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Libratone: Android application to control wireless speakers available on Google Play

The Android application that allows you to control wireless speakers Libratone Zipp, or Live Lounge is now available on Google Play.A few weeks ago, we rapportions the brand announced that its Libratone wireless speakers Zipp, Live Lounge and would receive an update that would make them compatible with Android and Windows computers. For the record, Libratone speakers were originally designed for the iPhone and iPad.They are quite unique in that they can enjoy a very good sound, while remaining highly mobile because of their small size. They are now compatible with DLNA, which opens the possibility to connect to the devices mentioned above.Enceintes sans fil Libratone
The news today is that dedicated Android application Libratone just made its appearance on the Google Store Play. If you have a smartphone or a tablet that runs on the operating system of Google, at least version 2.3.3 Gingerbread, this application is the missing link that makes your camera compatible with Zipp Libratone, and Live Lounge. It provides access to the following features:• Wi-Fi with the speakers Libratone• Assigning a name to a specific forum for rapid identification• Volume control for mobile equipment via an AUX jack with a locking feature that prevents inadvertent adjustment of the volume

GooPhone i5S: the smartphone Chinese who thought he was the future iPhone

Chinese cloner life is pretty easy, after all. Just a bit of industrial espionage, a coat of courage and a factory just shake and you have a realistic clone of one of the most anticipated products of the year in the world of mobile technology . GooPhone us quite accustomed to the thing out some time ago a simulated iPhone 5: the company wants to do better and now offers a i5S. You immediately understood that it was a clone of the iPhone 5S coming.

Under the hull, there is a dual-core processor clocked at 1 GHz and supported by 1 GB of RAM. 8GB storage will allow you to store your photos taken by the camera of 5 ms. The 4-inch screen 854x480 pixels is surely all to envy the real iPhone, if not its size. OS side, there is a highly modified for Android 4.1.2 to iOS look perfectly. It will take more to convince us, but we must recognize that the demonstration video shows a rather interesting device, quick and well finished ... for $ 150. Still none would dare importer market it in France ...

Angry Birds: If you did not play four years of existence, the game is now free on iOS

If we are in a society where everything goes faster and faster, it seems that this is also the case of the passage of shareware freeware - if not abandonware. Angry Birds is perhaps the most famous mobile game in the world and after dozens of variations, it continues to gain success with each release. On Android, the game has always been free and funded by advertising, but on iOS, it has always cost one to two euros depending on the version.

Yes, even the very first edition of Angry Birds, the original, which has propelled the birds in the field in 2009 dollars has never been free. After so many variations, it seems that the golden sparrow egg is more profitable if a paid version and Rovio decided to make this free mobile game ancestor. So you will find two versions, standard and HD for iPad free on the App Store. If you've never played Angry Birds, this is perhaps the moment ...

Tablets have passed smartphones in terms of amount of web traffic

Of the total hours of surfing recorded in recent years, smartphones have continued to snatch ground on traditional computing. This situation could have changed.
The smartphone is connected to the internet for about 6 years and yet consumption page are the owners of these machines already connected may be exceeded by a new competitor from the same milieu of mobility: the touch pad. Since the iPad, the tablet market has exploded and after the release of the Nexus 7, he stretched very far towards democratization through low prices. And this trend is confirmed in a study by Adobe, the famous developer of Photoshop.
According to their statements, would take the tablets for 8% of the consultation web pages, while smartphones are just behind with 7%. Everything else is still occupied by traditional computing. Another interesting figure is to be noted: a user of tablet bed 70% more pages than a smartphone user. This illustrates the inactivity of the use of a touch pad: Often, when you read an article on a smartphone, we expect it to load and then traverses in transport. Reading on touchpad can take hours, if you sink into a sofa with a good Wi-Fi
The study reveals a link between last living and possession of a touch pad which is admittedly a luxury. In online shopping, orders placed by a touch pad would cost 54% more expensive than on past smartphone and 19% higher than those spent on a PC. Here we find a hierarchy actually quite representative: the smartphone is now a inexpensive tool which may be suitable as a single point of access to the internet in a precarious financial situation. The desktop computer, more expensive but still a versatile choice means. The tablet, it is a pleasure object presupposes a comfortable situation - so it makes sense that users can spend more.

UK: Apple has not infringed Samsung patents

Front in the war that pits two giants, often referred skirmishes in which Apple attacks Samsung. The reverse is also ... the result is substantially the same.

The last two years, if you followed the news a little bit of new technologies, in particular mobile technology, you know that Samsung and Apple are not the best of friends. The two firms have launched a legal battle and media to know, finally, that the whole world is waiting, hungry children abused workers, civilians dying in conflicts in the Middle East to SDF spring waiting impatiently which Samsung or Apple, copied to the other.

United States, justice was rather oriented regional preference condemning Samsung widely enough in the largest trial that pitted the two firms. In the UK, the final verdict is rather similar, even if the attack this time came from Korean: he said Apple had infringed its vrevets the transmission of data via 3G. English justice ruled: Apple does not infringe nothing and should not pound Samsung.

Samsung is obviously not happy and lawyers paid in the year for this kind of trial will examine the report of the Court of Justice to see if it is possible to appeal. Apple has not commented, but anonymous sources have noted an increase in the budget champagne and party favors.

Motorola Mobility should separate 10% of its staff in the United States, China and India

Motorola Mobility was acquired by Google in 2011 for $ 12.5 billion ... This did not prevent the firm, still in deficit, laying off massively since.

Like what, this is not all about being a dolphin of the most prominent companies in the world: in an internal email sent to employees of Motorola Mobility by Google himself, picked up by the Wall Street Journal, we learn that 1,200 employees or 10% of staff will be dismissed very quickly. The reason? Despite the optimism about the future of Google, the company continues to lose money. And since Google has their hands on, if they lose money, Google loses.

After the 4,000 employees laid off last August, so this is a new restructuring will know the firm. The goal is simple: Google wants to reduce spending in markets where Motorola has the highest loss. The strategy is not the most altruistic nor more comforting: we know that Google is preparing a Nexus with Motorola, codenamed Motorola X. To dismiss a few months of the announcement, Google has no confidence in his product or it does not wish to enjoy the success of its employees considered. In any case, given the current sitation, dismissal is more than questionable.

Cheap iPhone: Qualcomm processors could provide

Difficult to recognize with certainty that Apple will offer here a short time a low-cost iPhone. While rumors have lot of sense and that the manufacturer would do well to follow, it is always difficult to give details about a vehicle that has not yet been officially announced. So when it comes to dealing with rumors about the components of a rumor ... you see the size of the tweezers to take.

That said, if you take the time to relay it is that it is more relevant: it was heard that Apple has chosen Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for this cheaper iPhone. Qualcomm has a solution which integrates a powerful processor and a modem 4G, mass produced for a few months now: Apple would be wrong to seek to invest heavily in R & D and place orders to multiple companies when a manufacturer has everything at your fingertips .

Neo N003: an Android screen 5'' Full HD quad-core for ... 111 euros!

While the Chinese market is known for its Android smartphones manufacturers low cost, Neo set a new record with the N003, which offers a Full HD screen of 5 inches and a quad-core chipset for 111 euros.
You probably already know that all high-end Android smartphones of 2013 will offer technical characteristics more or less similar, including a 5-inch screen Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels), and a quad-core chipset 13 megapixel camera sensor. With the notable exception of the HTC One, this is already the Sony Xperia qu'embarquent Z, S Grand ZTE, Huawei Ascend M2 and HTC Butterfly. It is also the kind of features that are regularly mentioned for Samsung Galaxy S4, or whatever his name at the end.

Neo N003, android avec écran 1080p de 5 pouces et quadruple coeur pour 111 euros

With such a sheet, the prices of these smartphones to their output sail beyond 600 EUR without subscription. However, it seems that the Chinese will not have to pay such a fortune to get an Android with the technical fact of the day. Giz China has indeed managed to pull in some manufacturer specifications Neo's Android Smartphone N003 and above the price of the beast. Sit down before you read on.
The N003, whose release date has not yet unveiled, will offer a 5-inch screen and a Full HD quad-core chipset for the modest sum of 899 yuan Chinese ... or 111 euros! The device will also have a slightly more upscale version of which will be marketed in 1499 Chinese yuan (185 euros). The website was not able to have more details on the differences between the two models, but promises it will be more information to be next week. In the meantime, unless the components chosen are truly catastrophic, the N003 has all of the business of the year, even for the Chinese market. As for the one day distributed in Europe, it is a different story.

Assessment of Mobile World Congress 2013: a high mass of breath, lacking strong ads

In the mobile phone market is constantly changing, communication habits manufacturers are changing at breakneck speed International fairs, such as the Mobile World Congress we propose here an account, are the first to bear the brunt of these new habits Samsung, Sony, LG and other HTC. Explanations.
For its 2013 edition, the largest exhibition in the world dedicated to mobile phones, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​has been revamped. If have stayed in the city dear to Gaudi, Miro and Cervantes, the event has still moved in a convention center (Fira) bigger and better arranged than the last. The organizers had then gathered all the ingredients to make a memorable edition. Unfortunately for them, there is still a variable over which they had no power: Ads manufacturers.
Major announcements made upstreamBefore the show begins, we already knew that the 2013 vintage would be pretty bland this view. Indeed, there is no longer any doubt that the strategy of manufacturers is now holding their own event to present their flagship models. This allows them to capture a greater media attention because their ads are not drowned in the deluge of press releases that struck the mailboxes during a media room. This situation is relatively recent since Samsung introduced the Galaxy S2 still in the MWC 2011. The Korean manufacturer has followed suit to Apple, with its famous precursor keynotes, since last year has since been followed by all the other renowned manufacturers. LG has introduced two versions of its G Optimus Pro a few days before the MWC 2013. Same for HTC with its One, unveiled just three days before the show. As for Samsung, it is still "worse" by distributing the press booth MWC invitations to the presentation of its Galaxy S4 ... part of a scheduled event barely a fortnight after the show. Where things go wrong for the Mobile World Congress, is that few manufacturers still take the time to make major announcements in the living room we did this year at CES in Las Vegas beginning of January. This is where Sony, Huawei and ZTE have formalized Xperia Z respectively, Ascend D2 and S. Grand
The additional range to subscribers missingAll these top models are undoubtedly those which give zest to a room, making it an unmissable event. Evil is even deeper for the MWC because besides these heads gondola supplements range have also largely ignores Barcelona. Of course, Nokia has introduced its Lumia 520 and 720, in addition to two models of ZTE Huwai and we will discuss a bit later. These new Lumia are not without interest, particularly with regard to their quality / price ratio. But we knew better to dream crowds. As for Samsung and LG, they just show smartphones already announced, sometimes several weeks ago, as pell-mell Galaxy Express and Cover X-2 and the Optimus Series II L and F. To be quite complete, note that Samsung still has cracked a tablet, the Galaxy Tab 8.0. The stand of the Korean manufacturer was also the spotlight on the slate with dozens of models on display. But again, this is not the kind of product that journalists move en masse around the world.
Move along, nothing to seeIn HTC and Sony, we do not even have the right to supplement range, recent or not. The first city has tried to introduce a pseudo-novelty: the Xperia Tablet Z. However, there is a product advertised for two months in Japan. The manufacturer is in fact merely reveal it would be available worldwide. There have been more breathless as outstanding. As for HTC, the Taiwanese was even more conservative since the stand was the pride of the One and only One. The same goes leading supplier of chipsets and processors such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, etc.. They made their major announcements at CES in Las Vegas and were content to show the products of their partners in action. Or at least that is how Qualcomm has made as many smartphones already offer its new Snapdragon chipset 600. Nvidia for Tegra powered devices were prototypes of four tablets.
An underlying trendAmong Chinese manufacturers, the situation is a bit more pleasing to the extent that there ZTE and Huawei each had at least one new product of interest. The Grand ZTE Memo is a good competitor and should form the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, while the Huawei Ascend P2 rather eyeing the Galaxy S3. But even if it is in the process of climbing the stairs four at the duo manufacturers has not the media notoriety sufficient to compensate for the total absence of news on other stands. And what about the total lack of Google, Microsoft and BlackBerry spans the show? The three companies were well represented at MWC, but they preferred to receive media and business partners in surrounding hotels, without investing in a stand. In the end, the real problem of Mobile World Congress and other international events of this caliber is not only the manufacturers do not want to see their major announcements parasitized by those of the competition, but also that they do not want no more be dictated by timing an event of this kind. The radius of the satisfactions, the organizers may always rejoice in the success of the conference and its Mozilla Firefox OS. A little thin for a living representing the alpha and omega of mobile media there are still 24 months. Of course, all the observations made here are limited to the impact of media MWC. Do not forget that this is only one of its facets. In fact, professionals are still moving mass and must say many interesting things behind the closed doors of the units of some stands. But mostly there then.

The reasons for the lack of Firefox on iPhone and iPad (iOS)

Jay Sullivan, one of the vice-presidents of Mozilla, gave the reasons why Firefox was not available on iOS devices, like the iPhone or iPad. It relies mainly on the inability of third-party publishers to use their own rendering engine.

At SXSW conference, a vice-president of Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, told his audience that he would not for the moment Firefox browser on iOS devices. As reported by CNET, it puts this fact on account of the attitude unaccomodating Apple to publishers alternative browsers.

Apple forces them to actually use one of the renderers Safari. In addition, it does not allow them to use the best of these renderers, namely ultra-fast Nitro JavaScript. They must use slower e UIWebView. This obviously gives a big advantage to the browser home Apple competition.

It is thus that Jay Sullivan justifies the absence of the Firefox iOS platform. He argues that these restrictions prevent Mozilla browser propose a performance. In such a configuration, the foundation prefers to abstain out an application that is not compatible with their quality standards and in which it can not integrate its own rendering engine. From our side, we find it somewhat strange reasoning. If want to offer the best possible user experience is a commendable attitude, it is still worth noting that we find among the third-party browsers on iOS devices some Google Chrome. Performance of the latter are also quite honorable. Finally, the lack of Firefox iOS Apple does not hamper, but Mozilla is depriving a large market for its browser.

Gamephone Controller: Bluetooth controller that turns the iPhone and Android in handheld

Bigben Interactive announced the Gamephone Controller, a Bluetooth controller compatible with iOS and Android smartphones. It has a special offer a base, which can turn into real small mobile handheld.Slowly but surely, the number of joysticks dedicated to Android and iOS smartphones is expanding. However, most of these initiatives are put on the account of small props. But, when a company of the caliber of Bigben Interactive embarks on this kind of market is proof that begins to reach a certain maturity.Bigben Interactive announced the upcoming release of Gamephone Controller, a Bluetooth controller dedicated to the game on smartphones and tablets, compatible with both iOS and Android. In its press release describing the new, the company puts forward a study comScore / MobiLens that in the Big 5 European countries, 72 million people play at least once per month on their phones, and 18 million daily basis . In this mass of players, there is obviously a majority who simply great games known as "casual" and that practice carefree with a touch screen. However, there are others, many others, who believe that certain types of game (action, fighting, etc.)., Nothing will ever replace real physical checks.
Manette Bluetooth Gamephone Controller pour iOS et Android de Bigben Interactive

The Controller will therefore Gamephone all those playing more comfortable and less frustrating. Bigben says his accessory is compatible with over 90% of the mobile market. In addition, Android also allows a way to optimize the compatibility of the joystick with games using HD technology NVIDIA Tegra. In addition, note that the Gamephone Controller is also equipped with a swivel stand that welcomes smartphones with screen size goes up to 5.5 inches in vertical or horizontal position. Even a mastiff like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is therefore welcome. ) E, safely. Finally, says his Bigben Bluetooth controller has a range of 15h at stake Gamephone Controller will be available in stores late April at a suggested retail price of 39.90 euros.
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