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.
Samsung Electronics will increase its lead over Apple in global smartphone sales this year, with a growth of 35 percent, according to market research said Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday. To counter the supremacy of Samsung, Apple could launch a device smaller and cheaper, an "iPhone mini" next year to gain market share pointing to the demand of users 'smartphones' low end, Strategy Analytics said.
"We hope that Samsung extends its lead over Apple slightly this year because of its broader portfolio of products at various levels," said executive director at Strategy Analytics, Neil Mawston, an email interview with Reuters.
The global smartphone shipments rise 27 percent to 875 million this year, which is lower than last year, which stood at 41 percent. This is because growth is slowing in many key markets such as North America, China, the developed economies of Asia, and Western Europe, said Mawston.
Samsung Electronics plans to sell 290 million "smartphones" this year, compared to a projected 215 million in 2012, said research firm. Sales of Apple's smartphones will reach 180 million this year, an increase of 33 percent over the previous year, but slightly behind Samsung, you will experience an increase of 35 percent.
This will give Samsung a market share of 33 percent of the market for "smartphones" in 2013, which last year was estimated at 31 percent, while Apple will take 21 percent, versus 20 percent last year.
Mini Iphone
Apple, the company's most valuable technology world, and Samsung Electronics, Asia's most valuable, have fought fiercely in the mobile device market in the world, although Samsung is also a supplier of Apple.
Samsung may launch the Galaxy S IV in April, a new version of its "smartphone" badge. It could also launch the Galaxy Note Hybrid III and a number of other new smartphones along this year, as reported by the press and analysts recently.
"Samsung plays in most segments, which should enable it to capture a larger volume than Apple (assuming that Apple will not release a 'iPhone Mini' this year)," said Mawston.
The Topeka Capital Markets researcher, Brian J. White, on Wednesday raised the possibility that Apple could release an iPhone smaller and lower-priced Mini-iPhone to further penetrate markets like China and India. White also said in a report that he believed that Apple will launch the next iPhone, the iPhone 5S, in May or June, and thus offer more options with various screen sizes.
This eventually would open the possibility of an iPhone Mini said. But Mawston said the Mini iPhone is not expected to hit the market until later this year.
"We believe that Apple will launch a 'mini iPhone' at some point over the next three years to deal with the hundreds of millions of prepaid users worldwide who can not afford the current iPhone," he said.
"The iPhone 5 is growing rapidly and profitably at this time, so there is little incentive for Apple to release a 'iPhone Mini' this year. We expect the iPhone mini comes in 2014, when Apple will be forced to find new trends for growth, "he said.
Samsung Electronics has quickly surpassed Apple as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Its strong sales of smartphones helped lift the company's stock, which hit a record high of 1,584.000 billion won (1,137 million euros) on Thursday. Its revenues have experienced record profits expected for a fifth consecutive quarter in the fourth quarter from October to December. It is expected to announce the results next week.
It is possibly the heist of the year which has just closed in the world of new technologies, surpassing the disappearance of 3,600 iPads at JFK Airport in New York. During the afternoon of New Year, although it has become far-holder information, robbers robbed at gunpoint the Apple Store located in the vicinity of the Opera Square in Paris.
The holdup has been particularly spectacular. Four masked and armed robbers broke into the trade at about nine in the evening, when it had closed for a couple of hours and only workers were inside. They entered through a service door, after threatening a guard, and about forty minutes were devoted to rob the store's warehouse. "They made their choice quietly, as professionals," police sources explained to "Le Parisien". The thieves took further that the police focused their efforts during the day in the Champs Elysees.
One of the store employees was injured slightly, according to "Le Monde". The assault was, for the exterior, clean: none of the windows were affected and, from the street, the store seemed to be completely normal.
The material seized by thieves covers some of the latest products from Apple, but the store managers are still taking stock of what may have been affected. Early estimates on the theft point to something more than a million euros as economic value of the loot, but remains to be seen whether or not ultimately reached that figure. "At first, an estimate pointed to one million euros of prejudice but a number of stolen goods believed to have been displaced," point to "Le Figaro" sources of the store.
This shop is the most invoice Apple establishments in France. Large local robberies are unusual in Europe, although the U.S. Apple Store already sometime target of criminals. In New York, for example, there is talk of bands that go out for gadgets and devices robbery rate Cupertino outstanding has grown in recent years.
The app market is not as profitable as it seems. Of time. Maybe. O is for only a select few. Since a computer can create the goose that lays the golden eggs, but most do not give these chickens to pay for their food. Not everyone is like Apalabrados makers who say they have become millionaires since the worldwide success of its popular game.
The Android app store, with more penetration system in Spain, which has a higher growth, but is the Apple Store who takes the cake in revenues. The pressure inflicted developers is such that many fail in their attempt to take advantage (economic) developments.
Perhaps premature and accelerated by the success of Line, the popular instant messaging service WhatsApp, the 'app' most downloaded catalog Google, has decided also offered free for a limited time at the Apple Store, which has a cost download of $ 0.99.
"Whatsapp has failed in its business model. You pay once and never pay again. Line is a company of games and messaging used to sell other services, such as games. In the end you have a lot more revenue opportunities, "says Jacobo Bergareche this newspaper, Wake App, enterprise application I created musical" N "of Jorge Drexler.
"The world of applications is very little time and people are much more concerned with trying to get a large user base. If you have many users who use a recurring basis can choose to "see what happens to me, '" he says.
Payment for download on iOS is the best ally. Despite not having the most downloaded applications are usually more profitable than Android, where "people not used to pay" because, among several reasons, Google does not pass approval controls. This habit of users and this philosophy has led companies such as Samsung to create their own platform to standardize the 'Apps'. "The hope is that, the user-pay on their devices going out of Google domains."
The user behavior in Apple stores and Google is different. In the past four months Play Google's revenue has increased by 43% while the App Store has risen 21%, according to analyst firm Distimo. However, the Apple store has logged more than 15 million dollars a day in November, while in the case of Google Play stood at 3.5 million.
Dermo Map, application for diagnostics, is priced at 5 euros downloads. And that's just one example of the many faces but with good reception. "Medical applications are great because they go to a specialized audience and people tend to buy them, but there are also educational applications such as Touch Press that cost 12 euros. People buy them because they have a perception of quality and is a wonderful experience, "he adds.
There are many 'app' opportunists such as television programs or popular events that are "disposable" looking to get a high number of downloads to allow the developer themselves known, but the model that is being imposed is the "freemium", by which offers a number of free basic services, while others charge more advanced.
In this way, experts say, is captive to the user. "The 'app' is free, but then inside, buy content. It has to be an attractive application that generates the need to purchase, "says Juan Bosch of 2yPunto, creators of VoiceMod, a service to modulate the voice.
That model, the "freemium" is the more performance is obtained "because you allow users to benefit from the potential of the 'app' and, from there, whoever may be with the extended version", explains SpartanBits but insist: "Everything depends on the client and application."
Born in summer to "see out" but Triviados, one of the most downloaded applications on Android with more than a million high, its creators have not become rich overnight. "We have not seen money" manifest. "Android is not supported in 'lament from Tambourine Studio. Despite record "many ad impressions" the game still gives no income. "Profits given to pay the servers. It is something that allows us to live, "recognize.
Decide where to place the platform "apps" is the debate raised companies. "Only Android is unprofitable. In the world of iOS can generate more, but it depends, because we used a little fetch mode espacarate to other customers who want to further developments, "they say. That is, having a portfolio "to seek funding or letter."
A Beijing court has ordered Apple to pay 28,000 euros to a group of Chinese writers in compensation for violating its copyright. Apparently the apple company sold eBooks in this group of authors through their online store without a license.
It is not the first time Apple has legal disputes in China for this and other reasons. In July this year agreed to pay 45.3 million euros to a company in Hong Kong, Proview, to resolve a quarrel about the rights of the name iPad in the Chinese market.
Apple will have to pay 127,566 euros now to 8 Chinese writers and two local companies to market, through the App Store, electronic versions of their books without legal permission. A penalty imposed by the No. 2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing.
Lawyers for the group of Chinese authors initially requested 1.2 million euros in damages. In a written statement, Apple said that its employees "take seriously the complaints related to copyright infringement."
They also explained that their service is in "constant updating to help content owners to protect their rights." In this regard, Apple always requires its developers to sign an agreement that ensures that they have the right to exploit the material before it is incorporated into the online store.
It is the second time Apple has a legal battle in China because of copyright violation. This past September, the same court sentenced the company to pay 62,000 euros to the editor of a Chinese encyclopedia for alleged copyright infringement, a decision that has been appealed by Californians.
China has become a very important market for the Cupertino. In fact, sales in this country account for 16 percent of the global total in the company. The third quarter of fiscal year 2012 sales of Apple in the Chinese country were 4,300 million euros.
Technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. Commented Rodolfo Carpintier, founder of the Internet incubator and investment DAD, that the growth rates of the companies "are getting faster" and "the problem is that the products are short star 'forcing' reinvent '. World renowned firms such as Apple products have led to its fullest, are required to "be able to do it again."
The demand is high and a poor reception from consumers can reverse the ranking. Example of Nokia, fourteen years at the top, has fallen four places in the ranking of companies with greater sales numbers. "The thing to do is what they've done well to repeat many times," summarizes this technological expert. Experts agree in indicating that it is "very important" to have a workhorse that identifies the strength of the brand.
Samsung, the consumer electronics to mobile
The Korean firm is present in the world of "smartphones" with its Galaxy models. Its Android devices have driven to a high level after HTC became the first mobile operating system available. So popular and so successful has your SIII, which has already outsold its direct rival, the iPhone, in the market Unidos.En of 'tablets' struggle to gain a foothold with a powerful Galaxy Tab, which has received the congratulations of the experts.
And is that Samsung makes its way into the second position worldwide mobile phone sales (23% market share). The data speaks for itself. During the second quarter of 2012 sold 50.2 million "smartphones" worldwide. Immersed in the legal battle with Apple in which he had to pay one billion fine for copying designs, the company is present in other sectors such as consumer electronics and entertainment, heavy industry, financial services and even industry chemistry. Can claim to have sold the first plasma TV in the world.
Apple, design and art
The Cupertino company competes in the mobile device market with two products of remarkable success: the iPhone, whose sales account for two thirds of total company profits, and iPad, the king of 'tablets'. The technology firm that embodies concepts such as art and design, has a very robust arsenal of products focused on the publishing, advertising and creativity. The iPhone 5 broke all sales records. Only on the first day of orders placed 2 million units, double that of its predecessor, the iPhone 4S. So much is the impact that their owners are "more satisfied" than the rest of other brands, according to a survey.
Star can also boast about the urban legend that their computers are alien to computer viruses. Besides others, developed Safari, your browser exclusively, but his philosophy of total control only makes is in its iOS operating system. Can not forget the iPod (Classic, Nano, Shuffle and Touch), which changed the music consumption model since its launch ten years ago. Your success is undeniable: 275 million units sold since.
His latest surprise, a mini version of the iPad, has already begun to manufacture a whopping figure of four million units per month. Another of his successes have been implanted worldwide Apple Store where they bring their products to their fanatical followers. Betting on Apple means jump through hoops, given the tight control exerted on the applications.
Microsoft, king of operating systems
Two decades on top They note his career as one of the most important companies in history. The Redmond company you must have been able to introduce operating systems in homes with Windows, its hallmark and so are known mainly. After several upgrades (Windows 95, 98, Millenium, NT, XP, 7 and 8), is the platform for excellence. It is found in 90% of computers. It is the most widespread, both in homes and businesses. Its interface is recognized by all for its simplicity and popularity. It is their flagship, along with the office suite Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) with much of users daily living, but now has stiff competition with Google Docs services, OppenOffice.org or iWork.
With its recent launch of Windows 8, which focuses mainly on the world of mobility, waiting to enter the "tablets" and mobile devices, but has had a tepid sales start. Now with Surface, whose arrival in Spain is rumored to spring next year, have begun to expand the manufacture of hardware. With a strategic agreement with Nokia, the Windows Phone 8 will seek progress terrain. They can also boast integrated Internet Explorer, which has generated so many complaints until May and was the world's most used browser. He has had several legal problems by favoring Internet Explorer browsers detrimental to other existing and its technology has been overtaken by other competitors like Chrome.
No slouch in the fighting in the field of gaming with the Xbox 360, rival Sony Playstation 3. The product, made in collaboration with Intel and Nvidia, has sold 24 million units, according to official figures. Microsoft's strategy has been, in many cases, buying competitors products and services, such as Skype, which it acquired last year by 9,000 million dollars. They owed MSN, now integrated with Skype, and instant messaging service known.
The truth is that if Apple has managed to make its stores of his trademark, Microsoft intends to do the same. For this, the company is looking for the formula that best suits each city and open environment in which one of these stores. The plans of the company is already carrying these stores in Europe.
Google, the search for excellence
Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, Android bet is betting on Google. By working in the cloud, to have everything in sync, for robustness and speed. Samsung or HTC make their devices with this platform, currently the highest penetration. In fact, worldwide reached a market share of 50.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, more than twice the second operating system (Apple iOS) more quota. Leads this market segment.
81.7% of the new "smartphones" in the Spanish market with the Android operating system, according to the latest report on buying habits, possession, spending and use of mobile telephony in Spain by the consulting firm Kantar Worldpanel. Compared to the share achieved in the same period last year, has improved its share from 58.1% to 81.7% mainly due to sales of the cheaper models. Per share, followed by Android platform Symbian (Nokia), with 4.9% of the renovations, and in third place is iOS, starting to feel the effects of the release of the iPhone 5 and it is 4% of the renovations. For its part, RIM (Blackberry) has a share of 3.4% and the Windows (Microsoft), 2.9%.
But what is known by Google, that bill more than $ 100 million a day for the ads 'online', is to be the biggest search engine in the world, and has a powerful array of services and products that have been developed as its Gmail email account or your own browser Chrome acquiring companies in many cases, as in the case of management platforms Blogger or YouTube video. The recently initiated into the world of technology even associate their logo with internet. However, the company founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has been accused of repeatedly skipping the privacy of its users.
The nickname "Internet giant" is accompanying him. It is present even in the world of mobility. Google has a range of devices called Nexus. The first was made by HTC Nexus One, followed by two "smartphones" manufactured by Samsung, the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. Already in 2012 it introduced the first "tablet" Nexus, the Nexus 7, manufactured by Asus, which have accompanied the Nexus phone 4 and the "tablet" Nexus 10, presented last October. Nevertheless, in recent years has suffered severe failures. Your social networking strategy has been great fiascos (Google Wave or Google Plus) versus successful platforms like Twitter or Facebook. To this we must add that have not yet found the key operating systems with the Chrome OS project.
The invention was made public yesterday with the publication of the patent of Microsoft. This is a display of augmented reality that once placed on the head provides information and data while the user views a live event.
It seems that all technology companies see future in augmented reality. Therefore Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon and joined Apple and Olympus, following the steps of the model presented by Google.
Microsoft is taking a much more gradual than Google, which already has a prototype augmented reality glasses running, the Glass Project. This version, for developers, will start selling in a few months and is designed to communicate with Google services and the cloud.
The tool Microsoft, unlike Google, is designed for use only on specific occasions. The device described by Microsoft in its patent is not intended to be used in day to day. Rather, it focuses on live events as parties or concerts, and attempts to improve the transparency of experience providing text and audio on the action is happening in the field. It can be seen partially through the glasses while receiving information from objects, including people, so that this does not interfere with the enjoyment of the event.
This makes the device much simpler, because you have to be relatively stationary when you are using and you do not have to worry about crashing while reading the information.
When can we see the glasses of Microsoft in the market? For now, this is just a patent application was submitted in May 2011 and is now published. Although no plan to manufacture anything, and have applied for his patent now that all technology companies are developing similar devices.
Granted: It's like someone trying to announce a perpetual motion machine, but before preparing the pyre, explore a little more. According to the announcement of the British company Air Fuel Synthesis, have managed to produce five gallons of fuel through a process that removes carbon dioxide from the air, and hydrogen from water vapor. Although the experimental sued about three months, with improvements in the mechanism and the use of energy from renewable sources, fuel could create a much larger scale, to be used in activities that require a more balanced carbon footprint.
This kind of news will probably form the nightmares of senior executives of companies involved in the oil (not to mention Arab sheiks): What a brilliant mind with a couple of test tubes able to avoid making holes in the ground for fuel. So far, these nightmares have not materialized, and our dependence on oil remains intact, but that does not mean there are not people trying to change things. And that's how we find these developments. Get water and air fuel looks like something out of a science fiction novel, but a small company called Air Fuel Synthesis apparently has become reality.
The result was just five liters of fuel, and the whole process took three months, a level of efficiency that makes it impractical for commercial application in the short term. However, the potential is huge. The small pilot plant intake air carbon dioxide and hydrogen combined with steam from forming methanol (or methyl alcohol) which is subsequently converted to gasoline. The principles used are well documented, and the process was checked visually by members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London. According to Peter Harrison, CEO of Air Fuel Synthesis, the final product looks and smells like gasoline, but it is much cleaner and clearer than the petroleum.
What is the next step? Now that the proof of concept is complete, those involved will concentrate on increasing production capacity to around 1200 liters per day, using energy from renewable sources, and enter into production by 2015. Some possibilities have been considered, such as providing fuel to racing teams for greener activity, and not ruling out the possibility of developing jet fuel. The gas obtained in this conversion may be applied directly to internal combustion engines without modification. Efficiency is key, and oil has several decades of government insured, but we have to monitor Air Fuel Synthesis closely.
Can a small electronic device to make a difference in economic matters? The answer, according to a report by JP Morgan Chase, is yes: the iPhone 5 is not only the object of desire of users of new technologies, not only the smartphone that everyone will want to beat and will not be exclusively subject to all technology journalists will devote over time and space. Also be a boost for the U.S. economy.
Sales of the device could "potentially" add a quarter to half a percentage point to GDP growth in the U.S. in the last quarter of the year, according to estimates by JP Morgan Chase economist Michael Feroli and, as stated in BusinessWeek.
Any exaggeration to think that a phone can have such an impact on the economy of a country? Feroli has been based on the sales figures of the previous models Apple terminal and has established a pattern. It is expected to be sold over 8 million units in the last quarter end of 2012 (taking into account the data of the iPhone 4S, which was released in October and it was not a long-awaited device as the new model).
Feroli puts the average selling price at $ 600 (no matter that the subsidies operators: for public accounts worth $ 600 terminal), of which 200 are in import costs and 400 remain as device value in the U.S. . So in total, taking into account the number of terminals and value figures, move the device in the U.S. in the last three months of 3200 million.
Although not the main reason for powerful companies now part of the enjoyment of those who play video games can always be increased by making the gaming experience even more realistic something (when warranted). So we move from 2D to 3D and this virtual reality and bring it to the stage of the game to the walls of our home. Yes Go down diplomas pupil and faithful worker in your walls, because the chances are high since met Microsoft filed a patent application for a future game system immersive projection around.
We can not dreaming too much these days, as part of what will be the next generation console is already known. Presenting some of the specifications will have the Xbox 720 (even what Microsoft does not want you to know) and the little that is known of Nintendo Café and what will the PS4 (albeit with a lot of imagination), gave an overview on the new generation of video games consoles. Then, in terms of virtual reality, and Rift Oculus Project Holodeck top the list and already we have witnessed how they would work and what would. Nothing ultra amazing for the time. So, to really see what could be playing in the future we have to go to a patent request reveal that Microsoft has left. It speaks of a gaming system around immersive projection for the user to see in the game as never before achieved.
In patent revealed by PatentlyApple is the outline of a visualization environment as you want to use Microsoft for its new gaming platform. The viewing environment is represented as a set space for leisure and social activities in the user's home, suggesting it may also be used for viewing movies or other multimedia content. In the example shown, the viewing environment would be used to build a game scenario more in line with the dive to locate in the coming years. An example is a user playing a first person shooter with his vision focused on major game images appearing on your HDTV connected to a future version of Xbox. To the sides and covering their whole visual range and around a 360-degree peripheral image that involve walls, furniture, people and everything in which you can project.
This reality becomes possible to look back and see that while playing in the background, near where there's the door to the kitchen, there is an enemy ambush trying again. To this, Microsoft also has added the eventual use of a suit, gloves and helmet to increase the reality and provide improvements in the user interface of real life. The device has not yet been officially named, use a camera to achieve profound effects tridimiensionales based on our walls. As will be configured in Flight Time mode, the camera determines the spatial distance by calculating the time differences between emission and reflection of the images. Almost no need to mention it, but Kinect (with detection and eye tracking) will be part of this package of tools that will make this game system immersive projection around Microsoft. To me it sounded a physical Holodeck and keep you aware if there is more information.
Cargo, aimed, fired and exited the backfire. Straight to the face, like one of those famous facepalm that abound on the Internet, Oracle received more bad news. Is that as he lost the duel for a trial of two years and a half in front of Google, the jury understood that Oracle had exceeded their demands and 1,130,350 to be paid to the Mountain View for expenses and damages. Another case where the oracle could not foresee anything.
The ring is a cooker that burns incessantly angles. Within her feet burned two contenders, whom enclosure lights dazzle as much as their own go blind the public glare. And then the referee mutters, faces shrinking eyebrows, mouth guards are embedded in the jaw and four gloves collide in the center, begins combat. So, two years and six months ago, began the race to put in sidewalks opposite two heavyweights of the computer industry. In one corner, Oracle, with its better-known database with thousands of patents to his name. On the other side, Google, the company that, if today we were to hazard a dystopia, rule the world in a few years. The cause: patent infringement and a claim of 6 billion dollars from Oracle. In that trial, Oracle alleged violation of seven patents and other claims 132, but each complaint was rejected.
After two and a half years of assaults, legal strategies, covert payments to blogs and websites to speak in favor or against each company, to show voltage compatibilities between services and products, and then to make all this a telenovela of computing, the judge's verdict is already public knowledge and it appears that Google has benefited by being absolved of any guilt and responsibility. So, in the costume of innocence made at trial and the victim makeup, Google came to seek redress for the expenses he had to face during these two years and six months. Google demand was for $ 4,030,669 to cover costs for various commercial litigation and damages. Anyway, the judge seemed excessive and after appropriate calculations, Oracle reached sentenced to pay $ 1,130,350 to Google. Something like: pay for having bothered.
Faced with the possibility of winning a sum of nearly 6 billion dollars, losing 1 million and something does not seem so bad for these companies where the risk is part of their daily actions. What matters is that perhaps guilty of this development of the trial could have been the lawyers, says the specialized site Groklaw. But not everything has gone wrong, because the controversial scene that had settled on the unethical practices of Google and Oracle to pay bloggers celebrities to speak ill of the company and thus adverse influence on the ruling power, were also dismissed by the judge, who said that all this came to nothing and the trial died. The backfire, Oracle. Things that happen
I had mentioned a few years ago: The last official Nikola Tesla lab ran the risk of disappearing. The workplace of this extraordinary inventor, physicist and engineer was going to be demolished soon arose a buyer interested in the land where you are. However, in the Web community, channeled through Matthew Inman, head of the popular site The Oatmeal, has responded to the challenge: Collect a total of $ 850,000 to save the facility and eventually turn them into a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla.
The story goes that the last lab of Nikola Tesla is located in the small town of Shoreham, in the state of New York. That was the place that started building the Wardenclyffe Tower, which among its most important goals was to serve as a proof of concept for the transmission of free electricity wirelessly. However, the tower never went into operation, and was demolished in 1917 for reasons of national security (it was believed that German spies could use the tower). Eventually, the facilities under control of AGFA ended, he decided to put on sale in 2009, for a total of nearly $ 1.6 million. AGFA said he could deliver completely clean land, therefore, the legacy he left Tesla in that place was at risk.
Now, a nonprofit organization called "Tesla Science Center" seeks to preserve this place. Apparently it has submitted a bid for the land use of old laboratory Tesla commercial purposes, but the huge legion of fans who gathered Tesla from the strong defense of Matthew Inman inventor who made via its website The Oatmeal , had something to say about it. In summary, it should raise a total of $ 850,000 to save the lab. Given the interest of preserving the place and turn it into a museum, the state of New York said that it would conduct an "egalitarian delivery" of money not exceeding $ 850,000. The project, known as "Let's Build a Tesla Museum Goddamn" was published on the website IndieGoGo, with the hope that the missing money was collected ...
Needed ... and only five days. Among the donations from the public and the amount awarded by the state of New York, the facilities have been saved. But what about the museum itself? For that, you have to wait a little longer. The $ 1.7 million only enough to buy the property and remove it from the market, not to perform restorations and construction would require a museum of that kind. But as we said entry IndieGoGo, the emphasis was put facilities in the right hands. The project continues to receive money: The latest update reveals a total of $ 914,000, and all the surplus will go to the restoration process. Among the rewards were two donations of $ 33,333, which basically buy an article dedicated to The Oatmeal (a website that generates about 30 million pageviews on average), and even the name of Elon Musk (a founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal) appeared among taxpayers. "Tesla Science Center" will need more funds to build the museum, but if the enthusiasm is maintained, it will be a matter of time.
On May 18, Facebook made history and was listed on an exchange, most large companies do in this financial capitalism where not being where the Bell Tolls is almost nonexistent. With a strong start in terms of sales of securities, the company seemed well on its way, but with different factors difficult to determine, Facebook began to erode as the days went by getting to touch a new low for 3 days. In this article we tell you a little about the ups and downs of Facebook in the bag.
Since Facebook began to go public, Zuckerberg's eyes began to turn opaque, with a faint feeling of sadness and disappointment. Crestfallen regarding jovial and youthful look that showed interviews in 5 months ago, the billionaire shows firsthand what Facebook has suffered since the market opened and was floated on the stock exchange. The output to the stock Facebook was one of the greatest technological outputs of the history of Wall Street, but has had only a slight rise of 0.6% on its first day. Even historically beat Google in terms of expectation and improvement, but the shares at $ 38 each (approximately 30 euros) were not constant, nor is constant Facebook status in the bag.
The first day of his visit to the bag, the valuation of Facebook was in some 100,000 million and tore actions with growth of 13%, but a few minutes after the start of operations, prices slowed around $ 40 . The fluctuation was consistent in its inherent instability, and playing a maximum of 43 per share and a minimum of 38, the shares ended near this last issue and remained so. When taking 421.2 million shares at market fund was 16 million with its IPO. This number is quite a historical record numbers when we remember Google in 2004, when he managed to raise 1,900 million dollars with his departure to bag. Mark Zuckerberg was happy in those days of contributions and records, as his company got on the podium in major gains to trading outlets, ranking behind Visa (19 650) and General Motors (18 140 million).
Shares of social networking site Facebook dropped 3 days ago more than 6% in the stock market, hitting a new low since hitting the roam on Wall Street. Now, of those grand $ 43 per share came to see only ashes remain, because Facebook shares are now at $ 19.69 each. This has happened after expiry of a period in which some of the investors could not get rid of their titles, so now we will see a new run after shake off Facebook titles, which could reach further lower the share price of the social network to which the IPO has brought a lot of headaches. 150 million buying and selling account for this event, which mixes a bit of frustration, concern and shares hope in recovery by purchasers Facebook
At the moment it is not known what will happen to Facebook and the stake that has characterized so far, but I must say that analysts believe that stocks will continue to fall and then Mark Zuckerberg would have to start think, or withdraw from the command or sell to the highest bidder. However, the ban on exchange of shares has created a cyclone of ups and downs continues in various platforms and wait what happens with it in November, when 1.2 billion shares are released. We must also examine whether the owners of the largest block of shares to buy the stock back to try to keep up without losing revalue the exchange value. Whatever you do, Facebook has lost half its price since it went on the bag, and that the situation is complex for Zuckerberg and other shareholders. Your future looks black for the moment and do not know how it might affect the performance of the site and their innovativeness, and the worst of the whole situation is that by going public, the future of Facebook and the mess that was got longer depends only on him.
Samsung engineers developed an internal report in dis aggregating 100 design features and the iPhone interface in order to play them on their devices. Apple has made this document and used it as evidence at his trial with Samsung. Apple States are facing in court in a legal pulse to determine whether South Korea has plagiarized the designs of Cupertino and if the iPhone patents are used without permission.
This legal battle yields new data every day about development plans that the companies continued to build their terminals, with some data that were not expected. The latest case has come from Apple, which keeps his accusations of plagiarism and aims to prove them with evidence. Apparently, Apple has gotten a Samsung internal document that could prove that the South Korean engineers broken down some of the main features of the iPhone to find a way to copy them to their own terminals.
How to make an iPhone
The document would look like a step by step how to make an iPhone and have been key to the engineers could copy the systems of this device in their own designs. It also incorporates information from 100 components and functions of the iPhone that supposedly would have been copied and readapted in Samsung devices. The document has been published by Business Insider prove that Samsung itself had studied the iPhone in order to design, or at least improve their own products.This internal report and would be in the hands of the judge who is handling the case and could be a key test case. The appearance of this internal document from Samsung is a new filtration process documents. He had previously been introduced by Samsung, which is demonstrated before the iPhone device, which had spread, prompting complaints from lawyers for the Apple.
How many mobile phones have been sold so far? If you've ever asked you, do not worry, as the World Bank can give you an idea. At the end of 2011 there were registered 5.900 million mobile phone subscriptions. That means that right now we have passed the mark comfortably six billion. But the World Bank indicates that there will be more mobile subscriptions than people on this planet. Is this a new era in mobile telephony, or fear of a collapse in that market has become a bit more tangible?One of the many causes that led to the famous Great Depression in the '30s was an extreme increase in production capacity. Basically, if you make too much of "anything", and there is nobody to sell, you have a problem. Eighty years later, one of the markets we certainly can identify with one extreme is the production of mobile phones. However, there has been no further depression, because the majority of people have taken a refresh cycle moving quite short. The documentary "Buy, Pulling, NOW" Cosima Dannoritzer (which you can access through our forum) explores this point momentarily when a young man reveals that changes your cell phone "once a year." The year 2011 ended with 5.900 million mobile subscriptions, so we would be closer to that strange condition equivalent to that of a "mobile per capita."
But is it really so? A recent World Bank report called "Maximizing Mobile" (244 pages, if you're interested) tells us we are on that path in terms of subscriptions, while making a significant difference: One thing is a mobile, and another is a subscription . The World Bank says that in a total of 90 economies around the globe, the mobile phone penetration has exceeded one hundred percent over last year. The first indicator to consider is that a person can have more than one SIM card at your disposal, and even use them at the same time depending on phone model you have, while another describes the use of mobile as a central element of communication many homes, shared among family members. Another fact revealed by the report is that voice communication (though the signs tell us otherwise) remains the main use for mobile phone text messaging but followed very closely. On average, 80 percent of the gain comes from the text operators, more than 106 billion dollars in 2010.
Historically, countries called "rich" are the first to receive care from providers and manufacturers, but entire regions flirting with the point of saturation, may have to start looking to other markets that were originally considered low-income, and now can access more widely to mobile phone through a reduction in the price of basic devices. The best proof of this is still retired Nokia 1100, with 250 million units with a significant advantage retains the title of "best-selling mobile" on the planet. Distribution may not be partners, but we are in the path of an equivalent to a SIM card per person has several questions, starting with this: How many lines can sell?
6 - Be open to learn from anyone. Not only the best.
A positive attitude must prevail in the mind of an engineer, even in the worst times. Builds confidence and provides security to the rest of the working group. Do not be pessimistic to believe that what is invented in advance, will be impossible. Learn to accept ideas, but from other people with less experience, listen to all views, watch the movements or competitive products and to sit and re-examine theories related to the project, may be the key to achieving a successful product for the company where you work. Pessimism, obtuse behavior, or not to accept ideas that do not close our minds, can wreck a project that other companies successfully reach, thanks to open-mindedness of its engineers.
7 - Our boss or manager, not the enemy.
A good manager will always try to be successful in the work you are assigned as ultimately, success will also mean it. You must always remember that a manager advises people with high potential, determines the salaries they "deserve" their employees, writes and detailed job performance of individual employees, assigns projects and work according to the skills of engineers who is in charge and many other direct actions that mark the direction of our actions, our attitude in a company. Therefore think that our chief is our enemy is a very serious mistake that can lead to failure in a company. If enmity or antagonism are factors beyond the orbit of work, always have the option of requesting a reallocation of tasks or a new location within the company. It will also be very healthy to do a deep introspective vision to learn to know each other better and find out if we act on impulse or non-existent prejudices against persons who, as mentioned earlier, want to help us be successful together, not eliminate us.
8 - Be grateful to the University
Return to the home that taught you to grow, to fight and be a professional, can be a significant motivation for students who seek to achieve a job as you can get to have you. Learn from your experience, the ups and downs and challenges that life has put you on the road and have managed to overcome to get to have professional success you have today. Provide lectures, conferences, seminars, specific industry support and practical issues are some of the activities that will teach anyone to do, but the fruit of your hard work will invite you to make as a gesture of thanks, rich for the spirit and very useful for future generations.
9 - Be happy with your work.
This is very simple and does not require much explanation. If you feel repulsion or a natural aversion for each job that touches you do, you should reconsider very good job that touches you take or, in the worst case, you should consider dedicating to another branch of science. An engineer loves his job, is happy with each positive result, however minimal, and will always on his face a picture of happiness contagious, showing that it feels fortunate in life. That their work is what we always wanted.
10 - Manage your own career breaking down myths and study until the end.
No one will manage your career for you. Only you will decide if you want to be a freelancer, an industrial employee, or if your momentum takes you to be leader of a multinational group of companies. Everything is within you and discover just never expect someone else to do for you. Of course freedom of choice brings with it many risks of losing everything achieved over many years of sacrifice in a few minutes, but within the urban myths, which must not fall there are two very important: a) In dynamic business world today, no job lasts forever and b) Never believe that your company, boss or manager will look after you and your career. Have too many complications in his life to "adopt" a new "son."
Finally, never stop studying, learning, moving on to new technologies through post-graduate courses, conferences, publications and specialized techniques for each element can help you stay current. Do not think you get a title is to finish school, that would be a grave mistake. Accepts and understands that there is a finish line, but a new starting point. It is the beginning of a lifelong study until the end of your life as an active worker for not being left out of technological advance. Otherwise, what would the title validity of an electronics engineer who can not work with an FPGA? There will always be someone younger than you, on your tail. Be sure to advance, life has just begun and the road is very long. The goal is not the title, is all life.
As, as an engineering student, you begin to advance your career and the first glimmerings avizoras your arrival to obtain the "as dreamed academic degree", also begin to understand that there is a real, physical world out there, much more complex than you might have thought during your days as a student. To be an outstanding engineer, some of the things you need to know, not necessarily learn in college. This is understandable, given the time (relatively) short to live in your passage through it, together with the significant differences between the objectives of a house of studies and the requirements that the work activity, industry or the real world, you require. Here are some of the basic things that the University does not teach you.
1 - You must learn to be a professional business-oriented, rather than the development and / or design.
Is a key priority to understand the "cost of doing business." It means understanding the total costs involved for your company or organization, make a product. This basic concept is relevant to any engineering discipline. From the first bolt to the last drop of tin. You must learn to understand the relevance of monetary gain. If you work for a company, it is important that you become aware and reasoning assume that your company is in business to make profits as a reason for their existence (except you work for a company subsidized by the state) and will go bankrupt if that does not happen until, finally, come when you'll no longer have a job. So, first think of the profits of the company, if it is covered, you can unleash your creativity, spirituality, ethical principles, moral and feeding the dreams of inventions developed during your college years.
2 - multidisciplinary problems and your unique specialty.
The problems you face in a classroom during your career as a student are difficult, although in most cases you solve them with the knowledge acquired within the study area of your specialty. Quite the contrary, in real life many of the obligations require you to dabble in multidisciplinary work. This will make your life in the workplace is exciting, challenging and rewarding. Therefore, part of "your" interest is the fact extend beyond "what they taught you" and you should move to expand (by yourself) your technical knowledge in theory and practice in all disciplines of engineering, much as possible. You will learn many fundamentals of relevant specialties (who will be involved in your area) very different from yours.
Major universities may give you some experience in this area, through field experiences or internships in any industry that produces products not always directly related to your field of study. For example, while studying Electronic Engineering, you can do an internship in metallurgy or in an architectural firm. Always talking about the same race, you can intervene in the design of a circuit for Formula One, in a glider, the stability of a system of satellite and thousands of end products, at first impression, have nothing to do with your major and where your relationship with other "disciplines" may take you to "be part of a group or team."
3 - Learn to work in groups
Joining a workgroup does not mean that you will be waiting as a professional specialist and star in your field. You will be one that will fulfill a specific role where there are other "pairs" with your own specialty and they have the added bonus of experience and "office" in the work area where you have been assigned (which you do not already have). That is, in an imaginary industry, a specialist design the structure of an aircraft, other mechanics of the engines and their inclusion in the ship, another the setting and internal distribution of the benefits of the service and the electronics that you command the aircraft . However, in reality, many active groups "organized" (well, in quotes), which operate in a chaotic way opportunities and / or anarchy, where everyone tries to save your work (do their job) without considering in depth the desprolijidades you can leave as a legacy to the working groups that continue in the production chain.energy-soccer-greenenergy-FIFA-technology-
The soccer ball that stores energy
Usually, the correct statement would be: kick a football a waste of energy produced by the players. However, the science exists to break this kind of predictable truths, so now we can say that kicking a ball will cause the player to have more energy available. No, no. Also produce fatigue in them, but after playing for a while may use the stored electrical energy in the kicked ball to load, for example, a lamp, phone or whatever is needed in places where electricity is not something that may be playing. This is the Socket ball, soccer ball
This is the age in which soccer balls are building processes longer than some modern buildings. Are studied, they are thinking, is the test given thousands of properties concerning the game that will participate, and if we talk about football, the care is much higher, but then fiascos occur as large as the world. Within the balls, as well as air, have begun to introduce meters and systems of all kinds await the approval of FIFA to be implemented in official matches, avoiding more fiascos. With this idea, and thinking less about FIFA and Africa, students at Harvard University had started a project in 2008 whose name was Ball Socket. Its role was simple: a ball with the ability to capture and store energy from the kicks of the players.
It succeeded in 2010 and there began the real development taking solidarity ribbons that generate media attention but obviously not financial. Today researchers and graduates have a soccer ball that can give power to millions of children in Africa. Just have to play with him, since this area has a unique design consisting of a mechanism based on a gyroscope inside that captures the energy printed on the leather and makes clean electricity for use in mobile charging, lighting, purifiers water, heating, fans, speakers and more. Water resistant and the most adverse conditions, this concentrates the energy ball as does one of those LED flashlights that are stirred to generate electricity through a wire coil and a magnet. Simple, but in a ball.
As if this way of making small energy sources athletes in your own home, the ball is made of 95% organic materials, which implies a coherence sometimes forget many of these projects. Habiéndola tested in South Africa, energy capture was good, but could be improved. The technical problem was the weight, because the ball socket is a few grams heavier than the official match ball (though it cares little who is seeking his second goal on a makeshift pitch). The soccer ball that stores energy expected to sell $ 60 in a campaign of such purchase and donate, hopefully a lot of satisfaction to the three parts that come together in this great project.
4 - Mathematics and Quality of Materials
You will spend 99% of your engineering career trying to understand how everything is shown mathematically that surrounds the man and his existence. Everything will be associated with mathematics. Since the flight of a fly, the falling leaf of a tree, how credit cards and even how a transistor in an amplifier. Interestingly, of the preparatory period comes when you think everything in your work will always be resolved into a series of black boxes with inputs and outputs that obey mathematical processes you know. In the real world, you learn to know the transistors (Asians) and poor quality that do not respond at all to those who express their sheets, or find that the reliability of the metals you have selected does not match the theory learned over the years . You learn that the materials begin to learn to use, experience failures and many shortcomings that mathematics can not explain.
You may not get to use them in most of the work you are assigned, or you feel very frustrated to find that, who is on the other side of the counter, has no idea of the absolute value of each magnetic permeability ferrite core is in the store, who only knows that one is 4C65, another is T100 and the other ... is not labeled. You must learn to recognize the quality of the materials appealing to the senses, as the price of different goods does not always reflect what the data sheets express. How can we conceive that a single transistor cost 4 Euros and there is another model "economic" 1 Euro? What kind of magic did the manufacturer to be cheaper? They begin to discover that your mathematical analysis, quality of materials and data sheets do not always go together. In electronics, usually begin to learn what the temperature, smell and color of the smoke.
5 - Understand the differences between universities and industry.
Some things, however elementary they may seem, are hard to digest when you switch from an academic and a pass to work. It's like falling suddenly in another country, only with your knowledge to be used as tools. The differences are remarkable and in many cases, you must have the strength to not fall as soul or feelings of frustration.
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One of the key points that can not be part of a simple list, is the subject of earlier intellectual property. Any research, development and discovery in a university is an academic achievement and social merit very important for the institution. This will give recognition in society, give them access to government benefits in appreciation for his contribution to science of a nation and many other benefits and / or awards that mean "good things" for the house of studies. Quite the contrary, the industry-wide trade secrets, intellectual property of every idea, every project you are working under a strict trade secret, completely changes the experience of joy and excitement to share a find. In industry, a successful discovery means a patent and that leads to working capital for the company. Disclose such information, without control or shelter, can create serious problems in our future work.
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The IPO of Facebook was marked by the very poor performance of the title, which had lost 30% of its value in a few days. But this was not the only problem. The day of arrival in style social network, the Nasdaq (the index of new technologies) had suffered severe computer problems. Some transactions had been canceled, due to a delay of two milliseconds in a calculation.
Nasdaq will not compensate investors who lost money simply by leveraging Facebook, because this is the game of the Exchange. But it would compensate the players "who have been disadvantaged by the technical problems encountered during the IPO of Facebook May 18," he says in a statement. "These technical problems have been solved," says the New York body. "The Board of Directors approved a voluntary fund for compensation of about $ 40 million," the statement said. These funds would be spread over a period of about six months, in cash and by credit on future operations.
This fund may not be enough to calm things down, some victims who brought the case to court. The broker Knight Capital has requested, by itself, 35 million dollars in damages and said he was "disappointed that the compensation provided by the Nasdaq does not even approach the losses suffered". The total number of complaints against the Nasdaq would amount to $ 100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The main competitor to Nasdaq, NYSE Euronext, immediately objected to such maneuvers. "Allowing the Nasdaq price fixing [of its transactions] and to use other tactics to deal with fair compensation for victims of the problems associated with the introduction of Facebook stock market would be totally contrary to the principle of fair competition and unnecessarily weigh on competing platforms, "the company said. "Such tactics could encourage customers to shift orders to the Nasdaq to receive the compensation they deserve, she says, and allow the Nasdaq to reap the benefits of market share gains they would not have obtained otherwise. "
Apple is the most valued company worldwide, not just in the technology sector
Going back to speak again and milestone marks because it seems that now the apple still beating its own record. Today we know that Apple has become the world's most valuable brand, and as we show in the chart above, incredibly, no one is put in front of Apple in the sector of large enterprises, ie , which is the most uses worldwide.
But make no mistake, because if you look though the list of marks on the screenshot, we're not just talking about the technology sector, if not all companies that are, for what Apple not only surpasses all its competition or IBM's great if brands like Coca Cola, McDonald's or any other big you can think of.
For those who like the numbers tell them that in the case of the consolidation of Apple as the world's most valuable brand, the figures are more than generous for the block, because in total, the capital of the company is just under than $ 183 billion, representing a 19% increase over last year. So there will be a lot of global crisis, but it seems that the Cupertino-based company, just affects you.
Shares of Facebook, the largest social network in the world, fell over 12% today on his second day in bag to change by more than $ 33 each, which lost the price of $ 38 reached in his historic debut Wall Street last Friday. Half an hour after the start of the session on the Nasdaq, shares of the social network that directs Mark Zuckerberg left the 12.27% or $ 4.69, which were exchanged for $ 33.54 and the value Company stock fell below the 100,000 million, up about 96,000 million.
With that fall, shares of Facebook were exchanged last even below the price range calculated by the firm before going public, between 34 and 38 dollars. The social network that connects more than 900 million people worldwide debut on the stock exchange on 18 May after raising at least 16,000 million with its initial public offering of shares (IPO), a figure that could potentially increase to 18,400 million.
In the midst of an unknown expectation on Wall Street in years, shares of the company began to exchange this Friday $ 42, up 11%, but minutes later he was slowing down to almost no record changes in what had to partly to do some technical errors on the Nasdaq.
Finally, Facebook ended the day with a minimal rise of 0.6%, so that their stock closed slightly above its starting price at $ 38.23 on a day which changed more than 500 million their actions. In any case, the premiere social network was the largest on Wall Street of a technology, well ahead of Google, which in 2004 raised 1,900 million dollars, and the third largest in the history of any U.S. company , behind only General Motors, who joined 18,140 million, and Visa, who pocketed 19,650 million. "Right now this all seems very important. Going public is a milestone in our history, but our mission is not being a listed company, our mission is to make the world more open and connected," Zuckerberg said at the premiere.
