Apple is still most valuable brand according to Interbrand

The Apple Store in Barcelona, Spain shows a thriving Apple product and services economy - Photo By Gadjo Sevilla

Apple is the Most Valuable Brand as per Interbrand's annual report. The iPhone-maker retains the top spot for the fifth consecutive year over rivals Google and Microsoft. 

The top ten brands are rounded out by Coca Cola, Amazon, Samsung, Toyota, Facebook, Mercedes Benz and IBM.

Interbrand assesses the all-in value of a brand by analysing three factors …

• The financial performance of the branded products and services
• The role the brand plays in influencing customer choice
• The strength the brand has to command a premium price or secure earnings for the company

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Huawei P10 wins Best smartphone camera 2017/2018 award from EISA

Huawei has earned a new award from the European Image and Sound Association (EISA) - The Huawei P10 has been named ‘EISA Smartphone Camera 2017-2018.’ This award recognizes Huawei’s commitment to quality, design and performance and builds on the company’s track record of introducing stylish, powerful, award-winning devices. 

The Huawei P10 is defintely a sleeper. It is sized just right at 5.1-inches but with a slim profile featuring dual cameras usually found in larger smartphones. Co-developed with Leica, the P10 has a 20 MP Monochrome + 12 MP RGB camera with a F2.2 aperture, the Front Camera is an 8 MP  shooter with AF, F1.9. It is available off contract for $649 without a contract. Preliminary testing has shown it is indeed a formidable camera and an above average Android smartphone.

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Mozilla finally kills of Adobe Flash on Firefox version 56 for Android

Adobe Flash has been on the chopping block for ages but it doesn’t seem to want to die. Mozilla is taking a step towards removing it from all its properties with its latest announcement. Firefox 56 for Android will no longer support Adobe’s multimedia plugin. This means, Firefox on Google’s mobile OS will require Android 4.1 or higher to work, which is the Android version. You might not notice much of a difference here since most sites have dropped support for Flash but if you still need to use it, Dolphin browser works.

Source: Android Authority

Twitter doubles character limit to 280

The tweets of your friends, frenemies, favorite celebrities, and hate follows can now be twice as long. Twitter has begun testing 280-character limit to tweets. The social network claims only nine percent of all tweets right now are exactly 140 characters and that users have to edit their initial thoughts to fit under the original limit. Twitter claims it hopes to lessen the burden on “languages impacted by cramming,” which is most languages except for the likes of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, and have people tweet more. Now, we can’t say whether this will improve the quality of tweets or not. The 140-character limit was initially set to reflect SMS message length.

This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence! https://t.co/TuHj51MsTu

— jack (@jack) September 26, 2017

Source: The Verge