10 new features of Android KitKat

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The launch of Android 4.4 is just around the corner, with rumours hinting at October 31 launch for the next version of Google OS. But you don’t have to wait that long to know what new features Google is bringing in the next version of its new mobile OS name KitKat.

Several leaked images and videos have given clear details about the upcoming Android OS. Here are 10 new features of Android KitKat.

SMS integration in Hangouts

One of the biggest changes in Android KitKat will be the integration of SMS and MMS into Google Hangouts app, which recently replaced Google Talk. The new app update will indicate whether any particular message has been sent as a SMS, MMS or instant message (online chat).

Notification and Navigation Bars

The Notification Bar, which have remained solid black in colour till now, will be transparent and icons like battery, signal strength etc will be white in Android 4.4. Same is the case with Navigation Bar, where the Home, Back and App Switcher software keys are located.

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Always listening

The report says that Google Now will have the 'always-on' functionality of Moto X in Android 4.4 and may accept commands in several languages, not just English.

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Has iPhone 5C proved Steve Jobs right?

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who emphasized high-end consumer gadgets over cheaper ones, may have been right all along. Last month, chief executive officer Tim Cook introduced the colorful iPhone 5C, a less-expensive version of Apple's smartphone, to "serve even more customers" around the world. It turns out people so far are more interested in its pricier, feature rich cousin, the 5S.
                                                      
 Three surveys in the past two weeks said the company's new high-end model is outselling the 5c by at least 2 to 1. KGI Securities, a brokerage firm, slashed its quarterly estimates for 5C sales by a third, and retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Target have reduced the phone's price. The Wall Street Journal reported Apple's orders to suppliers for the iPhone 5C have been cut by a third.

Customers are shrugging off the $99 iPhone 5c even as Apple spends heavily to advertise the handset, which is last year's model repackaged in a colored plastic case. The 5C, which costs $100 less than the souped-up iPhone 5S, is Apple's attempt to lure buyers in developing markets like China, where Samsung and other Android phone makers lead. Even so, big sales of the pricier model are a boon because they carry fatter profit margins.

"Apple customers are still interested in premium products from a premium brand," said Laurence Balter, an analyst at Oracle Investment Research in Fox Island, Washington. "If anything, the 5C is a failed experiment in trying to please the masses. Apple should stay focused on the premium and let Samsung take the lower end of the market."

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Yahoo! acquires URL-shortner !!!!

Yahoo! acquires URL-shortner, ad-service startup.

 

 

Yahoo said that it acquired Bread, a URL shortner that allows users to design then target advertisements to readers who click on their links.

WASHINGTON: Yahoo said that it acquired tech company Bread, a URL shortner that allows users to design then target advertisements to readers who click on their links.

"Through this acquisition, we're gaining a team of six engineers and product managers who will join our advertising technology organization in Sunnyvale," a Yahoo spokesperson said.

Bread, which has already been shuttered, allowed users to make and insert ads that people clicking through to a shortened link's webpage would have to view, according to media.

"When we launched Bread in 2011, our goal was to help social media influencers and publishers better monetize their online content," the company said in a statement.

All Bread links will be viable until November 11, at which point the company says users should switch to another URL shortner, bit.ly.

Yahoo has been undergoing major changes since former Google executive Marissa Mayer became boss just over a year ago, notably acquiring what is now more than 20 startups including the billion-dollar buy of blog platform Tumblr. 

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