Category Archives: IT News

New Apple patent will guide iPhone and Apple users pay each other soon

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A new Apple patent has come into our eyes, it is a system that could change the option you pay friends and family. It will be more convenient to shop via this patent.

It is suggested that the patent will allow the iPhone and Apple users to transfer money to each other via their devices if their positions are close enough.

You can choose the amount you want to send on your device via this person-to-person system, and you can either select the card to pay from in the Wallet app or sending an encrypted “packet”. The system works with simply operations.

For the property security issue, Apple suggests you use biometric authentication or pass-code support. For these actions, your property will be protected safer.

When the users pay with the system, the bank or card provider of the person could add the funds on their account. And there will be notification following to ensure everything has been verified.

It is possibly that the system will use the Bluetooth or NFC to work when make a payment. The system is just a patent right now, so there may be some teach support revealing. Please notice its update news if you are interested in this patent.

US woman was hit unconscious as drone fell on her head

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Reporting from Seattle that A local woman became unconscious after a drone crashed and hit her on the head. This incident occurred during a gay pride parade assembly last weekend and it caused injuries. This is the latest drone-related injuries event.

The witness told the reporters that the drone crashed into a nearby building first and then it hit on the woman. Luckily, the woman’s boyfriend caught her before she knocked down on the ground to avoid worse injury.

BBC News reported that the woman did not get any serious injuries and it is said that she have made a full recovery now.

The woman’s friend sent the police with the damaged drone. And a male suspect who might pilot the model aircraft turned himself in the authorities.

The damaged drone we talked about weighing 2lb, but the model and the manufacturer were still in confidential.

There were also similar incidents reported in other countries, singer Enrique Iglesias included. He was injured on his hand when he tried to grab a camera-equipped drone during one of his concerts. There was report previous hoping to ban the drone application in England for safety problem.

Ubers attempts to get you to the destination quicker with park of Bing Maps

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Uber seriously consider getting its customers to teir destination qucker than they expected, it is working hard to make this comes true. Now the taxi operator is able to use a part of Bing Maps to reach this goal.

Report from TechCrunch, the company has bought from Microsoft company a data center, camera technology, patents, mapping tech and about 100 engineers to make its aim to carry out well.

There were reports previously implied that Uber company intend to build its own mapping service for its drivers and customers by supporting the popular ride-hailing app.

It is said that Uber expects to hire Google Maps elites to work on the project, and it has teamed up with Nokia’s Here Maps for the big-money acquisition teach support.

Google maps has been used into the Uber application. Considering the competition between to companies, the elites create a rival service for Uber that would help it to get rid of the reliance on a third party.

At the beginning of this week, Uber introduced the launch of UberBOAT to intercontinental travel. It transports the customers between Europe and Asia Turkey’s central Bosporus strait. For its new Bing Maps, it will help the customers shorten the traveling time.

Facebook iOS app provides new photo editing function

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Even though Facebook launched a failed bid to get Snapchat some time ago, it has also introduced many features which are similar to the picture messaging service.

From the statistics, the latest update to its iOS app adds Snapchat-esque photo editing tools on Facebook. Thanks to this update app, the users can edit text, filters, and stickers to the photos when they upload them.

Those features have been tested by Facebook in its standalone apps. Those standalone apps are including Stickered and Slingshot. Therefore, Facebook is now apply those features to its core application.

A magic wand icon will be seen in the bottom corner by the users who used the update app after they have uploaded a photo. Then they could continue the next step as the instructions.

When they upload the photos, the photo editor menu will be showed to the users. It provides users the options for filters, applying text, tagging friends, crop tools and editing stickers as they need.

The reports implied that the update app will be released to the iOS users around the world soon. It won’t take too long that the update app supports Android users in the near future.

Instagram popularizes on Twitter by updating to Explore section

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Instagram has launched a major update and it enables to check its Explore page and introduce broader search options.

The photos service wants to be turning to place for real-time updates, it can bring more users to read the real-time content by adding trending Tags and Places.

These real-time updates will be noted with the targeted posts, according to the things that users whether they have liked or have followed the posts. The updates are served up by the previous system.

The display collections of photos are classified by specific subjects that will appear at the top of the page which update twice a week.

The modified search engine enables users to ask for requests due to places, not just base on people and tags. In the meanwhile, the top Search options tracks all three fields for updating.

Instagram team pointed out in a blog post: “there are more than 70 million photos and videos posted to Instagram each day, it allows you the chances the see the changes whenever something is occurring.”

It added, there are enrich contents to access which are unique reported, the topics are not just what the community talking about. The contents are based on real experience.

The latest update version is available to download from June 24. The modified Explore page is US, it is just for time being. It is said that the Instagram has plans to introduce its new features to the world.

A free version of Google Play music has been launched to compete with Apply Music

It is a week away from Apple Music’s launching. And it is no doubt that its competitors are uncomfortable with its launching. It is always high competition in tech field.

To compete with Apple Music, Google Play Music introduced a new free, ad-supported version before Apple Music launches.

Google provides a Pandora-like radio streaming service to everyone first in the United States, and the radio streaming service consists of curated playlists and automatically generated streams. This service has its limitation as the users can not pick any song they want just as they did on Spotify’s free tiers.
Google Play Music’s vice president of partnership Zahavah Levine said: “they think more users will become paying subscribers as the service providing them a taste of its new feature through the ad-supported tier.” He added, it has potential to bring more users into Google Play music.

Now this service is available on the web, and it will also introduce iOS and Android apps in the next few days on the web.

Apple is going to launch its Apple Music on its own 24-hour online radio station beats on June 30, confirmed by former Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe.

Twitter will apply Autoplay video clips on its app

Big news from Twitter that it is going to be more annoying as this social network has collaborate with Facebook and Instagram to support autoplay videos.

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The users can share the videos on Twitter with its newly-launched video sharing tool that created by Vine videos , GIFs and clips. This new sharing tool will play the videos automatically when the users swipe down over them.

The autoplay is a new setting on Twitter, the users can also readjust the setting with personal preferences by reverting to the click-to-play setting.

It is announced by Twitter that the new feature will enhance its performance on the network, however, to reach a better performance relies on advertising revenue. The more ads its made, it better for its popularity.

David Regan, senior product manager of Twitter stated in a blog post that through the way to introduce the autoplay and make clear position on viewablility, they assume Twitter is the advanced platform for users to share and post the high-quality video content in the world.

The new feature is being modified in on iOS and the web now. The Android users can set this feature to receive the autoplay video in the near future.

Microsoft Xbox one provides backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games

Microsoft released the Xbox one becomes backwards compatible in via its official statement, and this feature will allow users to play Xbox 360 on the control panel.

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The players will have access to the Xbox 360 exclusive features as the digital titles and physical release will operate on the current-generation system.

As reported, the Microsoft company announced this news during its introduction of E3 2015 in Microsoft’s Xbox press conference.

Its old generation games will support Xbox one features like screenshots and broadcasting, and the developers is easy with either to modify their software to make this possible or not. In another word, the developers don’t have to modify the software to use this feature.

It is confirmed by the Microsoft representative that the Microsoft company won’t charge the players to play the games if they have owned the games as he reported on stage of E3.

The Xbox Preview members can apply this feature of backwards compatibility from June 15. So you are a Preview member, you can experience its new feature now. And backwards compatibility will be free for everyone to experience this feature from the Christmas holiday. For further information of this new feature, please stay close to Microsoft news.

Anywhere Sim Card enables national roaming to tackle UK hotspots

 

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A sim card will be automatically connecting to the moblie phone internet and offering the high-quality signal is made to be on sale in the UK.

To solve the problem of hotspot around Britian that the connectivity is typivally weak, the Anywhere Sim card enables national roaming on the moblie phone.

Report from BBC news, the Anywhere Sim charges the customers 5p a minute for calls, 5p per SMS Tex and 5p per megabyte of data and the Sim card is limited to 3G for the time being.

Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three have faced much pressure from the UK government to provide national romaing to the customers, but they have resisted so far.

There are also disadvantages to Anywhere Sim service. For example, the users won’t be able to swithc to another network during the mid-call and they must wait for the calls to cut out, after that they can move to a different operator.

Even though the customers who register for the basic service that enables to receive calls across the network, they are not able to use the dail-outs and date except on O2 system. Anywerhe Sim card will charge double when this is extended to include all operators.

The Lancashire-based is going to launchAnywhere Sim service within five weeks. They will sell the SIMS as pay-as-you-go mean on its own website, eBay and Amazon.

Amzon has plan to build solar to support date centres

News from cloud provider Amazon Web services that it has plans to build a 80 megawatt solar far in the US to enhance its global connection of date centres for the usage of renewable engery.

The project will be located in Virginia that named Amzon Solar Farm US East. This solar farm is predicted to generate 170,000 megwatt hours of solar power each year. It will make sure for the power application to 15,000 families by October 2016.

It is said AWS will be the largest solar farm in Virginia as it has teamed up with Community Energy to build the facility. They will delivere the energy which generating from the farm into the electrical grids to supply the existing and future data centres.

To achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for global infrastructure, AWS announced the long-term plans for this target last November. However, the announcement was disbuted due to unmature proposal. There was no clear plan claimed to achieve the goal.

Recently, Greenpeace has talked with AWS on multiple occassions for further discussion. It is not sure whether the Greenpeace refuse running its facilities on renewable energy or use the energy produced by non-renewable resources.

The environmental activist group published a letter from 19 AWS customers this week. It also published the likes of Thoughtworks and The Huffington Post, this letter called on the transparency of the types of energy sources powering its infrastructure provided by the company.

To answer this news, AWS gave the reason that its customers use a small amount of servers and energy which leading to fewer carbon emissions than businesses running their own data centres. However, the lack of transparency on its use of renewable energy concerned by the public was not addressed by AWS.

The company confirmed about 25 percent of AWS’ infrastructure is powered by renewable energy at present. And the company’s goal is to reach 40 percent by the end of next year.

High tech products rely on advanced energy. It is said that Technology giants Apple, Google and Facebook are also working on how to reach their renewable energy goals.

It is acknowledged that 87 percent of Apple’s operations run on renewable energy.

Last year, Facebook run a data centre entirely generated electricity by wind energy. It has addressed it will test solar-powered drones to provide internet access to remote areass. At the same time, Google announced 100 perecent recycled water will be used at its second Singapore data centre.

Recently, Amazon is also working on building a wind farm to power its data centres.