The advancement and improvement in infrastructure have given the boost to people to relay more and more over internet for almost everything. Be it searching information, looking for some consumer products or luxury life style ingredients, Internet is playing vital role in everyone’s life.
Here is a latest and live infographic – probably the first live one – from OnlineSchools, which incubates many aspects of todays’ internet stats. This most recent and update infographic covers almost everything – social media, email, time, users, habits, nature, websites etc.
The best part of this infographic is the real-time updation which is calculation couple of stats on real-time; this means every time you open the infographic you will find it updated and fresh facts and figures.
The next version of Samsung Galaxy S – Galaxy S II – continues to upbeat market predictions. In latest press release company has claimed that more than 10 million Galaxy S II has been sold out across the globe within 5 months of the launch. Interestingly, company while releasing the press note company has mentioned the Galaxy S II code as “Model: GT-I9100”, means the figure doesn’t include U.S. sales market.
The sales figure got doubled in just 8 weeks as company was standing with 5 million Galaxy S II sales barley 2 months ago. The buzz about Galaxy S II was there in the market from the day first. Infact, company had already secured more than 3 million orders before the launch. However, the first 3 months didn’t over exceeded the expectations as company managed to sell only 3 million additional handsets.
As many of US telecom providers like Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile is just putting the handset on selves, the numbers are expected to improve much faster now.
Global popularity with customers drives momentum for Samsung’s flagship smartphone
SEOUL, Korea – September 25th, 2011 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced that the Samsung GALAXY S II (Model: GT-I9100) has achieved 10 million global channel sales, doubling from five million in just eight weeks.
The GALAXY S II is Samsung’s flagship smartphone device – a beautifully thin (8.49mm) and lightweight dual-core smartphone that combines an unmatched Super AMOLED Plus viewing experience with powerful performance, all on Android, the world’s fastest-growing mobile operating system. The next generation smartphone also includes Samsung’s four content and entertainment hubs, seamlessly integrated to provide instant access to music, games, e-reading and social networking services.
“Since its launch in late April 2011, the GALAXY S II has seen continued sales success, demonstrating Samsung’s industry-leading capabilities in – and commitment to – the smartphone market” said JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business.
“In just five months the GALAXY S II has seen tremendous growth, reflecting its tremendous popularity with customers around the world, who in selecting theGALAXY S II as their device of choice have driven the device’s strong market position globally.”
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visitwww.samsung.com.
Samsung Galaxy S II is among the top rated Android phones by many online shoppping portals. In U.S. its available at the starting price of $250. However, the international unlocked version of Galaxy S II has been tagged with $450 price.
The developers of the famous Grand Theft Auto series, ROCKSTAR GAMES, is bringing ‘Max’ back into the action in March 2012. Rockstar Vancouver has announced Max Payne 3 as a third installment for their famous third-person shooter game title,Max Payne. Max Payne 3 looks much more impressive and the snapshots released by the developers are really astounding. The game will be available for Microsoft Windows, XBox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 in the 2012. The latest game trailer released by Rockstar clearly depicts the overall change in the maturity of the character, Max , who now seems much more aggressive and mature. The graphics of the game is much more detailed and is accompanied with amazing visual effects. Some of the amazing snapshots of the game are given below.
Rockstar developed this game through their enhanced game engine, RAGE. Rockstar Advanced Game Engine(RAGE), is developed by Rockstar for supporting their game development on various gaming platforms like PC, Wii, XBox 360 and PS3. This gaming engine is full of enhanced capabilities because Rockstar integrated some of the components of Euphoria engine for character animation. Rage also uses Bullet physics engine for performing various complex physical calculations. Rage is originally evolved from Angel Game Engine which was used by Angel Studios for developing Midnight Club Game title. The above facts are the obvious reason for the eye-popping graphics of Max Payne 3.
Various press releases by Rockstar reveal that the gamers will be playing as Max and will undergo a new chapter of Max Payne’s life. Game will start with the fact that Max has shifted to a new place which goes totally wrong for him. He gets double crossed and so his search for the truth starts the game. Rockstar’s Sam Houser says,”This is Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever”. One of the latest video trailer is given below.
Microsoft has finally fallen in love with Daily Deals business model. Company has launched a deal website – Bing Deals – as a part of Bing services which showcases the best of deals from major players like GroupOn, Target, Living Social and others. However, the model of bind deal is just like a deals aggregation instead of self-managed deal business model.
After Google and Facebook, who have already launched their deal websites some time back, Microsoft is the new entrant in such business. Currently, Bing search is showcasing more than 200,000 deals from various sources. Currently, Bing Deal is serving only to United States visitors but we can expect to see cross-border coverage soon if the efforts pays off in a country.
“Instead of building another program, we’re harnessing deals from major providers and retailers,” said Bing senior director Lisa Gurry.
Unlike other daily deals website, Microsoft Bing deal will not be loaded with tons of deals with coupon code. It will feature best deal as special that could be accessible from desktop website “Bing Deal” and from mobile devices.
The business model of daily deals has been adopted by thousands of websites in almost every internet savvy countries. Infact, you can easily find 5-6 websites in every city claiming the highest discount on various products and services. Consumers are confused and the have started avoiding such websites to visit regularly. As a result, many websites have adopted the business model as “aggregator” where they offers ony the best deals from multiple websites and provides a single platform to consumers to compare and make the best decision.
However, due to stern competition and low margin, growth rate of daily deal business companies has become slower and many of them have started transforming the model into a full-fledged E-Commerce. Taggle was the first to adopt such route.
In coming few months, it would be interesting to see how this business model takes shape especially at the situation when dogs-eat-dog.
With every passing week social media is strengthening its presence in our life as we have become utterly dependent on its space. Trends and habits are totally changed as to purchase a product we directly head to internet or we refer advertisement on social networking sites. Consequently, Our dependency on internet has led to an increment of advertisement on social media. It also increases competition among various social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.
Recent study reveals that advertisement trend on Facebook is increasing 18 percent year on year and on Twitter its doubles to 76 percent.
The below infographic, from Mashable which is based upon the study by Nielsen, charts out a comprehensive picture of how exactly people are reacting to social media and what percent of internet users across 10 countries are investing their time at various social network platforms.
Developers, Valve Corp and Hidden path Entertainment recently announced the next sequel for their one of the most popular online multiplayer First Person Shooter game title which will be released in early 2012 as Counter-Strike Global Offensive. This latest sequel will be available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Playstation 3 via Playstation Network and XBox 360 via XBox Live Arcade. One of the most exciting feature of the game will be its Cross-platform multiplayer support because of which there will be no boundary for online multiplayer gaming among different gaming platforms.
Global Offensive will contain new maps, characters, game modes and will also be bundled with those classic maps of its previous versions. The latest version of the game looks much better than the previous one. The game has much better graphics, much more detailed world and characters, which is really a good step towards making the Counter-Strike a better looking game too. The game will be featuring matchmaking and leaderboard also. Some of the snapshots of this latest avatar of Counter-strike are given below.
Counter-Strike had been one of the most appreciated game among the online multiplayer gamers because of its low graphics processing requirement and the addictive gameplay. On 22 September,Valve officially announced a new game mod for Counter Strike as a further step in providing gamers a new level of excitement and addictive game-play. This Mod will be called as Arsenal which is further divided as “Arsenal: Arms Race” and “Arsenal: Demolition”. The popular Gun Game mod for Counter-Strike will be getting reworked for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The new mode is called Arsenal, and will further break down into “Arsenal: Arms Race” and “Arsenal: Demolition.” Gun Game, or Arsenal, is a mode where players will be rewarded with new weapons for each kill but will start with a pistol.
Michael Barr, project lead of Gun Game stated, “We are excited that Valve reached out and is working with us to ensure Arsenal Mode is the best version of Gun Game”.
Below is a Counter-Strike Global Offensive video trailer available on web.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ycbuZNRgZc
Social media space is providing robust platform to share their views, pics, videos, applications and links, internet users want to share with their friends. However, many times we monitor the most prominent moment when most of our networked friends stay online – only to fetch greatest attention towards our updates.
People prefer to share most of their updates and links via Twitter, since the micro-blogging website provides quick and instant notification to their followers though a short 140 character tweet. Surprisingly, there are few hours in a day when people stay most prominent towards tweets and that’s the time which can fetch greatest attention towards your updates as tweets.
Below is an interesting infographic, from lemon.ly, which explains the nature of ‘tweeter hours’ that can grab highest level of attention for your words over twitter. Here are few take always:
Maximum Traffic on Twitter occurs between 9-11 am.
Minimum Traffic on Twitter occurs between 1-3 pm.
Maximum percent of Traffic is recorded on Tuesday.
Minimum percent of Traffic is on Sunday.
New account in Twitter is created at every 5.2 seconds.
On an average day 1,650 tweets take place every second.
We already have published so many Infographic on Twitter, but this one is more update and shows you when one should tweet.
With every passing day Facebook is strengthening its presence in social media market and has become backbone for social media space. Users are increasing constantly and around 50 million people have joined the site in last three months. Though, company has yet not confirmed any rise in its number, but reveals that at least half a billion users accessed the site in a single day last week.
Recently Facebook was criticized enormously by users for the new design of “News Feed” and “Ticker”, but this massive growth in last three months indicates users’ faith in Facebook.
Company’s most recent statistics states that in June this year it had more than 750 million monthly active users and now the count has jumped up to 800 million. At F8 developers’ conference actor Andy Samberg, who was pretending to be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, show a chart which suggested that site has reached 800 million marks.
Few days earlier, Facebook said that more than half of it active users log-in on any given day. Since company has 800 million monthly active users, it will not be a surprise to see 400 million users log in on any individual day.
The growth rate of Facebook is much higher when compared with Google+. In last three months number of users added in Google+ is 26 million compare to 50 million of Facebook users. So it would be difficult for anyone to justify that Google+ will surpass Facebook soon. Infact, in coming few years it’s quite difficult for Google+ even to come closer to Facebook numbers.
Now it would be interesting to see whether Facebook counts increase in the same way or declines especially when company is on spree to launch new features?
Apple’s regime over Tablet market is expected to stay for another 3 years, securing more than 50% of market share through 2014. Apple’s is maintaining its dominance in Tablet market from the beginning through its revolutionary iPad and its subsequent versions. In year 2011, Apple is expected to cover 73.4% of Tablet market despite of Android’s constant growth.
According to Gartner’s latest report, Apple is unlikely to face any threat from its competitors in Tablet market till 2014. However, the overall market share will be declined year-on-year and may shrink to 46% in 2015. However, this decline will not be driven by combine efforts from other Tablet manufacturers like RIM, HP or MeeGo. It will be sole damage only from Android which is expected to grow at the cost of iOS to claim 35.6 percent market share by 2015.
However, other platforms are expected to secure close to 17 percent of Tablet market by 2015 Despite of its late entry into the Tablet market, Microsoft is expected to contribute 10.5 percent alone which further shrinks the market for rest of competitors like RIM and HP. This year, no other platform is expected to touch even 5 percent of market share.
“We expect Apple to maintain a market share lead throughout our forecast period by commanding more than 50 percent of the market until 2014. This is because Apple delivers a superior and unified user experience across its hardware, software and services. Unless competitors can respond with a similar approach, challenges to Apple’s position will be minimal.” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.
Compare to last year’s market share of 83 percent, Apple is expected to lose at least 10 percent this year to Android. This trend is anticipated to continue in next few year and as a result Apple may lose little less than half of its Tablet market by 2015 as other OEM’s are becoming bullish with their Tablet offers majorly running over Google’s Android OS.
The overall tablet market is expected to reach 326 million units by 2015. compare to last year’s 17 million, market may record 4 folds growth to reach 63 million Tablets units by end of 2011.
So, finally the big cat is out of the box. Facebook has unveiled the much anticipated “Timeline” – a complete new way to see and visualize your profile page. Within few hours of launch at f8 conference, blog sphere started flooding with the feedback and responses about upcoming replacement of profile.
Many of users have thumbs down the new feature while many stand positive. However, their ranking and feedbacks are mostly dependent on the live demo by mark itself and on introductory video posted at YouTube as Tmeline is still few weeks away from its official roll out.
However, if you are avid social media user and have some basic knowledge of basic software development, you can revamp your profile page into Timeline instant – in just few minutes. Please make a note that below process is mainly defined keeping developers in mind, so if you have absolutely no idea about development, its advisable not to play with your Facebook account.
Here is a nice simple way how you can enable timeline for your Facebook account:
Go to your Facebook Home Page.
On Top search box, type “developers” and click on the very first result.
Click on the “Create New App” button at top right hand side of the window. Enter the display name and namespace of your new app which you are going to create. Don’t worry you can choose any word like typo, fly etc. Read through and agree to the Platform Privacy agreement. This is the step you need to be verified for.
Just ensure that you’re at new setting home page of your app. To ensure, see your app name at left top side of the page.
Click on “Get Started” using open graph” link under Open Graph option..
Now you need to create a test action for your app, like “fly” a “sleep”, or “eat” a “burger”
This should drop you into an action type configuration page. Change a few of the default settings or just leave as it is and click-through all three pages of settings
Wait for 2-3 minutes
Go back to your Facebook home screen. An invite to try Timeline should be waiting at the top of the page
And you’re done! We’ve seen this work quite a few times now, so it should work without a hitch for just about anyone
what could be the better way than social media if you can treasure your every pleasant moment, share them with your friends categorically and recall them as and when you want, that too by a single click! Let it be photos, videos, stories or what so ever, people always enjoy their past and try to recreate them virtually in their mind.
How about having all such fun on an open social platform which allows you to do this much effectively, efficiently and easily? Yes, it’s none other than Facebook that has come up with a whole new section, replacing profile page, to keep your memories live, whenever you want, through “Timeline”.
At the company’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Zuckerberg laid out Facebook’s vision for the future of profiles. Though, Timeline is nothing but an improved version of users’ profile page, this time it has been completely revamped, organized and engaged with your personal information. Timeline allows users to distinguish their items based upon the years, object types and applications.
Now, users can roll back to any of the year just by a single click and view the uploaded objects like photos, updates, videos and stories which they executed then. Basically, it’s a form of visual history of who you were, how you have become now and the what roadmap who followed from then to now.
Unlike current profile page, where users don’t see the item after certain numbers, timeline consumes and maintains each everything visible on the page irrespective of date, year or counts. Today, once status leaves profile page its quite unlikely that users will recall that again through the tedious process by clicking on “old itmes” at the bottom of profile page till he gets the right one.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU
“It’s fun and easy to fill out your timeline,” Zuckerberg said.
The new timeline is all about engagement rather than sharing or networking. It’s a comprehensive personal page where each activity will be tagged with dates. Since everything will remain visible all the time on the page and users can also find out anything by few simple clicks, users are expected to enjoy every moment of their life in far better manner.
However, Facebook has not rolled out the “Timeline” yet and it’s expected to be available for users in next couple of weeks. In mean time, you can visit the Timeline home page and sign-up for early launch.
It’s shocking news for users; social media giant Facebook have a bag full of unannounced changes which they might reveal at F8 developers meet on Thursday at San Francisco. For last week, Facebook is on spree of new features launch including – “Smart Friend List”, “Subscriber Button”, and improved version of “News & Feed” section with ticker.
However, these new features have raised the eye-brows of users as they have started showing rage by lodging complain against new changes. Just in last 24 hours, Facebook has received maximum number of complains. The new design of News feed is making users confused, and also the uncomforted level of users is on constant rise due to cropped Ticker on the right side bar.
Some of the possible unannounced changes – they users may see in future – are:
Posts can now be as long as 5,000 characters, ten times the earlier one.
One can no longer accompany a friend request with message.
Part or the entire navigation bar can remain on the screen even when you scroll down the page.
In left hand column one can create bookmarks, and labeled favorites.
Birthday wishes will appear on the upper right-hand-corner of the screen, near where you see poke notifications.
Poke button will become a link placed into flatten to the right of the “Add friend” button.
Friend list that existed before new smart list prompts have an entirely new management interface.
A thumbnail image of the user, and his or her name, appears on the right corner of the top blue navigation bar.
Above are few unannounced possible changes which will come in existence on Facebook pages soon. Users should learn how to utilize the new features and an unwillingness will drive to increment in complain against the site.
Let’s hope all the upcoming changes will be welcome by the users. Friends, what’s your views whether the new features are towards positive improvements or negative side ?
With technology advancement and improvisation into network infrastructure, objects are much more easily and freely available to people by the help of internet. Google search engine is playing a vital role making any information available to people just by few clicks on your computer. People are tending to depend more on Google search these days than ever before. But, there is creating an indirect hindrance among people’s brain as their dependency on human brain is just becoming lesser day by day.
The below infographic from online colleges, provides an excellent comparison and analysis over human brain against Google search engine dependency.
Again, it’s time for speculations, rumors and predictions and the date is October 4, Tuesday. Apple is gearing for big debut of iPhone 5 on very same day at a grand media event. It should surprise many of you – if you are among prominent visitors of Dazeinfo – as we already anticipated the launch time earlier in July itself.
Latest, according to AllThingsD, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is all set to unveil the next version of its highly popular iPhone on Tuesday October 4. As per AllThingsD’s sources – that like to stay quite anonymous – iPhone 5 will go on sale within 7 to 10 days after the launch.
Though, this will be the first official announcement by Apple, there is absolutely no prizes for guessing what could be inside the upcoming iPhone 5. A larger screen to compete with all latest Android models, 8 mega-pixel rear camera and advance A5 processor will be the main aspects of iPhone 5. The A5 processor is the same one which Apple is currently using in iPad 2. Therefore, iPhone 5 will be equipped well enough with high-end configuration to challenge the Android market which is appreciating every day.
We are still yet to hear any official confirmation from Apple over the launch date but sources seems to be reliable and many previous speculations from the same source about iPhone have already been proven.
Now, its time to wait for the big D Day when Apple’s newly appointed CEO will take the stage and announce the iPhone 5 with big bang.
Social media titan Facebook is, apparently, going through some rough patch. At the time when company is under constant attack from Google+ in social media space, problems are only increasing with the number of risen complains. Few days earlier Facebook launched several new features – “smart friend list” and “subscribe button” to be in competition with its arch rivals Google+ and Twitter.
However, such launches have only raised the eye-brose of users. Users are feeling uncomfortable in sharing their views publicly. With the launch of new features, number of comments on posts raised with exponential rate which are making users annoyed.
Whether is it technology behind the features that has encouraged users to come forward and complain? Or has unhappiness with the site that reached its critical point.
Ever since the launch of news feed section in September 2006, users have complained about every single change made by the company to the site.
But this time it proves to be a worth as technology itself influences people to post complains.
Maximum number of posts, users interact with, are based on complains related to Facebook and most of the posts have same dialogues.
Also, one of the most common posts in all of this consist of advice: “clicking one’s language preferences in the “account settings” portion of the site to U.K. English supposedly turns the news feed layout back to its old format”.
Some of the most common posts are:
Readers how many of your Facebook friends are complaining about the site? And let’s see what will be the future of Facebook and how will it solve users’ problem?
