Sony Xperia Z4 allegedly certified at the FCC

A mysterious Sony device has passed through the Federal Communications Commission in the USA and the timing could very well mean it is the upcoming Sony Xperia Z4.
Very little information is given in the listing leak but we do find out the device will support LTE bands 2, 5 and 7.
The Sony Xperia Z4 was certified in its home country of Japan a few days ago and is expected to carry an LTE Cat.9-capable (450Mbps) Snapdragon 810 chipset, 5.2" 1440 x 2560px Triluminos display, 20.7MP optically stabilized camera, water resistance, 3,400mAh battery and Android Lollipop.
Rumor has it the upcoming flagship Xperia Z4 will come with either QHD (in the US) or FHD screen resolution.

Microsoft launches another budget phone lumia 532

The new device packs a version of the Snapdragon 200 chipset with a quad-core CPU ticking at 1.2GHz and 1GB of RAM over the predecessor's 512MB. You get 8GB of storage to boot, expandable by up to 128GB via a microSD card. A 30GB OneDrive cloud storage is included as usual.

Microsoft reenters into budget segment lumia 435

Lumia 435 specifications :
- Smart Dual-Sim, HSDPA
- 4" 480x800 LCD display
- Dual-core 1.2Ghz processor, Snapdragon 200, GPU Adreno 302
- Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 (Lumia Denim)
- 1GB of RAM
- 8GB of on-board storage plus MicroSD up to 128GB
- 2MP fixed-focus camera, VGA on the front
- 1560 mAh battery
- Free 30GB OneDrive
- Lumia Camera
- HERE Drive+, HERE Transit, HERE Maps navigation
- Price : €69 (before taxes and subsidies)

india rocks in whatsapp number if users

MUMBAI: Mobile messenger service WhatsApp's user base in India has grown to 70 million active users, which is over a tenth of its global users, its business head Neeraj Arora has said.

"We have 70 million active users here who use the application at least once a month," Arora, a vice-president with WhatsApp, said at the fifth annual INK Conference.

He said the total user base for the company, which was bought by Facebook in a blockbuster $19 billion deal earlier this year, is 600 million.
With over a tenth of the users from the country, India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp, he said, adding connecting billions of people in markets like India and Brazil is the aim of the company.

Arora, an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and ISB Hyderabad, said WhatsApp will continue to hold a distinct identity even after the takeover by Facebook and will not get merged with the social networking giant.

He said WhatsApp, which has only 80 employees, will benefit through learnings from the social networking giant.



Arora, who first heard of WhatsApp as a business development executive for internet search giant Google and later joined as its business head, said it took two years to stitch the $19 billion deal announced this April.

Interestingly, Arora said he would have paid a fraction of the sum to buy WhatsApp three years back.

It would have been in "low tens of million" dollars, he said stressing that the company has grown a lot since then.

REVENUE OF MICROSOFT CLOUD INCREASES

It’s taken Microsoft quite a while to get traction in the cloud, and even longer for it to get its cloud data story right. For the longest time, things weren’t looking good. I say that as someone who has worked with – and at various times championed – Microsoft technology for most of my career. As much as I’ve wanted Microsoft to do well in the cloud data arena, I thought it was doomed to an eternity of near misses.

Fast forward

But things have been steadily improving since the summer, especially in the last few weeks. The glass that was half empty in the spring is now nearly full, with a complete HDInsight Big Data service based on Hadoop 2.0; an able machine learning service called Azure Machine Learning; a document store NoSQL database called DocumentDB; a publish-subscribe service for capturing streaming data calledEvent Hubs; a service for processing and analyzing that data called Azure Stream Analytics; a data transformation workflow service called Data Factory; and an eponymous Search service based on ElasticSearch at its core.

Beyond all of these “house brand” products, partnerships announced in the past two weeks mean that customers can or will soon be able to spin up Hadoop clusters based on Cloudera’s Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), running on either Linux or Windows; IBM’s Cloudant NoSQL database, based on BigCouch and Apache CouchDB, is also available; and so is IBM’s relational database standby, DB2. Oracle and DataStax provide access to Oracle 12c andCassandra on Azure, and other partners allow customers to run MySQL, PostgreSQLand MongoDB.

Competitive landscape

Azure competes well with Google Compute Engine’s Cloud DataFlow service and parts of its BigQuery service. In numerous other areas, Mountain View has some work to do to catch up with Redmond. But what about the cloud juggernaut, Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic MapReduce (EMR), DynamoDB,Kinesis, Data Pipeline and CloudSearch each now have opposite numbers in the Azure camp. Amazon does not yet have a service to compete with Azure Machine Learning. On the other hand, its gangbuster-growth service Redshift has no answer from Redmond (although a competitive offering from BitYota is now available on the Azure platform as well as on AWS).

Some of the pieces that have filled out the Azure data story are in preview while others are in general availability. Many of them appeared in just the last 4 months. The drinking water on the east side of Seattle is normally very good, but it seems like something extra got in the reservoir this summer.

what does PC world says about new Microsoft band lets see

’ve never worn an ankle bracelet like the one Lindsay Lohan had to wear while under house arrest. But after two days testing the Microsoft Band, I think I may have an idea of how constricting and confining those electronic monitors might be.

The Microsoft Band is uncomfortable to wear, and its heart-rate tracking, a marquee feature, doesn’t hold up to real-world testing. It’s a shame my first impressions are so negative, because with built-in GPS, a UV sensor, skin temperature and perspiration sensors, and a broad set of smartwatch-style notifications, the Microsoft Band promises a lot of cool features for $200.

Where the best wrist wearables are pliable and unobtrusive, the Microsoft Band is bulky and rigid, and never lets you forget you have it on. Sure, it’s physically large relative to competing fitness bands like the Jawbone UP24, Runtastic Orbit, and Samsung Gear Fit. But the bigger problem is its broad, inflexible display face. Factoring in the bezel around the display, it measures more than two inches long. It’s also straight as a board. A more comfortable chassis would follow the gentle curves of human anatomy.

The upshot is the Microsoft Band never melts away into the background like a proper wearable. During testing, I always felt that something was on my wrist, especially when I banged the band on table tops, or got it caught on shirtsleeves. It’s omnipresent in the worst way possible.

so end of windows of 7 and windows 8 comes

The date to stop selling the software was set some time ago and should help Microsoft move people on to more recent versions of its operating system.

Separately, statistics suggest people are finally moving away from some very old versions of Windows.

The next version of Windows, called Windows 10, is due to be released in late 2015.

Old code

From 31 October, consumers could no longer buy copies of the Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Windows 7. Now, Windows 8 is also no longer available. The change affects both copies bought in shops or loaded on PCs and laptops.

The current version of Windows, 8.1, will be the default version offered on PCs.

The change will take time to feed through into the market, as many PC makers have large stocks of older versions of Windows and will continue to sell PCs running the software.

Those keen to get a computer running Windows 7 will be able to "downgrade" from 8.1 to Windows 7 Professional but relatively few PC firms offer this option.

Gordon Kelly, writing in Forbes, said the policy revealed "Microsoft's determination to distance itself from the original form of Windows 8" despite it being released just over two years ago.

The original version of Windows 8 did not prove popular because it did away with some familiar elements of the desktop version of the operating system.

By contrast, he said, Windows 7 has been available since late 2009 and is still very popular among users. About 53% of Windows users are on the various editions of Version 7 of Windows, he said. The more recently released Windows 8 has only grabbed a 6% market share and has already been surpassed by 8.1, said Mr Kelly.

The change will also clear the path for the arrival of Windows 10, he added.

Separately, market analysis reveals that the numbers of people using the venerable Windows XP operating system has suddenly seen a sharp decline. Data from Netmarketshare suggests that in October this year its share dropped from almost 24% to just over 17%. It is not yet clear what was behind the fall.