Judge rebukes Samsung's mega-trial with Apple over patents in the U.S.

The judge of the mega-trial that pits Apple against Samsung in U.S. court rebuked the South Korean giant to publish evidence that was excluded from the summary, but Apple rejected the request for a verdict on the case.
Judge Lucy Koh showed his irritation at the conduct of Samsung, which reported in the media documents that she had decided they could not be seen by the trial jury on patent violation of smartphones and tablets, which began on Monday in federal court in San Jose, California (west).
Koh said that Samsung's lawyers were "on notice that the possibility of contaminating the jury was real" and berated them for "a deliberate attempt to spread evidence that they knew had been excluded."
However, Apple rejected the application of additional sanctions or a verdict in favor of the company in Silicon Valley.
Koh asked the jury to know if anyone had read the press reports. One confessed that he saw a headline on the internet, but said they had not read the article. The rest stated that he knew the news.
"I will not have any theatrical or sideshow to distract us from the reason we are here, which is a fair hearing on this case," said Koh.

Apple said in documents filed in court that "Samsung and its advisers have engaged in legal conduct in bad faith by trying to prejudice the jury" to disseminate documents suggesting that Samsung was working on its own smart phone before the launch iPhone.
"At Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the whole story and show the design prior to developing iPhone ... Samsung in 2006," before the famous Apple device, the South Korean company said in a statement.
"Excluded evidence would have established beyond doubt that Samsung copied the iPhone design. Fundamental justice requires that the jury decide the case by reference to all the evidence, "the statement said.
The vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, Philip Schiller, were subpoenaed to testify Friday.
The jury began on Tuesday to hear arguments from both sides, in what promises to be the largest patent judgment entered in the United States.
The U.S. Apple claims more than 2,500 million dollars to South Korea's Samsung, accusing it of copying its designs and patents. Samsung, meanwhile, accuses the iPhone maker and iPad violate some of its patents for wireless communications.
The suit seeks to unravel these accusations.
The two companies, which together monopolize almost half (49.5%) of the global market for smart phones, also face legal in several European countries and Australia.
While the results in these countries have so far been mixed, Samsung is clearly on the defensive in the U.S. case.

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Google will pay $ 22 million for violating privacy of users

Google will pay a record fine of $ 22.5 million to end accusations that violated a promise of privacy by tracking stealthily million internet using Apple's Safari browser .
The penalty announced Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, for its acronym in English) corresponds to the figure that The Associated Press and other media had reported last month. It is the highest fine imposed by the FTC against a company for violating a previous agreement with the agency.
In the latest deal Google Inc. did not admit doing anything irregular.
The fine has nothing to do with the collection of data from Google, but for having misrepresented what was happening. Last October, the company owns the most popular search engine signed a 20-year agreement which, among other things, included a commitment not to mislead their consumers about their privacy practices towards.
The FTC opened six months ago research on the activities of users of Safari, after a researcher at Stanford University revealed that Google had managed to evade the defenses of Safari that are supposed to prevent third parties to track Internet activity without permission.
The virtual tracking was performed using mini-programs called cookies, which help Internet services and marketing advertisers to work based on the analysis of the interests involved in a person browsing the Internet.
However, the fact that he evaded the integrated settings in your browser by Apple seemed to contradict a statement issued by Google in the online help center, which assured that Safari users need not do anything more to ensure that Google not would trace your online activities.
The apparent contradiction between words and Google shares were the focus of the FTC investigation.
The fine for Google surpassed that of almost 19 million dollars that the Federal Trade Commission imposed a telemarketing firm accused of misleading people into believing that effected donations to charitable organizations.

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Sony unveils new line of Cyber-shot digital cameras

Sony's new line of Cyber-shot which allow high quality shooting in low light, and feature a powerful optical zoom in a compact body. The new Cyber-shot capture special moments of your life easily and with high image quality.
With the new Cyber-shot models do not have to worry when you're in low light. This camera has an Exmor R sensor that lets you capture the moment in natural conditions without using the flash because the sensor has high sensitivity and an incredible performance in low light. Additionally, have a powerful optical zoom lets you take pictures in great detail even when the object of interest is remote.
"With the new Cyber-shot, we have solved the most common problem when users take a picture at night or in difficult light conditions, offering photos always good quality targeted and exclusive thanks to Exmor R", explains Rosangela Porter, Product Manager for Sony Venezuela.
"In addition, the new Cyber-shot are very easy to use and carry anywhere because of its compact design. Users are always ready to capture the important moments of their lives. "
Sony has met in his chambers, unique features, creative and intelligent, providing a unique and fun before and after the taking of each photograph. The new Cyber-shot have additional features that allow users to fully enjoy the picture:
Creative Photography: Picture Effect Functions and Photo Creativity let you take a personal and creative touch to every photograph without the need to process the photos in complicated editing programs that take a long time. With these technologies you can create original images in an easy and fun.
Smart Photography: Dual Shot technologies and Twilight let Manual capture images more easily and simply. With the Dual Shot, the camera, to detect tricky lighting conditions, automatically performs two shots with different settings, allowing you to choose the best shot. And Twilight Manual function, automatically superimposes six photographs into one to give you a great result regardless of movement or light conditions it was taken.
Photographs that capture everything: the new Cyber-shot offer you the chance to take pictures up to 1800 high resolution Scanning HR function and take pictures with wide angle to 360 ° when using the Sweep Panorama 360. Both functions are achieved at the touch of a button and slide the camera.

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A contest awards in New York to faster texting with mobile phone

New York celebrates today the sixth annual edition of a championship that tests the speed to write text messages with the mobile phone that will award $ 50,000 to the contestant whose fingers are more agile with the key.
"The stage is set, the phone loaded, thumbs ready," said LG, the company sponsoring the event in Facebook dedicated to monitoring this particular competition, held today at the flagship Times Square.
It involves eleven contestants come from different parts of the U.S., aged between 16 and 24 years, what will be played and a prize of $50,000, with the only weapons their mobile phones.
Candidates must pass three tests: writing a SMS blindfolded, another with his hands behind his back and one last called "bombing", which will play a message that will see a few seconds before displaying the next.
In this issue there will be a playoff round against bullying as part of a campaign launched jointly by LG and the TV channel Cartoon Network, urging the public to send an SMS to show their commitment to this cause.
The campaign "Stop Bullying: Speak up" aims to provide parents with the resources needed to promote responsible mobile use among adolescents.
"By asking our audience that position against all forms of harassment, including those that are widespread in the digital space, we hope to make them aware of available tools and steps to help stop these practices," said LG spokesman James Fishler said in a statement.

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NASA and the Pentagon try a craft six times faster than sound

The unmanned aircraft X-51A WaveRider experimental, a hypersonic aircraft capable of flying over the Pacific Ocean some 5,793 kilometers per hour, was tested by the Pentagon today on a flight "key" development of its technology, a source confirmed to Efe Department of Defense.
From a hangar at Edwards Air Force U.S. in the Mojave Desert (California), a team of aerospace engineers tuned the device, which could cover the distance between New York and London in less than an hour.
The project, developed by the U.S. Space Agency (NASA) and the Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced U.S. (DARPA), was tested by anchoring the X-51A WaveRider the wing of an old B-52 bomber.
The X-51A WaveRider should have flown at hypersonic speed for 300 seconds to dive later in the Pacific Ocean.

Although the same sources gave no information on the results, it was successful, the ship should have been destroyed during testing, making it impossible to recover, but engineers could use all the data recorded during the flight for technology development hypersonic military uses.
The test flight X-51A was the third experiment a program that began in 2004.
WaveRider's first, built by Boeing, was tested in May 2010 to 3500 kilometers per hour for 143 seconds before a glitch put an end to the test before time, and the second, who was executed in June 2011 and ended earlier than expected but it did create facts.
The Air Force plans to develop and use technology to move hypersonic missiles or aircraft anywhere in the world in minutes instead of hours, in order not to let the enemy reaction time.
In addition to speed, hypersonic aircraft will fly at high altitudes out of reach of enemy fire or a missile.
NASA and the Pentagon is funding three national centers in the country to study hypersonic flight.
The WaveRider program will cost $140 million as estimated by the site specialized in military development, Globalsecurity.com.

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In photos: colonial and warm, and some streets are lit with lamps Polish gas

In the cold Island Cathedral of Wroclaw, in Poland, some streets are maintained with an illumination of the decade of 1847, gas lamps came on May 23 of that year and showing a very colonial, and were replaced by the light bulb in the '60s. The first application of gas lamps was based in England in 1790.

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Keep your profile updated and care for your image" are some tips to get jobs on the Internet

Currently some professionals prefer to seek employment through its online network of friends and acquaintances. That's why the scouts create pages on Facebook, Twitter or professional network to attract potential employees.
This is the daily review 2001, who notes that "social networks allow access to potential employers also quickly disseminates information on vacancies and extending the network of contacts."
Rodrigo Villatoro, Nubelo marketing manager told this newspaper that "looking for work in social networks can be positive, although the traditional employment métedos to some extent have not stopped working".
He explained that Nubelo is a professional network that allows working professionals to contact the companies that publish gratuitamentea offers on this website, providing payment guarantees and telecommuting tools.
In this vein, he noted that Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin when "use them to seek employment, take into account their characteristics, the way we act in a Facebook network of friends and we hang up photos and information should be very different from linkedin, a network strictly professional. "
As for Twitter Villatoro said allows us to communicate with people who do not know, and therefore "we just have to find them based on common interests or companies in which we want to work."
As follow profiles that share the jobs including: @ quieroempleo, @ bird-employment.

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The marketing manager also stressed Nubelo should be understood that both the CV profile and the profile of their social network "is the same."
He said therefore, one must be attentive to the information placed in a professional network like LinkedIn, must be comprehensive, reflect their knowledge and experience.
In addition to constantly update, take care of their image, to be incomplete or outdated profile conveys a sense of complacency. "
The official also said that "the success of the method of job search in social networks is that, in all aspects of our lives, most important are the relationships with others," he said.

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HTC beats Apple in a court action on the screen desblockeo

The high court in London determined that HTC will not have to pay anything to Apple in a dispute that began a year ago. The Swedish company was able to cancel the European patents on the block, to prevent future process for violation of copyright.
 
The main one is the "Slide to unlock" ("slide to desblockear" present in several Android phones). The English court says the technology can even be used by Apple, but its development was a copy of "obvious" in an old feature of HTC phones, which now occurs in iPhones.
Other patents rejected talk of a keyboard with support for multiple languages ​​and a system that identifies points on the screen, activated by several hints. Apple does not comment on the decision, but it was acid in a statement where he said "competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."

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