Telechronics (Ademar Days of opinion): there is news beyond the Web Summit… yes there!
In week Web Summit has left a notice: today there are fewer lines in this space!
Ademar Days
Journalist
Radio Horizonte Algarve / Tavira
Now… normally the TECNOCRÓNICA features five weekly topics but, since the country is these days the world capital of technology, It would be almost irrelevant highlight four or five topics when current exceeds the capacity and from space.
So it is a challenge to us who often visits to navigate in search of the Summit highlights. It certainly will not be difficult to find news.
Mas Web Summit in parte…
Through testing conducted by the Washington Post, CNET and Consumer Reports to batteries of Apple smartphones concluded that the autonomy of the iPhone is getting worse.
"With a few exceptions, the top models this year had worse results than last year. The new iPhone XS 'died' 21 X minutes before the iPhone last year. O Pixel 3 this year lasted an hour and a half to 2 Pixel ", aponta o Washington Post.
Although the trend is checked, it was also noted that the recent iPhone XR is one of the exceptions. In tests done at the current catalog of iPhones was the XR which had more autonomy, with 12 hours and 25 minutes. Already the iPhone only had XS 9 hours and 9 minutes, It is the one with the worst autonomy between Apple smartphones.
But for those who are not yet among the row of "Company Apple" is a warning: the trend also extends to Android smartphones.
Revealed Spotify in its latest report that it continues to add subscribers. According to the quarterly financial data presented now, the music service has 87 million paying users.
To compare, no last quarter, Spotify had 83 millions of users, by the conquest of new users is happening at a healthy pace. In what concerns the paying and free users, Spotify has a total of 191 million.
To remember that Spotify is still the few streaming music service that gives the option to listen to music without any cost, a service model which however requires that users are exposed to advertising from some songs.
Now it's official, the ads are coming to WhatsApp. Vice President Chris Daniels confirmed that the ads will actually be integrated into the messaging application and added that this will be even "the primary method of monetization for the company".
The ads will be integrated in the States tab as with Instagram.
Ao The Economic Times, responsible confirmed that the ads will start to be implemented in the 'Status tab’ (or 'United'), where users can make similar ephemeral publications to Stories Instagram. Note that the social network has also integrated ads in this area.
Monetization of WhatsApp as planned by Facebook have been one of the reasons that led to the removal of the company's founders. Brian Acton left the company 2017, Jan Koum came out in June of this year because of the way Facebook intended to use user data.
No cinema, the movie premiere that highlight this week entitled up "Operation Overlord".
An action thriller that puts us a few hours of D-Day, when a team of American paratroopers fall on French territory occupied by Nazis, to perform a crucial task to the success of the invasion. Tasked to destroy a radio transmitter on top of a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to destroy the tower. But, a mysterious Nazi laboratory beneath the church, the military, outnumbered, They come face-to-face with never before seen enemies.
It remains to note that this film is produced by J.J.. Abrams, reason more than enough to raise some curiosity. Julius Avery is in charge of carrying out, while Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell and Mathilde Ollivier are the highlights of the cast.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riONqDK-A7o
