Oracle threatens to kill Java

Recently, it was reported that Oracle had stopped the development of Java Enterprise Edition which is, popular server-side platform for running Java applications. Java is the most popular language and is embedded with thousands of enterprise apps where customers had invested their time and money. The company had pulled off the funding and had also asked the developers to work on their other projects.

Decisions happened in the company were much opaque as the reason for this freeze is not yet revealed, and even the employees were not aware of such move. Before some period of time, Oracle also cut the cord of project which it couldn’t monetize and also restricted the open source project access for them. Global IT organizations are much reliant on Java and hence these would be very difficult for them.

Java is used by Google in Android language which seems to be the reason of this quarrels by Oracle. Oracle had spoiled its loyalty in whole java community towards java platform. As it is the open sourced platform, the entire java ecosystem is dependent on Oracle since more than 2 decades. Now, this would result in the slow updates and of course, security would matter the most, hence there will be the need to replace the millions of servers with Java EE embedded components. More dispute would arise due to it, which may result in the separation of oracle and java.

Oracle developed a very bad reputation amongst the developer’s community. Oracle also closed the button on development efforts into community-driven technologies like Open Solaris and OpenOffice.org. But, it is revealed that Oracle also had several reasons for not cutting the relations with Java. Oracle’s own software and services are dependent on Java, which leads to more than 70% of the revenue. If Oracle pulls up the ties with Java EE than, Oracle itself would be in heavy revenue loss. Additionally, Java had also invested much time, efforts and money for java programming language. Seeing all these issues, it seems that, Oracle would source Java EE as a third party developer keeping the standards of Java SE.

Internet of Things (IoT) may take a years to develop completely

Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially day by day and because of its highest growth and evolution in the industry, it’s the way ahead of anything. Today the things, which were not possible before 15 years can be done easily at a flow. So, the advancements in mobile broadband networks, use of GPS, image recognition, RFID devices and more and out of the few ones have moved out far beyond to imagine in this era.

Need and capability are the combinations driven by the rapid growth of IoT. Since past 10 decades, the human population tripled and people are living the higher standard lives with longer lives. Due to overpopulation, the human race is scaling up, which is not a bad thing and due to the inventions, of course, better ways are found to supply the needs to the people. Supplying information to those needs is the greatest challenge and due to that, internet of things came in the boom. It is nothing, but all about the computer networks that gather information by connecting the devices.

Generally, Information Technology follows supply chain changes. In traditional times, keyboards were used to enter the data in the electronic information system. There are some data which you need to feed the mouths for the other human needs in a real changing world. It’s no surprise that technology is advancing, and rapidly developing the system to gather the data about supply and trade without human intervention. Because of this, one can imagine that IoT would take a century to roll out completely.

Many new scientists, engineers, doctors are hopefully rising up to gain the power at their workstations to get the benefits of an internet of things. The idea to gather the data using their own network sensors is intuitive. Because of these, one can get the smart homes, smart cars and thousands of innovative imaginary applications.

Many breaks in IoT are because of the startups. As startups, companies do quite well, miss the new ideas and collapse. So, there are high possibilities that IoT will take a century to roll out completely.

Big Data trends for future

The globe rotates around digits and information. With data, you can measure purchases, sell, like/dislikes and millions of other things. There is no existence of a world without data. Today, what is going on behind the scenes is all due to big data. Business World is highly dependent on the Big Data.

Faster Scientific Study Results

Many tools are available for breaking down which makes it easy to sort the information and categorization of data. Scientific Research has so much advanced that, the results of the research can be analyzed much faster. With Big Data Analytics, it has got the ability to collect, sort and process the data much quickly and it also helps the response times to tragedies and disasters. The information of big data analytics also helps to carry out the further operations for advanced warning systems, predictive technology and safety protocols.

Social Media Marketing Buzz

Can you imagine, social media itself is a big data? Mostly all the unstructured information of data comes from the social media. With the use of Social Media, Business can run a campaign, held events, boost sales and hence that yields the business to generate more revenue. 

Social Media is always engaged with the target base market. And this aids the individuals and business to analyze the insights, positive impressions, feedbacks, sales, conversion rates and overall insights of the marketing campaigns.

Predictive Data Strategies

From the name, one can reveal that data can predict the future. It is one of the handiest strategies. This Predictive data strategy is very much helpful in the business as this helps in predicting the information like the number of people going to attend the meet, number of purchase and sell product and the reactions of the consumer in responding the specific type of advertisement. With this strategy, one can predict the reactions through the data scrubbing and sorting which helps the enterprise to become the leaders in the industry. Financial predictions helps in creating a positive difference in the lives of the customers. Scenario based result helps the customer to corner their niche through robo advisors.

Limits on Mobile Data Usage

The needs of the customers are always increasing and vendors cannot always keep up with the demands. To protect the data connections, there should be the limit on usage of mobile data. People all over the globe use the cell phones with internet. Service Providers should limit the monthly subscriptions on the amount of data being used, in order to prevent the shuffling of signals.

Better Risk Identification

In 2016, identifying the risk has become quite easy with the latest tools that generate statistics and analytical reports for the business. Hence, theft can be easily tracked by keeping in mind the privacy concerns. With Big Data, it helps to develop the better encryption technologies for the sensitive data by preventing cybercrimes and hacking.

This risk can be analyzed by the product release &sales based on the product, purchase product type and more. Today, every segment of the risk is transparent and hence, this makes the business to determine sale insights and services to know whether to launch the new product in the market or revamp the existing one.

Micro Tasks

With Micro Tasks, one can get the minute and detailed information of minute of the product. Day by day, it is getting popular because it provides the insights pointing out the markets, task completions, and productivity. Micro Tasks takes very less time to complete. For instance, Micro Tasks includes the work of reviewing the air cradle for the better sleep for tiny tots. This type of survey helps in inputting the feedback of the customers by sorting the process to check out which people are in favor and which are not. These Micro-tasks are much highlighted because it gives the solid data from the consumers in the market.

Complex and Unique Algorithms

Today, the fashion of defining the pre-formatted algorithm has become obsolete. Enterprise is now looking to develop the unique algorithms which can give out exact information. It can be used to know, how people respond to the similar topics and the similar things, how differently they are answers in the form of words.

The Bottom line

At the end, data is highly vital. It is needed in all aspects of life. Numbers are always highlighted in a public sector. Sometimes, data is blind, without data people has no clue form where to initiate the work especially in terms of business, technology advancements and more. People today believe that data solidifies information and makes it more realistic!

Microsoft's SharePoint is a versatile framework for enterprise content management system

SharePoint by Microsoft is a versatile framework that could be used as an internal collaboration tool for organizations. It could easily scale up to be deployed as an ECM or Enterprise Content Management System. It offers a truly flexible platform for accelerating the development as well as the deployment of business scale applications.

SharePoint's secure, scalable environment was designed for team coordination, facilitating the efforts of the team with people based all over the world. SharePoint sites that are password protected enable users to coordinate projects, tasks, and documents. Moreover, the platform's web parts offer functionality together with Microsoft ASP.NET based components. When it comes to choosing the right SharePoint development company, it is necessary to choose a service provider that has extensive experience in the implementation, development, and maintenance of applications. Being the software outsourcing hub and IT destination in the world, numerous SharePoint developers are available that provides cutting-edge services.

Most of these software development companies in India have the biggest implementations of the SharePoint Server as a CMS. The team of SharePoint developers keeps pace with all the current development tools of the platform. Website managers could coordinate web content, user activity and customize web parts to suit the different business needs. The business platform makes it easy for administrators to design, deploy and administer websites. 

Some solutions could be modified or a whole new solution could be made if necessary. There are numerous solutions that the service providers could offer, including knowledge management systems, corporate website, intranet portal for an educational institution and more. With hundreds of service providers in the area, it could be hard to choose one that could best meet an organization's requirements.

Check out the items below to determine how to choose the right SharePoint development company:

1. Experience: Evaluating the experience of the development firm could help leverage by bringing in expertise, project methodologies and best practices acquired over the years of experience in building solutions across various industry verticals.

2. Project Profiles: Going through and reviewing the case studies or project profiles could help determine the types and capabilities of the projects that the company has undertaken.

3. Clientele: Determine the different kinds of clients served by the vendor. The website could help get a brief into the domain expertise and if they have worked on the same projects at the same geographical location. It helps to have more details on the work quality and other hidden facts.

4. Quality: Getting a high-quality end product is paramount to ensure a seamless integration of SharePoint within the enterprise as well as facilitating the company to effectively and smoothly coordinate. It is a must to verify the quality process or norms as well as other information technology policies.

5. Certification: The firm should be certified, whether from Microsoft or technology partners. Offshore developers in India provides technical competency in developing functional applications.

6. Communication: Seamless communication is of vital importance. It is an integral aspect that one should definitely consider when choosing a SharePoint development company in India.

There are different kinds of solutions that the SharePoint development company could offer, including corporate websites, knowledge management systems, intranet portal for an educational institution and a whole lot more. When it comes to selecting the right SharePoint development partner, it is important to choose a vendor with an extensive experience in the implementation, the development and the maintenance of the SharePoint applications.

iOS 10 has some great features but downloading it, may make your phone obsolete

Apple recently released its beta version of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra operating system which can be downloaded by anybody. If you are the fan of Apple and are fascinated by its latest features of stickers, maps, notifications and more, you can download iOS 10 from the Apple’s website.

But, according to the report though you are the tech savvy of the digital era, you should hold off until the bug-free fully tested version of operating system are released in fall.

Some reporters of wall street journal had pointed out that, it will leave you in huge problems, if at all your phone is captured by any bugs with the new software. And to revert to the older version will leave you with the much of hassle. You need to remove the beta version from your iPhone and again restore the backup from iTunes.

There are the chances that, if your download beta versions of your iPhone it may crash the operating system as this OS is still unstable and also it can make your phone unexpectedly useless. So why to take a risk? Additionally, if your iPhone’s or laptops are much older than, chances to crash the operating system is quite high. 

Though if you didn’t find any bugs in the new operating system iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, it would not be compatible with all the apps that you are always looking for. Developers are working on it, but sill it is better not to update until the last and latest build release in fall. Best is, everyone should hold off from downloading to avoid risk.

But still, if you can’t hold off your patience, you need to register with Apple as a public beta tester and the company will send you the instructions on how to install. Anyways, you can wait for the few months until the final tested software gets ready.

Salesforce expands encryption options with bring your own keys

Salesforce has stepped up by providing the encryption feature for their business by adding BYOK “Bring Your Own Key” to its Salesforce shield cloud service. Though cloud computing services have grown immensely, there are some security concerns particularly in the field of healthcare and finance. This ensures that users are solely responsible for keeping secure their own keys. If the keys are a lost, they could lose the access to the data.

In 2015, it was introduced that, encryption and monitoring functions were introduced by shield cloud service to fulfill the requirements. This Encryption keys are based on the two factors (i) tenant secret (ii) salesforce master keys. Traditionally, this system was managed by key-management infrastructure which accessed through point and click interface.

This new system, describe in BYOK are thoroughly tested by customers and third party key provider. The release of this version is not yet revealed but it is expected to launch in late this year of 2016. Ultimately customers are getting more and more control towards the system. Brian Goldfarb, senior vice president of app cloud marketing at Salesforce, told eweek. "Customers asked us for more control and now they're in the driver's seat."

“BYOK” offers high control when it comes to encryption by maintaining the security standards. And with the BYOK encryption, users have the chance to supply to their own tenants to create encryption keys in a shield. These tenants are independently managed by hardware security module through AWS security management service. C.J. Radford - vice president of crowd addressed that, this is the robust encryption service and enterprises can easily become the cryptographic experts without the need of enterprise department.

BYOK features are designed user-friendly and simple enough for the users to use. Eventually, after the release, people will realize that the real solution is encryption and not building the data centers in various countries. This feature is in pilot testing and when released it will not impose any extra charges. BYOK technology is becoming increasingly popular. Microsoft Azure offers it, as does Amazon Web Services.

Google Maps is looking to improve its functionality by rolling out Wi-Fi only mode

With the most amazing functionalities in Google, it is now leveraging with the millions of people with the strong crowdsource base. However, due to one more add-on of improving the location information, it will make the people highly excited to use the Google services. Google has also modified the process of editing, sharing and updating the information to make it more user-friendly. And recently, Google is finally rolling out with the Wi-Fi only mode for its most loved Google Map App. This feature would be gradually available to the users in near future and users would need a v9.32 version to take the advantage of this feature.

You can check out if this feature is available on your device. Open the Settings screen and look for a new toggle on the second line with the title "Wi-Fi only." If it's there, you're set to go offline. It would stop your mobile data usage and will switch to the Wi-Fi mode. On using this mode for the first time, it will show you a pop up in a quick manner that, it may use the small amount of the data.

This is not enough, Google has still something to reveal. It also announced that users who’re using the version 9.32 will get the pop ups of map notification regarding the mass transit delays. This is especially for the people who are using the public transport like bus, trains, metros and more. The same will inform users of disruption alerts in selected services via notifications, provided the same is available in your region. But, it was revealed that the updated feature might crash the app and some errors were also found. Before the wider availability of this feature, there would some improvements needed in it. Users, who are highly enthusiastic in using the new features before the official rollout, can use Google-signed APK for Google Maps for Android v9.32.1 via APK Mirror, but do not that this is not a guarantee the new features will show up.

Google recently bumped up with the image quality and also added the new section of that would enable the user to add one or more location in the map app. These additional features are available for the Android users, Google Maps and Google search only.

mCommerce has revolutionized the Travel industry

mCommerce has truly revolutionized the travel industry globally. Mobile commerce benefits from an evolution in consumer behavior and enhancements in technology. More and more consumers are shopping across numerous devices, including smartphones, tablets and desktops and are starting to search on a particular device, continue to another and perhaps completing the transaction on a third device.

This can be validated with some statistics and research. According to eMarketer’s latest estimates of digital and travel research and booking, in 2016, 51.8% of travelers who book trips via digital means will do so using a mobile device. That will be up from 43.8% last year. Out of the 48.5 million US adults who book trips via mobile, 78.6% (38.1 million) will use a smartphone to do so. 

(Image courtesy: eMarketer)

The same as many industries, the travel industry sees the mobile commerce field becoming more competitive. With more websites and apps providing everything from owner-listed accommodations to discounted flights, a company must look for ways to differentiate itself. Successful organizations are standing out via offering a wider range of localized content assets in different languages.

The travel industry has greatly benefited from the mCommerce trend. As travel companies are getting smarter when it comes to the products they focus on via the mobile channel, how to present options and inventory in a way that would not overwhelm the traveler with too many options would witness even better conversion results. Indeed, new technologies are exciting for mobile commerce. In particular, the iBeacon from Apple, which uses Bluetooth LE or low energy to give retailers sense and to communicate with devices that are compatible within fifty meters. 

Mobile travel bookings are expected to triple in the years to come. Travel and tourism are dynamic sectors of the economy, whether it is at a local, national or international level. As the internet penetration continues to grow, the use of mCommerce could be an effective tool to promote and develop new opportunities in the field. Moreover, consumers are getting more at ease using their mobile devices for payment.

Travelers these days rely more on travel apps to do their own research as well as compare prices. Thus, travel firms are increasingly selling directly to the clientele, using apps localization and website translation to reach travelers across geographic and linguistic borders.

Mobile commerce has revolutionized the travel industry. The trend has boosted the sales and growth of travel industry worldwide. With more sites and apps there are more options for consumers to choose. With mCommerce apps developed by professional mobile app development company for travel industry, companies are increasingly selling their products directly to the end customers. They use apps localization and website translation in order to reach travelers anywhere in the world.

How will the Pokémon Go affect the future of mobile app development?

Pokémon Go is the augmented reality location based game developed by Niantic for Android and iOS. This game earned in millions of dollars in a very short period of time and has become much hyped among the teenagers to youths to oldies. Pokémon Go is the real episode that made everybody addicted. This game enables you to travel between real world and virtual world and helps you to discover the whole new ecosystem in the completely new world. The Gaming platform is developed in such a way that, it uses the real location to search for the Pokémon in the real world. It catches hundreds of species of Pokémon as you explore more and more surroundings.

This phenomenon was not at all believable before 6 months ago. It has fundamentally changed the way of thinking – “Technology interacts with the environment”. Isn’t that great? 

Though its security is not so high according to the critics and as this app has been downloaded by millions of people there are issues of crashing servers. This has surely done the magic in the mobile app development industry and it is quite predicted that many app developers would surely be constantly focusing on developing the replica of Pokémon Go.

So let’s check out, what is exciting about Pokémon Go? Why has it got so much buzz in the mobile game industry?

Augmented Reality

This is one of the seamless virtual reality of the Pokémon Go and the reason for a high buzz. With this game, players can see the animated Pokémon on their mobile display, as they walk away to the surroundings. Additionally, users can get the Poke stops on the real physical places like monuments, landmarks and more. They can get out in the competition with other players by collecting the “Gyms”.

The Augmented Reality of this game depends on the GPS technology which is coating the instances of the existing world. This game happened in the “real world” is itself one of the biggest achievements and the reason for app popularity. Hence, in the coming era, there would be such type of augmented reality games, with just local check-ins to gain more power on this powerful feature.

In future, you can expect something unbelievable. Today developers presented an augmented reality by adding coats to the real world. The next generation might see the virtual reality (VR) where the new fancy world would be presented before your eyes.

Gamification

Gamification is the concept to be applied in designing the game to engage, motivate, and encourage people in achieving the goals. In Pokémon Go’s, when you walk at different landmarks and new places, it becomes the game and in this way, you can earn rewards and catch out the new Pokémon as you move along. Because of the gamified element, Pokémon Go game has been able to integrate the real and virtual world. And in future, there are high chances that developers would work and put high efforts in running this kind of application.

Unlimited Potential

There are many potential mobile apps with unlimited levels, amazing graphics and much more things to explore. But Pokémon Go is quite different from the other potential games. It literally keeps you addicted, engaged and keeps the users interested. The future of app development is quite clear from this scenario. It would be tailored, expanding and with practically unlimited potential, which keeps the users interested.

Perfect Learning Curve

Pokémon Go is the ideal learning curve for many developers and users. The standard learning curve is one that is easy to use, rewards user for investing their energy and discovering many complex mechanics. And Pokémon Go fits into this bracket, enabling the new users with the easy pickups, and rewards to the players who invest their time in learning the complex strategies. If you develop an app that is much simple, users might bounce your app. If much complexity is involved, users would run away and user base would never grow. In future, it is highly expected to see the amazing provisions.

Transactions

This is not the new concept for developing the game app in mobile. But Pokémon Go has taken some different approach in making it unique. In general game application, you can purchase the coins to get the lucky eggs, incentives and more. But this type of bonuses is not present in Pokémon Go. It is developed in such a nice way that, people would likely invest dollars as it has given the game they always love to play. Giving people what they want was always the first priority of the Pokémon Go game.

Whether you are using Pokémon Go or not, it has removed the boundary between real and virtual world. It has quite addictive features that increase users engagement. Some of its elements are to be expected to see featured in popular apps in near future. If you are looking for developing a mobile app or a game with unique and innovative features, you should approach a professional mobile app development company to achieve your goals!

Google advancing into virtual reality, messaging and payment services

Google is making more moves into the virtual reality and messaging apps as the organization discovered new items and redesigns at it's Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California. 

They declared another stage for virtual reality called Daydream, and said manufacturers including Samsung, HTC and Huawei would have cell phones capable of handling it in this fall. 

The platform, incorporated with coming Android Nougat operating system, is intended to enhance the experience of Cardboard, which Google propelled two years back, by making virtual-reality encounters that are more agreeable, higher quality and more immersive.

Google said it had made a reference outline for a headset that a partner maker would have prepared for the fall, and plans for another controller that has a couple catches, a touch-pad, and sensors that track its orientation and where it's indicating.

In an exhibit for exactly 7,000 participants at the conference, the Google demonstrated how the controller could be utilized to flip computerized flapjacks, toss things, cast a virtual angling line and fly an advanced digital dragon.

New Messaging App 

A messaging application that consolidates Google's new voice partner? Say "hi" to Allo. 

The application will accessible this late spring on both Android and adversary Apple phones, allows chatting partners to look up restaurant options and even book a table right in the app. 

It additionally gives clients a variety of emojis and stickers and the alternative to increase or decrease the measure of content to add accentuation. 

Allo likewise gives a scope of automated reactions to questions and even photographs, identifying things like eateries and dog breeds. 

In a smack at Snapchat, Allo likewise highlights an "incognito" mode that adds end-to-end encryption and permits a user to set a timer on when their messages vanish. 

Android Pay Expands to U.K. 

Google's portable payment service, Android Pay, is going to the U.K., expanding its first extension outside the U.S. 

Google joined Apple Pay, which launched in the U.K. almost a year back.

With both services, users just have to tap a phone alongside a store's payment per user to charge a credit or platinum card. Yet, it works just with stores that have more up to date remote per users called near field commutators.

Another challenge has been convincing for the users i.e it's less demanding than hauling out a plastic card for installment. 

Apple Pay is likewise in China, Canada, Australia and Singapore, with Hong Kong and Spain to come. Google says Android Pay will extend to Singapore and Australia this year.

Verizon acquired Yahoo of 4.8 billion

The telecommunications Verizon giant strikes a deal to acquire Yahoo’s internet business for $4.83bn (£3.68bn) in cash which includes yahoo’s advertising, content, search, and mobile activities.

Verizon is a telecommunication company of United States providing the wireless service for the cellphones and other mobile devices. Just before some period ago, they acquired AOL to give a boost and enhance their strategies by providing the cross connections to the users. McAdam the chairman and CEO revealed in the release that, this acquisition will put the Verizon in the high competition which will help in the growth and revenue stream in digital advertising.

Yahoo’s stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Yahoo Japan are not the part of the acquisition which is worth around $40bn. And it is subdivided as 15% stake in Alibaba - $31.2bn, 34% of Yahoo Japan - $8.3bn. Its patent portfolio is around $1bn which is not the part of the sale.

Yahoo had been struggling since a number of years and as the internet developed, it finds it difficult to stand in the competition. Today Google is the most popular one and Facebook, Twitter has changed the way people use the internet. In 2008, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $44 billion but this offer was rejected.

Critics noted that the mayor of Yahoo Marissa Mayer left her job in Google and joined Yahoo in 2012 making $200 millions in four years. She is expected to stay with the company until the Verizon takes over the early next year. The deal is expected to be closed in the first quarter of 2017.

Yahoo will be integrated with AOL and Verizon under the Marni Weldon who is the Vice President of the company. The company will have more than 25 brands in its content portfolio and roughly 1 billion monthly active users and out of that 600 million are monthly active users on mobile. Yahoo is the company that has changed the world and it will continue to do so in the coming years. The transaction is set up with the great opportunities of Yahoo for the further growth in work of mobile, video, advertising, and e-mail, search and real time media.

Verizon now will be facing two challenges. Firstly, this integration would be very tough and as said by the reporters, Yahoo’s headcount stands at 8,800 employees and 700 contractors and comparing with AOL it has 6,800 head counts. So merging this both companies with thousands of employees is not a small deal. Secondly, Yahoo has lost some handsome amount of money, so it will be the key aspect of Verizon to turn into a profitable one.