Microsoft Runs out of IPv4 Addresses

Due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses in the United States, Microsoft had to assign customers to Azure VM to U.S. IP from other regions, which may create problems for location services running on these virtual servers.

 The shortage of IPv4 addresses is not new and it is long standing issue. Nevertheless, the effects of the depletion of the stock of addresses have been delayed. They are nevertheless increasingly visible as have seen users of cloud service Microsoft Azure.

Some customers have deployed Azure platform virtual machines in the United States have noted, by opening a Web page in a browser, they were redirected, for example, to the Brazilian version of Yahoo. The reason is simple, says Microsoft on their blog, that all blocks of IPv4 addresses in the United States have been assigned.

Azure, the publisher had to obtain IPv4 addresses of other regions, including Southern America. As a result, Web services hosted on Azure can be detected as not being located in the United States, even if virtual machines are, they are hosted in a datacenter located in U.S..

 For Microsoft and other cloud players, this will be repeated more often. LACNIC, the body responsible for the management of IP addresses for the Latin America and Caribbean region, said this week no longer have IPv4 address blocks available.

Beats to extend its line of Audio Devices

Beat Electronics has plans to extend its line of audio devices in order to stay tuned with new owner of Apple‘s frequent product updates and Powerbeats 2 Wireless which is the company’s first set of wireless earphones which has been designed, keeping athletes in mind, providing the Beats audio quality which most of the fans are looking forward to.

As conveyed to TechNewsWorld by Ben Arnold, consumer technology industry analyst at NPD, he states that the `Beats’, brand and the endorsement of LeBron James seems to be the biggest strengths of this product.

The Miami Heat basketball player had been engaged in developing the Powerbeats 2 wireless earphones due to his frequent breaking of ear buds which took place during workouts. He further states that he had seen some companies especially at CES putting fitness sensors into ear buds and he thinks that this sets the stage for some new innovation with regards to this issue.

Earphones Hooks – Designed for Comfort and Fitness

The earphones’ hooks seems to be designed for improvement, for fitness and comfort and the device includes IPX4 water and sweat resistance for durability accompanied with a remote which has a slip free grip while making hands free calls, or changing volume or even changing tracks. Moreover for storage, it comes with a hard shell case.

The earphones will come at a price of US$199.95 and will be available in shades of white, black and red by this month. Powerbeats 2 Wireless can be connected to Bluetooth enabled device placed up to 30 feet distance and has a rechargeable battery capable of running for six hours playback. Besides this, user can have a quick charge option enabling them with an extra hour of constant playback within just fifteen minutes of charging.

Long Battery Life – Additional Feature

John Feland, CEO and founder of Argus Insights had informed TechNewsWorld that Beats was always keen on listening experience and the earlier generation of Bluetooth technology seems to be coming in the way in delivery a Beats sound wireless.

He further added that their early Bluetooth Studio headsets had been received well and in their analysis of early Beats Wireless, consumers found that in addition to the traditional love of the Beats sound, the long battery life was another useful feature.

Though this is the first time that Beats released the wireless earphones, it did have some experience in the development of Bluetooth devices since it had launched it wireless mode of headphone in the year 2012 as well as a studio version the next year and the wireless headphone demand reached $1 billion that year accounting to fifty seven percent of US premium sales, with an increase of twenty one percent from the previous year.

Beats – Favoured Brand for Young Generation 

As informed to TechNewsWorld by J. Gerry Purdy, chief mobile analyst at Compass Intelligence, presently Beats is the favoured brand in audio handsets wherein emphasize is in the range of music spectrum that is a favourite among the young generation especially athletes.

 This wireless product eliminates wired connection which could pose a problem during workouts and hence there is a great demand for this new entry. It is not known if Apple would be planning to bundle Beats earphone along with the release of next iPhone and iPad models or plans to use the Beats technology to enhance the EarPods which was used since the release of the iPhone 5.

How To Fix Low Memory On Android

Low Memory – Avoid Task Killers 

Low system memory – RAM and low internal memory – storage, are the two issues which need to be checked while running an Android device to avoid any interruption in its function.

 Most of the Android devices have 1 GB of RAM or 512 MB and if one is running some intensive app or a number of apps, the RAM may tend to struggle under the pressure and one of the foremost rule of RAM Club is not to use task killers which tend to stop processes long enough for a cool bar graph or pie chart to indicate an impressive decrease in the usage of the RAM.

These processes then tend to start up only after a few moments and put you back from where you started. The most essential step to be taken in order to keep a tab on how much RAM the apps uses is toeliminate the trouble issuing ones which may not be of much importance to the user.

Play Store have a good number of apps and one can find one with the resource management and functionality of one’s choice. Since Android has a built in RAM monitor in Developer Option under the Process Stats, users can see the run time as well as the RAM usage.

Variety of Start -Up Task

If the Developer Option has been enabled, users could go to Settings>About Phone and tap on Build Number till Developer option appears.

One can also use a variety of start-up task managers such as Advance Task Manager in order to limit which apps and process can run on start-up.

Large number of pictures or videos, too many games and plenty of music could impose on the internal storage which one may not be aware of.

Based on the version of Android as well as the manufacturer, it is important to comprehend how Android divides internal storage so that one has the understanding of how much space is available.

Micro SD Card/Link2SD

A Smartphone with a 32 GB of storage onlyhas access to around three quarters of it and at times much less and the best thing to do when one gets a warning of low internal storage is to delete some of the unrequired contents by clearing off the temporary and cached data which would be of great advantage.
Shifting the music and photos to the cloud or using a music streaming service instead of the local storage could be helpful.

The other alternative is to slip in a micro SD card in the phone slot and then move the contents over to the external SD card.

This can be done in Settings>Apps> look for `move to SD card’ in each app where music, pictures and other files can be moved though system files and apps cannot be moved.

Besides this, an app like Link2SD also is helpful in moving everything to the SD card though these apps may need to have root access, where root privilege provides more freedom to move apps at will; delete bloatware preloaded on the device and much more.

Google demotes Chrome Feature

Original Chip Plan Now Hides full Addresses

Recently, Chrome team member, Peter Kasting has demoted one aspect of the address hiding feature to a third level priority from a top priority level and those wanting their browser showing websites’ full addresses, should be glad that Google has put in work on its former chip, on the back burner. Google has now taken a step back from its original chip plan which would now hide the full addresses that people visit with its Chrome browser. In his explanation on Google’s issue tracking site, Kasting states that `the origin chip work is back burned’.

To the left of Chrome’s address bar is the region of the origin chipwhich shows only the domain of a web addresses and instead of a full web address it now shows a shorter form of a web address where longer address could be more useful but it could also be more crowded with obscure coding. It is unknown why Google has done this but a lot of the origin chip work has already been done with some other aspects of the origin chip work remaining active in the Chrome issue tracker. No comments have been received from Google with regards to this issue.

Navigation to Web – Changed 

Google had been conducting test on the feature of a fraction of Chrome beta user to get people’s response, some of which were negative since the full web address portrays useful information. Navigation to the web has now changed and full addresses are no longer essential as they were earlier.

 To navigate to a particular site, the option of the search engine was used to get where one wanted to go and the share buttons in smartphone app can take the place of a copy and paste operation when one wants to tell a friend regarding a particular web site.

However it is hard to change user interfaces where millions of user have now become accustomed to it and Chrome’s growth on the usage of the net has made it harder for Google to introduce significant changes like the omnibox or the origin chip which merged the browser’s search box and the address boxes when Chrome had been debuted in 2008.

Minimalist Presentation – More Inviting to Search

Kasting has also shared some reasons why the origin chip would be a good idea in his earlier comments on Google+. According to him the minimalist presentation would be making it more inviting to search, and could make it easier to refine searches by adding or removing search terms and improve security by showing users what site they are really on and not just what a carefully crafted address would misleadingly suggest.

Web addresses also called URLs – uniform resource locators, are fundamental parts of the World Wide Web that Time Berners Lee had created around twenty five years ahead and the origin chip does not remove the full URL but is something that people are looking for. With the origin chip feature implemented, user could click on the chip and see or copy the full address. Beside this, the Ctrl/Cmd-L keyboard shortcut also shows – select the full address, as it shows today with the origin chip.

How to Make Free Calls (online) From PC to Mobile

In internet there are some online services for making calls to mobile. If you call your buddies at free of cost, you will be very happy. Right? Then this article is right for you all. You can make calls now at free of cost from computer to mobile.

Using Google voice

Google offers the service called Google voice which is used to make calls from computer to mobile or mobile to computer. Unfortunately you can make call for US and Canada. If you want to make call elsewhere you will be charged. Call rates will be applicable based on the country. It also maintains the contact. Once you register in google voice, it will provide the google voice number. It never changes.

Using Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo messenger allows you to make calls from PC to mobile. We can use it in India also. It is not like the google voice. Download and install the yahoo messenger on the mobile. You can log in the yahoo messenger only with the yahoo mail id password. If you don’t have yahoo id, just sign up an account.

Then select Yahoo Call and then click call a Phone number from my PC option, as shown in the capture. And now you have to dialthe toll free number 18003733411 and wait until your call is getting connected.You have to follow the instructions and click the free call option end.The process is done. Now you can dial the number that you want to call. Enjoy the free calls.

Using Icall

Icall is as same as the google voice. Though it provides the calling service only for US and Canada, it is the one of the best method to do free calls. This app will be applicable only for Mac, IPhone, Linux and Windows. You can make a call as many times you want. But every fifth minute, the call will get disconnected.

UsingSite2Sms

This site is different from all the sites that we discussed. In Site2Sms you can make calls for India alone. You are allowed to do 15 calls only. For every 2 minutes the call will be disconnected and that you can talk up to 30 minutes only.

Using VoipBuster

VoipBuster offers a free service for making calls. It has also some restrictions that are given below.

• You can make call for only particular countries.

• Each day you can talk through VoipBuster about 60 minutes only.