Bunga bunga + Google = Bungle Bungle

Do not remember the exchange between Barbara and Nicole Minetti Fagg on preferred prime minister or want to reread the telephone conversations between the accountant Spinell ie Ruby Rubacuori him begging for a loan? It is now possible, and all thanks to a search engine 'ad hoc'. Bungle Bungle is called, was launched Feb.

12, just hours before the event "If not now, when?" And has already reached over 50 thousand people through word of mouth via Twitter and Facebook. The name comes from a combination of 'bunga bunga', Ruby now synonymous with the deal, with the brand and Brinno Page (Google founders), which follows the graphic, even if the resulting word (bungle) in English means 'mess'.

Corel releases Winzip 15

Winzip is probably one of the most useful programs that can have a computer, and is perhaps the least is renewed over time. This time, WinZip Computing has released a new version with encryption and compression software file compression completely renovated. Corel Thus, the company responsible for design, commitment to providing more tools to their users also increased the popularity of this useful tool.

USB board for disposable files

The gadget that we present in today is a classic product that can be expected in this century: "green, works with environmental care, and" safe "and which is destroyed in case you do not want anyone to see the information. USB memory is disposable, made no less than cardboard behind the targets cited earlier.

Do you use them you encourage? The manufacturer of this report was nothing less than Lebed Studio, from Russia. This is a disposable briefcases. Those who file once and that does not ever utilizaréis or requiring transport but is then discarded so that no one needed to read. Of course, the best option.

Google Expands Social Research United States

Google announced Thursday, February 17 enhanced functionality of "social research" in the U.S., that means using data from social networks in its results pages. Launched in 2009, social research includes the results in the messages on the networks Buzz (Google) or Twitter. So far, these results were confined to a box results footer.

They will now be mixed with other research results and will also include shared links - and not just posts. To include these results "social" in searches, Google will now take into account the fact that a relative has posted a link when calculating rankings. "This is a signal among all those involved in the ranking," explains Mike Cassidy, senior product manager for Social Research at Google.

The new Squeezebox system

The radio stations all over the world, play a leading role this time is everywhere. Almost as if imitating cable television, the radio returns to stomp different systems that you can listen from the comfort of our home, our favorite station, the country it is. This is what gives us Squeezebox, a new system to be renewed.

A lot of players built into your system the streaming radio feature to capture different signals, from Kodak to Sonos, to Philips and many more. One is the line Squeezebox Radio, Logitech Company. This new system not only plays music that captures signals from other countries, but also offers you the ability to play music from your computer.

Social networks are empowered to Google

Mike Cassidy, product manager of Google search, explains what the changes from today and work for U.S. users but no release date in Europe. "That does not take effect will have to browse and search without having connected your profile," he says. The effects referred to are the result of Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Buzz, Hotpot, YouTube and any social and open a user include in your profile.

When a user searches on Google natural results have so far displayed and also those of their social connections with an underscore to indicate they are "social outcomes". In the same vein Cassidy explained that this change is substantial in Google's strategy: "As we have a PageRank to measure the relevancy of web pages, now we have a SocialRank to weigh the value of each user in the Social Services .

Optimus LG 2X, video evidence and first impressions

Another major terminals had the MWC 2011 was the Optimus LG 2X. Became official in December and has now been over the show in Barcelona where we could see it in operation first. It should be noted that time was the first mobile dual-core, hardware that has been followed by others as the excellent Galaxy S II.

The Optimus LG 2X should provide overwhelming power, and somewhat true. However, there are a number of aspects in which we put the label needs to improve, but by no means be considered a bad phone. First of all, Android 2.2 in a time when the vast majority of new devices are coming with the latest 2.3.

Obama, Apple and Facebook

The president will go this afternoon to Air Force One and will head west to take his message that we need a huge investment in education, as a trained work force will be much better able to attract jobs and allow the U.S. to compete with the rest of the world. One of the highlights of the visit of Barack Obama will hold the meeting in San Francisco with the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Google social network around a single engine for all networks

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Great maneuvers "social" in-house Google, with at least two goals, including one unofficial. The first, technical and absolute value: neatly categorize the content that users share on the web. The second, unspoken but obvious, to carve out a real role in the seething sea of social networks, in which Big G has so far kept a low profile (Orkut's success in South America separately).

The European Commission urges governments to deploy Satellite / Cable Wireless Services

The European Commission has urged EU governments to undertake "all necessary measures" to allow the deployment of pan-European mobile satellite services for broadband Internet, mobile television and radio communications or emergency should be available "in all countries of the European Union in May 2011." The European Commission Vice President and Head of Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has warned that it is "urgent" that Member States still have not foster the necessary legislative measures for the two operators selected for this service, Inmarsat Ventures Solaris Mobile Limited and Limited, to operate.

Ultra Xtreamer format is passed to the HTPC

The Xtreamer, surely one of the most popular media center for all, has a successor-partner with the surname of Ultra promises to spend best moments of home theater who requests it. To become an Ultra Xtreamer wait at least until you teach at the upcoming CeBIT, but its features are already in the public domain.

For starters you should know that this is a HTPC and not a hard drive or tape drive as previous models. That change in philosophy means that in reality is a computer Xtreamer Ultra low cost of living, but in truth (low cost). Intel Atom chip integrates a dual-core D525 1.8 GHz, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, Nvidia Ion 2 and a whole array of connections: eSATA, 2.5-inch hard drive, six USB 2.0 ports, DVI-I, SPDIF, HDMI ...

The young Syrian blogger would have worked for the CIA

According to the spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, the young blogger Tal Al-Mallouh, sentenced Monday to five years imprisonment by the High Court of State Security in Damascus, worked for the CIA, the service U.S. intelligence. "We are aware of the protests (by Western countries) and we wanted to provide an explanation of the conviction" of Mallouh, born in 1991 in Homs (central Syria), Bouchra Kanafani told reporters on Thursday February 17.

Google makes its form more social

Google attempts to enter social networks have been mixed from the Orkut social network to integrating various services Message Buzz. The last step, at the moment only available in the U.S. is to include in the search results relying on the relevance of contacts of the user making the search. That is, besides using the usual search algorithm Social Search created in 2009, this improvement will decide what services they want to integrate the results.

Status of host Dailymotion confirmed by the Court of Cassation

The Supreme Court has finally cleared Thursday Dailymotion, prosecuted for broadcasting without a license the film Merry Christmas, a decision in which the French Supreme Court for the first time enshrines the status of the host platform video. The video-sharing site had been accused of forgery, after the publication on the platform of Christian Carion.

However, the law on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN) provides a special status as host for sites that do not themselves produce the content they host, and develop further the obligation to delete their site content reported to them as contrary to law. This status had been recognized as a first Dailymotion trial in 2007 and in 2009, the Court of Appeal also held that the platform had indeed paid its obligations.

Quad-Core Chips: The summer is the Turbo iPad

Display with the resolution of laser printers, mini-processors with the performance of high-end PC chip maker promises wonderful things for future smartphones and Tablet PC. Already in August, the first copies go on sale - and a new iPad would be there. Hamburg - A few days ago rumors making the rounds, Apple will this year not one, but two come up with new iPads.

Logically appeared not at first. Apple has a habit, new versions of its products usually present on a yearly basis, in between there are at most times, a processor upgrade for notebooks. But after the Mobile World Congress the rumors suddenly appear in a different light. Maybe Apple has no choice but to deliver iPads than this year in fact, two generations in order to keep pace with advances in technology.

U.S. homeland security firm 84 000 websites "by mistake"

The operation "Protecting Our Children" from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Department of Homeland Security, DHS), launched this week to fight against child pornography websites, went wrong: the authorities have blocked "by mistake" 84 000 websites which contained no illegal content. DHS is expected to act as though against ten sites for which they had a warrant of arrest.

ICANN, the organization that manages domain names, being under U.S. jurisdiction, the police can apply directly for U.S. seizure of the domain name and in other countries, the police must take action against the hosting of sites. But an error during the procedure has led authorities to enter the field FreeDNS, a service server domain names, a service that allows for correspondence between the address of a Web site and its Internet Protocol address.

The best and worst

The mobile world's fair, officially Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona ends today with an unprecedented success as a professional public assistance and the presence of CEOs and / or CEOs. As for the public, more than 60,000 people, compared with 49,000 last year. As to the brass, over 50, from Google to Twitter or Rovio.

Only missed, as always Apple, but that seems to be ending. In terms of products, the tablets in general, and Samsung and LG in particular has been the most outstanding products. Regarding the discussions, applications, and how to raise revenue have focused everyone's concern, but mainly from the operators.

The vote on the bill on Net Neutrality postponed to March 1

The vote on the draft law on the protection of socialist Net neutrality, discussed in plenary on Thursday morning, was postponed to March 1, following the protest procedure of the vote requested by the government. The bill on Net Neutrality, the principle that the content flow without any discrimination based on their type, origin or destination, will therefore be only one vote.

The bill, filed by the member Christian Paul, laid down the principle of a broad definition of this principle in the law, as with prior "prohibition of discrimination related to content, issuers or recipients of digital data exchange ". The text also provided to give the courts power to decide who they were removed by law Loppsi 2 for filtering or limiting access to sites and services.

Smartphone services: ZDFplant App offensive

The app ARD Tagesschau has just broken the million-user mark, the ZDF is now on the offensive. According to SPIEGEL information is soon to launch a media center app. Free of charge - and despite the criticism of the publisher. Despite all the criticism of publishers use ARD and ZDF still very much on the distribution of their content on mobile phones and tablet computers.

The ARD has just their free "Daily Show" version for the iPhone and start iPad - more than a million copies downloaded it so far - and will now follow suit and ZDF. Late, but solid. This spring is an app-version go online library of ZDF, to follow in the summer of "today" and ZDF. com as the App.

Facebook and Twitter, tools of protest in Libya?

Opponents of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, in power for nearly 42 years, want to organize, Thursday, February 17, a "day of anger" in Libya. They run from Wednesday to protest calls, relayed on social networks, on the model of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. The Facebook group "Day of Wrath" are nearly 10,000 enrolled, while Facebook has around 300 000 Internet Libyans, according to the website dedicated Socialbakers.

China censors Hillary Clinton's message on Internet freedom

China censors the appointments in the country's micro-sites of Hillary Clinton's speech on freedom of the internet. Among the messages are censored material itself U.S. embassy in Beijing. The U.S. ambassador to China has expressed disgust and perplexity because several Chinese companies have chosen to delete comments that relate precisely on freedom of expression.

Chinese authorities consider that such manifestations of senior representatives of the U.S. administration is meddling in the affairs of other states. Chinese blogs commenting on the words of Hillary Clinton said during a conference on 16 February on the "dictator's dilemma" to the Internet.

Samsung confirms a 11.6-inch version of the portable 9 Series

A smaller version of the lightweight portable Samsung 9 Series is something that had arisen since its introduction, remember that the original model has 13.3 inches, and taking into account that competition has focused on reducing size seems to us that the new model has The new version quite logical bet by 11.6 inches, the same size as the MacBook Air smaller, and smaller than the Lenovo IdeaPad U260, two of its main rivals.

"Microsoft understands the humanistic values of France"

Nicolas Sarkozy presented on Wednesday, the Legion of Honor to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. "I admire this company, which includes the humanistic values of France and Europe," said Nicolas Sarkozy, about Microsoft, which employs about 1,700 people in France. "We're proud that you are in France," he added.

Mr. Ballmer has said, in French, "moved and proud" to be decorated, and said that France was "a land of innovation." "She is attractive. It has great potential to be a leader in international economic competition," he added. Above all, Mr. Ballmer said that "the decision (by Mr Sarkozy) to the agenda of the G8 civilized Internet is important." Nicolas Sarkozy, chairing in 2011 the G8 and G20, wants to launch international discussions on the advent of a "civilized Internet", a concept relatively vague contours, which includes both the fight against downloading illegal and blocking illegal sites.

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The fair exceeded the figure of 60,000 visitors rcord Barcelona

Far from the 49,000 last year, this year's Mobile World Congress will be remembered for having surpassed the magical figure of 60,000 visitors. For four days have passed by the largest fair in the world of mobile operators and key companies of the Internet ecosystem including China Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica, Google, Nokia and Twitter.

Next year there may be a new guest: the organization is in talks with Apple, as confirmed this morning by a spokesman for the GSMA Michael O'Hara. "The economy is improving. In addition we have over 10,000 application developers and some of the most important figures adjacent to the mobile industry," said O'Hara.

Android phones facing the best

Now that we have all the major players in the scrum of new Android phones to the 2011, it is time to confront them and so help you decide which phone will be your favorite for this year into new droids. The models we have chosen are those who believe that compete face to face in design and recipients.

The other new phones like the Xperia or the LG Optimus Play 3D face later in their peculiarities, so for now we will have a face-off between the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Galaxy S II, LG 2X and Optimus Incredible HTC S, which enters the comparative mainly by the size of your screen and aspirations of competing in the field of superphone.

The Department of Finance Canada suffered a massive piracy

The Canadian Department of Finance and the Treasury Board, the body responsible for the management of state services, have been the target of a large-scale piracy in early January, says the Canadian Press. The source of the attack seemed to emanate from China, but it is impossible to say whether the attackers were or Chinese or used servers located in China to hide their tracks.

According to several sources within the department, or the hackers managed to take control of multiple workstations in the Ministry of Finance, which gave them access to different passwords and data, but do not know yet which ones. The government has acknowledged that hacking took place but refused to recognize its magnitude.

Steve Jobs won the battle against architecture

Smaller and more modern. These are the maxims of Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder of its philosophy can be applied beyond the Mac products at home. Jobs got his way this week to begin demolition of his mansion, built in 1925, to erect at the same site it will be a smaller house and modern. The battle he was victorious on Monday he was at war during the past decade against the National Society for Historic Preservation, a U.S.

Dell has a plan for their phones and tablets

Although there has been movement in Barcelona from Dell, not so the company would cease to be news, but this time was not voluntarily but by the influence of his road map, ie that on the table and in theory, have prepared for the coming months. And in that Dell roadmap interesting news we fulfilled this year, as the arrival of new phones with both Android and Windows Phone 7.

In both cases it seems that Dell claims to be the last, for example, or Millennium Hanncock terminals come with a future version of Android Ice Cream. In the field of future phones Dell highlight: But the cases have been leaked Dell tablets for this year and attention to the arrival of Windows 8 for the first quarter of 2012, along with the strength of Dell Streak 7 with Android Honeycomb version and some other tablet with Windows 7, rewarding 10.1-inch.

Barack Obama will meet with technology giants

U.S. President Barack Obama will meet, at a meeting in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 17, California, several executives from major tech companies. As part of this summit, Obama should talk to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, Eric Schmidt and Google. According to ABC, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, is also on the list of participants.

The meeting is organized as private, but the agenda should be innovation and job creation. This meeting comes a month after announcing the departure of Steve Jobs sick leave. "At my request, the board gave me a medical leave so I can focus on my health. I remain CEO and involved in strategic decisions are most important to the company, "Mr.

Canada reporting a cyber attack from China

The Canadian authorities have alleged they were victims of a cyber attack from machines installed in China. According to some reports, the attackers took control of the password system of the Ministry of Finance in January. The authorities have acknowledged the existence of "an unauthorized attempt to access our network." Input, the computer system responsible parties restricted access to the network of ministry officials.

The Motorola Xoom lowers its price in half: $ 600

After the disappointment that gave us the news that Motorola Xoom tablet could cost over $ 1,000, now comes the wisdom of an official. Its price is about half what had been rumored. Thus, the Motorola free Xoom cost $ 600, which can be reduced if we claim some sort of subsidy by the operator. That would be the WiFi version only.

If we spend the 3G on Motorola's Android tablet must be scratching more than the pocket, and we would go to $ 800, a price higher than what is offered by Apple iPad but the justification for the American company that has its tablet preparation face to accommodate future 4G networks, update say will be free to the user.

Watson's victory in the "Jeopardy" Duel: The winner is silent and humming

Kneel down their people, the computers take over the power! This at least suggests to Watson's triumph in the "Jeopardy" duel. The IBM supercomputer duped his two human opponents clear - and could even afford some weaknesses. The faces were grave, thumbs ready for the decisive push on the button: So the two human candidate appeared on Wednesday in New York for the final "Jeopardy" Match against their computer opponents Watson.

USA 84,000 sites blocked by mistake

The U.S. government has closed 84,000 domains error were charged with distributing child pornography. The problem was to block a domain from an ISP, Free DNS, which depended on these thousands of subdomains. The owners themselves were surprised to see the modified page and on which was an official notice which stated that advertising, transportation, distribution, collection and possession of child pornography is a federal crime that carries penalties of up to thirty years in prison and fines of $ 250,000.

"The trend is to combine personal with professional tool." Larry Bensadon RIM Spain. MWC 2011

In addition to all other content on launch, technical characteristics and first impressions of MWC 2011, we want to offer a vision of the protagonists. So we are interviewing the heads of the largest companies in the sector to give us his vision of Congress, we hope to see this year's mobility and his company's bid.

The first is Larry Bensadon, director of strategic sales of RIM in Spain. We leave you with his words: Larry Bensadon / RIM Spain: The first is that our Playbook will be seven inches and this gives it great portability, you'll be able to carry in your pocket and we believe that size is important in tablets in this regard.

Daily Mail: "Jobs is evil has only 6 weeks old"

NEW YORK - Steve Jobs, who left in January to return to the Apple care, would be much worse than expected. According to the U.S. National Inquirer, which published photos of a skeletal Jobs, the founder of Apple soffrirebe a recurrence of pancreatic cancer, first diagnosed in 2004, and that now would leave only 6 weeks old.

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The mobile in 2020: flexible displays and smart services

Phones as thin as paper. Flexible displays that stretch and bend to turn a smartphone into a tablet. Microsensors that report to your environment: the humor of the owner, weather, location ... so will the phones in 2020. At the Mobile World Congress has spoken of the future. A group of technologists have analyzed the ways in which could run the mobile industry over the next decade.

And something does have coincided: the cellular devices will be simple to be friends for company. "They will know our location, our mood and our productivity needs. There will be equipment, will be friends of pocket," said John Donovan, CTO of the American operator AT & T, adding: "The Network is like oxygen, go with us everywhere.

Samsung Galaxy S II, we videotaped

So S II Samsung Galaxy spectacular. Undoubtedly be regarded as one of the most powerful Android and interesting of the whole market. Samsung knew and had exposed a lot of them in their stand in Hall 8 of MWC 2011. What say Txaumes not already said in our first touchdown. Galaxy S II is due to its dual-core and screen SuperAMOLED Plus, a real beast.

Very fast, probably the most complete in every way and with an excellent design: 125 × 66 × 8.5 mm. Yes, less than 1 cm thick. For many images and videos that have none of this will seem to have the Galaxy S 2 hands. It's one of those terminals that have to try and play with it, feel it in our hands and enjoy.

Paid Content: Apple's subscription dictation confused the media industry

30 percent of subscription revenue to Apple - but by whom? The new rules for Apple's App Store confuse the media industry must now also streaming services like Hulu Spotify and sell their subscription offerings from Apple? The iPhone group is silent, analysts are perplexed. "Our philosophy is simple," Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised in a press release on subscription fees for applications in the App Store.

AMD and Intel have new Opteron and Xeon

Both AMD and Intel have officially presented the new server processors, AMD has presented five series Opteron 6100, including two 8-core CPU and three 12-core, while Intel has presented nine of the Xeon 5600 series architecture Westmere EP LGA for 1366, including three 6-core CPU, 5 to 4 CPU cores and a dual-core CPU.

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