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Apple is going to take Mac´s production to U.S.

admin — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:22:55 +0000

Apple plans to move back the Mac computer production from China to the United States the next year, said company CEO, Tim Cook.

The company will invest more than $ 100 million to manufacture computers in the United States, said Cook on an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.

The high-tech products are generally manufactured abroad, usually in subcontracting factories that are not owned by the brands coming to market.

Cheaper labor costs have been the key to encourage U.S. manufacturers to move production to China, but the upward trend in wages and transportation in China, the advantage over the United States has declined in recent years.

Author of “Gangnam style” earn millions through iTunes and YouTube

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:00:54 +0000

With only one song, the South Korean Park Jae-sang, 34, known internationally as PSY, is about to become a millionaire, but not for the music royalties from their own country, but for the rest of world sales.

The “Gangnam Style” is approaching the 1,000 million views on YouTube. From the advertisers of YouTube and downloads of iTunes, PSY and his team get at least $ 7.9 million this year, according to an analysis of public information and industry estimates. In South Korea he will get less than $ 60,000 from the sale of their music online.

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Instagram split with Twitter and start the ‘Picture´s War’

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:48:59 +0000

Until now, users of the popular photo application, Instagram, could share their photos directly to the social network Twitter. From this platform was also possible to see the images without having to go to any other pages.

The information was confirmed by Twitter after users reported they could not see in this platform the images published from Instagram. “This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration, and as a result, photos are being displayed using a pre-cards experience.” said Twitter.

Microsoft’s tablet, strong as a skateboard

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:19:29 +0000

Steven Sinofsky, head of the Windows division of Microsoft, could not think a better idea to advertise the tablet Surface resistance, that turn it into a skate board and ride on it to test the durability of the piece .

Microsoft is committed to communicate that they made a truly resistant product: the tablet has a magnesium housing with a thickness of 9.3 millimeters.

Surface will be launched in U.S. on October 26th, with prices ranging from $ 499 to $ 699.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVSyp9OUM1s

Samsung extends lead over Apple in smartphone sales

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:02:30 +0000

Samsung extended its lead over Apple in the global smartphone market, after reporting strong demand for its latest premium model, the Galaxy S III.

The two giants were the only companies among the top 10 mobile manufacturers that have gained market share in the third quarter, due to the strength of its brands of smartphones (iPhone and Galaxy), as revealed by a survey, which was conducted among 40 telecommunications analysts.

Samsung Electronics is expected to have sold 55 million smartphones in the quarter after benefiting from its extensive collection of phones, compared with sales of 26.6 million iPhones from Apple.

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission – Game Analysis

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:09:09 +0000

A brilliant idea poorly executed. Only then we can understand why the ambitious and new strategic action game of the team responsible for the saga ArmA, Bohemia Interactive, has not reached the level of quality we expect from it. It has a good playable base inspired by the classic Carrier Command released in 1988, it has extensive customization options, great freedom of action … but it does not work.

And it does because of poor artificial intelligence overthrew all the good work carried out in a title, for everything else, is shown as a very interesting work and a certain charm. Even you can overlook some of their mistakes just to enjoy this game.

Google Maps updated “Street View”

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:37:18 +0000

In recent weeks, Google Maps introduced a number of improvements but the latter focuses on one of the favorite features for its millions of users: street view.

The tool to explore entire cities from the ground level was updated to cover twice as places that could be visited with this feature, which is the biggest data update that has been applied to the service.

Besides covering over 250,000 km of roads worldwide, Google said it increased street view coverage in countries like Singapore, Sweden, USA, Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Britain, Denmark, Norway and Canada.

Google will have a testing center and development for hardware.

MyTeknologika — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:09:27 +0000

The millions and millions of Google reach for many things, to have the most technologically complex world of quirky Mountain View, without going any further, now, a laboratory test and development hardware, which will allow more finished testing and demanding expect to market products under its brand and develop new technologies.

ess of authorization to acquire Motorola by no less than USD $ 12,500 million and that is why this center makes sense, as their competitors, Apple and Microsoft primarily, have such centers.

The idea behind it is to achieve an advanced development center for new technologies that will allow Google position in the market of wireless test lab with Google / @ home, create new products, show what are developing to selected groups of people with silence agreements, and of course, attend the best way to potential buyers of technology, industry analysts and partners.

Something not many know by now is the best kept secret of Google, Project X, an initiative of which little is known but is speculated be oriented to optical technology and improve everything about it, from manufacturing the fibers to the right technology to get the most benefit possible.

With the above, is more than clear that Google is not just your browser, right now we can see that the big G is dabbling in everything we can both to diversify their sources of income, and expected position in other markets as a leader, because you put all your eggs in one basket has never been the path to success, diversification is the key.

Internet Explorer for Windows 8 on ARM will not support plugins

MyTeknologika — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:49:07 +0000

The operating system Windows 8 on ARM is doing much to speak, and not because of its new features, but on the contrary, to have fewer features and more restrictions than any other version of Windows. From Hardware Heaven inform us that the new Internet Explorer for Windows 8 on ARM not support plugins.

Microsoft aims to eliminate potential risks of instability, slow performance, and low autonomy caused by plugins “problem”, and the best solution they could think of was to simply remove the plugin support in your browser Internet Explorer for Windows 8 on ARM, which does not allow the installation of any plugins, doing incompatible with plugins / add-ons like Adobe Flash widely used.

We know that Mozilla is developing a version of “Metro” in your Firefox browser, which is likely if Flash support. As for Internet Explorer for Windows 8 on ARM, Microsoft suggests that developers of web sites using web standards like HTML5.

A new tablet comes into the Galaxy family, the Galaxy Tab 2.

MyTeknologika — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:52:49 +0000

The good news is that Samsung has not forgotten to bring new tablets on the market to renew your alignment in this segment. The bad news is that this new Galaxy Tab 2 looks virtually identical to the 7-inch tablet, the Galaxy Tab Plus.

That’s why this tablet shares many features of its predecessor, as the processor of 1 GHz dual core, 1 GB of RAM, a 7-inch WSVGA TFT LCD with maximum resolution of 1024 x 600, Wi-Fi, 3MP camera on the back, VGA in the front, support for HSPA +, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS and capacities of 8, 16 and 32 GB, but may be extended using microSD cards. The battery of this device is 4000 mAh.

Of course, this new Tab includes all those things that puts South Korea over to the Android operating system – in this case, Ice Cream Sandwich – and you will see with TouchWiz, access to proprietary application store, Samsung Kies Air, chaton , Allshare, a referral service real-time applications and other developments.

The Galaxy Tab 2 is announced for Europe at an early stage, but then see the light at different latitudes. All this to tell of March.
The reference price is $ 420 for Wi-Fi version and $ 520 for the 3G version.