The TV also want applications

Samsung has long been betting on the Internet connection in their high-end TVs. What we have called Smart TV, smart TV, begins to reach a larger part of the catalog. The Korean manufacturer has completely banished LCDs (liquid crystal). Henceforth all televisions will be light emitting diode (LED).

In 2012 begin to market devices with applications priced between the 300 and 3,000 euros for the more luxurious models. These are by far the most interesting, not only for image quality and dual-core processor, but above all, to include a front camera which serves both to use Skype to turn your TV into a giant mirror , to handle the device with voice and gestures.

The system, which is strongly reminiscent of the Xbox Kinect, works with 36 voice commands. To ensure compatibility have been used as a standard speech than 140 different Spanish regions. They do not provide data on the number of voices taken, but the company says it is configured for 20 languages.

The front camera is also used to follow exercise programs and fitness and to recognize the family member is before them and adapt content to your tastes, or in the case of minors, at their age.

The number of applications continues to grow: YouTube, or MyMadrid Antena 3 (the official Real Madrid) Yomvi to subscribers of Canal +, or MyTele (Telecinco). They can do with their key channel, and another through a normal TV through the decoder. For now, all applications are free.

One of the sensations that the consumer is more concerned about finding the right time to buy a unit. "Is it worth waiting for the next generation?" is the question most often do. To encourage the sale of more expensive models in the catalog, Samsung has included an expansion slot that allows you to upgrade the TV, either with more processing power or memory. The so-called Evolution Kit will be released in 2013, no specific price and without a more accurate description.

Samsung is not alone in the idea that television is the gateway to the Internet at home. Apart from being a claim for renewal of equipment, manufacturers see that they can make agreements with other technology sectors, as the software or hardware. Apple TV or Google TV can be converted, at the same time, partners and competitors.

Windows 8 now available for download

Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, was responsible for introducing the new operating system. Windows 8 is for tablets and computers, but Microsoft has presented at a trade show dedicated to mobile phones. It is a sign of the cross between live equipment. All manufacturers of hardware and software they want to have a solution to send the rest. Microsoft has been the last to arrive, but it has done with the muscle that characterizes the computer giant.

"We challenged ourselves to make the best of computers and mobile world," Steven Sinofsky started. Presentation broken down into three areas: operating system, applications (the term "program" should sound viejuno) and the products debuting Windows 8. "We started from scratch a platform to reach a new level of functionality," he said. Since September more than 100,000 have made changes while they are unveiled to the press, published a website to download the new operating system at no cost: will be in English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese. Although the world premiere was in Barcelona, ​​is not, for now, either in Spanish or Catalan.

The manager said, as he often does Apple, which will be "easier for everyone. All activity will be at a glance. Nice, fast and give a seamless experience. " A new feature is the connection to the cloud. The user has a profile to store your files, preferences and interface programs.

To display the new square-based interface, called Metro, spoke Julie Larson-Green, Vice President of Windows, and Antoine Leblond, vice president of Web services. Besides showing how they appear on the cover message notifications, battery status and agenda, once it enters the browser sends fingers. Navigation bar disappears. You are on the bottom, hidden. The content of the website is in full screen. The videos also go well. There have forgotten your console Xbox 360. Launch games catering for both platforms.

The move from application to application, with a wave at the edges of the screen with your thumb, almost immediately. At least in the tablet Larson-Green was used in the presentation.

Especially liked the audience, analysts, journalists and some manufacturers invited by Microsoft, how to add content in social networks. You can have open the Facebook application, drag a finger lightly on the left side of the screen to access what you have open and drag and drop to share with contacts. Whether a photo, video or a link. Attach emails also become that simple.

Antoine Leblond focused on the computer. With a ultrabook of Lenovo hue why he did: "Touch screens are great for large objects and gestures. The mouse is best to do more careful. " One notable change is the management process that improves. Taught how to see the graph of the transfer of a file on a jig.

Who has not touched the computer screen in the office?, Said Larson-Green to teach how to use a touch screen computer. "The applications are better than web pages," he added.

The cloud is present. Whenever you look for a file, you access both local and Skydrive storage, the service of the house, or if fotos.La Photobucket app store will be integrated, as is customary in the AppStore and Android Market, the computer be thematic. During the trial period, all free.

In the most technical aspect showed the first tablets that work with new processors. Nvidia and Qualcomm will begin to include their products in tablet and Windows computers.

One of the issues that caused the failure of Windows Vista was the lack of drivers for peripherals. Sinofsky noted that seconds will connect any printer, screen, keyboard or mouse. The company that runs Steve Ballmer can not fail again in the world of laptops.

Intel did not forget and ultrabooks. The second generation of them, equipped with the processor will start Ivy Bridge in under 10 seconds. One of the examples was a HP Envy computer, with a housing, such as mobile phones, difficult to scratch, made ​​with Gorilla Glass. The laptop manufacturers seem to have taken the arrival of Windows 8 and the unstoppable success of MacBook Air to begin to spoil the design.

Sinofsky closed with a summary of the characteristics of the new operating system: "The more applications you have, the better the experience." He stressed that work on both small and large screens and will be the best choice for home and work. The old dream of Microsoft's entertainment and business unite in one unit.

The Redmond company took chest with two different devices. One extremely large: a 80-inch screen capable of responding to orders of up to 100 fingers at once, and a computer with dual core processor to fit in the palm of the hand. Only had to connect keyboard and screen. As powerful as a desktop high-end, but ready to carry in your pocket. "All shapes and sizes are used to Windows 8," he said Sinofsky.

Before Windows 8 hits the market, Microsoft will be shelling more about your browser Explorer 10, which will by default connect to their phones and devices compatible with their new platform.

Microsoft will remove Windows applications remotely with 8

Under the terms of service of the App Store Windows 8 , Microsoft may remove applications remotely from any device at any time for any reason. Google and Apple can also 'delete' purchased applications in the Android Market or App Store .

The Redmond company recently announced its application store for Windows 8 and is now trying to attract developers to it. He also published its terms of service, among which includes this option.

"We may change or discontinue certain apps or content offered on the Windows Store at any time for any reason," says Microsoft.

Sometimes, they say, this will happen to "respond to legal or contractual requirements," while in other cases it will prevent users from accessing applications if their safety is at risk.

However, the company could repay the amount paid by the application if the elimination of a device with Windows 8 Beta (currently only available version of the operating system developer).

However, the data stored by an application could be lost forever . "If the Windows Store, an app or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be removed or might not be able to recover data you had stored," says Microsoft. Also, remember that under no obligation to return the data.

Apple confirmed long ago that can carry out these measures (although, for now, have not done), while Google has had to do more than one occasion.

The application downloads from the Android Market over 10,000 million

The number of applications downloaded from Android Market for devices with mobile operating system Google has exceeded 10,000 million , reports the Mountain View company in its official blog l.

In July 2010 the number of discharges was 1 000 million , while a year later, in July this year, reaching 6,000 million. From the search engine company indicate that the average monthly growth stood at 1,000 million downloads. In a statement appearing on the Google blog, Android developer Eric Chu has said that the development of mobile application downloads has been "unbelievable" and wanted to thank the creators of these tools by their effort. " Of course, none of these applications exist but for the thousands of developers who created Android, which every day surpass their own limits " , has stated Chu. To celebrate this milestone number, Google has decided to market a variety of applications at a price of 10 cents.

A program analyzes and rates the finishing touches on a photo

The photo editing tools like Photoshop is widely used, both to improve the image of a character as more harmful uses that encourage anorexia. In June, the American Medical Association suggested that the media to adopt criteria to discourage alteration of photographic images "that could promote an unrealistic expectation on the appropriate image of the body." In some European countries, feminist groups have called for labeling of photos to mark the image disturbances. Now, some U.S. researchers have proposed a program to evaluate and quantify the degree of retouching a photo. In the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the authors, Hany Farid and Eric Kee, indicate that the highly idealized images have been linked to eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction.

The United States has proposed the popular support for a law regulating the use of photo retouching in advertising. According to its promoters, 53% of girls aged 13 years are dissatisfied with their own body. When you are 17 years have seen about 250,000 television commercials that appear in the bodies that can never emulate. One of its promoters explained to The New York Times do not try to demonize the use of Photoshop, just install the transparency in advertising. "It's just that when you contemplate a body know if it is real or an avatar."

The show's creators have taken into account geometric changes such as thinning of the legs, facial symmetry adjustment and correction of posture, as well as photometric manipulations including removal of wrinkles, bags under eyes and blemishes of the skin. Farid said that "starts from before and after the digital images that automatically estimates the geometric and photometric changes, on reverse engineering manipulations were carried out for the touch."

To validate the method, the researchers asked human observers to evaluate the differences among a collection of original photos and tweaks to set the metric of the program.

The program evaluates the changes on a scale of 1 to 5 distinguishes from minimal changes to the unreal. Farid says the system aims to help self-regulation. The publication of the scale of an image retouching models may encourage not want to appear in photos with a touch of five degrees.

Spotify launches new platform with custom applications

The service for online music player Spotify announced on Wednesday in New York to launch a new platform that will integrate multiple applications , including one of the magazine Rolling Stone , which will read reviews of songs, or one of Last.fm , with the that you can share what you hear. "This new platform is really the beginning of something that will change the rules in this industry," said the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek , the first press conference company in the U.S., a country which began offering its service in July.

The founder of the Swedish company said the launch of the new platform, which is a change of service supplied so far, "integrates applications of the best and brightest" to " bring fans to their favorite artists and offer all kinds of incredible musical experiences. " Spotify, a company with only three years of life has already become the second largest source of revenue for the digital music industry with 10 million users in its new version a dozen applications, accessible to all customers , whether paying subscribers or free service, which may choose which integrate into your account. Among the new applications, Ek highlighted launched in partnership with the prestigious U.S. magazine Rolling Stone , which will allow customers to Spotify read the review of a song or album while listening, as well as access playlists developed by the publication, among other possibilities.

"This is an excellent opportunity to integrate our news stories and editorials with Spotify," he told a press conference co-founder of Rolling Stone , Jann Wenner , who described the event as a "milestone" that said he was "proud" participate. Another application will be available in Spotify's new platform will be to Last.fm , which will share the music you're listening to other people and know what they are playing on their computers other users with similar tastes. Meanwhile, the application of Songkick will read the lyrics of the songs you are listening, and the TuneWiki inform the user of upcoming concerts where the group will offer those who are listening, while enabling them to buy tickets for them.

A programmer calls to his girlfriend via Google Maps

A warm meal, a romantic stroll, an unexpected journey ... Many plans can be used to propose marriage. But an engineer at Google has decided to dispense platitudes and testing services, Google Maps , calling to his girlfriend on the phone in hand.

A developer of Google , Ari Gilder , decided to use his skills as a programmer to create a game in which his girlfriend, Faigy, was the protagonist. He created a special map with a target named The big question.

On his way to New York, Faigy must visit places around the city that evoke romantic moments experienced by the couple. Gilder coordinated with a coworker Faigy a plan by which he must give the girl a Nexus One integrated camera and a special version of Google Maps.

The phone had a custom application that he developed along with two of his companions in Google. The application allowed Faigy check in every place, asking for a password in order to find the next location. The six friends must ask a question Faigy, linked to memories of that particular place. Each answer served and door password the next challenge.

ELEMENT OF SURPRISE
"My plan was to build a map of the route and take my girlfriend from one destination to another, all with the element of surprise , "says Gilder. "Google Maps gave me the tools I needed to run the magic."

The engineer planned the route from a food store Trader Joe's chain to the Magnolia Bakery, where he had his first date of the couple. The map also led to a Hudson Restaurant and Carnegie Hall concert hall, where his girlfriend surprised him with tickets for a concert of Beethoven. Seven stops in total up to a lighthouse on Roosevelt Island, where they were on their second date.

FINAL QUESTION
Every time Faigy reached one of these destinations, a friend of her boyfriend was waiting. The duty of each one of them was to give a rose to the girl and made ​​sure that check-in at the stop. "Meanwhile, I was eagerly awaiting its arrival on the island," said the romantic geek.

When he reached the end of the tour, the seventh and last place also kept a question which could only make her boyfriend. "I'll let you guess what the answer was," said the lover to leave a glimpse of the "I do" in a Google blog , addressing the readers of this romantic story. Or is that perhaps someone could have resisted?

There are over paid apps in Android Apple

The Apple application developers have earned more money than the collection of Android applications. Investment bank Piper Jaffray has published a study on income in this sector. The study is based on payment applications, but does not consider advertising funded free or purchases inside them, a revenue model that grows significantly.

The Android application market has generated $ 240 million (euro 170 million) last year while Apple's store has paid 3.4 billion dollars (2.5 billion euros) to developers applications for its platform. Only 1.3% of the applications in Google's store are extra . At Apple, they are 13.5%, according to this study. Of the total revenue generated by mobile applications, between 85% and 90% are from App Store. The author of the study entity considers that this dominance will continue, somewhat waned, for four years.

Santillana launches children's applications for iPad and iPhone

Santillana is available on the AppStore for iPhone applications and iPhone series of children's stories Mica and her friends and loved the trunk . These applications, aimed at children 3, 4 and 5 years, will allow smaller start reading, promote the process of reading comprehension in a fun and enjoyable. Each application is structured in the form of story or history where endearing characters (some, like Mica, well known in the classroom) star in various adventure oriented cognitive development of children. In addition, all applications have many features such as games or sound effects that stimulate visual-motor coordination of children.

At the same time, there are new applications of Visual Encyclopedia of Questions , Santillana collection launched last July and consists of 19 titles ranging from the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture Mythology and Geography.

The launch of Mica and her friends to ipady iPhone has 30 applications (10 for each age group between 3 and 5 years). The stories revolve around the little protagonist, Mica, a cheerful and outgoing girl who, accompanied by her friends Mouse, Duck and Monkey life is full of challenges rather than problems to face each situation with a big smile and tons of enthusiasm.

Each story provides the ability to listen to audio (Read it) or have children or parents who read them aloud (I read). They also incorporate the differences games, memory and color. "Their stories are brought to life by interactive elements that allow devices and digital formats. Mica and their pets jump, sneeze or even speak ..." Marta Bonet said, in Santillana Content Manager Digital Business. "The readings are enriched by allowing the reader's participation in the course and pace of the story itself, in the characters' actions and activities that develop around them, play, color, compete, build puzzles ... A different reading experience with which children have fun while learning, "he concludes.

Mica and his friends was created by Santillana in 2009 and soon became a beloved character for thousands of children enrolled in primary education. ( video)

Also for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices and tablets Android applications are three enchanted the trunk , a place full of surprises where Lina's character lives. Includes puzzles and coloring game.

Along with these two sets of children's stories, Santillana is developing seven applications for iPad Licorice, who will be in the AppStore from December. They are stories featuring the dog that gives title to the series and offer the functionality to record the voice of the father or the child reads the story, and includes memory games, puzzles and coloring.

Finally, complete Santillana iPad applications for Visual Encyclopedia of Questions , a bilingual collection in Spanish and English whose first two films came out last July. The 19 applications that make up the collection allow all family members to review and test their knowledge in different subjects, from the history of our planet to the different cultures of the world, through the biography of the great geniuses of art or the origin of the inventions that changed our lives and our environment.

"The mobile application environment provides a differential value indisputable about the learning processes of the youngest and formats of information access," said Marta Bonet. Explore, discover, search and tested in an interactive context and visually powerful, is a path to meaningful knowledge, innovative and attractive for everyone. "

Apple removes a subscription-based gaming application

The company Big Fish Games has encountered a nasty problem in the Apple App Store. Just three days after being approved your application, Apple has removed. The reason seems to be that the company opposes the marketing system via subscription instead of filing an application for each game. The gaming company has formally asked for the reason Apple closing. Bog Fish said he had worked with Apple to ensure the legality of the formula. Apple initially banned the formula of subscription access content, but then accepted for publications and videos. The games are not on your list of exceptions. Big Fish notes that Apple knew their intentions and who had published information about the offer.

The App Store, opened in 2008, houses more than half a million applications for download. The company has a system of prior approval of the same much more demanding than Google with the Android application market.

Big Fish proposed access to dozens of titles with the payment of a $ 6.99 monthly subscription . The model, streaming , resembles the one used by Netfilx with movies. Big Fish is a company with nine years old in 2010 joined 140 million dollars. About 75% of its customers are women over age 30. An Android version of that application released in early 2012.

This factory produces 2.0

Cotec and Prodintec Foundations have published a paper this week about this new way of manufacturing 2.0 and numerous niche markets and business opportunities to open in several economic sectors: health, automotive, aerospace, jewelry, entertainment, etc..

With new technologies that are breaking into digital manufacturing 2.0 can design and produce a fully customized all kinds of products almost artisanal, and with great professionalism, despite the complexity of processes, as explained in an interview with Efe Foundation director Prodintec, Iñigo Felgueroso.

For example, above, can be produced from a dental implant or medical prosthesis, which fits perfectly to the needs of the patient, once scanned the space to be set and designed the part after the computer with the geometry perfect, until a very specific component for an aircraft or a car lighter properties, or porous, without having to produce in series.

The areas of jewelry making molds and also have great field of action by these new technologies, added the expert.

One of the keys to the development and consolidation of this type of digital output 2.0 has to do with the so-called 'additive fabrication', which is prevailing in European countries like Germany, but Spain also began to take its first steps, aware of his market potential .

According Felgueroso, additive manufacturing takes its name from the concept of 'addition' or 'sum', because it arises from the technological process of adding or superimposing layers to complete the desired design on the computer.

Later, this same technology is the one embodied in a sheet of plastic or metal , preferably, the pre-design displayed on the computer from a 3D CAD file.

According Felgueroso, these additive manufacturing techniques, which are very diverse and include stereolithography or selective laser sintering, revolutionizing the traditional concept of manufacturing.

Unlike traditional production systems in which each phase (concept, design, development, production) materialized a particular professional group in a specific geographic point, new technologies focus on the same place, with one machine, the entire manufacturing process.

New technologies allow the generalization of prototype elude ultimately unprofitable, and manufacturing ensure a 'la carte' and 'craft', without skyrocketing costs.

According Felgueroso, 'All this suggests that within a few years is not science fiction that everyone, at home, can be manufactured with a machine what you want'.

40,000 applications for Windows Phone

The application store for mobile operating system Microsoft , the Windows Phone Marketplace , has exceeded 40,000 apps available . It is still far from the App Store and Android Market , but it shows a fairly rapid growth and now has almost 11,000 different developers.

In early July the Microsoft App Store had more than 25,000 applications, but the growing interest from developers for the platform and the launch of the first Windows Phone Nokia have made ​​this figure is reached.

Today is up about 165 new applications every day. Most of them (15%) are games and, for the moment, predominantly free (68%).

These data have been obtained by All About Windows Phone, which also explains that in the last 90 days were added 10,882 applications, 4,770 of them in the last 30. To continue this pace, it will reach the 50,000 in the second week of 2012.

However, one must keep in mind that this number is the total. In some countries you can access all applications. For example, in Spain only available just under 30,500, while in the United States are reached almost 34,000.

In addition, other measurement tools such as Windows Phone App List display numbers somewhat lower. According to this page , at the time of this writing, there were 36,169 applications available. This data was current as of 13 November, but growth had slowed in recent weeks.

They claim that the iPhone does not recognize 4S spoken English with Latin accent

The voice assistant Siri, the killer application of the new Apple iPhone 4S , has generated criticism from the Hispanic community in the U.S. due to its malfunction when to recognize foreign pronunciations of English. The complaint was issued by the Network through a video in which Andrew and Sandra, a couple composed of an American and a Mexican living in New York, shows the inability of Siri to understand instructions in English provided by Sandra . However, when Andrew asks the mobile device play a song or tell you about the time in Madrid, the iPhone application, it works perfectly.

"It can be frustrating because it forces me to pronounce Siri my questions again and again, and sometimes not even understand me. But my husband always understands, "complains Sandra. For now, Siri is designed to understand English, French and German, and Apple has reported that by 2012 expects to add additional languages ​​as "Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Italian." Siri is a voice control assistant able to answer simple questions to know what time it is, the outside temperature or give the address of specific places, and answer text messages through voice recognition. From Apple, reports that "the more you use Siri, the better" because it uses algorithms to classify the voice. "If you are exposed to greater variations of a language, global recognition of these dialects and accents continue to improve and work even better," the company says on its website.

Nokia will release a tablet with Windows 8 in 2012 to compete with the Apple iPad

Nokia, which still remains the world's largest maker of mobile phones despite the reduction in market share , plans to launch in mid-2012 a tablet equipped with Windows 8 , the next version of Microsoft's operating system to compete with the iPad from Apple, published by French daily Les Echos .

"In June 2012, we have a tablet running Windows 8", said the CEO of Nokia in France, Paul Amsellem, in a newspaper interview with the Frenchman. At the moment, the Finnish manufacturer refuses to confirm or deny the news officially . "We have not announced any specific plans in regard to tablets," said a spokesperson from Nokia headquarters in Espoo (Finland). to confirm these plans, Nokia would jump to the attractive and growing business of electronic tablets , a hybrid between computer and smartphone designed by Apple in early 2010. Nokia launched last October 26 the first two smartphones based on Windows operating system for mobile Phone , the result of its strategic alliance with the U.S. giant's software Microsoft, and the first of these devices, the Lumia 800 , arrived in stores yesterday and French. The two companies are cooperating closely to create "a new global mobile ecosystem" that competes with IOS platforms, Apple, and Android , of Google.

Tweri, an application to control the movements of patients with Alzheimer's

The Madrid company Solusoft has developed the application for smartphones  Tweri , which improves the autonomy of people who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's. This system can take to the streets without fear of losing, which make life easier for caregivers.

This free app, available for Android and IOS (Apple), was launched today as part of the second edition of Apps BDigital Congress , held in Barcelona today and tomorrow 15 November 16. The application has already been tested successfully with patients of various associations that cater to people with this disease and their families as  Getafe AFAL or Alzheimer Manava .

The system, based on GPS geolocation , is simple: Once downloaded the application on the mobile device the patient, relatives or carers of the patient set a maximum time during which the patient can take to the streets as well as a geographic area bounded by that you can navigate. For the patient, a problem of disorientation or momentary loss of memory, leave the security zone marked for your ride or exceeds the set time to be away from home, the application sends a SMS preset or alert to another mobile device that takes the caregiver.

The director of R + D + i Solusoft, Sergio Mayor , explained that Tweri helps these patients to lead a normal life as possible when taking a stroll or simply down to the shop without anyone to accompany them: "It's an application 'guardian angel' who not only provides more autonomy to patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's, but serves to give some peace to the caregivers," explains the developer.

In Solusoft-who have already made a version in Castilian and English of Tweri, and are preparing another in Russian, now work for the application also detects any erratic movements that may make ill during their rides. They also want to develop the idea in devices other than smartphones to those in which Alzheimer's is more advanced and there is the possibility of losing your phone. Are being tested in watches or bracelets with GPS capable of sending data, and the patient can not be removed.

Tweri is one of the applications that have been released in the App Circus , a conference room inside the BDigital Apps, which have shown mobile systems developed by programmers, "starups" and local and international companies.

Develop a 'software' to fight virus 'Duke'

Iran develops antivirus programs to protect their computers from government centers , which have been recently affected by a new virus called Duke , local Mehr news agency reported.

The director of the Passive Defense Organization of Iran, Gholamreza Jalali, reported that all equipment affected by the computer virus has been cleared and the situation is under control. Jalali stressed that the Cyber ​​created for this type of situation "works day and night on this issue." Late last month, Iran created a Cyber ​​dedicated to the fight against cyber attacks that could affect the country, especially its security and defense. The functions of the Cyber ​​Command will "monitor, identify and counter when there are threats against national infrastructure, "Jalali said. Iran has denounced alleged attacks computer, which has been attributed to the U.S. and Israel , to create problems in their military and security systems and, above all its nuclear facilities.

Google opens Android OS 4.0 to developers

Google has opened the source code of the new Android 4.0 mobile operating system, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, so that developers can create various applications. So says the engineer of the Open Source Project Jean-Baptiste Queru Android on a Google Group , which tells developers how to download the source code.

The Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, which was introduced last October , is compatible with both smart phones as tablets and replaces physical buttons to control software. From Google say Ice Cream Sandwich has improved voice recognition , both translation and dictation of texts and has also perfected the keyboard function, has become more interactive notifications and created widgets or small applications, variable size. One of the most important news is the inclusion of "pattern of Unlock " , a technology that will unlock the phone via the user's facial recognition. The new Android, so far only present in the Galaxy smartphone Samsung Nexus also allows editing and sharing high quality video and capture panoramic pictures.

A mobile application for hikers recreates the story of 'Tom Thumb'

A mobile application led to walkers , cyclists and hikers recreates the story of Tom Thumb , but the bread crumbs to mark their passage is now a GPS that registers the route.

It is a technology project called iCairn , available for Apple and Android , with tens of registered users, incorporating a guidance system augmented reality of natural areas.

Their leaders have explained that the system has "zoom" with visual data most remote places of the route and provides updates and real time of the spaces through which passes the hiker .

The initiative, developed by Spanish company Alborgis, was selected by SEGITTUR, under the 2010 call for aid to support innovative clusters in the tourism sector, the project also involved the Innovative Business Groups (AEI) Turebe, Turns Turincal and Rural.

The company responsible for Caesar Alborgis Lapuente said that apart from the record of the points of the route through which passes the user's mobile data gets updated the names of the rivers and the peaks to be found in your path, so as floral and animal species in its path, the type of livestock that may be grazing in the vicinity or nearby shelters.

The application is free to use and allows developing guidelines countryside individualized custom routes, and network shares with others, that can also download a website created for this purpose.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 a hit on the first day

The new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has begun his conquest of the markets breaking records. Activision has confirmed that it has sold 6.5 million units of the game in its first 24 hours in the U.S. and the UK. The new title of the series 'Call of Duty' outsells 'Battlefield', its direct competitor published by Electronic Arts (EA), which sold 5 million units in its first week. The new CoD: Modern Warfare 3 has raised in the early hours 400 million (EUR 292.8 million), surpassing the previous record, also achieved by Activision with Call of Duty: Black Ops, which was $ 360 million (263.3 million euros). CoD: Modern Warfare 'has removed any doubt about its release. The title came with doubts about his reception, caused by problems in the development team early in the process and the possibility that he saw eclipsed by the previous game in the series. However, Activision can boast another seller in the market. The company got the last 8 days than 13,000 stores around the world would open at dawn so that users could get the new game, and the results have been spectacular. In a statement, it is the confirming the successful launch. "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the biggest launch of an entertainment product sales estimated over 400 million dollars and more 6.5 million units sold in North America and UK in the first 24 hours of its release, "he assured the company.

This is the third consecutive year that Activision gets better break records with one of their launch titles. Last year, the company managed to 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' collected $ 360 million in its first 24 hours in the U.S. and the UK. Furthermore, in 2009, the title prior to the launch of this year, 'CoD: Modern Warfare 2' got $ 310 million (226.7 million euros). "We believe the release of 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' is the biggest entertainment launch of all time in any medium and we have achieved this record, with sales in just two territories, "said Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. The company has been very satisfied with the results and has ensured that the series is already more than just a game. "'Call of Duty' is more than a game. It has become an important part of pop cultural landscape," said Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg. In addition, Hirshberg thanked the teams of "Sledgehammer Game Infinity Ward and they have done a brilliant game," in recognition of work that was initially difficult.

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All new IOS 5

Now available the new version of Apple's operating system for mobile devices. iOS 5 brings over 200 new features, among which icloud . To access the update there is no need to connect the device to the computer and search iTunes.

Apple announced iOS 5 last June in the WWDC 2011 developer conference. It was in the last presentation led by former CEO and cofounder of Apple, Steve Jobs , who retired in August and died on October 5.

One of the most important of IOS is the arrival of icloud , the cloud service from Apple that allows applications to save content beyond devices. The files are automatically stored in Apple's servers, allowing to link them other devices automatically.

Thus, if a user creates a text document or make a photo with a device, automatically this file is saved in the cloud and can be accessed from another.

Another of the most striking is the unified notifications screen, which is very similar to the Google operating system for mobile. Now reports are combined in a sliding menu that pops from the top.

On the other hand, Apple has finally integrated Twitter into your operating system so that the user can upload content directly to the network of 'microblogging' from within other programs.

Several interesting applications have come up with iOS 5. This is the case of reminders and tasks, IMessage -one chat between IOS devices including iPod Touch, which works over Wi-Fi or 3G, or the kiosk to download newspapers or magazines. They join a number of improvements in many applications such as calendar, e-mail or the Game Center.

Apple has also improved its roll of film , so it is now possible to edit images directly without having to resort to other applications. In addition, improved camera, with options as basic as a shortcut by pressing the volume buttons to not having to find the application icon.