Facebook opens Oculus Research Office in Pittsburgh

The Facebook social company opened a specialist office for Research on platform Virtual Reality owned Oculus in Pittsburgh, spokeswoman confirmed Oculus that the company has hired an office in Pittsburgh dedicated to research Oculus, in other words it can not be any staff member as soon as his work in Facebook or Oculus entering office .

Pittsburgh City is one of the places that could be for technology companies to find the best researchers, as the city's backyard Carnegie Mellon University, where the upper employ a large number of researchers specialized robots to work on its initiative related to self-drive leadership, as information indicates that Apple may have considered also opening an office in Pittsburgh, now comes the role of Facebook to establish a presence in the region.

The focus is initially on computer vision, and was Facebook had published advertisements about the existence of Jobs for the researcher in the field of computer vision and engineer computer vision and the world of post-doctoral focuses on computer vision research in addition to a range of software engineer for various purposes.

The research indicates the world of post-doctoral "We are currently seeking to get the community innovators have a passion for technology to develop the next generation of facial recognition and body composition and re-3D is a three-dimensional work and possibilities within our research site in Pittsburgh."

A report published last week in the Pittsburgh Business Times newspaper pointed out that Facebook has Bastojar office covers an area of ​​20,000 square feet in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, but the report did not mention that this office will be dedicated to research Oculus platform.

And enjoy Oculus platform much attention within the scope of the technology industry because of the high-end of its organs and software for virtual reality, the company has opened since the duration of the door of the prior demand on the first version of the glasses Virtual Reality own Oculus Rift at a price of $ 599, in addition to start Samsung late last year, selling glasses Virtual reality Gear VR price of $ 99 and based on Oculus software.

The issue of research is important and vital for the social network, where the research department and development spending approximately 30% of the total revenues of the Company during the first quarter of last year, and the Oculus has grown geographically after the acquisition of Facebook in 2014 in exchange for $ 2 billion.

Apple equipped to support Internet revolutionary Li-Fi technology in iPhone phones

The newly emerged suggesting that Apple equipped to support the revolutionary Internet "Lay-Fi" Li-Fi technology in iPhone smart phones, a technique that provides a speed superior to permit the current "Wi-Fi" technology is 100 times, and allow you to download HD video Accuracy "HD" HD in a few seconds.

It has been found in recent versions of the operating system "EOS" the signal for "Lay-Fi" Li-Fi, a high-speed wireless networks that use pulses of light to transmit data experimental protocol, and marketed it as a long-term alternative to the networks "wi Fi "Wi-Fi.

Starting from version 9.1 of the system "EOS", the operator of smart devices Apple, stated in the file "cache for the library," said the phrase "Lay-Fi" ability LiFiCapability along with other functions supported by the system.

It is noteworthy that "wifi" Technology Li-Fi operate in a manner quite different from the control devices operating infrared, since the movement of data by modulating the light source, to receive by the device to sense the light before it is assembled into an electronic signal.

And use the "Lay-Fi" technology Li-Fi, which provides speeds of up to 224 Gbps, visible light, but the configuration happens in a way imperceptible to the human eye, which means that the same lamp, which is used for home lighting can act as a data access point . This technique is not still in the experimental stage, but a number of companies are working on marketing.

In addition to the references the software to support "any-Fi" technology Li-Fi, it is known that Apple is working on a solid hardware applications for wireless data transfer on the basis of light, optical or wireless communications.

Apple launches version 9.2.1 of any or feed system iOS

Apple officially launched version 9.2.1 of any or feed system iOS you are working with Apple's smart devices, which can be downloaded directly from within the center updates wirelessly OTA or through the use of iTunes iTunes program.

Users can iPhone 4S devices and beyond, and iPad 2 and later, and iPad Mini all Asdarth, and iPad Pro, in addition to the fifth generation and later iPod Touch devices from installing the new version.

And dealt with the new update a set of security holes and programming errors which allow the implementation of some of the commands software full powers by some applications or after visiting a malicious websites targeted for this purpose, in addition to addressing the problem of installing applications stopped at the use of servers, handheld devices Management MDM.

Version did not handle 9.2.1 Problems shipping rate, which complained of them users of iPhone 6S and 6 S Plus recently, which shows that the charging device 100% even after using it for a long period of time, where Apple said it is still investigating the reason behind this problem.

Apple and dedicated page within the Technical Support Center published a temporary solution to the problem of shipping rate, with promises to publish details of the problem as soon as her knowledge.

The iOS 9 system, which was issued in September / September of 2015 succeeded in reaching more than 75% of Apple's smart devices as the company announced in January 15 this month.

Photos leaked new activity tracking device from Samsung on her watch-style smart

Samsung is working on a new device to keep track of user activity along the lines of smart clocks Gear S2 as Tizen Cafe posted on the Twitter account.

He participated Account pictures of the new device, known as the Triathlon and codenamed SM-R150 within the company, where images show that will carry the rounded screen with a recyclable ring in order to browse content such as in the hour Gear S2, and will Tizen Tizen system by the Samsung developed.

It is likely that the new device works by using the Bio-Processor chip, unveiled by Samsung in December / December of 2015, which allows to know the proportion of body fat.

And rely Samsung Smart hours on the optical sensor to see how many heart rate and display some of the data about the human body, but the new device will benefit from the Bio-Processor chip to measure heart rate using resistance electrical signals techniques by measuring the skin resistance electrical signal the same principle sensors sensors in devices Sports.

It also allows the new slide in measuring the mass of muscles of the body, and the temperature, in addition to the stress level without much affect on the performance of the device's battery.

The photos show a possibility to separate the hand strap from the machine and put on the clothes, which in turn allows the measurement of the water level in the body in addition to assistance during exercise.

It is noteworthy that Samsung announced at the beginning of the month of December / December for the availability of Smart Gear S2 her watch in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

New security flaw threatens more than 66% of Android devices and millions of computers to Linux

Perception Point announced the company specialized in the field of electronic protection for the discovery of a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel system able to overthrow more than 66% of the operating system Android devices and millions of computers operating system Linux.

The company said in its statement that the new gap, which bearing the number CVE-2016-0728, has been around since version 3.8 of the Linux kernel, which was issued in 2012, which threatens the existence of millions of devices that rely on this kernel.

And allow new loophole for hackers to obtain the full powers of the Director, any user who has the authority on the Linux server system can be exploited and access to the powers of the root Root. In Android 4.4 onwards, any application can manipulate the powers and execute the orders at the level of the core operating system layers system and thus control the device without restrictions.

The company said the vulnerability threaten millions of computers, servers, operating system Linux, also threatens more than 66% of Android devices in particular it is used on the system more than 1.4 billion smart device around the world.

The company did not yet monitored any exploitation of a loophole in public, but the devices will remain vulnerable to exploitation in any unless they are tinkering with the Linux kernel and the Android system as soon as possible time.

The University of Cambridge, UK, published in the October / October of 2015, a research study which said that 87% of Android devices are susceptible to security holes, also noted the need to put more effort by the hardware makers to protect the devices from the old security vulnerabilities.

Microsoft offers patented pen with rechargeable battery of the computer Surface

Microsoft Corp. introduced in June 2014 applied for a patent and trademark regarding the platform and pen susceptible to re-shipping a computer belonging to the Surface, and the US Patent and Trademark Office recently published demand.

In spite of this invention is that it may not see the light, but that the company provide such an option is a significant improvement and welcome for the current design.

And operates a computer pen Surface today by either three or button cell battery Batteries A, and it seems that this is about to change, Microsoft noted in the patent application "may provide Pen active functions are powered by a rechargeable battery, the charging circuit inside the pen to provide the current shipping to recharge the battery by one or more of the terminals, which offers the possibility to connect the pen to ship it. "

Microsoft points out that "may be easily put pen misplaced due to the size and shape of the model, it may take the form of pen Charger platform carrying the pen in a particular place during shipping or during the non-use of the pen."

It seems that the company is working to address the serious inconvenience as a result of the computer-winning pen, and describes the graphics own patent owning a private pen drawing and writing to the end of the bear, while the other end of the pencil eraser,

In addition to the presence of power button on the side, and contains inside the rechargeable run the pen battery and show graphics and presence indicator light is to give the user information about the amount of shipping, and facilitate the metal connectors of the pen in the shipping process, while arrived pen for the shipping magnetically.

Elliptic Labs offers ultrasonic technology for proximity sensor

The Elliptic Labs Inc. launched the latest technology reached which allows sensitive proximity to work in smart phones depending on the ultrasound, and the company has had to attract a lot of attention during the exhibition consumer electronics CES a few years ago when some gestures showed three-dimensional working according to the basis of microwave technology ultrasound.

And allow those Alaamat users to navigate through applications and control run and stop the music and answer and close calls through their hands movement, but the company has not seen widespread adoption of such technology, the play is now launching a program of new technology with the same principles may be more receptive to the users.

The new program seeks to avoid the use of sensitive proximity infrared and so by sending small waves of sound from the phone and listen to the implications of microphones located under the phone, the company has the ability to detect when to raise the user phone to answer a call and do dims display interface properly to make the call .

Blackout screen feature is appropriately in order to deal with the phone and disable function Touch one of the most basic and essential features of modern smartphones glass-covered and which require work at the present time unit infrared which is difficult to disguise.

And provide Elliptic Labs company promises about the solutions are considered parallel to or better than X-Solutions infrared terms of accuracy and response time when identification of the user's head, also points out that there will be an increase in energy consumption, with a reduction in the cost and complexity of the manufacturing process which The company that will be difficult to mention the opportunity to attract hardware partners to integrate its technology with them.

The process of running the program on a smart phone devices that are not considered today as simple as that, where that process needs to be some integration, but the company expects to launch smart devices this year contains a sensor near works by ultrasonic wave technology their own.

Microsoft tested make video calls using augmented reality

Microsoft Corp. began a series of tests on a new system for video calls holds Room2Room name based on Augmented Reality Augmented Reality.

Room2Room system consists of cameras used in Kinect Kinect device attached platform Xbox Xbox games, in addition to the Projector opposed to enlarge the image of the other party, and was relying on the same principle used in the provision for the construction of a system of games based on augmented reality RoomAlive system.

Microsoft aims Room2Room system to enhance the experience of video calls through Photocall full its size in front of the other party using the viewer after taking the full image and its size depending on the Kinect cameras.

And requires a party to the conversation to owning a fully equipped to take advantage of the benefits of augmented reality, where the cameras take a picture Party Conversation I, for the viewer viewing the right size when the second party, and repeated the same process of the second party to the first, to show a party to the conversation as if they were Mtwajaddan in the same room, giving better communication experience do not need to use the augmented reality glasses.

And conducted research at Microsoft Microsoft Research, in charge of the development of the system, a set of tests on Room2Room by building models of three-dimensional, where he managed a party to the conversation of the building surround in four minutes when they were in the same room, and nine minutes when construction experience using Skype program experience and the isolation of each party in a room alone, and finally seven minutes when using Room2Room system.

The new system provides to the public in the near future is not expected, especially because it requires a range of equipment, as well as non-image transfer high precision at this stage.

Speaking of augmented reality, Microsoft recently revealed details of reality glasses enhanced HoloLens, where she is able to run Windows 10 applications without the use of the computer, as well as the possibility to connect to any device that supports technology-Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

The list of 25 most commonly used word for the passage of 2015 reveal a resounding surprises

SplashData revealed a specialized company in the field of protection and secure use of passwords over the Internet for its annual list of the 25 most commonly used word during the passage of 2015 elapsed.

And the adoption of SplashData depending on its list of passwords that have been leaked during the year, where he managed the hackers from leaking over two million account during 2015 after attacks on different sites and services.

For the third year in a row made the use of "123456" where the menu is the most commonly used, followed by "password" in second place, and "12345678", while the word "qwert" came in fourth place.

Despite the ease of just discover the passwords consisting of numbers, a lot of users relied on "12345" and "123456789" which had come in the fifth and sixth places respectively, then "football" and "1234" in the seventh and eighth place, and "1234567" in the ninth, and "baseball" in tenth place.

And operated words like "welcome", and "1234567890", and "abc123", and "111111", and "1 qaz2wsx", and "dragon", and "master", and "monkey", and "letmein", and "login "atheist between ten and twenty centers for the growing tide of revealing some of their accounts in the selection of electronic passwords.

In conclusion, the existing words "princess", and "qwertyuiop", and "solo", and "passw0rd", in addition to the "starwars" in last place, but at the same time are not considered safe words or that can not be programs penetration that rely on the principle of the possibilities disclosed.

And it demands a lot of technology companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft users relying on strong passwords composed of Latin characters small condition Small Letter and large Capital Letter, with a combination of numbers and symbols to reduce the probability of penetration calculations and find out passwords.

Facebook Android adds Safe Browsing using Tor option

Social network Facebook announced Tuesday evening, January 19, the addition of Safe Browsing feature for users of the network application on Android.

Android users need to install an application Orbot: Proxy with Tor from the Google Play store or through the official application site and then go to Settings settings within the Facebook application and activate the option Use Tor Via Orbot.

The network said in a formal statement that will feature up to all users in the coming days, she said she waiting for feedback from users to develop optimally, as requested follow-up to the official project page for the latest news.

Facebook began to rely on encryption technologies used in the Tor Onion since 2014, which launched its website on the Tor network to increase the protection and the elimination of doubts about user privacy while browsing the social network.

In this regard, Facebook said that the number of users has increased significantly after the provision of the possibility of browsing using Tor, which hides the user's identity completely, and thus stop the activity tracking of attempts by some quarters.

And it seeks the social network the most widely used around the world to provide the Safe Browsing through option applied to other platforms such as Windows iPhone or OS iOS on the iPhone and iPad, but it did not reveal more details about this topic sufficient Android system at the moment.

Tor network and are mainly encrypts communication and ensure demand out of the user's computer servers to Facebook directly, in addition to making sure SSL certificates and to avoid the existence of forged certificates are spying on and monitoring user activity and data theft.

Microsoft stop supporting older versions of Windows on new computers

Microsoft has released new updates to the policy of private employment for Windows which stopped support for Windows versions that precede Windows 10 on new computers.

Microsoft said in its statement that the computers that run Kaby Lake processors from Intel, and 8996 from Qualcomm, and Bristol Ridge from AMD will support only Windows 10 users will not be able to install Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on them.

The company published a list of the new with computers that run processor Skylake from Intel, which users can install Windows 7 and beyond, but noted that the support versions of the old Windows continuously until the month of July of 2017 only, and will have the user later for an update to Windows 10 to get security updates .

Included computers Latitude existing 12, and Latitude 13 7000, and XPS 13 from Dell, and EliteBook Folio, and EliteBook 1040 G3 from HP, and ThinkPad T460S, and ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and ThinkPad P70 from Lenovo, where Scion Bmekdr owners of these devices install Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 until Only in July 2017, the company also promised to add more devices to the list later.

Users of the old computers that run processors like Brodway or Haswell, for example, but not limited to would be able to run Windows vista live, and Windows 7, in addition to the 8.1 and Windows 10, where the company has pledged to issue security updates that support Windows vista live ends in 2017, and Windows 7, 2020, and Windows 8 in 2023, and finally Windows 10 in 2025.

Microsoft is seeking a move to overcome one of the most problems complain Users of Windows including, a lack of full compatibility between the system and the computer, and thus ensure that the best use of the experience as possible for the system on these computers, where will experience intensively to ensure full compatibility.

In contrast, companies will be forced to wait before thinking about buying new computers, most companies do not adopt the new versions of Windows until the stability of the system completely and secure the best possible way, so the purchase of new computers mean that they need to install Windows 10 certainly.

Some believe that these changes will accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 and not to enter into the same closed-loop suffered by Microsoft with Windows XP XP, where a lot of companies adopted it for a long time, even after the release of Windows vista live, and 7, and Windows 8 and 8.1 .

F.lux application developers to protect the eyes are sending an open letter to Apple

Send organizers of the application development F.lux, a specialist in protecting the eyes from radiation released from computers and smart devices screens, an open letter to Apple to demand the return of the application of the new shop App Store App Store.

According to this discourse, when they fired Apple's beta version of the system iOS 9.3, which included Night Shift feature to limit the bright screen of light in the evening to protect the eyes of users, but before it has removed the application F.lux which does the same job applications store, claiming it violates the policy of use App Store shop.

Said Michael Herf, one of the founders of the application, it is estimated Apple's efforts first and its move in order to protect users from the dangers caused by the use of smart devices before going to sleep, but he stressed that F.lux has a long history in this area extends to seven years the company has cooperated with many scientific institutions Medical and in order to reach the best possible results.

He called Michael Apple to re-application of a new giving users more choice on the grounds that iOS 9.3 will include this option by default, as suggested by Apple to provide interfaces software API to feature Night Shift to provide more effective solutions and consume less of the resources of the machine.

And it succeeded in applying F.lux won more than 200 thousand visit after 24 hours of its launch in the App Store shop, especially as it has a large segment of users on the computer, but Apple and suddenly had to remove it from the store without fully explain why.

And works Night Shift feature and application F.lux same principle almost, where the user location and local time analysis to control the degree of lighting and change the color of bright light from the screen through the orange-colored layer, as are the study of the daily uses and the timing of sleep to enhance the color class before going to sleep to make eyes damaged with the passage of time.

Kaspersky WiseKey cooperating to protect wearable devices from hackers

Each of Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab and Oayz to Wisekey announced a new partnership to develop technology to support identity verification and data encryption in the new technical devices wearable, so as to achieve security and safety in the communication, and when financial data exchange.

Wise Key Kaspersky expects to replace smart clocks and timers fitness activities, ribbons Hand traditional hardware shop in payment devices mobile transactions by one to five by 2020 - which represents the volume of transactions up to $ 500 billion in Am- and thus will be the new growing target attacks hackers.

It is believed that the interaction between the devices, known as the "Internet of Things" IoT will happen decisive quantum leap in the world of business and customers, where it is supposed that the wearable device market is growing at 35% per year. In spite of that, there are many Internet-connected devices and data to be exchanged for which is still protected which is a cause for concern, and will increase the seriousness of this matter, especially with the use of such devices in payments.

Under the new partnership, will be merged group develop security software for mobile devices from Kaspersky Lab in this solution, which will add another layer of security and pave the way for the provision of pay channels via mobile devices have the utmost safety and protection limits.

In this regard, she said Carlos Moreira, CEO and Izqui, said that this cooperation between the Izqui and Kaspersky represents a crucial turning point in the security and safety of the Internet of Things, which will enable removable device users to wear from a sense of confidence and comfort at the same time, which would open the floodgates to more of applications in other sectors, where the same method can be used to support a variety of things Internet applications.

On the other hand, Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, said, we as individuals live today in a world connected to the Internet, but with the increasing number of Internet-connected devices growing number of threats in parallel, what is regrettable is the presence of millions of devices in use today, which not designed so that they are safe and protected, but that the security protection measures for those devices must be present from the start. Therefore, an urgent need has arisen to develop and apply the highest degrees of safety devices for the Internet of Things.

The joint solution will depend on the technology Cryptographic Root of Trust own devices in addition to the Internet of Things NFCTrusted technology and Izqui. As part of this, these technologies will ensure verification of authorization and the confidentiality and security of payment transactions on the Internet.

Oper provides delivery services by helicopters

Ober mobile services company entered a new phase through the company collected with the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus for the use of helicopter services within the transport and ride.

Tom Enders, CEO of the European aircraft manufacturer, said on Sunday that Airbus Group will provide helicopters for the company to meet the upper services on demand.

CEO of Airbus said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal "Although the project is still in the experimental stage, but it is exciting and we'll see how it works."

He will be the launch of the project this week during the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, did not provide the airline to publish financial information concerning the agreement.

The upper works company which was launched in 2009 in the field of transport and passenger, and has applied for smart phones, which allows users to request cars ride on the great popularity.

Recently and worked to expand its offerings to include services for the inclusion of other forms of transportation, including vehicles according to demand in India and boats in Turkey.

Ober did not announce the price of the service after, and the US technology company has made its first test of UberChopper service between Manhattan and the Hamptons in 2013.

The company has also experimented with a helicopter for special events such as the Cannes Film Festival place in May or Arts and Music Festival in June.

A spokesman for Airbus Company helicopters Airbus will offer H125 and H130 for the Sundance project and has partnered with to provide air services company based in Utah, he said a spokesman for Airbus "will firm Ober send a car to transport clients to ride the helicopter."

The new Nikon camera has changed the market in a big way

The Nikon company announcement during the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2016 for KeyMission 360 camera that you shoot in 360 degrees, which is considered the future line of cameras own movement.

And show the possibilities of this camera that own motion camera market, which is controlled by the company for the manufacture of GoPro cameras are about to change completely.

The Nikon entering this market is important, as the Japanese company Sony is the only company which is the main competition GoPro company within this area, as well as the presence of other companies such as Garmin and TomTom.

The major part is due to non-issuance of GoPro leading to major new camera for more than a year ago because of Aafqatar market for the impact of competition, and the issuance of camera Hero4 back to the autumn of 2014.

And pay the entry Nikon this field and adoption heavily on supply their own lenses and imaging sensors remaining companies such as GoPro series and Sony for innovation and work much faster.

This allows the delivery of a 360-degree cameras for consumers is greater than before, and the Ricoh Theta S camera is considered the best option in the market until this week.

The Ricoh Theta S photographed images substantially and clear 360, but they are still suffering in the video field is the last step or two steps back in terms of quality.

Exists in the market as companies such as 360Fly and JK Camera which manufactures Kodak PixPro, is this the last companies in terms of quality.

Companies did not provide cameras reliable and affordable 360-degree imaging, and this is because of the novelty of the idea and lack of attention only after the establishment of large networks such as Facebook and YouTube support video capabilities degree 360.

Nikon was not the only company that has moved to a new level, it was Nick Woodman, CEO of GoPro YouTube during the event to announce that his company plans to launch a consumer camera you shoot 360 degree.

The announcement of the new Nikon compact camera as a punch-oriented company GoPro, which made the declaration CEO looks like a concession, and he has done to keep the rest of the face of his company, which was late, this time in front of Nikon.

The company owns GoPro feature may be important in the competition with a Nikon unmanned aircraft, where the company this year launched an unmanned drone quad and fans that support spherical cameras, which do not own anything after Nikon.

Sony Corp. is working to catch up, the company has launched its first camera of this type in 2012, making it a little late for the rest.

The news increased competition between companies a bargain for consumers, where the consumer can now buy a camera movement or football in both its traditional price of between 129 and $ 500.

whatsapp cancel the annual subscription fee

Whatsapp the company revealed that it will cancel the annual subscription of one dollar fees in the coming weeks, and the announcement came on the Saint-Jean-com founder to apply Watts in August during his participation in the event Digital Life Design in Munich, Germany.

Watts August company owns about 900 million active users per month, which is owned by Facebook in a deal that has two years and worth about $ 22 billion.

The observers fear the Facebook seeking to enter the Watts August within their own ads or any other means belonging to the Facebook trade, and there was no clear signal from the company about the next direction for the application of correspondence.

The company has followed the same after the acquisition of its own business approach, which allows the use of the service is free for the first year and then the imposition of an annual subscription value of one dollar.

He noted Jean-com that this form of work is a problem for many people, and many of them do not have credit cards, and it should be noted the presence of other messaging applications such as Messenger for Facebook, which has 800 million monthly active users and at no cost to use.

He added Jean-com that the company will begin experimenting with the possibility of companies arrived with people, and admitted that he is not the subject decisive decision and did not develop a final plan yet.

It seems that the company Instant will focus on large companies in an attempt to earn cash by clients of these companies, consumers and even transactions service, which means that he may be the launch of customized corporate accounts.

The Watts-up service now closer integrated platform in terms of service delivery, and are almost identical with Facebook Messenger, which turns into an integrated platform also.

The Facebook had abolished last year the need for an account on the social network to use Messenger allowing users to log on over the phone via their numbers only similar to the way the Watts August.

The Watts August company clarification on how the application can work out in the future within a statement posted on its official website, "we will, starting from this year to test tools that allow you to use Watts August to communicate with companies and organizations that want to communicate with them, so that you can communicate with your bank about transfers and transactions, or to communicate with an airline about a late flight. 

Google launches e-books service Play Books in nine Arab countries

Google Inc. on Wednesday launched the "Play Box" service Play Books, which allows users to read and buy e-books from the store-mail "Google Play" in nine new countries, are all Arab.

After the launch of the service in the Middle East has become a "Google Play" store offers books in Arabic, as well as the global English-language content to users in a number of countries in the region.

The list of countries that became available in Books Play service both from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates.

The company, the company has added a number of advantages to Play Books service applications during the past year, including recommendations to improve the Android system, and the interface to read the comic.

With the launch of e-books service in some countries in the Arab region, the total countries where the service is available 75 countries around the world reached.

Asus launches new smart phone Asus Live at $ 211

ASUS has launched Thursday a smart phone features from others that bears her name does not belong to the series "Znfon" Zenfone hers, since the phone came under the name "Asus Live" Asus Live.

The phone offers "Asus Live" Asus Live, which falls under the low-spec phones category, screen measuring 5 inches and accurately 1280 × 720 in Kassala, as random access memory offers "Ram" size of 2 GB, and 16 Jijaaata of internal storage space.

And it includes a device, which is running 5.1 "Lollipop" of the Android operating system, quad-core 1.3 GHz and quickly type "Madt MTV 6580" MediaTek MT6580.

And has the "ASUS Live" background camera accurately 8 Mijaxlat with lens aperture f / 2.0, in addition to the front camera 2 megapixel accurately. It supports two tranches of contact, but it does not support fourth-generation networks LTE.

It is the phone, which weighs 140 grams and thickness of 9.98 millimeters, battery with a capacity of 2,070 Millie amp / hour.

The phone is available, "Asus Live" Asus Live New in the Brazilian market a variety of colors, are: blue, pink, yellow, and at a price equivalent to US $ 211. Nor information on the determination of the company's launch in global markets.

Xiaomi has sold more than 70 million smart phone through 2015

Chinese Himu Xiaomi has announced the sale of more than 70 million smart phone during the 2015 elapsed, and that in her statement to the exclusive site TechCrunch.

And it rose so the Chinese company's sales by 15% when compared to the year 2014 in which it sold 61 million smart phone, but failed to achieve the goal set by the 2015 in the sale of 80 million smart phone, after they aspire to sell 100 million phones in the beginning of 2015.

And it abandoned Xiaomi, which estimated market value of 45 billion US dollars, for her habit to disclose annual sales, making it suffers from enormous media pressure, especially after he revealed some sources for a slowdown in sales.

The company declined to provide details about the site TechCrunch sales, where a spokesman Xiaomi said it will not detail sales by geographic region, and therefore can not know precisely its sales in China, and some emerging markets such as India, and Indonesia, as well as Brazil.

Xiaomi sales fell in favor of the Chinese Huawei company in 2015, and which phones shipments increased during 2015 by 44% to become the first Chinese company shipped more than 100 million units within one year.

Commented Xiaomi on the decline in sales in favor of Huawei, which confirmed that it is still the first company in terms of sales during 2015, it sells to the user in real time, unlike Huawei, which sent more than 100 million devices to traders, and thus the number of devices that have reached the hands of the users are not known actual.

Forecasts indicate that 2015 saw the sale of more than 1.16 billion device system Android, Huawei has contributed 10% of them, while Xiaomi contributed only 6%.

The Xiaomi announced in November of 2015 from the sale of more than one million smart phone in India, also began directing its sights toward the African continent through a series of agreements with service providers.

75% of Apple's smart devices are running iOS 9

Apple officially announced that three-quarters of its organs smart operating system iOS 9, which was first released in September / September of 2015 elapsed.

And managed the system iOS 9, you are working with iPhone and iPad devices in addition to the iPod Touch, access to 75% of the smart devices in just four months, surpassing system iOS 8, who arrived in the same ratio after six months.

According to Apple's technical support page in your shop App Store App Store that 75% of its organs smart work from any version 9 or feed system iOS, while 19% working version 8, and only 7% system iOS 7 and earlier.

And saw the launch of iOS 9 a lot of problems, where many users failed to install it appeared to them and problems connecting to Apple's servers, but this did not prevent the large spread in four months only.

And bring the system iOS 9 in support of the Arabic language in full, where he became a lock screen needs to scroll from right to left, such as the icons are placed within the main screen and buttons to move between menus that have become show from right to left as well.

The Apple Vajit users in January 12 this detects the first test version "beta" version iOS 9.3 in order to test, which is available for download directly from developers Apple Developer Center Apple Center, which was issued later to the public.

Apple imposes monthly subscriptions to Internet radio service iTunes Radio

Apple announced yesterday evening on Friday January 15, to serve for iTunes Radio Internet radio will become part of the music broadcast service Apple Music from 29 January.

Apple said in its statement that all broadcasts will be made available only to subscribers of Apple Music service is available and the involvement of a monthly $ 9.99, with the exception of Radio Beats 1, which will remain free to listen to it at any time.

ITunes Radio service and offer a range of radio stations classified by the music that is broadcast type, a radio programmed by specialists at Apple, and do not allow the user to control or songs arranged as in the music broadcast service Apple Music.

The service provides the same system of suggestions based on previous broadcasts heard by the user, or the songs that he purchased through iTunes iTunes store to assist in access to favorite content faster.

Apple is working on improving its service broadcasting music over the Internet Music Apple to compete with Spotify application Spotefaa a specialist in this area. After officially launched for the first time with the end of the month of June of 2015, he worked on the launch of the application of the service system Android in the month of November, with estimates of the arrival of the number of users to 10 million users.

The iTunes Radio service, available to users in the United States and Australia only, launched for the first time in 2013 within the system iOS 7, also available in the second generation of Apple TV device and beyond, in addition to the iTunes iTunes program 11.1 and the system of "Mac OS X "Mac OS X 10.7 and beyond.

Twitter raise the period of validity of the vote from 24 hours to seven days

Twitter social network raised Voting Polls validity period to seven days, after the voting was finished after only 24 hours of its publication.

Users can network Twitter and its applications on smart devices to determine the length of time after the voting ends where the minimum of five minutes and can begin voting will continue until a full seven days.

And published on the official Twitter account tweet to announce the new feature, which said that it was possible to determine the length of time after the voting ends. She added in a second tweet that the total number Altsoettiat reached 1.7 billion shortly after being officially feature in October / October of 2015.

Investors across in Twitter expressed concern about the social network's performance despite the increase in profits, as the stock value fell to less than US $ 20, the lowest rate since entering the stock market in 2013.

In turn, Jack Dorsey current CEO and a founding seeks to increase the number of users and interaction within the social network, where the number of Twitter users active month 320 million, compared to 1.55 billion a user in Facebook network, and for that work to replace the admiration Right Button preference, which led to a 6% increase in users interact within the network.

And considering Twitter possibility of bringing the current number of characters allowed inside the Tweet from 140 to 10 thousand a character as some reports said on the lips of some internal sources in the social network, where it is expected that this service be modeled feature instant articles Instant Articles available in Facebook.

It is noteworthy that Twitter recently said that the live broadcast conducted by users of its application Periscope will appear under their own timeline on their application for iPhone smartphones and iPad tablet computers.

UAE superior to many of the European countries in readiness to face the electronic security risk

The UAE government has overtaken the European countries in the field of readiness to face the risks of electronic security, and the protection of national infrastructure and vitality of the state against electronic threats growing, according to the announcement by experts at the level of the industry.

And it occupied the UAE a global center of the 17th in the final classification for "World Index of cyber-security", issued by the International Telecommunication Union's body of the United Nations, to excel so on a number of European countries such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal. This indicator measures the several aspects of the electronic security sector, including legislation, regulations, and compliance, capacity building, and international cooperation.

In this context Sawitha Bhaskar, Chief Operating Officer of the Kondo Brocago consulting firm in the field of information and expert technique in the electronic security sector he said: "proves Classification impressive United Arab Emirates on the effectiveness and spread the scope of work of the National Commission for the security of mail, as demonstrated by the position of the Government of United Arab Emirates among the most innovative countries in the world in the field of electronic security priorities. "

At the global level, it has been targeted 83 percent of large companies attacks fraud directed, of which 60 per cent of attacks targeting small and medium-sized enterprises, while continuing malware attacks and extortion to grow, and according to the latest data released by Symantec reports under the title "Report of the Internet Security Threat" .

To counter the growing number and sophisticated electronic attacks, the National Commission for the security of mail in the United Arab Emirates launched during the year 2014 the national electronic security program which requires government agencies to submit reports on the infrastructure of the security-mail that has a case, as part of efforts to create a national digital environment safe.

Through this program, the National Commission for the security of mail will also be able to monitor electronic security systems in government bodies, and testing of electronic security, and intervention in order to strengthen security systems.

It is incumbent upon the private sector in the United Arab Emirates is currently striving to keep up with the federal standards, as referred to by Kondo Brocago company. For example, the European Union recently asked to supply Internet services companies, and retailers over the Internet, search engines, advertising for all electronic security breaches they have suffered.

Sawitha Bhaskar concluded her speech saying: "There is an urgent stage work to be done, with the encouragement of the private sector institutions in the United Arab Emirates to the deployment of electronic security solutions, and not to wait to be exposed to one of the attacks and security breaches. Therefore, there is an urgent need to follow the guidelines enacted by the government, similar to what was done by UAE banks to follow the guidelines for international banking sector. Where required to large and small private companies greater degree of transparency in the field of ionization to enjoy the protection of infrastructure for information technology and communications, and data vital customers. "

Lenovo launches new smart phone Lemon 3

Lenovo launched on Wednesday a new smart phone from the low hardware specifications category, a phone, "Lemon 3" Lemon 3, which will be available in the Chinese market at a price equivalent to US $ 105.

The phone offers "Lemon 3" Lemon 3 screen measuring 5 inches and 1920 × 1080 accurately Kassala, as random access memory offers "Ram" size of 2 GB, and 16 Jijaaata of internal storage expandable memory.

And have the device, which includes eight processor cores at 1.5 GHz and type "Qualcomm Snapdragon 616" with the type of graphics processor Adreno 405, Rear Camera accurately Mijaksla 13, Front and other precision 5 Mijaxlat.

The phone has, which is running 5.1 "Lollipop" of the Android operating system, battery with a capacity of 2,750 Millie amp / hour, it supports the fourth-generation networks 4G LTE with two tranches of connection. The phone weighs 142 grams, and comes a thickness of 7.99 millimeters.

The Chinese company plans to launch new smart phone Lemon 3 in the local market at a price equivalent to US $ 105, and information about its intention to put forward in the global markets.

Fixstars announces the largest SSD disk with a capacity of 13 terabytes

The Spanish company Fixstars today to announce the latest USB flash drive-type SSD which carries Fixstars SSD-13000M name and the size of 13 terabytes, making it the largest SSD disk in the world in terms of storage capacity.

The company said it will begin selling the hard drive before the end of the month of February, the company did not not officially announce the disk price new, but that Zhu Xian company spokesman pointed out that the price is about $ 1 per 1 GB or which means that the disk to $ 13,000 price.

6 terabytes capacity larger capacity is currently present in the market for hard drives of the type SSD, to come Fixstars SSD-disk 13000M weakness of this storage space.

The new disc will be sold Fixstars SSD-13000M Fixstars directly from the company, and will not be available through retail stores or websites online.

The company is targeting through its new Qrsa of SSD type enterprise sector primarily, and to all the users who are able to afford the price of the disc in general.

The disk size of 2.5 inches and are connected via the entrance SATA 6, and has a read speed of 580 MB per second, while the write speed of 520 MB per second, the company did not offer to provide information about the random read and write speed.

Fixstars company is the first to produce such a disk in this storage capacity, which may surprise the competitors and make it difficult for them to catch up with the possibility of it.

Where SanDisk SanDisk Corporation indicated that it will go this year tablets of the type SSD with a capacity of 6 terabytes and 8 terabytes, while Samsung has said it will launch this year SSD disk with a capacity of 4 terabytes.

And began Fixstars company, which is based in Japan when its incorporation as a software serve the needs of parallel computing, to begin later making drives with controller affiliates to meet the needs of a row of data transfer for users of the institution.

It has also our ranks today to announce the SSD-10000M disk with a capacity of 10 terabytes, and you do not reference to the price of the smaller drive.

Lenovo A7010 phone with display data "up to 1 GB free" for three months

Etisalat announced the exclusive launch of the latest versions of smartphones from Lenovo "A7010" and compatible with the fourth generation 4G LTE network to customers in the United Arab Emirates.

And is available for Lenovo phone off fashionable colors include black and white, and is available for all the "contacts" clients at a price of 899 dirhams. Customers can also "continued" prepaid acquisition device at the same price and get the data up to 1 GB free per month for three months an amount equivalent to 297 dirhams and through call * 056 #.

The new phone features a touch-screen size 5.5-inch enhanced display full HD 1080 × 1920 degree and 13-megapixel rear camera Front and other 5 megapixel with auto-focus feature PDAF and dual flash LED. It is also an eight-core processor provider Mediatek MT6753 random memory and 2 GB of internal storage memory and 8 GB expandable up to 128 GB.

In this context, Khaled El-Khouly, CEO of individuals in the sector "contacts" he said, "comes the launch of the latest versions of the leading Lenovo A7010 sign within the framework of the keenness of communication to meet the market demand for the latest smart devices and enhanced technology available at affordable prices. Moreover, we provide our customers with pre-paid subscriber lines added advantage allows them to enjoy the free data for three consecutive months through faster fourth-generation network in the state. "

Customers will be able to take advantage of free data optimally thanks to "connections" network of the fourth generation 4G / LTE, which is considered the fastest and broader in the state, providing high-speed connectivity up to 300 Mbps for about 95% of the populated areas.

It should be noted that customers can contacts download interactive application "Etisalat UAE" available for free via Smart platforms including Android and iOS and BlackBerry and Windows, to take advantage of a range of diverse, including access to the latest products and services and the presentations of "communication features." The application also allows users to track the volume of consumption data, minutes and messages covered in Baqathm and also pay the monthly bill, as well as live chat feature with customer service inquiries and ask them staff, and more other features.

Du provides BlackBerry smartphone Priv-for-one payment of 149 dirhams

Du announced the provision of new BlackBerry smartphone Priv to their customers in exchange for a single payment worth 149 dirhams when they participate a contract for 24 months.

It is available to customers who choose to take advantage of this offer the opportunity to enjoy many advantages which include a flexible 300 minutes and 11 GB of data compared to AED 350 per month only, for a period of 24 months.

Fahad Al Hassawi, Chief Commercial Officer, du: "We are delighted to be one of the first smartphone provides Priv from BlackBerry to our customers in the United Arab Emirates. The move comes within the framework of our commitment and permanent quest to surprise our customers with the most memorable performances in terms of features and value-added and ensure that they have the best experiences offered by modern smart phone technology to enrich their lives by. "

It should be noted that you can get a BlackBerry smartphone Priv all of its DU centers and retail stores.

Google strongly to enter the virtual reality market through the establishment of a new section of its own

Established Google Inc. on Wednesday a new section specializing in the field of "virtual reality", what appears to be a new push them to enter strongly to the market has become attracts many, so that they may assume Clay Baffour, who is responsible for the operation of product management team the company, the responsibility of the new arm of management.

The spokesman for Google, which has become a major company called "Olfabt" Alphabet, Joshua Cruz receipt Baffour new virtual reality department management, without providing further details in this regard.

It seems own personal overview Bklei Baffour on the micro-blogging site Twitter that Vice-President of VR department at Google.

Since Baffour vice president of product management, he oversees many of Google's mission applications, including e-mail "Gmail" service, cloud storage "Google Drive", and the service of documents "Google Docs", according to Profile shows him on LinkedIn, the social network for business.

Google did not pay the utmost importance to the field of virtual reality during the last period, but it seems that things began to change.

The company had announced in May / May last for a partnership with the "GoPro", a company that specializes in sports cameras industry, so as to develop display technology in 360-degree virtual reality, using a new technique developed by Google.

In November last, Google said that the participation of the famous site YouTube videos has become a virtual reality video support, allowing users to experience this technique by using their smart phones or glasses VR simple "card board" Cardboard developed by the company itself.

It is noteworthy that this step comes a few days after the virtual reality company "Ookolos", which acquired by Facebook in 2014 in exchange for two billion dollars US, open pre demand for glasses "Rift" Rift door to be raised during the April / April next year at a price of 599 after dollars.

The HTC company, which seeks to compensate for the decline in the smartphone market entry through strongly in VR promising market, has announced on Monday that it would open the door of the prior demand for glasses "Five" Vive on February 29 next, without specifying the price scheduled.

Microsoft hangouts adds to apply Skype

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they are soon to add video calls collective feature is free for users who have the Skype application installed copy of Skype on Android and iOS and iPhone Ondoz systems.

This feature is currently available for the issuance of the office copy of Skype, but that Microsoft is using the tenth anniversary of the launch video calls within the Skype feature in order to shed light on the Navigation for mobile systems.

He said Gurdeep PAL vice president of Microsoft Corp. "A decade has passed since the establishment of Skype to change the way people communicate with their loved ones, and we are excited today to announce the next evolution."

Microsoft has published some numbers about the last decade of the application, and pointed out that Skype users have to communicate through video to more than 2 trillion minutes.

The company explained How much is the meaning of this time "with this amount of time, you can use Skype for reading for all children in the world for 10 hours."

Video Group and is subject to certain rules feature, at least for the desktop, where Skype recommends that users copy the Skype desktop Skype to communicate with up to five other users at one time.

And impose service limits of fair usage up to 100 hours per month, and the number of hours of daily use does not increase for more than 10 hours a day, in addition to the presence of limit on individual video call is the number of hours of 4 hours per call, to be after the consumption of these hours, allowing only voice calls .

Microsoft representatives did not reference about the existence of political fair use application for Skype on mobile phones, and how this policy will be applied in the event of existence.

The company also did not announce a specific time for the inclusion of collective video feature for the application of Skype on mobile phones, but it has provided the possibility of pre-registration for the new application in early.

Global shipments of personal computers continue to fall through 2015

Reach global shipments of personal computers to fall, and with the growing consumer demand for tablets and smartphones, which many find it sufficient for them to perform some basic functions, such as web browsing, messaging, and social networking.

According to each of the two market research "IDC" IDC and "Gartner" Gartner, consumer interest was personal with computers very weak, global shipments to drop them to their lowest levels since 2008.

Observers believe that, in addition to the fact that the use of portable devices suitable for many consumers, there is a group of the hardware options, such as touch screens, and the possibility of separating the keyboard in some tablet computers, played a role in the decline in PC shipments. Moreover, wearable devices, such as smart watches, fitness tracking devices, the advance option among consumers through campaigns during the holiday shopping season.

She said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner, in a statement, "were not notebooks on the list of gifts during the holiday." She added, "At the same time, consumer interest shift towards other consumer electronic devices such as televisions and wearable devices."

In two separate reports issued on Tuesday, Gartner estimated the decline in global personal computer shipments by about 8.3% in the fourth quarter compared to the same period of 2014 to fall to 75.7 million units, while the company "IDC" reported that the decline in shipments was up 10.6% to 71.9 million units during the same period.

Despite the general weakness, managed to Apple from selling more personal Hawwasabha expensive, to increase its share of the market and of 7.9% in the fourth quarter of 2015, and 7.5% in the entire year, according to the "IDC", which also reported that shipments Apple of personal computers during this period rose by 3% to 5.7 million units.

Said Jay Chou, research director at the "IDC" The success of the MacBook devices iMac from Apple shows that there is still "a strong demand for innovative systems, which are expensive and provide the user experience."

It also shows the reports that China's Lenovo managed to make their way in the United States, in spite of the dominance of the two HP and Dell Americas on the market there, as the company was able to, which is the largest manufacturer of personal computers in the world, to increase shipments to the United States increased by 21% compared to the fourth quarter of 2014, to reach 2.1 million units, according to Gartner.

Microsoft issued nine security bulletins covering 24 points twice within the various products

Microsoft has released the first batch of security updates for 2016, including those updates are important reforms to defects remote code execution after the Windows operating system and package desktop Office software and browser Edge browser Explorer and Silverlight Silverlight and Visual Visual Basic Bezeq.

The company has included the implementation of reforms remote code security gaps related to the powers in the Windows system and allows spoofing flaw on the Exchange Server server, this is an important but not critical gaps, due to many factors.

The company launched nine Security Bulletins covering 24 points twice exist, Wolfgang Kandik technology officer at security company Qualys pointed out that the administrators should give priority to security bulletin MS16-005, especially operating systems Windows Vista, 7 and Server 2008.

The present Vulnerability patch remote code execution after known as CVE-2016-0009, which was disclosed publicly, making attacks more likely.

The second most important security bulletin, according to company Qualys is MS16-004, which addresses six vulnerabilities exist in the desktop Office applications package, has been very critical of this leaflet rating, which is unusual for the Office package during the last period.

He noted researchers from Tripwire security company that should be considered security updates, which affected the Edge and Explorer browser in the top of the list of priorities because it is based processor weakness can be exploited remotely via malicious websites.

These gaps were covered under the security bulletins MS16-001 and MS16-002, and this will be the last reforms and releases what you get Explorer versions 8 and 10. And it will support version Explorer 9 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 system continue.

He said security researcher "Many companies need to use older versions of Explorer browser within their environments because of the old web applications, which are very expensive and used outdated technology."

And complete researcher "organizations that still rely on legacy applications that require these older versions of Explorer to move properly we will need."

It must Ay companies that use Outlook Web Access to focus on security bulletin MS16-010, which are important because they correct the vulnerability that allows an attacker to launch a so-called attack BEC.