Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) â€" Microsoft on Wednesday let consumers start trying out its upcoming touch-based Windows 8 operating system, which aims to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs designed to counter Apple's big gains in the market through its Macs and iPads.The test "beta" version of the revamped system was introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet's largest cell phone trade show, and borrows some of the look of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software for Windows 8.Windows 8 doesn't have the traditional "Start" menu, and applications are spread across a mosaic of tiles in a design Microsoft calls...

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Business Analytics So Important Foundation

In the various interviews prospective employees, interviewing candidates who precisely has just graduated from college, they asked me much about what the profession's most promising future, I then re-ask some questions. First, how do you predict when you will have to choose another telecommunications provider for your mobile phone? Second, or when you meet someone, can you predict correctly the person personally? You do not need to learn to leading forecasters because it is not an arena for the forecasters at the fair. The events that occurred in the past decade provide a special vision to the world of business and government that they require a special skill to be able to predict an event as I can to avoid catastrophe. You might ask, how? Is the information available at this time? Is...

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Interpol says suspected Anonymous hackers arrested

PARIS (AP) â€" Interpol said that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America.The international police agency said in a statement Tuesday that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.The suspects, aged between 17 and 40, are suspected of planning coordinated cyberattacks against institutions including Colombia's defense ministry and presidential websites, Chile's Endesa electricity company...

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Gaming is a top priority for mobile-tech makers

Barcelona, Spain (CNN) -- The smartphones and tablets debuting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week share one very important ingredient that has allowed Apple's iPad and iPhone devices to become mainstream cash cows: videogames. "Gaming is now a 'need to have' category, not a 'nice to have' category for mobile devices, whether they be tablets or phones," said PJ McNeally, videogame analyst at Digital World Research. "The days of a single-function mobile device are long gone." Raj Talluri, vice president of product management at Qualcomm, said that with more than 60% of users regularly playing games on their mobile devices, games have...

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Dead plants 30 000 years turned on again

This ancient flowering plant has been revived from the seeds are buried by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago. The seeds are found during excavations in fossil burrows in the ground squirrel in the Siberian Arctic. As reported by the pages of The Sun, Tuesday (21/2), seeds of these plants due to near-death experience wrapped in a layer of ice, called 'gene frozen', "said the experts. Laboratory experts of science and permafrost soil from Moscow, Russia, and then use the method which they called state-of-the-art, to foster Silene stenophylla. They include herbaceous plants that sprout and has small white flowers and is still growing in...

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Proview seeks to regain global rights to iPad name

SHANGHAI (AP) â€" Proview Electronics says it is now seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition, hoping to have a 2009 sale of the trademark ruled void.The Taiwan-based maker of LED lights said in a release late Monday that it had amended its lawsuit filed earlier this month in Santa Clara, California's Superior Court.Apart from having the trademark sale voided, it also is seeking unspecified compensation, a share of Apple's profits from alleged "unfair competition" and an order for Apple to stop using the trademarks.Apple had no immediate comment.Proview insists it owns...

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Phones poised to replace the money in your pocket

Barcelona, Spain (CNN) -- This is the fourth time I've covered Mobile World Congress and every year I arrive expecting to be unimpressed, thinking "surely, this year there's nothing new left to show" and every year I leave realizing the pace of change is just accelerating. This year is no different: from smartphones with specs to rival advanced DLSR cameras to devices that are more powerful than a home PC in your pocket, Mobile World Congress has been impressive once more. It's easy to talk about the headline devices, such as the Nokia 808 Pureview: a 41 megapixel camera stuffed into a phone. That's right: forty one megapixels in a phone --...

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Barista machine, Automatic Latte Maker

Want to make good coffee usually require a barista. However, in Japan, there is a "barista machine" to make a latte or other coffee based drinks. Barista machine was in the service area Fujigawa in Shizuoka, Japan. A variety of drinks are available for purchase including drip coffee, americano, mocha, caff latte, and cappuccino. In fact, Matcha au lait and hot chocolate are also available. After pressing the button directly on a video display. Then, the process of making coffee is also shown. The first time, the video shows the current ground coffee beans. Then once turned into a coffee moved in the space labeled hot running water, and...

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Nokia pins hopes on cheaper Windows smartphone

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) â€" Struggling cell phone maker Nokia Corp. has unveiled two new handsets that it hopes will revive its fortunes at the start of the world's largest mobile phone trade show on Monday.Chief executive Stephen Elop told reporters at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the new phones â€" a low-price euro189 ($254) smartphone that runs on Windows software and a handset with a high-resolution 41 megapixel camera â€" demonstrates "the actions necessary to improve the fortunes of Nokia.""With great products for consumers, I think the rest will fall into place," Elop said.Analysts said the new smartphone could attract users...

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Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) â€" When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won.His award: $850.Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel found in favor of Spaccarelli in Ventura Superior Court in Simi Valley on Friday, saying it wasn't fair for the company to purposely slow down his iPhone, when it had sold him an "unlimited data" plan.Spaccarelli could have many imitators. AT&T has some 17 million customers with "unlimited data" plans who can be subject to throttling. That nearly half of its smartphone...

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Animation High-Tech Exhibition Held

Exhibition of animation and other art works are made using the latest technology opened in Tokyo on Wednesday (22/2). Japan Media Arts Festival will be held until March 4 next at the National Arts Centre, Tokyo. Festival of the-15 has attracted over 2,700 participants from around the world, many of them are made using computer and telecommunications technology. And this festival will be very festive. The reason of the selection results will be displayed 150 works best animation from various countries. As reported in NHK on Tuesday (21/2), one of the work entitled "particles" have been awarded in the category of the best art events. This image was made ​​with the ball and LED technology. With a circular shape along the 8 meter, this animated picture looks very stunning with light and illusion. Meanwhile,...

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Jargon-busting mobile industry's buzzwords

(CNN) -- Mobile devices may have placed an amazing array of technology in the palms of our hands, but they've also given us a bamboozling array of buzzwords and acronyms. To help avoid confusion as the cell phone industry meets for its annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, CNN has compiled a handy jargon buster. Android: An operating system created for mobile devices by a consortium of tech firms led by Google. Different versions of Android are typically named after sugary treats, namely Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich. AMOLED: Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode. This is the technology behind ultra-thin display screens used on many smartphones. These use on-off switching to consume less power than previous "passive matrix OLED" displays. Cloud computing: The offloading...

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Arno XI Hydroplane, Super Fast Ship from Ferrari

Arno XI Hydroplane, Super Fast Ship from Ferrari The Italian automotive company known for its speed of his car, the Ferrari was also ships out super fast. Arno XI Hydroplane boats named. This vehicle was developed from 1952 by Achille Castoldi and Ferrari's Alberto Ascari. Ship engines made ​​by companies that are built similar to the Enzo Ferrari engine in a Ferrari Type 375 race car. The vessel has an engine 12-cylinder 5.5-liter V12 Ferrari. In 1953, the boat was a new world record for the 800 kilogram class at Lake Iseo in Italy. Today, the historic ship is ready to be auctioned in Monaco. Unfortunately, the sales price of the ship...

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Tech Check: The talking cars of the future, Google privacy

(CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss some pretty big advances in car technology that could be just a few years away from becoming a reality. Consumer Reports has endorsed what's called vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. The tech, which is being tested now, lets automobiles, in effect, talk to each other -- for safety and other reasons. There's also growing talk that cars that drive themselves could be closer than we think. In other news we talk about a billboard in London that shows you a different ad based on your gender. It uses facial recognition to decide (supposedly with 90 percent accuracy) whether you're a man or woman and respond accordingly. We talk about what this might mean for the future of advertising. Our...

And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to some folks who we feel are taking Klout -- a pretty fun app to play with that attempts to measure your online influence -- a little too seriously.

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This week on Tech Check, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg talk car technology and Google privacy.

(CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss some pretty big advances in car technology that could be just a few years away from becoming a reality. Consumer Reports has endorsed what's called vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. The tech, which is being tested now, lets automobiles, in effect, talk to each other -- for safety and other reasons. There's also growing talk that cars that drive themselves could be closer than we think. In other news we talk about a billboard in London that shows you a different ad based on your gender. It uses facial recognition to decide (supposedly with 90 percent accuracy) whether you're a man or woman and respond accordingly. We talk about what this might mean for the future of advertising. Our...

And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to some folks who we feel are taking Klout -- a pretty fun app to play with that attempts to measure your online influence -- a little too seriously.

To listen to Tech Check, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here. You can also download the podcast on iTunes or using mobile apps like Stitcher.

In the mean time, you can find us on Twitter at @cnntech or on the CNN Tech page on Facebook.