The augmented reality technology can enhance and streamline assembly processes in factories. So I assert from Software AG, IT firm of German origin who has presented at the CeBIT technology trade fair being held this week in Hannover a solution to apply this technology to industrial processes.
"Augmented Manufacturing" which is the name the solution has a certain video game. As the operator performs the assembly, you can see on a screen, which reproduces the parts and tools before him, what is the next step to be taken. As you collect the stars in Super Mario.
Obviously, this is not play, but, as the company has shown at CeBIT in Hannover, make processes more and more efficient and, at the same time, simple for those performing in a world where job rotation is becoming more prevalent and workers need quick training.
"Augmented Manufacturing" works with a camera and a tablet from the job, collect and send information to a server connected. All application code is XML, to allow easily be modified and adapted to any assembly process.
For now, some of the objectives of this product are maintaining factory lines, training of their workers, assembly and assistance to those doing detailed tasks of an assembly line, sometimes by hand.
The worker who works with the current version Augemented Manufacturing must press a button to advance to the next step, but Software AG plans go through to get this application automatically detects the movements of the worker, forward or backward in the assembly based on mistakes for him to make. Software AG also aims to integrate the new Google Goggles in implementing this product.
Like many of the paths to efficiency, "Augmented Manufacturing" also has a more competitive side. It works integrated with ARIS BPM manager of Software AG, so that stores the execution times of the processes and provides rankings of speed, which can be classified by region and be viewed by workers.
Some of the companies already working with "Augmented Manufacturing" are Siemens and Baasf. Currently, Software AG invites us to take a look at the assembly in which the application has implemented augmented reality through your webcam online.
Whoever gives first gives twice, and South Korea's Samsung decided on Sunday not even waiting for his own presentation to publicize the launch of its highly anticipated Galaxy Note 8.0, a "tablet" of eight inches to occupy the gap between the Note II and its "tablet" of standard measures.
A space, by the way, in which Apple is getting stronger that your iPad Mini. Equipped with an S Pen, a pen that adds many features, the new device weighs just 338 grams. This guarantees the convenience in use with a single hand. The processor is a quad-core A9 at 1.6 GHz and RAM is 2GB, which guarantees outstanding power and the ability to run multiple applications at once without feeling a decline in the performance of any of them.
The battery of 4,600 milliamps, ensures that we can work quietly with the "tablet" for a full day. As for memory storage, we have two versions of 16 and 32 GB, expandable with micro SD cards.
"In 2010, the launch of the first Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch opened a new chapter in the industry. Now, almost three years later, Samsung is revolutionizing the industry with a proposal that meets the needs of modern life ", said JK Shin, President of IT and Communications Division of Samsung Electronics Mobile.
"Note 8.0 is a breath of fresh air for this category, because it embodies a perfect fusion between portability and productivity for the day. The result is a pioneering solution that enhances and enriches our daily lives, whether in a professional or entertainment, "he adds.
Among the salient features of the Galaxy Note 8 is multiwindow function, which allows you to split the screen and have two applications open at once. Integrated into the "tablet" S Pen stylus has evolved and supports a range of new features. Once extracted, are activated as Pen Detection characteristics, suggesting menus adapted to the needs of the user, or Page Buddy intuitively showing the startup screen S. Note
A few days ago I read an article in the prestigious IEEE Spectrum and after making a free interpretation of the text, I have more questions than answers. In short (which is interesting in the article), I can anticipate that the foundation of the text revolves around the uncertainty in the labor market creates the appearance (increasingly) of robots replacing humans in positions work, until a short time ago, did not conceive otherwise than "made by humans". Not shrink away too much in this introduction and thinking the same phone line that brings Internet today, a generation ago was working to billions of women in charge of communicating with each other destinations around the world. Thousands of millions of jobs lost and if we start the article, we discuss what can be together soon.
The article is a transcript of a conversation between a journalist and a distinguished faculty member at Rice University who also runs the "Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology" at the University, where they both address the issue we announced in the header of the article: "humans are being displaced from their jobs by robots." In the article mentioned activities already leaving many (but many) people on the street without a future hopeless labor. Automated boxes with RFID tags in department stores, the machines clean the floors, transportation systems, GPS-guided, robot maids who bring order to the table, the menu is being replaced by tablets (tablets), the plants like Foxconn electronics manufacturing, assembly or automotive parts and a huge list of jobs that are not just statistical numbers. They are people, like your father, as you and with your children in future generations.
Many are excited, in some parts of the world, demonstrating that auto run themselves and are able to park without human intervention, where loaded GPS information with the vacant parking lots and take the car only up there to you do not waste time looking for a place to park. To start the comments: how can we call this if it were a newspaper headline: "Efficient and secure automatic handling system, demonstrates the technological advancement of our industry." Or it could appear stating, "Millions of taxi drivers and truck drivers, around the world lose their jobs after the adoption of the new vehicles with automatic handling systems. Global shock. "Both headlines were talking and informing the very triumph of technology?
The article talks about the advances and replacement of people in work in the field, with planters and harvesters that run unattended, enabling higher yields with fewer people and, as mentioned earlier, the list could be endless. Although it seems to be a maze with no exit, we all know that there are things that machines can never achieve. Can you imagine a TV series made by robots cool all the same? It would be just awful, right? However, that does not mean that at that time, the world population has been decimated as far as work is concerned. It will take a significant and radical cultural change to realize that there will be jobs (job specific) labor market will disappear and will be exclusive of the machines. And workers moving from machines to machines that can give us pleasure, is addressed in a talk time of technological advancement that has taken the automotive industry. Performance and comfort are exceeded every day while competing brands every inch, offering the best but, are not we creating monsters that pollute more, made more difficult to recycle materials? That is, (following controversial comments) got out of the vehicles, abandoned its use and opted for transportation means more "green"? What are we doing? Are we moving towards a technology harmful to ourselves?
The conclusion of the talk focuses on that article expresses a concern about the legacy we are leaving to future generations in terms of moving forward with technology, no matter where the end of this great Tower of Babel. Regardless of how many will be displaced and how big will the gap between those socio-cultural master technology to come and those who can not even access them as consumers. And on this particular topic, in the comments of the article, there is a realistic analysis presents the following suggestion: "If machines will keep the jobs of the people, who will become consumers, how the machines ? If there is a consumer public that you can choose between product A or product B, there is no competition, only a monopoly. The evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence) between machines will grow to levels capable of meeting data ignore the consumer products, reason why, always buy the same product, bankrupting the other companies. And the destructive spiral will continue until they are ... alone? "
Where do we take the AI and the evolution of the Robots? Is it open further the gap between powerful companies (who have the most efficient machines) and the poor or marginalized by the system? Without reaching the end of the article, surrounded by paranoia that may not exist in 2045, is unhealthy understand today that a machine can do the work of one or more operators, will not work for one or more families. From a sidewalk, a business is not to be missed, while from the other lane, the opposite, is losing the dignity of a job and a future. For one production line that requires only one or two maintenance technicians, why another? A market without consumers, jobless and penniless? Does the man know put an ethical limit to this crossroads ahead? What do you think?
Since the design was confirmed on Wii U GamePad, many rumors suggest that Sony will present a check with a design similar to the Nintendo console for PlayStation 4. It also assumes that next Wednesday will receive tangible information on the design of the PS4, but in the European Patent Office appeared a document which establishes the concept of "EyePad" format control having touch pad tablet, motion tracking and wireless communication. Is it just a set of ideas on paper, or are we about the future of the "pads" in Sony?
The theory stated that the gamepad on the Nintendo Wii U would be one of the keys that would allow the Nintendo achieve reasonably successful sales. The numbers indicate that this was not so: The Wii U just surpassed the barrier of three million units (so far), and has already cut its sales expectations in the month of March. Obviously, Nintendo is not solely responsible for this situation, but the "magic" of a revolutionary control with the Wii was sold out, and console, to succeed, requires much more. Now, all heads turn toward Sony. The PlayStation 4 almost can feel in the air. Wednesday's event is full of expectations about the specifications and design of the console.
And recently, it appeared just seen: A patent from Sony, with the concept of a new control called EyePad. Anyone who wants to can fully explore the full PDF of seventeen pages of text and some images isolated, but summarizing a little the EyePad is a control with a format similar to a tablet, brings a touch pad, motion sensors in six-axis joystick controls and conventional illuminated edges that deliver functionality similar to the one with the PlayStation Move. However, there's more: The EyePad also features stereo cameras, which generate a kind of "virtual space" on the control, in which you can enter, and most likely track objects.
The patent was filed in July 2012 and published on Wednesday. The text has direct references to the PlayStation 3, therefore, it is possible that at the time of preparing the patent, the more EyePad was imagined as an accessory for the PS3 as a new control to the next generation of consoles. Perhaps the patent EyePad simply be resting until someone develops a similar device and Sony can exercise "legal leverage" enough. Personally, the idea of ??a tablet format control does not convince me. The control must pass "trust" in the grip. be robust and responsive offer as high as possible. However, I am willing to change my mind if the design and performance are correct. We'll see what we teach Sony on Wednesday, 20.
We are doomed. Again we go to bed with that feeling of "But what kind of black magic is this?" Is that we go on YouTube and we witnessed in action running a layer that transforms any solid in a water barrier. Ever Ultra Dry (Ultra always dry) is a nanotechnology coating with which you cover a surface and become a super hydrophobic materials, which has nothing to do with your nephew allergic to the showers.
A new product has beaten the market by offering a kind of paint that covers an element and makes this repels liquids are spilled on it, regardless of the amount. The liquid which is covered handles are water and refined oils, the most typical liquid contacting walls of buildings and machinery. Ultra-EVERDRY uses patented nanotechnology to coat an object and create an air barrier on its surface. This barrier repels water, oil and other liquids, coating unlike any seen before. The other development associated with Ultra-Ever Dry is the superior coating adhesion and abrasion resistance, allowing it to be used in all applications where durability is required.
The nanoscale coating process usually involves spraying a coating substance on perfectly dry and then a double-dry application, and use of silicones and contact angles creations strong. As long as you do not wear, scratch or damage the surface of the spraying, the coating protects the surface of what is applied, preventing corrosion, freezing and wetting. Before the inevitable smartass of anonymous comments will declare, Super hidrófobosno coatings are new, but this state of the art now saw depicted in this video. Just close your eyes and think of all the possible applications for both heavy industry and for the development of consumer electronics or furniture, surfaces providing us immune to spills. In fact, imagine having clothes with a treatment like this, repelling all attacks that you become self with splashes of different foodstuffs. What other uses can you think of? Is the death of the napkin?
Many operating systems have increased their level of portability thanks to the magic of "Live USB". You can have an operating system to run directly from a flash drive, without relying on any file stored locally on the computer. StormFly uses a similar concept, but the main differences are in the persistence of data, using a USB 3.0 interface for speed, the presence of a shared folder for easy file transfer, and data encryption.
Facilities "live" operating systems are very useful to test the basic functions of each, or to access their tools in case there is a problem with our main facility. But the major limitations of these systems are in the speed of the medium used, and in the absence of persistence. In the first case, a DVD or a USB pendrive 2.0 usually test the user's patience, persistence WHILE that can be achieved, but requires some configuration commitments that may affect the final yield. The alternative would be something like StormFly.
StormFly is based on a USB 3.0 installed on a bracelet, whose chip is robust enough to withstand all read and write operations that demand an operating system, including persistence, application installation and why not OS upgrades. In total, the space on a drive is 16 gigabytes StormFly, eight for the operating system, four for the user's local folder, and the four remaining gigabytes for the "Shared" folder. This last folder allows the user to transfer data easily between StormFly and other operating systems. For example, if you create a document within StormFly and save it in the shared folder, you just need to connect the drive to another operating system as if it were a simple flash drive to access the document.
StormFly also has a 128-bit encryption (password protection), and its leaders will also offer general support system, at a cost of twenty dollars per year. As StormFly himself, his entry into Kickstarter reveals that to get one you have to pay about $ 59, plus another fifteen for international shipments. The highest option delivers a custom StormFly green, online backup for life, and a free replacement in case of loss or theft, but you have to invest about $ 200 for it. The project requires a hundred thousand dollars, and got fifth in less than a week, so it is likely to come to market successfully.
We want to make that computer speed up, never loosen the battle against unwanted software! Should I Remove It? not only help you remove any program that is no longer simply a wave, but it also suggests you where you want to begin the extermination, with data coming from prior decisions taken by other users. What is eliminating the rest of the world on their PC?
I found Should I Remove It? mildly interesting this weekend, trying to give a respite to the disk operating system (which is now taking about 15 seconds to make my pitiful certain directories, say). Instead of being the typical uninstaller overwhelming with all the crap and crap that is on your computer, Should I Remove It? orders programs as the trend away from general users. If others choose to ignore these applications, you may also have to review its presence in your team.
Should I Remove It? it takes seconds to do a scan on the disks and display software uninstalled from what you have. Right here I disagree a bit, being that there is no possibility that it will remove uTorrent, or 7-Zip or JDownloader, sorry. The uninstall data rates and qualifications are supposed to come from a proprietary database, elections from the same program users. Neither this speaks volumes about the reliability of the references, what if you put 2 stars to 7-Zip and then removed it simply had no idea what it was?
If managing computer applications you come across something you do not know, clicking on the program will come to "What is this?" By the uninstall button, and send you to an external link with information on it quite varied, with statistical data and relevant information if you want to make a decision. For configurable options: nothing. Just set it to start once a month, check for updates and remind us that we could have things they do not really want to be there.
Should I Remove It? not searchable or has another use that as discussed above. On the upside, is a lightweight, low power and no additional installs unexpected, as it did Toolbar Cleaner, for example. The uninstall suggestions may serve more or less, depending on the case. Anyway, the concept is interesting. And it is definitely much more attractive to Add or Remove Programs. For Windows, from XP
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.
Widespread expectation in the technological guild on delivery on Tuesday. Specialized media have speculated in recent days about what will make known social network. A phone? An OS? For now, the social network shares closed Monday above $32, a situation not seen since last July, in anticipation of upcoming products present in California. The industry and Wall Street have renewed confidence with interest the largest social network in the world.
It is the largest performing presentation from initial public offering last May, causing a guessing game among observers of technology 'online' and bloggers about what they might reveal. Shuffle all kinds of options, from a "smartphone" to a search engine. Last August ABC echoed the social network could be working in the operating system of a phone manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC.
"There is much speculation. Nothing seems to me true, "said Jefferies & Co analyst Brian Pitz. "If I had to bet, I'd say it's something related to their advertising platform. I am convinced that not a phone, "said Pitz, citing previous comments Advisor thin Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who said making a smartphone would be a" wrong strategy. "
The invitation to the media social network said: "Come and see what we are building," without elaborating. Some analysts said recent gains, the shares have risen about 17% since the beginning of the year, may have more to do with financial results for the last quarter of 2012, to be released on January 30. "The stock is up because they have driven a dramatic increase in the burden of ads mobile application is giving investors expectations," said BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
Facebook surprised Wall Street in the third quarter of last year to announce that mobile ads accounted for 14% of total advertising revenue. Some analysts had expected the company to report higher growth in its nascent mobile advertising business for the fourth quarter.
Zuckerberg has always insisted that the motive is the "most misunderstood aspect" of Facebook. But again has avoided entering the rumors that are going to present their own "smartphone" to compete with Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones. During an interview on stage at a conference in September, Zuckerberg himself said he believed that the searches could be an area ripe for growth for Facebook.
The Korean firm Samsung has begun to update the software for the Galaxy SIII to correct a vulnerability affecting the Exynos processor. Device Users Galaxy SII, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note were reported equipment failures, noting that remained obsolete and a "worm" controlled them.
This update is the I9300XXELLA and, for now, only available for the UK, although it is expected that in the coming days to reach most countries, as announced by the portal "Sammobile".
The failure occurs in Samsung phones on processors running Exynos codes 4219 and 4412, so that the American versions Galaxy S problem would be safe.
It is not at all unreasonable that a film is subject to certain "legal assessment" before its release. After all, no person or company wants to get "stuck" in a negative way when a movie plays a "sensitive matter". For "2001," Stanley Kubrick made a great effort to convey publicly that HAL 9000 had nothing to do with IBM, but in April 1966, almost two years before the premiere of the film, sent a letter referring to "the state of affairs with IBM "in relation to psychotic behavior HAL 9000-murderer who was going to show on the big screen ...
Already there are countless occasions when we talked about artificial intelligence in one form or another redirect all their might against the human race. One of the best examples is definitely in "2001", which turns 45 years old next April. The film has been studied by experts of all kinds, but in general, what we get closer to those who follow the tech world is the reaction of the AI system HAL 9000, and its consequences. Almost two years before the film's release, the actions of HAL 9000 caused some concern in Stanley Kubrick, who through a letter sent to Roger Caras Productions Polaris requested additional information on IBM's position as to HAL 9000, because as puts it in the text, one of the main themes of the story is "a psychotic computer".
Both Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke has said repeatedly that the "advance letter" between HAL and IBM was just a coincidence. Officially, HAL belongs to "Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer", but the fact is that IBM, like other companies, has a presence in the film (some no longer exist, as in the case of Pan Am). The fact that IBM "being there" and HAL 9000 was dedicated to killing astronauts Kubrick warrant concern, but equally interesting is the response of Roger Caras. To be completely sure of the situation, contacted DC Faces Hollister, Corporate Director of Public Relations at IBM, which made it clear that the IBM name was not associated in any way with the failure of HAL 9000, and that obviously was not an IBM machine.
The final position of IBM stated that if it was associated by name to the "equipment failure", there would be no objection if Kubrick decided advisory companies mentioned in the credits of the film, nor would objections provided that IBM is "buried "in the list with other companies, and that was not specifically advertised as providing" technical advice "to HAL 9000. The decision no doubt came to fruition, but this response "diplomatic" makes it clear that in the halls of the giant blue someone asked the same question that Kubrick. Do not forget that IBM was going through a golden moment with the complete success of your system 360, and tarnish his reputation with a film, it was more indirect association, was crazy.
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."
From 1972 onwards, the virus is passed from biology to computer science with a reply that would be able to feel jealous any bacteria epidemic. Every year the number of viruses increases, and this year is no exception. With 24 million new virus or recycled into action, PandaLabs made a ranking of the 2012 virus which ranks them by particular characteristics. There are new and old, of stealing or spying, the lying and they charge you fines.
It was a rock song of the fifties, was the gloomy message Creeper virus spread by the IBM 360 series. 1972 was the year in which for the first time a virus infects a computer, and also the first year in which he invented the first antivirus (Reaper), but still there was the term "virus" in the computer sense, which is newly introduced in 1984. Since then, the virus spread and became part of everyday language and the package of "things to fear" as it makes contact with a computer. As all creation, activity or thought generating fear and worry, the virus became fertile ground for business millionaires, in which are the main drivers Antivirus and protagonists. To expand the business and also the awareness of the need for protection of these companies, PandaLabs has just released its list of every year, which makes a ranking of the virus that hit computers during the year and sorted by relevance based on particular characteristics. Under Select among the 24 million new virus that was this year, these were the Virus of 2012.
Flashback
Apple has its army of enemies too, and not talking about anonymous commenters on the web or the entire Microsoft Hierarchical flat, but a true number of viruses that attack the platform daily. One of the most interesting was Flashback, who managed to enter through a security exploit in Java and autoinstaló hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. Apple Java sent off immediately, but the damage was done. In an update of Lion, the issue was partially resolved, but the servers and computers had to be re installed several times after the passage of this virus alternative.
Flame
From the same family as the tragically known Stuxnet, the virus was active and concentrated their attack power in the Middle East. The purpose of this virus is different from most, but share and mechanical functions. Information theft is their main task, and the countries most affected by it are Iran, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and well, you can imagine the rest and why. Pandalabs get to ask if W32/Flamer.A.worm is software created by some nations to steal information to others, since it is so advanced that it can turn on a computer microphone to record conversations are kept nearby. The tracks are not accusing any specific country, but analyzing who the victims, you can arrive at some conclusion intuitive, although little determinant.
Police virus
Not only broke the routine of what we used to experience at this time of the death of the Internet culture, where even the powerful virus leave us a message sarcastic, rebellious, informative or acid on its actions on our computer, but was effective mass. The malware in question infect users and tell them that their computer was under a blockade of part of the security forces due to downloading illegal material. After generating the concern by showing images of the webcam user, the virus called for pay a fine for internet (Seems legit) and thus to regain control of your computer. The gossips mentioned that the SGAE and the RIAA were behind this virus to strike fear into the music downloads, but that was never proven nor will be.
Blackhole Exploit Kit
Java has been a year to forget, as it has been in the majors for good security offenses and has been the gateway to hundreds of thousands of viruses. For Blackhole Exploit Kit, Java and Adobe (another irresponsible for security), muses were the result of which were created based exploits their holes. Its importance is such now-for ease of use by novice cybercriminals-, that 91% of malware detected by AVG are due to this kit which is spread by spam, or links in obfuscated javascripts contaminated.
Koobface
Also known as Pinocchio, this malware was responsible for keeping us away from the truth throughout the year. No. It is a euphemism for the actions of the mass media, but a virus that was lying all the time with messages and publications for users fall into their traps. Some of the lies that Obama expressed were punched him because someone said something racist, that Justin Bieber had died and that Microsoft sold its shares to Apple. Obviously, this type of "noticiones" attracted the curiosity of thousands, well, you know what happened to the cat.
Zeus
If you are aware of the virus industry, surely you wonder why Zeus is a novelty in 2012, because it takes time with us destroying the security of computers and accessing all kinds of information to steal it with a speed and effectiveness frightening. The reason for inclusion, according to PandaLabs, is that Zeus gained new variants of himself and one of them was the most stressed in attacks, focusing on the mid-range smartphones and high, like Android, BlackBerry and Symbian. Expert banking information, Zeus struck to the heart of communication between banks and users, stealing, reputedly million.
Ainslot.L
The particularity of this virus is its nature of viruses and antivirus while. And this nature lies turn into another foundational nature, that of being the only bot on your computer, the emperor, the one over the other and queen, in solitude. First Ainslot.L is a bot that scans your computer and deletes all known bots are. Then he left to live in your computer and send spam from there or sending confirmations promoting sales for a clothing company called CULT based in England. Strange and effective, but goes unnoticed for 90% of the time until a good updated antivirus what action grip and remove the monopoly.
DarkAngle
DarkAngle, which is a type of DarkAngel, is a fake antivirus which posed as Panda Cloud Antivirus and profited thereby recognizing the antivirus installed on the computers of victims neglected and little retailers. Obviously, this was very interested PandaLabs virus that quickly imitated and worried him out of circulation.
So the ranking has been established for viruses PandaLabs 2012 and the truth is not a bad choice, although we have no access to their huge database. There are 24 million new virus that joined the millions already existing, so if this year has not won any, you have a reason to raise your glass and toast.
Motorola is currently working on a "smartphone" supported by Google, according to sources close to leaked plans the newspaper "The Wall Street Journal." This would be the first bet of Google for making real hardware, which is cited with the code name "X phone".
The launch of a "smartphone" consisting could be the first step in the company to position itself as a viable competitor in the mobile handset market. Right now with its Android operating system dominates the scene at the software level, but there is an important part of the revenue is derived from hardware and Google in this area is just remarkable.
The acquisition is aimed precisely Motorla build this niche hardware for Google. No wonder that the same sources that leaked the plans to build a "smartphone" later also indicate that work on a "tablet".
Before Google has already launched under its brand line of "smartphones" Nexus, the first built by HTC, Samsung and other two with a last with LG. In the field of tablets and marketed under the same umbrella devices made by Asus and Samsung. Motorola has launched this year, last September, its terminals Razr, the first since it was acquired. However, these devices have been questioned for not being at the highest level.
We deal with icons, bars, windows and many other parts of what is considered a conventional user interface. With hundreds of applications that embellish the optimized and customized to our liking, science fiction, film and the development itself of science has shown us that yes, maybe this generation of user interfaces has been pretty girl. That's why we started to review and find the potential players of the new generation of user interfaces.
Introduction
In the stone age of the modern computer, the command line was all we could ask for in the user interface that ran daily programs. Then, closer to medieval computational came Windows 3.1 and other operating systems and showed the world the face of all operations aesthetic that made computers. From then on things have evolved and today we are naked, unless you're a programmer, to an application without any visual indication on their operations. And so as we look at the present and repudiate user interface changes in Windows, Ubuntu, YouTube and Gmail, also think about the future and imagine, thanks to the movies and games, different methods exist that are near. Here are some of the stars of the new generation of user interfaces we were remembering and list it for you.
Flexible OLED Displays
Are still very rare, but the devices of the near future will be equipped with OLED Pantas flexible, responsive and will lose the current rigidity of the screens on smartphones and tablets. As you know, the OLED is an organic semiconductor that can project light even when being stretched or bent. The user interface will be one of a kind, because if you want to zoom'll just have to bend a little screen or if you want to increase the volume of the music you'll just have to bend a little tip of the screen. Interaction improvements will be seen, because currently the touch technology is making many technical efforts to win the hearts of those who have a devotion to the security that the analogue.
Voice User Interface (VUI)
The revolutionary event of activation of computers and electronic devices through the voice was extraordinary in the early days of his "discovery", and for those who do not remember you leave a link to video of Chris Schmandt MIT, filmed in 1979. After detecting voice began to improve and today works so well, that we are to see in action in the translation from language to language in real time. In this act we also saw the promise Siri regarding user interface via voice, but can not say it was a success in terms of technological capabilities, but optimally meets what is demanded. For now, the problem persists for this method becomes the main part of an operating system is the correct detection of voice, but we are far away from anything to achieve an efficiency of above 70%.
Interfaces gestures
A decade behind us a call science fiction movie Minority Report portrayed a future in which interactions occur mainly systems using gestures. To do so, the consequences communicate intentions computer, is wearing a pair of gloves with which the protagonist, Tom Cruise, too fast conducting search operations, data collection and analysis. Moving his hands looking videos, images and text files, but overall it was what he did to control your entire system. Models exist today as this and to present Neoteo prototypes, where the incorporation of the classical Z axis X and Y become 3D motion system. Also there Move, Kinect and Wii, which somehow are ways to control the computer and consoles through natural movements, and with the addition of touch screens, the feeling Minority Report is a constant. According to studies, a system similar to that used in the movie named will be available to the market within 5 years.
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Many of them know that much has been said about them. Present in every invention of science where a human head becomes the guinea pig, the EEG revolutionized the way we get information from the brain, but also served as a platform to communicate and make the brain frequency and neural signals in certain activities or actions. Every thought has its own brain wave, and each wave brain can be mapped to trigger actions, so Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv Lifescience, I neuroheadset EPOC, which lets you run commands on a computer at the thought of them. It lacks several years of development to be effective, but the video below will show that we are close.
Augmented Reality
If one were to place bets, probably we would play for augmented reality, which is currently showing who and who is prepared to serve as a fully functional user interface (see Wikitude and Drodishooting) and can provide much help in several genres of activities and uses . Google Project Glass and showed what we can do with them, and it was not a campaign about how powerful they are the engineers of the company with the CG, but it is a serious project and running. The screens and keyboards projected onto walls or furniture also enroll in augmented reality, and that we have already seen with different devices. Interacting with the real world in real time to fulfill a dream, and the good thing is that thanks to advances in the connections and glasses, augmented reality is closer than ever.
User Interfaces for your clothes
Maybe a little tricky because almost any computer can "wear", but this type of user interfaces refer to those computers or electronic devices that you can carry in your clothes or integrated jewelery, not on them. From jackets and pants that help you stay warm thanks to nanosensors modifiable according to the wishes of those who put them up smart watches, which are emerging gradually progressive. Sony has already launched an Android SmartWatch earlier this year that can be paired with your Android phone via Bluetooth. Provides notification of new emails and deTwitter. As with all smart phones, you can download applications at Sony SmartWatch. The idea of these computers "wearable" is that you can keep your hands free and managing operations otherwise.
Tangible User Interface (TUI)
PixelSense of Microsoft was one of the pioneers of this technology demonstrations that gained few followers in digital music and digital art conventions. This is an interface that combines the physical with the digital realm to allow full recognition of real world objects. But do you single? The interface of a computer recognizing objects that are placed on the screen, indicating increasing them some data or information about them in detail. In the future it would use to measure directly objects of all kinds and have an accurate measurement of size, weight, mass, density and even composition. Microsoft Surface, the project modernized catches light of physical objects through their reflection with infrared cameras. Then the system reacts to the disposition of the objects on the screen. Advanced versions of this technology may incorporate sensors instead of cameras to detect objects. Also, the system could be programmed to detect only specific sizes and weights, also to integrate via a label system. Imagine all uses
Those are some of the participants of a new generation of user interfaces that the near future we could give for us to use computers in a way never before experienced. The bet is made because the projects are up and evolve, waiting to test us with new and intuitive ways to experience inmersivamente to computation. So if your grandmother or mother still not adapted to the mouse, let them know that they may not even have to get used to. The new generation of user interfaces is only a few steps. Do you know any other? Can you think of another besides these? What news do you have on it? Share, comment, debate.
Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry, recorded in the first nine months of fiscal losses amounting to 744 million dollars (572 million euros), compared with net profit of 1,289 million (991 million) from the same period last year, the company said.
The turnover of the Canadian multinational stood at 8.396 million dollars (6,458 million euros), 41% below the corresponding figure for the first nine months of its fiscal year preceding. In its fiscal third quarter, RIM reported net income of $ 9 million (7 million euros), 96.6% less than the same period last fiscal year, while its sales decreased by 47.2%, to 2.727 million dollars (2,097 million euros).
Looking ahead, the Canadian company expected to continue the pressure on its operating results in anticipation of the launch of the platform 'BlackBerry 10' in its fiscal fourth quarter. In this regard, believes RIM shares continue using the handset prices 'BlackBerry 7' and their rates in some services. "The launch of 'BlackBerry 10' on January 30, 2013 may cause some customers to postpone their purchases and wait for the 'BlackBerry 10', which will affect the volume of sales, subscribers, margins and commissions," said the company.
RIM shares fall 10% by a decrease in the number of subscribers Research In Motion said yesterday it plans to change the way it charges for its BlackBerry services, after posting that its subscriber base has fallen for the first time in its history. As a result of both news, shares in the U.S. fell 10 percent after the close of the session.
Previously, the shares were up 8 percent to $ 15.25 (11.52 euros) in after-hours trading, after the smartphone maker adjusted publish a quarterly loss smaller than expected. It also said it had increased its cash cushion before the release next month of the expected BB10. But sentiment turned negative during a conference call with analysts.
The CEO Thorsten Heins said the company would offer more flexible pricing for their services, once valued for its safety features, but faced increasing competition from rivals. Analysts on the conference call expressed concern that the change could reduce the revenue stream of profitable services RIM, and the company's shares traded in the U.S. fell nearly 10 percent to $ 12.74 (9.62 euros) at 18.20 New York time.
One reason stocks rose initially because RIM managed to increase its cash cushion to 2,900 million dollars (2,191 million euros) in the quarter, from $ 2,300 million (1,737 million) in the previous period. That's important, because RIM will need the funds to manufacture and effectively promote the BlackBerry 10 in a saturated market. The company depends on the new line to regain lost market share in recent years to rivals like Apple's iPhone and a number of models that run on Google's Android operating system.
Moreover, the mobile phone maker Nokia has reached an agreement with Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) to withdraw all pending lawsuits and to terminate the litigation between the two parties in the U.S., Canada and UK
Samsung Electronics has unveiled on its official blog that will be your next device, the Galaxy Grand. A "smartphone" with a 5-inch screen, almost the same size as the Galaxy Note II which has 5.5 inches. Thus, the company confirms its commitment to a form of "smartphone" with above-average screen.
The most outstanding of this finish is its large display so the Galaxy Grand would become part of the family of hybrid between tablet and smartphone powered by Samsung with its Galaxy Note.
The new device will feature Android 4.1.2-Jelly Bean, the latest operating system from Google. Despite its large screen that aims to provide an experience of expansive vision and clear, the phone is slim, ergonomic and easy to hold, as Samsung has commented.
In addition, the user can enjoy the option of multitasking, running multiple applications simultaneously without switching screens thanks to the multi-window, and other terminals available in the company.
As for features, the device has a 1.2 GHz processor dual core, which according to Samsung permitted without problems, the option multitasking, faster web browsing, faster screen transitions and better graphics for games and apps .
The Grand Galaxy chamber includes a backlit sensor that seeks to ensure greater clarity in the photographs in low light and video recording in Full HD. Newest Samsung brings also intuitive features that aim to make the Galaxy Grand in a user-friendly device.
Some of these options are: direct call, which allows users to make a call just by placing the phone to your ear, alert and intelligent, showing missed calls and new messages just picking up the phone.
These features intuitive video is also emerging that allows users to play videos on the screen through a window "pop-up".
Voice S is another option as part of the Galaxy Grand and that control the phone via voice. It also includes AllShare content sharing with other devices. In addition, the phone comes pre-loaded with the latest versions of Samsung Hubs. The Grand Galaxy come in two versions. Dual SIM version, which will launch first, and SIM Single version. The Dual SIM is a feature that provides "total flexibility" in communication. This feature allows users to manage two phone numbers in one single.
Currently there is little information available in the world and online. Yes, compared with what will in 8 years. Is that, can you imagine the situation in which there are 5200 GB of data per person in the world? That is, 5200 GB multiplied by nearly 7 billion. If you plan to live 8 years, you should start to imagine, because EMC has conducted its annual study called The Digital Universe and concluded that by 2020, there will be 5200 GB of data per person in the world and that this need for better systems housing, and connection analysis.
As much as we look to the future is right there, to the rank of a slap technological frontier now and tomorrow will run every day, but always keeping the same distance. Besides inventions and achievements of science, the overabundance of information on the network works with this view, serving notice that more and more of everything and multiply uncontrollably. The obviousness is not a valid scientific classification, but the exponential growth of data now revealed as true in a study of the Digital Universe made by the EMC recently. This report on the status of the accumulation of information in the world, the institution said that growth is such that by 2020, there will be 40 zetabytes information and that only 15% of it will be in the cloud.
The best way to understand these numbers are in the transition of those 40 zetabytes to what are 4 trillion gigabytes. That number corresponds approximately to 5200 GB for every human in the world. Nor does it help?? And yes, it is a lot of content. As much as 57 times the number of grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. The interesting thing is that this ridiculously large amount of data will tend to double every two years from 2020 and that only 33% of information they contain can be valued by us. The reason for this are the projections of internet access of people and the progressive computerization of all services and shops, but the biggest factor that will bring the machines and bots that generate content in cold blood while communicating with each other through different networks. In the original article give an example, the safety sensors that communicate with each other to make real-time checks, or smartphones also making connections with others.
The content that the study on the EMC Digital Universe refers includes all sorts of information, from YouTube videos to the logs of botnets. Completely exposed, these data could be analyzed to find patterns of social media use in finding information or even scientific studies yet unrevealed. All this type of analysis will force future behaviors have ruled with the organization of information (which even scientists generate new careers for information management) and more efficient, so that members of the research team said in future years to begin to label more information. But especially, will label better, then rules that help us find and better analyze the information available in the world. The study also revealed that most of the information in the digital universe consists entertainment and media (68%). It was also mentioned that the networks will become relevant to lower latencies and infrastructure of these networks and servers will be an item to be the most urgent update.
Ladies and gentlemen, another round is more in the titanic clash between Mountain View and Redmond. The market for Internet search remains a very sensitive issue, and in his last term, Microsoft has launched the "Scroogled" seeking to expose you some details about the presentation of results in Google Shopping service. With Black Friday over, purchases through the Web come to another dimension with the arrival of the Christmas season, and from the perspective of Microsoft, its Bing search engine delivers results "more honest" compared to the competition.
I well remember a line from the movie "Antitrust", 2001. Tim Robbins's character mentions that when you're on top, people attack the quality of the product. Departing and returning from fiction to reality, we find Google under media pressure in Europe and Latin America, while the Federal Trade Commission is considering making a claim against the Mountain View giant. Meanwhile, who reminds us that it is still at war with Google is Microsoft, through its recent campaign "Scroogled". The term "Scroogled" is no more than a corruption of the English word for "j * Dido", but the advance of Microsoft goes one step further.
Microsoft's complaint alleges that when searching for products on Google Product Search, the user does not receive the results "more relevant", but actually receives first ads that have been paid, getting priority. Technically, Microsoft is right, because Google Shopping recently adopted a scheme known as "pay-to-play". This works for now only in the United States, but will expand to other countries in 2013. However, as I have found other specialized portals, Bing does exactly the same. In addition, the video makes the mistake of saying that the results are for "the highest bidder". The results are sold, but no bid involved.
Another spark that draws attention, another brush to take into account and keep anecdotally. It is not the first time Microsoft comes to crossing Google, and definitely not the last. This new campaign reminds us to "G-Mailman", another invention of Microsoft, although at that time it was under attack was the Google Mail service. Personally I think it is an appropriate time (despite it's proximity to Christmas) so that Redmond enter into this kind of duels. And while Bing has about 16 percent of searches on American soil (which is primarily directed this campaign), the overall numbers clearly indicate that Bing should have other priorities before impact advertising. Moreover, the "pay for performance" is another variant of product placement, and it is not necessary to mention what we saw in series like "Hawaii 5-0" or movies like "The Amazing Spider-Man" ... Right?
