Archive for February, 2016

According to the report of Morning Consult, Mark Zuckerberg obtains the most favorable CEO in US large science and technology enterprises. The favorable of Satya Nadeall, Larry Page and Elon Musk ranked after Zuckerberg.

Unfortunately, Facebook’s security trust is lower. Its security trust ranked after Amazon’s, Google’s and Apple’s.

Tim Cook obtains 1935 favorable votes during the investigation of Apple vs FBI. The favorable rate was 39%. Zuckerberg won 48% of favorable rate. Amazon Jeff Bezos was 38 % and Satya Nadelle was 29%.

In the votes of most favorable CEO, Zuckerberg ranked first. Only 31% of voters claimed they have never heard about him. He was attending the Samsung release at MWC on last Wednesday. He was warmly welcome by the participants.

Tim Cook was gained some more media exposures due to against of FBI issue. But there are also 44% of voters showed they don’t know him.

Speaking of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, how are their favorables? 65% of voters claimed don’t know them. 19% of voters voted Kalanick as unfavorable and only 16% of voters voted him as favorable.

The unfavorable that Kalanick received seem to be related to Uber itself. When asked about the personal information security of Uber, 18% of voters stated yes.

The personal information leaks don’t seem to affect the companies security trust. Over 50% of voters claimed that they are confident with the data security of Google, Apple and Amazon. Facebook only got 32% of favorable rate for this.

Taking the business organization into consideration, American citizens are most reliable to Social Security Administration. Even though, Amazon and Apple still beat Internal Revenue Service concerns the security and trust.

As reported, Apple will introduce Siri when it rolls out OS X 10.12 later this year. Siri is an important component of iPhone, Apple Watch and Apple TV OS.

Apple has been studying how to integrate Siri to OS X since 2012. Quoting from the confirmed source, Siri version for Mac will has new user interface. It is possibly that Apple will release OS X 10.12 at Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

Siri will be possibly displayed in Menu Bar of Mac system, that is, displayed in the menu on the computer monitor. The Menu bar includes date, time and Spotlight search options. The icon of Siri will be used to activate the software, while Spotlight icon is used to search, Notification icon is used to open the Notification Center.

When users click the Siri icon, a transparent Siri software interface will be displayed on the right corner of computer screen. The interface will show the color acoustic graphics to demonstrate the imput of voice. The testing interface is not the final version yet.

You will find the specified settings interface of using pressing the keyboard shortcuts. It could be activated when OS X 10.12 is operated.

If you set up Siri to be activated as long as OS X 10.12 is operating, its operating process is the same as it works on iPhone and iPad.

Quoting from the oversea media report, Mark Zuckerberg attended the release of UNPACKED 2016 held by Samsung lately. He talked about the future of VR technology. He confirmed that Facebook Oculus will support the sandbox game Minecraft.

Zuckerberg said VR technology will be the next important platform. Anyone could create or experience anything they wish on VR technology. Right now, the VR technology is mostly applied in games. It will be soon applying in other industries.

He implied the consumers to image how if we use the VR technology to experience the campfire or hold conference anywhere or any time they like. Zuckerberg said:” This is the reason why Facebook invests much on VR technology. It will offers convenience to users for new social experience. VR will be the next social networking platform.”

Zuckerberg claimed that Samsung is the most advanced company that produces OLED screen. It will help VR technology to be the mainstream technology. Zuckerberg offered many latest statistics concerning VR technology during the conference, such as videos are being watched for over one million hours under the VR surroundings.

He suggested that Facebook is now concentrating the launch of 360 view. He said:”we are engaging in improving Facebook as the best platform for 360 view. There are about one million people watch such panoramic video on our community each day.”

The new team is to launch the next generation application of VR technology. In a few weeks, Facebook will launch the technology named dynamic streaming for Gear VR. It will offer clearer resolution for the videos that being watched.

At last, Zuckerberg announced that Oculus has launched over 200 gaming applications. Its VR platform will support Minecraft.

Google Picasa announced the first bad news on its official website since its release. Google will shut down the Google Picasa service by this May. The public has been concerning the development of Picasa since Google released Google Photos. Google Picasa and Google Photos have similarities, however, the machine learning and automatic classification of Google Photos are better than Picasa’s.

Anil Sabharwal who is in charge of Google Photos indicated on the blog that if the company focuses its vigor and resource on this application, it will be upgraded with better experience for users. Photo service means a lot to any internet companies, especially when the smartphone becomes the most popular camera. The users require advanced storage, management and photo sharing devices.

Google once announced the montly active users of Google Photos reached 100 million in last October, however, it seldom announced the statistics of Picasa. Judging by the number of its monthly active users, Google Photos could be considered as a successful application. It could replace the function of Picasa. Google Photos was made for the mobile devices while Picasa was made for the need of desktop internet.

Many of Google Photos users might not hear about Picasa. Picasa was a CPE that acquired by Google in 2004. Google enaged in promoting this application, but its launch got stuck since 2011.

To Google, it works better to focus on the core products if it simplifies its product line. But it might cause effect to Picasa users. Google will stop supporting Picasa from March 15 and then its developers won’t be able to use some of the Picasa API.

If the Picasa users stored the photos on its online albums, they just need to login Picasa and open the Google Photos service to transfer the photos. If they are unwilling to use the Google Photos, they could login Picasa and check their photos. But they are unable to create or edit the albums in the future.

Google just announced its Gmail monthly active users reached one billion, Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp announced its monthly active users reached one billion as well. It means on average every 7 people around the world, there is one person uses WhatsApp service.

WhatsApp announced its monthly active users were 900 million five months ago. It only took five months to obtain 10 million active users.

Besides releasing the number of its monthly active users, Koum also shared a series of WhatsApp statistics:

42 billion messages sent per day
1.6 billion photos shared per day
1 billion total groups
53 languages supported
250 million videos shared per day
57 engineers are hired

It is worth noting that 1.6 billion photos shared per day. According to statistics reported by Mary Meeker in 2014 Internet Trends report, she indicated 1.8 billion photos shared per day on the internet. While there are 1.6 billion photos shared on WhatsApp. What a surprise!

Facebook also obtained 1.5 billion monthly active users for itself. What is more, the monthly active users for Facebook Messenger are over 800 million. It might not be too far for Instagram or even Oculus to reach such amount of active users.

It means a lot for Facebook that WhatsApp obtained one billion monthly active users. It only had 450 million monthly active users when it was acquired by Facebook. It took less than two years to reach one billion monthly active users under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg.

WhatsApp Jan Koum claimed lately that the company would cancel the one-dollar subscription service per year. It used to apply the business mode to offer free service for the first year and then charged one dollar subscription per day after being acquired.

Koum revealed that the company is testing app to connect the company and users in order to create new business mode. But the final plan did not make yet.