Windows Phone is the big challenger dual iOS / Android - TeK.sapo

Over the past weeks expressed this conviction 65% of the TeK 7,333 readers who participated in the vote on the issue. We wanted to know how readers understand the alternatives to dominant platforms, at a time when the number of options is to multiply in force at the gates a year where few alternatives will arise.

In Windows Phone gathered largest credit from alternative users like Ubuntu OS and BlackBerry OS, with 12% and 10% of the votes cast, respectively. The faith of readers in Firefox OS is slightly lower and this is reflected in the percentage of votes obtained: 8%. Alternatives like Salfish or Tizen – the first has just hit the market, Tizen is not yet available -. Gathered less credit from readers

However now online a new poll where we want to know your opinion on the themes that marked the year 2013. The team has already chosen TeK 10 topics that we consider the most important for the technology. . Now we ask you to help sort the list and identify the five most important, they will be entitled to a more detailed analysis in the following articles to be published at the end of the voting day

And the issues to vote are:

• – Scandal spy / NSA
  The revelations of Edward Snowden, a former analyst at the National Agency of American security, provoked a true world revolution and brought to the fore a debate still endless ( or measures) to view on the rights of states to exercise surveillance over the actions of citizens in the name of prevention / combating terrorism and other security threats.

• – Piracy / Hacktivism
  Movements like Anonymous have continued to intervene throughout the year and claim positions, attacking sites of banks, political or public entities and showing that this new form activism is here to stay. Hacktivism has also made the challenge to the legal limits on the use and distribution of digital content protected by copyright, an area that continues to regulate (or not, depending on the reviews) and where the defense of principles, but also the profit Easy, has fueled a heated war with an entertainment industry that does not want the free sharing of content in the offline world are paid.

• – Security holes / Hacking
  Security is another issue that cross the year is now almost over. Increasingly sophisticated attacks targeted profit and taking advantage of techniques that detection systems are not prepared to identify stood out. The growing commitment of the attackers in the new mobile platforms and social networks, another trend, reveal that, as ever, the security problems follow the users where they are.

• – Mergers and integration of startups
  Mergers and acquisitions in 2013 gave a dynamic market of Telecom and IT as long not seen. Slightly throughout Europe – and the United States – businesses billions showed that consolidation, long expected by analysts, is there. The output of Vodafone Verizon Wireless is an example, the purchase of the unit of Nokia mobile phones by Microsoft is another, but domestic examples also deserve great relief. When fusion of Optimus Zon seemed the biggest deal of the year in the area of ??telecommunications in Portugal, the merger with PT showed no Hi and laid the foundations to create one of the top 20 telecom operators worldwide.

• – Triumph of mobile formats
  Been farther the day that each digital service there will be a corresponding mobile application. The market for mobile apps exploded and around there is a whole universe of devices and platforms follow a similar dynamic: smartphones have become banal and tablets and ultraportables formats are the biggest movers in the sales of computer equipment. Software in mobile operating systems have become more in 2013 and others will come in 2014.

• – New achievements of space
  2013 was the year that China has reached the moon, becoming the third country to do so. Asian space adventure, also starring by India, which launched its first probe to Mars, had more episodes this year, but this area of ??science milestones of 2013 did not end there. Mars remains one mystery, but the revelations that the information collected by probes are sent to Earth ever guarantee more info to the inhabitants of a planet that ultimately may not be so unique in its characteristics. After may be millions of other planets with characteristics identical to earth, is also found this year.

• – Consolidation of technological purse
  If in 2012 was the year of many technological risking an entry on the exchange, putting yourself to the test in the capital market, the year that followed consolidates positions and show the price payable by the decision. Facebook, the most striking example of a grand arrival followed by a fall steeply, eventually also become the example that the stock market has returned to space for technology. For a new type of technology.

• – End of the line for business and technology leaders who marked an era
  Paul Otellini of Intel or Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer were leaders who marked an era in which companies headed in 2013 left or announced they will leave the office. The same year the BlackBerry made a (final?) Attempt to return to the glory days, Microsoft announced it would lay aside the old strategy to transform itself into a new organization, lighter and more oriented to mobility and began to prepare the integration of Nokia, which also reaches the end of an era … to start another.

• – Financing Crowdfounding
  The Crowdfunding helped give birth to some of the flagship projects of the year. Had such a decisive weight on the possibility of bringing to market a new range of consoles or PCs who want to challenge the powers that be. These platforms have proven to be a successful model in a world that builds projects at a pace so fast that the probability of reaching the world stage funding was increasingly difficult. And help to change this reality crowdfunding has given many tests but still missing some … is that the same model is a machine to make hits? Looks like yes and no.

• – New generation of consoles
  The end of the year brought new energy to the stage a lively duel between Xbox and PlayStation. Both moved in November to a new generation of their consoles, which means a giant step forward in terms of technology, but also makes clear a whole new bet these manufacturers in an increasingly strong support at the level of content. The year ends with this duel but made up of many other releases in this area that will undoubtedly mark it.

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