Twitter, investigated for monopolistic practices in the U.S.

The focus of the conflict is UberMedia, a potential competitor to Twitter independently developed applications for the network of microblogging. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), USA has opened an investigation against alleged monopolistic practices of Twitter in their relationship with outside development. The focus of the conflict is UberMedia, a potential competitor to Twitter independently developed applications for the network of microblogging.

The FTC, charged with ensuring free competition, has requested information from UberMedia who have been willing to cooperate. However, the record has a character "limited" and is one more in routine investigations of the FTC to determine if companies carry out activities contrary to free competition. Are often closed without legal action against the companies investigated.

Google is also currently under investigation, who won a lawsuit the FTC to investigate whether it is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches to lure users to their services to the detriment of competitors.

It is the first organism against which faces the Internet giant that holds the large concentration of two thirds of the virtual search. Last novimbre the European Union and began its own investigation on Google after receiving complaints from several companies.

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Dual-core chip and 4.3-inch screen on Galaxy S II

In mid-August will arrive in Argentina the Galaxy S II (although it is unclear which operator). I was testing the computer to see how it compares to its predecessor (the Galaxy S) and smartphones of 2011.

Aesthetically, the phone is in line with S Galaxy, very sober design, with the Start button and two buttons Android virtual menu and back, sides. The screen is now 4.3 "(with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels), and the team is generally wider. But yes, it is remarkably thin: 8.5 mm thick, which is pleasing to note moment.

Super Screen AMOLED + dominates the team, of course (not much more to see), and is fantastic in terms of brightness, contrast and color fastness.

The phone has 1 GB of RAM (of which 833 MB available to user) and a dual-core chip at 1.2 GHz, designed by the Samsung. Is met here as I said a while ago LG Optimus 2X, Motorola and other mobile Atrix dual core. Anyone coming from a cell with high-end chip at 800 MHz or more will not notice major changes in the speed of the core applications, a SMS is not faster. Yes Web pages load faster, heavier, and so do the complex applications, typically games with realistic graphics. And be able to withstand greater loads in the future, because new applications will build more powerful processors.

Samsung took the right decision to adjust just the aesthetics of Android 2.3.3, panels applications instead of the full list, and offering various widgets to virtual desktops. The team does not include a digital TV tuner, FM radio and does offer a good 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and can record video in full HD.

The S Galaxy II has a 1650 mAh battery. In the daily bustle at night made it a comfortable load rest after being all day with 3G on, checking several email accounts, downloading updates from Twitter and others.

Beyond the price you get to have this equipment (which will be built in Tierra del Fuego), the phone was excellent, both in design and performance.

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iPad: A tablet 'hard nut to crack' for HP

The TouchPad Hewlett-Packard is betting its elegant system to compete against Apple WebOS, but its software business may not offset a poor range of applications. From today there will be another computer tablet on the market: the TouchPad Hewlett-Packard . The new board is trying to compete with Apple's iPhone and is the first of many devices come with WebOS system.

However, although the operating system of the TouchPad WebOS (which HP inherited the company after it acquired Palm in 2010) is elegant and even in some ways superior to the iPhone is unlikely to have the success that HP expected. Why? Because consumers do not want tablets , want iPads.

HP can not compete with Apple fashion, and certainly does not compete with the price (like the iPhone 2, the initial price of the TouchPad is $ 500). Nor can it compete with the wealth offered by the Apple App Store, the catalog of applications for the TouchPad contains only 300 apps. Instead, the iPhone users have access to more than 100,000 applications.

The developers have released massively create games, productivity tools and other applications for phones and tablets IOS. And more recently have created applications for devices running the Google Android system. This is because the developers want to build for platforms popular with users. With nearly 25 million Cases sold to date, to create applications for Apple slates has obvious advantages: a large and growing audience ready to download these small, colorful icons on the screens of their computers.

HP says, for its part, the number of applications available for TouchPad "changes every day." The company also has emphasized that its range of applications has more to do with the quality, not quantity. To that end, HP has launched Pivot, which he describes as "an editorial resource to find information and entertainment for the TouchPad WebOS applications from HP." In other words, is like an online magazine that highlights some applications for users. HP knows, as does the number of applications in the App Store and Android Market, find the right one can be tricky.

And this is confirmed by a recent study by research firm in the technology sector Canalys , which revealed that these huge application pools can overwhelm consumers. "If a consumer is looking for an application of climate on the Android Market store, for example, will find many possibilities, many of which have not been rated by the users nor received comments," the authors of the report.

There will, no doubt, diehard fans of Palm willing to pay $ 500 for a touch pad instead of an iPhone, despite the lack of applications. And while criticism of the tablet from HP have been heterogeneous, many in the tech world have spoken wonders of the WebOS system.

WebOS does many things well. For one, its multitasking function is better than the iPhone, allowing users to keep multiple applications open at once. It also has a feature called Synergy , which concentrates the data from multiple contact lists (such as Facebook and Skype) in a single schedule (also collects different versions of online calendars and photo sharing services several images).

But will that be enough for the TouchPad to attract a significant number of consumers and developers? I doubt it. HP has come late to the game of the tablets , and the mass market does not care about the new features of an operating system, cares about what is fashionable. Despite the proliferation of other devices, Apple still dominates the market for tablets .

However, HP has big plans for WebOS beyond the market of electronic whiteboards. That's why we paid 1.200 million dollars for Palm, the creator of the system. HP WebOS ready to install on multiple devices (from printers to computers), so although the TouchPad does not sweep away his rivals, WebOS could well become a great competitor IOS and Android systems.

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What Facebook can not fight the Google +

The launch of Google + is designed to revolutionize the social world if we consider the expectation has been raised in trade circles. Comparisons with Facebook not stop at this first contact with the new platform, nor the skeptics who doubt the power of calling it. But Google has more than 1,000 million registered users in different services : potential-and-viable customers for the new product.

+ Google has released a few days ago and the company had to stop the adoption , which was done through invitations. The anticipation has been radical, even though many doubt the ability to compete against Facebook.

If nothing else + we show Google what the differentiating factor about Facebook , comparisons in one way or another are surfacing days after the launch of the platform. From AllFacebook, Nick O'Neill is a reflection on the ability of the new social network to compete with the leader right now.

As pointed out in his post , "The users have the option of not using Google +". This stems from the whole mass of customers that the company has in its various departments, when they connect to, receive notifications about the activity of your contacts if they are in the network.

In short it is a comprehensive strategy . Google is taking a major step forward for social services, from searching the rest of your offer. So the project goes beyond social networking and may become the cornerstone of its products the company wants to promote.

This does not mean that Google will assume + to Facebook or anything, it might not even get to make a direct and aggressive competition, but both use different platforms to provide live together. Although they are ways to export your Facebook friends to Google + .

O'Neill also points out an important point: the developers. Facebook gets some of their income than they generate applications that are located within the social network, while Google will have less need to retain that money, allowing programmers to collect all of which produce their creations.

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iPhone customers iPhone 2 and 4 are an "opportunity" for PS Vita

Would you buy a PS Vita or tablet to play? Surely if it is just to play win the Sony console, but the versatility of mobile phones and tablets makes things very difficult. About all that has been said a senior manager at Sony who says that mobile customers are an opportunity for your business.

The release of PS Vita is certainly one of the great moments of the videogame industry. A powerful console, 3G connection inside that offers the most advanced moment in entertainment. A full product technology and sophistication with which Sony wants to lead unanswered play on the move.

Opportunity

Against this background Eurogamer colleagues have asked the chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Jack Tretton, the possibility that users of Apple tablets and mobile are a competence of the new console, the possibility of using games quality in them. Tretton not only do not see these devices as a competition but sees it as an "opportunity." The president of Sony is not wrinkled and ensures that each user dissatisfaction iPhone 2 or iPhone 4 , referring to its use as a gaming device, there are three users willing to buy a good portable console viedeojuegos. Jack completed his speech by saying "they are potential customers can migrate to a sophisticated video game console, ie, they are an opportunity for us."

Serious Rivals

What is real is that consoles like the PS Vitaare a serious threat to the gaming market on mobile, offering a quality which can neither be moving closer. However, it is fair to say that mobile phones large touch screen or tablet as the iPhone 2 has something for and in the case of mobile, always go with you or yes, while the tablets, their constant presence in the classroom home get very close at hand the use of games.

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Nokia Smartphone with Android, Internet sensation

Install the system Android on the Nokia N9 . Android running on a new smartphone from Nokia. They managed to run Android on a new smartphone from Nokia Nokia N9. The new mobile from Nokia, the Nokia N9, calls attention for its attractive features, but they could run the system in the new Android phone.

On all sides have been talking about the new Nokia smartphone and the features of Nokia N9, something that has been saying is that the Nokia N9 has the fastest camera to take pictures.

This feature is certainly very striking and has attracted much attention, but what has been making more noise is the Nokia N9 with Android.

Internet has been around for a picture of Nokia N9 with Android built, someone could install this system in the new Nokia mobile. It is a poor quality image but it shows the Nokia N9 running Android, something not seen before and that is the dream come true for many users, but could possibly be a fake, as discussed in Gizmóvil .

Some of the rumors that have emerged on the Internet is that this is a prototype of Nokia which has the Android 2.3, there is no guarantee that it can be real and you really could run Android on Nokia smartphone , but it could be a possibility. Hopefully more news on this, that if it becomes reality, many will be very happy.

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Archos 101 80 G9 G9 and cheap tablet Android

Archos has listed two new Android-based tablet, marked by interesting and hardware solutions at very competitive prices. This is Archos G9 G9 80 101 and the first ninth-generation models.

They are called archos 80 g9 and g9 archos 101 and are the new tablet operating system of the French company google Android . For the occasion, the two new tablet feature a new body than previous models, much more organized and aesthetically pleasing, with a different design than the usual , distinguished also by competing products. The two devices are for diagonal display, which measures 8 inches respectively for the G9 model 80, with resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and 10.1-inch Model 101 G9, with resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels .

The Google Android operating system is as stated in the latest version honeycomb 3.1. Another interesting hardware platform. Archos has actually taken the SoC Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 , consisting of dual-core ARM Cortex A9 at clock speeds of 1.5 GHz with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU with 384 MHz frequency, along with instructions called NEON SIMD arm, allows consistent level of performance gain, half Archos says his system can guarantee a higher performance platform 2 or 2 iPad Nvidia Tegra SoC Applepor example, processing a web page.

Find storage or 16 GB flash memory or, alternatively, a 250 GB hard drive produced by Seagate, and a MicroSD slot compatible with SDHC memory card. Archos According to producers, the cost of the two is storage solutions equivalent, so they prefer to provide more space for the end user, the price of 3 mm thick. For 802.11 WiFi networks are both n the Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR , while 3 g is optional and the module is integrated with a USB, sold separately at a price of 49 euros.

The team then completes a 720p camera, doors USB and HDMI in addition to GPS , a pair of speakers, accelerometer, compass, support, shell integration. The battery is integrated and secure up to 10 hours of navigation on the Internet 7 hours of video playback or 36 hours of music playback. Archos 80 G9 version with 16 GB flash memory measuring 226 x 155.3 x 11.7 mm and weighs 465 g, whereas it should add the version with a 250 GB hard disk 3 mm thick and 135 g weight .

Archos 101 G9 always flash version measures 12.6 x 276 x 167.3 mm for a weight of 649 g , while for the hard disk goes to 15.6 mm thick and 755 g weight . Archos show that both tablet at IFA in Berlin in September, so it is likely to be marketed immediately afterwards. The cost is really interesting, now among the lowest if not the lowest device of this type. The Archos WiFi 80 G9 flash memory version and costs only $ 279 , while the Model 101 G9, always in the same version, it will cost $ 349.

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