tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87227183604532474522024-03-13T17:18:42.205-07:00TechnologyTechnologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.comBlogger241125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-43009146617034002042012-08-19T09:29:00.000-07:002012-08-19T09:29:00.227-07:00Can Samsung's Big Note Bring the Stylus Back in Style?Samsung on Monday announced that its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which primarily uses a stylus for input, will hit the market this month.<br /><br />The Galaxy Note 10.1 has a 10.1-inch screen, a 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, and a multiscreen feature that lets users run two applications simultaneously.<br /><br />"I think it's an interesting differentiator for Samsung against the iPad and has worked for them so far with the [smaller Note smartphone]," Danielle Levitas, a group vice president at IDC, told TechNewsWorld.<br /><br />Samsung "is clearly looking to establish its own identity in the tablet space, and while Apple has talked about things such as style and image, the one area that Samsung's looking to corner with its Galaxy Note products is versatility of user input," Jeff Orr, a senior practice director at ABI Research, suggested.<br /><br />Notes on the Galaxy Note 10.1<br /><br />The Galaxy Note 10.1 runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has a 5 MP rear autofocus camera with LED flash and a 1.9 MP front facing camera. It runs on HSPA+.<br /><br />The tablet comes preloaded with various Google applications. For the enterprise, it offers Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, on-device encryption, and virtual private network capabilities from Cisco and Juniper Networks.<br /><br />The Galaxy Note 10.1 comes with an accelerometer, a digital compass, a light and a gyroscope. The tablet weighs about 21 ounces.<br /><br />Features include the Smart Stay eye-tracking feature; Pop Up Play, which lets users watch videos onscreen while running other tasks; and AllShare Play, which lets users share content in real time when the tablet is connected to Samsung HD TVs, or other consumer electronic devices on the same network.<br /><br />The Galaxy Note 10.1 will be available in a WiFi-only and a WiFi with 3G HSPA+ versions at launch. A WiFi and LTE version will be available later in the year.<br /><br />Pricing and the exact launch date have not yet been disclosed.<br />More on the Stylus<br /><br />The Galaxy Note 10.1 uses Samsung's S Pen stylus. This launches various applications, including S Note, S Planner, Crayon physics, Adobe Photoshop Touch and Polaris Office, automatically when taken up for use. Alternatively, users can set their preferred apps for automatic launch.<br /><br />S Note lets users combine notes and sketches with other digital content in preset templates. It's also integrated with knowledge search engines so users can search for, and drag and drop, information into S Notes.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-67627454591522048142012-08-17T09:28:00.000-07:002012-08-17T09:28:00.353-07:00'Hack' Attack on Journo Was Just a Simple Engineering FeatIn the movies, hackers often type away at a keyboard and somehow -- movie magic, perhaps -- manage to crack a network's security and access encrypted files and protected data. In real life, bypassing security measures can be as simple as sweet-talking tech support.<br /><br />That is how tech journalist Mat Honan, a former Gizmodo writer, came under attack. Someone called Apple's support staff and gained control of Honan's iCloud storage account, which compromised his associated Apple devices, and even his Gmail and Twitter accounts.<br /><br />Honan could only watch as his iPhone went dead, and his iPad and MacBook contents were erased. The hacker brazenly sent racist tweets not only from Honan's personal Twitter account but also from a Gizmodo account he used when he worked there.<br /><br />If all this could happen to a tech-savvy writer, how safe can the average user be?<br /><br />"The most important thing to understand is that this is not a hacking attack," said Alan Webber, principal analyst for the Altimeter Group. "It is totally a social engineering problem -- 100 percent."<br /><br />Mat Honan and Apple did not respond to our request for further details.<br />Click here<br /><br />Social Networking Opens Social Engineering Window<br /><br />Just as users need to be cautious about the phishing techniques used to steal personal information, they need to be aware that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook -- which allow users to share personal information about themselves -- have opened holes that hackers use to exploit their systems.<br /><br />This isn't new however.<br /><br />"Actually social engineering -- phishing or pretexting -- preceded technology and remains the easiest way to get through most security systems, physical or electronic," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "It is well past time we should have fixed this."<br /><br />While it is easy to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, who suggested that "he who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither," we actually shouldn't confuse freedom with convenience in the digital space.<br /><br />"There absolutely needs to be a balance between security and convenience," Webber told TechNewsWorld. "But convenience is overrated when it comes to backing up to protect against this type of attack."Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-21697755318430129102012-08-15T09:28:00.000-07:002012-08-15T09:28:00.143-07:00AirPlay Mirroring Looks Great if Your Network Is Pretty EnoughOS X Mountain Lion is crawling with tweaks, new functions and improvements, but for the most part, they're minor adjustments that smooth out the general user experience.<br /><br />One new feature that does stand out, though, is AirPlay mirroring. It can be used to wirelessly connect your Mac with a television. Set it up correctly, and that TV is showing whatever is on your Mac's screen. It's like a wire-free version of an HDMI adapter, and its range is limited only by your wireless network.<br /><br />The process takes plenty of gear, though. You'll need a decent WiFi router as well as an Apple TV. And the actual TV, of course. Also, your Mac has to be a 2011 model or newer due to requirements placed on the device's graphics chipset.<br /><br />If you happen to have all of that, you're ready to go. What to use it for? Presentations, entertainment, possibly gaming, or any instance in which having a bunch of people crowd around the Mac's screen would be uncomfortable.<br />Click here<br /><br />That's Entertainment<br /><br />Mirroring adds a new degree of versatility to an Apple TV. By itself, Apple TV is not a universal media monster. It does iTunes, of course, along with Netflix, if you're a subscriber. It just snapped up Hulu. It might even buddy up with Amazon Prime, considering that service just hit iPad. There's YouTube, there are some sports-related channels, etc.<br /><br />It doesn't do everything, though. For example, HBOGo is a brilliant service, but you can't get it directly through Apple TV. Also, Hulu Plus users sometimes get hit with a most unwelcome message when they bring up a show they want to watch -- something like "Sorry, you can't do that on television. You're going to have to watch this on your computer instead." Normally my reaction to that is to schlep the laptop into the living room, hook it up to the TV with an HDMI adaptor, play the show, and send a photo of myself doing it to Jason Kilar while making my best I-am-utterly-ashamed-of-what-I'm-doing face.<br /><br />But that schlepping, it's so ... untidy. And my MacBook's battery won't last forever. Soon enough I'll have to dig the power cord out from under the desk and fight through that rat nest that's somehow developed behind the TV to find an outlet.<br /><br />This is one shortcoming that Airplay mirroring will theoretically eliminate. If you can get content on your Mac, you can see it on your TV, and almost all online video is available via a browser or a player on a personal computer. Set-top boxes, tablets and smart TVs have restrictions here and there, but a basic computer is the common denominator with which just about all online video will play nicely. Make that computer's screen project to your TV, and your online viewing options are free from cumbersome this-screen-not-that-screen complications.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-42737311288728199062012-08-13T09:27:00.000-07:002012-08-13T09:27:00.431-07:00Who Loves Hadoop?Mention big data and the first thing that might come to mind is Hadoop. The open source software framework has recently enjoyed a great deal of popularity among vendors and enterprise users.<br /><br />However, if it is to really be useful to the enterprise, Hadoop may need to be taken out of open source, argues Brian Christian, chief technology officer of Zettaset.<br /><br />"The community serves its needs, not the needs of the enterprise," Christian told LinuxInsider. "Meanwhile, the enterprise has the dollars to drive innovation on its need. In between this chasm are companies like Zettaset that follow and contribute to the community, yet sell features and functionality in our software packages that the community is not focused on."<br />Click here<br /><br />The Lowdown on Hadoop<br /><br />The Apache Hadoop framework enables distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It's designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines.<br /><br />Each computer in a Hadoop cluster offers its own local computation and storage. Hadoop is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer so it will continue to be highly available even if some of the computers in the hardware clusters fail.<br /><br />Hadoop changes the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing because it's scalable, cost Simple Strategies for Enhancing eCommerce Profitability. Click to download white paper. effective, flexible and fault tolerant, IBM says. New nodes can be added as and when required without the need to change data formats; commodity servers can be used to conduct massively parallel computing. Hadoop has no schema, so it can absorb any type of data from any number of sources. When a node goes down, the system redirects work to another instance where the data is stored.<br />Hadoop's Many Lovers<br /><br />Yahoo and Facebook are among the largest users of Hadoop; others include Amazon, eBay, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, HP, IBM and Apple.<br /><br />"Speaking only for Cloudera, four of the top five commercial banks, four of the top five general retailers, four of the top five entertainment companies and all three of the tier-one telecom carriers run Cloudera," Charles Zedlewski, vice president of product at Cloudera, a company that provides Hadoop-based software and services, told LinuxInsider. "A number of" large government agencies and small data-driven startups also run Cloudera.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-40708420060940161662012-08-11T09:26:00.000-07:002012-08-11T09:26:00.645-07:00Curiosity Begins Capturing Martian Kodak MomentsA Fantastic Achievement'<br /><br />"The successful landing of the Mars rover Curiosity represents a fantastic achievement," Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist with the Space Telescope Science Institute, told TechNewsWorld.<br /><br />"The landing followed an unprecedented set of complex maneuvers, and it demonstrated once more how human ingenuity and hard work can overcome incredible difficulties and lead to fabulous results," Livio pointed out.<br /><br />In fact, "it is not an accident that the rover was named 'Curiosity,'" he added. "It may give us an answer to a question that we have been curious about for ages: Did Mars ever host life?<br /><br />"I sat up all night to follow the approach and landing, and to tweet about it," Livio said. "It was worth every minute."<br /><br />'Where Does This Gravel Come From?'<br /><br />Just minutes after its landing, Curiosity returned its first view of Mars: a wide-angle scene of rocky ground near the front of the rover.<br /><br />About two hours later, a higher-resolution image arrived.<br /><br />Curiosity rover Mars photo<br />This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the morning of Aug. 6, 2012. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)<br /><br />"Curiosity's landing site is beginning to come into focus," said John Grotzinger, project manager of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.<br /><br />"In the image, we are looking to the northwest. What you see on the horizon is the rim of Gale Crater. In the foreground, you can see a gravel field. The question is, where does this gravel come from?" Grotzinger asked. "It is the first of what will be many scientific questions to come from our new home on Mars."<br /><br />Later in the week, color images are expected when the rover's mast -- equipped with high-resolution cameras -- is deployed.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-75322276588128333222012-08-09T00:26:00.000-07:002012-08-09T00:26:00.916-07:00Court Docs Reveal Details of Kim Dotcom's Rough-and-Tumble ArrestCourt testimony from the case of Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, has been released.<br /><br />Bloomberg was among those to report on the testimony, noting that a New Zealand police officer said the use of helicopters when arresting Dotcom was "over the top."<br /><br />Another article about the Dotcom case, from the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, said that Dotcom claims to have been punched and kicked by police during the raid on his US$25 million mansion.<br /><br />Reuters also had an article about Dotcom's abuse allegations.<br /><br />Dotcom was arrested in January on charges of orchestrating the biggest copyright infringement conspiracy in U.S. history. He is believed to have generated more than $175 million from Megaupload, which was a platform for sharing all variety of copyrighted material, including movies, TV shows, books and software.<br /><br />Born in Germany, Dotcom moved to New Zealand, where he face extradition to the U.S.<br /><br />Food on the Go<br /><br />If you shudder at the thought of returning from vacation to a fridge full of spoiled food, you may be in luck.<br /><br />Tesco, a UK-based multinational grocery store, is launching a trial of Britain's first "interactive grocery store," according to the BBC.<br /><br />The store features four screens at the departure lounge at London's Gatwick Airport. Customers will use the screens to slide "shelves" and view various products, and will then use a smartphone to scan a barcode. The products will then be delivered to you house the day you return.<br /><br />The BBC quotes a Tesco marketing manager who says that the company doesn't view this as a gimmick, but as a legitimate venue for shopping.<br />Chinese Banks Don't Support Firefox, Chrome<br /><br />The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, or ICBC, announced that its Internet banking system is not fully equipped to handle Web browsers besides Internet Explorer, according to TechInAsia.com.<br /><br />If that weren't antiquated enough, ICBC's e-banking system also encourages users to use IE6, IE 7 or IE8 as opposed to the newer IE9 or IE10.<br /><br />The lack of browser options is not confined to ICBC, according to Tech In Asia, which cities a Chinese-language article from IT-Times.com. Someone using Chrome or Firefox might never see the online banking login box appear, which pretty well makes online banking impossible. Same story if someone wants to use Safari, the default browser for Macs.<br /><br />ICBC does, to its credit, support Firefox -- but only up to Firefox 10.0.x. This is problematic because Firefox has released Version 14.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-37112404645197213052012-08-07T09:25:00.001-07:002012-08-07T09:25:50.435-07:00ARM Reaches Out With Muscular 2nd-Gen GPUsMobile processor manufacturer ARM on Monday announced the second generation of its Mali T-600 family of graphics processor units (GPUs), based on ARM's Midgard architecture.<br /><br />The new chips represent the second generation of Mali-T600 processors; the first was announced in November.<br /><br />"The graphics demands in smartphones, tablets and DTVs continue to accelerate," Steve Steele, senior product manager at ARM, told TechNewsWorld.<br /><br />"GPU technology typically moves faster than CPU technology," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.<br /><br />About the Sons of Mali<br /><br />The ARM Mali-T600 series consists of three GPUs for smartphones, tablets and smart TVs: the T624, T628 and T678. The first two are for smartphones and smart TVs; the T678 has been optimized for tablets.<br /><br />The Mali-T624 offers up to four cores, and the other two up to eight cores. The second generation Mali-T600 family offers 50 percent better performance than its predecessor, ARM said. This was achieved by optimizing the register transfer level and implementing microarchitectural improvements for more efficient graphics execution.<br /><br />GPU computing capabilities allow computational methods of enhancing or extending digital photography, such as enabling multiple perspectives on a subject and real-time photo editing on mobile devices. They also allow photo editing and video stabilization to be offered for a wider variety of consumer products.<br /><br />ARM expects products with first-generation Mali-T600 cores in the market before the end of this year, the company's Steele said. Products with the second-generation GPUs will be available in Q3 of 2013.<br />Working With the CPUs<br /><br />The new Mali-T600 family is the first series of GPUs to include ARM's Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC).<br /><br />ASTC gives content developers better control over the tradeoff between space and quality inherent in lossy compression schemes. Designers can pick among a wide choice of input formats without having to support multiple different compression schemes. It optimizes GPU performance and increases battery life in devices, enabling an always-on, always-connected experience, ARM said.<br /><br />"Given the heavy focus on ever higher graphics generally, the GPU is now as power-hungry as the CPU or more power-hungry, and it controls the screen, which is the most power-hungry part of the device," Enderle said.<br /><br />The Mali-T600 CPUs support the major compute application programming interfaces to perform GPU computing for more efficient execution of parallel-intensive tasks.<br /><br />"This is really about the GPU and CPU working together to more efficiently handle the compute workload," Craig Stice, a senior principal analyst at IHS iSuppli, told TechNewsWorld. "They balance tasks, allowing performance of the right task by the most efficient architecture."Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-71897409147177874012012-08-07T09:21:00.001-07:002012-08-07T09:21:11.445-07:00Computer training venuesIf you're looking for a site wants to provide <a href="http://www.cliftons.com/computer-training-rooms"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><i><b>computer training venues</b></i></span></a> cliftons.com to come and have a team ready to assist you and help you with everything you need,our mission is to provide flexible, quality and best value IT training room hire, training facilities and meeting rooms with unique packages to suit different businesses,whether you require a secure network, remote access, Intel supported Operation systems or client-trainer monitoring software, we can assist,also have the best for you in <a href="http://www.cliftons.com/asia-hk/hong-kong"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><i><b>conference room</b></i></span></a> with comfortable and safe environments,these purpose built computer class rooms use modern PC's that run on the latest software and are setup classroom style.Whether you are a training company, freelance IT trainer or simply an organization wanting to run a computer training course, our facility offers a comfortable and professional training environment,If you are teaching a computer class-based, project managers training or conducting a managed retreat, our computer learning center has a room to suit your needs.Not only is the price of office space increasing, the expense and trouble of keeping computers and projectors current is never ending.While telephones, high speed fiber based internet and wireless access are all available when needed, students will be able to avoid constant interruptions that are unavoidable if class is held in-house,if you're looking for a place to come first to the <a href="http://www.cliftons.com/asia-hk/event-planning"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><i><b>event planning</b></i></span></a> www.cliftons.com.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-24221748923541424182011-11-13T00:56:00.000-08:002011-11-13T00:56:00.732-08:00Yahoo Gives the iPad the Power to Understand TVA new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by listening to the audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, such as news stories related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ballgame.<br /><br />The app, called IntoNow, is a refreshed and improved version of technology that Yahoo acquired by buying a startup with the same name. When the company was swallowed by Yahoo in May, it was only able to share information over Facebook and Twitter about what show a user was watching. By using Yahoo technology that can recognize the meaning of text, the IntoNow version released today is much more capable, says Adam Cahan, who founded IntoNow and is now a Yahoo executive.<br /><br />"This technology actually understands the 'aboutness' of the show," Cahan said at a Yahoo press event. He showed the app automatically pulling up a list of Yahoo news content related to a story airing on CNN about an airplane making an emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland. The app also uses its knowledge of the show to find relevant Twitter conversations.<br /><br />IntoNow identifies TV shows by comparing an audio "fingerprint" of a person's viewing with a vast library of TV audio fingerprints stored on cloud servers. The closed captions for that moment can then be retrieved and fed into Yahoo's technology to determine the meaning of what is currently on screen.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-45125858799128924582011-11-11T05:54:00.000-08:002011-11-11T05:54:00.655-08:00Use of Supercritical Water Could Cut Costs for Ethanola startup based in Kennesaw, Georgia, is using water at high pressure and temperature to transform wood chips into sugar, which can then be fermented to make biofuels and other chemicals. The company says the process can produce sugar for the same price as making it from sugarcane, which has led to profitable biofuels production in Brazil.<br /><br />Renmatix is addressing the most difficult step in producing ethanol from abundant cellulosic materials such as wood chips, instead of from corn or sugar crops. Once the sugar is made, the same technology employed in a conventional corn or sugarcane ethanol plant can be used to produce ethanol.<br /><br />So far, Renmatix has only demonstrated the technology on a small scale, using a facility that can process three tons of wood chips a day. As with all advanced biofuels companies, one of the biggest challenges will be convincing investors to hand over the money needed to build a larger commercial facility to prove the venture is commercially viable. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been forced to waive requirements for cellulosic ethanol because commercial plants for converting cellulosic material to ethanol haven't yet been built. By lowering the cost of producing sugar from cellulosic materials, Renmatix hopes to at last break this logjam.<br /><br />Researchers and companies have tried many methods of turning cellulose into sugar. Some involve breaking the biomass down using acids or specially tailored enzymes. 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The study shows that selectively eliminating those aging, or "senescent," cells, could help prevent the onset of everything from muscle loss to cataracts.<br /><br />Senescent cells can no longer divide, and therefore fail to replenish aging tissue. More recently, researchers have suggested that these cells might be secreting damaging chemicals that poison the cells around them. To determine their role in the diseases of aging, scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, identified senescent cells in mice that had been genetically engineered to age rapidly using a biomarker, called p16Ink4a, specific to these cells. For the length of the animals' lives, they were injected with a drug that induced only those biomarker-containing senescent cells to commit suicide, while leaving others untouched.<br /><br />The results were striking: in tissues that contained the labeled cells, including everything from fat to muscle to eyes, selective removal appeared to postpone age-related damage. Treated mice had no cataracts, and showed increased muscle mass, strength, and subcutaneous fat when compared to mice that hadn't received the drug.<br /><br />"We've shown there is a causal link between these senescent cells and age-related decline in tissue function," says Jan van Deursen, the Mayo Clinic cancer researcher who led the study. 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Digital cable TV is entertainment central So when you want to <a href="http://www.broadbandin.co.uk/packages/digital-tv/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">compare tv deals</span></a> not need to look elsewhere, come to http://www.broadbandin.co.uk.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-87255717211116089172011-10-29T00:07:00.000-07:002011-10-29T00:07:00.873-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2fnasa-projeta-aviao-pessoal-do-futuro.html">NASA projects personal airplane of the future</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <p dragover="true">The proposal not yet passes of a drawing and<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 125px;" src="http://info.abril.com.br/noticias/blogs/gadgets/files/2010/01/personal-flying-suit.jpg" alt="" border="0" />a animation in the YouTube, but the idea of NASA to create a “personal flying suit”, the Puffin, is extremely interesting.</p> <p>Literally, in good Portuguese, NASA wants to develop a flying personal clothes. Stranger. However, as the initiative comes of the group that placed the man in the Moon, can believe that, in few years, it will be well possible to sight one of these in global the aerial roads.</p> <p>The Puffin will have 3,6 meters and will weigh 136 kilos. To use it, the pilot would have that really vestiz it as clothes - or if to incase in the command cabin. The personal aircraft will have electric engine.</p> <p>For the time being, the concept is being thought only for military uses.</p>Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-44409944013112498152011-10-28T00:07:00.000-07:002011-10-28T00:07:00.649-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2ftv-digital-tem-conversor-automatico-de.html">Digital TV has automatic converter of videos</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> The X-Sound! , specialized in models of players and accessories, it finishes to launch Digital TV Multimedia 3.4.<img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 123px;" src="http://olhardigital.uol.com.br/uploads/acervo_imagens/2010/01/20100122112443.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The great one drawn of the device is the possibility to lower videos, films and clips in RMVB and FLV and to attend without if worrying about the conversion of format of the archive.<br /><br />The TV with screen of 3.4 counts also serves as MP3, pendrive and holds books, as e-books in the format txt.<br /><br />It wants to have more information on brinquedinho? He is on that soon we will make one review.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-69536898423419506412011-10-26T00:09:00.000-07:002011-10-26T00:09:00.234-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2ffirefox-36.html">Firefox 3.6</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> E after some expectation, the Mozilla launched in this thursday, 21, the final version of Firefox 3.6. The users already<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 173px;" src="http://olhardigital.uol.com.br/uploads/acervo_imagens/2009/09/20090908152635.jpg" alt="" border="0" />can enter in the official page of the desenvolvedora and carry through download of the new navigator.<br /><br />The new features in browser prioritize speed performance better. In comparison with the 3,5, the new version is faster 20%. The operations to open and to load pages and photos, for example, are more agile of what in the previous models.<br /><br />In the attempt to minimize the exposition the malicious attacks, plugins and extensions will have a next accompaniment. That is, the system now is more restricted the action that leaves of these applicatory ones, that they are easy doors of virus entrance.<br /><br />The update of browser was developed in new standard HTML5. Of this form, the tool offers to support the videos in full screen without it has the necessity installation of determined plugins.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-50584359486345338932011-10-25T00:08:00.000-07:002011-10-25T00:08:00.643-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2fdrinkedin-o-garcom-das-redes-sociais.html">DrinkedIn, the waiter of the social nets</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> The Internet test that is the space for all. For the tired people of repression in the social nets, of the campaigns<img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 175px;" src="http://olhardigital.uol.com.br/uploads/acervo_imagens/2010/01/20100121142638.jpg" alt="" border="0" />against an exit or another one in the bar, the site of DrinkedIn relationships was created.<br /><br />In the site, the beberrões can meet and change information on places to go with galera and to appreciate a good one drunk. The division of the DrinkedIn is made by “Fóruns”, “Events”, “Pubs Bars”, all linked ones to its groups of friends in the net. E the site counts on integration to the Twitter!<br /><br />In phase beta, the DrinkedIn informs that already it possesss 100 a thousand registered in cadastre bars and waits to receive much more adepts in the next months. Thus, the owners of the site also alert on the extreme alcohol consumption, in the famous letters than more very small in the inferior part of the screen.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-53643819421569936142011-10-23T00:07:00.000-07:002011-10-23T00:07:00.438-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2fbookbook-protege-seu-laptop.html">BookBook protects its laptop</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> To leave for loading one notebook is not something there very recommended by the specialists in security. The solutions vary to place<img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 150px;" src="http://info.abril.com.br/noticias/blogs/gadgets/files/2010/01/pageheroimages_bookbook1.jpg" alt="" border="0" />it <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2finfo.abril.com.br%2fnoticias%2fblogs%2fgadgets%2ffiles%2f2010%2f01%2fpageheroimages_bookbook1.jpg">in the knapsack, simply not to take it, or to buy a protective layer that deceives everybody. This is the idea of the BookBook, but without leaving the side classroom.</a><br /><br />The product, made for the Twelve South, specialist in peripherals for products of Apple, is fine thing: a protective layer, with upholstered on the inside, rigid protection in the exterior part, to zíper and an only format for are: as the name says, the BookBook imitates a book.<br />There to complete, each layer is made manually, that is, you does not run the risk to find somebody for in the street reading the same book that its, because the Twelve South did not make no equal BookBook. E who goes to want to steal a book old when you will be with it in the street? The possibilities diminish, not?Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-83010636414775648942011-10-20T00:07:00.000-07:002011-10-20T11:31:57.892-07:00<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=pt_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fatualinformaticanews.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f02%2fnexus.html">Nexus</a></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <p dragover="true">Inhabitants of Earth, extraterrestrial, players of World of Warcraft and geeks of all the universe want to know: the Nexus One is really smartphone of the future? We had<img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 170px;" src="http://info.abril.com.br/noticias/blogs/gadgets/files/2010/02/P1060203.jpg" alt="" border="0" />the honor to receive it in the INFOLAB, with right rodinha of curious to its redor. E, in little time of contact, already of the one to say that… It confers.</p> <p>The beauty of the Nexus One is really impressive. Exactly the beautiful photos of the device, virtually it seems plus one smartphone of the HTC with one design more descoladinho. However, when catching it, he is easy to draw that smartphone of the Google is fine thing. Its format rounded off with one telona of 3,7 counts has finishing of first, beyond being fininho and to fit in pocket of any one.</p> <p>Binding the Nexus One and tanning the X colorful that appears, already it is possible to perceive the beauty of the colors. It can, since the screen of 3,7 480 counts has x 800 pixels of resolution and is constructed in AMOLED. Touching in its surface, the thing alone improves. The reply of the sensible screen to the capacitive touch it is of first, catching all the details of the lesser movement of the fingers.<br /></p> <p>But what more it makes an impression in the Nexus One it is its speed. To open applicatory, to sail in web, to take a walk for the areas of work, to write, everything is made with an almost instantaneous reply, effect of its Snapdragon processor, the Qualcomm, 1 GHz. To attend the videos in the YouTube also is a case to the part, joining the beauty of the screen with the rapidity of the processor.</p> <p>After all this babação, you it must be if asking: “then it is really one superphone, as the Google says”. We believe that to create a new category, with a pretensioso name as this, it is not the ideal for the Nexus One. It does not have nothing accurately revolutionary, but he uses everything that the current technology has of better, since the operational system Android 2,1, passing for the screen of AMOLED and the processor.</p>Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-69215038826632622482011-07-27T00:20:00.000-07:002011-07-27T00:20:00.225-07:00Seeking Tomorrow's Security SolutionsThe growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure.<br /><br />Users are increasingly bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on the hop.<br /><br />Meanwhile, new technologies such as near-field communications (NFC), which not only enable mobile payments but also let users transfer files between two NFC-enabled devices by tapping them together, may be opening up new vectors of attack.<br /><br />Traditional security solutions, including in-depth defense, have proved infuriatingly helpless against aggressive, highly competent hackers such as the members of LulzSec or Anonymous, who seem able to waltz into any system they like and wreak havoc freely.<br /><br />Their victims include the CIA, the FBI, Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Congress.<br /><br />The government and our elected officials are trying to fight back.<br /><br />The Department of Homeland Services has released a list of the top 25 software weaknesses.<br /><br />The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, is seeking comment from businesses on how to improve security.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Senator Mary Bono Mack has proposed legislation making it a criminal offense not to report a security breach.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-61624421141699113752011-07-25T00:20:00.000-07:002011-07-25T00:20:00.943-07:00Labs Go Dark as Google Puts Away Childish ThingsIn a continuing effort to streamline product development, Google announced Wednesday the company will be shutting down its Google Labs project.<br /><br />The Google Labs initiative was the tech giant's testing facility, where employees and engineers were given creative freedom to tinker with experimental projects that perhaps didn't necessarily fall within their job descriptions. The emphasis on encouraging innovation and imagination was seen as one of the core elements that separated Google from competitors.<br /><br />Labs was the birthplace of popular products that are now mainstays of the company, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Docs and some Android apps. But for all its success stories, Google Labs had its fair share of flops, and the company now believes prioritizing its development efforts is the best strategy going forward.<br /><br />Greater focus will be necessary in order to capitalize on upcoming opportunities, according to Bill Coughran, senior vice president for research and systems infrastructure at Google.<br /><br />Many projects that have stemmed from Labs that are now solidly in place, such as Gmail, will continue in their current capacity, Coughran emphasized in a company blog post. Now, he pointed out, much of the development in Labs is devoted to apps for the Android platform, and those will continue to be available in the separate Android Market.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-73151078990351872452011-07-23T00:18:00.000-07:002011-07-23T00:18:00.215-07:00Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Racen the early morning hours of May 24, an armed burglar wearing a ski mask broke into the offices of <a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=75962247">Nicira Networks</a>, a Silicon Valley startup housed in one of the countless nondescript buildings along Highway 101. He walked past desks littered with laptops and headed straight toward the cubicle of one of the company’s top engineers. The assailant appeared to know exactly what he wanted, which was a bulky computer that stored Nicira’s source code. He grabbed the one machine and fled. The whole operation lasted five minutes, according to video captured on an employee’s webcam. Palo Alto Police Sergeant Dave Flohr describes the burglary as a run-of-the-mill Silicon Valley computer grab. “There are lots of knuckleheads out there that take what they can and leave,” he says. But two people close to the company say that they, as well as national intelligence investigators now looking into the case, suspect something more sinister: a professional heist performed by someone with ties to China or Russia. The burglar didn’t want a computer he could sell on Craigslist. He wanted Nicira’s ideas.Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722718360453247452.post-72588151297838575452011-07-21T12:13:00.000-07:002011-07-21T12:17:15.147-07:00All in one Solution for Apple Ipad with Ipad Magic<p>Bored with Apples itune for every simple file transfer and complicated options associated with them ? yeah you may be. Today i am going to give you an alternative to itunes and easy way of managing your Apple products. Apple is a leader of Gadget world at the moment and all most everyone likes to have their products such as an Iphone, ipod and ipad . To be true all of these products are just mind blowing and user friendly as well but still while connecting Apple devices with PCs there are a lot of drawbacks which does arise.</p> <p>Here is one cool application from Xilisoft which helps you manage Ipads with ease that will never let you down. “Ipad Magic” is a supreme application which allows you to Manage, Convert and Transfer data to the IPad. Aint this an all-in-one solution? You need not take any other software separately for converting as well as transferring because IPad Magic will do it all for you.</p> <p><strong>Salient Features:</strong></p> <ul><li>Convienient and clean User Interface</li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://techfreakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/xilisoft-ipad-magic-scrbig.jpg"><img style="width: 445px; height: 442px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087" title="xilisoft-ipad-magic" src="http://techfreakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/xilisoft-ipad-magic-scrbig.jpg" alt="" /></a></div> <ul><li>Convert any content for ipods, ipads and iphones</li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 405px; height: 374px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2088" title="Conversion" src="http://techfreakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad1.jpg" alt="" /></div> <ul><li>Create iphone ringtones from videos and other audio files</li><li><strong>Backup:</strong></li></ul> <p>This is one of the best features of this product which will make your money worth for sure. <a href="http://www.xilisoft.com/ipad-magic.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">IPad Backup</span> </a>allows backing up your ipad to PC/itunes with a button click away.</p> <ul><li>Easy file transfer system from PC to Ipad</li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 381px; height: 350px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2089" title="File Transfer" src="http://techfreakblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/xilisoft-ipad-magic-16.png" alt="" /></div> <ul><li>Create and manage your photo albums from PC</li><li>Rip DVDs/CDs to supported formats</li><li>Manage iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Simultaneously</li><li>Full support for <strong>iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iTunes 10</strong></li></ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p>It will not be a surprise when you see Ipad magic actually being a bundle of three different products into one. Yeah true it has three different components Ipad Manager, IPad Transfer and Ipad Convertor.</p> <p><a href="http://www.xilisoft.com/ipad-magic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">ipad to pc transfer</span> </a><strong><a href="http://www.xilisoft.com/ipad-magic.html">:</a></strong></p> <p>As the name suggest with IPad Manager you will be able to view and organize all the data on the IPad with the simplest User Interface.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.xilisoft.com/ipad-magic.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">IPad Transfer</span>:</a></strong></p> <p>Ipad transfer simplifies complications which are there with Itunes and it allows easy transfer of songs, movies and music between Apple ipad and computer. It also supports back-up which allows you to make packages which can be changed now and then.</p> <p><strong>IPad Convertor:</strong></p> <p>As Apple users you must be knowing that Apple products do not support all kinds of formats but only some. This Ipad convertor tool is very essential and easy one for converting any format to the format supported by Ipad. This ipad converter application converts your favorite videos/audios/CD/DVD/ISO images to ipad supported format.</p> <p><strong>Itunes Transfer:</strong></p> <p>Itune Surrogate option from IPad allow you to directly copy the contents from Ipad to itunes.</p> <p><strong>Custom Soundtracks and Playlists:</strong></p> <p>Creating your own Soundtracks and Playlist from Itune is a big drawback but with your IPad Magic you can build your own soundtracks as well as Playlists which will best suit you.</p> <p>These all features make this product a bigger worth than the money you invest on it.</p> <p><strong>Special Offer for our readers</strong></p> <p>For our readers we are very happy to provide a 15% discount on Ipad Magic , use the coupon code below while buying</p> <p><strong>Coupon Code: xtb2379051</strong></p> <p>Download Ipad Magic Trial<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.xilisoft.com/webapp/downloader.php?product_code=x-ipad-magic-platinum&version=4.0.0.1216"> here</a></p> <p>Buy Ipad Magic with discount <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.xilisoft.com/webapp/pay.php?act=cps&payment_platform=paypal&product_code=%20x-ipad-magic-platinum&coupon_code=xtb2379051">here</a></p> <p>Do let us know your experience with IPad Magic if you have one</p>Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526077535590034530noreply@blogger.com0