Berlin’s massive IFA customer electronics fair begin this week. Apple conventionally ignores this event, but this time it looms big.

IFA or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin is one of the largest showcase events of Europe in which latest electronic gadgets are exhibited. This year the event will commence on the 5 of September and will remain open for 5 days.

According to the analysts, rumors are going that Apple arranged a huge event of its own on September 9. Undoubtedly, Apple’s event will overshadow every single revelation made by its competitors.

Ian Fogg, an analyst at HIS stated that this time mobile makers are striving hard to declare several things as compared to the previous year. The chief reason behind it is that the rivals wish to win all the attention through the disclosure of its products before Apple.

Apple provided a few hints regarding the possible new product in its invitation to the event of September 9.
However, the rumors are that the company will launch a new generation iPhone with a much larger screen in the future event.

A number of analysts are predicting Apple to reveal an iPhone6 marking a move into “phablet”. The company will also release an “iWatch” along with iPhone 6.

On the other hand, Apple’s competitor is planning various products for the counter attack on Apple. Samsung the biggest rival of Apple is all set to launch a new version of smartphone known as Galaxy Note 4.

Recently, Apple has set new regulations for developers who are building apps through the Health kit feature  in iOS 8. The foremost rule is that the developers are not permissible to utilize date for advertising. The health data which will be stored on iOS 8 powered device could be a gold mine for the ad agencies.

HealthKit presented as a part of iOS 8 provide developers a set of APIs to share their apps’s data with Apple’ss new Health apps. This new iOS Health hub will allow users to view data related to their sleep, heart, rate, calories burned , blood sugar and cholesterol.

As per the reports  of The Financial Times , Apple informed all  the iOS developers that they cannot sell the users’ health information data to any advertising  platform accumulated through the HealthKit.

Moreover, Apple stated that the app developers can share the data only for the objective of medical research paper.

Apple believes that Health kit will permit users to share their health condition directly with their doctors. Therefore, the company is in dialogues with healthcare professionals and health insurers about how this app can be utilized in the Healthcare area.

Apple has also put some restriction on the usage of this data. The apps which are particularly designed to offer health and fitness service can use HealthKit APIs.

Rumors are that the company’s executives are also in talk with US Food and Drug Administration. Whereas, other health business like assured Apple that they don’t sell data which could recognize the users.

Apple is expected to launch  iPhone 6 and a new iWatch in the event of September 6. Both the two devices would be connected to HealthKit.

The Scientists explained in detail that the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets and contraction of ice shelves has contributed in an excess of nearly 350 Gigatons of fresh water in the surrounding oceans. This led to a drop in the salinity of the surrounding oceans, which has been supported by ship based study of water.

Craig Rye, main author of the research stated that generally salt water is thicker as compared to the fresh water. Therefore, the areas where a surplus of fresh water has accumulated researchers expected a rise in sea level.

The study is printed in the Journal Nature Geoscience.

Moreover, the researchers also carried out a computer simulation of the impact melting glaciers have on the Antarctic Ocean.

The outcome of the simulation thoroughly mirrored the real world picture portrayed by the satellite data.

The relation between air, sea and ice in these seas is essential for the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. It also affects other environmental developments like the generation of Antarctic bottom water. The Antartic bottom water that cools down and ventilates most of the global ocean abyss.

The work was executed with a partnership of  researchers of the National Oceanography Center with the British Antarctic Survey.

Numerous speculations surfaced related to the details of Android L release in the past few months. Google officially declared the launch of Android L in June, but people are still looking forward to the details. The company will probably release Android L or Android 4.5 or 5.0 until October or November.

Google surprised several customers through the revelation of the next version of Android before its release. Since it was a trend of Google to keep each and every single detail furtive till the proclamation and the launch of the new version.

 

However, Google has already offered Android L to some of the users in order to test the performance.

Although the release date of Android L is not yet confirmed, but a few details and features have emerged. Today, it is announced that it would be the safest version of Android. It will mark a new history in the mobile operating systems through the exciting new features and animations.

Android L will offer loads of bright colors, neat animation effects, designs and much more. Google had already flaunted some of these features whereas a sample of Android L beta is present below.

People discovered some of the new features of Android L when it was introduced. Nevertheless, they are still eagerly waiting for the release date of Android L.

A very famous Android developer stated that Google will unveil Android L along with the new HTC Nexus 9 tablets on the 16^th of October. However, it is merely the announcement date and the new Android version will release sometime later.

There is not yet a single rumor associated with the release date of Android L. The previous year, Google Nexus 5 and Android Kitkat 4.4.4 touched the markets after the two weeks of its release. Therefore, it is expected that the company will follow the similar tradition this year as well. Consequently, we can say that a brand new version of Android and two new Nexus devices could arrive till the time of Halloween.

In August, Google verified that numerous user accounts would come in the Android stock.  Take it as a guest mode on computers, or a child mode, which Samsung, Amazon and other manufacturers have presented.  Tablets began to come as multi-user account after the release of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean but this time the company will offer these features in the smartphones. It will let parent arrange separate accounts for kids, business, personal information and much more.

Google also announced one chief feature of Android L that is enabling of default. The company will encrypt most of the user data on all Android L devices out of the box. Although this feature has been presented for many years, but it never allowed default.

Recently, various other companies have announced that they will constrict down the availability of user’s information and safeguard their privacy. As per the reports of Washington post Android L will provide full disk encryption by default.

 

“For over three years Android has offered encryption, and keys are not stored off of the device, so they cannot be shared with law enforcement. As part of our next Android release, encryption will be enabled by default out of the box, so you won’t even have to think about turning it on.” – Google spokeswoman Niki Christoff

This full-disk encryption will definitely make it difficult for hackers to access our Android devices. Moreover, Google is really making some additional attempts to protect the privacy of the users’ data and other stuff.

In the end, it is not yet confirmed that whether the company intends to release Android L on 16 of October or not. People still have to keep their fingers crossed. Though, it is certain that whenever the device will be launched, it will come with lots of new features, beautiful interfaces, long lasting battery and improved security.

Apple has put out a recall for specific iPhone 5 units after realizing a flaw with the batteries. As described in the company’s notice, a few numbers of iPhone units were delivered with faulty batteries. This fault in battery compels the users to charge it more often than the normal ones. Apple will swamp these batteries without a cost.

The company has a sequence number which will help the customers to find out whether their device need a fresh battery or not. The iPhones who have faults in their  batteries were sold between September 2012 to January 2013. It is one of the earlier shipment, which happened soon after the release of these iPhones.

Apple puts some condition on this battery replacement procedure. It is that the company would not be able to change the batteries of a damaged phone such as cracked screen, etc. As far as other damages are concerned, Apple stated that it will change the batteries for free if damages are not that difficult to handle.

Customers have to contact their nearest Apple service center of retail stores for the substitution. Customers should back up all the data through iTunes or iCloud and switch off Find my phone.

The replacement program continued till the month of March 2015. The recall has started in some countries like China and U.S previous week.

Today is the day of ‘Marta’, the last Passenger Pigeon, which died 100 years ago on September 1 when it was just 29-year-old.

Over a century ago, these unique variety of birds offered enticing views to the nature lovers as they flocked together in millions in the sky over the United States and Canada and now they have reduced to none, thanks to the excessive human intervention.

Almost all of us were not even born to enjoy their mesmerizing beauty. But some of the historians and environmentalists who were fortunate enough to capture their beauty with their naked eyes just call them a real natural beauty.

 

Doug Gross, supervisor of the Endangered and Nongame Birds Section of Pennsylvania Game Commission, said that there was a time when the passenger pigeon was most abundant bird in North America. The process of its extinction began in 1800s due to the unregulated subsistence and market hunting.

Passenger pigeons were killed in such large numbers that the train cars were filled with their carcasses. The hunters not even spared their youngsters called squabs.

The human intervention was so high that whenever a nesting colony was located, the squabs were captured into barrels to be served as delicacy across the cities.

Famous writer and environmentalist Mark Avery, in his book ‘A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today’ said, “We lost passenger pigeon and much of the rest of North America’s wildlife through ignorance, but we can’t use that excuse today and we still plunder the world’s natural beauty. Now we can see, clearly, what we are doing.”

According to Avery, the major contributor to the extinction of these birds was deforestation or clearing of forests, construction of rail road, telegraph service, better firearms and mass hunting.

Environmentalists say the time has arrived when we should learn from our mistakes and wake up to the message of Martha to save the nature and its beauty.

Today is the day of ‘Marta’, the last Passenger Pigeon, which died 100 years ago on September 1 when it was just 29-year-old.

Over a century ago, these unique variety of birds offered enticing views to the nature lovers as they flocked together in millions in the sky over the United States and Canada and now they have reduced to none, thanks to the excessive human intervention.

Almost all of us were not even born to enjoy their mesmerizing beauty. But some of the historians and environmentalists who were fortunate enough to capture their beauty with their naked eyes just call them a real natural beauty.

 

Doug Gross, supervisor of the Endangered and Nongame Birds Section of Pennsylvania Game Commission, said that there was a time when the passenger pigeon was most abundant bird in North America. The process of its extinction began in 1800s due to the unregulated subsistence and market hunting.

Passenger pigeons were killed in such large numbers that the train cars were filled with their carcasses. The hunters not even spared their youngsters called squabs.

The human intervention was so high that whenever a nesting colony was located, the squabs were captured into barrels to be served as delicacy across the cities.

Famous writer and environmentalist Mark Avery, in his book ‘A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today’ said, “We lost passenger pigeon and much of the rest of North America’s wildlife through ignorance, but we can’t use that excuse today and we still plunder the world’s natural beauty. Now we can see, clearly, what we are doing.”

According to Avery, the major contributor to the extinction of these birds was deforestation or clearing of forests, construction of rail road, telegraph service, better firearms and mass hunting.

Environmentalists say the time has arrived when we should learn from our mistakes and wake up to the message of Martha to save the nature and its beauty.

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Apple intends to make its upcoming iPhone a mobile wallet, which will allow users safely pay their bills in a store through mobile.

The company has signed a deal with a few popular credit card companies in order to fulfill this project. Rumors are that the company will declare its partnership with MaterCard Inc, Visa Inc and American Express  Co in the upcoming event of 9th September.

 

The new iPhone 6 will make mobile payment much easier for people  through a special communication chip. This communication chip will come with a  fingerprint recognition reader, which will launch in the most recent iPhone. This Touch Id would be applied to confirm the identity of the person who is making  the payment through the handset.

A person familiar with the situation stated Tim Cook was interested in this matter for a long time. Moreover, he informed that company is planning to make a limited version of the iPhone that carries an NFC communication chip.

The multinational corporation is hoping that this new device will bring forth a large revenue. It is predicted that Apple could produce a  revenue of $300 in advertising on every mobile wallet account it opens.

One of the leading names in the Telecom gear market, ‘Nokia OYJ’ has joined hands with Samsung Electronics to offer its latest hi-tech services in digital maps and locations to one of the biggest Korean electronics companies, the Tizen-powered smart devices. Moreover, the ‘HERE’ corporation,  a location-based services arm of the company will also provide solutions for the Gear S, Samsung’s new Smart Watch product.

The officials at Nokia confirmed that HERE has made an association with Samsung in order to bring its digital maps and location services to Samsung’s latest Tizen-powered smart devices such as the Gear S. The Gear S features a new and reformed walk navigator by HERE which is an application that allows users to experience turn-by-turn public transit routing with advanced navigation features.

Tizen, on the other hand, is an adaptable and open ended operating system which was launched in competition to the contemporary Android and iOS system software.

 

Most of Samsung’s latest smartphones utilize android operating system, which is also one of the popular OS in mobile phones today. A few years back, Samsung sets used ‘Bada’ software which couldn’t meet a favorable reception by the general public. This is probably one of the main reasons why Samsung is focusing on Tizen which also happens to have a strong backing by the Intel Corporation.

Samsung is now planning to introduce its first Tizen-powered smartphone at the end of this year. This is a step taken to decrease the reliance and dependency on Google’s highly popular Android operating system. Being the world’s leading smartphone developer, Samsung is ready to launch its new Tizen-supported ‘Samsung Z’ at the end of this year throughout the world.

Recently, a study has demonstrated that a volcano which is present beneath the Yellowstone National Park will take time in eruption. This area has already seen three major volcano eruption which happened a long time ago. The first eruption occurred around 2.1 million years ago, the second one 3.1 million years ago and the third one at 64000 years ago.

Researchers made this serious news along with an extremely distressing news that whenever this volcano blaze will explode its  ash will wrap the whole United States. It will coat cities as fas as NewYork, Los Angeles and Miami in Ash.

A super eruption is the highest category of volcanic eruption. This kind of massive incident involves the expulsion of material till 240 cubic miles. Therefore, scientist believe that this Yellowstone volcano can cause a super eruption.

People will certainly begin to worry shortly after this study, but lets make it more apparent. Currently, there are no signs that anything like this will happen soon. Usually scientist come up with theories and later on says that the previous speculation was incorrect.

Larry Mastin, the main author of this study expressed that nobody has ever seen any eruption like yellow stone. However, if it occurs, then it would be of much higher intensity as compared to several eruptions people have observed up till today.

Mastin is a geologist who works in the United States Geological Survey and is the one who assisted the researchers in the design. Researchers and Mastin developed a new Ash3D model and utilized it to locate any sort of movement of volcanic eruption. Moreover, it will facilitate the researchers to determine the chaos and destruction it could produce.

Furthermore, the Ash3D model illustrates that this Yellowstone volcano will cover the most Rocky Mountains with a meter long. It will spread out till the West and East coasts of the United States.

The intensity of  Yellowstone’s eruption would be equivalent to the explosion of  Alaska pale.

As per the prediction of scientist, there are very few chances that anything like this happens.