the person won't be able to use the smartphone until they stop walking. the new app restricts children's use of certain smartphone functions. >> translator: we'll provide an environment where people can use smartphones more safely. >> other mobile phone carriers are also stepping up efforts to advise users not to use their smartphones while walking. >>> all right, that's going to do it for biz tonight. i'll leave you with the markets news and insight every day here on "newsline." >>> japanese prime minister shinzo abe has convened the first meeting of the newly established national security council. the council is modelled after the nsc in the united states. last week the diet enacted a law to create the body. abe met with four cabinet ministers, taro aso, yoshihide suga, fumio kishida. they discussed a new strategy to be completed by the end of the year and china's new air defense identification zone over the east china sea. >> translator: we, frankly, exchanged views on national security. it was a fruitful meeting. >> earlier, abe said the council will

we talked about the smartphone home. using your smartphone to turn on and off the lights.u can get and put the sensors i just held up on your lamp, refrigerator and you can use your smartphone to turn on and off your lights. it connects wireless. you can do all sorts of things with it whether it's turn on and off the lights or get a push notification if there's a pipe leaking. now, they are coming up with interesting ways to use this technology. one way is, essentially, it can sense when you wake up in the home, turn on the coffee pot and have it brewing as you wake up. the idea, it's not cheap, $299 for the whole set up. it's kind of a bit of a lifestyle. >> we were talking about post christmas chores. no one likes chores. so, how can you help? >> sure. you know, there's a company called bond. i love a handwritten note. you don't get one in the mail anymore. that was written by a robot. someone typed that into an app and it was sent to me in the mail. what happens with bond is you can essentially write a note to whoever you want on your phone. once you do it, they will se

it's already china's number 2 maker of smartphones. next year it is going to make a big push into the u.s. and european markets. ironically in 2008, just before the introduction of the iphone, lonovo sold its phone business. meantime, companies who give employees a smartphone are taking on greater risk. a study by the ponemon institute finds 75% of i-t professionals have smartphone security concerns, a jump from 9% in 20-10. due to the rise of employees using the devices for work, smartphones are considered the biggest threat to a companies' security in 2014. other big i-t threats at work include email scams and malware attacks. target now confirms encrypted pin data was stolen in that huge holiday hacking scheme. but in a statement the third largest retailer says, "we remain confident that pin numbers are safe and secure." still, several class action lawsuits have been filed on the possibility the crooks will find a way to use encryped pins.hackers stole data from as many as 40 million credit cards twitter shares tumbled after an anal

. >>> two california leaders are cracking down on stolen and lost smartphones. state senator mark leno and san francisco d.a. george gascon proposed a bill requiring smartphones to have a kill switch that would disable the devices. they say that built-in anti- theft measures could lower smartphone theft but cell phone carriers don't like that. even though last year, more than half of san francisco's robberies targeted smartphones. >>> in other news around the bay area, vallejo police are looking for a man that robbed a gas station owner at gunpoint. it was recorded by the store's camera. the robber grabbed the owner. the owner says the guys showed him the gun, demanded money and handcuffed the owner and made him lie on the floor. the robber got the cash. the owner wasn't hurt. >>> the broken bolts are fixed on the span of the bay bridge. the bridge was safe before and remains safe in the event of a major earthquake. it cost about $25 million to fix the broken bolts. caltrans is still testing other bolts on the span to make sure there are no more problems. >>> an

we are in almost every smartphone, almost every tablet and then a whole raft of other things, everything from dishwashers, anti-lock brake systems in cars. >> i got the list? not bad. not bad at all. >> now for the viewer to understand, you designed the chips, you -- but you don't manufacture? >> that's right. actually describing us as a chip company is possibly incorrect. >> so, describe arm then. >> we describe ourselves as a semiconductor, intellectual property licensing company. we design microprocessors, we design lots of other things that sit around microprocessor and then license them to people for them to go and build chips. >> who are some of the companies you are working with? >> samsung, texas instruments, marvel, lsi. >> i am thinking just samsung alone that runs the gamut of dishwashers, televisions that list pretty impressive. >> marvel, for instance, i would have thought marvel was a chip company. but in ways, they the manufacture chip and they are doing it off of your design? >> what our licensecies do is taken a arm proser isser, building block of a sophisticated chip, a

smartphone to browse, tablet to buy.u mentioned, strong performance for ios versus android. >> why do you think that is the case? >> a lot of people got their android phones along with their contract and carrier, whereas the iphone -- you know, they made an investment in an additional amount for that device, so the demographics skew to people who are slightly more affluent and also who are a little more comfortable with browsing and purchasing online. the techno-graphics their lend themselves to people doing a little bit more online shopping -- the techno-graphics there lend themselves. >> there is a link on google which says if you bought an iphone during the holidays or got an iphone during the holidays, you click on it, it shows you all the different google tools you can load up on your iphone. do you think there is a way to sort of tie that together with what we are learning with how much spending has taken place on android devices versus ios devices? >> we have seen people take an approach where they have obviously

but smartphone apps are the latest entries. zoosk has 25 million active users. top 20 app. of zoosk tells us mobile is become a bigger part of his business as members message each other throughout the day on their smartphones. >> so you can chat fluidly with other people. there's no friction. you don't have to wait for someone else to get back home to get to your message they can whip out their mobile phone and get back to you right away. >> now that's not to say that online dating is perfect, of course. according to the pew research center half of online daters say people misrepresent hd themselves in their profiles but analysts say this market is poisd for strong growth with revenues from the mobile dating market expected to double in the next five years to $500 million. most americans still find their new year's eve date and partners off line but a lot of times all you seem to need now is a smile and a smartphone. back to you. >> i think it's the greatest collection of pictures that are at least ten years old. >> that's right. a lot of people upset by the misrepresentati

we are streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, and smartphone.eff bezos cracked open a can of worms when he appeared on 60 minutes earlier this month, showing charlie rose the opto copper. this is the drone that can supposedly deliver amazon goes to your doorstep. >> oh, my god. >> these are octocopters. there's no reason they cannot be used as delivery vehicles. i can show you how it works. >> are you talking about delivery here? >> there is an item going into the vehicle. i know this looks like science fiction, it is not. this is early. it is still years away. we can do half hour delivery and we can carry objects up to five pounds, which covers 86% of the items we deliver. >> i'm an optimist. i know it can't be before 2015 because that is the earliest we could get the rules from the faa. my guess is that is a little optimistic. could be five years? >> amazon is not the only company looking at the possibility of drone packages. >> we have been looking at drone technology for four years now. we have seen many companies that experiment with drones

now, more people are using smartphone apps to get the best deals. the apps you are using may be giving more than you realize z. >> the long to-do list facing congress before the break. >>> the new home for fbi headquarters ahead on news 4 at 4:00. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. sign. then drive. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. hurry, this offer ends january 2nd. visit vwdealer.com today >>> good afternoon, i'm barbara harrison. >> i'm jim handly. we are following new developments in an attempted rape. scott macfarlane has details at the live desk. >> a 20-year-old man was arrested in the potomac mills area in woodbridge. police say he has, at one point, had his pants down as he approached a 19-year-old woman. he did so friday night

i think china is number six in the smartphone market here. that is what you have seen. the other players have caught up and far surpassed apple apple has not done the china mobile network. for china mobile, this a big move. theasically removes competitive disadvantage it had to the competitors like you to, and telecom. unicom and, -- china telecom. this is a higher-margin product. bernstein analyst noted earlier if itor this apple deal comes through, it could be potentially negative for china unicom and positive for china could and some commerce migrate to some customers could migrate from telecom or china unicom -- some customers could migrate from telecom or china unicom. they said they are moving beyond trials. they will roll it out in 16 cities. that will coincide with the unveiling of the iphone on their networks by january 17. that is a target date. by christmas, people can register online to get their iphones. >> quite a mouthful. thank you. john, you'd have a look at the stocks related to apple. has foxconn. these three stocks are seeing gains. up.tron mobile up

sales in china worse smartphones -- apple.sording to my math, that three times 2%. jacketsensing the tweed is a hit. >> i would not necessarily call it a hit, but it is getting attention. >> i'm calling it a hit, teasing adam. like the gold iphone in china, it is a hit. >> jonathan, as you look at it is apple seems like the only american company with free reign. google is not there. facebook is not there. what did apple do to convince the government it is not the big bad bogeyman from america? they are one of the only american companies to get into china and crack it. although google phones sold in china did not have google services. they are playing with chinese services they need to put in for the government. facebook is not there. there are no big competitors that have free reign in china. i think it's an interesting opportunity for apple. you think apple did to convince china it was ok to be that big and have free reign? >> android has done well as an operating system on four out of five phones. apple is wanting to get to

view commerce bank has warned of shoppers next up the twenty first of this terrible time for g smartphone to be priced below hundred fifty us dollars next year. china telecom operators and mark the manufacturers generally cheap for cheap carpet before the first quarter next year the decision was made just two weeks after that i think of it issued fourteen liken it to the country telecommunication operators domestic manufacturers that is the peace corps passing cape dutch island on the bill provides for g smartphone priced under one thousand us what the hundred us dollars the country's huge market also attractive to international company international companies due to repeated felt in three g smartphone the chinese market kampung community to be open and offer products ranging from high to low and in china over marking believed the report in concocting fairly popular among chinese consumers. the major obstacles due to the country's high cost charged by telecommunication operators. china mobile. or do you have to pay thirty two dollars to two gigabytes of data each month. this practice for

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is this the new battle, smartphones integrated with cars? >> it's one of them.t's funny, about 13 years ago i remember meet wag top microsoft executive who outlined these specific areas, the home, the workplace, the car that they viewed as being like the hubs of the future, whether they would capture the consumer. of course they already got some technology in the ford cars. blackberry has the operating system that's in a lot of cars. this hasn't become a real market for the technology companies to exploit the way they have the smartphone quite yet. maybe this move by google and apple will allow them to do that. this is a tough area. it really is. are there any early odds on who at apple and google will win tech supremacy? >> it's tough to forecast. to john's point an enormous opportunity but you expect to it be pretty slow going. not so much because of the technology but more of the compatibility. how do you integrate the google experience that's safe for the driver and passenger. i think when you talk to analysts that's what potentially slows down the technolog

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lg unveiling a new smartphone? look at that. it is called the g-flex. it is made with a curved flexible screen. it has a special back panel that will heal itself if you scratch it just like wolverine? it's a break through. we're talking about it here on "money." we have the lg's director of brand management for mobile. show this to us and put it back on the little cradle so we see it closely. why do i need a curved phone? >> thanks for having me, melissa. i'm excited to talk about the g-flex. melissa: we've been talking about it a lot. >> the curved g-flex has several benefits depending how consumers use the smartphone. first thing the curve takes away glarand reflection. you get better picture quality. you also know the concept of curved movie screens? lg has been the first company to bring that concept to tvs and now into smartphones. melia: i want people to be able to see it from the side. what is surprising to me it is not that curved. are there plans to make it more curved? you can see sort of on the screen, it is like slightly curved. >> this is p

if you look at the revenue recognized from smartphones -- the company sells a certain number of smartphones in the quarter, but some of them, even though they are delivered in the quarter, maybe they were ordered before. if you look at the revenue realized from the actual sales that were recognized in the quarter, we are looking at 1.9 million smartphones. 3.7 million smartphones was the prior quarter. makersher smartphone when they had introductions of new devices you get a little bit of it quarter to quarter. but that is a pretty big of. -- big bump. >> the pattern portfolio, thought to be worth as much as $3 billion -- >> a key asset for black very. >> a talk that microsoft or somebody was interested in the patent, then wrote down the value, a couple of billion dollars. >> this was supposed to be the store of value. the patents and blackberry messenger. so, if you were looking at a lower value for the patent portfolio, obviously it does present a problem for the company. and then you look at the foxconn partnership as well and you have to wonder how much value is going to come from that.

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of course, get their only internet access through the smartphone. they will never have a computer or a fixed broadband or something like that. we believe that will remain and technology needs to develop to meet that base demand. >> one of the big success of smartphones is cost of data. is that going to come down? >> i think this will, of course, bring things down. we need to be more efficient in our equipment. but also the scale will push down the price of the hand sets. we made the rough calculation that will reduce the dollars on a smartphone, 100 million people on this earth can afford it. and this is a scale of markets where basically the same technology is very important. >> one of the problems i think i have is not speed. i know we talk about 3g to 4g. it's actually capacity. it doesn't matter how fast you go, if it gets full, it doesn't work, right? how is capacity going to change? >> a couple of things. first of all, you need to invest in capacity and operators in general are doing that. secondly, we that spend $5 billion u.s. a year, we nee

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hows a completely new way the users interact with smartphones. making money aside, i still have to ask you what possessed you to do this because you had to know you're up against the likes of apple. russia is not known as a high- tech hub. there are investors that are hot on russian text but the general public would be a bit surprised. were you trying to prove something here? what is that about? >> first of all, we have a pretty cool idea, we believe. that is why we decided to go forward with a smartphone project. i think today in a global market, there is no nationality for any project. i am sure the apple project done by chinese, russians, americans, all kinds of engineers. the same for our company. we have manufacturing and cigna pour and we have strong russian software team which creates software for the products. i think this is a diverse global team. >> they are very important. system that really dual advantage of this screen capability. .> we already did quite well today is about 60. we also open the tools for the android community. we hav

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we will ask him about the smartphone trend going into 2014. it right here. ♪ \ . . >> welcome back to "on the move ." i am by describing in for francine lacqua. these are the bloomberg top headlines today. banks are said to be racing to betray their competitors to avoid possible eu fines. the penalties relate to rating a foreign exchange markets. ubs and barclays aborted more than -- avoided fines by blowing the whistle on benchmarks. more banks are said to be volunteering information on fx markets. china's money market rates surged as fund injections by the central bank failed to alleviate the worst cash crunch since june. the seven-day purchase rates rose by 100 basis points to a six-month high. gauge of liquidity in the financial system. european union has lost its top credit rating from standard & poor's. it citedgs agency says its worst financial profile for the downgrade. s&p cut its long term rating to aa plus run the coveted aaa. for more on that story, let's had to a between. he is live from berlin. -- how muchs the eu do we actually

, smartphones that use styleuses to write on. and they're using small wax tablet as notebooks so one of these ewan expected connections between the wail we do things today and the way the romans did two thousand year ago. >> host: you talk about the fact the romans had their own lol. >> guest: right. they used awe abbreviations because they're not much space to write on the wax tablet. and if you wanted to write a longer letter, you glued them together but it was yes ear to use one so there's a premium on space, just like a text message or tweet. so they used abbreviations, one was fbp, which is sends greetings to, and another one that said, i'm well, i hope you're well, and if you are, that makes my happy, and you would say that in four or five letters and then get an with the actual important part of the messaging. so it's very similar to the way we use aabbreviations in tweets and texts today. >> host: martin luther, you write that luther had unwittingly revealed the power of a decentralized media system whose participants too

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as we've all gotten smartphones. >> you stand in line. >> yeah, yeah. >> do you have an iphone or smartphone now? >> i do have a smartphone. still learning -- >> he sent me something on gmail the other day. or gdrive. hold on. i kind of know how to do this. walk me through it. if you ran san quentin, understanding that people go to prison to be punished and to be hopefully rehabilitated as well, with those understandings, what would you do at san quentin if you ran the place? >> i would make sure that everyone -- well, san quentin is unique. san quentin is a very unique prison. everything that they should be doing, they're doing. now, if you look at other prisons, higher levels, they don't have access to the self-help programs that inmates at san quentin have such as the last mile. they don't have access to the prison university project patton university where i graduated and received an associate of arts degree. i would implement these educational opportunities to every prisoner. >> isn't that funny. that's not the expectation i got of san quentin, such a famous prison. actually, san quenti

what is korea's leading research institutes has developing new technology that allows smartphones to instantly connect with other devices without the fuss of exchanging contact information. a poly shows us how this day she will come education technology could revolutionize how people interact. movies often portray smartphones as futuristic devices that can instantly connect and control their digital environment all without the needed tech support but that future may be closer than we think the new technology to build here in korea aims to do away with punching and passwords or e mail address is when users want to connect with each other in nearby devices it's a technology called visual communication that's been developed by the electronics and telecommunications research institute or x ray. it all in the car to devise a shot at with o'grady opie. he then helps to automatically find the cord that device using the imaging technology. in principle they should allow for communications connections to be quickly established teeth. the new technology has numerous advantages when compared to

that's a high-end smartphone and that's a great deal if you want to give a smartphone to somebody and't know what kind of plan they have. we're also looking at the $300 aces transformer, which is a net book that also turns into a tablet. it's sold outonline so you have to go to the store for that one. >> it's a little overwhelming at times, so what can you say to shoppers looking to find the best deals. >> well, know what you want and make sure that you do research online. it seems like that's what everybody is doing. people have got an early start shopping online. also google search for discounts from a major store. if you know you want to shop at a store, look for coupon codes. that's a great tip. >> those numbers on the smartphone really surprised me. they're really driving more and more of these internet sales. they're really changing the game, aren't they? >> well, they're allowing people to research at any time. so before you might have felt pressured to go to the store on black friday, now you can plan ahead, spend an hour after your morning walk and get most of your shopping d

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. >>> on this day after christmas, some children are playing with their new smartphones or other high-tech toys. a significant increase in the number of kids with access to mobile devices. the percentage of children under age nine soared from 38% to more than 70%. more than a third of those kids are under the age of two. >> you have all sorts of toddlers and young kids from zero to five walking up to screens and trying to swipe them thinking they're a tablet or smartphone. >> kids aren't spending as much time on computers, watching tv, or playing video games. they're using hand held devices instead. >>> heavy and north star claim to have the largest snow making systems on the coast. the snow making machines are more efficient. the snow pack is about 40% average of this time of year. >>> have we had a december this warm in a while? >> it's been a record breaker. we're looking at what will be the driest year for the bay area on record. doesn't look like we're going to see any snow or rain this year around the bay area. we have 56 degrees. still a smoky sky and high clouds drifting in. san jo

if you happen to be in a business meeting, you might look down at your smartphone and watch the game there. so it's very important to us. we were first with our watch espn products. espn2, espn3, espnu, all available 24/7 wherever you'd like to watch. >> host: what about the potential deal with verizon that espn has talked about where you could have live streaming, but it wouldn't count against your cap? >> guest: that was really an exploration, and we're always looking into being on top of technology, doing new things. as to whether people hitting their caps would interfere with their ability to get espn, we explored it. we've not moved forward with it. we don't anticipate anything imminent, and it's just really about our wanting to make sure our products are available to our fans. >> host: is there a price point where people will say, no, i do not want sports, i do not -- i cannot afford to pay be for sports anymore? >> guest: look, we're highly cognizant in providing as much value to fans as possible. and that's why we've aggregated the portfolio of sports rights we have. the new

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