Why spend 800 euros on an apparatus used in the bathroom?

35% of the owners of a tablet is going with her ​​to the water. In addition it is more bad news for newspapers in paper, the question is: Is it worth spending 800 euros on that or used that of 146? Kindle Fire For example, just announced that Amazon .

Knowing the technical characteristics of the tablet from Amazon , the comparison with the iPad,market leader, does not hold. However, few analysts doubt its success. The key is the price: its $ 199 (146 euros), less than half the cheapest iPhone, at the expense of having no camera or GPS or other advantages. Jeff Bezos, Amazon chief, and bets on what he worked in the Kindle electronic reader, devices which take a few things, but well and easily.

Fire Kindle is ugly. Yes, the same was said with justice, its e-reader, but does not stop people take him in the bag (the reader has succeeded mainly among women, the pill among men).

Kindle Fire does NOT fit all. Yes, the same was said with justice, its electronic reader.And people bought it.

The electronic reader meets the voracious reader. If someone wants to also see photos of his family, who did not buy the Amazon e-reader. Fire tablet maintains the philosophy: a device for reading books, listening to music and watch movies. All downloaded from the Amazon ecosystem. In the absence of concretions, it is unclear whether this tablet will, for example, downloaded Netflix movies, buy in iTunes or listen to Spotify.

The explosion of the tablets, especially the iPhone, has generated many studies and surveys on the use of the device. One of the latest is Citigroup, conducted among consumers in China, USA and the UK. 62% buy confesses that the tablet as a toy, only 12% will replace a computer. 68% will use it to navigate and 58% to check email.Another previous study of Staples Advantage, among employees of companies, noted that he uses in the bathroom (35%), restaurants (30%) and in bed (78%). As in the previous case, the main function is to consult the mail (75%), something that can be done perfectly with the smartphone, especially when in most cases it comes to trash pull. If you have to write long texts and some care, the tablet wins by advantage, but that makes it like the 150 than 800 euros.

Unbeatable in the Kindle Fire (199 dollars) it is compared with Apple, Motorola, Samsung, HP or Dell, but not with white markings. At the same Amazon store tablets can be found cheaper than yours and with similar characteristics. What is new is the support of a prestigious brand like Amazon, guarantee quality of service.

Amazon.com currently sells tablets as Viewbook to $ 169 (124 euros), Coby Kyros (159 dollars, 117 euros), Velocity (169 dollars, 124 euros) and Eken (88 dollars, 64 euros).

All have in common 7-inch screen, 8 gigabytes of storage and the Android operating system, although not the most advanced (Kindle the Fire, either), not including its Chrome browser (Fire, either) and its application store ( Fire too), so you can save on licensing costs. They are not all Asian brands, is also France's Tablet Archos for $ 180 that offers a 10-inch HDTV, GPS and webcam.

Still, with these prices and those uses, the key is not how many things can make the tablet in your bathroom, but the water has sound wifi.

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Half enough Navarro

The first competition, ie the Super Cup, measures the spark of the participating teams.Then the ACB usually measure the depth of the template, the psychological capacity, physical strength. It is clear that Madrid is now the most sparkling and the club sounds like engine idling. Both have changed, it is certainly more that the club Real Madrid, and that's it seemed that the engines could Flu lack of engagement between the parts. And the flu at first when Barca Madrid, without requiring too much, went to 13-point lead and it appeared that only faced a planned process based on the script. Not even pulled Navarro, who was in the game, but outside the party. Hard to believe when it was replaced in the third quarter, showed only two points, free throws on the scoreboard.

By then, Madrid, with the soul in a fist, he decided to punch on the table and played the soul.Whatever title that matters, if you win against Caja Laboral, but especially interested to distance.And the mother gives the feeling of being a team with many alternatives and a courageous spirit.The first thing you'd better to switch their game.The second, to alter the game. In between is the pendulum of Lithuanian Pocius, applied in the shot (appealing to their origin), quickly at the start, rebounder, groundbreaking. In his heart revived Madrid.

Barca, very confused in the second half, could not find Navarro, who did not come out anything, you do not fell anything, their bulbs looked like confetti, his face, a poem. To top it off, Real Madrid stole the rebound with two cats and Reyes Suárez, when Begic, who left the ship without further argument that the size of Vázquez to resolve their confusion in the attack. Marcelinho did not know untie the knot.

Barça and Madrid were kindred spirits in and out of purgatory. Beginning of the season, spark, will, wrist, lung. Instability. Then, the party claiming the generals. The first to appear was Navarro, so dull, but so stoic, not so much to score, he did, to alter the morale of the troops, to give orders in silence, to communicate requirements and attitude. He had two points as he sat on the bench and scored 10 in the fourth quarter when his team was more depressed and probably himself, so strange with such low figures for prestige.

The answer should be Carroll Madrid, but Madrid, with good workmanship, it was fraying like a tight dress after a snag. For not missing anything, grabbed a rebound Eidson incredible in a moment, removing the last chance to re-enlist at a Madrid that seems varied, but could not even with the reduced version of Navarro.

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Chrome, YOUR PRIORITY in 2012?

"The technology monopolies do not last long." The phrase was uttered by Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive, asked again for the absolute success of the search. Years ago, Bill Gates, answered something similar in one of his appearances before the judges of the United States to defend against monopolistic activities, curiously Explorer browser.

It was in 1998 when the Explorer and was the first, but takes years to grow to 98% of the market. Yesterday I used the 41.7% of Internet users, the lowest since 1997, according to the measuring StatCounter , which specializes in tracking the use of browsers, browsers and operating systems.

After Microsoft's browser will still Firefox (26.8%) and Chrome (23.6%) and far away,Safari (Apple) with 5.2%, a few tenths more than a year ago, and the ScandinavianOpera ( 1.7%), a few tenths.

The September figures are not surprising: The Microsoft Explorer browser continues to fall, Firefox, too, and the Chrome up. Just change one detail: the differences are narrowed, so much so that to follow the same progression of the last twelve months, in December Chrome browser will be the second in September 2012 will be the first. Will end 15 years of dominance Explorer, which began in June 1998 to surpass Netscape Navigator.

The latest data confirm trends in each case in a straight line up or down, a whole year.No sawtooth. In twelve months Microsoft's browser has lost nine points, Firefox, who first broke the monopoly of the Explorer wall with its appearance in 2004, has lost 4 points and is no longer the great hope. Almost everything that takes him lose both Chrome, which just celebrated its third anniversary, winning 12 points. To continue that progression and unless some major changes in the products, it appears that it will, within two months the Google browser will have surpassed that of Mozilla, and within a year, will be the absolute leader.

Is also a matter of months the browser on Android phones (mainly Google) exceeds the traditional leader, Opera. In this device, the browser loses the most in a year is the Blackberry, almost six points against the ten won by Android. You also lose points the iPhone browser.

When that day comes, Navigator, owned at the time of Netscape, get the revenge that failed in the courts. For he began to overthrow the rule of Explorer was her Mozilla Foundation, created to give birth to the Firefox browser. Finally, Google will win it, so it is now its president who has to defend itself from accusations of monoplio.

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Milky Way.....Connected to Another Mega Cluster

 Astronomers at the Australia National University have discovered evidence of the existence of a strand of large amount of material that connects to our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy clusters, which are also interconnected with the rest of the universe.

"By examining the positions of the ancient groups of stars called globular clusters, we found that the groups form a narrow flat around the Milky Way, rather than being scattered across the sky," said Dr. Stephan Keller Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ANU.

"Also, in the vicinity of the Milky Way, small satellites are to live in the same plane. What we have discovered evidence of the cosmic thread that binds us to the vastness of the universe. The filament of star clusters and small galaxies around the Milky Way is like the umbilical cord that feeds our galaxy during his youth, "said Keller.

There are two types of matter that makes up the universe - the dominant issue, the enigmatic dark matter and ordinary matter in the form of galaxies, stars and planets. "One consequence of the Big Bang and the dominance of dark matter is ordinary matter is driven, like the foam on the crest of a wave, most interconnected sheets and filaments that extend over vast cosmic voids - like the structure of a kitchen sponge. "

"Unlike a sponge, however," Keller said, "gravity pulls the material on these filaments interconnection to the largest lumps of matter, and our results show that globular clusters and satellite galaxies of the Milky Way trace this cosmic filament. Globular clusters are systems of hundreds of thousands of old stars tightly into a ball. In our picture, most of these clusters of stars are the central cores of small galaxies that have been developed along the filaments of gravity.

"Once these small galaxies are too close to the Milky Way were stripped of most of the stars away and added to our galaxy, leaving only their cores. "It is believed that the Milky Way has grown to its current size by the use of hundreds of such small galaxies in cosmic time," he said.

SOURCES: The Daily Galaxy through the Australian National University

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