TECH DOLLAR

The first SMS is 25 years old Merry Christmas» were the first words that were sent through a computer; then this messaging service became popular among mobiles worldwide    December 3, 1992 is a date that marked a before and after in world telecommunications. That day, for the first time, a text SMS was sent and contained only two words "Merry Christmas" ("Merry Christmas" in English). The creator of this way of communicating that revolutionized telecommunications was Neil Papworth , a 22-year-old software programmer, who sent these 15 characters from a PC to his colleague Richard Jarvis .     Papworth had worked as a developer to create a short message service (SMS) for Vodafone. A year later, in 1993, Nokia introduced SMS functionality with a distinctive sound to signal incoming messages. "In 1992, I had no idea how popular text messages would become, and that these would lead to the 'emojis' and messaging services used by millions of people around th...

Read the veins of the hand to identify the children of India The Palm Vein technology from Itwillbe and Fujitsu biometrically identifies more than 11 million children who roam the streets of the country     Millions of people in the world do not have a document that certifies their identity, making them invisible. Millions of homeless children roam the streets becoming the most invisible face of poverty. In India alone, 11 million children are in this situation. In the face of this catastrophe, technology can be used to serve society and help the most disadvantaged. This is what the Itwillbe organization decided to do, working on the implementation of a biometric identification system with Palm Vein technology developed by Fujitsu. It is a reader of veins in the palm of the hand that can authentically identify anyone, although at the moment the project is reduced to street children in Bangalore (India).     The system is based on a reader that captures and identifies...

Reasons for measuring the speed of your ADSL Associations of Internet users recommend measuring connection speed periodically     One of the most common concerns of customers interested in an ADSL connection is to have guaranteed the speed contracted. The users value widely to have a stable connection, with high download speed, although the upload speed is noticeably lower. There are many web portals and online tools that allow you to measure ADSL speed of your Internet connection. The most common option is speed tests , which allow you to quickly and intuitively check all the data of an Internet connection. We can find good arguments by which to measure with certain frequency the speed of a fiber optic or ADSL connection:     Check our actual connection speed. In many occasions the operators do not specify with sufficient clarity how many megabytes we are hiring. In the case of ADSL, many offers are promoted with the expression of "up to X megas" without knowing exa...

A well-trained bot will not frustrate the user Experts say that only one in five queries will be referred to the user     In Spain, there is one bot for every 30 inhabitants. Some of the Spanish cities and municipalities with the highest density of bots are, in this order: Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Derio (Bilbao), La Coruña, Valencia, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), Alicante, Gijón, Vigo and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. A fever for this cybernetic tool that has been amplified with the opening of the Facebook universe to these technological services. A new challenge for Spanish companies. "The first thing to put on the table is that we have hundreds of apps on the mobile phone that we do not use," says Ángel Hernándz, managing partner of Chatbot Chocolate.     Madrid appears as the city with the highest number of bots in Europe. Only in the Spanish capital there are more bots than in the whole of Holland. A special accumulation that needs training to take advantage of all its char...

The robot Pepper will have a smart brother in 2019 Lovot is able to understand verbal and non-verbal language    Two years, this is the amount of time the robot Pepper has to wait to meet his new brother Lovot. This new android is in the process of production by the company Groove X with the financial support of a Japanese public-private fund, and its design and features will be presented in the fall of next year, explained a spokesman for the Tokyo-based company. . His father is the Japanese engineer Kamame Hayashi and claims to have created a domestic robot prepared to "convey emotions to their owners and offer them company." This device aims to go one step further than other automata, since it will be able to "improve the life" of its owners, of "listening to their problems" or of "comforting them when they cry", according to the company.     Lovot will have a size less than 120 centimeters of Pepper, a "simple" design and an intelli...

Cryptocurrencies dazzle governments Venezuela launches Petro, while Japan prepares it for 2020     $ 11,000, this is the figure that bitcoin has reached in recent days, the cryptocurrency par excellence. A digital currency that was born in 2009 based on blockchain technology or block chain, which underpins its security systems, and what really interests the market. "Bitcoin has little use as a payment currency," several analysts explain to Innova +. "Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, whose purpose is to improve existing money, but there are more than 1000 cryptocurrencies, all trying to solve some type of problem in a different way," says Adolfo Contreras, director at Patron Bitcoin.     In spite of this, all focuses are directed towards bitcoin, even from the states and central banks themselves. The absence of government regulation has made cryptocurrency an easy target. Two of China's biggest exchange houses, OKCoin and Huobi announced in September that th...

Google teaches how to save data Launch the Datally app so that the user has more control over their data rate Arriving at the end of the month with the data rate without exhausting more and more is a very complicated task. Watch videos on YouTube, listen to music online, send tweets, use WhatsApp are everyday actions that consume data and often do it in the background without users realizing it. Google tries to put an end to these scares by depleting the data rate within a few days of starting a new invoice. The tool is Datally, an application designed so that the user has more control over the use of mobile data in their device and thus, save on their rate. Datally controls and limits the data of other apps, although the user can decide the applications that will spend data and those that do not press a button. With this, the new Google program is able to save up to 30% of mobile data to the user, according to the Mountain View company in a statement. In addition to restricting the co...