Source: Financial Express

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The new policy announced in May and now in effect no longer factors in certain add-ons, including pictures, into a message’s length.

“Say more about what’s happening! Rolling out now,” said an official tweet from San Francisco-based Twitter.

Say more about what’s happening! Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters. pic.twitter.com/I9pUC0NdZC

— Twitter (@twitter) 19 September 2016

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Much ado about nothing!

There is a lot being said about with many conspiracy theories as to why apple chose to do so and most of these are to do with commercial aspects of how apple would benefit – mostly by pushing its new air-pod earbuds.

I agree it’s a bold move on the part of apple to pull the plug on the standard headphone jack which had become a standard in some ways – an icon of the music listening audience ever since the days of the Sony Walkman and earlier. But the truth is that wireless speakers and other devices have slowly but surely made its way into your hearts and ears. While bluetooth has become a near standard on any decent set of speakers, that hasn’t been the case for headphones. The choice to remove the wired headphone jack is surely a move in the direction to go wireless eventually. If you internet is wireless, why shouldn’t your music be.

The wireless technology brings many benefits to the iPhone as well as the user in general.

1. User movements are not restricted by wires.
2. Wires get damaged and stop working eventually.
3. A better quality of sound, as the analog part is now removed.
4. Fewer mechanical parts on the phone.
5. Creating some additional real estate on the phone that could be used for other things like battery, speakers etc.

Not sure what all the noise is about, as apple is providing a lightning to audio jack converter in the box, so you can stick in your old headphone jack in and use it – anytime. That’s another good reason to keep the critics quiet.

I personally are of the opinion that the old will eventually make way for the new. And apple does lead the way in personal electronics. So don’t be surprised if the other big boys like Samsung, Motorola, HTC et al soon jump on to the bandwagon very soon.

Bottom line, if one is not happy with this change, don’t buy the iPhone7.

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Elon Musk wants to combine the two organizations to bring out a wide range of low-volume/high-cost and low-cost/high-volume vehicles that would efficiently handle energy generation and storage. Both the companies have their individual clean energy initiatives and this current deal would take them to a different level.

Tesla Powerwall and SolarCity brought together would serve a bigger purpose as explained by Musk himself, “That they are separate at all, despite similar origins and pursuit of the same overarching goal of sustainable energy, is largely an accident of history. Now that Tesla is ready to scale Powerwall and SolarCity is ready to provide highly differentiated solar, the time has come to bring them together.”

The deal has been approved by the board members and is expected to save the company $150M in “cost synergies.” However there are still areas to work on as SolarCity has 45 days to find a better deal and the deal requires a regulatory approval. Elon being the chairman for both the companies and his cousins running SolarCity saves the deal all the hassle of other companies coming into the picture.

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The overall digital games market is being predicted to reach $85 billion by 2016 end. South Korea is second in line at $4billion in its overall mobile game revenues. China tops the list for its whopping $24.4 billion global revenue from games.

Newzoo’s report covers all forms of digital games – mobile, PC and console. According to the gaming reports company’s data the world will churn overwhelming revenues worth $99.6billion from the game industry. According to Newzoo and other industry insiders, mobile games will be able to churn half of the total revenues.

The current data indicates a growth in revenues not just in the Japanese games market but around the globe. There is a considerable rise in earnings from the global games market. However mobile game developers can rejoice the fact that mobile games (global statistics) are all set to make $49.8 billion.

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World’s largest retail giant Walmart will be acquiring the startup Jet.com in a massive cash deal. Big brands like Amazon is seeing this as a strategic business move to create a storm in the online shopping marketplace. The deal was announced on Monday making Walmart sign the costliest cheque in its history.

Walmart currently holds the 2^nd place as the most visited retail website falling behind Amazon which rules the American markets. According to Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Walmart Stores, Inc “Walmart.com will grow faster, the seamless shopping experience we’re pursuing will happen quicker, and we’ll enable the Jet brand to be even more successful in a shorter period of time”.

The deal will be benefited by both parties as Walmart and Jet will reportedly maintain their separate business entities. There is an additional stake of $300 million worth Walmart shares included in the massive deal. For Jet.com this is definitely a huge reason to celebrate as their co-founder and CEO Marc Lore explained, “The combination of Walmart’s retail expertise, purchasing scale, sourcing capabilities, distribution footprint, and digital assets – together with the team, technology and business we have built here at Jet – will allow us to deliver more value to customers.”

Walmart will be releasing its 2^nd quarter earnings report on 18^th August and this move will surely create a big buzz before the release of its quarterly earning details. Industry reports have suggested that Jet has been successful in targeting more affluent shoppers (individuals with yearly earnings more than $150,000) than Walmart. This can be considered as another valid reason for Walmart to enter this high network group. Jet’s bulk ordering model will be taken into account by Walmart. Tremendous growth in the eCommerce world has made the brands come together to create a powerful entity.

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John Hanke, CEO Niantic, has said Pokemon “is a beautiful franchise that originated in Japan”. He has also maintained “Keep your head up, look at the world around you, and be safe.” This video is being considered a potential partnership attempt with Japanese McDonald’s outlets. Presently there would be McDonald’s 400 restaurants which will be working as gyms in the game. Remaining 2,500 outlets of McDonald’s will act as PokéStops.

The creators of the game have been successful in making the game a smash hit. News of the partnership was first reported by Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Soon after its launch in United States Pokemon Go saw frenzy in numerous public places like restaurants, streets, parks and office premises. Nintendo is all set to bring out a wearable device for wrists that will provide alerts to its players. With the present circumstances McDonald’s restaurants in Japan will act like collection centres for collecting virtual supplies needed for the game’s on-screen battles. Hanke sounded excited about the future of the game and added, “I’m very excited about investing in that area, about building prototypes and bringing our gaming products to that hardware as it comes to market…”

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According to SuperData Research firm the game has already made a whopping $14 million and its daily revenue earning has been estimated as $2 million in the first week (of its launch) itself. App Store has confirmed the fact that Pokemon Go has been the most downloaded mobile app since its release. In spite of the true numbers not being revealed it is being considered by industry experts that the game has redefined frenzy and hysterics. The app developer, Niantic had collaborated with The Pokémon Company to publish this free-to-play mobile app on 5^th of July, 2016 without knowing the possible battle that would set in soon after the launch.

Niantic has reportedly shown its interest in bringing out trading options and Pokecenters. Pokemon Go being officially launched in Japan and 30 other nations in the world is being slated to have few more outstanding goals in the coming future.

Few interesting turn of events have taken place since the game has been launched.

• Individuals are known to buy and sell high authority accounts for hundreds of pounds. This has resulted due to the high popularity of Pokémon Go.

• Sand Diego Comic Con’s Pokemon Panel has been updated and made available to a larger audience with a large sized venue being introduced. New features like trading Pokemon with other users have been introduced. Added features are being introduced with hopes of setting new standards to high level gaming.

• Nintendo has reached a valuation of more than $42 billion which makes it stand above Sony.

• Crowdsourced Pokémon Go maps are made available for users to search and catch their desired Pokemon wherever they go.

• OurMine the popular hacking group has allegedly been responsible for bringing the servers down. However they remained tight lipped on the fact that neither they nor Niantic were sure whether the heavy demand set by millions of users was behind the occurrence.

• PoodleCorp which is also known for being a well-known hacking group has announced to bring down Pokémon Go on 1 August.

Since its release on 6 July 2016 Pokemon Go has also been released for Android devices in the UK, Japan, Germany and New Zealand. There are Pokemon coins to be bought that are available for:

100 PokéCoins: £0.79

550 PokéCoins: £3.99

1,200 PokéCoins: £7.99

2,500 PokéCoins: £14.99

5,200 PokéCoins: £29.99

14,500 PokéCoins: £79.99

Currently the app costs $34.99. The mobile app developers are rejoicing about the rage that has successfully been created with the game. It is also available for a pre-order. If you are a Desktop person you can look forward to downloading it from APKPure.com or from other APK downloading websites. Its file size is 58.1MB and is available for direct mobile or PC download. An upgraded version of Pokemon Go Plus is also available which makes it easier for devices operating on the upcoming Android Nougat.

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The growing need for talent and skills in the global market has led several organizations to go into partnerships and plans for expansion in India. Google’s present announcement is similar to Apple’s plans of setting up a facility in Bangalore. Android is in high competition with iOS. According to industry experts India will most likely have around 4 million software developers by 2018.

Caesar Sengupta, VP, Product Management at Google said, “India is expected to have the largest developer population globally, overtaking the US, by 2018, with four million developers. But today only 25 per cent of developers are building for mobile. We believe India is uniquely placed to innovate and shape the Internet experience of billions of users who are and will come online on the mobile platform.”

There are similar training initiatives in the pipeline. This ‘Android Fundamentals’ course will also be made freely available (under the umbrella of online Mobile Computing course starting 18th July 2016) for individuals (a collaborative effort by IITs and IISc) willing to take part in extensive Android development.

The course will be Google’s skill sharing initiative that will also include highly skilled instructors. According to Peter Lubbers, Head of Google Developer Training, “We introduced the Android Nanodegree program in India last year with Udacity, and today, we have over 11,500 students in India enrolling every month in our Android courses. For university students we have now-for the first time-introduced an instructor led Android Fundamentals course to be incorporated into university curricula in India”. This program also plans to provide job opportunities for candidates. Google’s course will be a globally recognized job-oriented Associate Android Developer Certification which will also include exam-based entry level jobs for participating people. The certification exam fee has reportedly been fixed at Rs 6,500. The exam can be taken by registering oneself onto the Google Developer training website.

Besides having training partnerships with universities and organizations like NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) Google also wants to provide open-source Android developer fundamentals practical guides and courseware (which will be made available to all for free).

The program will be made available in 2,000 universities with 4000 faculty looking after more than 250,000 students annually. This move is reportedly being considered by industry pundits as a game plan to give Apple a tough time. Google has already joined hands with Manipal Global, Edureka, Simplilearn, Koenig, Udacity and UpGrad among various other training institutes. All of them will be working together as authorised Android training partners in India. Sengupta added, “We want to contribute to the Skill India initiative and help make India the global leader in mobile app development…”

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This is considerably a very intelligent move by Panasonic as it could put the company up in the technology market. Rival companies would most definitely take a beating with Panasonic’s AI efforts. Smartphone will be future readied in spite of the market getting overcrowded.

Industry sources have revealed that Panasonic has already kept aside a sum of $10 million to initiate its process of merger and acquisition followed by development of this technology and Smartphone integration. According to Pankaj Rana, head of mobility division, India, South Asia, Middle East and Africa at Panasonic, “…we see progress on this front and things go in right direction… Some part of this budget has been generated from the India business, while some portion has been allocated from Japan…”

The technology team of Panasonic is all set to make their presence felt in Silicon Valley soon. New products will be ready within 9 to 12 months. If we are to search for its current competition we can only be able to find Nextbit (makers of Robin Smartphone), a US-based crowd-funded startup which has started using in-built artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in their Smartphone. This is the only global level of competition in the field of AI for Panasonic.

Lot of its AI technology capabilities will reportedly be outsourced. Panasonic’s current move is an extremely strategic one as the mobile phone sector will be stirred up. “AI is the future of Panasonic. We want to integrate all future technologies based on AI,” added Mr. Rana.

Panasonic is also planning to extend its business in the internet sector. Diversifying its products in the ‘Internet of Things’ sector will include launching of products in the home automation and personal healthcare space. Home automation will reportedly be its initial focus since Panasonic is identified by consumers as a consumer durable company. There will be home automation included in a wide range of appliances in lighting, security and surveillance.

Panasonic has also moved forward by having talks with various organizations in the personal healthcare front. It is reportedly searching for partners who are creating products like Smart thermometer and smart blood pressure meter. There are plans to incorporate these technologies in its mobile devices.

Initially all its market tests will be carried out with outsourced products before positioning itself firmly in the marketplace.

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