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BlackBerry regularly praises growing number of applications for BlackBerry 10, a mobile platform on which their success very directly depends. However, skeptics say that these are artificially inflated numbers in which the company adds the application for Android that support execution within the emulator built-in BlackBerry’s new mobile OS. Of the 70,000 applications that were supposedly launched in parallel with the BlackBerry 10, around 40% of them are intended for emulation mode, which is quite a lot, especially when you take into account that they work noticeably slower and worse than native applications, making them quite unusable.

Although the optical fiber (which is increasingly replacing copper connections) transfers light, it does not travel at the speed of light like it does in vacuum. So instead of the maximum speed of light of about 300,000km/s, in a fiber optic light it is traveling at top speeds for the media - glass, which is about 200,000 km/s, making it slower for a third of the usual speed achieved in vacuum.

DICE in Stockholm on Tuesday unveiled Battlefield 4, revealing some interesting details about the new game in this mega popular series and promised even better and more impressive experience of virtual warfare. After the launch game will be available for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, which comes as a surprise since the new generation of consoles at the door.

Continuing their series of taking over smaller companies, Yahoo has announced that it will now acquire Summly Company which specializes in the collection and presentation of news. Summly was founded by 17-year old Nick D'Aloisio two years ago from his home in London, the company has specialized in the collection and sorting of news and adjustment for display on mobile phones.