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Zetta for production until the Consumer inspection establishes "if everything is correct

From the company say that people are "happy with the terminal" and not that they have not received "not a single refund"

   The Zetta Smartphone company has interrupted its production of mobile phones while waiting for the consumption inspection carried out by the Junta de Extremadura to decide "whether everything is correct" or not. This has been confirmed by one of the co-founders of the company, Unai Nieto, who has reiterated the company offers an "added value" when adding a software to a Chinese terminal so that it can be used in Spain, and has indicated that they have not deceived since the phone appeared "made in China".



"If you buy a mobile phone of this brand in China, it will come in Chinese and English, and apart it will not have a series of applications to be installed", such as Whatsapp, Nieto explained. He affirms that since his company, accused during this week of deceiving consumers, they add the necessary software so that it can be used.

The co-founders of Zetta Smartphones, Unai Nieto and Eric Cui, have pronounced in this way in an interview on the program 'Julia en la Onda', Onda Cero, about the controversy generated in recent days after being accused of alleged fraud by selling presumably as own mobile phones of a Chinese brand. According to Nieto, in this company, based in Zafra (Badajoz), "a Spanish software that makes this equipment work properly in Spain" is implanted in the phones, and the housing and logotype design is carried out, and "from there it's what you talk about stickers. "

Annual benefits of 19,000 euros

"From China comes the raw product, that is, a Chinese mobile" that is already finished from the Asian country, and from there "what is casing and software", which is a free software, "adapts in Zafra and it is placed unit by unit ". In that sense, Nieto has pointed out that "each team works" one on one in this company "of only three workers", something that has wanted to make clear, before those who have "put them as a large multinational."

Regarding the origin of the phones, "to us our supplier, which does not mean that it is the brand, that is, the supplier of the material at all times has given us his authorization to modify it," said Nieto, who pointed out that " never "they" put any problem the provider ".

For his part, Eric Cui explained that since the start-up of the company they have sold some 2,700 units, both through their own store in Zafra, as well as in six other multi-brand phone shops where they sell in Extremadura. while outside the region they have not sold "almost nothing", since being a "small company", it operates locally.

Eric Cui explained that the company has obtained benefits of 19,000 euros per year, and have not received any help from the Junta de Extremadura, "nor have we asked at any time," said Unai Nieto. "We have never asked anyone for anything, and we want to make that clear," said Unai Nieto, whose partner has pointed out that it is a "small company that is trying to move forward", so he has assured that he does not understand " everything that is happening. "

So far the company has received "no" claim from any client, and in fact "our customers are the ones who have supported us because of everything that is happening", while "all those who are now accusing us of everything precisely are not customers, "said Cui. He added that customers "always know that the terminal is Chinese", so "we never cheat," and in fact, has asserted that "people are happy with the terminal", and "there has not been a single return of the team. "

Finally, Cui has made sure not to understand how "all this has happened to a person who has published something in a forum, and who has not contacted us," he concluded.

European authorities ask Whatsapp to stop exchanging data with Facebook

The instant messaging network modified its terms of use in August and since then it can share user data so that other applications in the group can propose certain advertisements

   The European data protection authorities have asked WhatsApp to suspend the exchange of information about users that began last summer with other companies in the group, especially with Facebook, until they complete the investigation they have underway on their new confidentiality policy, It tries to determine if the company's performance meets the minimum legal requirements and guarantees the rights of the users. The claim is included in a letter sent to the company in which they make it clear that their behavior has caused great concern in public bodies that ensure the privacy and privacy rights of EU citizens.

The so-called G-29, which brings together the different independent authorities of continental countries, has expressly requested the instant messaging company to stop sharing the data of its users until adequate legal guarantees are provided, "as explained today by the own group in a statement.

WhatsApp, acquired in 2014 by Facebook, modified its terms of use in August. Since then you can share the personal information of your users so that other applications of the group, Facebook or Instagram, propose certain advertisements.

For the G-29, the possibility of sharing information for the purpose of advertising diffusion "was not part of the conditions of use and the confidentiality policy when the current users subscribed to the WhatsApp service".

The European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, already showed her doubts about these changes at the beginning of September. His spokesman announced that they were "in touch with Facebook about this issue".

The European independent authorities also sent a letter to the Yahoo e-mail service to explain the security breach that allowed in 2014 the theft of the personal data of 500 million users, "a significant number of them Europeans". The G-29 also demands that Yahoo provide all information regarding the possible surveillance of its customers' mails at the request of the US intelligence services, as it investigates whether this activity is compatible with European legislation.

The purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook in 2014, which former Spanish Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia approved without conditions, led to the rejection of the private life defense groups, who feared a misuse of this personal data of users.

'Hackers' linked to Russia have attacked a Windows vulnerability

Microsoft has ensured that these cyber-pirates have exploited the ruling to attack US political institutions

   The US group Microsoft warned on Tuesday that a vulnerability of its Windows program, recently exposed by rival Google, was being exploited by cyber-pirates suspected of carrying out attacks against US political institutions.

   The group of pirates, which Microsoft calls 'Strontium', launched a campaign of attacks against specific targets, mainly government agencies or diplomatic and military institutions, wrote Terry Myerson, Microsoft vice president in charge of Windows, on the group's blog. Microsoft said that Strontium has the characteristics of groups of hackers that have the support of a state, without specifying which.

This group, which also received other names, is generally described by experts in cybersecurity as a sophisticated piracy operation that has ties with Russia. He is suspected of being responsible for recent piracy operations against the Democratic Party's servers. The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had denounced in early October an attempt by Moscow to "interfere in the US electoral process," which the Kremlin denied.

In the current case, the pirates combine their attacks with the exploitation of security flaws in Windows and Flash, an Adobe program, to install hidden doors in computers in order to enter them without any obstacle. It was not Microsoft but Google researchers who spread these flaws on Monday, calling them "particularly serious." They also said that they were being "actively exploited".

Myerson criticized that Google did not wait for the problem to be solved to ventilate it, "which exposed users to greater risks". Google responded that it had given Microsoft seven days to resolve the problem before making it public since October 21. Flash was updated five days later.

The visits to web in mobile already surpass those made in computer

  The uses of the internet are changing and mobile devices have become the kings of the Net for the first time in history. The month of October has been a new technological milestone after the visits through mobile devices have exceeded those made through computer, according to a report by StatCounter.

These figures, however, do not necessarily point to more people using mobile devices than computers. What he points out is that the StatCounter average deciphers that there are more people browsing webs from mobile than in the desktop version.

Fall of sales

Gartner, a consulting and information technology research firm, expects that by the end of 2016, the PC market will continue to experience difficulties and will hit bottom. The forecasts for 2017 are not positive either, since sales will remain flat.

For its part, the smartphone market will continue to grow, according to Gartner, although it will do so at a slower pace than in previous years.

The total sales of mobile phones will fall by 1.6% in 2016. Experts expect to reach the 1.5 billion mobile phones sold.

Transport apps have a problem of 'racism'

African-American users suffer greater waits and cancellations according to an MIT study

   About 1,500 cases and a difference of just 5 seconds to accept the trip between a user with white and a black one. These are the most important data of a study conducted by MIT, Stanford University and Washington on the different transport apps.

After studying the routes established in Seattle and Boston, the researchers found that Uber drivers with African-American names were canceled 10.1% of the time, compared to only 4.9% of the time for those with names that seem whites.

   Meanwhile in Seattle, the researchers appreciated that people with African-American names had to wait 29 seconds to find a driver in Uber and 23 seconds for Lyft. In comparison with only 21 and 19 seconds, respectively, for people with a Caucasian name, apparently.

The report is based on "an adequate and rigorous methodology" that "shows a worrying bottom line," says Ben Edelman, a professor at Harvard University.

For its part, Lyft, one of the companies mentioned, is unmarked by these accusations: "we do not tolerate any type of discrimination," says its communications director.

In that report, MIT workers and researchers from the Stanford and Washington universities add that in the Seattle taxi service, white travelers waited 60% of their time to get a car, while black travelers had the First stop with a 20% wait.

More than half of the world's Internet users have Facebook

Mobile users increase thanks to the expansion of smartphones

   Last July, the compiler of US statistics Internet Live Stats encrypted the total number of Internet users in 3.425 million users who surf the network of networks usually.

This week, Facebook has rendered accounts to its investors on Wall Street and has left large numbers in the number of users who have profile in the most famous social network today. A total of 1,790 million users access the Mark Zuckeberg platform monthly, 16% more than in the third quarter of 2015.

A simple rule of three mathematics approves the theories of experts who since the beginning of the year indicated that more than half of Internet users access at least once a month to Facebook. With the official results, 52.3% of the world's Internet users have registered in the social network.

In the last decade, the number of Internet users has gone from touching the 2,000 million Internet users to almost double the figure, due to the expansion of smart mobile devices.

Although the smartphone market is expected to continue growing, it will do so at a slower pace than in previous years, according to the Gartner consultancy. The total sales of mobile phones will fall by 1.6% in 2016. Experts expect to reach the 1.5 billion mobile phones sold.

For its part, the tablets are also cut their expansion. The manufacturers placed just 43 million units in the quarter, 14.7% less than a year earlier.

Objective Internet.org

Facebook has to cover 48% of Internet users who are unaware of the existence of the social network and fulfill its mission to "achieve a connected world".

Mark Zuckerberg and his team of engineers are working to promote free connectivity with his drone Aquila and the failed launch of his satellite in Spaceon Elon Musk to deploy Internet.org worldwide.

According to the data of the last quarter, the audience of the personal project of Zuckerberg reached 40 million people, a 0.5% of the world population, according to Facebook. The social network also ensures that Internet.org helped grow the number of users of the platform by 4.6%.

After its launch in 2014, Internet.org has gone from 3 million users to 40 million today. A figure that represents a growth from 166% since its birth, although it still encounters political barriers in large markets such as India.

MySignals, a hospital in a briefcase

It is an eHealth development platform that includes 15 different sensors that allow measuring the 20 most important biometric parameters of a person

  A portable hospital. This is how MySignals can be described, the last product launched by the Zaragonza company Libelium. It is an eHealth development platform that includes 15 different sensors to measure the 20 most important biometric parameters of a person such as heart rate, glucose, air flow, pulse, oxygen in blood, blood pressure, lung capacity, among many others .

  "MySignals is able to measure the main parameters that are controlled in a hospital monitoring room such as heart rate, glucose, air flow, pulse, oxygen in blood, blood pressure, lung capacity, temperature, electrocardiogram, electromyogram , respiratory frequency, galvanic response of the skin, snoring waves, patient's position or body scale parameters ", says David Gascón, founder of Libelium.

Approximately one third of the world's population can not access a diagnosis in real time due to the high cost of some tests and this project aims to promote the democratization of universal access to healthcare, one of the challenges of the 21st century. This is one of the reasons why MySignals has been awarded the 2016 Innovation Award from The App Date.

"MySignals seeks to change the future of medical devices and their applications," explains David Gascón. Under normal conditions some of these parameters (and others more advanced that also registers) can only be known with advanced material and, above all, with an expert in person to be able to analyze them.

"The biggest challenge is to be able to miniaturize the technology by creating a device capable of being portable in a case while simplifying the complicated systems and tools of hospitals in something as simple as a platform to which any sensor can be connected through a cable similar to that of mp3 headphones, press a button and be able to get more than 20 parameters of our body, "says the founder of Libelium.