70% of teens connects at least two hours a day to Internet
Seven out of ten teenagers are connected at least two hours a day on the Internet, according to a study by a group of professors from the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).
According to the study, led by Antonio García Jiménez, dean of that center, Internet use among children and adolescents starts between six and nine years, and males are more precocious in this activity than girls.
This study is based primarily on a survey of public and private schools of the Spanish peninsula more than 5,000 male and female students aged 12 to 17 years and enrolled in different levels of the ESO, which was selected to total of 2,077 for the final analysis.
The report notes that 90% of respondents have at least one social network profile, and 40% acknowledge that it would cost too much or they wouldnt let you connect to your social network every day, a hobby that worsens appreciably among younger than among boys.
Addiction to social networks
This attachment to social networks is higher as respondents are older (15-17 years), who also exhibit superior adhesion to small exploration Youtube, in consultation content about sex, shop online or learn pages of beauty, fashion and the like.
However, among children 12 to 14 years there is an inclination to the daily practice of messenger and more likely to practice Internet gaming.
The frequency of use is also an important finding of the study, since 70% of teens said that connects all or most days, Monday through Thursday but most do it for just under two hours, reaching the end week almost three hours per day.
The study analyzes also control teens tax. In this case, is higher for girls than for boys.
At home, vigilance is exercised primarily by the mothers are the ones that ask more about their use of the Internet children and 16% are added to the social profile of their children, compared with 12.7% who occurs between parents.
However, such monitoring is primarily concerned with the frequency of use: mostly just to look and ask their children what they are doing when surfing or limit the time of use, and only a minority use access filters. Three out of ten teenagers said that their parents ever have told them about the risks of Internet or frequently warn them of the dangers.
U.S. Google last a complaint for abuse of dominant position
Narrows the siege against Google. The Federal Trade Commission U.S. (FTC, for its acronym in English) is finalizing an investigation that could recommend the filing of a complaint against the computer company for abuse of dominant position in the market for Internet searches.
According to several sources have said there is an internal memory FTC recommended sue Google for abuse of dominant position. The U.S. agency launched an investigation for months for this purpose which is expected to end in late November or early December.
This is not the first research that opens against Google. This past July, the search engine announced an agreement with the European Commission to avoid a hefty fine for abusive practices, but the deal has not been closed yet and details are unknown. In July, the Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the agreement with Google would have a global reach.
Behind these investigations are one company, Google rivals in travel services, online shopping, and entertainment, which have accused the search engine favor one over other pages, pages that are owned by Google.
Microsoft launches online music service
Microsoft will release tomorrow its online music service Xbox Music, with which he intends to compete with iTunes, the Apple platforms, or Spotify. For now, only available for the Xbox, while the 26th will be extended to all computers and tablets with Windows operating systems. That same day launches Windows version 8. Next, the company plans are to expand Xbox Music mobile phones.
This is the latest effort by the software giant to turn its Xbox console in the main part of home entertainment. Microsoft says that users of this console, which has sold 67 million units, spend 60% of their time using services other than video games. In fact, as you view audiovisual content via the Internet, through channels such as Netflix or ESPN
In any case, Xbox Music is the second attempt to claw iTunes market. This service will replace Zune.
Microsoft's offer consists of a free service with commercial breaks and a premium service at a cost of $ 9.99, which will stream music ad-free and unlimited. Also, there will be a catalog of 30 million tracks that the user can download, and 70,000 music videos.
Play lists of users are stored in the cloud, so that automatically update whatever the device used to play music. However, the lack of system that does provide social utility, for example, Spotify.
Blow to Apple: Samsung can sell Galaxy Nexus in the U.S.
In Samsung's headquarters today is because chewing joy. The appeals court reversed U.S. decision prohibiting selling Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone there. The move marks another new chapter in the legal battle that kept the South Korean company with the U.S., as the company had achieved the block last June that a California court prevented sell the smartphone Samsung for alleged patent violation of Apple.
The appeals court has ruled that the U.S. District Court in California "did abuse its discretion in issuing an injunction" and returned the case to a lower court for reconsideration California.
Samsung thereby achieved their second victory against Apple in just days, since early October also lifted the ban on sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S.. The decision also has another winner, Google, as its Android operating system is the heart of many of the South Korean giant's mobile devices.
In a brief statement, Samsung welcomed the decision of the court of appeals of the United States, which in his opinion "confirms that the role of the patent law is to protect innovation instead of stifling competition and unfairly restrict consumer choice." The Asian company added that it will continue to take "all necessary measures" to ensure the availability of their products.
Apple and Samsung have many months fighting a legal battle in the courts of many countries for patent violation and design plagiarism on the devices. Both companies account for more than 50 lawsuits. The hardest decision against South Korea took place in late August when a U.S. court ruled that Samsung had infringed six patents of Apple and imposed a penalty of 1,000 million dollars (767 million euros).
The new victory achieved by Samsung, certainly important for the company, will not, however, a great impact on the smartphone market, as the phone model in the case concerned, the Nexus is an old product South Korean company.
However, Apple's stock fell nearly 2% after news last night (Spanish local time), as the decision of the Court of Appeals U.S. is a slap for this company, as in the case of patents Nexus ( involving the functions that enable software) are directly related to the functions of Android, the software that powers most of the world's smartphones, and could hinder other lawsuits, according to Reuters.
In fact, on Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company fought its battle with Apple "is defining the current mobile industry" and called the fight between the two companies as "the final battle". "I've never seen a rivalry of platforms on this scale," he said in an interview with All Things Digital, the technology blog of The Wall Street Journal. The manager of Google also mentioned in that interview to the patent war and said he does not believe that these clashes in the courts benefit anyone. Schmidt said that the worst that will stand throughout this fight will not be the tech giants that could shield but small technology companies. "I think that ultimately, bad for innovation," he said ..
Mozilla JavaScript sweetened
JavaScript developers to work with macros by Mozilla sweet.js be facilitated. To prevent the interaction between macro and normal code, the project expanded to include so-called JavaScript Hygienic macros, as they already exist in languages like Scheme and Rust are. In this way, from C languages are known problems can be prevented, for example, the use of variables is already programmed with macros.
In general, JavaScript can also customize your own needs through macros as an example on the project page shows:
macro def {
case $ name: ident $ params $ body => {
function $ name $ params $ body
}
}
Here the function identifier function is replaced by the shorter def, so the compiler supplied sweet.js the following call
def sweet (a) {
console.log ("Macros are sweet!");
}
to convert an ordinary function and so could make it readable for JavaScript runtime environments.
The source code of the compiler is available on Github; sweet.js uses Node.js. Since the project is still in its infancy, is likely to bugs.
Nvidia releases final version of CUDA 5.0
Nvidia releases the preview version of GPGPU CUDA 5.0 interface today with the final version. Example, it supports the Dynamic Parallelism, can be generated by a thread on the GPU expiring dynamic new kernel. This reduces the CPU load, ease of programming and allows the execution of more complex algorithms than previously. On the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference had declared in May 2012 that developers could save by the new function and program code: Sun could break down a long 200-300 lines of code to about 30 lines.
Dynamic Parallelism dominate but only Nvidia's upcoming GK110 GPUs. They consist of more than 7 billion transistors, true computing monster and first appear on the supercomputer computing Tesla cards K20. Some of which already count in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory - and there are more and more: the total want to equip the Oak Ridge Labs Titan supercomputer with 14,592 K20 computational cards. The task should be completed in 2013. Consumer graphics cards with GK110 GPUs will be taken next year on the market, rumored earlier in March 2013 for the next GPU Technology Conference. Nvidia wants to first meet the supercomputing needs - where the chips also bring more money. A Tesla K20 will cost 3200 U.S. dollars.
CUDA 5.0 also brings innovations in GPUDirect technique that allows direct Datenaustautsch between the memories of different GPUs. CUDA 5.0 for this to work now has a network connection between graphics cards, which are in different servers (Remote Direct Memory Access / RDMA). Also there are GPU Library Object Linking and Nsight Edition Eclipse. According to Nvidia CUDA 5.0 is available for download starting today.
Supersonic jump results in record at YouTube
When messaging service Twitter was Baumgartner's jump for hours on the top issue in the trend charts. At the same time several fake Twitter accounts were under Baumgartner's name in no time thousands of new subscribers. Some of these accounts tweets flitted in front of the stratosphere, some were very obvious parody with lyrics like "One small step for man, one giant leap for the marketing of energy drinks."
On the Facebook page of the mission collected the image on the Baumgartner after landing kneeling on the ground, more than 470,000 "Likes" .
Main development phase of Linux 3.7 completed
Linus Torvalds has released the first beta version of Linux 3.7. Torvalds has thus completed the merge window, as usual, called phase in the development cycle, in which he takes up the biggest innovations for a new version in the main development branch. Until December anticipated release of Linux 3.7, the developers are now focused on debugging, apart from a few stragglers and small, all appearances to harmless improvements.
Among the most important new features included in Linux 3.7 includes support for 64-bit ARM instruction set. Are also new functions for NAT (Network Address Translation), IPv6, and the server-side code for "TCP Fast Open" (TFO), Linux 3.6 already contains the client-side code for this experimental TCP extension that accelerate HTTP connections should.
Torvalds has integrated a larger, prepared in a while review of the charge of PC graphics cores from Nvidia graphics driver Nouveau DRM. It should simplify including the driver architecture so that new features can be easier to implement, including some previously only been covered support for Nvidia graphics chip coupling technology Scalable Link Interface (SLI). In the Intel i915 video driver, there were big changes to the code to configure the monitor outputs.
That the kernel access to Windows or Samba shares competent CIFS (Common Internet File System) now provides experimental support for the introduced with Windows Vista SMB 2.0 (Server Message Block 2) and the opportunities offered by Windows 7 descendant of SMB 2.1, and parts of codes were for several months in the kernel, but not functional and therefore as "Broken" is highlighted. The kernel developers have also started with a restructuring of the header files to userland header used in the directory include / uapi / independent to think of those who are required kernel internally. New features include support for Intel's processor SMAP safety function and the ability to build an ARM kernel that boots on very different ARM platforms. Together with a development version of the Xen hypervisor now also manages the operation of virtual machines using the virtualization capabilities that provide some ARM v7 cores. Shortly before the end of the merge window still pulled a code for signing kernel modules and examine these signature before loading modules - a feature that would like to use some distributions in support of UEFI Secure Boot.
In the two weeks since the release of Linux 3.6, the kernel developers have made 10,409 commits in the main development branch, change the 15,096 files. This made for Linux 3.7 changes bring loud diffstat 1,540,443 new lines of code and remove 1,223,134 - shifted code is included in both figures. These two values are about a million to those of Linux 3.6. This is primarily the effect of numerous restructurings, including the aforementioned modifications to the nouveau driver and the include files.
The developers of the stable and long-term kernel have been active in recent days. Greg Kroah-Hartman about the Linux versions 3.0.46, 3.4.14, 3.5.7 and 3.6.2 has released, in the release email for Linux 3.5.7, he points out, with this version of Linux 3.5-border care. Ben Hutchings, meanwhile, has released Linux 3.2.31 and 3.2.32 just preparing. Already a week ago Willy Tarreau has released Linux 2.6.32.60, which fixes this year's leap second bug and contains some of the charge included in Linux 3.6 enhancements designed to improve the generation of random data.
Researchers simulate signal processing in the retina
Researchers at Cornell University in New York has been able to simulate the signal processing in the retina. The team led by Sheila Nirenberg managed the work done by the retina of mice to replicate by using algorithms, Technology Review reported in its online edition. They played on digital images on an external chip. This in turn translated the recordings into electrical signals. A projector beamed then subsequently as light pulses directly into the ganglion cells of rodents, which are very important for vision.
The cells contained, however, a genetically inserted light-sensitive protein, through its stimulation of the light information was first converted to pulse pattern for the brain. The researchers calculated in advance so that the resulting images, which saw the mice are likely to be even been rich contours of facial features.
The retinal receptor cells detected with light stimuli, converts these signals into electrical impulses and sends them then ganglion cells to the brain. Since many blind people, the ganglion cells are intact, bridge retinal implants that failed stations and directly stimulate the ganglion cells. For sharp vision but must also signal processing in the retina are simulated, otherwise it stays in the brain detailarm incoming image.
An advantage of the method of Nirenberg is the fact that no complex prosthesis must be used in the retina. The disadvantage is that the method requires a genetic intervention. This was according to Nirenberg in monkeys, however, already been tested to be safe. Their signal processing is very similar to human. Now, further tests show that the new method also helps human patients.
Rumors about the Padfone 2
Prior to the introduction of new smartphones often photos haunt the network, whose origin is rarely known. The Asus Padfone 2, it is different: Asus CEO Jerry Shen announced the U.S. television Bloomberg a few days before the Padfone-2-press conference interview, in which he introduced the device in detail. Accordingly, the Padfone 2 will work on the same concept as the first-fruits: A quality smartphone uses when it is connected to the tablet-like dock, screen and battery, and thus transformed into a tablet.
Unlike its predecessor, the smartphone will disappear but not behind a flap, it is simply inserted into the tablet dock. The smartphone battery is recharged by the battery while the tablet part, so to reach the smartphone will run for two to three days. The Super IPS + display, the smartphone offers a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels at a diagonal of 4.7 inches. Shen was the Bloomberg moderator some photos of the 13-megapixel camera, he did not reveal further details.
The rumor mill already knows more. Allegedly installed the Asus quad-core processor Qualcomm 8064, whose cores are clocked at 1.5 GHz. The memory is 2 GB, the flash memory are currently no information. The connection to the Internet works on LTE, HSPA + and Wi-Fi n (Dual Band). Bluetooth 4.0 and a USB port with MHL capabilities ensure local connections. Furthermore, should the Padfone 2 have a 1.2-megapixel front camera and a 2140 mAh battery. It should be 135 grams. Technical details on the tablet are not yet available. It is not known, which run on the Android smartphone.
The first Asus Padfone was shown last year at Computex, on the German market, however, there was not until the middle of this year . Information on pricing and launch of the Padfone 2 are not yet available, Asus is expected to comment on it next Tuesday.
Many updates for Windows 8 Apps
The dance the Bing app starts with an improved search for local content, a file picker which allows you to use images from search results in other apps, and the ability to create thematically related queries. With the Photos app you want after the update also rotate and crop images, and slideshows can be run automatically. The maps app gets a bird's-eye view, over 3000 interior views of buildings, improved navigation function and integration with the Bing search engine.
The Apps Mail, Calendar, People and Messaging now supports IMAP and provide an improved search function and a conversation view of messages in the inbox. Invitations should be possible to accept or reject after the update, or, in the messaging app you can search for contacts in the future. Within the SkyDrive app is the user can search, rename, move files and folders, and change the sort order of the displayed files.
Other announced updates affect the apps finance, news, sports, travel, weather, video, music and games.
Simultaneously with the announcement changed an operating system update the display of the apps from the Store: Were standard previously displayed only apps in the set, preferred language, you can now see all close to 1900 apps, including the languages in others.
Sony stops selling its tablets
Just one month after the launch of the new Xperia Tablet S Sony has stopped the sale of its Android tablets for now. Because of a manufacturing error on some devices a leaky gap between screen and case has emerged, can penetrate through the water. Sony marketed the tablet as splashproof. Currently, the wireless models on Sony's website as "currently not available" is checked. UMTS-enabled versions will follow in November. So far, about 100,000 units worldwide were sold. As the Handelsblatt reports online, Sony flat from the end of October a free inspection and repair program for customers who have already purchased a model SGPT121DE or SGPT122DE.
In the past week, Sony had launched its own online store for games apps under the name "Playstation portable," the little games for the Xperia Tablet S and others as "Playstation Certified" offers issued Android devices and the mobile console PS Vita. The starting line-up includes 20 items priced between 49 cents and 5.49 euros. Sony wants to curate the selection of gaming apps in the early days yet and selecting the tracks themselves, later it was to be released eventually. By the additional sales of downloadable games is hoping the entertainment company, to sell its smartphones and tablets competing models and to be able to attract more studios to develop games for the PS Vita.
Next Nexus Smartphone coming from LG
The rumors chefs speculate for weeks about it now is - at least according to CNET - certain: Google's next Nexus smartphone is manufactured by LG. The Nexus devices are popular among Android fans, because they offer the equipment manufacturer unchanged Android operating system and are powered directly from Google with updates - conventional Android phones, it can take the updates even a few months when they are because ever come.
Gives reliable information on the specifications, it is not, CNET is merely ensures that the yet unnamed Nexus device builds on the Optimus G, but still "is adjusted so that it in the Nexus series" suits. According to CNET, it is officially announced, "end of October" - possibly as part of the All-Things Digital conference on 29 October. The Optimus offers G LTE support, a 4.7-inch IPS LCD display with 768 × 1280 pixels, and with a clocked with 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor (APQ 8064).
The Android news site Modaco to have learned from "multiple sources" that the device only in an 8 - is delivered and 16-gigabyte version and no MicroSD slot is fitted. In addition, the battery is not replaceable. Instead, the 13-megapixel camera of the Nexus Optimus G variant is supposed to give only 8 megapixels. For this will be the new Nexus smartphone can charge wirelessly via induction. The operating system is not yet announced the Android 4.2 are used.
The LG Nexus must however not be left alone: Back in May had the Wall Street Journal reported that Google wants to change its strategy and Nexus parallel work with several manufacturers. In the article it said that even on Thanksgiving (November 22) more Nexus phones could be on the market.
Intel unveils new reference platform for NAS
Intel announced its Developed under the code name "Milstead" reference platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS). Base designed for the residential and SME users, the new platform dual-core Atom CPUs D2550 and D2500.
Building on Milstead NAS devices not only support RAID from four to six SATA drives, but offer up to 14 USB ports for growing storage requirements. In addition, see the platform in front of up to four gigabytes of RAM. Thanks to integrated Hardwarebschleunigung can NAS systems deal with an HDMI port with HD video - both in recording (eg for video surveillance) as well as for direct playback on an HD capable monitor. Management functions such as automatic backup or load balancing respectively configurable reliability of the network interface (bonding, load balancing) are also available.
According to a survey reported in the announcement of Intel study by the Aberdeen Group, the unused storage capacity in SMEs currently increasing annually by about 30 percent. Gartner by private users for 2016 even from a compared to 2011 seven times more space. Legal requirements for data retention and protection provided additional requirements for modern storage solutions that would meet with the Intel integrated privacy and backup functions. SMEs in the devices should assume the function of a private cloud, in which the user can be sure disclose your personal data lawfully locally and not at any of the major international cloud providers.
Simultaneously announced that OEMs Asustor, QNAP and Thecus at first products on the new platform. When the devices are Asustor the AS-6-series, which are are available with two to eight drive bays. QNAP upgraded its TSx69 Series with Intel's new technology. Thecus sends his both N5550 and N4800 NAS systems with the new base into the race. More suppliers are expected to follow this year.
Hackers put back lame Swedish banking and government servers
Hackers have apparently made true their threat concerted DDoS attacks against Swedish authorities and banks. On Friday afternoon, including the Internet sites of Sweden's central bank, the Reichstag, the police intelligence service Säpo, prosecutors and other authorities were temporarily paralyzed.
In a Youtube clip on behalf of the hacker movement Anonymous on Wednesday a large-scale action was announced. The reason, amongst others, the crackdown on the webhost Periquito was given by the Swedish police conducted earlier this week. PRQ server provides, among other services are available for Torrent and was probably to 2010, also the host of the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks. This police action is a "crime against freedom of information" was, it is executed in the clip, so now out of protest government websites and government-related organizations would be paralyzed. The votes that a report of aftonbladet.se collected from the institutions affected by the DDoS point, but points out that one would expect after the stresses of hard Anonymous threats to wider problems.
By the beginning of the week, hackers have repeatedly by massive DDoS attacks server in Sweden may block temporarily. Most of those affected, such as the Secret Service Säpo confirmed the attack as the cause of the disturbances. The police suspected at this stage a protest against the action called for by the Swedish government extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Hewlett-Packard dampens expectations for the coming years
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest computer manufacturers. has spooked investors with a gloomy outlook. The share price collapsed after the unexpectedly weak forecast by nearly 13 percent to its lowest level in nearly a decade. HP sets itself to years of drought. Not until the year 2016, the company will again grow as fast as the U.S. economy, announced consolidated boss Meg Whitman. After all, should then determine operating income faster than sales, and the yield are among the leaders in the industry.
The conversion took longer than planned, Whitman conceded. The environment remains still very difficult. For the fiscal year beginning in November 2013, it turned a profit per share from 2.10 to 2.30 dollars in prospect. How much so that the expectations of the market will be missed shows, when adjusted for some items forecast: HP calculated on this basis, with 3.40 to 3.60 dollars per share, analysts expected so far with an average of $ 4.16. The price fell to trading down to $ 14.91 and did not stabilize until after trading hours.
Next year it will go to "repairs and reconstruction," announced Whitman. She wants to emphasize in the next two years 29,000 jobs.
HP makes such other classic computer manufacturers the enthusiasm of consumers and businesses for smartphones and tablet computers to create. The demand for laptops and desktop PCs on the other hand decreases. The second pillar of HP, the printer is, in times of digital images and documents no longer such a good deal as it used to.
Last year was the come from SAP CEO Léo Apotheker from the PC area and instead focus on software. He also laid the ailing business with smartphones and tablets on ice. The course has been controversial, the stock collapsed. Pharmacists had to go, after all, the former eBay chief Whitman to join the top. She is now hoping for, among other things on a tablet with Microsoft's new operating system Windows 8, the company should respond. The number of different models in the printer business is to be reduced by 30 percent.
Microsoft is planning its own Windows Phone
Hart would make the actual implementation of such a plan, especially the Finnish manufacturer Nokia, the set with its current model range and the planned new models of the Lumia series on the Windows operating system. Nokia's direct competitor HTC introduced its new models with Windows Phone 8 before even with Microsoft.
BlackBerry PlayBook gets updated to v2.1 OS
With version 2.1, calendar, contacts and e-mails also run in an upright yet there was only one display in landscape mode. At the same time there is an update for the BlackBerry Bridge on the BlackBerry smartphone. So that SMS messages can now be edited directly on the PlayBook. Smartphone and tablet are posted in the same Wi-Fi network, the Bridge now works either via Wi-Fi rather than only via Bluetooth.
The Android player also receives an important update. So far only run Android applications in a single window, so can not switch to the PlayBook gestures. After updating each app runs in its own window. The API has been extended to allow Android apps now have access to the camera. Software vendors have the opportunity to provide additional services within the apps on BlackBerry App World, which was previously limited to native applications.
Chrome and Opera with new betas
Google has released a new beta version of its browser: Chrome 23 beta brings the track support the possibility to split HTML-5 video into chapters, add descriptions, metadata and subtitles.
Google will continue with two new APIs developers interesting tools at hand: The Media Source API detects the speed of the Internet connection and fits abzuspielendes video for a smooth frame accordingly. With the Peer Connection API allows audio and video streams without additional plugins from the browser to build in order to perform, for example, audio or video calls.
Opera 12.10 beta version puts the focus on his browser Apple users. So now even retina displays and operating system features of Mac OS X Lion Mountain as the Notification Center or the parts function are supported.
For users of Windows 7 or 8 brings Opera with an improved touch operation. Moreover, now Google's SPDY protocol network is supported, which should be faster and more secure than HTTP - it encrypted by default with SSL.
New interfaces like the Context Menu API with which you can add context menu extensions facilitate the work of developers.
CEATEC in Japan: 8K TV from Panasonic and new Android apps
After the presentation at this year's IFA Panasonic showed now in Japan have a 8K-screen, 16-note full-HD resolution. Since there is no 8K movies or TV shows, the giant displays are currently used primarily for presentations. Sony and Sharp at the CEATEC show in the Japanese city of Chiba 4K TVs, which were also seen to have on the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. These offer four times the resolution of the previously normal full HD standard.
Many of the exhibited at CEATEC developments and innovations revolve around Android smartphones. This is how the Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo two translation solutions to transfer the written text or spoken language in near real time in a different language.
The telecommunications company KDDI demonstrated how to use a smartphone with the lines of a hand to authenticate. Hand lines such as the so-called life line are formed in humans before birth and apply, like a fingerprint, as unique. In contrast to the scanning of a finger requires the KDDI App no additional hardware, but recognizes the finger lines through the built-in camera in the smartphone anyway. The demo app by KDDI, with which you can unlock the Android smartphone will, soon to appear in the Channel Store from Google.
Motorola takes an ITC complaint against Apple back
In August 2012, the Google subsidiary Motorola launched before the International Trade Commission (ITC) of the United States to attempt to impose an import ban on virtually all Apple devices because they allegedly infringe seven Motorola patents. Now the mobile phone giant has withdrawn its lawsuit without notice.
However, this retreat is "without prejudice" - that is subject to the lawsuit filed again later. What's behind the decision is unclear. In his statement, Motorola notes that there is no agreement with respect to the patents at issue with Apple.
The German patent observer Florian Mueller speculates in his blog about the reasons that have led Motorola to retreat. First, it is the decision had anything to do with the competent judge, who was deemed very picky, it says. Motorola has in the past had difficulty time to teach certified documents, and can decrease the chances of the company at this judge.
Second, it is also conceivable to Müller that there were negotiations between Apple and Google over patent licensing and Google have a signal of good will want to send. Finally, an older Motorola complaint with the ITC are pending. If it had been put together with the present, the decision could have possibly delayed until 2014. This process began in October 2010, it was originally for six Motorola patents. Currently only is the possible violation of one of them for debate.
The object of the ITC is to protect U.S. businesses from unfair practices by foreign companies. These include in particular patent infringements. The Authority can impose import bans on devices. That happened in about May 2012 for some Motorola devices.
Road enthusiasts: Toyota shows seater with electric doors
Toyota introduces its concept car 'Smart INSECT "before. The city is a single-seat electric car with gullwing doors, with which the company wants to present its progress, especially in the field of telematic networks. It is fittingly presented at CEATEC: The exhibition in the Japanese city of Chiba, near Tokyo, alongside the Berlin IFA and CES in Las Vegas to the major international electronics shows.
"INSECT" is an acronym of "Smart Information Network Social Electric City Transporter". The world's largest car manufacturer explains: "The name of trying to convey the image of a tiny insect that flies around with great wings, as this vehicle moves freely through an information network, and it uses it." To meet this claim, Toyota is different technologies.
So shall identify sensors on the doors and the front bumper using facial and voice recognition authorized driver and open the doors to him. INSECT smart is also able to respond to the driver or execute its gestures voice commands. The driver has the Smart INSECT on its own tablet PC access to driving-relevant information, and custom settings - "help" - how could it be otherwise in a running computer. Simultaneously, the computer acts as its own navigation system, the smartphone can be used as a music player.
Really new to us, this appears: Smart INSECT learn from the habits and preferences of the owner and is then able to recommend on its own, for example, an alternative route for getting to work when accumulates on the usual route of transport. The car also sends a message to the driver on his phone if he has forgotten a low battery, connect the charging cable. The concept car also uses the "Toyota Smart Center". This cloud computing network that may involve, among other things, the current storage of electric vehicles in the household electrics should, through networking to help manage the energy consumption of electric cars smart. In traffic, it could, for example, optimize the amount of electrical operation of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Toyota believes that such systems as part of further spread of electric and hybrid vehicles will increasingly rely on telematics services to ensure optimal energy management. The networking of several smart insects in this way we may then so confidently be described as electric insect swarm intelligence.
Edmunds Inside Line, one of the major U.S. portals about car commented this way: "polarize This approach needs to either one will see it as a helpful resource or related to HAL, the computer with artificial intelligence, the fiction the spaceship Discovery One in Science. 2001 Space Odyssey "controls.
JavaOne 2012: Red Hat seeks new name for JBoss AS
During the JavaOne the company Red Hat has made several announcements about its Java products. To avoid confusion between their commercially available JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Server (JBoss EAP) and the open source JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS), seeks the company Red Hat now. For a new name for their open source version The community is called, 14 their proposals by Submitted in October 2012 and then determine by choosing the best submission. The new name is in the 12th week of to 16 November presented at the Devoxx conference in Antwerp.
Red Hat is also working with 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, to Hibernate OGM (Object / Grid Mapper) to establish the topic of NoSQL to continue with Java developers and the growing importance of this architecture needs. The project is to provide in the future NoSQL applications with support for JPA (Java Persistence API). For this, the Java Persistence Query Language (JPL) used for data search and Hibernate core engine, however, instances no longer stored in relational databases, but in NoSQL datastores.
The field of mobile application development, which for example includes the JBoss project Aerogear should in future play an important role in JBoss EAP, so that a cross-platform consistent representation of native and HTML5 elements is assured.
HTC's Android flagship revised: One X +
Under the hood still works a four-core processor from Nvidia, but now with the Tegra 3 + increased from 1.5 to 1.7 GHz clock speed and faster memory access - the more memory is 1 GB in size. This should unlock the One X + in many benchmarks for the Samsung Galaxy S3, the fastest Android smartphone. The flash memory is now depending on the model 32 or 64 GB (was 16 or 32 GB). An SD slot is unfortunately missing continue. The battery now has a capacity of 2100 instead of 1800 mAh, without increasing the total weight (135 grams) noticeably. During the 8-MP main camera remained intact, the front camera now has a low-noise 1.6-MP chip.
New features include soft-touch coating of the case and the use of thinner Gorilla Glass second Visually everything remains the same: same size, same unibody plastic housing. Even for Germany no other color options are planned as black. The display still shows 1280 × 720 points to 4.7 inches (316 dpi).
Even if did not at first glance at the software done a lot under the hood is now a current Android 4.1.1 and an updated version of HTC's Sense user interface is used. In addition, from the end of October, the Sony's own PlayStation App on the Google Channel Store are available - the One X + is first derived not from Sony PlayStation certified smartphone, and allows you to play older PSOne titles. In the 64-gigabyte version is the One X + still be available this month for 650 euros, even if the 32-gigabyte version is coming to Germany is unclear.
Rants were waiting for the owner of Jelly Bean Another One models hear: Android 4.1.1, together with the new Sense is to be offered in the coming weeks for the One X, about a month later for the One S.
Intel allegedly fighting with another atom drivers
With the distribution of atomic Z2760 tablets threat of delays, because Intel does not have a Windows driver for the new power management features of this atom to get ready in time. That reports the news agency Bloomberg. Therefore, Microsoft can not time the Atom Tablets release of the Windows 8 Hardware Certification Requirements. Bloomberg quoted but also an Intel spokesman, the availability of Clover Trail tablets promises simultaneously with the Windows-8-start in about three weeks.
Is known that the long-standing partnership between Microsoft and Intel got deep cracks. A clear sign of the promised "Windows-RT" tablet with ARM SoCs instead x86 processors, from those with the Microsoft Surface will even bring their own model on the market. Therefore, the x86 Tablets with the specially developed "Clover Trail" Atom Z2760 Intel most important products: As the first Android smartphones with Atom Z2460 they are to prove to the market that the x86 technology on the one hand with the power of ARM SoCs can compete and other advantages such as relatively high single-thread performance and - provides compatibility with existing x86 software - Windows.
If it actually comes to delays because of a driver problem, this is a serious setback for Intel. The nuclear history is in fact full of such mishaps. Said Intel has about several years and Atom versions taken longer than hoped, until a SoC version of the chip - namely the Z2460 aka Medfield / Penwell - finally in smartphones was used. Rained even when the drivers are problems: The purchased from Imagination Technologies PowerVR GPU, from the close relatives as well as in iPhones, found in many Android smartphones and the Windows RT chip from TI, Intel was not available for Linux (PDF file) under Windows under control. On Android, OpenGL ES and OpenVG are used. Intel originally promised for the Cedarview atom DirectX 10 compatibility, but got after several years of research so far suggests only a DirectX 9 drivers for 32-bit Windows 7. Among other things probably why Microsoft had to hang up specifically for Windows 8 is a 32-bit x86 UEFI version of the operating system, which comes exclusively on the Clover Trail tablets are used. However, the ARM SoCs for Windows RT not 64-bit compatible.
The current driver may be a problem with the new power management S0ix that come with Clover Trail first time on Windows for use. The expected 2013 core generation Haswell will support S0ix. Provide details in the Android S0ix already works as Intel employee in a paper for the 2012 Linux Symposium (PDF file). S0ix promises to drastically reduce the power consumption at rest, but the system is active, 20 by about a factor This should tablets and smartphones get by depending on battery and RAM for several weeks in a Connected Standby battery charge. For a Clover Trail Tablet with 30-watt-hour battery Intel promises 3 weeks.
Existing operating systems can not cope with S0ix by itself. Therefore, Intel provides special drivers for the Power Manager Unit (PMU). The firmware - UEFI or the Z2460 SFI - must be prepared for S0ix. Windows controls the power functions of the respective CPUs with specific drivers, or about amdppm.sys intelppm.sys. Microsoft provides this but in Windows. It happens, however, that processors require specific power management driver, at the time about the AMD processors with Cool'n'Quiet on Windows XP.
The implementation of and support for S0ix could also be the reason why Intel had said at IDF that is not the Atom Z2760 own for Linux. The authors of the aforementioned papers explain, however, Linux drivers are available in principle - but so far only for Z2480 (Android) systems with SFI and Z2460, respectively.
Apple launches billion dollar share buyback
Analysts expect the program initially no major impact on the share price. The stock market had already priced in the buyback, Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research said over the business magazine Fortune.
Apple's share is currently relatively poorly - since launch of the iPhone 5, the paper lost until last weekend just under 4.5 percent - probably due to the current problems with the Maps application. CEO Tim Cook had on Friday apologized publicly.
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