Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The second day of Curiosity Mars goes perfectly

The second day on Mars went smoothly for Curiosity, vehicle NASA's robotic Mars arrived on Monday, said Wednesday the space agency, adding that all antennas, communication channels and the electric generator work well. "We now have confirmation that all antennas and communication channels of the robot work perfectly," said Jennifer Trosper, one of the managers of the mission, in a press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...

IPhone thickness of 7.6 mm

Everything is then ready for the presentation of the next version of Apple's smartphone, iPhone 5, apparently with an event would be held this September 12. However, rumors about the product not stop spinning in cyberspace, and is now believed that the thickness of 7.6 mm would be 18% thinner than the S4 model. According to the known site Apple.pro, the motive for the Cupertino suffer this variation due to its new type of display...

Amazon already sells more ebooks than paper books in the UK

The ebook has already won the game against the paper book, at least in the UK. Amazon just announced in a press release sales figures for its popular electronic book reader family, Kindle, has exceeded the total sales in traditional format, in both paperback and in tough in Britain. In May 2011, sales of ebooks for Kindle had already advanced, with a ratio of 2-1, the hardcover. For every 100 books printed Amazon.co.uk sell, have sold...

In the future mobile voice will disappear and will be used only to talk and surf data

The fourth generation mobile known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) allows among other things, transmit data at high speed and eliminate conventional voice. Two companies will be the first to take the first step towards the 2013 but there are other operators such as Verizon, ATT or Srint that intend to provide voice by LTE. Disappears voice messages and MMS South Korea Telecom plans to launch voice data associated with the Galaxy Samsung...

Astronomers find huge crack in the surface of the Sun

U.S. astronomers have discovered a huge crack in the sun's surface that has never before been observed, according to NASA. The crack, photographed by U.S. astronauts, has a length of approximately 800 000 kilometers. NASA scientists perform appropriate studies to determine their origin. According to scientists, it is possible that the accumulation case of cold, dense gas and is held on the surface of the star by the magnetic field. The...

Meet the largest map of the universe in three dimensions (Video)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), after making the largest and deepest of the night sky photography captured so far, now wants to expand that image and presented a three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and black holes away. This map has a press release in the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute, which works with the project, will help astronomers to explain two of the great mysteries of modern science: dark matter and...

Google announces elimination of 4,000 jobs at Motorola, most in the U.S.

Internet giant Google announced Monday the elimination of 4,000 jobs in Motorola two-thirds of them in the U.S., to try to shore up the cell phone maker bought in May. Google agreed to compensate workers affected with "generous compensation" for dismissal and retraining programs, said a Google spokesman, confirming press reports. The "strategy" aims to "facilitate the return of profits in the unit cell phone" Motorola said....

Social Media Tour urged to think, populate and exploit potential of the World 2.0

Only an event like the Social Media Tour (#smtour), held today at Hotel Kristoff in Maracaibo, these can use their phones, tablets and smartphones, in fact, the action is a must, since it was an event of exchange of information technology on business strategies for social networks Facebook and Twitter-mainly, security and management of virtual communities, which were urged to think, operate and be effective with the great benefits and potentialities...