The Infinix Hot 2 is getting a bigger battery

The Infinix Hot 2 is the first Android One phone to be launched in Nigeria. Reasonably priced and competitively ‘specced’, the Infinix Hot 2 became an instant crowd’s favourite when it launched in Nigeria. So much so that over 5000 units are claimed to have sold out in the first 20 minutes.
However, one major complaint users have been having about the Infinix Hot 2 is battery life. Seeing as it features a measly 2200 mAh battery powering a quad-core processor, this comes as no surprise. Thankfully Infinix has listened.Apparently, the OEM is on the verge of releasing a 3000 mAh battery replacement for Infinix Hot 2 users. There is no word whether this will come at a price of free of charge to users. We have reached out to Infinix for comments.

Twitter looking to drop 140-character limit. Could spell death of Twitterstorms

Twitter is building a new product that will enough users Tweet with more than the standard 140-character limit, Re/code reports.
While the product is yet to see the light of day, sources report that it will most likely allow users to publish long-form content a la Facebook notes. 140 characters have been the standard Tweet limit since the inception of Twitter, which is fundamentally based of SMS technology. Traditional SMS actually has a 160-character limit but Twitter shaved off the first 20 characters to compensate to the @username limit.
Over the years, users have continued to demand for an expansion of the character limit. Twitter has responded in several interesting ways, from introducing Twitter cards, the ability to quote Tweets and, most recently, allowing unlimited characters in DMs. But for most users, these just don’t quite cut it. User have since found workaround using tools like twitlonger (mostly now out of fashion) and, more recently, services like OneShot which allows them send screenshots of long text to Twitter. User have also picked up the the habit of Twitterstorms, which some find annoying.
Should Twitter enable this new feature, we could possibly be seeing the beginning of the end for Twitterstorms.

The $2.5 Trillion Photo: China's President Xi Jinping Meets With Heads Of Apple, Amazon, And More

A picture is worth a thousand words. In the first official U.S. visit of China’s President Xi Jinping this week, nothing speaks louder than one single photo on China’s hopes for its high-tech diplomacy.
On Wednesday, President Xi toured Microsoft MSFT +1.61% during the 8th U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum in Seattle. After discussing a wide range of issues such as intellectual-property protection and Internet governance, Xi and 30 top China and U.S. executives posed for a group photo — in which Forbes counts a total market cap for all represented companies of $2.5 trillion.

In the first row, you can see the most powerful tech CEOs in both countries – the combined market cap of the companies they run amount to $2.1 trillion. Standing in the center is President Xi himself with host Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO. China’s powerful Internet czar Lu Wei stands next to Nadella, after which come two of the most familiar American tech CEOs, Apple AAPL +0.39%’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, flanking Tencent’s “Pony” Ma Huateng. To Xi’s right stands IBM IBM +1.39%’s Ginni Rometty (one of only two women, with Lisa Su, CEO of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices AMD +%), Alibaba ’s Jack Ma, Cisco’s John Chambers, and JD.com ’s Liu Qiangdong. Facebook FB +3.37%’s Mark Zuckerberg, the first executive on the left, chatted with Xi in Mandarin as the president joined the lineup. “On a personal note, this was the first time I’ve ever spoken with a world leader entirely in a foreign language. I consider that a meaningful personal milestone,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook. “It was an honor to meet President Xi and other leaders.”
Other big names in the second and third rows include Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn LNKD +1.06%, Cheng Wei of Uber competitor Didi-Kuaidi, Yahoo YHOO +2.11%! Cofounder Jerry Yang, and AirBnB’s Brian Chesky.

Apple Music, iTunes Movies And iBooks Launches In China

China is already Apple’s largest market for app downloads and the company hopes consumers will be just as eager to try out Apple Music. The streaming music service launched there today, along with iTunes Movies and iBooks.
After a three-month trial membership, Apple Music will cost 10 RMB per month, or about $1.60, which means it is the same price as a premium membership on Tencent’s QQ Music. The service will also be available for Android (which holds a 70 percent market share in China) later this fall.
Apple Music’s competitors in China already include services from Tencent, Baidu, and Netease, but all face the challenge of convincing listeners who have spent years downloading pirated music that on-demand streaming is a more attractive alternative.
Online music piracy is a huge problem in China, but the government recently launched a host of initiatives to crack down on copyright infringement. This may help Apple avoid the problems Google Music faced. Google Music Search shut down its China service in 2009, just three years after launching, because of poor performance.

Apple’s e-book and movies business will also have to deal with similar obstacles: piracy and competition from Chinese Internet giants. For example, Tencent Literature and Shanda recently announced a merger that makes it the country’s largest online publishing and ebook company, with more than three million books.
The Cupertino company has localized its entertainment services with popular Chinese artists and authors. Apple Music will give Chinese consumers access to artists like Eason Chan and Li Ronghao and iTunes Movies will offer “The Taking of Tiger Mountain,” a recent hit, for free for a limited amount of time, while iBooks has titles from local publishers.

The Future Of Coding Is Here, And It Threatens To Wipe Out Everything In Its Path

APIs — the rules governing how software programs interact with each other — not user interfaces, will upend software for years to come.
When Intel CEO Brian Krzanich doubled down on the Internet of Things at the company’s annual Developer Forum in August, he emphasized what many of us have already known — the dawn of a new era in software engineering. It’s called API-first design, and it presents a tremendous opportunity for developers who adapt — not to mention a major risk for developers (and companies) who don’t.
Intel isn’t the only heavyweight recognizing the value of APIs. IBM recently got into the world of API management with IBM Bluemix, which allows companies to discover how other developers are using their APIs and design around that feedback. Then Oracle extended its API management suite in June to capitalize on growing revenue opportunities. Other players have been stacking the deck in preparation for API-centric software development for years.
Typically, when people design new products and capabilities, they’re asked to design the UI screens and show how the user experience will look. There are plenty of reasons this approach took off with developers. Touchscreens unleashed a new generation of computing, and fundamentally changed the ways we interact with hardware.

Connected devices, driverless cars and advanced health tech are just a handful of the new technologies API-first design will enable.

Apple and Google have proven that ease of use is both a consumer and enterprise priority. What’s more, the emergence of Augmented and Virtual Reality platforms prove people are constantly exploring new ways to experience content. But as devices proliferate, system-to-system interactions will dominate people-to-system interactions. Systems don’t need pretty interfaces, they need well-defined contracts. They need APIs.
Just in mobile, one can think of 10 different interfaces. Then there are web, client-server and thin client — it can be overwhelming. The only way to gain control is to focus on the API layer; it’s not even worth thinking through the fragmentation of the interface layer, especially if one is providing a service. Take Netflix, for example. How can a video streaming service with such a simplistic user interface scale to more than 63 million users accessing their video library from hundreds of device types from all across the globe? Excellent APIs.
The Internet of Things (IoT) — which will soon be at the center of the tech universe, according to Business Insider Intelligence — is really driving this paradigm shift. This proliferation of devices is sealing the deal on a trend already gaining steam.

As devices have outnumbered people, the systems we use to connect them have become incredibly complex. APIs are the foundation of these connections: the mortar between our digital hardware. This complexity has set the stage for a tectonic shift away from full-stack engineering toward building pieces on top of existing layers within larger ecosystems.

API-first design presents a tremendous opportunity for developers who adapt — not to mention a major risk for developers who don’t.

Other tech giants like Apple and Google are driving the same API-centric future. The emergence of new interconnected product categories — wearables like the Apple Watch and Google’s driverless cars, to name two prominent examples — signal the growing importance of APIs in our daily lives. When the smartest people in the room get behind something new, it’s best to pay attention. This doesn’t mean computers and screens are going away, but it does signal a whole new world of opportunity for developers.
The consequences of failing to move to API-centric development are as real for individuals as they are for the companies that employ them. Developers who fail to adapt their talent around APIs run the risk of rapidly devaluing their skills and decreasing their job security.
For companies, the consequences may be magnified. Startups that fail to embrace this technological revolution could become less competitive. They could make inferior products. Some startups could wither away, altogether. Companies that don’t live on the edge of innovation will become pieces of a shrinking pie.
As we move into a more interconnected world, amazing new possibilities emerge. Developers like to consume “bite-sized” stuff. Amazon popularized this approach — they told developers what the system does and got out of the way. For tech companies, the “telling” will be handing over APIs. It’s no wonder we’ve moved toward microservices that enable best-of-breed platforms to thrive.
Connected devices, driverless cars and advanced health tech are just a handful of the new technologies API-first design will enable. For these innovations to happen, they must be built on a solid foundation. That means starting system design at the foundational layer — APIs.

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