Monthly Archives: January 2016

Bacon, Cucumber And Face Palm Emoji May Be Added To iOS And Android This Year

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Last week, the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) accepted more than 30 characters as candidates for emoji to be integrated into messaging platforms, bringing the total to 74. When the UTC meets in the second half of 2016, it will determine which of the final emoji candidates will be added to Unicode 9.0 for release in June 2016. Some of the emoji that stands out in the new set includes a face palm, shrimp, a face with a cowboy hat, an eagle, a wilted flower, a cucumber, a handshake, a duck, a shark, a cucumber, a deer, an avocado, an egg, a tumbler glass, clinking glasses and a character taking a selfie.

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Let’s Face It, Tim Cook Is A Manager, Not An Innovator

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Once Apple was an innovative company which developed radical products that changed the way people live and work.
That’s why the company’s revenues and earnings grew by leaps and bounds, beating the most bullish analyst estimates quarter after quarter.
But that was some time ago, when the founder of the company was a serial innovator, competition was almost nonexistent, and market saturation was low.
Today, Apple is still an innovative company. But iy no longer develops radical products. It just churns out different versions of its old blockbuster products as the competition closes in and the market saturation grows high.
That’s why Wall Street doesn’t get as impressed as it used to with the company’s new product releases— and the reason Apple’s stock has been lagging in a strong technology market.

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Windows 10 Objectors Should Think Twice About Jumping To Mac

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Windows 10 is humming along at a decent clip, but still has a long way to go before it steals the title of de facto desktop operating system. Many Windows users object to Windows 10 for various reasons, and a fair percentage have threatened to just abandon Windows entirely and switch to Mac OS X. I know the grass is greener—blah, blah, blah—but if your reason for avoiding Windows 10 is that you don’t approve of Microsoft’s strong arm tactics you might want to think twice.

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Lyft partners with Waze as new default app for driver directions

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A new Transport SDK will bring integration for partners to use Waze’s maps. Even though Waze is owned by Google, the map experience is completely different on either navigation app. This new SDK for Waze will let app-developers access maps with helpful crowd-sourced traffic information.

The new SDK will provide more optimized routes for delivering packages or picking up passengers. Waze lists benefits for partners, users, and other Waze users. Partners can benefit by being able to get better routes to reach more customers in the same time.

Users can wait less time for a ride, and enjoy a quicker route while the Waze community benefits from more drivers actively using the app. Waze is crowd-sourced so it relies on its regular users for its latest information on accidents, weather, road closures, and police traps.

Waze believes its SDK is capable of supporting a business or company in any country where Waze has a presence, just as long as Waze finds it feasible to partner up with it.

Lyft states that riders can expect the shorter wait times, quicker routes and more efficient carpool rides in the next coming weeks. Both iOS and Android Lyft apps will be updated for drivers to take advantage of the new integration, including a button that seamlessly returns from navigating maps back to Lyft to pick up another customer.

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