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Windows Phone overtakes iPhone in the Smartphone Market Share race
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According the guys at Emerce, Windows Phone Tango handsets in China which was launched 2 months back has surpassed the market share of iPhone and now it already has a 7% market share, ahead of iPhone which currently has only 6%.
According to Michel van der Bel, “Our smartphone and tablet-pc are hybrid, making them suitable for the consumer, but also easy to insert within an existing company infrastructure. This will allow us to better anticipate the consumerization of IT than many competitors. “
But Android still dominates the market share with around 69%. With Windows 8 release in the pipeline, Microsoft has really a great thing to show in the smartphone and tablet market. Android is no doubt the most reached OS on the globe, iOS which is best known for its eco system but Windows Phone with its unique Metro tile UI is gaining a critical appeal among the smartphone geeks, even Steve Woznaik has praised the UI. The only thing which Windows Phone lags is the number of apps which may increase once the market share is increased.
With this it seems there is lot of pressure on Apple to release the new iPhone which is already rumored in the market with iPhone 5, considering the bigger screen, LTE feature and of course the new iOS 6. Apple really needs to come up with new design because Android already have great ecosystem in term of Screen Size and resolution, and now even Windows Phone 7 is giving the tough fight in China market. I am really curious to see who is going to lead the race but it seems Windows Phone clearly at second position in China.
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Google Search is now more intelligent with ‘Knowledge Graph’
0Google has upgraded its search engine with the new database which will enable user to get more accurate, sophisticated and comprehensive result. The new engine based on Knowledge Graph and which has a collection of around 500 million people, places and things and gathering vital information from online encyclopedia i.e. Wikipedia, the CIA Fact book and other related sources.
According to Amit Singhal, SVP Engineering Google, “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do”.
According to the Google blog post, Google knowledge graph enhances search in three main ways to start:
1. Find the right thing
Keywords which we use for searching can have more than one meaning and Google on there post gave the example of Taj Mahal which can be either the monument or Hotel Taj Mahal which we might be searching. Now Google Search is smart enough to understand the difference, and can narrow your search results just to the one you mean.
2. Get the Best Summary
With Google knowledge graph, Google can better understand our query and can relevant summarize the data around that topic and also gets the key data related to that. For example, if you’re looking for Marie Curie, you’ll see when she was born and died, but you’ll also get details on her education and scientific discoveries.
3. Get in Depth Summary
With in Depth Summary, Google Knowledge Graph will also fetch all the related information of what you have searched. User can watch the video released by Google. Also Google has released Knowledge Graph for Smartphones and tablet, you can get the further details here.
Please do comment your experience with Google Knowledge Graph.
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LinkedIn app released for Windows Phone
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Windows Marketplace can now check another major app which was in the wish list for many of them. LinkedIn released its official app for Windows Phone users. Even though all Windows Phone user can get the updates from LinkedIn using the built in feature in People’s page. But with this app user can have more access to its LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn’s iOS and Android apps are in the market for a long time but Windows Phone users is getting the new features which are neither present in the iPhone or Android. LinkedIn for Windows Phone takes the advantages of the platform’s Metro UI and Live Tiles and gives the stunning look and feel and overall UI is just awesome compared to the apps of iOS and Android. The slick, consistent Metro style is very appealing and its very easy to navigate.
According to Tomer Cohen, mobile product manager at LinkedIn, “We took advantage of the unique and beautiful Windows Phone metro style design while ensuring users would have easy and quick access to all the relevant professional information they’ve come to rely on from LinkedIn.”
With the slick UI there are also some bugs, which I encountered when I am opening the app. But overall LinkedIn for Windows Phone is slick, beautiful and speedy and its worth downloading.
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Microsoft Introducing New Bing
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Three years after the launch of Bing in 2009, Microsoft is yet again in the news with so called as New Bing. Microsoft is making yet another attempt to integrate Facebook with Bing search result.
Today Microsoft rolled out an update which will add new column to the search results which will show Facebook friends which might be somehow related to your query. Gray sidebar will have all the list of friends which might help you regarding the search query.
Middle section of the new Bing page is called as Snapshot and is reserved for completing the tasks, such as getting the direction, making hotel reservation or buying the movie tickets.
Bringing social networking to search is what most of them are trying and even Microsoft has tried it before but were not successful but with this new approach it seems they will surely get some success. Interface wise I really liked the look and feel. One of the main problem with the traditional search is the trust. Its very tough to compare which sources are trusted. But with social searching it will make common user’s life easy. Even Google tried integrating Google+ with its Google search results which was not fruitful since number of users are very less on Google+ and integrating was not good and sometime it was also very annoying.
Before releasing the new Bing Microsoft cleaned up the basic UI of the Bing search page last week, removing much of the clutter and make it clean and simple (I really liked it).
For more information you can visit the official Bing blog and or can even watch the video below.
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Google+ v2.0 for iPhone released [Download Now]
0For those iOS lovers time has come to update the Google+ app to the newer version which has new revamped UI and tons of other Visual Improvements. After the initial launch of Google+ app, not many if them really liked it since it never had any new feature to attract., but with version 2 of it, Google may change the route of Google+ Social networking.
As I have mentioned before Google has changed the whole look and feel of the app and also makes great use of multi-touch retina display. With the new app interface Google is surely going in the right path for increasing the user base in Google+. But as a core Facebook user I don’t know how much time I will spent using this newer version of Google+. Also please comment your view on the newer version.
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Microsoft shows SoundWave technology, lets User control PC using Gestures
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After the success of Microsoft Kinect, Microsoft Research team is yet again with there new technology called as SoundWave through which User can control the software installed on a Computer just with the hand gestures. SoundWave is the new technology that allows software to be controlled with the help of a set of speakers and an attached microphone.
This time Microsoft team is not using attached camera to capture the gesture in fact they are using the Sound to detect the gesture, in scientific term they are making use of Doppler Effect to detect the gesture. Microsoft Research team has also released the video demonstrating how SoundWave is controlling the PC. The first question comes in my mind after watching the video is how close user needs to be in the front of PC to enable the gesture. And secondly how about the security??
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Viber beta launched for Windows Phone 7 [Download Now]
012 days
One of the most popular free messaging and voice call application Viber has launched its beta version for Windows Phone 7. Other than Windows Phone 7, Viber app is also available in Android and iPhone. Along with Windows Phone 7 they have also launched the beta version for blackberry too.
But currently in Windows Phone 7, Voice call is not supported and User can only message using Viber, but they have promised to launch the Voice call support soon.
User can download the Windows Phone 7 version of Viber from Windows Phone Marketplace.
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Microsoft now posted Smoked by Windows Phone by Numbers
012 days
Microsoft had launched Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, since then Microsoft had released number of Videos showing how fast Windows Phone is to operate for basic functionality compared to other OS smartphones especially Android. Since the launch Microsoft has hosted this program around the globe.
Now after mass launching of the program Microsoft has posted the actual numbers behind this program in its blog.
According to the blog,
8,000,000+
The total number of views of Smoked by Windows Phone videos since it kicked off in January.
2
YouTube top 5 most viewed lists in which Smoked videos appeared (“Most Popular from Around the Web – All Categories”, and we’re still in the top 5 on Science & Technology)
95%
Percentage of viewers who liked Smoked videos on YouTube.
36
The number of countries running Smoked by Windows Phone.
50,000+
This represents the number of smartphones that have been Smoked by Windows Phone since CES.
98%
Windows Phone’s global win percentage.
100,000,000+
The estimated number of people who’ve seen, participated in, or read about Smoked by Windows Phone worldwide.
For more information you can read from its official blog.
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How To: Access Google Drive Files Offline Without Internet?
Recently Google announced its Cloud storage service known as Google Drive, which is a direct competition to Drop box and SkyDrive. Google Drive allows you to access, view edits files from anywhere.
To install Google Drive, you need to download and install the official Google Drive app. After installation you can copy whichever file you want it to be on the cloud and you can access it from anywhere after that. Now the issue is how to access the Google Drive files when you are offline or when there is no internet connection around you. You can still access the files offline but for that you need to do some settings for which internet connection is required,
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Install Google Chrome
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Go to Google Drive official page.
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Click the gear drop-down and select Set up Docs offline from the menu.
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In the Setup offline viewing docs click Allow offline docs
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Click install from the Chrome web store and from the Chrome web store click on Install.
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Click the Google Docs icon to go back to your Google Drive.
For security reason, perform the above steps of accessing the files offline only on your personal computer, since offline access can risk your data.
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Delete unused and unnecessary files in iPhone using iCleaner [Download Now]
Reading the header you might be thinking that is storage management so important. But again it depends on person to person some people are more economical in utilizing the storage space and they do a regular check regarding its storage depletion.
User can delete their files manually from iPhone but since iPhone users do install lots of apps so deleting unused and obsolete files will take lots of time and its generally boring for normal user. So for such of type of user there is an app called iCleaner.
The app works as per our expectation and it deletes lots of unnecessary data and junk files. It deletes half downloaded packages which might have got failed during installation, and also deletes much of the older cache files and cookies from the browser.
You can find this app in Cydia in the Bigboss repo for free.
