Amazon prepares its Android application store

Amazon prepares its own Android application store. The first sign that the project is serious is that it has published the criteria for developers to start creating applications for the store catalog. In the documentation, Amazon explains the features of your new store. The most striking with respect to other existing models is that Amazon reserves the final pricing can be different to that suggested by the developer.

Children deal with floppy disks: the big misunderstanding

Put today's children face high technology thirty years ago and you get ... a great moment of misunderstanding!

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Online protest against the Hungarian law on the media

Thousands of blogs Hungarian and English, but also sites with high traffic such as The Pirate Bay, participate in a campaign called "blackout for Hungary" to denounce the new press law came into force in that country in early January. Customers wishing to participate in the operation are invited to publish on their site or on a black social networks and to refrain from publishing on the Internet for twenty-four hours, 5 January.

Atheros buys Qualcomm $ 3.1 billion

American designer of components for mobile phones Qualcomm announced on Wednesday 5, the acquisition of the company Atheros Communications, a specialist in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The transaction totaled $ 3.1 billion (2.35 billion euros), and Qualcomm offers 45 dollars (34.10 euros) in cash for each share of its target.

The acquisition "will facilitate the diversification of technology for Qualcomm to other sectors," beyond its traditional business in the mobile phone, and "provide access to significant new opportunities for growth," said the group a statement. The operation is the largest of its kind ever conducted by Qualcomm, which has more than 10 billion dollars (7.6 billion euros) in cash at the end of September.

Toshiba to sell large size 3D TV without glasses

Toshiba plans to sell large-size TVs that do not require 3D glasses. These screens 40 and 50 inches will be in the Japanese market this year. No data on price or on the date of marketing in the world. Toshiba claims to have prototypes of 56 and 65 inches. Toshiba TV models 3D glasses that do not exceed 21 inches without glasses.

The need for them to enjoy the three dimensions on a TV is considered one of the main obstacles to the popularization of this offer. However, technical solutions for 3D viewing without glasses can not yet do it from any angle. Hence, the first applications will be on consoles like Nintendo, with a small screen and in which the player is located frontally before it.

The U.S. regulator focuses on the agreement between Goldman Sachs and Facebook

According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. stock market watchdog, is considering amending its rules to prevent future investments similar to that performed by Goldman Sachs on Facebook. The U.S. bank has announced an investment of 2 billionth dollar (1.5 billion euros) in social network, but Goldman Sachs did not fund all: the bank will pay 500 million euros, together with the Russian company Digital Sky Technologies, the rest being provided by the bank's clients wishing to invest at least $ 2 million each.

Brussels asks firms whether they have detected tampering with the Google search engine

The opening of an investigation into Google's business conduct by the European Union has begun its journey. The first evidence that the EU authorities are working on it is sending a survey to companies and organizations that, through a hundred questions, to determine if the company manipulated search engine results.

The newspaper Le Figaro has published some of the survey questions and the intention of which is unclear. She wondered, for example: "Your society has found sudden and significant changes in its ranking in search engines such as Bing, Google or Yahoo? Have you found slumps in the number of Internet forwarded to your services by Google and not can be explained by changes in your site? ".

The investigation by the European Commission against Google started

The European Commission, which suspects the Internet giant Google of manipulating the results of research conducted by the Internet, sent its first questionnaires as part of its investigation for abuse of dominant position, reports Le Figaro, Wednesday, Jan. 5. The forms were sent shortly before Christmas and has nearly a hundred questions to be answered by the big Web players such as publishers of sites, search engines and online directories, advertisers and advertising agencies, before 11 February, the paper writes.