Extradition: Kim Dotcom takes the lead, and proposes to go under conditions

Kim Dotcom is willing to go to the US authorities, but requires some guarantees.

On Twitter, Kim Dotcom - the erratic pattern of MegaUpload - sent a message to the Department of American justice, which clearly states: "Hey, it will come to the USA." No need for extradition. "It wants to bail, access to funds to pay lawyers fees and daily costs." Kim Dotcom tent so interesting but risky movement, while the extradition request US the respect will be judged in March 2013 in New Zealand and that he could be fired if case justice the rejects.

Kim Dotcom would therefore agree to make him even to American justice, under conditions. The idea being to recover access to her money, while showing to justice its good will, which could count in the judgment. Kim Dotcom cannot apparently be without that access to its funds are thawed, especially that the postponement of the extradition hearing is that extending the period during which he must take no money.

Recently, he explained to a New Zealand newspaper be riddled debts following the accumulation of millions of dollars in legal fees, while it can pay to counsel the penny. "They want to just me hang and dry me up until I have more sole support" he said. Is that Kim Dotcom expects to receive a negative response on the part of the authorities, believing that they "know that they cannot win in this case". "All I want is a fair judgment for us" said, as additional bravado.

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Mobile: Nokia collapses, Apple takes off

Published by Gartner for the second quarter of 2011 mobile sales figures show that Nokia, though remains leader of manufacturers in terms of market share, suffers a sharp drop in close by 8 points to 22.8%. Samsung moves second (16.7%) and takes advantage of the growing popularity of Android.

Android is indeed used and experienced very strong growth with 43.4% of market share in the second quarter, compared to 17.2% last year. Many sellers of Android with Samsung phones (16.3% of shares), LG (5.7%) or HTC (2.6%) and benefit from this climbing popularity.

With 4.6% of shares, Apple ranks fourth vendor of mobile. iOS remains the third most used mobile system, equipping 16.8% of mobile devices. Gartner also indicates that mobile phones generally have experienced good growth this year, with a good from 16.5% to $ 428.7 million units sold. Smartphones accounted for 25% of them, and have experienced a sharp increase in their sales of 74% on the year.

Another study, conducted on the same period by IDC and focus this time only on the market of smartphones, shows also that Apple takes off strongly on this sector. It flies as first place in Nokia. The strong fall of the Finnish manufacturer is indeed confirmed this market, where it passes from 37.3% to 15.7%, leaving him third place behind Samsung (16.2%, 5.6% in 2010). Apple thus passes to, with an increase of 6 points on the year to 19.1 per cent. RIM (BlackBerry) has also experienced a decline in the year, losing 6 points to 11.6%, while HTC climbs gently to 11% market share.

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Seagate takes Samsung HDD for $1. 375bn

Samsung and Seagate this morning announced a "broad strategic alignment" which will see Seagate to take over the division of Samsung hard drive disk.

It was the month last than Western Digital acquired Hitachi hard drive for $ 4.3 billion, and now it appears that Samsung and Seagate are team to take on the newly reinforced WD. First rumored yesterday, purchase of 1.375 billion in division of Samsung hard drive Seagate was confirmed at the beginning today. Half price 1.375 billion is to be paid in cash, while remaining half will be paid in shares.

Apart from combining two companies hard drive divisions, the transaction extend also more license agreement reciprocal patent between the two. Other elements of the agreement include an agreement to supply flash memory NAND will see Samsung to provide semiconductor products Seagate for use in SSDs and hybrid SSDs; a drive agreement under which Seagate will provide hard disk drives of Samsung PC notebooks and consumer electronics. supply a partnership between the two to co-develop enterprise storage solutions. and a shareholders ' agreement which will see a Samsung Executive to join the Board of Directors of Seagate.

"We are pleased to enhance our strategic relationship with Samsung to better align the two companies technologies and products,", said Steve Luczo, Chairman, President and CEO of Seagate. "With these agreements, we expect to achieve a larger scale and to deliver a broader range of products and innovative storage solutions to our customers, while at facilitating our relationship in the long term with Samsung."

"Delivery of value to the market and consumers is the main objective of the broad agreement announced today.". "Samsung is pleased to extend our existing strategic relationship with Seagate, to provide creative technology for a wide variety of consumer, business and industrial applications," said Oh-hyun, Kwon, President of Samsung Electronics semiconductor company.

Of course, all this is subject to the usual formalities and regulatory approvals, therefore it is to be signed and sealed for months. Seagate, that the Pact is expected to be closed at the end of the year 2011.

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