Microsoft Corporation Finally Updates Internet Explorer

The Windows giant has finally released a fixing patch to make sure all bugs and problems are removed while users browse on the new Windows 10.

Microsoft Corporation’s infamous browser, the Internet Explorer, has again turned out to be troublesome for the users. A couple of weeks ago, the giant introduced the much talked about Windows 10, the new operating system that it had been working on for quite a long time now. However, since the release of the OS, the users have had some serious issues using the new Windows, especially in the giant’s browser. It was believed by the hype created by the software giant that all the previous flaws and faults in the company system will be taken care of in the new OS, but the analysts couldn’t have been more wrong. Even though Microsoft business has been trying to overcome the faults in the browser since a really long time now, it has failed to go the complaints against the browser have come out to be in a large number. The re-launch of the outdated browser along with the original Windows was previously taken as a good step towards competing with Firefox and Chrome, but with the increasing issues being faced, analysts are talking about how this cannot be achieved by the giant anymore. Microsoft software team, however, is reportedly carrying out another small program to fix the errors and issues that are being built up in the recent Windows. The giant came out with a patch on Tuesday, which according to the news is capable of turning down all the problems and faults previously being confronted by the users at large. On the other hand, the bug that was attacking all the Windows users and the latest OS was making the users go over to a website automatically, which was actually a major threat to the personal information of the users. This problem was especially taking place within the Internet Explorer only, which was something that does not annoy the users if they are using browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The reports of the victims of the virus bugs have also reported that the flashy messages shown on the browser were the real threats to not only the personal information, but were also slammed with a lot of unwanted content on the internet, which turned out to be unavoidable. However, the patch that has been released by the giant will be helping the users in the most convenient of ways. All they have to do is download it or simply update their Windows with the new update being offered by the tech company.

Is Apple's iPhone 6S Water-Resistant?

Apple has brought about some exciting changes in the new iPhone 6S and water-resistance is one of them.

According to recent news, it was seen that software giant Apple Inc. has indeed made the new phone in the iPhone series to be somewhat resistant to water, which is something that needs to be reckoned with. The high-end tech company has always been engaged in making smart phones and gadgets that were of not only amazing quality and technology, but also quite sensitive to liquids and damage. A news article published by MacRumors suggests that the Californian organization has come around to make the new iPhone 6S design in such a manner that now it can handle and tolerate little amounts of water or other liquids which it is exposed to. Previously, all the smart gadgets of the company have been more than sensitive towards any kind of moisture. On the other hand, an expert on the matter, known as iFixit, has come around with a report, which informs that following an analysis made on the new smartphone device, a number of details have been noted down by the analysts that are repeated and giving the idea of how the giant has experimented with a new concept now. The details have been experimented within the market in the past as well. The tech company has given out a few exciting features in the new phones and some of them include a 3D touch display along with a better battery system. Even though Apple business has not announced this to the market but it has been confirmed by the analysts that the inside system which has been installed in the device is actually entirely water resistant. The glue band, which attaches the whole phone with the body of the gadget, has been made much thicker this time, which also determines how the giant has given more focus to ensuring that liquid resistance is created inside as well. The inside structure of the devices made by Apple software has always been the highest concern for the company and it has made sure that no drawbacks are seen in the new generation phone this time. All the efforts that have been made towards improving the new iPhone seem to be more than prominent now. The experts have also commented on how these efforts might not look so huge to the customers but for people who follow every step of the company can know where the improvements have been made. Enthusiasts are excited over even the minute details of Apple’s products.

Is Apple Capable Of Bringing A Positive Change To Beats' Position In The Market?

The iPhone makers are being questioned about their idea of acquiring Beats and analysts are now anticipating whether the firm will be able to put some quality into the famous headphones hardware devices.

Some analysts have emerged with an opinion in which they believe that the fact Apple took over Beats the previous year does not really make sense, keeping in mind the reputation of the headphones making company which was already quite shaky before it got taken over by the classic smartphone makers. The Beats headphones, which took over the headphone industry with its launch, were seen to attract quite a lot of attention of the users who were fans of music and music devices. These headphones brought about a huge uproar in the market which made all the fans want to get the gadget for their own. The gadget was priced highly at a starting price of $200.

However, all the hype which was created for these overly priced headphones turned out to be for nothing as the quality of the gadget was not as expected which disappointed the market at large. The fact that the quality of the sound coming out of these headphones was not good enough turned off quite a lot of users which degraded the product quite a lot. On the other hand, analysts believe that the fact that the Beats headphones were made so popular was because of the hype created by marketing strategies, something that it has similar with Apple Inc.

Even though Apple Inc uses extremely influential marketing tactics, it has never really offered a product or gadget to its users which are of substandard quality. So at the time when the iPhone 6 makers signed billion dollar deal to obtain Beats, analysts wondered if the software firm would be able to fix the issues the headphones are usually seen to have.

Apple has made its mark in the industry by producing hardware which is always of high quality. Even though the software company uses some products on its gadgets that are of low price to save expenditure, it has never compromised on good quality and this is what the customers of the Apple products are so fond of. This was the reason that analysts were surprised about the fact it acquired Beats, which had many quality issues.

Analysts now believe that the tech giant needs to see to the low-quality issues that Beats headphones have repeatedly emerged with and come up something that is capable of competing in the market. On the other hand, analysts also believe that in case Apple business does not have faith in Beats, it is possible in might come up with its own personalized headphones, designed with a special design it uses for the other products.

Google's Self Driving Cars: How Safe Could They Really Be?

The cars that have been released by the firm have had around eleven accidents in six years and analysts are thinking whether the cars are really safe or not.

Google’s self-driving cars have become the center of speculation due to many reasons in the past. The cars that the firm has been making were first and foremost raised with the question of safety, whether they will be made to be accident prone or to be designed in a way that it helps avoid any chance of being unsafe.

Even though all the questions asked with the surety of providing safety in the best possible way, in a recent press release, it was heard that the search engine giant reported around 11 accidents that happened in the period of six years which happened in the self-driving cars. All the accidents that took place have been reported to be on a little scale, and they have emerged to be due to human error and not the fault of the cars, according to the tech giant’s believe.

California’s government was recently seen to have announced an official test to be carried out of the autonomous cars and since then around three of the eleven accidents have taken place. Another one was reported to have taken place in October, where the driver was using Delphi Automotive technology to drive his autonomous car. All these accidents that have taken place, despite the fact that Google is persistent that they happened to be minor and nothing serious, have raised concerns among the analysts about if the cars made by the firm are safe or not.

Eleven accidents in six years is not a huge number keeping in mind the long time period and according to a spokesperson from the driverless car program of Google, it has been explained that most of the times that an accident took place, it was due to the other cars who hit the autonomous cars from behind, mainly when the traffic lights had directed all the cars to halt. Almost all the accidents, as explained by the spokesperson of the search engine giant on a blogging platform, have been reported to have taken place on the streets and not on the highway which is another plus point to be considered for the tech giant.

However, one thing that should be taken into consideration, is that now the Californian state has announced it for all the companies working towards released autonomous cars is that now all they have to do sign a bond worth $5 million which is in case the cars make any damage to life and property. Even though according to law, all the accidents that take place whether they happen by human error or by the machine’s mistake, Google cars has recently proposed that only those accidents should be reported that take place due to a mistake carried out by a machine.

We Now Know The Reason Why Apple Vans Were Released In The First Place

The Caravans which were seen on the streets of New York were actually being used for the purpose of mapping, as explained in a recent report.

The Apple vans that have been attracting the attention of people all around New York raised quite a lot of speculation, from analysts believe it to be an indication that the software giant is working on a new car to rumors suggesting that a car with the company’s logo on it means nothing else but that the firm is planning to enter the automotive industry after all the success in the tech industry.

The fact that for quite some time, there have been a number of Dodge Caravans that have been spotted by people around the city is actually being used for something entirely different than what was initially believed by the tech industry has somewhat disappointed analysts. It still isn’t confirmed whether the firm is working on a car or not, but these vans were taken as a strong hint for the software giant to enter the auto industry. However, in the most recent press release regarding the iPhone makers, it was seen that these cars were released for the purpose of mapping in the first place. With special cameras and significant equipment to serve the purpose, these cars are being for an entirely different task.

It has recently emerged as a fact that Caravans that Apple has been using since a long time now are attached with LIDAR cameras which are used for the purpose of mapping. This is being said as Google has been seen using the same cameras for the autonomous cars that it has lately been preparing as well as for the Street View options that it has been working on. According to a report released by 9to5Mac, it was announced that the tech giant is planning to use these vans and the functions that they are carrying out for the upcoming Apple Maps app that planned to be released with updated software which works in a much refined way as compared to the previous version that was launched.

Apple software is working on this mapping app more than ever as it wishes to become independent in the field of mapping and not depend on other apps like TomTom that it currently is using. The updated Mapping app will be launched in the month of June at the WWDC and the analysts believe that the tech giant is going to make it big. The vans have been observed by the people who have seen them on the streets to be taking a 3D view of the streets and also to be taking a picture of the stores that it crosses.

Microsoft Comes Up With Age Detection Tool

The software giant has come up with a new tool which detects the gender and age of the people present in the matter than it under the tool's scrutiny.

Microsoft Corporation is famous for coming up with new ideas and features that amuse the users to no end. As per recent software news, the software giant has managed to come up with a new age detection feature which has been named ‘HowOldRobot’ in the Bing search options where users can upload a picture which will then be scanned by the age detecting tool. The picture can also be a part of the search results and this tool will then determine the gender and age of the subject that is present in the image being scrutinized. The feature was first announced by the software firm at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference.

Along with this announcement, an early stage of a ‘bot’ was also announce which was reportedly was a show to exhibit how the Microsoft business was working successfully with the tool that could recognize faces in a perfect manner. This new tool has been deemed as quite an interesting and fun application to be used by the users. Joseph Sirosh, who is the vice president of the country, was seen to announce that just by submitting pictures to this user interface, the online users will be able to see how the app works by detecting the gender and age of the person in the picture, which makes it all the more interesting as to how this app really works.

Users who are using the Bing search engine to make their researchers can use this new tool by opting for the HowOldRobot option available at the side of the page and whatever they search through the search engine site can be scrutinized by the tool which will then let the user know the gender and age of the people appearing in the search results.

The users, on the other hand, can also put in their own pictures to see how well and accurate the tool is. They will also be given the option to apply this feature to all their search results that they make through Bing. If they want, the users can also take pictures through their webcam right there and then or they can just upload a photograph that already exists in their hardware. One thing that should be taken into notice is that the tool only will be detecting pictures that are up to 3MB.

One more perk of this tool is that the updated version that is provided by Microsoft software can also be used by the customers on their personal computers as well as on their smartphones, without paying a penny for it.

Apple Inc Earnings For 2QFY15

The iPhone makers reported an exceptional quarter earnings from the significant sales in China.

Apple Inc (AAPL) has been doing wonders in the tech world with the extraordinary sales of the iPhone that it reported in its quarterly report presented on April 27, 2015. The tech company was seen to have recorded an exceptionally high revenue increment in the quarter which was due to the strong sales of the new iPhone that was carried out in the previous fall. The kind of sales that the firm has been experiencing is one of its kinds.

In the much awaited quarter report, Apple Inc declared that it sold a massive $61.2 million items of the smartphone in a period of three months which the analysts believe is a number to be reckoned with. These sales have arisen by a huge 40% as compared to the previous year’s same quarter. One of the main reasons for such a rise in the sales was due the successful penetration that the company managed to do in China which was marked as one of the biggest achievements of the iPhone makers.

The revenue for Apple Inc came around $59 billion for the three months quarter with the earnings per share rising up to $2.33, as per a report by WSJ. According to the average selling price, in which the iPhone were sold and bought at, the price tag of $659 showed an increment of $60 if compared to the price the smartphones were previously sold at. In an interview, Tim Cook, who is the CEO of the Silicon Valley based company, told the WSJ that this time around, the company has experienced an unusual growth of customers switching from other phones to Apple phones which has been marked as another jewel in the firm’s crown.

The gross margin that was received by Apple in the quarterly results came around with a rise of 40.8% which was higher than the expected margin of 38.5%. Previously, the software company had decided to return around $130 billion to shareholders in the form of dividend but an increase was recorded in that department as well, as by March 2017, the firm has planned to return $200 billion to its shareholders.

The company has also managed to raise the cash revenue to $193.5 billion which totaled around only $178 billion by the end of the previous quarter.

Verizon Declines Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Request To Install Apps On Samsung Phones

The wireless company has declined Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) request to pre-install apps on S6.It is a known fact that Microsoft has been facing quite a threat by tech giants like Google and Apple and for that reason; the software giant has been trying hard to make plans so that it could make itself prominent and dominant in those companies rivalry. The main thing that it has been working on it is to make the applications more popular amidst the dominance of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS system. The software company was recently seen making an announcement for the purpose of spreading its apps on a wider scale by targeting as many phones and handsets that it could get its hands on. However, this plan of the firm seemed to be with no proper foundation.

Verizon Communications business and AT&T were recently seen to have declined the fact that any such deal between the tech giant and them took place. They further declared that Microsoft Corporation had plans for installing its apps before anybody on Samsung’s new phone Galaxy S6, but this was also not accepted by the wireless companies. Now the fact that the US’s largest wireless communication providers are not in favor of reinstalling or installing apps made by Microsoft Corporation on their phones clearly shows how the software developing apps have a really low demand currently and this has come as a huge shock to the Windows company.

Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest software developing company in the world and for it to face such a position is quite a surprising factor. The company had initially planned to install apps like OneDrive, Skype and OneNote on the S6 series so that once the phones get out in the public, it becomes available to more and more people and in this way, the popularity and usage of these apps could have increased. The tech giant is desperately trying to compete with the other developers in the industry and is looking forward to taking the company to higher levels of progress and it to be believed by the developers that by pre-installing apps on a phone, it could be made possible that it reaches out to more people. Unfortunately, the wireless companies have different cell phone plans and the decline from them has come out to be not only a surprise, but also quite a disappointment for the giant.

On the other hand, Verizon wireless business has made sure that the three apps Microsoft Corporation was previously planning to install on the S6 will not be taking their said positions on the handsets and it was a final notice given by them, dismissing all the rumors. However, AT&T will have Skype and OneDrive pre-installed on the phones it sells.

Microsoft Upgrades XBox With Voice Messages

The tech giant has plans to update Xbox One with voice messages and new chat options by the end of April

The most popular device among the young people, the Xbox is all set to be upgraded by the Microsoft Corporation for its update scheduled for April 2015. According to the latest technological news, the tech giant was recently seen talking about experimenting with updating the device with voice messages and chat options that have excited the users to no extent. These are some of the features that the users of the gaming device have been looking towards since the first time they got their hands on the product. For the company to have finally come up with such options for the upgraded version of the gaming device, it has not come as a surprise to the tech analysts.

The update on the Xbox will include the addition of voice messaging service and will also allow a platform where a group of users will be able to entertain a group chat. These messages will be easily designed to transfer from Xbox 360 to Xbox One which means that all the Xbox users will be granted permission to use the special offering of the company.

These voice messages are needed by the gamers at the time they are engrossed in a game during which it becomes quite difficult for them to type a message to their partners in games. Through this voice message service, they will easily record a message which will then be sent over to the other party on the server. This new update will give gaming a whole new experience and the users will be able to enjoy playing games even more than before.

With the help of these additional offerings by Microsoft, the users using the Xbox are allowed to enjoy the actual feel of gaming without any interruption during the extraordinary experience. The tech giant has also made a much-anticipated change in the Xbox in which the users will be able to take a preview of their games as well.

Tech analysts have predicted that Microsoft Corporation might have to face some issues before finally releasing the chat feature on the Xbox as there are some NAT settings that need to be taken into consideration before carrying out any plans. The software giant has decided to overcome all the problems related to technology in the upcoming update that it has decided to make in April.

As for when the Microsoft update is actually going to get launched in April, it has not yet been finalized or announced by the officials. Analysts believe that if Bill Gates’ company is taking time to launch the update, then it is probable that they are working hard to produce great results.