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Students in France are prohibited from carrying cellphones to school. This regulation was passed by French parliamentarians earlier this week.

The regulation, effective from September, requires students to leave their cellphones at home or deactivate their cellphones during school hours.

Transport authorities in the United States are trying to take a stand to reduce the number of accidents on the highway. One of them by making anti wretched feature phones while driving.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plans to ask the smartphone manufacturers and application developers to create feature mode driver or driver mode.

The goal, so this feature is enabled driver mode will lock or block certain applications. Thus, the driver can focus when driving a car or motorcycle.

As quoted from the latest NHTSA report in 2016, this initiative was triggered by the rate of accidents and death on the roads increased by more than 10% compared with 2015.

The existence of this mode driver will also block or lock features such as video, email or SMS text messages, and social media. It is expected that the errant driver can no longer play cell phone while driving.

Although it takes time to make it happen, this decision turned out to join greeted positively from among drivers in America. Hopefully, this kind of initiative also emulated by other countries, including Indonesia.

"I agree 100%, for the safety of individuals and we have small children," said the driver named Octavia Poole as reported by WTSP, Friday (25/11/2016).

"I'm supportive. I have two children and want them to be as safe as possible, especially when we were in the car" said another motorist, Mike Oliver.

The vendors are starting to show off at Mobile World Congress 2014 held in Barcelona, Spain. One of them is Huawei 's flagship product introduces several at once, where the star was MediaPad X1.

X1 MediaPad Android tablet PC is a 7 inch size which is described thinnest in the world in its class. With a thickness of only 7.18 mm, MediaPad X1 is thinner than the Nexus 7, 2013, with 8.4 mm thick Mini or iPad 2 is 7.5 mm thick.

Specifications are passable classy. The screen resolution of 1200x1920 pixels X1 MediaPad with 323 ppi ( pixels per inch ). The kitchen was redone a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor supported by 2GB of RAM.

Other key specifications include 13 -megapixel camera, 5 -megapixel front camera, Android Jelly Bean OS, 5000 mAh battery, 16GB of internal memory which is equipped with a microSD slot for storage expansion.

MediaPad X1 is planned to be marketed in the near future. Quite expensive, USD 548 or USD 6 million.

In addition to X1 MediaPad, Huawei is also releasing another tablet called MediaPad M1 8 -inch screen size, but lower specifications. For example, the screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, 5 megapixel camera and 1 megapixel front camera. The price is USD 411.

Mobile & Smart Bracelet

In addition to the two tablets, Huawei Ascend Android phone also released the G6 screen size 4.5 -inch 960 x 540 pixel resolution. He is equipped with a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, 2000 mAh battery, 8 megapixel camera and 5 -megapixel front camera.

Huawei Ascend G6 is equipped with 8GB of internal memory and a microSD slot. Unfortunately the price has not been announced, but it seems quite affordable.

Huawei also introduced a smart bracelet named TalkBand G1. It has a 1.4 inch flexible OLED screen. Among others, to monitor the use of sports activities such as how many steps taken by the user or sleep patterns. He could be paired with a mobile phone via NFC, but only while the Huawei Android handsets.

Smart wristbands will be sold in China starting next month and immediately visited areas other regions. The price is quite affordable, around USD 136 

 

 

With fantastic graphics display, Bioshock is a game that entered the ranks of top class games. But in reality, it is not able to lift Irrational spared from the downturn as the reason. The game studio was officially shut down.

Irrational Closure indeed been predicted by many observers. BioShock repeated launch delays that supposedly caused the development cost overruns called to be one indication.

Even so, Ken Levine, Irrational boss who is still going to continue his dream of making games. But unlike many developers Irrational filled, Levine will start again from a small team of staff numbered 15 people in the office game studios Take-Two.

Mentioned development of the game you want is going to thrust his team compelling narrative that makes gamers want to continue to play. But further explained, Levine said only will market this game digitally.

"Making games for gamers with a compelling narrative that is highly replayable. For the most direct relationship with the fans, we will focus exclusively on digitally delivered content, "Levine said, as quoted from Kotaku.

The statement immediately raises speculation that Levine would make mobile-based games. The reason is said to be a surge of gamers in the mobile device since the rising popularity of smartphones.

HTC as a brand is synonymous with premium mobile phone. More aware of the magnitude of cake mobile lower middle market, HTC began aggressively friendly bags in the mobile segment.

Desire is HTC 300 is a mainstay to complain of fortune in the mobile phone segment to the middle. With the arm Telkomsel and Telesindo, Taiwanese vendors that try to market that claimed 300 Desire has premium features, but sold at affordable prices.

300 HTC Desire comes with a 4.3 inch TFT type screen resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. While the kitchen spur rely on Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon S4 chipset with two core processor 1 GHz.

When viewed from the specifications of the HTC Desire diusungnya 300 is not too fancy, but it turns out the phone is already accompanied BlinkFeed features that previously existed on the HTC and HTC Max.

" Now, we not only changed the perception of the middle class and market entry, but we make a new standard and premium features with the device," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation, in a statement received detikINET, Monday ( 02/17/2014 ).

In Indonesia, the HTC Desire 300 Telesindo marketed through distribution channels. In addition, HTC Indonesia also took Telkomsel as the exclusive operator partner smartphone data provider is.

Lenovo promises bought Motorola for USD 2.9 billion from Google will soon rise. Can the Chinese vendor Motorola wake from sleep?

Clearly, Lenovo has experienced awaken a sleeping giant before. That is when buying the computer division of IBM ThinkPad in 2004 worth $ 1.75 billion.

"Lenovo was not only maintain the quality of the ThinkPad, but was able to grow its market and in 2013, Lenovo managed to become the largest PC manufacturer in the world," wrote Gordon Kelly, Forbes contributor.

Armed with big names ThinkPad, Lenovo successfully increased its market share in many countries. Strategy undertaken for the Lenovo ThinkPad likely to be implemented at Motorola.

Lenovo CEO, Yang Yuanqing, Motorola has stated will be the weapon that has not been intruded into the market Lenovo, for example, the United States and Europe. He also believes Motorola's business will return benefit though of course requires a long time.

"It is not easy indeed. Countrymen Because competitors such as Huawei, ZTE and Xiaomi also trying to break into the international market," added Gordon. He added that the current rulers of the mobile phone industry, Samsung and Apple, it will not stay silent.

It will not be easy for Lenovo to evoke the recent Motorola business continues to lose money. But the good news, Motorola still has a big name and Lenovo have already had experience of improving the lot of the ThinkPad.