Sunday, September 30, 2012

Arrive on BlackBerry 10: save RIM from the brink?

California, BlackBerry Jam Americas Conference. Thorsten Heins, RIM CEO, reveals the newly born BB10, touch-oriented operating system from the interesting news. This is demonstrated by the reaction of the title in the bag that is growing again after a tough year in which the stock has lost nearly 90% of its value. Already, in February 2011 the shares touched $ 70, now the price is around $ 6.50. But if you show confidence in Canada stating that "by the end of year, our customer base has grown to 80 million users," the loss of market share is evident.

The market share of RIM fell from 12% to just under 5. All in favor of the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. The reasons for the collapse are varied: from mail services worldwide blackout of 2011, policy errors not capture the changes in the mobile market. Not to mention the application and the developer did not live circuit, numerically, competitors. But now there is a desire to catch up. The new operating system BB10 is integrated in Facebook thanks to the app BlackBerry Jam.

Introduction of a double charges on device: business and personal. As soon as you switch clocks in the business profile to the personal, and so farewell until the next day at work email. There is also the chance to see the profile updates "social" of all your contacts. Air renewal in short, even if the firsts of its competitors are few. We'll see if convinced, however, some users unhappy with iOS, Android or Windows Phone to pass (or return) to the BlackBerry. In the display they put a new smartphone all in touch very attractive. Just a shame that the design looks like a copy of the iPhone.

Source from: http://woorkup.com/2012/09/26/in-arrivo-il-blackberry-10-salvera-rim-dal-baratro/

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

iPhone 5 and record numbers of presales

iPhone 5 and record numbers of presales

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The revolution Nexus Google


It will be the news. It will be the attractive price of $ 199. It will be that Google is becoming incredibly cool. The fact is that the Nexus 7 , the tablet Mountain View presented at the annual I / O Conference last June and produced in collaboration with Asus, has done a bang. The preorders are left Friday and major retail stores have run out of stock in a few hours. Erich Schmidt had predicted a few days ago: "There has been a huge demand for the Nexus 7 in the days immediately following his presentation" . Given the initial data it seems that expectations have been repaid.

That Google is not a choice as much for philanthropy. Beyond the physical object, I want to make it even more popular the heart of the Nexus. The software. Android Jelly Bean . The new mobile operating system from Google. A huge step forward compared to the past but had to leave the safe plus sign than did his predecessors.
In Italy is already available for the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Updated yesterday, a bomb. Fluency and response increbile. Has features that iOS still if the dreams. Google Now, a masterpiece of engineering. The voice dictation off-line revolution. You talk, he writes word for word what you say. Do not miss a shot. With the advantage that you do not have a 3G connection to make it work because the software that translates words in text is enclosed in the heart of Jelly Bean. Other than Siri in Italian and we are waiting for months and still nothing. And then there are nice widgets such as Google Ears. The answer to Shazam Google. Hear a song and tells you the name and artist.

All this in anticipation of October, when it is rumored will present the new Galaxy Nexus and the background is partner wild with pleasure the dish more appetizing. The Google Glass . Arrive no earlier than 2014, and could change everything.

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Samsung Galaxy S3: yes or no?


You have to admit it. With the Galaxy S3 , Samsung has brought out the best Android smartphones currently available. There is little to do, the Korean giant is also recognized the honor merit. But someone will think that the iPhone is still the iPhone. True. If nothing else, as a matter of affection. But I assure you that the iPhone 4S is suffering from bad comparison with the Galaxy, from the Home screen, huge, vivid colors, just a little 'less bright Retina display but still a feast for the eyes. The default screen exaggerates the color saturation. If you want my advice, to make the interface more pleasant and pastel tones, select Settings> Display> Screen Mode , and choose the "Natural" . Look at the difference compared to the standard display. Very impressive.

The processor speed of the S3 stuns. Pigi icon and each application opens instantly. The reactivity of Android Ice Cream Sandwich pushing an even higher level when compared to the Google Nexus. The integration with Google services is total. Although not particularly fond of Samsung's TouchWiz interface, the Koreans have done a great job. Sin a little 'style and taste compared to iOS finishes but overall the result is more than satisfactory.

The design is minimal. The shape is very similar to that of the Galaxy Nexus. The housing, both made of any material resembles "vulgar" plastic. It could also be refined gold. Still plastic and apparently also of poor quality. I say apparently. Why not. But compared to the materials of the iPhone will notice the difference. Especially nell'S3 of white color. However, the advantage is that this galaxy is very thin and lightweight.

Android is now a mature operating system. All the most popular applications for iOS are available for the alternative of Google. The voice dictation is perfect. You talk, he writes. The only problem a bit 'annoying is when it comes to dictate punctuation. Does not recognize hardly ever converting often the symbol in text, such as "." In "point."

SVoice the alternative of Samsung Siri works pretty well. Nothing more though. Understand less than half of what you tell it so that, apart from trivial functions, such as sending a message, the rest is frustrating. Not to mention that you have to be covered by a 3G network or Wi-Fi to work with a decent answer. Otherwise you do first to make everything by hand, in the usual way.

To synchronize your media files (music and photos) you can use Kies. It is absolutely not like iTunes, but his work, petty and unpretentious, it does. The only problem is that often the synchronization crashed and the indicator of progress is nailed to a certain percentage. Happens when you close the application and restart the phone.

The reception is good but not excellent. I noticed that, in some cases, equal to operator, the iPhone 4S is hooked to the 3G data network while the S3 no. I'm not really sporadic circumstances. If you use your smartphone in intensively especially the internet, the continuous signal holes are annoying.

The battery is usually pain. Four and a half hours with 3G on all the time mainly using Twitter, Facebook and Google+. And if you have the misfortune of having to even call someone, put a cross over well. Lasts as long as that of an iPhone 4S used under the same conditions. Five hours.

I wasted in the usual technical details that many know and that you can find anywhere on the Internet. Taking an overall budget, apart from a few annoying quirks, the Galaxy S3 is an excellent phone. And 'no doubt the best alternative available to the iPhone and probably the best Android smartphone product until now.

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iPhone 5: what it means for Apple and for the market


The iPhone 5 has arrived. No big surprises in terms of design . Same style of his predecessor, thinner, with a larger screen. Identical to the stolen photos that have kept us company in recent months. Now in Apple no longer even take the trouble to invent a story as that of the engineer in 2011 she lost the prototype iPhone 4 in a bar in Redwood City. From parts of Cupertino have realized that you do not need. The wait, in itself, enough.

Beneath the surface, this iPhone was profoundly renewed. The technical specifications can be found all here, more detailed and less tedious than it might tell you about myself. Addition to the iPhone also came the new iPod . Carini. Especially the iPod Nano. But to let you know how much their weight are marginal for Apple, just look at the percentage breakdown of total revenues in the second quarter of 2012. With the iPod cuba only 3% of the pie. Digital music 5%. Desktops 4%. Laptops 5%. To squirt up to 17% of the iPad. And then get to the very heart of Apple's revenues. The iPhone: 60%.

Why bet now is all there. Into that of a few centimeters since 2007 has become the undisputed icon of Apple and the entire smartphone market. That led Cupertino to look elsewhere. With sales of desktop sitemi less stable and those of Mac laptops that recorded a slight decrease negative compared to last year. The gold mine is located elsewhere. In that increase of 120% in sales and 80% of iPad sales of the iPhone that are ferrying Apple, and reflection throughout the entire global market sector, in the era "post-PC". The dynamic always the same. With Cupertino trolling and all the others who are scrambling to keep up.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

The victims "famous" of the covenant Facebook Instagram-

The first to retire was Jack Dorsey , co-founder of Twitter. Its a long story. Jack was one of the first investors to Instagram. He had hoped to integrate with Twitter. He tried to buy more than one occasion. If the left hand is under my nose from the terrible blow Zuckerberg.

Then it happened to Phil Schiller, Apple's one of the bosses ( senior vice president of worldwide marketing ) mica thing. Phil if it is taken with the fact that Instagram, after releasing the app for Android has distorted its nature as a "small" community for photography enthusiasts. The size of mass that has reached Instagram, is no longer in line with the initial spirit, supports.

Someone like me would notice the majestic Phil is a bit 'the same thing that happened to Apple in time. From niche phenomenon to what it is today. But it is better to mind their own. They say there is a very docile sheep.

The truth is that Instagram was an exclusive iOS and Apple, while it remained the same, we paddled. A year ago circulating legends that the increase was due to sales of the iPhone just to Instagram mania. Nothing official, you understand. But enough to understand the scope of the phenomenon.

Schiller, in his role at Apple, had to say just after the betrayal of Instagram with Android. Another illustrious victim to the application of photo sharing.

But Kevin Systrom of Schiler, of little interest. The app for Android has done a bang. He sits on a mountain of a billion dollars still wondering if all that has happened is true.

Ref: http://woorkup.com/2012/04/22/facebook-instagram-vittime-illustri/

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Not only iPhone 5: Apple renews iMac, iPod, iPad and prepares to launch iPad Mini

It 's official. Apple has sent out invitations to the press on September 12. Not named the iPhone 5. Only "It's almost here" .

The rumor circulating for weeks. Now we gave it all for sure. At least we hoped. Tim Cook, bright smile on his face, that the stage of the Moscone Center presents the new iPhone 5 from Apple. Maybe even the much-talked-about iPad Mini whose existence has yet to be demonstrated. We all know Apple is a kind of religion. You have to have faith and believe. The start date for the successor of the glorious iPhone 4S was said to be September 12. Postponed then, for obscure reasons that only the creators of rumors about Apple know, a week later. Last known date, September 21.

A close examination, by browsing the list of the events of September Moscone, where they appear companies like Intel and Oracle, there is no trace of Apple. But you know, Cupertino does things at the last minute. And then, after all, the location is not said is that where they usually take place for several years now, the most important events of Apple.

However, is the fact that the iPhone 5 will be presented by the end of the month. A hint would be negligible at the base of this speculation is also given by the busy schedule of events that companies like Samsung, Motorala and Nokia have concentrated in the first half of the month to present their flagship smartphone next generation. A significant challenge due to the large attests to the fifth generation of the iPhone.

In all this, Apple could surprise positively not only with the iPhone 5. On the horizon there is a complete renovation of several product lines, dall'iMac iPod. According to analysts of the financial group KGI Taiwan, in fact, the timeline of the launch of new Apple products scheduled between September and October, provide for:

Mid September: MacBook Pro 13 "with Retina Display, iMac 21.5".
End of September: iPhone 5, iPod Touch.
Mid October: an unspecified New iPad "modified", iPod nano.
End of October: iPad Mini, iMac 27 ".

Realistically, a concentration of so many products of concerted relief in a period of time so narrow, seems a stretch excessive. The risk that sales of one could negatively affect sales of the whole is a possibility to calculate. But the most obvious market rules often do not apply to Apple. How the iPad that would cannibalized sales of the iPhone. Elite of economists and analysts as a possibility sbandierarla anything but remote. We have seen how things have gone instead.

Speculation about the dates remain the rumors to be verified. And the network has proven time and again, not always guesses. It remains only to wait. At most a couple of months. But just as the iPhone 5 to obscure the success of all the rest.

Ref :  http://woorkup.com/2012/09/03/non-solo-iphone-5-apple-rinnova-imac-ipod-ipad-e-si-prepara-al-lancio-dellipad-mini/

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Not too cold war between Apple and Samsung

Samsung recently that if he was going all right in the smartphone market is a fact known to all. That in the corridors of Cupertino, the boss of Apple began to look with some concern the success of the South Korean giant, malignant rumors circulating among the experts.

Whether in the quarter between January and March 2012 Samsung had sold 44.5 million smartphone, an indisputable fact. Approximately 21,000 units per hour. 30.6% of the global market. At the same time Apple sold "just" 35 million iPhones, reaching 24% market share. Not a few, you say. But still 9 million less than its fiercest competitor. A difference not just negligible.

And now comes the Galaxy S III. Less cool iPhone but able to attract the same attention and curiosity of the more "sophisticated" - in terms of style - gadget from Cupertino. Even from the audience of "applecentrici."
Nine million pre-orders in record time. Sales expect sensational. At the headquarters of Samsung is all a party. The iPhone teasing abound.

At the other end of the world Tim Cook not talks. I imagine him sitting in a chair, with a grin frozen on his face while toying with the prototype of the new iPhone. And he thinks.
"Wait October. Then we'll see who's laughing. "

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Apple iTV to $ 1,499 dollars: word BestBuy (or maybe not)


Imagine a 42-inch screen in an unmistakable design Apple. A iMac much larger, much thinner, without the need for a keyboard, hung on the wall of your living room.

Imagine iOS-style icons that appear on the screen when the power is on, the ability to update - by Siri - Facebook, Twitter, surf the Internet, use your favorite applications and play the most popular games of all time directly on your new iTV.

Science fiction? No, actually, yes. At least for the moment.

As reported by TheVerge , it seems that these days Best Buy is sending its customers a survey with feedback on potential new products and services coming and their eventual acceptance by users. In the first position the figure just the elusive iTV Apple, imaginatively called "Apple HDTV."

The authors of the survey imagine the Apple HDTV with the following characteristics:

- 42-inch 1080p LED high-definition;
- native iOS operating system and can be downloaded directly from the App Store all apps already available for the iPhone and iPad;
- iCloud support for saving remote film, TV series and the various media, with the same procedures used for saving photos and music in the cloud service from Apple;
- iSight camera and microphone for video calls using FaceTime, Skype or any similar app;
- support for iTunes, Netflix, YouTube and Flickr.
- voice control via Siri or the Remote app on the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

All the figure, quite affordable, with $ 1,499 dollars - without the usual change one by one - in euro is estimated at around € 1,500.

At least for the American market, the characteristic part of the big chains of retailers to send to customers this kind of survey regarding the level of satisfaction of possible new products is quite common, and usually with a certain probability and approximation on the characteristics, anticipate what will end up on the shelves in a few months.

To this add in even the New York Times that quoted a source inside Apple that confirm the existence of a prototype of iTV at an advanced stage in the study of Cupertino Jonathan Ive (currently Senior Vice President of Industrial Design) .

Do the math it is likely that the rumors about the Apple TV is more than just rumors and look a bit 'expectations and the denials of a few years ago when the then rumored iTablet, then presented with the name iPad.

If March is the month of the launch of the new iPad 3 is possible that the new wonder Apple does not arrive before the summer even though I fear that, before the next year, we will not see anything new.

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Magento :How Activate Demo store notice via Magento Admin, Demo Store text enabled in Magento

In the opensource world, Magento is one of the top most wanted E-commerce solution. Here we explained about Demo store message in the magento. We displayed Demo store text in the top of the page when are in the development. 

Find the following step to enable demo store,

1) Go to Magento admin 

2) Then go to System  -> Configuration

2) In the left side of the configuration -> General -> Web

3) HTML Head -> Tab have the select options named as "Display Demo Store Notice", choose "Yes" to activate demo store.

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