Google opens a section for glasses virtual reality within the store-mail

Google Inc. added a new section to store mail special products "Virtual Reality," in a new step towards strengthening its presence in the market, which has become a promising newborn attracts leading technology companies around the world.

The new section three products, namely: glasses "Cardbord" your Cardboard made of cardboard, which was launched mid-2014, a simple pair of wearable offer users the possibility of virtual reality techniques experience through portable applications.

The new section glasses "View-Master" also provides a View-Master from the company "Mattel" Mattel and made of plastic, in addition to glasses Goggle Tech C1-Glass which is a lens just do not block light when virtual reality experience.

Cardboard glasses are available at a price of $ 15 per unit, or $ 25 for two, while the pair of View-Master is available at a price of $ 30, while the glasses Goggle Tech C1-Glass Vttoffer at a price of $ 15.

The Google Inc., has said the end of January last it shipped more than 5 million units of glasses Cardboard.

The Wall Street Journal had reported last month, citing sources familiar with it he said that Google Inc. to develop a pair of virtual reality integrated does not depend on a smartphone, or a personal computer, or platform games.

And look for new devices as the latest evidence of Google's growing interest in virtual reality promising market, and their intention to penetrate more in the market to compete with companies such as Facebook, which is planning the company "Ookolos" owned start charging glasses "Rift" at a price of US $ 599 soon.

And invested Silicon Valley companies and Hollywood companies billions of dollars in virtual reality technology, and is looking to take advantage of their capabilities in the areas, such as games, entertainment, education, and so on. And seen some officials technology companies virtual reality that it would be "platform" computing, such as smart phones and personal computers.

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Apple is preparing to make significant changes in its computers iPad tablet lineup with the approach of the private her event to be held on 21 March in Cupertino, California.

And spread a lot of rumors about the Apple tablet computer next, which was waiting for him to improve the company's level of sales, it has expressed Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Computer is expected to increase as sales growth iPad in 2016.

Information indicates the possibility of Apple to drop the designation iPad Air along with the development of the computer specifications and add able to shoot videos 4k camera accurately.

It explains a report published earlier that Apple Computer would you name the next iPad 9.7-inch screen as the iPad Air, and the company may you add to a series of computers iPad Pro iPad Pro, which currently consists of a single model of screen measuring 12.7 inches.

It contains a computer iPad Pro 9.7-inch on the back of the new camera accurately 12-megapixel capable of shooting 4K videos accurately, similar to a camera phone iPhone OS 6, which means superiority over computer iPad Pro original photography hand.

It owns the mini version of the iPad Pro computer Apple Pencil stylus is similar to the older version of the iPad Pro, as well as possession of panel smart keys, which allows the user to create content greater than previous versions iPad.

It is assumed that the computer comes with similar specifications larger model, with A9X processor and RAM, and a larger display technology up to date compatible with the pen to allow users to drawing on the screen.

In addition to the Lightning port and built-in speakers and headphone port to 3.5 millimeters and front camera for FaceTime and NFC chip to take advantage of Apple's service for electronic payments Apple Pay.

It is expected that Apple also reveal phone iPhone 5SE, in addition to some new fascias wrist of smart her watch Apple Watch.

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iOS 9 runs on 77% of Apple's smart devices

Apple referred to the adoption of 77 percent of all active devices around the world on the latest version of the operating system iOS 9, and according to the stats page technical support own shop App Store App Store on February 22.

The company, which is based in Cupertino has launched in September of last year, the latest version of the iOS operating system 9 to its users as well as mobile launch iPhone OS 6 and 6 S-Pulse.

Page explained that the number of active devices operating system iOS 8 at 17 percent, while working a total of only 6 percent of the total active system iOS 7 devices and earlier.

The Apple has stated on 11 January, the adoption of 75 percent of the active devices on the new system, resulting in slower growth and dependence according to analysts point of view.

Although slowed iOS system 9 adoption by users rate, but it is still higher compared with 8 iOS system, which reached the proportion of 77.8 percent in mid-March last year.

The company said earlier in the adoption of 12 percent of active devices around the world on the iOS system 9 through 24 hours of its official launch.

While the system iOS 8 adoption on 16 percent of the devices within 24 hours of its release, and the adoption of iOS 7 to 20 percent of the devices within 24 hours of its release.

It should be noted by Apple on 12 January, the launch of the first beta version for developers of the system iOS 9.3, which is available for download directly from the developers of the Apple Developer Center Apple Center, followed by the public version of the non-developers.

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Google, Facebook and Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon supports the position of Apple

Several US technology companies plans to sign a memorandum of judicial solidarity to support the position of Apple in the current battle with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation with regard to helping to decrypt iPhone phone of the shooter in the incident, San Bernardino.

The informed sources told Reuters that each of the parent company of Olfabit Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter support Apple's position with the court by submitting to the Court stating their point of view in winning a legal dispute summary.

The Brad Smith, legal director of Microsoft's support of Apple's position in the listening session in Congress, as Amazon has stated its support for Apple, a spokesman for Amazon, said that the company is still working to provide legal summary of the court.

Apple and submitted a memorandum to the court which refers to the objection to the request of the US government, and added that its encryption unzip your phone iPhone, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino regarded as a violation of the rights of freedom of expression and to overcome the will of Congress.

The problem started after obtaining the FBI on the order of the court asked Apple to write a new program and take other measures to protect the disabled passcode and allow access to the iPhone phone information.

Pushing strongly the old debate for a long time about the possibility of control of law enforcement officials and intelligence digital communications and the possibility of decoding hardware encryption.

Apple submitted to the Court a request to cancel the order issued previously and who asked to assist the FBI in the decoding device encryption on the pretext that the phone encryption is a form of freedom of expression protected under the law, the violation of the court order with the laws of the Ministry of Justice and the US Constitution.

Apple claimed that the court had exceeded its jurisdiction, and noted that Congress has rejected legislation that would force companies to do what the Government required of them in situations similar to the currently requested by the Government of Apple.

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Tim Cook says that Apple's syndrome raises annual profit

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on Friday the company is committed to raising its annual profit, in a move designed to appease investors, but also a sign that he is no longer a front-month technology company in the world the ability to continue to grow.

With growing fears that the growth in the mobile iPhone sales has peaked, the main growth of mutual funds in the United States among the largest sellers of Apple shares over the past six months, sparking speculation that the explosive growth of the company has time AFL.

The Apple company had forecast last January first decline in revenue in 13 years, he reported the slowest increase at all in her phone shipments iPhone with the appearance of signs of weakness in the critical Chinese market.

The company's shares were steady in trading Friday afternoon, but saw a decrease of 25% from the highest level in 10 months.

The Apple Company has offered a regular cash dividend in 2012 after many years in which anything not paid since 1995. In the last year paid about $ 1.98 per share cash dividend, or $ 11.4 billion in a comprehensive manner.

He also said Cook, speaking at the annual meeting of the company in Cupertino, California, Apple has been the strongest advocates of the privacy of its customers and their personal safety, and in light of a public battle with the US government to access your iPhone telephone port of San Bernardino attacks bloody.

It was Apple's first on Thursday has provided legal memorandum has asked a federal court in California revoked an order of the last week ordering the abolition of encrypted phone iPhone own port attacks, arguing that it would such a move would violate the rights to freedom of hers expression, beyond the will of Congress and endanger the security devices Apple and other risk.

Cook said: "These are the things true that must be done." He added: "The fact it difficult not afraid."

Separately, a US appeals court on Friday overturned a court ruling requiring Samsung to pay $ 120 million, to give the maker of smart phones, South Korea finally a big win in the old dispute with its rival to come Apple patents.

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LG has no plans to launch a new phone from the Nexus series this year

Relocation of "CNET" Cnet on technical affairs spokesman for LG as saying that the company has no plans to launch a smartphone of "Nexus" Nexus series produced in collaboration with Google Inc., which, this year.

A spokesman for the South Korean company, which has so far produced three phones from Nexus series, during the Mobile World Congress MWC 2016 in Barcelona, ​​Spain that "LG needs to focus on its brand hers."

The decision comes as LG plans to focus its resources to promote her newest smartphone "LG 5" G5, which announced last Sunday, and hoped to be able to compete with the market leader in mobile, such as "Galaxy S 7".

It is believed that LG's decision also illustrates the pros and cons of building Nexus phone, while the partnership with Google offers the privilege of building a smart phone with the latest version of the Android operating system, a subsidiary of Google, which received its full weight on it.

A spokesman for the company that LG "perfectly happy" to relations and work on the Nexus phones, but the project requires a lot of resources that are better placed in smart phones carrying its brand.

Also the spokesman said that LG, which has Google workers other relationship, the adoption of the operating system "Android Wear" in smart clocks, plans to re-second generation of her watch, "LG Watch Urbain TLC" LG Watch Urbane LTE during the second half of this year .

The company had pulled from the market after a time less than a week put up for sale last November because of problems in the screen.

He also revealed a spokesman for LG that the company had no plans during the year 2015 the launch of a new phone from the "G-Flex" Series G Flex-screen curved, so as to focus on her "G 5" G5 another phone of the series "in the" V later this year .

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Samsung announces the start of production of internal storage memory of the phone with a capacity of 256 Jijaaata

Samsung announced Thursday it has begun production of internal storage memory of smart devices with a capacity of 256 Jijaaata, he said it was the first in the industry, which relies on the standard "global flashlight Storage 2.0" Universal Flash Storage 2.0.

South Korean company said in a statement on its website that the new cache provides outstanding performance of smart devices outperform static storage SSD drives based on the SATA interface in personal computers, and then it provides double the speed offered by the latter.

Samsung explained that the memories of new storage-based UFS standard addresses the need for very high speeds, and the ability to transfer large data with small size, high spec smartphones.

The company added that the new memories, which adopts the most advanced hers memory V-NAND chips, capable of handling up to 45,000 and 40,000 entry process and output per second for reading and writing at random, respectively, ie they offer twice the previous generation of memories UFS speed .

Can Memories Samsung internal capacity of 256 new Jijaaata move up to 850 Mijaaata per second, twice the speed of SSD storage drives in personal computers.

In this capacity, the company said that memories can support video playback high definition 4K and multi-tasking on the big screens of smart devices, such as watching a video 4K Ultra HD screen on a piecemeal, during the search for pictures or download video clips file.

Samsung indicated that it had announced the availability of memories UFS capacity of 128 Jijaaata in February 2015, and in less than a year was able to double the capacity and speed for this category of memories, which the company considers that it should stimulate further growth in the smart device market.

Since Samsung has begun production of these memories, it is expected to combine her tablet expected for the current year, "Galaxy Note 6" to submit an internal storage space of 256 Jijaaata.

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Apple working on iPhone phone so it is impossible to penetrate

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Apple's engineers are working on new security measures that will make the iPhone mobile penetration impossible even on the company itself.

These developments come in the midst of the existing war of words between Apple and the "FBI" FBI on whether to allow the latter to penetrate the phone port of San Bernardino bloody attacks that took place in December / December last year and resulted in 14 dead and 22 wounded.

Earlier this month, a federal grant the FBI the right to a judge to force Apple to disable the automatic scanning function that take place when it is a lot of wrong passcodes to enter to lock the screen on the phone.

He hopes the FBI to reveal the contents of the phone more about San Bernardino attacks that preceded the attack port activities. But the stresses of Apple and its chief executive Tim Cook, who helped in the investigation, a request that the government might go too far, and that will be the basis for the establishment of back doors to gain access to millions of iPhone phones.

It is likely that more rapid action to put the tensions that are raging between Washington and Silicon Valley on encryption technologies, which prevent any unauthorized person to access the personal data of users of new security measures.

It is noteworthy that technology companies have become increasingly diligent in terms of encryption products and services in the wake of the leaked documents revealed by the former contractor with the US National Security Agency Edward Snowden, for covert surveillance of US government programs.

It uses encryption to protect everything from e-commerce transactions to the activities of political opponents. But law enforcement officials complain that encryption also covers contacts "terrorists and criminals".

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Lenovo is preparing to launch the first phone in the world supports "enhanced reality" in July

CEO of Lenovo, said on Tuesday that the company is preparing to break into mature markets this summer with the launch of the first smart phone in the world that supports the benefits of "augmented reality" Augmented Reality developed in collaboration with Google Inc., as part of its project, known as "Tango Project" Tango Project.

CEO Yang Awanking said in an interview in the "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 in Barcelona, ​​Spain, that the device, which was unveiled last January during the "Consumer Electronics Show" CES 2016 in Las Vegas, the city of the US, to be launched in a month July next.

Awanking did not disclose further details of the upcoming phone, but said that will include technology "Tango Project" Tango Project own company Google, and other advantages.

And combines "Tango Project" three-dimensional tracking technology with depth sensors to give portable device the ability to know his place, and how it moves through the region, in addition to creating the ability to use "enhanced reality" on the phone features.

Then the "enhanced reality" program to show text, graphics image on the truth, so it differs from the technology "virtual reality", which makes the user lives in a virtual world where completely not see the real world.

It is believed that the phone could boost the presence of Lenovo in mature markets such as North America, where the smartphone market shrunk slightly from last year, by 0.4%, according to data from the research, "Canales" Canalys company.

The Lenovo had acquired the company, "Motorola Mobility" from Google for over a year compared to 2.9 billion US dollars, to make it the fourth most factory for smart phones in the world, after South Korea's Samsung, the US Apple, Huawei of China, according to research firm Gartner.

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Alcatel announces Pop phones 4 and Pop Pop Plus 4 4S Low Performance

The Alcatel yesterday by announcing three new mobile phones from low performance category and a Pop 4 Pop 4 Plus and Pop 4S, as part of its participation exhibition "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 primarily in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

The three phones specifications are very similar with the main difference is the size of the screen, and supports all three mobile communication fourth generation 4G, and are powered by the Android operating system Marschmilo 6, and found a fingerprint reader feature within the main menu button.

The POP Phone 4 plastic design and screen-type IPS measuring 5 inches and accurately 720 × 1280 pixels, with 210 quad-core Snapdragon processor frequency 1.1 Jijaheters of Qualcomm Inc., and the dimensions of 140.7 × 71.4 × 7.99 mm.

The phone has a 1 GB of RAM, along with 8 GB of internal storage space expandable to 32 GB via the MicroSD port.

Other features include support Cat.4 LTE and battery with a capacity of 2,500 mAh, with Rear Camera 8MP camera Front accurately 5-megapixel lens with wide-angle 48.4 degree.

While the phone 4 POP Plus comes specifications slightly higher than the screen area of ​​5.5 inches and accurately 720 × 1280 pixels, with 1.5 GB of RAM and 16 GB access of internal storage space memory, and comes processor and camera specifications and the battery is similar to a phone POP4.

The POP Phone 4S screen measuring 5.5-inch 1080 × 1920-pixel precision, with MT6755M eight nuclei of the company Mediatek processor, and 2 GB of RAM.

And contains 16 GB of internal storage space expandable via MicroSD, with Rear Camera accurately 13-megapixel front camera accurately 5-megapixel, with a battery 2.960 mAh capacity.

The Alcatel announced yesterday that the new Hatveeha Idol 4 and 4S Idol along with its announcement of Hasabha mobile hybrid Alcatel Plus 10 category of two-in-one factor system Windows 10 and Windows with a keyboard detachable.

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Acer launches phone Liquid Jade 2 Liquid Zest

Acer today launched its new flagship phone Liquid Jade 2 smartphone along with a Taiwanese firm to disclose two models of phone Liquid Zest, in the framework of its participation exhibition "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 primarily in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

The company did not announce the price or availability of phone Liquid Jade 2 in the market, but it has announced its availability of phone Liquid Zest in Europe and the Middle East in April and a starting price of 109 euros, while will go a copy 4G phone for sale in parts of Europe and the Middle East starting from the month of May at a price of 149 euros.

Liquid Jade 2

Phone Liquid Jade 2 features a screen-type AMOLED measuring 5.5 inches in 1080 precisely × 1920 pixels with 176 degree wide viewing angles with a protective layer of Gorilla Glass glass with Zero Air Gap technology which the company claims that it helps to improve readability under sunlight.

The phone works by Snapdragon processor hexagonal cores of Qualcomm 808 with Adreno 418 graphics chip and 3 GB of RAM.

It features a 32 GB of internal storage space, and runs the Android operating system, and supports up to 1 terabyte of storage memory hybrids, which combine local storage with cloud storage.

The phone has a background camera with 21 megapixel with lens aperture f / 2.2 and dual LED flash capable of shooting 4K video accurately along with front camera 8MP.

The front camera supports a wide 84 degree angle, with the status of sports photography "Pause N Shoot" to portray images Sylvie, which detects the face and automatically begins the countdown for three seconds and then you shoot and take a snapshot.

Smartphone also supports communication technology 4G LTE Cat.6 along with 3G connections and GPRS / EDGE and GPS and A-GPS technology Bluetooth and wireless Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac.

Liquid enthusiasm

Liquid Zest phone features a screen-type IPS measuring 5-inch 720 × 1280-pixel accuracy, and works by MT6580 quad-core processor at a frequency of 1.3 GHz Mediatek company with Adreno 418 graphics chip and 3 GB of RAM.

The Android operating system works Marschmilo 6, and has a camera with 8 megapixel with lens aperture f / 2.0 and feature auto-focus and LED flash background along with Front Camera 5 megapixel accurately.

There are some differences between Liquid Zest 4G version iPhone 3G, so Liquid Zest phone 4G by quad-core processor frequency of 1 GHz.

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Samsung Galaxy Note redesigning internal components 5 to address the problem of the pen

Samsung has addressed the problem of the pen in the Galaxy Note phone 5 through redesign some of the internal components of the device after it has entered incorrectly to the problems in the internal components of the device.

Phandroid site and monitor the changes in the new devices that Samsung has shipped recently, which included a new mechanism to eject the pen to ensure his release without effect on the components of the device even if it has been entered incorrectly.

After the arrival of the device to the market in August / August of 2015, some users have suffered from damage inside the device because of the introduction of the pen in the wrong direction, where it becomes difficult to get him out process and lead to a break in the internal parts.

Suspended Samsung on this incident, where she said she put a warning in use guide to avoid this kind of problem, but many users have not read it, to play in the month of November to add stickers on the device's screen to explain the method of introduction of the pen in the right direction and try to reduce the this is the problem.

Do not yet know how the new hardware improved discrimination of older devices that contain the problem of the pen, as Samsung has not announced its intention to compensate or replace the affected devices.

The phone "Galaxy Note 5" 5 Galaxy Note holds a screen measuring 5.7 inches and a resolution of QHD protected with a layer of glass type of Gorilla Glass 4, works as a processor Exynos 7422 processor cores and eight random access memory RAM capacity of 4 GB.

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US court prohibiting the sale of some Samsung phones based on Apple's request

Federal Court in California ordered the prohibition of the sale of some Samsung smart phone company in the United States, which provide features that infringe three patents for invention owned by Apple, and the ban comes as part of the dispute between the two companies.

The on Monday, Judge Lucy Koh of the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order to enter into force 30 days after the verdict, the ban includes phones that have features such as "slide-to-unlock" feature and the possibility of automatic correction of words in some Samsung phones issued prior to the period of time.

It includes smartphones covered by the ban Samsung Admire and Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S II and Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch and Galaxy S II Skyrocket and Galaxy S III products stratosphere, which means the old smart phones from Samsung.

The court had issued an earlier summary of the judgment indicates that Samsung infringed patents relating to the advantage of the AutoCorrect, then the jury found that Samsung's two other patents also violated, including those relating to the advantage of the slide to open, and the granting of compensation to Apple worth 119.6 million per patent violations.

The judge's decision in favor of Apple, which has just begun to get the benefits of call against Samsung filed in the Court of California company, and the judge had refused earlier in the issuance of a permanent injunction, saying that Apple does not appear to be suffering from irreparable harm without a warrant, but The US Court of Appeals, "the Federal Circuit" has to rescind its decision and so the case back to the lower court for further proceedings.

The Samsung Order conditionally fine of up to $ 548 million in the case of patents and other invention in the same court violation, this amount is part of the damages their ability jury in another case in the Court of California for infringement of Apple utility and design patents both.

And it demanded Samsung from the Supreme Court to reconsider the principle of granting compensation to patents for the design and got support from some technology companies on this issue, including compensation each Samsung of infringing products profits despite the fact that the patent is only a fraction of the functionality of those products and offer, the company has paid.

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Facebook opens Oculus Research Office in Pittsburgh

The Facebook social company opened a specialist office for Research on platform Virtual Reality owned Oculus in Pittsburgh, spokeswoman confirmed Oculus that the company has hired an office in Pittsburgh dedicated to research Oculus, in other words it can not be any staff member as soon as his work in Facebook or Oculus entering office .

Pittsburgh City is one of the places that could be for technology companies to find the best researchers, as the city's backyard Carnegie Mellon University, where the upper employ a large number of researchers specialized robots to work on its initiative related to self-drive leadership, as information indicates that Apple may have considered also opening an office in Pittsburgh, now comes the role of Facebook to establish a presence in the region.

The focus is initially on computer vision, and was Facebook had published advertisements about the existence of Jobs for the researcher in the field of computer vision and engineer computer vision and the world of post-doctoral focuses on computer vision research in addition to a range of software engineer for various purposes.

The research indicates the world of post-doctoral "We are currently seeking to get the community innovators have a passion for technology to develop the next generation of facial recognition and body composition and re-3D is a three-dimensional work and possibilities within our research site in Pittsburgh."

A report published last week in the Pittsburgh Business Times newspaper pointed out that Facebook has Bastojar office covers an area of ​​20,000 square feet in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, but the report did not mention that this office will be dedicated to research Oculus platform.

And enjoy Oculus platform much attention within the scope of the technology industry because of the high-end of its organs and software for virtual reality, the company has opened since the duration of the door of the prior demand on the first version of the glasses Virtual Reality own Oculus Rift at a price of $ 599, in addition to start Samsung late last year, selling glasses Virtual reality Gear VR price of $ 99 and based on Oculus software.

The issue of research is important and vital for the social network, where the research department and development spending approximately 30% of the total revenues of the Company during the first quarter of last year, and the Oculus has grown geographically after the acquisition of Facebook in 2014 in exchange for $ 2 billion.

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Microsoft provides a simultaneous translation service for all Skype users on Windows

Microsoft Corp. has launched a new update of the application Skype Skype on Windows system provided through interpretation for all users after the feature previously available only to a specific group.

It can be through the new translation feature voice conversations where immediate support so far seven languages ​​are Chinese, English, French, and German, as well as Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Feature also supports translation of texts in real time between more than 50 languages.

Microsoft said that the number of calls in Skype increased by 400% since the launch of an experimental interpretation feature almost a year ago. She added that the translation from French to English is the most widely used yet.

The company is working on adding support for more languages ​​in the coming period, also aspires to be provided within their applications for Android systems, iMac or feed, as well as the formal application for Mac OS X or Mac OS X on Apple computers.

The witness Skype program of tough competition in the recent period by Apple FaceTime Facetime service, and the application of Watts in August which provided voice calls with leaks experience video calls within the company, as provided for Facebook within the application Messenger access to audio and video with high quality HD.

It is worth mentioning that Microsoft Corp. recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of the launch video calls in Skype since announced that it will soon add a feature group video calls for free to users of the application on Android and iOS and Windows systems iPhone.

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Google Play Google Play store supports the use of promotional codes Promo Codes

Google said the company in support of promotional codes Promo Codes within Google Play Google Play store eliciting this in front of the developers to provide their applications for free for some users.

Google said in Almturien center that the use of these codes can be more than one way, some games provide figures or tools the user needs to buy them, but by using promotional codes can be opened and used immediately. The developer can also deploy these symbols in a gatherings or public places to promote their applications more broadly urged people to try it out.

The developer can create a promotional code only 500 in each quarter of the year, which is valid for use for a full year after its creation with the ability to control the duration of its validity by hand also, so as to meet each application was published in Google Play store.

Promotional codes and allow access to applications or some of the features inside free after writing the code, where the user will find the recovery value Redeem field within the application page in the store, and soon as you type the icon will be installed immediately without the need to enter credit card details.

The promotional codes are available for a long time inside the shop App Store App Store available in smart devices and Apple Mac computers, is not known yet why the Google for the delay in providing their applications within the store.

The company identified on May 18 / May as the date for the 2016 version of the annual conference "Google I / O" Google I / O and will continue for three days to talk about the latest products and applications, in addition to the Android system.

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Xiaomi has sold more than 70 million smart phone through 2015

Chinese Himu Xiaomi has announced the sale of more than 70 million smart phone during the 2015 elapsed, and that in her statement to the exclusive site TechCrunch.

And it rose so the Chinese company's sales by 15% when compared to the year 2014 in which it sold 61 million smart phone, but failed to achieve the goal set by the 2015 in the sale of 80 million smart phone, after they aspire to sell 100 million phones in the beginning of 2015.

And it abandoned Xiaomi, which estimated market value of 45 billion US dollars, for her habit to disclose annual sales, making it suffers from enormous media pressure, especially after he revealed some sources for a slowdown in sales.

The company declined to provide details about the site TechCrunch sales, where a spokesman Xiaomi said it will not detail sales by geographic region, and therefore can not know precisely its sales in China, and some emerging markets such as India, and Indonesia, as well as Brazil.

Xiaomi sales fell in favor of the Chinese Huawei company in 2015, and which phones shipments increased during 2015 by 44% to become the first Chinese company shipped more than 100 million units within one year.

Commented Xiaomi on the decline in sales in favor of Huawei, which confirmed that it is still the first company in terms of sales during 2015, it sells to the user in real time, unlike Huawei, which sent more than 100 million devices to traders, and thus the number of devices that have reached the hands of the users are not known actual.

Forecasts indicate that 2015 saw the sale of more than 1.16 billion device system Android, Huawei has contributed 10% of them, while Xiaomi contributed only 6%.

The Xiaomi announced in November of 2015 from the sale of more than one million smart phone in India, also began directing its sights toward the African continent through a series of agreements with service providers.

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75% of Apple's smart devices are running iOS 9

Apple officially announced that three-quarters of its organs smart operating system iOS 9, which was first released in September / September of 2015 elapsed.

And managed the system iOS 9, you are working with iPhone and iPad devices in addition to the iPod Touch, access to 75% of the smart devices in just four months, surpassing system iOS 8, who arrived in the same ratio after six months.

According to Apple's technical support page in your shop App Store App Store that 75% of its organs smart work from any version 9 or feed system iOS, while 19% working version 8, and only 7% system iOS 7 and earlier.

And saw the launch of iOS 9 a lot of problems, where many users failed to install it appeared to them and problems connecting to Apple's servers, but this did not prevent the large spread in four months only.

And bring the system iOS 9 in support of the Arabic language in full, where he became a lock screen needs to scroll from right to left, such as the icons are placed within the main screen and buttons to move between menus that have become show from right to left as well.

The Apple Vajit users in January 12 this detects the first test version "beta" version iOS 9.3 in order to test, which is available for download directly from developers Apple Developer Center Apple Center, which was issued later to the public.

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Fixstars announces the largest SSD disk with a capacity of 13 terabytes

The Spanish company Fixstars today to announce the latest USB flash drive-type SSD which carries Fixstars SSD-13000M name and the size of 13 terabytes, making it the largest SSD disk in the world in terms of storage capacity.

The company said it will begin selling the hard drive before the end of the month of February, the company did not not officially announce the disk price new, but that Zhu Xian company spokesman pointed out that the price is about $ 1 per 1 GB or which means that the disk to $ 13,000 price.

6 terabytes capacity larger capacity is currently present in the market for hard drives of the type SSD, to come Fixstars SSD-disk 13000M weakness of this storage space.

The new disc will be sold Fixstars SSD-13000M Fixstars directly from the company, and will not be available through retail stores or websites online.

The company is targeting through its new Qrsa of SSD type enterprise sector primarily, and to all the users who are able to afford the price of the disc in general.

The disk size of 2.5 inches and are connected via the entrance SATA 6, and has a read speed of 580 MB per second, while the write speed of 520 MB per second, the company did not offer to provide information about the random read and write speed.

Fixstars company is the first to produce such a disk in this storage capacity, which may surprise the competitors and make it difficult for them to catch up with the possibility of it.

Where SanDisk SanDisk Corporation indicated that it will go this year tablets of the type SSD with a capacity of 6 terabytes and 8 terabytes, while Samsung has said it will launch this year SSD disk with a capacity of 4 terabytes.

And began Fixstars company, which is based in Japan when its incorporation as a software serve the needs of parallel computing, to begin later making drives with controller affiliates to meet the needs of a row of data transfer for users of the institution.

It has also our ranks today to announce the SSD-10000M disk with a capacity of 10 terabytes, and you do not reference to the price of the smaller drive.

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Penetrate the US director of national intelligence accounts

Hit the phone and e-mail accounts on your Internet Profile James Clapper, the US national intelligence director to piracy, and comes just months after the exposure of private e-mail account the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to break through.

Where the hacker group that was behind the hack, who was his private e-mail John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the last year broke a small number of accounts associated with James Clapper, including personal e-mail, the Internet and telephone.

The change of your phone hackers James Clapper home settings so that convert any incoming Mekele home to free Palestine movement.

He Yesterday Brian Hill, spokesman for the Office of Director of National Intelligence to speak on the subject through a statement that was published Clapper's office was aware of the issue and that he was informed the competent authorities on the subject, and did not provide any other details.

The current hack confirms the growing importance of the pirates in members with access to sensitive positions within the US government and the US intelligence apparatus.

The Ministry of Defense to blame the Russians accused of acting against pirates and abide by its laws and that after the establishment of specialists in the field of security by clicking on the links and a letter containing the malicious code.

Security experts point out that this type of attack is called social engineering, and in which a hacker deceiving technical support staff by talking to the victim or the private information which Astamllona to get to what they want.

The two-step method of verification one of the most effective tools in banks and other protection services available through the Internet, and makes it difficult to do re password after the appointment because they require the introduction of code that is sent to the mobile phone user.

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Seagate unveils a hard disk with a capacity of 8 terabytes

The Seagate Seagate storage solutions for the company to announce the latest special storage hard drives with a capacity of 8 terabytes, the company is working to increase the maximum hard disk drives for continuously.

This is a new hard drive perfect solution for network attached storage devices, which is the NAS server to store computer data on the file related to the level of computer network to provide access to the data by a group of users.

And it is available in markets currently the largest hard drives sizes of this figure before, but these disks usually tend to be used for archival purposes only.

Could be the latest Seagate drives use to store large amounts of video, photos and music videos on the local network, the ideal drive for workers and is considered within the creative fields who deal with large media files, and can be desktop computers also benefit from these drives in a RAID setup.

The Seagate to announce the first hard disk is suitable for networked storage devices NAS in 2013, and has provided promises to ease vibration winning inside mechanical disk and work to reduce energy consumption in addition to the work of the disks is quiet compared to traditional motor drive.

And consume the new version of the Seagate drive additional energy is twice the energy needed for the work of the previous version of the hard drive capacity of 4 terabytes, where you need to drive new capacity of 7.2 watts in idle status and 9 watts in the case of work.

The new drive supports data transfer rate of 216 MBps maximum of which is a significant improvement compared with engines smaller disks from Seagate.

The new engine also supports NAS storage devices that contain up to eight drives, similar to engines and other special drives from Seagate NAS devices, allowing users access to store a total area of ​​64 GB.

The new disc also includes a correction NAS devices called NASWorks error correction technique errors, and the new disc comes with warranty for three years.

The new disk price is about $ 385, and will arrive to consumers later this quarter, the company sells a copy 6 terabytes at a price of $ 300 and a copy of 4 terabytes at $ 230.

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Xiaomi phone announces Redmi 3 the structure of a metal battery 4.100 mAh

Today the Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi smartphones announce her new Redmi 3, and the phone comes a new design and sophisticated features for the previous phones.

The phone comes full metal structure and large battery attached to the phone with a capacity of 4,100 mAh, and the device supports the rapid Alchhn ability 5V / 2A, Schumi and pointed out that the price of the phone is around 105 dollars.

The Xiaomi company manufactures low-cost phones, phone Redmi 3 impressive is even Schumi standards itself, where phone-capacity battery provides twice the previous slats her Redmi 2.

The phone has a screen measuring 5-inch 1280 × 720-pixel precision, and processor from Qualcomm eight-core Snapdragon 616, and 2 GB of RAM.

The phone offers an internal storage space of 16 GB expandable via external MicroSD memory card, and have a camera phone background accurately with 13-megapixel lens aperture f / 2.0 and detection auto focus PDAF time of 0.1 seconds.

He has a phone on the front camera accurately with a 5 megapixel lens aperture f / 2.2, and supports two tranches SIM phone contact, and can be replaced by tranches to use a memory card.

The phone comes in three colors are black and silver and gold, the company will launch the phone in the Chinese market on January 12, did not reference about the global launch of the phone.

The phone dimensions of 139.3 × 69.6 × 8.5 mm, and weighing 144 grams, and works by the Android operating system and faced with the user's own Bzhaoma MIUI 7.

And it has a user interface feature related to how the battery power management optimally which would increase battery life and the possibility of use of the device by up to 25%.

The Xiaomi company is preparing to launch her pioneering "May 5" Mi 5 during the month of February, after the beginning of the Chinese New Year, according to a statement released by the Jiang Yuan, one of the founders of the company on social networking sites.

The Xiaomi company had announced in November 24 last for "Rdma Knott 3" Redmi Note 3, the third generation of the smart phone tablet, which is the first device with a metal Bhecal full.

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Facebook works to apply a custom Messenger for Mac systems

Facebook is working on the production of an ad hoc IM application for the devices for Apple Macintosh, which may facilitate the possibility of chat within Messenger Users of Mac systems, and that information comes according to a report published by the technical site TechCrunch.

The report refers to the presence of a private image application was leaked to an employee of Facebook is using an application dedicated IM systems Mac, although the picture is not clear, but he can see the interface consists of two parts, the right pane shows the contacts listed, and appears in the left pane conversation Framework.

The report added that the application of Messenger for Mac has left at the bottom of your tab bar to move matches your tab Messenger Facebook application for the official iOS system for mobile phones bar options, including groups, people and settings.

The Facebook has made in 2012 to issue a formal application for Facebook Messenger is dedicated to the Windows operating system after a period of leaked images of the application, to come back and close that application and terminate in 2014.

The social network has long been the launch of Messenger application separately, to play in 2014 to compel users via mobile phone Pmasinger, and carried in 2015 by converting it to a complete platform for third-party developers to add their own features to Messenger.

The move proved to shift it a smart move, where the application currently has more than 800 million monthly active users and asymptotic to the number of users of the messaging software globally months Watts August, who owns about 900 million active users per month.

The launch of the Facebook Messenger application dedicated to Mac users a logical step, given to the other messaging applications such as Line Line launch of a dedicated program for Mac users copy.

Although the application does not have the full features of the application working on mobile phones but it is easier for the user to use Chat laptop without the need for access to the smartphone.

The application allows IM users freedom from the need to log on to Facebook to follow the chat, and distract the user, including summary appears under News.

Facebook did not announce any plans to launch the application for Mac systems, but it is possible that is advertising about it through F8 Global Development Conference to be held in April of this year.

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Apple registered domains related to car names

Apple recorded in December / December last year ranges related to car names, in a move that fueled speculation about the company's intention to enter the automotive market.

According to the website Who.is competent in the domain information, including the bands recorded by the US known iPhone smart phones and iPad tablet computers company names, three ranges are: apple.car, and apple.cars, and apple.auto.

The MacRumors site on news of Apple's first to occur on Friday for the children, but he said that domain names can be related to "Carr PlayStation" CarPlay, a service that allows drivers to access the contacts on iPhone phones theirs, and make calls, listen to voice mail without leaving the steering wheel.

Although Apple has not publicly declare its intention to now it is the production of a car, but it worked during the last term on the recruitment of experts in the automotive industry of companies, such as Ford or Mercedes-Benz.

The electric cars and automotive technology self-driving has become an essential part of the attention of Silicon Valley companies, including Google Inc., which has built a model of the self-driving car.

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Microsoft launches new test version of Windows 10 for smartphones

Microsoft Corp. has launched a new update of the Windows 10 system for smart phones, which are known in my name, and Windows 10 Windows Mobile 10 Mobile, a specific set of participants in the Microsoft program to download the trial version Windows Insider.

Users happened on Friday evening, January 8 to update No. 10586.63, which is a cumulative update, without the knowledge of the new features that have been introduced, or problems to be addressed, as the company did not give any details about the update.

There were some problems while trying to install the new version, with some reported not possible to install it in spite of the updates provided inside the center, but that Microsoft has worked to solve these problems immediately.

And co-users of the new version update the contents on social networks, which mainly included the solutions to the problems found in previous versions, in addition to improving compatibility with different devices, without the presence of features or tools were not available before.

Microsoft released in December / December first cumulative update for Windows Mobile 10, which carry the figure 10586.29 and treatment of some compatibility problems as well, and came a few days of the launch of the first beta version yet officially.

Windows Insider program and allows users to test experimental versions of the Windows system before officially issued, the system applies to Windows 10 for PCs and smart devices as well.

The Microsoft secretly working to launch a communication segment for the fourth generation LTE devices that are running Windows 10, as indicated last of the reports, which has yet to announce for slide SIM, but issued an application within Windows applications store download Cellular Data name to provide a connection to the Internet when you do not provide Wi-Fi networks.

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TP-LINK announces three smartphones affiliated brand Neffos

The TP-LINK famous Chinese company manufactures products related to networks by announcing three new phones manufactured by, and fall under the brand Neffos, during their participation in the activities of the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2016.

The Justin Tu vice president of TP-LINK company to talk about the brand and experience Neffos company "represent a brand new journey Neffos company TP-LINK to bring more contemporary lifestyle to our users."

He added Justin "We expect that provides a performance brand in the global market signals about the possibility of developing more and better products in the future, and reflected the philosophy of intelligence and simplicity on all our products, which aims to make the user's life easier, and will continue to TP-LINK company building pattern of intelligent life."

Neffos C5L

Neffos phone comes C5L thickness of 10.15 mm, and has a screen measuring 4.5 inch accurately 854 × 480 pixels, powered by quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor from Qualcomm 1.1 GHz frequency, with the type of graphics chip Adreno 304 GPU.

It has 1 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of internal storage space expandable via MicroSD port, and rear camera accurately 8 megapixel with LED flash and front camera 2 megapixel accurately, and battery 2.000 mAh capacity.

Neffos C5

Neffos C5 phone comes with a thickness of 8.8 mm, and has a screen measuring 5 inches precisely 1280 × 720 pixels, powered by MediaTek MT6735 quad-core processor from Mediatek Inc. 1.3 GHz frequency, and type of graphics chip Mali-T720 MP2 GPU.

It has 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of internal storage space expandable via MicroSD port, and rear camera accurately 8 megapixel with LED flash, a front and a 5 megapixel camera accurately, and 2,200 mAh battery capacity.

Neffos C5 Max

Neffos phone comes C5 Max thickness of 8.95 mm, and has a screen measuring 5.5 inches precisely 1080 × 1920 pixels, and works by MediaTek MT6753 processor eight nuclei of Mediatek Inc. 1.3 GHz frequency, and type of graphics chip Mali-T720 MP3 GPU.

It has 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of internal storage space expandable via MicroSD port, and rear camera accurately 13 megapixel with dual LED flash, a front and a 5 megapixel camera accurately, and battery 3.045 mAh capacity.

And it operates three phones by the Android operating system version 5.1 lollipops, and supports fourth-generation mobile networks 4G / LTE, and contain two tranches SIM connection.

Three two-tone phones are dark gray and pearl white are available, phones and sign the formal launch to consumers by the end of the first quarter of 2016, and prices will be announced at the official near their release.

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BlackBerry phones coming in 2016 operating system Android only

Said John Chen, CEO of the Canadian Blackberry, that all the company, which will be issued in 2016 the current phones will work only Android system, in an interview at CES 2016 currently place in Las Vegas.

John said that the company is heading for the issuance of two phones in the coming period will both Android system, with no plans to use the BlackBerry system 10 during this year at least.

Blackberry did not kill the operating system fully, where the company applied for a certificate from the national security system BlackBerry 10 in order to use its organs within government institutions and companies, also confirmed that it will continue to provide the old organs that do not function system Android.

And raised Blackberry phone Priv which is running Android nearly two months ago by AT & T Inc. in the United States, with an intent to be supplied in 31 countries around the world at a price of US $ 699, the rate gradually decreases with the passage of time.

The chief executive of the company that Priv sales not too bad so far, and stressed that he viewed her with cautious optimism. He added that more importantly, high sales after subtracting the device is that these numbers do not continue to decrease sharply.

Do not yet know the next hardware specifications of BlackBerry during the current year, where John refused to reveal any details, but confirmed that the company is launching a device in the coming period, to be another launch before the end of the year, certainly.

It is worth mentioning that the CES 2016 held in Las Vegas in the United States in the period between 6 and January 9 this, and a lot of companies took advantage of their participation for the detection of new products.

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Madt unveils three new processors targeted at different sectors

Company "Media Tech" MediaTek revealed on Tuesday three new processors, are: MediaTek MT8581, and MediaTek MT2523, and MediaTek MT7697, targeting the sectors of home entertainment, smart devices wearable, and the products that fall under the "Internet of Things" concept.

Taiwanese company specialized in the field of semiconductors and explained that the processor MediaTek MT2523 will be used in smart watches and other smart devices wearable, an advantage that supports the technique Low Energy Bluetooth "dual-mode" dual-mode, and the "Global Positioning System" GPS, then he is able the operation of high-precision smart devices screens.

Madt added that the processor MediaTek MT2523, which will be available to makers of smart wearable devices during the first half of this year, includes a cross-section of the type of Cortex-M4, and the advantage that he is able to hold out for an entire week per shipment.

As for the processor MediaTek MT8581 it will be used in home entertainment systems and supports the "Blu-ray" discs players, Blu-Ray, and "DVD" DVD, and "CD" CD.

She explained the Taiwanese company, which produces processors used in many smart phones and tablets, MediaTek MT8581 processor that will allow users to run accurately 4K content from DVD players, as well as play the content on the screens that do not support this resolution.

This processor supports many video compression techniques, including HEVC, and H.264, and technical VP9 4K 60p visual content 3840 accurately × 2160 Kassala, also supports MPEG-2 technologies, and VP8, and VC-1 2K 60p visual content accurately 1080p.

The MediaTek MT7697 processor focuses on a mixture of low energy consumption and good communication, including "Bluetooth low energy" technology and networks "Wi-Fi", a device connected to the Internet router or so-called "Internet of Things".

In addition to the detection of new processors, Madt revealed that it shipped 1.5 billion annually processor, used in mobile devices, and tablets, and TVs. Shipping company aims to tens of billions of these processors by 2020 because of the proliferation of "Internet of Things" devices.

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Apple plans to reduce the production of iPhone phones last weak sales

It is expected to reduce its production of Apple's latest versions of the smart phone iPhone by about 30% in the first quarter of this year due to growing inventories, according to reports from Japanese newspaper Nikkei, which raised the ire of investors and led to the decline in the company's shares.

With the accumulation of large stocks from my phone "iPhone 6 S" and "iPhone 6 S-Pulse" since thrown into the markets in September / September last, the American company decided to reduce its production of the two devices to allow traders to discharge present their stocks of the devices, according to specialized in the field of business Japanese newspaper reported today Wednesday.

After a Nikkei newspaper report Apple's stock fell 2.5%, which has lost about a quarter of its value from record levels it had been recorded in April / May, reflecting concerns about the slowdown in shipments.

The Reuters news agency quoted from a Taiwanese suppliers of Apple confirmed the existence of a problem in the discharge of iPhone phones, as "a fait accompli market slowdown," he said, has asked to remain anonymous because they do not comment on specific clients or secret agreements. 

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Windows 10 works on more than 200 million device

Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that the number of devices that are running Windows 10 exceeded 200 million units, while the company described as the fastest rate of credit than any previous version of its operating systems.

The advantage of the Windows 10 system, issued by the US as an upgrade to the company's free in July 29 last, that he was working on various platforms, including personal computers, and tablets, and smart phones. It comes to replace the Windows 8 system which was launched in 2012 and strongly criticized.

The Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela had announced in October / October last that the operating system Windows 10 works on more than 110 million devices, which means that the system has so far managed to double the number of smart phones and computers working with compared with before the holiday season.

Microsoft said the bulk of the growth came from retail consumers, with devices such as the Xbox gaming platform affiliate said, which helped to push the adoption of Windows system 10. She added that the busiest for Xbox today was December 28 / December.

It is noteworthy that the ultimate success of the Windows 10 system will be judged according to its adoption by corporate rate. Microsoft Nearly three-quarters of its clients from the corporate sector are currently working on the latest versions of the operating system hers test says.

Microsoft also need to be more intelligent devices developers to build applications for Windows 10 in order to help them catch up with players such as Apple's iPhone and phones and iPad tablet computers affiliate.

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Microsoft Launches a Service Advanced Surface Book in nine new countries

Microsoft announced that the new Hasabha Service Advanced Surface Book will be available for pre-application in nine new countries starting from tomorrow January 6 / this December.

And users will be able in the United Kingdom, Austria, China, France, and Germany, in addition to Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland and request device starting from tomorrow, with rumors also providing in Japan at the same time.

Microsoft and Vajit Mtabaaha after the disclosure of Advanced Computer Service for the first time in October / October, especially as the prices ranging between US $ 1499 and 2699, making it the most expensive of computer MacBook Pro when choosing a 1 TB storage space.

Microsoft did not disclose the price of the machine in every state so far, but the prices are not much different than its price in the United States, with a slight difference after conversion into local currency.

Featuring Surface screen Book being a touch screen with the ability to use a stylus Stylus also, as the screen can be installed with the keyboard as traditional or upside down through mechanical Sticky bears the name of Muscle Wire Lock, which guarantees proofed best form and prevents their separation under any circumstances.

It is noteworthy that the new computer Windows 10 system, which is the number of users reached 200 million during the six months since it was launched for the first time, Microsoft also said that the rate of adoption faster with 140% of the adoption of Windows 7, and 400% of the adoption of Windows 8.

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Tor Project launches rewards program

The Tor Project with the help of sponsors launched rewards program aims to eliminate weaknesses in the network that could allow the existence of a threat to user privacy.

The program comes after receiving numerous reports about security flaws that could adversely affect the network, the program is scheduled to begin with the beginning of the new year, and will start at first in the form of an ad hoc invitations to be later fully open the program to the researchers.

The Tor Project is a non-profit organization, The Onion network management and tracking, which is the contract designed to make users follow online system is very difficult.

And it is used by the network of activists, researchers, journalists and users who are trying to circumvent the censorship which they are subject by governments.

And operating system combination and its settings to make track users is very difficult, but there is no complete system, which appeared in the July reports revealed researchers found a way to allow them to reveal the so-called circular footprint which were fixed later.

And shed light on those reports put the network in general and on the necessity to re-evaluate network performance and show the points where the illness in order to maintain a high level of security enjoyed by.

And it can be exploited security gaps that exist within the project by the attackers, also can be used and sold to be used by governments and intelligence agencies.

Many sites, including the site Zerodium mediator to provide up to $ 30 thousand for weaknesses zero-day that has not been disclosed and that affect the Tor network.

Rewards programs and constitute an additional means to help security professionals to learn about the phenomenon of others and try to solve problems, and many companies are offering such programs, including Google and Microsoft.

And offer different features of these programs as well as financial rewards to researchers who they reach hidden problems and they inform the company rather than selling them or posted publicly before enabling companies to fix these issues.

Torre is currently a lot of details about the program or bonuses offered to researchers who Abulgo for defects in the Tor Project project did not provide.

The Fund Foundation tech support Open Technology Fund that provides grants for projects and ideas that have contributed to a significant change in the online world to agree to support the private rewards program to Tor.

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