Samsung shows first smartphone based on tes

At a developer conference in the U.S. San Francisco is the first Samsung smartphone based on the MeeGo successor tes presented. It is a jointly developed with Intel reference platform to version 1.0 of the operating system is used.

The device itself is powered by an unspecified dual-core solution with 1.2 gigahertz ARM Cortex-A9 cores. The display measures 4.3 inches based on AMOLED technology and has a resolution of 1,024 × 720 pixels. Further technical data are still missing. Still very rudimentary, it also looks at tes 1.0. Here are reportedly still missing many features, the series production seems to be still a few months.

Tes first smartphone from Samsung (Image: tizentalk.com )
So far, concrete announcements are for smartphones, tablets and other devices with tes pending. However, Samsung had announced in January that its own Bada platform with the first Intel-developed tails of wanting to merge . From this step should be to both bada, whose market share is about two percent, will benefit the novice.

Google can now pay for books, music and movies on your monthly wireless bill

It was only a matter of time before Google, having facilitated the payment of the purchase of applications through the operator’s invoice turn, were to extend this method of payment to all content on Google Play catalog. Well said and done, the Mountain View have included both electronic books and movies and music on the receipt of each month from some of the operators with which it already held that “settlement.”

More specifically, this “extension office” initially affects users who reside in the U.S. or Japan, and have as utility companies of mobile phone service to T-Mobile and AT & T, which will be joined Sprint in a short period time, in addition to NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank in the country of the rising sun.

Besides the UK, Italy and Germany, our country is Vodafone which takes the upper hand, which already has extensive experience in these conflicts, and is also similar service provider for BlackBerry service subscribers, accepting the position of purchases made in the BlackBerry App World on the invoices for each user.

Google Drive is now available for OS X and it will in a few weeks for IOS

It has been expected, but finally Google has launched its solution to store and manage files from the cloud. Google Drive is now available for everyone, which makes the Mountain View company in a tough competitor Dropbox and other services such as the recent SkyDrive .

What Google has done is basically Google Docs vitaminar a platform from which to store and edit all files from the same browser or even a collaborative way. The skeleton of the interface is, in fact, extremely similar to Google Docs. But Google has decided to eliminate a brand as recognized as Docs and indicates that there is a lot of effort and confidence placed in this new service.

Some interesting features that Google tells us about Drive is the ability to recognize text from scanned documents OCR integrating technology, including the recognition of some images without help text (ie Eiffel Tower if we can find images of Drive the tower without the need to recognize the file name), the intelligent distribution of documents by multiple data centers to avoid problems in case a center fails, encryption of all files …

Google Drive is free and offers 5 GB of raw storage for everyone. The application of OS X is ready, and behaves exactly like Dropbox generating a service directory on our computer and synchronizing it with the web directory. We can expand the space of 5 to 25 GB per month by 1.88, 3.76 to 100 GB and 1 TB per month for 37.71 euros per month. The expansion of space are also reflected in Gmail.

The bad news is that we have to wait a few weeks to see the official Google Drive application in IOS, as the company still being prepared. After the disappointment and the barrage of criticism that led to the implementation of Gmail, this might have encouraged and opt to submit an application that is more than a web interface built into the system.

Dropbox: public links for your own files

The operator of the cloud-based synchronization service ‘ drop box ‘have introduced a new feature on Monday. It is now possible in a simple way to create public links to their files.

Creating these links have made public, the developers of Dropbox very simple. Right-click on the desired folder is enough to create a menu using the Dropbox link. This can then be directly passed on to third parties, and thus give them a read access to the files.

Public links to dropbox

After accessing the links in the browser does not download the files stored on Dropbox is necessary. Pictures, videos and documents can be viewed via the associated website. With regard to the expiration date of a virtual links is limited to a Dropbox user, however, because such functionality is not available. If the data is no longer on the public links to be accessible, so you have to select the respective folder on the website again as private.

With this new feature, it is no longer necessary to make the files available on a public folder to share it with other people. As already mentioned, other people will only read access. The files will also be changes made, it shall continue to offer the so-called shared folders.

Google is cleaning: Cancels Picasa for Linux, Google Sync for BlackBerry and more products

Google takes a few months refocusing its activities to what is really productive. Not too many months ago and closed several services, such as Sidewiki, as we saw at the time. And soon, as if we see repeated in history, a handful of products and services closing cast one way or another. One of the most striking is the cessation of development of Picasa for Linux.

Google maintains a port of its Windows version that is capable of running on Linux using Wine, and argues that it is increasingly difficult to maintain both versions at the same time, so best left to develop Linux. I can not say it’s a loss: Linux users have alternatives such as Shotwell or digiKam. And is not the only cancellation: do a quick review to see what further changes ahead.

A number of obsolete API will progressively closed over the coming months.
Google Flu Vaccine Finder is one of those projects, 20% born in employees, and was intended to seek vaccination centers during the H1N1 pandemic. Today it makes little sense to keep it within Google, but this project becomes part of HealthMap.
Related Google was launched earlier this year to help us locate content related to which we are viewing in your browser. In this case the project is paralyzed by not having achieved the expected success, from your computer to be part of other products.
Google Sync for BlackBerry will stop working on June 1, but these users can have the same functionality (syncing contacts and calendars on the air if they hire BlackBerry Internet Service, or through a BlackBerry Enterprise Server plugin).
The mobile Web application Google Talk will also work (I admit ignorance of its existence). Users can have many XMPP clients and the official application for Android.
The Google patent search is done via Google.com, instead of using a separate page.
Plugins for uploading photos to Picasa Web Albums from iPhoto and since OS X no longer have support, inviting users to install Picasa 3.9, which has an importer of the iPhoto library.
I am of the opinion that Google was too dispersed in a multitude of tools that just were not having success among its users (and there are many projects whose existence directly ignore). It is time to close ranks and move forward with more success gives: Web applications, its mobile operating system, browser and your browser. And all trying to succeed with Google +.

Games-Apps: iPhone on average cheaper than Android

The market for gaming apps is booming. On almost every smartphone and tablet related software can be found. A sample of the Consumer Rhine-Westphalia, however, shows strong fluctuations between the platforms. The most expensive is it for the iPad users.

To buy the games are mostly in the two dominant online stores. There are a lot of overlap. The popular “Angry Birds” and “Fruit Ninja” fly and fight as both Apple and Android devices. The same applies to the board game versions of “Monopoly” and “Catan”. Whether as Apple or Android version: The games themselves are generally comparable in all respects, it said.

Far fewer, however, the same prices. A total necked Verbaucherschützer the package of 30 paid games, which has both a full version for Android devices as well as Apple’s iPad and iPhone. They were selected from each half of the best in the sales charts in Google and play in the Apple store.

While “Fruit Ninja” for the iPhone only 79 cents and 89 cents on Android, costs must iPad users spend 2.39 euros. . The same relationship exists at the Apple systems as “Angry Birds for Android users, however the game is free – but with advertising.

Equal to 15 times Android versions had front at the unit prices nose. Only scored 8 times the software from the Apple Store. And yet, with a total of around 66 € for the whole package came away cheaper iPhone fans as the android player. They had the 30 apps in the sample shell out around three euros more. In particular, two games made the difference: “Monopoly” and the “Game of Life”, which were via Google gives a total of about € 6.50 more expensive.

Much more must be executed against the owners shell out an iPad. For many games there in the Apple store a specially developed high-definition version. While recognizing that some in the opinion of game developers on the iPad screen looks better, but is more expensive. If you’re always on the HD-game attacks, had to shell out for the sample package brilliant 94 € – almost half more than the smartphone versions.

Meanwhile, the game industry is also on so-called “universal apps”. Is automatically selected to be at a uniform price, the best display for the device. If Android also another oddity was recorded: Here, players who feel the mighty English is not enough and download an app German version, partly to pay 20 cents extra.

Phil Schiller and think about leaving the service Instagram

Apple managers do not usually say about technology today, let alone in public. But Phil Schiller has had some words with a user about Instagram, opining that the service has chosen an unexpected way. Moreover, Apple’s vice president of marketing has left the platform after using it regularly.

The truth is that it is a difficult argument to justify: Instagram has had a tremendous boom users after its recent launch of the Android platform , and has also been acquired by Facebook after the social network opened a case with billions of dollars inside by way of tender. And to top it, it was considered one of the applications of 2011. Still, Schiller leaves him after a while using it with the iPhone.

Clayton Braasch, an internet Schiller asked his opinion, wrote an email to the manager hoping to get something more concrete than a private message on Twitter. It turns out that Schiller has responded:

Hi Clayton,
Instagram is a great application with a great community. That has not changed. But one of the things I liked about Instagram was that it was a small community of “early adopters” [early adopters in the service] to share their photographs. Now that you have not grown much since there are so many quality pictures as before. This is not necessarily good or bad, just not with what I had fun before.

9to5Mac has verified the identity of both Schiller mail as the reader, you can take the views of Schiller in several ways. It is curious, personal opinion of a longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller as a service is not something that we can report every day.

Fake Android App from Instagram in circulation

The acquisition of Instagram developers by Facebook for a billion dollars caused quite a stir and an increased demand for such use. This fact is then exploited by fraudsters.

While the official Instagram app for IOS operating systems for quite some time available, the version for Android systems is relatively new. With regard to the version of the Google operating system loomed a huge demand. After all, the application within ten days has been downloaded according Published more than five million copies.

Download of the fake app

Security experts from the house ‘ Sophos ‘have recently been aware of a fake and dangerous version of the Instagram app. As shown in the screenshot is released, the application for Android on a Russian Web site is provided for free download. This version should be downloaded to the system, an infection with malware threat. Currently not expected to wide dissemination of this app.

Sophos security solutions detect the malicious code as Andr / boxer-F. In the course of a test it was found that the application seemed very authentic. However, this could relate to the fact that not the fake app could rely on the desired network service. As can be seen in the other screenshot, the application gets permission to send including text messages and is thus the authors behind this application is a potential source of income, for example, if automated messages to premium SMS services in the background sent to .

Ikea sells soon, living room electronics

The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea will soon expand its range and offering the new product “Uppleva” a combination of furniture and home theater equipment. The “device” is the summer in Germany (Berlin in two Ikea stores) will be available.

The primary objective of Uppleva system is to avoid cable clutter, a phenomenon that probably all familiar with home theater owners very well. When the solution is now presented by Ikea, all cables hidden behind screens, in addition, wants to bring the remote controls to disappear and supplies with its own universal control.

Uppleva: home theater equipment from Ikea ( HD version )

Background for the new product line is a guided study of Ikea on the needs of customers is the furniture store: Accordingly, 71 percent of respondents said that they want to see in their living room a few cables. 39 percent want the technical devices themselves do not have to look at.

On the side of the company is the Swedish ‘ furniture dealer ‘in that the range Uppleva initially be available in selected stores in Sweden, Poland, France, Italy and Germany. Uppleva it is not, however, can get in Germany, but only in Berlin, specifically in the Ikea stores in Spandau, and Lichtenberg.

Crystal Disk Info 4.6.0 – Analysis tool for hard disks

In Crystal Disk Info is an analytical tool for hard disks. The tool can be used on Windows systems and offers a wealth of information about the used hard drives.

After starting the program CrystalDiskInfo searches for the installed hard drives in each system, and then provides a variety of data. These include the speed, the firmware used, the working hours and the temperature.

Crystal Disk Info

Crystal Disk Info can also evaluate SMART information and inform its users of any malfunction of the hard disks. In this way, potential problems early on. The tool can now also handle SSD drives.

As part of the setup, the user is suggested to install third party program. If this is not desired, it may not be needed it. The installation file must be started for this purpose with the “/ NOCANDY”.

The developers have CrystalDiskInfo with version 4.6.0 expands the list of supported devices and also updated the language files, it says in the changelog .