iTunes Store and its growth in last ten years!

On 28 April 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store. Ten years later, nearly half a billion people have an iTunes account and have purchased music, TV shows, movies, books and apps on the Apple store. That does not impress its competitors, more every day. Ten years ago, Apple sells more 30,000 iPods per month but makes no profit. Napster, Kazaa and incompetence of the majors have destroyed the music market and it becomes less difficult to keep a foot in the online music. But not necessarily in practice, which is an obstacle to the success of the iPod, which is nothing without music. Universal, Warner, Sony, EMI and BMG are persuaded by Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue, by which they ensures that it is possible to beat piracy, is "simply" more practical, more complete, more safer and better than him. They accepted and provide 200,000 pieces encoded in AAC 128, but only for one year and on the express condition that they are protected by DRM and readable only by the 13 million users of Mac OS X. On 28 April 2003, the iTunes Music Store opened its doors - a million pieces sold in one week, three million in six months. Majors grant exclusive to Apple and are eager to accept the launch of the iTunes Music Store on Windows.

At the same time, the iPod loses its FireWire port that provided the Mac and Apple's successful gamble: owner, shop owner, software port, it is now fully integrated ecosystem head. Apple last decade and can be read through the evolution of his shop. The iPod sales quadruple in the world. The iTunes Music Store was launched internationally in early 2004. The 5G iPod can play videos. Clips and TV series are added in late 2005. The Apple TV will soon be presented? The iTunes Music Store and iTunes Store is home movies. IPhone gains the ability to run third-party apps. The App Store is part of the iTunes Store. The large iPad screen is perfect for reading. Never mind, you can also buy books via iTunes since January 2010! Apple is the largest technology company in the world and the sales figures of his shop give dizzy. The iTunes Store is sold 25 billion songs in ten years, over a billion iTunes U downloaded in five years, a whopping nine billion dollars donated to apps developers and hundreds of millions of pounds digital sales. Apple is still the largest music retailer in the world - all media - with four times more market share than its main competitor, Amazon, which we cannot yet say that it is a dwarf. For it is today that the iTunes Store is at the top it is also the most turbulent. "People buy their music for as long as you can buy music," said Steve Jobs in 2003: ten years later, 62% of Americans believe that it is not essential to have his music.

The Apple co-founder drew red ball on Spotify even before its launch today; streaming services represent 15% of sales in the market for music. The numerous commercial operations around the streaming show Apple still has not lost the ear of the majors. The second decade of the iTunes Store may well begin with the launch of iRadio, a streaming service that will radically change the business model of the Apple store. Another track is that Apple become content producers, as for example with Netflix become House of Cards. It could start with the iTunes Festival, which will not be broadcast on TV this year - but could continue to be via the Apple TV. Imagine that it continues on this path with TV shows or movies: Apple TV is the only access to some exclusive content because it is the Apple products. The loop is looped and the iTunes Store is more than ever the Apple backbone.

Facebook redesigned its Mobile pages!

Since most of the users are accessing the social networking sites from their Smarphones, Facebook offered their mobile pages with new design. The redesign is the need of the time and makes the user to navigate and help the user and the administrators to interact with the pages. First the new design is just for mobile browsers and the iOS app is visible and the update for the Android application will follow very shortly. The new design provides users with a simpler look and easier navigation. An interaction element such as the “Like” button is located in the new design under the title picture. Also, users should have relevant information on the pages and images look better. Administrators have the option of a popular article "To pinning" so that it remains longer current. New posts will appear below this post. In addition, website operators move quickly between now and the view of the public administrators view.

The Linux kernel version 3.9 available!

Open Source Announced Version 3.9 of the Linux kernel and was released last night on the website Kernel.org announced by its founder, Linus Torvalds, in the developer mailing list. This publication comes ten weeks after the previous version, and have continuity in support for new hardware. "Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which makes me more comfortable to publish the final version 3.9, so I think the last-rc8 has stopped working," announced on Mailing List founder of the Linux kernel. No big change announced for this version, but a deepening of transitions already Commencement with version 3.8. Here is a non-exhaustive selection. As usual, for a comprehensive overview of the latest news and management visit: Linux.org. Improved support for ARM architectures is supported. Begun in version 3.7, it now allows the teams to the Linux Foundation announce support for 18 SoC (system on a chip) ARM. The goal, says Linux.org, is to arrive at a single core for all platforms, including x86. Better implementation of the standard IPv6 network. Improvements were made especially in terms of security when encapsulating IPv6 inside IPv4. It supports distribution systems RAID 5 and RAID 6 system BTRFS files. And extension compatibility for graphics drivers, including future Haswell and Valley View and Oland AMD chips were added. Improved supported virtualization, with extension to ARM Cortex A15 chips in KVM and Xen supported by the summer. We wish to pass an interesting point in the statistics of this version 3.9. If they are, as usual, the opportunity to highlight the most active developers, they also show a significant change on the part of companies that support the Linux kernel participating. Thus, for the first time, Linux.org is for Intel one of the top ranking contributing companies.

New Microsoft browser Internet Explorer 11

Windows 8.1 is not only a major update of the latest operating system from Microsoft, but also a new version of Internet Explorer in this year. The first emerged preliminary versions of Internet Explorer 11 have offered no visual novelties. The Internet Explorer 10 along with Windows 8 Microsoft has introduced in 2012 the great turnaround. Modern, faster, safer - better - to be the new American software forge. With the IE10 this succeeds the company largely: Optimized for touch user interface, tracking protection, built-in spelling correction brings IE back on par with the competition. But Microsoft did not want to squander his arduous comeback on Firefox and Chrome. While the strongest competitor, Mozilla and Google bring to the market every six weeks, a new version of its browser, Microsoft has taken the leap from IE9 to IE10 whole two years. That the successor cannot wait quite so long in coming, appearing regularly put rumors close: because together with the successor of Windows 8, Microsoft seems too busy to tinker with a new browser. According to insider reports are to be expected with the release of the new software later this year. This must be re-Published in a net pre-release version of Windows 8.1 (codename Blue) already provided a first look. But so far, Microsoft does still extremely cloudy.

On the surface, no changes are visible. Only under the hood did more. There is also evidence that Microsoft integrates Web Graphics Library "WebGL" in the upcoming version of browser. The browser can work with the help of the graphics card, advanced 3D graphics without the need of additional software. By porting the Unreal 3 Enginge for Firefox Mozilla has recently demonstrated the potential that lies dormant in this area. Previously, Microsoft had refused for security reasons, to integrate the interface. Potential security vulnerability would allow far-reaching access to the PC. Therefore, Safari and Opera WebGL have either built, but disabled by default. Only in Firefox and Chrome you can find the graphics interface previously active. According to a reports the Internet Explorer 11 wipe gestures to control the browser on the PC. Although already has the Metro version of IE10 via a user interface for touch control, the successor but also the desktop version should be served by hand. With this move, Microsoft has not only "new" operating concepts in mind, but it worked sensibly to overcome the (operator) barrier between the Metro and desktop interface of Windows 8. In the unofficial pre-release Microsoft has also changed the user agent of the browser: for example, the Internet Explorer web pages are as compared to Firefox browser. In addition, Microsoft is working on an integration of the obvious SPDY protocol. The network protocol developed by Google modified parts of the HTTP protocol and trims it for speed.

The goal is to speed up browsing. In addition to Chrome Firefox and Opera already support the protocol. Whether it's Microsoft with Internet Explorer 11 manages to further stifle the technical edge of competition, cannot be estimated at this stage. The previously available version of IE11 is more reminiscent still version 10.1 as a proper successor. Only if the manufacturer provides an official pre-release version of the new IE is mandatory statements about the potential of the new Microsoft browser can meet.

Sony Cybershot HX 50 with Wi-Fi and High Zoom!

The Sony Cybershot HX50 wants to bridge cameras redundant. The compact camera has a lens with large focal length range and 30x zoom. Wi-Fi helps in transferring the images. Yes the Sony Cybershot HX50 has a lens with a 30x zoom. Previously you had to use for such a focal length in large, unwieldy bridge cameras. Converted into small format it reaches to 24-720 millimeters. At these high values, an optical image stabilizer is mandatory, since the focal lengths can be photographed from the hand hardly quiet. At 720 millimeters a small movement of the hand the picture can spoil completely. Hence Sony equips the Cybershot HX50 loaded with a CMOS image sensor of which has a resolution of 20.4 megapixels. And this typical compact camera also takes videos in full HD resolution. Transmits its images via wireless the camera to other devices such as Smartphones or laptops and also sets them on-line services. In the variant HX50V the camera additionally contains a GPS module that helps geo tagging. The 272 gram camera has a three-inch screen on the back, which is used to image control and as a viewfinder. In this unusual compact camera there is accessory shoe will take you to an electric viewfinder, a flash, or a microphone. The suggested retail price for the black or silver camera is 419 Euros. The GPS HX50V version will cost 439 Euros.