Archive for February, 2011

Deliveries for the iPad 2, postponed !

Starting delivery for the new version of the iPad, the second model of Apple’s tablet PC, could be delayed to June due to jams in the production process. The delay occurs because of design changes, operated by Apple engineers. According to experts, this delay would create an opportunity for manufacturers to launch such products, but are based on Android 3.0 will hit the market in April and May. Also, a delay of two months could lead to significant reductions in sales volume.
Thus, Estimates indicate that only 24 million units, instead of 30 million by year’s end.

Finally Google changing search algorithms

Google said it has made a major change in the algorithms of search engine.
Thus, sites with poor content, copied or dominated by spam to fall on lower positions, while those with quality content to be privileged above will be displayed in the hierarchy. For starters, only U.S. users will be able to perceive these changes.

“Many of the changes we make in the algorithms are so subtle that few will notice them, but in the final days of the algorithms we launched some changes to be found in 11.8% of searches performed, ” said the American company.

This movement aims at so-called Google “articles farms”, sites that generate articles based on the most popular search terms in the meet, so they manage to be placed in top positions at the results. These articles’ content Farms “are criticized on grounds that are either poorly written or simply illegal copies sources, and Google has been criticized in recent months for not doing more to privilege quality content.

Google has launched an online payments platform for subscribing to newspapers and magazines

Google, the most popular search engine in the world, has launched an online payments platform for newspapers and magazines, which allows users to purchase publications to read them on the phone, or tablet PC, just one day after the launch a similar system by rival Apple
The platform, called Google One Pass is three times cheaper than Apple. Thus, if Apple requires 30% of revenue for mobile content sold on the iPhone and iPad tablet subscriptions through its online store iTunes, Google requires only 10%. Google’s announcement marks the intensifying struggle between the two companies on a growing market, that of mobile devices.
Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad, but phones that work with Android operating system developed by Google, are the most sold devices.
In the last quarter of last year exceeded Android devices that Nokia sales, which works on Symbian platform.

China has surpassed Japan, becoming the second largest economic power in the world

China surpassed Japan in the ranking of the largest economies in the world, advancing to second place after the United States. Overthrow the U.S. is expected somewhere between 2020 and 2030. Climbing the ranks in the top two can be seen as a formalization of China’s economic superpower status, which in the past two years has benefited from global economic crisis that has knelt to the West for influence extends throughout the world.

This is the first time in over 40 years old when Japan lost the status of the second largest economy in the world gross domestic product (GDP) for 2010 was estimated at 5.500 billion dollars, lower value China estimates that by 5800 billion dollars.

China’s economy grew last quarter of 2010 by 11% while that of Japan declined by 1.2% over the same period. The problems facing Japan and led to a growth of only 3.8% in 2010 is a decrease in domestic consumption because Japan’s aging population spends less, while labor is relatively expensive and inflexible.

Economic boom, with GDP growing in recent years with annual rates exceeding 10%, turned the country, making it the largest car market in the world or the biggest energy consumer.

However, given that the country is the main advantage of cheap labor that makes products more competitive on foreign markets than companies from developed countries.

China also managed to change their performance communist state image of a superpower in the poor economic boom based on production, industry expansion and development.

On the other hand, China remains one of the poorest countries in terms of per capita income. According to World Bank estimates, more than 100 million Chinese – roughly equivalent to Japan’s population – live with only two dollars a day, and GDP per capita of China is ten times lower than that of Japan, the ratio being 4,500 dollars to 40,000 dollars.

But the economic boom has led to the rapid enrichment of certain social categories, so that producers of luxury goods, from cars to jewelry, flock to meet increasing demand coming from China.

China has used its foreign exchange reserves huge, 2,850 billion dollars, to gain influence in the world and provided loans on favorable terms to countries rich in natural resources from Africa or Latin America. Moreover, given the euro as a guarantor of stability when he announced he wants to buy bonds of Greece and Portugal, countries which are the “black list” of investors.

Internet Explorer 9 – ready for download

Internet Explorer 9 browser can be downloaded in pre-production version: RC-release candidate. The new version is very fast, much easier to use, has increased functionality with multiple types of applications and offers an advanced service Tracking Protection, surpassing Microsoft’s competitors in many chapters.

IE 9 RC comes with improved JavaScript engine, so a higher browsing speed, acceleration by graphics hardware, a new interface and support HTML 5.

Microsoft released the beta version of IE in September that was downloaded 25 million users. According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer has 60% market share, Firefox has 22% and Chrome is 7%. The difference is much smaller in data state Counter: 46% IE, 31% Firefox and Chrome with 16%.

Mobile World Congress

Between February 14 to 17 takes place in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress, one of the largest exhibitions dedicated to the mobile industry.
According to experts, in addition to product launches, this year’s event will be particularly focused on the ecosystem of software applications for mobile phones. The event will be attended by over 1,300 companies will exhibit their latest products and technology. Organizers expect the event to attend more than 50,000 telecom professionals from 200 countries.

Nokia makes historic partnership with Microsoft

With a dwindling market share, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is working to maintain the first position in sales charts. So last week it has signed a partnership with software giant Microsoft, two companies trying to catch up with Google and Apple in the smartphone market and tablets, said on Monday. For Microsoft, the partnership with Nokia makes a wide adoption of the platform Windows Phone, eclipsed now that Android sales and popularity. Thus, the new Nokia phones will run Windows Phone 7. In the partnership, the two companies will work together both in the field of development, and marketing segment. In addition, Nokia will integrate terminals Bing search service developed by Microsoft, and Nokia Maps will become an integrated part of Microsoft’s mapping service. Store applications and content will be integrated into Nokia’s Microsoft Marketplace.

As for Symbian, the producer announced that it will still find Nokia branded terminals. Nokia Symbian devices still use us to continue encouraging developers to create applications for the platform. With 200 million users worldwide, and while Nokia plans to sell another 150 million Symbian devices.