Apple will pay 2 million fine for misleading ads

Apple will soon pay a fine of close to $ 2.21 million for misleading the public in advertising the new iPad in Australia, as reported in "The Australian". The Federal Court of Australia confirmed that Apple agreed to settle the case by the Competition and Consumer Protection in Australia, involving allegations of deceptive promotion of the new iPad as a 4G device when it could not connect to 4G networks in Australia. The Apple already has admitted its mistake by offering compensation to customers. The company faces similar accusations and in the United Kingdom and Sweden, which examines whether the new ads iPad device as 4G is misleading or not.

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Bloomberg anounces the sale of Activision to Blizzard

One of the largest publishers probably sold. According to reports Bloomberg, senior executives of the company behind Activision Blizzard, of Vivendi, will meet later this month to discuss the possibility of selling the share. Sources close to the matter, revealing that the meeting will be held on June 22 and Vivendi seems to have already started procedures with prospective buyers. In 2007, Vivendi announced the merger of two companies Blizzard -with the World of Warcraft - and Activision with the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty.

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Just How Big Is Apple?[infographic]

While many people use Apple devices every day, few may realize just how big Apple really is. Having started out as a computer manufacturer, Apple made the move into the mobile device market with the introduction of the incredibly successful iPhone. In 2011 alone, 72 million units were sold. That is almost a combined weight heavy enough to rival the Eiffel Tower.


Since the iPhone, Apple has released the unbelievably successful iPad. Now nearing it's third variant, the iPad sold 3 million devices during the first three days of release. It also now still holds an average sales number of 11 per second. With 56.4 million iPads projected to sell in 2012, this may be enough to push iOS device ownership above that of cars. However, Apple still credits nearly 40 percent of it's revenue to the iPhone alone.


With new devices on the horizon and sales still going strong, Apple is truly a technological giant in the information age.

Source: BestComputerScienceDegrees.com

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Facebook ended its first day on the stock at $ 38.37

Yesterday was the first of the popular social network in the markets, noting the closing price of $ 38.37 - an increase of 0.97% from opening price of $ 38. Facebook's debut on NYSE Nasdaq was little variation in the day, and moved close to $ 38 all day, with a maximum value of $ 45. Press reported that the contractors were the ones who kept artificially the price from falling below $ 38.


Zynga, another listed company, whose fate is connected with Facebook, saw its stock sink yesterday, closing at $ 7.16, a reduction of 14%.


Watch the video below, where Mark Zuckerberg hits the bell opening trading on NYSE Nasdaq.

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Forbes: Steve Ballmer is the worst CEO of all time

As the worst CEO of a publicly traded U.S. company became Steve Ballmer of Microsoft according to the magazine Forbes. According to the publication:


"Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft to the outside of some of the fastest growing and profitable markets (tablets, phones, mobile music) and in the process sacrificing the benefits of other companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and Nokia.


When in 2000 took over the reins of Microsoft, the value of the share amounted to $ 60. Two years later the price dropped to $ 20 but only recently came to about $ 30.

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After he was forced to leave the music service Zune, the tablets, the Windows CE and other mobile products, Microsoft is right where he was 10 years ago. It is still a company only for PC and nothing more. "


 The list of companies with 5 worst CEOs completed by Cisco, General Electric, Walmart and Sears. According to the magazine, if the boards of these companies do not take action soon, we are going bad.

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The HP re-enters the tablet market with Windows 8

One of the first Apple's competitors in the tablet market has been HP, which gained public attention when it decided to create its own ecosystem aroun the WebOS - which had acquired along with Palm in early 2010. In 2011, the American company presented the webOS-based TouchPad, which was released on July 1 of that year, with the company to abandon the whole project six weeks later. Then HP announced that the webOS will become an open source project.


Bangkok Post now reports that HP has decided to re-enter the tablet, this time taking advantage of the upcoming platform Microsoft, the Windows 8, making a fresh start in winning a share of this growing market.


The restart of production is a strategic move aimed to gain from the growing market for tablet, Meg Whitman said yesterday at the Global Influencer Summit 2012.
Todd Bradley, vice president of printing and personal systems, said the Windows 8 tablet of HP will be equipped with cloud services that allow users to share and store online data between devices.

Apple continues to dominate the market for tablet two years after the initial release of iPad, the share of the company to exceed 68% in first quarter of 2012, as the popularity of the Amazon Kindle Fire seems to be increasingly reduced.

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Samsung aims to sell 200 million smartphones in 2012

After the announcement of the new flagship device, the Galaxy S III smartphone, the strong man of Samsung, JK Shin, revealed that his company aims too high for 2012. According to Shin, the Samsung aims to sell 200 million smartphones this year, increasing its share of the global market from 21.1% in 2011 to 23% to 24%, as indicated by MarketWatch. 


According to analyst firm Strategy Analytics,  Samsung is on track to achieve the high target set, as calculated as it has managed to sell 44.5 million smartphones in the first quarter and is now the number one manufacturer in the world, surpassing even the Apple. The Shin emphasizes that even the Galaxy S III includes several modifications to the software and the design that will help the company to avoid any lawsuits for patent violations, which Samsung has confronted many times before.

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Upgrade to Flash Player fixes major security hole!

Adobe made ​​available today a major upgrade to Flash Player correcting a security hole and urging all users upgrade immediately to be safe. Upgrading to an exploit that could cause the crash plugin allowing someone to take control of the system.
The gap identified by Adobe itself as far as we know, according to information users Windows and Internet Explorer are the ones most affected, but to have peace of mind is good to upgrade whatever you use as the exploit to find all versions of Flash for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android.


If you have the auto-updater is likely that the upgrade is performed automatically. Otherwise visit the official Adobe website here and download the latest version of Flash Player. If you have the Android update will be available through Google Play.

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Google faces a fine of tens of millions for the scandal with Safari

An article published by Bloomberg reports that the American Competition Commission (FTC) will impose fines of tens of millions in Google about the scandal had created the company to bypass the security settings in Safari for viewing ads.


Specifically, Google is essentially negotiating with the FTC on how big a fine to be paid for the violation of Safari. If the FTC imposed the penalties mentioned in Bloomberg will be the first time the organization punishes someone for breach of privacy in the Internet.


Remember that Google along with Facebook and other companies had a code that bypasses the security of Safari by depositing cookies to record user activities with a view to targeted advertising. Google has since removed the code and confirmed in the press release announcing initiation of investigations that will fully cooperate with authorities.

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Pepsi working with Twitter and brings live streaming of concerts on the followers!

PepsiCo Inc. announced that it reached an agreement with the social network Twitter, to provide live video broadcasts of concerts in the company's followers, under the new global advertising campaign that includes a television advertisement featuring the Nicki Minaj.




Terms of the agreement have not been known, nor is there any notice of the concerts will be broadcast live, but the movement was revived again the great battle between Pepsi and Coca-Cola, the first to have worked with artists such as by Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Britney Spears and Beyonce.

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Samsung dropped Nokia from the top of the manufacturers and announced record profits for the first 3 months of 2012

The rise of Samsung continues unabated, since the announced financial results for the first quarter of 2012 is very impressive and is now the leading mobile phone maker Nokia throwing from the first position after 14 years.




Specifically, Samsung announced record profit of 8.85 trillion. won (about € 5.91 billion), almost twice those of the corresponding period last year, the company attaches to the huge increase in sales of mobile devices (smartphones / tablets) and televisions.

As regards the first manufacturers, according to the report of the Strategy Analytics, the Samsung has allocated 93.5 million phones in Q1 2012, while Nokia was second with 82.7 million devices.


"Shipments of Nokia globally fell by 24% to 82.7 million units in Q1 2012. The volumes declined because sales have stagnated in low-end featurephones in developing markets, but also because the high-end Lumia smartphones failed to replace the void left by the rapid retreat of Symbian smartphones. The Nokia was the largest appliance manufacturer in the world from 1998 to 2011 for 14 years before you hand over the reigns to Samsung this quarter "


We should note here that these figures relate to those available devices on the market and not selling.


Excellent omens for the Samsung and certainly the future looks bright with the upcoming presentation of Samsung Galaxy S III.

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Oracle vs. Google: The battle has begun!

After many years of waiting the notorious legal battle between Oracle and Google began last week after the judge failed to persuade all this time the two sides to compromise.


Please remember that the Oracle accuses Google of copied part of the Java code without obtaining the necessary authorization. For its part, Google admits that it has essentially copied the Java code but denies having permission to do so on the grounds that Android does not require permission.


It all started officially in 2009 when Oracle acquired Sun but things had started earlier.The Android was founded in 2003 and two years later was acquired by Google. Andy Rubin wrote then to Larry Page:

Google wanted to make the open-source Android but he knew that Sun would not see in with a positive eye. Rubin believed that Google had simply paid the required amount for the licensing of Java. The years passed, however, and finally in 2007 the attitude had changed completely ignoring the Sun. "Please do not show to any officer or attorney of the Sun», Rubin warned an engineer in 2008.

Oracle notes that at the time Google is important recruit staff from the Java team at Sun, who worked under former executive of Sun Eric Schmidt. Oracle implicitly suggests that this staff was vital for the creation of "Java OS".

Tim Lindholm, Distinguished Engineer at Sun, helped in the creation of the original Java VM and penetrated to Google the same period the company acquired Android. In 2010 when Android was successful by Larry Page Lindholm asked to explore alternatives to Java. Lindholm concluded that the alternatives were not good and that we should negotiate with the authorization of Sun (Google tried enough to keep this e-mail out of court).

Oracle presented the court with code copied by Google. The code does not belong in public libraries (classes), but in private and Google will work very hard to justify itself. The case is certainly a long way ahead of many technical and legal details. You should wait until the end to see a possible positive practical to Oracle deciding what will it mean for Android and its users.

You can read the Oracle 90 page treatment in the form of PDF (slides) here.

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Huge Nokia drop in the first quarter of the year

Nokia has released its financial results for the the first quarter of 2012 and unfortunately the numbers are disappointing. Apart from the total losses of $ 1.7 billion, an equally serious blow is the huge drop in sales in major Chinese market.




More specifically, in the period last year sales of Nokia in Greater China decreased by 62%, falling from 23.9 million units to 9.2. Counting and drops in prices, Nokia saw its revenues to decline by $ 1.9 billion to $ 577 million just in the last quarter.


The determining factor seems to be turning more and more Chinese Android devices like the iPhone despite the prohibitive price.


But the rest of the world things are much more favorable to Nokia, the company is experiencing significant decline in Europe (32%) and America (50%).

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Microsoft announces $ 5.11 billion profit for the first quarter of 2012

Microsoft today announced its financial results for the quarter ended on March 31, recording a record turnover of 17.41 billion U.S. dollars (an increase of six percent compared to last year) and net benefit that touched 5.11 billion dollars.


The Professional Division, which includes Microsoft Office, what was once again brought the most revenue to the company recording a turnover of $ 5.81 billion. The section on Windows brought profits of about $ 4.62 billion (4 percent increase over last year) and part of the Server & Tools $ 4.57 billion (14 percent increase).


On the other hand, part Entertainment & Devices, which includes the popular Xbox, recorded a turnover of $ 1.62 billion, which is actually a 16 percent decrease compared to last year.


You can read the full report of Microsoft here.

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Apple prepares a new "revolutionary" product for this year

Rumors want the French designer Philippe Starck to work with Apple to develop a new and revolutionary product, which indeed will be released within the next ten months. "Indeed, there is an important project which will be available within 8 months," seems to be the designer said in a French air show, according to Le Figaro.


 He continued stating that the mysterious new product will be "quite revolutionary".  Starck is quite famous and his work includes everything from buildings to hotels and toothbrushes, and several electronic devices sold today have designed the Apple Stores. The author argues that in recent years had met with Steve Jobs several times on different occasions. "For seven years I was at Palo Alto or elsewhere to meet once every month," said Starck.

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Sony will proceed in 10,000 layoffs for the company's turnaround

Sony, after the forecast for the fourth consecutive annual loss will proceed to 10.000 job layoffs by reducing the potential of six percent worldwide. 5.000 of these positions will result from the reorganization of enterprises for the manufacture of chemical and small screens, as the newspaper Nikkei.


The redundancies are deemed necessary step to restore Sony to the fore in the midst of fierce competition from Samsung and Apple. The new company president, Kazuo Hirai, promised "hard" measures that will make the Sony out of the impasse.


However, many analysts believe that layoffs will not fix the problem the company is located in the core business, for example the field of television.

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Samsung and Apple receive 95% of the profits in mobile market

According to a survey by Canaccord Genuity Apple and Samsung «receive" 95 percent of the profits in the area of mobile devices at least during the fourth quarter of 2011.


Earnings are a very important parameter with which to measure the success of a company in its field and it seems that Apple can rightly be proud of having 95 percent accounts for 80 percent of its own.


Things for other manufacturers is not as good as you can tell because most companies (using Android) can not distinguish from each other more intensifying competition between them while Apple enjoys the solitude of the peak.


The numbers are not encouraging, however, nor for other manufacturers that use different operating systems, like RIM, HTC and Nokia. Apple has managed to create a strong brand name superseding sales. Among the manufacturers only Android Samsung seems to stand out in the order that the Galaxy has the scene with strong sales.

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IBM telescope will produce more data from the entire Internet

IBM is cooperating with ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute for Astronomy) to develop a next-generation PC that can handle the enormous information that will be pumped from the SKA.


SKA is an acronym for the Square Kilometer Array, a radio telescope with a range of 3 thousand kilometers to be completed in 2024 producing more data in one day from around the Internet (!)


The project is named DOME and essentially have to find a way to facilitate the management of an exabyte of information (about twice the data produced by the World Wide Web) daily. IBM will undertake the development of an entirely new processor architecture with low energy consumption before 2017, where he will begin building the telescope.

The company already has some ideas to achieve the target, such as 3D architecture of the chip and optical technology to connect the individual pieces. We shall, however, that graphene, a new promising conductive material will not be ready in time for the construction of the computer.


Ironically, the new supercomputer to store more data on old cassettes and remain until today the most economical way to store data. To a lesser extent used, also, solid-state disks and PCM (phase-stage media).

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RIM announces 1 million sales of PlayBook tablets

In an effort to change the negative climate created, the Research in Motion announced that there are more than 1 million users of Playbook tablet, a year after his initial presentation. Of course the moment the detriment of any RIM Playbook selling, and probably they do not return the money in the form of apps and content.

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Losses of $ 125 million for RIM over the past three months

RIM announced yesterday the results for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, and as expected the data was not pleasant. The company revealed losses of $ 125 million, with revenues limited to $ 4.2 billion, falling 19% over the previous quarter. Shipments of BlackBerry smartphones was not such satisfactory, since in the quarter, RIM sent 11.1 million units, a 21% decline from the third fiscal quarter.


 Because of low sales and wanting to focus on creating a subscriber base BlackBerry 7 this year, RIM said it will not give publicity to the next quarter forecasts for sales of smartphones. This move frees the company from the pressure to meet specific goals, but also means that low sales are expected in the near future.


The CEO, Thorsten Heins, said that "very excited about the prospects of the platform of BlackBerry 10", on which the company relies on managed to survive and return to dynamic markets.

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