It has not been long since Apple Released its iPhone 5 and now Concepts of the iPhone 6( if that is indeed what they are gonna call it) are making their rounds.
Federico Ciccarese, an Italian designer, has come up with a series of stunning renders for the iPhone 6, which seems to resemble that of a Nokia Lumia which indicates a significant change to the phone's external design and operating system. Fedrico say he was inspired by a re-imagined look and feel of the operating system with a concept he calls iOSX, which is a fusion between iOS and the Mac OS X. Since it should be several months before the next iPhone is released, there haven't been many rumors yet about how the device will look but it should increase over time. One analyst recently predicted that the next iPhone would come in more screen sizes and more colors, the latter of which is something that is already available for the iPod and iPod Nano. Will Apple answer the design concept or will the blow our minds with something even more intresting... only time will tell. What Do You think of This Mock-up?
Boasting a mere 47.6% near that of a 50% Androids Gingerbread Still Dominates Android Distribution based a data from a 14 day period ending on December 3, 2012. Ice Cream Sandwich holds a 29.1 mark putting it second place. Unfortunately for developers who have to keep all these versions in mind, even the ancient Android 2.2. or Froyo is still very alive and present on 9% of devices, while Android 2.1 Eclair powers 2.4% of all Android devices. What make of these Stats? Check Out More at Android Developers.
Ending a long time rumor Canonical announced that it is going to release smartphone version of its OS Ubuntu.
This OS is currently the number three desktop operating system with 20M users, and about 30,000 downloads per day. 2012 was a great year for this popular Debian-based Linux distribution with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the most popular release in the history of Ubuntu.
"We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop, with customers in a wide range of sectors focused on security, cost and manageability," said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "We also see an opportunity in basic smartphones that are used for the phone, SMS, web and email, where Ubuntu outperforms thanks to its native core apps and stylish presentation."
Smartphone interface is entirely based on Ubuntu's unity interface which was made default interface since 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release.
Every edge of the phone has an interesting purpose...
Swiping up the left edge brings the app launcher similar to in desktop. Using top edge you can search your phone and the internet. A swipe from the right edge takes you back to the previous app you are in. Swiping up from the bottom edge of the phone reveals app controls.
I personally think this option enables faster switching between apps than any other smartphone. And also the global search feature enables easy finding of content, apps and different products.
The OS will have both web-based HTML-5 apps as well as native apps.
Ubuntu OS has support for both ARM and x86 processors. This means it could be made to run on most, if not all, of today's Android-powered smartphones without too much effort.
The OS starts with a artistic welcome screen.
Shuttleworth confirmed that universal version of smartphone OS will be available in April 2014 with Ubuntu 14.04.
Wikipedia The worlds largest community-written encyclopedia is no doubt a great source of information with more than 4M articles in English only and an overall 5.7+ B visits a year.
The most interesting thing is Wikipedia is a Non-profit organisation under WikiMedia which survives purely on donations.This online encyclopedia collected $20M in 2011 with Google as its biggest contributor of $2M. In 2012 it raised tp $25M.
Do you want to know what are the most viewed articles in 2012 ?
Here are the top 10 viewed articles
South Korean over-night pop sensation Psy's "Gangnam Style" on Saturday became YouTube's most-watched video of all time passing Justing Bieber's "Baby" by recording more than 805M views. Now it is 810,795,387 and counting. Recently it was awarded the Guiness world record for the most likes in its youtube official account(Currently it has 5,394,454).
Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 29th Oct2012 made operational the worlds fastest Supercomputer ---the Titan supercomputer is a Cray machine made of nearly 19,000 processing units stitched together with 710 terabytes of memory. Claiming the first place it made 'Sequoia' second-most-powerful supercomputer with a crunching performance of 20 petaFLOPS. i.e this machine can perform 20 thousand trillion calculations per second. The Cray Titan is expected to be number 1 on the TOP500 list November 2012 update in a supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City.
From photos and videos to text to tweets, Worlds digital data is more than doubling every two years.To accumulate this exponential growth we really need a challenging storage medium.Surprisingly, Researchers found that DNA can accommodate this growing need.
DNA, What is known to be the building block of life can now be used as a Digital storage medium.Without doubt DNA can fix this issue with its two amazing features
it is long lastingand it is very muchdenser medium to store data.
