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