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China is becoming an important market for Apple

January 28th, 2012 No comments

Not only the factories and suppliers for the Californians sit in the Middle Kingdom, increasingly, customers are also on site. Rapid growth has meant that China is already the second largest market for Apple has become. More sales volume generated by the manufacturer only in its home market. Only in the last quarter, the Chinese have sales for Apple almost quadrupled compared with 2010. The newly crowned CEO Tim Cook was wearing yesterday, the latest figures before (we reported).

A closer look at the balance sheet data reveals that Apple took in the past three months alone in Greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) massive $ 4.5 billion. They are already 16 percent of all global income. In 2009, China’s share had been as meager 2 percent.

This is quite clearly the importance of becoming “economically fastest growing” region. By the way Apple operates only six Apple stores in Greater China. There are official resellers about 200 It thus still scratching at the surface, a huge market. Solely with the iPhone, it was there in just twelve weeks given an increase of 250 percent, the demand was not met in some places.

Apple iPad 2 is used by the industry analysts saw as the ruler of the Chinese Tablet market. The population is very fond of the brand and presents products with apple-like logo as a status symbol. Tim Cook announced yesterday as a consequence of this positive trend to want to open more stores in China significantly.

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Haier flaunt Haipad Half Tablet, semi-Smartphone

January 25th, 2012 No comments

The Chinese have ventured so far from what any mobile device manufacturers balked: A positioning device accurately between the two product groups. The Haipad is a mini-Tablet Smartphone genes.

Once the Haipad Haier from China will venture out, would be the question of whether the product name will survive legally, but he clearly has the letters “iPad “. But after all, is definitely not a clone of Haipad, because the 7-inch tablet has clearly different characteristics than the Apple device: The operating system is currently an adapted version of Android 2.2 Froyo (should it be to export 2.3 Gingerbread). Inside operates an 800 MHz Freescale-A8 processor.

In addition to a Wi-Fi module, the developers have also thought of a UMTS module. The unit automatically selects. Furthermore, there are the usual telephone functions of a Smartphone, including SMS. As usual, there are two cameras recently.

8 GB flash memory, Bluetooth 2.1 and HDMI interface round out the Haipad. Calculated costs the Tablet Phone fully equipped around 350 €. Deliveries are scheduled to begin already next month, said Haier. The housing is available in white, black, and some candy colors such as yellow or blue.

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Native Client: Google Chrome video games

January 25th, 2012 No comments

Video games in native code in Google Chrome with the Native Client technology.

Since this summer, and a 14 version, the Google Chrome browser is able to take advantage of opportunities for Native Client. This feature allows the browser to run native code.

Chris Rogers explains that Native Client allows C code and C + + (or C #) to run seamlessly within the browser security restrictions similar to JavaScript. Native Client applications use interfaces Pepper to link C and C + + with HTML5.

Since the support of Pepper in September, APIs and capabilities have been added including hardware acceleration for 3D graphics via OpenGL ES 2.0 API full screen.

Google announced partnerships with developers of video games such as Square Enix, Unity Technologies, Bungie and more to come. For the CEO of Square Enix, Native Client “pushes the limits of the video game market in the browser.”

The Chrome Web Store, we can already find the role play Hold Supergiant Games (complete set fee). “Once limited to the PC and Xbox, the port of Bastion Native Client allows users to receive Supergiant on all desktop operating systems popular with the security and simplicity of the Web,” Google wrote.

Among other games available, multiplayer online game Star Legends according to Google, which was raised for the Web by Spacetime Studios in less than two weeks from an existing code by more than half a million lines.

However, a criticism made against him – Mozilla and Opera Software – is not to be part of the project Web standards.

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China Telecom plans aggressive expansion into Europe

January 24th, 2012 No comments

Ou Yan (picture) as Executive Director leads the offshoot China Telecom Europe and currently has received from the headquarters of the mission to become the Western world wide.

Primarily through acquisitions of telecommunications giant wants its market share in Europe increase visibly. The ambitious plans Ou Yan has just confirmed in England. “Right now we do not represent the largest brand in the market. Some customers do not even know our name. Therefore, we strive to take our industry leading a major provider to customer base and name recognition “to increase, announced Ou.

“We screen for now. What we need is a significant reach across Europe, so we ‘can grow exponentially, Ou clarified. So far, China Telecom in Europe won mainly international companies as customers. The revenue from 2010 was a modest € 15 million. The local infrastructure of Deutsche Telekom Group consists of four backbones, which were transferred from China through Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan to Europe. They are less vulnerable to earthquakes than the usual submarine cable.

“If the traffic is growing between Asia and Europe and make companies more delays and bottlenecks, then our country connections” extremely attractive, hopes the director. He also assured the corporate client to provide the necessary security and privacy required. Since 2006, China Telecom in this regard have to owe anything can come true and the interests of its customers. For Europe, it had gained an extra Regulation and fixed internal principles that were developed by a UK law firm. In China, the provider uses the way around 85 million broadband customers.

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In the search for success the revised Google Android Market

January 20th, 2012 No comments

The Webkonzern is still not satisfied with the development of its App store on the Internet. A new design and fresh content such as eBooks or Filmleihe to attract more mobile subscribers.

To participate in the adversary Apple overtake, to the Android Market not only serves delicious mobile apps in stock, but keep the best games, movies and digital books in stock. At least that’s the plan. The May offensive to the expansion of markets to 131 countries (as reported) has probably not yet made ​​sufficient growth spurt. But at least put the sales of Android already faster than those with IOS Apps (as reported), but now wants Google apparently paving the bag endültig. So was given a fresh outfit (for all devices from Android 2.2), and the functionality of a video library and book shop in order. Here, the mobile device is accessed directly – a detour via the PC was not necessary, the company promises.

Films must also not be immediately looked online but could easily be activated to play later offline when we arrived in the hotel room is about. First, the rental service will be limited to U.S. customers. For the other major markets, but one is already in planning and preparation. Bookworms should be located in more than three million eBook titles may sink.

“The new market-client presents the offer better, is found in fresh and easier to use interface guides customers to the faster your download,” promises platform manager Eric Chu on the Android Developers Blog.

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Twitter changes its head to be simpler

January 20th, 2012 No comments

Big facelift for the microblogging site Twitter to make its use easier.

Twitter brings new meaning by unveiling a new interface Fly, and the opportunity to harmonize with that proposed Web interface via the iPhone and Android. This new design will be made available in the coming weeks, but already available for mobile applications.

It is the mirror now with the details associated with an account placed to the left of the timeline. The organization wants especially easy to make it easier for newcomers who will be guided via four tabs represented by distinct icons: home (the timeline and tweets), connect (initiate a conversation and interaction with contacts), find (find the most popular topics according to their interests), account (profile management and content sharing).

The new interface is also an opportunity for Twitter to make more explicit symbols such as the hashtag # to avoid destabilizing the little run-in users to the tool. It also understands that one of the objectives is that the user spends more time on Twitter.

Twitter is also looking to give a reason for users to use its Web interface or formal applications, rather than third-party applications.

To present more detail its new interface, Twitter has set up a dedicated website available in several languages ​​including French. Twitter announced that it has set a new framework for the subsequent arrival of new features.

According to the latest scoreboard of the Ifop social networks, Twitter grows the paradox of being well-known French Internet users, which does not translate to much by high attendance and use.

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Apple finally launches icloud service

January 18th, 2012 No comments

At the developer conference Apple WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs introduced the still living the new service. As planned, Apple launched the service today.

icloud automatically save all kinds of media files like movies, photos and music – and functioned exactly as advertised earlier, Bloomberg reported . That is not all Apple products have succeeded so far.

Be the centers of Apple devices synchronized – within seconds, about a dive with the iPhone captured photo on the iPod Touch, iPad or other Apple device on the same user, Bloomberg praised the new service. Also the support of Macintosh computers with OS Lion and the new iTunes 10.5 is already integrated.

Bloomberg quotes the analyst Bill Why man of International Strategy & Investment Group, claiming that Apple is doing its rival Google hard – the change from Apple products to others such as Google Android systems is now more complicated and expensive for users of Apple devices. Other investment managers see the Apple-value by the introduction of icloud even increased again.

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Yahoo! wins $ 610 million for spamming

January 14th, 2012 No comments

U.S. court sentenced him in absentia of spammers to 610 million. It is the compensation for Yahoo! following the organization of a fake lottery on its behalf.

In 2008, Yahoo! filed a complaint in the United States against a group of spammers to scam the lottery.

Via unsolicited email, these spammers have tried to convince the users that they were the big winners of a lottery to award a prize supposedly offered by Yahoo!.

Yahoo! is now know that after the court proceedings, spammers were sentenced in absentia to pay the $ 610 million, or $ 27 million in damages for violation of trademark and 583 million for violating the anti-spam law in the United States.

This is to encourage users targeted to disclose personal data such as passwords, social security numbers or banking information. Sometimes it is called the winner to send money for processing fees.

The scam is made more credible with an alibi as Yahoo! or other. This example has been the case with Microsoft.

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Anti-piracy: BSA leaves the Kaspersky Lab

January 7th, 2012 No comments

The editor of Russian security solutions distanced himself from the Business Software Alliance because of its support for the U.S. bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act).

From 1st January 2012, Kaspersky Lab will no longer be a member of the Business Software Alliance. This organization brings together software vendors around the world and leads to an intense lobbying fight against software piracy.

If Kaspersky Lab has decided to dissociate from the BSA is due to the support shown by the latter at U.S. legislation SOPA. For any infringement of intellectual property rights US, Stop Online Piracy Act is to allow the blocking of domain names and websites abroad.

The proposed measures seek registrars, Internet service providers and search engines for a delisting. They also plan to make use of ad networks and online financial services to cut funding to the sites targeted by U.S. rights holders.

Measures are ruthlessly with all the risks that this entails in terms of freedom of expression and innovation in technology companies through an obligation to monitor Web sites.

The bill is criticized by Internet players including Google, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo!, eBay, Mozilla or Wikimedia. Facing them, Eugene Kaspersky, contrasting the BSA in its ranks with Apple, Microsoft, SAP, Symantec and other vendors, but now without Kaspersky Lab. According to the American press, it seems that even Microsoft is also critical of the SOPA.

The founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab – which continues to condemn piracy – was particularly disturbed by “the Americanization of the law Internet”. More broadly, it considers that for the distribution of creative content, “governments should stimulate thinking and develop new business models rather than protecting old models.”

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