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15/04/2013

The advantages of not so smart phones:

Such phones have become increasingly popular in the developing world.

They are something like the younger brothers of smartphones. They can have a basic type of GPS (global positioning system), camera, MP3 player and some level of internet access. They are also able to run some simple applications.

They're somewhere between the basic cell, they can simply make and receive calls and text messages, and smartphones.

They tend to be inexpensive, sturdy, and charges its batteries last several times longer than those of smartphones.

In short, ITcan be perfect in emerging economies.

So Dahikar case is not unique. 40% of cell phone users in Argentina, 53% in Mexico and 78% in Brazil use feature phones, according to figures from mobile advertising company, BuzzCity.

Lest you suffer the consequences of using a less advanced technology considered (how get to know when the next bus arrive?), The employer of Dahikar, Mastek (dedicated to outsourcing of services), provided him-both he and his colleagues-one solution for you.

Company buses, routes that cross default town for picking up their employees, are equipped with a single GPS device.

16/04/2013

Two robots will be notified to their owners if they smell bad were presented in Japan.

One plays the head of a woman and evaluates the breath of its user. If the odor is "dangerous" levels, declares an "emergency".

The other looks like a dog growls when you smell sweaty foot.

The machines used commercially available sensors, demonstrating how technology has evolved artificial noses (or electronic noses), which was available in the early 1990s.

The robots were developed by the company CrazyLabo and Kitakyushu National College of Technology, using a technology that goes far beyond this proposal clearly playful.

The news of the new machines first appeared in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

They reported that when subjected to the breath of a user, the humanoid robot, called Kaori, responds with phrases ranging from "smells like citrus" to "there is an emergency that is beyond the limits of my patience."

The dog robot, called Shuntaro, nods while analyzing the scent of his master's feet.

If the smell is not too strong huddles against the user and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds from your speakers.

If you feel a stronger smell, growls. And if the scent borders on the intolerable, pretends to faint.

17/04/2013

Could Instagram kill the paparazzi?

In March Raquel Sabz, based in New York and a simple fan of social network Instagram, ran into the singer Beyonce and her daughter in the borough of Brooklyn.

Sabz did not think twice, took out his cell phone, said the diva and captured a snapshot that hung in your social network account.

Soon after, he bought half the photo and distributed it in publications such as People, The Huffington Post and New York Daily.

Events like this do cause some to question whether the ubiquity of smart phones, the rise of social networks and the Internet is putting in danger the work of the already controversial and paparazzi.

Celebrities like Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga also use Instagram to hang personal pictures, are then passed to appear in resources devoted to tracking celebrities.

In this context, and after what happened with Beyonce, Molly Goodson, editor in chief of the American publication PopSugar, admitted that "a hyper-connected world where everyone carries a camera, a celebrity sighting is not worth as much as before."

According to Goodson, today is hard to put a price on a photograph as it appears first on social networks like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, which causes acquired for a fraction of the high prices they used to historically.

18/04/2013

Twitter: "Brazil is a huge business opportunity"

The Twitter chief revenue, Adam Bain, said the social network works to monetize sporting events in Brazil hosting the World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016.

In an interview with Reuters news agency, Bain said that "the next 10 years in Brazil are going to be really impressive from the perspective of business".

"Many of the most strategic agreements we signed with the advertisers, which are global agreements signed in the course of many years, including work they want to do in Brazil during the World Cup and the Olympic Games," said the head of global income social network, which is currently in Sao Paulo.

Investing in different U.S. technology companies in Brazil has grown in recent years.

In fact, Twitter is one of the last to link to this emerging market, where social networks have had a great reception.

According to 2012 numbers Semiocast company, Brazil is the second most Twitter users in the world, with more than 40 million.

19/04/2013

Teen creates app to avoid spoilers

People who are hooked on a TV series knows how difficult it is sometimes to keep the suspense until the end, especially when our contacts in social networks are determined to uncover what is going to happen.

To avoid knowing ahead of time an important part of the plot of a series or film-what in English is known as spoilers-American teenager Jennie Lamere, 17, has developed an application called Twivo, software that blocks spoilers that appear on Twitter.

Twivo traces the social network in search of keywords specified by the user, as the title of a program or the names of the characters or the actors and blocking that content, for example, prevent damage to a good end.

Applying Lamere was awarded last month on a computer contest in Boston, the "TVNext hackathon".

"I was very frustrated all the time find spoilers of my favorite series on Twitter, so I decided to create this app for myself," he told the BBC Lamere.

"I liked the idea because the application can be used by both teenagers and adults. Everybody bothered by spoilers in social networks, so it has a great market," said the girl.

Lamere explains, after winning the contest has received offers to do internships in various companies have offered even involved in projects to develop applications.

Despite this, she is waiting to get fall to study computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.