Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Facebook also interested in acquiring BlackBerry


The social network would be interested in buying mobile devices division .

According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, Facebook is reportedly met with representatives of BlackBerry . The meeting with the company of Mark Zuckerberg would have been made with the primary intention of reaching a purchase offer for the division of smartphones.

For now, the U.S. media did not say too much about that meeting . That is, if necessarily imply a clear and direct intention of a transaction, or planning future projects between the two companies .

First was the Fairfax Financial Holdings investment group who submitted a bid , formally . Since there were other circumstances involved - no formal proposals - such as Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin , John Sculley or even Google and Samsung , among others.

The truth is that there is clarity about what will happen with BlackBerry , but must make a decision during the month of November. Finally, in terms of numbers refers BBM company hopes it can make a sale at a minimum of USD $ 4,000 million. Why trying to have your own cellphone company when your brand name facebook is everywhere on everycellphone? make no sense, oh well!

Smart glasses on the Olympics

One of the greatest barriers in international fair is the language , but the Japanese look to the future and devised a solution that will work quite well in theory .
Attendees at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, will be armed with smart glasses translate them , the Japanese into any language , all that you see through them .
The lenses work via a built in camera , which sends it captured images to a server. That process begins : Japanese characters are analyzed in real time by a software which then sends an instant translation to the device, explains the Telefónica Foundation .
The gadgets , created by the mobile operator NTT Docomo , will be able to replace, in real time, the characters in the Japanese language for words in the language of the user. This way if foreigners observe a poster instantly send the signal so that the information is translated and superimposed the corresponding text appears , according to the Think Big program of Telefónica.
The proposal notes that the trend of technology for dress or " wearable computing" will continue to grow in the world. According to the text " Fashion Pioneers " , citing a study by U.S. consultancy Visiongain , the global market for Wearable Tech or Wearable Computing will be worth 4.6 billion dollars this year .
Visiongain mentioned that this market will follow the same paradigm as smart phones and tablets , and in the next five years , these new devices will have explosive growth and high rates of adoption.