Bill Gates is not satisfied with the innovations of Microsoft

Former CEO and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has said he does not feel very satisfied with what your company has done lately. As he says, is not very comfortable with the "innovations", especially in the mobile sector, where it has taken a couple of years to enter.

Charlie Rose for CBS This Morning asked Gates what he thought about the work and performance of Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft, to which he replied that he and Ballmer are two of the most self-criticism could imagine. Bill Gates said he was satisfied with the leadership of Ballmer at the launch of Windows 8, the Surface and with the changes to Bing and the Xbox 360, but still not enough. He and the CEO are still satisfied, really believe that they are not doing everything at your fingertips.

Gates also talked a bit about his philanthropy, and said he was very interested in innovative projects and power generation mainly education, and also said that his charity work is largely based on the responses of the people, which can see what have been as effective projects.

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Bill Gates talks about the future of technology, his friendship with Steve Jobs and other things

Bill Gates, the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft has been out of the news of the tech world for a while in recent years. Instead, the billionaire has decided to devote himself to philanthropy, which is also very good. He recently decided to open up a little and give some words to Reddit.

When asked about the impending changes you expect to see in the technology industry, spoke about robotics, screens and voice commands, and referred to these elements change computers as we know them. In short, we can begin to interact with our computers in new ways.

About the type of device or computer you are currently using, the answer was quite obvious Gates: A Surface Pro having a week ago and it works great. Apart from this, it also has a touch screen Perceptive Pixel giant that runs Windows 8, and we wonder if it will be similar to Steve Ballmer. Also worth noting that Gates admitted to using every one of the Macs that Apple has produced.

Someone asked what his life would have been if Microsoft had not succeeded, to which he replied that probably would have focused on medicine or mathematics, but not quite sure about it.

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Huawei Ascend P2, another very slim smartphone with a great camera

Today's smartphones tend to become very large and also very thin. The picture you're seeing here has leaked recently and shows us the new mobile Huawei, Huawei Ascend known as P2. As you can see the device has a sleek and simple design with slightly rounded corners.

At a thickness of only 6.45 mm Huawei has inserted all the components of a great smartphone and 13 megapixel camera. The total weight of the device is only 170 grams.

The first reports of the Huawei Ascend P2 take us to December, when the CEO of the company BG Consumer, Richard Yu, was seen with the device during a meeting.

The presentation of the new smartphone is expected for the MWC 2013 that will take place in February. Still, expect some extra details leak before the event.

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Facebook's market value fell $ 10 billion

 

Investors have reduced the value of Facebook at $ 10 billion on Friday (27/04), leading the newly listed shares to a new low.

According to Reuters , a drop of 17% of the shares led the market capitalization of Facebook for U.S. $ 48 billion, less than half the value of launching the Initial Public Offering (IPO, in English) of U.S. $ 100 billion, in May.

The latest crash cost the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, about U.S. $ 2.3 billion, based on their participation in the company.

Social networking revenue beat expectations on Thursday (26/07) in the first announcement of quarterly results as a public company, but the company failed to reassure investors about its future prospects.

Investors worried about the social network will make money with mobile advertising expected the company would give a signal that revenue growth was improving. The stock has fallen nearly 40% of market value since its debut on the stock exchange.

They fell to a record low of U.S. $ 22.28 on the morning of Friday, before recovering to U.S. $ 23.03.

At least four brokerages, including Barclays Capital cut its price target for shares of Facebook, although the majority suggested that the company is worth more than the current trading levels.

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Facebook announces first results as a public company

 

The Facebook released its first quarter earnings report since it became a public company when it launched its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange technology. The social network claims revenue of $ 1.184 billion, representing an increase of 32% over the same period last year. In total, Facebook had a net loss of $ 157 million, or $ 0.08 per share, in the second quarter due to costs related to its initial public offering.

Most of the revenue came from the area of ​​advertising, which raised $ 992 million in the period and exceeded 28% mark in the same quarter of 2011.

The company also announced that it has 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily users, in a measurement made in late June. 543 million people access the social networking application on smartphones and tablets.

The trading session on Thursday closed down 8.5% in the roles of the company, mainly driven by the poor results reported by sister company Zynga .

"Our goal is that everyone is connected and that every product can provide a great social experience," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the reporting of results. "So we're focused on investing in our priorities in the mobile, platform and social ads so we can help people to access these experiences."

With the closing today, the company's stock fell 29% over the price of $ 38 of its initial public offering in May.

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Download trial version of Office 365

 

 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, presented the Office 365 office automation solution, which would be launched officially in February 2013.
 

Microsoft has made ​​'disposal of the general public a test version of Office 365 which can be achieved by following this link , Microsoft also announced that this new office automation pack will be available in 4 vesions: Office 365 Home Premium, Small Business Premium ProPlus, and Enterprise.

Office 365 Home Premium. Persons wishing to have this new version of Office will get the chance to install it on up to 5 PC's per license purchased. This includes 20 GB of storage on SkyDrive, and programs can use Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher. In addition, Microsoft provides 60 minutes a month of credit to make calls on Skype.

Premium Small Business Office 365, designed for 10 employees, with 5 plants per user, includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath and Lync (a new application to start a video to work online documents .)

Office 365 ProPlus, you can have 25 user accounts, each of them has the ability to install the software on 5 computers and includes the same number of applications in the previous version.

Office 365 Enterprise brings everything we find in the ProPlus version, but adds the option to file and keep the emails from the company in the cloud, using Exchange Online.

On the other hand, it is valid to note that Office Web applications will remain free in this new release, and those to come.

If you decide to download the trial version of Office 365 back and let us know your experience!

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Mountain Lion OS X goes on sale today

For users of a Mac, it's as if Christmas had arrived in July. It happens that OS X Mountain Lion, also known as OS X 10.8, will be available from today July 25.
For $ 20, will be able to get hold of Mountain Lion only in the Mac App Store. Remember also that if someone bought a Mac after June 11, the upgrade will be free.
Mountain Lion OS X adds a strong focus on our Mac with your iPhone or iPad, and all notices, including messages and reminders, can be sincornizados between devices. It also makes it easier to share content on Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo. CEO Tom Cook said the operating system has a 200 new features, but keep in mind that is available only to those who possess or OS X Snow Leopard OS X Lion.

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Microsoft presents its new version of Office (2013)

Microsoft Office 2013 Version Customer Preview

 

San Francisco (USA), July 16 (EFE). - The computer company Microsoft unveiled today in San Francisco (USA) a new version of its office software suite designed for Office next operating system Windows 8 tablets and compatible personal computers.
The company CEO Steve Ballmer said that it is the "most ambitious release of Microsoft Office" of history, at a ceremony held in the auditorium City View shopping center in that city The Metreon California.
Microsoft focused its demonstration model Office for tablets in which their traditional Word or PowerPoint are handled with the fingertips or with a digital pen and because of its integration with the Internet, the documents are stored by default in the cloud.
The new Office, which is not revealed his name and date of release, will require a user account to make use of the benefits of the cloud so that you can access the working documents from any device Windows 8, either mobile phone or tablet PC.
Programs Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint become a Windows application environment, with a simpler design in which the icons are minimized and are activated with the fingertip.
In Word, for example, debuted a reading system that adapts the documents to the device type and becomes an intuitive task insert images, adjusting the size and location.
Skype and the agenda are accessible directly from applications so that, for example, Excel can auto columns of information with contact data.
The trial version of "Modern Office" as Ballmer called it, is available today for customers through the website office.com / preview.
The company also showed a 80-inch touch screen designed for demonstrations, business meetings and videoconferences in which the Office can make presentations and modify them on the fly and works with Windows 8.
Ballmer emphasized the potential of that screen but still have acknowledged that "working to lower your price" and make it attractive for consumption.
The CEO stressed that Microsoft is in a time of renewal as the one experienced in 1995 with the version "vibrant and exciting" Windows and Office in years.
Microsoft officially launched Windows 8 in October, the month for which is expected to unveil all the details of its new line of products adapted to the new operating system.

   

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Microsoft hopes to sell several million in its first year Surface

 

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has said that the company expects that its first 'tablet', Surface, able to sell "several millions" of units in its first year. Ballmer is confident in the capabilities of the device, but has not specified the exact sales forecast consider attainable.
Surface is one of the major bets on Microsoft for this year. This is Microsoft's entry into the market of 'tablets' as a manufacturer and its potential can make the future of the sector and partly by the company. Microsoft Surface is expected to consolidate a device that stimulates the adoption of Windows 8 by other manufacturers and that this battle to the current ruler, the iPad.
At the moment we do not know the price of the device or its exact release date, which could be in October with Windows 8, but each presentation makes clear that Microsoft is one of their star products. The latest to confirm it has been the CEO of Redmond, Steve Ballmer, who has dared to make an estimate of sales that could get Surface in its first year.
Without going to specify an exact number, Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft hopes to sell "several million" Surface in its first year, as quoted by ZDNet. This is a forecast that, without being at all clear, to see the optimism that permeates Microsoft to release.
Ballmer did not want to give accurate forecasts, in part not to condition the release of the terminal. But he noted that sales of Surface shall be computed on the total expected Windows terminals sold in the next year, which will reach 375 million. Thus, it is clear that Microsoft is confident that both get Windows 8 as Surface boost PC sales and increasing the presence of Windows in the field devices 'tablet'.

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RIM's shareholders re-elected to its board

The shareholders of RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry, have re-elected to the board of the company for its annual meeting, the first led by new CEO Thorsten Heins, who faces an uphill battle to relocate to the company's track.

Heins commented Tuesday that the strategic review of RIM is focused on recovering the firm with a revamped product portfolio with its axis placed on the strengths of the company.

At the same time, the executive has acknowledged that the firm will suffer a decline in average selling prices and a drop in service revenue this year as it tries to sell the BlackBerry 7, which have struggled to compete with iPhones Apple and mobile operating system Android.

The shareholders meeting is an opportunity for investors to make the new management tough questions after a year in which the shares fell almost 80 per cent and the share of the firm in the smartphones market collapsed .

Just last week, Heins, that RIM has promised to make an "efficient machine" announced a delay in the launch of the new generation of BlackBerry 10 until early next year. With this model, the Canadian firm hopes to reverse the decline in market share.

The new head of marketing for the firm, Frank Boulben, has tried to take drama to this delay, saying Monday that the delay will give vendors more time to meet the renewed devices before they reach stores.

RIM suffered its first operating loss in eight years and said it would cut 5,000 jobs, nearly a third of its workforce, it struggles to compete with technology giants the likes of Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft.

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AlienVault platform closes a financing round 18.2 million

The unified management platform for security AlienVault has closed a third round of funding worth $ 22.4 million (18.21 million euros), as reported by the company Monday.

AlienVault use the new funding to expand the capabilities of sales, marketing and customer service company and to increase investment in research and development (R & D).

The financing round also participated at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Sigma existing investors Trident Capital and Adara Venture Partners.

To the Chairman and CEO of AlienVault, Barmak Meftah, is a "honor" to working with Kleiner Perkins and Sigma.

"We are extremely fortunate to have ongoing support and involvement of Trident Capital and Adara Venture Partners. Currently we have one of the best teams of managers and investors in information security at the forefront of AlienVault" added Meftah.

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Facebook and Yahoo closed its patent battle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Yahoo reached an agreement Friday to form a society of Internet advertising and licensing, ending their demands for ownership of patents.

The settlement resolves allegations of technology patent violation that began under the administration of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who was later fired after a scandal over inaccuracies in his resume. Sources told Reuters that the chief executive (CEO, for its acronym in English) procedure, Ross Levinsohn, is the favorite to take the job.

The strategic agreement between Facebook and Yahoo - that expands an existing partnership that allows Facebook users to share content on Yahoo - includes patent cross-licensing and collaboration deals media advertising during major events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl.

"I am pleased that we could resolve this in a positive way and are looking forward to working with Ross and the directors of Yahoo," he said in a statement Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer and newest member of the board.

Yahoo, which once was the most distinctive Internet company, has struggled to accommodate a digital world dominated by companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter.

Its board has gone through several problems since it rejected a takeover offer from Microsoft for 44,000 million dollars (about 35.851 million euros) in 2008 and had four CEOs in four years. The company did not say when a decision on a permanent CEO.

Demand for Yahoo had motivated some criticism that tried to get some money from a company that was about to go public in the largest IPO in Silicon Valley.

Facebook sued in March, saying the biggest social network in the world had violated ten patents, including several covering online advertising technology. In its application, Yahoo said that Facebook was considered "one of the worst performing advertising pages" before adopting the ideas of Yahoo.

Facebook, which became public in May, filed a countersuit a month later and myopic Yahoo ranked for its decision to prioritize "litigation innovation."

Facebook has been strengthening its patent arsenal. In April, announced an agreement to pay Microsoft $ 550 million for hundreds of patents that created AOL.

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Lilliputian Systems : Super E Battery Emergency Scooby Doo

 "Today's Smartphones use much more power, increasing the need for a more efficient way to recharge when on the go," said Steven Schwartz, Vice President of Merchandising and Product Development at Brookstone.  "Lilliputian's groundbreaking technology provides power, wherever and whenever you need it. This breakthrough aligns well with our commitment to innovative solutions that make life easier."

Fuel cell maker Lilliputian Systems today announced that Brookstone will be the first retailer to carry its portable USB power source, which will be sold under Brookstone's brand. The fuel cell device is about the size of a thick smartphone, and the lighter fluid-filled cartridges are about the same size as a cigarette lighter. It's a big step forward both for Lilliputian Systems, a 10-year-old spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and for portable fuel cell technology in general. Several fuel cell companies have developed portable power systems, but a number have failed. The new fuel cell will charge any device that has a USB cable.

    In a test lab, Lilliputian systems engineer Souren Lefian plugged a white iPhone charging cable into the Mobile Power System prototype and forwarded a few watts to my phone. There wasn't much that was thrilling about the process, aside from knowing that I can now claim to have gassed up my iPhone. Then, Lefian (pictured at left) switched cables and charged up his Android phone. On Lefian's computer screen, a graphic showed how much fuel was left in the MPS' tank, as well as how many watts it was sending to the phone, and how full the phone's battery was.



According to the manufactuer, the device will be able to charge an iPhone 4 between 10 and 14 times with one cartridge, which can work out to approximatly one or two weeks of use for most users.

Price 100-200$ (~ from author)

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Lilliputian Systems, Inc. has developed the world’s first Personal Power™ solution for Consumer Electronics (CE) devices, a revolutionary family of products targeted at the $50 billion portable power market.  The Company’s breakthrough solution delivers the only viable small form-factor battery replacement that provides the enormous run-time improvements demanded by today’s CE devices.  Lilliputian’s patented Silicon Power Cell™ technology is based on highly-efficient solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) wafer fabrication methods, and is fueled by recyclable high energy butane cartridges.  The technology is reliable, U.S. Department of Transportation approved and environmentally friendly.  Lilliputian’s solution enables a 5-10X longer run-time versus similarly sized batteries.  The Company’s elegantly designed solution both complements today’s devices and can seamlessly integrate into future devices – all while ensuring the consumer enjoys an essentially infinite supply of Personal Power™ for their CE devices.

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