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Android 4.2 comes with Mira Cast, wireless streaming to TVs


Google is next to the LG Nexus 4 and the Samsung Nexus 10 also announced Android 4.2. This latest version of the operating system does include support for Mira Cast them. This is an industry standard for wireless streaming of video and audio from a smartphone or tablet to a television.

Picture and sound is sent via WiFi to a TV. That must be have a Mira Cast Receiver. These can be purchased separately for a few bucks, but will soon be built into many smart TVs. LG has already committed to Mira Cast Support for all smart TVs next year come from the factory. 

Cast Mira also offers support for developers who want to develop games where the screen of your phone or tablet, and the screen of the television special functions, much like the Wii U. Android 4.2 also brings a kind Swype-like typing the aircraft. In phones from Samsung and Sony is already not unknown. With this method of text input you get your finger off the screen, but keep your on-screen while the letters of a word touches. 

Then automatically (usually) the good word choice. This is much faster than typing on an onscreen keyboard. It works according to the first reviews faster than Swype. Another new feature is multiple users on a machine. This is useful for tablets that are used by multiple people. Each user gets its own apps and widgets to see if there has been logged. And also the other stored information, for example the level of Bad Piggies where a user has remained. 

That does not disappear when another user logs in and plays the same game on a different level. The accounts can be share information. So you music from one account to hear while another account. With the camera of a device with Android 4.2 is now possible to self Streetview-like shots. 

The software allows the user to take photos seamlessly welded together. This panorama mode is called Photo Sphere. On the pictures you can, as in Street View, rotate and the surrounding area. Moreover, Android 4.2 - which is still Jellybean hot - air Daydream mode. 

That's kind screensaver from which your actions can start from big visualized notifications on the device. Moreover, it is in 4.2 possible to zoom in on any part of the screen, widgets can on the lockscreen wroden placed, and you can the open sweep "of a phone or tablet directly into the camera sweep, so it starts.

Google Now is extended with information from Gmail, so that a number of new cards have been displayed on the screen can be displayed.

Apple iOS and retail executives put on street


Apple has announced that executives Scott Forstall and John Browett leave. Browett was just a few months working for the manufacturer and Forstall stood at the helm of the iPhone and iOS.

Apple leaves in a press release that the organization is well on the shovel in 2013. As a result, the flying head of iOS the lane and also the head of retail at the company that just works is dismissed. It is still unclear exactly why, but Apple has announced that the organization will continue 'streamlined'. Scot Forstall was Vice President within iOS Apple and also responsible for Siri and Maps. 

These last two projects were internally a fairly big problem. They were poorly received by the public. In addition, he and Steve Jobs iPhone iOS developed and established. He was sometimes called the successor of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. But within the company, he was not as popular as Jony Ive, the chief executive of Industrial Design. 

Forstall projects would ascribe to themselves and compliments from others impute to themselves. Apple late in the press release that Jony Ive is now CEO of Human Interface, including Industrial Design falls. This means that the famed Ive both the hardware looks to worry, if the software looks of iOS and OS X. Eddy Cue is responsible for Apple's Siri and Maps. 

Craig Federighi is responsible for iOS and OS X in Apple. The press release announced that Forestier Tall own volition left and another year continues to serve as an advisor. Browett will be immediately replaced by a new CEO.