Google acquires a start-up Bump to improve Android

Google confirmed the acquisition of the start-up “Bump”. Founded in 2008, it publishes an application that makes it easy to share data between two Smartphones by bumping against each other Bump is an editor application that enables the sharing of data between two Smartphones by simply rattling. Google should incorporate all or part of this technology to Android and, or perhaps some Smartphones. The peculiarity of the system is that it does not use NFC. The application detects the sensor information from the Smartphone when "bump" and sends them to a server where an algorithm will analyze and find the same features on the other end. Once identified the two Smartphones, data exchange can take place. Bump was a great success with over 100 million downloads. Last year, the company launched a photo sharing service called Flock. Google has not revealed its plans for the use of these technologies, but it is quite likely to be used either for Android or for some of its services. It may use it as an exclusive feature on the Motorola Smartphones! Bump will continue to operate normally, for the moment and can be read on the blog of the start-up. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed, but a web source quotes that a sum of between 30 and 60 million.

How servers downtime impact your business

Web servers are playing an important role in your business if you’re doing a online business. It doesn’t matter what sort of online business you were doing. But if you are rely of a third part web server, or any cloud data storage system for storing your data. The server downtime causes a big problem on your day to day activities. It may be a local server or on-premise servers; they will definitely go down without giving/providing warnings. Downtime will impact heavily with the customer relationship with your business. The various impacts are given as follows:-

Sales: 

The failure of the server may affect your business when your website becomes inaccessible. When the process of downtime occurs, it may lead to lose your ability to process the customer orders. The problem will bellowed only the server become normal; until the servers are running the sales department will go down. Suppose if you were processing your orders, failure in server will never let you to do needed shipments and also affects your tracking process of your products. For example, downtime of your server for one hour will also makes you to lord thousands of dollars.

Customer Satisfaction: 

Server downtime will affect your customer satisfaction. Not only will the downtime, loss of any services result in poor customer satisfaction. When the customer cannot able to get the product they want, their mentality will changed and this affects the various level of customer relationship with your website. The server downtime will also affects the process of customer support or tech support of your website which results in dissatisfaction for the customers. When the customers did not get what they want, definitely it will results in dissatisfaction of customers.

This will affect your reputation and sometime it will make your whole reputation to get damages. The longer downtime, the more lost of reputation of your business.

Loss of Data: 

Depending upon the other remote servers for storing the data will always gives you a risk of losing the data. When any error or hardware encounters a problem, it will definitely damage your data. Damaged hardware also leads to data loss and it would require lots of cost to retrieve the data and it has a negative impact over your business. The day to day activities of your business will be ruined and you will not able to do any sort of activities once your loss your data. It should be better if you have a solid backup plan for all of your information.

Make sure you were having a prior backup plan and the data should be backup for both the remote and on-premise servers. So that any sort of failure will not affect your business; also your reputation will remain constant. Having a better backup plan will always results in good and better backup plan for your business. It is always true that prevention is better than cure. So having a perfect backup plan will reduce your risk of getting troubles.

Thus various impacts over server downtime has been explained clearly, Response us with your comments / feedbacks.

Sound at your Fingertips

Technology from Disney Research, Pittsburgh has come out with a device which transmits sound through human touch. It is a new invention that enables you to record messages to friends that can be heard with a touch of your finger to the earlobes. With the help of your finger and another person’s ear, together forms a speaker that helps the other person to hear your message. Ishin-Den-Shin so called is named after a Japanese mantra which represents unspoken understanding and speaks into a standard microphone which is then converted into an inaudible signal which tends to get audible when the speaker touches another person’s earlobes. The sound can be transmitted from body to body with the help of any physical contact though it can only be heard by the person whose earlobe is touched and this technology won the honors at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. This system depends on a special microphone created by Disney Research engineers, wherein the sound is recorded and rendered into a high voltage, low current and in an inaudible signal. The sound can only be heard when someone holding the microphone touches the fingers to another person’s ears. The sound can also move through multiple bodies if the person A holding the microphone touches person B’s shoulder while at the same time person C’s ear for the sound to be transmitted to the person C.

 Human bodies are capable of transmitting sound as electrical signals and using the human body to conduct sound is becoming common in the recent years. One of the most popular methods is the bone conduction which brings sound directly to the inner ear through bones in the skull and which is found in some head phones enabling hearing aids and in Google’s Glass. The system used by Disney Research is an electrostatic field which forms around the speaker’s skin and creates a vibration when it comes in contact with the person’s earlobe. The Ishin-Den-Shin system, which includes a hand held microphone, is connected to a computer. It operates when the speaker speaks into the microphone and the computer changes the sound into looped recording. This recording is then converted into high voltage, low current inaudible signal, which flows into the thin wires connected to the interior of the microphone. The looped inaudible signal then creates a modulated electrostatic field thus producing a tiny vibration as the fingers touch the ear, forming a speaker. The Ishin-Den-Shin system can be used for everyday activities for interactive sound devices without the need of any special instrument. It could help to explore new avenues for inter personal communication and can be used to transfer sound from one person to another with the use of our bodies which has the capabilities of a conductor of sound

Philips PicoPix

Do you want a projector in your pocket then you have to go far Philips PicoPix. You can watch your own photos or watch movies anytime in larger screen. Philips released three new Pocket Projector models. Each of the three small PicoPix pocket projector fits easily in your hand. Philips introduces three new PicoPix pocket projectors, extending its large assortment of mini projectors. The wall or any surface can serve as a projection screen according to the manufacturer. You can enjoy viewing your own photos and videos in large format at any time and any place. The Philips PicoPix PPX 3407 and PPX 3410 are easily portable and about hand size. The resolution is 854x480 pixels and up to 100 lumens. According to the manufacturer it should be possible to realize a screen size of 305 centimeters (120 inches). Your Smartphone, tablet, camera or game console can be connected to it via both HDMI.

Small speakers make a  slideshows with with good background music. For everyday use in the office it is very comfortable. And it also works to play files from a USB stick or from 4 gigabytes of internal memory. The small PicoPix PPX 2340 can be worn on the wrist with a strap. The highlight is the loop; it is a USB Quick Link so that connecting and charging cable are always with you. Also there is a MP4 player which has a streaming function and a built-in speaker of one watt. The smaller model provides a resolution of 640x360 pixels and 40 lumens. The PPX 3407 will be available in white, bronze and in black and white; all three models will go on sale in October 2013.

Travel on Magnetic Levitation (MagLev) Train over 500km / h

Are you dreamed of boarding a floating train, then you have to go to Japan now! Yes, The Japanese have done it! Known as JR Maglev, the magnetic levitation vehicle has successful in their last test, the attain an impressive speed of 500 km / h! The Central Japan Railway Company has revived their test maglev train. Currently, the longest and fastest in the world, JR Maglev (abbreviation for magnetic levitation) was tested on a line for about 42 kilometers. The machine has reached a speed of nearly 500 kilometers per hour. After five successive test stops and some project years, Japanese finally begin to build a magnetic line connecting the two cities Nogoya and Tokyo. A journey of about 285 kilometers, which normally lasts 95 minutes and with this high-speed train, will be reduced to 40 minutes by 2027. For comparison, the Amtraks Acela Express makes the journey from Boston to New York takes about 3 hours and 40 minutes to cover the 338 kilometers. A distance that can be traveled less than an hour by JR Maglev. By 2045, JR Central hopes to expand the line to Osaka, which will reduce the number of passengers who frequently take flights between the two cities. When it is built, the magnetic line reread Tokyo airport to train at low speed Nagoya. The latter part of other rail systems that use magnetic rails to reduce friction problems but also offer more stability.

While the Japanese magnetic process promises an impressive technology, it still reins some concern on the part of the Japanese people who think that the machine is not large enough to support its weight. By itself, the extension of the line up to Nagoya will cost between 52 and 90 billion, mainly because of the mountainous landscape and towns that make it difficult to achieve straight rails. According to the Bloomberg financial group, there is a good chance that the building faces significant delays. Fortunately, JR Central is a highly profitable business with a history that allowed making big profits and thanks to its current high-speed trains. The company had cash of $ 2.95 billion according to their latest financial report. With a number of loan and bond that can easily allow the financing of an infrastructure project of this magnitude. It will take a little longer to appear before the floating trains that could change the way we travel and allow us to move much faster.