Friday, December 23, 2011

Samsung sues Apple for use of emoticon :-)

Here's one way to tell if their lawyers are concerned to see a lawsuit lose strength: they now include unusual in patent litigation. That's what seems to be happening in the process of Samsung against Apple in Germany, since last week South Korea gave up part of it by admitting that Apple had licensed patents to Qualcomm 3G. Now the company added four new patents in the process, one related to the use of emoticons.


According to a spokesperson for Samsung told Reuters two new patents related case are included in "patterns of communication" and the other two patents "related to utilities." Spokesman did not say specifically what patents are, but the intellectual property activist Florian Mueller reveals in his blog all of them.

As the most ridiculous of all, this one is related to patent emoticons being included. Beside you see the emoticons in included in the Japanese keyboard iOS devices and would be the motivation for the new process. It seems that not only the Samsung was able to patent a variety of them like Apple did not ask permission to include them in your system.

In retaliation, Apple's lawyers released the following statement on the new allegations, "= P". Okay, that last part is not true. But seeing the level that this process has come, I'm not surprised if they come to respond using only emoticons.

Samsung confirms Android 4.0 to Galaxy devices

The list of manufacturers of Android handsets confirmed that the update of its tablets and phones to version 4.0 system got bigger today with the presence of South Korea's Samsung. The company announced that some units of the Galaxy line should receive the update in the coming year, which seems to indicate that they are even doing some work when they focus their efforts on finding patents ridiculous throw back at Apple.

Since Samsung has released Galaxy devices enough to create a constellation, it was good for the company have said what are the models that fit the perspective of update. They are: the Galaxy S II (and its LTE sold in the U.S. only) Note the Galaxy (who arrived here recently high causing confusion by its size), R Galaxy, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and Galaxy Tab of 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7-inch screen.

The announcement was made by Samsung's global blog, which indicates that no matter where these models were sold, they are updated. The expectation is that in the first quarter of 2012 they all receive the update, devices that will provide features such as facial and release a redesigned interface for Android.

Until then, anyone who wants to have to go ahead can be given a pass by the XDA-developers and see if some of the skilled developers already ported on their own Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to your phone.

Apple can ban the sale of HTC Android phones in the U.S

Apple won a battle against HTC in the Commission of Foreign Trade of the United States earlier this week. According to the decision of the regulator, certain "patent infringement" (when they) will cause some of the HTC phones are prohibited from being sold in the country from next April.


That patent is number 5,946,647, which describes a system capable of searching content and assign some special functions for certain types of data found. How, for example, identifying a phone number on a web page and allow the user to dial the number by clicking on it, among other functions.

Due to a horrible coincidence, all units affected by the decision to run the Android platform, as the Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, Aria and G2. From next April 19, those devices are not allowed to come in America, but HTC still has permission to import reconditioned equipment and spare parts to December 19, 2013.

In a statement released to the press, HTC says the decision came because of "a small detail in the user experience" of devices that will be removed from the models "soon." Since Apple said that "all competition is healthy, but our competitors must create their own news, and do not steal ours."

Google continues as Firefox's default search

Even as a non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation to pay its employees, those people responsible for developing browsers, mail clients, and a bunch of other things  Fortunately the largest source of income, a deal with Google to keep search engine as the default in Firefox, it was renovated. The announcement of the renewal of the agreement was made late on Tuesday.


We do not have much information about what happened between the two organizations. Earlier this month we had reported that the agreement would be with the days since the expiration date had come and Mozilla nor Google had given much less news about what would happen from then on.

The new agreement, according to Mozilla, is beneficial for both companies. Valley for three additional years "at least" with the possibility of being extended there in 2014.

"Due to the agreement for several years, Google search will remain the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world," said Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla. A guy who should be smiling from ear to ear, celebrating the salary guaranteed for three years.

I wonder what that staff harassment of Mozilla must have suffered from other search engines and Internet companies interested in the special area in the navigation bar of Firefox - which came to the ninth version today, it is worth noting. Mainly from Microsoft, which sees Bing swimming, swimming (including new and very interesting) and die on the beach. Yahoo is out of the picture, as we all know.

In turn, Google can worry a little less to be the default search engine in Firefox. Recently Chrome has overtaken Firefox as number two in the world, according to data from StatCounter, losing even for Internet Explorer. Also according to StatCounter, Chrome is already the most used browser in Brazil.

Android exceeds 700000 activations per day

Time and again those responsible for the Android play the daily number of activations for the entire hand, to show the amazing growth of the platform, which impress whenever they are released. This time the head of system development, Andy Rubin, Google has used his profile on the Plus to disseminate statistics. He says that today, a day more than 700,000 Android handsets are activated  in the world.

For anyone who has followed this issue, in February 2010 were 60,000 shy daily activations. A year ago, specifically in December 2010, that number increased to more than 300,000 daily activations. And in July of that year the amount of which increased to 550,000 activations. According to the CEO of the Android app store, Appitalism, these daily activations can reach 2.5 million by the end of 2012, but he will not say where the monstrous strap estimates.

And while we're crazy and estimates only for entertainment purposes, a friend said the exact area that we use only the four above data, daily activations of Android will exceed 1 million in eight months, reaching that number of August and September 2012. So when the first party invitations in the department of Android start to appear at the end of July, you may already have an idea what it is.

Know the Central Online Program of Ubuntu

For those who always wanted to know which applications have to download Ubuntu without even being on a machine with Ubuntu, Canonical has recently released an online version of the Central Program, which allows you to navigate through the programs available in the official repositories.


Does this mean a future Central Program completely in the cloud?

Initially, the Center Programs Online seems to be just a catalog of Ubuntu, where you can browse through several categories of applications or search for a specific program. That alone is an interesting feature, because then you can know in advance whether a specific program is available in Ubuntu, even without having to be running the system at the time (for example, a company or a friend's house).

Now, if you're browsing the site while running Ubuntu, the site will ask you to install the program you are viewing (otherwise, it just shows the link to download Ubuntu). It is still possible to also select other versions of programs for older distros.

Just the ease of install packages on the site, a question hangs in the air: Is the Canonical thinking of creating an online repository of applications in the same mold Store to Android Market? Making an integration with other technologies and Ubuntu One Canonical's own, is not hard to imagine a scenario where you could check the site itself a program to download in not just one but several computers at once. It would be paradise for system administrators, and a step and both Ubuntu.

Sandwich of evil: hackers cloned thousands of cards in the Subway

The story is more or less recent and was revealed in December 8th District Court for the State of New Hapmshire (USA). they tells how the hackers just teaching a lesson to heavy network of Subway sandwiches since 2008 and how the simple act of paying for the meal with a credit card can easily become a headache of demons.

Ráquers Romania, those vampires rascal, would have gained access to credit card data from the computers point-of-sales network of franchisees of Subway, as well as at least 50 other smaller distributors.

The result? More than $ 3 million in fraud and obamas a festival of complaints to financial operators.

To cause the same hole anywhere else, for those willing to take the stupid risks and profitable, the rattletrap involved is nothing sophisticated. Most software is freely available on the network and for a change, everything will depend much more careless user, the power to leech the crime.

The front door was the fact that many employees do not ran the authentication protocols on each machine from the point of sale, which figured as the main facilitator. In the case of Subway in particular were more than 80,000 victims, until the central system administrator noticed that something was wrong. Evan Schuman and more operators of a credit fraud discovered almost simultaneously.

To begin with, all the action from hackers relied almost two points: remote access to machines running the vulnerable and unwary software point of sale (cash, orders, inventory, etc.) in almost all franchisees of the network. To finish off the obvious, a Trojan horse (XP.exe) was complete logging of all machines and even backdoor was installed they were reconnected to often. A disgrace.

That is, enough to pass the credit card that someone would be waiting on the other side of the "tray". The data were subtracted mass. Whereas the Subway network processes a substantial amount of requests daily from around the country, can you imagine how many employees are already looking for another job while you finish this text.

As usual a scheme so large you can not run for only one person, the data was being sold freely on the Internet through the same fields in the U.S., bought with their own credit cards. One of the indirectly involved, Cezar Iulian Butu, pressed new cards cloned in a house in Belgium and spent the money on gambling at the local shops.

Already a actually a little more recent, announced yesterday, the same industry wholesaler Restaurant Depot had an even greater number of bank cards and dice subtracted: more than 200 000 cards.

A company security audit reported that malware has been installed throughout the system transaction processing credit and debit cards, compromising the data of thousands of enterprise customers from 21 September until 18 November.

The company issued a letter to its customers that the company hired a forensic analysis and that is available to repay all of its customers any expenses caused by his 'failure'.

Symantec estimates that cybercrime an average income of U.S. $ 144 billion per year. To have a basis of comparison, all bank robberies in 2010 amounted to U.S. $ 43 million and the global cocaine market in the world totaled $ 85 billion.

The crime has evolved continuously, but the default user is still innocent.

Sony Ericsson explains why the update of Android is delayed

One of the questions that Android users more likely to ask is: when my phone will be updated? And they also ask the same question for the manufacturers of their phones, since the major criticism of this process is the delay of such companies to release updates. Sony Ericsson, perhaps to avoid further headache with eager customers, decided to show the exact reasons for this delay happens.


The process is slow because it involves three major steps: the adaptation of the original source code, certification and approval of operators and Google itself. You know, for example, that the source code of Android comes standard with support for processors from Texas Instruments? All manufacturers that use a different set of hardware that needs to adapt the source code for their own components. In the case of Sony Ericsson, they must adapt Android to Qualcomm's chips, which are in line Xperia phones.

More details are available in this blog post on the official Sony Ericsson in Brazil. The text is huge, really detailing these three phases and provides a novel perspective for those who thought that just get the Android source code, compile and play on smartphones.

The original explanation was published in the U.S. Sony Ericsson's blog earlier this month course in English. But now that he found relevant was translated to bring it to light, which should at least calm the hearts of users waiting Eager for updates.

Adobe launches app to sign documents using the iPad

Adobe seems to have solved a tricky problem for corporations large or medium: the bureaucracy's time to get back contracts and documents duly signed. Today the company has the Adobe EchoSign iDispositivos running for the Apple mobile platform. With that installed, the user has all the ease of the world to add a digital signature to the document and immediately send it back to the most interested.


"We know what you are doing more and more business with your mobile devices and tablets and we are committed to helping you optimize your business processes and increase productivity."

Behind the corporate talk that Adobe has always adopts the trend that we have in the future, more and more transactions are done electronically. The bank is well - I bet you use the services of e-banking financial institutions maintaining account. Correspondence, not to mention, given the amount of emails we exchanged daily.

In the case of digital contracts the hole is lower. We're talking about money all the time, and are sometimes exorbitant figures. Therefore, it is natural that the adoption of newer technologies to manage the delivery of documents to happen more slowly and gradually. With app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Adobe tends to accelerate this process somewhat.

The task of Adobe EchoSign is very simple: after reading the document, the user confirms their validity by means of electronic signature that is linked to your email address. Adobe takes care of all the security part. Thus, the user must be adept EchoSign technology, proprietary technology, which complies with U.S. law e-sign. Any digital signature goes through a process similar to a notary public recognition that we Brazilians, we are familiar.

At that Adobe announced, this is the first time the EchoSign reaches a mobile platform. In other words, nothing like application for Android, Windows Phone and the like. Privilege of iDispositivos users for now.

Access to Facebook is free to pre-paid course

But it is not anime. The title of the article is true, but there are restrictions. And you probably will not like them.


The course today shot a message to the press reports in which the free access to Facebook exclusively for prepaid customers. To do so, consumers should access this page and download the official Facebook application, available in Java. The company ensures data traffic on the track until 21/03/2012.

Also according to the operator, the offer is not valid for customers with devices running IOS, Android or BlackBerry OS. The statement does not mention Windows Phone, but I imagine that the promotion is not worth also for the mobile system from Microsoft.

What we have then? Facebook for free to customers with feature phones capable of running Java with prepaid plan operator. On the eve of Christmas, something tells me that there is a wide audience who might be interested in the novelty. Prepaid is very strong in the country, and we all know that the feature phones continue to sell well here.

Last year, the TIM began this story with Facebook free. Consumers had to access the interface of the diet social network, without the right to display messages to provide updates to friends and the like without taking a penny from his pocket.

The course also states that the customer pre must be at least 50 cents of credit. And download the app traffic does not enter the gratuity.

CES 2012 will be the last with the presence of Microsoft

First of all, we have one fact: Microsoft is not going to start work at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from 2013. After many years, the company had privileged space among exhibitors registered by the CEA (event organizer) will no longer participate in that which is considered the largest electronics fair in the world. The CES 2012 takes place between 10 and 13 January next year.


Suit up, hours of speculation. The MSFT (Microsoft) says that the output from the 2013 CES was very friendly. The information, however is disputed by the company's own employees. They say that the CEA decided not to offer a more specific to the Microsoft keynote. In retaliation, the company chose to leave out the show. And the CEA was oblivious to the situation, taking that old philosophy known as "I am the owner of the ball, so I send you."

Also some say that Microsoft is eyeing the kind of disclosure that Apple manages its events produced domestically. Recall that in 2007 there was announced the iPhone during an edition of MacWorld, Steve Jobs doing all the suspense characteristic. In subsequent years, Apple also dropped the biggest event related to the Apple universe promoted by third parties. Instead, they opted to give more prominence to the WWDC and the off-season events that we usually cover here at Tecnoblog - to launch iPhone, iPad, and renovations in the line of iPods and Macs.

Some say that the CEA has asked Microsoft to sign agreements more durable (with digital contract, be?), While the Redmond company was interested in renewing year after year. Again, we have a relationship goes sour and MSFT coming out of CES.

In either case, this is who loses from the CEA, as a large display and may announce its new partner on another date set for themselves. For MSFT may be good news. Without the commitment to the CES, they may have more chance to do things at their own pace. And when the product is ready, then I mark the date and show to the media and the public. It makes more sense when we speak of a company the size of Microsoft.

Rodrigo Ghedin the Geminder and reminded that the conference does MS Build. Why not let the hottest news in the next edition of the event? Several other companies adopt the same stance. Nokia, for example, made the announcement of the first cell (the Lumia) running Windows Phone for Nokia World event, which we covered exclusively in London.

Good news for MS. Not so much for the CEA. This in my view, of course. If you disagree, I'm dying to see their arguments in the post's comments.

Or the MS dropped the hand knowing that it all ends in 2012 ...

It Has never been easier to scribble pictures on the iPad

Earlier this week I wondered quietly on my Twitter if there was anything similar to Skitch for the iPad. Imagine, making drawings on top of images with an easy to use application ... Some contacts have suggestions, such as Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. But nothing comes easily in the Skitch we both know that in OS X. Well, this morning Rafa, another editor of the site, gave the good news: Skitch came out in an exclusive version for iPad!


The application's home screen shows the options for adding comments, arrows and related images. The user can open a photo already saved, open the camera and take a picture (sorry about the quality that only the camera offers the tablet), take screenshot of a web page or a map. Finally, a blank sheet is available - but to have this app Bamboo Paper.

Just do not feel that good, because it is a touchscreen device, it is easier to write text on the iPad. The challenges remain the same: you can not put very fine line, and usually features the cursive writing of the person lost. But you can venture capital letters, as I did in the screenshot above. Yes, left much to be desired.

The Skitch is smart and recognizes the elements added by the user in the image, allowing them move and edit the fill color of them. The editing tools are very basic, with trace free, oval, arrow, text, rectangle and line. Unlike Skitch on the Mac version, the iPad does not have a highlighter. A pity.

Edits made, the iPad Skitch allows you to share using the AirPlay to display on a television screen or monitor; send to Twitter taking advantage of the native integration between Twitter and iOS 5, send email, and save to Camera Roll. Not least, it also exports the image as a note of Evernote (the result of the acquisition by the company that develops Skitch Evernote).

I played a bit with the app and really enjoyed it. Simple, to the point and functional.

Tecnoblog As reported previously, the Skitch also has version for free on Android Market.

After that, I have no doubt that the young Americans of the future will give the pen to scribble pictures - to put teeth dirty and Horns - to make fun of your friends. Far more practical with iPad in hand. And then just send by email.

Firefox 9 has 30% faster JavaScript, Mozilla ensures

As you well know, this week Mozilla released a new version of Firefox. All very good with the right to extended contract with Google to remain the default search engine in the search bar of their browser. But the promise that the browser would be more efficient than previous versions? According to Mozilla, you could say that success was achieved in FF9.

According to Mozilla in a paper published this week, Firefox 9 great asset lies in what they call Type Inference. I confess I do not know all the details on the operation of the browser, but by that Mozilla releases the Type Inference "analyzes the software code and monitors the types of values ​​as the software executes." The information generated by the Type Inference are used in the JIT compiler to generate more efficient code.

The JavaScript engine in Firefox 9, called SpiderMonkey, has improved in Type Inference feature to load and rotate images, 3D graphics and videos faster. Result: navigation as a whole is much better.

Below you see the chart provided by showing the performance of Mozilla Firefox in the eighth and ninth rounds. Indeed, the tests presented, you can see that the software was better.


Testing conducted by Mozilla
And your experience with Firefox 9? A few days after installing it, you realize that the application is faster and more stable? Leave your impressions in comments.

For my part, everybody knows that I am fan of Google Chrome browser because this is the one that best suits my needs (and is faster). I tested Firefox for a while and I can say that the user experience was faster, especially when many tabs open. However, Chrome is still unbeatable for me.

Facebook Brings Event Suggestions For Users

Some time ago Facebook revised their events page, so that site members could confirm participation in parties and other events more easily. Today more than a change in this session was made and is being made available to users, as always in a gradual manner: these are the suggestions of events.


Suggestions for events like everything today on Facebook, will be based on what your friends are doing, in this case the events that marked that they are going, and also in the events you've been in the past. Accounts that already have this feature enabled will see it on this link.

Speculation is that Facebook will in the future, this session to implement something related to check-ins at establishments. They tried in the past but did not work because of strong competition from Foursquare. This functionality was eventually discontinued and can return with the purchase of Gowalla. But it is just speculation for now.

Until then, Facebook even if you just want to lift your butt and get a little closer to home.

Scientists create paint that generates electricity from sunlight

Capturing solar energy is now a simple task: you install the solar panels , connect the wires in the right places and wait for the sunrise to start the thrilling adventure. But if the scientists at the University of Notre Dame continue your search in the future as much as we need to do is spend a coat of paint where we want to capture light to generate energy.

The scientists, led by double Prashant Kamat and John A. Zahm of the Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University, announced this week the development of a special ink that can capture sunlight and convert it into energy. They achieved this by mixing nanoparticles of titanium dioxide with sulphide or cadmium selenide, which are compounds that absorb two photons. They applied the paint in a transparent and conductive surface, exposed to the sun and could thus get electricity.

Except that there are still twists and turns left, especially on the question of efficiency. According to scientists, they can only capture and turn into electricity 1% of sunlight captured. In contrast, the solar panels can common 10 to 15% conversion. Even so, they ensure that the manufacture of paint is relatively inexpensive and could be mass produced with little trouble.

Another detail is the combination of colors. They got the best conversion efficiency with a combination of elements that generated a light brown ink. I have no problem with having a house that color in exchange for a discount on the bill, but I understand that there are people who may not enjoy it the idea of ​​color of a house with sewage.

Google+ wins administrators pages and volume of circles

Today Google announced that  they once again heard the complaints and requests from Google users + and will stop copying Facebook implement some of the suggestions they gave to improve social network. Besides other innovations have also been added and include a greater control in circles and some changes to the notifications that are shown by nothing more intrusive: they should be more elegant.


The volume control in a circle, despite sounding like the beginning of a physical exercise, is to determine how much you updates from people in that group appears in the main stream. Just go in the stream specific circle and slide the pin to select whether you want to see everything or just the most important updates. Or none of the updates, if you made a circle with annoying relatives, for example. In total there are 4 different options.

Another novelty is the presence of notifications more descriptive and less tedious. Before you had to guess what each one meant, except on occasions when someone adds you to a circle or posts marked with a +1. The new session of reports will show the first words of one commentary, text and name of people who shared something specifically to you and stuff.

In the list of requests that were made and more are served to improve the support pages of brands and companies. Since it began allowing such pages, Google + left only the creator manage it. Now you can choose up to 50 different people to run a page, the page builder add them by e-mail settings on the site. The notifications to specific pages were also more descriptive.

And finally, Google won a + photo gallery prettier, with a completely redesigned lightbox. Early Christmas present for those who did not like the old gallery and all your mess of links, slow, side comments and other small annoyances.

I think the changes are very welcome, but Google is not doing anything beyond what is necessary not to let Google + irrelevant.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

WordPress 3.3, finally with drag and drop images

It is the heart of many blogs and tech sites out there. WordPress, content management system CMS, opens a world of opportunity for those who adopt it. In version 3.3, available for download today, we still have some facilities more than justify the immediate installation of the software.


The most notable of these, an old wish of someone who knows and uses the WP, is the sending of files via drag and drop (famous drag-and-drop). After clicking the upload icon, the user simply has to open the folder and drag all the files you want to send at once to the server. You know how it works: when you drag files with mouse cursor to a specific area-sensitive feature, the files automatically go up to the server.


Drag and drop
In the changelog of the application still has a description of file support .7 z and. Avi, to the delight of those who want to upload files compressed to WordPress. Very good.

The menu on the side of WordPress has been upgraded. Moving the mouse cursor over the actions, the user opens a submenu floating to the other options relating to that action. For example, "Pages" allows you to create a new page or edit an old page. Also in terms of interface, WordPress 3.3 has gained special floating balloons to give instructions to the user. Very useful for when a new plugin is installed and the developers want to show in practical ways in which each feature is.

We use WordPress on Tecnoblog. The core software is great. And we still have the chance to develop their own solutions to problems specific to the site. You know the highlight bar that appears on the cover of Tecnoblog, below the site? It was produced on top of WP by our ninja developer Leandro Alonso.

I also use WordPress on my personal projects and I can say that I would not trade this for any other CMS. I recommend the download already.

Chrome 16: multiple users with avatar for each

Google Chrome, the browser preferred by most readers, is here with new features. The application had its version 16 released today by the development team in both Windows and Apple's OS X and Linux. To force the immediate update of your browser, click the Settings icon and then "About Google Chrome". If necessary, it will be updated from this screen. And yes, you have to restart.


Chrome: multiple accounts
Support for multiple users is the main change in the browser. Let's say that several people in your house using the same PC and also share the same browser. Having a Google account, each user can login and thus have their own extensions and bookmarks synchronized directly with that browser window. Privacy is protected, so.

The setting screen of Chrome has a new section where you can manage saved Google Accounts in the browser. There's even the possibility of appointing an avatar for each account, which is displayed in the upper left corner. (I chose the ninja, for the record)


Choose the avatar!
I wonder why Google bothered to draw the feature, since any current operating system has support for multiple accounts, which allow even have documents, files and separate system environment. Anyway, the novelty is there for all to use.

Speaking of Chrome, Tecnoblog today launched its browser extension. With it you can learn of the latest articles and real-time interactions occurring through the site (for those logs). Have you ever downloaded? Says yes, go ...

Director of Nokia: "Android has no more appeal among young people"

With Steve Jobs out of the picture, Niels Munksgaard, director of product management and marketing of Finnish Nokia, held earlier this week a test to see whether inherited the famous reality distortion field of the late guru of Apple. And apparently, failed miserably.

During an interview with Pocket Lint, the executive said that Android devices are no longer interesting to the younger audience.

"What I see is that young people are always around with their iPhones. Everyone has an iPhone. But many are not happy with the complexity of Android and its lack of security. Then we see a growing number of young people who want the latest technology are returning to use the Windows platform on their smartphones. "

Munksgaard then went to the attack of the hardware devices. "The market is flooded and became a sea of ​​sameness. When you go to a store, only sees a multitude of black blocks on the shelves, and it is confusing to the consumer, "he said, closing his company plans to offer" different devices and services to consumers.

Fatigue aside, the most recent data show that Android currently has about 1 million activations daily, given with devices from different brands on the market. Since Nokia is one of the manufacturers who have sworn allegiance to MS in the market for mobile devices.

Future MacBook Pro would have resolution of 2880 × 1800 pixels

And we begin again the round of rumors about future Apple products. I have not seen anyone from the specialized media speculating heavily on the iPhone 5. The MacBook Pro, on the other hand, are in serious danger of winning an absolutely fabulous display with a resolution - to be derived from a fable, it is worth explaining. According to DigiTimes, the next generation family of notebooks will have resolution of 2880 × 1800 pixels.


Just to contextualize how dense would be the resolution of the MacBook Pro (relying on the above site): nowadays the use Full HD 1920 × 1080 pixels.

Also according to DigiTimes, the new MacBook Pro family should appear in stores "in the second quarter of 2012." Until then, the site says, Apple has announced new specifications for panels (LCD / LED) required the electronic components industry. "The ultra-high resolution of the new MacBook Pro will differentiate the future of Apple products from other brands, sources commented."

A quick reference to the mother of the donkeys, I found an entry in Wikipedia with the most current standards for screen resolutions. The largest, dubbed QSXGA, has a width of 2560 pixels by 2480 pixels height. Only at the time it is greater than the super-resolution that Apple intends to adopt in the future. As I understand it, we're talking about a standard yet to be determined in the video industry and image. Type of thing that Apple could very well come up with on their own.

The current generation MacBook Pro has a maximum resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels in 17-inch model. I wonder which GPU would report on 2880 × 1800 pixels in alleged notebooks in the design phase.

The newspaper DigiTimes is based in China. He specializes in publishing accurate information among the Asian manufacturers of products that, under seal "Made in China" and the like, invade the West from time to time.

Microsoft launches SkyDrive app to rival Apple devices

Phone features with Windows SkyDrive, the storage platform in the Microsoft cloud. But who said the company is pleased to serve only smartphone users to the system it developed? This week arrived in the App Store SkyDrive application for iPhone and iPad.


"We know that not everyone who relies on SkyDrive to share photos or access Office documents using Windows Phone ... Yet." With these words, a representative from MSFT confirmed the arrival of a native application - no web app - for the platform Apple's. It was made ​​thinking in terms of the iPhone interface, but also functions as the iPad application.


According to Microsoft, all of the shares present in SkyDrive WPhone are on iOS. You can view documents, create folders, delete folders, delete files. In short, to maintain total organization of the 25 GB that MSFT provides free through the SkyDrive service. For those unaware, SkyDrive works very similar to Dropbox adored, just have a Live ID account (Messenger has a user from a) to use.

A feature by which I particularly interested is the easy file sharing. Say I'm on the road and need to send a document that is on my SkyDrive for some contact. Instead of downloading it, attach it and then send it to the person, I can simply open the app SkyDrive, go to the file and select the option to share. MSFT's technology takes care of creating a link to the file in the cloud, from which the message recipient will download the file.

Being more mobile platforms, is that this time spawned the SkyDrive MSFT among the most tech-savvy users (you and me)?

Microsoft recognizes failure with SMS in Windows Phone

No operating system is safe from security breaches. In Windows Phone, the latest one is related to how the system interprets a simple SMS text message. As we reported yesterday, a user discovered a bug that allows you to remotely restart the smartphone without the user having to avoid the procedure.


Today MSFT has acknowledged the security flaw.

According to the The Verge, Microsoft said it was investigating what is happening with Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango". The general manager for the mobile platform division said: "We are aware of the issue and our engineering teams are now examining. Once we have more details, we will take appropriate action to ensure that consumers are protected. "

Behind all the language adopted by the corporate executive, we have confirmation of a serious problem in the system so beloved by MSFT. The user responsible for the discovery made ​​a great favor to the Redmond company informed while avoiding any kind of detail on the operation of the fault. We even have video proving it works, but do not know how. With luck, only Microsoft engineers will learn the subject.

More likely is that MSFT send an automatic update for smartphones running the Mango.

Tthe games that promise to crush the PS Vita

In San Francisco, United States, Sony has released a tasting of some of the games which will make the future console PlayStation Vita. Anyone can get to know Little Big Planets or Uncharted, but not everyone has easy access to the Vita Hill Social Club.


Anyway, Sony released a few trailers to leave the gamer audience salivating in anticipation for the arrival of the laptop. Look at that.


Little Big Planet


The imaginary world of Little Big Planet sparked the creativity of children and adults and this time the adventures happen wherever you are. All aspects that made Little Big Planet is one of today's most compelling franchises seem to be intact, and now the player can interact with several new forms in this universe full of dreams.

During the E3 gamer TB Gus Fune Vita played with and played Little Big Planets. Below is the video with his hands in using the laptop.

Escape Plan

Help and Lil laarge to escape from their captivity, preventing them from being turned into a sheep by the fearsome Bakuki. A point and click quite stylized - appears to have come straight out of one of the first Tim Burton-animations and full of puzzles you should solve using their imagination and resources of the PS Vita, as the rear touch screen, motion sensor front screen and multitouch.

Uncharted: The Golden Abyss


Nathan Drake gives the guys in the handheld options with innovative controls via the touch screen and accelerometer toy. The adventure takes place before the events of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (the first game of the series) explores a Drake and less experienced than we are accustomed.

The game should work like the games of the series for PS3, but with adaptations and improvements for the Vita features of PS, as a more accurate targeting system with the help of the accelerometer. As long as the system is not playing like the grenade first Uncharted - you tilt the control to set the launch angle, a disaster in the middle of a battle - you will be fine.

Rush Gravity

Kat is the heroine in anime that promises to let the player dizzy. If not for the strange monsters, will be the amount of times you see the world spinning around you. Gravity Rush is an action game that promises to melt your brain while you control the direction of gravity to resolve the challenges. From using the multitouch screen to move and dodge the enemies until the motion sensor PS Vita to change the direction that gravity applies to an environment. This little game is to bet the Japanese developers of Siren in the new Sony's portable.

With a line-up quite varied and interesting proposals for controls, the PS should Vita launched in the West - including Brazil! - On February 22 next year costing $ 259 (Wi-Fi) and U.S. $ 300 (Wi-Fi and 3G), a little over two months after the Japanese launch.

The expectation is huge, but the question that haunts me is, how does the laptop will cost national lands?

Facebook enters the fight against suicide

Facebook on Tuesday announced the launch of a service they want to keep suicidal thoughts away from the heads of its users. For now only available to users of English, the service will allow friends to report possible suicide-content posts to the site.


According to information released, the social network itself will be in contact with the depressed user through a message, offering the option to use the social network chat to chat in real time with a counselor.

The initiative, which has been in development since the beginning of the year, has the support of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, U.S.. According to Nicola Pecket, communication director for the UK charity Samaritans, who helped develop the tool but that has not been included in the new, expanding the service to other countries with the help of other NGOs is the "next step" of the service , told the BBC.


"One goal is to allow the person to receive expert help as soon as possible," said Fred Wolens, director of public policy social networking news agency Associated Press. The option has been added telephone services to assist suicides against that for years there including Brazil. "Many people tell us they need to talk to someone but do not want to have to make a phone call. Sending messages is ideal for these cases, "he said Lidia Bernik, Director of the National Suicide Prevention.

Since last year search engines like Google and Yahoo display means of contact with organizations fighting suicide every time a user uses words the risk in their searches.

Study shows that operators can not deal with customers

A study by consulting firm Amdocs has brought about a very curious information: the mobile operators are using strategies completely wrong to keep their clientele.


Warranty coverage: more than required
The analysis was done with information obtained through interviews with professionals of the positions of directors and marketing executives from 40 operators throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as customers of the respective telcos.

Almost all operators believe that the quality of services, coverage and transmission capacity of the network are the factors that generate more loyal customers. The problem is that customers see these items as most of the obligations on the part of operators, not an advantage to be considered for competition.

This connects to another point in history: the customers are switching over cheating operator. 66% of operators believe that today, customers are less loyal as compared to the situation two years ago, and 70% of operators apotam retention and customer loyalty as critical factors for growth. Still, 65% of operators only offer benefits to customer loyalty is mentioned as one possible switch carriers.

Most operators agree that the retention should be massive over the next five years. With number portability, carrier change has become a less laborious task, and that's the dilemma of entering companies: convince new customers to sign their services, and not let your current subscribers to migrate to other providers.

I say only one thing: operators need to hire better marketing managers. This type of mismatch, a strategic level, compromises the integrity of a company. What does success is the promotion of cheaper fare, and not propaganda coverage.

Google shows what was most searched in 2011

Now is that time of year again. The moment when familiar Google Zeitgeist reveals the ten things that millions of heads visited on Google during 2011 so far.



Below is the full list.

google plus
casey anthony
Battlefield 3
iphone 5
adele
东京 电力 (TEPCO)
steve jobs
Skins 2

In Brazil, as ironic as it may seem, the most searched item was Facebook. The list follows with bbb11, DDTank and two novels. Obviously the term Brasileirão 2011 could not miss the list, but surprised me the fact that he is under "Tumblr." Evidence that hipsters have more than football fans in the country? Anyway, see the complete list it below, courtesy of Google Blog Brazil.

facebook
bbb11
ddtank
rebel
foolish heart
2011 contests
tumblr
Brasileirão 2011
enem 2011
enchanted string


Remember that this time Google caprice even in the presentation of data. The Google Zeitgeist 2011 website has several nice infographics that are worth being seen. I recommend, however, when you visit the site with time left - is a lot of information together in one place.

Microsoft launches Socl, social network based on Bing

The Socl, according to the official announcement that Microsoft released recently, is a tool aimed at students interested in learning more about social networking.


According to the description of the site, So.cl was developed by FUSE Labs, a research arm of Microsoft. The focus of the network is "exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning" and that social search is, of course, powered by Bing. There is a lame motion on the home page which shows more or less how the network works, but is in WebM and only newer browsers can see.

What made it known so far is that the So.cl will serve initially for students to better understand social media as a social network works. The company blog post says that students can "build posts with various elements such as photos, text, videos and more - and share them with colleagues." Sounds intriguing.

The So.cl that accompanies the current social networks have been doing lately: By default all the posts are marked as public and there is also an element of video, the Video Party, which allows you to share clips with several people at once. This last item would be the Microsoft version of Google Hangout, I would say, but without integration with webcams, only chat.

She goes in one respect, however. According to the FAQ, "the So.cl links automatically shares as soon as you search." This is to show users that the network can discover new interests through this share. Sounds both interesting and a little weird, but I need to see in place before judging this functionality.

The social network is in closed beta testing and so far the three American college students: the New York University, the University of Washington and Syracuse University. There's no predicting when it will be open to the rest of us mortals.

Turn now to the new Facebook timeline

The timeline that Facebook originally presented in September is gradually coming to all social network users globally. The change is also true for the Brazilians, said Facebook's office in the country in a press release.


First it was the New Zealanders who had a timeline. Following the world time zones - I think that's it - Facebook said that this would be the first people across the world to receive the timeline. With the feature, users have a profile page more visually beautiful, and the centralization of the most relevant information about the individual's life in a timeline (swear?) Built in electronic form over time.

In announcing the appeal, Mark Zuckerberg himself has shown that certain items will disappear from the timeline as time passed. Hence the most important updates on the lives of members remain there, while less important details disappear as time passes.

Imagine, therefore, that Facebook has duly registered in the servers, because your history is there right now, with everything you've done since joining the social network. Well ...

If you want to activate your timeline as soon as possible, the key is to go on that page and click the opt-in feature. Social network will immediately load the new profile, complete with many customizations to make it the way you want.

Remember that, for the moment, timelines are closed to the public, but will become quite public on December 22. This means that the layout, the main photo, the avatar and a few more things will be accessible to the entire internets. To edit the timeline you need to click "Activity Log" and set the privacy of each of the items.

HP will return to produce tablets with webOS in 2013

The tortuous history of webOS under the control of HP could win a fresh chapter within a year.


Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, said in an interview that does not rule out the possibility that your company offers a new tablet running the platform to the market in "early 2013". The revelation came during an interview on the executive to the site "TechCrunch."

The strategy would be as inspired by the success that the deceased experienced touchpad tablet after seeing its price fall from a pricey $ 499 to U.S. $ 99 comrades - part of an action to clear inventory promoted after the end of the line of the gadget was announced. The new model had modest hardware, price friendly and generate few costs for HP, since the development of its platform would be left to their community (now open) of developers. Formula not unlike the Kindle Fire, another recent success of the market.

Within HP, the new device will be joined with webOS tablet equipped with Windows 8, set to hit stores in the second half of 2012.

In a statement sent to the "TechCrunch", HP said that Whitman's statement about a new tablet with webOS has always been in the works, who left, right, only plans to build phones with the platform. All right then.

Google and Motorola? Not so fast, says EU

The acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google may take longer than expected thanks to the anti-trust body of the European Union, which is asking for "more information" about the transaction to the web giant to decide whether to approve the purchase of the company.


The information is the news network "Bloomberg", which states that an EU representative asked for "certain documents which are essential information for evaluating the transaction," without going into details about the questions in the air. A spokesman for the European arm of Google said that the data requested by the committee are "routine". Initially it was hoped that the aquicição arm of Motorola mobile devices were implemented on the mainland on January 10.

In last August Google announced the purchase of Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion, an operation that given their proportion of reach must pass the scrutiny of authorities from the mainland to become official in Europe.

One of the reasons given by Google to purchase the company is adding a large number of patents to its portfolio in an attempt to shield the Android operating system driven by legal battles against Microsoft, Apple and other courts in the world.

However, since the end of 2010 the alleged anti-competitive practices Google make the giant web is targeted EU. A list of competitors, led by Yahoo and Microsoft came to protest against certain practices of the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the search market and advertising network, reaching the company states that "chokes" innovation.

Xoom 2 Media Edition with Android 3.2

The Xoom 2 Media Edition, a new tablet launched today by Motorola Mobility in Brazil, comes with Android 3.2. In the eyes of those who already know of the existence of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, it may seem a tablet late afternoon and arrived in the country. But included in Motorola Xoom 2 ME some features that seem to compensate for the fact that he does not yet have the latest version of the system.


The first impression I had the Xoom 2 to hold it was the lightness. He is the first tablet I caught up with one hand and realize that if you hold for a while it will not cause much trouble. According to Motorola they arrived in the middle ground between the screen 10 and 7 inches, the standards of the manufacturers of tablet, after a market research and test prototypes. And it seems to me at least, they found the ideal size.

Unlike the original Xoom, which was created to deliver the pure experience of Android, the Xoom 2 ME comes with some customizations and Motorola appear to be of doubtful usefulness. But out of this list are things like MotoCast, the tablet that lets you access media files on a computer connected to the Internet. In this tablet there is also an infrared sensor on the tablet, which together with an integrated application called Dijit, transforming it into a universal remote control. It is. I did not understand well.

A difference of 2 and Xoom that justifies the "Media Edition" is the name of the concern about the sound quality. He has a virtual surround sound system adaptive. Basically there are three speakers in three corners of the tablet and switch function (two stereo speakers and a subwoofer) according to the orientation of the gadget, to always ensure a good quality sound.

Already the new tablet accessories are really quite varied, perhaps too much: two different types of keyboard (with a trackpad and another with a touchpad hidden), a dock, a microUSB adapter for standard USB port (to make use of USB sticks or other gadgets), an HDMI cable and a smart cover to cover that it serves as a support for the ME 2 and Xoom can make you fall forward if the surface is very flat.

The Xoom 2 arrives in Brazil for R $ 1,299.00, which is a little lower than what we see in the Brazilian market. It is manufactured in Brazil but I'm not sure yet if the low price is linked to the exemption law of the tablet. Still, it is now possible to make a contrast with the Apple tablet. The iPad 2 model with WiFi and 16 GB, for example, is still being sold for R $ 1,649.00, although it has a slightly bigger screen.

When asked if you want to bring the 3G version of Xoom second to Brazil, Motorola has just said that yes, go. But I do not want to risk a date, leaving a vague expectation "first quarter of next year" the same time, moreover, to be released tablet accessories. About Android 4.0 update, the company said it is still evaluating whether the update will happen or not.

For now these are my first impressions of the tablet. He seems to offer at a price that fairly compensates you have. You then have two options to see if it delivers in terms of multimedia and battery life: buy one in the next 20 days or wait for our full review due out shortly afterwards.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Lenovo beats Dell and reaches the second place in PCs

China's Lenovo comes the second highest number of PCs sold around the world. With this, the company surpasses U.S. Dell, which recently has suffered from the crisis in key markets (read: the United States and Europe). In turn, Lenovo just takes advantage of the internal market, supplying the Chinese with new equipment, thus increasing sales.


Consulting on data from IHS iSuppli for the third quarter, Lenovo appears to 12.5 million PCs distributed. The front remains the HP, who sat on the throne of personal computing time and staff does not seem to want to drop the crown. Hewlett-Packard distributes 16.2 million machines during the period July to September. Dell, which has led the market in the third position with 11.2 million PCs distributed.

The news comes without causing much surprise. Everyone knows that America is recovering from a very heavy crisis, while Europe seems to sink ever more the same type of problem. Lenovo, which only smart, strengthened sales in the Chinese territory. They have the machines set up there, and now do not need ships to transport thousands of computers, since the distribution takes place internally.

And to think that a few years ago, nobody would talk about buying a machine from Lenovo in Brazil. Since they acquired the PC division of IBM and licensed the brand to own laptops, even in 2005 - the year that positioned the United States headquarters, and where was the group's ThinkPad giant blue - this market has changed a lot. Not to mention that interest in desktop computers has declined, with greater desire for notebooks.

Personally I do not know anyone who has a computer from Lenovo. I often see more Vaio from Sony or Acer, which appears fourth in total distributed machines, according to IHS iSuppli. Here in Brazil we have the phenomenon of assembled desktop machines, where the guy goes into a store, choose the specifications, and then provides the technical equipment complete with his assurance, and safeguards for each individual component.

Windows 8 Tablet relevant or not?

Among the new features of Windows 8, one that stands out is the adoption of applications here in what I call visual Tecnoblog Metro. Inspired by Windows Phone, the interface works well on mobile devices with data entry via touchscreen. Only with the arrival of the first tablet running the future system, it may be that those fans of the ARM architecture are left without the traditional applications written for Windows Mobile.


The ball was up in the podcast by Paul Thurrott "Windows Weekly", and later received the attention of Mary Jo Foley, a columnist specializing in the Microsoft universe. Mary Jo says he received information from staff on the maintenance of MS called Desktop applications (ie, traditional) 8 for Windows tablets. But maybe it does not, if the information is confirmed Thurrott further forward.


Windows 8: ready to use on the tablet
In the first version of Windows 8 released for testing (the Developer Preview), both traditional applications such as Metro work perfectly. However, the tests were done on a machine with an Intel processor. It has nothing to do with ARM, 32-bit technology adopted by the manufacturer of the same name. It is known that applications must be rewritten to work with ARM as the architecture is quite different from that programmers are accustomed to do with x86 and x64 architectures employed by Intel and AMD and their processors.

Discussion is good because it reveals the difficult decision that Microsoft has to do. The MS system has always been famous for allowing virtually any application. The programmer does what he pleases, without following guidelines (I'm using the force of expression here, ok?) - Albeit unconsciously, as we see in Apple's OS X (ditto). And the user is free to install whatever they want.

In tablets with ARM based processor, the company can opt for incompatibility with traditional applications. We have less choice, but the trend is that the user experience is better in a system where all the apps were designed for this type of interaction based on the fingertip.

Have you thought about using Excel, as was done for Office 2010 in a tablet? I have serious doubts about the viability of this use for a long time. I bet you get tired after a few hours. In the Apple iPad, the iWork suite of applications have been redone to take advantage and disadvantages of a tablet.


Windows 8: Microsoft proves that the system was designed thinking of tablets

If I were the CEO of Microsoft, was in serious doubt at this time. It would be a paradigm shift if the information is confirmed. On the other hand, Windows 8 has a lot of Windows Phone. And we've seen that Microsoft intends to rein in controlling the platform for mobile phones. Why not do the same platform for tablets?

Kindle Fire outsells iPad in Best Buy

Many have tried, but fell to Kindle Fire for being the first tablet to see their sales exceed those of the famous iPads in a large retail store in the U.S..


The feat took place on the website of Best Buy, where the small tablet of Amazon, which went on sale just over two weeks and available in single version to consumers, came in ahead of the powerful iPad 2 16 GB WiFi black.

However it is not yet time to declare the end of the reign of the gadget created by Steve Jobs. Adding sales of other tablets of the apple variety, the crown of best-selling Best Buy site back to Apple, since, together, the other versions of the model still displaces its small rival.

Although there is not a great achievement, this is the first time Apple sees a competitor having some real success in the niche market that helped popularize with the release of iPad original in April 2010.

Not that such performance Kindle Fire is exactly a surprise. At $ 199, on his first day of pre-sales model had 95 000 units reserved on Amazon mother. In the weeks after the company went on to say that selling "Kindles by 2000 hours," which he had made about 250,000 units reserved at the beginning of your sales that took place last November 15.

Last week, Amazon released a statement saying that sales of the Kindle family of devices had "increased by 800%" over the same period last year, driven mainly by the Fire.

Google improves panel on airline flights

When they bought the company in aviation ITA data, we knew that Google was up to something. Well, the launch of Google Flights happened some time later with easily searchable information about flights from one corner to another, with the right to amounts charged by the airlines.


Now the data on flights returning to normal Google search in an integrated manner.

The functionality existed before, but got better, as shown in the screenshot at the outset. By using the formula "flights from place x to place y" (in English of course), Google's algorithm automatically understands that they are two different places and tells you which are the flights, at what times and where airlines.

The panel of flights provided by Google allows you to modify the dates of departure and return. Shows, besides the airlines, the travel time, something important for us to plan the time we stay at a particular place. And the values ​​are of course "from". Just do not ask me whether or not they include airport taxes, which sites like Decolar.com in Brazil says only after you already had the heart to take the air-bridge for $ 49.90.

The bad news: it works only with U.S. domestic flights. If you plan a trip backpack style to the land of Uncle Sam, it's still a good choice.

The appeal is in process of release. Should appear for all users in the coming days, according to the company.

Australia wins first exclusive store for Android

If  powerful iPhone and iPad are the opulent Apple Stores, Android now has a place to call their own. Work of the Australian operator Telstra, which together Google introduced the world's first store dedicated entirely to the little robot's operating system, the AndroidLand.


Headquartered in Melbourne, the store is a two-story great room entirely decorated with the program. Little robots of all kinds are scattered around the place and company to make large touch screens where visitors can play Angry Birds and navigate through Google Maps, among other applications available.

According to the operator, the store began to be planned in late July and will be fully dedicated to selling smartphones and tablets equipped with Android.

In the video that displays the location, Adrian Newport, division marketing manager for Google Mobile says that all the local environment is flavored with the scent of gingerbread - or Gingerbread, code name for version 2.3 of the program. But do not talk like you will address the challenge of ambintar the local ice cream sandwich.

Report: Diamonds has open the door to quantum computing

Quantum physics is of course known for bizarre phenomena that usually jostle with the laws of classical physics. The interaction between physical objects proposed by the scales usually bumps into concrete impediments theorists, when faced with the typical connections for the proposed new school.


The phenomenon known as quantum 'entanglement' (involvement) theoretically connects two objects even if they are separated by distances immeasurable and also studies the factors that affect both objects in time and space, and the potential of these interactions.

The entanglement in a nutshell, occurs when particles such as electrons or photons physically interact and then separate. What defines the phenomenon is, in terms of quantum, is the assumption that both particles share an undefined state until they are measured.

It is measuring the interference it causes, among other factors, the connection takes the name of the phenomenon itself. That is, particles potentialities pluggable (but separate) that respond to the intervention of a measurement and thus causing the state of correlation or, if allowed to simplify the term, contact.

Scientists from the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada have achieved a remarkable achievement in this field of study. They were able to physically demonstrate the phenomenon by means of diamonds and the common conditions encountered in any laboratory.

Ben Sussman, quantum physicist of the National Research Council of Canada, explains:

"It's hard to understand that we can practically hold in our own hands this little 'thing' quantum 1 mm thick"

He is not shy in saying that the succession of attempts that resulted in these results is very important for engineers and researchers for years looking for a way to explore the phenomenon of entanglement for purposes of investment in technologies such as quantum computing debated.

And indeed, this is a big step toward being able to appreciate a scientific demonstration that goes beyond the theoretical calculations proposed in papers and other specialists.


'Illustration: quantum experiment with diamonds AAAS'
The experiment consisted of placing two pieces of diamond (above in purple) and engage them - creating a state of quantum entanglement - through short laser pulses (green). With this set up properly, it was possible to measure the light given off from both simultanemanente diamonds (blue and red), so that scientists could then prove the desired quantum state with experience.

One other factor that caught the attention of the scientific community was that this experiment was done at room temperature and solid materials in their natural state. The common methodology for trials of type always includes the modification of states of very different samples of simple natural diamonds and also special conditions such as freezing temperatures.

The next step is to make possible the establishment of the phenomenon and connecting elements larger in size. Again, there have been situations where scientists have managed to "entangle" superconducting integrated circuits, but only with their temperatures reduced to extremely low levels.

What seems like a recipe for the new generation of holistic specialists is then the news that ordinary objects have indeed the potential to exhibit this behavior / state.

What one side is the only potential partner with the results of the experiment the AAAS with a brick on the other, the experience itself only paves a very long road still to be covered, until it can fully satisfy the next candidate for Gandalf.

That is, can tell you that speak so things like "science proves beyond doubt that we learn to measure just right that we can connect to a cosmic onion" and so on ...

Romps with these poor souls apart, scientists warn the fact that quantum phenomena easily break or dissociate when larger objects.

The reason this happens because of a physical property that facilitates the demonstration of entanglement in states of very small objects, known as 'coherence'. This condition suffers a kind of erosion when it interacts with other elements, such as atoms of the elements that are close to being 'connected'.

Sussman explains:

"Consistency is the factor which determines the potential extent of a quantum system. If there are many elements heat bouncing back and forth on this system, the quantum potential disappears. "

Ian Walmsley, professor of experimental physics at Oxford University, explains that:

"It is easier to maintain consistency in the smallest objects of them are practically isolated from other particles that can disrupt their interactions. Things are complicated in several other large objects containing moving parts. "

Major focus of research, Sussman and his colleagues note that:

The ductility (toughness) of diamonds shows they are more resistant to disturbances that can destroy the coherence;
The maximum speed of the experiment (the researchers used laser pulses of no more than 60 femtoseconds long - equivalent to 0.00006 of a 1 [ns] * - shows that there was no time for disturbances to destroy the state of coherence, as well as fenomológicos effects of the quantum state in question.

Sony to abandon "Ericsson" and low-end phones in 2012

Google and Motorola have already spoken about the details of the purchase, Sony had not spoken much about the plans they have for the future of company mobile. Over the weekend a company executive said finally what can we expect.


According to the vice president of marketing and sales Kristian Tear, one of the changes will be the loss of the Ericsson brand name. After all if Sony bought the joint venture over to it, will not want to keep the brand of another company, right? But this change will happen faster than some thought would happen: up to half of next year we will have no more cell phones with the Sony Ericsson brand in the market.

In addition, the loss of the name Ericsson will be accompanied by change in focus of the company, which will cease to manufacture low-end phones and should focus only on smartphones.

Sony Ericsson is known for having a nicely varied portfolio of devices, including in the field of low-end. This is how they are successful in developing markets, including Brazil. For this reason a change in focus of this magnitude should be also accompanied by significant improvements in the experience of Android, currently its main system for mobile smartphones. Or at least that is the twist to happen.

Xbox gets a new dashboard

In 24 hours, the happy owners of the Xbox 360 will have a big surprise. Very early, the new Dashboard device is scheduled to go on air on Tuesday, December 6. And Microsoft has some interesting promises for those who have the current generation console.


First, the Xbox 360 holds hands with Windows Phone. The company led by Steve Ballmer chose to play the Tiles interface (the squares of the WP) on the console. It is not look like a giant smartphone, however, and I think the result was very positive against the previous interface device. This is the biggest change in the look of the Xbox five years, according to some specialist vehicles.


Some categories of resources were reorganized. "Social" appears to give vent to the contemporary need to share what we are thinking, doing and eating in networks Twitter and Facebook. The user can view the timeline and update their profile from the game.

With the update tomorrow, Microsoft intends to take another step towards the 21st century intelligent television. Not coincidentally, the applications are worth mentioning: it has Netflix, YouTube, Rango, Epix, Last.fm and many others. Depending on the service-TV signs the gamer, the Xbox 360 still give you access to live channels and functionality that provides pay TV provider. In the U.S., customers Comcast has 10 000 films and made available to Verizon FiOS customers can watch some special content.

Specifically in Brazil, Microsoft confirms the availability of Mexican broadcaster Televisa's telenovelas next year. We also have MLB.tv content related to baseball. And only.


Xbox 360: Content
The Bing brand presence in the new Dashboard. The Microsoft search engine does not take the user directly to web searches. Instead, it appears as an option for those who want to search for content stored on the console itself. Movies, applications, etc products available through Marketplace.

It also has better integration with Kinect. Who has the accessories connected to the console can use gestures or voice commands to access applications and do some research (using Bing, of course) on Xbox 360. According to the Guardian, the search for movies "Harry Potter" depends to speak "Xbox, Bing, Harry Potter."

Xbox Live Gold Subscribers gain the ability to save games in the cloud, as well as movies that are watching. Thus, simply put the gamertag on another console to pull the saved games and movies to be viewed directly from the Microsoft cloud.

The dashboard update does not cost anything and it should automatically come on Xbox 360.

Google and Mozilla Are Negotiating Firefox Search Deal

The Google search that everybody sees in their Firefox is not there for nothing. A few years ago, Mozilla has made a deal with the world's largest search engine to implement the search in the browser. This agreement was renewed in November 2008 and would end date the last day of the month. Some days have passed, but so far the Mozilla did not say whether the agreement was renewed or not, which calls into question the future of the company.


Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Mozilla.

Since its inception, has always brought the deal profitable fruit for Mozilla. In 2010, customized searches through the Firefox bar that generated revenues accounted for 98% of its revenue, although the company does not reveal exactly what the Google in total - similar agreements with Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are also included . So it's a little unusual that no announcement has been made around that yet.

For its part, Google said the BusinessInsider that still has a deal with Mozilla, but does not elaborate on what he is. And as the Google search has not been removed with an update of Firefox, we can deduce that he still will extend at least until the end of the year, giving time for the Mozilla can adapt to a change.

But what happens next? We will see a Firefox with Yahoo or Bing as default search engine? Or Mozilla will be sold to another to pay more, since the company has become extremely dependent on these agreements to have a good financial return? Remember that Firefox already has a version with Bing, but she is not the standard version.

The fact is that Google has its own browser that already has enough traction to overcome the Firefox, so it is natural that Google reconsider the contract it has with Mozilla. The question is whether, first, Mozilla will even let the goose that lays the golden eggs escape, secondly, how users will react to a possible change.

I have no problem in having the Bing or Yahoo as default search engine in Firefox, since I can change. And you?

Cuba creates virtually identical to the social network Facebook

The Cuban government seems to start thinking about new ways to narrow down the information that travels across the country. Recently Mairata Sandro, who writes on issues related to Latin America to Tumblr channel Univision, published some screenshots of the project called 'Red Social ".


The website is obviously equal to Facebook, where even the same sequence of buttons, layout and visual identity can be easily recognized. The logo sort of tangled up with the old version of MySpace icons.

The project is supposed to be headed by Minister of Education, although it is always difficult to confirm this information when it comes to any action of the country. Set in the air almost noiselessly, Red Social has raised questions about its true purpose.

On the website homepage replaces the image of world map commonly used by Facebook for that of the island of Cuba, signed by the phrase "A virtual meeting place for Cuban Universities."

The blogger Carlos Alberto Benitez La Chiringa * of Cuba said in one of your posts that the project serves as a kind of intranet, online, with access restricted to just local internet connections, making it impossible to access it elsewhere.

Many sources have confirmed it can not access the domain http://facebook.ismm.edu.cu in dif countries. Here in Brazil, apparently, is equally impossible.

Curiously the base url inicilmente include the word "facebook" as a subdomain, which has already ventured implications of brand misuse and possible problems associated with patents. For most it is restricted and controlled the flow of information because of the political regime of the country, it is hard to believe that a carbon copy of so literal largest social network in the world could be so naively developed without any just retribution.

I personally believe that the rapid entry-exit strategy, and has the typical Cuban touch, where the controversy seems to always attract the necessary attention. If this is not where the project should have been thrown away from the radar of the interwebs, then someone made enough mistakes amateurs in the early stages of the network.

Immediately after the publication of Benitez on the above address, apparently concerned about the type of response that Facebook, the engineers behind the project created a new domain for the network http://neko.uclv.edu.cu/index. php / equally inaccessible, but only from the island itself.

However, the likely problems linked to all the visual and functional network can still persist. For now Facebook has not expressed any opinion on the matter.

A year ago, Cuba had already undertaken the construction of EcuRed, which gives his version - both in form and in content - the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on .. all.

Hotmail, the best web application of year 2011?

I put it as a question, but colleagues of the magazine "PC Magazine" have already decided: Hotmail received a gold medal as the best web-based service this year which ends in a couple more days. The journalists put Google Docs in second place, with grade 4 (of 5), while Microsoft appears webmail with a grade 4.5 (5 also, of course).


They wrote the following to defend the arrival of Hotmail as a number of web services:

"The folks at Microsoft have taken seriously the updates of your webmail service leader-participation-in-world, adding unique tools for organizing and cleaning up inboxes and view active content. [...] The new Hotmail beats Gmail messages prior to the offer, a better implementation of the Conversation view, better tools to maintain order in your inbox and remove "messages" gray, or messages that are not spam but are not priority. "

In fact, Microsoft has brought Hotmail to a new level. He went from being old-fashioned thing of the past to become a mail service option among geeks. Still, I think that Gmail is still a perfect tool with powerful spam filter. It seems like the journalists of "PC Magazine" forgot the Priority box, which classifies the non-spam messages as a priority or not. It was introduced last year, but until now has been improved. And the recent redesign has made viewing Gmail messages in a conversational manner more efficient.

Now they are right about one thing: the display of active content in Hotmail is very good. The message can be handled with some forms of interaction that does not allow conventional mail. But that depends on partnership with the MS web companies in order to do something truly integrated.


Every email service has its pros and its cons. Instead of defending one or the other, I leave the question for you: Hotmail is a web application for 2011 in your opinion?

Gingerbread Crosses Android Froyo In Popularity

Nearly 1 million activations per day (October estimates) make the scenery in the world of Androids change remarkably over short periods of time. The channel's developer platform serves well to show this change. The latest data, released earlier this month, accusing the Gingerbread (2.3) finally passed Froyo (2.2) and most widely used version of Android.

Gingerbread is a majority. For the time being.

The Gingerbread reached 50.51% while the popularity of Froyo version, which last month held the crown of most popular incarnation of the system, saw its share fall from 45.3% to 35.3%. She is ahead of the 2.1 Eclair (9.6%), 1.6 Donut (1.3%), 3.2 and 3.1 Honeycomb, with respectively 1.2% and 1.1%. The less-used versions of Android is 3.0, with 0.1% and 1.5 Cupcake with 0.8%. Only the two latest versions of the platform, Gingerbread and Honeycomb (developed for tablets), gained share in the period.

Although the Gingerbread has won more than half the territory in Android smartphones, the deed does not chill the discussions of the fragmentation of the platform. With five releases in the street, the platform gets a new leader of use shortly after the presentation of a new version that will incorporate statistics. Besides, soon, to further increase the distance between the latest version of the program and apparatus frozen in their updates.

TIM announces broadband optical fiber in Rio and Sao Paulo

At an event for press and shareholders, TIM revealed its next investment. Through a new company called Fiber TIM, the Italian operator will offer fixed broadband services in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo from July next year.


Initially, the operator will sell two speeds: 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps. All this speed will arrive in customers' homes through a fiber optic network that will reach the pole or building. Since then, come together to network covers pre-existing residence through a VDSL converter. The discerning will opt for higher speeds the fiber directly into their homes.


Luca Luciani, CEO of TIM and Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO of TIM Fiber
The fiber optic network Fiber TIM covers practically the entire city of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as some nearby towns. This is because the purchase of AES Atimus by TIM in July of that year, which added to the grid operator of a 5500 km optical fiber in the two capitals.

The focus of TIM is to win customers in the utilities operators (Hi and Telefonica) which, due to the distance between home and central, are prevented from owning more than bandwidth of 2 Mbps. The investment for each customer is approximately $ 500. This value encompasses the entire installation process, from labor to the boxes that must be affixed to the pole.

The ambition is large: the operator plans to own 20% of the broadband market in four years of operation in the capital. It does this by working with two market segments: "I pay, but I have no technical availability" and "but I can not get." Along with fixed broadband, the operator will also create a network of hotspots, a la Vex.



However, prices and plans were not disclosed. Rogerio Takayanagi, TIM Fiber CEO, said the deal will be similar to the competition, except in the form of collection: it is not necessary to have a landline to get broadband. The operator did not bet on convergence in the two services, because it has a prepaid plan with rates cheaper than a landline.

In the presentation, there was a model of the connected home. A computer connected to the service was available for testing, and get 45 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. Takayanagi I could talk to, and he assured me that the upload should stay in between 10 and 15 Mbps.

HSPA +
TIM also used the event to advertise their projects on HSPA +. The carrier will operate the technology in three carriers and three sectors for each site, allowing a total of up to 378 Mbps theoretical for each antenna. This link will be provided through the TIM Fiber networks and Intelig important to remove the bottleneck previously known: just for the sake of comparison, each antenna had only 8 Mbps.

Unlike the Live, no specific plans for Internet access via this technology. Customers can browse the HSPA + network without the need to exchange their data packets.

Takayanagi was keen to highlight that the implementation of infrastructure and TIM Intelig Fiber is essential for the expansion of mobile network: the sites are getting the upgrades will be able to LTE, with speeds up to 300 Mbps to each customer. "Now, TIM has that capability," he said.

YouTube Gets New Design

With just an addition of the code in browser JavaScript console could already see: YouTube was preparing to relaunch its home page with new layout. Last night Google released once the revamped interface, which is available to users immediately (at least here already opened on the first try).


Note that the homepage has undergone many changes. The design team chose to YouTube add a menu on the left side, from which the user has access to several channels that he signs. And integration with the Facebook brand presence, so that the video site pulls own social network what friends are sharing and places it in a way more interesting for those who just want to watch the audiovisual content.

Of course it also has integration with Google +. It works similar to the social network integration with Mark Zuckerberg.

On the cover there are still entries, with the videos recently published in the subscribed channels. Beside, YouTube uses algorithms to define recommendations videos you would like to attend, considering your user profile. Each click on "like" each play and each site interaction enhances the way that YouTube builds its consumption profile (content, in this case).

Following the previous layout, YouTube remains a large area below your top bar in which advertisers can place interactive video and other types of advertising. After all, Google still has the intention of making money from the biggest video site in the world.


Page YouTube Channel
The channel page has also changed. You can choose a video highlight, and other customizations depending on the interest of each user. For me, I found it interesting to put the video Lumia 800 highlighted, with immediate playback as soon as one opens the page and no ads. See the result here.

I was with the new YouTube layout enabled a few days ago. The feeling is that the design team put its house in order. It was easier to find functions, and the page channel is certainly more elegant.

And what did you think?

iPhone 4S: TIM starts sales from December 16

I just confirm. The iPhone 4S will be sold by Tim on December 16. So a contact within the operator told me, the launch will be in some stores 0n scheduled for Thursday to Friday. Then, the TIM began selling the product in all its stores.


As you know, TIM bet on unlocked smartphones. The trend is that the same happens with the iPhone 4S, but no information about this feature of the sale was passed on to me. If there were subsidies for customers who adhere to a contract, I think more people would be interested in the product. Still, the company's strategy - to my knowledge - is.

TIM does not talk about prices or availability of the iPhone 4S models, which comes in black and white and 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB of storage.

Interested in buying the iPhone 4S must register on the site operator. However, it warned that leave the register does not create a bond of purchase. It works more like a direct channel for information about the machine.

I saw site saying that the operators will start selling the new iPhone on December 9. At least in the TIM, the correct date is December 16. This contact has hinted that the date can only change if Apple so authorizes Brazil. Something very unlikely when we are talking about the giant run by billionaire Tim Cook.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Mac in 5% computers worldwide

If Was alive today Steve Jobs would be very happy with the most recent figures from consultancy Needham & Co for the PC market worldwide. For the first time in 15 years,  apple computers came to the house by 5%. Of every 100 machines sold worldwide, 5 have the shiny Apple logo in any region of the carcass.


The calculations show good analyst Charlie Wolf prospect of sales of the Mac line of computers from PCs Apple moved 24.6 last quarter. In comparison, the overall PC market grew 5.3% in the world. Apple could have growth almost five times greater than the overall market, relieving CEO Tim Cook, who became president of Apple after Steve Jobs resigned on August 24.


At last
In his analysis, Wolf says it was expected cannibalization of PCs by the iPad, introduced last year and renovated in 2011 with the right camera and other industrial design. But what has emerged is that the tablet cannibalization of Apple Macs does not perform, but even on computers running Windows. Who took the worse with the arrival of the iPad was Microsoft, Apple's OS X remains the same level of market share it once was.

Mac growth was even greater in the field of corporate computers. In this market has been advancing at 43.8%, versus only 4.8% in the computers for personal and domestic use.

Do companies have discovered the usefulness of the Mac also in business? Usually Windows computers have the advantage in this market for the price and the various possibilities for customization of the hardware, but it seems that the apple fell from grace in the departments.

Rumor: Facebook Phone is coming

Facebook is preparing to battle against Apple, Samsung, Motorola and other giants in the mobile market with a smartphone developed in partnership with HTC, reports the website All Things D.


By the time given by the code name of "Buffy", the model will hit the stores "between 12 and 18 months" and run a highly modified version of Android - which may include an own application store, similar to that Amazon already do with your Kindle hypado Fire.

In addition, all phone interface will be "very" integrated services of Mark Zuckerberg's social network and will support applications developed from HTML5, among other changes.

Although he refused to say anything about the future phone, a Facebook spokesman told the site that the company "believes that each mobile is best dispositivel deeply integrated social networks."

"We work with entire chain of mobile devices, including mobile operators, factories, developers of operating systems and applications to bring a more powerful social experience to more people around the world," the company closes.

Currently, Facebook has 350 million active mobile users, and has partnerships with 475 carriers around the world. Companies such as HTC, Motorola and operators Orange and InqMobile already have devices that have dedicated buttons to access the social network.

YouTube HTML5 is better player and without Flash

It is time for change in YouTube. While the designers of the site work to change the current interface, developers seem to be engaging in the new version of the player HTML5 YouTube, which has gained new features. According to Google Operating System blog, found that changes this week, the player "is increasingly ready to replace Flash."


The new version of the player (which is in testing for months) now has options for viewing videos in 480p and 1080p and won a series of contextual menus that already exist in the player's traditional popular video site. Besides the already known labels and notes, now the player HTML5 has a native system of full screen and earned a menu offering the options to copy the video URL to link time and code for embedding in Web pages .

New HTML5 YouTube player: no flash
So far the news is still in testing phase and there is still no date to replace Flash in full, even though Adobe is focusing its efforts lately in the power of HTML5. But those who already have development versions of Chrome and Firefox, which rely on HTML5 support to the tags necessary to make the player work, can activate the test on this page.

Hero of the past, the Adobe Flash lived during troubled times in 2011. If a year ago the presence of the plug was considered a "differential" in tablets like the Motorola Xoom, the platform now goes to the slow death, with the announcement of the discontinuation of its mobile version. The fact that YouTube - the most popular video site on the web - could leave it in the medium term can also show that his end is coming also in computers.

Installing Windows 8 will be fast and simple, Microsoft ensures

Windows XP was not having faster  installation process . Screens and more confirmation screens separated the user ultimately use the system. Windows Vista and 7, of course, given improvements in the process but it is still a bit complicated and not very descriptive. It seems that Windows 8 is that Microsoft will finally tackle the problem head-on the complexity of your system installation. And for that, the company plans to change things simple.


In the official blog of building Windows 8, Microsoft details some of these items. You do not need more, for example, enter the serial number: the installation will be done with serial numbers pre-loaded, including the installation file that will allow both an update of the current system as a clean install.

And unlike the previous installations, the Windows 8 will move entire folders instead of just files at a time, which should speed up the process as a whole.

In addition the process for those who are upgrading the system is also simpler. According to Microsoft itself, with only 11 clicks, the user will be able to import all settings (depending on the version of Windows that he is leaving), data and programs to the new system. Windows 8 will also look for on your programs installed and also find out what is the best version to install the system, probably based on the hardware of the machine.

Since business users (or more courageous and smart) will have certain tools available, such as Windows Deployment and Assessment Kit, which will facilitate the creation of custom installations or network. Allied to these changes, Microsoft also made the installation more user friendly and detailed, saying what is being done for a particular screen and giving tips on what the user should be aware of before making the choice, for example, a clean installation or an upgrade.