Monday, July 30, 2012

Consumers will spend $ 2.1 trillion in 2012 with technology

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By the end of 2012, consumers worldwide will spend $ 2.1 trillion in digital information and entertainment products and services, according to projections by Gartner. This means an increase of $ 114 billion for 2011.

The pace of sales growth should rise to U.S. $ 130 billion a year, with the total jumping to $ 2.7 trillion by 2016.

The consultant explained that the amount will be used to purchase mobile phones, computing and entertainment, media and other intelligent services, the services needed to make the devices connected to work, and software and media content to be consumed by it all.

"The biggest consumer segments in the technology are and will remain, mobile services, mobile phones and entertainment services," said Amanda Sabia, principal research analyst at Gartner.

Only the mobile focus 37% of total global technology spending this year. It is the equivalent of U.S. $ 0.8 trillion, but almost come to a trillion dollars, efetivemente in 2016. The cell, in turn, get the cake with 10% (U.S. $ 222 billion in 2012, nearly $ 300 billion in 2016), and part of the entertainment, also with 10% (U.S. $ 210 billion and almost $ 290 billion .)

The projections also indicate that the mobile application stores will grow to U.S. $ 18 billion by the end of this year, reaching $ 61 billion in 2016. And spending on digital reading (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) will be $ 5 billion in 2012 and $ 16 billion in 2016.

Twitter is the 500 million users

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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.

University of Taiwan claims that Apple copied the Siri

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Accustomed to sue the other for breach of patents, Apple had a taste of own medicine last Friday, when a university in Taiwan announced that it would bring a lawsuit against the U.S. company for an alleged illegal use of patents in personal assistant Siri.

The system Siri allows iPhone users to perform various tasks using just your voice. However, Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, claims that the voice recognition tool infringes two of its patents, registered in the U.S. in 2007 and 2010. The study center charge compensation - the value has not yet revealed - from Apple.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, on Friday. "The lawsuit was filed in a Texas court because the cases are processed faster and in general there favor patent holders, with higher compensation," Chen said Yama, legal director of the university, told Reuters.

The Apple has not yet ruled on the case.

Panasonic develops artificial system of photosynthesis to reduce pollution

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Japan's Panasonic claims to have developed a system that, with sunlight transforms CO2 into fuel.

CO2, aka carbon dioxide is a pollutant and a major contributor to the greenhouse effect.

According to the company, your system has 0.2% efficiency under laboratory conditions. According to Panasonic, the index is similar to real plants and more than any previous experiments conducted in the area.

The company also says that the system uses a nitride semiconductor to excite the electrons of CO2 until they turn into formic acid, used in dyes and perfumes.

The invention is already patented, but there are no predictions of release. However, Panasonic says it intends to deploy the technology in incinerators and factories, responsible for high emissions of CO2.

Facebook changes the photo viewer

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The Facebook announced on Monday (30/07) an update to your system for viewing photos. From now on, they get bigger and reorganized.

When the user clicks on the "Photos", located below the cover photo, he will see large images fill the page. From there, you can navigate between photos marked, and the shared albums.

There are also how to mark images as favorites, so they are highlighted in the profile. Just click on a star that appears to the upper right corner of each.

Despite being shown today, the news is not yet available for all users.

HTC comes out of the South Korean market

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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.

Bing now lets you tag friends in Facebook searches

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On Monday (30/07), Bing announced a change in its search engine to make it more social. The tool Microsoft now lets you tag friends in Facebook during consultations, so they help with the results.

When you want to look for something on Bing, the user can type the name of up to five friends from Facebook in the search bar. With prior approval, the matter is posted in the Timeline and the selected contacts are notified.

The feature is part of a package of changes announced by Microsoft to take effect this year. Facebook, who has a partnership, it will be increasingly added to the Bing.

The news has not arrived in Brazil, and there is no information about when to come here.

Rumor: Apple negotiated investment in Twitter

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The Apple and Twitter in the last month talked about the possibility of the iPhone maker to invest in order to participate in the social network, but negotiations have cooled in recent months.

According to Reuters , the Apple held talks with Twitter to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recent months. But now, nothing is being discussed. It is not known at what level the conversation took place, or if companies gave up on a possible deal.

For Apple, the investment in Twitter would enhance the strategic relationship with the microblog, which has more than 140 million active users and has over 3 billion messages sent each week.

For Twitter, however, the agreement may not make much sense. The microblog expects to generate $ 300 million in advertising sales this year and company executives say they do not plan to seek more funding today.