BlackBerry 10 is here

 

The day finally arrived. As we announced several times, finally unveiled the new operating system of ex-RIM in an event that took place on Wednesday 30 January. The main event took place at Pier 36 on the island of Manhattan in New York, but there were also simultaneous events elsewhere in the world such as Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, among others.

Wondering why ex-RIM? Because from now on, the company has outgrown its name and becomes officially known as BlackBerry. With a name change and a great platform under their arms, BlackBerry attempt to make his triumphant return to the mobile phone market.

BlackBerry 10 is a fresh platform, a complete reprint of the old and improved BlackBerry OS complemented with some innovative features and promising. Besides the announcement of the operating system, also announced the first phones to run it, that will be the BlackBerry BlackBerry Z10 and Q10. The first is fully touch, while the second is a hybrid between a BlackBerry smartphone and traditional touch. The Z10 will go on sale from early February in different parts of the world, while Q10 is expected to do a few weeks later.

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Specifications Leaked BlackBerry London

RIM is undoubtedly working hard to save itself. The latest leaks that have occurred this talk of a new company known as Blackberry Blackberry London.
This is a phone that is fairly well equipped, it has a 4.2 inch screen whose resolution is 1280 × 768 pixels, the processor used is a dual-core OMAP4 T1 (quite similar to the Tegra 2), has 1GB of RAM, 16GB of memory that can expand using a microSD card, an 8 megapixel camera and a 2 megapixel front.
London Blackberry Other specifications include 4G connectivity, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and has NFC, DLNA and face detection.
No doubt a very interesting device. Probably by the end of the year have some other information about it as price or operating system, but probably bear Blackberry 10.

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London could have a floating airport in the future

Before anyone is confused, we do not mean that the airport afloat in the air, but in water. That's the idea behind a high conceptual airport technology called "London Britannia Airport" and that will be established in the estuary of the River Thames in London.
Gensler architectural firm behind this proposal is expected to cost no less than $ 80,000 million. As we said, the building would be located on the estuary of the river above English and have four runways floating 5 kilometers each. The airport access would be through a high-speed subway. What if you drive? For there is no problem, as close to the airport, and obviously on earth, there will be three terminals to leave our vehicles .
The proposed signature also includes some modifications to the current Heathrow Airport. The old airport would become a green airport and flights in excess would be sent directly to the airport runways Britannia. But that's not all, as Heathrow would also become a kind of ecological city with accommodation for 300,000 persons.
It is estimated that flights can be made 24 hours a day since being in the middle of the estuary, the sound of the planes will not be a problem. Much of the energy of the building be achieved through turbines would be located around the airport.

 

In the past, both in the U.S. and Japan sought to create airports like this, but nothing was realized due to the high costs. Will it become a reality in London? 

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Site displays photos of cities in Instagram to show 'real time'

 

a new service uses the Internet photos posted to Instagram to create a "transmission" in real time what is happening in five cities in the world. Called "This Is Now" (this is the time, in free translation), the site (go here) was initially launched in Sao Paulo, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo.

In each city, the site shows a flow of the latest pictures posted by users of Instagram. Around 12am this Friday (3), for example, to access the stream of St. Paul appeared several pictures of people having lunch and food.

The service uses the geolocation information for users to tell a visual story of the city each time, as the website "Mashable". The moving picture stream from left to right, with the latest image appearing at the top. In the upper right corner of the page you can also see in real time, in English, how many people are accessing the stream at that time.

"The project 'This Is Now' is a visual composition that uses real-time updates of Instagram based on geo-tags from users. The site shows a flow of pictures instantly when they are posted on Instagram and capture the movement of cities, in a fluid story, "says the description of the site.

Users who do not want their photos to appear in the flow can restrict your profile to friends only Instagram. Because the service uses "geo-tags" social network to locate users, not otherwise appear on the site is not to put their location in images.

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Greek athlete is expelled from the Olympics after a tweet

 

The athlete Papachristou Voula, Greek triple jump champion, will have to leave the Olympic venues in London and return home after making an offensive tweet last Monday. The declaration of the athlete on Twitter was considered racist by members of the Greek government, which prevented it from representing the country in competitions.

The tweet was: "With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes (which transmit a disease) can eat food from their own land."

One of the three parties that form the basis of the Greek government - the Democratic Left - ordered the athlete in a statement:

"Humor and racist jokes offensive to human lives are not tolerated by socidade Greek and can not thrive in Greek athletics. The least the Olympic committee can do now is to revoke the right of Voula Papachristou to compete in the Olympics," he says. "Watching on TV, she can make all the jokes that she wants, but is not sure she will represent Greece in London."

Papachristou apologized after the fact. "I am very ashamed of what I did, though he did not want to offend anyone or infringing human rights," he said.

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A British judge rules that the Samsung tablets "are not as cool" as Apple

 

Briss Colin Judge, Patent Court of the Superior Court of Justice in London, rejected the complaint filed by Apple against Samsung Electronics in finding that the tablets of the South Korean company "are not as cool" as the U.S. multinational, therefore not be infringed the design right.
As stated in the judgment, which includes Europe Press, although Samsung Galaxy tablets "are very, very similar" in design to the Apple iPad "are not identical", so "do not infringe the registered design "by the company on the block.
Briss notes that Samsung devices are characterized by a "general simplicity," although "not so extreme" like Apple's designs, so that "an informed user is not merely that the Galaxy tablets look like a version finest (the iPhone) but she looks like a different product. "
"The overall impression of an informed user is that the front part of a family that includes the design of Apple and Samsung are the products of very fine, almost insubstantial members of the same family with unusual details in the back. They have the same extreme simplicity of the design of Apple, not so cool. The overall impression is different, "argued the judge.
For this reason, the judge rejected the claims Briss Apple to declare that the tablets Galaxy 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7 of Samsung infringed her right to the design.

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The Secret World, trailer launch

 

The Secret World (Secret World) is the new video game company that has developed Funcom, known for titles such as Anarchy Online and Age of Conan.

The Secret World takes place in a contemporary world mingled with fantasy, and also we will find magic, creatures, and conspiracies. Some of the places where we find ourselves in this new MMORPG are cities like London and New York.

 

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VoiceTra4U-M, an application that translated to 31 languages ​​when it comes

 

Soon, athletes from almost every corner of the globe come to London for the Olympics this year. One possible barrier that many have to face to communicate with competitors from other countries is the language, but fortunately there is an application that can solve this, and called VoiceTra4U-M.
The new app allows those who do not know English, the language used to communicate. VoiceTra4U-M uses a synthesized voice when translating the language of the person in English, facilitating communication. For example, a Chinese person can speak your native language and choose English as the language of the person trying to communicate. Since the app uses English as primary language, if we want to translate something from Spanish to Japanese, we must first take Spanish to English and only then the Japanese.
VoiceTra4U-M supports 31 different languages ​​and is unique for IOS, but is expected to soon be available for Android.

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