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that's. hello and welcome to technology much as christopher columbus served the queen and king of spain by pushing the boundaries of the known world wait you have come to
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barcelona to serve you well the time when i may not have discovered uncharted lands we have found a handful of innovations the limits of mobile technology it's that time of year again when the whole community descends on the catalonian capital while the annual gathering has been happening for more than a quarter century organizers build this mobile world congress as bigger and better than ever having moved into a newer and more spacious center is the one stop shop for just about everything in personal size tech with one exception all the industries big players who are there hoping to investors and gadget gurus alike so as apple staying away as it traditionally does samsung was able to bask in the knowledge that it was far and away the biggest fish in the pond with an eye on keeping its share of the android based the no eight point zero made its big debut and got the blog buzzing but it's going to have to work hard to fight off challenges for both new and old competitors . nokia was also on hand to tout its latest smart phones the company looked to
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brush off bears attitudes about its future with no less than four new handsets at their stand we got ours on a higher into luna and checked out their tech that can wipe out unwanted photo bombers as well as give a little extra surprise to your shots with localized animation there was the south korea high tech hub like many others they've got their fingers in all kinds of electronic pies but they're looking to make inroads with the latest line of their optimus l series one model which was made available to russian users before anywhere else. between carriers whether it's an extra phone for the. people who are always looking for something more. than an interesting way to give people the most bang for their buck. absence of any truly groundbreaking announcements from the.
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company is hoping to. display on the back. for. example loads of things to do but you don't really know your way around. quickly than you might expect. and. if you. get your batteries about you don't have to worry about. any extra power to keep it in place. that way.
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you can use the screen to brush up on the building's history and. construction. also aims to make reading on your. papers about an additional. under the sun. and lastly got an important document that you just can't afford to lose because of a phone whether it be a boarding pass shopping list or simple coupon scream has got you covered making sure you don't miss your flight or your morning cup of joe. to bring the phone to life to turn to qualcomm. prototype it's twenty three nanometer technology is designed to meet the demands of. tablets
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this is what you use your handheld device for qualcomm is quite confident that they've got just what modern users demand. it's capable of handling hours and hours of hassle free gaming all day and all night marathon showed it's also got the quickness to offer screen responsiveness. and all of that comes in a thoroughly efficient. simmers all the others. in our opinion is one step ahead of all the other companies to produce chipsets and that's in terms of power consumption the support of l.t.e. frequency bands the size of the chipset a many of the parameters is given to the existing cooperation wasn't the only thing . during a high powered visit from c.e.o. paul jacobs the two innovative companies announced a major step. became the first russian firm to sign what's called an. agreement
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with qualcomm getting their hands on the proprietary kit will enable developers to push the capabilities of the phone to the limit. we are receiving access to the original source code and design of the chipset so we can refine the device in terms of energy use as well as the processing right. we'll have direct technical support from qualcomm. to fully customize its software and hardware around the snapdragon processor and. david examples of just what's possible with. for example this photo booth was developed on the basis of the company's dragon board which is based on the same kind of chips used by. simple things like playing around with your photos to high tech innovation such boards are often ideal for developers building and optimizing projects that don't require everything to be pint sized. hopes to join the plethora of other handset makers out
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there running qualcomm chips and should help them compete with the. industry's top dogs in order to do that they need to show potential customers and operators just what they're capable of and in that regard the few days that congress was time well spent. everything went really well so people showed genuine interest and excitement about the new product which. speaks volumes that leading analysts and major mass media outlets the only true innovative device. only time will tell if it's a true game changer but we should find out soon enough with the yota phone supposedly set for release in the second half of two thousand and thirteen once upon a time letters are the most convenient way for people to stay in touch however the heyday of the pony express and snail mail have long since passed us by nowadays
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consumers don't just demand instant access but connection quality on par with the real thing. over the years there's been many ways to get your point across but they've all been leading to where we are now for centuries the top spot was held by good old pin and paper. at the time most people well but of course. starting from the initial sorting to transportation. and then delivery slowed things down more than most would have liked and as technology improved it allowed. people to exchange salutations and. revolutionize communication gave way to the desire to see who you're talking with that led to the first video phones back in the one nine hundred seventy s. at the time the tech was just too expensive that's all changed with the rise of the internet which isn't without its own problems. it simply.
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is quite straightforward. you're more likely. and you share the various network. people streaming data. and disruption communication. issues video. and individual packets. through various channels. or traffic jams along the way. but the. packets don't. just as the speaker intended. are required. when you're talking with video even. between picture.
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trying to troubleshoot problems in real time demands serious processing power to. control. complex mathematics and. video i would have made that all possible. if you've made a phone call or video over the internet. and despite increasing strains. capacity make sure. clear. sharing video conferences held with offices including in moscow which is thousands of miles away from here it's all in h.d. but all we need is just an ordinary laptop and an ordinary internet connection even when the network is really overloaded like it is here. with precisely such video
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conferencing software that the company has made in the industry by giving telecoms companies to offer unmatched. video conferencing to their clients. traditional operators. over the top. technology allows for as many as fifty simultaneous audio and video streams in one video conference the other leading companies in this sphere usually only have up to nine interactive stream. is needed here at. the situation on and around the track.
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the software can also be adapted to. be all with the safety and response of. the work takes place on a server which means that the server itself processes all of the video streams it's a very resource intensive process but despite that our server is what we call light in the sense that a large number of simultaneous video streams are processed using relatively cheap hardware for comparison. the way video server that process is a thousand to fifty zero streams costs about half a million dollars however with our software the same number of streams can be processed on a server that costs only five thousand dollars such big cost savings can turn into huge ones for companies like ross telecom with nearly fifty million subscribers nationwide the russian telecoms giant turn to spirit. is helping traditional connection companies go digital at a fraction of the cost
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a part of that is federal project called electronic government which allows people to get answers and even apply for services via video connected terminals when exact source searching for the right software set up at the call center there was really only one option. but it was practically nobody that could offer else of the box solution meaning one that was ready to go immediately off the installation with a minimum modification the only company that was able to provide this spirit d.s.p. video most. today. these are the images.
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welcome back to technology update in the mobile world congress in barcelona there's so much to do and see in the action packed four days that people are constantly on the move to make sure they don't miss tomorrow's next headline yes it's easy to get caught up in the bright lights and fancy displays but in reality many were in town to hammer out agreements and important deals. in the news around the time it was a simple call at this point it's a truly international brand with operators in around twenty countries inside russia however the company is best known for its bridge who recently announced that they pinned a deal with china mobile the agreement will give their subscribers the ability to
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reach all numbers in china directly without having their calls routed through a transit network operator. but they were. there was also. russia centric. join on the. capital the company got its start in the late one nine hundred ninety s. as. a house a few years back the t.v. focus department was spun off as a separate business had passed the company found its first client and hopes to continue its luck with new hardware and advertising has been if it's for just about everyone under the sun.
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which is. to continue their push for an. ecosystem they announced their three d. interface has officially opened. but first they had to figure out how to attract developers before they built up users as well as how to attract users without newly developed apps problem solved the problem of the chicken and egg licenses from some applications from. say we're not starting from scratch which would have been insanely difficult we've already got quite a few applications to offer up. however this wasn't the first time you turned to the firm for cooperation. traffic turbocharger for
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last year so it's already around fifty thousand apps ready for download this prep to offer its biggest rival a little friendly competition. well. although android is a de facto platform there's no viable competition no other companies that can match for example google play. companies d.n.a. to offer an alternative. we have a search engine. a mail service a popular cloud service we have maps so we decided to offer an alternative a good thing. like this with every day physical toy makers are being squeezed out by the processing power of computers technology now in the palm of your hands.
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the much more relaxed in family friendly casual. one of the heavy hitters in this sphere is game insight only three years ago it's made its way to the top of the industry. city which is among the top apps for a time last year. furthered its winning streak with paradise island which was reportedly the company's top performer powered devices at the beginning of two thousand and thirteen however the company's go to game has been mystery manner. over two thousand and twelve all told its take in more than forty million dollars and the company was rated as one of the top twenty publishers. just as you'd expect the two were on hand to give visitors a new way to see and experience their games take a peek inside and you were treated to a three d.
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version of one of their fan favorites and their stand itself also a few critics got a shout out as one of the top exhibits and. there are many ways to make it big but top execs think they found the best of both worlds. games that all games from gaming sites are totally free show that you can play any games as much as you want to charge but a fellow looking for additional features like slightly improving your weapons or say expanding the territory or just boosting your energy levels so that you can play more actively then you can pay a small amount of money to do that and have even more fun playing that's the only business model gaming said here. that they might. spread out across. the company has more than five hundred minds behind that idea. h.q. producers artists and programmers are working on what they hope to be the company's next big hit the majority of their offerings are strategic builder games which
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remind old timers like me of the sim city series from my childhood i may not be the first thing that pops to mind right away but putting together. the casual games like these are far more time and effort than one might expect and the right balance between difficult intertainment is the hallmark of a successful game. despite being so young the company boasts more than one hundred million users worldwide. smartphone is killing some time money game inside game. the company estimates players spent over. their screens. every year the company looks to keep its early successes. such achievements and can comment and profits aren't the only thing the company has managed to generate the creative juices that game insight have given birth to another startup right next to one another. takes a traditional pastime and gives it
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a digital twist the underlying idea there comics in. the same way users take them in is undergoing a major shift that people nowadays never too far away from their smartphones or tablets traditional content makers have a unique opportunity to deploy technology to their benefit. didn't come out of thin air but was nurtured along by those with earlier success. it was the head of game insight. who came up with this idea companies are really close at the fact offices in the same building just a couple of floors apart one day and the other two co-founders of a company were discussing plans for the future and came up with the idea to go into interactive content we know how to create great games so let's choice something new . with them over. there moscow office to see just what's possible and
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how it could be changing how many people interact with traditional forms of media now they're not trying to totally reinvent the wheel here what they are attempting however. between traditional text and film. so many people.
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found in. russian english spanish and korean. understandable. very different from traditional publishers. a lot like a t.v. . to the plan.
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each scene has to be drawn by hand which of these days is of course all digital but every line in shadow is the result of a carefully placed pin stroke once they have the completed drawings the next step is to give them life and put motion and emotion behind the text. what do we mean by editing program ours is a web oriented you can import stuff from a lot of different sources like adobe after effects for example so we take these frames and import them directly to our h.t.m.l. editor which we then use to put together an interactive episode then the episode is uploaded to the narrate platform. you can access the completed editions by their apps for android devices but if you're looking for something i think you've got what it takes anyone will have the chance to publish
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a potentially interactive content in their rates platform. if someone wants to create his or her own interactive book that i go to the website and add a page like i'm doing right here they vent choose vision. and a design template from the ones we have available then you choose the audio files and the interactive elements that will be added to the page with a simple click of the mouse then you click publish and the book goes to one of our reviewers who looks at it and if it's consistent with our rules and it gets published. so will this lead to a wider revolution in terms of book publishing as a whole it's tough to say at the moment but the future of print media is certainly a topic that's up for discussion at the very least technological advances the
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biggest change ever have challenged the time of gutenberg. in my opinion the prevalence of it. traditional printed books will decline significantly in the near future of course they won't disappear completely i mean they will be in libraries and museums for years to come but it won't be like it was say twenty years ago. we didn't have the chance but if. there were more than a handful of. gadgets and software solutions people the exhibition hall started packing up towards the exits . as you can see the festivities are coming to a close. the devices and innovations you've seen today were more than most have to make it back to moscow so see you next time and enjoy the ride.
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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. a potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down here the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. decent it is going to pretty incredible day there
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and even record snowfall throughout what's been like nobody's laundry driving lessons from emergency vehicles are exceptions.

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