It’s only a matter of time before commerce transactions through mobile surpass the web. Source: Apple Store’s mobile traffic equals desktop for the first time – Mobile Commerce Daily – Multichannel retail support
Category: Technology
Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92% – WSJ
This is a subscriber only article; the headline says it all. While many companies make phones, it’s very hard to make significant profit from hardware manufacturing. Apple is one of the few companies that has figured out how to make significant profits from hardware as well as software. The PC industry and the television…
PC Sales Continue to Fall – Digits – WSJ
Worldwide PC sales saw their sharpest decline in nearly two years in the second quarter of 2015, dealing continued damage to retailers and makers of devices, chips and PC software. Source: PC Sales Continue to Fall – Digits – WSJ
Search for Ever Cheaper Garment Factories Leads to Africa – WSJ
Africa is seen as the final frontier in the global rag trade—and Ethiopia ranks high with apparel company executives who are looking for cheaper factories to sew Wrangler jeans, H&M T-shirts and Calvin Klein clothes. Hope this “race for cheapest labor” eventually uplifts wages and living standard for many different parts of the world. Source:…
Xiaomi Sees $1 Billion in Mobile Services Revenue This Year – WSJ
Xiaomi’s revenue from mobile services will more than triple this year to nearly $1 billion, the Chinese smartphone maker’s CEO predicted. Xiaomi has become the most valuable startup at approximately $45B, making the popular smart phones “Mi” and dabbling in other lines of business. Their founder has emulated Steve Jobs, and their phones are very…
Apple Releases iOS 8.3 With Emoji Updates, Wireless CarPlay, Space Bar UI Fix – Mac Rumors
The carplay updates look interesting. iOS 8.3 is available immediately as an over-the-air download. Xcode 6.3 is also available, as is a 7.2 update for the Apple TV and a 1.2 update for Swift, Apple’s programming language. via Apple Releases iOS 8.3 With Emoji Updates, Wireless CarPlay, Space Bar UI Fix – Mac Rumors.
Spotify Nears Deal to Raise $400 Million at $8.4 Billion Valuation – WSJ
Interesting, $8B pre-money valuation, and selling 5% stake for $400M and very interesting quote from the article as well… Wondering how long this “ad-free” trend will last. YouTube also announced their ad-free service. HBO announced their online package and ofcourse Netflix doesn’t have ads. They believe that ad-based streaming services aren’t able to generate enough…
Introducing the All-Wheel Drive Model S 70D | Tesla Motors
Tesla just changed their lineup and removed the lowest option and added Model S 70D with much more power and distance on full charge. Electric Vehicles are definitely getting more interesting. Introducing the All-Wheel Drive Model S 70D | Tesla Motors.
Tesla To Unveil A New Product Line Beyond Cars On April 30 | TechCrunch
With all that solar power being generated, it almost feels like something is needed to complete the picture … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2015 Wonder what this is going to be ? Speculations abound that it will be something to do with Solar and Batteries. It’s about time that we start using renewable…
New Apple TV 4 concept: Apple TV touch with redesigned, wirelessly rechargeable touch-based remote
There are a few Apple TV rumors doing the rounds of the Internet, I found the images on this article and the description pretty interesting. Steve Jobs wrote in his book that “he has cracked the TV”, let’s hope this new version shows some of his genius in there. Looking forward to the new…
Unwanted apps in Launchpad of your Mac OS X laptop?
Not sure how but I am stuck with unwanted and remnants from deleted apps in Launchpad. I was annoyed and I thought it’d be an easy deletion but found that it is not quite easy task after all. Here are few ways to delete them: 1) Delete using Launchpad Jiggle mode: Once you found the…
Hosting WordPress MultiSite on OpenShift
Want to have a blogging site based on WordPress up and running in mins? You must be thinking, yes and it is easy – I’d go to wordpress.com and sign up. Wait a min, do they give you full control – ability to install your own themes, plug-ins, your own custom plug-ins? What if I…