The new version 2.0 of Google TV

Google makes a new attempt to improve its television service

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Google is making another effort to transfer their knowledge on the web to television, hoping to capitalize on a vast new market, despite the lukewarm reception that gave consumers their first offer.

The Internet search engine has released a revamped version of its Google TV service. The company introduced new features aimed at making the product easier to use and more attractive to consumers.

The new version 2.0 of Google TV provides new tools for recommending movies, TV shows and videos online TV viewers, and makes it easier for software developers creating new applications for the television screen.

"There are very anxious to use the web in the living room," said the vice president of product management at Google, Mario Queiroz, who is in charge of Google TV. But in a sign of the many challenges that have thwarted Google's ambition to conquer the living room as well as other technology companies-including Apple-Google Queiroz TV has described as "a long-term bet."

No release date

"I do not know what month exactly take off," he said during a demonstration of the new product in the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. "I think there has been great progress over the last year and this coming year there will be more," he said.

Google TV, which is now incorporated in some models of Sony televisions and decoders Logitech International, allows consumers to access online videos and Web sites on their TVs, and play with specialized applications.

Google does not disclose how many users have for Google TV, which was launched with great fanfare last year. But some analysts say that version 1.0 of the product has been a failure. "The fire they were trying to start or even get a spark," said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.

The $ 299 (213.6 euros) for the device less expensive for Google TV was too high, said McQuivey (since then, Logitech has reduced the price of your device to 71.4 euros).

New Porsche Design P 9981 BlackBerry

After months of leaks, Research in Motion (RIM) have released the first images and features of the new Porsche Design P 9981 BlackBerry. This is a 'smartphone' unique design with 2.8 inch touch screen, redesigned keyboard, a 1.2 GHz processor and a 5 mega-pixel camera.

Research in Motion (RIM) has published on its website features and images of its new BlackBerry Porsche Design P 9981. Phone is a true to the philosophy of RIM but with a unique touch in its design. The terminal is made of steel and the back is lined with leather. RIM continues to believe that the full keyboard, which in this case presents a different design than the company often used traditionally. The keys are perfectly square and divided in two by a horizontal line that separates the letters of the secondary characters.

The top is designed to screen, framed in black, which creates contrast with the grey keyboard and an upper band with the name of the device, Porsche Design. This screen is touch-sensitive 2.8-inch, and specifications RIM says it has a resolution of 640 by 480.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Over the heart of Porsche Design BlackBerry, RIM has chosen a processor 8655 to 1.2 Ghz MS and a RAM of 758 MB. In terms of capacity, the device has a memory of 8 GB storage and allows the expansion of space to 32 GB cards.

Cameras in mobile devices seem to be a constant concern for manufacturers, who cannot stop looking for improvements in this field. RIM did not want to be less and is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera to your device. The camera can record HD video at 720p and has a 4 × digital zoom. It is also equipped with flash, is capable of detecting faces and has image stabilization.

Porsche Design of the BlackBerry also has technology for the use of NFC and wireless Internet via Wi-Fi. Its multimedia capabilities include video and audio formats, traditional, among which include MPEG 4 and MP3.

With BlackBerry 7 operating system, the device will allow access to RIM's app store and its services, including BlackBerry Messenger. At the moment there are no confirmed or price or availability.

Unlimited free use Google Maps API is no longer available

Google argues that the measure is necessary to ensure "growth and evolution" of a service that until now was completely free.

Google has taken another step last week in what some analysts are beginning to interpret technology as a strategic change of the Internet giant in its business on the web.

The Google development team has announced the end of "unlimited free use" of its Google Maps API by introducing the basic maps limit of 25,000 or 2,500 per day stylized maps, from which we will have to check out our applications can keep running.

Since its launch back in 2005, since Google is not clearly informed that this could happen at any time, which has led to an ecosystem, possibly too bulky to keep without a viable business plan. In the words of John Musser, of programmableweb.com, stated that "for some developers this will clearly be a problem but it is especially healthy ecosystem. Services need to be sustainable business models that work for both parties. "

Through Google Geo Developers Blog, the Mountain View Company announced the introduction of restrictions on the use of Google Maps API. It is a measure which Google application already anticipated last April to ensure "growth and evolution" of a service that until now was free.

An article in readwriteweb.com contains the first impressions of some developers, which in principle are sympathetic to the movement of Google: "Given the value of these APIs provide and the cost of keeping up, pay money for using them should not be a problem at all. The last thing any of us is that the withdrawal queries as they have with others, "says Daniel Treadwell Australian developer.

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Google + for Google Apps accounts

The function 'are with extras', a service that combines the function of video chat with the possibility of sharing the screen while using Google Docs.

Google has announced on its official blog that companies can now access Google +. The company explained that its new social network allows you to use Google Apps accounts for Business for companies to access the service.

With this announcement, Google's social service aims to increase its number of users significantly, with the idea of going slowly getting to the level of other services like Facebook. In this sense, one of the possibilities that were not available was to allow businesses to create profiles on the social network. The company announced it was working on it and after several weeks, Google has confirmed this possibility.

The arrival of Google + companies has not been easy and has taken longer than expected. "Enable Google + for Google Apps accounts has been more technical work than expected and we thank you for your patience," said the company. Despite the delay, Google + is now available for people who use Google Apps, whether in schools, at home or at work.

To start enjoying this service, users only have to register with the website of Google + or if you already have Google Apps, using your account. For customers using Google Apps for Business or the free version of Google Apps, the service will be activated in the coming days, as confirmed by the company.

Thinking about the arrival of company profiles to Google +, the company has highlighted the role 'hangouts with extras' ('left with extras'), a service that combines the function of video chat with the possibility of sharing the screen at the same time Google Docs used. In this way, Google believes it is easier to work in groups and especially distance, which means it can be a very valuable asset for companies.

"It's just the beginning"

Google has said that the step of bringing companies to Google + is just the beginning. "We are creating a data migration tool, useful for those you have already begun using Google + with a personal Google account and prefer to use a Google Apps account," said the company.

With the tool to migrate data, Google ensures that users will not have "to re-create the Circles" they already had. The company expects "to have this tool ready within a couple of weeks." "This integration is only the beginning. We will include more applications and improving the way in which Google + works with Google Apps", has vowed to Google, which has encouraged companies and users of Google Apps to comment on any news that comes to mind . "Any idea is welcome".

The iPhone 4S with a powerful video camera and with the new assistant Siri voice

The new iPhone 4S is outwardly the same as the previous model, but features a powerful dual-core processor that lets you perform tasks at high speed, has a powerful video camera and with the new assistant Siri voice, but so next year will not be in Spanish.

One hundred young people queued for several hours on a rainy day to be the first to buy an iPhone in Spain 4S flagship store in the Gran via Phone and Vodafone in Goya Street that opened their doors at 00, 01 hours on Friday.

Queues of around 50 people each, began to form around five o'clock, as noted by the first buyers. The first iPhone mobile store in 4S was the version Telefonica lower capacity of 16 gigabytes, in white and went with a new high.

The Vodafone store held a small Halloween party where a group of witches entertained shoppers with goodies. In this shop the first mobile phone was also purchased a 16-gigabyte colour but black and with a promotion for accumulated points.

This operator has made a draw among buyers of a trip to New York this month and offers a bid for the iPhone 4 users can change it without cost if the new iPhone 4S contract rate '@ M'. All night the two Apple stores remained open and forward the opening of its three stores in Spain, Barcelona The Machinist, and commercial centre of Madrid Xanadu and Parquesur at 08.00 hours to facilitate the acquisition of its latest mobile intelligently.

The new iPhone 4S coming this Friday to 22 countries, including Spain, is outwardly the same as the previous model, but features a powerful dual-core processor, the A5, which allows you to perform tasks at high speed, has a powerful camera and high definition video, and the new voice assistant Siri, but not until next year will be in Spanish.

Since last October 21 could book the phone in the Apple Online store in both white and black. The new phone was released in three versions, 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes of capacity each at prices ranging between EURO 599 model 16 and 799 for the 64 gigabytes of capacity, although the three main operators: Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange, with plans to subsidize rates and points.

Google Earth and Google Maps should come to Colombian companies

As a result of a strategy that has been advancing in the region for its Google Maps platform, the Internet giant reached an agreement with the firm Servinformación location intelligence solutions. The purpose of this agreement is to give companies using Google Maps Premier and Google Earth Enterprise services and support closer and opportunities that allow them to exploit these two geographic solutions.

Google Maps API Premier is adopted in the software companies from different industries or on their Web sites to display data based on location, or to provide better content to clients or visitors with interactive maps.

Meanwhile, Google Earth Enterprise allows companies to synthesize terabytes of imagery, terrain, vector data and geospatial mapping applications lightweight, intuitive and easy to use for employees and users.

Servinformación selected Google as its Google Enterprise Partner thanks to the 10-year history of the Colombian company and its leadership in location intelligence solutions and geographic information systems.

Google's alliance with Servinformación joins that Google has established with local leaders in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico. With this strategy, Google seeks to promote the mass use of Google Maps and Google Earth in companies and other organizations, in times when the geo-location takes an increasingly more important for both end users and employees and work groups.

More hidden face of Steve Jobs, in his authorized biography

It is not an authorized biography to try to become a saint. Quite the contrary, the founder of Apple wanted the rest of the world knew their weaknesses. In the book, Steve Jobs declared admirer of Mark Zuckerberg and threatened to "destroy Android" for stealing their ideas.

Less than three weeks after his death and sold the authorized biography of Steve Jobs. It Jobs reveals a more human and less perfect, for example, the book reveals that just as Apple became a hit his girlfriend was pregnant, but Jobs refused to recognize the child and assist in their support until you forced the courts. In fact, Jobs himself had been given up for adoption shortly after birth.

Most, one of his favourite restaurants was that of a Syrian immigrant who came to know personally and who turned out to be her biological father. However, after Jobs never wanted to know about him. Jobs also came close to Barack Obama not knowing it was insisted that the U.S. president himself who arranged the meeting personally.

The worst words of Steve Jobs are for the founders of Google, accusing them design their Android-based phones steal the ideas of the iPhone. Apple co-founder, however, was an admirer of the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, to represent the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley and want to build your own business without being tempted by money.

Acer Announces First ultrabook - Aspire S3-951

Acer has introduced its first ultrabook, Acer Aspire S3-951. This machine is 13.3 ", with only a half inch thick and weighing less than 1.3 kilograms.

Inside the Aspire S3-951 is a 20GB SSD and a 320GB hard drive, we also have an Intel Core i5-2467M second generation running at 1.65GHz (2.3GHz with Turbo Boost), an Intel Graphics HD 3000 and 4GB of DDR3 RAM.

With Instant Connect the laptop can connect to the Internet in just 2.5 seconds and it only takes 2 seconds to exit sleep mode because it has Instant On. Acer says the battery is 6 hours long and may be 50 days in standby mode.

The remaining specifications of the machine include a 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth 4.0, card reader SD / MMC, HDMI and VGA and two USB 2.0 ports.

The price is about $ 900.

Fly Mobiles has just released a new low cost tablet in India, Fly Vision

Fly Mobiles has just released a new tablet in India, Fly Vision. It is a touch screen device 7 "800 × 480, the processor is a 600MHz Rockchip 2818 and has 256MB of RAM.

What's more, the Vision Fly also has a 1.3 megapixel camera has a microSD card slot and its battery lasts about 6 hours. Measures of this tablet are 195mm x 120mm x 12mm and weighs solamente350 grams.

Regarding Bluetooth connectivity and ports, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, 3G and headphone jack. In regard to the Android 2.2 operating system has Froyo.

If you live in India then you can buy for about $ 150. Such a device would need to be released around the world to a greater number of people will have at hand.

Galaxy Nexus, the new Google phone

The new Google smartphone, manufactured by Samsung, has already been presented. Its features include a parantalla of 4.65 inches, a 1.2 GHz processor and two cameras, front and rear. The terminal allows mobile payment through NFC technology and works with the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google has presented at a joint event with Samsung's third generation of its smartphone. Galaxy is the Nexus and returns to be manufactured by the Korean company, which also developed the Nexus S, while the first terminal, Nexus One, was built by HTC.

Nexus Galaxy features include a Super AMOLED screen of 4.65 inches. The resolution is one of the most surprising. This is HD (1280 × 720), something that is ready the new version of Google's mobile operating system: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, also accessible to the terminal predecessor, the Nexus S.

The Nexus Galaxy processor is dual core 1.2 GHz, while the Apple IPhone 4s is limited to 800 MHz the Google phone is sold in two versions, whose internal memory varies from 16 to 32 GB.

Cameras are a differential element. The Galaxy Nexus has two. It is true that the back is 5 megapixels when there smartphones now have 8 megapixels, as the iPhone itself 4s. However, the device front, 1.3 megapixel videoconferencing intended, is not present in many of the newer terminals.

In terms of connectivity features Nexus pass Galaxy have Bluetooth 3.0 and NFC (Near Field Communications), which allows you to pay through the terminal, as recorded by Cnet. This is also one of the hallmarks of the new smartphone, especially considering the momentum that Google Wallet will give this area.

Depending on the Galaxy Nexus countries also support high-speed mobile networks, more than standard 3G. These are the HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) and LTE (Long Term Evolution), which represent a leap forward for the development of mobile Internet.

Virtual Supermarket - Another way to make the purchase

Shopping over the Internet is nothing new, especially in countries where new technologies are part of everyday life of its citizens. In South Korea have taken a step forward. They opened the first virtual supermarket.

The company Homeplus, South Korean subsidiary of the British chain Tesco has opened its first virtual store. It is located in a subway station in Seoul. What the buyer sees is a platform with illuminated signs that advertise hundreds of food products, from fruit and milk to soups and pet food.

To access this virtual supermarket is necessary to have a smartphone. Something that South Korea is no problem, nowadays, in that there are more than ten million of these phones.

Those responsible for the digital supermarket customers have thought of young people who have perfectly taken and integrated into their daily lives using the phone. They believe that their customers are very busy and many do not have the time to go to the supermarket to shop, so you can see in your shop a way to save time.

The way to buy is simple. Is collected on the phone product code you want. A beep sounds and the product image appears on the screen of the phone. You select the exact class size or application and then calls write when and where you would like to receive the product. If the request is made before 13.00 hours, the company is committed to delivering the food that night.

Microsoft and Google are seen as buyers of Yahoo

The computer giants Google and Microsoft are among the possible candidates to buy Yahoo, after the poor performance of the popular web portal, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rumours about Microsoft's interest in Yahoo from afar.

Microsoft, already made a bid for Yahoo in 2008 by 47,500 million, is in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board through a mixture of preferred shares and bonds, although the transaction price has not transpired.

Bill Gates's company currently has an agreement with Yahoo to develop a search engine altogether. At the same time, the financial newspaper indicates that Google would have analysed the acquisition of Yahoo, also through private equity firms. However, Google executives are aware that one such operation would cause a more than possible investigation by the federal government for possible harm to competition and monopoly.

Rumours about the sale of Yahoo have soared last week after the results of the popular Web site that showed a profit drop of 26% in the third quarter of this year, for the same period in 2010. In addition, the surprise dismissal of the CEO, Carol Bartz, in September and had shown the nervousness and uncertainty within Yahoo at the inability to adapt to market changes. Currently, Yahoo has a market value of approximately 20,000 million.

Intel - The biggest computer makers launch new ultrabooks in 2012

During a recent interview, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that the biggest computer makers launch new ultrabooks in 2012, including HP and Dell.

Otellini also said that as soon as we launched Windows 8 ultrabooks modern hybrid technology may be used either as notebooks or tablets. If the next version of Windows is released next year, then in 2012 we will ultrabooks hybrid on the market.

Finally, the CEO said his company is developing new Intel processors will be called Ivy Bridge (which is already known) and insurance will be launched next year.

Nokia leaked details of the new Sabre

26-27^th October in London, Nokia officially launched its new mobile phone called Nokia World event. One of these phones is the Nokia 800 Sea Ray; the other that we see up here is the Nokia Sabre.

The details of this phone just leaked so we have a small preview of what Nokia presented. As mentioned, Sabre specifications include a processor that runs 1.4GHz, 1GB of RAM, 5 megapixel camera and WVGA screen of 3.5 ".

Those are all the known facts of Nokia Sabre, but the October 26 and we know more. Regarding the price, is expected to cost about $ 480.

Part of the trailer for "The Avengers" has been shot with an iPhone

We all know that the iPhone's camera 4S is spectacular, like the original iPhone 4, but never have occurred to me that it was good enough to be used for filming some scenes from the trailer of The Avengers or even the very same movie.

Seamus McGarvey, director of photography, was the one who told the news, but did not specify the model of iPhone used, but was probably the iPhone 4, and the best, 4S, if you could get one before the launch.

Now comes the hard part: finding the part of the trailer that is engraved with the iPhone. If anyone wants, here we leave the trailer for the task.

USB Powered Stereo Speakers from Olasonic

Olasonic’s TW-S7 Speakers could be the right choice if you are looking for a pair of sleek speakers for your computer or laptop.
The TW-S7 speakers connect to user’s computer or laptop via USB and provide a frequency response of 60Hz – 20,000Hz. The speakers have a Super Charged Drive System digital amp fitted within to deliver 10W+10W impressive stereo sound. They are also supposed to be energy efficient as they consume only 2.5W of USB power.

The speakers feature plug-and-play compatibility with your computer or laptop, and install automatically without the need for special drivers or software. They also employ direct transfer of digital audio signals over the USB interface to minimize distortion.
The speakers provide high-fi sound as they use large 60mm ferrite magnet drivers, a passive radiator and a high-frequency diffuser. The TW-S7 USB Powered Speaker System comes in two colors, black or white. The egg shape of the speakers maximizes the strength and efficiency while reducing unwanted noise and distortion.
The TW-S7 speakers, which are priced at $129.99, are already available in Japan from April and they are supposed to hit the other markets on 1st August.

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