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Apple announces its first decrease in revenue in 13 years

Apple has published financial results for the second quarter, which revealed the first decline in iPhone sales of phones and the first decline in revenue in 13 years, and the reason behind it, according to analysts, the market saturation of smartphones.

The company's sales, which is credited with the invention of smart phones, has fallen by more than a quarter in China, which is the most important market after the United States, and it expects a similar decline in global revenues.

After the release of the results, Apple shares worth about 8% down to less than $100 for the first time since February last year. This was Apple's failed attempts to buy back shares and the distribution of profits to calm investors.

Apple referred to financial results prior to the results of the quarterly disappointing from major companies, such as Microsoft and Alphabet Inc owner of Google, and Twitter, which revealed all delivered results below expectations.

In the report on its financial results, Apple said it sold about 51.2 million iPhone phone during the second fiscal quarter, less than the 61.2 million it had sold during the same period last year, but higher than analysts' expectations, which were nearly 50 million units.

For his part, the canpany's Chief Executive Officer " CEO " Tim Cook told analysts that the smartphone market is not growing, which promotes greater saturation concerns. He said that the phone is iPhone 6S paying customers to replace their phones at a price much lower than iPhone 6.

Cook pointed out that the department of services, which includes the Apple Music and App Store, was the point of "bright", as revenues rose 20% to $ 6 billion to skip iMac computers and iPad sales.

Cook hinted that Apple plans to launch more devices, said: "Apple's future is very bright." He added: "Our products have an amazing line of innovations in the store."

Samsung has unveiled five new projects have been working on it within the program C-Lab, a program launched by Samsung to help the company's employees in the care of their creative ideas in the works.

The company said that these projects will be on display during the Samsung Developer Conference 2016 to be held in San Francisco on 27 and 28 this April.

Varied projects announced by the company between devices that enhance the smart home control devices, virtual reality, and wearable devices.

LiCon: This application allows users to home appliances connected to the Internet via the phone's camera control, where the user can photograph the machine to be controlled, then own settings controlled through the application.

Ahead: Project Ahead is a triangular piece form can be placed within any helmet through a metal magnet, and enables users to communicate and receive communications, listening to music and receive audio alerts via Bluetooth, and there is another version of the device supports Push to Talk technology to connect with the surrounding organs through Radio contact between them.

AMe: AMe project which is an acronym for Around Me is a wearable as a necklace,, it contains three cameras capable of recording video clips, 360-degree accuracy 4K. Where they are processing and editing this video by the user through the application of the device AMe. Users can also add the geographical location of the videos and share them on social media through the same application.

ItsyWatch: at the time you are asking many of the wearable devices for children to increase security and to reassure parents to put their children, these devices are not considered entertaining for children. So ItsyWatch project comes to solve this problem. These smart display time cartoon characters add entertainment to its users when they are children of daily activities such as eating or brushing your teeth.

Entrim 4D+: is an upgraded version of the initial project Entrim 4D orientated technology virtual reality, the first version was it allows users to sense movement on their right hand and their left, while the new version giving them a sense of movement to the front and the back, and movements to circumvent a three-dimensional.

It is noteworthy that Samsung last month announced a series of special projects program Lab C-Lab SXWS for display at the festival.

HTC launched One S9, the latest smart phones, which was not expected and re-use of which brand One after there was talk that it abandoned after the phone HTC 10.

One S9 phone joins to the smart phones series that carry the name One and number 9, the One M9, which was launched last year, mobile A9 One, and One E9, and One X9.

Since it belongs to the family of phones One M9, the new phone offers the same design, with a simple change long-speakers in the front. He is running a 6.0 "Marschmallow" of the Android operating system.

Otherwise, One S9 offers, which falls under the mobile category of medium specification, screen-type Super LCD with size 5 inches and accuracy of 1920 × 1080 pixels, as random access memory offers "Ram" size 2 GB and 16 gegabytes of internal storage space Expandable up to 2 terabytes through microSD cards.

The device includes eight processors cores at 2 GHz type MediaTek Helio X10 architecture that supports 64 bits, it supports fourth-generation LTE networks, and has a battery capacity of 2840 mAh.

The phone Weighs 158 grams and thickness of 10.09 millimeters, Rear Camera with 13 Megapixel with lens aperture f/2.0 and Sticky OIS optical image, while the Front Camera are 4 Megapixel closely with UltraPixel technology.

The phone is available One S9 through the private Taiwanese company in Germany store, at a price of 499 Euro or the equivalent of US $565.

HuffingtonPost Company announced its acquisition of RYOT company specialized in the field of virtual reality, in an effort to use the latest interactive tools to provide content to the public.

The company also announced the creation of a new company will be called HuffPost RYOT, which will provide video clips of new experiences completely like virtual reality, and full movies and videos in 360 degrees.

On this occasion, Arianna Huffington, Founded of the global website for news and blogs said: "Since the first day of the site, we committed ourselves in the Huffington Post using all the tools available to us to publish the most important and interesting news of our time."

She said Huffington, who founded the site in 2005: "Over the years, during which time we used the latest technology and technological platforms available, innovative new ways to connect with the growing audience all over the world, and the most important was to attract a new audience.

Huffington confirmed in a publication on the site that the virtual reality and video clips 360 is very effective techniques, "This is what will tell him of any person has the experience of these techniques before."

Huffington noted that the RYOT company, founded in 2012, has all the necessary for the manufacture of these technologies and technical expertise. She said that the real reason behind the merger with RYOT not wanting to get the latest technology for entertainment, but their commitment to using the most advanced technology for the purpose of more importance.

Under the acquisition, Bryn Mooser, RYOT co-founder, he said the company will continue making documentaries, and it will reach to the virtual reality ' VR 'and augmented reality what is known as mixed reality and beyond to serve the press and video journalism.

He added: "We will work to arm citizens, activists and journalists with iPhone and GoPro cameras for them to pave the way towards a new generation of content industry where every thought to make the difference."

Apple has asked the companies supplying parts for telephones iPhone to reduce production and that for the period between April and June due to falling sales. This comes after the company has also resorted to reducing the production of telephone iPhone 6S and 6S Plus during the period January to March of this year, due to lower sales by 30 percent compared to the same period last year.

According to the report published by Nikkei Asian Review business daily, the Apple's decision to reduce production also includes recent phone iPhone SE posed in the markets last month.

Reduce production affects all major parts of the phones iPhone, which will hurt manufacturers for some phone parts such as my company Japan Display and Sharp manufacturer of LCD screens used in the iPhone, as well as Toshiba, Sony the manufacturers for memory chips, sensors and camera.

Analysts predict that the apple of your prospects in their profits the financial for the Second quarter of 2016, before the company's profits back of the improvement in September, if the According to some projections in a new generation of iPhone earlier than the usual date.

According to several recent reports, the sales slowdown in the smartphone market extends to the whole of competing companies as the market began to slow down since the year 2015, which called for companies to try to make a profit through the introduction of new products sush as wearable and virtual reality goggles.

Google and Oracle have failed to reach a settlement was likely to put an end to a major legal Unlike continued between the giants for more than six years, after a meeting of all the Executive Directors of the two companies.

Oracle is demanding to get the amount of up to about US $ 9.3 billion from Google, which it accuses of violating its own first copyright because of Google's use of some parts of the Java language within a run Android smart phone system.

Oracle says owner Java language that Google used a set of programming interfaces APIs in Java illegally within Android, and also says that the use of these parts needs to obtain a license from Oracle, which is not made by Google.

Oracle had lost the same case several years ago, where the Court found that 97% of the interfaces software used in Android is Google developing itself, and only 3% are from Oracle to develop but is non-registration of copyright terms fall under what he calls US law fair use . However, Oracle, which resumed the case demanding the right to post Google to share in the profits made by the Android system over the past years.

The first session to reconsider the issue Has been scheduled dated May 9, is expected to witness the hearings attend famous figures in the world of technology to testify, including "Eric Schmidt," Google CEO, who took over the developer team management of the Java language in 1983 when he worked at Sun Microsystems Inc. developer original language before they acquired by Oracle. As it expected the emergence of "Larry Ellison," Oracle manager.

It seems that Google is preparing for the worst case scenario, where it was reported that it has hired experts in the field of compensations to estimate the damages to be paid if the court ruled in favor of Oracle, where Google hopes to pay a much lower numbers than demanded by Oracle if it had to do so.

Google Inc. launched a new addition to the Chrome browser allows the user to save web links push of a button, and return to view these links at any time via the easy to navigate interface.

The name of the new addition is Save To Google, so that its icon own show within the Chrome immediately after installed, the user can save any page by clicking on the icon that leads to open a small menu allows him optionally adding tags that could help him later to find the saved page , and it allows the same possibility to choose the image that the user wants to use to express the content of the page menu.

The user can see all the links that he saved through orientation at any time to the address google.com/save, and be saved pages view through the main image of a page with its own link, and if the user based on tags to categorize ties saved, will create a private space for each marking includes underneath all the saved links within the same tag.

Service does not currently offer a lot of other features, as own page is not available in addition to the possibilities mentioned above only search capabilities within the links and delete them, and read the content are going to its original location and not in the service itself, making it currently far from the competition known as "reading later " like Pocket, but the new Google service is characterized by the possibility of search within the page content itself and not by title or its own tags only.

Huawei has announced the first pair of virtual reality of their production, in order to join it to the phone companies that have entered the field of virtual reality similar to Samsung, LG and HTC.

The new glasses afford Name Huawei VR It supports working with three of the last phones a P9, and P9 Plus, who announced them last week phones, in addition to a phone Mate 8. Although Supported phones offer screens accurately display of 1080p which makes the glasses less accurate than glasses rival Samsung Gear VR which supports QHD resolution, but the glasses Huawei According to the company is characterized by being the first that supports 360-degree surround sound to deliver an integrated experience between sound and image.

Glasses Huawei works similarly to the method of operation of the glasses Samsung, which is expected to remove the outer cover of the glasses and install the phone, including via USB port. Also owns the glasses Control Panel Touch and a button to return to the back and switches to control audio and a button to change the distance between the phone and the user's eyes in order to obtain the best vision.

Provide system control of the speed of response of 20 ms/sec and field of view display is 95 degrees and the mechanism to filter the blue light which helps in protecting the user's eyes, according to the company.

Huawei did not talk about the launch date or the price of the glasses expected, but she said it would provide its users more than 4,000 films and 40 game for free, and hundreds of free panoramic images and virtual tours.

LG Electronics announced Thursday the launch of the second generation of Rolly Keyboard which was launched last year in an attempt to capture a major share of the fast-growing market for accessories and smart devices.

The first generation of Rolly Keyboard Unlike paintings and other mobile keys in the market, folded on the four rows along to create a "stick" easy pregnancy can be placed in a pocket, or purse, or bag.

Rolly Keyboard 2 comes with a number of improvements over the first generation, most notably the possibility to fold along the five ranks, LG has also added to the bottom of the keyboard to tongue it said it's easy for users to open them.

Although it uses the same Bluetooth technology used by the first generation, a new keyboard pairing with three devices at the same time, compared to the previous one, which she could pairing with two devices only.

With regard to the rest of the specification Rolly Keyboard 2, They are come dimensions 274 x 31.7 x 30.7 millimeters, weighs 161 grams including the battery that comes from the type 1 AAA.

Recall that the wireless keyboard folding are compatible with the systems Android (version 4.0 or later), the system Mac or Mac OS X (version 10.7 or later), Windows operating system 7 or later.

South Korean company plans to offer Rolly Keyboard 2 in the local market and at a price equivalent to US $110. No information on the plans or time put forward in the global markets.

And features a wireless keyboard from LG as contains keys, high contrast and footboard for smart devices, in addition they very convenient because the size of the keys it is almost equal to its size on the keyboards of personal computers, then it's made of a material poly-carbonate cement solid plastic “acrylonitril butadiene styrene” ABS.

The armrest of the new keyboard, which LG said that its battery is sufficient for three months on average, the development of smart phones and tablet computers juncture vertical.