martes, 17 de julio de 2012

Spool purchase Facebook to mark and share content on mobile devices




Facebook added mobile technology with the acquisition of Spool, a young company that specializes in identifying and sharing content on smartphones or tablets.


"Spool's team has extensive experience in developing mobile software and a passion to make the content easy to consume," Facebook said Monday.


Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Spool can organize content using bookmarks online to access digital stories, videos or other material in different Internet-connected devices.


"We created Spool to make Web content easy to consume on a mobile device," the company said in a blog, which announced its entry into the leading social network.


"We firmly believe that the solution of these problems will become increasingly important in a world that primarily access the Internet through mobile devices."


Facebook, which is headquartered in Menlo Park, California (west), as a priority to improve its mobile offering to meet the demand of users increasingly access the service from smartphones or tablets.

Announce thin screen in the next iPhone

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple's new phone will incorporate touch sensors on the LCD itself, it will be 0.5 mm thinner and much brighter than previous models.



Announced today the site of The Wall Street Journal, the display of the next iPhone will be much thinner, it will include touch sensors on the LCD itself, eliminating the layer that included in previous models. This same technology also allows the display is much brighter.

This new technology, which is being manufactured by large Asian companies, including LG and Sharp, Apple also allows costs decrease, as the company will not have to buy the touch screens and LCDs from different providers.

Gravity Rush PS Vita

Answers to your questions about "Gravity Rush"

Rush Gravity director, Keiichiro Toyama, answered questions from the PlayStation community about the impressive action adventure PS Vita.

If you could control gravity, what actual building subirías you first? Would you be a superhero name? (Draotha, The Netherlands).

I would love to join the world of Comic Strip (as they call the French and Belgian comics), so it should be the Eiffel Tower! My partner would be a black rabbit and call him Rabbit Gravity.

Are games like Rush Gravity's why you have devoted to the world of videogames? (Jas-Balboa, United Kingdom)

Yes, the type of game I always wanted to do is something like Rush Gravity. The type of graphics you created Moebius (Jean Giraud) have always been rondándome head and for a long time, I wanted to create a game that had that kind of atmosphere.


To control and experiment gravity was a childhood dream that you helped create Rush Gravity? (Elpatron_972, France)


Say Yes to the experimental and the control of gravity is an important issue for me. Also I find moments or trips where you can leave the course marked as inline skating, which is very exciting. The sea separates my home from my job, so even I have dreams in which I go to work for deep diving.

domingo, 15 de julio de 2012

New game from the creator of Angry Birds is now available



The Finnish company announced that its new Rovio game Amazing Alex, is now officially available on iPhone and Android mobile operating system.


The game, which tells the story of a curious child who likes to build things, is the successor to the hit Angry Birds, which adds millions of users around the world and deals with angry birds that want their eggs from the pigs have been stolen.


Amazing Alex has 100 different levels, where the idea is to overcome stage respecting the laws of physics.


To download the game, you should go to the AppStore and Google Play.

Nokia halved in the U.S. price of its new smartphone

The measure aims to curb losses in market share to rivals such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co.







Nearly three months after its launch, Nokia said on Sunday that halved the price in the U.S. its new smartphone Lumia 900, from $ 99 to $ 49.99 with a two-year contract.


The move is an effort to stem losses in market share to rivals such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co.


Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak said the price reduction "is part of our life cycle management in progress, which is between Nokia and operator customers."


Nowak also said that a price cut is not unusual in this period of the life cycle of the smartphone, noting that Samsung also dropped the price of its Galaxy S II-released by Lumia 900.


Sales of the device with Windows operating system have been slow and Microsoft also said that current devices can not apply their software Windows 8, what would become almost obsolete.


The three major rating agencies downgraded Nokia to action category "trash." Nokia is expected to submit its second quarter results on July 19. When inquiring about the extent to analysts, they said that there will be a loss in the handset business of 236 million euros (289 million), from 127 million euros (156 million) in the first quarter.

sábado, 14 de julio de 2012

Tormenta solar afectará la Tierra este fin de semana y científicos prevén que secuelas serán menores




Esta llamarada solar es la sexta que ocurre durante el año y se estrellará contra el campo magnético de nuestro planeta, por lo que no se esperan problemas importantes en el suministro eléctrico y comunicaciones.

Una tormenta solar afectará este fin de semana a la Tierra, sin embargo los científicos prevén que las secuelas que ésta podría traer serán menores, debido a que se estrellará contra elcampo magnético de nuestro planeta. 
Asimismo, los expertos ya han dado aviso a empresas de electricidad, aerolíneas y otros sectores que podrían ser dañados. "No pasará la gran cosa", señaló Joe Kunches, miembro del Centro de Predicción del Clima Espacial, ubicado en Boulder, Colorado, quien agregó que "no prevemos daños a sistema alguno".
Esta llamarada solar es la sexta que ocurre en el año y ninguna de las anteriores causó problemas importantes. Cuando se trata de casos severos, las erupciones solares pueden interrumpir el suministro eléctrico y dañar satélites, así como suprimir las señales GPS y las comunicaciones por radio de alta frecuencia.
En ocasiones, las aerolíneas modifican sus rutas de vuelo para evitar en las regiones de los Polos la radiación adicional por las erupciones solares. De hecho, en 1989, una poderosa erupción solar averió la red eléctrica de Quebec, donde dejó a seis millones de personas sin energía.
Juha-Pekka Luntama, experto en clima espacial en la Agencia Espacial Europea, dijo que las empresas de servicios públicos y de navegación "registrarán algunas alteraciones pero podrán superar cualquier problema" que les ocasione el torrente de partículas solares.
Este tipo de llamaradas ocurren en el ciclo normal de 11 años de actividad del Sol, que alcanzará su mayor intensidad en 2013.
Asimismo, luego de que termine la tormenta vendrá el espectáculo: la colisión de las partículas solares contra el campo magnético exterior de la Tierra causaráauroras boreales más brillantes. Respecto de esto, Kunches señaló que quizá durante este fin de semana sean visibles auroras trémulas entre la frontera de Estados Unidos y Canadá,  así como en el norte de Europa.

Why iPhone 4Gs over iPhone 5?


The iPhone 4gs has the latest technology on the actual screen – its using high resolution patented technology which was designed by Samsung – the iPhone 5 does not have this as it proved to be way to expensive.
The features of the iPhone 4gs are not available on the Apple website – this is simply because they do not want to cannabalize the sales of their new coming phone.
All it boils down to is businesses are there to make money, and they will not always make the product of the highest quality, if it means they can get a higher profit margin producing a lower quality product, then thats exactly what they will do.