Friday, December 31, 2010

U.S. hit list: Facebook overhauled Google

 Google. com was in the past two years, the website that the Americans visited most often. However, if all Google owned sites such as YouTube or e-mail service to be counted, the Primus is a search engine just under ten per cent stake at number one. Behind is the Internet service provider Yahoo. The ranking officer from 2007, the social network MySpace, has now fallen to seventh place.

Within six years, Facebook is about one half billion users to the largest social network has become the web. Facebook started in 2004 as a social network for Harvard students - there was not clear that there is only a few years later would be part of the perceived the Internet infrastructure.

The virtual address of the home. Here comes the box label, paperless and postmen

Abolish the postal mail to save the forests. If our home address was replaced by a virtual counterpart, the sender would save paper, stamps and money without the risk that the message arrives late or, worse, does not reach its destination. And even in the event of natural disaster, when the streets and houses are hard to reach, the post should not be lost.

Marco Pellegrini, 45 years professional and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has created EcoPost. org, the platform that enables members to help postmen and envelopes. Today the system is still in beta, is collecting the user feedback to improve service and access records on the rise (for this, waiting for the server that can hold up traffic, surfers had only 10 attempts to register).

Design Tips: How to manage photo book composition

Diagonal, sequences and the golden section: who knows basic compositional rules, can give a picture book to the rhythm. The trade magazine "Docma" describes twelve tricks composition. Quite intuitively you will see a photo to be particularly successful? Then you look at it closely. You may have unconsciously the classical rules of composition applied, which must now be recorded.

Because you can take advantage of the composition to create a photo book that follows in the true sense of the rules of art. Every picture follows - consciously or unconsciously recorded - the principles of composition, which were acquired in the course of centuries in architecture and fine arts.

Hackers claimed the policy

Discover that the new German ID card has weaknesses that ill-intentioned, can use to impersonate (electronically) by the victim. Demonstrate electronic terminals ready to vote in elections in Germany can be manipulated and are also non-transparent devices and therefore undemocratic, which led the German Constitutional Court declared in 2009 its use unconstitutional.

Advocate the free flow of information, net neutrality at all costs and protect the private sphere. Here are some points of the activity of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the association of computer hackers and activists of Europe's largest. This does not seem to fit the usual idea that a hacker is a person of dubious morality that is dedicated to breaking into the computers of others and make havoc.

VAT: telcos refusing cancellations will be punished

"This creates a transition period of four months may allow any customer to be free, because in fact this applies to all operators," said one industry analyst. / Secretary of State for consumption, Frederic Lefebvre, warned on Friday 31 December, the operators that they would be "punished" if they did not "consider requests for termination" for customers with Internet packages and mobile will increase due to the VAT hike.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Butts sells for $ 500 million of securities

The U.S. site Butts takes up the principles of joint purchasing Groupon. U.S. website Butts deals announced Thursday, December 30, he sold for 500 million shares (377 million) since December 17 as part of an operation to remove 950 million dollars (716 million). In a paper published by stock exchange authorities (SEC), Butts said he still offers for sale for $ 450 million (339 million) of securities.

Skype launches an iPhone application for video calls

Society Internet telephony (VoIP) Skype announced Thursday, December 30, launching an application video call for the latest versions of Apple's mobile devices. The application, downloadable from the Apple online store, works on both 3G and WiFi networks. But only the latest versions of the iPhone (4 and 3G) and iPod Touch portable media player, have so far of a front camera to film himself while phoning.