By Cindy Vasquez

Ikea, the largest furniture manufacturer in Sweden, worked in cooperation with the Chinese company TCL Multimedia to break into the consumer electronics market. The company plans to release a new line of furniture with integrated sound system and television in June of this year. The initial launch will be in five different European cities, during the autumn they will launch the products in seven other European countries and the rest of the market they will be launched in the summer of 2013.

The furnishings are enhanced with technology designed exclusively for Ikea, from wireless systems of incorporated sound, until Blu-Ray, CD and DVD. Magnus Bondesson, representative of Ikea said: This is a big step for us. We will have a unique offer in the market. We are launching a new concept with which you can buy furniture and electronic equipment in one place.

By Susana Lima

In South Korea, a robot - guard will now secure the prisons and reduce the work of prison employees.

One of its priorities will be to ensure the integrity of the prisoner and replace part of the hard work of staff working in this place, preventing that at the end of the day, they finish very tired and not paying attention to the important activities.

The android was designed in South Korea and has been complemented with 3D cameras and specialized software to examine the behavior of prisoners. If it registers any abnormal actions, it may contact the human guard for the prompt intervention.

In addition, the guards can communicate with the prisoners without leaving the control room thanks to wireless connection.

 

By Ernesto Cano

For the month of May is expected the LG brand electronic paper will take to Europe, according to a statement of the brand, the paper will have a great resolution and although it cannot be completely folded, they can fold up to 40 degrees and will be as thin as cardboard (0.7 mm).

The name by which this role will be recorded, ePaper, and will be a real and tangible alternative for revolutionizing the role eBooks as we know so far. The device is available as a six-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768 megapixels, and also for its finesse does not need a glass screen. Its weight is only 14 grams and extremely thin.

By Susana Lima

In order to avoid lawsuits related to intellectual property, Facebook acquired 750 patents owned by IBM, International Business Machines, to get rid of claims like the one brought by Yahoo at the courts in March 12th.

The purchase of patents and is a precautionary and defensive measure taken by the corporation, but do not intend to actively use patents for the moment. Furthermore, it is tried to strengthen intellectual property portfolio to defend against any claim in the future.

By Susana Lima

The company will pay out a total of 45.000 million dollars over the next three years. Apple did not distributed dividends since 1995, but now the payoff will be $ 2.65 per share during the quarter. In addition, the billionaire firm will buy back shares totaling 10.000 billion dollars.

Due to the financial crisis that Apple suffered in the nineties, the firm stopped paying dividends to its shareholders, but after a considerable recovery of their numbers, their members began demanding a share buyback or dividend distribution.

By Susana Lima

As of March, the Sophos online store will provide 23,209 public titles of ebooks in Spanish, said Philippe Hunziker, commercial manager of this library.

These copies are storable and intelligible in Papyre devices which are also available in this library in different models: 6.1, v3 and 613 wifi.

By Lara Holmes

The results are based on responses from 3.475 organizations worldwide, 250 of them belong to organizations based in Latin America.

Symantec presented the findings of its survey on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), which, as measured by the CIP Participation Rate, revealed that globally there is a decline in knowledge and participation in such programs.

By Lara Holmes

Toluca .- The Governor of the State of Mexico, Eruviel Avila Villegas, will submit a proposal to the Mexican Congress to create the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation.

The State Executive noted that this law would have four lines of action: training of talent, creation and strengthening of infrastructure, knowledge generation and support to the entrepreneurial capacity.

By Lara Holmes

Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching to Google's cloud-computing services, where software is offered as a service via the internet.

The bank has made it clear that it would use Google's tools only for internal communication, but the deal is being seen as a breakthrough as banking, with its high security needs and strict regulations, was always considered to be one of the last industries to accept cloud-computing.

By Lara Holmes

One of the biggest changes on the Internet since its inception decades ago will now come true. Starting today, January 12, the agency responsible for the management of Internet domain names ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), opens new domain registration in a variety never seen before.

Since this date, any person or company can register any word as an extension of a web page.

By Lara Holmes

A study conducted by the Coleman Parkes Research firm at the request of Hewlett-Packard (HP)  revealed that over a third of Latin American organizations do not have effective information management.

The survey also revealed that about 50% of executives in the region do not have a clear strategy to take advantage of the data that their organizations generate and only 2% have organizations that provide strategic information immediately.

By Lara Holmes

Bridgetown, Barbados.- Online crime groups make more money than drug cartels worldwide, and arresting these cybercriminals can be exceedingly difficult. This startling revelation was made by representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) at a regional meeting on cyber security in Barbados earlier this month.

The meeting of government ministers, senior members of judiciary and law enforcement agencies across the Caribbean was hosted by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union.

By Lara Holmes

The Commission Federal de Telecommunications of Mexico (Cofetel) made changes to the rules of number portability in the prepaid scheme, so that phone companies streamline the migration process for numbers.

Portability is the mechanism by which users of fixed and mobile telephony companies can be changed while retaining their number.

In a statement, the regulator said that the commissioners endorsed 6 Operational changes to the specifications for Portability: telecommunications companies will be able to establish no "filters" for the PIN confirmation for porting to be received only for some users; prohibited practices part of recovery numbers for companies and obliges companies to not withhold or delay the delivery of the PIN confirmation and treated with the same quality and delivery times are handled the messages of text within their respective networks.

By Lara Holmes

The company Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica (VIT), located in Paraguaná, increased its production of computer hardware and today produces more than a thousand average daily reported the company's president, Jorge Michinaux.

Depending on the model they produce between 950 and 100 thousand computers daily. Some days they get a thousand 200 units in the two shifts, said Michinaux to the Venezuelan News Agency (VNA).

 

 

By Lara Holmes

Santiago Cantu SkyAlert CEO, presented a personalized satellite seismic alarm aimed at businesses, to prevent accidents in case of an earthquake.

In an interview, the manager said they discovered a large business potential for this technology for businesses, schools, hospitals and entertainment centers, among others, for preventing and warning of an earthquake.

One model can even block the operation of elevators and gas pumps, to prevent accidents.

By Lara Holmes

Facebook has fixed a bug that inadvertently revealed users’ personal photos. The bug was discovered after people used it to post personal pictures of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The flaw, as first reported by ZDNet, was originally found by members of a body-building forum. The bug took advantage of the network’s mechanism to report inappropriate images. When Facebook users clicked on the Report menu to flag an image as pornography or nudity, they were then shown other photos from that reported users’ account -- some of which were private -- to determine if they were also inappropriate.

By Lara Holmes

A group of hackers has posted more than 100 email addresses and login details which it claimed to have extracted from the United Nations.

Many of the emails involved appear to belong to members of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

 

By Lara Holmes

The number of points of public Internet access (Wi-Fi), or 'hotspots' are to be multiplied by four, to 5.8 million by 2015, driven by growing demand for connections to smartphones and tablets, said an industry study released Wednesday.

Telecom operators consider this as crucial access to download the data traffic, which is expected to multiply by 26 over the next five years, according to Cisco, as it increases the use of video on mobile devices.

By Lara Holmes

Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Management SunGard Higher Education (SGHE), Fred Weiss, said that one reason why dropouts occurs is the lack of a strategic planning by the school to serve students with low school performance.

In this situation, the representative of the firm that provides technology support to institutions such as the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) called the universities to focus their efforts on students underperforming in order to retain and provide alternatives to improve their achievement.

 

By Lara Holmes

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a hacker group, has accused the German Government of using a Trojan to snoop on citizens' computers. A Trojan is malicious software (malware) that appears to be useful but when it is opened it damages the computer.

The CCC, which calls itself the largest hacker group in Europe, made the claim after reverse engineering a "lawful interception malware program used by German police forces” that it claimed gives the authorities access to the computers of end-users.