Samsung's 70 million smartphones in Q1, to the App Store 50 billion downloads: TGtech

New for Intel HD Graphics Iris and the new CEO, that's how you open TGtech. He then speaks of Samsung with 70 million smartphones in the first quarter has doubled the sales of Apple, but it goes back on the App Store, oriented towards the 50 billion downloads. Rounding out new firmware for Canon EOS 5D Mark III, new Xbox and new Call of Duty

TGtech opens with the news at Intel: Intel Corporation announced fact that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as successor to CEO Paul Otellini on the chair of the company. Krzanich will take over the responsibilities of his new role at the annual meeting of shareholders, scheduled for next May 16. The other novelty is represented by Iris HD Graphics GPU for the brand new Intel Haswell CPUs which we hear about Paolo Corsini in his speech.

Brian Krzanich, the new CEO of Intel

The word then goes to David Fasola, who speaks to us from Samsung and the target of 70 million smartphones sold in the first quarter of 2013. A value which is almost double the number of solutions marketed by Apple. The Korean company has a product portfolio from its very wide, from the top of the range Samsung Galaxy series to the entry level, so the result of Apple, with fewer solutions in the catalog (iPhone 5, 4S and 4) and especially less differentiated among them, does not make it look bad, so much so that its sales are almost triple the number of trackers (LG, Huawei and ZTE) all around 10 million smartphones sold. Nokia and Motorola? The ranking sees far more back in the company of Sony.

Dreaming of a gift card for the App Store for $ 10,000? It could be yours if you will be lucky to download the application number 50 billion from the application store from Apple. The countdown has started, as he tells Andrea Bai, you can track it on the website: there are prizes, more content, even for the next 50 download.

Canon has regained lost ground against the competition from its Full Frame SLR EOS 5D Mark IIwith the latest firmware update: Version 1.2.1 introduces the ability to have a video stream on HDMI output Full HD 4:2:2 . As we said Roberto Colombo has been renewed support autofocus: now the central point can be used in cross mode with F8 objectives, such as F4 telephoto lens with 2x doubler. Find all the details for a new firmware on the pages of Digital Photographers.

Activision has announced a new chapter of Call of Duty: Call of Duty Ghosts. It will be cross-Jan, will be based on a new graphics engine and will be available in the formats PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but later also arrives on the next generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Indeed, precisely his announcement confirms partnership with the Redmond, given that Activision has decided to reveal more detailed details on the new shooter on the occasion of the reveal of the new Xbox, then the next May 21.