BlackBerry’s Android slider phone is called the Priv and will be available this year
As part of their Q2 Fiscal 2016 results, BlackBerry also took the time today make their plans to launch theBlackBerry Priv, which will run Android with BlackBerry security, official.
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Is it in the best interest of AI not to kill us all?
If AI can make decisions about killing, then is it possible that AI will understand its own best interests? And if so, would those best interests include killing us all? We asked futurists, science writers and academics specializing in AI studies and emerging technology ethics.
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It takes 6 inches or more to warrant the Ultra moniker and Sony only makes one of these a year. Fair enough, not everyone can handle a phablet. But if you have a use for all that FullHD screen real estate, the Sony Xperia C5 Ultra tops it up with an LED-flash-assisted selfie camera, expandable memory and LTE…
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Si andabas esperando como agua de mayo que el Watch de Huawei aterrizase en España, no podíamos darte mejor noticia para iniciar el fin de semana. El reloj inteligente de la firma china ya puede encontrarse en los escaparates españoles tras su presen…
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Engulfed by all the mobile tech innovations, amidst a hectic and ever-so-dynamic realm, we often tend to overlook the business side of things. Operating on an international scale is no mundane task and quarterly market reports tend to reveal trends and processes on a bigger scale that can make or break an OEM.
The latest Counterpoint research numbers are now in and from the looks of things Samsung is still king of the smartphone world. It seems that the Korean giant has managed to skillfully counter declining sales of its current Galaxy S6 flagship, thanks to a wide variety of other offers, both in the premium and mid-range segments. Samsung managed a 19 % global share, compared to 10% for Apple, which is a distant second and 7% for Huawei in the third spot.
There are, however, a few clarifications to be made. The aforementioned numbers are for mobile phones as a whole, when we narrow things down to smartphones only, which currently have about 75% market share, Samsung shines with an even more respectable 21% globally, followed by Apple with 14% and Huawei with 9%.
Breaking things down by continent reveals an identical picture, except for North America, where Apple leads with a 31% share and Samsung is second with 24%. Also, bear in mind that the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have just hit user markets today and their sales in the following weeks are sure to change the picture in Q3.
But, apart from Apple and Samsung, this batch of sales report does offer insight on a few other trends. Most notably, the impressive growth from various Chinese OEM’s on international markets.
Huawei has really been doing great for itself, while Xiaomi is another major success story as it already has a 5% share in the global smartphone market. In fact, in Asia alone, Xiaomi managed to surpass Apple with 11% of the market, compared to Cupertino’s 10%.
This trend will likely continue in the following months. Asian brands are on the rise – Asus, for instance, has been the fastest growing brand with 500% raise in shipments, followed closely by vivo with a growth of 400%. This, combined with major market expansions in India and Africa, where growth rates can exceed global values by as much as seven times, means that Chinese manufacturers are quickly becoming a strong force in the mobile realm.
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Hace un tiempo nos hicimos eco de un nuevo rumor sobre un posible portátil low-cost del fabricante chino Xiaomi. Se trataba de una copia de calidad del MacBook Air de Apple, un diseño de calidad cuidado hasta el mínimo detalle, del que apareció una imagen filtrada que no parecía muy real pero que recorrió toda la red. Pero lo mejor es que vendrá con un sistema operativo basado en Linux, ya sea una distro o un sistema propio de Xiaomi basado en Android como dicen los últimos rumores.
Pues bien, cuando el río suena, agua lleva, o eso dicen… Y cuando los rumores surgen no siempre son vanos, a veces se acierta. Ya se hablaba de que Xiaomi trabajaba estrechamente con Samsung para crear los chips y la pantalla que llevará el equipo, ahora se sabe algo más y es que la empresa de OEMs Inventec será la encargada de fabricarlo para su lanzamiento en 2016. Sin duda sería una alternativa a tener en cuenta e interesante para los que quieran un ordenador elegante y con Linux (que no sea un Google ChromeBook).
Ha sido la propia Inventec la que ha confirmado los rumores sobre que trabaja en un portátil de Xiaomi para 2016. Y como digo, a veces las filtraciones o rumores son intencionados por parte de las compañías para crear expectación. No son descuidos por los que una imagen privada ve la luz y nunca se debería haber visto, los fabricantes y diseñadores pueden equivocarse, pero no hasta cierto punto. Por eso, algunas filtraciones pueden, lejos de perjudicar, beneficiar mucho a los intereses empresariales.
El CEO de Inventec Corp, Richard Lee, ha asegurado: “Soy muy optimista sobre las espectativas de negocio para los ordenadores portátiles de Xiaomi, ya que la firma cuenta con más de 200 millones de usuarios de smartphones registrados. […]” Además ante la pregunta de cúando veremos el portátil dice: “Vamos a comenzar a enviar los ordenadores portátiles de Xiaomi en el primer o segundo trimestre del próximo año“.
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A new report Wednesday, from Palo Alto Networks, discloses previously unreported Chinese cyber attack on a U.S. government agency. The attack report comes amidst tense U.S.-China discussions over cyber security.
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“Lock-in” has become such a common term in technology deployments that I think that we might be losing sight not only of what it means, but how to recognize and avoid it. There is a tendency to oversimplify our thinking about lock-in, which comes down to something along the lines of, “if I use this or that piece of software, it is going to cost me a lot when the time comes to switch away from it.”
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The Priv smartphone comes out later this year, but BlackBerry is under greater pressure than ever to turnaround declining sales and profits.
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Gartner analyst Doug Laney defined the 3 V’s of Big Data (Volume, Variety, Velocity) in a 2001 MetaGroup research publication. Since then there have been revisions by various analysts and vendors, but this week another V exposed a severe weakness not only in Big Data but against the Internet Of Things: Volkswagen
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