Apple worth half a trillion dollars

The U.S. technology company Apple can point to a record and that the stock market value was on Friday to 500 billion U.S. dollars. At the beginning the company had reached this value before. The share price had amounted on Friday at 550.33 U.S. dollars but was still far away from the highs of last year. In September 2012, the stock price had climbed to more than 700 U.S. dollars.

The company is under intense pressure by its shareholders, mainly because the billionaire Carl Icahn calls a multi-billion share buyback program. The company has free cash of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, and this money should be the requirements fully distributed to the shareholders. The innovation is obviously no longer the focus but enhances the increase in stock market value. Two years ago, Apple founder Steve Jobs had died, and since that loss Apple has a noticeable loss of innovative momentum. Only new improved Apple iPhone or Apple iPad coming to the market while it used over and over again were surprises in the products.

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Secure.me: Children fuse on Facebook

Public Facebook posts can endanger young people. The web service Secure.me provides a quick security check. Technicgen shows how it works.

The web service Secure.me helps tap out Facebook profiles for gaps and weaknesses.

Since recently, young people under 18 are not allowed to post public messages on Facebook; far they could spread only among friends. The dangerous thing about it: If your offspring or one of his Facebook friends posted about embarrassing party pictures, she looks every user of the network. A rapid control lurking in your child's risks in profile, allows the Web service Secure Me : So let "jokes" while not prevent, but discover immediately and reliably; parents can respond quickly in an emergency and make the perpetrators of such pranks.

Profile Analysis by clicking

How it works: After registering at Secure.me connect your child's Facebook profile with the service and searched his activities in the social network by weak privacy settings or disturbing content.The check is performed automatically with a click. The free Basic Membership offers the following checkpoints.

• Privacy Settings
• Photos and Markings
• Visibility of contributions

Trust is good - and necessary

Prerequisite check for: to enter the relevant password for Facebook Secure.me. The young people must therefore trust that parents do not spy on their privacy through the Service, but protect them and respect them. Otherwise, they will hardly come out with the password - or change quickly.

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Beats music service launched in January?

We were without news of Beats Music, the music streaming service launched in partnership between the audio and the leader of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor brand. The service could finally be launched in the month of January.

The information comes from the website All Things Digital Wall Street Journal . According to information from the U.S. website, gleaned from "people familiar with the matter" , Beats Music could launch as early as next month. First in 2013, this launch will ultimately rejected. Beats Music should be a music streaming service whose value would be the recommendations to users and the social aspect. "Daisy uses mathematics to offer suggestions to users ... [but also] present proposals based in part on suggestions made by fans, becoming a platform in which the machine and enter more intimately human collision " and explained Trent Reznor, future artistic director of the service, in December 2012 in the New Yorker magazine .

Music Beats will face significant competition between Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, or Xbox Music Google Play Music. In addition, several persistent rumors also mention the Google will launch a music streaming service fee based on YouTube. Music Beats will also convince artists and record labels to offer their albums on his service, and it will also play on monetization. For the first time since its launch, Spotify has communicated this week on money paid out to artists, valued at half a cent per listen. In total, nearly 500 million dollars were donated by Spotify rights holders.

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New Windows Tablet Nokia Lumia 2520: Better than the iPad Air?

Nokia Lumia 2520 (Photo: Nokia)

In a new commercial touting Nokia for its new Windows Tablet Nokia 2520 in a funny scene which obviously compares the Nokia tablet with the iPad Air. Here, the competing tablet does of course not a very good figure. A preview of the Nokia tablet and a comparison to the competitors.

Battery life and features

The Nokia Lumia 2520 has a 8,000 mAh battery, which should, however, guarantee a five hours long battery life also promises the iPadAir long maturities and tests confirm a battery life of at least four hours even at high loads. A more fundamental strength of the Nokia Tablets is therefore probably the equipment and the ability to connect a keyboard.A full installed Office and Windows 8.1 RT make the tablet an attractive device to access while on the go all documents or to answer on the train to your next meeting before all messages. Other features of Nokia Lumia 2520: 2 GB RAM, 32 GB of flash memory, 800 Snapdragon quad-core processor with 2.2 Ghz. Alternative Tablets with Windows 8.1 come from Dell , Acer , Toshiba , MSI and of course Microsoft .

Nokia Lumia 2520 - Market launch in Europe?

In Europe, you have to wait a bit for the Nokia tablet. Market launch in Germany, Austria or Switzerland is not yet certain, if ever, the Nokia Lumia coming in 2520 not before 2014 on the market. In the U.S., the Nokia tablet is before Christmas in commerce, but whether in this country, the hybrid Tablets Nokia 2520 and Microsoft Surface are offered in parallel remains questionable.

Video: Nokia Tablet 2520

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Porsche Macan - little brother of the Cayenne comes with powerful engines

Porsche Macan: Little Brother of the Cayenne (Photo: Porsche)

The fifth Porsche model range, the Macan, stands in front of launch. The compact SUV, the manufacturer wants to build on the success of the Cayenne. The sport SUV in Leipzig runs from the tape. Will be officially introduced the Macan at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but specifications are already circulating.

Leaked Specifications

The size is Porsche Macan approximately with the Audi Q5 comparable, but first it must be, according to preliminary reports of more powerful engine variants. If we believe a data sheet from a Chinese Porsche prospectus , which is circulating on the network, the following engines are planned: As entry-level engine is therefore in Macan S diesel V6 diesel with 258 hp is available, which allows a top speed of 226 km / h.As a top engine is a turbo Macan listed with 400 hp, which is to drive 269 hours kilometers peak. Detailed information will be announced at the official presentation at the Los Angeles Auto Show 2013 Porsche. The compact SUV segment is growing, recent examples are the Mercedes-Benz GLA and the proposed Audi Q1.

Video: Test Drive the Porsche Macan

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The University of Michigan wants its autonomous cars 2021

The State of Michigan in the United States and the automobile continue to write a common history. If Detroit, the former "Motor City" , is only a shadow of itself, other cities perpetuate automobile tradition. This is the case 's Ann Arbor , home to the University of Michigan . A new processing center mobility was created, also accompanied by a test track with a value of around 6.5 million. Infrastructure that should prove useful to the plans of the university: deploy a fleet of autonomous vehicles and connected . along the roads of the city from 2021 Center director Peter Sweatman however nuance announcement: the project will take years research work. "We see automation as a progression. First, put your feet on the pedals and hands on the wheel, then your eyes on the road and eventually sit in the driver's seat. These steps are crucial and gradually completed consecutively over time " .

An army of sensor in traffic

However, the center has a definite advantage to complete his research: a program for $ 18 million sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation . This is a project implementing various sensors with about 3,000 vehicles residents of the city 's Ann Arbor . Their operation is now completely passive, containing yet to gather information when they interact with each other.Thereafter, their roles could be extended to a decision-making power. Peter Sweatman is adamant with such a device, "we can avoid most accidents" .

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Apple buys PrimeSense, a specialist 3D sensors

The firm at the apple has completed the racaht this Israeli start-up to $ 360 million, according to AllThingsD.com.

Apple bought PrimeSense , an Israeli designer of 3D sensors for motion recognition, for about $ 360 million, according to AllThingsD.com .

Specialized website quotes a spokesman for the firm at the apple, Kristin Huguet, who said: "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our goals and our plans." Contacted by AFP Sunday, Apple has not denied.

Apple has made ​​15 acquisitions in the year ended in late September, had said during the presentation of annual results in late October its CEO, Tim Cook. The identity of most of the targets have not been made ​​public.

PrimeSense is an Israeli start-up that produces sensors dedicated to mobile phones, including Apple might want to take advantage in its next iPhones and iPads. Some of these technologies were notably used by Microsoft in early versions of Kinect, the motion sensing instrument console Xbox video games. Microsoft now uses an internally developed solution.

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