Instagram bought by Facebook, Apple defends the price of their ebooks

Although not directly related to the IOS world, the news last week was undoubtedly the purchase of Instagram by Facebook , hopefully the operation will improve the popular social network photos. For if you do not it very funny that your photos into the hands of Facebook, I taught them how to export the photos to your hard drive Instagram . Also we showed a curious attachment to convert (at least apparently) your iPhone into a MacBook Air , and how Apple incorporated a useful section to talk in real time via chat with a specialist from the website of IPAD.

We watched as Adobe Reader updated to IOS , which now has support for firms and interaction, and we were surprised with the news that Apple and five major U.S. publishers were sued for the price of your ebook (what Apple defended ). Also we showed Streamd.in a curious way to see the tweets geoposicionados, and we discovered as the new iTunes 11 will feature tighter integration with icloud and support for the upcoming iPhone OS 6.

The relaunch of Currents (the “Fliboard” of Google) finally went worldwide, and we told how Apple might expand the iPhone’s screen to 4 “without making a larger device . We saw how to make a iPhone in the works of new generation of Foxconn, and found some design guidelines for the new iPad very interesting. We read in a week, enjoy it!

Data Traveler Elite 3.0 is to put in your pocket

Kingston has given a new member to its range of memory USB Data Traveler. The Elite 3.0 is based on the standard USB 3.0 and comes to market with capacities of 16, 32 and 64 GB .

The DataTraveler Elite 3.0 has a capless design with the connector and USB retractable. Its thickness is 11 mm. When connecting this port memory USB 3.0 also, the maximum speeds that are available are 70 MB / s read and 30 MB / s writing. If the port is only USB 2.0 data will have to settle for less.

The price of these new memories USB 3.0 is 19, 45 and 87 euros respectively.

Incidence path of the virus known Stuxnet

As a recent report, it can be seen to the Stuxnet virus that in 2010 the Iranian uranium enrichment plant at Natanz paralyzed , have been infiltrated by an Israeli double agent using a prepared USB stick.

Publish the medium refers to information in these sources you want to know respected because of their proximity to the investigation that their anonymity. According to their data have an agent working in the plant Natanz’schen Iranians, who was probably a member of a dissident group that spreads the virus manually in the system. The fact that the active service of a person served on site, have the background that we wanted to maximize the probability of infection of the local machine complex. This was decided in this way higher than if you had chosen a passive way. If this would be the software “by itself”, ie without the intervention of an initiated person spread, need.

Also, according to sources said several other Iranians had helped to identify the weakest points of the system to make it as the attack effectively. This would fit that in October 2010, the Iranian minister of intelligence matters, the arrest of an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” were known. Citing U.S. intelligence sources, the report suggests that these individuals may belong to the targeted dissident group that bears the name “MEK”. It should have been founded in the 1970s, have a checkered history and marked by violence and act for some time as a sort of armed wing of Israel in Iran. You should, says the report, including for attacks on Iranian scientists who had worked in the nuclear sector, to be responsible.

Since Stuxnet was, according to the analysis of various anti-virus specialist highly complex and tailored specifically to the mechanical equipment at Natanz, it seems certain that its development only by information from local people was only possible at all. This makes the above statements in the report seem quite conclusive.

The virus itself is, moreover, experts and observers classified as Israeli-American joint venture , there exist only for those countries for the interests and resources were needed.

Apple iPhone 5: speculation by 4-inch display

The new iPad is available for a while, it is time for the next wave of rumors and speculation about iPhone. So shall the Apple phone imminent, the biggest change, namely it should get a 4-inch screen.

This page reports the ‘ Business Insider ‘, referring to the analyst Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets. White was traveling in China and Taiwan and has visited here several technology suppliers. It wants the analyst learned that Apple will change the first time since the introduction of the iPhone’s screen size. More precisely, the diagonal of the unit will be increased from 3.5 inches to 4 inches, says the report.

Even the design there will be significant adjustments, White talks about a “new, sleek look that requires a unibody chassis.” The production of components to begin in June, as a possible launch date, the analyst mentions August or September.

Speculation about a ‘Widescreen’ iPhone

The speculation about the screen size of the next iPhone has a user of the technology blogs’ The Verge picked up ‘and creates an interesting analysis of such a device. Modilwar writes that the current trend stands to large screens, especially in connection with LTE/4G-Komponenten. So their receiving antennas are larger than the one at UMTS/3G-Geräten, on the other hand need the latest communication technology, more power, so producers must now accommodate larger batteries in the mobile phones.

Windows Mobile: Nokia Lumia is 610 with NFC

Microsoft and Nokia get together with the active mainly in France and the UK network operator Orange, a special variant of the Nokia Lumia 610 on the market, which is also equipped with an NFC radio module.

The Nokia NFC Lumia 610 to the third quarter of 2012 to have his orange and then pay the contactless services on the MasterCard PayPass and Visa payWave support. Nokia’s NFC-610 model of the Lumia in turn equipped with a corresponding software stack and an NFC chip.

In addition to support for non-card payment application enables the NFC also support the rapid pairing of Nokia’s mobile phones with speaker system play 360th Other accessories can be connected in this fashion with the device easier than with the usual PIN-based Bluetooth solutions.

Technically still NFC, the Nokia 610 Lumia otherwise unchanged. In the device with an ARM processor from Qualcomm infected with 800 megahertz with 256 megabytes of RAM and eight gigabytes of flash memory. The operating system comes with the launch of the new Windows Phone “Tango” was used. The new model is the eighth NFC-enabled phone from Nokia, but the first Windows Mobile smartphone, the Finns with official support NFC.

Nokia 103, the most affordable of the Finnish

On the complete opposite of mobile quad-core and multi-touch screens over 4 inches, we have the little Nokia 103, recently presented by the Finnish company as your phone more affordable.

It was initially announced in Nigeria, and most likely see the light in most developing markets, but it seemed interesting to present, if ever appeared in Europe.

The price is certainly the most striking aspect of the phone, no less than 16 euros, before taxes, as affordable as possible to reach the maximum number of buyers in African markets. The Nokia 103 will be on the market in the latter half of the year.

The phone is very simple but also very hard, resistant to dust and scratch-resistant covering, because Nokia has taken into account the environment in which the phone is likely to move.

Entering specifications, we have a 1.36 inch screen, monochrome, not missing a couple of basic features on Nokia phones, like FM radio, 3.5 mm jack plug, or a built-in flashlight. The operating system is using Nokia Series 30.

The battery is 800mAh, which give an autonomy of 27 days standby and eleven hours of conversation. The dimensions, collected with 107.2 × 45.1 × 15.3 mm and 77 grams.

Britons also criticized alleged LTE capability of the iPad 3

After Australia’s consumer protection lawsuit against Apple because of unclear statements on LTE capability in the new iPad submitted, has now also the UK advertising regulatory ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) to speak.

This is now, after several complaints, all aimed at the promotion and the statements made therein, and labels. As in the rest of Europe and Australia, the UK LTE networks are not supported by the third-generation iPad. Here is a maximum of HSPA + in comparison with lower data transfer rates available.

But even there, the mobile-friendly version of the “iPad with Wi-Fi and 4G” is distributed, is a direct indication of the possible operation in LTE networks in the UK does not exist. Apple merely indicates that the fast standard in the U.S. and Canada can be used. There is no response from Apple as yet.

Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the U.S. according to a study

The rise of Pinterest remains meteoric. If the other day I talked about how the visits went up 52% in February, today we echo the annual report published by Experian entitled “2012 Digital Marketer: Benchmark and Trend Report” and which states that Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the United States at the time, only surpassed by Twitter and Facebook.

Merit outperform other contenders such as LinkedIn and Google + in such a short time, but its two main competitors are located well above. Facebook, in particular, makes just over 50% of adults regularly visit the social network. Turning to more general talk about numbers, still according to this same study also found a little surprise: 91% of American adults use at least some kind of social network frequently.

Google Wallet, a lime and sand

The market for mobile payment is one of the sweet tooth that is on the table, and Google Wallet is not giving enough to nudge it into the mouth. In fact the first elbow have it’s own Google: Google co-founder has passed Wallet Square .

But you know: a lime and sand, or in this case backwards. This morning Google announced the purchase of TxVia, a technology company that has managed electronic payments more than 100 million accounts.

Rob von Behren tab by Square: Square and NFC?

It is the first case of brain drain from Google to Square, Rob von Behren however was one of the engineers who founded Google Wallet. We do not know the reason for his decision, but we can guess how I could help out in the young company of Jack Dorsey: his experience with NFC.

Google Wallet works with NFC, Square no. Assuming that the NFC will become a mobile standard in the near future, it is easy to understand that will be more comfortable and safer than swiping a credit card into a reader or made ​​payments sent with an application.

Google has bought TxVia: technology and experience

After a year working with them, Google has bought TxVia. This is a company that develops cutting edge technology since 2008 electronic payment and has managed more than 100 million accounts.

We assume that technology will be integrated into Google TxVia Wallet to improve service and make it more competitive. Google Wallet not only competing against Square, Paypal, Apple, Amazon, banks and finance companies also want their piece of the pie.

Movistar customers lost twice to subsidies

And as expected has happened. Expansion published this past weekend that the CMT data released later, some data of interest and much safer to competition from Movistar. The blue operator has lost twice as many customers in the first month without subsidy from terminals.

The figures can not surprise anyone in this country since the vast majority of operator changes taking place are not to seek a better rate if not the best mobile search and the best price, possibly free, paying Many times customers fees for minutes and never consume megabytes.

In March, the first month without subsidy terminal by the operator, 70,000 customers opted to switch to Movistar, without acquiring a mobile or fund it, but still seems a high figure for a 40% lower than the average monthly 2011. On the negative side 190,000 customers decided to leave the operator, a figure similar to the average of previous months. Yet the net loss of customers in March is around 120,000 customers, which further alienates Movistar of that 40% of market share it lost in January this year.

Be seen as the market continues to evolve in subsequent months as from day 10 Vodafone also joins this “fashion” to stop “giving away” terminals as was done so far, while Telstra will continue its trend of subsidizing each less in favor of payments.

For now Orange is the only one that maintains aggressive policy of attracting customers, so it will probably be the main beneficiary of the turmoil shaking the mobile phone market. What is seen is if the operator continues with its strategy orange when portability is done in a day, starting this summer.

What is not understood in any of the ways is that if you stop “giving away” mobile rates remain unchanged, as operators such as ONO offer 50% discount on their fees flat rates to talk and surf if your client chooses to waive the subsidy. If this scenario is very likely to see soon a large increase clients between virtual operators can open your eyes to network operators.