Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones

Microsoft is ditching the Nokia brand name from new devices, less than a year after acquiring the Finnish mobile firm.

New Nokia Lumia smartphones will instead by known as Microsoft Lumia, the company said.

Nokia's non-mobile division, which is not owned by Microsoft, will continue to use the name.

The mobile operation was bought by Microsoft in April in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn).

Since then, Microsoft has quietly shifted away from the Nokia brand.

A post on Nokia France's Facebook page confirmed the branding shift. The renaming will roll out globally in due course, Microsoft has said.

The announcement comes despite Microsoft agreeing to a 10-year deal to use the Nokia name on mobile products.

Microsoft is currently having a big shake-up. In July, chief executive Satya Nadella announced the cutting of 18.000 jobs

The bulk of the cuts, around 12.500 will be from staff taken on after the Nokia acquisition.

Europe accepts the universal charger por mobile phones.

The European Parlament has  recently released the new law.The chargers´s factory will have three years for get used to the production of this new product.

This law does not affect only to mobile phones. Europe is thinking to use this for remote controls on TV and on remote controls for cars.

This was approved with 550 votes in favor, 12 votes against and 8 abstinence.

Despite this law, we will have to see the Apple´s decision,who still having his particular charger and plug.

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Talon Hand, a prosthetic hand created with a 3D printer

Father and son have worked together to bring us a new demonstration of what to do with a 3D printer Solidoddle: complete hand prosthesis. The name Talon Hand, we have a fully functional hand that has been created to Peregrine Hawthorn, son and co-creator of it. 

Work is not the original game from scratch and has several designs to create this Talon Hand. The final work, so that you can see in the pictures and in the video is remarkable given that these two people have been working with the printer only nine months.

May the force be with you, an interactive exhibition to remove virtual waters with Kinect

Surely many of you, after seeing the Star Wars films, have tried to make the hand gesture Jedi knights do to move things at a distance. You know, that move with an open hand to create a perfect unseen blast to shoot a troop of robots and soldiers of the Empire. 

What today we are going to teach may not sate your desire to emulate Obi Wan and company but as an interactive installation that combines art and technology is quite interesting. Moving? Projected on a wall virtual water? This is what is proposed display Teo Park.

WWW (World Wide Web) turns 25 years.

The 12th March 1989, the British investigator Tim Berners-Lee described in a report for CERN the protocol for the transference of hypertexts, that the next year became on the "World Wide Web".

Berners-Lee didn´t invented Internet. The global net was created in the 70s, and was released in 1983, for a military project.

The idea was not instantaneous. He started to work in CERN in 1980. His first work was to design Enquire, a data base for order the disconnected information that started to accumulate on the computer´s memory. He left CERN at the end of the 80s, was a short period of time on industry and he returned back in 1989, when CERN was one of the biggest internet companies in America.  It was there when, cooperating with Robert Caillau, he presented a proposal for set a system that allowed to access to other archives by entering its link. It was the beggining of the Web.

Right now, this system keeps 40 billion of web pages, a big number for only 25 years
For see the first web page, click here.

Green Throttle Games, another purchase of Google Android destined to come to our classrooms

We can not rule out Google in any field of activity, and in fact, in a little over a year is becoming serious with everything that has to do with games. In May last year Noah Falstein hired as head of game design, while giving visibility to suGoogle Play Games. 

Today we have a new episode that has to do with enhancing the development team Mountain View, having acquired the company Green Throttle Games. Something that could have occurred late last year, but has come to light now.

The Raspberry Pi already have their own sound cards

The developers of the popular Raspberry Pi announced the availability of a new sound cards adapted to these small computers, and based on Wolfson audio chips. 

The audio processor is the same as found in the LG G2, for example, audio and supports 24-bit, 192 KHz, which can be played either via the traditional 3.5mm and through the S / PDIF digital audio.

From WhatsApp to Telegram: The instant messaging app´s war.

The people´s habits have changed. Last years young people have been chatting and communicating

among themselves using strange symbols and abbreviations expressed in 160 types. This is used for send SMS, but there´s one more reason: save money.

WhatsApp was the app that revolutionized the communication. Facebook, the social network with more members in the world, couldn´t resist to it´s easy interface, that it´s right now on 465 million of devices.

May be the only failure of WhatsApp is its pour security. Everytime it stops working, it paralyze 465 million people. It won´t be strange if a new instant messaging app, like Telegram, that has a very high security and right now has the highest speed of people checking in.

There are more apps that want to be the most popular, like Line or WeChat. This battle has just begun.

Robotic Arm playing ping-pong better than most mortals

Maybe the robots are not yet up to fight face to face with humans, but it is true that certain tasks are achieving breakthroughs. Not surprisingly the robotic arms have for years as part of production chains. 

We've seen robots aided by artificial vision systems are able to interact in play and recreational activities such as table hockey and today we showed UHTTR (Hoffman Ulf Table Tennis Robot) showing its ability to play ping-pong.

Robots, human and Cyborgs: it's time

First it was Robocop and then Her. The theme of robots, the relationship of humans with technology, artificial intelligence and even Cyborgs had a strong presence in recent weeks at Engadget. We invite you to wander through a world that may not be as far as it looks in the movies.