Google invests $ 1 billion in its new headquarters

 

A week ago, the folks at Google was investing $ 200 million in a wind farm in Texas, and now have returned to make another great investment. A couple of days ago, the search giant approved investment of no less than $ 1,000 million for the new company's headquarters will be located in the UK, more precisely in the heart of London. Google definitely has a lot of money, right?

The company's new headquarters, which will be completed around 2016, will consist of a building of approximately 92,000 square meters. As estimated, the building itself will cost about $ 1.6 billion dollars. Its construction will begin later this year.

Matt Britin, Google's vice president for North and Central Europe, has said that this is a major investment by the company. Eyes are focused on the UK, where computing and web were invented

No doubt good news for Google, for London and for the UK.

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Nuance Nina, new voice assistant for smartphones

 

Nuance is the company behind voice recognition systems and the Siri of Apple . Now the firm has decided to launch an app to provide smartphones with this type of attendees: Nuance Nina. It is clear that the moment this application is aimed at developers.
Nina uses the technology of speech recognition company and combines it with a voice biometrics, enabling it to be recognized not only what the user says, but also can recognize who says it. Developers of IOS and Android can now be done with the app Nina to start doing tests.

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RIM considered the possibility of developing Android smartphones

Thorsten Heins, CEO of RIM, has recently released a very interesting detail: company even considered the possibility of neglecting the BlackBerry operating system and start working with another popular platform, Android.
Finally, the idea was scrapped and instead chose to continue developing its own platform, which probably led to the development of BlackBerry 10, which as has been said lately could be offered to other companies making phones .
Returning to the subject, while Android may have saved enough time to RIM as far as development is concerned, Heins believes that Android is a platform-oriented entertainment, the game already media, and serves to provide the user experience look who use BlackBerry, which implies that the BB platform is "more serious" than that developed by Google .
What do you think would have happened if RIM chose to use Android? For now we will see what happens with the BlackBerry exit 10, and time will tell if the company made the right bet.

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Yahoo! services restored

 

It is likely that during the day yesterday, if someone tried to access services such as Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, and others, these are not available, no matter where in the globe we met.
Makes about 12 hours ago, Yahoo! made an official statement on the matter, which indicated that both their service Mail, instant messaging and some others were not available or work very slowly for many users. The company said it was working to restore services as soon as possible and took passage to apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Makes about 7 or 8 hours ago the Yahoo! services were restored, as indicated, and are already fully disp0nible and work perfectly. What was stated is not yet what caused the problems, but surely this is confirmed in the coming days.

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iPhone 5 will be announced in September along with a new iPod

 

According to specify a new report, the long awaited iPhone 5 Apple will finally be launched on September 12.
An English blog specializing in news about apple company said that along with the iPhone 5 will be announced a new iPod Nano, and also both products will be released on September 21. It is possible also that the day is 12 also announced another Apple product: the iPhone mini.
Something that supports these claims were some calls that kept some representatives from Apple and some analysts, and several times mentioned an event that would take place approximately in the fall (spring in the south).
If true this information, the new iPhone 5 would come nearly a year after the iPhone 4S, which was released in October 2011.

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Twitter is the 500 million users

 

More than half a billion people already own profile on Twitter and Brazil has a good part in it. Only the United States, according to data compiled by Semiocast, have 140 million users on the microblogging network.

According to the French consulting company, exceeding the 500 million occurred before July 1, when there were 517 million twitterers worldwide. In June 1058 it was billion tweets posted public - 25.8% of them were Americans.

The U.S. accounts for 27.4% of total users, with 141.8 million accounts created during this period. There was a decrease compared to January, when the country had 28.1%.

But Brazil, which in early 2012 the Japanese took the 2nd position as the largest country on the network, the time had 33.3 million users, but increased to 41.2 million last month. In percentage terms, we are still well below the U.S., since the number of twitterers Brazilian equivalent to 0.8% of the total, and only 6.6% of the world out public tweets here.

In the ranking of the 20 largest cities in the network, however, the country has two locations: St. Paul is in 4th and Rio de Janeiro in 16th.

To arrive at the numbers, the information disclosed Semiocast used by the users, such as language, time zone and location registered in the profile. Also enter the location used to post tweets via mobile devices, but only 0.77% of the public message has this data.

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HTC comes out of the South Korean market

 

After closing its office in Brazil and discontinue a factory in North Carolina (USA), Taiwan's HTC makes the South Korean market.

"This is a difficult decision that has direct impact on people who contributed to the growth by which HTC has in recent years, "the company said in a statement. She did not mention anything about layoffs.

In an interview with PC World , analyst Nicole Peng said that in 2011 the company had 2% of the mobile phone market in South Korea in early 2012, the number dropped to 1%.

For Peng, the company should invest in more obvious and certain countries such as China, which has the largest market for smartphones.

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Xbox 360 to $ 100 may be sold outside the United States

 

"Microsoft says study lead model for other markets.
Game plan is sold with two-year subscription."

The Microsoft study carry the sales model that allows selling Xbox 360 game console for $ 100 through a subscription plan to other markets.
According to Chris Lewis, vice president of business entertainment company in Europe, the sales model, still unique in the United States, can be expanded globally.
"We see [the model] with great interest and decide whether it makes sense to expand sales in the U.S. or even globally," he said in an interview with "VG247". "The goal is to give option of choice for consumers."
The Xbox 360 sold for $ 100 has 4 GB of memory, which can be expanded using USB drives, and motion sensor Kinect. The game is sold with a subscription plan two years of Xbox Live with the user paying $ 15 per month for two years. The apparatus for this price began to be sold in stores in May at Microsoft, Best Buy and GameStop.
In Brazil, the cheapest model of the Xbox 360 without Kinect, is sold for $ 800.

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Come home satellite into space

 

In addition to the satellites created by the various space agencies in different countries, also groups of academics and universities have made ​​their own models and many of these are now in orbit around our planet, but here we have a satellite manufacturing home that has been created by the South Korean Song-Ho Jun in their own home .
This man of 34 years spent about $ 500 to create OPENSAT, a small satellite that weighs 1 kilogram and is shaped like a cube. OPENSAT is the result of an idea flashed through his head while working for a private company that manufactures satellites .
Once the small is in orbit, will be able to transmit data using radio and Morse code by LED lights. What may sound a little ironic that the launch will be thousands of times more expensive than satellite, costing about $ 120 million. Fortunately for Mr. Jun, the company will be responsible for carrying NovaNano into space in December.

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New photos of the prototypes of the iPhone and the iPad

 

The archives of the legal battle between Apple and Samsung for patent of the mobile prototypes show details of the predecessors of the iPhone or iPad, built by the company in Silicon Valley for internal use and never reached the final consumer and not the press.

Photos of the equipment reached the site The Verge, which showed the weird designs in a post on Friday.

The Apple built several versions of your tablet before settling on a specific design. One of the models contained a kind of back support, which would make the unit stand as a frame. Some of the photos show the name iPod, which shows the doubts about how the company would name the product.

See the models below and if you want to learn more, visit the website of The Verge to view the details.

 

 

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'Our own phone would not make sense, "said Mark Zuckerberg

 

Forget the rumors of a telephone Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg assured that the company does not intend to produce a smartphone in its own time, according to CNET.

During the announcement of the stock of the company , Zuckerberg said that the focus of Facebook is to develop a platform and not hardware. "Producing our own phone does not make sense to us," said the creator of the social network.

Zuckerberg said the successful application of Facebook for mobile phones and said the company's goal is to support a system in which other apps are created and integrated into the social network. "That's why we support Apple and work near it," he said.

Rumors of a phone's own Facebook are not new, but gained strength in recent days. Bloomberg said this week that social networking would have closed a partnership with HTC to create the smartphone, which was launched in 2013.

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The 50 most frequently used sources of information on Wikipedia

 

A visual applications company took all the data on information sources of the English edition of Wikipedia, and built an infographic that shows what the fifties sites mentioned in the articles of collaborative encyclopedia.

The three most accessed sites are books.google.com and web.archive.org, which would provide access to books and websites out of the air, and informative news.bbc.co.uk. Sites like YouTube, NY Times, IMDB, Google, MySpace and Facebook are also in the ranking, which measures the amount of citations in credentials editions.

To learn more, read the full list of sites used , or click here to see details in the infographic produced by the company :

 

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LG V720 27-inch integrated processor and 3D display Ivy Bridge

 

The new all in one from LG, called LG V720, is without doubt one of the best models of computer desktop of the company. Not only have a 27 inch wide screen, high definition, but also is said to have a processor Ivy Bridge, the new and known generation of Intel Core processors.
The LG V720 is obviously a high end model that will carry within it a Intel Core i5 CPU and I have 3D display, but there is also a variant that incorporates a second-generation Core (Sandy Bridge) and has no 3D display. Other things that we can look forward include an Nvidia GeForce GT640M 1GB port USB 3.0 , 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 750GB hard drive.

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Google removes 5 ​​of their services

 

As usual Google every so decide to eliminate some services that have not been well accepted by the public, and this time through his blog has announced it will eliminate five services, Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, the search application in Symbian , iGoogle and Google Video.
 

iGoogle was launched in 2005 and worked by way of personalized website, where users were free to set up a scheme where they can place news, videos and social networking content to not miss a single detail.

Google Video, a service will also be sent to oblivion by Google in the coming months, although since 2009 it began to show signs of its demise, when Google removed the ability to upload new videos to this system.

And if you're a user of Google Video, the company gives you the option to move your videos to YouTube, where your settings will be placed in private by default. Also, if you're interested to be part of YouTube, you can download your videos or eliminate them altogether.

Google Mini, a search service for businesses, will stop working on 31 July. There, businesses that use it can replace or Commerce Site Search Search. The company has pledged to provide technical assistance to the end of contracts.

Chatback Google Talk will also be deleted. The service allowed to insert a Google Talk widget site to get live feedback from visitors of the portal. Instead, Google recommends using the Meebo bar (a service you just bought).

Finally, the company will kill the search application in Symbian mobile operating system owned by Nokia. Users can use the search engine and other Google services directly entering the site from the browser software

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Could lower the price of Kindle Fire

Amazon is working hard to create the next generation of Kindle Fire, or the Kindle Fire in the event of confirmation of what we saw yesterday. Apparently rumors that when the successor of Fire hits the market, the original model will be low in cost that will make even cheaper than the Nexus 7 from Google . In this form, Amazon would be following in the footsteps of Apple when the company lowered the price of its iPhone and the iPad 2 after the start of the new models.
Kindle is expected to pass Fire cost $ 170 U.S. dollars, becoming one of the tablets cheaper and more popular in the world. This in part will help to give more competition to the Nexus 7, which costs $ 200.
We have to wait a couple of months to see what happens.

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The world's thinnest smartphone is also one of the most resistant

 

The smartphone world's slimmest was not manufactured by Apple nor Samsung, but the Chinese company Oppo, who decided to baptize his work as Oppo Finder . With 6.65 mm thick, I'm sure nobody expected this phone to be used as a hammer, right? Actually it can, and this is shown in the video below.
To refresh her memory, recall that the Oppo Super Finder has a screen 4.3-inch AMOLED Plus, with 16GB of space, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front, not to mention further that uses Android 4.0 ICS.
Look at the video and you can see that the Oppo Finder goes almost without a scratch after his meeting with some nails.

 

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A mysterious HTC device will have full HD and quad-core processor

The HTC One X is undoubtedly the best smartphone that the company has created and is currently one of the main competitors of iPhone Apple and Samsung Galaxy. It seems that HTC has finally decided to step forward and leave behind the aforementioned mobile to bring something better, a device that not only have a full HD (1920 × 1080), but also have a quad-core processor S4 and a GPU Adreno 320.
It is unclear what kind of device will be, although the screen resolution, the first thing that comes to mind is without doubt a tablet.
What do you think? Is it a tablet, a smartphone or something else?

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Nokia closes offices in China and held firing

 

Nokia has decided to close two sales offices in China to carry out a reorganization of its efforts in the Asian country. The company also confirmed that layoffs will occur in China, although it may be offset by hiring in strategic locations such as Beijing and Guangzhou.
China is undoubtedly one of the most interesting markets for mobile manufacturing companies. This is a country with millions of potential customers, where the sale of devices and content than the rest of the world. Therefore, many companies have chosen China as a future option, terminals featuring all focused on the many consumer profiles.
One company that decided to look at China as one of the territories of the future was Nokia, but it seems that your bet has not achieved the objectives sought. The Finnish company has seen its presence in China has been overshadowed by local manufacturers such as ZTE and now the big brands of Apple and Samsung.
Specifically, in a report of Nasdaq ensure that the market share of Nokia in the smartphone has risen from 30.4 percent to 11 percent within a year. The popularity of Apple's iPhone and Android handset that Nokia have lost prominence. For Android devices, ZTE is one of the companies that has managed to impose. Using the pull in his homeland, ZTE has grown from a quota of 3.6 to 10.6 percent.
This poor performance has forced Nokia to rethink its strategy in China, choosing to focus their efforts. For this, the company has decided to close two of its sales offices in Chengdu and Shanghai. Moreover, according to Nasdaq, Nokia plans to abandon some of its staff in China, but has not specified the exact number of casualties that will occur.
While it is true that the Finnish company closed offices in the Asian giant, it seems that his intention is to increase efforts in two of its offices. Thus, branches of Nokia in Beijing and Guangzhou will be strengthened to be the engine of the company in China.

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LG will pay 311.8 million euros for price fixing screens

 

LG has agreed to pay a fine of $ 380 million (311.8 million euros) to end a process in the United States which accuses the company have agreed the price of LCD screens with other companies. LG has pleaded not guilty, but has preferred to pay the penalty before entering into a more expensive process.
The South Korean company was one of the firms reported by the U.S. authorities have agreed on the prices of LCD screens. The agreement between the companies would attack on the free market rules, with that consumers had to pay more for the acquisition of such screens.
In particular, the authorities have determined that the agreements between the companies were established between 1996 and 2006. Among those involved were companies such as Samsung, have already paid a fine for this 240 million dollars, Toshiba, who paid $ 21 million, and AU Optronics, which the BBC paid out 170 million.
In your case, LG has received a fine of $ 380 million. The South Korean company has agreed to make payment no longer claim the sanction. However, from LG stressed that they are innocent of the charges and the payment of compensation is an attempt to avoid prolonging a dispute that could lead to large costs. Given that the other company had to give way, LG have tried to solve the case rather than expand it.
The heavy penalties are intended to pay any customer complaints that could be affected by a price altered by agreement of the manufacturers. In addition, the participating states in the case of the fines received from LG, Samsung and other companies.
Related links:
- BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18825306)

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DEAD TRIGGER, SPF high resolution for Android

 

TRIGGER DEAD is probably one of the most spectacular games for Android. This app not only has a high definition 3D environment, but also mixes the gameplay of a first person shooter (FPS) with a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies. Your job here is to raise money, ammunition, food and blow his head to almost anything that gets in your way.
MADFINGER Games is the company that has developed TRIGGER DEAD, which can be purchased at the store Google Play for only $ 1.

 

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