Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2016

Samsung pulls all the Galaxy Note devices 7


Samsung announced on Friday a global withdrawal of an unprecedented Galaxy Knut phone 7, after it caught fire in several of them during shipment, a promising new alternative to provide phones for all buyers.
Samsung apologized - the giant technology company - from the clouds during a press conference in Seoul, saying that its investigation found that the cause of the defect is due to a problem with the battery.
Said Koh Dong-jin, head of mobile division at Samsung, said that only 24 million out of a phone from the Galaxy Note 7 smart phones were found in a defect in the battery.
He said Koh at the conference "with effect from 1 September / September scored a total of 35 claims with the Samsung service centers at home and abroad, only 24 of them out of a million affected by the battery problem," according to news agency "Yonhap" South Korean.
He explained that Samsung will replace all the Galaxy Note 7 phones sold "at home and abroad another, regardless of the date of purchase."
He continued, "We put the safety of our customers is our top priority, so we decided to stop sales of the Galaxy Note 7 and replace it."
Samsung began selling the new phone in the August 19 / August in 10 countries around the world.
This is the first time that the company offers to move to withdraw a product of this magnitude.
Koh said "Samsung and conducted a company supplying batteries careful analysis to identify the batteries, which are likely to be defective, it will take about two weeks for it to secure parts and components and the preparation of new products."
"It will replace the old phones as soon as possible, and even before that, customers will be able to check the product and tested in service centers."
The official said that the timing of the switch varies from one country to another, depending on the delivery of certain parts, adding that he will be announced as soon as possible.
"The Samsung offers a sincere apology to all the customers and users of battery malfunction shortly after the launch of a new product."

Apple provides 2 terabytes on iCloud for $ 20 a month


Apple introduced a new storage capacities available on the cloud storage service iCloud affiliate Aaclaud an option, allows users to get a capacity of 2 terabytes for $ 19.99 per month.
And the availability of Google Inc. the same price on the storage service Cloud hers, Google Drive, as users can get a 1TB for $ 9.99 per month, in addition to the stings are much higher than provided by Apple, where they can get Capacities up to 30 terabytes for $ 300.
While Google offers five options, Apple offers four options only, starting at 50 GB for $ 0.99 per month, and 200 GB for $ 2.99, and 1 terabyte for $ 9.99, and finally the option of 2 terabytes new.
It is noteworthy that two of Apple and Google and others offer a free choice, 5 GB at Apple, and 15 GB with Google.
It is believed that this step of the Apple TV, which comes ahead of the announcement of her upcoming iPhone 7, indicating that the phone will come a new option for storage capacity, which is 256 GB.

"Facebook" allow a video call with text chat


Announced "Facebook", on Thursday announced the launch of a new feature that allows users to apply the Instant of them to make a video call while - and in parallel - with any text chat, and in an effort to enhance the benefits provided by application of the "Messenger" that, which exceeded the number of users billion.
The company said in a statement on her blog that the new feature, which called it "an immediate video" Instant Video, "allows you to draw a smile on the faces of the people closest to you."
The "Facebook", which seems to have gained new feature of the application of Instant photographer "snapchat", which lets you make a video call while text chat, that video calls "is still relatively new, and until recently, was the preserve of special occasions such as the celebration Grandma's birthday or father's vision during a business trip. "
It said the company, which owns the largest social network in the world with more than 1.7 billion monthly active users, the Instant Video feature will provide users the ability to "revive the talks, the way most authentic, smooth and immediate."
And hit the "Facebook" is an example of how to use the new feature is that the user wishes to ask the other party for his opinion on the shoes he wants to buy it, or ice cream taste and color preferences, and can not be done only through the video.
As for the mechanism of action of the new Instant Video feature, Viaan on both ends of the conversation to install the latest version of the application Instant "Facebook Messenger" on both "Android" and "EOS", version of the show after that video camera icon at the top.
Clicking on the icon that the user can start a video chat with the other party, which will be the sound has a silent "because you sometimes want to see, not to hear, in the words of Facebook," even picks is the operation thereof.
She explained, "Facebook" that video chat will be floating above the active text chat so that you can continue the conversation in writing.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

YouTube plans to add pictures and polls entries.


Site plans share videos, YouTube, to bring images and text blog and opinion polls for the service, with the aim of preserving its users and encourage them to stay and not to transfer to competitive platforms, through the provision of additional services.
And it operates YouTube, amid strong competition from Facebook and snapchat and Twitter, to develop a feature called internally as the "behind the scenes" the Backstage, which is designed to enable users to share images and blog text and hyperlinks, polls and videos with subscribers.
It is expected that the platform launch of the "behind the scenes" the Backstage feature in the autumn of this year or at the end of this year, and is supposed to feature works on the application of mobile service and the Web version, directed initially specified number of YouTube users, and with limited features.
The feature is somewhat similar to the schedule of network Facebook profile or Twitter, and works in conjunction with the main feature page tabs and videos within the YouTube channels of the individual.
The posts will appear across Backstage published in reverse chronological order, and also will appear in subscriber feeds and alerts, making it a phenomenon largely of followers.
It is expected to enter the feature entirely new kinds of content to YouTube, including text entries similar to entries Facebook or Twitter Tweets and opinion polls on the topics, in addition to the possibility of exchanging video files.
YouTube hopes that this feature encourages the introduction of new types of talks, allowing the participants to respond to posts in several ways, such as photos, videos and other types of Alrodod comments, the company calls on these kinds of responses internally called "rich responses".

IPhone phones will not steal the future .. How?


The Apple logged new patent aims to take advantage of the sensitive fingerprint ID Touch your apparatuses to detect thieves in case someone tried to tamper device user or stolen.
And bearing the new name of the patent IDENTIFICATION USER UNAUTHORIZED FOR CAPTURE BIOMETRIC
Capture of biometrics to identify the user's identity is their authorized, they are clear and direct in terms of the idea, which aims patent to provide a feature that allows devices company stores a copy of the fingerprint of any user is trying to open the phone or stolen, as well as the possibility of taking a picture or video of Mtshehad as well.
As is the case with Apple's own patent, it may not bring such a feature in the near future, but Apple used to record ideas Kpraouat invention so as not to be able to any other company to take advantage of them.
So far there is no any information about the possibility of putting this feature in the upcoming Apple devices, especially like this feature need to take into account many of the cases that may face the user, such as constipation friends and members of his family to his phone, it is not logical to record a large amount of information about the fingerprints of people who hold the device.
It is supposed to help the new patented invention in the case have been utilized in the company's upcoming devices to enhance the user's device security management, in addition to the restoration of his machine and to provide evidence for criminal prosecution in case of theft device.

Saturday, August 13, 2016

How won the "Pokemon Goo" $ 200 million?



Sensor Tower analyzes the company revealed in a recent report published that augmented reality game Pokemon Go Pokémon Go has made more than $ 200 million in net income from the players based on the company's latest estimates.
This comes after the passage of one month to launch into my shop Google Play Google Play Store and Apple's App Store, where the game augmented reality continues an upward track in terms of total revenues in spite of the problems faced by the players.
The company explained according to the following chart published by the players Bokmaon goo regardless large sums of money on the game compared to the other big play paid the price, which has helped to raise the revenue generated by the game.
The analysis compared the company between game Pokemon Gu and the other play during the first month of the launch like a game of Candy Crush Soda Saga which appeared in 2014 and the game Clash Royale that have emerged this year.
The popularity of the game has helped to achieve almost double the game Clash Royale revenues during the first month of its launch, as Pokemon generated revenues estimated at four times the revenues of the game Candy Crush Soda Saga during the first month of availability.
The data revealed by the company analyzes the existence of points should be taken into account when trying to game the potential revenue assess the future, where the game has seen a significant rise in revenues in the period between mid-July and the day after its launch in Japan.
The company has also introduced the game officially in 15 new countries in the Asian market, but they have not yet officially Boutrha largest in those markets such as Korea, India and China.

Thailand bans "Pokemon" in army barracks and ministries


About the game that is sweeping the Pokemon Thailand and make the players fever marching in the streets to hunt phantom objects on their phones making them separate from reality, the military authorities in this country have warned of play in the military barracks and ministries.
The head of the junta, General Prayoot, OCHA Chan told reporters Tuesday: "I do not want people to play Pokemon in the ministries."
He said Deputy Prime Minister Prawit and Ngsoan "As of now the game has become banned in military barracks and government institutions", as well as government and military officials, the President of the Military Council expressed concern about the craze that hit his countrymen game.
"I am concerned for the safety of the players who may be exposed to theft or rape, so I hope that Talbwa in public areas."
Deputy Prime Minister also added, "I do not want to prevent the game, but we call on the players to know their limits and make good use of their time."

500 thousand dollars to the discoverers of gaps in IOS


Exodus Intelligence security company announced the submission bonuses of up to $ 500 thousand dollars in order to get information about weaknesses in any OS iOS type of zero-day system.
And beyond that the offer from the security company Exodus Intelligence rewards your Apple program the value of finding vulnerabilities in its products, which was announced a few days ago, and could cause the migration of people to him instead of the Apple program.
The company, which is headquartered in Texas, its intention to provide worth between $ 5,000 and $ 500 thousand in exchange for weaknesses related to iOS version 9.3 and higher bonuses.
The gaps zero-days kind of vulnerabilities in software and systems, which have not been identified or discovered by Apple yet, making it a very high value, especially for cybercriminals who can be used to penetrate the iPhone phones.
And give Apple up to 200 thousand dollars for critical vulnerabilities discovered in any or feed system, the company has faced calls to dozens of security researchers to participate in the program, so as to ensure that they receive good results.
It can also other community is invited by the company to participate in the discovery and provide reports about the vulnerabilities to Apple and get bonus points, and is the first time that Apple announcing the rewards program to discover gaps.
While the mayors of many other technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook years ago to use such programs to encourage hackers to help them instead of selling gaps details to other parties.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Vulnerability in full disk encryption feature on Android devices running Qualcomm processor

It is known that Android own platform company Google has a lot of security problems, but has been building a number of encryption on the system features, as well as on the devices also, in recent years there has been a significant improvement in a lot of things that are still far from perfect, he has security researcher Gal Beniamini the discovery of a new security flaw leaves Full Disk Encryption feature is prone to break through.


Gal Beniamini added that this gap affect up to hundreds of millions of Android devices, but the really surprising is that the devices that Qualcomm processors are the most vulnerable.

It is clear that the source of this new vulnerability that has been discovered is there are a lot of flaws in the system kernel Android kernel and chips Qualcomm, so any smartphone running Android 5.0 or onwards and use encryption full part property (full disk encryption) are more vulnerable to penetration and what makes the situation even worse that each of the two Google and Qualcomm have issued to address this problem before, came in Beniamini report that there are still some gaps that are fixed without a new hardware.

It is known that encryption Full feature disk encryption is the property that you save all data on the device safely and make this data unreadable without special encryption and unique entry, is worth mentioning here that the basis of the legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on this matter , because Apple made it impossible for anyone to access the user encryption keys so that the company itself, but Beniamini said that with regret on the android system, this feature does not include full safety and possibly through the security hole to penetrate the attackers to data on clients with ease.

It is worth mentioning here that Beniamini works with Google Inc. and Qualcomm to find a solution, and it is still highly unlikely the hackers exploit these vulnerabilities for most Android users, because hackers still need to enter a password, otherwise the encryption key here is not working.

The importance of knowing this news lies in the fact that the full disk encryption feature on the Android system is not quite as secure think a lot of users, and also in order to avoid companies manufacturing processors to repeat these errors and defects again.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

"Pokemon Goo" crash record as the most applications Downloads

Apple announced, Friday, that the game of augmented reality emerging Pokemon Pokémon Go Joe was able to break the record as the most applications from the App Store Downloads store during the first week of its launch.
US company did not disclose the number of downloads times achieved by augmented reality game, and also did not address the application that overtook him name of the game.
It is noteworthy that Apple's statement comes in conjunction with the expectations of analysts that it is preparing to raise more than $ 3 billion in revenue from the game during the next two years, thanks to the purchase of players for the game, "Bucky Koons PokéCoins" currency from the App Store store.
And iPhone users can download mobile game Pokemon Go, developed in collaboration with the Japanese gaming company Nintendo, free from the App Store, but they should be coin "Bucky Queens" Buy For additional advantages.
The game has surpassed 30 million downloads worldwide on both portable devices and any Android or iOS feed, as revenues exceeded the barrier of $ 35 million, according to a report issued by the company SensorTower days ago.
And belong game, developed by Niantic actually a subsidiary of Olfabit Inc. (parent company of Google), the augmented reality style, which combines real and virtual reality in order to allow the user to catching Pokemon creatures, trained and traded.
And impose Pokemon goo on the player Find Pokemon and hunted through curfews and walking in the real world around it, where the game is based on the phone's camera is easy viewing Pokemon in the surrounding of the user environment across the phone screen, and then caught by throwing virtual it a ball.

How do you know the number of your followers more than snapchat



Messaging service launched photographer snapchat Snapchat new feature allows the user to follow a proposal that accounts for his friends watched.
The snapchat new feature has been launched with the launch of Memories Memories feature earlier this month, but did not disclose, and now confirmed to the site "Tech Krnch" TechCrunch that this new feature.
The new proposal is a feature to help users increase the number of their followers, and by inviting friends to propose their accounts to their friends.
And it can access the new feature through on a lengthy accounts of friends within the "stories" Page Stories clicked to show a box containing the name of the friend and the number of its fans, and underneath there is a blue arrow, along with options to send a video, image or text message.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Founder of "Facebook" win 3 billion and $ 400 million Hour

The youngest of the 10 richest in the world was 56 million won every minute of the last hour deliberations of the stock 
exchange

Happened in a rare hour of history, made up like the other 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds, that the founder of the nation "Alvesbuqueh" Mark Zuckerberg, has achieved the profit is not preceded him else Sure, whereof 3 billion and $ 400 million, and this piece of information dissemination of his ministry "Arabic. Net "and wandered in it to make sure the news more, a site of Forbes business magazine America, tracked billionaires in the world's wealth, and their published on Thursday an update to the haves, it could stay the same day, or according to the prices of their shares unchanged, because the updates almost daily.
Every minute passed from that time, which ended in the fifth quarter on Wednesday afternoon last time the US east, Zuckerberg won more than 56 million and 666 thousand dollars, nearly 945 thousand per second, and he won per minute may be enough to live a million households throughout the entire week on less estimate, based on the 56 week repel hunger for African-caliber family.
And the superiority of the new with his profit on the latest achievements is the same
The new profit has become a 32-year, and see him laughing most of the pictures, fifth wealthy people in the world, because his fortune came after the second of 3600 from the last hour deliberations Bborsat that day, more than 56 billion and $ 700 million, and the reason that the shares Facebook Interestingly twit envious and saliva greedy, It rose 6.5% at once, and became its price of $ 131.40, due to growth in the sale of the site ads and increase "Alvesbokyin" who has become the number one billion and 710 million, so outweigh the leader "Alvesbuque" his profit on the previous record achieved is precisely


His record Previously, while his wealth rose from April last four billion and 200 million dollars, but the rise has occurred several hours after the stock exchange trading. The new was swift, and ended after trading only lasted one hour, and its Zuckerberg became the fifth rich wealth in the world, according to what I read, "Net" in the list of "Forbes" retrofit Thursday, after the US compatriot Warren Buffett, who is still the age of 80 head CEO of Berkshire Hathaway activist diverse investments, and wealth 64 billion and $ 900 million.
However, the American Jeff Bezos of 52 years, and co-founder and owner of 18% of the specialized trade electronics firm, an Amazon.com biggest selling retail online in the world, surpassed Buffett for the first time, according to what we find on the list included the fortune of 65 billion and 300 million dollars , noting that "Bloomberg" index observer also the wealth of billionaires, posted an update similar to the published "Forbes" Thursday, and the minor differences.
Trump's wealth and Lebanese origin Carlos Slim Helú
There are already "Bezos" occupies the second degree in the update, at the age of 80. Also, a US Hispanics Amancio Ortega, owner of ZARA stores famous for fashion, and resident district Galicia Autonomous Region in the northwest of Spain, and a wealth reached 72 billion and $ 700 million. The first richer and richer, no one else: the founder of the "Maakruzov" programs Alcolmbiotirat, and the wealth of her own "Spati" style, ie 77 billion and $ 700 million, is what is owned now Bill Gates, the father of 60-year-old to three sons of.
It asks for two: Mexican of Lebanese descent, Carlos Slim Helú, the presidential candidate Donald Trump, the first Fetroh occupier class 7 update, aged 76 years, is $ 50 billion and $ 300 million, while the smaller second of it are not seven years, shortly after him too, in Regulation 390 degree and fortune four billion and 500 million, noting that Trump revealed in May that the 10 billion fortune, but many saw what he allegedly forgotten.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

"Facebook" reveal platform wireless access Open Cellular


Announced the "Facebook", on Thursday, announced the launch platform for wireless access open source OpenCellular, and the announcement came through a statement posted on its official website, is the new platform the latest social network initiatives in the area dedicated to delivering the Internet to remote areas of the public network equipment.
And it plans to "Facebook" Share the design specifications for the project OpenCellular with several other companies within the communications infrastructure TIP, which was created earlier this year project.
The company indicated that it has designed and tested open source platform wireless access and cost-effective, which aims to improve Internet connectivity in remote areas in the world.
OpenCellular platform was built based and compatibility with equipment projects Terragraph and Aries announced by the "Facebook" in the month of April.
OpenCellular differ from those projects as a low-cost, allowing service providers to offer a variety of connection speeds of cellular and wireless Internet access in rural and urban areas alike.
The focus Tarajrav Terragraph and exclusively on urban deployments, while I tried "Facebook" through Aries find out how technology can provide connecting points with OpenCellular flexible system.
A new platform OpenCellular work as a single network or as a cellular access point, depending on the possibilities of computing and storage own.
The platform also supports many mobile technologies, beginning with the second generation 2G contacts and access to contacts fourth-generation LTE wireless networks and Wi-Fi.
The new device has been designed to enable him to withstand extreme conditions such as high winds and high temperatures, and can be installed on a tree or a long pole or tower.
Facebook OpenCellular and tested within the laboratories at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Menlo Park, Calif., So that the employees using the platform for text messaging to send and receive SMS text messages, make phone calls, browse the Internet and through the second generation 2G connections.

"Pokemon Goo" .. a new craze sweeping the world

The game raised the # iPhone devices as well as the operating system  Android devices, do not require you to run only the GPS in your system, in addition to the camera and to ensure a good connection to the Internet.
Having achieved these requirements, select locally and served the game, then went to the streets to play catch what you find characters from Pokemon, and who can collect the largest number of characters will get new points.
During the past two days, more applications downloaded in the game topped the shop # Ob_stor with the iPhone, but so far it must have a US account on the Apple Store you can download even.
High prevalence of the game, produced during the three days only bad accidents, has users trading # Mwaqa_altoasl get a story about a traffic accident in the US state, because of a sudden someone stops way on the highway, for catching Pokemon.
While US police announced that four teenagers used the game Pokemon goo to lure more than 10 victims, and robbed at gunpoint.

How do you save video on Facebook without the Internet ?

Allow the latest version of the social networking application Facebook on the Android operating system users to save videos to watch later, even without the need for an Internet connection.
The reservation videos selected within the application itself in the "saved items" Saved section, after clicking on the "Save video" Save video option that appears in any publication on the video social network drop-down menu.
And then save the video clips selected, which can only be accessed through the application of Facebook, the user can watch them repeatedly, and can be deleted him whenever he pleases.
It is noteworthy that this feature for the first time Facebook users in India launched, so as to help them overcome the weakness of Internet speeds, then it is similar to another initiative from Google with YouTube in India as well.
The new option appears in versions 85 and 86 (Altjeribita) of an application for Facebook on the Android operating system.

Friday, July 15, 2016

What are the risks Pokemon game Joe "?

Pokemon Joe a new game that was quite a sought-after descent several hours in the Western world and the Arab world all looking for and trying to decipher its secrets, Toy Pokémon Go came to light on Wednesday launched Niatic company on mobile phones by Regular Android and IOS, which made a big obsession among the searchers and the way people to play.
Pokemon Joe game application most downloaded these days, it does not open downloaded in all countries, but it quickly spread allowed to download, including the United States, New Zealand and Switzerland, countries, and some took refuge in other countries to detect other ways illegal to download the application and they succeeded in that.

Way to play Pokemon Joe Pokémon Go

The idea of ​​the game Pokemon Joe rely on locating Pokemon via GPS and travel between the places to look for him as it is known in movies and old television series animation, depending on where to explore the world around you and the presence of the challenge in front of you to overcome all obstacles to reach a goal or Pokemon required his presence.

Game Pokémon Go rely on Skip players certain levels for Pokemon forces and training at the highest level, even though the company put up for this application free of charge in the allowable load states, however, there are some levels must sums paid her ranging from $ 1 to $ 99.99.

Some people believe that the game of Pokemon Joe game entertaining and informative if exploited in the right way, it will help you to walk and movement, which is the sport does not help the rest of laziness like electronic games deployed at present.



Risks Pokemon Joe Pokémon Go

Can the game Pokemon atmosphere that some predicted in the risk and a lot of problems, with some Althy at the speed of access to Pokemon in any way nor Akthert example of the ways leading to this Pokemon, leading to road accidents, as it can Aoukek in many problems to detect its presence, for example, in places may prospect in trouble if you want access to it.

Must warn Tsthoah game Pokemon Jooan take it places warns accessed including:

Government interests: where it is possible to show you a Pokemon in a governmental body is and begin to search for them there than expose you to legal accountability should be on everyone envisioned Alhdhir.almtarat: It is natural to look for Pokemon apparent to you at the airport, you may expose it to danger Vkamirat surveillance monitors who were inside the airport would not characterize what to do, it is possible consideration is a terrorist or someone put anything detrimental to the security of the airport should be careful and not to be deceived and beyond are Tam.trq fast, you may expose you to the game Pokemon Joe to road accidents not to your attention to the road while running behind the Pokemon to be constipation it, actually happened in the United States many of the road accidents to try to drivers avoid the risk of run over the person who crosses the road quickly resulting in a car crash some Bad.almschwiat schools: places that cause you harm in entering to search on your Pokemon it is unreasonable entry to a hospital or a semester to search for him has Aoukek in trouble.