Apples big companies put their products on sophisticated watches,

Apples have successively redefining the MP3 player market with the iPod, the smartphone market with the iPhone, and portable computer market with the iPad. He hopes to Watch Apples and mobile payment will be a new 'killer product. "
It has been years, Apple has dominated the premium end of the consumer computing market with gadgets that class redefined their products - the iPod, iPhone, iPad. Company intellect design ethos has a very loyal following.
The share of the secondary market

Apples charge high prices translate into a very fat profit margins. For millions of wealthy customers continue to believe that Apple gadgets are better than anything on the market, the company will prosper.
competitors emerge with premium smartphones and tablets that better in a way that is important rather than the expensive offerings of Apple.
Samsung and HTC, in particular, has taken a direct purpose in the premium segment with the Galaxy smartphone and their HTC phones. Both have larger features, screens more user-friendly than the iPhone in recent years - which is why the iPhone 6, launched on Tuesday (09/09/2014), has a bigger, better screen than the iPhone 5.

Like the previous model, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus offers greater incremental improvements - larger screen, faster processor and better camera. CEO Tim Cook said that the graphics in comparison with those of the high-powered gaming platform - a market dominated by rivals Sony and Microsoft.

The new Pay Apple's software, which was developed in collaboration with major banks and card issuers, perhaps more important announcements.
Mobile payments using NFC is a technology that has long been discussed, but has not gained wide acceptance. And Apple clearly intends to change that - and give users a compelling reason to use the software.
According to Strategy Analytics, 85 percent of the smartphones shipped in Q2 2014, including Samsung and HTC phones, running the open source Google Android operating system. Apple's operating system, iOS, is only used by Apple's iPhone and iPad.

Apple risk is that people tend to stick to what they are used for, and 85 percent of smartphone users are getting used to Android. Android users will upgrade to more expensive smartphones as they get richer, and they tend to choose high-end Android devices - such as Samsung's Galaxy phones - rather than switching to Apple.

Moreover, even low-end Android smartphone made ​​by Chinese makers such as Huawei and Xiaomi, a third the price of the iPhone, the higher the quality.

And while the market share of the worldwide only about 4 percent, the third-place Microsoft Windows Phone has passed the 10 percent mark in some European markets to attract buyers looking for a premium experience without the premium price Apple.

Apple's new Apple Watch, launched with the new iPhone 6, may set the standard for elegance and functionality in the category smartwatch appear, such as the iPhone set a new standard in the mobile market seven years ago.

Compared with rival designs with curved screen, Apple's design Jewellery nearly conservative - though again, it is the software that makes a difference.
The best reason that could turn into a health and fitness monitoring - with Apple Jewellery display monitor applications for special activities and exercises. It was an area where Apple has made a big push, Edwards said.

Located on the user's skin, smartwatch can measure the wearer's heartbeat, and report it over the wireless network - something smartphones can not be done. It is useful for remote monitoring of cardiac patients.

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Your level when you learn now to adapt to digital textbook

bored to learn from the dusty old text books? Now try the book can learn from Anda.sekitar to get your hands on the first digital textbook that uses artificial intelligence to personalize lessons. The goal, is to explode the book and rethink how students learn from text.

OpenStax already offers various types of books online and printed on a variety of subjects. Over the last three years, researchers have been tracking how students in 12 schools US use books in their studies,


The textbook combines sophisticated adaptive learning method called "retrieval practice", the material that students have learned reappear in the occasional quiz. This method can be proven to improve students' ability to retain the material, and algorithmic textbook will be able to decide when to ask a question based on the last exercise.


The personal learning specifically designed to provide students who struggle to understand the lessons, while the faster learners can surge ahead without getting bored. Software is a great way to do this - at Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City, California, students spend part of each week working independently with a computer program that shows tasks and track progress, but students choose how to spend their time and organize their own pace. This approach has helped Summit to be one of 20 schools in California, according to the US News and World Report.


Salt Lake Community College, which has more than 60,000 students and is the largest higher education institution in Utah, wants to pilot an enhanced algorithm OpenStax book next year in political science, business and math classes. Jason Pickavance, director of education initiatives at the college, said he was curious to see if the books improve student performance.


Are the books success will depend on the teacher, who worked on artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex, England. They are the ones who will ensure that students make the most of their books - for example, to work out what to do when the book identifies common problem areas among their students.

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smartphone monitor glaucoma implants can be transformed in the eyes

  is selfie that could save your eyes. An embedded sensor that can help people with glaucoma in the eye pressure monitor them using the smartphone's camera.

Glaucoma occurs when fluid builds up in the eye. and this could exert pressure on the eye, damaging the optic nerve. Accurate pressure is very important to provide treatment, but one-off measurements during check-ups produce variable results and can be misleading.

Mandel Yossi Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and his colleagues have developed a pressure sensor that can be inserted into the eye during surgery to provide an easy, routine monitoring of the home.

A few millimeters in length, the sensors can be implanted into a synthetic lens used to replace the natural lens with cataract. He also works as a miniature barometer, and increased fluid that contains a column with the eye pressure. The level can be read at any time by using the smartphone camera is equipped with a special optical adapter. Software then analyzes the image and calculate readings.


Some eye pressure probes have been developed since the early 1990s. This includes contact lenses made ​​by Sensimed, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which can estimate the eye pressure is based on how the cornea bends. Sensimed sensor is the only device wearable pressure available commercially, but are intended for short-term use only. Mandel said that the sensor can be mounted in the eyes of patients over the years.

Synthetic lens implant containing a sensor would require invasive surgery, something that is only suitable for patients who need new lenses as well as cataracts.


Journal reference: Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.3621

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Indonesian volcano energy

Indonesia has enacted legislation to reduce the restrictions about the power harvested from the volcano. Experts hope it will be a potentially lucrative renewable energy market in the country.

New legislation has been passed in Indonesia in a bid to fast-track renewable energy sources. Amendments are revisions of existing legislation around geothermal energy sourced from many countries volcano. New legislation to reclassify hotspot energy exploration activities, so they can avoid the problems of environmental protection. It also gives the central government the responsibility of granting licenses to investors who want to explore the site, taking from the local authorities.

With about 150 volcanoes, most of them are still active, Indonesia has the potential to become a leader in renewable energy. But although the country could supply up to 40 percent of geothermal power in the world, many sites allocated for development in the archipelago has been mired in bureaucracy, rendering dependent on fossil fuels such as coal and oil of Southeast Asian countries.

the biggest problem for the industry has become a huge cost involved in both exploring and finally drilling into the earth's crust to utilize this energy source. Jakarta has been trying hard to encourage the use of geothermal power, including its own set ambitious goals to build a new plant.

  legislation of new geothermal in Indonesia has indeed been long in the making. It is a law that is complex because not only open forest areas for geothermal development, but also affect the strength of the local authority's decision, shifting most of the central government and thereby caused a lot of opposition.

How does geothermal energy is extracted?

Geothermal energy, or geothermal basically, can be found in the magma in the planet's core. Volcanic activity is an expression of the energy that comes to the surface in the form of magma or through the volcano erupts. Energy is tapped by drilling wells into the reservoir of hot water that had formed on top of the magma. Through drilled wells, the steam is brought to the surface, which is used to turn turbines that generate electricity. If injected back through additional wells, geothermal systems can be sustained for decades.

Countries that have access to this energy source?

Geothermal energy can be found and basically knock over the world; it's just a matter of how deep we need to drill, which in turn is a matter of economic feasibility. Geothermal energy is closest to the surface in volcanic regions along tectonic plates. This is why most geothermal power plants at this time and the project can be found in the western United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Iceland, and Japan, and not forget Kenya and other countries in East Africa Rift Valley.

But through different technologies, geothermal energy can also be tapped in non-volcanic areas in the world, such as Germany. However, this will require deeper wells, thus making the process more expensive.

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Ebola virus that has not been tested is the same as a double-edged sword

This week hosts the World Health Organization consultation on the use of experimental drugs against Ebola virus in West Africa.
Experimental drug has been used and only in a few patients only. Of course there is a lot of interest among people around the world about whether they might be able to help. There are also additional therapies that have been under discussion. But there is much work to be done to figure out what would be a therapeutic benefit. It's important to move the work forward - especially in the context of this outbreak. But it is also important to ensure that they are safe for people and that there is some effectiveness is measured as well.

There are ethical issues involved - and the very difficult decisions that must be made when the drug is in limited supply.
Ethical dilemmas we face the double-edged sword. On the one hand, we have a drug that really has not been tested in humans. And if we put it into the African population who are less fortunate, one might say: You're experimenting on these people. But if you do not give to people who are so obviously affected by the disease, and where there is clearly a crisis like that, then people say: You do not help them, you are not helping the situation. I think it's very important to ensure that the drug is effective and safe before they are given to people who already have some problems with this rejected and does not believe public health efforts. If it is not safe and put into a population that does not believe that effort, it makes the situation worse.

While outbreaks in West Africa continues to grow. The World Health Organization is now talking about a total of 20,000 cases in the coming months.

Plague is really spread quickly, and has a lot to do with the location where the infected people: that we basically have an outbreak occurred in slum conditions, especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where people have a lot of contacts. There are also a lot of difficulty in identifying the people most likely to be sick, that is how we have previously successfully outbreak. At this point we have to think about things other than browsing contacts - but think about providing good care, and keeping sick people from passing the disease to others.

Not necessarily. Typical situation where a person infected with Ebola remains remote areas. In West Africa there are remote regions that are involved, but there is also a good way - that is not the case in many areas where we have outbreaks in the past. The ability for the sick - and those affected - to move across these countries might easily have played a large role in how the outbreak is spreading pretty fast. Another thing that continues to play a major role is the resistance of the community to participate in the effort to control the outbreak. There are still many areas where people are not going to let the workers go response - and there are fears of violence. That is something that still needs to be addressed. There is a lot of work going on to try and get people to participate and bring the outbreak under control in the area.

This is a situation where, because of the resistance of the community, sometimes we do not have good information. Areas where people can not go and collect the information needed to assess how big the plague - The term "shadow zone" has been used.

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combating Ebola appears to have failed

The world seemed to lose in the fight against Ebola.
When doctors talk about the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone, a doctor told a story about the shortcomings and deficiencies. a pediatrician and head of the humanitarian organization Cap Anamur, had just returned to Germany from Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone. There, he helped in the clinic for two weeks.

Too long. At times the tests confirmed that the little girl had contracted the disease, nurses and doctors have been in close contact with the child,. Medical staff to stay at home as a result, only two doctors continue to treat patients. Protective clothing and gloves are in short supply. This deficit in the soil, is the type of error that has marked the international response since the outbreak was detected in March.

early warning

So many missed opportunities is not just in the Cap Anamur, but many other organizations such as Doctors Without Borders has warned since April that more needs to be done. As well as asking other protective equipment and for widespread awareness campaigns.

More than 1,500 people have been killed by the Ebola virus since March
Doctors suspect that the government is too scared panic broke out and thus delayed media campaign to inform the public about Ebola. And protective clothing? In many areas affected by the virus, they are still rare. The international community simply does not have enough personal protective equipment in stock. Only now, production has been lackluster.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible for coordinating international efforts to prevent the disease. Director-General of WHO said that all the people involved initially underestimated the plague. More than 1,500 people have died from Ebola since March, most of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. At the current rate of infection, more than 20,000 new cases may occur during the next six months.

We know what it takes and we know how to do it. Last week, the WHO launched a $ 490 million (372 million euros) a road map that aims to bring the outbreak under control. It emphasizes grassroots action against the disease and establish the need for caution in the cemetery. WHO would like to thank the countries that have pledged to donate funds to the plan. He asked for more countries to join the fight against Ebola.

Personal protective equipment is very important for those who care for patients

WHO can only succeed if enough staff on the ground and we see that it is not easy to find orang..Cercaan the international community for not doing enough is not going to change the situation, he said. Instead the government should provide enough money and staff to WHO to perform the job effectively.

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Future Sanofi, dengue fever vaccine is highly dependent on the balance on the most recent results

The results are eagerly awaited from tests on dengue fever vaccine candidate Sanofi has been published. The plan is to market the vaccine in 2015, but experts still disagree about its usefulness.

finally, the new results here: the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur has announced the hotly anticipated outcome of dengue vaccine clinical trials in Latin America.

In July, Sanofi has published the results of the first part of a clinical study in Asia. The substance, called CYD-TDV, showed 56.5 percent efficacy against dengue infection in children aged 2 to 14.

More than 20,000 children aged 9 to 16 in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras and Puerto Rico have taken part in the study.

Phase III is the final and most expensive in the development of vaccines and occurred before the company can try to apply the vaccine and bring it to market.

Only the most advanced vaccine candidate reaches this phase. And in the case of dengue fever, Sanofi-CYD TDV is the first vaccine candidate to make it to the phase III trial.

An efficacy of 60.8 percent means that can prevent more than halving the number of dengue infection.

The trial also showed the vaccine reduced the number of cases of severe dengue, which involves hospitalization, based on 80.3 percent.

Each year, an estimated 500,000 people became ill with severe dengue - known as dengue hemorrhagic fever - and require hospitalization.

Dengue can cause death and many of those who contract it are children

People can be infected with one, or all of them. Immunity to one serotype does not confer immunity against one of the other three.

But the prevalence of various serotypes differ from region to region.

So the situation in Asia is completely different from that in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the second trial took place.

In Asian studies, Sanofi Pasteur vaccine protected well enough against serotypes 3 and 4, with 75 percent success.

Protection against serotype 1 is 50 percent, and the serotype 2 success rate is only 35 percent.

In Latin America have been announced, the result is the same.

This vaccine protects against serotypes 3 and 4 with 74 and 77.7 percent efficacy, and against serotypes 1, it is 50.3 percent effective. Protection against serotype 2 in Latin America is slightly better than in Asia, with a 42.3 percent success ratet.
Dengue virus under the electron microscope photo: Sanofi Pasteur / Institut Pasteur

Dengue virus under an electron microscope
Back in July, Schmidt-Chanasit highlight the fact that the efficacy of the vaccine varies from the other serotypes, and he warned this could be dangerous.

Vaccination has the potential to protect against multiple subtypes of dengue, while at the same time strengthen the protection against the low.
As a result, perceived vaccine could end up worsening the situation in endemic countries DBD-. .


The company aims to sell the first dose of vaccine in the second half of 2015, with a special factory outside of Lyon, in southeastern France, is expected to produce up to 100 million doses per year.

But the countries where dengue is endemic need to make a thorough cost-benefit analysis.

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Japanese state provide anti-influenza drugs to combat Ebola virus

Japan has offered to provide an experimental serum against Ebola virus, which was originally designed to treat influenza

Flu treatment has been approved by the Ministry of Health of Japan in March. Takao Aoki Fujifilm spokesman said that the company is in talks with the United States authorities on starting clinical trials as a treatment for Ebola favipiravir. Aoki said that the developer currently has enough stock to treat about 20,000 patients.
the workings The drug works by inhibiting viral replication gene,
The World Health Organization racing to field test treatments for Ebola virus in the biggest outbreak 'since its discovery in the 1970s. The UN health body said last month that, given the severity of the outbreak, some shortcuts or deviations from normal testing procedures will be accepted.

Another experimental drug, produced ZMapp USA - which has never been tested in humans before this year Ebola outbreak - has been used to treat patients, two of which have been found in the United States.

Two American aid workers were successfully treated at a hospital in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, after contracting the deadly virus in Liberia. Nancy Writebol Fifty-nine years and 33 years Kent Brantly freed Thursday after being treated in hospitals in the United States in early August. It is unclear whether ZMapp is the cause for their recovery.

In some cases, this drug has been used with no success at all. On Monday, the death of Abraham Borbor, a Liberian doctor who had been treated with ZMapp, reported. Before that, Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest 75 years, died after being treated with the drug in a hospital in Madrid earlier this month.

The virus has spread to DRC

The Ebola virus is transmitted through contact with blood or other body fluids and was first discovered in the 1970s.

The current outbreak is said to have started around March this year. A number of countries have closed their borders to the countries affected and bans issued to and from the tourist areas.

Democratic Republic of Congo has become the fifth African country - after Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria - for a confirmed case of Ebola outbreaks.

Of the eight people who suffer from mystery fever undergoing tests in DRC, two tested positive for Ebola. The World Health Organization has announced it will send supplies to the medical staff to treat Ebola there.


The World Health Organization (WHO) has previously announced on Thursday that 70 people have died in an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis but it was not Ebola outbreak.

More than 2,600 people and 1,400 people die of infection has been recorded in the outbreak this year, including in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. Liberia has seen most of the deaths, more than 600 people, with the presence of the disease is now confirmed in all regions of the country.

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Ebola virus victim killed exceeds 1,400 souls

Ebola epidemic has swept through West African countries have claimed more than 1,400 lives. Meanwhile, two new cases have emerged in Nigeria.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that the number of deaths by Ebola has reached 1,427. In all, 2,615 suspected or confirmed cases have been reported in West Africa.

Ebola claims the maximum amount of life in Liberia where 624 people died of the disease. In Guinea, 406 died and 392 in Sierra Leone.

Meanwhile, two new cases have been found in Nigeria, victims are infected by their partners and medical personnel coming into contact with an infected person
Sawyer, not quarantined as soon as he arrived. This delay causes dengue fever spread to 11 other people, killing a total of five in the country. The Nigerian government has made 213 people under surveillance for Ebola indication. People infected with flu-like symptoms of the disease screen and internal and external bleeding. There is no vaccine for the virus.

WHO is also concerned that some cases of Ebola may be detected because the family would rather hide in the victim's home. Some infected people prefer to die at home, especially in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the disease is associated with social stigma and isolation.

Neighboring countries in West Africa are also growing increasingly concerned about the epidemic and has closed the land border and even stop flying to these countries. South Africa, Senegal and Gabon are the latest countries to close their borders and impose travel bans on Ebola-hit country.

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