Poke on Facebook, send pictures or videos to self-destruct
For several months already existed Snapchat, allowing an application to send images and text with an expiration time, or what is the same, the image was available for viewing for a limited time only for the sending, which promised protect user privacy, especially useful for those who like to send their partners or acquaintances photographs (commonly known as "sexting").
Huawei will launch 5-inch FullHD smartphone at CES 2013
It is unknown whether the company will bring the smartphone in Brazil, but the possibility is not remote, since the Chinese giant is turning its eyes to the domestic market, with launches cheap Androids and tops line - Huawei Ascend P1 like that come until March.
Besides the 5-inch FullHD screen, the Ascend D2 will come with a quad-core 1.5 GHz and 2GB of RAM. Rounding out the specs, the newest venture of Huawei have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, 13-megapixel camera and 3000 mAh battery.
The Ascend smartphone D2 will be presented at CES 2013, to be held in January in Las Vegas. Due to its powerful hardware, Richard Yu showed concern about its possible price, which has not yet been defined.
'Xing-ling' Xiaomi M3 will have quad-core processor, Full HD screen and 2.5 GB of RAM
Known brands such as Sony, Samsung, Motorola and LG, are still working in the first smartphones equipped with quad-core processors and high-definition screens. Few gadgets with such processing power market. In China, however, there are already companies that invest in high-FullHD streak.
According to the site Android Community, the M3 can count on Cortex A-15 processor with something between 1.8 GHz and 2.0 GHz, 2.5 GB RAM, 12-megapixel rear camera and 4G LTE connection. The screen resolution will be filling a display of 4.5 inches. This size can deliver a high pixel density, higher than the gadgets with high resolution market.
Apparently Android that will come factory in version 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). The bad news is that none of the smartphones of the brand even crossed the Atlantic. In China, Xiaomi is equivalent to the best known brands in Brazil, such as ZTE and Huawei.
Race to 14-nanometer technology
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To the production technology for transistors with 14 nm wide structures, a race has developed, at least in press releases concerns. It is not always clear at what stage of development are the respective companies and exactly when the first semiconductor devices with 14-nanometer structures actually occur in final products that can be purchased at retail. Also, the characteristics of the different manufacturing processes are hardly comparable.
At Intel, it was clear that after running this year 22-nm process technology, the 14-nm technology is applied; probably Broadwell processors come with 14-nm structures in 2014 the market.
Flipboard now available for Android tablets
Many users of Android tablets are annoyed about apps that are designed only to be partially much smaller smartphone displays. At least with the popular social news reader Flipboard which is now a thing of the past: With the recently released update to version 1.9.16, the app now supports a function of the display size different layouts.
While on small screens usually only an illustrated news tile or two to three text messages per page, found on devices with a diagonal of more than 7 inches now much more (with pictures) messages space.
In our tests with a Sony Tablet S Flipboard now has the same look a digital newspaper, like iPad users are accustomed from time immemorial. Flipboard is available free on Google's Play Store.
British prime minister insists on blocking porn for kids
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron wants despite concerns within their own ranks not abandon its initiative, which will be set up on computers in households with children pre-pornography filters. It was "extremely horrible" that many offspring were exposed to the "darkest corners" of the Internet, the prime minister told the Daily Mail. In February 2013, the government plans to draw up details with the major access providers.
The Ministry of Education had previously published the results of a consultation on the matter. The vast majority of almost 3600 participants spoke out against accordingly prescribed filters that are automatically activated. The Ministry requires Internet providers, parents should encourage stronger, more user-independent methods that inappropriate content can be blocked, use them. All Internet-enabled devices should be equipped with similar capabilities, so that children "standard" with a secure online environment. Of preset filters that could be strongly activated by parents only at his own request, was no more talk.
According to Cameron, but the fact remains: In the future, everyone who picks up a newly purchased computer or operating changes the provider, asked during the setup process will be whether minors belong to the household. If the answer is yes, should the porn blocking access immediately. The user could then perform only fine tune it, or insist that the connector is fully unlocked.
The civil rights organization "Open Rights Group" noted that many questions remained unanswered. All filtering efforts are easy to get around, especially for smartphones could hardly a protection to ensure that the kids could not handle quickly. The provider BT welcomed the results of the government survey. The access provider had volunteered last year together with Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media to install a porn ban at the request of customers.
Expensive but ineffective - apps with the extra portion of energy
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One of the apps, the Kaspersky Lab expert Roel Schouwenberg identifying them as malware, offers users according to the description an "acceleration of the Internet connection." How Schouwenberg has found the app but nothing accelerates, it informs the user only that the Internet has been optimized. From the same vendor still comes another remarkable app, the "Shake Battery Charger". With this app should be able to replenish the battery of the mobile phone by shaking the phone again. In the forum, users Androidpit made fun of in April, a similar app.
The apps give users not so the promised benefits, the burden of doubt on the wallet, free space - but are these apps therefore be regarded as malware? In other industries, is called something like advertising lie or false marketing claims - not even remain unpunished.
In the food trade, the European Union has recently taken action against advertising lies. Food manufacturers must therefore since 14 Dec. no health claims attach to packages that were not approved by the EU. The information must be in the future scientifically sound.
In Google Play store the above apps have been removed, for example, several months ago. And the iTunes App Store and the Amazon App Store to try in advance flashy apps not allow for their shops. Have a batch or by Shake iShake but all stores in the range, the Solar Charger run on smartphone displays but they may soon be off the rank.
First details on the future Nvidia Tegra 4
2013 is near, and with it a new generation of mobile processors that push performance. Among these, the Nvidia Tegra 4 is probably one of the market's leading mobile SoC, as is the current Tegra 3.
Chip Hell site (via Engadget) put his hand on technical information about this chip is expected to debut in January at the Consumer Electronic Show.
Engraved in 28 nm, it adopts ARM Cortex A15. But above all, Tegra 4 embark 6 times more graphics cores as its predecessor, bringing the total to 72. What support a display of up to 2 560x1 600 pixels and play video in 1080p 120 Hz SoC is also compatible with USB 3.0 and DDR3L memory dual channel.
Remains to be seen what smartphone maker or tablet will be the premiere of Tegra 4, some rumors suggesting HTC.
Patent war: Samsung puts water in his wine against Apple in Europe
Significant change in tone from Samsung. In its global fight against Apple, the world number one has decided to put water in his wine. He announces in effect waive all claims Ban apple products in Europe.
This decision concerns the ongoing proceedings in Germany, UK, Italy, the Netherlands and France. However, "this decision does not affect the proceedings already underway in Europe" for patent infringement, said the manufacturer.
Struck by a kind of pragmatism flash, Samsung says that he prefers "to compete with other companies on the market, rather than the courts."
I must say that the context is a little different today. While Samsung has been heavily condemned this summer in the United States for patent infringement, but Apple has failed to prohibit its products on American soil.
At the same time, the South Korean widening the gap with his nemesis in the field of smartphones with a global share of 28% against 20%. In some countries such as France, the gap is even greater: 37% against 22%.
With its strategy to increase referrals and pincer grip, Samsung has finally got his goal behind the apple. Why then lose millions of dollars in endless procedures?
Twitter for BlackBerry updated to version 4.0
A few weeks before the official launch of Blackberry 10, Twitter has not forgotten the existing installed base with updating its native application. And the gesture is not trivial since Twitter 4.0 for BlackBerry brings Finally, two functions launched a year ago by the micro-blogging site. First there is the Connect function that brings @ mentions, favorites, subscribers and retweet. The second function is synthesized Discover trends, suggestions for profiles to follow, tweets subscribers.
Newest, Moi tab that profiles, tweets sent, lists and favorites. Functions so already for several weeks in iOS and Android, but to prove that Twitter does not forget Blackberry ...
The application is available on the BlackBerry App World.
Facebook include video advertising in news feed
The path to monetization is not easy, but Facebook seems to have in mind an idea that could bring enough income. Yes, the wrath of users is also guaranteed: Facebook plans to introduce video advertising in the news feed of users. As if it were on TV, Facebook also have advertising breaks.
The plan is to introduce this new product and the first half of 2013 (in April at the latest), for which Facebook would now courting advertisers to opt for the new advertising method as claimed several industry sources cited by AdAge.
The idea is that the spots are a maximum of 15 seconds, and automatically play the video fill the screen, forcing the user to see. I would not yet decided on whether Facebook is the sound of the spots should be enabled by default or not. In principle, Facebook wants to introduce both the web version and in its mobile apps.
The objective of this movement is Facebook with more than clear: to make advertising revenue rise dramatically. Since its IPO in May this year, signing Mark Zuckerberg has only to struggle to convince shareholders that really is a profitable company and is able to monetize their users billion. However, so far have failed to convince many.
Since Facebook have not commented on this rumor ,we would love to hear from you how do you feel about this?
Cisco buys BroadHop, its fourth acquisition in a month
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Cisco has announced the purchase of BroadHop, a U.S. company based in Denver and provider of service management tools for operators and communications service providers.
Stresses that this will be the fourth major purchase of Cisco in just over a month, since November 15 was announced the acquisition of Cloupia, for $ 150 million. This company is a small startup with about 30 clients and fifty workers on staff, whose software helps improve the efficiency of data center infrastructures unified.
BroadHop is, for some time, as partner Cisco WiFi service provider and, with the acquisition of its assets, the company aims to improve the supply-demand network services via mobile broadband networks, fixed and wireless . BroadHop has technology that provides an opportunity for service providers to offer customized service packages to its customers with additional bandwidth as needed.
Kroes proposes an Airbus for the chip sector
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It was Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the European Digital Agenda, who on Tuesday said that if the EU wanted to be a global player in the production of chips, had no choice but to resort to the collaboration and cooperation. "Why not a Digital Airbus, Airbus or chips for the sector?" Was the question that launched the curator, a question that will probably go down in history. For Kroes is clear that teamwork across boundaries in a good start to succeed in the endeavor.
Nokia could have a Windows tablet at MWC 2013 RT
Originally, Nokia plans to develop a 10-inch tablet with Windows RT equipped with a Qualcomm S4 processor in the first quarter of this year.
Instagram: "We will not sell photos"
The changes to the terms of use and privacy policies on Instagram made for some excitement - not because of the photo service acquired by Facebook in the future will share user data with its new parent company and its other subsidiaries. Instead, many users and some commentators interpreted the new rules so that Instagram continue to sell the photos of other users. Some have already spoken of the largest commercial print service on the Web.
That this was a misinterpretation - which was based, however, on vague formulations and a lack of communication on the part of Instagram - now emphasized Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom: "Let me be clear: It is not our intention to sell your photographs we are working on. revised wording in the Terms of Service to make it too obvious. " Also fears had appeared that images of people could be part of ads. "We have no plans for anything in this article is why we will also remove the wording that raised such questions."
Mark Zuckerberg donates 18 million Facebook shares
18 million shares, which is the current market value of nearly 500 million U.S. dollars (379 million euros), donated much of the founders of the social network Facebook the Silicon Valley Foundation. This is a non-profit foundation that is committed to in order to promote charitable projects and community-based action. Zuckerberg had a good two years, 100 million U.S. dollars (75.85 million euros) donated to schools in Newark near New York. The 28-year-old is by far the largest Facebook shareholder with approximately 500 million share certificates. IPO in May, he sold a small portion of the shares only to pay taxes.
The Facebook shares currently trading at just under $ 28 and so while higher than the all-time low of less than $ 20, but still well below the starting price of $ 38 in May 2012. Even with this relatively low price, the shares currently worth 498.8 million U.S. dollars a huge boost for the Silicon Valley Foundation and the largest single donation in the United States for the year 2012. The foundation had throughout last year received $ 470 million in donations and manages around two billion dollars. They wanted to join forces in tackling projects in the areas of education and health, announced Zuckerberg.
On his Facebook page shows Zuckerberg to participate with his wife at the philanthropic campaign "The Giving Pledge" and donate a large part of its income. The campaign wants to move the wealthiest people in America to donate the bulk of your wealth in their lifetime or after their death, to charity. The campaign website can be seen that they preferred anvisiere billionaires, but only a moral obligation, not a binding treaty was. Besides Mark Zuckerberg can be on the list of signatories, see also the media mogul Ted Turner, Bill and Melinda Gates and the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison.
Google Health is switched off
Google has invited the remaining users of its Google Health Health Service strongly to 31 December 2012 to copy all data from the health service. The year, all remaining data will be gone. Both Google and Microsoft offer U.S. citizens tools to copy the personal health record from Google Health to Microsoft HealthVault.
In June 2011, Google decided the end for Google Health. Launched in 2008, the supply could not meet Google's high expectations and remained with less than 10,000 users of magnitude below the set targets. The criticism from privacy advocates, a search engine aggregiere medical data, Google could not refute convincingly.
For the final of the offer described Google as a complete personal health record as a ZIP file is stored locally or directly Microsoft HealthVault can be passed. If the user login it into Google Health found no data in their medical records, they had completed a successful migration, Google explains the procedure.
WIPO Conference to approve 2013 copyright exceptions for the blind
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An extraordinary general assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva on Tuesday decided to convene a diplomatic conference to adopt a system of copyright exceptions for the blind. After a four-year-long tug of war to see organizations such as the World Blind Union (WBU) their target moved a step closer. In June 2013, the International Law Treaty adopted in Marrakesh and be signed by the Member States of WIPO.
The WBU explained that remain in many countries copyright blocking the production of copies for blind or visually impaired. Including the transfer - for example to organizations for the blind in poor countries - is currently impossible. The proportion of the books currently in appropriate formats - in Braille, large print or audio - is produced lies in not more than 7 percent. Usually take care of it self-help organizations with limited resources.
Of the new agreement, the organizations for the blind hope finally Remedy. It would also be the first WIPO treaty for decades, which expands the copyright, but rather limited. The EU had penetrated during the negotiations on it earlier this week in Geneva to convene the conference agreement only if other points of contention on the Treaty provisions are pre-cleared. In February, wants to meet again to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.
Free Samba-4-Appliance SerNet
The SerNet now offering their appliance with the final version of the free Windows server Samba for free download. Unlike might guess from the name, is behind the appliance as with the precursors to a Debian Squeeze, it can be installed on a hard disk.
The distribution includes the now published a few days ago Samba 4, which is the first free implementation of an Active Directory domain controller. Besides the manageability of Windows clients via Group Policy with Windows' own management tools SerNet promises to work seamlessly with the Zarafa groupware, the schema of the directory service can be extended suitably.
The CeBIT 2013 SerNet also announced an expanded version of the appliance. You should bring it next Zarafa also equal to the opsi preinstalled software distribution already.
Profit jump for Oracle
Oracle has made in the past quarter of a leap in profits. The yield increased loud message in the end of November completed second fiscal quarter, year over year by 18 percent to 2.58 billion dollars (1.95 billion euros). The sales increased 3 percent to $ 9.09 billion, as the company after U.S. market closing announced on Tuesday. The figures were largely on the expectations of the analysts.
Business with new software licenses and cloud subscriptions - a key indicator for future development - increased by 17 percent to 2.4 billion dollars. Overall, the software sector increased sales by 10 percent to $ 6.65 billion.
Oracle had stuck in the past months in acquisitions in the cloud computing. Among others bought Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focused company like Taleo and RightNow Technologies.
On hardware such as servers and storage, Oracle has opposed currently little joy. Sales of equipment fell by 23 percent to $ 734 million and well below analysts' expectations. In related services revenue decline was a decline of 6 percent to $ 587 million from less steep.
Oracle had acquired with the 2010 server specialist Sun Microsystems. Ellison defended again after the quarterly results the Sun takeover: It was one of the most farsighted and profitable acquisitions that Oracle had brought a technological advantage.
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