
Samsung sees TV as the centre of family life. Applications like Family Story will keep photos of all household members, Fitness and Weight will track sports and Kids will offer parental controls for children and adolescents’ viewership. Another feature, facial recognition, will detect children from seeing inappropriate content if the parents decide as such. The […]
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Apple today announced that the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will, upon request of the Cupertino company, voluntarily undertake special audits of its suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The mentioned company has lately attracted a lot of opprobrium for malpractices like workers’ conditions close to slavery. As reported by Apple, a team […]
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The increase in litigation on hypothetical infringements of patents has begun to worry the big technology companies, some of whom are the major actors in the battles against copyrights violations. Apple, after forwarding a letter to ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute of Telecommunications) last year, called this month to opposed to blocking patents on essential […]
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In contrast, he welcomed the move by Microsoft. “No waiver of patent rights charges, but the company will seek a ban on the sale of the product.” Mueller stressed in his article that these movements affected patents on standard calls, affecting basic functions. The standards prescribe specific solutions for certain functions. According to analysts, the […]
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The scene is well known throughout the world that there can be a long line of eager consumers able to wait hours, regardless of the weather, to claim the ultimate technological gadget. There are employees, identifiable by their blue jackets, trying to restore order. And, of course, everything revolves around a technology company that is […]
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With a 1.4 GHz processor dual-core processor, with an update coming soon to quad-core, and the ability to surf the web with speeds up to 21.6 Mbps, the phone is a startling new innovation from the company. Consumers enjoy the 8 megapixel camera that is accompanied by an LED flash. The camera is an upgrade […]
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However, MX certainly has its other major rival, the Mi-1, known in China by the name of its manufacturer, Xiaomi. The releases of both smartphones have coincided in China which may hinder MX’s success in the market. But both seek to expand their horizons beyond the borders of the Asian market. In fact, the latter […]
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Mind-reading via a device might become a reality For years, the scientists had been working to make a device that could be helpful in reading the thoughts of a human being. After immense hard work, the research has paved a way for brain implants that can translate people’s thoughts. The scientists were able to develop […]
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Australian scientists discovered the oldest living thing on earth Scientists from the University of Western Australia have discovered the most ancient and the oldest living thing on earth. These Australian scientists believe that the giant seagrass patches in the Mediterranean Sea are the oldest living thing on earth. The founders reckon that these seagrass patches […]
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(Reuters) –U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices. It was one of a series of approvals on Monday that underscored […]
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New technologies have been widely disseminated in the professional world. According to a survey conducted in France by the Institute Chronopost, 97% of managers now use a computer as part of their work and 51% a mobile phone. This widespread distribution is not without its problems. According to the barometer CFE-CGC , 37% of managers believe that these new […]
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The previous year saw a number of games breaking a number of records with Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and FIFA 12 all doing the business. The year 2011 was a great year for a number of publishers as EA, Activision and Ubisoft all saw personal records broken by the a number […]
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