The United States officially announced the recall of about 1 million Samsung Note 7 mobile phones
China News Agency reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a statement on the 15th local time, announcing that due to serious safety hazards in the batteries of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones, it has decided to recall about 1 million units of this mobile phone in the U.S. market.
Samsung America said in a statement on the same day that Samsung is working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to launch a voluntary mobile phone recall and replacement program. Consumers can enter the serial number of their mobile phone on Samsung's official website to check whether the mobile phone is within the scope of the recall.
The committee said in a statement that day that the Note 7 mobile phone battery has problems with overheating and catching fire, posing serious safety risks to consumers. So far, this phone has received a total of 92 reports of battery overheating in the United States, including 25 reports of burning, and 55 reports involving property damage, such as causing fires in cars and garages. The Commission recommends that consumers immediately stop using the phone and shut down the phone.
Oracle released its first fiscal quarter financial report, with total revenue increasing only 2% year-on-year
Oracle released its financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. The report shows that Oracle's total revenue in the first fiscal quarter was US$8.595 billion, an increase of 2% compared with US$8.448 billion in the same period last year; net profit was US$1.832 billion, an increase of 5% compared with US$1.747 billion in the same period last year. Oracle's first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings per share failed to meet Wall Street analysts' expectations.
In the first quarter of fiscal 2017, Oracle's revenue from local deployment software and cloud services (revenue from new software licensing), cloud SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) revenue, cloud IaaS (infrastructure as a service) revenue, and software licensing updates and product support revenue are four Partially composed) was US$5.822 billion, which was the same as the same period last year. Excluding the impact of exchange rate changes, it was a year-on-year increase of 1%, accounting for 68% of total revenue; in the same period last year, Oracle's local deployment software and cloud service revenue was US$5.847 billion, accounting for 70% of total revenue.
Oracle Chief Financial Officer Safra Katz said: "In the first fiscal quarter, our cloud business and on-premises software business grew revenue by 7% excluding the impact of currency changes, not in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The driving force for the overall revenue growth of these two strategic businesses came from Safra SaaS and PaaS business, its non-GAAP revenue increased by 82% year-on-year, far exceeding our expectations. SaaS and PaaS business continues to forecast growth, and we expect its gross profit margin to climb from 62% this quarter toward our target of 80%."
Apple’s stock price bucked the trend and rebounded, its market value increased by US$50 billion in three days
According to Wall Street News, as of the close of trading on Thursday Eastern Time, Apple's stock price rose 3.40% to US$115.57. Apple's stock price has risen by more than 11% in the past four days, its best four-day gain since April 29, 2014. This is also the second time in seven and a half years that Apple's stock price has risen by more than 2 percentage points for six consecutive days.
With the arrival of the iPhone 7 sales period, Apple's stock price bucked the trend and grew this week, rising 2.2%, 2.4%, and 3.5% on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday respectively. In the past three days, Apple's market value has increased by $50 billion. Apple says the first batch of iPhone 7 Plus has been shipped nationwidesold worldwide; all iPhone 7 glossy black models have also been sold.
At the same time, this week's consecutive gains have completely reversed last week's decline. Within two days after Apple held its product launch event last Wednesday, its stock price fell by 2.6% and 2.3%.
It is rumored that Samsung may release the Galaxy S8 in advance to eliminate the impact of the Note 7 recall
According to Tencent Technology, foreign media reported that in order to get rid of the shadow of Note 7 as soon as possible, Samsung may choose to release the Galaxy S8 in advance.
An analyst at South Korea's KB Securities Investment Company believes that Samsung may dilute the notoriety brought to the brand by Note 7 by exposing the Galaxy S8 early. If the release date of Samsung's new flagship is delayed until the end of the first quarter of next year, the profitability of the company's mobile business will definitely take a serious hit. In fact, in the Galaxy S7 era, Samsung used the tactic of early release, and the Note 7 also made mistakes in order to beat the iPhone 7. Therefore, we would not be too surprised if Samsung chooses to release the Galaxy S8 one or two months in advance.
Recently, technology website SamMobile took the lead in exposing the numbers of the Galaxy S8, which are SM-G950 and SM-G955.
After iPhone 7, MacBook Pro may also cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack
According to Sina Technology, following the iPhone 7, the MacBook Pro is likely to become Apple’s second product to cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack.
Apple last week released its latest generation of smartphones, the iPhone 7, which canceled the 3.5mm headphone jack and instead used a Lightning interface. At the same time, Apple also released AirPods wireless headphones.
Recently, a user posted on Twitter that he had recently received a questionnaire from Apple, and one of the surveys asked users whether they had used the 3.5mm headphone jack on the Macbook Pro.
Some analysts believe that this may be a prelude to Apple canceling the 3.5mm headphone jack on the Macbook Pro. Given that the iPhone 7 has ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack, it’s just a matter of time before Apple’s other products will eventually do the same.
It is expected that Apple will upgrade its MacBook product line next month. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the new Retina MacBook Pro will be completely redesigned, with a thinner body and equipped with an OLED touch bar and Touch ID fingerprint recognition function.
US operator T-Mobile warns iPhone users: Do not upgrade to iOS10
US mobile operator T-Mobile US issued a warning to users to postpone upgrading to iOS 10, otherwise they may lose communication connections.
The company has received reports from some users that there were problems with communication connections after upgrading the system. Apple is currently developing a patch to resolve this glitch.
T-Mobile stated that if users have upgraded to the iOS 10 operating system, the best way is to back up various data first. It is expected that the above patches and the new iOS 10 upgrade package will be released within the next one to two days.It will be launched for T-Mobile users.
This week, Apple began to push the new version of the iOS 10 operating system to users. Within a few hours of the new launch, many users reported that their phones had become "bricks" and strange error messages appeared on the phone interface.
