-inch tablet with a stylus and 3G; 8-inch AMD Temash-based reference machines from Gigabyte and Quanta that corporations can personalize; as well as the 7-inch quad-core Inventec gadget.
A person from the critical alterations Microsoft is touting for this coming era of gadgets is improved portrait-mode help. Home windows Corporate Vice president of System Administration Antoine Lebond discussed what's approaching the portrait-mode entrance for the duration of his remarks at Computex this 7 days:
We did some function in Home windows eight.one to own portrait-specific Get started monitor layouts that work a great deal improved. The entire applications which can be in the box truly function just as very well in portrait mode as they function in landscape.
We did some get the job done within the product interface amount about edge detection and such things as that for making it easier to possess smaller sized bezels on these products so that OEMs and folk who build products similar to this could establish exactly the sorts of gadgets they need, and Home windows eight.one will probably be good on them.
Which is fantastic news for anyone that has been pissed off when looking to use their Surface RT or Professional -- or other Home windows eight or Home windows RT tablets -- in portrait method to no avail.
Leblond also talked up some formerly disclosed Windows 8.1 features, including the Metrofied Computer Configurations, far more flexible Snap selections, and touch-keyboard autosuggestion improvements as generating smaller-screen Home windows 8 gadgets workable.
Microsoft's disclosure before this 7 days that it'll make Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote (Office Dwelling & Student 2013) available on sub-10-inch Intel-based Windows eight.1 products left some scratching their heads, as desktop versions of these apps on Business office are not touch-optimized.
I'm wondering if Microsoft might be making the Metro/Windows Store versions of these applications available while in the box, instead. The Metro-Style versions of these four apps are in development as part of Microsoft's "Gemini" wave of products. Maybe there's a Metro version of your Office Home & Student 2013 SKU coming?
http://www.windows7retailbox.com/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2010-full-retail-pack-p-3547.html
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Microsoft is also discovering a fresh system of bundling
It absolutely was inescapable: Microsoft experienced no decision but to
pursue the small-sized tablet section if it hopes to be related. Customers are
significantly voting with their wallets that lesser pill sort factors tend to be
the solution to go. Apple has now jumped into that industry section using the
iPad Mini, an implicit concession that Steve Careers was erroneous when he
proclaimed which the fantastic tablet sizing was all over ten inches.
Up to now, Microsoft's forays in to the tablet market happen to be with bigger units, like its have Surface pill that sports activities a ten.6-inch display screen windows 7 ultimate full version. Most Windows 8 and Windows RT units built by OEMs have also been inside the full-sized phase. That's all changed together with the Acer Iconia W3 which was just unveiled at Computex Taipei.
The Iconia W3 is being billed given that the "industry's first 8-inch Home windows 8 pill," and its eight.1-inch exhibit will compete right along with the iPad Mini's seven.9-inch screen. An Intel Atom chip is identified inside, which promises all-day battery overall performance. Intel has long been making headway in tablet wins, such as scoring a place in Samsung's new Galaxy Tab three 10.one (also with the Atom processor). Intel's pricier chips also add to your larger cost of your Iconia W3, that will retail for $379.
Microsoft is also discovering a fresh system of bundling in a simple version of Office with scaled-down devices. That may provide the Iconia W3 a leg up in productiveness from the iPad Mini, though the display's resolution is unimpressive at one,280 x 800. Brain you, that's higher when compared to the iPad Mini's existing one,024 x 768, but this really is 2013 and Apple is anticipated to maneuver to Retina iPad Minis inside of a make a difference of months. Over and above just resolution, the Iconia W3 has inadequate viewing angles and coloration reproduction, based on the Verge.
The Iconia W3 may possibly not possess a fantastic shot at competing while using the iPad Mini, but extra importantly the gadget signifies Home windows 8's entry like a platform into your small-sized segment. That is a a lot greater offer for Microsoft than it truly is for Acer. Now the computer software big has to release a 7-inch Surface.
It can be been a annoying route for Microsoft traders, who've watched the corporation fail to capitalize around the incredible development in cellular in excess of the previous 10 years. Nonetheless, along with the release of its personal pill, in addition to the commonly anticipated Windows 8 running system, the corporate is seeking to generate a splash in this booming marketplace. In a new top quality report on Microsoft, a Motley Idiot analyst clarifies that although the chance is big, so tend to be the issues. The report features typical updates as important occasions take place, so be sure to say a copy of the report now by clicking right here.
Up to now, Microsoft's forays in to the tablet market happen to be with bigger units, like its have Surface pill that sports activities a ten.6-inch display screen windows 7 ultimate full version. Most Windows 8 and Windows RT units built by OEMs have also been inside the full-sized phase. That's all changed together with the Acer Iconia W3 which was just unveiled at Computex Taipei.
The Iconia W3 is being billed given that the "industry's first 8-inch Home windows 8 pill," and its eight.1-inch exhibit will compete right along with the iPad Mini's seven.9-inch screen. An Intel Atom chip is identified inside, which promises all-day battery overall performance. Intel has long been making headway in tablet wins, such as scoring a place in Samsung's new Galaxy Tab three 10.one (also with the Atom processor). Intel's pricier chips also add to your larger cost of your Iconia W3, that will retail for $379.
Microsoft is also discovering a fresh system of bundling in a simple version of Office with scaled-down devices. That may provide the Iconia W3 a leg up in productiveness from the iPad Mini, though the display's resolution is unimpressive at one,280 x 800. Brain you, that's higher when compared to the iPad Mini's existing one,024 x 768, but this really is 2013 and Apple is anticipated to maneuver to Retina iPad Minis inside of a make a difference of months. Over and above just resolution, the Iconia W3 has inadequate viewing angles and coloration reproduction, based on the Verge.
The Iconia W3 may possibly not possess a fantastic shot at competing while using the iPad Mini, but extra importantly the gadget signifies Home windows 8's entry like a platform into your small-sized segment. That is a a lot greater offer for Microsoft than it truly is for Acer. Now the computer software big has to release a 7-inch Surface.
It can be been a annoying route for Microsoft traders, who've watched the corporation fail to capitalize around the incredible development in cellular in excess of the previous 10 years. Nonetheless, along with the release of its personal pill, in addition to the commonly anticipated Windows 8 running system, the corporate is seeking to generate a splash in this booming marketplace. In a new top quality report on Microsoft, a Motley Idiot analyst clarifies that although the chance is big, so tend to be the issues. The report features typical updates as important occasions take place, so be sure to say a copy of the report now by clicking right here.
It truly is been a disheartening path for Microsoft traders
It was inescapable: Microsoft experienced no selection but to go after the
small-sized tablet segment if it hopes to generally be pertinent. Consumers are
increasingly voting with their wallets that smaller pill kind aspects are the
technique to go. Apple has now jumped into that market segment with the iPad
Mini, an implicit concession that Steve Employment was improper when he
proclaimed the perfect pill size was about 10 inches.
Thus far, Microsoft's forays in the pill industry are with greater units, such as its possess Surface tablet that sports a 10.6-inch display. Most Windows 8 and Home windows RT products built by OEMs have also been while in the full-sized phase. Which is all changed along with the Acer Iconia W3 that was just unveiled at Computex Taipei.
The Iconia W3 is remaining billed as being the "industry's to start with 8-inch Windows 8 pill," and its eight.1-inch display will contend directly while using the iPad Mini's 7.9-inch display screen. An Intel Atom chip is found within, which guarantees all-day battery functionality. Intel continues to be making headway in tablet wins, such as scoring a location in Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 ten.1 (also with the Atom processor). Intel's pricier chips also contribute to your bigger value of the Iconia W3, which can retail for $379.
Microsoft is also discovering a completely new approach of bundling inside of a fundamental edition of Office environment with lesser units. That will provide the Iconia W3 a leg up in productivity towards the iPad Mini, although the display's resolution is unimpressive at 1,280 x 800. Intellect you, that is greater as opposed to iPad Mini's present 1,024 x 768, but that is 2013 and Apple is anticipated to maneuver to Retina iPad Minis in a very matter of months. Further than just resolution, the Iconia W3 has weak viewing angles and colour copy, in accordance with the Verge.
The Iconia W3 might not have a great shot at competing with all the iPad Mini, but much more importantly the system signifies Home windows 8's entry to be a system into your small-sized segment. It is a a great deal greater deal for Microsoft than it is for Acer. Now the program giant ought to release a 7-inch Surface.
It truly is been a disheartening path for Microsoft traders, who've watched the corporation fall short to capitalize on the outstanding progress in mobile more than the past decade. Having said that, together with the launch of its very own tablet, as well as the widely predicted Windows eight functioning method, the corporation is seeking to produce a splash with this booming industry. In a very new high quality report on Microsoft, a Motley Fool analyst points out that when the opportunity is large, so are the issues. The report includes typical updates as vital situations arise, so be certain to assert a duplicate of the report now by clicking in this article.
Thus far, Microsoft's forays in the pill industry are with greater units, such as its possess Surface tablet that sports a 10.6-inch display. Most Windows 8 and Home windows RT products built by OEMs have also been while in the full-sized phase. Which is all changed along with the Acer Iconia W3 that was just unveiled at Computex Taipei.
The Iconia W3 is remaining billed as being the "industry's to start with 8-inch Windows 8 pill," and its eight.1-inch display will contend directly while using the iPad Mini's 7.9-inch display screen. An Intel Atom chip is found within, which guarantees all-day battery functionality. Intel continues to be making headway in tablet wins, such as scoring a location in Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 ten.1 (also with the Atom processor). Intel's pricier chips also contribute to your bigger value of the Iconia W3, which can retail for $379.
Microsoft is also discovering a completely new approach of bundling inside of a fundamental edition of Office environment with lesser units. That will provide the Iconia W3 a leg up in productivity towards the iPad Mini, although the display's resolution is unimpressive at 1,280 x 800. Intellect you, that is greater as opposed to iPad Mini's present 1,024 x 768, but that is 2013 and Apple is anticipated to maneuver to Retina iPad Minis in a very matter of months. Further than just resolution, the Iconia W3 has weak viewing angles and colour copy, in accordance with the Verge.
The Iconia W3 might not have a great shot at competing with all the iPad Mini, but much more importantly the system signifies Home windows 8's entry to be a system into your small-sized segment. It is a a great deal greater deal for Microsoft than it is for Acer. Now the program giant ought to release a 7-inch Surface.
It truly is been a disheartening path for Microsoft traders, who've watched the corporation fall short to capitalize on the outstanding progress in mobile more than the past decade. Having said that, together with the launch of its very own tablet, as well as the widely predicted Windows eight functioning method, the corporation is seeking to produce a splash with this booming industry. In a very new high quality report on Microsoft, a Motley Fool analyst points out that when the opportunity is large, so are the issues. The report includes typical updates as vital situations arise, so be certain to assert a duplicate of the report now by clicking in this article.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Samsung targets the Xperia Z, announces the new, waterproof Galaxy S4 Active
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S4 Active smartphone, ready to
take on the Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZR. The phone has been rumored for a while
and previously expected to be unveiled at the company’s June 20 show in London,
leaving us wondering what the company has left for the event.
Aimed at people who, “focus on living life to the fullest,” according to Samsung, the S4 Active is probably more likely to be purchased by those who focus on being a bit clumsy, as the case has been stamped with an IP67 rating, making it waterproof to a depth of one meter for 30 minutes, and resistant to harmful dust particles. The S4 Active has a slightly chunkier body than the regular Galaxy S4, measuring 9.1mm at its thickest point compared to the S4’s 7.9mm. It’s also heavier, as it weighs 151 grams, which is 20 grams more than the standard S4.
But the question on many people’s lips will be has Samsung altered the internal specs of the S4 Active, or has it truly made a competitor to the Sony Xperia Z? The answer is, almost. The S4 Active retains the 1.9GHz quad-core processor seen in most Galaxy S4 smartphones, and the screen still measures 5-inches and has a 1080p resolution. It’s not a Super AMOLED panel though, and Samsung’s press releases calls it simply a TFT LCD. The camera has been downgraded to 8-megapixels, but it does come with an Aqua Mode for improved underwater shots, similar to Sony’s Xperia ZR.
Android 4.2, TouchWiz, and lots of software features
Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is the operating system, and whole host of Samsung features are included in the TouchWiz user interface, including Air View, Air Gesture, Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, S Health and S Translator. The screen can also be used with gloved hands, which could be handy if the S4 Active is used as Samsung intends.
There’s only one version of the S4 Active listed, and it comes with 16GB of internal memory (of which Samsung says 11GB is available for use), plus it has 4G LTE connectivity, a 2-megapixel video call camera, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi Direct, NFC, and the same 2600mAh battery cell found in the Galaxy S4. What’s not clear is if it’s removable, something which may be unlikely due to the S4 Active’s waterproof nature.
The Galaxy S4 has proven insanely popular already, and while the Xperia Z has also been doing very well, anyone wanting a high-end waterproof phone now has a second choice. We’d imagine Sony will be a little concerned about the S4 Active, despite the Xperia Z beating it on paper in several ways, particularly as it has been struggling to find carrier support in the U.S. for the device.
Samsung will be putting the S4 Active on sale this summer, and initially it’ll be coming to the U.S. and Sweden, with other countries to follow. You’ll be able to buy the phone in three colors, grey, blue or orange, but the price hasn’t been stated.
Aimed at people who, “focus on living life to the fullest,” according to Samsung, the S4 Active is probably more likely to be purchased by those who focus on being a bit clumsy, as the case has been stamped with an IP67 rating, making it waterproof to a depth of one meter for 30 minutes, and resistant to harmful dust particles. The S4 Active has a slightly chunkier body than the regular Galaxy S4, measuring 9.1mm at its thickest point compared to the S4’s 7.9mm. It’s also heavier, as it weighs 151 grams, which is 20 grams more than the standard S4.
But the question on many people’s lips will be has Samsung altered the internal specs of the S4 Active, or has it truly made a competitor to the Sony Xperia Z? The answer is, almost. The S4 Active retains the 1.9GHz quad-core processor seen in most Galaxy S4 smartphones, and the screen still measures 5-inches and has a 1080p resolution. It’s not a Super AMOLED panel though, and Samsung’s press releases calls it simply a TFT LCD. The camera has been downgraded to 8-megapixels, but it does come with an Aqua Mode for improved underwater shots, similar to Sony’s Xperia ZR.
Android 4.2, TouchWiz, and lots of software features
Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is the operating system, and whole host of Samsung features are included in the TouchWiz user interface, including Air View, Air Gesture, Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, S Health and S Translator. The screen can also be used with gloved hands, which could be handy if the S4 Active is used as Samsung intends.
There’s only one version of the S4 Active listed, and it comes with 16GB of internal memory (of which Samsung says 11GB is available for use), plus it has 4G LTE connectivity, a 2-megapixel video call camera, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi Direct, NFC, and the same 2600mAh battery cell found in the Galaxy S4. What’s not clear is if it’s removable, something which may be unlikely due to the S4 Active’s waterproof nature.
The Galaxy S4 has proven insanely popular already, and while the Xperia Z has also been doing very well, anyone wanting a high-end waterproof phone now has a second choice. We’d imagine Sony will be a little concerned about the S4 Active, despite the Xperia Z beating it on paper in several ways, particularly as it has been struggling to find carrier support in the U.S. for the device.
Samsung will be putting the S4 Active on sale this summer, and initially it’ll be coming to the U.S. and Sweden, with other countries to follow. You’ll be able to buy the phone in three colors, grey, blue or orange, but the price hasn’t been stated.
Outlook RT also is going to be delivered in ultimate variety
Microsoft is likely to make available as a part of its forthcoming Windows
8.one "Blue" launch of Home windows consumer the rumored Outlook 2013 RT mail
customer, business officers verified on June 5
Microsoft's Main Financial Officer of Windows, Tami Reller, manufactured the announcement during the Computex demonstrate in Taipei, proclaiming that Office RT can be a leading enterprise and purchaser element ask for.
A preview of a Desktop -- not a Metro-Style/Windows Shop -- version of Outlook which has been adapted to run about the ARM will debut with the Home windows 8.one RT working method on June 26, 2013. When Microsoft releases to production Windows eight.one RT (a date rumored to generally be some time all-around August or September this 12 months), Outlook RT also is going to be delivered in ultimate variety, officials said.
Outlook RT will run on Microsoft's ARM-based Surface RT products, too as any/all other ARM-based Home windows RT tablets and PCs. As I blogged before this yr, it will be positioned to be a complement, not a alternative to, the built-in Home windows Mail consumer on Home windows eight and Home windows RT PCs. Outlook RT will functionality exactly the same as Outlook 2013, in terms of the way it is installed and taken care of.
At this time, Microsoft isn't going to involve Outlook as element of the Place of work House & Student 2013 RT suite that it bundles along with the Home windows RT running system. Only Word RT, Excel RT, PowerPoint RT and OneNote RT are included. All of these are Desktop versions, not Metro-Style/Windows Keep apps. That claimed, Microsoft is building Metro-Style versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint (plus an updated variation of Metro-Style OneNote) which it's expected to launch this fall as a part of its "Gemini" wave of products.
At Computex, Reller also is mentioned to have announced that Microsoft is going to be making accessible Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote offered on Home windows 8.1 PCs and tablets out of your box. The preinstallation from the core Office environment apps on x86-based Surfaces was expected by some after Microsoft recently announced that new 256 GB Surface area Pros would be readily available in Japan with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OnetNote preinstalled. I asked Microsoft officials to confirm that these four apps are going to be mounted by default on Home windows eight.one gadgets, but received no word back.
Update: It seems to get that only "smaller" x86-based Windows Blue devices will come preloaded with Business office 2013 Dwelling & Student.
A recently unearthed Microsoft roadmap indicated that Microsoft might be holding off on delivering Outlook RT until October 2014. Either that roadmap was old or Microsoft officers decided to accelerate the release of Outlook RT. Now I'm wondering whether other dates on that roadmap might be incorrect. If so, I'm curious whether the Softies might deliver Office environment for iOS and Android sooner than October 2014, as the roadmap indicated.
Microsoft's Main Financial Officer of Windows, Tami Reller, manufactured the announcement during the Computex demonstrate in Taipei, proclaiming that Office RT can be a leading enterprise and purchaser element ask for.
A preview of a Desktop -- not a Metro-Style/Windows Shop -- version of Outlook which has been adapted to run about the ARM will debut with the Home windows 8.one RT working method on June 26, 2013. When Microsoft releases to production Windows eight.one RT (a date rumored to generally be some time all-around August or September this 12 months), Outlook RT also is going to be delivered in ultimate variety, officials said.
Outlook RT will run on Microsoft's ARM-based Surface RT products, too as any/all other ARM-based Home windows RT tablets and PCs. As I blogged before this yr, it will be positioned to be a complement, not a alternative to, the built-in Home windows Mail consumer on Home windows eight and Home windows RT PCs. Outlook RT will functionality exactly the same as Outlook 2013, in terms of the way it is installed and taken care of.
At this time, Microsoft isn't going to involve Outlook as element of the Place of work House & Student 2013 RT suite that it bundles along with the Home windows RT running system. Only Word RT, Excel RT, PowerPoint RT and OneNote RT are included. All of these are Desktop versions, not Metro-Style/Windows Keep apps. That claimed, Microsoft is building Metro-Style versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint (plus an updated variation of Metro-Style OneNote) which it's expected to launch this fall as a part of its "Gemini" wave of products.
At Computex, Reller also is mentioned to have announced that Microsoft is going to be making accessible Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote offered on Home windows 8.1 PCs and tablets out of your box. The preinstallation from the core Office environment apps on x86-based Surfaces was expected by some after Microsoft recently announced that new 256 GB Surface area Pros would be readily available in Japan with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OnetNote preinstalled. I asked Microsoft officials to confirm that these four apps are going to be mounted by default on Home windows eight.one gadgets, but received no word back.
Update: It seems to get that only "smaller" x86-based Windows Blue devices will come preloaded with Business office 2013 Dwelling & Student.
A recently unearthed Microsoft roadmap indicated that Microsoft might be holding off on delivering Outlook RT until October 2014. Either that roadmap was old or Microsoft officers decided to accelerate the release of Outlook RT. Now I'm wondering whether other dates on that roadmap might be incorrect. If so, I'm curious whether the Softies might deliver Office environment for iOS and Android sooner than October 2014, as the roadmap indicated.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
What’s a Haswell? Intel names new chip after 84-person Colorado town
Intel has named its new microprocessor chip the Haswell, a name which diverges sharply from its more technical sounding chip names like Core 2 Duo and i7. But the name Haswell has roots which are even further off the technological map. In fact you’ll have to squint to find it on any map. The Intel chipset is named after the tiny town of Haswell, Colorado, with a population of eighty-four people and it less than one square mile in size. The hundred year old town is essentially just a group of houses built along the side of the Missouri Pacific Railroad near the state’s eastern border. So what does the town of Haswell have to do with the new Intel chip which bears its name?
Not a thing. Intel tells the Denver Post that one of its employees was looking through the U.S. zip code database for town names which might be suitable as product names, and chose Haswell without having any familiarity with the city itself. The tiny Colorado town is getting more publicity thanks to Intel than it’s likely gotten in its entire history since having been established in 1908. But while we’ll have to see whether the Hawsell processor turns the town of Haswell into a tourist destination for tech aficionados, the new chip will have an immediate impact on the tech industry.
Apple and various PC vendors which use Intel’s mobile processors in their laptops or tablets will be competing to be the first to deliver a Haswell based device to market, as the new low power chip allows for longer battery life or slimmer devices with smaller batteries.
Microsoft could adapt to an market described by touchscreens
Does anybody care about Home windows RT? The beleaguered running program
has long been shunned by producers and shoppers alike as a consequence of its
convoluted interface that even Microsoft staff members have problem
comprehension and detailing to potential prospects. Now Microsoft is reportedly
scheduling on reducing the price with the operating method in an make an effort
to encourage a person beyond its individual headquarters that Home windows RT is
well worth, very well, something.
Windows RT need to have already been a straightforward provide. It absolutely was the 1st variation of Windows designed especially for tablets and supplied the base for your Surface tablet, which was intended to point out that Microsoft could adapt to an market described by touchscreens and tablets in its place of mice and computer towers. Microsoft made use of Windows RT to be a platform off of which it could reinvent itself like a products and products and services business and, when it was executing so, prepare the planet to get a new Windows. The sole trouble is always that, based on the numerous assessments of Windows eight, Home windows RT, and also the gadgets they electrical power, along with the much-discussed decrease of the common Computer system business, we are not fairly completely ready for Microsoft’s vision in the foreseeable future.
There are couple Windows RT products available. Samsung and Acer have both of those spoken out versus the running technique, declaring which they are not confident if the market place is prepared for a windowless Windows. HTC a short while ago canceled ideas for any 10-inch Home windows RT pill because “it cost far too a lot and desire for RT machines continues to be weak,” in accordance to Bloomberg. Paying for a Area pill - the one that does not operate Home windows 8 - is most likely the only sure-fire strategy to find a Home windows RT unit in most important stores, and also they may have confirmed unpopular. Home windows RT is most likely the only working system bearing the Home windows name that has not powered numerous barely-differentiated devices from each pc company - even Windows Vista, a widely-derided edition on the OS, proved to get a lot more popular.
Compare that with Windows 8, which a short while ago matched Home windows 7 since the fastest-selling functioning method in record and is also accustomed to electricity everything from all-in-one PCs to ultrabooks and hybrid units which will perform as tablets and notebook PCs. Windows RT has been panned by critics and mainly overlooked by companies and consumers; Windows eight has become obtained a bit superior and executed about in addition to you’d expect from the new version of Home windows. And exactly what does Home windows 8 do superior than Home windows RT? Effectively, really, it only makes it much easier to faux that Microsoft never ever overhauled Windows’ interface and rather released a different vanilla update into the system. That, by its quite character, signifies that Windows 8 just cannot be the longer term of Windows.
Windows RT arrives nearer to fitting the monthly bill. If Microsoft were to help make the functioning method a lot more user-friendly and forestall it from bouncing consumers in between its new interface and also the “traditional” desktop seemingly at random it would come even nearer to just what the company intended when it redesigned Windows. It could also make Home windows glimpse and behave extra similar to the Xbox One, that has turn into an ever more critical facet of Microsoft’s small business. Microsoft wants to turn out to be a gadgets and solutions corporation, and recognized the need to create solutions and platforms that did not basically include extra complexity or smaller updates to your Home windows developed so many yrs ago.
Reducing the expense of licensing Windows RT in all probability won’t make it a lot more popular to manufacturers, especially not although Windows 8 is on the market. But that doesn’t indicate that one thing like Home windows RT isn’t the future of Microsoft. Windows 8 is quite obviously a stop-gap involving Windows seven and whatever the organization decides to call its upcoming functioning process, and also the a single right after that, and the like. Microsoft has provided us a glimpse at its eyesight for that future of computing with Home windows RT, the Xbox Just one, and Windows Cell phone - now it simply just should make that vision a fact. Or it could continue to develop solutions that seem similar to their predecessors whilst the units, services, and software package we use go on to change at an more and more speedy tempo, due to the fact that’s labored out definitely perfectly so far.
From www.windows7retailbox.com
Windows RT need to have already been a straightforward provide. It absolutely was the 1st variation of Windows designed especially for tablets and supplied the base for your Surface tablet, which was intended to point out that Microsoft could adapt to an market described by touchscreens and tablets in its place of mice and computer towers. Microsoft made use of Windows RT to be a platform off of which it could reinvent itself like a products and products and services business and, when it was executing so, prepare the planet to get a new Windows. The sole trouble is always that, based on the numerous assessments of Windows eight, Home windows RT, and also the gadgets they electrical power, along with the much-discussed decrease of the common Computer system business, we are not fairly completely ready for Microsoft’s vision in the foreseeable future.
There are couple Windows RT products available. Samsung and Acer have both of those spoken out versus the running technique, declaring which they are not confident if the market place is prepared for a windowless Windows. HTC a short while ago canceled ideas for any 10-inch Home windows RT pill because “it cost far too a lot and desire for RT machines continues to be weak,” in accordance to Bloomberg. Paying for a Area pill - the one that does not operate Home windows 8 - is most likely the only sure-fire strategy to find a Home windows RT unit in most important stores, and also they may have confirmed unpopular. Home windows RT is most likely the only working system bearing the Home windows name that has not powered numerous barely-differentiated devices from each pc company - even Windows Vista, a widely-derided edition on the OS, proved to get a lot more popular.
Compare that with Windows 8, which a short while ago matched Home windows 7 since the fastest-selling functioning method in record and is also accustomed to electricity everything from all-in-one PCs to ultrabooks and hybrid units which will perform as tablets and notebook PCs. Windows RT has been panned by critics and mainly overlooked by companies and consumers; Windows eight has become obtained a bit superior and executed about in addition to you’d expect from the new version of Home windows. And exactly what does Home windows 8 do superior than Home windows RT? Effectively, really, it only makes it much easier to faux that Microsoft never ever overhauled Windows’ interface and rather released a different vanilla update into the system. That, by its quite character, signifies that Windows 8 just cannot be the longer term of Windows.
Windows RT arrives nearer to fitting the monthly bill. If Microsoft were to help make the functioning method a lot more user-friendly and forestall it from bouncing consumers in between its new interface and also the “traditional” desktop seemingly at random it would come even nearer to just what the company intended when it redesigned Windows. It could also make Home windows glimpse and behave extra similar to the Xbox One, that has turn into an ever more critical facet of Microsoft’s small business. Microsoft wants to turn out to be a gadgets and solutions corporation, and recognized the need to create solutions and platforms that did not basically include extra complexity or smaller updates to your Home windows developed so many yrs ago.
Reducing the expense of licensing Windows RT in all probability won’t make it a lot more popular to manufacturers, especially not although Windows 8 is on the market. But that doesn’t indicate that one thing like Home windows RT isn’t the future of Microsoft. Windows 8 is quite obviously a stop-gap involving Windows seven and whatever the organization decides to call its upcoming functioning process, and also the a single right after that, and the like. Microsoft has provided us a glimpse at its eyesight for that future of computing with Home windows RT, the Xbox Just one, and Windows Cell phone - now it simply just should make that vision a fact. Or it could continue to develop solutions that seem similar to their predecessors whilst the units, services, and software package we use go on to change at an more and more speedy tempo, due to the fact that’s labored out definitely perfectly so far.
From www.windows7retailbox.com
Monday, June 3, 2013
Apple declares WAR on Spotify: iRadio bags streaming rights
Apple is reportedly finalising plans for an internet radio station that
will launch the fruity firm into a bitter conflict with streaming music services
offered by Spotify, Google and Pandora.
Cupertino has signed a deal with Universal Music Group granting Apple the rights to UMG's recorded music but not to any music publishing rights, which covers songs written by Universal artists.
Apple has also signed a deal with Warner Music Group for both recorded music and music publishing rights. It is thought to still be in talks with Sony Music Entertainment and its subsidiary Sony/ATV, which is co-owned by Michael Jackson's estate and holds the rights to the Beatles' songs as well as modern ditties penned by Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
Apple will want to have all the loose ends tied up before its annual WWDC conference on 10 June. Tim Cook is expected to wheel out new Macbook models to replace the current range.
The new music service, dubbed iRadio by the tech press, is expected to be free and paid for by advertising, although there may be the option to take a subscription which will get rid of the corporate messages.
Despite the enormous popularity of streaming music, it is not particularly lucrative for performers and songwriters. Lady Gaga was reported to have received just over £100 from Spotify in 2009 after her song Poker Face was played more than a million times. Just last year, publishers were fighting off Pandora's attempt to lessen the percentage of revenues it pays them, which according to the New York Times is about 4 per cent. The same article claims the major labels want Apple to hand over something in the region of 10 per cent.
This desire to cash in on a notoriously unprofitable sector may have been a sticking point in Apple's negotiations with the music giants. The rumoured iRadio has been on the cards for some time, but making it happen has proven difficult for Cupertino.
However, despite teething problems, any Apple-endorsed streaming music service has the potential to be extremely profitable, as it would allow customers to preview music and then buy it directly from iTunes.
Cupertino has signed a deal with Universal Music Group granting Apple the rights to UMG's recorded music but not to any music publishing rights, which covers songs written by Universal artists.
Apple has also signed a deal with Warner Music Group for both recorded music and music publishing rights. It is thought to still be in talks with Sony Music Entertainment and its subsidiary Sony/ATV, which is co-owned by Michael Jackson's estate and holds the rights to the Beatles' songs as well as modern ditties penned by Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
Apple will want to have all the loose ends tied up before its annual WWDC conference on 10 June. Tim Cook is expected to wheel out new Macbook models to replace the current range.
The new music service, dubbed iRadio by the tech press, is expected to be free and paid for by advertising, although there may be the option to take a subscription which will get rid of the corporate messages.
Despite the enormous popularity of streaming music, it is not particularly lucrative for performers and songwriters. Lady Gaga was reported to have received just over £100 from Spotify in 2009 after her song Poker Face was played more than a million times. Just last year, publishers were fighting off Pandora's attempt to lessen the percentage of revenues it pays them, which according to the New York Times is about 4 per cent. The same article claims the major labels want Apple to hand over something in the region of 10 per cent.
This desire to cash in on a notoriously unprofitable sector may have been a sticking point in Apple's negotiations with the music giants. The rumoured iRadio has been on the cards for some time, but making it happen has proven difficult for Cupertino.
However, despite teething problems, any Apple-endorsed streaming music service has the potential to be extremely profitable, as it would allow customers to preview music and then buy it directly from iTunes.
This is the equal of likely into a supercar
Worldwide Pc revenue plunged 14% year-on-year inside the first quarter of
2013, and far of the blame was heaped around the lukewarm reception to Windows
eight. Microsoft's new functioning method was meant to offer a lift for the
ailing field but has ostensibly failed to carry out so.
Microsoft states that it's currently shifted 100 million Home windows eight licenses, which matches the revenue pace of Home windows 7, but 6 months in to the launch of the previous, NetApplications studies that Windows eight only contains a three.82% share of your desktop OS marketplace, when Windows seven and Windows XP nonetheless dominate with 44.72% and 38.31% respectively. Back again when Home windows seven was also 6 months old it previously had an 11.94% share, NetApplications suggests.
"Users are locating Windows eight to offer a compromised encounter that doesn't excel both like a new mobile interface or in a very basic desktop interface," explained Jay Chou, senior investigate analyst, in accordance to Reuters. "As a outcome, several consumers uncover a drop inside the conventional Computer working experience without the need of getting substantially from new capabilities like contact. The end result is usually that quite a few shoppers are anxious about upgrading to Windows eight, to state absolutely nothing of business consumers who're continue to just stepping into Windows seven."
Microsoft, to its credit history, is taking lively ways to deal with the many consumer issues about Windows eight. The tech big will debut the free of charge Windows 8.1 update (code-named "Blue") later on this calendar year, which can let consumers the option of launching the OS that has a button about the base left-hand corner of their screens that is comparable on the iconic 'Start' menu of earlier Windows iterations.
Will the update change the destiny of Home windows 8? Richard Windsor, founding father of the mobile-focused blog Radio No cost Mobile and a previous tech analyst at Nomura, says that it's nearly irrelevant, for the reason that since Apple has stopped attaining marketplace share during the Computer system earth, Laptop end users will eventually should improve to Windows 8, supplied the Microsoft hegemony of your sector. And so the Redmond, Washington-based enterprise will never be too anxious with regard to the fate of Home windows eight at this stage.
The proposition is usually that of a Microsoft ecosystem, "a unified practical experience across all gadgets that is definitely built-in and straightforward to utilize. But helpful and pleasant is not really what people see. Likely customers are introduced with what I make reference to as Blue Squares of Loss of life," he claims, noting that the difficulty went away with Windows seven but sad to say resurfaced with Home windows 8.
"When a consumer picks up a Windows Telephone or simply a Windows eight device at retail she or he is offered that has a screen jam packed with blue or purple squares labeled People, Maps, New music, Games and so forth. Hit any one of such squares and practically nothing is found. Generally, the device is not really even related. This is the equal of likely into a supercar showroom with $100,000 within your again pocket rather than getting equipped to get a test push," opined Windsor.
"Furthermore, Microsoft delivers a reliable expertise from console / Tv set as a result of Personal computer, tablet and phablet all of the strategy to the cellular phone. These devices are by no means displayed collectively and thus likely potential buyers hardly ever comprehend this is really an ecosystem for every gadget. How on the planet Microsoft expects consumer to get Home windows Telephones and Windows 8, when it does not show them what it's effective at and how huge its scope is, is often a mystery."
"As for [Original Products Manufacturers], the most effective factor they could do is appear up with machines which have been modern, cost-effective, which present new persuasive encounters in the Windows 8 ecosystem. You can see this together with the rise of convertibles, ultrabooks, along with the upcoming start of processors like Intel's Haswell, which purports to considerably expand the battery life of personal computers," Haynes additional. "If they don't, the OEMs will find a growing number of folks actively trying to get to abandon Windows 8 and starting up the move in direction of tablet computing as a substitute of laptops and desktops.
Microsoft states that it's currently shifted 100 million Home windows eight licenses, which matches the revenue pace of Home windows 7, but 6 months in to the launch of the previous, NetApplications studies that Windows eight only contains a three.82% share of your desktop OS marketplace, when Windows seven and Windows XP nonetheless dominate with 44.72% and 38.31% respectively. Back again when Home windows seven was also 6 months old it previously had an 11.94% share, NetApplications suggests.
"Users are locating Windows eight to offer a compromised encounter that doesn't excel both like a new mobile interface or in a very basic desktop interface," explained Jay Chou, senior investigate analyst, in accordance to Reuters. "As a outcome, several consumers uncover a drop inside the conventional Computer working experience without the need of getting substantially from new capabilities like contact. The end result is usually that quite a few shoppers are anxious about upgrading to Windows eight, to state absolutely nothing of business consumers who're continue to just stepping into Windows seven."
Microsoft, to its credit history, is taking lively ways to deal with the many consumer issues about Windows eight. The tech big will debut the free of charge Windows 8.1 update (code-named "Blue") later on this calendar year, which can let consumers the option of launching the OS that has a button about the base left-hand corner of their screens that is comparable on the iconic 'Start' menu of earlier Windows iterations.
Will the update change the destiny of Home windows 8? Richard Windsor, founding father of the mobile-focused blog Radio No cost Mobile and a previous tech analyst at Nomura, says that it's nearly irrelevant, for the reason that since Apple has stopped attaining marketplace share during the Computer system earth, Laptop end users will eventually should improve to Windows 8, supplied the Microsoft hegemony of your sector. And so the Redmond, Washington-based enterprise will never be too anxious with regard to the fate of Home windows eight at this stage.
The proposition is usually that of a Microsoft ecosystem, "a unified practical experience across all gadgets that is definitely built-in and straightforward to utilize. But helpful and pleasant is not really what people see. Likely customers are introduced with what I make reference to as Blue Squares of Loss of life," he claims, noting that the difficulty went away with Windows seven but sad to say resurfaced with Home windows 8.
"When a consumer picks up a Windows Telephone or simply a Windows eight device at retail she or he is offered that has a screen jam packed with blue or purple squares labeled People, Maps, New music, Games and so forth. Hit any one of such squares and practically nothing is found. Generally, the device is not really even related. This is the equal of likely into a supercar showroom with $100,000 within your again pocket rather than getting equipped to get a test push," opined Windsor.
"Furthermore, Microsoft delivers a reliable expertise from console / Tv set as a result of Personal computer, tablet and phablet all of the strategy to the cellular phone. These devices are by no means displayed collectively and thus likely potential buyers hardly ever comprehend this is really an ecosystem for every gadget. How on the planet Microsoft expects consumer to get Home windows Telephones and Windows 8, when it does not show them what it's effective at and how huge its scope is, is often a mystery."
"As for [Original Products Manufacturers], the most effective factor they could do is appear up with machines which have been modern, cost-effective, which present new persuasive encounters in the Windows 8 ecosystem. You can see this together with the rise of convertibles, ultrabooks, along with the upcoming start of processors like Intel's Haswell, which purports to considerably expand the battery life of personal computers," Haynes additional. "If they don't, the OEMs will find a growing number of folks actively trying to get to abandon Windows 8 and starting up the move in direction of tablet computing as a substitute of laptops and desktops.
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