Twitter launches it's "Music App" for iPhone

Twitter's Music App

Twitter has finally unveiled its much anticipated music application for Apple's iPhone. The application is available to every iPhone users via Apple's iTunes App Store.Users will also be able to use the service on the web later in the day at "music.twitter.com"

Twitter's music application for Google's Android is coming soon. The announcement of Music App was first made on "Good Morning America" program. Twitter launched the service last week exclusively to musicians.

The music app is separate from Twitter's primary social network, though helps users to find music based on the artists and bands they follow.

Twitter's Music App suggests for the bands users might like, also it shows what music the people we follow are currently listening to. Users can also search popular music enjoyed by the universe of other app users, and Twitter surfaces what it calls "emerging" trends and artists.

Through partnerships with Rdio and Spotify streaming music companies, subscribers of those services can be able to listen to music straight from Twitter's new app. Users are also be able to hear previews of music on iTunes and purchase songs.

Twitter said it will be adding new music services to its app.

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The second coming of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook Inc made a very bad decision back in 2010. Instead developing separate apps for Androids, iPhones, BlackBerrys, Nokia phones and Microsoft phones, he made his engineers to design a version of Facebook which could be operated on any platform.

In effect, he was confident that as different platforms jostled for control of mobile devices, standalone apps would go away and soon it would be able to surf websites on our smartphones as we do on our PCs.

Zuckerberg was wrong. Apple's iOS and Google's Android started dominating the world of mobile operating systems, and Facebook applications which were built with web-centric worldwide view in mind, didn't work well on either platform. There were bugs, slow in performance and often crash.

A 2011 of Facebook application gathered 19,000 reviews with one-star in the Apple App Store in the first month. "It's probably one of the biggest mistakes we've ever made," Zuckerberg tells during an interview at Facebook's Menlo Park, California headquarters in late March.

Six years after it had been founded, Facebook -- the company that had begun in the social networking era was missing the next big step in technology. Around the world consumers were using mobile devices with array of downloaded applications designed for touchscreen mobile phones.
Meanwhile, Facebook had only one engineer dedicated for iPhone and most of the mobile team were coding for mobile web browsers.

The person, Mark Zuckerberg who tasted enormous success in his career had to come to terms with failure and he had to make cultural and structural changes at the young company. Instead of working for mobile web, they had to develop apps.

And instead of trying to reach the broadest possible audience with a killer product, Facebook ultimately would have to pick one operating system to show off what it could really do in mobile. "I can't overstate how much we had to retool the whole company's development processes," he says.

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Twitter unveils "ad tool" for marketers

Twitter Inc one of the famous social networks unveiled a new tool through which marketers can broadcast targeted messages to the users based on the contents of their tweets. The technology could hike Twitter's effectiveness as an advertiser to a rarefied level demonstrated only by digital leading advertisers like Google Inc.

Twitter's advertising business is modest and according to the consultancy eMarketer, it is likely to generate 2013 global revenue of under $600 million.

The fast-growing social network, which has 200 million users around the world, hailed its new tool as a technological breakthrough. Until now, Twitter has been able to understand a user's interests mainly by analyzing the list of accounts the user follows, also known as "interest graph".

With the use of Twitter's new tool, the marketers are able to make a thorough study of the content of a user's tweets to display most relevant ads.

Early tests of the new keyword-based targeting mechanism showed that in some cases, users clicked on ads 11 out of 100 times they were shown, a remarkably high rate in the realm of digital advertising, according to Kevin Weil, a senior director of product at Twitter.

The new ad tool also has the advantages of the existing features of "hashtags" -- the pound sign that Twitter users include to signify a topic of discussion.

"It's already used today as a way to focus conversation," Weil said. "Now it's also a way for users who are talking about something to see really relevant."

In a blog post Wednesday, Twitter said the new keyword targeting technology would be available globally to marketers in 15 languages.

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Samsung considers SK Hynix Inc. for DRAM chips

Samsung Electronics Co. considers in purchasing memory chips for mobile devices from SK Hynix Inc for its future products including its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone that is to be launched this month. J.K. Shin, Head of Samsung's mobile business, said.

This deal of supply would be a boost to SK Hynix, which relies heavily on Apple Inc who is a customer for its mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips.

It is also known that mobile gadget makers are preparing to upgrade their flagship products with increased storage capacity and greater varieties. Mobile DRAM chips' prices have increased steadily this year, that reflected in tightening supply outlook.

Samsung, the world's biggest maker of DRAM chips, has largely depended on internal supplies of memory chips for its Galaxy smartphones, but the market has expected it may also begin looking to outside chip suppliers to ensure there is no supply disruptions for key models of its Galaxy S smartphone.

The Galaxy S4, which will be on sale this month, is expected to outsell its predecessors, with a monthly sales of about 10 million.

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Google Fiber (Google's ultra-high speed network) to be launched in Provo.

Google Fiber is to launch its another branch. Google's ultra-high-speed network is about to launch at Provo, Utah.

Google Fiber offers Internet speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second, which is said to be 100 times faster than the average internet user's service in America.

Google is also offering a Fiber TV service that lets the customers to watch all the TV shows in High Definition, also to record up to 8 shows at the same time and 500 hours of HD video can be stored in the cloud. Customers can watch those stored videos across several devices, including mobile phones and PCs.

The Google-Provo deal is not yet finalized. Google has signed an agreement to buy iProvo, which is an existing fiber-optic network owned by the city. Provo's city council is about to vote on Google's iProvo purchase next Tuesday. If the deal is approved, Google said it will "upgrade the network to gigabit technology and finish network construction so that every home along the existing iProvo network would have the opportunity to connect to Google Fiber."

If the deal is approved, Provo will be the third location to use Google Fiber.

In its blog post, Google stated about the start up scene in Utah and noted that Provo specifically ranks No. 2 in the number of patents granted. Google hasn't yet announced Fiber pricing for Provo or Austin. In Kansas City, the Fiber Internet and TV package costs $120 a month with a two- year contract, and those customers can control multiple televisions using the included Google Nexus 7 tablet. Google also offers an Internet-only option for $70 a month and a free Internet service at"today's average speeds." The search giant is also providing free Fiber service to local schools, community centers,government buildings and libraries.

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