Apple and China Mobile sign deal to sell iPhones in January

In January Apple is planning to offer the IPhone to the more than 760 million china mobile customers which could help it to raise its share from the fifth position in the growing market.

Apples has already sells its phones in china through two other carriers in the country-- China Telecom and China Unicom but to deal with mobile, the largest in the country, has escaped it for some time. Reason may be behind it is that China Mobile uses a different wireless telecommunications standard from its competitors.

According to rumors it was announced on Sunday, Apple’s iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C will be available from china Mobile and on apple retail store in china on Jan 17. Preregistration of the phone will started on the carrier website and through its customer service hotline from Wednesday.

Apple said on his statement, the pricing of the iPhone 5s and 5c for china mobile will be offered at a later date.

According to the research firm it comes to know that apple share of the Chinese smartphone reached 8percent in the third quarter. Samsung Electronics was the third largest player with having 21percent market share, surveyed by Lenovo with a 13 percent share. Yulong Computer telecommunication with 11 percent market share and Huawei with 9 percent has taken the third and fourth stage.

On December china issued 4G licenses to three local carriers including China Telecom, which has been Organizing base station across the country using a 4G technology recognized as LTE TDD (Long- Term Evolution Time Division Duplex).

Apple had been supporting china Telecom TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) 3G network technology but on Sunday it’s declared that the iPhones would run on both 4G TD-LTE and 3G TD-SCDMA networks.

By the end of the year according to a joint statement the two companies China Mobile 4G services will be available in 16 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. 

In 2014 china mobile plans to complete the rollout of more than 500,000 4G base stations, in which they will target more than 340 cities with 4G service, it added.

In September Apple added NTTDOCOMO, Japan's largest carrier, to its list of customers for the iPhone.

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Don’t Stitch Copied Content from Multiple Sites

The many of the marketers and site owners knows the importance of the original, quality content in their marketing plans and still few people tries to understand what it actually means.

In the recent Google webmaster video, once again Matt Cutts discussed about the line between spam and original content.

The question arises: Can you copy the small portion of content from the various websites and combine it to create the new page and compete with the Google??

 Cutts begins explaining the question in practice about yahoo disfavor for its past days. Yahoo considered this method as stitching and they considered that spam said Cutts.

Does the Google consider it as a spam? “He said if you are taking the quotes from everyone else, that is probably will not add the value.

He has given the best example of where the multiple means with bits of information in an article, mentioning Wikipedia as an example. In Wikipedia the information is gathered from the various sources as citation to support the main topic, but to do in the way that reports and summarizes the information to create a new, unique web page on the matter.

While many may be unclear about what the original content means, when in doubt, know that any time you’re cutting corners in your content, you are likely not writing the best content you can for that website.

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Google pushes Android KitKat to Nexus tablets

Google has launched the Android 4.4 Kitkat to the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The operating system is currently available to the WIFI only in the US models, rest it will be available to the other models and locations soon.

According to Google, the biggest changes which are fixed in the Android 4.4 code is streamlined code. Google has removed the complication in the operating system which can be utilized in a broader range of hardware. The company said the size of the device is little 512 MB of RAM will be able to run the KITKAT. Google wishes KITKAT to run better on entry level devices.

 The Nexus tablets will support the new operating system smoothly. The nexus 7 has an S4 pro processor with the 2 GB of RAM, 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon whereas the Nexus 10 has a Samsung Exynos 5 Dual processor with 2 GB of RAM. They have the more than enough juice to get Kitkat following:

Most of the other improvements are under the cover and meant for developers. They will be able to add the various functions of printing to their app and the benefits of latest animations, graphics acceleration, API, screen recording and bezel to bezel apps. Kitkat supports the Bluetooth profiles and bakes in support for IR blasters to control the home theater equipment.  The KitKat SDK is already available for download.

There are various enhancements in the OS which includes better notifications, revised launcher, upgraded phone dialer, wide search area and baked in support for Google across the platform. There is the number changes made to the home screen and the main app menu. For example customize home page screen panels make then bit easier to use. Google also made the changes in the icons to make it more user- friendly.

Nexus will update with the new operating system. By the upcoming week’s google play edition mobile devices will be updated with the Android 4.4 Kitkat will get updated on the Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S4, and in HTC one . The Kitkat is preinstalled on the Nexus 5Smartphones.

One of the main benefits of getting the Nexus brand is to get updated with the latest system of Google.  This is a prime example of that benefit at work.

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Samsung updates mobile, TV, and gaming SDKs to attract more developers

Like the other devices builder, Samsung relies on Google Android Os to power its smartphone and tablets.  Samsung is seeking to set itself apart with vendor specialized capabilities ranging from pen functionality to enterprise security, stimulating the company to develop its own software development resource over the last couple years. 

 The First conference held in San Francisco this week for the Samsung developer, the company discloses the few SDK updates for those branded features currently offered for the Android on Samsung devices and for iOS applications on top is the Chaton (Instant messaging service) or Smart TV remote control app.

Samsung SDKs updating the various things like the Updated Chaton SDK services for the Instant messaging service, an enhancement in Chord SDK for one touch delivery and pairing of devices, the new Knox devices for mobile security and management. 

Samsung is also reaching on highest notch in the entertainment gear, Samsung has updated its Smart TV SDK for developed applications for its internet connected Smart TV line and its multiscreen gaming SDK which can be played on the Big screen TV via Samsung tablet and Smartphone. All but Smart TV SDK use android, the smart SDK depends upon Linux. 

Keithen Hayenga engineer at Marmalade, game developer said “They want to beguile the developer that if you use those APIs, which you are running on Samsung then you were not on other things,”

If Successful, Samsung would fix the developers for its devices. Samsung is the leading Android Smartphone builder and the top Smartphone manufacturer overall.

Andrew cook said a senior software engineer for vision service plan “By announcing their own SDKs and APIs, they are trying provides the whole experience much like the apple tries to do with its ecosystem.

The IDC Analyst AI Hilwa states while working on the user and business organization “Samsung is twisting its developer muscles”

While encouraging the Android at the moment, Samsung states in the conference for its latest development for its open source Tizen OS, in which is shaking the hand with Intel.  Tizen boosting internet interfaces and supports HTML5. But yet the company had to announce a roadmap for Tizen rollouts.

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Facebook's Messenger app: Practical is the new sexy

On Tuesday Facebook had released the new messenger Facebook apps , Facebook is making the improvement in the Smartphone app to instantly view of friends and address book contacts. 

The latest Facebook messenger app includes the dramatic improvement as the previous one and done the enhancement in the speed, features and design. The app is available to limited users of Android to begin and to gain the fascinating growing experience.

Messenger basic change is something Facebook calls mobile to mobile a quick catch phrase destined to indicate to the users using the app will be available to each other on their Smartphones. 

The philosophy symbolizes that how Facebook Messenger exhibit contacts, message delivery, and notification process and to allow for text to those friends who were not already in their Facebook list.

Contact that use messenger, for example will be indicated by the little blue lightning bolt badge

Everyone else gets the Facebook sign. And if a Messenger user doesn’t enable the push notification than that user will not get the bolt sign lightning.

Lighting in the bolt sign, will indicate that users are also using the Messenger app and want to get connected with you instantly.

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This idea recommends that in your contact, which of the contact listed friends is more potentially want to connect you via Facebook message.

Facebook is declined to give the statement that how much improvement has been done over the old versions.  

The improvements are done in functionality; Messenger now allows people Facebook message their address book contacts that are still in the pending list of social networks. The update shows that if you have a phone number, you can start pinging whether it’s on Facebook but it’s not necessary that they want to be a formal friend.

The Facebook had designed with new logo and an attractive color scheme, it is in blue – the only aim is to represent the Facebook rich app. This application is basically designed for the Android and iPhone users but immediately it’s going to be familiar with other operating system.

Altogether this update is done to make the Facebook messenger more practical and to give completion to Whatsapp, who have stolen a user of social network.

On Tuesday Facebook will release the messenger for Android for a limited audience and within the week it will update for other members “The Company Said”

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