Archive for December, 2010

Blackberry Tablet bad start: the battery is too weak and must be changed

Canadian company Research In Motion will most likely be forced to rebuild his BlackBerry playbook tablet design to improve performance “weak ” on the battery, said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros. company, according to Bloomberg. Blackberry Tablet, which is scheduled to arrive on shelves next year, has a battery that does not provide a lifetime of more than four hours, according to developers working on applications for the gadget. With a lifetime of two to four hours, BlackBerry playbook has limited performance compared to Apple iPad, which can operate up to 10 hours.

Wu estimates in this context that the Canadian firm will sell 700,000 tablets next year. Other analysts predict sales of one million and eight million BlackBerry playbook.

Blackberry playbook would be launched on the market in the first quarter of next year.

HTC is preparing for an attack on the Tablet PC market

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has registered the trademark “HTC Scribe” sign that is preparing to launch a tablet to compete in the market dominated by Apple.

According to the request made by HTC it is a wireless device – a tablet PC .

HTC is known for many smartphone users conducted primarily for mobile operating system Android, and Windows operating system Phone 7.

Amid doubling sales of Android phones, and increased investor confidence in the company climbed more than 100 titles HTC% this year.

Most likely, Scribe HTC will run the Android operating system 3.0, optimized for tablets, as an alternative to Apple iPad product.

LG aims for 135 billion dollars turnover in 2011

LG Group, which is, among others, world number three mobile phone market worldwide, aims to achieve 2011 revenues of 156 billion won (136 billion dollars), growth would be generated by a strengthening revenue from chemicals and electronics divisions Bloomberg.

LG Divisions conducting electronic screens and mobile phones are aimed at increasing sales by 13% this year. The company plans to sell 40 million next year with flat screen TVs.

Worth Facebook almost 60 billion dollars?

The number of transactions in unlisted shares in private companies on the exchange, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn has seen a dramatic growth in recent months, suggesting investors’ interest in IT start-ups

While companies conducting social sites have shown reluctance to engage in the exchange, they offer shares to employees or investors typically invested in these services.

As a private transaction, part of the employees or investors trying to get out while other investors are trying to join these businesses.

Increasing the number of such transactions in the last month indicate stronger interest of investors, although the market there are fears that such transactions are avoided by the market rules and can not be verified investor expectations.

Transactions are recorded and strong up actions after November Accel Partners investment fund has started to sell 15% ownership interest in the company, in exchange for $ 517,000,000, according to sources cited by the WSJ. The transaction value would be boarded up to $ 35 billion. Later transaction, equity markets up private trading and SecondMarket SharesPost rose by almost 25% to over 56 billion dollars.

Amazon plans to sell 8 million e-Reader Kindle this year

It is estimated that Amazon will sell in 2010, 5 million units Kindle. Last year, for comparison, the company sold 2.4 million pieces, as shown by a person familiar the situation, who wished to remain anonymous because Amazon does not disclose the number of units sold electronic readers.

Kindle on the Amazon site is gaining ground in the market, striving to share with companies like Sony. and Barnes & Noble Inc.

Analysts at Citigroup, Barclays Capital, LP and BGC Partners LLC ThinkEquity estimated initially that Amazon will sell about 5 million readers Kindle this year. Also, Carisa & Co. predicted that it will sell 4.8 million units of electronic readers, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has relied on the sale of 4 – 5 million pieces.

IPad vs Kindle

Sales from Amazon made by the market demonstrates that electronic readers may grow as fast as the iPads. Apple sold 7.46 million tablets of April, when the gadget was launched, and by September.

U.S. sales of e-readers will triple by 2015, the value of 2.8 milarde dollars, according to Forrester Research.

Prediction: In five years the mobile phone calls will take you through holograms

Cell phone calls designed holographic drive top this year. IBM specialists predictions include batteries that load into contact with air, IT programs can inform where and when traffic congestion will occur, generating environmental information through sensors smarphone car or feeding sites and cities with energy obtained the heat output of the data servers.

IBM ideas are not mere speculation. The group is among the few corporations that invest in long-term research projects and relies on innovation for future development, Saffo notes.

IBM has invested $ 5.8 billion on research last year, 6.1% of revenues. Although down from 10% in 90 years, IBM is spending more on IT Research than rivals like Hewlett-Packard, up 2.4%.

In the first set of predictions, 2006, IBM researchers said that the talks will become instant translation habit. So something has not happened yet. While some programs can quickly translate electronic documents, and a number of applications can provide a limited version talks, there is still no universally available.

Deutsche Bank fined for defrauding the U.S. tax

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay 553.6 million dollars (about 423 million euros) in exchange for abandoning American justice proceedings against him for participating in tax fraud between 1996 and 2002.

Survey American justice visa ‘participation in various bank transactions such as tax profit achieved for customers between 1996 and 2002′, reads the communique.

Agreement to end an investigation into the U.S. subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust investment bank, bought by German group in 1999. Bankers Trust had helped its U.S. clients to defraud the IRS.

‘Deutsche Bank is satisfied that the investigation that the transactions that ended more than eight years ago, has now reached the final, “added the communiqué.

German Bank says that provision has already been required to pay the fine, which will affect its financial results for 2010.