"Silicon Valley Connection" Microsoft announces termination of Win7 Mainstream support today

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1. Microsoft announces termination of Win7 Mainstream support today

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According to foreign media reports, Microsoft announced today began to end the mainstream support for the WINDOWS7 operating system. This may be bad news for the most operating systems currently used in the world, but it's still the same. This operating system is now in the extended Support phase, which will last until January 14, 2020 at least.

Mainstream support includes free event support, warranty claims, repair of unsafe and security vulnerabilities, and design changes and functional requirements. Extended support includes only security updates.

2. Uber will provide the city government with travel data

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According to foreign media reports, Uber will be the first to provide the Government with its travel data.

The company said in Tuesday it would provide Boston with anonymous information about travel through its taxi service, hoping to help ease traffic congestion and bring better urban planning.

Uber will provide the Boston government with quarterly reports on the travel records, including data on the start and end times of each ride, the distance to walk, and the postal code of the place where the user got off the train. The company said the data would hide the name of the passenger and the location of the particular destination.

3. Google in the United States Open domain registration service

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Google launched its open testing of domain name registration services in the US this week. Google launched the service in the United States last June, but it has been based on an invitation to use the system.

Google's services will become the competitor of GoDaddy. The service starts at $ December a year, and users can get a domain name, as well as additional features such as privacy protection, email forwarding to Gmail, support for up to 100 subdomains, and domain name switching.

4. IBM invests $1 billion to develop new mainframe: targeting mobile platforms

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IBM will launch a new mainframe that wants speed and security to help customers in a variety of industries, such as banking and healthcare, respond to a surge in smartphone usage.

IBM says the system, called Z13, can encrypt and analyze data in real time, with 30,000 transactions per second. This will bring faster and more secure transaction processing services to end-users. IBM Engineer Donna Duerenberg (Donna Dillenberger) said the system lasted 5 years, with a cumulative investment of more than 1 billion dollars.

5. Uber South Korea banned local manufacturers Kakao developers to push taxi services

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The company plans to launch a taxi application called "Kakao Taxi" to challenge car rental applications such as Uber, according to TechCrunch, a technology blogger and KakaoTalk developer Daum Kakao said today.

Like other short message applications in Asia, KakaoTalk is also trying to move beyond a communications tool to provide a range of services. Daum Kakao said the company had taken the first step in the process of diversifying its services-a taxi application called "Kakao Taxi", expected to be online by the end of March. Daum Kakao describes "Kakao Taxi" as the company's first attempt to provide a line to offline connection service.

6. Microsoft new Patent: will be for the Xbox development head wear equipment?

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Microsoft has declined to comment since Microsoft spent more than 100 million dollars last year buying a set of virtual wearable technologies for Osterhout Design Group (ODG), and there have been rumors that Microsoft is developing virtual reality devices and there are occasional new news stories. Microsoft has recently been given a new patent, a patent for eye tracking systems for head-and-wear display devices.

7. Apple's Kinect: full range of devices can be controlled by the body

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Apple's body-sensing devices have been expected, and the company has been working quietly. Apple obtained a technical patent related to 3D somatosensory operation in Tuesday. This is the second time we have seen Apple get a similar patent in one months (last December 26). But unlike the last one, Apple's new patent is mainly about how to display the 3D interface, which is named "Three-dimensional user interface speech control program."

8. FB Google Twitter will enter the 263 billion U.S. dollar electricity market

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According to foreign media reports, although the price is not the lowest, but people still shopping in the Amazon: it is more convenient to shop on Amazon than to fill out all the information on other dealers ' websites.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are all trying to solve the problem. Facebook and Twitter have launched a "shopping" button that allows users to shop without leaving the social networking site. Media reports say Google is also developing the shopping button, which will allow users to see the process between advertising and shopping smoother.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)