<\/span><\/h3>\nGoogle wants to bring the Internet to the whole world and is already developing various projects.\u00a0The solar-controlled drones should cause a special sensation.\u00a0Already in 2014, Google and Facebook outbid each other for the company Titan Aerospace.\u00a0Google ultimately made the better offer: more than $ 60 million.\u00a0Titan Aerospace developed the Solara 50, a propeller-driven flying drone that was charged by solar cells on the 50-meter wings.\u00a0The aircraft was supposed to fly autonomously up to 19,800 meters for up to five years to serve as an Internet hotspot.<\/p>\n\n\n
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But crashed on a test flight in May 2015, a Solara 50 on an airfield.\u00a0The resulting negative news coverage was a setback to Google’s plans for the global Internet and one possible reason why Google closed\u00a0the deal on January 16\u00a0.<\/p>\n
Another reason could have been Google Loon, a research project that has similar goals.\u00a0Instead of propeller sailors, weather balloons should be used as flying access points.\u00a0These are cheaper and not so maintenance intensive.<\/p>\n
<\/span>$ 20,000 phone flops<\/span><\/h3>\nExpensive does not have to be better: This applies to the\u00a0Solarin smartphone of the Israeli startup Sirin Labs\u00a0.\u00a0$ 20,000 cost the smartphone, which should be particularly safe and good.\u00a0Customers received a kind of surprise bag for their money, because Sirin did not want to give details on the telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Over time it became known that the smartphone had a Snapdragon 810 processor, which was often noticed by heat problems.\u00a0It had a 24 MP camera for 4K imaging, a 1440p display and a large 4000mAh battery.\u00a0The phone could radio in 24 different LTE frequency bands and was thus usable in many countries in the world.\u00a0A switch on the back could activate a security tag that encrypted calls and messages via AES256.\u00a0The target audience: government agencies and senior government employees or corporate executives.<\/p>\n
However, probably only about 700 devices of Solarin were sold.\u00a0Even the reduced price of 14,000 US dollars was apparently too high for most customers, especially as it remained completely unclear how large the security gain really was.\u00a0On March 15, Sirin Labs dismisses one-third of his staff, and thereafter, nothing is heard from the Solarin smartphone.\u00a0The manufacturer is trying it now with another concept:\u00a0a smartphone that relies on Blockchain\u00a0.\u00a0Its price: 1,000 US dollars.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Out of the mouse<\/span><\/h3>\nFor the peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz it was already bad in 2016: First, the Americans had to sell their Saitek division to the competitor Logitech for 13 million US dollars – a brand under which Mad Catz sold gamepads, joysticks and steering wheels.\u00a0On March 30, 2017, the company has to give up altogether\u00a0.<\/p>\n
Mad Catz was known for his exceptional-looking mice for a high purchase price, which could be adapted to the user’s hand.\u00a0Often, however, these were criticized for their poor build quality or in spite of setting options strange ergonomics.\u00a0The manufacturer developed some weeks before the bankruptcy, no new products, but marketed only old hardware as a new product.\u00a0The accumulated debt pays the company with the sale of remainders.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Vodafone Secure Mail is switched off<\/span><\/h3>\nJust one day later, on March 31, 2017,\u00a0the mobile operator Vodafone is scheduled to use Secure Mail\u00a0.\u00a0The company completely shuts down the service and deletes all accounts, email histories, and attachments from its servers.<\/p>\n
Secure Mail was backed by a proprietary encryption algorithm that Vodafone had developed by a third-party company.\u00a0The company falsely claimed that the RSA algorithm had been used in ECB mode, resulting in negative media feedback.\u00a0Vodafone later corrected his claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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