Selasa, 15 Maret 2011

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Google buys green Parrot picture quality of impulse loads of YouTube | paidContent
"Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has purchased green Parrot pictures, a small Irish company that has incorporated technology of video quality used in major motion pictures, such as the Lord of the rings and Spider-Man." "In a blog post, Google said that he hoped Green Parrot technology used to improve the quality of amateur clips posted on YouTube."
Before you say "why take more interesting pictures?", the idea is to color correction and shake reduction on the fly.
Best of all: an Irish company is acquired. Great news.

Microsoft accounted for one-third of sales of software of U.S. retail sales in 2010 > Betanews
"NPD released new US data today suggesting early sale retail software is not going to go away soon." Measured in US dollars, Microsoft represented one-third of sales of software of U.S. retail sales last year. Office 2010 had led sales of the company. As previously reported, student and Home Edition represents around 85% of the sales of the Office. Office pushed the category of series of productivity in a high for the sale of four years.In more general terms, sales of software for sale by lower U.S., excluding PC games, increased 1% year on year to $ 2.42 billion in 2010. While 1% may seem tepid growth, compared to reductions year over 8% and 10% in 2008 and 2009, respectively."Microsoft and other four developers - Adobe, Apple, Intuit and Symantec - accounted for 78% of sales of software for sale retail, up to 3% in 2009."

AOL asks us if we can tone > Techcrunch
TechCrunch not going the way of AOL. It will be reprogrammed. (And if he is not careful, have his removed "snark", that sounds painful.) (Do all I can say is: if AOL has never read the British press?)

Make Twitter more secure: HTTPS > Twitter blog
"Today, we are taking an important step to make it easy to manage the security of your Twitter experience, let's add an option to user which allows you to always use HTTPS to access Twitter.com." "Using HTTPS for your favorite Internet services is particularly important when using unsecured wireless connections."
Would have this happened without Firesheep?

A year in Google > Tim Bray
The engine of Sun Microsystems and XML and Atom and an expert in his new concert former search: "Android has improved the quality of my own life too and not only for having me allowed to circumvent the yowls pre-breakfast." I travel a lot and working with people from around the world, and the Internet and a lot of useful applications stuffed in my pocket has greatly reduced the friction. "It is only Android;" In the year 2011, an employee of Google is a good thing. I've never been in any place with a vital importance to problems that are really important. Some MBA-school graduates probably would sneer at the belief, widely held here, that if you solve important problems in ways that benefit large numbers of people, this will lead to good business results, so no sweat the winnings in advance. "That, if I'm for anything on the Internet;" and almost any investment that increases the usefulness of the network and time people spend there, it is likely to have positive investment for Google.

Apple's role in Japan during the earthquake of Tohoku > Kevin Rose blogg
Does the founder of Digg received an email from a friend in Japan: "you know how in disaster movies, people on the street meets around electronic stores that have television sets in the Windows of the screen, so it can keep informed with what's happening"? In this digital age, is what happened with Apple Tokyo stores. Staff pulled out protectors of increase and extension of cables with dozens of iOS of adapters of devices so that people could charge their phones & pads and get in touch with their loved ones. "Even once we finally had to close 10 pm, throngs of people nestled in front of our stores to use wifi on the night, it was still the only way to gain access to the outside world."
Civilization is a sheet only three solid meals thick. These days, could add: and a phone load deep.

Therefore, the Department of work & pensions canceled the contract from Fujitsu's 300 million pounds sterling > weekly team
Why? Because Fujitsu never gave DWP confidence in their ability to handle the transition. "Decision of the DWP to cancel a contract £ 300 m - plus with Fujitsu to provide assistance to the desktop was a shock, but according to a source close to the operation has been the completion of the card for six months."The agreement was signed in February last year and has been canned before any work of Fujitsu has been made. HP holder will continue to provide services. "The contract had seen Fujitsu provide support and services to 140,000 desktops in the United Kingdom as part of a settlement of £ 300 m-plus." "He planned to use thin client technology to reduce it costs desktop of the DWP."

Google launches WebM video plug-in for will speed up > CNET News
"In an effort to take technology of video in your Web to a browser that does not support it, Google has released a will speed up plug-in to play WebM video".The movement did not end the fray of the industry on how best to incorporate video on the Web, but it will mean that allies behind preferred mechanism of Google will be able to reach beyond the three browsers that support WebM hoyGoogle ChromeOpera Software Opera and Mozilla Firefox. "

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