Tag: infographics

Oxford’s word of the year for 2015: ?

No joke. It was announced on the Oxford Dictionaries’ blog yesterday that 2015’s word of the year is officially a pictograph, or more commonly known as a emoticon. Which emoticon? ?. Yes, the emoticon dubbed “Face with tears of joy” has been announced as the word of the year. According to the official blog post, the emoji was chosen because it was “the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.”

Upon such news, one naturally asks “why would this be chosen?” Well, Oxford covered that question in the blog post as well!

This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage statistics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and ? was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015. SwiftKey identified that ? made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US: a sharp rise from 4% and 9% respectively in 2014. The word emoji has seen a similar surge: although it has been found in English since 1997, usage more than tripled in 2015 over the previous year according to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Corpus.

So, with that it is official. Looks like the use of emojis has developed into something greater than just icons to help add contextual message to our texts; seemingly, they’ve become words their self. For those wondering, there was a graphic created with the “runner-up” words that were looked into for the position that ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ took.

What are your thoughts on Oxford’s choice for word of the year? Leave a comment below!

source: OxfordWords Blog

November 17, 2015
Smartphones Infographic: How smart has it made you?
Half a century ago people are quite content with wearing analogue watches, playing cards and penning down notes. Post offices and analogue cameras, was doing great as well. Today people pay $335 to put a computer around their wrist. Board and ‘card’ games has long been replaced by more advance console video games, penning down and sending mails are now done on smartphones and even more strangely, people, now wear computers in place of glasses.

Smartphones now comes in all shapes and sizes.

The modern generation is very reliant on technology and computing to perform daily activities. This is to be expected as there is a sense of urgency associated with our present dispensation. However, smartphones usage is not dominated by business, finance, health or other categories you might expect. The leading category is the gaming category. Every now and then, someone has their face buried in their smartphone, no doubt, playing some of the most terrifying Android horror games in darkness. Indeed, smart devices are made, so we can become dull.

Smartphones And Mobile App Usage – Infographic

Smart phones has come to stay, the use of applications are evolving, companies can choose to adapt or suffer the fate of Nimbuzz. Just how far can mobile computing go? The answer will depend on what you make of it.

[Further Reading: 6 Must Have Android Apps for Science Students]

What really makes these devices functional and so useful is the fact that several apps can be downloaded on them. These mobile apps are available through different app stores depending on the operating system of your mobile computer.

Some examples of these apps stores are Apple store, Google Play Store, Windows marketplace etc. Below is an infographics by Xcubelabs that will show us, how people use their smartphone on daily basis.

Smartphone And Mobile App Usage Infographic [Image credit: Xcubeslabs ]

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Smartphones play a lot of roles in your day-to-day life affair. I think most people simply prefer to relax to play a couple of games at the end of a hectic day. So going back to my initial question; I think smartphones has indeed made us smarter.

Feel free to argue, though. The comment section is open to everyone.
January 26, 2014
Top 10 Fastest Internet and Files Browsers for Android Smartphones

So far, a number of Android internet browsers and file managers has been developed. While some of them are completely ads-free, easy-to-use and fast, quite a number of them contain detracting advertisement banners, data consuming and extremely slow when opening internet pages.

Recently, we listed five applications that will help you monitor your data usage on your Android smartphone. While monitoring your data usage it is also necessary you consider the speed of your internet browsers as this will affect your bandwidth usage. In this post we are listing 10 Android internet browsers and file managers that will sky rocket your surfing experience.

Base on popularity measure and our analyst experience; topping our list is, Dolphin Browser: It is the fastest Android browser out there which has had a total downloads of 1,090,050 so far.

Another very famous and popular browser which is suitable for the Android operating system is the Opera Mini Browser. It has been developed by Opera Software USA and has had a total of 938,098 downloads till date. The third fastest browser on this list of the fastest browsers for Android Smartphones is Astro file manager/browser which has been developed by Metago and has 358,155 downloads to its credit.

Chrome browser is yet another very fast browser for Android browser which is followed by Firefox browser developed by Mozilla. UC Browser for Android is also one of the fastest Android browsers out there and is developed by USWeb inc.

Maxthon Android web browser developed by Maxthon LTD is a very fast browser for Android and next in the line is Boat browser which is developed by Boat browser.

Ninesky browser is another browser for Android which is one of the fastest and this is followed by Baidu browser which has been developed by Baidu Inc

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January 23, 2014
The Most Expensive Video Games in 2013

The saga of 2013 has long been kept in check. Earlier before now, we considered 20 PC games that rocked in 2013, various WordPress plugins and the themes we loved in 2013. Generally we, had an amazing year in 2013 and a good start to a new year but before the month finally round up, I’m going to take a final look at the constituent of the amazing year we had.
2013 saw the arrival of GTA V, the single most expensive video game in the history of gaming, competing neck to neck with only the highest budget film till date, the Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

The GTA franchisee has held records of being the highest budget games twice in the last 5 years holding the first and second positions with GTA V in 2013 and GTA IV in 2008 respectively.Yet, as the highest grossing game ever, GTA IV falls in the fourth position grossing in $1.35 billion with the scales being tipped over by World of Warcraft, grossing in a whopping $10 billion in sales

Below is a detailed infographics by Graphs.net that will show us which of this games made the list.

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January 23, 2014