According to latest figures from the Inter-
national Data Corporation (IDC), Google’s
Android and Apple’s iOS together almost
dominate the entire worldwide smartphone
operating systems market.
According to IDC, 255.3 million Android
powered devices were shipped worldwide
in Q2 2014, capturing 84.7 percent of the
global market share, whereas iOS captured
11.7 percent of the market share shipping
35.2 million smartphones, taking up togeth-
er 96.4 percent of the global market share.
IDC’s figures showed that mobile phone
providers shipped around 301.3 million
smartphones worldwide between April and
June 2014.
Google released its panoramic Photo Sphere
Camera on Apple App store after it was origi-
nally limited to Android users.
The app allows users to create 360-degree
panoramic images then stitches the individu-
al photos together to create a single view im-
age which can be swiped and panned around
with zooming capability, functionally similar
to “Street View” service in Google Maps.
The app also allows users to publish the cap-
tured panoramic images directly to Google
Maps or share them with anyone on the
social communication websites Facebook,
Twitter and Google+, or even send them via
email.
iOS 7.0 and above users can download the
app for free.
Android dominates
85 percent of smart-
phones market share
Panoramic
Photo Sphere
Camera App
12000 people join lawsuit against
Facebook
12000 Facebook members have
joined the Austrian privacy activist,
Max Schrems, in suing the US social
network over its use of personal data.
“We are surprised by the positive
feedback,” said Schrems, who had is-
sued a call to join his lawsuit.
schrems heads an Austria-based
group called Europe vs. Facebook,
which has been campaigning against
Facebook’s use of member data, ar-
guing that its policies are intranspar-
ent and run counter to EU law.
The claimants in the class action suit
at Vienna’s commercial court each
seek a symbolical sum of 500 Euros
(671 dollars).
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