Facebook to test bargains-like GroupOn service - CNET (blog)

Facebook will soon begin testing a service that will provide its members handed over local, which will be in direct competition with the giant deals daily GroupOn.

The service will be tested in Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego and will expand the program of the social networking giant, which offers users deals to members when they use Facebook places is to save the local commercial counterthe company said. Members will be able to purchase deals and share with their friends on the network.

"Local businesses will be able to register to use this feature soon and people can find deals in the coming weeks," the Palo Alto, California-based company said today.

Facebook plans to sell trade agreements through its own sales team, as well as working with partners such as Gilt City, Home Run, Pop sugar City, Tippr, deals with the KGB, Plum District, achieving Local, Zozi and open a Table.

With 500 million members, Facebook make a sizable user base in its challenge for dominance on the market of trafficking, which brought $ 873 million in revenue last year and could bring to 3.93 billion by 2015, according to a projection of consulting firm BIA/Kelsey.

Chief among these competitors is Groupon, who has been riding growth half price massages, discounted meals at the restaurant, and negotiates trips. Chicago-based GroupOn, with 60 million users and over 39 million sold in its two years in business transactions is intended to beef up its muscle with an initial public offering later this year.

In addition to grouping, Facebook will have to deal with a multitude of "GroupOn clones", including transactions site LivingSocial, which announced an investment of 175 million of e-commerce giant Amazon.com end of last year.

Facebook will also face competition from Google, which, over the past two years, has been losing talent to the social networking giant. Just a month after was repulsed in an offer of redemption of Groupon, in January, Google confirmed that it is preparing to launch its own social-purchase competitor called Google offers.

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Wall Street Beat: IBM, Apple Riding High-PCWorld

Passes the second anniversary of the great Recession market low this week, remains a pillar industry technology for the company's revenue and investor confidence, as industry bellwethers like IBM and Apple makes impressive share gains.

On March 9, 2009 hit the tech-heavy Nasdaq 1268.64, its lowest point in seven years. In afternoon trading Friday, the index was at 2718.80. Kind of share value increases to tech companies experienced since market bottom two years ago is difficult to maintain, and growth in it stocks, on average, smoothed somewhat recently.

But IT sector financial news this week shows that corporate demand for it and consumer demand for mobile devices will remain high.

A jump in IBM shares to a record level was only one cursor confidence in corporate it. Analysts met with IBM management Tuesday and issued a series of optimistic reports on the heard.

At least four analysts upgraded their recommendations or price targets, and as a result, IBM shares were higher by $ 3.58 to close a record United States $ 165.86 Wednesday. IBM advanced business services and its emphasis on high-margin software and hardware have impressed market Intel.

"We get the sense IBM has rejuvenated pride in massive USD 6 billion annual research and development spend in contrast to multiple standards/commodity-dependent competitors to see continued opportunities to still higher margin mix," said Robert Cirha, in a note, Caris and company research.

IBM, a major bellwether for the enterprise market, started a strong tech earnings season in January, reporting, net income for the fourth quarter increased 9 percent year-on-year, $ 5.3 billion, while revenue rose 7 percent to $ 29 billion. It was the strongest quarterly sales increase to IBM for nearly 10 years, and in accordance with the predictions, enterprise sales, special software, will be an important driving force for growth in the foreseeable future.

Mobile devices including the tablets will also fuel growth for tech, according to a row of recent reports. For example, delivered 10.1 million media tablets in the fourth quarter of 2010, more than double the 4,5 million shipped in the third quarter, according to an IDC report Thursday.

The report also said that the eReader market jumped up in the fourth quarter. Strong sales of Amazon's Kindle and gains from Pandigital, Barnes and Noble, and Sony, Hanvon also contributed to the growth of the market, IDC said. EReader market in the fourth quarter more than doubled volume from the previous quarter, with more than 6 million units shipped, IDC said.

"Strong holiday sales of media tablets were in line with IDC projections and strong consumer interest in the category while the device vendors offer encrypted products competitive with Apple's iPad and now iPad 2," said Loren Loverde, an IDC vice President, in the report.

Apple, which has more than 90 percent of the Tablet market at this time, publish iPad 2 Friday and is basking in the glow of its latest hit product. Apple shares were up by $ 4.89 to $ 351.52 in late afternoon trade.

Increased dissemination of tablets and advanced smartphones also have a positive effect on corporate equipment sales, as companies scramble to update the network to handle an increase in traffic from the new devices.

Global WLAN (wireless LAN) equipment sales jumped by 28 percent to $ 769 million in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, according to a report from Infonetics Research last week. On Wednesday, said a report by Dell'Oro group that WLAN equipment sales for all 2010 jumped 25 percent to exceed USD 5 billion.

"We believe that it is another sign of the continuing importance of wireless LAN to companies; network infrastructure, and a global economy that is on the upswing, "said Loren Shalinsky, senior analyst Wireless LAN research at Dell'Oro, in the report.

With attention on the company's software and mobile devices had not sector PC great respect at the latest. But iSuppli this week pointed out that global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 totaled 93.1 million units, up 5 percent from 88.7.1 million in the third quarter of 2010 and an increase of 4.7 per cent from 88.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

PC shipments in fourth quarter hit a new quarterly record, "blowing past" the previous record 88.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, the report said.

"With his record performance during the last three months of 2010 worldwide business as PC took yet another step towards becoming a market generate 100 million units per quarter," said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst at iSuppli. "With the market comes back strong text wrapping feature growth in the mid-teens, PC industry will look back on 2010 as a year, which exceeded expectations."

Although much of the growth in the last two years took place in the quarters immediately after the 2009 trough, leader of the tech sector still.

In the third quarter last year, the Nasdaq and other major United States exchanges were already back to the level they were at before Wall Street fell in September 2008. Tech had little to do with the essence of our confidence in the markets. Although tech stocks slumped for most of the third quarter last year as fears of a double-dip recession took hold, it companies, reporting strong sales especially for companies, began to lead markets after U.S. Labor Day holiday in early September.

Now, the computer shares on the exchange is on average, 1.56 percent since Jan 1 and telecom equipment is 0.13 percent--both large better than any other sector except for industrial customers. Nasdaq itself is 1.82 percent since the beginning of the year and 14 percent in the last 12 months.

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Which Tablet works best? Apple iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. Samsung Galaxy tab-PCWorld

The Apple iPad 2 has arrived, and the big question is, how does it stack up against the competition? To provide an answer, I've been testing the iPad 2 next to the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Here are my thoughts about which models perform best on ten crucial criteria.

Which Tablet Is Easiest to Hold?

Hands-down, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab gets the nod here. Yes, it's chunky (0.5 inch thick, with boxy sides); but at a weight of 0.8 pound, it's significantly lighter than the iPad 2 (1.3 pounds).

That said, the 9.7-inch iPad 2 (at left) is the way to go if you want a tablet with a bigger screen. It's much easier to hold than its predecessor, thanks to its tapered sides, thinner design, and lighter weight (the original iPad tipped the scales at 1.5 pounds). The Motorola Xoom, at 1.6 pounds and with a thickness of 0.5 inch, is leaden by comparison.

Weight and thickness matter more than you might think--and not just because most people like to hold a book or magazine in one hand to read it. It's important to realize that when you use the tablet without a surface, you are essentially holding it one-handed, because you have to use your other hand to operate the tablet.

Which Tablet Has the Best Screen?

Here, the iPad 2 (at left) gets the win. Images on its display looked evenly and accurately saturated and balanced. I wish that text looked significantly sharper--I prefer precise text with no jaggies, the way it appears on an iPhone 4--but the iPad 2 still beats the competitors in its category.

The rival tablets have different shortcomings. I liked the sharpness of the Galaxy Tab's 1024-by-600-pixel display, but not the tendency of its 7-inch LCD to produce oversaturated colors (the Tab is shown on top of the Xoom in the picture below). The Tab is a pleasure to look at otherwise, and it finishes a close second to the iPad overall, but don't expect a high level of color accuracy from it.

The Xoom has a 1024-by-800-pixel display, but its text rendering was inconsistent, with several fonts showing unexpected choppiness (I especially got this impression in the Web browser, and in the Google Books app). More worrisomely, colors appeared to be off (the image at left shows the Xoom's duller colors, as compared with the Tab's oversaturated colors). Since the Xoom is the only Android 3.0 tablet to appear so far, I can't say whether these failings are due to the way Honeycomb handles rendering or whether they reflect problems with the Xoom's display.

Which Tablet Has the Best Keyboard?

I suspect that the best keyboard for a tablet has yet to be produced. I liked some of what I saw with the HP TouchPad, which includes multiple keyboard sizes and a number row built in to the main keyboard.

In the tussle between the iPad 2's keyboard and the Xoom's, however, I give the nod to iOS and the iPad 2. Its keyboard did a better job of keeping up with my touch-typist fingers, whereas the Xoom lagged whenever I input data at full speed. I liked the Xoom's larger button sizes and its inclusion of a Tab key, but the input lag drove me bonkers. The Galaxy Tab's keyboard is unremarkable by comparison: Like an Android keyboard on a giant phone, it's small and cramped in comparison to the bigger tablets' keyboards, and it lacks the speed to keep up with touch-typing.

Which Tablet Is Best for Data Transfers?

The Galaxy Tab (now) and the Xoom (soon) have the edge here. Because they are Android-based tablets, your PC will recognizes them as mass storage devices when they are connected via USB. As a result, you can drag and drop files onto your tablet without converting them to a different format and without using special software. True, the tablet will take a moment to recognize the new images in the library, for example; but this approach is preferable to Apple's locked-down universe, which requires you to use iTunes, the least satisfying, least capable, least flexible file management tool out there today. Both the Galaxy Tab and the Xoom have MicroSD card slots, though you must enable the Xoom's through a software upgrade. The resulting expansion potential is lacking in the iPad 1 and the iPad 2.

Which Tablet Provides the Best Notifications?

Of the models I looked at, notifications were best on Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices. The Honeycomb interface puts its notifications bar at the bottom right, where it unobtrusively informs you of new e-mail messages, new OS or software updates (for example, Pulse reader notifies you when new content is available), and completed downloads. New messages pop up there and then disappear. Tapping on the bar expands the notifications so that you can view them all. The same notifications bar shows time, connection status, and battery life; and you get more details plus one-tap access to settings when you tap to expand the bar.

Apple's iPad feels archaic by comparison. It provides notifications via a pop-up window that interrupts and disrupts your other activities. If you don't touch your device and you receive multiple notifications at once, iOS will collect them into a single window for you to view when you return. But if you get one for AIM (for example), dismiss it, and then get another one for AIM, it will pop up over whatever your current activity is each time, requiring you to take action in order to return to your activity. On the other hand, you get no notifications of new e-mail messages: To get those you must go to your e-mail app.

The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2, which delivers notifications in the "classic" Android style--a pull-down bar at the top of the screen--but they're far less elegant and usable than the notifications in Android 3.0.

Which Tablet Is Best for Multimedia?

The answer depends, in part, on your shopping habits and on how you use your tablet. Android 3.0 on the Xoom is a terrific multimedia combination: HD movies look great in the widescreen aspect ratio, you get Flash support for online video, and Google's redesigned music player is very appealing. On the other hand, Android 3.0 lacks a dedicated video player, so your videos get meshed into the Image Gallery.

Apple's iPad requires iTunes syncing--a drawback considering the albatross that iTunes has become on the whole. But it's fairly good for organizing and keeping track of your media, and if the files are in a supported format, you can add your own videos to the iTunes library. If you have an iPod or iPhone, and you shop at iTunes, the iPad is a no-brainer for its seamless integration with the iTunes Store (shown here). At the moment, Google lacks anything comparable, though I can imagine Google deciding to sell music (Google Music is already a reoccurring rumor) and videos through its Market.

The Galaxy Tab uses Samsung's Media Hub to make music and video purchases, and to play them back. But Media Hub purchases are usable only with Samsung Media Hub devices, including Samsung mobile phones and televisions. Media Hub's selection is growing, but it's nowhere close to iTunes in depth.

Which Tablet Is Best for Organizing Your Stuff?

No currently available tablet makes managing your files easy. But the Xoom is the best bet right now. You don't get direct access to files and folders on the device, as you do in Microsoft Windows, but plenty of third-party apps will let you access files that are aboard the tablet (and when enabled, aboard the MicroSD card) in a standard folder view. You can download content from the Web browser, like a .zip file. And in the Google image gallery, you can view image info, crop it, and share it via Bluetooth. Meanwhile, organizing apps into home screens is simple, thanks to a split-screen approach that lets you select an app and drag it to your home screen of choice--all on the device.

Organizing apps on the iPad is tiresome, and you can forget accessing files stored on the device in order to reorganize, rename them, or do something with them. Apple has locked down the file system.

The Galaxy Tab lacks Android 3.0's niceties for organizing apps, but it does offer various options for sharing files. The Galaxy Tab also shows you image information, and it lets you crop an image. An accompanying app called My Files lets you view a file/folder directory of your content; but this simple app is incapable of renaming or moving files.

Which Tablet Is Best for Web Browsing?

The clear advantage in Web browsing goes to the Xoom. The Xoom's tabbed interface makes navigating through a multitude of Web pages remarkably easy. I also liked the visual bookmarks and appreciated the support for Adobe Flash Player 10.2.

The iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab are both stuck in the dark ages of Web browsing. Both tablets permit you to access only one page at a time, so you must exit one page before you browse to another. In addition, both models limit the number of windows you can have open at a time.

Which Tablet Is Best for Gaming?

Apple's iPad 2 enjoys the clear advantage here. Today, Apple's iOS has a bigger selection and a bigger commitment from content makers than Android does, though more Android 3.0 games should become available as the year progresses. Millions of people use iPads already, and third-party benchmarks indicate that the new A5 chip has more graphics muscle than Nvidia's Tegra 2, which is found in the Xoom and in all announced Honeycomb tablets to date.

The Xoom has considerable potential for games, but first more Honeycomb-optimized apps must be developed first. Only then will it be possible to gauge how synthetic benchmark readings of the iPad's graphics capabilities stack up in the real world to its rivals'. As for the Galaxy Tab's prospects for gaming, let's just say that the future of Android gaming won't happen in Android 2.2 on a 7-inch tablet.

Which Tablet Is Best for Reading?

All of the major booksellers have apps available across mobile operating systems--except for Apple's iBooks, which (as you'd expect) is available only on iOS. All three offer flexibility in your choice of reading platform and shopping site; but in my opinion, none of these tablets is especially good for reading. I recommend instead the only tablet that isn't technically a tablet: Barnes & Noble's NookColor. Though NookColor runs Android 2.1, it lacks Google services and can't freely download or sideload apps. B&N remains the only company that has managed to combine very smooth text with an LCD screen that has very little glare.

Of the three true tablets, the Galaxy Tab has the edge because of its smaller size and sharper text quality. Apple's iPad 2 comes in second. Its larger screen makes it a good choice for viewing digital magazines or magazine apps, and it's good for viewing larger-print text. In addition, you have plenty of choice with regard to reading apps and bookstores, including Apple's iBooks and competitors such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble (that could change, however, once Apple begins enforcing its crackdown on in-app purchase options). Whichever model you choose, I recommend playing with the font choices in your chosen e-reader app, as some fonts render more smoothly than others.

Ditto for the Xoom: Font rendering could be an issue, as some text fonts look sharper than others. Today, the best reading app available for Xoom is Google Books, but its display options are limited (only three font sizes?) and using it entails committing to buying your books through Google's Market bookstore. Still, you do get a few font choices, and some of them render better than others. Honeycomb-optimized versions of Amazon's Kindle app and B&N's Nook app should arrive soon.

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We, the Japanese students use Facebook, Twitter for card crisis Points - Voice of America

Sharon Behn. Washington on March 14, 2011  rescue conduct search operations in slow in Kesennuma, Northern the Japan debris, March 14, 2011 after the massive earthquake of Friday and the tsunami that followed. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Miho Ikeya) OUT JAPAN, COMPULSORY CREDIT

The United States students work with others in the Japan to collect urgent information on networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook social, to help create a map to locate areas of crisis in the whole of the island nation.

A few hours only after a huge earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast of Japan, students half-a-world away responded. A group in Boston, in the northeastern State of Massachusetts to the United States, began to go through thousands of Internet messages, try to collect a card which was going on the field to the Japan.

Berry of Robert student at Tufts University in Boston, says their purpose is to contribute to the relief effort. "It is fundamentally"crisis mapping"." Draw the crisis for the people on the ground, victim or agencies who will answer so that they have a better image, "says.

People have used this type of technology since political unrest hit Kenya in his election in 2008.  And it was used again in Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 and Libya during its recent political upheaval.

Berry describes what they are looking for in this disaster. "They see a fire in a hospital or they see people trapped under a building or something or that they know that someone is trapped, what they can do, assuming that they have access, they can then communicate that the renseignementset then find us".make to the interface, "says.

In a country of tech-savvy as the Japan, Berry, says information, its Japanese counterparts and colleagues are together helping to put in place an image more precise, as well as a human face to the tragedy. "He brings the situation you like never before," he said.

With the common crisis, a worldwide network of users of computers working in response to the crisis, leaders say that students are part of a growing international community of volunteers who can quickly screen large amounts of data to create detailed information maps.

They say that within 24 hours of the disaster to the Japan it there were 75 people around the world, including students in the U.S. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology universities, assemble the details on where people are, and local roads and transport conditions.

14-03-2011 azar (Ghana)

not to worry all will be ok

14-03-2011 Wendy (Canada)

Can anyone tell me if Sanjo city at the Japan was affected by the earthquake of Earth? I had 2 Exchange students to stay with me to Sanjo. I am very worried. Thank you Wendy

15-03-2011 I ANM whether Wakayama was hot by the earthquake...I have 2 friends he (usa)

I want to know if wakayana has been hit by the earthquake

15-03-2011 (US)

I checked a map online, and I am sure that Sanjo is not affected. Keep your hopes! :)

15-03-2011 ZHUYU (China)

what students have done the praise.

15 03-2011 Anonymous (Antarctica)

OHH.... It's very sad, I hope that everything will be better!

15-03-2011 Katelyn (USA)

Does anyone know how heavy damage in Morioka, Iwate was? I know how close to Iwate is Miyagi Prefecture Sendai)... but I hope that this was not quite as horrible.

15 03-2011 hamad part 1 of 1 (Oman)

It is a good idea that could help to many Japanese to be aware of the situation on the ground and pick up their decision wisely especially during this difficult period and disturbance. It will help the efforts of humanitarian aid to reach the location quickly and safely. This map of crisis could be updated instantly which facilitate the tense and regulate the effort and helps effectively. Japanese Government should provide more information on this map to lead the Japanese to make the right decision in a short time.

15-03-2011 bey (China)

Everyone he bless.It cannot bind to Facebook in China.

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Hacking Times Square with an iPhone-NBC New York

Viral hoax-in-waiting or brilliant marketing display of the iPhone's hidden possibilities?Watch and you decide. Maybe we are just one in an early list of sites to be misled by this bizarre intriguing YouTube video, but we still couldn't help but watch it several times.In a two-minute YouTube video posted on Sunday evening, claiming to have a transmitter BITcrash44 added to his iPhone that allows him about each video screen.If true, the trick is to get the attention of the designers of Apple in Cupertino, Calif., About his video

BITcrash44 writes: the way it works is pretty simple: in my channel in the iphone 4 plug and play back a video clip. you can play through the function for ipod or via the camera roll. the transmitter immediately sends the video to the video signal repeater and repeater overwrites all the video video screen that besides. It doesn't matter what shape or size the hacked screen is because the video hack will love you just the right size and the rest of the hacked space should be left as black.

He chose some of the most famous video screens in the world to show off its technology. With just a iPhone, its transmitter, an HD camera and a little help from a red balloon creates BITcrash44 a video that is sure to have people crying wolf.Real or fake? You tell us.

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IE, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry to Microsoft fall; Chrome, Firefox, Android... - Washington Post (blog)

Microsoft - a computer-security annual competition in which researchers will compete to win cash prizes and hardware by exploiting browsers Web - end of last week, and the results may surprise you.

The first browser to obtain the machete was Apple's Safari. As Peter Bright of Ars Technica wrote Thursday, almost current 5.0.3. version of Safari, if running on a Mac OS X updated copy 10.6.6, succumbed to a malicious page written by French researchers with VUPEN, a security firm, in a few seconds.

They have proven the attack distance launches Mac Calculator program and writes a file to flash the MacBook Air drive - earn the right to keep the laptop, according to the rules of the competition.

Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft, running on Windows 7, updated with Service Pack 1, fell later in the day. Bright report note that the IE 8 exploits hack more at issue and that was five to six weeks to build, against two for Safari feat.

The second day of Microsoft (organized by the subsidiary based in Austin TippingPoint DVLabs have HP and held each year, at the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver), the iPhone 4, and a flame BlackBerry smartphone also suffered successful hacks. Although the iPhone 4 did not iOS of just-released to Apple 4.3 - the rules of the competition only requires that the target device before being current as of the week before software execution - vulnerability exploited in the attack are 4.3, too.

In two days, nobody has even tried to challenge Google's Chrome (even if Google has offered a separate scholarship to anyone who could hack chromium), Mozilla Firefox, OS of a s link smartphone running Google Android 2.3 or a Pro of the place of Dell with Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

(Google shipped the first patch for a bug to Microsoft, Gregg Keizer of Computerworld writes this morning.)

There is not much interpretation needed for these results, right? Apple Mac OS X is a platform dangerously insecure - it has been successfully hacked Microsoft every year since its debut in 2007 - which should be avoided if you do not want your computer to get supported by a drive - by download.

Except... This is not the actual experience of the use of a Mac. Or an iPhone. Both Apple computer and phone operating systems remain almost completely free of viruses, worms and Trojan horses, even while Apple market share has increased dramatically in both markets.

For example, Apple now claims 20% of the U.S. market of consumers, a number which would have been incredibly high only 10 years ago. IOS of the iPhone is 27 percent of the U.S. smartphone, linked with phones BlackBerry from Research In Motion and just behind Google Android, according to the latest research from Nielsen.

Should even 20 percent of the market enough to attract the interest of the authors of malicious software? I asked on Twitter and a blogger for ZDNet Ed Bott vet­eran Windows interesting response. He replied that "malware writers play a numbers game overall." OS x a ~ 6% in the world. »

But if current trends continue, it would not long before that the Mac hits 10 percent of the total market. Who will be sufficient? Or malware will continue to be a market in which Mac users marginalized at a considerably lower selection of third-party software from running on Windows?

Latest Apple security moves suggests he has an idea where things are lead: for the first time in recent history, it shares advance copies of its operating system Mac OS X Lion to come with security researchers. What is your forecast for Mac malware? Let me know in the comments.

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City Ballet A-Twitter about poles - Wall Street Journal

New York City Ballet is called to become a performing-arts major companies first in the country to govern the positions of its employees on Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets.

And Devin Alberda, Member of the corps de ballet of the company, is part of the reason why.

After the news of his boss of the drunk driving arrest was made public, Mr. Alberda tweeted: "Thank goodness riding the subway while intoxicated is not an offence to offence," adding the hashtag "# dontfireme."

In an another tweet, it fun a character in a production with a reference to the presidential executive order that paved the way for the Japanese internment camps: "Yellowface character 2010 renewal of co-leads the magic flute the worst thing to happen to the community of Asian Americans for EO 9066.".

Many professional ballet dancers have Twitter accounts, complete the curtain on a cloistered world long with details on their process of warming backstage or this that they snack you on intermission.

But some, like Mr. Alberda, went further, showing the kind of recriminations of the work day or jokes dancers may say to another, but which are rarely available publicly.

The company is now negotiating a policy of social media in the negotiations of contract with the union of the dancers, the American Guild of Musical Artists.

The Executive Director of the ballet, Katherine Brown, said: "because the use of social media increased significantly and will continue to do so, as many organizations the company explores the development of guidelines on social media for all artistic and administrative employees in their professional lives."

National Executive Director of the union said it saw no need for a social networking policy but would not object so that the rules do case dancers.

"In part, City Ballet is a public trust, and that employees have the right to use social media to rent or to criticize what it does, said Alan Gordon, national Executive Director of the AGMA.".

The proposed policy differs significantly from those at several large companies, although it would be among the first to be adopted by a company performing-arts major. Boston Ballet is to negotiate a similar agreement.

In New York, the policy would require dancers to include a warning that their comments are not sanctioned by the employer, according to a copy of a project reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

It would also prohibit them from disclosing another dancer injury or disease and validate photographs of corporate events, or to "persons committed in New York City Ballet business without their consent."

"In addition, to protect its interests, co-leads reserve the right to monitor postings that are accessible by the public or those who are not protected privacy on the company, its employees and its activities",... ", explains the project."

But then that comparable to policies governing employee online conduct, the rules would be a departure from the laissez-faire approach taken by the ballet up to this point.

This attitude appears if be moved, partly because cases such as Mr. Alberda, 24 years old, which explains its public tweets have caused "rumblings of discontent" in the administration of the ballet.

In an interview with the newspaper, he said its September tweet on the "character of Yellowface"in "The magic flute" prompted a member of the management to warn that it was "playing with fire" "criticizing ballet master in Chief (and choreographer Magic Flute) Peter Martins.".

Mr. Alberda also visited on Twitter for poke gentle company benefactor David Koch. Mr. Koch refused to comment on.

Musings on line of dancers can advance interests of the business by attracting a younger demographic, a goal, he tried to achieve with other tactics.

But transparency enabled by Twitter and Facebook is a new frontier for a profession which is often perceived as placing a premium on the orderly conduct.

Still, the proposal, if implemented, is unlikely to have much effect on one of the most bizarre stream Twitter co-leads related: a false account for Mr. Martins.

"A call to backstreetboys @ + @ NKOTB got asked to do this w us next season," the false Mr. Martins tweeted earlier this month. "That he considers."

Write to Erica Orden to erica.orden@wsj.com

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PingWin software joins Linux Foundation - Marketwire (press release (copyright))

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - 14 March 2011)-the Linux Foundation, which has not-for profit organization, the acceleration of the growth of Linux, PingWin software is its newest member.

PingWin software is a leading system integrator in Russia and focuses on Linux and open source software integration. PingWin software is the first Russian company to join the Linux Foundation.

The company is the Linux Foundation in close cooperation with the world-wide Linux community on technical issues and connect business strategies. It starts this work with the participation of the open compliance programme (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/compliance), which contains a number of open source tools, training curricula and a new self-governing assessment checklist, to ensuring that companies can.

"Our Linux Foundation membership will give us an insider look of the latest Linux and open source trends, as well as give us the possibility of cooperation with leaders from during the Linux ecosystem," said Dmitry Komissarov, CEO of PingWin software. "Our work on the open compliance program and other activities will inform us important insights, our business and our customers deliver."

"PingWin software is an important addition to the Linux Foundation." His international perspective an important while we continue our open compliance program, tires, said Amanda McPherson, Vice President of marketing and developer programs, the Linux Foundation.

Home country PingWin software is one of many throughout the world, which are moving to Linux and open source software for Government. In December announced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, that the Government of its proprietary operating system on a Linux based operating system by 2015 migrate would.

PingWin software
PingWin Software Ltd. was founded in the year 2009. This is the cycle IT company, the services on the basis of the FOSS (free/libre/open-source software): consultation, development, migration, upgrade and support. The company's mission is the effectiveness of organizations increase Russian companies and Government agencies by implementing the best FOSS solutions in their information systems. PingWin software is an active member of the Russian Union of free software (RASPO). More information on PingWin software: www.pingwinsoft.ru

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium, promote the growth of Linux dedicated. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and increases the operating system Linux to marshaling the resources of its members and the open-source developer community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for cooperation and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and Linux generate increased basic research and content, the understanding of the Linux platform. Its Web properties, including Linux.com, reach around two million people per month. The organization offers extensive Linux training opportunities, the experts leading community with the Linux kernel as an instructor. On Twitter, follow the Linux Foundation.

Brands and labels: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard base, MeeGo and Yocto project are trademarks of the Linux Foundation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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Top Linux distributions for each level user - Datamation

In the past I have spent an enormous amount of time, a conversation about the different ways that desktop Linux must be easier for new users. At the same time, not me, that knowingly, prefer actually "learn Linux" did rather than everything for them "out of the box." After all, there is to say something to fix something on a granular level.

In this article I will highlight some of the best Linux distributions for advanced as well as some large for those intermediate and new users. In any case, I will provide the information on the effective use of Linux distributions for all those.

Linux for advanced

Gentoo - designed so that very customizable and portable, is Gentoo a longtime favorite among many of the Linux elite. With Gentoo source code is compiled level on local software on the Portage system is installed and the documentation of the end user can be much support for getting things running.

Gentoo is ideal for:

• Users want to customize their Linux install on very specific needs.

• Optimization of the installed source code be run as smoothly as possible on an individual PC.

• Users who want to experience the detailed and hardcore aspects with a Linux installation.

• Persons, the a "rolling release" distribution of Linux on the desktop.

Described as the embodiment of the simplicity and elegance in an amazing package, Arch Linux is the perfect distribution for the advanced user searchArch Linux - in a more advanced penetrate rolled up in Linux. Arch is still a certain amount of time things setup, if you heavily use specific configurations. Still, a decent DIY distribution is arch. The arch is designed so that you can learn as you go. By using the packaging concept known as "Pacman" Arch are able, keep their software with great ease to the current.

Arch is ideal for:

• Persons the inner workings of their Linux distribution as interacts with your computer want to learn, but not a whole weekend to spend installing the base system.

• Intermediate users with the preconfigured Linux distributions, much to the imagination let that not bored.

• One user rolling version of Linux distribution.

Despite the somewhat more challenging in the management of software dependencies, Slackware,Slackware - offers some of the other functions of a modern Linux distribution. These include install and update or remove software. Fortunately, tools such as "Slapt Get" can a great help for Slackware users, want to keep their software at Bay. As a DIY type of distribution offered, it provides strong stability, willing to roll up their sleeves and dive right in. While simplicity of use as primary focus is to see, Slackware is only slightly easier to manage for newcomers as Gentoo.

Slackware is ideal for:

• Arch Linux users, try something else. Slackware is like arch one before distribution allows the user much customizable changes make, as they see fit.

• Continue to find a simple and elegant alternative to other less complex distributions available people.

• People who would rather handle dependencies themselves. Ignore software such as Slapt get, is definitely a distribution Slackware, you handle the intricacies of the software compilation itself.

Advanced user friendly distributions

Fedora - simply my favorite distro, is still a sound experience without all the fanfare as it has the cutting edge of software memory pressure conditions to Ubuntu. Fedora is a great option for advanced users, because it then will not need some adjustments, but it is enough to overwhelm it. You can find out of the box using various wireless and USB modem needs on your own. Another factor to note taking is Fedora is very focused FoSS and not non-free codecs. It requires a third-party repository use Add. For advanced users, this is but not a major problem.

Fedora is ideal for:

• User, a cutting edge experience without the use of Ubuntu.

• Find people to use RPM packages for software.

• A rapidly developing FoSS friendly Linux distribution.

• Decent documentation for most users need.

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Google's approach of friendly Hacking: good idea or best idea? -Chrome OS Site

There Is a long line between the world of hackers and software companies. They would not like to another and each is working more and more diligently to ' beat ' and humiliate the other. It is a crime-world of e-peen and secrecy and the status quo was understood by both parties. That is, until Google got involved. Their approach is definitely unique and previously met with astounding success. Google offers all the money to find exploits for some time, most recently $ 20,000 to users in the competition of CanSecWest PWN2OWN at the Conference. How has this played? Well, for the past 3 years in the League, Chrome has come from unhacked.

It is a long-standing virtue that competition is healthy for any business is and while there is certainly competition these days in the corporate world of operating systems and browsers, there is a new breed of competition between Google and the hacking community. Chrome is the new target with the rose on her back for all the top hackers and for the right reasons. Their open-armed approach to finding bugs has so far more than $ 100,000 in payoffs netted. Due to the large company vs. enthusiast rivalry in a game instead of a war where prices are within the fame can always hacking and mainstream world as well as money, Google software only are on track to become the safest around by leaps and bounds.

This means that the chrome browser and OS are Unhackable? By all means no, there will always be holes and possible exploits. However, it means that users will get to take advantage of the benefits of the approach with more secure and stable software. As business and home users more and more aware of identity theft and data, Google has the ability to hit the ground running with the next public release of the Chrome OS and convert it into something special in the field of security. So this is what current and future users should look forward to for the Chrome OS? Time will tell, but here's hoping that the answer is Yes.

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Congress will push Google to modify its algorithm to punish pirates Sites? -paidContent.org

Judging by the hearings today, some members of Congress are prepared to consider radical measures to rid the internet of "rogue" websites accused of piracy. Among them: getting the search engines such as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) change their research results and order ISPs to block certain websites from purely and simply U.S. viewers. Until several months ago, Congress has never even discussed taking steps like these. The fact that they are now on the table is probably a function of several factors, including an aggressive campaign by the entertainment industry and a proliferation of illegal content online.

Congress has begun to consider the idea of allowing the application of the Federal Act to block Web sites in September, when Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the controversial Bill COICA in the last Congress. The House of representatives is now considering a similar proposal, although, no Bill has been introduced.

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This debate is taking place in a context in which the Government has already begun get more aggressive with piracy. Since the middle of last year, immigration and customs officials have seized more than 100 domain names Web sites they claim were contempt of the laws of copyright and trademarks.

Highlights from the hearing included:

Spokesperson of Hollywood describes a "shadow economy" illicit content Frederick Huntsberry, chief operating officer of Paramount Pictures, describes how just four or five clicks of a simple search Google, consumers are likely to come into contact with websites the contents of stream of Paramount and others without permission. Huntsberry said that the big problem is the thriving "cyberlocker" sites that encourage users to download movies and other content by offering rewards. Huntsberry believes that only a site MegaUpload, wins the annual profit between $ 40 million and $ 300 million.

Congress must pass legislation to "level the playing field" between the pirate sites and legitimate suppliers, said Huntsberry.  "We have reached the limits of mutual assistance", he said, noting that Paramount has sent more than 40 million "notice of infringement" last year, but he is not the tooth of piracy much. (It is not clear exactly what Huntsberry meant by a "notice of infringement", given that later in the hearing, it was said that Paramount sent 1.5 million records for removal copyright.) Piracy is stealing us jobs and tax revenue, he added.

Sympathy for the cause but the frustration at the lack of details. At least a member of the Congress was clearly favourable to global cause of the Huntsberry but frustrated by the lack of details in the proposal. Huntsberry and other witnesses should have put a specific proposal to the table to tell Congress what he must do, said REP. John Conyers (D-Michigan). "I am disappointed in all of the witnesses," said Conyers.

"We have the possibility for the law enforcement officers to go after the rogue Web sites," said Huntsberry. "It is now impossible to even find who are the owners of these sites, or where they are served."

Another witness, analyst Daniel Castro of Information technology & Innovation Foundation, Donna Conyers some of the details he was seeking: Congress should simply create a black list of sites, then ISP block and tell search engines to remove lists of results of research of the force. "The Federal Government should work with industry to create a master list of all these sites," said Castro. "You could require providers of services and financial networks to stop doing business with these sites".

Ready to tweak search results? In his presentation, Huntsberry showed how simple research search terms normal - like "stream" or "watch movies online" - always made many websites considers "rogue" sites entertainment industry. Which clearly had an impact on the control panel and a few different members, including the REP. Tom Reed (R - n .INCLUDING.) and representative of Sandy Adams (R - FL), asked about the possibility of giving research priorities to the media "authorized" options like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). For example, by typing a search for "movies stream" in Google makes the link at the top of the page a site called solar films, who hacked Huntsberry as a site full of links to the content, including just-released films such as adjustment of Paramount Office.

Most of the Panel appeared in support of the idea of cracking down on Web sites 'pariahs', but some were critical. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - San Jose) new emerged as one of the few opponents of Congress to a simplified system for websites accused of piracy. Earlier this month, entered Government Lofgren criticizedthe of Web sites. Today, Lofgren said fear that a right of withdrawal of Web site leaves room for fair use or other legitimate uses of the author. And she also implied that she is concerned about legislators directing search engines and Internet service providers. "If we enter the design of the technology by the Government of the United States, which, too, will move to the offshore," she said.

Rep. Mel Watt (D - n BW) had some concerns about what kind of due process should be involved with deletion of a Web site. Huntsberry and Castro, said that it was not important to let the accused address a judge prior to their Web sites have taken; to return a day or two after the seizure took place is sufficient, they said. Watts was clearly uncomfortable with this proposal. "If you look at the physical assets, they are seized without review by the Court," stressed the Castro. "I was not too hot on this process, not more," said Watts. Even if the goods are illegal, the accused must have the opportunity to present their case before their property is taken, said Watts.

Interim Regitrar of Copyright Maria Pallante stated that the closure of a site Web "infringement" would not violate the first amendment. But "even the worst of the worse should receive notices", she said, and relief to the owners of copyright must be "closely tailored." Pallante has not taken a position on the question of whether the Government should tweak the search results, simply stating that it is "a more difficult question."

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Twitter settles with FTC on the violation of Privacy and Account hacking-eWeek

Under a settlement agreement, will Twitter be required to have a more strict information security policy to prevent users from accounts hijacked.

The u.s. Federal Trade Commission completed its arrangement with Twitter about costs that the micro-blogging site doesn't protect the privacy of users did and misled users about its practices for security. The Commissioners finalized the settlement originally announced in June 2010 in the mood of a 5-0 on 11 March, the FTC said.

The settlement addressed some "serious lapse in the security of the data of the company," said FTC.

The agreement bars Twitter for 20 years of making misleading statements about the extent to which it protects the security, privacy and confidentiality of private user information. Twitter should establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program that will be independently verified every two years, according to the settlement.

Breaches of the agreement will lead to fines of up to $ 16,000 per violation. Twitter will also the cost of absorbing the biennial audit.

Hackers could gain control of Twitter in two separate incidents between January and may of 2009, the FTC said in her original complaint. Hackers accessed 45 accounts in January and 10 in April, according to Twitter.

Hackers figured out the passwords of Twitter staff members in the January incident and that access uses to read private messages and sending out fake status messages of more than two dozen accounts, including that of President Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears and former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez. The hackers also gained access to the accounts e-mail addresses, mobile phone number if it was linked to the account, and the list of accounts blocked by users.

Twitter has not lock accounts after several incorrect login attempts, allowing the hacker to submit thousands of guesses before figuring out the correct password, which is a weak, lowercase letters, common dictionary word was, "according to the FTC.

A hacker gained access to a Twitter employee's personal e-mail account, which is a Twitter administrative password stored in plain text, in the April incident.

Twitter said at the time that the incident a very serious breach of security was, but noted that the company very fast shutdown of the attacks had responded.

The FTC said that Twitter users are misled that was taking appropriate security measures to protect their privacy. The company was using easily decipher passwords, allowing employees to store information in vulnerable places, does not suspend accounts after a number of failed logins, passwords expire, not set and has no restrictions on administrative access, the FTC said.

At the time of the attacks, Twitter s privacy policy said the company was "very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information" and that Twitter service "administrative, physical and electronic measures to protect your information from unauthorized access," said the FTC. Users were also given them privacy settings to designate their private messages if enabled.

Twitter has that language removed from its current privacy policy on the site.

Twitter does not have an updated statement on the FTC settlement, but a blog post from June 2010 claim the company has already many of the proposed safety practices cited.

While Twitter safety can be improved since 2009, Twitter users still have their accounts hijacked. Actor Ashton Kutcher had inherited his account, apparently after he exposed his login credentials across an unsecured wireless network at the TED Conference earlier this month.

That kind of account takeover can be avoided if Twitter users can connect via a secure Web connection. Facebook that option on its site recently rolled out, but not yet has the standard practice, or mandatory for all users.

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A game-changer for surveys? -TODAYonline

Singapore - validate updates on Facebook and Twitter sharing of photos with Flickr, and even download podcasts of their points of view - these are some of the many digital tools that political parties, candidates and their election agents can use the campaign to the next general election (GE). And similar flexibility will be given to the general public.

The result, said political analysts, will be more robust and more liberal in the field, as had been foreseen when the parliamentary elections Act was amended last year.

Prior surveys, the subsidiary legislation of the Act was amended yesterday in detail that will be allowed from the previous GE, when only part of the Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, SMS and hyperlinks have been on the "positive list" under the regulation of the Internet election advertising.

Institute of political studies, senior research fellow Gillian Koh said MediaCorp that this could be a "game changer".

Dr Koh said: "there are many more young people who have become voters and they are certainly more comfortable with new media platforms."

Hong Kah MP Zaqy Mohamad, who is also in charge of the commitment of young new media subscribed PAP shots were "keep synchronized with the time".

He said: "" many members of Parliament have a new media presence and... many would be concerned if the election online campaign to stop."

Another change that applies to all: electoral activities Live recordings can be downloaded online without having to submit to the Film Censorship Committee, provided that the registration does not distort the meaning events, or contain add-insomissions or substitutions.

Singapore has also no longer need to declare their name and address in the publication of election materials.

Blogger Alex yawning bread, said: "it regulates what Internet users are anyway going to do." People assume that it is their right. »

All other movies, however, still are required to be submitted for classification.

For accountability, political candidates will be required to declare the platforms, that they intend to use for election advertising, which they must do within 12 hours after the start of the period of the campaign. Thereafter, any other new platforms have to be declared in advance before the advertisement can be published.

Offences under the Act including making false statements and unfounded claims, and election advertising on the eve of polling day, known as a cooling-off day. Generally, the maximum penalty is a fine of S $1,000 or imprisonment of 12 months.

Goh Meng Seng National Solidarity Party Secretary-General welcomes the liberalisation: "We will fully use all the Internet platforms that can make our messages through a very low price."

GE come will also be the first time, the Act of Public policy will be applied.

During the election period, anyone who wishes to use the Speakers' Corner (image) for demonstrations or public speaking must obtain a police permit, to not become a place of alternatives to work around the election rally permit system.

Dr. Koh noted: "it's expensive to hold rallies." Now that we have new media platforms, we'll see if small parties want to use the site of "real world" or that have an effective strategy to use (their) online. »

-Campaign via podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Twitter, MMS, Flickr, Facebook and mobile applications. Candidates must declare the platforms that they intend to use

-Election advertising through the chain of e-mails and mobile phone text messages

-Distribution of the live recordings of the election, as activities of gatherings

-Singaporeans may participate in election advertising Internet without declaring their details

-Display "all badge, symbol, set colors, flags, advertising, prospectus, placards or posters as political propaganda" off the coast of cooling Day and the polling day. It is seizable offences.

-Publication of false statements about the character or conduct of a candidate. The penalty is a fine or imprisonment may reach 12 months or both.

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Looking for the King the Linux distributions - TechNewsWorld (blog)

Here is in the Linux community, discuss the relative merits of different distributions a common pastime. So, when it was proclaimed in an article recently that "The most influential Linux distribution unpacked Debian", was it a rare geek, which does not sit and observe you.

Sure enough is just, which recently claimed Datamation's Bruce Byfield in an article, adding that "not every Debian uses only both second hand by Ubuntu, it which is the source more derivative distributions than any other."

Linuxy tongues have since been collected.

"All I have to say is DEBIAN!" comments section wrote Lachlan in the story, for example. "Count your lucky stars it is still here and start with DEBIAN!"

Then again: "No real innovation come from Debian," neutralized synthespische on Slashdot, where the issue was soon seized. "In fact, their situation was so messed up, it needs a millionaire do-gooders, their measuring up to sort."

"Technically, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is the distribution of the Linux the most advanced." The fact is "added synthespische."

Alternatively: "All distributions are loaded with the exception of minor variations in the desktop environment, package installer and selection of user-mode programs on the installation CD, essentially the same," Anonymous Coward pointed out. "When a distribution were randomly selected and all others ceased to exist, would the Linux world as usual next."

So, is it a Grand Poobah distributions? Linux took girls to find out on the streets of the blogosphere.

"Debian is the most important Linux in any case," said consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. "It has a good package manager and is very good on the servers." "On top of that it offers a solid basis of distros, cutting edge to try to build changes."

In fact, "as the basis for the most popular Linux distribution of the moment, and several other popular distributions, I certainly thought so," agreed hyperlink logo design blogger Martin Espinoza. "Debian is known for his community and the package manager, and runs on a wide range of architectures."

Similarly "Debian is a very important distribution," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "It has huge deposits and encompasses more than the most architectures." As solche-- and in combination with a good job of release quality distributions and provides security and bug fix updates-it is a pillar. "

Other distributions "are used in particular needs better, but they are Debian GNU/Linux not far wrong to be necessary, the choice" Pogson added.

Then, there's also the fact that "Debian GNU/Linux is also a brave proponent of the free (as in freedom) software," said Pogson. "Moreover, mean Debian social contract and packaging guidelines, that the distribution to the end user and not some remote interest of companies work."

In short, Castle "there is something in Debian for all" he.

Although they primarily an OPENSUSE fan, Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson their voice for Red Hat instead.

"Far from just a Distributor, Red Hat also the largest contributor to the Linux kernel," said Hudson, who go to the website of "Tom".

"Money talks, and more companies more money for the Red Hat support as all other Linux distributions combined pay", she added. "Not randomly generated Red Hat also more profit than all others."

During "distributions lose money like Ubuntu are changing scrounge the affiliate IDs of third-party music player software for spare change, Red Hat 9 figure generated sales and profits," Hudson said.

"That's not to say that Debian is not important," they concluded. "It is, but Red Hat means business."

Slashdot blogger Hairyfeet saw it as more a triumvirate.

"With RHEL and SUSE, I say Debian ' mother sauce ' is one without the others simply exist would not," Hairyfeet Linux girl said. "Sure you could have a few Gentoo and Fedora, but when Debian would disappeared as many distributions morning it take with him?" "Even a Windows guy like me can appreciate what rock product Debian stable is solid."

In fact, added "when a rock solid to you based on the, you can't beat really it," Hairyfeet.

The only problem with Debian, is, however, that too many distributions use you the automatically generated test version of the distribution, if really "only for that, it should be..." "TESTING!"He pointed. "I mean, I thought Debian must be some seriously unstable mess, until I tried Debian Woody--compared to the distributions with tests, it was like day and night."

So, "while I think Debian certainly is one of the great it would be nice, three that could do the community not only without when she control would try people away from the latest and stable" closed Hairyfeet. "After all, what the latest is good, and crashes it more than he runs best?"

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Sprint, Kyocera Set Date double-screen Echo release - eWeek

Sprint and Kyocera provide the Kyocera Echo double-screen smartphone available on 17 April, at a price of $199 with a two year contract. In a submission to the battery in the interest of consumers before the release, Sprint also takes bookings for the device online, from March 26.

On 7 February, Sprint held a prestige event in New York City to debut the ECHO, an Android smartphone with two 3.5 inch WVGA-screen touch connected by a hinge. According to the hinge?s angle, these screens perform several tasks: drag-on the other, and the echo looks and feels like a smartphone single screen a little thicker. Screens can also be dragged flat and side by side?to create a 4.7-inch display screen movies, or other media?or inclined far from each other at an angle, multitasking or type with a virtual keyboard.

The two screens can run two applications ?simultaneously and independently, ?, CEO of Sprint Dan Hesse told the audience in the event of the city of New York. For users of the company, the smartphone supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, in addition to POP and IMAP e-mail accounts.

In the heart Echo?s is an Android 2.2 operating system powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. In conversation with eWEEK on February 8, executives from Sprint and Kyocera seemed to be separating the echo of other size devices more walk the line between tablets and smartphones, such as the 5-inch Dell Streak.

The mode of ?tablet of Echo?s emulates some features of a tablet, but not a tablet, ?, it?s said David Owens, Sprint?s vice President of the acquisition of consumers. ?It?s a phone first. ?

These frameworks have shown the wide echo across applications, films and e-mail. Unlike good number of smartphones and tablets on the market, face front and rear cameras Echo doesn?t characteristic for the videoconference, keeping to a 5-megapixel rear camera.

Balancing the benefits of the dual screens, is, however, claims of Echo?s on the life of the battery, something that Kyocera hopes to resolve by the device with two batteries and a charger to juice simultaneously phone and a second battery of shipment.

Sprint and Kyocera want course that Echo?s unique form factor can be distinguished in an increasingly crowded market. Even when space and the battles of iPhone Apple?s for the common market against a growing number of Google's Android, and Research In Motion devices continues to grow on the Consumer Affairs with its line of BlackBerry, Microsoft makes a renewed smartphone play with Windows Phone 7.

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Facebook hosts hacking cup-SmartCompany.com.au

Patrick Stafford social networking giant Facebook has a hacking cup, with finalists from 10 countries participated in the Palo Alto headquarters flown hosted.

Thousands of hackers entered the competition, which is based on analysis and deconstruct algorithms.

The competition is based around finding answers to complicated questions, rather than working in teams. In each round the hackers are asked to fill out three problems, and those who most of the problems in the shortest amount of time to resolve can go to the next round.

As reported by Mashable, said Facebook software engineer David Alves de event is not intended for recruitment, but gives the company the opportunity to speak with talented hackers. They are encouraged to apply for jobs after the competition is completed.

Facebook wants to continue the competition next year.

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Artila releases Linux ready ARM9 can bus box computer - PRLog.Org (press release (copyright))

PRLog (press release (copyright)) - 15 Mar, 2011 - TAIPEI, Taiwan--March 2011--Artila is electronics and the leading designer and manufacturer of Linux ready ARM9 industrial PC, proud, matrix-522 Linux ready ARM9 can bus industrial computer box, the new design release its ARM9 box computer selection. The CAN-bus interface supports CANopen protocols for the target markets such as industrial automation, transportation, vehicles, and building automation.

Matrix-522, the new design of Linux ready ARM9 of industrial box computer is of an ATMEL AT91SAM9G20 400 MHz ARM9 CPU and equipped with 64 MB SDRAM and 128 MB NAND Flash memory. Also integrated in the matrix-522 two isolated CAN interface, two 10/100 Mbit / S Ethernet, and two serial RS-232/422/485 interfaces. The matrix-522 has two USB host, twenty-one GPIOs and a SD interface in the compact metal box. The DIN-rail and wall-mounting capability also makes matrix-522 premise flexible.

Matrix-522 is pre-installed with Linux 2.6.29 OS and BusyBox utility collection. The Linux 2.6.29 includes can the open-source driver SocketCAN, and network stack of network-on the object model CAN interface multiple applications at the same time to access a CAN devices. In addition, the library for CANopen and CANFestival is in the Artila CD to the user programming in CANopen application relax. The UBI filesystem used to improved performance and durability provide for NAND Flash compared to JFFS2. Artila continuously increased and updated the software package on the ftp site for the users for free download, install the software package, that you need from the Internet.

Useful software utilities are also for easy management and development of the matrix-522, including Webmin, specified, and the GNU tool chain, a c/C++ cross compiler and glibc.

Request more product information visit www.artila.com or e-Mail at sales@artila.com.

About Artila
Artila Electronics is a new force in the field of industrial computer minimizes weight while maximizing utility dedicated to. In contrast to other industry-PC provider on the market, which focused mainly X 86 plus Windows solutions, Artila is on ARM-core RISC CPUs with embedded Linux solutions, coupled with Artila's 10 plus years of experience in the RS-232/422/485 industrial communication and TCP/IP networking. Artila's product range consists of serial to Ethernet embedded modules, ARM9/Linux box computer and ARM9/Linux som. (System-on modules).

Artila Electronics is a leading designer and manufacturer of industrial PC, with a focus on ARM-core RISC CPUs with embedded Linux solutions.

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Review: Gmail browser - all about Symbian Apps

Published by David Gilson at 10: 08 UTC, March 15, 2011

The good thing about Google services, it is that you can get their fair anywhere these days. Pixelpipe people have now created an application that uses "native WebKit capabilities that are available with Qt". This application provides Gmail, tasks, calendar of Google and Buzz all in a single application. Using technology Qt is a breakthrough of Widgets RunTime Web made by Asri Al Baker pioneer. Keep reading to see how well Pixelpipe captured the experience of Google on Symbian devices.

Gmail Apps browser has a very simple user interface. A progress bar along the bottom of the screen doubles as a placeholder for five buttons. From left to right, are: Back, forward, zoom in, Zoom out, and a shortcut to the list of applications.

The rest of the screen is resumed with the content and control what Google application that you use. For a brief interlude, I will return to CEO of Pixelpipe, Brett Butterfield:

Pixelpipe: Google Apps developer Pixelpipe browser on Vimeo.

Gmail

The Gmail interface is quite similar to the iPhone/Android enhanced web interface that we have seen before. However, there are some important differences. Anyone who has used Gmail improved mobile site in Web will be aware of the stakes of the screen width. These problems were corrected, allowing Gmail to adapt perfectly to the width of landscape of 640 pixels for the Symbian touch screen format.

In the improved Gmail interface in the Web navigation, Symbian users have also missed next to the floating menu, which provides access to functions as archive and delete. However, cross-platform users will be pleased to hear that it is present in a solution on measurement of the Pixelpipe. What makes the site much more usable Gmail, despite limited screen resolution of Symbian.

The calendar interface is the same as the web mobile available to Symbian browser interface. Month view indicates only events throughout the day. Therefore, the user has to use hyperlinks left and rights, or select days, see the timed entries.

Creating the event and the Edition is supported in a more user-friendly manner. A calendar handy floating is presented in the selection of a date, so you don't type in dates.
The look and feel of the site Google Calendar may actually be preferable to some people that the Symbian calendar application integrated. However, as with one of these applications, the user experience depends completely on the connectivity and latency.

The Task Manager is a long requested feature of Gmail, but is still very limited in its functionality. However, for the simple list management task it will probably suffice, particularly since it supports multiple lists and subtasks.

Tasks are properly supported in Gmail Apps browser. The user can view all their task lists and tasks stored in each. Users can create, modify and delete tasks; mark them as complete. and delete completed tasks. What does not appear to be possible creates a subtask. Add a due date for a task, a calendar handy is high, as mentioned above, to allow easy entry of dates.

Buzz is unfortunate Google social network; an attempt to create a more rich, threaded Twitter version. Among other reasons, privacy means that Buzz never really gained traction, with only the hardcore geeks paste with the service, just in case it has finally hit a critical mass.

Implementation of Buzz in Qt of Pixelpipe application is fundamental and not immediately complete. The main menu of the Buzz allows you to view the updates of people who you are following, who are close to you, your messages, which you follow, following you, and a link to find other people.
These all work with varying degrees of success. The lists of disciples, for example, does not screen, but instead is packaged with scroll bars that do not work. Also, find updates Buzz of people nearby still works because the application cannot access the phone location.

To be fair, those who are least used aspects of Buzz. In terms of reading messages, it performs well. You can make posts and control if they are public or private sector. However there is no field entry for hyperlinks.

In its beta tester mailing list, Pixelpipe has stated that this request came from an internal training project. The criticisms that I am here are therefore me being rather temperamental for what is, after all, a free to try side-project. However, it is a compelling idea and is a reminder in a timely manner to how the mobile web has the potential to native as applications and when networks become faster. I look forward to see the development of this project.

Something which although Pixelpipe do is a rapid development, keep an eye on this project. There are more the Qt based applications on the road to Pixelpipe too, hopefully including a Google Reader application. Player was in early beta versions of the browser Apps from Gmail, but did not at the release candidate due to feedback from users.

David Gilson for all about Symbian, March 15, 2011.

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Survey shows code changes in the server OS market - enterprise it planet

By Drew Robb

Frodo versus Lord Sauron; Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker: popular culture is filled with titanic struggles between dueling forces. Sometimes, the fight for the OS would win the server market, Windows or Linux, has been seen in a similarly incandescent light.

But hats you before a simplistic black and white illustration. Finally, Apple, was for decades represented as a carrier of the sword of truth. Yet his has overwhelming iPhone/iPod/iPad success caused some believe to lose. You can not good if you are in the world's largest technology company. So, some believe that Apple on the dark side - has been moved and so it finally could go for Linux as a server OS if it is as popular as some expect.

Ten years back, Linux occupied advocates of the open-source OS as the good man in the white hat square. But then just about all in the X 86 field uses a Microsoft System in their servers. Very few relative manipulated with Linux.

What makes a difference of a decade. According to a recent survey of Gabriel Consulting Group (GCC) of Beaverton, OR has Linux the margins in the mainstream shifts.

"Linux is used to a certain degree of 90% of GCG's enterprise IT respondents and the majority see their use increase significantly," said Dan olds, analyst at GCG. "This shows how far Linux has come in the last decade."

If this trend continues, we will perhaps eventually the roles with Linux is not only cool, but also with by far the largest market share vice versa see. If so, it will be interesting to see if popular opinion against - applies maybe even casting Linux as a villain of the piece. She would not be an interesting scenario!

The GCG survey asked a total 199 organizations (from large companies to a SMB) indicating the x 86 operating systems that you are currently using, and how they expect, that your use of change in the course of time. It focuses on Microsoft, Linux and Solaris64 of Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems).

The figure is 90% for Linux usage study from 84% in the previous year. Linux clearly to gather steam. But deep immersion in the numbers shows that Linux is not fully dominate the market. 10% of respondents use not Linux, for example, at all. Olds said, that this tends to be small data centers in very small organizations, which tend to run only Microsoft operating systems. And while most companies run some Linux, only 28% said that dominated Linux usage on the server side, meaning that they run Linux on more than 50 percent of their servers.

The GCG survey saw future use expectations. "Customers in our survey more Linux in the near future to be used", said olds. "Only 10% expect less Linux, while more than half say that she should be used more or much more Linux in the course of time."

He also noted that a year ago only 42% said she would use more Linux, and 14% said less.

So all what that this means that Microsoft will lose right? Not necessarily.

GCG reported that Microsoft server operating systems is still heavily used. 60% of the respondents Microsoft environments that run most of their servers, and 87% have at least some systems run Microsoft products. The number of companies with a Microsoft server OS has shifted from 6% in 2009 to 13% in 2010.

Furthermore, the number has increased expected reduce their Windows Server operating system use next year by 20% to 24%.

"A couple of data points not necessarily to mark a trend, but it bear watching," said olds. On the plus side for Windows, see "26% to other Windows Server operating systems in their organization provide;" "About half of them see stay use at the same level."

The bottom line in the server OS market: the case for some time to come the great majority of users coexisting Windows and Linux environments and still have.

It appears to be progress in the Linux server adoption in the company relentlessly. According to IDC, Linux servers grew 29.3% ($2.5 billion) quarter quarter Q4 2010 revenue from the sale. This means that Linux servers now represent one-quarter 17.0% of all server revenue more than 450,000 devices. In the same period but, Microsoft Windows Server revenue increased by 16.8% ($6.3 billion) and now 42.1% of the market with 1.5 million server shipments, which is a record or the Windows Server operating system.

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Twitter followers of gains in the violence, the rumors in the Mexico - Fox News

Mexico City - Twitter is growing fast in the Mexico, where some government agencies began using the social networking site to dispel rumors and quickly provide information about violent incidents.

"It is not on the shootings warning." The reason why the account (@ sspdgo for the Secretariat of public security in the State of Durango) has been created is to provide accurate information at the time of the incidents, to provide certainty and all the citizensof moderation, "police spokesman Fernando Fonseca told Efe."

Users of Twitter, Mexico, institutions, Governments, parties and politicians account for only 0.60%, while educational and academic institutions represent 1.4 percent, a report published this month by consulting firm Mente digital said.

However, the situation appears to be changing in the Mexico.

President Felipe Calderon, who has more than 505,000 disciples and posted on 1,000 messages, uses Twitter for months making announcements.

The Secretariat of public safety in Durango, located north of the Mexico, created an account on the social networking site, a little more than a week, there are on the "direct orders" Governor Jorge Herrera caldeira and promotion of the presence on Twitter.

More than 2,300 people have signed as disciples, many good comments view, the official responsible for coordinating the account Twitter of Durango, Fernando Fonseca, said Efe.

The project "goes beyond trying to alert people go does not by a place because there are flight balls", said Fonseca.

Last week, minutes after a fight began to penitentiary No. 1, in the city of Durango, the capital of the State, "the rumor started to make towers that there were 40 dead," Fonseca said, but the actual numbers were one dead and two wounded.

Fonseca said he had quickly published official figures on Twitter and prevent a possible crisis on a false statement.

Coahuila, another State in the North of the Mexico, the Secretariat of education used his Twitter account (@ seccoah) to inform teachers in Saltillo, where several violent incidents took place, so that they could ensure the safety of students.

After only three days, Secretariat's Twitter account already had more than 600 followers, who have posted messages of congratulations and complaints for education officials.

A teacher, Cesar Zamora, asked "when will there be real training so that the teachers we will not know what to do in an emergency," while another disciple, Manuel Sanchez, commended the Secretariat for Twitter in his position.

Social networking sites have completed the "information vacuums" created in the Mexico by the drug-related violence, clashes between rival gangs and criminal organisations on the army and police attacks, Universidad Iberoamericana journalism and communications Professor Mario Campos told Efe.

"The authorities of some States have given up trying to inform people in a formal manner, timely and clear," said Campos.

In addition, some media, engage in self-censorship "the absence of conditions for practicing journalism", said Campos.

These factors have paved the way for Twitter, Facebook and other social to gain ground in the Mexico networking sites.

"The worst policy of communication" one can have is "that of silence," said Campos, noting that sites such as Twitter to allow officials join "citizens" directly and with important messages instantly.

The most important benefit offered by social networking sites is that they "Multiply (number) of potential reporters," but "information lack methodological rigour," allowing some false information to broadcast, said Campos.

"Ultimately, network help citizens share what they regard as important," which is the case in the Mexico, where "the problem is that journalism is being reduced to silence", said Professor.

The Mexico has approximately 4.1 million Twitter users, 2.48 million are active, said Mente digital.

About 60% of the social networking site users are in the Federal District, where the capital, 17 percent are in the industrial city of Monterrey North and 10 percent are in Guadalajara, the capital of Western Jalisco State.

Guadalajara and Monterrey have two experienced so-called "narcoblockades" over the past months, with vehicles stolen for drug gang members block streets to hamper operations by the security forces.

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The times throws mud at the BBC to downplay phone-hacking revelations-The Guardian

For months, has The Times (who used to claim that it was "the paper of record") does not report on the many revelations about the phone-hacking scandal at her sister publication, the News of the world.

It has a series of stories that have completely undermined previous defence of it now that hacking is limited to a few "rogue reporter was" ignored.

There is no mention of the many victims of hacking that legal actions against the parent company, News Internationalhave begun.

Nor has it reported on the court press the private investigator, Glenn mulcaire, to reveal the names of executives who now ordered him to hack into the phones of the people.

But today, The Times publishes a page suddenly 7 lead story associated with the scandal-but with an extraordinary twist.

The head, says researcher accused by BBC reporter of ' corrupt ' business, he worked for Panorama, reveals much about the agenda of the paper.

It's going to last night Panorama Special, that the activities of a private investigator, Jonathan rees, who was alleged to have highlighted a range of illegal methods used to discover information for the news of the world to obtain.

The program specifically claimed that Rees was instructed to intercept e-mail messages by Alex marunchak, former executive editor of it now.

At one point in the program faced Panoramas reporter, Vivian White, Rees to ask him about his work for the now, such as access to bank accounts of people and police officers pay for information.

A belligerent Rees refused to answer the question. Instead, he countered: "what about the information that you have, that your company have?" He claimed that police had paid before Panorama walk out.

White, in his commentary, said: "Unlike Jonathan Rees, Panorama hadn't payed any police officers for information."

But what was this in the Times of today? No mention of Marunchak, neither of the other substantive material in the documentary Panorama on Rees have hired by now even after serving a life sentence for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The times choose instead, nose hair story on Rees the allegations about the BBC, reporting that Rees "worked for Panorama on at least two programs in the early 1990s."

He claims that he was once asked to do undercover work on kidnappings. But he, and The Times, have no evidence of that claim.

The story even admits that "friends of" Mr Rees said that "he had no documents or invoices to prove his claim." And the BBC can't find all the supporting documents of Rees worked for it.

Note How The Times story to fit two calendars News International is descending. It throws mud at the BBC, yet again. It minimizes the misconduct by the news of the world, yet again.

The real story revealed by Panorama is that a sixth World news was involved in the commissioning of illegal activities. That is the story a paper of record must report, isn't it?

And guess what? The other Wapping paper that has failed to note of the phone-hacking story is also doing the same anti-Panorama story. Of the Sun page 26 lead is headlined BBC's own goal on news ' spy ' and even manages to bury any mention of the news of the world until the last paragraph.

It is wonderful how Rupert Murdoch's papers always manage to sing the same hymn book without any need for him to get them from the melody to remember.

To a fairer, sober assessment of the programme, see the report of the Financial Times , e-mail claims deepen hacking scandal.

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Try 5 reasons for OPENSUSE 11.4 - PCWorld

With hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from, users of the open source operating system face what can be called almost an embarrassment of riches are as numerous their options.

Of course Ubuntu is-by far the most downloaded and popular version of Linux, according to Distrowatch. Then there is Linux Mint--my second Favorit--together with Debian, Splashtop Linux, Puppy Linux and Zorin OS is, just to name a few.

Another very popular distribution is OPENSUSE, which currently contains Distrowatch's no. 5 spot. Version 11.4 of the Novell backup software was released just last week, and it has a number of compelling additions and updates, making the right choice for your business. Here is a little taste what you can expect.

1. Stability and performance

Stability is a priority of the OPENSUSE project, and the base system of this latest version is no exception. In addition, it adds however better scalability and performance, and an extended boot sector, as well as other improvements.

Based on version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel, the software uses many improvements in this release, including better scalability of virtual memory management and separation of terminal user tasks. The new kernel brings additional hardware support, as I have noted above, including open Broadcom wireless drivers and improved support of Wacom.

2D and 3D acceleration, now better due to the inclusion of the improved graphics driver, says the OPENSUSE project.

With the ability to download from multiple servers at the same time and are only the parts of files retrieved, changed, offers OPENSUSE of repository now also much faster, refreshments along with package installations and updates. A newly reinforced boot process VirtualBox and the SELinux security framework supported now.

(2) Integrated software options

OPENSUSE brings the KDE plasma Desktop 4.6 with GNOME 2.32, 4.8, Xfce and LXDE 0.5 as alternatives. Also included is GNOME shell, which are part of the upcoming GNOME 3.

OpenOffice.org was with LibreOffice 3.3.1-making OPENSUSE-the first mainstream distribution of the new candidate, vessel document Foundation the project sagt-- replaced and Firefox 4 and Scribus 1.4 are also included.

All such software as Xfce and LXDE is integrated, says the OPENSUSE project for consistent functionality in lighter desktops. Keyboard shortcuts are set, for example, while menu layouts are optimized and file associations are user friendly.

For integration of LibreOffice and Firefox in KDE plasma improved the operating system uses styling native file dialogs and oxygen, and it respects the users email client and browser options.

3. Continuous updates

While traditionally users left on a set of release cycle for updates for their software, OPENSUSE 11.4 leads the new Tumbleweed rolling release repository as an option. Tumbleweed contains the latest stable versions of software such as Firefox and Thunderbird, so that it keep up to date easier for the user.

4. Management

Targeting administrators and developers, OPENSUSE 11.4 the latest virtualization and Web server stack together with ships "all major development languages, platforms and associated IDEs", says the project. Such as Xen 4.0.2, VirtualBox 4.0.4 and KVM are included under the additions, 0.14 for virtualization and 2.2.17 Apache, lighttpd 1.4.26 and Ngninx 0.8.54 on the Web server.

Version 9.0.3 of PostgreSQL that are MySQL 5.1.53 Community Edition and the fork MariaDB 5.1 also included.

(5) The freedom of Linux

Last but not least are the numerous benefits that you receive when you use the most of any version of Linux, including the freedom, correspondingly change the software from your company, the freedom from lock-in effect, from the rampant malware and the freedom of exorbitant costs.

Did I mention that OPENOFFICE is free? It can now be downloaded for free, but can be purchased also as a retail version with 90 days of installation support, physical media and a printed manual getting started for $71.50. Depending on what you take routes, is there no better OPENSUSE for a test drive take time.

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Kim Command: Use specialty crafts websites to sell your designs-Detroit free press

Q: I Knit sweaters in my spare time. Is there a way to sell them online?

Reply: You can go with a specialty crafts Web site as Etsy. Or you can use a general selling site such as eBay. Either will work, even though the craft sites will attract your target audience. I would use social network sites to the placing on the market.

Q: I am looking at buying an HDTV. I have seen a couple with a 2,000: 1 contrast ratio. But other TVs have 1, 000, 000: 1 contrast ratio. Why is there a difference?

A: Contrast is the difference between a screen darkest blacks and brightest whites. The number of changes on the basis of how black and white is measured. 2,000: 1 shape is actually good. Somewhat higher than is often a dynamic contrast ratio. This measures tv black level with the display in standby mode. That does not reflect accurately the contrast ratio during use. Not weigh contrast ratio numbers much heavy in their decision to purchase.

Q: I own a Sony Reader e-book reader. But I am confused about where to buy e-books.

A: Your first stop should be Sony's Reader store. You can find many titles that are compatible with your reader. Sony's e-readers supports the ePub format, so you can find compatible e-books Barnes and Noble, borders, Apple and most other stores. The main exception is Amazon, which sells e-books in its proprietary AZW format. Sony readers also support PDF and TXT files. These are also available in many online stores.

Q: my husband recently died. He had a subscription with an identity protection service. Should I cancel it?

A: Cancellation protection immediately would be wise. Identity thieves tend to come out of the woodwork after a death. First, you must contact the three credit-reporting agencies: Experian, Equifax and Trans Union. They can freeze your husband credit. Inform your bank and medical insurance companies service provider (ISP). And make sure funeral home spoke to the social security administration. When all these organisations are informed, you can stop paying for protection.

Q: is there a way to right click on a Mac?

A: This is called a secondary Click on a Mac. The simplest way, that it is holding down the CTRL key while you click. You can also click New led and MacBook Pros, with two fingers instead of one. If you are using an Apple mouse, activate the secondary click. by clicking the Apple logo, then system settings. Now click mouse. You should see an option to enable secondary click.

Kim hosted the nation's largest Command radio talk show about computers: komando.com/listen.

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14 March 2011 North America)-Nintendo Life

The grass they!They are coming!

Feel like getting in North America is quite different to download publications this week, even though the Virtual Console is the vacation. Hit counter Crusoe eventually arrives at the DSiWare and WiiWare puzzler very long awaited Liight mulltiformat smash Finally made the dissemination of the case. In addition, it is yet another WiiWare demo to try out a somewhat unique, the rounding of the bar of the games of the week for the players.

Liight (Studio Walljump, WiiWare, 500pts) — from a variety of colored Liight flashlights and sue you to solve intricate puzzles, on the basis of color, by aiming in the right direction. And with several different forms of transport, the players all ages and skill levels, there would be no need to find a fun and challenging puzzle game experience. It has been a long time coming as the game was announced in 2008! You can enjoy our exclusive interview, and the first impressions of our upcoming review while you wait.

Mix Superstar Demo (digital Leisure, WiiWare, 0pts) — message format and record your own music track when you try to become the next big superstar. Game loops, and then click to select the players you will have your own recording studio, to the right of the power of the Wii console. Microsoft grants this impressive 9/10 in our review last November.

Zombies (PopCap, DSiWare, 800pts) — PopCap brings their title defence in the multiformat tower to hit a five-game mode, and 4 new mini-games DSiWare service. You can keep the baddies to get to your House?, undead Varottavia our review coming soon if the to the island.Eat it first!

Rabi Laby (Agetec, DSiWare, 500pts) — to join Alice and the magical journey through the Rabi export tree. You have to use both characters, by using the unique abilities of each of the challenges that lie ahead and to navigate to.

5 1 Mahjong (cerasus. media, DSiWare, 200pts) — it will take 5 1 Mahjong Mahjong experience and reduce it in its simplest form. You have still plenty of themes to choose from several layout and format of the play, not to mention. The priority level of the game, you can Tip even for those times when you find yourself stuck.

NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF SPRING MEANS THE BEAUTIFUL PLANT AND THE HORDES OF UNDEAD

14 March 2011

Spring is just about a week away. It is time to reform. Some of the flowers, which means a new Analysis. The other, it is an opportunity to restore the tissues of the dead as they entered, and then go to the attack. More than the Nintendo DSiWare ™ service, Crusoe pointed out that when the multitude of tabs might be for you, only your friends. If you have different types of single-player WiiWare ™ strategy, atmosphere, service, some of the shine of Liight to create a new puzzle solving game, which is included in the color, light and music.

Nintendo DSiWare

Zombies
Publisher: PopCap Games
Players: 1
ESRB rating: E 10 + (everyone 10 and older)-animated blood, Cartoon violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi points ™
Description: get ready for the soil to the Zombie Zapping plants-Warashi phenomenon. Mob attack of Mania is a fun loving home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants guardin' household. You need to think fast and plant faster than you can have a fun day of the dead, night and fog, swimming pool and on the roof. Dig into the status of the five game and get the Zombie Zapping further actions, the four new mini-games. You can even make your own Zombie creation Zombatar ™! The fun never dies.

Laby Rabi
Publisher: Agetec Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB rating: t (Teen)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi points
Description: Rabi Laby requires teamwork, dedication and the great adventure of love. Alice is a Spunky young girl who adores her fluffy pet rabbit named Rabi. One day Alice and eventually found the Rabi search him right before he jumped to a small hole in the tree. Without thinking twice when he jumped, Alice. This is where the magic Adventure begins. Alice and face the exciting animal and Rabi of sentient beings, which may lead to the exit, or to prevent them Escaping. Together, they explore and discover things, unlike anything they ever seen before. They must operate as a group, find the key and to escape the great labyrinth of each region. Alice and Rabi has its own unique skills and you switch between the end of each region, in order to finally escape the labyrinth and the more dynamic. The labyrinth is waiting for you ...

1. Mahjong 5
Publisher: cerasus media.
Players: 1
ESRB rating: t (Teen)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi points
Description: Play Standard mahjong without all the bells and whistles. You can choose from over 300 layouts, or to try different variations of the game. In the "Countdown," is only 20 minutes to remove the tiles. With the "Other," the train of memory capacity for each section is only briefly visible. Don't dally "Shuffle" mode, the Board will, in fact, if the match is not made in good time. "The Match", you simply have to search for particular tiles. Side-by-side images are surprisingly sharp, so that they can easily be identified. Select the favorite model of the tile-enjoy great audio track and high-quality animation, which creates an authentic gaming experience. Your skills in a range of difficult layout. If you are stuck, tips to help you.

WiiWare

Liight
Publisher: Studio Walljump
Players: 1
ESRB rating: t (Teen)
Price: 500 Wii points ™
Description: Liight is a unique, award-winning, puzzle solving game where you can use different colored lights and the shadows to make music and solve puzzles. Liight each combination is a unique puzzle game mixing and organized special on board the objectives. If the color of the light is fully covered by the corresponding to the item, the item with the glow and play music. Puzzle game is resolved when all objectives are a type of headlamp fitted with filament and playing music together. Each piece of the puzzle is different every time you play. Direct mode is a fast-paced arcade Liight-puzzle game that you'll learn how to use the good result in the continued battle mode at the same time, the solve order basic concepts. Liight is also creates its own puzzles to do in the way you want, and send the Share mode of WiiConnect24 ™ service allows Wii ™ to your friends.

Mix Superstar (demo version)
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB rating: t (Teen)
Price: 0 Wii points; available in the full version of 500 Wii points
Description: think you can be the next big music star? Well now you have all the tools right at your fingertips with Mix Superstar. Create, mix and burn your own royalty-free musical masterpieces right on the Wii console. More than 1,000 Dance, Hip Hop and Techno loops included a number of instruments such as Drum, bass, synthesizer, guitar, and even the size of the audio tracks. When you have learned that the next time the instance is created, and displays it in the mix Superstar allows you to export your music creations and download them to your computer, so you can take them on the road. WiiConnect24 service also allows you to send to your friends with these hits the Wii, which, in my game, and even collaborate on mixes. Also included is full support for the Logitech ® USB microphone and Wii speak ™ accessory (sold separately), so you can fix your own vocals. The Nintendo ® Wi-Fi connection pay & Play service allows even the creation of the music experience in a variety of genres More loop Pack. Now go and make some noise.

Note: some demo versions do not support all the features of the game and players cannot save their game progress demo versions.

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