Saturday, January 5, 2013

Pumps WWII could trigger tsunamis

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Everyone is aware of the nuclear bomb tests conducted U.S. makes about 7 decades ago, and in fact the same are well documented and available to the general public.
Recently, a New Zealand researcher has found evidence that at that same time tests were run to see the effectiveness of a bomb that was able to create a tsunami. The author Ray Waru, who had access to certain military documents during its investigation, referred to the existence of the Seal project, in which the United States and the United Kingdom worked to create a pump capable of generating tsunamis of about 10 meters high but obviously the idea was that they were even larger.
Some 3700 tests were made in Auckland in 1944. The project, which was led by Professor Thomas Leech, University of Auckland, was discontinued in 1945 because it took huge amounts of explosives to carry out the tests and also because the results were not as expected.

Gorilla Glass 3 and Optical Cables, the new Corning for CES 2013

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A Corning is doing great business as more and more devices are released screens which use the great glass Gorillas Glass Company. Now, the guys at Corning plan to improve its offering with the announcement of the new Gorilla Glass 3 next week at CES 2013. Corning will also unveil Optical Cables, a new data transmission system using optical fiber for transmission between two devices.
Wendell P. Weeks, the CEO of the firm, says that "this year at CES, Corning will demonstrate its leadership in the glass industry and fiber optic technologies with the introduction of two new products designed to enhance the capabilities of the favorite devices consumers. "
We know much more in just three days.

Gingerbread still dominates Android level

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The Android Developers community just released a new report with multiple data and platform versions known. The interesting thing is that Gingerbread undoubtedly remains the dominant version.
Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, as they like to call it, is present in 47% of mobile apps in the world, which is less than what was revealed in October, which was present in 55% of the devices. While it has its share dropped slightly, Gingerbread still the king.
Secondly we have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which is part of the 29% of Android phones in the world, while third place goes to the latest general release, Android 4.1/4.2 Jelly Bean, which has a share 10%. Froyo also is almost as popular as Jelly Bean, as it has a market share of 9%.

Atheros StreamBoost, the new networking technology Qualcomm

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Qualcomm has revealed details StreamBoost involving a new technology developed by the networking company and one of its subsidiaries, Atheros. This is an administration system bandwidth for WiFi routers and the like.
StreamBoost allows us to manage, automatically, the bandwidth allocated to devices connected to a network and is able to give priority to certain applications, in which case the game online and the live streaming videos would be between the top of the priority list.
As time goes, the system will be enhanced to better fulfill its task. Qualcomm will demonstrate StreamBoost next week during CES 2013 to be held in Las Vegas.

Is this the Samsung Galaxy S IV?

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Just published a photo on the net that, as said, shows how to see the Samsung Galaxy S IV. If confirmed the authenticity of it, we would be seeing the success of the Galaxy S III.
The most notable change over the previous generation is undoubtedly the lack of physical buttons on the front, such as the start button and the navigation buttons, which as we know are present on the popular S III. Besides this, the device extremely thin bezel suggests that its display will movable from one side of another, similar to the case of M. Razr Droid
The original source of this image which should be more available states. Of course it is also possible that everything is nothing but a fake or assembly or even a non-functional model designed by a fan.
What do you think? Will an actual photograph of the Samsung Galaxy S IV?


Friday, January 4, 2013

LesanceTB Unitcom A097B/BK, new midrange tablet with Android 4.0

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Continually new models of tablets in the market. As devices are very popular, that's totally normal. Of course there are for all tastes and needs, and here is a new model that falls into the category of midrange tablets: the new Unitcom LesanceTB A097B/BK. It is a tablet with Android 4.0 which sells for around $ 240.
And what is your hardware ? For there is nothing special: it has a dual-core A9 processor running at 1.5GHz, its 9.7-inch screen has HD + resolution, the GPU is known using Mali 400, and features 1GB of RAM, a camera 2-megapixel in the back, one of o.3 megapixel on the front and 8GB of memory can be expanded using a microSD card.
Other specifications include A097B/BK LesanceTB Unitcom WiFi, Bluetooth, a mini HDMI port and two 1W speakers

Look at the new $ 10,000 TV LG

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Manufacturers of displays and TVs have tried to improve OLED models in every way and it seems that LG is really ready to enter the market of OLED TVs with this new 55-inch beast we see in the image. The company has already started taking orders for its new OLED TV, which for now is only available in South Korea, where we can order it through about 1,400 stores, which by the way were charged about $ 10,000 for a unit. That's about 10 times more than the cost of a standard LED TV, but if you ask will tell you that LG really worth the money.
As we see in the picture, the LG TV undoubtedly steals all eyes. Little has a 4mm thickness and weight only around 10 kilograms. It consists of a set of 4 pixels that integrates a white subpixel to the classic red pixels, blue and green, noticeably improving the quality of the image and making it look more real.
Shipments of the new 55-inch TV LG will begin in the first week of February.

Nokia could end up in the hands of Huawei and Microsoft

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While Nokia became the king of the market for mobile phones , and it was several years ago. Since then they have dropped several positions and finally over manufacturing smartphones with Windows Phone operating system, which still has a long way to reach the industry giants: iOS and Android. But maybe Nokia's efforts during this time are not used much in case the company is sold. The analyst Tristan Louis says that in 2013 Nokia could be passed on to other companies such as Huawei or giant software , Microsoft .
Currently Nokia does not seem to have plans to be sold, and although they have had some bad times in recent months, since the launch of the Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8, things have improved a lot.
What do you think? Is 2013 the year that Nokia will improve your business or be the year that will be the company that we all know?