LG announces Jelly Bean for more mobile

LG has once again use his official blog to give good news to some of the users of its smartphones. Obviously this does not involve all the smartphones of the company, but rather a few. As was announced, some of the phones will be getting Android 4.1.2 LG Jelly Bean soon, and these terminals "exclusive" LG Optimus 4X will be the high end and also the not so powerful LG Optimus L7. Recall that both teams were launched last year.

In some cases, if we acquire one of these terminals via a special plan our phone company, may have to wait a little longer before the update is available. Jelly Bean has several enhancements and improvements compared to Ice Cream Sandwich and earlier versions of Android.

For now the only update has been announced for these two phones, but we hope that some models share the news in the coming days or perhaps weeks. We will have to be patient and attentive enough to see what decides to LG.

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RescueTec useful if you wet the mobile

Do you dropped the phone in the bath?, Did you wash your clothes and your smarphone was in a pocket? If by accident your phone gets wet or immersed in liquid is all is not lost.
RescueTec is a kit that works wonders, liquid absorbs easily and works to dry mobile components. Absorbs up to 300% more moisture than silica gel.

RescueTec

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RescueTec, an ingenious solution
How it works
Video proof that the RescueTec

Made in the UK, the kit is RescueTec absorbs moisture up to 700% more than rice or un300% from the silica gel. Has passed rigorous laboratory testing and has demonstrated effectiveness in recovering mobile phones and other electronic devices even after prolonged immersion in water.

An ingenious solution

Liquids and electronics are not good companions, if a phone gets wet and do not act quickly we can start thinking about removing it because surely stop working. Thinking that investment in new Android phone type is not cheap, there is a great solution and cheap addition, a kit that helps absorb liquid mobile components, called RescueTec.

If a phone gets wet is the first thing I recommend turning off the device so you can avoid greater evils in phone chips, however if you have wet must be dried as soon as possible. Often used the hair dryer to heat but sometimes is not the most suitable for electronic components.

RescueTec is brilliant, consists of a container with a bag and various sensors that measure the humidity. These devices warn you if there is still moisture in the phone or if it has dried.

How RescueTec

1-If liquid has us on the phone, we have been wet from the rain, at the beach or any other incident the first thing is to turn off the phone.

If the liquid spill out salt water or any other liquid that you turn off the phone and conduct a quick rinse with water to remove traces of salt or other chemicals, then proceed as indicated.

2 - Once the housing is removed off the phone and battery. Use rags and paper towels to dry as much as possible the mobile.

3 - Open RescuTec kit. In the bag we introduce the mobile and other components that are indicated in the instruction manual. We will see that there are some circles sensors that turn pink on contact with moisture, and are blue when the object is dry.

4 - Place the phone along with the envelope in the kit and the humidity indicator out close the bag tightly. Wait two days for the moisture disappears.

5-After two days the sensors have to be blue, and if so you can put the battery back and the housing, and means that the device does not have moisture.

There is a possibility if the immersion liquid has been very long or was a chemical liquid, the apparatus has been damaged despite the RescueTec not work but you have a good chance that the device having no moisture and works as before.

The kit comes RescueTec for about 20 € so expensive investment is not thinking we can save hundreds of dollars on a new phone. You can buy it online in the mobile accessories shop Octilus.com

Video proof that the RescuTec




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Spell Sword, a great survival game for iOS

 

Spell Sword is an app for iOS in which the goal is to survive the waves of monsters, and to do that we have a sort of magic sword.  This sword used in the game has different powers that can be used to kill several monsters at once and ensure our survival.
The game has two modes, one is the mission and another is an endless mode, in which the goal is simply to survive until our mobile device runs out of battery.
Spell Sword is available free on iTunes .

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HTC profits drop significantly during the second quarter

 

Looking at it from the financial side, the first quarter was a little hard on HTC because the gains were not anywhere near expected, and there were those who believed that the line of HTC smartphones One would help you soar. Not so. As many anticipated, the company's earnings fell markedly, by 60% between April and June.
After unveiling the report on the months of January, February and March, HTC said it expected to hoping for a little less profit for the second quarter, but ended up going the more pessimistic analysts felt about it. To make matters worse, both Apple and Samsung with their earnings remain at stable levels, allowing them to invest more in product development than it can afford to HTC.
It is expected that the July-August-September is also a bit lazy to HTC, which is likely to be worsened with the arrival of mobile as the Galaxy Note 2 or the iPhone 5.
Will HTC make the scales in your favor?

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Galaxy Note 2 will be presented on August 29 in Berlin

 

On 29 August, as part of the IFA in Berlin, Germany, Samsung held an event to introduce the successor to the Galaxy Note, the smartphone that many described as "phablet" (combining mobile and tablet) for their large (the screen is 5.3 inches). Note 2 The Galaxy will be presented on August 29 said a company spokesman. It is worth mentioning that the original Notice was also presented at the same event, but in the 2011 edition.
If the rumors seen before on the future smartphone Apple are true, the presentation of the Note Galaxy will take place a few days before the iPhone 5. Still, there are expectations around the new mobile company on the block, the likely impact of the Note 2 on future sales of the iPhone will be almost nothing.
If you wonder what is known about the hardware of Note 2, because unfortunately these details were not confirmed, but surely I will make ends meet.

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Final Fantasy available on Android

 

The Final Fantasy series is one of the most popular story, and now the first game of the franchise, originally released in 1987, has come to Android devices in the form of app . Square Enix has released the original Final Fantasy for mobile and tablets that run Android.
We can get the game through the Google store Play . The cost is about $10 and the weight of the application is about 47MB.

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Ninth digit in SP: Understand how this change will work

 

From this Sunday (29/07), with mobile devices will have a 11 digit code 9 at the beginning of their numbers. The only mobile phones in the 11 remaining unchanged - with eight digits - are Nextel radio.

As for now, is valid for any link regional, national or international made to the metropolitan area of ​​Sao Paulo, which comprises 64 municipalities. But the idea is that the ninth digit password to operate throughout Brazil.

During the press conference of Anatel, held in Sao Paulo this setxa Monday (27/07), Adeilson Birth, manager of interconnections of the agency, said there is no deadline for the change of numbers in the rest of the country. "It may take several years. We can not say how long it will take to standardization. However, the next areas to receive the ninth digit should be 21 (RJ), 31 (MJ), 51 (RS) and 81 (EP)" he said.

According to Nascimento, the change is justified by the need for greater availability of numbers. Currently, the region with code 11, the operators have requested assignment to 42 million lines. With eight digits, the maximum combination of different numbers is 44 million. Already with nine digits, the maximum combination of lines shall be 90 million different numbers.

Adaptation

The change is not abrupt. The FCC and the telephone operators in Brazil drew up a plan of gradual adaptation. In the first ten days after the start of installation, whether to add the digit 9 in the calls, the calls will be completed automatically. But, you may receive warning alerts the operator to change. The switching time of reporting the change is not charged to the user.

After this period of ten days, the calls made without dialing the new number will be intercepted and the user is informed of the need to update your schedule. After day 23 January 2013, there will be no more warnings of this kind, and if someone calls to area 11, entering only eight numbers will receive the message that number no longer exists.

Instabilities

The manager of the FCC noted that on Sunday there may be some instability in the system, resulting from changes in the structures. "There will be small and should not last more than one or two minutes," he said Nascimento.

The spokesman also reiterated that all operational responsibility of the operators is that, even bore the cost of $ 300 million in upgrading the infrastructure needed to adapt.

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Microsoft Surface recognizes that its partners can displease

 

The Samsung announced on Friday (27/07) to record operating profit of $ 5.9 billion for the quarter ended in June.

According to Reuters , the reason was the strong sales of the Galaxy S III, which helped the company expand its lead over Apple.

This year, the company had already debunked the reign of 14 years of Nokia as the largest manufacturer of mobile handsets in the world.

The expectation is that profits from mobile handsets in the quarter to September apurem advance further, as the model Galaxy has a strong growth before the launch of the next iPhone. Mobile businesses make up about 60% of the profits from Samsung.

The company is preparing a sequel to the popular Galaxy tablet Note to the end of this year, seeking to compete with new releases from Apple.

"Regardless of the performance of Apple, Samsung will be strong in the third quarter, "said Byun Han-joon, an analyst at KB Investment & Securities. "In fact, the stumbling block of Apple is a chance for Samsung. "

Analysts estimate that Samsung, which now controls more than a third of the global smartphone market, will sell between 15 million and 20 million units of the Galaxy S III in the six months through September.

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Goal Zero Yeti 1250, a great solar generator

 

Solar generators are not as common as those that run on gasoline, but are still just as useful and of course much more environmentally friendly. This little we see in the image is called Goal Zero Yeti 1250 and is effective enough to power appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, etc..
The 1250 Yeti Goal Zero has a couple of solar panels that are capable of recharging the battery of the device 1250Wh in about 20 hours of sun exposure. If you like, the battery can also be recharged through a power line. Also worth noting that the generator has 3 USB ports to charge mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
The price of Goal Zero 1250 Yeti is around $ 2000.

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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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Mozilla plans to release Firefox OS

 

Mozilla has taken the decision to compete in the market for mobile operating systems, as it has announced the release of Firefox OS is an operating system for low-end smartphones.

Firefox OS will be a new ecosystem for smart phones based on HTML5 and built entirely on web standards, which promote the development of applications that enrich the platform and make it attractive to get as many people as possible.

During the conference call Digital developed in London, Matthew Key, the chief executive of Telefonica O2 Europe, called on other networks to join them and their global partners in order to give the project a competitive scale OS Firefox.

'The first mobile phone price is below $ 100 and will be released before the first quarter of next year in Brazil. We can produce the same experience in the Android cheaper, or a better experience at the same price, 'were his words.

At another point in the conference, Telefonica also said the frustrations users have Google's OS to be so fragmented, and the fact that it is not easy, sometimes even impossible, to upgrade to the latest version of Android software.

Finally, it should be noted that many analysts think Firefox OS, which they consider an operating system died since their arrival, and that Telefonica is also noticed how difficult it will be to strong to a new platform in a market with competitors well positioned as IOS and Android. 'We do not underestimate the size of the task, "said Key in this regard. 'There have been many new operating systems that began and most have failed.'

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Google Chrome is the product of more attacks

INTECO (National Institute of Communication Technologies), warning users about cybercrime attention to mobile devices and SCADA systems.

INTECO is responsible to warn and inform users about security flaws that exist in operating systems, hardware and applications. Now it happens that your repository has grown vulnerabilities in the first quarter of 2012, so you have 2112 new vulnerabilities with severity levels of medium and high.

First is Google Chome as the product most affected. Note the increase in operating systems like Linux and IOS, this indicates that we should stop thinking that there are operating systems that are safer, we must use the updates.

Third are the vulnerabilities of the operating system for mobile devices from Apple. It is very important that the case of Apple, but that is a mobile operating system, giving us a clue of where is deepening.

And that cybercriminals are pending in the mobile malware (both Apple, Android, Windows Phone, etc.), is a good idea to take care of security on these devices. In addition the report also adds that browsers are up and are a 'prime target' for cybercriminals.

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Pocket Planets: Explore the galaxy using your Android phone

 

Pocket Planets is a wonderful application that will undoubtedly be a delight for any astronomer and passionate about the stars. The app allows us to explore the galaxy through our mobile phone or Android tablet. It has very good three-dimensional graphics and has many interesting facts and information, all of which makes it the perfect application for the amateur astronomer or for which it is still amateur.
Pocket Planets has a free version and a paid one that costs $ 3.

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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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Engineers are critical of the benefits of mobile MWC fair deviate to tourism and trade

 

Members of the College of Engineers and Surveyors Telecommunications of Catalonia (COETTC) have criticized the appointment of Barcelona and Mobile World Capital has most benefited the tourism industry conference and trade sector at the Information Technology and (ICT).
Specifically, almost 30% think that the volume of business that has brought the celebration of the World Mobile Congress has been diverted to other sectors beyond telecommunications as conference tourism, and not in the ICT sector, which has not benefited at all (41%).
28% of respondents believe companies have congress tourism or commerce which increased revenues that quote being taken out of the sector.
For the president of COETTC, Ferran Amago, the current economic situation and the limited internationalization of national ICT company can not afford to waste as the global opportunities offered by the Barcelona World Capital.
"Domestic companies are not now benefit from the boost that could give them both the capital of Barcelona as the successive editions of the World Congress of reference for the sector," he said.
MOBILE: BETTER FUTURE
For 36% of these engineers, industries engaged in the development of products and applications for mobile devices will be the ICT sector will have a positive progression in the next two years.
In addition to the mobile sector, technical engineers and experts say telecommunication electronic commerce (21%) and cloud computing businesses (17%) as the other two sectors that also have good prospects.
In addition to the world of mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, technical engineers and experts say telecommunications e-commerce has been chosen as the second sector mark a significant growth in the next biennium.

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Lorenzo (CMT) recognizes that there is a regulation "asymmetric" between operators and service providers

 

The president of the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT), Bernardo Lorenzo, has acknowledged that there is "asymmetric regulation" between operators and Internet service providers 'over the top', as whatsapp and Skype.
"Operators complain that there is an asymmetric regulation and I agree," stated Lorenzo told reporters after the presentation of the financial report and sectoral telecommunications regulatory body.
However, the head of the CMT has clarified that he does not believe that the solution is an "intensive regulation." Lorenzo added that the European regulator for electronic communications (Berec) is "starting" to talk about this. "They are beginning to talk, but traders are worried about cannibalizing their services," he added.
Lorenzo has highlighted the increased competition in the sector. In this sense, the two main market, Telefónica and Vodafone, reduced market share Mobile 2.7 and 1.3 percentage points to 39% and 28.2% respectively and, in return, Telstra and MVNOs were increased theirs, accounting for 5.3% and 6.8%. Also, fixed broadband, Telephone lines and 124,422 lost for the first time, its market share fell below 50%.
In addition, the president of the CMT has highlighted the "significant" drop in prices that has occurred in the telecommunications sector last year and have contributed to the fall in revenues in the sector.
PRICE FALL
In particular, mobile communications prices fell more than 16% and a standard package of fixed telephony and fixed broadband, more than 7.5%. However, Lorenzo has admitted that SMS prices remain "high" despite decreased by 9.9% compared to 2010.
In any case, Lorenzo pointed out that CMT only regulates wholesale prices should, yes, almost unseen in retail prices.
As for portability in a day, has stated that Lorenzo has been in place "recently" so it is reasonable that initially takes place "some type of incident." Since last June 1 customers can switch carriers without losing their phone number (portability) within one working day, compared to the previous four days.
Looking ahead, Lorenzo provides a moderate growth of fixed broadband lines and double-digit mobile broadband, driven by the use of intelligent terminals and tablets. "It will increase further the speed of Internet access, both fixed broadband and mobile, but will reduce the data traffic in SMS and MSM" has come forward.
Asked about the bill that are unified with the regulators (CMT, CNE, CNC) under the new National Market and Competition, Lorenzo has merely replied that the agency is headed by the plan for 2013, although know what will happen next year.

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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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Motorola Defy Pro, a mobile high strength with a QWERTY keyboard and touch screen

 

You should make quite a while since the last time I saw a mobile phone from Motorola with QWERTY keyboard. But that's not all you have the new Motorola Defy Pro, as this small addition to the above type of keyboard, also has a touch screen that is protected by Gorilla Glass and glass is resistant to land and water.
Regarding the specifications, this is a mid-range mobile as it has only a 2.7-inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, use the Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread and has WiFi and Bluetooth.
To our knowledge, the Motorola Defy Pro will be arriving in Brazil on 15 July, but do not know what the price, but still consider that there will be high.

 

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First trojan for the iPhone and iPad is identified by security expert

 

A security specialist Kaspersky claims to have identified a trojan designed for Apple's mobile devices - iPhone, iPhone and iPod. The worm was disguised as a digital application called "Find and Call" and also have a version for Android devices. Apple has removed the malicious application of the store.
In one post , Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab expert, says that installing Trojan horse (malicious program that opens up security holes on the device is installed), the application sends the contact list of devices to a remote server. The data are used later in this remote server to send spam via SMS. The main target users in Russia.
Maslennikov said he had contacted Apple and Google to report the malicious application, but did not yet return. In App Store, the app no ​​longer appears, but you can still find it via search engines.
For the "Wired," the Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller said only that the application was removed from the App Store for "unauthorized use of your contact list, a violation of the rules of the store."
It is not the first time that an application "steals" the catalog of contacts in iOS devices. In 2008, the game Aurora Feint was removed from the App Store for security and privacy problems. Aurora sent the contact list of users to their own servers without using encryption features.
More recently, the Path, application to share posts, photos and videos, also captured private data from users of iOS. The company apologized for what happened and claims to have deleted the data collected.
The "Find and Call", unlike the Aurora Feint and Path was developed exclusively for stealing data from mobile devices - what would rank as the first malware for Apple's system.

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Amazon plans to launch its own smartphone to compete with Apple and Google

The company Amazon is working on its own smartphone with Foxconn, in an attempt to compete with Apple and Google companies in this sector. In addition, the U.S. company is trying to acquire a number of patents on wireless technology that would help defend against possible accusations of patent infringement.

Amazon has become a leader in electronic commerce and it appears it can achieve the same objective in the field of mobile devices. First achieved great success with the Kindle, its electronic book, which has been around the world and has managed to harvest a large number of sales. In 2011, Amazon venture into the market of 'tablets' touch with your Kindle, a 'tablet' to shade the iPad unbeatable price of $ 199.

But Amazon wants to reach all corners of the mobile device industry. As confirmed by two people related to the topic at Bloomberg, the U.S. company working with Foxconn, maker of the Kindle, in its own smartphone.

Thus Amazon looking to break into a market dominated by Apple, the iPhone, and Google-with smartphones from manufacturers that incorporate Android. In addition, a smartphone would give Amazon a wider range of devices at low prices to strengthen its e-commerce strategy. So far no Amazon spokesman has not confirmed or denied anything about this subject.

Besides working on the new device, Amazon is also considering the purchase of patents to avoid litigation for infringement of the same. These patents are related to wireless technology devices and the selected operator is InterDigital.

Amazon strengthened its patent strategy recently by hiring the former chief executive of Intellectual Ventures Management, Matt Gordon, a company that was founded by former Microsoft CTO, Nathan Myhrvold, and which has over 35,000 intellectual property assets . Gordon is managing director of acquisitions and investments in Amazon patent.

Related links:

- Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-06/amazon-said-to-plan-smartphone-to-vie-with-apple.html).

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