Today’s Top News Stories from Around the World

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   UK General Election: In the UK, voters are heading to the polls for a general election. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has secured a significant victory, but what does it all mean? Let’s dive into the details.

2. US Politics: President Joe Biden faces pressure from major donors who are warning they’ll withhold funds unless he steps aside as the Democratic candidate for re-election.

3. Migrant Tragedy: Off the Mauritanian coast, the bodies of 89 migrants have been retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean. Nine people, including a young girl, were rescued, but dozens remain missing.

Samsung sells 10 million of its smartphone Galaxy S4 in less than a month

Samsung Electronics has sold over 10 million units worldwide of its new 'smartphone' Galaxy S4 in a record time of less than a month since its release in late April, the company said. "Since its global launch on 27 April, the terminal has been sold at a rate of about four units per second ", illustrated the company in a statement. Thus, the Galaxy S4 has reached the mark of 10 million units faster than its predecessors, the Galaxy S3 since it took just under two months, while the Galaxy S2 took five months and the first model in the series , Galaxy S, up to seven months. The Korean electronics giant said in its statement that, for now, the Galaxy S4 is available in more than 110 countries and in late June plans to expand the offering to a total of 155 countries through 327 operators. Samsung Electronics aims to break with the Galaxy S4 40 million brand of handsets sold worldwide achieved by its predecessor, the Galaxy S3, while many analysts predict that the new model is likely to exceed the 20 million mark in June. Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of smartphones,achieved in the first quarter of this year increased its net profit by 41.5%, mainly due to growth in sales of mobile devices.

In 2020, Samsung will list your network 5G

The South Korean giant Samsung Electronics announced that advances in the development of future wireless networking technology fifth generation (5G), so expect to offer this high-speed service from 2020. This new wireless technology (wireless) for mobile devices enable users to achieve speeds internet  that will enable download, for example, "a full movie in less than a second", detailed the company said in a statement picked up by the agency Yonhap . With the new service 5G, Samsung hopes to mobile speeds of tens of gigabits per second, well above the speed of 75 megabits per second achieved by the last service of fourth generation 4G -LTE (Long Term Evolution). Samsung, a global manufacturer of memory chips and smartphones, managed tosuccessfully test the new service 5G after using a frequency bandwidth of 28 GHz for transmitting data at speeds of 1 gigabit per second , something no one had announced earlier. After testing up to 64 antenna elements, the technology giant that the device was able To exchange signals in real time under its new 5G platform , a breakthrough that estimates serve to launch this new service from 2020.

Miss Screens

The two new phones Galaxy range - Galaxy Mega - Samsung have 5.8 and 6.3 inch screen. I've seen all kinds of reactions on Twitter to the announcement. Not even a year ago we made ​​jokes about seven inches tablets used as a phone, but now there are so common there are still some brands that add phone function 3G data not only its smaller tablets. Today is almost a reality. But at this point in the film there are no grounds for surprise. We crossed the Rubicon with 4.7 inch screen. Once over that size the boundaries between the world of tablets and phones began to blur. It was inevitable that these phones apareciesen sooner or later. ZTE and Huawei also were already looking at this space. For manufacturers the idea of making a larger phone is very hard to resist because not a great effort of R & D, design and cost of materials (it is just find a screen and a larger battery for the "guts "you used already in another phone) but ensure the public's attention and, more interestingly, are very well in the photo when you compare with the competition. Big horse, walk or not walk. Derek Kessler summed up in one tweet the amazing catalog that now has Samsung, and a Pit : 2.8, 3.14, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.65, 3.7, 3.97, 4, 4.2, 4.27, 4.3, 4.5, 4.52, 4.65, 4.8, 5, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 6.3, 7, 7.7, 8, 10, 10.1

A list lacks any candidate, of course (there is a new phone with 4.7 inch) but basically whatever. 's world mobility is now a continuous space and for me has been divided into three groups highly subjective :

1. Phones that you can use with one hand.

Two. Phones you have to use two hands

Three. Tablets, which generally do not use as phones and not in your pocket.

Each draw borders wherever according to the size and length of their limbs. All three products have their advantages and disadvantages. It's nice to navigate on a phone like the HTC One or Galaxy S4, with five-or nearly-inch screen but instead are forced to use both hands to use any application, one to hold the phone, the other so you can press if you intend to get to the corners. Some people find attractive Mega size if used in combination with a Bluetooth headset but for me this type of use is the product of another era. I stopped talking on the phone so a handsfree makes as much sense as a rolodex on the desk. The only thing I ask of the phone is that I fit in your pocket and you can remove it when sitting, without injuring some muscles.

Mozilla and Samsung create a new browser

Mozilla said Thursday in a statement that he began collaborating with the South Korean company Samsung in creating Servo, a new generation browser began as a research project in 2012. This new browser is still far from being available to be sold, it is written in Rust , also a programming language developed by Mozilla. Thus, both companies intend to carry Servo Rust and Android and architecture ARM designed processors for creating and especially useful for developing a tablet. Samsung is interested in the project because the company " is investigating several new technologies to innovate in products that are part of the legacy , "a spokesman at specialized portal TechCrunch. "This collaboration will bring an opportunity to open a new era in web experience in the future," he added. Brendan Eich , cofounder and CTO of Mozilla, argues that Servo is an attempt to reshape the web browser with modern hardware, rectifying " weak points in security "and proposing an experience" new and richer "on the web.

Apple boosts its iPhone following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4

Following  the presentation of the new flagship phone the South Korean company on Thursday, the company co-founded by Steve Jobs opened a new section on its website called "Why iPhone" dedicated to highlighting the benefits of smartphone of Cupertino. The cover of the new microsite page Apple is blunt: "Is the iPhone. And then there is everything else." The sentence is clear: after the departure of which is emerging as the strongest competitor, the Samsung Galaxy S4 , who appears as a tough opponent against the iPhone, Apple is ready to remind the world why your smartphone is different and better the rest. The site "Why iPhone" , which is added to the section on the web for iPhone Apple , highlights the different characteristics of the apple smartphone: from the battery, to the Retina display, LTE connectivity via , the voice assistant Siri and A6 chip among many others. The new site is located in front of the different sections on the iPhone. So, Apple seeks to return to his iPhone to spotlight following the presentation of the new flagship phone archrival Samsung , the Galaxy S IV . Equipped with 5-inch screen, quad or eight cores and 2 GB of RAM, the successor of the successful S III will come with Android 4.2.2, front and rear cameras of 13 megapixels and 2 respectively, and choice of 16, 32 or 64 GB of storage. In addition, the South Korean smartphone brought several innovative features like Dual Video (which allows video shooting with both cameras at the same time), Smart Pause (video stops detecting the user's gaze) and S Translator, a translator that supports nine languages, while voice and text.

The launch of the Galaxy S4 generated a lot of buzz in the audience, through differentimages and videos of the phone that were percolating in the days before the event that was held in New York. The interest was soon aroused compared among fans of Applebefore each launch of its smartphone. Thus, the S4 is shaping up as a huge competitor to the iPhone 5 and to his successor, that Apple would launch this year. The new smartphone from Samsung , which emphasized the inclusion of many new features, will be Cupertino experts strive to keep your phone as one of the most desired. According to Strategy Analytics, in 2012 the South Korean company sold 213 million smartphones worldwide while the California company shipped 135.8 million. In the U.S., the iPhone is still the market leader and in the last quarter of 2012 for the first time became the largest selling mobile phones in U.S. territory. Analysts estimate that 2013 will also go for Samsung, which will stretch the lead overApple worldwide and reach 33% market share, while the company co-founded by Steve Jobs would keep 21 percent.

Keys to a new Samsung Galaxy

The new Samsung phone will become a year in all probability, in the best-selling Android model and popular market. Not without reason, is a major terminal. After the event yesterday I try to approach some of the functions and there is little to criticize and much to praise. As in 2012 I think Samsung has opted for a phone centered services and functions in software rather than hardware. Not to say that the hardware is bad.Quite the contrary. But the main argument to sell Samsung Galaxy S4 will not "look how powerful it is," but "look what I can do with it."

Some notes

1. Samsung has a powerful phone but this year the competition is not only Cupertino. Sony and HTC have created high-end devices with excellent design and high performance. Google seems determined to be the low and mid range with Nexus so the shelter of other manufacturers are now in the high range.

2. Samsung returns to polycarbonate (plastic) for the housing of Galaxy S4 but definitely feel better in the hand than the S III. It conveys the feeling of being weak or fragile, but a little more care in the materials they would not have gone bad.

3. Many equate the S4 to what the Apple iPhone 4S was for a review of the second year that a new device . It is likely but not bad. Most people do not change phones every year, but every two or more. For manufacturers this business model, known in the industry as " tick-tock", makes more sense.

4. Speaking of change phones, an interesting detail and that he has not been given much attention is that Samsung has created a migration assistant for PC designed to extract information from other brands of phones (including iPhones) and bring the new Galaxy. Smart.

5. A nod to the market hoping empresrial and there, though small. S4 is the first phone from Samsung equipped with Knox, the security platform to use the same phone both at work and at home (separates both facets of the user).Samsung is ahead of the rest of the conquest by Android in enterprise environments.

6. At no time of the conference there was reference to Android or Google. The Android version of the Galaxy using S4, Jelly Bean, appeared only in the final sheet detailed features. I think it's significant.

7. Too early to get a good idea of the possibilities phone. At Radio City Music Hall many services, such as translation, were impossible to prove. Without them perspective loses the advantage of the terminal. The scroll by moving / tilt and pause videos due to lack of user attention if they worked but I'm not sure it will be widely used.

8. This event was dubbed Unpacked: Episode I, a fact that suggests future releases throughout the year. The rumor is that the end of the year Samsung will launch a high-end smartphone with the same services but using the Tizen operating system (a development own) instead of Android.

9. As with the S III there are two models of S4. One Exynos processor 5 and another with Qualcomm chipset. The first processor has eight cores, but is best defined as a dual quad-core processor, as it uses only the first four or four seconds depending on the power required by the task (one of the sets is low power consumption) .

10. There are several shooting modes. So many, in fact, it can be overwhelming. Still, there are some curious. The "draft" mode, for example, takes five photos and eliminates any moving object in the bottom of the image.Perfect for taking pictures of monuments without people or taking family photo of the traveler sneaking just clueless.

11. Almost a decade ago that the infrared port began to disappear from the mobile but this year has become strong in virtually most high-end devices. The S4 is no exception. Because it can function as universal remote control.

Photos of the new Galaxy S IV

Samsung  continues to build anticipation around which will be the successor to the successful Galaxy S III, released worldwide in May last year. Smartphone is expected to be unveiled at the company's Unpacked event to be held Thursday in New York. The features and technical specifications of  Galaxy S IV  were not conducted by the company, which remained fairly tight on the launch of its new device. However, some of the images that would be the next flagship phone the South Korean company emerged in a Chinese forum for this weekend, it showed how  Galaxy S IV  and confirmed some of the specifications that had been mulling for some months. The phone will come equipped with Android 4.2.1, 1080p display, 2 GB of RAM and a 13 megapixel rear camera . Also, bring the Exynos chip eight cores Octa  Samsung introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January this year. Another salient features that include the Galaxy S IV  would  scroll Eye . Functionality analyze eye movement of the user to determine where scrolling.  Samsung  filed a patent application for this technology to the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States. We will have to wait until Thursday to 19, New York time, (21 hours of Buenos Aires) for Samsung  unveil the mystery surrounding the successor of  S III .

Feroz family fight for control of Samsung

A serious family dispute has been about what the multinational Samsung and the Korean War, and the constant nuclear threats from neighboring North Korea, and the global economic crisis, or the patent lawsuit that Apple introduced: destabilizing. The economic empire that generates 20% of the wealth of the world economy and the fifteenth is the largest seller of phones in the planet, attends a media legal fight between brothers who want to keep control of the company. The conglomerate is a powerful local family that has presence in different economic sectors. The founder of Samsung,  Lee Byung-chul , in 1987, left a will that  divided his property among his three daughters and five sons , delegating the management of the company's current president and favorite clan, Lee Kun Hee. Although the wishes of the deceased were held for years despite internal squabbles, in 2012 two of the heirs, Lee Maeng-hee, 80, and her sister Hee Sook Lee, 76, opened the court fight : sued his brother and demanded million shares of Samsung Life Insurance, the company through which it exercises control over the entire conglomerate. The domestic disturbance call 'Republic of Samsung' began when the South Korean heir emporium, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 for evading $ 45 million in taxes. Thanks to a company lawyer, you knew then that Hee used large amounts of money in bribes to politicians, journalists and prosecutors. However, in a controversial decision, the employer of 71 years was f inally pardoned by the government to consider its work in the country has been "in favor of economic and sporting interests" of South Korea. The act of "understanding", quite common in China with business leaders, gave him control of the company in 2010. Lee Maeng-hee , said he was forced to break family harmony and go to court to halt the boundless greed of his brother, because this hid a part of the heritage in the distribution of goods "to avoid to distribute it. " "Kun-hee has aggravated the differences between siblings to always worry for their own benefit," he said in his complaint that was dismissed by a judge in early February, arguing that within 10 years to claim an inheritance had expired. "I will not give a penny. Everything was arranged in due course," replied Lee Kun Hee, who accused his brother of disloyalty to his late father by not honoring their wishes .Said her sister betrayed the damilia at marriage on one of the strong men of the clan who runs Keumsung LG, the other major multinational electronics and the country's main competitor Samsung. The brothers have appealed and plan to continue the battle for the largest electronics manufacturer in the world that has more than 80 divisions making everything from washing machines to artillery.

Apple is again the most admired company in the world

Apple repeated this year as the most admired company in the worlddespite the difficulties faced in the stock market lately, followed by technology also Google and Amazon, according to a ranking published by the magazine Fortune. The creator of the iPhone was hung for sixth consecutive year the gold medal in the coveted list of most admired companies raise worldwide, although in the last twelve months its shares have fallen 17% in the market Nasdaq. "Apple has faced some difficult times lately by the collapse of its share price and the failure of his much talked mapping application, "said the publication, which however recalled that the firm directs Tim Cook scored a net profit of 13,000 million (10,000 million euros) last quarter. This represents the company was the most profitable in the world during that period, and it still has a "fanatical customer base" and the two smartphones sold in the world in the last quarter of 2012: iPhone 5 and its predecessor, the 4S. Thanks to that, the signing again to the top of the list of the 50 most admired companies world, in which there is another second Silicon Valley giant, the Google search engine, which also is the company's most coveted by workers. Fortune remember is expected to Android from Google this year than Apple's iOS as the operating system Mobile leader in the U.S. and Canada, while still flowing signature billion from ads displayed in your browser as both the portal YouTube and DoubleClick. 's third place in the ranking is the online store Amazon, a giant is "few competitors in sight" because of its "low prices, efficient customer service and fast growing geographical", according to the magazine. Le follows Coca-Cola, although "soft drinks may be the number one enemy of the battle against obesity " , added the middle, recalling that the company posted double-digit increases in sales in countries like India and Thailand in 2012's top ten ranking ofthe complete coffee chain Starbucks The computer group IBM, the airline Southwest, the investment group of billionaire Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, the entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney and the courier company FedEx.. Among the 50 Most Admired Companies in the business world only eight of them Americans are: BMW (Germany, at number 14), Toyota (Japan, 29), Singapore Airlines (Singapore, 31), Nestlé (Switzerland, 32), Volkswagen (Germany, 33), Samsung Electronics (South Korea, 35), Unilever (UK-Netherlands, 39) and Accenture (Ireland, 44).

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet

Samsung Electronics announced Sunday in Barcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will screen eight inches (20.32 centimeters), so that very close in size to the tablet from Apple  that went on sale in November with a 7, 9 inches (20.07 centimeters). Not the first time that  Samsung  makes a tablet that is in the range of size Mini, as the first product launched to compete with the iPad had a 7 inch (17.78 centimeters), and still makes a version of that size, but without the stylus. Samsung  will start selling the new tablet from April to June , at a price not yet determined. The company made ​​the announcement days before the Mobile World Congress , an exhibition of the wireless communication industry, which starts Monday in Barcelona, Spain. The Note 8.0 fills a gap in the line of Samsung models  equipped with pen, between the Galaxy Note II multipurpose phone, with a display of 5.5 inches (13.97 centimeters), and 10.1 Galaxy Note, a tablet of large dimensions.  Samsung has made ​​this pen one of the tools with which attacks the dominance of Apple in both tablet and smart phones, since the signing of the apple makes no such device with special pen for touch screen. In the line of Samsung Note, pencils can be used to write, highlight and draw. The screens are also sensitive to the mice, which provides the equivalent of a cursor on the computer .

Samsung bets on the return of the pencil

A few years ago the PDA had come to market with an innovation that differed from electronic organizers: incorporating a pen to enter data. PDAs shortly lived splendor, because cell phones started integrating benefits agenda, calendar reminders, scorers.The PDA stylus accompanying the force lost. With the advent of tablets like the iPad, touch screens and QWERTY keyboards  integrated, few imagined that the pencil or pointer return. Samsung joined the S Pen in its Galaxy Note, a tablet is an innovative large smartphone or a small tablet . Samsung announced that it will invest nearly $ 59 million to expand its stake in the company Wacom, maker of these pointers that have returned to the market. The investment is interpreted as a greater bet , as the company that came to fight him leadership to  iPhone your model Galaxy SIII is preparing its new phone , and many people believe it will come with a pointer . Users are satisfied with the use of pencil and think "back to basics" of writing in a digital scorer's what coming.

The first official image of the new BlackBerry

RIM announced that January 30 will release BlackBerry 10 smartphones and two models to compete more directly with companies such as Samsung and Apple , leaders in the segment. Since then not stop announcements and leaks of images, some propitiated from the same company. So I could be the CEO for an event with a new BlackBerry in your hands and most recent one touch photo of the same model, known for now as L. One of the images that appear there is the reverse appears to be the model L. The teaser does not show many features in detail, but the dotted texture is new.

Hub, in detail

Revelations about BlackBerry 10 also led to the publication of a video where you can see how it will work Hub , the center where messages are integrated BBM , emails, phone calls and social networking. Its operation is very reminiscent notification center employee in the tablet PlayBook but clearly has a better interface. "It was designed so that users have control over their hyperconnected talks," said RIM . Yesterday the company announced that BBM and allows free voice conversations via Wi-Fi.

Samsung is preparing a surprise announcement in January

The South Korean company announced its participation in the most important technology fair in the U.S., CES 2013, and confirmed that it will make a great release for the event, between 8 and 11 January. It appears that present the Samsung Galaxy S4 . For now, this is just a rumor, but the news will not wait. The same company has already circulated a video to raise more expectations. Various rumors say that the new Samsung phone would display Super AMOLED 4.99 inch 1080p HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), Exynos 5450 processor quad-core 2 GHz 8-core and GPU. Memory, as distinct portals risk, will have 2 GB of RAM and up to 64 GB of internal memory. The camera may be 13 megapixels. The operating system Android 4.2 Jelly Bean would or Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie , to be launched in 2013. Other versions say that the device will arrive until February. The previous smartphone, the Galaxy S III , was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, held in March this year in Barcelona. It went on sale in May and became a success, with more than 20 million phones sold in three months. Samsung has emerged as the favorite brand of mobile phones, leaving behind his main competitor Apple and its iPhone.

Samsung and Apple fight over who sells more

Samsumg said it sold more than 30 million units  of its smartphone  Galaxy S III worldwide since it was released on May 29. "Reaching this milestone of sales in just five months marks another record for the company. The Samsung Galaxy S3 remains the heavy favorite in the world " , explained the  President  of the firm  JK  Shin. The smartphone, which weighs 133 grams, is equipped with a screen , high-resolution4.8 " , has two cameras, an 8 megapixel rear and a 1.9 megapixel front. features  Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. New mobile figures exceed those of the previous model, the  Galaxy  S2. In  2011 sold about  10 million units  in the same period of time. The company, with about 206,000 employees achieved between July and September this year a net profit of more than U.S. $ 6,000 million , record company and 91% more than the same period of 2011. In the last period from July to September, Samsung sold 56.3 million smartphones compared to 26.9 million for Apple, according to research firm IDC. Meanwhile, Apple announced that during this weekend sold three million of iPad miniand fourth-generation iPad. The company claims that this is a new record, as the previous model managed 1.5 million sales in its first three days on sale. The 7.9-inch iPad mini marks the first foray of the firm in the segment of smaller tablets . It is the first major device released by the company since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs last year.  Apple and  Samsung,  as well as being encountered in the aisles, also carry a legal war by mutual accusations of patent violation in a dozen countries. Recently, a U.S. court ruled in favor of the signing of the block and forced the South Korean to pay U.S. $ 1,051 million.