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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Data belie clashes between Apple and Samsung


The dependence of Apple Samsung chips show the deep ties between the companies. The trial copy patented by the South Korean firm follows.

Bloomberg

Beyond the decision of the jury at the end of the trial against Apple Inc. Samsung Electronics Co., Apple's deep ties with Samsung are becoming increasingly visible as companies face justice. At a time when the trial enters second week, Apple is producing evidence intended to prove that the South Korean company copied patented technology for smart phones and tablet computers. "There are a number of Samsung handsets and Samsung two tablets which are essentially the same as those described in patents Apple, "he said yesterday before a federal court jury in San Jose, California, Peter Bressler, inventor of 70 patents for design and utility. Bressler, who teaches product design at the University of Pennsylvania, was the last expert who stated by Apple, paving the way for allegations of patent violation. The company, based in Cupertino, California, asks 2.500 million in damages.

Intellectual property trade link contrasted with
The charges related to intellectual property contrast with the lucrative trade ties linking the two companies. The dependence of Apple Samsung chips for their phones and tablets best sellers this year equivalent to 7.500 million to Samsung, a rise of 60% over 2011, Gartner estimates that Apple Inc. Since it would be difficult to find a supplier alternative to the main processor of your mobile devices, the computer maker can not stop buying its competitor in the short term, whatever the outcome of the trial. 'ugly divorce' "Given that these companies are going head to head, there is a crossover that would generate if it were to occur, a really nasty divorce," said Len Jelinek, an analyst at market research firm IHS Inc. "Apple can not under any circumstances being trapped in a situation of shrinking capacity. "

Apple requires key chips every 3 months

Apple spending helped equip Samsung with sufficient resources to drive cellular business rising at present is a global leader. At a time when there are few manufacturers capable of producing formally million key chips that Apple needs every quarter, switch to an untested partner probably brings back parts shortages that could help Samsung to grab an even larger market. Samsung, meanwhile, would risk losing its largest customer business if Apple should go elsewhere.

When did the legal battle between Apple and Samsung?

On 30 July, the companies have entered a jury trial in federal court in San Jose to adjudicate complaints of Apple under which Samsung copied the designs of its iPhone and iPhone and Samsung's counterclaims be a victim of patent violation by Apple. Companies also have sued each other in the UK, Australia and South Korea, among others, in an attempt to dominate a market for mobile telephony Industries Bloomberg estimated 320.400 million dollars last year.Apple represents 8.8% of Samsung's revenue, being the largest customer of the company, according to an analysis of supply chain Bloomberg. The following is Hewlett-Packard Co., which supplies 3.2%. The interdependence of Samsung and Apple iPhone back to the beginning . Before his debut in 2007, found that Apple needed a better processor adapted to the device. Apple turned to Samsung, then reinforcing a division that makes the so-called logic chips, which handle other functions of the devices.

Mexicans are preparing for arrival of Hurricane Ernesto 'tonight


The hurricane "Ernesto" prepares to land tonight in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, and preparations for protecting people and property should be ready as soon as possible, forecasters warned U.S. "Ernesto", the second hurricane of the season of cyclones in the Atlantic, maintaining sustained winds of 130 kph and is forecast to your eye will cross the east coast of Yucatan during tonight and then emerge in the Bay of Campeche, in Mexico. "Additional strengthening is forecast before it reaches the Yucatan peninsula and weaken as it moves over land," said National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the U.S., in its bulletin at 21.00 GMT. The NHC, based in Miami, said that "Ernesto" is a category 1 hurricane, the minimum intensity scale Saffir-Simson of a maximum of 5. The cyclone has increased its speed to the west-northwest at 24 mph and is accompanied by torrential rains that can cause dangerous flash floods and landslides. Forecasters warned that weather conditions begin to deteriorate on the east coast of Yucatan and in some areas of the Gulf of Mexico. So far the hurricane season in the Atlantic basin have formed six tropical storms and two hurricanes, "Chris" and "Ernesto".

The Sinai attack causes the closing of the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt

The tunnels linking Gaza with Egypt and are a crucial source of supply for the band, have been sealed after the attack on Sunday night in the Sinai from Egypt. A suspected jihadist group killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border of the Gaza Strip, stole cars and then one of them got into Israel, where he was struck by Israeli aircraft. Egypt has promised to bring law and order to the chaotic Sinai. On Wednesday, he began to clog the network of underground passages by entering all kinds of goods-from people and cars to noodle through cement, said an Egyptian official source told Reuters. Israel accuses the Islamist movement Hamas, as head of government of Gaza, using tunnels to smuggle arms Gaza. Furthermore, the authorities have decided to close the strip also indefinitely tunnels, as explained, for safety reasons. The idea is that if any member of the armed group that had participated in the attack intention to enter or leave Gaza could not. In closing, the Hamas Islamist government also sends the message to Israel that the people of Gaza has nothing to do with what happened on Sunday night, despite accusations by the Egyptian Army. The Egyptian military indicated that the attackers had the complicity of an armed group in Gaza, they explained, mortars fired from Gaza at the time of the attack.Hamas denies any involvement and accused Palestinian but Israel of being behind the attack. Holds the Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh that "the method used in the attack confirms any Israeli involvement in order to achieve its security objectives and to create tension on the border with Egypt and destroy the joint efforts to end the blockade of Gaza. " The strip , a narrow piece of land and hiperpoblado Palestinian is under Israeli embargo for more than five years. The blockade prevents exceptions, the free flow of over a million and half people and goods.Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, collaborated with the Israelis in maintaining the embargo. But after the fall of dictator last year, the Rafah crossing linking Gaza with Egypt, opened to traffic in persons with certain permits, under certain conditions. The triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian president last June , filled of the Hamas government hopes that its ideological partners would open wide the gates of Gaza. The attack in Sinai has blown up any aspirations of normality at the border.

Fighting in Syria: The tanks in Aleppo begins the final battle

After having amassed more than twenty thousand soldiers, and caused it to rain in the last two weeks tons of bombs on neighborhoods in the hands of the insurgents, in the morning the army of the regime has unleashed his counteroffensive to regain Aleppo, Syria's second city and economic capital of the country. The final battle, as they called themselves general of Damascus, began about ten o'clock, with the entry of armored loyalists in the strategic area of central Salaheddin, real stronghold in the Syrian Army hands free, through which passes from day the front line."The regime forces have advanced along the road Malab with tanks and armored vehicles protected by helicopter gunships," he admitted Wassel Ayoub, a local commander of the armed opposition. "In the area are now being furious fighting, with tanks that shoot blindly against every house, indiscriminately targeting civilians and combatants. " According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization based in exile in Britain, the clashes taking place today in the heart of Aleppo are the most intense ever fought in nearly seventeen months of the uprising. The counter-offensive of the scheme is in fact begun to 'dawn today, when forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad started shelling heavily Aleppo, with artillery shells and rocket dropped from fighters of different neighborhoods of the city. One of these has reached a house, causing them to collapse and killing a woman and her two children trapped inside. At noon, the Syrian state television said that several "terrorists" were killed in the district of Salaheddin, recaptured by pro-government soldiers. triumphantly Announcing the fall of the stronghold of the insurgents, the media have added that Damascus loyalist forces would then spread even in adjacent neighborhoods, which would be eliminated most of the "jihadists" who lurked. Around 13 is reached, however, denied the insurgents. "Not true at all," said Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi free Syrian Army."The forces of the regime have not yet taken full control of the district even if they have unleashed an attack on Salaheddin barbaric and savage." In this propaganda war, where only little is known even less reliable and verifiable ones, there comes another equally sensational, namely that the insurgents have shot down a MiG on the sky of Aleppo. The only thing we were able to document with certainty is the huge number of civilians who fled to Turkey, mostly women, elderly and children terrified by the bombs and the intense fighting in the region of Aleppo. Only this night are approximately 2,400 Syrian citizens who have boundless. In the group were also two general and two colonels of the regular army deserters.Over the past two days have seen an increase in refugees who chose to flee to Turkey, because the army bombardments have hit the system in the last hours even villages near the border. Yesterday refugees were 1,328, about twice than two days ago. It is now 50 thousand Syrian citizens who have found refuge in Turkey. Also this morning, meanwhile, after a series of stubborn denials, Iranian authorities have had to recognize that there are also some soldiers and members of the Revolutionary Guards, the so-called cheerleaders, among the more than forty fellow citizens taken captive by insurgents Aug. 4 in Damascus " But this would be items now at rest, retired without connections with the military in Tehran, who went to Syria only for reasons of religious pilgrimage. "

Hillary Clinton sweeps (again) on the dance floor


Not everything is politics pure and simple for Hillary Clinton. Secretary of State of the Obama administration has shown that it can have fun, even if it's a work trip. Clinton has worn their best dance moves at a dinner organized by the South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in Johannesburg, South Africa, where in the middle of a tour of the African continent 11 days, to promote the U.S. as alternative to China's influence in the region. In April this year, Secretary of State was also seen in Colombia , where he was attending the Summit of the Americas, drinking beer and dancing at a local club. The American tabloid New York Post , claimed that the case of beer, Clinton is a girl more. "She declined the cup and drank from the bottle," wrote the newspaper. The White House chores are less intense than aparentan.En Correspondents Dinner White House in April, President Obama joked about the "much has changed" during his tenure. "Four years ago, I was locked in a battle with Hillary Clinton. Four years later, she will not stop sending me messages from Cartagena drunk."

Nigeria: Four killed in attack on mosque


Attack on Tuesday evening - On Monday, a church had been attacked. Abuja - Following an attack on a church in Nigeria on Monday night it came on Tuesday evening for another attack. "There was a new attack on a mosque in Okene," said Muhammed Katsina, Kogi State Commissioner of Police to the news agency Reuters. This, according to the newspaper "The Nation" (online edition), four people were killed, as Kathpress announced. Katsina, meanwhile, reported a total of three dead, including two soldiers. According to "The Nation" drove at the time of afternoon prayer on Tuesday in front of attackers dressed in white robes with a pick-up before the central mosque Okene and opened fire. The governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, media reportedly imposed a nighttime curfew. The presence of security forces on the streets has increased. Was on Monday during the evening prayers were in a similar attack on the "Deeper Life Church" killed in the central city of Okene 19 people. Behind the terrorist act, the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram ("Western education is sin") is suspected.The "Nigerian Taliban", as the group itself, have in recent months repeatedly attacked churches, mosques, police stations and international institutions. They demand the establishment of an Islamic state.