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1. 1.Google rolls out a new, colorful app search results
layout on mobile
Google has rolled out a new layout for showing app results on Android devices. The new layout
is available for app searches via Google's Chrome browser, and Google Now. To check the new
layout, one simply needs to make a generalized app search query, like video apps, audio apps,
racing games, etc.
If the new layout has been rolled out for the device used to make the search, the user will see
apps being listed in colorful grids. Although, as of now, Google also show a couple of apps on
random occasions as advertisement at the top before the grid view starts showing up. For each of
the apps, its name, icon, average rating and number of ratings are shown. Tapping on a particular
app box takes the user to its corresponding page on Google Play Store from where the app can be
downloaded. At first, Google shows only six apps related to the search query, but there is an icon
at the bottom, labeled as ‘More apps’. Tapping on it shows the rest of the apps, and the user can
keep scrolling down until he finds the target app. Users can also tap and hold on any of the app
boxes to get options like Open in New Tab, Copy Link Address and Save Link, but these are
available only if the search is made with Chrome.
The new layout looks like a move from Google to make apps easier to be discovered, and find
them on the Play Store. The search engine giant is known to make changes to its search results
across all the platforms from time to time. However, as per Android Police reports, the new grid
layout is rolling out only to Android devices as of now, and there is no word for its availability
on other platforms.

2. 2.Nokia Agrees on 'Shanghai Bell' Joint Venture With
China Huaxin
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said it had agreed to create a Chinese joint venture
with Huaxin in a move that could pave the way for China's approval for Nokia's proposed
takeover ofAlcatel-Lucent.
The joint venture, to
be named Nokia
Shanghai Bell, will be
built upon a similar,
long-time joint
venture between
France's Alcatel-
Lucent and China
Huaxin, which is a
state-owned Chinese
investment company.
According to a memorandum of understanding, Nokia said it expects to hold 50 percent plus
one share in the new joint venture, with Huaxin holding the remaining shares.
China is the last major jurisdiction still to approve Nokia's EUR 15.6 billion (roughly Rs. 1,
16,427 crores)takeover of Alcatel.
"With this MoU now in place, we will... work closely with our new partners to make the case
for swift approval of the proposed combination," Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said in a statement.
Nordea analyst Sami Sarkamies said the joint venture deal was a promising sign."If they have
agreed that with a state-backed partner, it likely means that there will be green light coming
for the whole (Alcatel) deal."

3. 3.Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Smart Protect to
help protect against malware
Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon Smart Protect. This new technology will be
featured by new Qualcomm chips – the first being the Snapdragon 820 – and will provide
advanced protection against zero-day malware threats. It's stated Snapdragon Smart Protect
will introduce improved privacy and mobile product security.
Smart Protect as part of the
Snapdragon processor solution will
complement signature-based anti-
malware services, identifying new
threats prior to signature updates.
Smart Protect will monitor apps
and services running to ensure that
no malicious activity is occurring.
The company will also provide
APIs for anti-malware app
providers to perform analysis.
"Snapdragon Smart Protect is also the first application to utilize Qualcomm Zeroth
technology, augmenting conventional anti-malware solutions by supporting on device real-
time malware detection, classification and cause analysis using an advanced cognitive
computing behavioral engine."
Security companies, including the likes of Avast, AVG and Lookout are working closely
with Qualcomm to ensure the new feature is compatible with existing commercial anti-
malware solutions, enhancing said apps and harden the protection against potential attacks.
Snapdragon Smart Protect is yet another feature added to Qualcomm's Haven security suite.
Improved protection is always welcomed. Look to see Snapdragon Smart Protect become
available in 2016 with the launch of the Snapdragon 820 processor.

4. 4.T-Mobile cracking the whip on Unlimited 4G LTE
data abusers
T-Mobile starting tomorrow will be going after thieves that are stealing as much as 2
terabytes of data from the company each month. The carrier’s unlimited plans offer 7GB of
high-speed data for tethering, but a handful of customers have found a way to bypass that cap
entirely.
T-Mobile says there are applications out there promising to hide a user’s tethering activities
from the carrier, giving customers free access to as much data as they want. However, the
telecommunications provider says it has developed technologies to go after these abusers.
The carrier is bent on not letting a few bad apples ruin the unlimited data plan for everybody.
John Legere in a blog post said that they “started this wireless revolution to change the
industry for good and to fight for consumers,” and that won’t be ruined by a few people
abusing the system.Starting today, these users will receive warnings from T-Mobile asking
them to stop. If they don’t listen to said warning, the abusers will permanently banned from
T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan and be put on a entry-level package.
Let’s just hope these new efforts will stop the abusers.

5. 5.Intel’s new 5×5: Tiny form factor, socketed CPU
For years, mini-ITX has been the smallest mainstream system form factor that enthusiasts
could reasonably buy. Intel wants to change that with its new 5×5 initiative, and it’s offering
the new platform with socketed CPUs rather than relying solely on soldered parts. This could
prove a potent selling point, since soldered systems are often less attractive to customers who
want the option to upgrade the integrated CPU.
Despite the 5×5 name, the board is more like 5.5 by 5.8 inches (HW), but it packs a number
of features. The board is capable of handling up to 65W TDP chips, with two SO-DIMM
slots for memory, M.2 support for storage, and both wired and wireless networking options.
The 5×5 can also use an external DC power supply. Intel says the mounting holes are
“standard,” which implies that they conform to existing hardware mounts, but we haven’t
seen hardware yet to verify exactly which cases will be able to mount a 5×5 board.
Socket support, higher TDPs improve value proposition
If you consider Intel’s 5×5 in the context of Skylake’s increased graphics performance, the
offering makes more sense. Intel’s GPU performance has been growing substantially faster
than its CPU performance, but that’s not much of a benefit in a soldered system without PCI-
Express slots. With Skylake, Intel is continuing to push the graphics envelope — and
socketed systems theoretically offer lower-end gamers the ability to buy a CPU today and
upgrade later to a higher-performance GPU.

6. The reason that gain is theoretical, however, is that Intel doesn’t exactly have a great track
record when it comes to supporting multiple generations of processor on the same platform.
It’s not clear yet if current Skylake motherboards will support Kaby Lake, the 14nm refresh
now scheduled for 2016. A solution like this would be more exciting if we knew that Intel
would offer multiple products with improved graphics performance integrated into each core
— especially if those parts would fit into a 65W TDP.
The 5×5 probably won’t revolutionize small system design — Intel NUCs and the existing
mini-ITX standard fill the low-power market fairly well — but the ability to upgrade to a
faster socketed processor in the miniature form factor could sell some living room computer
enthusiasts on Skylake as a Steam Box processor. Intel claims that the smallest system form
factors will fit into 0.85L worth of volume, which should let it slip inconspicuously into a
living room or entertainment system.

7. 6.Chrome will automatically block Flash ads starting
September 1
Google has set a date on when Chrome will begin automatically blocking flash ads and
refusing to allow non-critical content to play by default. On September 1st, Chrome will no
longer offer to play “non-essential” content. Instead, users will have to right-click on a plugin
and choose to “Run this Plugin” by hand. Google claims that this is a move to protect battery
life and improve device security, but there’s another, simpler reason: It also stands to make
Google more money.
If you’re already a Google AdWords customer, you don’t necessarily have to change
anything you’re doing. According to Google, it already converts most Flash ads to HTML5
automatically. Users of the AdWords platform are encouraged to manually confirm that their
ads make the jump and to adjust accordingly. If you aren’t on Google’s AdWords platform,
however, you’re going to have to either convert your ads for HTML5 or move to Google’s
services.
Google is far from the only company moving
away from Flash; Amazon has also announced
it will no longer accept Flash ads beginning on
September 1. The difference, however, is that
Amazon’s policies govern ads displayed on
Amazon.com, not ads running over its own
advertising network. For Google, this kind of
move gives it the ability to kill several birds
with a single stone. Flash has long been
maligned for its battery-hogging tendencies, ability to slow even modern multi-core systems
to a crawl, and security flaws. Killing support for the platform, therefore, is arguably great
for security and performance.
Few people will argue about a dearth of autoplaying ads on websites, either. Given the
number of security breaches that continue to plague the service, there’s little doubt that Flash
deserves to die an unlamented death. Among the proposed epitaphs: “You loved it more than
RealPlayer.”

8. What’ll be interesting is if Chrome continues to automatically play videos from services like
Facebook, and if we see an uptick in AdWords revenue as a result of this. If you don’t have
the time or inclination to rework your ads for HTML5, after all, you may have to move to
Google’s platform to continue serving what you have. This shift could draw additional
scrutiny from the European Union’s regulators, who recently announced they would
investigate Google for anti-competitive activity, including activity related to its advertising
and shopping networks. In a response yesterday, Google blasted the suit as being without
merit — a common tactic among pretty much every company the EU has investigated,
including Microsoft and Intel.
7.AMD unveils Radeon R9 Nano: HBM and Fury X in a
6-inch GPU
When AMD announced the Fury family of GPUs at E3 back in June, it promised that its new
graphics hardware would ship in multiple high-end flavors. We’ve already covered the
launch of the water-cooled, 7.5-inch Fury X and the larger, air-cooled Fury, but today’s
announcement covers what was arguably the most interesting card of all — the six-inch
Radeon R9 Nano. (The GPU was initially referred to as the AMD Radeon R9 Fury Nano, but
AMD’s marketing folks realized that’s a bit of a mouthful).

9. AMD has set a high bar for the Nano, with some aggressive performance claims and a tight
power envelope. Now that the company is formally revealing the card, let’s take a look at its
specs and capabilities.
Positioning and specifications
The Fury Nano is aimed at customers who want an extremely small graphics card but aren’t
willing to sacrifice performance. At six inches long, it’s exactly the size of a standard PCIe
x16 port — AMD executives told us at E3 that they could’ve made the board even smaller, if
not for that limitation. Size isn’t the only feature of the card, however. According to AMD,
the Nano has a TDP of just 175W. The GPU’s power configuration confirms that; the Nano
has a single eight-pin PCIe connector, compared to two eight-pin connectors on the standard
Fury X.
The Radeon Nano in a
mini-ITX system.
Given its aggressive TDP
target, one might expect
AMD to have aggressively
trimmed core counts and
other features of the R9
Nano compared to the full
Fury X. That’s not,
however, what the
company chose to do.
Specs on the Radeon R9 Nano are shown below:
The R9 Nano is a full Fury X, only on a smaller PCB. The TDP difference between this card
and its higher-power sibling can be explained by two things. First, AMD is using a lower
core clock speed for the GPU. While the Nano is capable of bursting up to 1GHz in certain
scenarios, we expect its real-world clock to be in the 850-880MHz range. This can vary by
application, however, and we don’t have final silicon in-hand yet, so treat this as a ballpark.

10. You might not think that trimming a relatively modest 200-250MHz off the GPU core clock
could slash power consumption by nearly 50%, but there’s reason to believe AMD’s figures.
Generally speaking, power consumption in modern semiconductors rises as the square or
cube of the voltage increase and in direct proportion to frequency. Since higher voltages are
required for higher frequencies, this means that increasing the clock speed by a small amount
can create a much larger increase in power consumption. AMD’s FX-9590 (5GHz Turbo) has
a 220W TDP, compared to the FX-8350’s (4.2GHz Turbo) 120W TDP. A 19% increase in
frequency requires an 1.83x increase in maximum dissipation. Intel CPUs suffer from similar
trends, though the absolute figures are smaller, as we’ve previously covered.
The other reason that AMD can hit these power targets has to do with GPU binning. Any
time AMD, Intel, or Nvidia builds a processor, they test the batch to determine which chips
can operate at which frequency and voltage settings. While AMD didn’t specifically
comment on its binning practices with Nano, it’s a safe bet that the company is reserving the
very best of its Fiji GPUs for this product line.

11. 8.Google app connects Android SMART WATCH to
iPhone
Google is introducing an application that will connect Android smartwatches with Apple's
iPhone, escalating the rivals' battle to strap their technology on people's wrists.
The move thrusts Google on to Apple's turf in an attempt to boost the lackluster sales of
watches running on its Android Wear software. The program uniting the devices running on
different operating systems is being released Monday in Apple's app store.
Until now, Android watches only worked with smartphones powered by Android software,
just as the Apple Watch is designed to be tethered exclusively to the iPhone.

12. 9.iOS 9, Apple's next major iOS update, coming in fall
2015
iOS 9 is Apple's newest operating system for iOS devices like the iPhone and the
iPad, introduced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. iOS 9 builds on the
content introduced with iOS 7 and iOS 8, bringing subtle design changes, refined features,
improved functionality, and performance enhancements.
iOS 9's biggest focus is on intelligence and proactivity, allowing iOS devices to learn user
habits and act on that information, opening up apps before we need them, making
recommendations on places we might like, and guiding us through our daily lives to make
sure we're where we need to be at the right time.
Siri is at the heart of the changes, and the personal assistant is now able to create contextual
reminders and search through photos and videos in new ways. Swiping left from the home
screen also brings up a new screen that houses "Siri Suggestions," putting favorite contacts
and apps right at your fingertips, along with nearby restaurant and location information and
important news.

13. Deeper search capabilities can bring up results like sports scores, videos, and content from
third-party apps, and you can even do simple conversions and calculations using the search
tools on your iPhone or iPad.
Many of the built-in apps have been
improved. Notes includes new checklists and
sketching features, Maps now offers transit
directions, Mail allows for file attachments,
and there's anew "News" app that learns
your interests and delivers relevant content
you might like to read. Apple Pay is being
improved with the addition of store credit
cards and loyalty cards, leading "Passbook" to
be renamed to "Wallet" in iOS 9.
The iPad's gotten some major feature
additions in iOS 9, like split-screen multitasking that lets two apps be used at once and a
picture-in-picture function that lets you watch a video while doing something else on the
tablet. The keyboard on the iPad has deeper functionality with the addition of a new toolbar,
and on both the iPhone and the iPad, there's a new two-finger swipe gesture that makes it
easier to select content, cut, paste, and move the cursor on the screen.
Other changes include a new system wide San Francisco font, wireless Car Play support,
an optional iCloud Drive app, built-in two factor authentication and optional longer
passwords for better security.
Along with these features, iOS 9 features significant under-the-hood performance
improvements. Battery optimizations provide an additional hour of battery use under typical
conditions, and a new Low Power Mode further extends battery life up to three hours.
With app thinning and size improvements, many app install sizes are smaller and Apple's
own iOS updates will take up much less space, so iPhone and iPad owners with only 16GB
of space will be able to install iOS 9. iOS 9 will also run on all devices capable of running
iOS 8, including the iPhone 4s and the iPad 2.

14. 10. We’re making our in-house legal software—
Matter Center for Office 365—available broadly
Over the past two years, Microsoft’s legal department set out to create an internal tool that
didn’t exist—a way to organize its legal matters and collaborate on documents within the
familiar Office 365 tools attorneys use most. So last year our Legal & Corporate Affairs
Group (LCA) shared its vision for an Office 365 Add-in that would do just that. Since then,
LCA has worked to turn this concept into Matter Center for Office 365, an Office 365 Add-in
currently in use internally at Microsoft, and is becoming available to legal professionals at
law firms and in-house departments of all sizes.
In fact, we have already
shipped Matter Center to IT
solutions providers who
specialize in serving the legal
community. These Microsoft
partners are now offering
Matter Center on a limited
basis, and will begin offering it broadly in the coming weeks. These partners include Epona,
Handshake Software, LawPoint365, Perficient, Ubiquity Wave, Project Leadership
Associates and the PayneGroup. Microsoft Services will also offer for-fee consulting and
support services for Matter Center beginning in September. And finally, we’ll be making
Matter Center available broadly through GitHub this calendar year.
Once installed, Matter Center allows people to create or view legal matters right from
Outlook; tie Word, Excel, OneNote and other files to those matters; and securely collaborate
with other legal professionals inside or outside their organizations. There are a few benefits
that make Matter Center stand out:
Access anytime, anywhere—Like Office 365, Matter Center is available across PCs, tablets
and phones, across Windows, Apple and Android devices, and allows you to access matters
and documents either online or offline using OneDrive for Business.
Real-time collaboration—Using the automatic version control feature of Office 365, you can
simultaneously edit documents with multiple people inside or outside your organization.

15. Intuitive search and data visualization—You can easily search, preview and find matters and
related documents across all cases directly within Outlook and Word. Power BI can be
configured to visualize your matter data.
Pinning and tagging—you can track or pin frequently used matters and documents and
connect to Delve to provide personalized experiences about who on your team is working on
them.
Compliance with security
standards—Matter Center
allows you to control who
can access, review or edit a
document and provides all the
same enterprise-grade
security, management and
administrative controls as
Office 365.
Better flexibility and
control—By offering Matter
Center through an open
GitHub repository, customers
and partners can build or
extend the solution to meet specific customer needs faster.
As part of developing Matter Center, LCA conducted a preview program with nearly 200 law
firms, partners and others in the legal industry, as well as our in-house counsel. As a result of
the feedback we received during the preview, we have improved the solution over the last
year. And LCA currently has early pilot customers including Olswang; Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe; Ragen Swan; and Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
LCA is committed to continued investments in this modern, world-class collaboration
solution. And as we make Matter Center available to our customers and partners, we are also
rolling out the latest version to more than 1,200 Microsoft legal professionals globally. This
is only the beginning. You can expect additional capabilities and features to be delivered
over time.

16. Visit the Matter Center website for more information on the solution and how you or your
organization can start using Matter Center.
Running Matter Center in the cloud will require Office 365 and Azure subscriptions. Matter
Center has been designed to support multiple deployment configurations as well, whether on-
premises or hybrid cloud. You can find additional information on Matter Center capabilities,
case studies from partner law firms, and a complete list of partners making Matter Center
available here.