Launching of video feature by Apple that can automatically shifts iPhone cameras

The patent request for "Automatic video stream selection" by Apple Inc., announced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, reveals a system that can wisely determine whether to make use of the video feed from a front or rear facing camera of Smartphone. The technology can be utilized in video calls such as those made through Apple's FaceTime or for content locally stored on a device. Several handsets have two cameras for picture and video taking, as noted in the document. The camers are usually facing in opposite directions with the rear-facing module utilized for higher-resolution shots whereas the front-facing unit manages the duties of video call.

With enhancements in mobile processing power, few of the smart phones are able to take video streams from both cameras at the same time; however the utilization for such a feature has been constrained. Currently the iPhone uses just one camera at a time, providing users the choice to toggle between the two as preferred. It has been noted by Apple that current bandwidth restrictions would make it hard to stream both video feeds simultaneously, thus a system is required to intuitively choose one while keeping audio in sync.

Apple is developing a system that takes and monitors two video streams for voice or visual signals, then outputs one of the two relying on a set of determined criteria. One instance would be a FaceTime call which has used a rear-facing camera video stream before the feed robotically shifts to the front-facing camera when a person starts to talk.

In order to select which camera to use, the technology recognizes the speech by utilizing data from microphones facing in the identical location as each camera or the facial expressions such as the movements of lip. When no speech or lip movement is recognized, the video shifts back to the scene.

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Efforts by HTC for establishing mobile software to counteract Google and Apple

HTC Corp is establishing a mobile software system chiefly for Chinese consumers as a division of a huge China bet that the Taiwanese Smartphone maker hopes will help resume declining sales, as said by the people having knowledge of the project. Establishment of the Smartphone operating system is closely supervised by Chairwoman of HTC (Cher Wang) who has been in negotiations with government officials of China. The software includes incorporation with Chinese apps such as Twitter-like microblog Weibo and is selected to release before the end of the year, as said by people.

The project reveals the growing pull of Chinese buyers in addition to China's broader hard work to establish homegrown software to offset U.S. technology giants like Google Inc and Apple Inc. for HTC. It would also be the final close of plans to form its own OS, an objective that the company uttered two years ago.

Though several of employees of HTC can speak Chinese, the brand is still a novice in China. HTC has begun selling under its own brand in China ever since 2010 and before that it was selling under the brand name of Dopod. China-specific software of HTC would play into a wider Chinese government policy to influence the establishment of a unique local software ecosystem to reduce dependence on Western companies.

It is not clear whether China operating system of HTC will be fully proprietary or will incorporate on top of Android. Plans have altered over the prior year in order to identify whether it would be an entirely different operating system or a user interface assembled on top of Android, as said by the people having the knowledge of the matter. Now Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is making investment in an operating system called Tizen which it is jointly establishing with Intel Corporation.

Technology ministry of China has said in a white paper in March that the mobile industry of country is too reliant on Android operating system of Google and it admired Chinese Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Baidu Inc that have developed  their own systems.

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Facebook reported rise in requests of U.S. government for user data

Facebook Inc said it has received 11,000 to 12,000 applications for data from the individuals of U.S. government during the first half of this year. Bulk of those applications is related to the inspections of crimes such as kidnappings and robberies. The number as represented by Facebook on its website represents a small portion of over 1 billion users of social network. Facebook said it has produced some data in response to 79 % of the inquiries received from U.S. officials.

Technology companies like Facebook, Microsoft Corporation and Google Inc have pushed the U.S. government for more flexibility to report combined numbers of requests for data, in response to the reports former this year that the National Security Agency of U.S. is obtaining millions of residents’ telephone records and computer communications of outsiders from Web businesses as per the order of court. Governments must satisfy a very high legal bar to obtain any information about users, as said by Facebook.

The company has battled many of these applications, pushing back when it find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly extensive or fuzzy requests, as said by the general counsel of Facebook (Colin Stretch) on the company’s website. When the company is obligatory to abide by a particular request then it often shares only the crucial information of user such as the name, he further said.

The officials of U.S. sent 9,000 to 10,000 applications for data in the prior six months of 2012. The U.S. had the majority applications of any country during the present reporting period. According to the report, Facebook has obtained nearly 15,000 applications for data outside the U.S. during the first half of 2013. Overall the explorations covered approximately 40,000 users all over the world and came from over 70 countries. The shares of Facebook plunge 4.1 % to $39.64 at the close in New York.

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Discussions going on between Apple and Docomo for a latest deal

Japanese media is disclosing that Apple Inc. and NTT Docomo Inc might be close to an agreement that would allow DoCoMo to incorporate the iPhone in its lineup. Apple is very well conscious of the fact that additional information to the iPhone 5 is not going to increase sales in saturated markets such as the United States and that is the major reason for which Apple’s CEO is shaking hands with more CEOs of Asia-Pacific in the meantime.

DoCoMo is a huge carrier of Japan behind number two KDDI Corp and number three Softbank Corp -- the company that had newly purchased Sprint Corporation. As said by Chief Financial Officer of DoCoMo (Kazuto Tsubouchi), it does not make common sense for Apple not to put up for sale its iPhone through DoCoMo as it is a huge carrier of Japan.

Apple is insistently making effort to enhance market share in China and Japan. These are the two countries where the iPhone has obtained much popularity as the Windows Phone of Microsoft Corporation has obtained in the United States but its popularity keeps decreasing in China. The major reason is that people don’t like the Windows phones. In Japan and China, the price tag of iPhone is one of the huge barriers to sales ever since the carriers don’t fund its buying price as they do in United States.

DoCoMo wants the iPhone as much as the iPhone wants DoCoMo. It might be the prevailing Japanese carrier with 45 % market share but it’s rising gradually than rivals KDDI and Softbank. 172,500 users are added by DoCoMo whereas 225,200 by KDDI and 254,500 by Softbank in July. News of an awaiting deal of China Mobile Ltd. with Apple have inspired investors to bid the stock up in current times and an additional saturation into the market of Japan is further excellent news as Apple works to find new markets.

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BlackBerry's advertisement has disclosed Samsung Messenger to be a part of its Galaxy smartphones

The Messenger of BlackBerry Ltd is something that all consumers of Android and iOS have been restlessly waiting. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has presently launched an advertisement in Africa, revealing that the messenger is soon going to be incorporated in all the Galaxy smartphones. There are no comments or music in the advertisement and it is a silent video with a logo of BlackBerry Messenger on the devices of Android. According to CrackBerry, Samsung has actually started promoting BBM in few of those regions where the brand can sell the maximum number of units.

Headlines have been prepared by Samsung even near the beginning of August disclosing that the Messenger of BlackBerry will be introducing on the Android platform and it also added that the messenger will be a module of its Samsung Apps. The advertisement by Samsung promoting the BlackBerry messenger on the devices of Galaxy has encouraged fans about the messenger and has also given a hint that it will soon be accessible on their smart phones.

Sprint Communications Inc has declared the availability of the BlackBerry Q10. The QWERTY mobile phone will be on sale from 30th August when it will cost the consumers $200 provided they sign at the bottom of a two-year agreement. The release of device will come just over two months after Q10 hit AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

The website of AT&T Inc. has unveiled the price of Q10 that remain changed, however as the network has lessened the price of the touch screen Z10 to $100; it is perhaps just a matter of time before the price of Q10 is also decreased. The physical QWERTY keyboard should be the major reason for buying the phone as it is exceptional in the Smartphone world. It comes with a 3.1-inch touch screen and has a 720 x 720 pixel resolution; along with it the handset has an 8-megapixel camera and 1.5GHz dual-core processor.

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Nokia is planning to introduce a 6-Inch Windows Phone called ‘Bandit’

Nokia Corporation is apparently manufacturing a 6 inch handset with Windows operating system. If the gossips are correct, the company is going to enter into the ‘phablet’ market, with this supposed device code called ‘Bandit’. The handset will be powered with a quad core processor and a 6 inch large screen with a display of 1080p. The latest rumored phone will be the first Windows Phone with a resolution of 1080p, according to The Verge.

It has been heard that the handset will be having a camera of 20MP and will released by the end of the year through AT & T. The handset is said to be parallel to the prior Nokia Lumia 925. Apparently the device comes with a body of polycarbonate which is light and thin in weight.

The new shift from the company may be due to the identification of the fact that the concern of customers on phablets is warming now a days. Currently the company is not manufacturing devices with screen size over 4.5 inches. In recent times, companies such as Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KRX: 005930) and HTC Corp (TPE: 2498) had unveiled their 6-inch devices. Market leader Samsung has led the way in phablets, confirming the wrong early critics who said they were too clumsy. Apple is the peak supplier of tablet devices.

Analysts have anticipated the demand for large screens to expand further as more clients watch videos and look at photographs on their Smart phones. Nokia has planned to unveil new, large-screen mobile handsets in the next month to re-establish its Lumia Smartphone lineup and challenge competitor Samsung's power in ever more admired phablet devices, as said by the sources. Nokia has manufactured more than one latest mobile device and is due to announce them at an event in New York towards the end of September, as said by the sources having the knowledge of the plan.

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Nokia has unveiled Here Auto - an enclosed infotainment and connected car system

On Friday Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) has announced its desire to become a much larger technological force in the vehicle, after years of being the mapmaker of auto industry. Nokia has unveiled Here Auto which is an enclosed infotainment and connected car system. The company hopes to sell it to the car manufacturers of the world.

Executive Vice President of Nokia (Michael Halbherr) just shared the broader connected car vision of Finnish phone manufacturer which will ultimately include self-directed driving and incorporate the vehicle into future networks of “smart city”. The disclosure of Here Auto is the initial step towards that pathway.

As the name indicates, Here mapping and navigation of Nokia are at the heart of Here Auto. The software contains all of the main features of its Windows Phone 8 app such as 3D maps, real-time traffic, street-level imaging, points of interest and local business search. But distinct from other enclosed navigation systems, Here Auto is not subdivided, as said by Van-De-Klashorst. It is the same app that the users can access on the Smartphone or through a browser of PC. All of the bookmarked destinations, contacts and preferences and preferred routes are stored in the cloud.

Nokia Lumia 1520, formerly known as Bandit, is alleged to feature a 6" 1080p display and operate on the newest Snapdragon 800 chipset. Other rumored specifications include a 20MP camera on the back side, wireless charging backup, a body of polycarbonate and Windows Phone 8 GDR3. It was recently get to see what a live photo of the phablet is allegedly. How users can know it's certainly the 6" Lumia 1520? The handset next to it is the newly launched Lumia 1020 and it's simply dwarfed by the Lumia 1520.

Mobile users might see the red Lumia 1020 introduction through Telefonica on various markets globally, including Italy, Slovakia , Brazil, Spain, UK (O2), Chile, Argentina and other South America and Latin markets. 

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Edward Snowden had travelled to India before 2011

The contractor of Central Intelligence Agency Edward Snowden, who disclosed few of the most closely secured secrets of America, had travelled to India before 2011 but did not report about the trip during his background-check process. The background checkers failed to confirm Snowden's account of a previous security violation and his work for the CIA, they did not carefully investigate an apparent trip to India that he had failed to report, as reported by Wall Street Journal.

The 2011 regular background check that the contractor of National Security Agency required to keep his security clearance, the checkers did not obtain significant information from any person who recognized him except his mother and girlfriend. The background interviewers get to know from a work administrator that Snowden had travelled to India, for which Snowden had not reported during the background-check process but the last background report failed to analyze the intention of the trip, as reported by the Journal. India was one of many nations approached by a 30years old Snowden for the purpose of asylum while he was trapped at the Moscow airport. His request has been turned down by New Delhi. 

One of a review report regarding this issue has said that many aspects of the background check did not satisfy the requirements of a 1997 document that has outlined federal standards for background checks. The Executive of National Counterintelligence (Frank Montoya Jr), who guided the review, has said the background check of 2011 by a private contractor did not reflect a complete picture of Snowden, further said by Journal.

The latest background check of Snowden was so insufficient that a small number of people were interviewed and prospective concerns were not taken into consideration. Snowden has contended that he was acting out of conscience as he wanted to shine a light on an inspection apparatus which he considers is out of control.

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What is making PS4 best is its shipment with a sense of Huma

Progressive Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD), which has supplied the dung behindhand the Xbox-one and the PS4 has been clearing up why it believes that the PS4 is a outgo mess. The PS4 had been consigned with a judgement of Huma (Disparate Homogenous Faculty Hit) from AMD, as said by Sr. Fluid Marketing Handler (Marc Diana).

Diana said that this provides the PS4 the asset on 3D execution. Spell talking to Heise press he said that the mixed homogeneous retention hit is eventful to the tremendous help in show of whole processors. PS4 does not eff a discrimination between CPU zone and GPU separation. Both processors can utilise the correspondent pieces of data at the unvarying instant. Since both processors can be utilised at the identical instant for a unaccompanied task the system is real cagey and really sinewy at the unvaried quantify.

Investors in ARM Holdings plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:ARMH) saw that new alternatives become acquirable this period for the expiration of Apr 2014. One of the main alternative for which vendeR is intelligent to pay is the term value. With 241 days faction until breath the freshly purchasable agreements equal a probable possibility for the thespian of puts or calls to discover a higher reward than would be obtainable for the contracts with a nearer expiry.

The put decrease at the score cost of $41.00 has an existing bid of $4.60. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put decrease then they are agreeing to buy the support at $41.00 and they instrument also obtain the premium, putting the expenditure part of the shares at $36.40 (before the commissions of broker). To an investor already solicitous in purchase shares of ARMH, that could service as a beautiful option to pay $41.28/share now. 

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Baidu is broadening Mobile Apps that don’t need to be downloaded

Baidu.com, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) is broadening with mobile applications that don't require to be downloaded as it contests with Tencent Holdings Ltd (HKG: 0700) for users in the biggest Smartphone market of the world.

Mobile consumers can access so termed "lite apps" for travel, entertainment and transportation information through search program of Baidu on smartphones, as said by a vice president (Li Mingyuan) in Beijing. Baidu is also providing mobile payment services for developers to advertise their applications, he further said.

Baidu is making effort to navigate a change from desktop computing where it handles 82 % of the searches of nation to mobile devices. Last month the company decided to pay $1.85 billion for the 91 Wireless third-party app store in its largest declared acquisition to acquire the nation's over 464 million users who access the Internet from their mobile devices. The app store of company has had 69 million downloads each day as its open platform appeals to 700,000 developers, as said by Chairman Robin Li at the conference.

Baidu has been comparatively fast in advertising its mobile services and it's trying to manufacture a mobile cloud ecosystem to assist developers constitute its more mobile services on its platform. The company is still keenly seeking for acquisition goals as it broadens in services for instance online search and Internet video.

Mobile revenue of Baidu was nearly 700 million yuan to 800 million yuan in second quarter, as said by Chief Financial Officer (Jennifer Li) in an interview on Bloomberg TV in July. The market share of the company is well above 50 % in searches from mobile devices, she further added.

Baidu posted a net income of 2.64 billion yuan ($431 million) in second quarter, exceeding analyst estimates. Revenue rose 39 % to 7.56 billion yuan. Baidu increased its workforce by 2,100 people to 24,000 by the end of June through new appointments and the acquisition of PPStream Inc. for $370 million in the quarter of June.

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Reveal of BlackBerry 10.2 OS for the BlackBerry new devices

BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) has started examining the BlackBerry 10.2 OS builds and can be anticipated to launch the same for the existing BlackBerry 10 devices. The early BlackBerry 10.2 OS builds have currently been disclosed and posted at the Forums of CrackBerry. These are meant only for the enthusiasts and developers of BlackBerry. This early build of BlackBerry 10.2 OS accompany several developments across the system.

BlackBerry is presently rolling out the BlackBerry 10.1 OS update as maintenance release for the owners of BlackBerry 10 OS based device. In the meantime, the company has already begun working on the BlackBerry 10.2 OS builds for the BlackBerry 10 devices.

The BlackBerry 10.2 OS accompanies several changes across the system together with the user interface changes and other alternatives. The BlackBerry 10.2 OS is set to appear as pre-loaded on the BlackBerry Z30 large screen Smartphone.

The disclosed update specifies that the BlackBerry 10.2.0.1323 OS build is meant for the BlackBerry Z10, BlackBerry Q5 and BlackBerry Q10 devices. The disclosed builds can be named as branch or beta testing builds and not really meant for daily usage.

0x10c is a game that has claimed to take the users in a different world when universe was on the edge of disappearance, is itself facing disappearance as its maker has announced it officially dead.

Breaking the dreams of the fans who were keenly waiting for the space exploration game, the creator of Minecraft (Markus Notch Persson ) declared that he won't restart development on the project as he had no future ambitions for the game.

Persson had declared about the determined 0x10c game in April 2012, where it was exposed that it is set in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD, with civilization waking up to a world on the edge of disappearance. It was recommended at the time that the game would attribute engineering, looting, trading, mining, an advanced economy system, in addition to a completely operational 16-Bit computer system.

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Samsung and Sony launching new devices before next iPhone of Apple

It is said by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KRX: 005930) and SONY Corp (TYO: 6758) that they give activity new devices close period as two of the large engineering companies of Asia are disagreeable to initiate their products before Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) launches new iPhones and iPads.

Aggregation Adapt of Samsung and Notation 3 faculty be free on 4th Sept, according to fill having noesis of affair. Last Xperia telephone of Sony, including imaging sensors that are utilized in its TVs and cameras leave be also released on the said day.

Samsung and Sony are launching their devices for the leisure shopping season as they try to maintain skyward of Apple. Apple has not yet launched a new telephone this assemblage but it is mentation to start new versions of its iPhone and iPad at an circumstance on 10th Sept, according to a individual having knowledge of weigh.

It is meaningful for Samsung to displace the fluid low sprouted of Apple, as said by Apostle Song who is a Seoul-based psychiatrist at Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd. (KRX: 006805). The announcements of Samsung and Sony are both contrived two days before the signal of the consumer electronics show of IFA in Songwriter. Samsung alter 1 % to $ 1,282,000 won in Seoul, extending this year's quit to 16 %. Sony dropped 0.6 % to 1,951 yen in Tokyo.

Apple is the reality's most-valuable technology affiliate. It has set the value for creation declarations low the founder Steve Jobs and it is still persistent under the Honcho Head Lawman (Tim Prepare). The reserves's declarations of devices including the iPhone, iPod, and iPad tally gained international media tending.

Next period Samsung give transude a wristwatch-like figure that can get sound calls, hold e-mails and breakers the Web, according to a fill having knowledge of thing. 

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Intel May Speed the Introduction of Advance Smartphone and Tablet Chips

Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL)is around to disclose another iPhone and probably revived models of its iPad in the close period.

The awaited affiliate of disclosure is 10th Sept in San Francisco and it is the assonant day for other equally engrossing processing by Intel Corporation(NASDAQ:INTC) as it has also prearranged to pause its yearbook word for developers, famed as Intel Developer Forum (IDF)at the Moscone Comedienne assembly tract.

Intel may show an expedited timetablefor the manufacturing of its new 14-nanometer beginning of Mote chips for tablet computers and smartphones. The microprocessor behemoth has struggled to attain a footing in nomadic devices where the vast magnitude of chips are fashioned by Apple for its own usance or by licensees of Britain's ARM Holdings plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:ARMH) including a meet of semiconductor manufacturers such asNVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Broadcom House (NASDAQ:BRCM) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).

Manufacturing smaller chips can hugely increment their efficiency, measured by how some utilise they can do per artificer of the cause exhausted. For statesman than a year ago, Intel has been shipping private computer and computer chips, notable as "Set" with transistors that can amount 22 nanometersor billionths of a meter. The close rank for Intel is to declare its still-faster designs of 14-nanometer which are awaited to begin creation in its Core origin of chips by virtually product poop of 2014.

The friendship is belike to introduce a timetable at IDF that would considerably fit the ineluctable one-year lag for improving the Material crisp to the close construction in intensify, according to a somebody nearest to Intel. In fact Atoms instrument go into 14-nanometer manufacture righteous six months after the Nucleus chips.

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Map Project of Nokia Shedding Light on Roads of Belarus

The previous Soviet republic of Belarus which lies alongside the important journeying corridor linking Moscow and Midwestern Europeis one of the Europe's few sect down dishonorable holes for motorists, landlocked state where creditworthy, existing map substance is intimately held by the unpermissive authorities.

But in May, a forgather of 600 helpers in Byelorussia, mostly Geographic’s students, teachers and anaesthetic function admirers, carefully began canvassing the sloughy state, plane, logging the traducement of streets and highways accompanied by the exact locations of key stops likehotels, gas stations and restaurants.

The accelerator for geographic reaching out of Belarus was not a occurrence of spunk by the longtime presidency (Aleksandr Lukashenko) but the look of a glib marketplace chance by Nokia Corp (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), whose own byplay  of digital correspondence videlicet HERE has grown as one of the humans's most existent mapmakers.

In fitting iii months Nokia's helpers in Belarus added 22,000 kilometers or 14,000 miles of streets and roadways and11,000 locations of interest to the round database at HERE. Also rendering the maps for the trillions of users of Nokia's line of transferable phones and Lumia smartphones, info of HERE powers the maps of Microsoft Bing, Character! Inc.

(NASDAQ:YHOO) and AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) unitedly with the in-dash sailing systems of automobiles manufactured by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (FRA: BMW), Volkswagen AG (ADR) (OTCMKTS: VLKAY), Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai Causative Co (KRX: 005380) and Toyota Locomote Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:TM).

Nokia is in a canal with Google Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG)and TomTom NV (AMS: TOM2)

 (the Nation creator of auto direction devices), process and reciprocation data to urinate a ecumenical digital representation of the physiological world as a support for remunerative location-based services, as said by an shrink in London (Thespian Entrepot)who covers manoeuvrable services at CCS Insight.

Nokia is losing money on its division of HERE; Google and TomTom do not season up details on location-based sales and profits, as said by Mr. Garner said in an converse.

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