Yahoo! starts the real-time search

Yahoo on Thursday introduced a new version of its search engine, including new services to thwart the latest developments from Google. "People are not looking for links, they are looking for answers," said Shashi Seth, one of the leaders of Yahoo, during a press conference Wednesday in San Francisco.

Search Called Direct, the new service displays suggested results in a window that is updated as and when the user types his query. Google had introduced its service last year Instant Search, which modifies the results as and when the user types his search. But this development is primarily an alignment Bing, the engine that Microsoft uses Yahoo! technology.

Mountain GTM 2000, analysis (IV): AMD benchmarks, part

And we continue with the analysis of Mountain GTM 2000. Quarter in which we discuss the performance of the AMD 6800 family, comprised of 6850 and 6870. We begin by early 6000 Series AMD market, two quite affordable models 160 and 190 euros with good performance, though behind the NVidia GTX 570 that includes the Mountain base GTM 2000.

It was logical, since AMD models are significantly cheaper. The two cheaper graphics cards of its current generation AMD have performed very well in the Mountain GTM 2000, at the height of the Ti NVidia GTX 560 and below the GTX 570, as expected. Obviously these two 6800 Series are below the basic configuration of GTM 2000 and NVidia GTX 570.

The European Commission is the victim of a cyber-attack

The European Commission has been the victim of a cyber-attack "serious" on Wednesday, the eve of a summit in Brussels Heads of State and Government of the EU, announced two of its spokespersons. "All staff have been advised this morning" that "access to e-mails from the outside were more operational" and that "several pages were inaccessible" on websites of the Commission ..

A spokesman said the attack had also hit the services of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, who still depend for the time of the computer system of the Commission. Another spokesman for the Commission confirmed a "serious attack", via a computer virus, on which the security services in the EU were working.

ARM is working with Microsoft in the next generation of Windows products

ARM has been working closely with Microsoft in the development of processor architectures, unfortunately do not give us more information about the work they have done together, but we understand that have been setting key objectives for Windows is welcome. The information comes from the mouth of Philip Lu, president of ARM Taiwan in the division.

The leader left us a few strokes at a conference held in Taipei on Tuesday 22 March, we shared with you: He made it clear that the information was confidential and involved original developers of hardware (MDGs) and third party manufacturers (OEMs) interested in Windows software that works on hardware fashion, based on architectures designed for them.

Batteries that recharge in a blink of an eye

"Ay," the batteries. Surely one of the nightmares that all technology lovers have every night. And as a dream, that recharge is not a task rather than seconds or at most a couple of minutes. Well, that's the mark of time, researchers at the University of Illinois have achieved in his later works on batteries, not only lithium but also nickel, which until now had not been able to reduce the recharge time of them at levels more than interesting.

The NEX-FS100 camcorders are aimed at the interchangeable lens

amateur first attempt, now confirmed as a full-blown success for the company. This type of frames are now a reality rather than a challenge to the losers, such as Canon says. The fact is that if Panasonic is the promised happy with their first camcorder with interchangeable lenses, the AF100, Sony has had to sour the day with his answer, which at first will cost a little less.

Both price (hovering around $ 5,000), as in the appearance and features, the Sony FS100 does not come down on the field semiprofesinales camcorders. Its sensor is equivalent in size to a Super 35 mm and is of type Exmor, which also won good performance in low light conditions, it is capable of recording with a minimum luminosity of 0.28 lux.

Firefox 4 exceeds five million downloads on the first day

In less than 24 hours has exceeded five million downloads and already has over nine million installations of the new browser version, Firefox 4. When they released the third edition of the number of program impact, the first day he entered the Guinness Book by getting 8,002,530 people to put the program on your computer.

Last Tuesday, Microsoft released Explorer 9 reached 2.35 million downloads in its first day. According to the Mozilla Foundation is forecast to more than newborn to his brother, not so much by the initial impact, but if you take into account that not only is compatible with Linux, Mac and Windows, but also has a version for phones Android, the mobile platform for further growth.