What makes Whatsapp More popular:

Everyday 10 billion messages were processed by Whatsapp which is definitely a threat to the major mobile carriers as they tend to communicate via the internet rather than the SMS which makes the carrier profitable.When more number of friends use this messenger then I am not going to use the SMS. This makes the application more popular everyday among the users who switch from SMS.

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What is Hike messenger app:

Hike is a new messenger app developed by Bharti softbank which is a partnership between bharti airtel of India and Softbank of japan.

Using Hike you can send messages to other hike user connected via internet,send pictures,videos and group chatting be tween friends just like other messenger apps.Hike is similar to whatsapp with one remarkable feature is that you can send messages to the non hike users using the standard SMS but currently this feature is limited to 100 sms and only available in India.

Hike also provides the read/sent/typing notifications for the each message.It is now available for iOS,Android,Windows and symbian.To promote this application to more number of users the company have decided to provide the sms credit for every other user invited by you.

One major threat in the country like india is the internet user base is very large and growth rate is increasing everyday.Carriers companies are developing such an application because in future people will only use messenger apps .

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The new version of yahoo mail is simple clean and has similar features like gmail.

Yahoo lost its popularity when gmail was launched few years ago.But now yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer carefully focuses on gaining and retaining customers for its products.

 Along with iphone and android versions yahoo announced the windows 8 version and updated web version.Though the web version will be rolled out in few days to all the users.

iPhone 5 has the slimmer design than its previous versions which is 18% thinner.It is made completely with Glass and aluminium with 4 inch retina display screen.The aspect ratio 16:9 which means the device is more handy to use and hold.

The new A6 processor chip is two times faster and 22% smaller than its previous version A5.

The inbuilt 8 Megapixel camera was pretty much upgraded with backlight illumination and provides faster response times.The panorama feature in camera app can snap cool panoramic images.

Instead of usual two iPhone 5 has three microphone in front,back and bottom.

This phone uses the new type of connector called lightning connector that acts as intermediate for 30 pin dock connector.

iPhone 5 will be priced at $199,$299 and $399 for 16Gb,32Gb and 64 GB respectively.Pre-order starts from September 24th so that you can get your phone by 21st september.

More specs at Apple website

The new one is similar to old logo except that new one is fairly more squared.

Old logo

The new logo symbolizes the metro look used on the windows 8 operating system.Microsoft was busy this year in launching new products like Windows 8 , Surface tablet , New Office suite and now this new logo for the entire company.

Along with the new corporate logo the company have also updated its product logos recently.

Windows 8

Windows8 Logo

Office Suite

office 2013 new logo

Xbox

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It’s been 25 years since we updated the Microsoft logo. Now is the perfect time for a change.

Via Official Blog: http://aka.ms/logo

 

One additional improvement is that self driving cars which are currently in test will only need one person in driver’s seat instead of two.The fact that a manual intervention is needed if wanted to take control.

Google self driving car-Lexus RX450h

According to google Blog:

The next phase of testing would be on this new SUV called Lexus which will used for testing snowy road and temporary construction signals etc.