Anatel aprova edital de licitação do 4G no Brasil. A Anatel divulgou no início da noite que o Conselho Diretor aprovou o edital de licitação da frequência de 2,5 GHz, aquela que será usada para a oferta de internet móvel de quarta geração.
Da mesma forma, a agência aprovou o edital que coloca a frequência de 450 MHz para uso da telefonia móvel em regiões rurais. Marcada para o início de junho, a licitação prevê inicialmente que a frequência de 450 MHz seja leiloada, tendo como critério o menor preço para o consumidor final. Caso a licitação da frequência seja positiva, os 2,5 GHz entram num leilão à parte. Em caso negativo, a Anatel planeja leiloar tanto os 450 MHz como os 2,5 Ghz simultaneamente numa segunda rodada. Why CEOs Should Allow Facebook in the Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC] Is Google+ the No. 3 Social Network? Depends How You Measure It.
In the course of announcing a facelift for Google+ on Wednesday, Google dropped a notable status update: The social network now has 170 million users. The company's post claims that "more than 170 million people have upgraded to Google+," a figure that almost doubles the figure that Google threw out for Google+ in January. Assuming the self-reported figure is true, that means that G+ is now the third-largest U.S. Size Matters in Social Business Adoption. Social Business Social business research and more recent thought leadership explore the challenges and opportunities presented by social media.
More in this series Already a member? Sign in. Nokia: 2 million Lumia Windows Phones sold in last quarter. Nokia revealed on April 11 that it sold 2 million Windows Phone Lumia devices worldwide in the first quarter of 2012. Is that promising or alarming? It's not good enough to boost Nokia's results, as company officials acknowledged on April 11, when it lowered estimates for its first financial quarter from "around break even" to negative three percent.
Nokia officials called the results for its devices and services first quarter "disappointing. " Company officials are expecting operating margins for the second quarter to be similar or below the first quarter. Nokia is set to announce its Q1 earnings on April 19, the same day Microsoft is reporting its Q3 fiscal 2012 earnings.
Instagram: From Zero to $1 Billion in 17 Months [INFOGRAPHIC] When Instagram launched its first app in October 2010, it did not strike most people as the kind of startup that would be acquired for $1 billion. "We were all like, 'what's the big deal? It's just photos and filters," Brian Blau, a Research Director with the Consumer Technology and Markets Group at Gartner, tells Mashable. But in retrospect, he adds, "There's something to be said around that simplicity. " The app had almost 200,000 users within the first week. By February, it had 1.75 million users, and three months later that number had jumped to 4 million.
Nokia warns on H1 phone business loss. Springpad Works Like Pinterest, But Smarter. Smart notebook Springpad is morphing into a smart Pinterest. The app is launching a redesign Wednesday that lets users make notebooks public, follow other users' public notebooks and "spring" specific items to their own notebooks. Since launching about three years ago, Springpad has registered 3 million users for its list-enhancing service. It uses more than 150 services' APIs to automatically add actionable information to lists.
In a list of movies, for instance, it might add movie showtimes, reviews and DVD release dates. INTERVIEW: Kinect boss Kudo Tsunoda. Kinect Star Wars finally arrived on shelves earlier this week, standing as a flagship for the new generation of Xbox 360’s motion controlled titles. MCV speaks to Microsoft’s Master Yoda of Kinect, Kudo Tsunoda, about why the game is a major boon for the device and how far the technology can go… How will the power of the Star Wars brand drive Kinect’s appeal to a mass audience? That wasn’t necessarily the goal for this project. From the beginning, when we were brainstorming what type of experiences we most wanted to build with Kinect, Star Wars was always at the top of our list. Lots of us are huge fans. This Developer Hacked Together Google's Project Glass with Existing Parts.
Google’s Project Glass video went viral last week. The clip shows life for someone wearing spectacles with an AR display that shows messages, location and alerts. As most of us noted, it is a mock-up of what could happen and that’s all sci-fi right? Nope. As reported on SlashGear, an AR developer in Oxford has worked up a little version of Google Glass for himself. Can Microsoft Come Back? Dan Lyons’s Month Without Apple and Google. The iPhone was stowed, the Google Docs left unopened—Dan Lyons spent 30 days using nothing but Microsoft products to see whether the company could win consumers like him back. And they could pull it off, he says. Could Microsoft ever be cool again? The company has been out of it for so long that a comeback is hard to imagine. But by some miracle this seems to be happening, and people are starting to take notice. Google Video Shows Its Vision for Smart Glasses 'Making Things See' can teach you how to hack the Kinect. Microsoft selects 11 Kinect Accelerator startups for future app development.
Video: Microsoft Kinect powers augmented-reality magic show. Journey Becomes Fastest-Selling PlayStation Download Ever. The chill, exploration-heavy Journey broke sales records on PlayStation Network.Image courtesy Sony Somewhere in a dark alley, Nathan Drake and Sackboy must be conspiring against an up-and-coming PlayStation 3 mascot: the mute, robed wanderer from Journey, which is now PlayStation Network’s fastest-selling game in Europe and the U.S.
Jenova Chen, Creative Director of Journey developer thatgamecompany, posted the news on the PlayStation blog today. He writes that the reaction to the game, which Wired magazine covers in its April issue, has been “overwhelming.” LG's Flexible E-Paper Display Is Coming to Europe in April. LG has announced it has started mass production of its electronic paper display (EPD) product, with a planned launch in Europe next month.
LG's EPD is a 6-inch, 1024x768 e-ink plastic screen. It's 0.7mm thick, it weighs 14g, and LG claims it's resistant to scratches and drops from a 1.5 meter height. Of course, its biggest claim to fame is its flexibility: LG claims the screen allows bending at a range of 40 degrees from its center. "With the world's first plastic EPD, LG Display has once again proven its reputation for leadership and innovation with a product we believe will help greatly popularize the E-Book market," said Sang Duck Yeo, Head of Operations for LG Display's Mobile/OLED division. There is no word on a US release, but LG says the EPD will first be supplied to ODM companies in China, with completed products hitting European shores at the beginning of April.
The Future Of Mobile [DECK] Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures of Plots? - Alan Jacobs - Technology. Search-engine optimization reshaped the craft of a good headline.
Will Amazon's book promotions have a similar effect on novels? Steffens77/Flickr We all know that people who run websites have a hatful of little tricks intended to give their sites more prominence in searches. (For an SEO primer, see here.) One of the curious things about SEO optimization is that it works by altering webpages so that they market themselves: that is, instead of creating ads external to the thing advertised, you re-shape the thing itself so that it's easier to find and more interesting and attractive to link-clickers.
Three years ago Steven Johnson wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he predicted that the writing and publishing of books would come to require something like SEO optimization: E-readers or print books - which is greener? Dilemma: When it comes to reading, what's kinder to the environment - an e-reader or books?
Of course I'll: Stick with traditional books. Yes, they use paper and ink, but at least I don't need to plug them in. Trade-off: There are carbon emissions in the production of books too, not to mention the loss of carbon-gobbling trees felled for paper. Schumpeter: Now for some good news. Monitor: An open-source robo-surgeon. With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As Widespread As Cellular. In late 2010, Verizon rolled out its 4G LTE network, which offers data speeds 10 times as fast as 3G networks.
But as mobile data traffic continues to grow—experts anticipate that it will increase 26-fold in the next three years—it's unlikely that any network will be able to keep up. Fortunately, something else is set to happen over the next three years: Wi-Fi could become as ubiquitous and easy to access as cellular is now. Wi-Fi is up to 15 times as fast as LTE, but at this point it's an unrealistic substitute for cell service. Connecting is not a standard process. Users need to log into access points individually, enter passwords, and go through other credentialing rigmarole.
Later this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium that oversees Wi-Fi certification and testing, will release the Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint standard to automate logins. Next up for Apple, it's iTV – the television that will respond when you shout at it. Comments made by Steve Jobs to his biographer have heightened speculation.
Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple is designing a television that you can shout and gesticulate at – and it will understand you. Having revolutionised the music and mobile phone industries with its iPod and iPhone, the company is planning an "iTV" to turn couch surfing into a hi-tech experience. The Japanese firm Sharp has been asked to begin commercial production of Apple TV screens in February, with the sets available in the second half of 2012, according to analyst Peter Misek at the American bank Jefferies. "Other TV manufacturers have begun a scrambling search to identify what iTV will be and do," Misek claimed.
Computer displays: Pivoting pixels. Kinect Project Merges Real and Virtual Worlds. Microsoft’s Kinect Xbox controller, which lets gamers control on-screen action with their body movements, has been adapted in hundreds of interesting, useful, and occasionally bizarre ways since its release in November 2010.
It’s been used for robotic vision and automated home lighting. It’s helped wheelchair users with their shopping. Yet these uses could look like child’s play compared to the new 3-D modeling capabilities Microsoft has developed for the Kinect. KinectFusion, a research project that lets users generate high-quality 3-D models in real time using a standard $100 Kinect, was the star of the show at Microsoft Research’s 20th anniversary event held this week at its European headquarters in Cambridge, U.K. KinectFusion also includes a realistic physics engine that allows scanned objects to be manipulated in realistic ways. The technology allows objects, people, and entire rooms to be scanned in 3-D at a fraction of the normal cost.
Robot builds its own body from sprayable foam - tech - 19 October 2011. The Internet in Africa - still an alien concept. I remember visiting a school in Accra, Ghana earlier this year.
Though many of its students could recite the lyrics of popular musicians in Ghana, none of them had heard of YouTube or even of the Internet. Siri: The Perfect Robot for Our Time - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. Startup Lets You Save and Share Parts of Web Pages. The Web may make it easy to communicate with people thousands of miles away and put libraries full of knowledge at our fingertips, but plenty of simple things are still surprisingly hard to do online. Take saving a piece of a Web page. 91 percent of kids play video games, says study.
Dilma sanciona isenção de impostos para tablets. Do ponto de vista tributário, agora sim está tudo pronto para que a Foxconn comece a montar os iPads no Brasil – diminuindo o custo do produto no Brasil, esperamos. Look, But Don’t Touch. Wired.com. Meet Eyeborg, the man with a camera eye - Video - Technology. Personal technology: Beyond the PC. BlackBerry service crash affects BBM messaging for millions. Tens of millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been unable to receive or send emails and messages through their phones, following an outage at the server systems of parent company Research In Motion (RIM) in Slough, Berkshire. The outage, which occurred at about 11am BST on Monday, was still affecting users more than four hours later with no time given for when it was expected to be resolved. The company released a brief acknowledgement of the problem at 3.30pm, saying: "We are working to resolve an issue currently impacting some BlackBerry subscribers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Microsoft employees reveal they’re working on next-generation Xbox. Microsoft Just Made Google TV Look Even Sillier. Microsoft has signed deals with Comcast, Verizon, and a bunch of other TV and video providers to bring more video to Xbox Live. The deals, which were rumored earlier this month, are slightly different for each provider. Comcast will bring its Xfinity On Demand service to Xbox Live, whereas Verizon will offer a selection of live TV channels to its FiOS subscribers. In both cases, users will still need to subscribe to the TV providers — Xbox Live is not replacing TV providers, but simply serving as a new set top box for them. Kindle Touch won't browse Web over 3G. Xbox Companion App coming to Windows Phone, magically controls Xbox 360. Twitter.
Bally Total Fitness introduces gesture-based video technology. Anúncio do iPhone 4S decepciona e ações da Apple fecham em queda de 0,56% - 04/10/2011. Kinect may act as a parental control body scanner in future. Sonho do iPad brasileiro está em risco, diz Reuters. Microsoft Employees Complaining Online. TNW Gadgets (@tnwgadgets) sur Twitter. Amazon’s Entire New Kindle Family Compared [Image] Amazon Kindle Fire Available Second Week Of November. Amazon. Amazon's Tablet Is A "Pretty Poor" "Stopgap" That The Kindle Team Didn't Even Work On. Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet. Amazon's New Tablet.
Live from Amazon's tablet event in NYC! Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time. Conexão no Brasil é uma das mais lentas do mundo, diz pesquisa. Pando Networks Releases Global Internet Speed Study. Rumor do dia: seria esse o Google Drive? "Phantom Sensation" Gaming Technology Could Make You Feel The Action. Forget Apps, Carbyn Has Built A HTML5 OS. 6.5 Million Robots Now Inhabit the Earth. Researchers come up with new way to extend smartphone battery life. Windows 8 Reimagines The Windows Experience. Phone Story - Android Market. Google to Iran: Change your password. PrUK23024911. Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple? Why Google Should Buy Motorola. Microsoft’s worldwide smartphone market share drops below 2% Ouch! Google TV Returns Outnumber Sales. Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility. Is Microsoft's next move buying Nokia or RIM? Nah... Did Google Just Turn Motorola Into the New Super-TiVo?
Larry Page Just Made Apple And Microsoft Look Like Fools. Google, Motorola, and Microsoft’s role in one of the strangest tech deals ever.
Strategy Analytics: Apple iOS Captures 61 Percent Share of Global Tablet Shipments in Q2 2011. MyYearbook acquired by Quepasa for $100 million.