Samsung takes Windows Azure for its Smart TV

The company Samsung Windows Azure take to manage its infrastructure of Smart TV. Windows Azure will give Samsung the ability to help secure the server and storage resources you need, giving Samsung the time to focus on delivering software and high quality services to its customers. With this agreement, South Korea has been reduced to ten times their costs by choosing to manage their cloud infrastructure.

Samsung Smart TV offers its services in 120 countries around the world. Has assured the company, Samsung needed a solution that could support the service and its continued increase in traffic. Samsung would not depend on specific providers so chose Microsoft as Windows Azure for service infrastructure "offered the responsibility required to meet their mission critical and expansion of scheduled service," he assured the company.

"After extensive testing, Windows Azure is the only offering in the cloud that meets our exact conditions", stated a representative of the Visual Display Division of Samsung.

Compared to the cost of expanding its internal IT services, Samsung has achieved with this agreement a reduction of up to ten times their cost, choosing to manage their cloud infrastructure. Samsung, the statement, attributed this success to the scalability of their IT infrastructure, including Windows Azure, which offers a progressive and fast.

"Smart TV leverages the unique capabilities of Windows Azure," he assured the corporate vice president of Windows Azure at Microsoft, Bob Kelly. "Windows Azure gives Samsung the ability to focus on your business instead of having his crew trying to problem-solving issues."

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Microsoft recorded an expense of 6,200 million

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday that its largest acquisition in the Internet sector is almost devoid of value and erased any benefits from the last quarter as the company announced an expenditure of 6,200 million dollars (about 4.922 million euros) to amortize the value of an online advertising agency that bought five years ago.

The announcement was an unexpected but not really surprised investors who had largely forgotten the purchase of aQuantive in 2007. At first, it was expected that the deal would strengthen the online advertising revenue of the company and counteract the purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick by rival Google.

Microsoft shares fell slightly to $ 30.28 in trading after the close, after closing at $ 30.56 on Nasdaq's current operations.

The largest software company in the world said in a statement that "the acquisition did not accelerate the growth of expectations, contributing to the depreciation."

Microsoft bought aQuantive for 6,300 million dollars in cash, in an attempt to catch its rival Google in the race for graphical advertising revenue related to the searches. At the time was the largest acquisition by Microsoft, and has been surpassed only by the purchase last year of Skype by 8,500 million dollars. However, he was never a success and the senior management of a Microsoft Quantive soon stopped.

Following its annual assessment of goodwill - the amount paid by a company in excess of its net assets, Microsoft said Monday it would take a noncash expense of 6,300 million, indicating that the acquisition of aQuantive and has no value.

Spending is likely to erase any benefit from the company in the fourth quarter of fiscal year. Wall Street had expected Microsoft to submit quarterly net income of about 5,250 million dollars, or 62 cents a share, on July 19.

In addition to depreciation, Microsoft said its expectations for future growth and profitability of its online services unit, which includes Bing and MSN web portal, are "lower than previous estimates."

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Nexus 10 could be in development

Not yet a week after the official launch of Google Nexus 7 and already there are rumors on the web about a new version of the tablet but larger. For some, it seems a logical step, and if so, Google would be doing the same as Samsung did, premiering first a 7-inch tablet and later one of 10 inches (Tab 10.1). Can this strategy be applied to the Nexus family of Google?

We do not see why not, and indeed seems to have already been applied, because the company reportedly has ordered 10-inch touch panels to Wintek, and no doubt the same will be designed to be incorporated in tablets. About what we know is if Asus will also work on this project. We assume that the latter depends mainly on the success you achieve the new Nexus 7, which certainly can be seen in the picture above.

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Apple pays $ 60 million to use the name iPhone in China

Proview Technology claims to have the right to the name in the country.
Since 2009, the company sold computer that was called IPAD.

Apple agreed to pay $ 60 million to end a dispute and have the right to use the name iPhone in China, announced a Chinese court, which closes a legal conflict of several years of American business in one of its major markets.

The company Proview Technology, which by 2009 had sold a computer with the name "IPAD", denounced the Apple in various Chinese courts on the grounds that it had rights to use the brand in China and tried to ban the sale of the iPhone in the country.

After an agreement reached on June 25 between the two companies, Apple paid $ 60 million and last week asked the court of the city of Shenzhen (southern China) to apply the decision.

On Monday (07/02/2012), the court sent the Shenzhen branch of Chinese industry and commerce the decision to transfer the mark to Apple iPad, which means that the Proview Technology will no longer have the right to use the name.

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Pendulum Studios commitment to 'crowdfunding' for your next game

The Spanish study Pendulum Studios is already working on a new game, after the recent success of New York Yesterday and Computer Crimes IOS. It will be a title that goes "one step beyond" in terms of narrative and bet on the 'crowdfunding' to finance.

Yesterday he served Pendulum to win four awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in Gamelab last week. This is a pretty groundbreaking title for the study, taking into account that neglects the mood to tackle a more mature plot and full of tension.

In this regard, Javier Garcia Appointment, Pendulum Studios programmer for seven years, has advanced to the next set of study "aims to go one step further developments in this narrative." In addition to this change in the game, there will be news about how to finance the project.

Pendulum Studios wants his next game is bigger and it will rely on collective financing. "What we can say for now is to be called Day One and we are going to embark on a crowdfunding to pull it off," said Garcia Portaltic. The developer has said that Pendulum are "excited and acojonados equally" with the project, but have "very excited because it succeed."

The study has not given more information on the project, apart from this issue more mature and the financing system that has given such good results to other developers. In this sense, they invite those interested in participating in the financing http://uk.lab.gamesplanet.com/ visit.

Garcia concluded that thanks to 'crowdfunding' can make a game with his players "as key partners." "The reason we have set the crowdfunding is that in the usual way we would not be able to get the money needed to make the game we want to do," he explained.

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Instagram still off the air after server problem

"Netflix and Pinterest left the air, but service was standard.
Twitter, the network informs that works to solve the problem."

The Instagram, photo-sharing service, is down since the night of Friday (29). The problem would have occurred after a thunderstorm dropped in Virginia, USA, where are the Amazon servers.

In addition to Instagram, services like Netflix, movies on demand over the Internet, and Pinterest, publishing site of images, also left the air, but in the early afternoon of Saturday (30), were working for Brazilian users. In However, the programs may be unstable.

At Twitter, Instagram said the problem should not affect users' files. Still, according to the post, the network "works to correct the problems" and "thank you for your patience."

"No data was lost and we are working through the night to restore service," says the message. The reason, according to the website "Mashable" would have been a strong storm in the U.S. state of Virginia, with winds that affected part of the grid that supplies the servers.

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Mercedes and EA are committed to the 'product placement' 'in-game' with SimCity Social

Advertising in video games is becoming more common and quite effective. When the title has a realistic theme, these ads can get to increase that sense of reality, it is undeniable that our world is full of posters and corporate buildings.

So Electronic Arts has chosen to put a real dealer your next installment of SimCity for social networks. To bring the usual 'product placement' which is so common in television shows or movies to virtual worlds and video games.

Electronic Arts and Mercedes-Benz Europe have announced a collaboration agreement to include and offer unique items in the game for EA SimCity Social Facebook. If a player completes the mission that the carmaker proposed in the game, you get exclusive features such as a factory of Mercedes-Benz will increase the playability of your city.

Social SimCity, which is coming soon to Facebook, is the result of close collaboration between Maxis and Playfish studies, and presents the actual simulation of the process of urban construction, providing total freedom to create a city and to make decisions on it.

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The shots on rails Resident Evil come to PS3

 

The company Microsoft wants to bring all its services beyond video games, computers and mobile devices. The Redmond are working to incorporate Kinect, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows Live, Bing and Tell me in cars to interact with drivers, know your likes and provide information presonalizada.

Microsoft is not content with having achieved success in the gaming industry, with Xbox and Kinect-in-desktop and Windows-mobile devices, with Windows Phone. Now the Redmond bet on the automotive sector but building your own vehicle, as Steve Jobs had in mind with its idea of ​​iCar, but by improving your "software" to provide the best features for drivers.

Microsoft has already shown how Kinect could work in the car with the Detroit Project Mustang. This project incorporated chambers Kinect motion detection in the front and rear of a Mustang.

In this way the driver could have a complete picture from inside the car, through the navigation system screen, what was happening abroad and also what was happening inside, improving passenger safety . Through hand movements the driver could switch screens of information or entertainment control systems.

But Microsoft does not want to comply only with Kinect. According to a job which had access CNET, Microsoft is looking for engineers and developers to join the new draft Connect Car to assist in the development of a next-generation platform for cars.

"For the next generation of Car Connect Platform, we intend to leverage the power of the Microsoft ecosystem, including Kinect, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows Live, Bing, Azure and Tell me," according to Microsoft in the offer working. It also highlights that the combination of sensors, user identification, access to the cloud and the data "will transform the cars of the future in intelligent assistants for the driver and his passengers."

The job also explains that Microsoft is working on the communication between you and the vehicle through a natural language to compete with Apple and the software company Nuance, whose next platform will be able to recognize and interact with drivers and passengers.

"The new car will meet its pilots logged and may interact with them naturally through speech, gestures and face tracking. It will learn your habits and offer personalized information and context-sensitive help driving to get to their destination as quickly and safely as possible, "says the company.

Related links:

- CNET (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57459884-48/kinect-in-the-car-its-coming/).

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