British schoolboy has received $ 1 million for the development of applications for the iPhone

17-year-old high school student Nick D'Aloisio UK received from investors of $ 1 million for the development of applications Summly. A prototype for the iPhone, which allows organize and compress the news of the day up to 400 characters, he introduced a year ago, but optimized and launched it just now.

To develop the program Nick D'Aloisio hired linguist from the laboratory semantics MIT, he also used his knowledge of a polyglot. Nick studied Latin, French, and Chinese. Also with the 12 years he has been involved in various programming languages. He was already predicting the future Mark Zuckerberg.

In November 2011, the development of the prototype has invested about $ 300,000, and the application has been downloaded 150,000 times. At design-time and run Summly Nick even had to temporarily leave school. However, the investment bonus of $ 1 million, which was a teenager at the end of October, has not only officially launch the project, but also to smooth future stress the need to catch up with the curriculum.

I invented Summly, because I realized that my generation does not accept the news in its traditional form - says Nick.

Summly  includes the popular news categories such as business, art, design, and even the 2012 election. As read long articles with the phone's screen is inconvenient, the program automatically compresses the text up to 400 characters, without losing the meaning. 

Microsoft chairman called Apple a small player

The head of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer said that the new operating system Windows 8 is in demand. According to him, over 4 days since the release of the platform has sold 4 million copies. Thus, in the average daily load of about 1 million updates for older versions of Windows.

Windows 8 went on sale on Friday, October 26. In September 2012, Ballmer promised that after a year in the world, there would be 400 million smartphones, tablets and computers in a Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. Currently operating systems of the Windows family in the world use 1.25 billion units.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Ballmer spoke about the main competitor to Microsoft on the PC market, the company Apple. Journalists asked, not whether the Redmond company to adopt a business model Apple, where the company controls both hardware and software. Ballmer said that he would prefer that the business model that has already adheres to Microsoft. According to him, so far it has helped save the company a leading position.

As for Apple, the manufacturer iPhone and iPad, Microsoft Chairman said small fry. In every category where Apple competes, it is a minor player, except the tablet segment, - said Ballmer. However, he believes that with the release of Windows 8 Surface and dominance in the market iPad tablet will stop.