Apple wants to improve recruitment plans with the four corners of the world

In the idea of ​​improving his cards, Apple looks in several regions of the world for new talent who would undertake to join the team due to maps. The mapping system Apple launched iOS 6 is improving gradually. However, many users still prefer to turn to Google Maps that offers a better database. Google's solution is for some years now, it is normal that it is more complete. But Apple will not let the case. Many jobs are available on the website of the Cupertino company with several cities in the viewfinder. Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Moscow, Dublin, Madrid, Auckland, brief the four corners of the world are called to the rescue.






Apple requires that the potential candidate has knowledge in the world of cartography. It will cause them to be responsible for the quality of the map data for the region - hence the need to go digging in Europe, Asia or Oceania. They test new products, give their impressions, collect information on site and evaluate competing products. A level standard license is required to see the application is accepted. It is necessary that the applicant has lived at least 5 years in the area where he lives.
 In iOS7, Apple brings in some new maps. There is no doubt that Apple is not going to stop in so good way though his solution was quickly criticized when it was launched last year. Critics are still relevant to this day, they are less important, however. But after all, Rome was not built in a day. The same goes for maps. As a reminder, plans emerged for the first time in OS X Mavericks.

Intel offers its first "Open Source PC" for 199 $

The MinnowBoard is the first motherboard Open Source commercially available with an Intel chip.

Intel has delivered its first "Open Source PC" bare computer type bare-bone actually intended for software developers who create applications and to all those who like to build their own PC. Co-developed by Intel and CircuitCo Electronics, a company that specializes in motherboards Open Source, so it brings a combo Atom chip and motherboard without housing. The kit will go on sale this month for $ 199 HT in a handful of online retailers, including Digi-Key, Farnell, Mouser Electronics, and Newark.

This is the first "Open Source PC" with an Intel x86 processor, and technical information on the design of the motherboard are public and can be played via a Creative Commons license. Development kits based on x86 processors Via Technologies are already marketed for robotics projects and other projects, but the technical design is not Open Source.

Apple and Motorola, will void the lawsuits related to 14 patents

By mutual agreement, Apple and Motorola have announced accept to abandon several lawsuits that had no less than 14 patents in question. They were all centralized justice in Florida, a trial will take place in August 2014, arguing that each brings its various evidence on each point. Apple has agreed to cancel six patents, 8 side of Motorola. Apple had already canceled two earlier. For now, the decision of the two companies should be accepted by the Court. The latter is likely to accept the Common Application.

To recap, the action began in October 2010. Motorola accused Apple of patent infringement. The company sought to ban the products of its competitors as well as prohibit the promotion and distribution. The tone is mounted when Google acquired Motorola in 2011. Motorola, Google and by extension, added other complaints against Apple. And since this year, the legal attacks have continued unabated. In April, Apple had won a round.

Google satisfied with the results of its instant voice translator

Google claims to have achieved results almost perfect during the test phases of its real-time voice translator, known as Babelfish code. No indication has yet been given as to the launch of the finished product.

Google translation feature has rendered service to many businessmen traveling, expats and tourists struggling to be understood on their resort. But the tool of web and mobile translation depends entirely on the ability of the user to handle the keyboard so that, without the possibility to copy and paste a written text, a translation of a language whose characters are foreign to it sometimes remains problematic.

To remedy this, Google has already thought of a feature handwriting input. Launched on July 24, it can "draw" characters by touching the screen or using the mouse. A good start calling the next step: the complete disappearance of the keyboard.

A fingerprint reader would be grafted iPhone 5S

The rumors about the presence of a biometric reader on the next iPhone will indicate the discovery of a biometric kit in the latest beta of iOS 7.



A folder called "biometric kit" was discovered in the latest beta of iOS7 (the operating system of the iPhone and iPad) developers presented Monday, July 29, leaving more predict the presence of a biometric reader on the iPhone 5S coming out in September. This biometric file that describes the movement of the thumb that will make the user to unlock his phone was discovered by a developer called Hamza Sood.

Rumors that Apple was planning to add a higher level of security for its mobile devices emerged in 2012, when the Cupertino bought AuthenTec, specializing in the world's smallest bank biometric scanners. Therefore, various articles have cited various industrial partners Apple facing problems of integration of this technology in the next phone.

If this information were to be confirmed, it would be very good news for the safety of users. Indeed, without the fingerprints of the device owner to unlock the thieves have more interest in addressing these gadgets. In addition, biometric data are truly unique and are the best alternative to current passwords to secure its data and its access to social and other areas of cloud storage networks.

Google announces 1 million apps but how bad

Google has announced that its app store has reached 1 million apps for mobile devices. But how many of them are legitimate, and how many are bad?

While Microsoft has just passed with barely 100,000 applications on its Windows Store, Hugo Barra, vice president for product development at Google Apps, said his platform Play has reached the symbolic number of a million apps. Google confirmed that the next step is to create an apps optimized for tablets on the store section to help tablet users, more and more, to find the best applications. The company also celebrated the fact that for the first time, Android tablets have dethroned the iPad in units delivered to retailers with 67% share of the international market, at least for this quarter.

If the Mountain View company can be satisfied with beating Apple, whose App Store is still "stuck" with 900,000 apps, a Symantec report focuses light on important questions about the validity of certain applications currently available Google Play. The publisher specializing in security reveals that since early 2013, a continuous flow of 1200 applications suspicious was found. This software, which appear on the store and are available for several days before being reported as inappropriate or as scams are designed to extort money or obtain personal information about users.

The Zagat enforcement returned to the United States on Android (and iOS)

After its acquisition by Google, the restaurant guide Zagat is again available on Android and iOS smartphone in eight cities in the United States and London.

Zagat is back on smartphones. The famous application that lists the opinions of mobile users in the restaurants is now available on devices running Android and iOS walking. For now, the return of Zagat for eight U.S. cities and London. The return of this application is a good news as the company Zagat, founded in 1979, had managed to join the ranks of true reference to the United States in terms of e-tourism and gastronomic guide.

For this side of the Atlantic Michelin reputation and sales have quickly skyrocketed. Not only Zagat has declined in different formats with paper, Internet and mobile application, but also on the scene to judge, with the restaurants but also bars, clubs, zoos, cinemas, etc.. The software also allows the user to view maps of some restaurants but also book online.

300 GB for the successors of the Blu-ray

Sony and Panasonic have announced their intention to create optical discs capable of storing 300 GB of data .

The next generation of optical storage technology that will replace the end of 2015 Blu-ray disc (25GB on a layer or 50GB on a dual layer) will be able to store up to 300 GB of data. If Sony and Panasonic have decided to work together to develop these discs, the decision of this investment seems a bit strange at the time of the SSD Pro 1.6TB and many platforms online storage.

If short-term arrival of 4K video programs requires support of this type, the market would be more oriented towards longer-term needs of business archives and government services. Optical discs specialize in resistant archival rather well to environmental factors such as water and dust in addition to changes in temperature and humidity. In addition, governments and industry concerned with the security of their data begin experimenting unconnected backlight technologies, much more difficult to hack the solutions online storage or network.
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Toshiba put on voice commands on its ultrabooks

Toshiba has introduced two thin laptops, one of which incorporates voice commands to send messages on social networks, research on the web or listen to music.



Toshiba has unveiled two ultrabooks one of which includes a voice recognition software. The Satellite E45T was built for this feature. It comes with the software Dragon Assist for recognizing voice commands. Toshiba has integrated dual microphones for better voice perception. The manufacturer indicates that the phone can hear instructions to nearly a meter away. It comes with the latest generation of Intel Core i5 processor, based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which includes instructions for speech recognition.

Facebook offers a PHP virtual machine

The social network no longer reflects the PHP in C + +. Instead, the social network uses a virtual machine for the server a dynamically generated bytecode.
Facebook has reached a new milestone in the treatment of web programming language PHP. The social network has developed web up to nine times faster than when running natively on large systems a PHP virtual machine capable of performing the language. "Our aim is to run the PHP very quickly," said Joel Pobar, director of engineering at Facebook, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), held last week (July 22-26) in Portland, Oregon. To achieve this, the social network from the beginning of the year using the HipHop Virtual Machine Virtual Machine (HHVM) for all of its servers.

The iPad sales are down for the first time

For the first time, iPad sales were down in the second quarter of 2013.

Apple today announced that iPad sold 14.6 million worldwide in the second quarter of 2013, a figure down 14% compared to the same period in 2012. This is the first time that this indicator appears on the decline since the launch of the iPad in 2010.

I must say that the star of the tablets is facing opposition increasingly enhanced Android tablets. Thus Gartner predicts that these could represent up to 42% of sales in 2014, against only 22% in 2012, to the detriment of the iPad.

Apple may in any case be welcomed its iPhone sales, with 31.2 million smartphones passed (20%), a record for this time of year. Mac sales are for their down 5%, with 3.8 million computers sold in three months. It sold 14.6 million iPad in Q2 2013.

Apple plans to boost investments

To get a place next to Google Maps, Apple is trying to revive its plans tool.

Apple announces that it has acquired two start-ups, and HopStop Locationary specialized in routes and geolocation of shops, to improve its mapping application maps. Although redesigned for iOS 7 (expected in the fall, at the launch of the next iPhone), plans are nonetheless a failure for Apple. To rectify the situation and offer the most complete application possible, the company acquired two new technologies.

HopStop is specialized in the route (on foot, bicycle, taxi or public transport) and offers the App Store an application currently covering more than 600 cities around the world. It is therefore likely that this technology will soon be integrated to propose a plan similar to that offered by Google Maps such service.

Clap end smartphones for NEC

Having failed to conclude an alliance with Lenovo in the field of smartphones, the Japanese group

NEC wishes to stop its production of smartphones.
The Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that the NEC Electronics Group in the future should stop building because smartphones have reached an agreement with Lenovo. By the end of 2012, NEC proposed Lenovo to control the majority of NEC Casio Mobile Communications, owned by NEC (71%), Casio (20%) and Hitachi. NEC and Lenovo would, according to the daily, failed to agree on the extent of participation of the Chinese manufacturer. NEC might be possible to reverse its decision if another manufacturer was willing to cooperate with the Japanese group to invest in the joint venture.

This alliance would have to Lenovo, currently limited presence on the global market for smartphones (even though it ranks third in the Chinese smartphone market), to develop this market. For its part, NEC, without admitting in talks with Lenovo, recognized last June that its mobile phone business was experiencing financial difficulties and it should take a decision on its future direction.

Google Maps returns to iPad

The latest version of Google Maps is available for iPhone, iPad and especially, with improvements on GPS navigation and POI.
Just days after its updated Android, Google Maps is available on the App Store for all owners of an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 6. It incorporates all the latest features of the service. This update application will discover a multitude of places to eat, drink, sleep or shopping anywhere in the world. The application is full of recommendations, through services like Zagat or Google Offers, integrated with search results. If Zagat to discover the interests (rated) close, Google Offers can benefit from the latest deals, easily located. Navigation has meanwhile been optimized, with live reports on traffic problems, but also alerts if a better route is available. In fact, Maps is positioned more as an alternative to GPS and other warning of "danger zones."

If Maps was already back on the iPhone to compete with the disappointing Apple mapping app, it was still not available on the iPad inspired by iOS 6. This is now done.

Apple investigating a Chinese electrocuted by an iPhone

Apple said it would investigate after the death of a young Chinese woman who was killed by an electric shock during a call on his iPhone 5 that was being charged.

The victim, Ma Ailun was 23 years old at the time of the accident last Thursday. Police said she was shocked by iPhone 5 Loading. In an email received by Reuters, Apple responded by saying, "We are deeply sorry to hear this tragic incident and we extend our sincere condolences to the family Ma We will investigate and cooperate with the authorities."

The Cupertino company has not commented on in more detail and therefore did not answer the question of whether this was an isolated case. However, this case is a first. In 2008, Apple had decided to recall millions of iPhone 3G Chargers risk of electric shock. Following the accident, the victim's sister called on the Sina Weibo microblog iPhone users to pay attention.

The Clover Trail Atom chip Intel really better than the Exynos ARM Octa?

The Intel Atom Clover Trail processor is it really more efficient than competing ARM chips? One

analyst has decided to redo the benchmarks.
In the month of June, ABI Research caused a sensation by publishing a report in which it announced that the Atom 'Clover Trail' Intel chip consumes only 60% power of a rival ARM chip, a comparable performance. Today, another analyst shall simply because these results, especially since the author has revised its benchmark scales.

Following a new passage to the test bench, Jim McGregor of Tirias Research says that the chip Clover Trail 2 GHz found in the Lenovo K900 smartphone displays for the CPU, a result of 20 % lower than the benchmark AnTuTu, and RAM, a result of 50% lower. This benchmark, updated version 3.2.2, have been corrected after the release of pro-Intel chip tests. It seems that the software has jumped some steps, giving the advantage to the Intel chip. What does this mean? After the test, ABI Research said that Clover Trail chip present in the Lenovo K800 consumes only 47% power of the 300 Krait chip integrated into the American version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. If in terms of performance, both chips were comparable in terms of power-to-performance ratio, the Intel has a significant advantage.

Lenovo n°1 PC to HP in the second quarter of 2013

That's it. In the second quarter of 2013 is passed HP Lenovo according to IDC and Gartner. Both research firms also converge to highlight a drop in sales over 10%!
In the second quarter of 2013, it sold 75.6 million PCs IDC, Gartner 76, a decrease of 11.4% (compared to the same quarter of 2012) as the first 10.9% in the second . A larger decline than expected estimates IDC.

Behind the raw numbers and the dramatic decline, the two firms trying explanations. According to IDC, the market is still struggling with the transition to touch systems and Windows 8, the pressure on prices, competition from tablets. The only glimmer of hope inventory reduction by some manufacturers in the second quarter that could suggest the launch of new models over the next few quarters.

Microsoft revising its licensing policy for Dynamics CRM Online

Microsoft is preparing the establishment of a more flexible application of its customer relationship
At present, although the premise and hosted versions of Microsoft CRM are the same, the SaaS version is accessible only to a single price point ( 44$ per month per user). In contrast, users of the website version can choose from three pricing models. "Many users of Dynamics CRM want the same flexibility for software we offer SaaS," says Paco Contreras Herrera, the product marketing manager in charge of licensing and pricing at Microsoft, in a post on a blog. With the next major release of Dynamics CRM, scheduled for the end of the year, companies subscribing to the SaaS version of the application can make their choice between three price levels.

The top 10 most downloaded mobile applications in 2013

Nowadays, and with all the technological advances of our age knows, our phones do not have the basic function they held before, that "call and send messages."
Now we talk about Iphone, Smartphones, iPad, Android ... etc..

No one can deny that we are constantly trying to download the latest mobile applications available on the market. That they are paid or not, some will stop at nothing to get the latest appli-stars on their mobiles.

  and we selected the top 10 mobile applications that have been downloaded by users.
The 10 stars are applied:
 
1-Facebook

This social network is constantly increasing and more and more people every day becomes more and more addicted. Having Facebook on their mobile and stay connected to the rest of the world to the length of the day has become a must.

Sony Xperia Z test: a very good alternative to the Galaxy S4

After a failed first foray on the smartphone market with the Swedish Ericsson, Sony now stands on its own and now convinced with better finished products, such as the recent Xperia Z.



Taking advantage of the collapse of Blackberry, Nokia and HTC, Sony is back in the big leagues with well designed products and better finished. In the first quarter of 2013, Sony has indeed attained third place in smartphone sales in Western Europe with 3.2 million handsets, behind the inevitable Samsung (14.3 million) and Apple (6.2 million) .

An Android app to manage Mega

Mega launches its first application for Android smartphones.

The service data storage in the cloud Mega, launched with great fanfare in January 2013 by Kim Dotcom, now has its application for Android. A version for iOS and one for Windows 8 are expected before the end of the year.

The app allows you to browse their account, import, download or delete any file type. A feature also allows you to automatically sync photos and videos generated from the smartphone on its Mega account. Finally, it is of course possible to create links to access files and share them.

Wink in the United States, sworn enemies of Kim Dotcom since the closure of Megaupload in 2012, the application was put online on July 4, the day of their National Day.

The Moto X unveiled on July 4 in the United States

The Motorola Moto X is 100% customizable according to the latest information distilled by a subsidiary of Google group.
In an advertisement widely distributed in various American newspapers, Motorola reported a major announcement Thursday, July 4, the day of the American National Day. The manufacturer may present the Moto X, first developed by Google now owns Motorola smartphone, and fully customizable.

In this full-page ad, Motorola evokes a fully configurable device: "It will be the first smartphone that you can fully design Because now you should have the freedom to create something as unique as you and the n.. is just the beginning. "

Samsung innovates with NFC laser printers

Well known for its mobile and AV solutions, Samsung is also a name that begins on the enterprise market. Especially in the field of printing, where the South Korean giant apply the recipe that made its success, innovation with the first range of laser printers NFC.

Live in Seoul - Dominated by incumbents like HP, Canon, Ricoh, Konica and Xerox, the print market is now a challenge well known for its consumer products actor, but less so for its solutions Professional Samsung Electronics. The South Korean giant, which has made only 7% of its 2011 revenue - sales was  155 billion$ - in the BtoB segment aims to achieve 21% 2020 - 400 billion expected revenue . Already number 2 on the market for A4 laser printer, Samsung is not a newcomer to the printing market. For many years, South Korean manufactures OEM laser products for midrange Dell inkjet printers HP and Xerox copiers. Mr. Chin Yoon, vice president in charge of the business of the entity Printing Samsung has told us that Samsung was already number one for A4 laser on many market: France, Germany, UK, Italy, Greece ... "We will sent many segments to gain market share: public sector, health, industry ... ".

HP wants to revive the market for smartphones

According to the head of the tablet PC and the Asia-Pacific branch, HP will make his return to the mobile. A smartphone is being developed.
Two years after retiring from the sphere mobility, HP has decided to backtrack. Questioned on the subject by the news agency Trust of India, Su Yin Yam, head of the tablet PC and the Asia-Pacific branch, said: "Yes, a smartphone is expected, but I can not give you a timetable . It would be foolish for HP not to position itself in this market. The company must be included. "

Researchers transform an Android smartphone mobile spy

A security firm has found how to turn an Android smartphone device in complete surveillance.

At a time when European countries are discovering the extent of the espionage Prism NSA program, the Kindsight laboratory, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent has developed an experimental program capable of tracking a user's knowledge, of intercept his messages, record telephone conversations and even take pictures and videos. "Our program is capable of converting smatrphone Android in mobile spy," said Kevin McNamee, director of laboratory Kindsight. It intends to present its espionage tool at the Black Hat USA conference to be held from July 27 to August 1, next to Las Vegas.