Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Nissan-Renault and Mitsubishi will expand Association

Nissan-Renault and Mitsubishi will expand Association
Many months ago, when he has not been sure that if Mitsubishi Motors is still in business. But that's mostly a phenomenon by what has been happening in the US market, since in Asia and Europe, Mitsubishi is a bit more viable. And apparently the company has the technology is worthwhile because the Nissan-Renault alliance has advanced into an agreement with the Japanese automaker to bring more technology to market.
According to a press release: "Between Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, it is expected that the joint venture company existing NMKV be expanded to co-develop a new small car segment that includes a specific electric version that can be sold worldwide. the basis of this product will be a platform developed jointly popular type in the Japanese domestic market. More details of all products, markets and manufacturing will be announced in the future.
Mitsubishi sells the electric car i-MiEV. Nissan sells the Nissan Leaf, and has a clearly set to dominate the market eléctricos.Basado vehicles in the current direction of the discussions between Renault and Mitsubishi Motors global strategy, is expected to first, two new sedan models would be launched under the Mitsubishi brand vehicles based on Renault portfolio.
The first sedan to compete in the markets of D full-sized segment of the United States and Canada, is manufactured at the Renault-Samsung plant in Busan, South Korea. The second model sedan could compete in the global C segment. The location of manufacture of this product is under discussion.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Twitter will keep the limit of 140 characters

Twitter will keep the limit of 140 characters


The tweets of 140 characters of Twitter are here to stay, said CEO Jack Dorsey very just about Friday, ending speculation that the site could depart one of its hallmarks for a limit of 10,000 characters. "It will be. It's a suitable constraint for us and allowing the brusqueness of become very old "

In January, a technology portal reported that Twitter was building a substitute feature that would insist tweets write happening to 10,000 characters. Twitter has refused to comment upon the do something directly.

"We will not be shy nearly building more useful and feeding upon Twitter for people," Dorsey showed a screenshot of text that was longer than 140 characters.

It tainted some of the main features of Twitter past returned to deed for eternity forward October. Twitter has supplementary "Moments," which allows users to easily locate tweets just more or less the hours of daylight's intensity news, and has misused the pretentiousness its icon "favorite" of a star to a heart.

Pay Android (Android Pay) will be launched in the UK in a few months

Google Inc. in description to Wednesday said its payment application One Touch for Android devices, called Android payment, will be launched in the UK in the coming months. Pay Android retain doings cards and debit cards issued by Visa and MasterCard UK banks such as Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and M & S Bank, the company said in a blog.

Commuters traveling concerning London can pay the application in city buses, trains and the London Underground, Google said. The payment platform will with be straightforward in retail outlets, such as supermarket chains Aldi and Waitrose, British sandwich chain gone chain pharmacies.

Android will compete when Apple Pay payment Apple, which launched in the UK in July.

Friday, April 15, 2016

A Facebook executive who was arrested in Brazil can be released

A Facebook executive who was arrested in Brazil can be released
A Facebook executive who was arrested in Brazil must be released after being arrested. Vice President for Latin America of the social network Dzodan Diego was arrested at the airport in Brazil on Tuesday.
The arrest was related to a dispute over a court order requiring data messaging service WhatsApp a company in an investigation of drug trafficking, for which WhatsApp refused. However, a press officer of the court who is in charge of the case said it would probably be released in Sao Paulo within hours.
Previously, a lower court imposed daily fines on Facebook, in addition to the arrest warrant after WhatsApp refused to deliver messages related to a network of drug trafficking. But now a judge overturned that decision. It was said that Mr. Dzodan not be held responsible because WhatsApp works independently of Facebook, and has no staff based in the country.
It has also been repeatedly stated that Whatsapp does not store content, which is encrypted by users at either end.

TECHNOLOGY: FLIR Vue Pro Camara Termica

TECHNOLOGY: FLIR Vue Pro Camara Termica
The FLIR Vue Pro is not your average thermal camera. This camera rather than having been built for some smartphone or a telescopic sight, this vision camera high heat technology is designed to take a ride on his drone and go on the air (DRONES).
It is very clear that it is not the most practical thing in the world, and you probably do not need it, but this camera's unique capabilities make it ideal for certain situations. The Vue Pro would be perfect for search and rescue, as it can take in the air and in the search of large tracts of land quickly. If you are a farmer, the FLIR Vue Pro also could be also used for agricultural, such as examining how is spreading irrigation, or to detect diseased plants purposes. And those are just the most obvious applications; this gizmo possibilities are only limited to your imagination.
In terms of design, the FLIR Vue Pro is mounted on a solid aluminum body, also it weighs less than four ounces. You can also connect to a GoPro camera, or install a transmitter allowing you to transmit live. However, unlike a GoPro camera Flir not have an internal battery, and instead is designed to be used with a portable charger through its mini USB connector.
You can also control the camera settings FLIR Vue Pro through a phone application, and communicates via Bluetooth. You can select from various color palettes, direct or reverse the image depending on how you want to display. You can select presets scene, and more. FLIR also offers a range of different lenses that you can purchase for the camera, depending on whether a wide, medium or narrow field of view is needed.
As for the technical specifications, the Vue Pro FLIR thermal sensor uses a compact refrigerated for a resolution of 640 by 512 pixels, and records at 30 frames per second for smooth video.

American company lost $ 100 million fraud email

American company lost $ 100 million fraud email
An American company that is not yet identified fraud made him last year for nearly $ 100 million by people who created a fake e-mail address in order to impersonate legitimate one of its suppliers, according to US authorities on Thursday.
The company had filed a civil forfeiture in federal court in Manhattan trying to recover about $ 25 million in the proceeds of fraud that took place in at least 20 bank accounts around the world.
Almost $ 74 million has been recovered and returned to the US firm, officials said. The FBI said in an alert companies issued last week that the companies had suffered $ 2.3 billion worldwide in losses email scams by transfers from October 2013 to February this year.
The lawsuit filed Thursday appears to be the biggest scam email I have seen, said Tom Brown, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan who is now CEO of the practice of cyber security Berkeley Research Group.
The scheme in question in the lawsuit Thursday took place between August and September and was identified after a bank based in Cyprus identified suspicious transfers, officials said.
According to the lawsuit, the authors carried out the scam by creating a fake email address that resembled the one of the sellers of the company in Asia.
Then individuals posing as a salesman while communicating with a professional services firm that was hired to handle the details and logistics of payments to suppliers of the US company, the lawsuit said.
Euro bank, which did not respond to an email seeking comment on its own initiative in September restricted almost $ 74 million of funds.
The remaining $ 25 million was laundered through other accounts, in cities such as Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hong Kong, officials said.
Foreign governments, at the request of the US authorities have held 20 accounts worldwide receiving portions of the remaining stolen funds, which are now subject of the complaint, authorities said.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

The US government recorded a budget deficit


The US government recorded a budget deficit

The US government recorded a budget deficit of $ 108 million for the month of March, more than double the amount for the same period last year, said the Treasury Department on Tuesday.
The government had a deficit of $ 53 million in March 2015, according to the monthly Treasury budget statement. Analysts had forecast a deficit of $ 104 billion last month.
Accounting for the calendar adjustments, March would have shown a deficit of $ 102 billion, compared with an adjusted deficit of $ 89 billion in March 2015.
The current fiscal deficit for the year to date was $ 461 billion, up 5 percent from a deficit of $ 439 million last year.
Revenues last month amounted to $ 228 million, while expenses totaled $ 336 billion.