GoanTime January 20th 2017 Issue

02 Friday,
January 20, 2017 | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 8 pages
Glimpses of the Goa Tattoo Festival at Tito's White House, Anjuna
BHIM app gets 10 million
downloads in 10 days; PM
Narendra Modi is delighted
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi had launched the
‘BHIM’ mobile App to
make digital payments
and transactions easier
for citizens and within
10 days it has reached
the mark of 10 million
downloads.
The app is already at the
top of the charts of Google
Play store. In a press
release, PM Narendra
Modi said, ” Delighted to
know that in a span of 10
days there have been over
10 million downloads of
the BHIM App.” Named
after Baba Saheb Bhim
Rao Ambedkar, the ‘BHIM’
App is available for only
Android smartphones.
as of now. Bharat
Interface for Money is
an application which
enables users to make
quick and easier payments
and transactions using
the Unified Payment
Interface (UPI). In the
press release, PM Modi
also said, “BHIM App has
made transactions faster
& easier, thus making it
popular among the youth.
The App is also beneficial
for traders.” Focussing
on the importance of
the app to tackle black
money, PM Modi said,
“The BHIM App is a fine
example of Make in India
& how technology is being
effectively used to end the
menace of corruption &
black money”.
Apple to offer 32GB of desktop RAM in top-end 2017 MacBook
Pro, 16GB for 12" MacBook
In a note to
investors obtained
by AppleInsider on
Monday, KGI analyst
Ming-Chi Kuo says he
expects Apple's 2017
laptop line to focus on
internal component
updates, notably
platform-wide adoption of Intel's Kaby Lake
architecture.
Of interest to professionals, Apple is predicted to
start manufacture of a 15-inch MacBook Pro with
up to 32GB of RAM in the fourth quarter, double the
memory allotment of current top-of-the-line models.
Kuo speculates the company will be forced to adopt
desktop RAM due to restrictions of current memory
system designs. Beyond the high-end 15-inch model,
Kuo expects Apple to start production of new 13- and
15-inch MacBook Pros in the third quarter of 2017.
As for the 12-inch MacBook, Kuo believes nextgeneration
versions of the thin-and-light will enter
mass production in the second quarter with the
same basic design aesthetic introduced in 2015. New
for 2017 is a 16GB memory option that will make an
appearance thanks to Intel's new processor class.