Apple holding more cash than USA

Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government.

Current figure from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn).

Apple's current financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn.

The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling, allowing US government to borrow more money to cover spending commitments.

If US government fails to extend the current limit of $14.3 trillion dollars, the US government could find itself struggling to make payments, and risks the loss of its AAA credit rating.

The United States is recent spending around $200bn more than it collects in revenue every month.

Apple, on the other hand, is making money hand over fist, according to its financial results.

In the three months ending 25 June, net income was 125% higher than a year earlier at $7.31bn.

Air France Rio crash: Pilots 'lacked training'

Air France plane was crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 lacked adequate training of Pilots, French investigators have found.

France's BEA authority said pilots had failed to discuss repeated stall warnings and did not have the training to deal with the hazard. Air France rejected the accusation.

Mandatory training in high-altitude stalling for all pilots called by BEA.

Remember all 228 passengers on board the Airbus 330 from Brazil to France were killed.

 

Biometric business security goes beyond Bond

Until fairly recently many people using fingerprint or retinal scanners to get through doors would have done so to an amazing soundtrack and almost certainly have very good teeth and hair.

With the use of such biometric devices was the domain of Hollywood films, as companies and governments attempted to thwart suave secret agents intent on subterfuge.
Biometric verification & investigation involves identifying someone through one of their unique biological traits.
These include everything from a fingerprint, iris, retina, or outline of a hand, to ear shape, voice patterns, and even body odour.

 

Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc Smartphone Introducing in USA in August

 Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc Smartphone Introducing in USA in August

Sony Ericsson will be introducing its flagship XPERIA Arc Android smartphone in the U.S. market starting this August for $600 unlocked. Unfortunately, as the makers wasn’t able to secure any carrier agreements, the device may not be offered at this time with a contract for a discounted and subsidized price tag. As such, the $600 price point for this high-end handset may keep the device away from most people as the U.S. market is accustomed to subsidized pricing for cellular contracts.

Though Sony Ericsson didn’t mention what radios will be run on the handset, it could be safe to assume that the GSM handset will work on either AT&T or T-Mobile USA. It’ is not clear if Sony Ericsson will deliver two brand of the handset, each compatible with one carrier’s 3G bands.

Mozilla starts coding for mobiles and tablets

The developers of the Firefox web browser have started developing an operating system for mobiles and tablets.

The project will draw on severals parts of Google's Android mobile operating system much of the code will be freshly written.

It will run on the same devices once finished the operating system will complete with Android.

The project team said all code creator would be done in the open and shared as soon as it was written.

Called Boot To Gecko the code creation is being overseen by the Mozilla Project which created the Firefox browser. 

Gecko is the rendering engine that powers the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email program. A rendering engine interprets the code on webpages and displays it in the right format on screen.

With B2G, the Mozilla creators plan to get applications running without the need for the browser, efficently creating a web-centred operating system.

It will draw on some core parts of Android but plans to add a wrapper around it that is much more open than the one created by Google. If successful, the project will face stiff competition from Google's Android and Chrome as well as Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.

The Mozilla team commited that the project was in its "infancy" but said it already developed some basic software from building blocks that are similar to those needed to get the OS running.

The team said they were publicising the project to root out experts in the Mozilla community and elsewhere who could help and encouraged them to get in touch and sign on.

Mr Gal said the project had set its sights high and wanted to do it "the way we think open source should be done".

Its ultimate goal, he said, was "breaking the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile device world".