Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The Samsung Galaxy S5 costs around $256 to build

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The Samsung Galaxy S5, which launched last week in numerous countries around the globe, costs around $256 to manufacture according to a report by market research firm IHS. The handset retails for $660 without a contract, meaning up to 60% of the device's price goes directly to Samsung's profits.
Andrew Rassweiler, an analyst at IHS, says that there's nothing too exciting inside the Galaxy S5 hardware-wise. "There’s no breakthroughs, there’s nothing earth-shattering. It’s really just a continuation of what has come before.”
The most expensive part in the Galaxy S5 is the 5.1-inch 1080p Super AMOLED panel, which IHS estimates costs around $63. Samsung-made LPDDR3 RAM and NAND costs a combined $33, while the heart rate monitor on the rear from Maxium costs just $1.45. It's no surprise to learn that the swipe fingerprint sensor in the Galaxy S5, at a cost of $4, is much cheaper than the iPhone 5s' static fingerprint sensor, which costs an estimated $15.
The bill of materials includes an estimated cost of assembly ($5), but doesn't take into account the cost of engineering, software development, distribution, or marketing. All of these aspects will take a sizable chunk out of the $404 Samsung is left with from each Galaxy S5 sold after hardware costs are taken into account.
In comparison, the iPhone 5S costs an estimated $199 to build, and retails for $649.


German programmer who inadvertently introduced the Heartbleed bug admits 'oversight'

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The programmer who inadvertently introduced the critical Heartbleed vulnerability to OpenSSL has spoken up. Robin Seggelmann, a Germany-based coder, has told The Guardian that it was an oversight, but added that the bug's eventual discovery shows the power of open source code.
"I am responsible for the error because I wrote the code and missed the necessary validation by an oversight. Unfortunately, this mistake also slipped through the review process and therefore made its way into the released version", Seggelmann said.
Part of the Open-SSL project, the code in question is a simple function called Heartbeat which sends a random data packet along with its length to the server, which then sends back the same data to the client (or the sender). The process confirms that the server is listening.
But due to a programming bug, a client can lie about how much data is in the packet. For example, the client may send an 8 byte data packet, but falsely claim to have sent 128 bytes of data. Unaware of this, the server may try to send back 128 bytes, filling the rest of the packet with any other information which is in its memory at the time.
At Yahoo, this 'other' information included usernames and passwords of users logging in at the same time, while at DuckDuckGo, it was the full text of search queries, the report notes.
Seggelmann, who worked on the OpenSSL project during his PhD studies from 2008 to 2012, said that he submitted the code at 11:59 pm on New Year's Eve 2011, but denied that the mistake had anything to do with the festive season. He also said that the Open-SSL project is under-resourced, having millions of users but only few contributors.

Samsung's first Tizen phone will be a high-end device and is launching by the end of Q2

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Samsung has found plenty of success in its line of Android powered devices, but it doesn’t intend for its mobile business to rely solely on Google’s platform. The company has been working on its own Linux-based Tizen operating system for quite some time, and while it aborted launches in Europe and Japan last year due to “poor market conditions”, the project is still very much alive.
Yoon Han-kil, senior vice president of the Korean firm’s product strategy team, told Reuters that a high-end phone based on Tizen should be out around the end of the second quarter. He noted that their initial attempt to launch Tizen with DoCoMo and Orange didn’t materialize and since then the strategy has changed to focus on “a few countries where we can do well”.
There was no mention of which countries the company intended to target. A second Tizen phone will come afterwards aimed at the mid-range segment.
The company showed off a prototype Tizen smartphone at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The OS mostly looks and works like Android, with a few differences here and there, and lacking the crucial app support of Android.
Yoon Han-kil clarified that while Smasung will be pushing Tizen and Windows Phone devices, Android remains their main business and that’s not likely to change soon. If anything, he says Tizen has to account for about 15% of Samsung’s mobile shipments per year to be considered successful.
The company is already using Tizen for the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, and will introduce a new smartwatch based on Android Wear later this year.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

SEO a copy writing

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SEO a copy writing is some kind of whole art which needs to be known for the correct drawing up texts as advertizing for any companies, and for obtaining information to ordinary users. Various advertizing texts, mottoes of the companies, slogans, etc. – all this grows out of work of SEO of the copywriter.

Has to tell you at once, what not each copywriter will be able to write any text for a site, without a certain experience and any certain skills. Each text has the feature.

Here, for example, if you placed article from any magazine on the site or the blog, your visitors won't read even a half. Correctly made text, has to allocate important parts and to be the most detailed for visitors.
     
        First of all, creating a content, contents of the text have to be combined with a usability closely. Who doesn't know, a usability, this convenience of use of the blog or a site the visitor.

Main objective and aspiration of any blogger – to increase attendance of the resource. And, as for commercial sites – constant increase in number of the followers, the interested visitors who at some point become regular customers.

As the statistics shows, today search engines bring more than 80% of new visitors for sites. Among these 80% of a target traffic which comes to various resources, are both natural transitions from search engines, and bought .

Personally my opinion concerning a content is as follows: the content on the blog has to we will tell so, "to catch" target visitors from search delivery, i.e. search results. And we don't forget, your resource has to be pleasant the search robot (that such search the robot).

In these two cases (natural transitions and paid), any visitor of any resource, gets on the site page where he sees before itself(himself) a content and design. Certainly, if the visitor didn't find the answer to interesting its question, or something won't be pleasant to it on any resource, it any minute will close a tab of that site which it visited.

But, what it is necessary to do that the such didn't happen that visitors didn't leave from your site? The answer to this question here will be simple.

You need to watch that the content of a site performed the work to the maximum as I already spoke I "caught", I interested, and I held target visitors from search delivery as it is possible more long. Allocate keywords, and also important points of the text that the user paid attention first of all to "juice" of your offers.

Proceeding from all my opinions and requirements to a content, I can put forward the following definition that such SEO a copy writing.

SEO a copy writing is unique written a content for sites in which the basis of a semantic kernel lies, HTML text formatting, and the correct arrangement of keywords is competently used.