Apple shows interest in Tesla Motors

The U.S. technology company Apple shows a report in the daily newspaper San Francisco Chronicle on a purchase of the California electric car maker Tesla Motors is interested.According to the newspaper report, it was in the spring of 2013, a meeting between the CEO Elon Musk and the Apple manager Adrian Perica. With Apple's Perica is responsible for the area of ​​mergers and acquisitions.

About six months later Adnaan Ahmad, an analyst at Berenberg Bank in Hamburg had the former Apple CEO Tim Cook and the Board CEO Arthur Levinson recommended the purchase of the electric car manufacturer. The growth profile of Apple would, according to Ahmad change by buying and increase electric cars in the acceptance and made a comparison with the Apple iPhone.

Prior to the launch of the Apple iPhone's market share of smartphones in less than one percent have amounted to and 2016/17 to increase to around 100 percent. In addition to electric cars Apple should also show on Medical his interest and develop an acoustic sensor with the sound engineer Tomlinson Holman which based on the flow noise of the blood is to warn of a heart attack. Tomlinson Holman already developed the THX seal of quality and has been working at Apple for three years.

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Google explains how not to fear with Google Glass

With the growing number of controversies surrounding the Google Glass , their manufacturer has decided to react. Google has published a number of tips, for users of its connected glasses, so that they are better seen in society .

So ten tips that are published , with such diverse examples as "ask permission to the people around you," or "do not be rude to the people around you." Common sense, then, but that does not necessarily come naturally to mind for all users. It is interesting to note that these tips are especially users themselves, with whom Google has collected opinions and impressions .

In the United States, the phenomenon of Google Glass has attracted much attention, and some complain of a particular category of users haughty and rude as they are their device on the nose.The term "Glasshole" even made ​​its appearance in the jargon surrounding the glasses, and became a real problem that Google is trying to address through this. Here are the different advice given by Google, 

• Explore the world around you
• Use voice commands Glass
• Ask for permission
• Use the screen lock
• Be an active user community
• Do not attach the screen too long
• Do not use the glasses for an extreme sport
• Expect to get questions
• Do not be scary or unpleasant

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Facebook bought the WhatsApp app for $ 19 billion

Facebook has been offering mobile messaging application WhatsApp for approximately € 14 billion. Launched in 2009, the service has 450 million monthly users and wins a million every day. 

Facebook on Wednesday announced the largest acquisition in its history. He put on the table the enormous sum of $ 19 billion for the application of mobile messaging WhatsApp . This merger "will allow us, with new eye-catching mobile services even connect more people in the world" and "help strengthen both services," said CEO and founder of the world's largest social network, Mark Zuckerberg , presenting Operation analysts. 

Facebook will pay $ 4 billion in cash and $ 12 billion in shares to buy this popular application and growth. The remaining 3 billion will be paid premiums Facebook shares to the founders and employees of WhatsApp over the four years following the closure of the transaction, expected this year. The boss-founder January Kum also come to the board of the network. If the operation fails, WhatsApp will receive $ 2 billion in compensation. 

"The size of the transaction is really impressive, and it will be talked about a bubble," responds Greg Sterling, an analyst at Opus Research, noting that Facebook was taking a risk because "in social media, there is the thing to mode, and the following year, it may be another application. " At the NYSE, the Facebook share was also 2.57% to 66.31 dollars to 0030 GMT in electronic trading after closing. 

One million new users per day

"WhatsApp is going to connect a billion people. Services that reach this level all have an incredible value," replies Mark Zuckerberg, which boasts "an extremely high quality product" and "a very important communication network" very popular especially in Europe and Latin America. "Over time, people will pay for it," he predicts. CFO, David Ebersman , recalled that WhatsApp began to introduce paid subscriptions in some countries, even if "maximize revenue is not the short-term priority" for the application that is above all expand its network. 

For almost five years, WhatsApp is already claiming more than 450 million monthly users worldwide, and wins a million more each day as Facebook, which says it sends a message number "close to the entire volume of SMS global telecom operators. " 

The most expensive acquisition of Facebook, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, was previously the sharing app Instagram photos, paid $ 715 million in 2012. The social network expects to have the same approach with WhatsApp with Instagram: the application will retain its brand and continue to operate independently and in parallel to the implementation of existing messaging Facebook. 

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The Apple iWatch would build (also) on health

Tim Cook , the boss' s Apple has promised new types of products this year. We are still waiting, but there is a good chance that one of these, there is a show connected . Some manufacturers are already tried, without much success, however: with Sony SmartWatch and Samsung with its Galaxy Gear . Apple is believed to work on for a long time, and the latest rumors suggest some uses of the watch.

The site MacRumors reported as a big name audio, Tomlinson Holman , was recruited by the brand there so many years. Inventor of THX , talents are not used only to flatter the ears , but rather to prevent malfunction of the c ody human . The sound of the heart and blood vessels would be combed to detect anomalies and prevent upstream problems. This interest in the health ofusers is in line with rumors suggesting that a specific application of the next iOS 8 is dedicated to health through various sensors, why not deported on an object connected to wear (at random, a watch). Recall that Apple introduced with its new A7 processor chip M7, which is responsible to track every move through a crowd of similar sensors that can be found in the bracelets online .

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Samsung Galaxy S5- Update on the rumors

Less than a week of the announcement of the supposed new Samsung Galaxy S5 , writing Tom's Guide reported on the rumors.

• A bigger screen: Samsung Galaxy S5 would have an even bigger than the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen. While it offered a 5-inch diagonal, the Galaxy S5 adopt a format of 5.2 or 5.25 to believe such information to Bloomberg. Also in terms of resolution, Samsung would make a great step forward. While the S4 showed a Full HD resolution of 1920 pixels by 1080 S5 could adopt a display of 1440 by 2560 pixels , and from a ratio of 441 pixels per inch (ppi) at 565 ppi.

• A 64-bit processor: Samsung Galaxy S5 may be the first Android smartphone to feature a 64-bit processor , as is already the case for the Apple iPhone 5s. It could well be the processorExynos 6 . However, Samsung is expected to maintain its current policy and propose several models of the Galaxy S5 by country, with its Exynos chip or a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 , including practical to take advantage of 4G networks.

• Available in metal or plastic: According to the website SamMobile, Samsung propose not one, but two different versions of the Galaxy S5. Long criticized for its smartphones in plastic , the Korean manufacturer could finally get to the aluminum as has already made ​​Apple or HTC.However, both versions are available at different rates, 650 euros for plastic and 800 for aluminum.

• A fingerprint sensor: This is one of the latest rumors to date. As HTC Max on One or Apple on the iPhone 5S, Samsung could add a digital fingerprint reader with its next high-end smartphone. Like Apple, it would be directly integrated into the home button . It would be possible to record up to 8 fingers different, each allocated to a different function to change settings or launch an application.

• A revised and updated Touchwiz interface: If Samsung had trouble with Google in recent years, the voltage should not fall with the Galaxy S5. According to screenshots published by the Twitter account @ evleaks, the Korean automaker indeed propose a new interface Touchwiz , far from the traditional office of Android, its future Galaxy S5. Somewhat similar in idea to Google Now, it would be organized in the form of tiles like Windows Phone and present the relevant information to the user based on the time or place where it is located.

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Sony sells Vaio PC brand

The Japanese technology giant Sony has decided to sell its PC business and found with the investment fund Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) is already a buyer. The Vaio brand is to remain valid and the customer service are maintained. However, there will be in the future only notebooks and PCs from Sony only in Japan. Worldwide sales and manufacture of products Vaio is set. The decision means a layoff of 5,000 employees. The focus of the brand Vaio will in future only be the sale of PCs for the Japanese market.

In the current year, the company expects an amount ranging from 800 million euro loss. Its PC business launched the Walkman manufacturer in 1996 and recorded only one paragraph of 5.8 million units while weddings were still 9 million.The market share amounts to market research firm Gartner, the to just 1.9 percent, Sony ended up in ninth place among PC manufacturers.

The TV business is also going badly for years and so far recorded a total loss of the equivalent of 5.5 billion euros. A spin-off of TV wedding is to take place later this year. In the fourth quarter, however, Sony could reach its operating profit to EUR 660 million due to strong demand for the Playstation 4. The focus points will be in the future for game consoles, smartphones, tablets and games.

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Cisco Systems - Mobile data traffic is increasing rapidly

In a recent study by the U.S. network equipment supplier Cisco Systems expects a Verelffachung global data traffic to 190 exabytes per year in 2018. Mobile data traffic is in Germany tenfold increase, as the study "Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018 'reported.

The average bandwidth of mobile data connections the study authors expect an increase from 2.1 to 3.6 megabits per second and smartphones will be according to the data on the go with 15 megabits per second. Over the next four years, the number of mobile users will increase by 800 million to 4.9 billion and is estimated at 10 billion mobile devices. A year ago, the number of mobile devices has already amounted to 7 billion.

The smartphones, tablets and notebooks will are responsible for about 94 percent of mobile data traffic in the world by 2018.The mobile cloud traffic will increase 12-fold to the study result by 2018 and will be responsible for 90 percent of mobile data traffic.

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