IT: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Two chetbotovi talk among themselves, one is a robot, the other unicorn

Chetbot is software that tries to simulate an intelligent conversation, how to talk to a man, in fact its success would be a software trick that you speak with a man. You could say that this is the first attempt of artificial intelligence, which for now are mostly used for automated assistance in companies.

But if the increasing development of artificial intelligence are predicted to see all these softwares that will serve as an aid, then we can assume that at some point s machines will talk among themselves, right?

Creative Machines Lab chetbotovi two together to talk among themselves. It can be seen, despite the funny dialogue and the aggressiveness of the two bots is that AI still has a lot to be developed in order to close them at least being quiet intelligent.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Nokia unveils two handsets from 25 euros for the "next billion users"

When Nokia announced its strategy to conquer the world market, despite the cooperation with Microsoft to market smart phones such as the second part of the strategy said the mobile market in developed countries. As the Finnish company said then, that market has the "next billion users".

Nokia introduced two models 100 and 101 which will cost about 20 or 25 euros. 100 and 101 (this reminds me of Zastava 101 cars that are producing in the former Yugoslavia and were intended for the masses).

In an attempt to attract younger customers with more
entertainment with friends and komunikaciaj, Sony Ericsson announced the smart Live with Walkman phone that will run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a "unique" Facebook integration and sharing options of multimedia.

Crazy animation career of Steve Jobs

With the withdrawal of Steve Jobs, CEO of the position in Apple ended an era (pretty successful era), and while most Apple addicts complain Taiwanese team of animators made the animated story of a brilliant career of Steve Jobs. Next Media Animation is animation Taiwanese company which has previously made animations for interesting stories from the world of information technology, including Ceglia Vs. Facebook and Antennagate.

QR codes are already integral part of the promotional activities of major companies worldwide. Question time was when the studios will begin to implement QR codes in advertising their new movie hits. Fox Searchlight is the first film studio that for the promotion of his film Martha Marcy May Marlene QR make a big campaign.

Research in Motion introduced three new smart phones that will be intended for younger users who want to write SMS messages and chat through mobile services and social networks. According to RIM, the devices will be "affordable, easy to use, with many options and socially connected."

Google allow sharing with key +1

Google the other day extend the functionality of adding the +1 button next to it all the friends who clicked on it, thus allowing you to see what your friends want. Today, +1 is enriched with even greater functionality, allowing you to click him to share your Google + account web content you like.

Social network Facebook in June and July amounted to 1,000,000,000,000 or one trillion (ang. trillion) hits the sides, according to data made by DoubleClick, a Google project which interest thing online advertising. DoubleClick does not visit the sites compared to Google. According to these data is poposeten Facebook from YouTube, Yahoo, Live.com and Wikipedia.

According to DoubleClick, Facebook had 870 million in June, unique visits and 860 million in July, figures which exceed the number of 120 million registered users. This is due to the fact that a large number of Facebook pages appear in search and are available to unregistered users. If you consider the figures given, it can be concluded that each user has approximately 1,149 hits per month. These numbers are not as big as they seem, if taken into account that a photo of the opening is considered an overview, plus do not forget playing games and visiting the profiles of your friends.

Windows 8 will enable better management of files

Microsoft recently launched a blog called
"Developing the Windows 8" in which the software giant will try gradually to introduce changes and innovations in the new operating system. The blog can now find a new text aims to show changes made to the system for managing files.

Copying, transmitting, reimenuvanje and deletion are the most common actions performed when using Windows Explorer. The team behind Windows 8 planning the use of these key commands to make the experience better. The mode of operation of these commands is something that has not changed much from when there is Windows. Although these commands are normally operate in its current form, their work can still be improved.
The new operating system, Windows 8, when you run multiple copying at the same time, will appear a dialogue, rather than now when they appear separate dialogues. Users will also be able to stop individual transfers, if they want some specific things to finish faster. Currently, users can only see how much time remains until the end of the transfer, while in Windows 8 will be able to see more details in the transfer of files. The names of the source and destination files will be able to click the quick and simple way you can get to those folders. The better to see the novelties to be found in Windows 8 refer to the attached video.

Even though the EA Games financial situation is excellent, marketing, designers and progamerite already thinking about future projects. In addition to already announced three hit game Battlefield, SW The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3 as the new title from the designers of Portal, which is expected to be presented at PAX, the EA is ready to return to the older games. During the interview Gamescom CVG, Frank Gibo stressed commitment to the revival of several older hits.

If often happens to not be able to immediately
respond to calls or messages, Auto SMS application could help you reshite that problem. It is an Android application that allows you to automatically send messages when you want. This application is useful in those moments when you want to explain to those who seek you why you are not available for communication.

Auto SMS allows you to create profiles as you want, which in turn gives you the option to choose whether you want the autoresponder to send SMS messages and missed calls, select what you said in the message, and set the duration of the selected profile. AutoSMS also allows you to select who will receive automatic messages, and odbrete messages to be sent to those trying to contact, just a group of contacts, or just a list of contacts. But if you want to delete specific contacts from receiving messages.

Facebook becomes the social "video library"

Facebook is slowly but surely becoming an excellent platform on which the major studios and television stations can stream movies, television shows, football matches, and any other video program. The reason for this is simplicity and convenience that Facebook offers, allowing consumers easy access to any content that can be found on this social network. Thanks to the social aspect of Facebook, users can share a movie you watch with your friends, and to share favorite scenes from the given film.

In the last six months several film studios signed a deal with Facebook, in which they will be granted their movies to be shown on this social network. For movie studios, and Facebook, profits interest, films that show actually rent and can only be viewed by Facebook loans. Warner Bros film studio was the first who broke the ice and found that Facebook is a great platform for showing films, and thus an excellent additional source of income. The success of this move means that Facebook can enter in the market for streaming video, and become serious competition to other video streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, Vudu, and many others.

If often happens to not be able to immediately
respond to calls or messages, Auto SMS application could help you reshite that problem. It is an Android application that allows you to automatically send messages when you want. This application is useful in those moments when you want to explain to those who seek you why you are not available for communication.
Auto SMS allows you to create profiles as you want, which in turn gives you the option to choose whether you want the autoresponder to send SMS messages and missed calls, select what you said in the message, and set the duration of the selected profile. AutoSMS also allows you to select who will receive automatic messages, and odbrete messages to be sent to those trying to contact, just a group of contacts, or just a list of contacts. But if you want to delete specific contacts from receiving messages.

If you Google + Account surely know that this social network allows group video chat with your friends via option Hangouts. This option is now available on Facebook. This is a special application called Groupchat.tv, and while Google + can talk up to 10 friends at the same time, Groupchat.tv allows that figure to reach the 50th

Makers do not recommend the application of video chat to be connected to 50 friends. To use Groupchat.tv first have to approve the application, and link that will be given to share with your friends. The connection can be shared through Facebook Chat, by sharing a wall, via Facebook message, or via email. Before you can chat with your friends, and they also have to first approve the application. Just for information, when you start a group video chat, Groupchat.tv automatically shared a message on your Facebook wall.

Skype buys GroupMe to improve group communication

Startups for group communication, which was
launched just a year ago, GroupMe is now owned by Skype, a popular VoIP service that was recently purchased by itself and Microsoft for 8.5 billion dollars. Skype will soon be integrated into Microsoft xBox 360 platormite, Kinect, Office 365 and Windows Phone. It is here GroupMe, which proved a useful service for group chatting in a few occasions, will be used by users of various platform

"This acquisition is another step towards our vision to provide a global multi-platform communication experience," says the director of Skype, Tony Bates. "The leadership that we have in voice and video communication is now supplemented by text providing the best communications and innovative group messaging features that allow users to network, share photos and location, and make plans with their loved ones."

"The last acquisition, together with the acquisition of Qik this year we strengthens the role of innovator of a unique mobile experience."

GroupeMe, which now has 20 employees and offices in New York, is a service created in May 2010 of hakaton competition organized by TechCrunch, and offers updated Chatter for all mobile platforms with the ability to create groups and share location. Mon competing service collected 850,000 dollars from investors for further development, and in January 2011 brought 10.6 million from investors.

According to them, partnering with Skype will not change much in development, "the biggest difference is that you get access to 175 million Skype users monthly. 175 million people. This is a great thing. "

Skype buys GroupMe to improve group communication

Adobe launched a new product, Adobe Muse beta, which will help designers create web sites without having to encode. Adobe Muse, which is built on Adobe Air, currently still in beta and can be downloaded from the official Muse website.

Those designers who have worked in various Adobe products will not have trouble learning the Muse, because the product contains many tools which can be found in other Adobe products. Adobe Muse borrows its user interface and concept of Adove InDesign, and containing povlekuvachki spushtachki menija (drag-n-drop), galleries, and other widgets that do not require coding skills to be inserted. With

Hewlett-Packard plans to buy software company Autonomy Corp for 10.3 billion dollars, an offer which is 64% above the market value of the company, reports Bloomberg. The move will represent a major restructuring of the company that plans to distance itself from the market for hardware and focus on producing software.

The reason for distancing from the production of hadrver is that globally declining demand for personal computers, while consumers are increasingly interested in other iPad tablet PCs. HP just days before a surprise to everyone giving up his webOS operating system for Tablet PCs and lowered the price of the TouchPad. The main reason cited weak sales of tablet PCs, compared with konkurentnite Apple and Android devices.

Why should not robbed by a hacker

Mon unrest London where wholesale stole from stores and homes, it is difficult to believe that police find stolen laptop specifically what the London streets were hundreds of casual thieves. In those riots, of the home of Greg Martin stole his MacBook Pro laptop. But unfortunately this thief, Mr.. Martin is not a casual user, but a former employee of the FBI and NASA and is an IT specialist in computer security. In all his experience, this sounds like a stolen laptop from James Bond.
While on his blog InfoSecurity 2.0 objasnuva that the laptop was installed Prey, open source monitoring to continuously monitor the laptop and phone in case of a lost or stolen.

Many companies that produce various web applications, their products do about social networks, or invent new social networks. PowerInbox startups is also an application that deals with social networks, but the interesting angle.

PowerInbox is an application that allows users to use social networks within their e-mail account. PowerInbox can be used in Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, or Outlook, but for now only supports Facebook, Twitter and Groupon. While you're in your email account, you can use any of these social networks the same way as when you are on the official web site.

When you open a message from Facebook, the application will allow you to comment on posts, view photos and watch videos inside the message. When you open a message from Twitter, the application lets you see recent tweets to tvitate, and follow other tviterdzhii. The messages from PowerInbox Groupon tell how long the offer lasts, and whether it is approved.

Provides PowerInbox soon include many other social networks and applications such as Flickr, Netflic, YouTube, eBay, Dropbox, LinkedIn, etc.. Several investors have invested around 1.1 million dollars in PowerInbox, hence there is a high probability that this application you could be very successful.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Foursquare allow checking of events

According 4sq, one of the most common check-Location service comes from events, and that users do not want to share location where the event takes place, but want to share that event, concerts, film competition.

Now Foursqure will enable chekiraat of events. To make this Foursquare will work with ESPN to share information matches with MovieTickets that will provide schedule of films playing in some cinemas, Songkick, and will share information about concerts. These three partners would have brought events to 50,000 locations.

Unfortunately, as events come from partners, not consumers, the choice of checking events will be limited and, for now, will be in the United States.

But! Foursquare at the end of his blog post, in addition obviously inspired by the comments of users, said "think about the events created by users themselves, but we want to do it properly."

Blackberry will get a music service

Research in Motion, or known as RIM, planned users of Blackberry devices to offer a music service. Muzichiot service will be designed to work with BlackBerry Messenger, Blackberry service for instant messaging. According to announcements, it is anticipated music service to be started next week.

The Wall Street Journal, the music service will be subscription based and will cost less than ten dollars per month. The monthly fee will be charged as part of the user phone bill. Part of the proceeds will be shared with those labels that will participate in this service. RIM is in talks with four record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and EMI Group.

LinkedIn social network launched new improved version of their Android applications and iOS and new HTML5 version for mobile web browsers. LinkedIn's new application is faster, podrushtvena, and user interface is far more appealing. New applications are designed to give users easier and faster to obtain the necessary information for their friends and companies that follow.

The move is a response to the growing use of mobile devices via LinkedIn. According to LinkedIn, the number of mobile users has risen by 400 percent last year. Another reason for launching new applications is improved LinkedIn to distance itself from rivals Facebook and Twitter. New LinkedIn apps consist of four main options: Updates, Inbox, You and Groups.

All winners Gamescom 2011

Despite Gamescom is just beginning independent jury in charge of evaluating the games released this year's awards show. The results are winners and EA Games Battlefield third Internacionaloto jury chose the largest number of awards except the award for best of show award that the journalists and publishers by secret ballot, and this time decided to reward Battlefield third
Best game of Gamescom

     Battlefield 3 - EA

Best game console

     Mass Effect 3 - EA
     Batman: Arkham City - Warner Bros.
     3 Uncharted: Drake's Deception - Sony
     FIFA 12 - EA

IBM manufactures computers for more than 65 years, a silicon microchip today developed that mimic the operation of the brain and prisoposobuvaat in response to new information they receive. This development represents an important step in creating a cognitive computing, which allows computers to perform mental activities such as learning or recognition.

This project is a collaboration between IBM and DARPA, an agency that is part of the U.S. Army to develop new technologies for use in the military. According to IBM, these chips in the future could emuliraat operation of the brain, and hence will be able to recognize it, to feel, to communicate and learn. You can do all the mental things that makes the man, but better. Also these chips can contribute to more powerful and more efficient computers that will occupy much less space.

One of the biggest IT company Hewlett-Packard announced that it will continue development of their tablet PCs and smart phones that used the operating system WebOS. WebOS is a mobile operating system that runs on Linux kernel and originally developed by Palm, a company that was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard for 1.2 billion dollars.

Besides stopping the support of webOS, Hewlett-Packard also announced it would stop production of tablet PCs and smart phones. The news means the end of HP Veer, HP TouchPad, and Palm Pre announced third Weak sales of HP TouchPad, objaven on July 1, less than two months, is one of the reasons for this move. From the start, HP TouchPad on Tues Britain has sold only 100 devices, and in Europe only 700 devices. For comparison the first iPad sell 1 million times in the first 28 days, a date Apple has sold over 25 million tablet PCs.

Shalom from Wikimania 2011

Spread the Wikipedia "global south", a new and simpler way of editing, selection of vikipedijanec of the Year candidacy on Wikipedia for world cultural heritage and finally omitting Jimmy Wales on our screens in the collection of donations are just some of the novelties that were logged at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel. Moreover, Macedonia Wikimedia twice won praise for using social networks in promotion of the contents of the encyclopedia.

Wikimania is the largest conference of Wikipedians around the world each year is held at a different place in the world. This year is the seventh edition of Wikimania, and host of this event was extraordinary Wikimedia Israel, who huddled tech conference center in Israel, the city of Haifa. The conference, which lasted from 4 to 7 August, attended by about 650 editors on Wikipedia and supporters of free knowledge from 56 countries. It held 125 sessions, 5 thematic parallel "tracks" and because it is practically impossible for a text to cover them all, will keep only the most important moments.

After two days pretkonferenciski who were devoted to technical workshops and discussions of the roles in the movement Wikimedia, Wikimania grand opening was held on August 4 in the auditorium of Haifa, and often have the first presentation had Harvard Johanna Benkler. Benkler, which otherwise is the author of the book The Wealth of Networks, talked about Wikipedia as a model for a new view of social relations, arguing that Wikipedia and similar online projects caused the paradigm of "scientific selfishness" according to which the main motivator of human behavior is its economic egoism. Instead, the Internet has shown that cooperation and altruism among humans could be important alternative model of production values.

Unlike No. Where U.S. investors are racing to IT companies in Europe has less interest because it is a multi-cultural market in multiple languages where each country has its own laws and rules. But as we become a digital society, such as the EU pushes the digital agenda, and interesting to investors focus on potential IT companies.

Below are a few European startups that are global brands, which have the potential to become big and even bigger, and not just because the technology provided, but also because they have the support of investors and market potential.
Rovio, Finland

Google recently unveiled its music service called simply Google Music Beta. The emphasis is on the Beta, because Google has not launched the service they had imagined, and the reason for this misunderstanding with record labels. I'm sure Google will soon burnish.

Google Music is a service that lets you reproduce your music on the web, then you can listen from any computer. Google Music supports multiple formats, including including mp3, AAC, WMA and FLAC. Maximum you can attach 20,000 songs. Google Music for now is free, can be entered only by invitation and is only available to users amerikanskite. However, if you request an invitation using a U.S. proxy server and you will be able to have a Google Music account. Using proxies you need just to get an invitation. When you open Google Music Beta account you can invite up to four of your friends. If you have three call, write Gmail account in the comments below.

Is Facebook censoring Google + invitations?

If you send a link to Google + invitation on Facebook, it is likely that the link has ever appeared on Facebook. According to Google, Facebook has blocked Google + invitations, beneficiaries can not join a competitive social network.

Google employee uploaded a video yesterday which clearly show that the stream of his friends his status appear as links from Google + does not appear. Odgovorniot the social aspect of Google, Vic Gundotra, Google + his account and asked whether other users have encountered the same problem. According to him, the company received many complaints about this issue. Hence the speculation that Facebook deliberately sabotage Google +.

All fans can begin to rejoice because from now you can watch football on Facebook. The first match of the English FA Cup between teams Askot FC United and Wembley will be broadcast on the Facebook page of the Budweiser UK, a company that has recently become an official sponsor of the FA Cup, signing three-year contract worth $ 40 million.

The Budweiser, competition will only be available for the audience to which the law allowed to consume alcohol. Of course, to watch the game will first need to "lajknete" official Facebook Page Budweiser UK.

Competition begins Friday at 19 o'clock and 45 minutes.

Niskoligashite Askot United FC and Wembley have sold the rights to carry the match to be held at the stadium of the host Askot. President of the United Askot, Mike Harrison, said he was proud to be part of the game for the first time will be broadcast on Facebook. This is an opportunity for small clubs to be viewed by audiences numbering over 750 million viewers, compared to their stadium which collects only 1.150.

Google for 12.5 billion dollars buys Motorola Mobility, which eight months ago broke away from Motorola Inc., Sharing the company of two of the company's Mobility for mobile devices, Motorola Solutions, the telecommunications company.

With this acquisition, the largest to date of Google, the Internet giant will receive a portfolio with numerous patents for mobile technology that will protect Android. Motorola has about 17,000 patents granted and another 7,000 are awaiting approval.

"Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competitiveness by strengthening the patent portfolio of Google, which will allow you to protect Android On the anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies." Says director and founder of Google, Larry Page in blog post.

Google has recently expressed his dissatisfaction that competitors use "invented" patents to harm the Android and intimidate manufacturers who use the platform by charging fees. For example, Microsoft and Apple are suing Motorola, HTC and Samsung for patent infringement in the use of Android. Now with this acquisition, Google gets a patent portfolio which they can fight back, or to sue Apple. What is interesting in the whole situation is that the week is the word that Motorola is possible to turn to other manufacturers and Android to charge a fee for HTC and Samsung patents violates Android.

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