NVIDIA Reveals Tegra K1 Benchmarks

Nvidia announced that it will release next generation mobile processor with Kepler architecture – The same architecture that powers GeForce graphics cards with 192 cores.

Now Nvidia has shown 2 versions of SoC, one is 32-bit, 4 core and other one is dual core 3.0 GHz 64-bit. Both perform far better that latest Snapdragon 805 SoC. You can see the benchmarks below.

The quad core 32-bit Tegra K1 based mobile phones will be available in few months, but the 64-bit version will be further delayed.

Nvidia is known for its high performance GPUs for PC and well known player in GPU/CPU design. Nvidia couldn’t create x86 based CPU for PCs because of the license conflict with Intel and AMD, so they are trying to conquer the mobile market.

After seeing the performance of K1, now we can see what Qualcomm and ARM will come up with.

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Flipboard Buys Competitor App Zite

The all famous news reader app Flipboard has bought another news app Zite from CNN. CNN acquired Zite in mid-2011 for $25 million and then added CNN content to it. Flipboard says that it will stop updating the Zite app and incorporate its functionalities and CNN news source into its Flipboard app.

CNNMoney reported that the deal was sealed with $60 million. Flipboard was interested in Zite because of its technology – Zite’s personalized content display. Flipboard generates almost 2.5 billion page views per month and adds 250,000 new users everyday.

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Yahoo to Disable User Sign-in Using Google and Facebook

Yahoo allowed its users to sign in to Yahoo services using Yahoo account or Google or Facebook account since 2011 – a move made by former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. But Yahoo now seeking to remove that option and want it users to use it own sign-in process.

Yahoo said that this will help streamline the sign in experience across its vast services, faster customer services and account assistance. Yahoo spokeswoman said that “The eventual switch for all users to a Yahoo username will occur over time”.

Under its new CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo seems to be going very well and this move will be seen as a way for Yahoo to say that I am still in the game.

Facebook Messenger is Now Available for Windows Phone

Microsoft has been working hard to close the apps gap between its rival platforms – iOS and Android. Today another important app has shown up in the Windows Phone Store, that is Facebook Messenger.

It’s been two years since Facebook had launched its Messenger for iOS and Android, but working closely with Microsoft, both Facebook and Microsoft was able to create a flat design version of Messenger app that is compatible to Windows Phone design language.

In this Mobile World Congress (MWC), Microsoft had announced that it will make the Facebook Messenger available for Windows Phone in few weeks, and it did as exactly as it said.

You can download the Facebook Messenger app here. (Windows Phone Store link)

Facebook Wants to Bring Internet to The Undeveloped Countries with Drones

The social media giant Facebook is looking for many ways to connect the rest of the world to its social media stream. Facebook is already connecting more that a billion people in the planet and pretty much everyone who has internet is on Facebook too.

So Facebook wants to bring those who doesn’t have internet connection to it social network, therefor it is experimenting with ways to connect people without internet, particularly with drones.

Titan Aerospace is a company developing solar powered drones which can cruise at an altitude of 65000 feet and can stay up to 5 years in the sky without landing or changing batteries. The drones can also carry communication devices such as internet and imaging devices to capture photos of Earth.

Facebook wants to buy this company so it can use the “atmospheric satellites” for providing cheap internet to the undeveloped countries. The deal has been valued at 60 million US dollars.

This action of Facebook can be seen as Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.Org project, where he wants to connect every single one on this planet.

Microsoft’s New Digital Assistant

When Apple released Siri in 2012, it was so much praised by everyone for its awesomeness and afterwards even Google made its own rival called Google Now and it is also one of the highly successful product.

Since then it was rumored that Microsoft is working on its own intelligent digital voice activated assistant for its Windows Phone 8.1. Cortana is the name of the digital assistant – a name from Microsoft’s game series Halo.

Like Apple’s Siri, Cortana will be able to adjust the behavior to your needs and also track information and reminds you like Google Now.

Cortana is not yet officially announced, it is expected that Microsoft will announce this in the upcoming Build conference, and it is also not clear that Microsoft would keep the name ‘Cortana’ for the final product.

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Bill Gates, Once Again The World Richest Man

Bill Gates, Co-Founder and former Chairman of Microsoft, once again become the richest person on the planet. Bill Gates was the richest person for 15 years in the last 20 years.

Past four years, Mexican telecommunication giant, Carlos Slim was the richest person according to Forbes, a business magazine that rates billionaires in the world. Since last year, Microsoft’s share price is going up and that made Bill Gates once again the richest person with $76 billion as his net worth.

Bill Gates now mostly spend his time working with his non-profit organization Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation, which is curing diseases, fetching water and food and improving the lives of billions of people in the third world countries.

Microsoft also recently announced that Bill Gates will work closely with the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella to increase Microsoft’s potential.