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To compete in the global Smartphone market, Samsung sells its latest Android Smartphone products, the Galaxy S4, at a considerable price premium.

With such a high price, what is the actual cost of production necessary to create a Samsung Galaxy S4? This question was answered by the institute tried to market analyst IHS iSuppli. To answer these questions, IHS iSuppli dismantle the gadget to find out how much it cost.

Once finished unpacking component per component  Samsung Galaxy S4 32GB, IHS iSuppli concluded that the production cost of the Smartphone ranges from 237 U.S. dollars.

This means that Samsung took the gross margin of 402 dollars or about 62 percent, assuming the price of the  Galaxy S4 32GB in the U.S., which is 639 U.S. dollars.

Quoted by AllThingsD, Friday (10/05/2013), most manufacturers rely on other companies to get a Smartphone device component. However, Samsung is known for being able to produce its own components Smartphone.  Read more... (395 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Facebook is currently in talks “serious” to acquire social navigation application Waze. Facebook put up the funds ranges from 800 million to 1 billion U.S. dollars.

According to a separate report from the media business The Wall Street Journal and Calcalist, Thursday (09/05/2013), Facebook saw enormous potential if successfully acquired Waze. Therefore, Waze is known as a pioneer of social navigation application that has the location data.

Waze can give directions gradually. He also served as a place where users can report traffic conditions, ranging from congestion, accidents, repairs, until the road closure. This allows other users to know the road conditions will be passed based on the data reported.

Facebook plans to acquire Waze news is not the first time. In August 2012, Facebook executives reportedly met with the founder of Waze. However, there has been no further information about the outcome of the meeting.  Read more... (238 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

We already know who two of the most shining star in Google today. They are the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Roughly, who will replace their leadership position someday?

Google is the “home” of creative people and innovative. Companies that stems from the search engine has a lot of great talent.

For example, let’s call it Andy Rubin, “The Father of Android” and Jeff Huber, Google’s former Head of Mapping & Commerce who now join the Google X, Google built facilities to research and develop future technologies.

Rubin and Huber are the top two Google executives who relate and report directly to CEO Larry Page.

Besides them, there are a few names that I predicted would be a superstar in the future. As reported by BusinessInsider, some of them are Brian Rakowski, John Hanke, Johanna Wright, Shishir Mehrotra, and Tom Pickett.  Read more... (521 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Smartwatch

Smart watches devices (smartwatch) would be “the next big product” in the year 2013.

It was revealed from the results of the analysis conducted by ABI Research market survey agency and quoted by website Phone Arena, Friday (19/04/2013). The agency predicts, smartwatches products will sell well in the year 2013 this. Total, there will be 1.2 million smart devices sold watches in 2013.

There are several reasons that make this kind of product sold in the market. One is the highest penetration of Smartphones in the world market.

Most devices are smart watches available today it can be connected to a Smartphone device through a Bluetooth connection. When connected, the Smartphone can send SMS messages, e-mails, and also voice calls directly to the smart watches.

Well, with higher sales of Smartphones, is believed to be more and more people are buying watches also smart as a “companion” of the Smartphone.  Read more... (299 words, 1 image, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Google reportedly is negotiating to acquire WhatsApp. Value buying instant messaging application is called will reach millions of dollars.

The information was first reported by the website Digital Trends was revealed by a reliable source from internal sources. Talks between Google and WhatsApp have started four or five weeks ago.

WhatsApp mentioned trying to find a way to get a higher acquisition price. Figures offer from Google is reportedly nearing the 1 billion U.S. dollars.

WhatsApp acquisition has been predicted since the beginning will print the value of millions of dollars, after Facebook bought Instagram years ago.
If the year 2012 is the year of photo sharing apps, so this year was the instant messaging application so excellent. In 2013, the instant messaging applications, such as Line, WeChat, KakaoTalk and WhatsApp, the more aggressively increase the number of users.
The WhatsApp purchase plan can be called a “shortcut” Google to compete with Facebook and other instant messages.  Read more... (296 words, 1 image, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Are you having problems ensuring the safety and quality of your products? If that is the case, you may want to get a load cell powered device to aid your operation. But what is this particular piece of equipment?

Load cells are tiny devices which are able to measure the weight or pressure of particular objects, and then convert this data to electronic figures which people understand better. For instance, in a small digital weighing scale, there are a few cells which are able to measure weight and at the same time convert the data to electronic information. This allows the information to be presented on the scale’s monitor.

Now, if you think these types of devices can provide help for your business, you should start looking for a trusted manufacturer right away. On the other hand, if you are still skeptic that a load cell can help boost your business, here are six reasons you may want to check out:  Read more... (503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Do you know what kind of processor used an iPhone, iPad, and most Android devices available on the market? Most mobile devices use ARM architecture processors, an architectural design firm ARM Holdings processor works standing heyday.

Founded in 1990 under the name Advanced RISC Machines (ARM), a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology. Advanced RISC Machines later renamed ARM Holdings when the floor of the stock exchange in 1998.

Headquartered in Cambridge, England, ARM focuses on the research and development of the design of the processor architecture.

Unlike Intel or AMD which produces and sells processors, ARM has a unique business model. They only sell licenses of intellectual property rights or patents processor designs to manufacturers of semiconductor companies, such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Renesas, Samsung to Apple. In fact, Intel and AMD had to buy a license ARM design.  Read more... (902 words, 1 image, estimated 3:36 mins reading time)

For many people this may be the perfect combination could travel to parts of the world, but at the same time is not afraid of running out of money. This is what is now run by the so-called digital adventurer (digital nomads) because of the availability of inexpensive Internet facilities such as wifi wherever you are.

Smh.com.au site featuring three Australians who managed to combine the pleasure they traveled up and on the sidelines were still working to make money. James Clark, Clark Site Builder who still calls Melbourne as the city of origin, describes itself as “an independent entrepreneur without a location.”

Traveled up his hobby began when he moved to England in 1999 after obtaining a work visa for two years. Since then, his desire traveled up coincided with the proliferation of internet technologies. “That’s when I realized that I really like the internet, and liked traveled up, and decided to put it together,” says Clark (41) in an interview via Skype from Singapore.  Read more... (770 words, 1 image, estimated 3:05 mins reading time)

Formation of company in Russia is the legal process for foreign entrepreneurs to start a business in Russia. Apart from strict government control, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Due to frequent changes in local legislation, it is important to have the information up-to-date and in-depth than those required for the formation of the company in Russia. The establishment of Russian companies is also long and time consuming job. Therefore, the client wanted the establishment of Russian companies to be prepared mentally for lengthy documentation procedures.  Read more... (387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

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