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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Apple and Samsung l 'Smart watches' and recognizing footprints phones

The battle between Apple and Samsung has come almost to a level typical of football teams. It's like the fight between Apple and IBM itself in the eighties or, more recently, supporters of the Mac and PC. Or as the classic between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Now, with sales of 'smartphones' slowing in the U.S., where 61% of mobile phone users already have a device of this type, the question is what will they do Apple and Samsung? The answer, according to U.S. media is all. The two companies are working on a 'smart watch' which, presumably, would also receive messages and email and have a pretty amazing area (for example, it is speculated that this could be flexible). According to Financial Times, Samsung will present its 'smartwatch' early next month at the IFA technology trade fair, held in Berlin from 6 to 11 September. The British newspaper also reported that Apple is far behind in the project, and you can not start making the call 'iWatch' , at the earliest, until late 2014.

Something new

The issue is that so far other 'smart watches', launched by giants like Sony and Microsoft, have crashed on the market, and that Samsung has played very well at the time to imitate Apple, using the Android operating system from Google . So watch the future of the computer is still in the air. Apple needs to get something new because, from the iPhone 5 launched almost a year ago, has not presented any new product. The current president and CEO, Tim Cook, has excelled in improving the supply chain and the company, and satisfy shareholders, two areas in which his predecessor, Steve Jobs, was not one. But the innovative character of Jobs, who was the hallmark of the company, Apple seems to have disappeared. Until yesterday 'The Wall Street Journal reported that the components Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai (Foxconn), which is the largest supplier of the giants of consumer technology (only one of its factories in China employs more than 250,000 employees ) two months ago received an order for Apple to produce two new models of 'smart phones' .
One of them is a phone with a screen resolution and the dimensions of the iPhone 5. Among the features of this device might be the facial and fingerprint recognition, ie, face recognition and fingerprint of its owner, which would not require a password. Similar systems have already been implemented in computers and other electronic systems but, to date, their practical results have been mediocre.
The other iPhone would have the plastic housing, and would be aimed at developing countries where Apple prices make their products uncompetitive. The strategy of taking a cheaper version of its devices and was applied by the company, with moderate success in 2012, when it launched the iPad mini.

Restaurant paid fine of $ 11,000 coin

Wu Qian and his wife spent a very bad night when they went to eat at a restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan ProvinceBy finding that the establishment did not meet minimum health requirements, decided to complain to the staff. Never imagined that, in response, instead of indulging every diner expected-because "the customer is always right" - would receive a beatingThe next day filed a lawsuit against the restaurant. With so much so that, months later, a court ordered the trade pay more than $ 11,000 in compensation for the attacks. But the smile of satisfaction generated by the news faded from their faces when they entered the property to receive their fair share. With the desire for revenge, the owners decided to pay the full amount ordered by the Court in currenciesSome 100 000 in total , whose weight amounted to 400 kilogramsThe enormous difficulty moving the coins, Qian was added to the grueling task of finding a bank to accept change for tickets these $ 11,000. After an intensive search, only one was willing to take on the task for which recruited a special team of 18 people to count the coins.

India launches a food security project for the poor

The Indian government has launched in several parts of the country the food security program to provide subsidized food to 64% of the population, which is about 782 million people, local media reported. The ambitious project, approved by decree in early July by the Indian government, has a cost of 22,000 million (over 16.3 million) and was devised by the president of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi. The Congress leader ja launched the food from New Delhi to commemorate the birthday of her late husband, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - because it was, he said, "one of his dreams" and could not fulfill to be killed. The food safety law guarantees 75% of rural households and 50% of urban households the right to acquire seven kilos of grain per month at subsidized prices. According to the last official census in 2011, 833 million people live in rural areas and 377 million Asian giant in urban areas, so the plan would benefit about 64% of the population , some 782 million people. The law, however, still must be approved by both houses of Parliament, but the Government is "optimistic" and expected to come into force before the 2014 general election, which could bring support in the polls of the lower classes. But the government did not have it easy, as numerous opposition political formations, including major government allies as the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP, its acronym in English), have claimed more than 260 amendments to the law to back it up. "We support the bill because it is made ​​for the poor , but we want to make some changes, "said an MP from BSP, Indian agency reported IANS. The formation of the main opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party conservative is not opposed in principle to the law, but asked to be debated in Parliament. Despite the rapid growth in India in the last two decades, 80% of its 1,210 million population lives on less than two dollars (one and a half euros) a day and 22% of them less than 50 cents, amount , according to the Indian government, marks the threshold of poverty.

Musharraf l Accused of conspiracy to murder of Benazir Bhutto

The dictator Pervez Musharraf has been charged with conspiracy and collaboration in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007"It must be judged", said the prosecutor Mohamed Azhar after a brief hearing in a court of Rawalpindi in which the charges were read. The case against the military took power in a coup in 1999, after which he became the most powerful man in Pakistan is unprecedented in a country with nuclear weapons and ruled by the military lamayor of its 66 years history. The case has also broken an unwritten rule that military leaders are untouchable. Meanwhile, the country is trying to shake off the legacy of decades of military rule under the new government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Musharraf, who made ​​public statements in his testimony, denied all charges against him. The journalists could not enter the courtroom for the hearing, which lasted nearly 20 minutes. Next hearing was set for August 27. Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack after an election rally, weeks after her return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile.