The police conduct a search in the offices of Samsung

Bad news for Samsung. The South Korean company not only faces lawsuits against Apple in the U.S. and Europe, but also have problems with the police in their own country. LG also comes from South Korea, but this does not change the fact that both companies are rivals.Recently, LG has accused Samsung of possessing stolen information about its technology . Due to this fact, South Korean police has taken action on the matter and have begun to inspect a Samsung office located in Asan, south of the capital, for possible stolen documents that relate to the technology from LG.

Police looking for any hint of a possible theft by Samsung in order to determine how they are involved in the matter, if it is confirmed that they were.

In July last year, several employees of LG were accused of theft related to OLED technology.Samsung, meanwhile, says he does not need to steal OLED technology to another company, because they already have the best in the world.

Do you think Samsung has stolen important documents to LG?

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The Google Glass also banned in Las Vegas

Do the Google Glass device will become the highest number of prohibitions in the world? If things continue at this rate, maybe. Whatever may happen in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and this applies also to the famous Google goggles. It is obvious that the various casinos and clubs in the city does not want people to go out there with his great spectacles recording everything they see. The reasons are more than obvious.

One of the managers of a major club in town say they have faced such problems for years. That is, not only refers to the Glass glasses , but what are cameras and mobile phones capable of taking pictures and recording videos. As Glass sales increase, more people will start using them.If someone is seen wearing a pair of glasses Glass in a club or casino, you will be the same as it does to people carrying cameras.

Taking pictures is prohibited in some locales of Las Vegas, and the security guards asked to not take pictures out of respect for the privacy of others.

I wonder what the next place where the Google Glass will be banned.

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The apps market continues to grow

Today, practically all devices technology are able to run modern apps: phones, computers, laptops, tablets, televisions, etc.. Frankly we are not surprised that the app market continues to grow and especially to do it at a good pace, as the use made ​​of the various apps is awesome.We have results on growth during the first quarter of the 2013.

According to the report by research firm Canalys, a total of 13.400 billion apps were downloaded during these three months, representing an increase of 11% over the last quarter of 2012. Total revenues are estimated to be around $ 2.2 billion dollars, which makes it quite clear that the vast majority of apps downloaded are free.

The amount of downloads named comes from the four major app stores in the world: the Play of Google, Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World and then the WP Store Microsoft. The greatest number of downloads occurred obviously in store Google, since the amount of Android phones exceeds that of any other mobile OS world. Google has taken 51% of the total, Apple is a close as stated and Microsoft along with BlackBerry watching the view from behind.

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Samsung TIVA Book 6, decently appointed new notebook

The truth is that a few weeks ago did not we threw out a notebook that was not gamer sector, so it is time to see one. The one we have before us is the  Samsung TIVA Book 6 , recently launched in some markets and on track to reach others. What kind of hardware will have the TIVA Book 6 inside? Well, that comes next.

It is a laptop that is fairly well equipped, able to do everyday tasks and much more, even gamers can give enough use provided you do not want to run anything too modern with high quality graphics. Back then, the  Samsung TIVA Book 6 is a 15.6-inch notebook features Full HD resolution for brilliant display. The processor has a Intel Core i7 which is accompanied by 8GB of RAM , and a 1TB hard drive and a powerful graphics card  AMD Radeon HD8770M .

The level of connectivity options are diverse: it has WiDi, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. Its speakers are JBL and also has an HD webcam and LAN ports, VGA, HDMI and USB 2.0/3.0. The notebook has a backlit keyboard and battery life is about 8 hours.

If you ask for the price, the Samsung TIVA Book 6 costs about $ 1200.

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Sony announces new 4K TVs 55 to 65 inches

Sony has finally released new details regarding their new televisions 4K with resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Specifically, the company has announced both the price and the release date of these new products. The 55-inch model called the Bravia XBR-55X900A , while his brother over 65 inches is called Bravia XBR-65X900A . Of course when televisions 4K, which are the most advanced of the market, there will be nothing cheap, and actually cost $ 5,000 and $ 7,000 respectively. A great investment no doubt, but if we get one and look after it properly surely not will specify a new one for the next 10 years.

The screens of both televisions are Triluminous and use the technique of image processing X-Reality PRO, as well as incorporating the technology Motionflow XR960 which increases the playback speed to get a great picture quality. If we require connectivity, has NFC and WiFi.

The new TVs, which incidentally were presented at CES 2013 in January, will be put on sale on April 21 for those prices. Also remember that Sony is planning to launch a TV 4K 84-inch will cost about $ 25,000.

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WhatsApp Google could acquire $ 1,000 million

According to several rumors that have spread on the Internet, Google is negotiating the purchase of the popular messaging service WhatsApp.It seems that negotiations began a month ago and the guys behind WhatsApp, seeing the opportunity you have in front, want to get all the money they can from Google. It is said that the figure we are talking about would be about $ 1,000 million . The first time Google showed interest in WhatsApp was in December, when the popular social network Facebook was also considering a possible acquisition. Recall that the service has users in over 100 countries and is available through more than 750 networks moving around the globe.

We should note another thing: last month rumors that Google was working on its own messaging service, called Google Babble therefore very likely that the purchase of WhatsApp has something to do with it. Does WhatsApp Google aims to make a totally new? It is likely that the Internet giant wants his team will make some few changes to the popular app messaging, as happened with the mail application Sparrow last year.

Hopefully soon more details emerge.

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Fake Twitter Followers: more and more and becomes more difficult to detect

There are those who can make good use of the opportunities presented to them, and in the Internet world that's a constant. Someone always manages to find a way to take advantage of some service to their own property, and Twitter is one of those platforms that are being very abused today. While Twitter does make a profit through advertisements and sponsored tweets, someone is acting behind the scenes, even far from where the authority of Twitter can get on its own platform. They are the followers false , which are becoming more and are creating a billion dollar industry.

In Twitter, a way of judging how popular a person is through his followers, or to be more exact, by the amount of people that follow it. Of course this is not something anyone can achieve, you can to have a very considerable amount of followers if or when we will be a well-known, famous or celebrity movie or similar. There are websites that promise thousands of followers in exchange for a few dollars. These fans usually come in packs of 1000, although if you have the enough money you can get with many more.

Currently, 1,000 fans cost about $ 18, and it seems that this whole process is very easy to carry out, but do not know how exactly.

Twitter needs to find a way to prevent the automatic creation of fake accounts if you want to avoid this situation.

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Intel begins sending chip makers Haswell

Do you remember that a couple months ago we spoke about the Haswell processors from Intel ? This is indeed the new generation of Intel chips and is expected to be released around the middle of this year, ie in only 2 or 3 months. New reports indicate that Intel has begun shipping its Haswell chips to the main market OEMs to begin testing and others.

The company is expected to give more details about it or make some announcement about this new generation of processors during IDF conference to be held next week in Beijing. Haswell processors will not only be the best of Intel in terms of power, but is also expected to have a very low energy expenditure without implying a yield loss.

Notably, these processors will be used in PCs, laptops and tablets also, contrary to early rumors saying that would be available only for desktops.

The Haswell chips have the same process for the generation 22nm Ivy Bridge, although it has designed a new microarchitecture to improve the performance. It is expected that 14 new lines processors Core i5 and Core i7 will be launched between 2013 and 2014.

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