Friday, December 23, 2016

From Pokemon to Samsung, top and flop 2016 – LOOP.it

Pokemon Go, withdrawal from the market of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but also the invasion of artificial intelligence, the case of the news hoax on the web and the celebrations of the first link of Italy to the Internet. 2016 is coming to an end and it is time of budgets in technology, with successes and setbacks imposed by the market data, the news and comments of the analysts.

TOP 2016:

- Pokemon Go. The game became a real craze at the turn of the summer: the young and the less young people hunting monsters in the most unexpected places of the world, even those forbidden. He scored box office records and download then, as it is physiological, the phenomenon is a bit deflated. Pole, now there is Super Mario.

- Bot. Nothing to do with finance, are software based on artificial Intelligence, the new craze of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and all the Silicon Valley. They behave like human beings: you can get all information, news (the Wall Street Journal launched one) and buy products online. According to experts surclasseranno the app.

- Snapchat. From start-up in the mire of Facebook into a real rival of the social network of Zuckerberg, which has often given points. Has led the way in the messages ‘disposable’, in the development of content as a media and has also launched a pair of glasses, ‘smart’, the Spectacles. And a challenge to distance Instagram, other apps on the rise.

- Self-guided autonomous. 2016 is the year of the great understandings with the automotive companies, a sign that the technology is going to become a mass. The recent partnership Fca-Google for 100 minivans to guide autonomous in the way in the coming months, aims to challenge the robo-taxi Uber.

- Internet day. 30 April Italy celebrated 30 years of connecting to the network: it happened in 1986 thanks to a group of pioneers of the university Centre for electronic calculation of the Cnr of Pisa. Currently, according to the Istat, in Italy a family of 3 is still not connected from home.

FLOP 2016:

– the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. One of technology’s most sensational story. Presented in August have been withdrawn from the world market a month later for the cases of the batteries exploded. They were also prohibited in flight. A blow to the company (Nomura calculates 9.5 billion dollars of lost sales) has started a replacement program, global, and issued a ‘kill switch’ to turn them off definitively from the remote.

- Yahoo!. The victim of the theft of data in the public domain, is the largest of history, have been hacked 1 billion accounts. Already not sailing in good waters and Verizon, in the negotiations for the purchase, has asked To Marissa Mayer a discount.

- Social ‘buffalo’. Facebook and Google in the storm because the accused from users and analysts of their favorite Trump on the Usa elections for the propagation of false news. Zuckerberg runs to the guards with a specific software and the help of users. Big G thinks of a modification of the algorithm.

- Smartwatch ‘sboom’. According to Idc, the sector will not take off, the deliveries of the Apple Watch in the third quarter of 2016 would be even dropped by 71% in a year. The data, however, contested by Tim Cook. And also turns off the Pebble, a rival of Cupertino: has been purchased by Fitbit, company queen of the bracelets fitness.

- Cyber-hostages. Every 10 seconds a user is attached and the computer and smartphone are rendered unusable until you pay a ransom. The ransomware, the main threats of 2016 according to the annual report of Kaspersky Lab.

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