2010, Apple Open 50 Retail Stores

Next year, Apple intends to open 40 to 50 additional retail stores to serve customers closer.

Launched Yahoo Tech, Friday (13.11.2009), many retail stores will be built in several locations outside the United States, such as London, Paris and two outlets in Shanghai. Apple itself until now has operated approximately 280 retail stores spread over 10 countries.

The first Apple retail store, built in 2001 and has become the store most visited consumer. In September alone, approximately 45.9 million visitors came to the Apple Store, an increase of approximately 7 percent over the previous year.

At the same time, Apple's revenue is contributed from the store to reach USD1, 87 billion. This figure is the highest during the Apple retail stores stood, because up approximately 9 percent over the previous year.

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Q3 2009, smartphone sales Jump 12.8%

Sales of smart phones that offer Internet access and multimedia services increased number approximately 12.8 percent during the third quarter of 2009. Overall total smartphone sales in the world in the third quarter reached 41 million units.

Gartner research shows that compared with the same quarter of 2008, smartphone sales increased 0.1 percent.

Sales of smartphones that will increase approximately five to seven percent in 2010 launched next. So SMH, Friday (13/11/2009)

And then, overall number of mobile phone sales reached 308.9 million units.

Expressed Gartner, Apple's iPhone have enough sales spike dramatically during a period of three months. IPhone sales nearly increased smartphone markets approximately 50 percent, from 12.9 percent at the beginning of the year to 17.9 percent.

Meanwhile, the world mobile phone giant, Nokia, sales decline. Given Nokia as a whole 36.7 percent of sales over the phone or down from 38.2 percent in the third quarter of 2008.

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New Technology Prevent Mobile & Laptop Batteries Exploding

A new technology to find ways to prevent lithium-ion battery for non-flammable or cause laptops and mobile phones exploded.

The technology is called Stoba was developed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a national research organizations from Taiwan. Stoba expected soon in the first quarter of 2010.

Alex Pang who led the research of this discovery explains, when the lithium-ion batteries short-circuit discovered, they will quickly heated to 932 degrees Fahrenheit temperature. In these circumstances, the battery potential fire and exploded.

While Stoba, is between positive and negative sides of the battery. When the battery temperature reaches 266 degrees Fahrenheit, Stoba directly transformed from a porous material into the film material so that the lethal reaction overheating.

"We have introduced a material that is still very new in battery development," said Pang was quoted as saying by Reuters on Thursday (12/11/2009).

The impact of lithium battery explosion is often endanger the public, last month the U.S. Transportation Department issued new regulations prohibiting the shipment of hazardous materials, including devices with lithium-ion battery in it.

The potential customers looked at this technology include Sony, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Apple, Nokia, and other technology vendors. ITRI has registered 29 patents this Stoba technology in the U.S., Taiwan, Korea, China and Japan.

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