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Smartwatches comparison: Motorola  Moto 360 compared with  Alcatel One Touch

How Phablets popularity this holidays soared

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APPLES REVENUE BY  GEOGRAPHY  2015 VS 2014 ; APPLE’S REVENUES FROM CHINA GREW BY 69%  IN Q1,2015.ALL SET TO  REPLACE EUROPE AS THE NO 2  BIGGEST MARKET  China is on the verge of replacing Europe as apple’s  no 2  biggest revenue making region after growing an at impressive a 70% growth in Q1,2015. For Apple the growth in Chinese market has surpassed  all  expectations. Europe’s loss is china’s gain as Apple  is set  to  make China its second home after America, the original bastion of  Apple. So far  Apple’s revenue was centered around America which in Q12015  has seen its revenue growing by 23% compared to the  20% growth from  European market. In comparison it has seen  70% growth  from the Chinese market during the same duration .Apple’s Asia Pacific revenue  too showed an impressive 33% growth.

Find more statistics at Statista

 Apple’s  seem to be loosing its leadership position in the tablet market . Apple was the first to enter this market back in  2010  and seems to   have lost their way since its heydays in 2013 when it was in its height of popularity. Tim Cook had termed the dip in sales a speed bump last year. However it seems that this bump is beginning to  slowly look like the  entire road  is bumpy

The chart shows how Phablets has  sounded the death knell for Tablets

A recent report by Akamai called “The State  of the Internet Report,” South Korea boasts the highest average internet connection speed in the world. Korea’s internet users surfed at an average speed of 24.6 Mbps in the second quarter of 2014 according to Akamai’s measurements (click here for details on their methodology). Korea is trailed by Hong Kong, Switzerland and Japan who each saw average speeds around 15 Mbps. The United States ranked 14th with an average connection speed of 11.4 Mbps, which is still way above the global average of 4.6 Mbps. To add a little perspective on what these speeds mean: At 10 Mbps it takes around 50 minutes to download a 2-hour movie in HD quality

 
 

This years CES (Consumer Electronics Show) showed off some breathtaking Technology Devices , and taken off the wraps on upcoming technology and innovations that are expected to go mainstream this year. Among a few of them are ” wearable devices   and internet-connected car

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This is the Video of the 1997 Macworld Expo (August 5-8) in Boston where  Apple and Microsoft  long standing dispute was finally settled.This was a  Huge Turnaround on the part of Apple, and more with Steve Jobs, as he did not have kind words for Bill Gates, and had made no secret of the fact that “Microsoft created legacy systems which put the brakes on Innovation and development

Steve Jobs announced that Apple would be entering into partnership with Microsoft. Included in this was a five-year commitment from Microsoft to release Microsoft Office for Macintosh as well a US$150 million investment in Apple.

As part of the deal Apple and Microsoft agreed to settle a long-standing dispute over whether Microsoft’s Windows operating system infringed on any of Apple’s patents. It was also announced that Internet Explorer would be shipped as the default browser on the Macintosh, with the user being able to have a preference

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Source Bloomberg, Business Insider

Google creates smart contact lens for diabetics – Silicon Valley Business Journal: “Google’s latest moonshot project appears to be a smart contact lens aimed at enabling diabetes patients to measure glucose levels.

The company’s secretive X Lab on Thursday said in a blog post that it is developing a lens that uses a wireless chip and a tiny glucose sensor planted between two layers of material designed for soft contact lenses to measure glucose levels in tears.”

The contact lens measures glucose in tears using a wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor. While at a very early stage, Google hopes the technology could help people mana

Google  is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the prototypes consumer ready,
Google isn’t the first company to delve into such a device. Microsoft Corp., among others, has developed similar lens technology.

 The largest single group of users between now and 2017 will be 25- to 34-year-olds, with 4 million members this year and 6.6 million by the end of the forecast period

eMarketer expects that more children under the age of 12 will use tablets than teens between 2013 and 2017. And this year, for the first time, women will outnumber men on tablets. 

If estimates are to be believed there will be 9.95 million female and 9.75 million male tablet users in the UK in 2013, equivalent to 50.5% and 49.5% of tablet users, respectively. Penetration rates among the respective genders will differ by just 1.4 percentage points this year, with males being slightly more likely to use tablets than females.