Archive for December, 2015

According to Japanese medium reports, Panasonic plans to build the electric vehicle battery plantation in China. The total investment capital reached 2.7 billion yuan. It will team up with domestic enterprises to build this plantation which is supposed to start building in 2017.

Panasonic chose Dalian to build the plantation for producing blade vehicle and its auxiliaries of plug-in PHV lithium batteries. Panasonic owns battery plantation for PC computers in China, however, it is first time it builds a plantation of the specialized car battery. Its annual capacity is assumed to offer the batteries for 200,000 full electric vehicles.

According to the 2015 summer prediction by Fuji Keizai Group, the scale of Chinese full electric vehicles and PHEV in 2025 will be 7.5 times than 2015’s, that is, about 650,000 electric vehicles in the market. Such number is beyond the prediction.

The statistics of The China Association of Automotive Manufacturers suggested the capacity of full electric vehicles and PHEV increased by 4.4 times from January to November on the basis of year-on-year figure. The specific capacity is 290,000 vehicles. CAAM claimed that it has potential to increase to 350,000 for all-year statistics in 2015.

LG built its plantation in Nanjing in October. It is now introducing the on-board lithium battery to the car manufacturers. Panasonic wishes to build the localized production system so that it increases offers for car enterprises. It aims to reach the annual sales volume at 100 billion yen with the help of on-board lithium battery business.

India Times reported that The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) asked for Facebook and its cooperated partner Reliance Communications to stop the Free Basics project, which was called Internet.org in the past.

An Indian officer claimed:” We notified Reliance Communications to stop the Free Basics. According to the related reports it submitted, Reliance stopped offering such service.”

Reliance Communications is the exclusive telecommunications partner for Facebook in India. They offer Free Basics together. Reliance is one of the four telecom operators, it obtained 110 million users by the past June.

 The Free Basics allows users to apply Facebook and Facebook Messenger for free. In the meanwhile, users can access to WikiPedia, BBC news, Bing Search and Dictionary.com.

This service was against by its rivals there. The Free Basics gave special offer to its cooperative operator which violated the Network Neutrality. TRAI doesn’t decide a final agreement whether the Free Bacis is in accordance with the Net Neutrality.

The Free Basic involves in the agreement whether it allows different Telcom operators make different price due to the contents. Such service is unsuited to go on provided that a common view is made.

Facebook claimed that it will focus on developing the service itself. It won’t restrict the acess of other service providers. Facebook carried out some measures to let developers and other potential partners to join this service easier.

Google launched Google Cloud Shell this October, a function of Google Cloud platform. It helps developers to use the command line to manage base installation and applications.

Google announced that Google Cloud Shell Beta would be freely provided in the whole year of 2015 when it was released. Cloud Shell received a great amount of positive feedback. However, there were also some users reflected the term for free version is too short.

Now Google announced that it extends Cloud Shell’s free version by the end of 2016.

Normally, the developers could not carry the computers for work at any time they wish, such as holidays, at home or on the ways. With the help of Cloud Shell, it would connect and manage the Google Cloud via command line without installing Google Cloud SDK and other tools. For example, developes can use gcloud feature directly. If they need to store the data in Sessions, they will be obtained 5GB additional free storage space.

Some sepcialities of Cloud Shell:

1.A temporarily operation on the basis of Debian Linux OS

2.Apply Cloud Platform Console to connect the living example via browsers.

3.Each applicant has 5GB permanent storage space, mounting on Cloud Shell corss-project, sessions and $HOME directory.

4 .Pre-install Google Cloud SDK and other tools.

5. It contains of SDKs, libraries, JRE, editor of Java, Go, Python, Node.js, PHPand Ruby.

6. Webpage preview

7. Built-in authorized capabilities under cross-project and resource

What developers can do with Cloud Shell:

1.Create and manage Google Compute Engine

2.Create and connect Google Cloud SQL data base

3.Manage the data of Google Cloud Storage

4.Interacting with remote Git warehouse, such as Google Cloud Source Repositories

5.Create and deploy Google App Engine application

Microsoft has been developing business in Ireland for 30 years. The Irish branch becomes the important component of Microsoft business.

The Irish Times reported that the Irish Microsoft headquarter is recruiting 160 positions, including 100 full-time experts and 60 interns. It will further enlarge the Microsoft business in Ireland, attract more European talents in order to march into European Market. So far, Microsoft has a total employees of 1,200 in Dublin, Ireland.

The new positions involve in all kinds of aspect, such as consumer service, technological process, software engineer, data analyst, project manager, financial expert and so on.

The Irish chef Cathriona Hallahan claimed in a statement of Irish Times that the firm wishes to attract more new talented persons. For instance, it needs the creative thinkers who has growth mindset. They must have great passion with technical innovation, focus on clients’ need, acclimatize themselves to fast path and dynamic working environment.

The new recruited employees should be with diversity and competent abilities. Microsoft would like to recruit those engineers who are competent with working among Windows, Office, Dynamics and Azure sections.

In additional to this, Microsoft starts building the new campus which locates in Dublin, Ireland. The area of Dublin campus comes with 370,000 square foot, including 7.4 acre of office buildings. The expense for this new campus is estimated at $152 million.

Pixel C is the first iPad that Google made. It could be connected with keyboard which means Android OS will be possibly produced.

Android and Chrome UX chief Glen Murphy claimed:” We are working hard to enhance Android system in terms of multi-task function. We have spent much time to improve it and we expect to share it with you soon.” It seems that the next upgrade for Android system on multi-task function will be improved a lot.

Consumer hardware chief Andrew Bowers stated that they are working on the modification for adding more contents. They hope to realize it soon. There are not many details revealed as they wish to surprise the public when it is being released. It is worth noting that they are launching the split view function as well.

Besides the multi-task function, the general problem for the promotion of Android iPad is that there are fewer applications to support. Many publishers use the automatic layout tools to convert the user interface to bigger screens.

Murphy added:” We spent great time to team up with publishers in the hope of launching better iPad applications. We feel the key to encourage the publishers to launch iPad is the hardware, such as Pixel C.”

The public feedback for Pixel C mingled hope and fear. There are lots of modifications will be done for Google. It is estimated that Google will make great modification when it releases Android N.

Apple firm chooses special gift for each of its employees for Christmas before the Christmas holiday is coming. The firm takes this opportunity to gratitude their contributions and welcome the Christmas celebration together.

As the foreign media reported, Apple firm has chosen the gift and it will send to each of its employee soon. The gift is from Apple’s subordinate Beats Dr.Dre headphone series. It come with red color and black color. The gift is sent randomly. The employees are unable to choose their favorite color but the package marks wording”Thank You 2015″.

This Dr.Dre headphone is sold at $99.95 on the stores there. Apple prepares this gift for each of its employee no matter at home or abroad. It is packing the gifts now and it will send to the employees all over the world. We have learned that Apple always sends special gift to its employees, but it is the first time that it sends its subordinate product for them.

Apple chose the customized Incase backpacks for its employees for the Christmas gift last year, enclosed a thank-you note. It also sent innovative gifts before, such as blanket, water bottle, free software, iTunes coupon and so on.

While Google and Microsoft employees are much happier. They nearly receive their own brand products as gifts each year. The wearable devices, smartphones, iPads, Laptops were in their gift lists. It is unclear that what gifts these two giants will prepare for their employees this Christmas.

It is reported that IBM sets a goal of next revenue at $1 billion for its Cloud Infrastructure service SoftLayer.

The confirmed source indicated that this yearly revenue of SoftLayer business will reach $700 million -$800 million. It means that the growing rate for SoftLayer business for next year will be increased by 25%.

IBM acquired SoftLayer in 2013. The yearly revenue of SoftLayer was $335 million before the acquisition.

IBM sets goal for positive increase of Cloud Infrastructure service indicated its made effort to recover its business through SoftLayer after it encountered the problem that consumers declined its other products. As a successor in Cloud service market, IBM’s revenue encountered decline for 14 quarters in a row.

By September 30, the revenue of IBM privatization and public cloud service reach $9.4 billion in the past 12 months. IMB spokesman Ian Colley said:” it will help IBM rank on the top in cloud service market.” But he did not make any comment on SoftLayer’s revenue estimation. Among its $92.8 billion revenue in 2014, $ 7 billion was from cloud service and software section.

SoftLayer is the biggest stake of IBM as the firm paid $2 billion to acquired it. The acquisition of SoftLayer contributed to the enhancement of IBM’s cloud service so that it could rival with Amazon and Microsoft. The firm claimed that it invested $1.2 billion to build 15 data centers in 2014.

Bloomberg reported that the competition in cloud computing market will be intense among Amazon, Microsoft and Google in 2016.

The analysts Karl Keirstead and Ross Sandler from Deutsche Bank suggested that Amazon AWS service is the most potential business department. They thought that AWS service performs better than other business sections.

In terms of AWS revenue, AWS receives 6 times revenue as its biggest rival Microsoft Azure. Now, AWS becomes the most powerful service in the whole enterprise technical industry.

They said even though Marc Benioff from Salesforce is the iconic figure in software industry, Andrew Jassy from AWS might be techinical supervisor that being undervalued in technical industry.

AWS service was launched in 2006 to meet the demand for data storage, data processing, IT support for the enterprise users. The analysts felt its operation mode is similar to Uber’s and Airbnd’s.

AWS revenue received $2 billion according to its third quarter financial report. The net profit is $500 million.

AWS just received $750 million revenue in the third quarter of 2013. The sharply revenue growth made AWS became the faster grown rate technical company. It became the biggest department of Amazon shortly.

The added:”The growth rate of AWS is about 40%-50%, and it will drop to 30% in a few years. Amazon’s retail business gross profit may keep with the growth rate at 15%. So AWS scale will be larger than Amazon’s core retail business in 2024.”

It is not boasted as AWS revenue accounted for 52% of Amazon total revenue in the third quarter. Its profitability exceeds Amazon’s other sections.

So far, AWS clients are from Netflix and US CIA.

The analysts claimed that AWS still has potential to receive better revenue contributes to Amazon’s dominate position and its public cloud service.