Rodrigo Silva-Ramos, CEO of Geeksphone, together with Telefónica company and Mozilla have developed two "smartphones" with Firefox OS, has said that the bets with this operating system "is total." The young company based in Madrid earlier launched two Android devices.
- Why have you opted for a still unknown?
- We love the idea of an operating system that puts the focus on the web. The thing to understand is that these terminals are a super browser. Each page of the phone is a website, and that's great because it means that the browser is inside the phone. And that's great because it breaks the mold of the app stores. We say that, until now, there was a large city with two stores. And now there will be a city with two department stores and lots of tiny shops. It's great for both developers and users who are "developer friendly". This idea of freedom that anyone can make their application and sell it when and how he wishes, without relying on AppStore, is fantastic not only for developers but to the idea of mobile telephony.
- What price will start selling these devices?
- We are talking about prices breakers. Is below two hundred euros.
- You said you had the intention to lose 400 euros ...
- Yes We always say that a "smartphone" high-end cost as a personal computer is crazy. It makes no sense, and we think that can be done quality handsets at very affordable prices. And it's no miracle is simply planteártelo. We have now an industrial development that allows us.
- Have you abandoned Android then?
- The stakes are clear for Firefox OS. Our users like to get their hands on the equipment. A developer will buy the phone and it will, and do what you want with it. Somehow this system are very supportive because we like the idea of an operating system dump anywhere.
- Develop a system itself is sensed impossible ...
- No, it's true that every shoemaker ... but we are talking about the Mozilla Foundation is a reference.
- The One and Zero were well received too.
- Yes, we sold many phones, we can not give figures, but we sold several thousand phone and Zero doubled the previous sales.
- Do you think the mobile technology revolution has corseted?
- Frankly, yes. Increasingly closed roads seem to be that large companies have a concept of customer property, the user. If you develop one's operating systems as they are owned by the operating system. And that's not a value of freedom. Somehow the big brands who control operating systems have very harsh rules, create very strong positions, margins that make them feel like ... So we like the freedom of the phone is a browser and that anyone can make an app that does not rely on an application store. You make an application and works on these phones because it is a browser, but that same application until you work just on Android. We have considered that maybe corporations will block access to websites that do not feel like that all the movement go around. For example, Facebook. Have an iPhone, you download the application ... but you can get from the browser. Except that with these phones (with HTML5) walk through the browser better than from applications.
- Is it expensive to develop phone?
- It is difficult to talk about figures. We think that a terminal is a puzzle of many pieces. This puzzle is a research process that takes many months of work by engineers ... Importantly, more than money, is time. Such a project is a year of work. The alliance with Telefónica has been strengthening over time. We have six months with the deal secured and working hard. And the operator has had a great elegance and not ask any exclusivity. We have not demanded anything. We can sell from our website. Welcome to freedom.
- Why do you insist that there are both a mark "low cost"?
- Not at all. In the electronic world, the concept of "low cost" is the brainchild of low quality. We want to have competitive prices, but we have the same quality compared with high-end products. And this phone [Teaches Geeksphone Peak] if you compare it to an iPhone 5 has nothing to envy in quality. I think electronics can not give low quality because some low quality is something that will not work well, it will not last long ... then we do not like that idea. We have quality products comparable with any high-end equivalent product and try to have competitive prices. And we're doing and that's possible, so imagine the margins which will sell phones to 600 euros we know all that from the factory worth 120 euros. We are in the middle of it. We are a small structure, a "startup" working hard with a team of 15-20 people. And we have discovered one thing that can greatly streamline supply chain.
Pollution, savings and certain international obligations to comply with the maximum reduction of pollution levels lead nations to spend large sums of money in the development of environmentally sound technologies. Japan is a country that makes a considerable effort to balance the pollution generated by its ultra concentrated urbanization, so now it is proposed to build a wind farm at sea to generate energy that will be the largest in the world when completed.
The urgency lived in March 2011 with the Fukushima nuclear power plant was a warning to the Japanese nation, one of the most prepared for emergencies and tragedies with technology in every field. Still, the uncertainty experienced before the event surpassed them and luckily no problems were triggered in the short term consequences were long, as the three major Japanese reactors plummeted (54 reactors unusable in total) and the island nation now looking to reduce its dependence on nuclear energy. To this has sought refuge and renewable energy solution for what is to build the offshore wind farm in the world's largest.
Located 16 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima, the plan consists of the installation of 143 wind turbines that generate one gigawatt of energy once they are completed in, hopefully, 2020. Wanted to be a record, so that the wind farm will surpass Japan 504 megawatts generated by the 140 turbines farm Greater Gabbard off the coast of Suffolk, UK, which is the largest wind farm in the world at the moment. Even when the end will be surpassed this year pass the Thames Estuary, where 175 turbines and will produce 630 megawatts of power. According to the Japanese magazine gave the notice, the first stage of Fukushima will build a 2 megawatt turbine, substation and a submarine cable installation. The turbine will be maintained at 200 meters high and if successful, additional turbines will be built progressively subject to the availability of funds.
Something very interesting about this news is to understand how to do to solve the cost problem, and in this case to solve the total expenditure turbines anchored to the sea bottom, floating frames are constructed of steel ballast stabilized with anchored platform 200 meters deep around the Japanese coast via mooring lines. Once it is running at full steam (no, not use steam to run), the intention is to supply electricity to the extensive network that two of the Fukushima reactors They provided. In Japan they are interested in expanding offshore wind farm if things go as expected, although the inhabitants of the coast and the fishing industry showed antipathy for not knowing how this construction will affect their source of income. We hope to solve a problem not generate another, which is typical in environmental intentions of the careless.
Google is the leader of the Fortune of the hundred best companies to work for in the United States for the fourth time, followed by SAS, an expert in software and services, and CHG HealthcareServices, company research on health issues. Apple and Facebook are the big absences.
The list is drawn up by the results of a macro employees from hundreds of companies randomly selected and a questionnaire that the company responds. Thus, one third of the note corresponding to the responses from the company while employees correspond to the other two thirds.
Despite data showing no job growth, according to data published in the list, Google has 34,311 employees, a number that increases to the same rate as income, which came to be around 38,000 million dollars in 2011, that makes it the best choice to work on it. SAS, enterprise software expert, up positions in the ranking positioned second after occupying the third position in the last list.
Your income, about 2,700 million dollars and its emphasis on creativity make take second place on the list. This ranking also highlights big pharma technology among which are Ultimate Software, NetApp, Qualcomm, World Wide Technology, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation or TEKsystems, according to the list published by Fortune.
Ultimate Software has starred in a big jump in the rankings as it sits at No. 9 while last year was ranked 25 in the list. NetApp is maintained in the ninth year of the list because, according to his own Fortune, "sometimes employees have the opportunity to receive special recognition."
Intel and Microsoft are manufacturers of computers that are on the list and occupy the lowest positions (68 and 75 respectively). In both cases, the concern for the health of their workers making them appear in the table.
For Microsoft, good health insurance and facilities to keep fit, make it stay at 75 in the standings. Meanwhile, Intel fell 22 places in the rankings from last year due to his interest in the health of workers has decreased from last year. Finally, the absence of large companies in the field of new technologies like Facebook or Apple, not reflected in the list despite being among the 50 best technology companies to work according to a ranking made by Glassdor popular.
